Sometimes I just need a shot of conflict in my life and nothing stirs it up like going on reddit and mildly critiquing the lore or text of any game ever made.
Sometimes I just need a shot of conflict in my life and nothing stirs it up like going on reddit and mildly critiquing the lore or text of any game ever made.
I've had friends argue things like that to me before. "Well a lot of people like it so shut up." A lot of people really don't understand that criticisms of media are not personal attacks against people who like that media. The media I like most is also the media I criticize the most, because it's the media that interests me enough to even care to discuss it. When I play something I don't like I'm just like "that kinda sucked" and move on.
It's very hard for me to understand the mindset so many people are in where if they like something it's part of their personality and that must mean it's perfect and beyond criticism.
A lot of people can't handle the idea that they enjoy something with actually problematic parts to it. It may be shades of Main Character Syndrome where it's seen as a personal attack, or a threat, if some entertainment product is criticized, as if it might be taken away or its consumer condemned for it.
Dune is my favorite novel series of all time and it's got some gross gender essentialist bullshit in it, some clumsy Orientalism regarding exotic Zensunni culture :us-foreign-policy: , and while it has a message of "messiahs are a bad thing, actually" as a throughline, clearly many of its readers and audience members failed to receive that message and stan for the Atreides. :doomer:
We're... ALLOWED to like bad things?
Yes.
I, the joyless scold, the supreme magistrate of the Bolshevik Kangaroo Court, allow you to like bad things. :stalin-approval:
But not Courier 6, they KNOW what they did.
It was all rigged from the start. :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
He'll be there for you... when the heavens start to fall