- obviously there's the fact that her critiques of DE are so unabashedly surface-level that you cannot tell if she's actually played the game or read a plot summary/review of it.
- but there's also the fact that she's proposing a supposed improvement on what DE is with her own prompt, which in-and-of-itself is the lowest form of critique in my eyes–'what if you had an entirely different idea?'
- and then the prompt itself is a doozy:
- she somehow found a way to both critique DE for being unimaginative with its scenario/having a white man protag and propose, in alternative, the absolute whitest possible scenario imaginable
- in the implicit shift from a grimy Eastern Europe to a comfy Western Europe, she's managed to gentrify her scenario proposed in a critique about diversity
- she wants to keep disco elysium's, unexamined by her, 'wonderful writing', while stripping it of all the rawness and deliberate confrontation that is at the heart of it that would conflict with the idyllic nature of her scenario and her stated opposition to griminess
- her idea of a more diverse story, if we're taking it as she's presenting it, is swapping a white guy with a white gal, which, I mean, diversity win, I guess.
- the fact that this is the most generic, safest-possible indie game idea imaginable. I could go on itch.io and find 50 of pretty much that game. this is the idea that like 50% of developers have when they're thinking of a quick point-and-click game for a game jam.
i could go on, but the most scathing possible point I could make to this tweet is that this person is a BAFTA Judge 
It's the Disney adult effect--I go and see Kung Fu Panda, enjoy it because it's a cute lil movie with a panda and stuff, walk out feeling like I enjoyed a light media snack, and then someone with me goes "now that was a movie, WOW" and it makes me tummy feel bad
I don't hate cute stuff, I don't hate light and sweet entertainment but to act like it's what we need is so infantilizing it drives me nuts
Exactly. Like I don’t really care how good you think your cat witch detective game is, you’re not going to be able to express the anguish and pain people feel daily. It’s just not going to happen. Obviously the opposite is also true and we shouldn’t allow ourselves to wallow in the grim dark future of the 41st millennium forever, but if I’m gonna stare into the abyss I would rather something more real stare back.
Honestly I'm with you.
Even here on HexBear there was a pretty militant contingent of people who thought media needed to become more wholesome and optimistic because darker media was turning us all into cynical psychopaths. Ironically if you disagrees with them, even politely, they'd act like cynical psychopaths towards you.
That's always been my experience, Disney adults are way shittier people than horror movie fans. Don't get me wrong, I've put like 50 hours into Stardew so I like my wholesome feel good media sometimes, but I honestly think engaging with media that grapples with darker shit can actually make you more empathetic and reflective.
I'd say reading 100 Years of Solitude and playing Disco Elysium made me a better person.
Yoooo fellow 100 Years of Solitude enjoyer
What a mood that book put me in while I was reading it, I'd agree it made me feel like I'd grown a little after finishing.
But have you considered how much better it would be if it had been about a Canadian family befriending a talking bear that grants wishes?
You could probably make a good book in the style of 100 Years of Solitude but have it be about a Métis family in western Canada that has a bunch of magical realist experiences, like meeting a talking bear, in the background of like the Pemmican War or something.