Nangijala @ Nangijala @feddit.dk

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I think it's is a bit disingenuous to pretend like Gen X hasn't also been drowning in member berries. All the 70s and 80s nostalgia that has also been permiating media the past decade is more or less Gen X dreaming of their childhoods. Hell, the birth of the online movie and video game reviews was mostly spear headed by Gen X'ers sitting and screaming in front of their cameras about how this game and that show or movie was either amazing or ruined their childhoods. One even called himself the Nostalgia Critic. I have also heard countless Gen X'ers reminisce about how much better things were when they were young. Especially in more recent years where more and more "back in my day we played outside and didn't stare at phones all day"-videos get posted to social media.

Gen X is not too good to be down here in the mud with the rest of us nostalgic peasants.

Every generation has a bit of nostalgia for thier childhoods and everybody misses parts of times that have passed and that is fine.

I just don't like it when it gets to a point where one starts acting like there is absolutely nothing positive or better going on in the current age we live in and that all the good stuff is in the past. That irks the fuck out of me.

Yeah, thats why I'm so impatient for this shit to end NOW. I don't want to see innocent people have their futures utterly annihilated for years to come. It is so frustrating.

Their ideology: man is boss. Woman is kitchen. God is science. Money is God.

Amen, my friend. My spouse keeps telling me to have patience wait for the consequences to hit these clowns. I am just very impatient because I don't want them to succeed in ruining more things for other people before they get what's coming to them.

The 90s had a lot of good in them but I gotta admit I'm a bit tired of this nostalgic mindset people have about the past.

Sure, a lot of things are not going well today, but at the same time we have made amazing advancements in multiple areas where I'm sure most of you would regret going back to the 90s and not have them.

Advancements in medicine and science as well as social advancements in the form of a better understanding and acceptance of mental health issues. Being gay and trans today is also a lot easier than it was in the 90s. We hold sexual predators more and more responsible for their actions today than we did back then. More people today are aware and concerned about fixing the environment than they were in the 90s where you got to hear things about the ozone layer and then that was it.

Smoking is on its way out. Similar with alcohol. At least in my country. It is less nad less socially acceptable and more and more people turn away from those vices, which is amazing.

In my experience, more and more people raise their kids with respect for the child's emotional well being. My generation were barely seen as humans when we were children and I see more and more people around my age raising their children with the respect they didn't receive themselves when they were little. It is bound to create some more robust people in the future who have a healthy sense of self and who believe in themselves.

There are so many good things in the world right now, but if you only look for the bad and start romanticizing a past that wasn't really as perfect as you think it was, then you're, in my opinion, living wrong.

It's okay to appreciate things from the past and miss them, but this "the world was better" bullshit is just very counter productive and in many cases objectively untrue.

Glad you did as well. It was painfully unpleasant and dull to get through. My friend and I genuinely didn't enjoy ourselves once except for maybe when a heavily pregnant character decided to do parkour and be in active combat for a good part of the game. My friend and I are both women and we kept joking about how this game was clearly written by a man who doesn't know any mothers in his personal life. It was so dumb.

I distinctly remember them claiming that you had the choice to spare the dogs, but they would viciously attack you and blow your cover every chance you got so you literally didn't have any other choice than to kill them sometimes. Then there were the plot related actions where the story took your choices away from you and forced you to kill a dog and torture a woman to death as Ellie.

And the ironic thing was that they claimed they wanted you to feel bad for killing people in the game and had the npcs yelling out the names of the people you killed, but I literally felt nothing.

Meanwhile when I played the first game and got to the hospital scene, I was so fucking devastated because I didnt want to kill the fireflies. Up until that point you had mostly killed zombies and deranged people who were directly putting you and ellie in danger. But the fireflies felt different. I was so devastated making my way to Ellie. The game did a fantastic job showing how Joel was crossing a line in his humanity in order to protect the one person in the world that gave his life meaning. It was at once a very beautiful and very tragic climax to a story about humanity in dire circumstances. So beautifully made.

Ain't gonna sit there and cry over some random dog or some dumb npc named Jason when I'm forced to plow down hundreds of them while rarely if ever getting to attack zombies becuase they're barely present in the game by comparison.

If you want to treat human lives as precious in your game, don't make your player kill them by the hundreds the whole time. Fuck man. I sometimes wonder if Druckmann really wrote the first game at all or if he just took credit for some underling's work because I struggle to believe that the same writer who wrote this emotionally complex game is also the same writer who pooped out its sequel.

Sorry for long rant. I just really hate that stupid game.

It is so insidious when they do that with any piece of media. Use minority groups as a shield against well deserved criticism. It'd just been a thing in entertainment for so long that I kinda ended up tapping out and focusing on indie stuff more.

I literally cannot imagine creating something that is so incompetent, so shit and then using trans people as a shield to avoid taking responsibility for me delivering a shitty product.

Worst part is that I think it was almost deliberate. It just felt so hateful and like every decision was crafted to specifically hurt the fans and, as you say, gaslight them by accusing them of hating minority groups. So fucking disgusting. If you look at the teaser scene that was published way back before the game's release, where Abby is getting hanged, she is suspiciously more feminine looking. Why did they change that? To piss off the gamers.

