Since when is 45% “most” you dolt.

This a detail I haven’t seen many others pick up on. The guy hyped himself up on doing it, then went for it with gusto.

I fear you’re probably correct in how it will play out. Popular culture stuff has been in a vicious cycle of ping-ponging between reactionary extremes for a while now.

That said, I agree with you, it’s somewhere between 1 and 2, but I think 1 was carried by breaking the norm at the time, so the humor can’t have the same impact it did then due to it being expected now and other franchises jumping on similar humor since.

I’ve been thinking about this more recently after trying to get my partner into BL2 after she saw my friends and I playing through 3. She lasted about an hour and a half into BL2 before she wasn’t interested, and in all fairness? It was the same for myself and my friends who’d spent 500+ hours in it previously. Even scooter’s nonsense was failing to get any giggles out.

The concensus on 3 is largely on point, but somewhere along the line people decided Jack was a great villain and BL2 was incredible. I can’t say I agree, in spite of having a blast when it came out but I think it’s fair to credit that to playing with friends. It was just such a huge expansion from BL1s flat story and pushed further with abandoning the brown syndrome BL1 just barely sidestepped. Jack is currently being viewed with rose-tinted lenses, he was always annoying (just not as grating or recently experienced as the Twins) and the humor really does fall flat more than it doesn’t.

I’d say you’re right that it is a time capsule, and it’s not without its charms, as you said, but people are on the bandwagon puffing it up due to nostalgia, frustrations with BL3 (and the movie), and these articles talking about wanting to cut down on the toilet humor.

Edgy won’t do it, they need to figure out how to be cleverly dumb rather than in your face aggressively dumb which the Twins and Jack both did.

From the looks of things, 20 minutes into the future.

Was thinking the triple redundancy must be for security purposes, but I don’t own stripey knee socks so obviously know nothing of IT.

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“hooray convenience, fuck your livelihood.”

-core predates steampunk as a term by decades. -Core was generally only used when describing musical genre mixing in an attempt to clarify the roots of a particular group’s sound.

The only -punk terms in use prior to the 2000’s were cyberpunk, crust punk, and punk all of which were used to indicate a level of rebellion. Punk is being used in a similar way -core was until steampunk rose in popularity followed immediately by dieselpunk and atompunk cementing the concept of [powersource]-aesthetic as the primary defining trait of a fantasy genre which easily found it’s way into use as a descriptor for an aesthetic that would be expected within that fantasy setting. Things get confused again with the more recent solarpunk (follows the format) and cottagecore (does not follow the format because it is not a musically defined aesthetic)

It’s a pretty classic case of a newer generation believing they’ve invented something without realizing they’ve actually misunderstood prior usage due to limiting their sphere of influences to their peergroup. These are the same types of people who would call people posers for not conforming to the punk aesthetic because they never understood what punk actually was beyond a vector to fit into a group (and all the irony that entails in the context of punk)