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sooooo bandersnatch is pretty cool huh

#oh... oh its been so long #cant rmr my tags #colin #stefan #art #colfan

i finally succumbed to the impulse to write fanfic and oh my god did he get carried away,, chapter 1 begins with ‘haha mutual pining uh oh what’ll these wacky guys do?!’ and ends with ‘this was a battle of mythological proportions. the force of love vs the will of the cosmos themselves’. can i calm down

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spideystyls

my mouth says ‘Finn’, but my heart says ‘Fee-on’

#PLEASE.#fionn

ok Fuck. i get why colin does this hell yes it’s TWINKLING, BABY

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drug ment//

high & listening to Love On A Real Train & fulfilling every prophecy

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ekdusis

Bandersnatch, capitalism, and gamedev work culture: a microessay

The first major fork is Stefan’s acceptance of the job. It’s a YES and a NO, but the NO is really a YES, BUT.

It is excruciating how the latter didn’t negotiate for more buts. Stefan, like many naive young programmers, fell into the trap of believing that breaking into game development means giving up all control to your employer. If he sets a deadline, you meet it. Doesn’t matter when. Sinclair Research, producer of the ZX Spectrum, was absolutely notorious for setting impossible publicized deadlines. It was meant to curb procrastination, but it really just burnt out a lot of employees and enforced a work-until-you-die mentality that’s still so pervasive today.

I think analyzing Colin from a workers-first perspective is important; he’s irreverent with Thakur, prone to taking breaks. It’s written as a “he gets fucked up, he’s a free spirit,” but I really do think it shows how Colin is wary of the industry. He goes on self-directed breaks because he knows he won’t ever get a proportionate one to his workload. He doesn’t buy a Lamborghini because he knows how precarious the game bubble is. I think it’s worth interpreting the acid scene through this too; warnings about PAC-Man living in a nightmare could be analogous to programmers like themselves scurrying in the maze trap that is the game industry. The demons are mental constructs, the kind that enforce acclaim and happiness as achievable only on corporate terms.

On the other hand, Stefan is inexperienced enough to give himself up entirely to the system. We see him stress over his own perceived inability to code efficiently, rather than ever question if his boss had set problematic work expectations. Working remotely shouldn’t mean working without guidance.

Stefan’s anxiety stems from the belief that if his game fails, that reflects badly on him. That it actually means something in the grand scheme of being alive. When it really should be, if Tuckersoft doesn’t give his concept piece the time and space it needs, he should take it elsewhere. That inability to see how he’s a cog in the machine is his downfall.

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thecolinritman

[ i would agree with this if it wasnt for the fact that him saying no was because we chose no for him. and he literally couldn’t control himself saying no. same with biting his nails, or pouring tea over or destroying the computer. he never knows why he does the things he does. he even told his therapist he didn’t know what made him say no he just said it. because we chose it. had nothing to do with being exploited. ]

Hope this is the right format for replying. I’m really interested in the meta-narratives we can understand from Bandersnatch’s false choices –they are false, really–if we use different theories, frameworks, and schools of thought for understanding both the actual story and the way the story is presented.

For this little post, I’m coming from a point-of-view where I’ve worked with and in modern independent game development. Right now, we’re seeing a lot of developers speaking up about how overwork and toxicity is normalized. The crunch is dangerous.

This post wasn’t about literal options or placing a verbatim reading on the canon. It was more about how one can read Stefan’s lack of agency and work-or-snap mindset as a phenomenon that parallels capitalist exploitation and disregard for human life in the game development industry. If Stefan was aware of ethical worker-first practices, if that was normalized in his industry, his paths would have looked a lot different.

#type this is the most interesting shit ive ever read #stefan #colin #idk what to even tag this as

if i have to see “will poulter quits twitter” one more time i swear to GOD

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olive-sketches

program and control

ig: oliviaaj22

#GOOD SHAPE #SHAPE OF A FRIEND #colin #art

hey god? it’s elliot yeah hi jw why there are no interviews w Director David yet. can u get on that

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god honestly congrats to me for getting this url early on

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fionnlydarling

“Apart 👏🏼 from 👏🏼 Colin” 👏🏼 he 👏🏼 said

Charlie Brooker interviews for TVLine

#we love a real ally!!!#colfan

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Omfg all of these bandersnatch rambles you’re doing are actually blowing my mind haha

jdkhjd thanks i’m glad someone is keeping up w my nonsense hehehe

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god i’m realizing how many of stefan’s conversations seem like he’s had them before... like looking at it from that perspective explains a lot of his... seemingly unwarranted irritation w things??? ugh im inTRIGUED

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ok wait so maybe colin & stefan are the same? maybe it’s that both of their memories run in a straight line while everyone else’s loop with the flow of Time????? im giving myself a headache

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never have i had a blog w so much original content. never ever. the amt of snatch ramblings i produce is... just ridiculous...

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ok also. ALSO. how does Loop Chronology work. like... stefan only remembers stuff after the “first” loop... but shouldn’t he already have known it because it already happened in “later” loops??? so is he living chronologically within loops that are happening simultaneously?? like does his memory only go in one direction but the loops keep repeating?? OH maybe that’s his uniqueness is that everyone else’s (save for colin’s) memory loops consistent with the flow of time but stefan... defies time??? does any of this make sense? no but am i having fun? YES

#el tells #bandersnatch #stefan #GOD im absolutely feral tn #Snatch Feral

who put the glyph on the billboard chARLIE

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