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hello. ia mfrostbyte freeman, maker of minecraft video essay type-things. you may recognize me from my work on Wifies and the King in Yellow, IvoryCello's Whitepine, Scripted Minecraft Content and its Problems, or other such slopbyte stuff
im putting this out in the open on tumblr since i figured that reading comprehension might be higher on here than it is elsewhere— not my next video, but the video after is slated to be about Women in Minecraft (that is the working title but obviously the broader critique is going to be much more intersectional by necessity). on the one hand i wonder if ive even got anything sufficiently novel to add to the discourse, if i should even weigh in.
on the other hand i am someone who benefits from the privilege of outwardly presenting like a man. one time, during an argument about mcat analysis, one of my friends looped me in just to echo their talking points with the rationale that "whatever a woman says first, a man just says louder" (but people listen) and that always kinda stuck with me in a way that made me feel bad. but if people only care about that sort of signal boost maybe something good can come of hijacking their preconceived heuristics
so. big ask time. what do you all think would be most relevant to give the uninitiated viewer a conceptual framework for this sort of stuff? have you read any insightful scholarly analyses on the subject of sexism in gaming? i think covering the pewdiepipeline is necessary at the very least due to its proximity with the game's resurgence in prominence, but do i have to walk this all the way out to the broader ongoing conditions of gamergate?? do any of you have your own experiences or insights on the front of structural misogyny to share (especially those that predate me formally joining the community)?
again, this is a big ask. i do get that. it is not your job to educate me (or rather help me educate others since that's really what i'm asking here, i'm grown i can do my own research). but if any of you have novice-oriented resources you find helpful to make this topic more accessible to a lay audience, or experiences you feel comfortable enough to share, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Fuck it. Food Headcanons from each Borderlands corporation
DAHL
- Dahl is all about Militaristic Seriousness to comical degrees, so it shouldn't surprise you that most of what they have to offer is Rations. Canned food, nutrition packets and weird astronaut looking pastes, all packaged up in neat browns and greens to match with the very boring aesthetic of the Rest of their products. Everything is neatly separated and easily accessible in Dahl settlements. One bonus of it is that it never expires, so if you're hungry and need a snack, just find an old military base and that should have you pretty much covered for a few weeks.
- "But Magnus, what's in the packs?" I hear you ask, and not to worry my situational friend, I've done Way Too Much research on this and can absolutely tell you ! Again, its all very shelf stable and nutritional, so it ranges from cereal bars, dried up meats and nuts, protein powders and pastes (usually peanut butter), some mildly flavoured crackers, a variety of canned foods (including but not limited to: "Spaghetti", """beans""", soups and veggies. These are meant to be complimentary, not really eaten on their own), and ready-made "pop it in a fire for a few seconds" sustenance providers like curries. It's good enough to eat ! Hopefully.
- ...It does Not. Taste like the best thing in the world usually. If you're desperate enough you won't notice it at first, but these things are meant for soldiers who haven't dreamed of a non-dehydrated vegetable in 10 years, so it's tough to swallow once you're not suffering from all the malnutrition ailments. It's very barely seasoned to account for the vast majority, and it's probably not a good investment to waste spices on any of it either. You could still reasonably throw a meal together with the pastes plus the canned stuff and (if you get lucky) have a chocolate cake for dessert though, even if it does taste like a biting an old boot.
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TEDIORE
- Tediore is, by all lore definitions, a 'budgetarian' company. They appeal HARD to the aesthetic of the common person, and that their main demographic are consumers who are just looking for something quick and reliable, knowing people will more often than not only use it because they have no other choice, so it shouldn't surprise you that their business model for selling food is basically the same as Walmart's. In my mind they mostly sell quick snack food you'd usually see in a convenience store– Likely not the best choice as far as nutritional value goes, but it's tasty, affordable and it hits the spot when you're in a pinch or when you're starving after a long day of Torment Nexus'ing around the six galaxies. so you really can't afford to be picky most of the time. Sometimes Pretty Literally.
- The food itself is, again, just about everything you'd find in a convenience store in the middle of nowhere after a long roadtrip and are so hungry you can't see straight: Isles upon isles of chips, cereals and cookies, pre-made lunchable type meals in refrigerated containers, soda that is Technically brand name, but is still so obscure you have to look up if its even real later. It's the perfect combination of accessible, cheap and edible enough to grab the attention of people. The packaging in general tends to vary between shades of gray plus some extra shines to be recognized as food and not bagged motor oil, plus varied mascots to differ each product from one another as though they're from separate entities and not just Tediore All Over Again.
