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cross-posted from !tmbl@lemmy.world
Based on The Mesopotemians by They Might Be Giants and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Saw The Zone of interest yesterday.
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A parody of "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte, but with Nixon.
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I heard they took down the original video of this song because the pictures had the rifle with a scope. Simo never used one I guess.
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MFW the nomadic warrior who became emperor turns out to be a great patron of science
(sh.itjust.works)
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Tl;dw - Unlike China and Japan, medieval Korea followed an extreme school of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchy and age over practicality. After WW2, the South Korean ~~dictatorship~~ government used this tradition to cement their own power. The video argues that these have made South Korea an extremely hierarchical, and in particular, sexist, society. A video game's refusal to sexualize a female character for their (mostly male) audience was thus seen as an attack on the system. A female artist at the studio was accused of being a 'radical feminist', and either fired or resigned to appease fans.
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