Here's my inaugural That Kind of cohpost
There always was this strange whiplash to a lot of the stories we engaged with. Many times the need for constant changes left stories unable to give themselves time to explore their own meaning and world.

Here's my inaugural That Kind of cohpost
There always was this strange whiplash to a lot of the stories we engaged with. Many times the need for constant changes left stories unable to give themselves time to explore their own meaning and world.
I can totally see this totally being a scarily accurate overall picture. As a USian willing to be self critical, it certainly fits a lot of the parallels and critiques i can slot in place.
I do think that the Family Roadtrip to get to the amusement park is an essential corollary too. A distilled US Americana that resonates in few other places in the world.
I have some vague thoughts on this that kind of run in both 'this is more universal than you may notice' direction and the 'here is a uniquely american dimension to this'
but I just mostly find myself hung up on a question: Do you like rollercoasters?
I do, for what they are! And I find them fascinating engineering projects
For a moment, I was wondering if there was some part of aphantasia that made the fundamental experience of go whoop spinny whee disinteresting
my endocrine and limbic systems aren't that connected to my imaginative potential, it's the whole culture around the concept of rides, branding, the Experience, the Story, that I just find no real connection to
i see a lot of video games getting described as theme parks, usually pejoratively, but yeah, it's everywhere and makes for very surface level stories (see also Star Trek outside of DS9)
This occurred to me when I watched Ari play Modern Warfare 2 and the levels were just so clearly designed to be theme park rides, it was kinda wild! also hey discord text formatting works on cohost
the linear action game is so cursed to be a theme park now because of how much control the designers exert on things, also yes cohost uses markdown!