en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/4127065 Comments by killintime26 http://205.186.150.126/archive/vote-before-its-too-late/#IDComment482315371 Which, incidentally, involves flying headlong into pillars and then hiding in the rafters of every theater in America. Tue, 6 Nov 2012 18:58:35 +0000 http://205.186.150.126/archive/vote-before-its-too-late/#IDComment482315371 http://krisstraub.com/2012/10/02/a-repost-from-tumblr/#IDComment454079190 I've actually been thinking about this kind of thing a lot lately, and "internet culture" in general, and the ways people carve out identities for themselves on Tumblr or Redditt or any number of sites, and I feel like we're really starting to see a cannibalization of pop culture on the internet. At the risk of sounding like too much of an armchair sociologist, there seems to be, within "geek" culture, the cultivation of a consumer mentality towards media, that somehow, the pop culture which you consume is tied in with one's character, at least online. I guess this has always existed, I remember becoming a massive fan of Radiohead in high school and maintaining, for way longer that I should have, that anyone who listened to Coldplay was an uncultured, ignorant dullard. But I feel like, today, on the internet, the act of consuming pop culture has itself become something that is considered a worthy enterprise, and I think that's how awful things like nerdcore rap come about, or any number of internet "celebrities" whose only claim to fame is ranting about pop culture. Hell, there are entire miniature Youtube empires built on people filming themselves playing videogames and screaming over the top of it. I've tried watching that PewDiePie guy once and couldn't make it past two minutes before wanting to kill myself, but I guess that's a matter of taste. I feel like this whole thing reflective of a very TV Tropes approach to media, in that somehow fiction is a found thing, and that it's merely a process of assembling already used parts to create something "new". It's so telling that the TV Tropes page for Fallout: Equestria, a My Little Pony/Fallout crossover fanfiction is about five times as large as the page for James Joyce's Ulysses. Wed, 3 Oct 2012 02:13:42 +0000 http://krisstraub.com/2012/10/02/a-repost-from-tumblr/#IDComment454079190 http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2012/01/09/butt-shazam/#IDComment259634925 Coincidentally, Butt Shazam was the name of my old band. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:14:47 +0000 http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2012/01/09/butt-shazam/#IDComment259634925 http://205.186.150.126/archive/get-into-the-hobbit/#IDComment243938482 The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Down to Burger King for the brand new Roast Muttonator, make it a Second Breakfast with fries and a drink for 50 cents. One King to Rule them all, Burger King. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:03:04 +0000 http://205.186.150.126/archive/get-into-the-hobbit/#IDComment243938482 http://krisstraub.com/2011/12/18/kiosk-girl/#IDComment241394925 Damn. This has some seriously profound ideas in there. Have you thought about making this a comic/prose story? Whenever I have dreams with stories, they just end up as the plot of Harry and the Hendersons. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:56:26 +0000 http://krisstraub.com/2011/12/18/kiosk-girl/#IDComment241394925