ZOMBIES OF THE DEAD (You said to treat this like a normal blog)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4foORFZxuk

This advertisement creates a need to murder the faces off of zombies with cool guns and sweet tech. I felt excited and anxious in anticipation of being able to play this game mode. It acts as a persuasion tool by advertising the cinematic style, the iconic action movie stars playing the roles of the four characters, and finally by HAVING FREAKING ZOMBIES IN IT. Who doesn't love zombies, seriously. Love zombies? You kill zombies. Hate zombies? Show your hate by killing zombies. Zombies are like chocolate chip mint ice cream, it's really hard to go wrong with them. Hecks yea it promotes popular beliefs, that nothing is more satisfying than pressing the barrel of a shotgun against the temple of an undead freak and pulling the trigger. The only stereotype in the trailer was that there always has to be one girl in the pack of zombie hunters, another cliche they didn't add was the one black guy to die first...Maybe he already died in the intro cinematic. In the end I am/was convinced to buy the $15 DLC for this one game mode alone, actually I did more than that. Because exo zombies will be with each DLC I ordered the season pass to get all the DLC at discounted price and cool stuff before the release of the precious precious expansions. I rate this advertisement two The Walking Dead comic book compilations out of five stars. (Uberdanger reference to his style of rating.)  

The Magnificent War Waged for Culture

     The gist of the entire article was that the essence of popular culture is carved by the conflicts between varying factions such as companies or censorship. That the presumption of mass media controlling what's popular to culture is only partially true, that "people act in the arenas open to them," making one of the conflicts between media and average citizens. 

      What has changed in my conception of how popular culture? Nothing much other than the idea of conflict causing unpredictable shifts and spikes of popularity. Conflict, to me, always seemed like a smaller portion of what shaped pop-culture, but the past articles and video made it seem more like the center piece of change. I will take their word that it is majorly significant, but my personal view won't be changed that much. I still see it as minor, no great or frequent examples were given to persuade me. A good portion of the video was a conflict in a city, over the defining of what is culture, not actual pop-culture itself. Not what you or I consider generation defining.