# obduction garme lost in a cognitive kansas myst to consider how the teaser trailer for obduction garme seems lost in the a distinctly bland and generic design myst // video here imagine you don't know anything about this garme - some comments 1. "we all lost everything - everything but our stories.. and they shouldn't be forgotten" hmm this seems like bad writing. (perhaps "we lost everything - even our stories"?) first off who's this mystical 'we'? and define 'everything' and what's so great about these 'our stories' anyhow? it seems doubtful that the story about our stories obduction addresses aren't seen seen as anything other than 'naturally human' - and therefore distinctly symbolic of a cognitive kansas where the homely stink of mom's all-amerikan apple pie can still be detected even on the most distant of alien worlds. (this despite the fact teh garme seems to precisely question and engage with these ideas?) 2. unreal war engine still chugging away in the dead lensflarey lands of art directionless where mere in-built engine lighting properties pass for aesthetics 3. light as 'lite: in which one is supposed to automatically assume that a bland combination of light airy piano chords and sunlight through trees means 'magic and wonder' - when it more actually only symbolizes it as a (dubious) ideal 4. conceptual verdict so far: indistinct schmaltzig underwhelming / a little too meh // republic of bob