Tag: tropes
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The Story of Techno Viking
I found Matthias Frisch’s documentary about the whole Techno Viking case via another video “The Meme that Sued It’s Creator’ which pretty much sums it up in one line. Matthias Frisch filmed the man who became Technoviking at Fuck Parade in Berlin in 2000, but it later became a meme and out of control of…
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part one
Great to see this finally arrive – Anita Sarkeesian’s series about the portrayal of women in video games. Great use of Kickstarter, and also interesting how it revealed some very odd reactions amongst the male game-playing public, as some shibboleth was being challenged. I would love to see more gender (and orientation, OMG imagine a…
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All Hail the Emperor’s New Limbs
Finally listened to the new Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ and can hear what Radiohead fans have been kvetching about recently. I understand that each era of fans tend to change every few albums when a band experiments; the age old problem of locking an artist into their most successful era. But I think…