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Message: [QUOTE="Num, post: 82139, member: 102245"] youre right in many cases it is portrayed as something to 'grow out' of which is already a critique of the mindset to begin with so addtionally poking fun at it through exaggeration and gleaming self awareness throughout is redundant and just reeks of being insecure. its like admitting up front that youre too aware of how people might perceive it so you turn it into a little joke for it to be safe just for people to easily digest it. but you shouldnt have to constantly reassure people that youre in on the joke. just commit. i avoided the shadow example because you were making a general statement but dmc is a whole other beast and i think my grievances with dmc5 serves as a good example to this postmodernist mindset. it still likes the aesthetic it still indulges in it but theres this subtle undercurrent of detachment to it as if its play-acting as its old self rather than genuinely embodying it. its like someone sitting down with a child and playing toys with him. dmc5 has this feeling of "playing" a feeling of putting on a perfomance for the child to have his fun, theres that hint of indulging in the nostalgia of it but youre just not fully believing in it. dmc used to be a series that just didnt fucking care and gets enamored in the experience. its the difference between loving something vs remembering why you used to love it. theres nothing wrong with genuinely being edgy like you once were, i see a lot of writers lately just write it off as a simple "phase" theyre nostalgic for when its more than that. it was a genuine world view that you went through. [/QUOTE]

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