Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[DavidCroquet]

If I'm required to write 2-3 sentences summarizing the video, then that means I have to watch before rushing to create a thread. So fuck that!

[Straight Edge]

Anybody know a place I can learn to cook, paint, and code?

[Potato]

Of all the mad things since resetera, the golden idol will smith stuff is the most baffling

It can only be that Nepenthe really likes him

Anyway I have to start posting this guy, you need to learn about this guy

Any competent narrative professional can tell you why Marie Kondo's model, and by extension the model of the modern game industry, is broken.

Kondo's mantra was "does it bring joy?" Which is precisely the sort of reductive, memorable slogan that's quotable and goes great on tote bags and t-shirts. In practice, however, it becomes a bit more complicated.

The problem word there is "joy". You see, joy has a very specific meaning. Joy carries with it the baggage of a sort of transcendent happiness beyond the everyday. It's an elevated state, but by definition, if it's elevated, it's not sustainable.

Asking something to provide joy constantly is just fast-tracking the burnout of your dopamine receptors. The item may provide joy now, but in a week? A month? A year? When it could and should have settled into a comfortable happiness and familiarity, by Kondo's measure, it should still be burying the needle. That's like asking every day of a fifty year marriage to be as dizzyingly in love as the day the couple met cute, and for all the mythology around romance, real life teaches that there are other valuable gifts to be had after that initial burst of joy.

Narrative folks know this. We know that every scene can't be the most powerful, the loudest, the most impactful. We know that you need to give players time to rest and recover before cranking the volume all the way up. We know that if you hit them with constant crescendo, it becomes white noise and they tune it out. They know can't keep infinitely upping the ante, because sooner or later you run out of places to go. You need moments of joy, yes, but also moments of quiet satisfaction, and recharging and prep. It can't all be adrenaline (or joy) all the time, or it quickly becomes empty.

And that in turn leads to the business model of the industry. Not every quarter can be the best quarter ever. The math doesn't support the line always going up. Sometimes the best approach for long term growth and survival is to hunker down for a quarter or two and invest in content, in technologies, in getting teams ready for the harder road ahead. It can't always be nothing but joy, even for investors who don't play games and want massive returns right now. Doing that through cuts, through aggressive resource extraction, through impossible targets means that sooner or later the system will burn out and there will be nothing but a feeble scrambling for a more that cannot exist.

Joy is great. But it's not everything, and it never could be. Let that be a lesson to all of us, courtesy of your friends in narrative.

Currently found writing lore on linkedin

Of course that word diarrhea is brought to you by one of the great minds behind most of the Ubislop over the past 20 years: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3835598/

Also one the most obvious cases of creating and maintaining your own Wikipedia page that I’ve ever seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dansky

His current claim to fame


The industry hates you because you wrote like a 14 year old and this is deep.

[Cheers]

someone should've said "point taken, I'll paste the youtube link into notebookLM and get an AI summary for the thread" 

YouTube already has AI summaries! Just copy and paste. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Resetera: "Stupid far right, always creating culture wars over nothing"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-serkis-responds-to-question-about-lack-of-diversity-in-%E2%80%98lotr-the-hunt-for-gollum%E2%80%99-casting.1576951/


Resezera: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Andy Serkis!!!

[Boredfrom]

Resetera: "Stupid far right, always creating culture wars over nothing"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-serkis-responds-to-question-about-lack-of-diversity-in-%E2%80%98lotr-the-hunt-for-gollum%E2%80%99-casting.1576951/


Resezera: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Andy Serkis!!!

I love the reply/views ratio.

[Boredfrom]

Planet Smasher hates video games:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/be-honest-do-you-actually-finish-remasters-of-games-youve-already-played.1576954/

[Mediocre Lager]

I think we need a copy of this book.

[HaughtyFrank]

It Is bAsEd on a EurOpEan seTTing or WhiTe myThoLogy GuyS.

Excuse old as time.

In a world of Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, Treants, Wizards, Dragons, and more somehow anything but a white person is considered fantastical.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-serkis-responds-to-question-about-lack-of-diversity-in-%E2%80%98lotr-the-hunt-for-gollum%E2%80%99-casting.1576951/post-157904692

Alright, so surely you guys are also mad that the Avatar TV show is 100% Asian?

[NekoFever]

Tell us more about not wanting people to come in to the shire, bigot.

Sounds like a Reform UK voter quote tbh

It’s literally in the books that King Elessar/Aragorn gifts the Shire to the hobbits and closes the borders to outsiders.

[benji]

The problem word there is "joy". You see, joy has a very specific meaning.

 

In a world of Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, Treants, Wizards, Dragons, and more somehow anything but a white person is considered fantastical.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-serkis-responds-to-question-about-lack-of-diversity-in-%E2%80%98lotr-the-hunt-for-gollum%E2%80%99-casting.1576951/post-157904692

Because skin color is genetic and we know how it works unlike all that other shit?

A random Black person in an exclusive world of whites demands a story explanation, especially from the people who want to see a random Black person in the first place, it's essentially a distraction with no upside. Especially because if you have one then you need to explain why you don't have a Latinx and a South Asian and a Muslim and... until a Western elite ideology from the real world is dictating your fiction. If you're saying this shouldn't be the case, that there should just be a random guy and nobody ever says anything about it, first of all that's colorblindness which is white supremacy and second of all it's fetishization. Additionally if the first one is what morals you want to impart then you shouldn't be noticing and complaining about the casting in the first place.

[jooseloose]

Pound sand.

[Snoopy]

Why do they take posting on a video game message board so seriously

What else are they going to do? Nobody listens to their retarded opinions/hot takes outside of that dump.

[Boredfrom]

If you're saying this shouldn't be the case, that there should just be a random guy and nobody ever says anything about it, first of all that's colorblindness which is white supremacy and second of all it's fetishization. Additionally if the first one is what morals you want to impart then you shouldn't be noticing and complaining about the casting in the first place.

Colorblindness is bad when I don’t get anything from it.