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⌈ Secret Post #7059 ⌋

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I watched Trap House on netflix and it might be the worst movie I've seen all year.

I just realized how long it has been since I've watched a movie that I haven't already seen. Been a good long while. I'm hopeful about a bunch of movies this year though. I hope none of them let me down.

I watched the 2019 Black Christmas remake a couple of months ago and it was pretty bad. Whatever commentary it was supposed to be making about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and strength and sisterhood of women (and there was some questionable delivery of those messages) was undercut by the reveal.

Books, fanfic....manifestos? Manuals?

Outside of work, currently rereading the Thrawn trilogy. Still on Heir to the Empire.

The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas and Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. Reading a couple of long fanfics as well.

The Paleontologist is SO good.

It has been great so far! I'm about halfway thru.

By Travis Baldree. The latest in the Legends & Lattes verse. I adored the other two books but I am struggling with this one.

yeah of the three this one I like least, which is weird because Fern is actually my favourite character from the series. Its very different to the other two with the characters being on the road and travelling, and not in a cozy shop. Had a few higher stakes too I guess.

I just read an insane fanfic. It's half a million words, it follows dead characters' adventures in hell, I saw the main twist coming but man was it good, and now I'm desperate for the sequel which was last updated in 2016. Fuck me.

What are some of the least interesting or most disappointing villains in media?

The TV version of Negan sucked. Was not a fan at all. Ultron was disappointing compared to the trailers of him.

I have no familiarity with the comics, but Thanos was boring as shit. They kept hinting at this big baddie, and then he showed up and it was major yawns all round.

What are stereotypical American characters in non-U.S. media you liked or found entertaining?

When I saw Secret #7 I immediately thought of Mr. K. from Gravitation, who's obsessed with firearms and explosives despite his job as a... boy band manager.

Dishonorable mention to Bandit Keith from Yugioh.

Mr. Satan from DBZ. I don't think he is explicitly American but he is definitely American coded. xD

Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat.

America in Hetalia cracks me up.

I mean I did think of Bandit Keith first, but I'll second Johnny Cage.

Unfortunately my real favorite is an inside joke rather than a character actually being like this... but back when my sister was playing RE4, we did at some point dub Leon 'Johnny Amerigun', a man incapable of stealth whose favorite hobby is fishing by firing his shotgun or lobbing grenades into the nearest body of water.

He does have that goofy ass gangster skin.

Same. Bandit Keith is my first thought too.

So, I'm annoyed at the Phasmophobia subreddit. I know I shouldn't be, particularly because I know it makes me a bit of a hypocrite, in that I'm getting worked up about things that don't really matter. But, well, here I am.

Tomorrow, an update to the game goes live that changes the character models and introduces a bunch of new animations. Official content creators got early access to the update, so we've all seen what it looks like. It's got flaws! Some things are janky, some things just don't flow or look quite right. The devs are actively soliciting feedback about it, are already working on some tweaks, and are opening a dedicated channel in the official Discord for people to post their suggestions and concerns. This makes sense, as the game is still in Early Access, which means that the players are the testers.

The subreddit's reaction has basically been that the update burned all of their houses down. The devs are incompetent, greedy, lazy, and disrespectful. They hate their player base, or at least don't give a fuck about them. They are taking advantage of the players, they are gaslighting the players, they are abusing the players. Their heads are so far up their asses that they might very well suffocate. How dare they do this. How dare they.

People get upset every single time there's an update, but it's really off the charts this time around. And, now, look -- there are some legitimate criticisms to be made, based off of what we've all seen so far. But "these new features could use some work" is a far different response from "you have exploited and victimized me."

This is a game that, depending on how and when someone picks it up, costs between $0.00 and $20.00 (I paid $15 my own self). There's no subscription, there are no DLCs, and there are no microtransactions. You pay a small one time fee, and sometimes you don't even pay at all. Most of the people who are losing their shit have gotten hundreds of hours of entertainment out of it, which means that if they decide to quit tomorrow, they'd have more than gotten their money's worth (my goodness, people pay $60 or $70 for games that they only wind up playing for 20 or 30 hours). But still, they feel they've been wronged. They can't just say, "this game is no longer for me;" either they enjoy everything about it for the rest of their lives, or they've been conned. And I just can't understand it. When the day comes that the game no longer appeals to me, I'll just...go play something else. I won't think, "THE SELFISH GREEDY DEVS HAVE BETRAYED ME!!"

I think sometimes that it's at least partially a case of envy. The guy who created it has made hundreds of millions of pounds from it, and probably doesn't need to work another day for the rest of his life. The impression from the subreddit, therefore, is that he doesn't care, because he doesn't need to (I've seen a few people bitterly say that if they produced as little work as he does, they'd be fired). But the fact that he hired an entire team of developers and continues to work on the game directly refutes that. He obviously cares about it. Meanwhile, the creators of a direct competitor, Demonologist, outright said that they got the payday they wanted, and therefore no longer cared to have anything to do with the game (it was "officially abandoned" for awhile, until being picked up again by a different team) -- yet it's held up as an example of "how to do things right" by some of the same people who call Phasmo's creator "greedy."

I have too many feelings about this. I need to end it here and let it go.

I can relate. This is basically me looking at the Valheim fanbase every time there's a dev update or game update. Similarly, it is also an early release game people have paid a one time, relatively low fee for. And while there are valid criticisms (*cough* Ashlands *cough*), there are plenty of unhinged comments resembling what you reported up there.

I just think some folks are entitled, easily bored, and no timeline or amount of development will satisfy them. And you're right, it's also frustrating to see how many people give up their agency and either accept things as they are, or move on to something else. (And I get it! I can only play so much Valheim before I start getting bored it. But... I also play other things because I know the devs still have another biome to complete. I don't whine about a game I paid $20 for and have put over 2000 hours into.)

AYRT

Yeah, entitlement is definitely a big part of it, I think. It's a "customer is always right" sort of attitude -- if they've spent any amount of money on it, then they must be catered to, and it must wind up being something that they like. But the reality is that entertainment is subjective and creators can't please everyone, so sometimes, they're going to buy a game that they wind up not liking. The best thing for them to do is to accept it and move on, but instead they interpret their disappointment as a personal affront.

Anyway, I'm sorry to hear that you experience similar things in the community for your game. Guess it's one of those things that's more common than any of us would like.

When you talk to me about a cheap good game with an entitled fanbase, but I play Genshin Impact lol

Honestly it seems that the cheaper a game is, the more annoying the "core gamer" crowd gets. Which means they are toxic. Gamers are toxic - who knew?

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What are some of the worst movies you've seen recently?

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What are you reading?

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Brigands & Breadknives

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Inspired by #7... favorite stereotypical American characters in non-U.S. media

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Mad at gamers being mad at games

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