Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

[Mercurius]

What's objectively good?

Whatever I subjectively think is good.

 

[trappedslider]

To the thread title...

• Video games are a symptom of cultural decline.

ouch

 

[payn]

• Video games are a symptom of cultural decline.

Haha, we’ve come full circle from the satanic panic and the cultural decline from D&D.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What's objectively good?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.

We've been over this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Witcher is meh.

It certainly seems to be a situation where the producers have no idea why people liked the first season and couldn't come close to capturing lightning in the bottle a second time around. The fact that the first season was discovered early in the pandemic by the much larger audience that don't know the novels or the video games helped make it an almost impossible to repeat situation, as well. (Likewise, no one would have watched Tiger King if they could have left the house during that time.)

 

[Reynard]

I'm not sure a smaller company, team, or individual has the freedom to fail, per se. Too much failing and they're not going to be small companies any more, they really will be individuals. Rather, they have the freedom to not have performance metrics designed to meet the profitability requirements of a large corporation. A more modest result can still count as a success to a small company or someone doing this as a hobby and putting it up for sale for a little beer money (rather than satisfying shareholders).

I think you completely missed my point.

 

[Reynard]

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• Video games are a symptom of cultural decline.

Yup, just like all new forms of art. Culture can only remain static from that perfect state they held when I was 11.

 

[Older Beholder]

A lot of geek culture criticism just comes off as tall poppy syndrome to me...

D&D 5E
Star Wars
Marvel
Game of Thrones

I'm not saying that these things are without fault. It's just that the amount of criticism they receive feels more a reflection of these properties being good rather than bad.

 

[Autumnal]

Yup, just like all new forms of art. Culture can only remain static from that perfect state they held when I was 11.

Theodore Adorno has your back. Though of course it’s his youth that’s crucial. His time studying 12-tone composition with Alban Berg, good. That filthy jazz, bad.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.