TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.
It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.
Their marketing department does a phenomenal job of blurring the line between show and reality. I have no trouble believing that this coin is “real”.
With how depressingly close especially the latest season has been to reality, I am utterly convinced that (without spoiling anything) they will intentionally end this season at a point that allows them to wait and see what chaos the US elections will bring with them, and to then incorporate that into the final season.
Kinda off topic I guess but w/e.
it’s also deeply depressing how many chuds and pepe-afficionado it’s-just-a-frog-bro haha-only-serious people (often gamers, not exclusively) have taken to posting homelander memes
I mean, extreme credit to the showrunners for how well they manage the portrayals (and that this even ends up happening), but god damn
misaimed fandoms are a thing; you’d be surprised (or not) how many hard right fans in poland do the witcher books and games have. similarly, there are still people who believe that verhoeven’s starship troopers film is an affirmation, not repudiation of fascism (in the original book, and in general).
The book, to be fair, is somewhat more complicated. It’s more or less Heinlein musing on how fascism could be appealing; ie what sort of conditions ultimately lead to people finding it preferable. A lot of the book was inspired by his time in the navy, and how he felt that a strictly controlled and disciplined environment made him a happier person (my personal suspicion is that Heinlein was the kind of autistic person for whom a strict routine and a carefully spelled out set of rules for social interaction were highly beneficial, and simply assumed that everyone else was the same and just didn’t know it).
oh i agree, but verhoeven’s reading of the original is still not wrong, and the reassons for his distaste are valid. and heinlein was not only the author of the moon is harsh mistress, but also of the incredibly racist farnham’s freehold (yes, i’m aware that he probably toned down the racism of campbell’s original, but that’s a bar so low that you need to dig a trench to find it.)
To be clear, I prefer Verhoeven’s interpretation. All of the above is exactly why I’m not a big fan of Heinlein.
Your description piqued my interest, but then I saw that this was a superhero show (black comedy, satire, but still)…
it’s not quite the usual type (which is part of why I like it). it’s from the same people who made Supernatural, if you’ve ever watched that
should also say that it’s tarantino-tier violent and “beyond” (I wouldn’t use the word excessive for it because I think the show’s stuff fits what it does extremely well, but others may (use the word))
one of the things I enjoy most about it is how fucking well it hits the nail smack in the middle of its head, even while it suffers the same curse as the Laundry series
didn’t even know s4 had started airing when I wrote this, and have caught up on some of that in between. oh wow does it have the Laundry curse, bloody hell.
The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?
no, the one where reality keeps getting too fucking weird