Ryyudo

Ryyudo

@Ryyudo

That "I Fucked Up!" guy

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That Twitch dot tv dot com streamer. That once FGC commentator and memer with some bangers.

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Judging on Nearly Nothing

Unnecessarily remembering a video essay I watched of a self-proclaimed """video game historian""" who started playing NieR: Gestalt, realized there were multiple endings, couldn't be assed to play through them, watched the rest of the endings, and acted as if the game's narrative fell flat.

While I appreciate some of content that's come from it, today's ability to watch an abridged review of media and make a judgement on it is sometimes bonkers to me, especially since some folks see it as entirely valid.*

Ensure you preface that you're shortcutting to a weaker opinion and don't sit on your laurels (and oh boy I spent a lot of the end of DOOM 3 streams disclaiming this because I didn't read any of the logs.)

*In my experience, those folks have gone on to negatively respond to any mildly popular media and no one wants to engage in conversation with them.

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KindestWeapon
@KindestWeapon

Talk about missing 70% of Nier: Gestalt. That's actually irritating for someone to just not play most a game, then say it's bad and just throw that opinion out in the world acting like they have some kind of historian authority.

There are loads of influencers and content creators out there just lying or painting things with overly broad strokes. Now there's a whole generation of folk who have borrowed a lot of their opinions and experiences from some rando on the internet. Instead of consuming content of original things occasionally, they are solely consuming content through someone else.

Watching content creators talk about things is healthy if you have your own baseline of expectations, references, and experiences to build off of. Some people may not have played Nier for example, but maybe they've played other similar rpgs, watched films/read books with similar stories/structure, or know who yoko taro is. But so many people do not have that these days and just parrot others devoid of any personal references. And those others may just being parroting someone else or skipped out on 70% of a game for example.

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Ryyudo
@Ryyudo

To be entirely fair, I feel like some degree of those broad strokes are hands being forced by the YouTube algorithm. I can't remember what it was, but I saw some review of something that they ran out of time and just phoned it in.

But as you said, the resulting opinions that get latched onto and parrot is honkers bonkers. It's a good note though to gain insight from these pieces to add to your opinion and knowledge and I do like that you said that so eloquently.

I dunno it's a continued drive for me to be better!

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Aware-Wolf
@Aware-Wolf

There's a special feeling that hits me when people like that "historian" join the conversation and everyone just leaves or stops talking. Its like they all know the guy is missing a ton of information and to spare them any kind of embarrassment, they elect to say nothing. 😅

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