what did you think of the one about the thing.

the Edelston World Cup is an… uh… i don’t know. haha. I can’t remember what i said yesterday about that cartoon. the one…

Adventures in Glass

… truly if you tell me that i thought it was an honest reflection of a period of history not well know I’d have to agree. like, for sure i said something like that.

having this, solid opinion on it, it’s great because it means i get to participate in it with other people.

did you like the meal? yes, no, that’s important stuff. my mind was the whole time thinking about how there’s a hair in my food, and god doesn’t that just expose the entire labour practice right? like, wow.

sorry. i respect your opinion. or i respect your right to express it. i wouldn’t be american if i didn’t. im not american, but that doesn’t matter right. all yanks under god.

Adventures in Glass had a spin off, just called Adventures. they started a game series and so Adventure Gaming was born. it’s fun to tell people your favourite type of game they made.

it’s fun right. the conditions of it being fun are dependent on stuff. like, finding it entertaining to hear other people’s thoughts on an experience. that’s the ultimate point of reviewing stuff. it’s entertainment that serves to establish, reify, and do violence within a limited sphere of assumptions about what is acceptable. it’s the positioning of experience at the intersection of ideology.

a vital piece of the economic stability of the literary and academic sphere, of movies and television, of music, of games, of public art. or at least, at one point.

people can be very clear about it when being honest about what it’s for: ‘getting people to hear about things’. this happens when there’s a moral panic about whether people employed to review things are doing their job right. or if you like a podcast you rate it 5 stars so more people can hear about it. it’s nothing to do with the actual opinion, the reviewer’s role is as market interventionist.

the public is correct about the product.

that’s a very capitalist realist idea of what all this sharing of opinion is for. it’s for continuing our reliance on the systems that encourage it.

people are aware of this. but, in your small groups, in your fanzines and sites and ‘unprofitable’ activity, isn’t there something else. some little baby that is crying for a cigarette. smokes it and rates it 5 stars. not on smokesdotnet or baby review site. just in a little book, that maybe they show around to their uncles, saying hey look, nice. what’s the market function there, for smoking baby to continue smoking i guess, but they were going to do that anyway… perhaps the reviews make it feel more meaningful… that’s a thing you could do with any system though, rating every movie i see under communism,

well, the measurement of experience is something more like a poetic capturing of what it is to be a person.

movie reviews are great, one of my favourite things. conversations about movies, about any art too. it’s really that… the way we express our experience is corporatised, and made into an impulse that is broad and cumulative. the more public reviews of games, of books, of films, of battery pack chargers, of windscreen wipers, of air fresheners and hormone tablets, the more money it makes or the more people turned away and convinced to buy something else.

money for someone in some imperial heart. probably, because of the thing we promote, who owns it, and invisible labour in the systems underneath. this website, doing the same, created with wordpress.

i wouldn’t be here without your support. but neither would they.

i wrote this several months ago. i still think i have a point. i think my point is buried in my fear at this moment though. i cannot pretend to not feel deep terror. one i did not write about because i wasn’t thinking of it at the time, but it’s persistent and long term terror of the far right capture of governance and action in the world, one that either is taken as ‘liberalism’ or as fascism. the switching of hands from one to another in america, a magic trick that happens every five to ten years, for instance. reviews play vital parts in this warping of reality towards torture and extermination.

this is the intent of terrorising systems like those of the governments of our death empires. to instill this fear. to create in the body the review of slow death. and you must fight.

see. review world becomes a war zone and always has been. i think the intersection of ideology and experience is correct. and that experience is often, if you are the attacker participating in the war, unimportant. it is just an excuse for attack. these attacks are physical and put at risk the value of being of the thing, and in some cases the person targeted, if their value is not already a protected resource. if they rely on review.

review networks play vital roles. for the protection of the vulnerable. they also provide outlets for terror as enforced by imperial domination.

a review is a code, a type of opinion and type of fact, one that encodes ideology into potential experience – product or not. this is often a frustration. it is sometimes necessity. it is sometimes weapon and contingent with attack from all sides. this is, as we go on, something to know. and yet. much more. we who are at risk from review by dominant supremacists must know each other.