If you didn’t enjoy this strawman, you just didn’t consume enough of them.
Luckily, there’s plenty more on thebad.website.
This is a reminder that it’s okay to enjoy garbage and accept that it is garbage. You don’t need validation from strangers. you don’t have to convince strangers that what you consume is only the most peak content possible.
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“So uh… Hi, I guess I’m a pretentious douche. IM SMRT”
It’s okay, you’re not nearly as bad as me, who instinctively shifted into a judgemental mindset after reading the first line of your comment (before checking myself on that nonsense)
I suppose I spent many years inadvertently training myself to be an asshole in this manner, so I shouldn’t be surprised that it requires regular work to remain a “recovering asshole”, rather than just an asshole. Because you’re quite right: like what you like, fuck the haters indeed
Hell yeah I love personal growth arcs
This has been me playing Avowed this week.
I got twelve hours in before I decided to cut my losses and realize that it likely wouldn’t get better.
It had alright reviews so at each step I kept going “oh it’s probably just me… I’m sure after this chapter the next one is where things get interesting.”
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There are definitely games (and books and movies etc) that I didn’t like at first but which grew on me by the end. I often think of this as “finding the [media’s] voice.” I perform public readings sometimes, so even in my private reading if I can’t read a book in “the voice” it feels like the author was going for then I can’t connect to it. Same in video games.
Like I recently started on RoboCop Rogue City. It’s good and I’m enjoying it. But it took me a month to get past the first stage. Partly I had some crashing issues but I also just didn’t get it. Its an FPS, you play RoboCop, the aiming feels off and the shooting seems clunky and wooden to me…
But, at some point it clicked and I started enjoying the game and moving through it at “normal” pace. It’s almost more like a gallery shooter, like Time Crisis. Yeah its an FPS but the way enemies arrange themselves in layers in a big warehouse, popping their juicy vulnerable heads in and out of cover: its clearly drawing on that “shooting gallery” experience, and this is to play into the film’s language as well.
However, there’s a limit on my patience for this. Sometime i just know a game mechanic or character is going to be too annoying for me and I bail. Or if i get about 6 hours in and I’m still not getting it, not enjoying myself. That’s usually when I’ll give it up.
It gets better after 100hrs you shouldn’t have given up on it… like i have a billion spare hours in my life.
