do you think there’s a right-wing person who lurks and reads this forum from time to time, who thinks we’re stupid and just don’t get it
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entirely possible, but the kind of person who’d stay here just to witness leftist takes on games/culture and not register to “help break up this echo chamber™” would almost assuredly be here to grab screenshots for their grift feeding the white grievance machine on not-twitter
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i was imagining a person who just wants to get their fill of “finding people who i think are dumber than me so i can feel smarter/better about myself” but that is probably unrealistic
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oh man yeah, this kind of person can absolutely exist yes
years back i lived on miami beach and had this like academic hyperliberal roommate - nice guy, very much on the spectrum & needed to get thoughts out at whatever would hear them
he worked regular morning shifts but listened to all the reactionary shit that he could: limbaugh, glenn beck, hannity, tucker, whatever else was going on at the time
i’d work graveyard shift, come home in the morning and he’d just be hanging out, waiting to tell me all the dumb shit these maroons were on about the day before…i asked him why he gave this any stock, and he’d say it was to be “aware”, but when i pushed him on what this awarness brought (does it motivate you to work against the world they want? is there a perverse joy in the mental rebuttal you’re having with them?) he never really could answer that, but it was an impasse because he couldn’t see why i’d not want to be privy to what i found to be microdosing of soul poison
but looking back, i think he’s the kind of person you’re imagining here, yeah. i do not imagine the limitations of my perspective allow me to truly appreciate what joy might look like to another, but man, that can’t be it
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I am blissfully unaware of the wu-kong controversy… Maybe I’m out of the loop.
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i mean honestly, i’m just extrapolating from the way i occasionally act, like when i sometimes look deeper into the replies of a twitter (and now bluesky) post to see whether the awful replies i imagine probably exist actually do.
i know it’s unhealthy when i start reading those replies, and i at least usually stop quickly after i really take stock of the fact i’m doing it, but that very same reply diving (infinitely worse than dumpster diving) seems to indicate that other people do it too.
it’s definitely bolstered by social media algorithms, but as you point out, it’s a mental-thingy that exists outside of it too.
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From the little I’ve gathered it’s like any other gamer controversy: deeply stupid and I liked my hobby better when I was ignorant of it.
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Yeah, it’s like, they do need some kind of an in before it becomes possible to project their ideological goals on to it. Either because someone who worked on the game said something “based” on social media, or some kind of content in it is seemingly a “rejection of woke ideology” or whatever.
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Pcgamer dot com and its resident slavophile reviewer saying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is legit didn’t expect that
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no, they’re too busy pissing their pants lurking resetera to give a shit about this place.
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After publishing this, I’m gonna have to walk around all day today with a big sign on my head that reads “THE AVERAGE READER DOES NOT KNOW (OR REALLY CARE) WHAT A KADOKAWA IS OR ABOUT THEIR ANIME/MANGA INTERESTS. BUT THE AVERAGE READER DOES KNOW WHAT ELDEN RING IS”
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Gotta take into account your audience; that’s just good writing.
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You’d think, but I still have a bunch of weebs up my ass screaming JOURNALISM MALPRACTICE because I didn’t mention Yen Press.
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just reading the article now, solid write up but find myself wondering why you failed to mention Yen Press
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Just got around to the review. I thought it’d end up more like metro which was annoying. Glad to read it hasn’t
i feel for you, but on the other hand, u could consider to DO JOURNALISM DAMN IT (next to crunchyroll?)
from what admittedly little I’ve seen it sure looks like the spirit of 2007 is alive and well. You’d think the studio would have every incentive to CoD-ify it or whatever but seeing some of those environments, the UI, gunfights, etc is giving me deja vu. Jagged Alliance 3 last year and now this game where the developers just went and did it. I’m impressed!
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Spirit of 2007 indeed. I didn’t realize how nostalgic “buggy ambitious game soaked in atmosphere” would make me. I think that’s how the reviews of the original were too. Will get to it soon
In 2024 news, just saw Elon might be the #1 diablo 4 speedrunner
He’s calling it his comeback game
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Front Mission: 1st Remake got a update with a bunch of new stuff
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