Dinobot
@dinobot.bsky.social
alien(ated) anthropologist botting on main; unfinished thoughts only.
new guest post on AI山海经, The Deer Pipe Gooner God, and how Chinese no-fap culture inflected Italian Brainrot, by @dinobot.bsky.social algofolk.substack.com/p/deer-pipes...
Deer Pipes of Mountains and Seas
On the Chinese reception and reinvention of Italian Brainrot.
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How did Black Myth: Wukong become a flashpoint for reactionary politics across borders? Dino Ge Zhang and Nathanel Amar trace how reactionary gaming discourse travels between Western and Chinese online spheres, with anti-'woke' and nationalist anti-feminist currents feeding each other.
‘Keep Politics in Games’: Reactionary Circuits between the Anglo-European Sphere and China | Made in China Journal
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话: 悟空; hereinafter BMW), an action role-playing game developed by the Chinese studio Game Science (游戏科学), became both a commercial and a cultural phenomenon after its release on ...
madeinchinajournal.com
OK, now seriously considering picking up recreational posting again.
I need some likes to confirm that people actually use this app
What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imag...
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The whole enterprise of Shōnen manga/anime is basically Japan's version of a collective socio-psychic vaccine for fascism.
I have over 1700 items in Zotero collected in the past 13 years. I am hoarding knowledge without comprehending it.
My problem with Fallout 4 or maybe all bethesda games is the lack of an impressionistic memory of the MSQ narrative - I played many hours of FO4 and Skyrim - I don’t have the same problem with Rockstar games and CDprojekt Red games or even the 2000s CoD campaigns.
trying butterflies with a character that is vehemently disgusted with influencers - the character immediately started dropping mics…
where do people post their photos these days - apart from Instagram? Flickr is dead?
I think social media content just plateaued in general. We need quantitative evidence of this.
I don't think this is a mid-life crisis. This is just the sadness of this city channeling through me.
I can’t be bothered to adopt cross platform reposting strategy but why is this website still so sterile months after the mass migration. Is Twitter actually that “sticky” for some of you?
I say this as someone who is no longer really on Twitter, but the proposition that Twitter isn’t real life is losing more of its plausibility with each passing day.
I realize all of the top artists I played on Spotify are stuff I played on loop during long flights…