They also made every single ad seem like Ellie was on a revenge rampage because of Dina's murder and that Joel was either going to join her or that his "ghost" would be by her side as her mental health tanks.

My friend and I had a lot of theories about the story of the game back when those teasers came out.

And then they go and create the most cruel, mean spirited murder scene of a beloved character that everybody already expected to get a send off in this game and afterwards they act smug and/or like victims when the fan reactions roll in.

They knew what they were doing. It was so gross. Joel's murder was probably one of the most physically disturbed reactions I have jhad to a piece of media because it felt like personal hatred directed against the player. Like, where the fuck did that come from, asshole? All I ever did was enjoy your game.

Are there some asshole fans out there who fit the stereotype of a sexist gamer? Of course there are, but the vast majority of fans are just normal people whose only crime was to get invested in a story, a world and its characters and we all got punished for it.

To me, that is behavior from a creator that I will never support and too many creators in the hollywood/LA sphere have had this gross attitude towards fans for too long. When you treat an entire fan base with disgust because of what a small minority does, you are no longer a professional who deserves their time and money. It literally is the equivalent of going to a restaurant and the chef going up to your table and spitting in your food because he had a few shitty customers the other day. Like good fucking luck bringing new customers to your restaurant in the future.

Haven't played that game, but I will take your word for it!

I played that game with my best friend and we hated every single second of it. To me, this is the game version of GoT season 8.

I still find it incredible that Druckmann stuck to his guns and copy pasted this terribly executed storyline into the second season of the show. Idiot learned nothing. I'm glad I decided to skip the second season and just enjoy the first season as a stand alone. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey did a great job as Joel and Ellie, but I sincerely doubt that even they could save the used toilet paper that is the script for Last of Us 2.

Strong Last of Us 2 vibes.

That game had such an interesting setup and completely fucking fumbled every single second.

The idea of a split story arc where two hurt people are hunting one another for revenge and how it devastates the both of them in the end is so cool, but then it's written with the emotional intelligence of a five year old and completely fucking missing the concept of subtlety and earned pay offs. Everything is forced, everything is overly mean spirited to the point where you just kinds hate everybody and roots for no one. You're literally forced as the player to torture and kill several people and animals throughout the game.

And when you finally get to the climax there's a lame as fuck "revenge is bad mkay" message tagged on to the end. It rings hollow and it isn't earned. Such an immature script trying to tackle such an interesting concept.

It really shows you that there are no bad ideas, only bad execution.

In Australia they have something called "report a tosser" people who are proven to have littered anything from cigarette buds to plastic bottles and more will be fined to hell and back.

Your clippies look so cool! Sucks that you only have two left :/

You do it too??? :'D what colors are yours? Ours used to be all the fun colors, blues and pinks and greens but I kept losing them or putting them in the freezer where the plastic would end up breaking, so now they have been replaced with all black and white and grey ones. Which is fine. The new ones clip better anyways.

I hope you find more answers, my friend! 🤗Getting to know and understand yourself better is such a relief. What clued you into giftedness possibly being part of your situation? Sorry for asking, I'm just curious.

Haha thank you! Dunno if I'm harsh on myself. My old math teacher wanted to kick me into a special ed class because he thought I was very low IQ, lol. My Danish teacher had similar opinions. With the amounts of degrees I later failed out of in my youth, I can't really blame them, though I believe I'm just an average mind with possible ADHD that made learning difficult for me in some settings.

Things are good today, though! I work in a very niche industry where there is a abnormally high number of people with disorders, especially ADHD and autism. That also helps with everybody accepting everybody because we are all a bit weird. By far the most accepting environment I have ever been a part of.

Thank you, my hero! 😚

Wikipedia would have me believe that these meat drilling, bloodsucking mistakes of nature actually pollinate when they aren't in the process of ruining the lives of warm blooded creatures so now I feel a tiny bit bad, but still. So many other bugs can take over their jobs and manage to lay eggs without feeling the need to turn someone's skin into Swiss cheese.

I hope that revelation will help you understand yourself better, my friend! Give you some peace of mind 🤗 is it something you want to get tested for or are you satisfied with the suspicion alone? For me, I kinda felt like it was enough to have the ADHD suspicion. Helped me overcome a lot of self hatred and relax a bit more.

I dunno if I would call myself gifted. I'm pretty stupid, tbh, and you kinda have to have a brilliant mind to be gifted, from what I can tell.

Genuine question: what makes you think I should look into that instead of ADHD?

Clegs can go extinct and no one will cry about it. Fuck clegs. I will take mosquitos and wasps any day over clegs.

Not only are they the insect version of a bad day they were also adorned the worst color scheme in nature: gray and poop brown. They have nothing going for them. Delete.

Thank you thank you x) used to get really mad at myself for being an idiot with most thing but now I'm just kinda owning it. My spouse is super chill with my weirdness, so at least nobody is affected negatively by it. He mostly laughs when he discovers my newest dumb thing. Most recently he discovered where the plastic bag clippies had disappeared to.

I had accidentally and over time collected all of them in one corner of the apartment like a squirrel stashing nuts for winter. He thought it was very funny.