#bad critics

[agramuglia]

So amusingly, the last few days have consisted of an extended crashout by my rivals.

Earlier this week, a guy named Literature Devil dropped a 90 minute response vid about me, trying to paint me as an incompetent, lying "art bro." He also accused me of defending Lily Orchard to criticize chuds like him.

I then issued a response pointing out all the flaws in that argument.

And Literature Devil has been crashing out....ever since.

He has been arguing with commentators, complaining on Twitter, and going on and on and on.

As it stands now, however, I think the reason he is crashing out is because his attempts to squash me failed. Despite him being a significantly bigger channel in terms of subs...my video is getting more traction faster.

[titleknown]

I keep seeing you mention this "Ella Guro" person and I finally decided to look her up and I honestly wished I hadn't. The sad thing is I think some of her points have at least a decent foundation but a lot of the time she takes them to a ridiculous extreme. Like blaming rationalism for the alt-right which yes people like Sargon of Aakad have exploited the language of rationalism for there own gain but that doesn't mean you have to be all "fuck rationalism" ugh!

Well, I’d kinda defend part of her stance, because from what I read of the article she wasn’t just talking about the Zargon of Baator-types, but also the “boy genius” dickheads of Silicon Valley who try to formulate solutions for the rest of the world based on some grand master plan, that is inevitably woefully reductive and colored by privelege in a way that makes it unworkable.

Like, relating to another post, basically what Swift was mocking with A Modest Proposal. Or, for a more relevant example, why Hillary fucked up this election through the magic of Neoliberal failures.

But, ironically enough, the main issue I have with her is that very dismissivness. I do agree with her point that nerdery has an incredibly perverse relationship with the corporate producers of its content, and a lot of the ideological troubles relating to it with corporation-worship and hegemnony worship draw back from that.

Hell, as a case in point, Funko Pops are one of the biggest Monuments To Nerdkind’s Corporate Worshipping Sins there ever was.

Hell, that’s related to the reasons why I’m so big on Open Source culture. But, what I fucking loathe about her philosophy is how this leads to a reductive dismissivness of anything that’s not “avant-guarde” enough for her tastes and the people who like any forms tjat arem’t tjat being characterized as anti-intellectual idiots; and treating any emotional attachments they have to a work that contains the taint of corporatism as an opiate indulged in by priveleged idiots

Like, y’all, look at this horseshit and tell me I’m wrong:

at first i thought people in games were just ignorant, or that it was just the cis white dudes who did this - but more and more, i think people in games (regardless of who they are) delight in only being interested in talking about games-about-games, they delight in feeling like they're experts and part of a culture, no matter how insular, and they delight in not talking about or exposing themselves to anything that might ever challenge that idea to its core. they delight in "comfort food" to the exclusion of everything else. this blog post, which exclaims "...but sometimes you don’t want The Seventh Seal or Citizen Kane. Sometimes you want to huddle up with a bowl of popcorn and watch, I don’t know, Buffy." as if it's some kind of revelatory statement to make about videogames. but there is no Seventh Seal or Citizen Kane in videogame culture. it's ALL Buffy - all of it.

Like, fuuuuuuuuck yooooooou too lady.

I can’t stand that one Twine game “The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo” because of that, because of how linked it is to those theories. Dismissing pulp/popular-culture as the opiate of the masses and treating emotional attachments to it is Not Fucking Helping in any way shape or form in getting people to shuck off the chains of megacorp-worship.

Which is why I would punch Adorno and Horkheimer in the fucking face if I had a time machine, but I digress.

TL/DR, I think the anti-corporate-worship messages are important, it’s just her anti-populism and extreme dismissiveness towards the “lowbrow” I find deeply disgusting on a personal and political level...

[netherworldwritersguild]

(via Making Lemonade)

People like this critic are compensating for their own insecurities by being nasty. I'm glad the author was able to benefit from his crappy attitude in spite of his best (or worst) attempts to get under her skin. That's the best revenge.

Personally, everything I write is for myself. I try to ensure that it's an interesting story, but I never play to an audience. Either they like it or they don't. When I try to write according to what's popular or according to a given formula, I always end up hating the end result.

[mushroomhedgehog]

The motto for every gamer needs to be "Do your fucking research," because practically no one knows jack shit when comparing consoles and PC, and it's most evident when they're quick to say "There's no games for this system," or "PC master race" without providing reasons, let alone good ones at that. Even as a joke it's pathetic. This is an issue that shouldn't be taken as a joke, because you know they're trying to cause trouble. I got bashed for criticizing someone who told me to not take it seriously when I responded to such a response. Funny, because we all know that his intention was for someone to get riled up.

[otatma]

[mazerunnerquote]

Seriously the critics of ya book to movie adaptations are not critical at all, all they do is point out the similarities of every freaking book and say it will be the next -insert name of already famous book to movie franchise-