>>11981825
Oh I do, I just don't have shrines to cheap entertainment. Also I don't know why you brought up women. My problem with it is the consoom nature of it all. Displaying products as opposed actual art or something you actually made yourself.

>>213925102
Media franchises want you to be fantatical consumers. They push anxiety like fear of missing out to keep you invested. But overhype leads to burn out. Burn out constantly leads to a feeling that everything is overrated because it is overhyped because of the marketing. Into this space it feels cathartic to hate watch and complain. Complaining in such a manner is like releasing the tension from the marketing push.

Personally I believe the issue is simply the sheer quantity of entertainment and the complete lack of filtering of it.
>90% of culture is shit, 10% is good, only now there is just so much stuff that finding that 10% feels harder.
>Past is filtered via what is remembered because it was truly good or we are nostalgic for it.
>We don't remember the bad films that played against the hits.
>A quick look at the paper would tell you movie times and give you reviews.
>A video store had a set number of movies and your expectations were lower, you'd watch a bad movie because you rented it and wanted your moneys worth or you'd watch a good movie several times.
>Now it isn't this movie vs that movie, it is movie vs streaming vs video game vs podcast.
>Super competitive space that is difficult to filter stuff.
>Streaming has too much stuff leading to choice paralysis whilst the committee mainstream films trying to appeal to the central demographic all feels samey feeling like there is no choice.
>Streaming increases your expectations, unlike the video store, if you don't like a film simply switch.
>People are super desperate for cultural phenomenon because they bring societal connection e.g. Infinity War/Endgame, Wednesday went viral for a TikTok dance, Tiger King went viral over lockdown.
>At the same time people are pulled in so many directions.
>Studios keep overhyping things to try and make them artificially go viral which has the opposite effect of super poor word of mouth hence how the term overrated has become overused because people see through the hype.
>Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) with big universes and franchises worked to get people to watch out of anxiety but overtime the effort became too great so people burnt out.
>Comfort viewing free from hype and expectations like watching The Office or Seinfeld became massive.
>Even now if you appealed to this generation, they don't care because they don't believe you (hype and marketing is fake) or they're watching Youtube.

Fishtank / MDE succeeded in doing this

What video game company embodies this the most?

>>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.

>>715719848
>USaid
CIA/NSA
Who else?

>>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.

>>715054418
correct
they're the vidya industry's shining example of the utter kikery in picrel

>>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.

>>714650673
Every time you cry about corporations holding onto IPs, this guy gets another feather put in his hat

>>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

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.

>>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.

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.

>>712523631
Is quite literally pic related, there is no other way to see it