- How does it taste though ? Well, the answer is that it's good, even though it probably Will give you either a headache or a stomachache later. Like all hyperprocessed food, Tediore knows that the secret to making stuff taste good is to just either put a Lot of Salt or a Lot of Sugar in it, and that's really the whole secret. Let's say you get a nice Cheese Flavour snack bag from the local bodega: You eat 5 chips and think "Oh, that's really good!", completely oblivious to the fact you will regret this decision, and eventually eat the whole bag. Hard cut to you on the couch sluggish and weird, unsure to what caused it, but it was 100% the amount of sodium you consumed just being so high your body thinks you're sick. Or something like that. I'm not speaking from experience here.
MALIWAN
- Now, let's get this out of the way: Maliwan is as much a corporation as it is a cult. Its corporate identity as "hip" and cool and sleek and transhumanist and beautiful is all a facade for what they're really trying to sell you, which is an insecurity they can profit off of. They approach people who are already very lost, exhausted and burdened by the world and promise them a place to belong, to become something More, and if they need to manufacture your burdens, they will. All of this is to say, they're social media influencers creating problems you didn't know existed so they can sell you More Things, so obviously they're the "organic"/diet product food sellers of this world. They're like if an MLM had WAY too much credibility and power and people just had to live with it.
- You know the kinds of products I'm talking about. It's stuff that comes bragging about how it's "from the farm to your door!" even though it has gone through the same industrialization as everything else that is mass produced and meant to be sold. It's your diet versions of products, yogurts and teas and protein milks and "healthy" snacks, despite the fact they're the same composition-wide and just marked Way Up. They'd probably sell a lot of very niche products too though, all with the same promises for health benefits and what have you, but that at least have the decency to be interesting or *a little* flavorful. For one I think Maliwan branded gum would be really good, and they'd probably make some really good flavour blocks for putting in soup and stuff. That's their forté to me.
- Most of the food just tastes really bland and has kind of a chemical aftertaste, and the textures tend to vary between "Really airy and light, kind of like a foam or shaving cream" to "Unbearable combination of crunchy and soft that makes you confused on what you're even supposed to be tasting". It's a very high chance to be hit or miss depending on what you try, and since it's so expensive it's usually not worth it unless you're using these products for really specific dietary goals. Also most of the time isn't actually as healthy as advertised, and that's on purpose too.
HYPERION
- Hyperion to me is complicated to say on what they'd offer as far as food goes. On the cafeteria area in TPS you only really see fast food, so I imagine that the conglomerate would own most of a food court in your average shopping mall. All the name brands are owned by Hyperion and your variety is manufactured to look like you're spoiled for all the choices when, really, you're just going to give them money either way. The food is all pretty consistently good, even though the sourcing for it is questionable and it's always plated the same everytime, which makes you think all the ingredients just go through moulds before they plop it into your plate, and it's probably the closest thing it'll get to something like homemade food from the corporations.
- Again, variety is their main selling point, so as far as food goes, you'll find a little bit of everything. Pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs, food that's been genetically modified or has poison in it, tacos– really, the world is your oyster ! They probably have that on the menu too if you look ! Its all about the flashiness and the exclusivety and the way its presented and sold that really gets peoples gears turning. They're not bound just by ONE thing, they have ALL the things you could possibly ask for right here !
- ...But does it taste good ? Ehhh, that's more of a complicated issue. Again, because of all the variety and the way everything is synthesized and made based on the standards for the company, it'll always just taste Good (as in, You bite into it and say "Yeah, that's pretty good"), and after a while of eating Just Good food, you'll already have built a tolerance to it and it'll just taste mid after a while... and that is when they start advertising to you Bigger and Better foods, stuff that's been made in a lab to taste as good to human beings as possible, something so unbelievable your tastebuds might explode ! And then they do. Because it was an experiment and they were using you as a guinea pig. But hey, all in the name of progress, right ?
ATLAS
- Atlas is full of scientists who are trying to one up each other and convince everyone that They are the smartiest fanciest pants around, so you can bet your hats they're doing some molecular experimenting with the bases of every food in their market. The meat? Grown in a lab, synthesized from fibers they made themselves using only a rare type of algae that grows in like 2 moons in some distant system out there. The cheese? Not actually milk, because that is too big a luxury, no no– We used our new patented technology to create cheese out of a bunch of soft rocks we found. So on, so forth. They also probably sell all manners of artificial flavors and dyes. This trend continues with Rhys in control of Atlas, but much like everything in the company at this point it's all mostly prototypes that haven't been super well tested yet, so they're going through a... let's call it, break period in their own food industry, because they need to make sure that the things that are meant to be edible don't just explode when you try to bite into them.
