Target, MasterCard, power tools, and everything else. I knew a lot of these companies were in bed with each other, but it's a disturbing thought to consider Target as part of the MCU canon.

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    yeah i was excited in '08 like why the hell is the movie iron man of all people but it was a fun movie and then it all went to hell and comics stuff gradually stopped being for me, the niche nerdy person and became even more commercialized and formulaic than it already was.

    death to consumerism. death to neoliberalism.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      iron man is probably why I don't drink, because it was genuinely shocking to me as a kid to watch the silly rich robot laser shooty man get plagued by realistic consequences of alcoholism and depression. Got traumatized away from ever touching alcohol, which I guess was the point of the comic. Then the movies come out and it's like uhhh what if Elon Musk had a bazinga robo suit and worked for the DOD

      don't worry I read actual books later in my childhood like Dostoevsky and whatever. Death to America please

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        And that's the sad thing. Art can be helpful and life-changing, but when it's channeled through focus groups and censorship to make it PG-13, you're not going to see an artist actually doing something.

        It's alienating a person from their connection to art. I see art as an attempt to understand a person's perspective. I wish I had more of an art critique background, but there's something cool about making something and someone else getting it too.