They be toys brehs."toys" can hurt.
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Then you have gamers that want to take away what you have. Take Souls. Oh my God these fucking gaming fucks demand From Software put in an easy mode in their games because they can't be bothered to learn the games themselves. So they demand the creator, who has their own fucking creative input, crater to their demands. See? This is where it starts.
I hate what money/greed has done to them, but I'm still glad the medium exists... for now. Still my favorite hobby currently. :trumpsUsually i'd say if you avoid big blockbusters, good movies still come out regularly.
Movies on the other hand, they're dead to me... I simply can't watch them anymore. The greed and full fledged agenda is bursting at the seems on EVERYTHING that comes out now and it makes me want to vomit. Not to derail or anything, but just have to throw that out there too.
Seems games are at a fork in the road and it looks like it's eyeing the same direction as Hollywood, because greed mongers know they can influence more people with the way movies and music have... "Let's make it flashier, longer, edgier, gorier, easier, more accessible, cuter, sexier, more diverse, inclusive, so we can get them and their children and their children's children"
That all being said, MS can go to hell cuz they (Bill Gates) has and controls too much by far. They're basically what Tetsuo started turning into near the end of Akira; Big, ugly, disturbing, destroying/consuming/killing everything in it's way.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Jaws (1975)
Grease (1978)
The Sting (1973)
Superman (1978)
The Godfather (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
(National Lampoon's) Animal House (1978)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Jurassic World (2015)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
The Lion King (2019)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Cleanse the internet of all single-platform owners above the age of 15 and videogame discourse would improve a hundredfold.
I feel a lot more sympathetic in recent years towards developers. Like, even if a game is absolutely putrid, it's not the fault of 99% of the people who worked on it and probably got crunched to shit. I'm happy whenever creatives can find some success, or are able to survive failure.
On the flipside I also kinda hate marketing more than ever.