Theory: The Amazing Digital Circus Is An Early 2000's Edutainment Game.

theory: the amazing digital circus is an early 2000's edutainment game.

I am probably biased but this entire pilot brought back so many memories of my childhood windows 99. my reasoning -those graphics are very late 90's early 2000's esk (before it zooms in ofc) -no one can swear -the name of the show sounds like shovelware you would buy to give out at schools. -the first thing the "players" are asked to do is to collect colorful cutesy creatures all around the map. -Zooble's design feels aggressively 90's, though that could also just be gooseworx's funky style. Basically what I am saying is TADC is what if SAO took place in a 2000's edutainment game instead of an RPG game lol.

this looks so sus without context what the hell is this image

my theory as to why doomers exist (and how to break that mentality to be a better writer)

yesterday my sibling texted me "hey can you list me what major historical events you experienced in life for an assignment? " of course I listed the big ones like COVID and other depressing shit I went through in my life but most of the ones i listed were not super depressing. here are some of them: -the rise of steve jobs and the popularity of modern OS -the rise of smartphones -new technology completely changing the world that I thought I would never see in my lifetime, like VR and self driving cars. -massive cultural impacts such as spongebob being created affecting pop culture -the start of facebook and modern social media -pluto being declared not a planet yknow stuff on the top of my head that I thought would be interesting to write about.

then my sibling came home to tell me that most of what I sent was not helpful at all and that they meant "world events" And i asked "how the hell is the invention of the smart phone and the beginning of modern social media not considered "world events" by these standards" they said "idk just not that"

I think what they meant to say was "my teacher only wants the really depressing miserable shit the media thinks is headline worthy"

You know, I think this is why my generation is full of so many doomers. God forbid we have a positive outlook on this world and try and look at the bright side of things. god forbid we try to be optimistic for both the future and our current lives. we seem to have this thin veil of maturity that depressing=mature somehow. That the only way to make anything of nuance is to basically spam "look how shit everything is! look how enlightened I am" like you are Steve cutts.

well you know what ?

I hate art like the stuff steve cutts makes, and I hate this redundant "look how shit the world is" mentality

I plan on making an analysis post later on about Mr. Cutts, but for now let's stay on point this mentality is redundant and helps no one. yes. we do need to be aware of the bad parts of life. But being a pathetic miserable sod and ignoring the upsides is just as immature and childish as an aggressive optimist thinking the world is all sunshine and rainbows. you know why I like undertale so much ? Undertale knows when to be optimistic and has a mature take on a happy ending. Undertale ALLOWS itself to be happy. enough with the rick and morty level of writing where everything sucks and "fuck you in particular for being hopeful" only edgy 14 year olds think being depressing is the same as being mature. Maturity is understanding that there is nuance to everything and understanding that things are what they are. Do you want to be a good writer ? stop overly relying on being a sad doomer. Even the darkest writers in history like Edgar Allen Poe knew how to lighten the fuck up, because you need to understand the positives in life to effectively create dark writing.

thank you for reading this ironically negative rant, I plan to expand more on the subject later on.

EDIT

ngl i was honestly scared this post would open me up to harassment. I was genuinely terrified of attracting the psycho political crowd that treats politics like religious doctrine. first of all, shout out to this person:

I feel like this would be the perfect opportunity to talk about my struggle with depression as an artist and the stereotype behind it. the stereotype is that only the best artists are emotionally tortured people constantly struggling in agony and putting that into their art. now as someone who has been battling depression for 10 years let me tell you: that mentality is a load of horse shit. the greatest artists in history such as Van Gogh were not great artists because they were depressed they were great artists because they had a combination of passion and unique life experience. It just so happens that depression is a unique life experience to go through. being depressed does not make you deep, it just makes you feel empty and possibly sad depending on what flavor of depression you have. all the great stories about depression are not great because its about depression, but because its about the writers personal experiences and the love and hard work that went into making it. if Van gogh got treatment for his mental health issues, he would have still created art. Yes he created art as his job, but he also did it because he loved it and put his personal feelings and passion into his work. the biggest reason why I detest Steve Cutts is because there is no passion nor personal experience in his work. yes he is talented but most of his animations are just regurgitating all the bad things he could think of and nothing personal is going into it. (again I plan on making an analysis post about steve cutts sooner or later) What makes the art of Van Gogh deep and Steve Cutts as deep as a dry puddle is the fact that you can tell who put their own soul and personality into their work. heed my warning new artists and writers depression =/= deep all depression does is cripple you. Seek out life experience to be the best artist you can be.

I appreciate your controbutions to this discussion and an opportunity to reblog this same image so that my followers can suffer even more than they already do.

this looks so sus without context what the hell is this image

this artist deserves more love man. 8 notes??? that should be a war crime

Day 8 - Puppet

Instagram - My Shop - Commissions

idk if this is a joke or not but I am going to respond anyways Dear people: PLEASE DO NOT HAVE THIS "they must be one of us to represent us" MENTALITY IF YOU ARE A CREATOR the biggest reason why we struggle to get representation (other than the usual bigoted reasons) is that you make it actively scary for new creators to even TOUCH the subject alone. it is fucking absurd to hear "oh this creator is a man so therefor they can't write lesbian women" NO. NO. NO NO NO THIS IS A GOOD THING. SHUT UP. you listen right here anon. the representation in Undertale is so good because it's portrayed as normal and has no huge fanfare to it. It is a cute relationship that anyone can enjoy regardless of sexual orientation and taste. The whole point of representation is to educate and normalize it to those outside of the community, and make those represented feel welcome. As a Bi-Ace woman myself, DO NOT FUCKING GATE-KEEP THIS SHIT UNLESS IT IS ACTIVELY HARMFUL. If you go out of your way to stop all creators from representation at all on the merits of "you are not x so you are not allowed to talk about x", then all you are achieving is more beige flavored stories about strait white action dudes, and making it harder for the LGBT and other communities to be accepted by the whole. Anyone who is against really good representation for stupid reasons needs to sit down and re-evaluate why we write these stories to begin win.

creators shouldn't be scared to put minorities in their works, it should be ENCOURAGED.

this applies to new writers too. never EVER be scared to write a minority character in your story. If not for the sake of good representation, but to improve your skills as a writer by widening your scope. thank you for coming to my ted-reblog motherfuckers.

Do you think men should have the right to write WLW stories? If not, then Toby Fox is in massive trouble. He's basically sexualizing women at this point, no?

YOU HEAR THAT TOBY? YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED UNLESS YOU TRANSITION IMMEDIATELY