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   forrest (buru5@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 16:48:22 JST forrest

   i've been thinking a lot recently about old JRPGs and how some (most) of them are a real slog to play now (when not on some form of meth/speed): turn-based, super-linear storytelling, little customization, etc. etc. then i was thinking, i bet there's a good essay in how classic turned-based is busted and not fun in general, and maybe there's a good case for that, right? but here's the problem, and here's the sole reason why i rarely (if ever) write "review" stuff anymore: wtf is fun????

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     NaClKnight (naclknight@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 16:48:16 JST NaClKnight

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     @buru5 Sure, so lemme hop in and you can tell me if I come off "as immature and kinda insufferable."

     I think ratings are fine and good. I think they are useful in a world of increasingly nigh-infinite media choices

     I wish people paid more attention to the context of a rating

     Someone saying a piece of media is great is much more useful if I know what other things they have or have not liked. I can weight a given rating by my agreement with this and other ratings by a person or organization.

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     forrest (buru5@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 16:48:20 JST forrest

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     and as an extension of this, anyone who seems overly confident in their opinion about anything multimedia/music/art related comes off as immature and kinda insufferable to me; like, our worldviews do not jive, man. i, in no way, could say that any song or game is objectively bad, much less GIVE IT A SCORE!

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     forrest (buru5@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 16:48:21 JST forrest

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     the whole thing becomes a joke to me. i see game review/journalism as a total clown show because of, literally, this one question. and the question can't be answered objectively. when some IGN dude writes this 6 paragraph review and is all confident that Grandia II is actually real bad or whatever, it's just pathetic to me. i cannot get beyond this. i fear i have thought myself into a spot where objective analysis of almost anything is absurd to me, fraudulent even.

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     NaClKnight (naclknight@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 16:50:41 JST NaClKnight

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     @buru5 I'll happily stand on "I think _____" is a really powerful/well made/great/etc piece of media.

     The other person is free to disagree. They've got their own rubric and their own context.

     But that doesn't change that I think Good Kid Maad City or Street Fighter 6 or The Stone Sky were great and have objective merit.

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     forrest (buru5@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 21:19:29 JST forrest

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     @NaClKnight i don't think you're immature or insufferable at all: you've been careful to qualify "i think" before each of your value/rating statements, which *i think* is interesting; especially "i think... something has objective merit," which is a statement that seems to undermine itself.

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     NaClKnight (naclknight@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 22:44:58 JST NaClKnight

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     @buru5 For future reference, this is definitely where i read your first reply, felt a MIGHTY NEED to reply to it, and then decided to abstain until i finished the thread.

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     forrest (buru5@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 22:46:08 JST forrest

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     @NaClKnight would have been funny if the replies just got progressively more aggressive