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™ supreme goblin 
@coriander@elekk.xyzUnless your thing is explicitly messy and countercultural, don't call it somethingpunk
And if your thing has nothing to do with anything called hardcore, definitely don't call it somethingcore
Sorry not sorry
@coriander i think normcore is okay because it’s just the logical conclusion of straightedge
™ supreme goblin @coriander@Lady I've never heard of normcore lmao
@coriander oh normcore is what started it lol
as originally formulated, there was a distinction between “acting basic” (looking hashtag-basic as an aesthetic statement) and “normcore” (deliberately seeking out sharable and commonly-held experiences over unique ones to boost relatability) but then everyone used the latter to mean the former and it kind of devolved from there
™ supreme goblin @coriander@Lady Fascinating
@coriander yeah so they were like “when millennials all obsess over the same kpop band instead of cultivating unique musical tastes that's normcore” and then people were like “when sorority girls all wear the same sweater that’s normcore” and then people were like “when i wear baja blast blue that’s tacobellcore”
@coriander and the original formulation was kind of interesting, because it positioned normcore as a collectivist reaction to an age of hyperindividualism, but it very very quickly lost those vibes
@00dani@coriander
announcing my new cosycore game
it has permadeath
™ supreme goblin @coriander@00dani Someone who says FromSoft games are their comfort games
@00dani@coriander i actually do kinda get that but in a
you've got the boss patterns down and you can effortlessly weave around them hitlessly when you're in the Zone
sorta way?
like with danmaku
™ supreme goblin @coriander@00dani Yeah I feel it, you get the flow state
@coriander its funny that so many of these things boil down to x_vibe where x often just means Nice. cozypunk. hopecore.
my game and i saw ur vibe from across the steam sales room and think you should spend 30 bucks on us
™ supreme goblin @coriander@LillianVixe "Hopepunk" makes me so mad lmao that's nothing
@coriander it reminds me of that bit of the I Don't Know James Rolfe video where he elaborates a lot that metallica was never underground or countercultural so it's really funny that james rolfe thinks they are
™ supreme goblin @coriander@LillianVixe Dan Olsen is so good
@coriander hope is a normal thing to want and aspire to. there is nothing punk about it. so either you are stating that the world is so fucked up that it is punk to have hope, in which case you are negating reality's fucked up ness to state your game isn't that and you could just say "this game is a fantasy to escape reality" and mean the same thing more honestly or you just don't know what words mean or even worse, don't care what words mean
and that last one is the james rolfe thing. firmly uncurious and unwilling to self examine
@coriander I think youve lost the battle on -core
™ supreme goblin @coriander@cuttlefish I will keep fighting it anyway
@coriander i've been holding onto the name feypunk for reasons tbh
™ supreme goblin @coriander@heatherhorns_lite I use goblinpunk to describe my own personal aesthetics and philosophy and I have a LOT of opinions on the general "goblincore" thing that's happened online
@coriander i dunno if you've seen me make fun of that shit here before with like
incredibly bland people watering down sloppy degenerate vibes but like
goblin is the main thing i'm talking about tbh
-punk is like
i feel like -punk is like, show your work, bitch. like it's a thing to live up to
™ supreme goblin @coriander@heatherhorns_lite Yeah remember when "goblin mode" was the word of the year? The definition they used was like
Fundamentally divorced from anything real about the whole "goblin" thing (which, I want it on the record, I was the goblin BEFORE all the messy neurodivergent queers online started using it)
@coriander although that one i guess i didn't earn yet but i'll get there