Episode 25: The Pen Was Lying There for Them to Pick Up

Kate and Valerie discuss Undertale and Deltarune as art made by a millennial and ask “what defines millennial art?” For this, they define what a generation means as an analytic context, what experiences millennials share that go into their art, and the indie game as the modern equivalent to the personal film.

Topics: Other generations flippantly characterized by Friends, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, Buddenbrooks, sex, lies and videotape, and Woodstock, Steven Universe and Fionna and Cake as parallels, economic stagnation and the Great Recession, video games as the eighth art and Toby Fox as one of the first wave of game developers raised on games, The Amazing Digital Circus, and millennials breaking into film and deploying genre with I Saw the TV Glow, Sinners, and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. We talk about our expectations for Deltarune’s ending and our own futures in the context of the generational approach to sincerity.

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