Something about the Lilo and Stitch remake

Hearing about a very stupid story change in the pointless Lilo and Stitch remake reminds me of a point I once made that lot of things people like could have good messages or something to learn from them

LOTR being a friendship and hardship tale, Spiderman being about responsability, Dragon Ball being “seek what you enjoy and makes you happy” etc.

It’s why people have the right to complain about modern entries that try to be “subversive” and end up changing characters like TLJ with Luke.

Lot of reboots, remakes, revivals feel outright demoralizing because they mostly contradict the message of the previous works, that often times resonates with both casual audiences and plenty of fans.

Even Proud Family (That Disney cartoon) had a reboot and it had awful messages compared to the original.

Lots of modern franchise iterations either do this for “subversive” reasons or even culture war reasons.

I recall there being a Spiderman comic where some nerdy girl is written specifically to “logic own” Spiderman over his “with great power, comes great responsibility” message.

It’s a very good argument to preserve the movies, shows, games etc you like, specially in an age of services not making stuff accessable, censorship in remakes and the whole “lost media” craze.

I guess it could also be another way to look at “media literacy”: People look for stuff to have their exact political beliefs before whether or not something could have a good message, that is then ruined by additional works, often not by the original creator.

But also situations like a shitty Garfield movie being forgotten and someone goes “this movie had a message about capitalism” like who fucking cares.

It could also be said that not every piece of art has to make a message or be made for everyone, but still.

Postal

Does anyome remember when Postal 2 had an expansion pandering to Gamergate and even having Milo Whatshisname as a guest?

Kinda makes the current state of the series funny in retrospective.

“Postal Dude hates everyone equally” like Postal 2 didn’t make fun of specific groups.

(The statement also comes off as “we’re an edgy series but we’d never make fun of specific groups, even if some people in it don’t care about edgy humor when they have actual problems in real life”).

This also goes back to what I said about people associating “edgy, mean humor” with rightwingers (Until “Dark Woke” leftwingers get to make edgy jokes and bring up Christians mad at things or whatever).

Guys like Zach Hadel, Trevor Moore and Garth Ennis didn’t have to be rightwing to make what they did.

Also, wasn’t it Brain Damaged that had a Karen joke? Remember when people said Family Guy’s lowest points is when they use literal internet memes like the peanet butter jelly banana?

Anyway, I hereby give Postal the title of: “The Howard Sternn of videogames”.

Karl Jobst

Karl Jobst making so many videos about the Billy Mitchell thing and even having them sponsored by Raids Shadow Legends is funny in retrospective, but remember that other Youtubers will make videos about him and also have them sponsored, even if they too get in their own situations.

Like a cycle of who sensionalizes who and whose controversies are sensionalized by others and so on.

Youtubers love having their own TMZ and gossip culture even if they’re both the “host” and the subject.

At a certain point, you might as well have a Truman Show moment where everything is fake and you just try to escape it.

Something about Zoomers

Sometimes I wonder if zoomers think artists are soulless or lame because they draw popular characters and with memes involved.

Because why do that when their mere beliefs and personality are a result of oversocialization and trying to fit in somewhere.

So many people online are “meme bound” one way or another.

This also makes me wonder how many people are anti-AI art until they accuse artists they dislike of using AI or even hoping they get their style replicated by AI… who am I kidding? It already happens.

Love and hate

If the true opposite of love is indifference, then that’s part of why I think one can’t have true love without some form of hate.

Maybe this statement is a bit too literal and could be presented/said better.

But in a way, it could be seen as “I love eating and HATE starving”, not something like “I love my loved ones and someone is out there to kill them”.

I think a good use of this term is if you’re an artist and you want to make sure what you make is really good.

So you have to look at what most people watch, so you feel sick in your stomach and try to make something good, to fight back mediocrity.

Zach Hadel

Something I usually bring up is that culture wars makes more sense when you realize it’s a side effect of older nerdy Millenials overcompensating by going crazy with politics (e.g. SomethingAwful users with Troll’s Remorse).

And on that subject of how Millenials talk about politics, I just remembered how Zach Hadel has an actual nerdy interest in politics to the point he brings up failed candidates in OneyPlays but still talks about goofy videos he watches with Chris and Cory.

You guys are talking about how every anime and game you like has your political beliefs, this guy is talking about how Nixon had a prepared message for if the astronauts died in their mission before he suddenly talks about the Irate Gamer or the deaf guy kissing his granda’s corpse.

Because most of modern political discourse boils down to failed adults obsessing with politics, then there’s this Newgrounds guy actually being interested in it without sacrificing having fun.

If culture wars never started, Zach would still be talking about American politics history