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but in traditional Hollywood fashion they got it completely wrong, no longer setting the story in the Chixhulub Crater in Mexico, sending four prisoners deep into the Earth to survive against horribly mutated humans infected by an alien parasite; instead, they chose to set it in some American city with prisoners needing to clear out a huge skyscraper filled with zombies.

It's difficult to get away from the mentality of hoping for some authority to create the things we like. Every time a Sony game presentation comes around, fans set Bloodborne or Dino Crisis trending on Twitter. Likewise with Nintendo properties: we seem to be forever waiting in the cold wind for another Starfox game to break up the constant stream of Mario and Zelda titles.


And when games are adapted to the Big Screen (or the home entertainment centre), often we are faced with disappointment: Doom was set on Mars, but instead of a hellish invasion, we got a Resident Evil-style evil-corporation-toying-with-genetics-and-unlocking-something-horrible plot line that is loosely tied to the idea of your badness or goodness deciding if you turn into a "demon" or "angel". About the only credit I'll give it is Doom at least showed a proper depiction of a wormhole being a sphere instead of some flat portal you walk through (I love you, Stargate, but...).

And Halo? Well. The series speaks for itself.

A screenshot from a Verge article with an illustration of Mark Zuckerberg superimposed over a colour separation of the Meta logo. It reads Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter. In an interview with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said Meta will likely strike certain partnerships for useful content. But if others demand payment, then as it's done with news outlets the company would prefer to walk away.

The short of it is that we don't need to wait for "authority" to get it right. They aren't authorities at all. They just tell us they're authorities and depend on us believing them. They want that we should look to them as cultural and legal parental figures even as everyone watches with crystal clarity as they repeatedly fuck up, even as they demonstrate time and time again that they cannot comprehend what it's like to be human.

It's natural to be upset when an adaptation gets it so horribly wrong, but in an age of wide-scale creative theft perpetrated by multi-billion dollar untouchable corporations and CEOs literally telling us that we don't matter, we owe nothing to them. Let this radicalize you.

You can make your own Starfox with blackjack and hot cat-women or reimagine Bloodborne in a different genre or find inspiration in Dino Crisis, whether it be through written fiction or art or actual gameplay.

If you can get away with a fan work, great! I don't want to trot out the old and tired line of, "Fan works are a waste of time, you should always be original," because fan works are an expression of enjoying and participating in the culture available to us instead of us being passive observers. The landscape being what it is, however, it's worthwhile to accept change if a soulless entity with near infinitely-deep pockets threatens you. That's just how it is for the time being. Do what you can to survive, and do what you can to help your creations survive.

Anyway, you should pick up GTFO whenever it goes on sale, and sucker three of your friends into spending hours trying to clear out a single mission. :3


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