And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don't like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.
It's also a preview of how mass media will look under the next stage of fascism. No themes, no complexity, no message, just guys bein dudes and women being props. No art, only toys.
Pretty scary. Total Stepford Wives-ied reality.
The whole popularity around ai robot girlfriends fucking terrifies me.
Ever see what happens at trade conventions where prototype sex robots are presented for demo purposes?
Convention-goers demolish them in minutes, in public, with SV actions against the robots, Andrew Tate style. It's happened a number of times in a number of places.
Also, when it comes to digital waifu programs, one of the most popular ways they are used is to deliberately try to abuse and mistreat them, as if the cruelty was what was getting them off.
The techbros are not okay.
We are so fucked with these people gaining so much outsize power and influence
That recent news where corpo media announced it'd have committees of fans to fandom-check new projects to avoid offending them made me feel pretty fucking doomer.
Within our lifetime we will see the rise of the first gooner "auteur"
Already happened, kind of.
Oh, there will be messages all right.
MFW Americans are such Disney adults they want to double down on all the things that made it slop in the first place.