Post 9sPriGUX9CTVqKF2EC by portpupper@social.sakamoto.gq
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 (DIR) Post #9sPriG50g63gZAIeRc by benhamill@cybre.space
       2020-02-26T02:47:13Z
       
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       I’ve been thinking, for some reason, about Indiana Jones recently. And how I kinda want more of it, in a sense, but, like… better. I like the Nazi-punching, the globe trotting, the action-archeology and the, like, secretly-real mystical shit.Like, it’s pretty straightforward to take out the casual sexism. You could also easily make it way gayer and less white. You could clarify the anti-fascist politics to make an actual statement, but…Is it possible to extract the exoticism (or orientalism?) without doing so much damage to the genre that it’s not longer recognizable? Is American foreign adventurism built in? What would you replace those things with to make a version that didn’t just paint the denizens of the locales Jones visits as, e.g., “desert people” or whatever?I feel like this is possible, but I’m looking for others’ perspectives while I mull on how.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sPriGUX9CTVqKF2EC by portpupper@social.sakamoto.gq
       2020-02-26T02:55:34.086547Z
       
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       @benhamill …or just enjoy it for what it is.  Perhaps come up with a new IP and story that has all the improvements you suggest.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sQ28UI7Sh3piGZrQu by benhamill@cybre.space
       2020-02-26T03:18:25Z
       
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       @portpupper Oh yeah. A new IP is totally what I had in mind. I just... didn't have a better word for the genre than invoking the big iconic example.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sQ4UTTlMVJvTOdSfw by portpupper@social.sakamoto.gq
       2020-02-26T05:18:46.160271Z
       
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       @benhamill Glad I could help.