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LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Exactly. Them espousing that the games are fair, and believing it themselves even though it's patently untrue, is a 1:1 allegory for capitalism.

And like, this isn't turning Star Wars into a socialist work in a reading of it for a video essay. It's right there in the text of the thing.

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LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Gorman Thomas posted:

I'll take this politics poo poo to cspam.
I'm of the mind that you can't discuss art without discussing politics.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

As Nero Danced posted:

Question, were the hanging button on the detective's jumpsuit and the loose screw on the vent cover in the bathroom ever revisited or addressed? The camera lingered on them for a while but I don't remember any payoff to either of them. Were they red herrings or maybe dropped/cut plotlines? I binged it all in one go so I might have missed it.
I'd like to know this too.

I wasn't exactly on my phone while spinning in an office chair, but I'd wager I missed some shots here and there.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Frankly, I'm entirely unsurprised that Americans seeing our worst as portrayed by artists from another country would entirely miss the irony in crying foul about it.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Squid game is a variation on another game, the real game is a set of squares drawn on the ground and people from outside have to run in and through the squares to the end while defenders try and like... block them or beat them up or push them back out. Like red rover basically.

Squid game is a very bloated and overcomplicated version with a bunch of silly rules and modes. Like the rules a literal group of children would make. Like the fact you 'die" instead of get out in one specific case, or that you become "inspectors" for no reason when you do something. The rules are tenuous. Instead of squares it's a bunch of wacky shapes, you hop on one foot, you get titles, you can "die", the rules of flimsy. A child wrote them.

Like the game DOES have rules, but the name of the show might be something like "calvinball" if it was an american show. squid game is a referance to a game with childlike nonsensical rules.
Holy gently caress how did I miss this?

Thank you.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Vintersorg posted:

It’s in the very first episodes opening.
You should assume that the person who said they didn't understand it saw the scene and still had difficulty.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

jackpot posted:

The English dubbing is so bad my wife and I almost gave up on the show 30 minutes in. Just awful, distracting. Had to turn dubbing off and subtitles on to save it, I can't imagine why that's not the default.
It's this simple, I reckon:

The kind of person who would prefer subtitles is the kind of person who'd look for the option for them, whereas the kind of person who's put off by subtitles would see them, close the window, and never return.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Winning at capitalism isn't actually winning.

If he'd have gone to see his daughter, the moral standing of the show would be quicksand.

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LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

YoursTruly posted:

Only seen like 5 minutes of the first episode of Lost. What was it about, and how does it compare to Squid Game?
Nominally, LOST is about a bunch of people who crash land on a weird-as-poo poo island in the pacific who begin to play out a story of science vs. faith before discovering that the island they're on has been at the center of that same struggle for centuries, if not longer.

It's a really good show, but the way it answers its questions is to give you the answer to a huge question from two seasons ago in a background detail in an episode about something completely different, have none of the characters learn that answer, then replace that question with five more.

It ultimately answers all but two of it s biggest questions, but it does so in such a way that people still think the show took place in purgatory, which it emphatically did not to the point that a character literally says so in the finale.

Binge it with a partner. You'll love the character dynamics which basically never falter and you can be frustrated by the bananas ADD the mystery plot gets at times together.

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