Let's focus on just the third one above, which I'll even re-embed here for ease: I want to explain why I sink into my seat a little when I watch these clips. But I want to do more than call it cringe and move on. So, if this hits for you, hell yeah, have fun. No one makes their own taste, and while it's something I beleive you can and should broaden and nurture, well, we cannot always broaden and nurture it as we please. And let me be clear here: This is not me saying I think it shouldn't work for others. SO, at risk of discoursing, I'm going to weigh in on why this style of writing tends not to work for me. Or, maybe one step better than that, it's asumed they you're arguing in bad faith (when in fact, it's just that ages of being online has made us all feel like sharing our feelings in careful ways is just a waste of time because people are going to ignore what we actually said and cherry pick a way to tear into us anyway). And the trade off that comes from performing funny dunks instead of considered critique is that it becomes easy for the person who disagrees with you to assume that you're just trolling. There's another reason I think, which is that a lot of people share their strong reactions without elaborating on or unpacking where those feelings come from. There are many reasons that this has been so polarizing: frustration with a decade of "Whedonesque" Marvel dialog and the adjacent contraction the variety of films released into theaters the absence of black writers on Forspoken the public dismissal of Forspoken in contrast with the valorization of other projects that have white instead of black leads but are otherwise very similar in tone and style the word "isekai" and how you relate to it, generally the general emotional experience of life under capitalism et cetera. (Don't tell me you wouldn't have reacted the same way!) /NAqztq115c- Brittney Brombacher January 23, 2023 If you thought THAT dialogue was fun, you'll probably like this moment too. n3EjzjThY0- LegionzGaming January 23, 2023 ![]() You fucking telling me you wouldn’t be acting like this too? You out your god damn mind. She’s a girl that hated her life in NYC and got issekai’d into a magical world. Y’all are so ridiculous getting mad about the dialogue in forspoken. I present to you *actual* dialogue from Forspoken /IzygNHHM2T- MrMattyPlays January 23, 2023 Just in case you spend your time better than me, though, here's a small collection of them: But if you're a professional writer and your name is your trade, you got responsibilites now.If you're on Twitter or frequent gaming forums, you have probably been unable to escape clips of Forspoken (Square-Enix studio Luminous' new open world action RPG) today. Nobody's saying any dingus with a keyboard has to pay 70 bucks to play a game before they can speak on it. UsernameNumberCombination on reddit can get away with not knowing what they're talking about to get their take off because the standards are by default miles lower for them. If you're a pro of any stripe, and you're taking shortcuts, you're going to get hit for it, and you should. There is absolutely a difference between a professional and amateur hot take artists with no skin in the game. Find an example that you have personal experience with so you're not undercutting yourself when you don't have to. Instead of making an excuse for why you're going to do it anyway, just don't do it. If you didn't do that work, it's fraudulent to write like you did. It's why your byline has worth, because you do the work. When your whole thing is criticism, your responsibility is to know what you're talking about before you start talking. It might still suck to some degree but there's no professional expectations/obligations there, either. Again - it's one thing when it's anonymous amateurs with no real skin in the game mouthing off in forums/social media. ![]() Especially since they continue to just basically decline anyway (most paid writers in these fields are frankly just graduated social media personalities/forum posters anyway). ![]() There's not a lot of worth in trying to figure out ways to make the lowering of basic standards a-ok I don't think. It doesn't need to be a review to be a formal piece of writing from a paid professional under their byline.
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