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  1. Today's as good a day as any to read my dissertation on post-irony in indie video games of the 2010s and how they use earlier cinematic techniques from Lynch and Maddin. @SimonXIX/1323576345226522625
    1. …in reply to @SimonXIX
      One of the films used in my analysis is MY WINNIPEG and its image of horses frozen into a river as discussed in this week's excellent @wittertainment podcast.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    2. …in reply to @SimonXIX
      There's a thread (sadly underdeveloped) in the introduction about how ironic mainstream video games culture exemplified in Gamergate contributed in part to the rise of the alt-right and thence far-right authoritarian figures like Trump.