- How do you sell things you know aren't exactly what you're advertising ? By lying, obviously ! The majority of their packaging isn't direct at all about what kind of food it is, it's just this halfway minimalist picture of something that looks delicious and the phrase "new formula!" plastered on the sides, vaguely indicating there Have been changes, but they never tell you about them. You'd have to skip over a hundred words of legal jargon in the back of the packet to find the ingredient list, which is entirely translated into science terms only, to figure out that this beef you're eating is actually some obscure combination of vegetables and a molecule of radiation that has never been used before. And you'll still probably eat it.
- The taste is Good, but I mean that in a "barely misses the mark to be Great" kind of good. The artificial flavoring really comes through when you take bigger bites of your portions, and you can't help but think you could probably make something better had you the means to, you know, find a cow somewhere in this universe. But you very much can't, so you'll settle for rice that vaguely tastes like carbon sometimes.
JAKOBS (Thank you Sir Nikolai for helping with this one <3)
- Jakobs prides themselves in tradition, in the planet-grown, in being quality first Always, and that reflects in the kinds of products they sell. Nearly all ingredients used in Jakobs consumables is directly sourced from the edenian moons themselves, and what isn't has to go through some strict processing to even be allowed in their formulas. As a result, Jakobs is the freshest as it gets in terms of Corporation Food, especially given they're probably using actual spices for flavoring as well. Their export game is also the strongest of any corporation, as they possess much of the staples as far as whats edible goes: Rice, beans, flour, coffee, sugar, liquor, you get it. Aside from that though, I can see them selling a variety of things, particularly old school candies like licorice, marshmallows (because you know. The Marsh planet), caramel and marmalades, as well as canned goods or preserves. Not the Dahl kind though– these are good.
- Jakobs doesn't advertise their food stuff much, but then again, they don't need to, given their monopoly over that particular market anyway and how most of their products are the staples. The packaging was designed like 200 years ago and has gone through a single redesign for the Jakobs logo to be more apparent, so as you can imagine the designs are pretty set in stone: You have the classic Jakobs aesthetics with the art nouveau-like swirls and brown/gold colors, the name of the product and the variety, and that's it. What you see is exactly what you get.
- I am a firm believer that Jakobs food is the greatest tasting one out of all the corporations, and that's because of one trick up their sleeves: They're too stubborn to adapt their recipes into something that is easier to produce. They know how hard it is to make liquor from scratch and age it accordingly and go about the fermentations processes meticulousy, and they are never going to change it because their model of business has been the same for like 300 years and clearly it isn't broken, so there's no need for fixing. Unlike other corporations which, in their search for absolute health conscience, have completely disregarded the substance of what makes food taste good, Jakobs will put actual sugar and fat and salt into their stuff, and if you don't like it you can take your ass back to Maliwan Delectable Treats (a bunch of freeze dried "strawberry" flavoured pebbles with nothing else added, which are neither delectable nor suitable treats for humans).
TORGUE
- Torgue used to be a very "Manly Place For Menly Men Only (Girls Not Allowed)" corporation for a long time, so as you might guess, they don't sell food so much as they sell you workout regiments and the kinds of diet you're supposed to follow to get a body "Just Like Torgue's". Variety is not their forté at all, as they only offer the same kinds of meal plans for everyone as a standardized measure, so you can mostly expect a lot of protein heavy, low fat and high fiber kinds of products. It's reliable if a little stale. Where they REALLY excell however is hot sauces, which helps add the kick their food requires back into it... for a hefty fee, obviously, but unless you have the sauce you might as well not eat any of it.
- It's all branded in comically gendered ways, but both male and female versions have explosions on the cover, varying only in color and the kind of model used on the cover. Previously, on the "women's" packaging, it was branded with the exclusive character "Torguina" on the cover plus pink bows around all objects, but since the recent change, they completely erased the existence of the "female" variations. It was only ever a cosmetic change either way. They use the same aesthetic from their guns to their food. They sell feastables that are shaped like little guns and grenades with cheese inside.
- Eating Torgue food is a bizarre experience, because by all means, it's just pretty normal food... until the aftertaste kicks in. It's like someone blew gunpowder directly into your mouth, and it probably says something about the corporation's standards for food that they make edible things the same way they make Bombs, but it only affects the food as much as you let it. The texture is good enough, and the initial bite is good, but the lingering aftertaste just makes it hard to get through a whole meal. And that's where all the (separately sold) additional flavorings kick in ! To make eating a better, more fun experience, you can get Torgue branded flavour packets to enhance the food, and they sure are bombastic !! As in, your stomach WILL explode if you put too much in from the unsafely measured spice, but it'll make everything taste at least good.
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