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FINALLY. Nintendo needs to hire me so I can assign the appropriate genitals to ALL of the pokemon. I will work for CHEAP.
I at least want every adaptation of a thing to have some nerd who has at least read the wiki for whatever thing
like idk, it’s shitty when people who know literally fuck dick all about something you like tries to make an adaptation of it, because it will suck all ass
or shit like the Foundation tv show where the showrunner just wanted to do their own fucking sci fi bullshit and they just used the IP as a vehicle for it
or shit like the Foundation tv show where the showrunner just wanted to do their own fucking sci fi bullshit and they just used the IP as a vehicle for it
I’ve ranted about P R E S T I G E T V many times before, but I was so disgusted by whatever the fuck I saw with my first attempt to watch that that I don’t even have much to say because I stopped so quickly and no one told me more. Fortunately.
have they ever considered that the customer is usually WRONG?
also “to avoid social media backlash” ??? A wise man once said:
You’re grown-ass adult executives of hundreds-billions-dollar entertainment monopolies. wtf.
the fansThey should hire me. I’d strongly push for what matters: introducing Goku as a character into every franchise. This fan demands it!!
It sucks man. The Lord of the Rings is my favorite trilogy of films, I used to be so into Star Wars that I would read every book that came out, but now with the way that Hollywood has gone its like all of the things I grew up enjoying have turned to ash in my mouth.
Just abolish copyright already. I world of infinite fan films of varying quality would be far preferable to the one where we get a limited number of big budget films of predictably bland quality.
Bring back Newgrounds!
I tried watching Rings of Power. All of that budget, all of those resources, and it was so bland. I drifted out before the “prestige TV” torture focus really kicked in, at least.
RoP has many flaws that could probably be forgiven if it wasn’t just such a slog to get through. Screwing up the canon and characters and everything is one thing but at least make it good. Jackson’s films mess with the canon too but the original trilogy is still timeless because it was so well done
The whole (I’m not spoiler alerting this because this is such a garbage story that I don’t mind spoiling the surprise) “Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat” thing was an amazing shark jump.
, like a lot of creativity-deprived techbros, is a very firm absolutist in Joseph Campell-like story cliches, so he had to have a “friend that becomes a traitor” moment because his own mandates said so.
oh thank god theres nothing scarier than the prospect of accidentally encountering an organic idea that is even slightly challenging or unexpected
So like a focus group?
PR firm gets clients IP in news by pitching story of “did you know focus groups exist?”
A focus group with the worst possible focus.
200,000 Deadpool & Wolverine slopfests are ready, with a million more well on the way
The one thing you can’t say about the prequels is that they were what the fans wanted, lmao.
That may be so, but it also had some pretty egregious fanservice with the inclusion of OT characters even when it made no sense.
I’ve read enough shitty fan fictions to know that giving the fans that much power never ends well.
untrue
Sometimes it leads to profits, like how “Twilight” started as shitty Harry Potter fanfiction and “50 Shades” started as shitty Twilight fanfiction.
Is everyone ready for the worst shows and movies ever made?
How to usher in a brave new era of art and theater
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ai “art”
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al “writers”
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fund one season direct to netflix with no intention of finishing the story
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hire showrunners (i don’t know what a showrunner is but every time i hear the term it’s associated with some travesty of storytelling so i assume it’s bad"
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focus group everything around the loudest, angriest
assholes you can assemble in a room
showrunners
Best case scenario, a showrunner just makes sure everyone stays in sync. They read through scripts to make sure the characters are consistent, art concepts to make sure that everything fits the desired style and tone, and coordinate with writers to ensure that season-long plot threads don’t get left dangling.
Worst case scenario, they have CEO brain, and are constantly shooting down cool ideas and pushing the production towards the bland focus grouped middle ground. Sometimes a showrunner wants to be the first type, but they are forced by producers and other stakeholders into being the second type.
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They will be less political and pander even more directly to hogs! This coincides so amazingly well with LLM treat printers that are already removing artists from art!
POV you’re an Hollywood writer
Just imagine how hard the resident feeemale has to go out of her way to not be “bossy” or “frigid” or the like while dodging (or even giving in) to whatever creepy shit is happening around her, constantly endangering her job because her superiors may decide that she isn’t a “team player” or whatever.
I dunno if you’ve watched that docuseries about Dan Schneider’s tenure at Nickelodeon, but it details exactly that
I couldn’t bear to watch the whole thing, but yeah, what I saw was pretty awful.
The answer is always “if you do that, fans are going to retaliate.”
Make a good movie, make a bad movie. Movie has woman, movie doesn’t have woman. Movie is exactly like the original, movie is a radical departure. Movie is for kids, movie is grim dark. It doesn’t matter.
They could micro target to the most narrow, least appreciative audience and make no money so there’s always that
Fingers crossed, hopefully this helps further kill US soft power/pop culture influence. Humanity will get free of it eventually!
