all the conspiracy stuff in Deus Ex was popularized by ex-military intelligence and spooks like Bill Cooper and ufo culture originated as a psyop to give the government cover to fly experimental test aircraft. that game made me crazy in what’s proven to be a beneficial way but busted is still right. dx seems really prescient because there’s a slight truth in a lot of those things, but conspiracies have to be compelling to be an effective tool
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videogames are a psyop
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absolutely
The article in the local newspaper that suddenly made my mom approve of video games because people were playing Halo professionally – after two decades of lamenting my enthusiasm for video games and how they were robbing me of potential, suddenly she was about to go out and buy me an Xbox because it now represented an investment in my future
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so is the motion picture industry
has it even been long enough since the inception of colour+audio film to have studied its full effects on the mind? supposedly for instance exposure to moving images of people forms memories in the exact same way as meeting real people
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whenever i think something is a psyop as i joke i sincerely remember jackson pollack and sigh
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honestly you could make a cool Control story out of it – Jesse the art patron, or Jesse meets the white-collar black-tie employee responsible for doling out The Bureau’s art money
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i roll my own psyops
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god i remember seeing them in concert only because at the venue there was a chance to play the wii before it came out and i managed to convince whomever was in charge to get the twilight princess demo going when they weren’t going to let people play it before then. i spent any time i had to spend at the concert (because you could only hang out with the wii during breaks in the concert) against the wall playing my ds and thinking about excite truck while the rest of my friends were into it because they really liked reliant k. they did a pirate song or something
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this picture hung by the tv in the basement where we all played video games and my parents tried constantly to get me to go to video game colleges like devry after i dropped out of fake private catholic high school
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i remember seeing this commercial alot and much like when my brother and i would jump behind the couch before ryu would hadouken the screen at the beginning of super sf ii turbo for the snes we’d also hide before the man would start to blow
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Relient K were probably the most successful Christian band at kinda crossing over around that time because if you didn’t pay attention, they sounded just like most generic pop punk at the time. Most Christian rock bands try to sound like whatever the current sound it, but they are always a few years behind; it’s probably something unique about pop punk that it was relatively static for a long enough time period that the Christian bands caught up.
I never was at the Nintendo Fusion tour, but I think my wife went to one with her sister to see Fall Out Boy.
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Jars of Clay were pretty successful in the late-90s post-grunge environment, but probably not quite as much as Relient K
Also there’s Creed lol
Man I looked up Jars of Clay on wikipedia and they just kept making albums! They have 11 albums that stretch to 2013! Who knew!
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Fair, though I remember Jars of Clay’s moment fading pretty quickly once everyone figured out they were openly a Christian band. Kinda amazing they are still going? Good for them, but also, what? There is like this alternative world of Chrsitan music that I have minimal contact with that apparently can support a band like that for 20 years.
Creed is funny because they were super successful, but they were always just known as this obviously Christian band, though I also remember they would occasionally deny it as well, which was hilarious. My only Creed story is waking up early one saturday morning, and turning on Much Music at some point in the late 90s, and I wasn’t wearing my glasses yet, and I heard this band and though “man, pearl jam sure sounds shitty now, what happened?” and then a title thing came on the screen so i put my glasses on and it was Creed.
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They said “god damn” in a song, you can’t do that if you’re a Christian band!
I remember being friends with a guy in school whose shitty band were going to cover My Own Prison at a school assembly and we were all like oh man, he’s gonna sing “god damn” at school and everyone’s gonna flip. Anarchy in the streets, the gym burnt down, everything. Sitting there on the edge of my bleacher listening to him and he gets to the part: “Don’t have to settle no…score” Epic gamer disappointments of 1997.
I had a roommate in college that was really into christian screamo and it would always kill me to hear these thrashing guitars and then the most growly metalocalypse voice pipe in “BLESSED BEEEEEEEEE”
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Yeah that’s all I’ve been listening to this morning because of this thread. Breakdowns for Jesus!
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