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beka valentine · 2w
the shows are very serious and sincere about how they treat it all, even tho its dripping with campy 80s low budget scifi, because there is a core mood of aspiration which is inherently utopian and fu...
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but that kind of sincerity and seriousness about aspirational utopian futures is often seen as cringe, naive, and childish

so the choice is to either abandon the activity entirely or strip it of sincerity and turn it into funny haha goofiness
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beka valentine · 2w
the aspirational scifi faux-sport games of the 90s couldn't last because they inherently run counter to a core embarrassment that Americans, at least, feel about positivity toward the future, especially when that involves personal and collective choices to improve things