I believe the quote was “Ignorance is bliss”

Cats do wonders yes.

She goes to the grocery store? Her feet touch grass. My wife is terminally ill, hasn’t left the house in years and just watching a commercial shows how much we have devolved as a species. Easy times breed weak men.

Your wife is a smart person, she will probably be an awesome grandma one day.

@@tonynittoli4792 You should go on a journey to find a cure for your wife strong man 👍🤗

@@Ofjkk ones arrival

“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for”. I agree with the second part. Seven

There's still music to make life good

@@ramontavaresdacruz2256 what if the music writers get worse too, which I’d argue. Edit: perhaps worse isn’t the right word, perhaps a better description would be that mainstream music has become more homogenized.

Love it

That’s actually a pretty funny image you just spun for me

Underrated.

Omg I was thinking of that whole meme too! I was thinking that, instead of it being obvious satire, they think it's actually cool. I love your reference though, it's so apt! Haha

Perfect. 😂

I would have bought that t-shirt.

This! Your generation has grown up enough to have full time jobs now, and this is what was prevalent for many years, so that is what their comedy and writing style is mirrored from. I am 40 and mine is based around Dumb and Dumber and that era, movies for many years had that style of comedy. The the generation behind me was the Seth Rogan style, now the next gen is this style. It will always be this way, and people outside of that range and time will hate it.

​@@ravenburns6600Its not about hating dumb and dumber tho? He's making a point about how due to its popularity, films that came after it followed its tropes and thus becoming oversaturated and cringe

its not a millennial thing tho, this is literally every generation. just wait till gen z are in there 30s-40s . the next gen will blame them too

"Professional"

Wattpad on the resume

I wish I had noticed this so I could have had a laugh as well. I played through once because the level of cringe almost tanked the experience entirely. As some who purchased the first 2 on multiple platforms I find it insane that I can't even bring myself to play again, even if just to try out the other classes.

@@JB-md7db I completely understand lol the dialogue is butt most of the time but it’s just so fun to play imo, the gunplay feels GREAT. I think you should try it again! I picked Zane the first time but Moze is super fun with her mech.

This was my favorite joke too!

Kind of related, but the one and only thing I truly enjoyed/laughed at during the movie Sausage Party was all the creative made-up products on the shelves in the background of every scene .

@@Danbotology sometimes that’s all it takes man lol

Yup. Just say your lines out loud and see if you cringe at it.

Random bro here knows tip top tips, right

I'll keep that in mind.

Tfw you're writing erotica. It's all automatically cringe.

Thank you for the tip man! This would come in handy.

We need the writers of the I.T. Crowd to write games

That and a ton of writers just haven't gone through the hardships others have, they don't have that RAW emotion that comes with suffering

@@TheLarryDungeon because we live in a time with the least amount of suffering

@@dream6562 The world is like one insult from war

@@TheLarryDungeon nah well be in civil war before that can happen

@@dream6562 Not too far off lmao

No way, bro. Imagine how much cooler the Elden Ring intro would be if the narrator bumped the mic, or paused to go get his hot pocket from the microwave and burned himself, or hit a bong at the start and coughed sporadically throughout the narration. That would be so relatable.

Modern Star Wars does this 24/7 and I hate it, Imagine if instead of Luke screaming "no! its not true!" to Vader claiming to be his father, C3P0 just butted into the scene with a cheesy one liner.

All of Marvel movies.

Action shonen animes lol

​@@whiskeysour1179 This actually worked with other games like The Bard's Tale. But that was a fantasy parody game. It was doing it on purpose and that gave the game it's tone. But this modern writers saw stuff like that and thought it is unique and quirky.

For TLOU2 is that they FORCE you to kill the dog. You don't kill it because it's the easier way, the other option being harder/longer blablabla...no they make you kill the dog and then go "Look at what you did!" later. Didn't feel guilty as the devs were the killers.

MGS 1-4 in every had peak story telling. Comparing it to anything else really is unfair

This is called ludonarrative dissonance for anyone curious.

