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Machina/The Machines Of God is my 3rd favorite album by The Smashing Pumpkins right behind Adore and Mellon Collie. I think it’s heaviness in both emotions and sound is fantastic! I also think that it is one of the darkest concept albums I have ever heard, even though I couldn’t tell you the story for the life of me. In spite of that, I still love it.

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based off a bjork pic from the debut photoshoot #art #originalcharacterart #originalcharacter #ocart #cyberpunk

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My attack on Pelinal, @johnoatman and @dewmerman on artfight!!

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the gemerald that saved my creativity

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i have been hard at work making a neocities profile for my one character :sob:

here's the wip lol

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neocities isnt working fuck my life

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absolute blassik

Regurgitation - Tales Of Necrophilia (1999, Ablated Records)

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☆ Intro

Hi, I'm Oatman. I'm an amateur artist/writer, and professional impoverished bum. I'll be using Tumblr as an outlet to yap about my OCs and interests. For some additional information and links to my Artfight, Bluesky and Tw*tter accounts, check out my Strawpage. (probably gonna remove the twitter link soon im tryna get off that wack ass site 😭)

☆ Interests

I'm not about to list every single one of my interests, but I'll try to hit the main ones. Games: • Literally anything by RGG Studio. • Disco Elysium • Persona 3 & 4 • Guilty Gear (I'm a Johnny/Unika main 🙏) Music: • Type O Negative • System of a Down • Frank Ocean • TOOL

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Post-irony, mental health, violence, and the stress of modern life: a Postal related rant

PART 1: POSTAL (1997) AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE TITULAR CHARACTER

Postal is a game about violence. Moreso, it's a game that comments on the desensitized player who controls the protagonist of the game. The 'Postal' Dude is a schizophrenic with a savior complex... beyond that, there is not much character. Which is the point. He's a nameless protagonist that you are supposed to project your violent power fantasies onto. The elementary school level in the original game was put there for a reason, as something such as that was completely unheard of at the time, being pre-Columbine, with I do believe at the time the only notable school shooting incident was University of Texas in 1966. The elementary school is the power fantasy manifest. It questions your desensitization to violence and of course exists to be controversial.

Postal is also about mental health, don't get me wrong. The Postal Dude is very mentally unwell in the game, as you can tell by the 'war journal' and also the fact that he's going on a fucking mass shooting around his town in general. This questions the whiny politician and conservative parent, who believes that videogame violence is responsible for creating a psychopath, and that the issue lies more in mental health, something that conservatives constantly ignore. It's the tried and true school shooter reasoning, God damn it! This leads me to my final point of part 1.

Postal (1997) Is a game about the stress of modern life, and how it desensitizes you to violence that you pray for because of how stressful, dull, and almost dystopian modern society is. Hell, the final monologue is LITERALLY pointing this out:

“Population pressure and the stress of modern life may cause an increase in violent tendencies. The urban environment is the incubator for all sorts of undesirable behaviors. However, much his atrocities disgust us, he may actually consider himself a hero.”

You, the player, project your escapist violent power fantasy onto a shooter game to escape from the pressure of modern life. The Postal Dude is a parody of the player, as he is pushed over the edge with unchecked mental illness in a complete suburban hellscape, seeing himself as a savior.

PART 2: POSTAL 2 IS THE PERFECT POST-IRONY SATIRE OF POST-COLUMBINE AND POST-9/11 AMERICA (AND MORE POST-ISMS.)

Many people think Postal 2 completely strays from the themes of its predecessor. I disagree, however. Postal 2 only builds off of these themes, especially after an event such as the Columbine shooting in 1999, and an absolute tragedy such as the 2001 September 11th attacks. The 2003 sequel puts you in a somewhat normal urban area, Paradise, Arizona, faced with 'boring' chores, and post-9/11 paranoia, coming in the form of the Lucky Ganesh (which honestly, how the fuck could you people not tell Vince Desi was a racist asshole when he was severely dedicated to bashing muslims every chance he got).

The game, on a peaceful run, is very, very, VERY, fucking boring and frustrating, all to prove the point that was EXTREMELY blunt in the first game. Modern life is boring and agonizing, and sometimes, you really do want to just snap out. The game makes this urge even more palpable with the various violent encounters throughout the week (i.e. the bank robbery on Monday, the redneck attack on Wednesday, and the entire latter section of Friday, etc etc).

PART 3: TUMBLRITES DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POSTAL DUDE (AND HIS VARIOUS ITERATIONS, AND MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THEY'VE NEVER PLAYED A FUCKING POSTAL GAME)

Postal is a very controversial series for a reason. It questions the player and it questions the government, it's also extremely offensive. Which is the point. Postal 1 Dude is not some "smol bean anxiety schizo boi who needs to be hugged", he's a schizophrenic mass murderer who thinks he's saving the world from a hate plague. Postal 2 dude is a misanthropic douchebag who's addicted to crack, lives in a trash trailer, and will shoot up the line at the bank because it's too fucking long. You're not supposed to like him in any of his iterations, because he is by default an unlikeable, bigoted asshole, who is honestly a self-insert for Vince Desi at some points. You don't understand the games when you try to baby him, not to be a gatekeeping asshole, because that is honestly just how it is. Hell, it makes me believe that you are only active in the postal fandom, and have never played the fucking games, because you would probably melt due to how incredibly fucking obnoxiously offensive the second game is especially. How are you going to argue that the dude isn't bigoted or rejoice when Pedro says he isn't transphobic like he's a fucking role model. You're missing the point. But don't act like I'm some ultra edgelord who thinks that Postal scares the libs or whatever dumb shit, because I'm not like that. I just wanna point out how fucking obnoxious the Postal fandom is.

This concludes my rant.

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INTRODUCTORY (OBLIGATED TO PIN)

Hi, I'm Dewm. This isn't my first post here, but this is the introductory. I'm gonna be using this blog to talk about random shit and my "writing". I'm a cis male, and my pronouns are him. I am straight.

>First of all, what are my writings?

Simple. I like to write story / character driven jawns in my free time. This includes:

The Twin Snakes, my so-called most ambitious project. Centers around two clone child soldiers-turned cybernetic supersoldiers, and their stories. Cyberpunk / Mildly post-apocalyptic setting set in 2060 after civil war in the former United States has turned into nothing but profit for large corporations. Heavily inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Fallout: New Vegas.

Outside of the Twin Snakes, I also have various disconnected original characters, of which I may occasionally post about. Everyone needs a little love!

>What am I interested in?

I like various things, but my current interests include:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Ghost in the Shell

King of the Hill

Extreme Metal

Industrial Music / EBM

First Person Shooters

My Friends Whom You Should Follow

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This is my first post.

HI!