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7/22/2025, 1:51:03 AM
>>149496102
Comics were a disposable form of entertainment with very low profit margins. It is a literal miracle that any of them turned out to be good with decent creators who cared. I feel like this context is important. Reliably good is what good runs of comics are like, but a lot of it is still forgettable entertainment with occasional enjoyable stuff on average.
People need their entertainment to matter, now more than ever, fitting into some grand narrative paradigm about things (e.g. culture wars), mostly because that fits the consumerism being pushed by companies or ideas being formulated online. People don't speak to you with genuine conviction about their tastes, they talk in narratives which is why things so easily fit into extremes. Talking about what you like, especially on the Internet, is akin to circling the wagons and preparing to be attacked. So people only say they like certain things that are beyond reproach (rec lists) but they can't explain why they liked something. I don't care if you liked something because of nostalgia, that is still a valid reason to like something, but people are reticent to explain why they liked things, let alone do deep dives into it.
Comic book conversation can devolve into rec list, this is good, that is bad, no real cutting your teeth in conversations. It makes the hobby a rather solitary pursuit. So many debates on /co/ end up half remembered readings of a run or outrage tourists rather than actual people really getting into why they liked or hated something. And this hobby is a journey. A book might not appeal to you now but in time it might appeal to you. But just saying to someone, read Kirby FF because it is the best thing ever when maybe older books don't appeal to them won't make them a reader. You might have to evolve their taste and get them into different things, different paths and maybe they will circle back around, maybe not.
Comics were a disposable form of entertainment with very low profit margins. It is a literal miracle that any of them turned out to be good with decent creators who cared. I feel like this context is important. Reliably good is what good runs of comics are like, but a lot of it is still forgettable entertainment with occasional enjoyable stuff on average.
People need their entertainment to matter, now more than ever, fitting into some grand narrative paradigm about things (e.g. culture wars), mostly because that fits the consumerism being pushed by companies or ideas being formulated online. People don't speak to you with genuine conviction about their tastes, they talk in narratives which is why things so easily fit into extremes. Talking about what you like, especially on the Internet, is akin to circling the wagons and preparing to be attacked. So people only say they like certain things that are beyond reproach (rec lists) but they can't explain why they liked something. I don't care if you liked something because of nostalgia, that is still a valid reason to like something, but people are reticent to explain why they liked things, let alone do deep dives into it.
Comic book conversation can devolve into rec list, this is good, that is bad, no real cutting your teeth in conversations. It makes the hobby a rather solitary pursuit. So many debates on /co/ end up half remembered readings of a run or outrage tourists rather than actual people really getting into why they liked or hated something. And this hobby is a journey. A book might not appeal to you now but in time it might appeal to you. But just saying to someone, read Kirby FF because it is the best thing ever when maybe older books don't appeal to them won't make them a reader. You might have to evolve their taste and get them into different things, different paths and maybe they will circle back around, maybe not.
7/17/2025, 5:59:53 PM
7/12/2025, 4:25:15 AM
>>715205852
Because they succeeded. Ages 22 and under worship corporations and will fight tooth and nail to defend them. They will buy purely because of the brand. They beg for new thing before they're even done with the current thing. They think it's their duty to support their favorite brands regardless of actual quality. They can't fathom why people don't want some giant brand stepping on their throat. The last two generations have been mind fucked into submission.
Because they succeeded. Ages 22 and under worship corporations and will fight tooth and nail to defend them. They will buy purely because of the brand. They beg for new thing before they're even done with the current thing. They think it's their duty to support their favorite brands regardless of actual quality. They can't fathom why people don't want some giant brand stepping on their throat. The last two generations have been mind fucked into submission.
7/10/2025, 2:16:58 PM
7/6/2025, 3:59:32 PM
>>714667592
Are you trying to convince yourself? or did you just want an excuse to equal him as a god without saying so yourself?
You are the one who seem to believe games should be remembered over generations. It's not because one can namedrop "Mario" that anyone still care about the original one, or any other if Nintendo didn't force-feed it to the fan like a religion.
It's true that as a developer Kojima opinions are more valuable than a hack like Todd Howard, but really, fan just know what to expect from him and it's consistently well above average.
Nice bait in any case.
Are you trying to convince yourself? or did you just want an excuse to equal him as a god without saying so yourself?
You are the one who seem to believe games should be remembered over generations. It's not because one can namedrop "Mario" that anyone still care about the original one, or any other if Nintendo didn't force-feed it to the fan like a religion.
It's true that as a developer Kojima opinions are more valuable than a hack like Todd Howard, but really, fan just know what to expect from him and it's consistently well above average.
