See i get this in that the what i consider BEST stories are dark and grim, at least aesthetically. But the flood of cheap immitators that think knicking the style is all they need is just so effing tedious
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BootlegGirl and
But this works both ways. 90s disney and some cartoons were bright and lovely. And then there were all the also ran animated movies that mostly suuuuucked
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See the eighteenth iteration in Steam/your favorite console game story of "in this cell shaded adventure, Sue the anthropomorphic trout will learn lessens about friendship in the sparkly but also hypersexual world of Boobsylvania"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
"Polygon 10/10: a refreshingly innovative game that focuses on friendship, and also incredibly difficult twitch puzzles that certainly don't leave out people who can't do those, rather than violence. Genius! All games should be like this!"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
Because that's the new normal *I* see across media.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
Well that's increasingly the norm in the counter-culture, precisely because the norm in mainstream culture is violent and gritty. Used to be the other way around, mainstream aggressively wholesome and alt being all dark and bloody. I'm sure it'll flip around again soonish.
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Replying to @dulcedejae @BootlegGirl and
Like, Polygon is the Pitchfork of video games. Their position in the ecosystem is being deliberately contrarian. IGN is still giving TLOU2 10/10 Editor's Choice and a triumph in Rome.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dulcedejae and
It's a music magazine stereotypically associated with "hipsters" (so with a tendency to hate on anything Top 40 and champion anything you're not cool enough to have heard of)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I genuinely thought it was, like, officially mainstream, because it was the one big name I’m used to people bringing up as context for who they’re complaining about on the assumption the referent is shared
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I mean yeah, it's a big and influential website because a big part of having "credibility" in criticism is being willing to criticize things that are popular
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
It's like the famous story of how Pauline Kael made her name as a "serious film critic" despite being a woman when she trolled the world by calling The Sound of Music vapid garbage
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