IndieAgora

I noticed that cultures called or considered small and weak make stories of their characters being big and strong, and that the English speaking fantasies like those where the White Man was strong, almost always take place in some foreign setting where they are super powered among foreigners rather than the surrounding local population. This happens with Gulliver's Travels but also John Carter From Mars, Tarzan, and numerous other things that seem to be Imperialistic and promoting the idea of being domineering over an inferior group of foreigners, savages, aliens, or animals.



I've heard of or seen all of these except maybe two that seemed very specific to Japan and without much information about them making the rounds outside of Japan.

I haven't heard of almost any of these except the last two, but barely:





Whatever reaches people and impacts their minds and creative products afterwards is of interest to me it aldo can give me a pulse on the cultural zeitgeist and what appeals to certain demographics.



Weird that these Indian videos are flooding the place, but they function fine enough since they write things down in English and say the names in English too maybe.

So much of Chinese and Japanese artistic culture comes from the culture of Gandhara in modern Pakistan which was the Indus culture, and then it went through Tang China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ ... Tang_China

My kids love this game Geometry Dash, here's a video of the first level "Stereo Madness":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8AoSVkScA

It doesn't look anything special, just another side-scroller in which requires impeccable timing and memorisation of the levels.
It really isn't the type of game I enjoy. It makes me want to RAGE QUIT!!!!!!

But I do appreciate some of the level design. I think it's next level! Meta. Really creative. I quite enjoy watching it. Here's the level called Rage Quit - note the identical start to Stereo Madness (the very first level any new player of the game plays). This is gameplay footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XOrGL8FREw

Actually thinking about it, it recalls the old demos people used to make pushing the hardware to it's limits to see what was possible, before it got anywhere near the stages we have today, where, we're hyper-saturated with amazeballs content.