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Programmer, shapeshifter, purveyor of kinks. Born in 1991.

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SFW nerdery (with occasional politics) page is @artie-codecrafter


fineursine
@fineursine

At some recent point, likely around the 2016 re-imagining, it started to seem like some folks suddenly cared about Ghostbusters as part of their child-hood. As though it had loomed as large as Star Wars in their youths.

I was of prime age for Ghostbusters. I watched the cartoon with my brother. We had the neat fire-house my parents somehow found at a garage sale. My friend got one of the ghost traps with the pneumatic stepper so it would fly open dramatically and then I think you tossed a bean bag ghost into it?

It's still baffling to me to transform it into something with the weight of a Franchise. It was a bawdy comedy of the 1980s that got a decent sequel. It would be like if The Three Amigos got a cartoon and suddenly that was one of your formative influences.

The CEO of Crystal Skull Vodka gets dome from a ghost and you're worried about the sanctity of your youth.

Folks are allowed to enjoy movies and television, but this refit of culture as personality vexes me.

I'm terribly vexed.


doctorwednesday
@doctorwednesday

the guy who wrote Ready Player One thinks he's saying something profound about the significance of pop culture to one's identity, but he's really just running philosophical interference for the marketing business


PhormTheGenie
@PhormTheGenie

I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis. The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88.

  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

I remember first reading this passage, and understanding that I was meant to think this was the height of cool. The pinnacle of personal expression.

Even today it reads as slightly warmed over puke from a marketing executive.


Dex
@Dex

the company that brought you

  • looney tunes: back in action 1
  • the lego movie
  • lego dimensions
  • the lego batman movie
  • space jam: a new legacy
  • multiversus
  • various collaborations in fortnite
  • probably other things i'm missing

i still can't get over the description of fortnite did once along the lines of "imagine time travelling back to tell teens of the 2000s that there will be a game with master chief. and kratos. and peter griffin. and goku. and to then tell those teens that they most likely will have zero interest in it."


  1. i don't quite class this the same as more modern brand collabs, but still, there is a scene with a dalek in it among other things


arina-artemis
@arina-artemis
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in reply to @doctorwednesday's post:

I'm very meh on Ghostbusters, but I do quite enjoy the idea of a go kart with a pair of giant tongs to grab things. It's hilarious. I would like to see it used as an upgrade in a racing game.

in reply to @PhormTheGenie's post:

The thing that most annoys me about that is it's like a litany of transactions. He's bought the things that represent his affection. He didn't even like spray his own Ghostbusters logo onto his kit-bashed car.

It's the difference between someone who buys the Call of Duty branded Jeep and someone who makes their beat-up van look like the one the A-Team drove around in.

Monetized fandom and nostalgia are killers.