Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider the glitches in the videographic reality of team-based, tactical Middle East FPS “Insurgency: Sandstorm” as the very thing preventing it’s radical (ideological) desimulation in the player’s mind: Nameless locations with nameless conflicts – PCGamesN 1920 x 1080 .jpg – screenshots via Steam Community That is, “The fact that ‘It’s Just A Game … Read more
RND/ To consider a painting of the Obama “Bitch Please” meme: 2982 x 2130 .jpg In which the temporarily semi-amusing yet sexist nature of this meme contrast heavily with the level of cognitive disconnect needed not to contrast it with the actual reality of the administration of ‘moderate Republican’ Barack Hussein Obama II, American … Read more
RND/ To consider a satirical conceptual painting of philosophically repugnant, intellectually devoid, dead eyed, smeared out turkey-ham faced douche nozzle Tucker Carlson and his man the wagons Murika’s under attack! ‘Western Civilization’ jive. What a hardon: 3316 x 1843 .jpg “Foxwhistle“: n. Professional ‘dittohead’ performances of hard alt-right (‘common sense’, ‘hardworking everyman’, ‘middle Amerika’, ‘just-so’, … Read more
RND/ To consider a terse report on the (/somewhat darkly fascinating?) experience of receiving the Covid 19 vaccine in the good old UK: Apart from the obligatory standard letter everyone got about Covid and ‘staying safe’, I’ve heard diddly Jack Squat from Dr. Johnson The Doom Buffoon and his gang of smirking Tory weasels. So … Read more
RND// To consider notes toward a response re: the desperately blatant ad hominem hit piece on Slavoj Zizek and his book Pandemic! (Becca Rothfeld, Times Literary Supplement, February 5 2021.) Note to anyone living outside Dismaland: The T.L.S is a corporation owned cultural institution of supposedly progressive, actually just reactionary, pseudo-liberal, conservative (small and big … Read more