choosing to read this as if i were eavesdropping on Italian mobsters
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Somebody made a Steam game where you can really play the fake games from those mobile game ads
it was the katamari devs btw
one of my biggest pet peeves is when people--often in an attempt to sound radical--use 'revolutionary' to mean 'good'. like. "it's revolutionary to love yourself" "it's revolutionary just to survive" no the fuck it isn't. it's good to love yourself, it's good to survive; it's revolutionary to seize power as the armed working class!
once youre critical of the family basically all media becomes unwatchable by default
it doesnt matter who you are. the family is the last strata. the most important thing to reify. if something is good it is because it is "like a family". the family is untouchable. if someone resorts to violence, the family is the ultimate excusatory device. this serves not only to reify the family, but also to cement violence against the family as a fantasy for unbridled retaliation. "you touch my wife, my kid, ill fucking kill you" - they say to themselves. and in salivating over that excuse, via those figures, instantiated in those actual bodies, they want violence against those bodies. because they are the husband, the wife, the child they must hurt so i can do violence. itd cut through the malaise of familialism as it actually exists wouldnt it? that frustration of desire which they cannot bring themselves to characterise apart from as the "sacrifice" they make. and this all even assuming they do not abuse them themselves already. makes me sick frankly.
I think "a good parody of a genre has to be borne out of deep love for that genre" is kind of a boring take tbh. a good parody should definitely thoroughly know a genre and not cursorily dismiss it (especially if said genre is already regarded with disdain in the wider culture), but I don't think there's anything wrong with the attainment of that knowledge leading to the conclusion that the genre is basically "irredeemable"—that is, that the core conceits and generic solutions that make the genre the genre are ideologically pernicious
"I also think superheroes can't be redeemed"
Curious that you think that about a Jewish genre that was partially created to bash Hitler.
The superhero genre predates WW2 and is more expansive than the patriotic usamerican comic and propaganda sheets released during that period. The superhero as figure is quite straightforwardly ubermensch and the iconic Superman was originally conceptualised as a "crime fighting hero." Alan Moore wrote Watchmen in 1986 and concluded similar things, so this really isn't some out of the way opinion for people who like to read comics.
Are you sure you want to make insinuations about random people's commitment to anti fascism based on a poor understanding of the history and conventions of a comic book genre?