Nice bait in any case.
7/6/2025, 8:26:09 AM
>>714650673
Every time you cry about corporations holding onto IPs, this guy gets another feather put in his hat
Every time you cry about corporations holding onto IPs, this guy gets another feather put in his hat
7/5/2025, 10:57:33 PM
>>714604608
I don't know what I expected going into one of these conventions but I was particularly shocked by the rampant consumerism and faggotry. I'm retarded but I thought events like this would allow more fan interactions and cool shit instead of just being an open market full of slop figurines and sweaty old men. It's a shame there's no real life equivalent of 4chan semi general threads where you could meet up with a small community of like-minded people and discuss your interests. Like a book club or what feminists used to do in the past with tea parties. The modern web sucks with all the jeet botfarms and AI content, there's no genuineness anymore. Those conventions feel like that as well. Just a dance for consooming manchildren and cosplay whores who don't even know the material they're branding onto themselves. Thankfully I didn't go to it alone so shooting the shit with friends was fun but those events are soulless
I don't know what I expected going into one of these conventions but I was particularly shocked by the rampant consumerism and faggotry. I'm retarded but I thought events like this would allow more fan interactions and cool shit instead of just being an open market full of slop figurines and sweaty old men. It's a shame there's no real life equivalent of 4chan semi general threads where you could meet up with a small community of like-minded people and discuss your interests. Like a book club or what feminists used to do in the past with tea parties. The modern web sucks with all the jeet botfarms and AI content, there's no genuineness anymore. Those conventions feel like that as well. Just a dance for consooming manchildren and cosplay whores who don't even know the material they're branding onto themselves. Thankfully I didn't go to it alone so shooting the shit with friends was fun but those events are soulless
6/26/2025, 7:12:39 PM
Never. They've all been trained from earliest childhood to be both for "their" and against the "others". It's genuinely a Pavlovian response, >>713720042 is a perfect example of thoughtless shitting because it's not "their" company.
6/26/2025, 7:25:42 AM
>>713676471
>If you don't like rebirth you're not even an actual fan of the franchise. If you say you only like games from 3 decades ago or more and haven't even played any past 10 you shouldn't even be talking about the series.
Do you have any idea how unhinged you sound right now? You literally worship merchants and actors.
>If you don't like rebirth you're not even an actual fan of the franchise. If you say you only like games from 3 decades ago or more and haven't even played any past 10 you shouldn't even be talking about the series.
Do you have any idea how unhinged you sound right now? You literally worship merchants and actors.
6/24/2025, 12:43:37 AM
We live in world of metrics. Spotify monthly listeners, Netflix streams, Youtube subscribers, Xitter likes, patrons, algorithms, impressions, views, dollars. It affects all of us, but I think it really did a number on the generations born roughly after Y2K, who can't remember a time before this shitty horrible way of doing things.
Of course in the past you could find out how a TV program was doing with Nielsen ratings or whatever, but it's unprecedented how much corporate interests bleed into the user's social space through social media, with brands trying to seem like your hip-talking friend. And corporations have such a prodigious selection of slop on offer, that it feels like everything is competing for limited attention in a zero-sum game - more than ever before.
The result of all this endless shilling and fighting over which brand is thriving in the market at the moment. In the past shit got canned all the time, but we just accepted it and moved on, more or less. The modern consumer has been trained to identify with brands like a shareholder, because he kind of is one. If your gacha content mill withers away with a declining userbase - money stolen, and all that jazz.
This gets extended to things it probably shouldn't, like one-off video games in a series, like Zelda or Fire Emblem. But that's how people have been trained to view everything now.
Of course in the past you could find out how a TV program was doing with Nielsen ratings or whatever, but it's unprecedented how much corporate interests bleed into the user's social space through social media, with brands trying to seem like your hip-talking friend. And corporations have such a prodigious selection of slop on offer, that it feels like everything is competing for limited attention in a zero-sum game - more than ever before.
The result of all this endless shilling and fighting over which brand is thriving in the market at the moment. In the past shit got canned all the time, but we just accepted it and moved on, more or less. The modern consumer has been trained to identify with brands like a shareholder, because he kind of is one. If your gacha content mill withers away with a declining userbase - money stolen, and all that jazz.
This gets extended to things it probably shouldn't, like one-off video games in a series, like Zelda or Fire Emblem. But that's how people have been trained to view everything now.
6/13/2025, 11:04:02 AM
>>712523631
Is quite literally pic related, there is no other way to see it
Is quite literally pic related, there is no other way to see it
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