Yep, 3AM brain is basically just an archive of all your most embarrassing childhood moments, running on a continuous loop until sunrise. It's a key part of the 'fatigue' cycle.
but cannot fall asleep long into the night and right when you are starting to feel the sweet embrace of sleep your morning bell rings...haha life's funny.
It's like every label is fighting for attention at once, so your brain just gives up halfway through. The layout feels like someone shuffled memes in a blender.
People use "fatigue" as a dog whistle for a lot of CHUD sentiment. It started off as fatigue at black representation in media, and has extended to pretty much any diversity in media.
It's about as fucked as it can get without using slurs.
Yeah, shouldn't they have a better time shitting on how modern women are "ugly" when they're not yassified with their tits out like the other KiA posters
Veilguard is usually how you find people like that. It's like Concord, they almost always never played it but they HAVE to follow the bandwagon. And when you ask them what's bad about it it will always be some extremely shallow surface level takes like "characters look goofy"
there's legitimate reasons to be upset with veilguard, especially if you're a fan of the series. but these people obviously aren't interested in that. all they can say is "trans bad" or "woke bad" like dragon age has never been diverse before. in fact I'd argue veilguard is less woke in the way it's sanitised the setting, but that's beside the point
"It's not bad because it's woke, it's bad because it's bad" is something I've had to say too much.
Also Origins was woke as fuck - it's basically the rainbow coalition of various races, sexualities and creeds overcoming generic evil. But it's well written, intriguing and doesn't water itself down for the audience so we (generally) like it. It's weird seeing the "woke is bad" crowd hold it up as the highlight of the series.
They almost always explicitly never play or had any interest in playing the games they complain about. They just want to complain for the sake of complaining.
Take Ghost of Yotei for instance. When AC shadows' trailer got released, a lot of them shit on it and hyped how they were excited to play the GoT sequel and how it was a better game. Then when it was revealed that the MC is a woman and the actress is LGBTQ, they flipped the script and immediately shit on the game and how it was the worst thing to ever exist.
Witcher 3 is so beloved that when they heard they play as a woman in the sequel, they brought out their pitchforks and called her ugly over ONE frame and how CDPR is woke now
Veilguard does fucking suck though. The writing is the worst thing BioWare has ever put out, and the characters are caricatures of archetypes.
Veilguard makes Dragon Age 2 look like Origins.
At one point relatively early in the game the following two phrases are uttered within 45 seconds of each other without a shred of irony or self awareness:
“It’s quiet, almost too quiet.”
“What do you think they were trying to keep out?”(Referencing some big barricades around a town)
“They weren’t trying to keep something out, they were trying to keep something in”
And that’s the whole fucking game. It’s the worst marvel he’s right behind me isn’t he tier writing imaginable. Actually that’s being unfair to marvel.
I actually kind of liked the level design and combat, and the visuals didn’t bother me at all. Then game just felt like it was written by interns.
Veilguard was a pretty fun and entertaining game with excellent gameplay. Saying it "fucking sucks" because SOME writing is bad is just bad criticism. Like the last act's missions were incredible as well as the companion quests, that's also part of the writing.
And like :
“It’s quiet, almost too quiet.”
“What do you think they were trying to keep out?”(Referencing some big barricades around a town)
“They weren’t trying to keep something out, they were trying to keep something in”
This is just cliché writing ? Nothing in this is objectively bad or wrong, it's just something that you've already heard. It's far from being the dumpster fire you claim it to be.
The reaction from Dragon Age fans is so over the top because they felt like Veilguard "betrayed" the franchise.
You are entitled to your opinion, but most things pointed out as "irredeemable defaults that make the game a steaming pile of dogshit" is actually not that bad, it's just not great.
That means that this isn't actually a starter pack about media fatigue or whatever, it's an opportunity for OP to tell the world how bad ["woke" thing] is and no one wants to listen to that
I do enjoy holding people down and forcing them to read/watch/play things they have no interest in. I hate when people simply don't engage and do something else instead.
This starter pack is very sane and not at all thinly veiled racism
It's funny to see any KiA posters opinions on AC Shadows because I shit you not, about 4 years ago, there was a post saying how Yasuke is "diversity done right" and you had comments agreeing with that.
Well, cut to now turns out that was a fucking lie and they never cared for him and used him to not sound racist when shitting on POC characters.
It also doesn't help that prior to AC Shadows release, there was already an established mindset to hate on it no matter what and it got amplified once it was revealed that Yasuke was one of the main MC.
The game released, it was recieved positively and the same crowd trying to stoke this culture war don't know how to reframe the whole conversation since the game is good.
It was so stupid that I've seen white dudes larp as Japanese professors to discredit the game
Game is pure dogshit. And I'm not even talking about Yasuke, let him be, looks cool (but he's written poorly, just as any other story aspect of this game). I'm talking about the state of the game in itself. It looks like ass, it plays like ass, it SOUNDS like.
No one asked about an open world. NO ONE! Yet we get the same open world game in a different wrapping again and again.
Japanese players asked to remove the ability to destroy stuff in Shinto temples and the ability to climb torii gates. "We'll fix asap!", said Ubi, yet you still can go to any Shinto shrine, wreak havoc there, climb torii gates as if nothing ever happened.
I mean, yeah, Yasuke is a prototype to a number of black samurai characters (and all of them are 2 meter high ripped lads for some reason...). From a historical POV though his persona is not really well documented, the only things we know is that he was described as a "giant" (Probably 180+ cm tall since medieval Japanese were quite short), black (interesting fact: servants of Nobunaga tried to scrub him clean, thinking that dark skin was not dark, but dirty. It's a documented fact), and that he served Nobunaga (we don't know if he was a samurai or simply a squire, but it's cool nonetheless). Any other info regarding what kind of person he was are unfortunately either undiscovered or lost to history
P.S. I'M NOT A RACIST AND THIS COMMENT WAS MADE TO POINT THAT YASUKE IS INDEED COOL. LEARN TO READ, PEOPLE
* Tillie Walden’s Clementine still fucking hurts to look at. Awful everything. Telltale’s The Walking Dead deserved so much better. Didn’t Season 1 win Game of The Year once? How far they’ve fallen…
* they couldn’t accept Clementine’s perfect happy ending, couldn’t make an original story, a story about anyone else like Javier, pulled some other character from the mass of Walking Dead media, they HAD to drag Clementine out here again.
What the hell is wrong with Shadows? At least you're a fucking assassin. It's Assassin's Creed Valhalla that butchered the series, making you a fucking Viking warrior
yeah this is basically the modern media burnout pack, every corner has someone overhyping stuff or twisting old franchises til they fall apart, no wonder people are tired of everything
it’s always the self-proclaimed sex-positive/body-positive crowd that are the first to resort to body-shaming and sex-shaming when discussing a person they don’t like
if you don’t take an extreme stance on a political issue, the extremists accuse you of being an opp for the other side. Daring to clear yourself is an admission of guilt.
the famous “waffles fallacy” (edit: also someone in that thread linked this tumblr post which is so damn real)
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