Ahhhhhhhhhh i am going to keep screaming ahhhhhhhhh
This is 100% a result of gamergate teaching
that they can use harassment, doxxing, and outright terrorism. Fuckers just pulled it on Helldivers and ruined my beautiful space fascism simulator.And now these losers and going to proactively capitulate to actual, literal mob violence for some fucking reason. Good luck, dorks. Those hate campaigns aren’t about getting what you want, they’re about the joy of wielding power and hurting people.
Half-baked, depressed social theorizing time on my part.
The way they’re all dropping any pretenses of being “progressive” in favor of catering to, like, frothing nerds just affirms the fact that culture is heading in an increasingly overt fascist direction. Sign of the times, I guess.
Yup. Making capitulation to whoever can organize the most visible reactionary hate campaign your official policy isn’t going to lead anywhere good.
The 90s are coming back, aren’t they? We’re going to have “game of the year” appointees before the fucking games are even playable, and their advertising will be basically misanthropic “you are a loser, also buy our game, you loser” statements, and tacky porn. Again.
The only GotY I recognize is Game of the YoRha edition of nier automata
Fuckers just pulled it on Helldivers and ruined my beautiful space fascism simulator.
How? HOW?
I sincerely think Arrowhead panicked. The core team is only twenty people, they’ve had their heads down working on the game for years. Then a game that was intended to sell maybe a few hundred k units exploded, outsold most of the most popular games in history, and a niche comedy tactical shooter suddenly had a vast audience that… couldn’t figure out how to deal with a a fairly basic charging mini-boss and felt oppressed by anti-tank weapons.
Despite having very good daily player numbers on steam I think the vast social media hate campaign, the endless tirades and histrionics on the main subreddit, and the outright harassment got to them and they basically just caved to the mob’s demands. It didn’t matter that they had a steady 25k players, all they were seeing was seething, unhinged anger from every direction.
But hey, their 24 peak is went up to 35k as of this writing, so gutting everything that made their labor of love special and unique was probably totally worth it!
Are you telling me that the self-described epic
got especially mad at the game being too difficult this particular time?I absolutely cannot understand it. They added difficulty 10 specifically to be extremely challenging for people who wanted that… and then hordes of people… complained it was too hard? They didn’t say that, htey used words like “unfair” and “tedious” and “imbalanced”, but in the end they were complainging that the 10th and most challenging of 10 fairly granular difficulty modes was too hard for them and they demanded it be made drastically easier.
They had ten difficulties to choose from, but they demanded to play on 10 and for 10 to be brought down to their level.
The whole episode legitimately caused me to re-assess… uhh… there’s no not-arrogant way to say this, but my broad competencies compared to a normal person. I still can’t really grasp how people were unable to deal with chargers at all. “Clumsy armored enemy that charges you but is vulnerable from behind” is one of the simplest and oldest stock game bosses and it absoltuely, competely, utterly defeated the problem solving abilities of at minimum hundreds of thousands of people and I’m still struggling to fit that in to how I view the potential and limits of other people.
I absolutely cannot understand it.
That’s because youre a fake gamer. Real gamers only play on the hardest difficulty, because they are the true elite. Only they are about to take on these difficult challenges that filthy causuals could never handle. So if the highest difficulty is too hard for a real
then its obviously unfair, poorly balanced, and badly implemented. Hope that helped 
I’ve had heated arguments with Soulslike devotees that hate even the idea of difficulty options, but considering that this particular game has a voluntary difficulty setting right there on the proverbial tin, what the fuck?
I enjoyed Vermintide 2 even while being not very great at the higher difficulties (helped having experienced companions in premades) but I knew what I was getting into, and yes, as a voluntary difficulty choice, things being really brutal and having to really strive to survive was indeed part of the fun.
I think, ultimately, the most toxic of
want basically the impossible: they want to stand on a mighty gatekept hill of superiority with all the plebs/scrubs/npcs/noobs/whatever beneath them, but at the same time they don’t want to actually be challenged in a way that might humble them.I think a big chunk of it is; Normal people cannot cooperate with others.
Like, Vermintide, Darktide? Pretty niche games where cooperation is both necessary and enforced by special disabler and assassin enemies.
HD2, success also required cooperation, but it reached a massive audience and most of those people… just… don’t… communicate. They don’t ping, they don’t use chat, they don’t use voice. They don’t even passively stick together. I worked out, it actually makes things exponentially worse when you have players that don’t cooperate, because they trigger every patrol and spawn, they don’t cover or protect each other, the players aren’t making use of all their strats together. If you’re all together you’re rarely ever not going to have some gigantic bomb ready to go. BUt if it’s four people running off alone they’re gonna get overwhelmed even by minor threats. And since they don’t know how to cooperate they don’t know they have to cooperate, so when they get absolutely ruined by something that would be trivial for a squad working together they can only think that the game is being mean and punishing them.
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Mandatory cooperation games seem to have a sort of curse like that when they get popular enough. MOBAs with teams come to mind.
What happened to Helldivers? Do you mean the anti-PSN account thing?
Nah, in the last month the devs released a “Balance Patch” that fundamentally changes how the game works. The effectiveness of most weapons was dramatically increased while most enemies, especially the big ones, were massively nerfed. The game is not more of a conventional horde shooter than it is Helldivers 2.
