mrhands

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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Honestly, this is a very good video overall but it's very obvious that the author uses "entropic storytelling" (his term) as a stand-in for "bad" storytelling and "anti-antropic" as "good". What it ultimately comes down to is that you have to drill down to why a story is being told, whether it trends toward chaos or order.

Jurassic Park is a classic example. Is it a story about how dinosaurs are awesome? Well, only tangentially. At its heart, it's a story about the inherent conflict between scientific discovery and corporate greed. About how we allow one rich dude enough power to pervert nature to sell amusement ride tickets. It was also the first time a broader audience got to see dinosaurs moving around on a big screen, and got an entire generation of kids interested in the topic. Jurassic World, on the other hand, is about how awesome it was when that dinosaur ate that dude. But only the leathery kind from 1993, not the proto-chickens we now know them to look like. That movie is not interested in telling a new story, just the one we've seen before. Content for your content receptacles.

And to state the obvious, goodness gracious Rings of Power was bad.


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I wish this dude spent more time fully explaining his new word cuz as it currently stands in the video it feels insanely underexplained, making his thesis feel extremely weak as a result

He just kinda goes “you know, like lightsaber!” And doesn’t actually define it further.