Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider a largely unedited LOLtuber vlog transcript. What might be called ‘Existential Autistim as a lifestyle aesthetic.’ This guy’s Content(R) is great. It’s like he’s a walking, talking Shitty Tao Lin Novel – a real life personification of Tao’s astoundingly joyless Alt-Lit, K-Mart autorealism – a broken, neoliberal individualist super-subjectivity. Tao Lin himself … Read more
RND/ To envisage a plastic parody figurine of the psychotic white serial killer character “Ellie”, from post-apocalypse simulator The Last Of Us I & II. The Last Of Us Part II can be very disturbing. Enemies feel lifelike as you stab them in the throat, and watch the lights slowly drain from their eyes. Blood … Read more
RND/ To consider a parody study of sociopathically bland, utterly Instagrammatic White People™ style photography (‘Whitography’?) 3840×2560 .jpg, images via Unsplash No. You got it wrong. It’s not about sounding all nasal. It’s about sounding like you don’t have a care. Like your bills are paid and you’re happy about your future and you’re about … Read more
RND/ to consider the co-incidental or algorithmic emergence of the (default, in-built) malignant narcissistic personality of social media platforms like Youtube, and the default psychopathological ‘media personalities’ (now there’s an insult) who preach there to ditto headed Stan armies with an ever louder political voice Gamers are pathetic! – Dr. Disrespect First a brief stable … Read more