You didn't kill a mountain of people in TLOU2. Ellie did. You may control her through her journey, but she is not a player avatar, she is a character in her own right with her own personality, likes, dislikes, goals and emotions. The game is you following HER journey, not yours, that tells HER story, not yours.

@@waraidako Maybe the director shoul stay in Hollywood then and never come back.

That's a good thing! Make that change!

@@heroinmom153says heroin mom 😂

People aren’t self aware anymore, people don’t watch their own content, so they don’t hear themselves on camera.

While I was fresh out of highschool, I would say "like" a lot. It was easy getting in that habit whenever I thought of the next words I would use during conversation. Never realizing that it only made me sound like a valley girl. It wasn't until an older guy I knew who ran the nearby deli mimicked my speech that I felt embarrassed and thought about my speech. So now all I do is simply pause before coming up with my next words. That is all. I then noticed other young people would speak the same way and I'd get second hand embarrassment along with the reminder of how I was

You need to do better, or just continue being terrible. It's really up to you.

That's very poetic. Ironically better written than most dialogue nowadays.

or its edgy garbage of equally no value

Earnestness is a crime!

Yeah I’m stealing this thanks

This isn’t just video games, I had this vibe from riverdale😂 boomer made characters lmao

Baldur's gate (Game of the Year) has a ton of diversity in their characters. DEI has nothing to do with it.

​​@@hellojams except we're not talking about diversity of characters here. He's talking about a focus on the 'diversity' of the writers rather than the QUALITY of the writers. You're comparing apples to oranges my friend.

Recent example, the new director of star wars is a great journalist, she made a ton of documentaries and directed two episodes of Ms. Marvel, that's it, that's the curriculum for directing a fantasy movie from one of the biggest franchise ever

bad writing has fuck all to do with DEI

@@jamesbowman639 If you don’t hire the right people based on talent but on looks, yeah. It does.

* looks at my Wishbone plushie collection I had since I was a toddler * Same.

Funko Pops scream "I want to collect nerdy looking stuff", but without the will to embrace the "degeneracy" of collecting actual figurines, or models.

@@Bearhuggerus Literally the millennials way of thinking compared to everyone else. Safe to look at and unoffensive to those who wish to see. 40K, Gundam, hell even some late 70s - early 90s toys takes those risks of (in the public eye) being nerdy/weird/graphic/geeky/or over the top, like how most identifiable undying media is. Meanwhile funko pops are so bland and featureless, they blend in with any form of background and setting. A literal NPC level of detail; same pose, same eyes, and same level of design.

I own like 4 funko pops, 3 of of them were gifts. I don’t go out of my way to collect them because they just look so low quality and stupid, and overpriced. there are so many better collectibles and figures to buy.

There's a personal touch that you need to glue and paint your boys compared to similar looking Funkopop figures

Perfectly stated.

Makes no sense either. Why wouldn't you just use a relevant humor? Even if it's not what the kids are doing and it's actually funny to adults. You'd at least appeal to some ppl.

​@Marcus Vincent I think a big part of it is also the same reason other reboots or sequels to comedic media recently have had this same issue, that being that the writers saw people talking about how funny the humor of the previous entries were, saw that there were a lot of puns, references, sarcasm, and witicisms, and decided without looking into it any further or thinking any more about it that that must be all there is to the success of those entries and so that's the extent of the humor they use.

​@@DolusVulpes and don't forget CEOs want to try to appeal to the LCD but still try to cheapen the budget.

That and half us are anywhere from 25 to 45 in terms of at least half the gaming population and we have grown out of those stages yet the makers of the franchises and games we like haven't seemed to evolve in terms of humor.

The reason is, that all the edgy teens didnt grow up. Teenagers were always edgy and stupid. But now they dont need to grow up. They can still collect Pokemon Cards when they are 35 now. This generation of new "adults" arent adults. They are children that grew old. So were the teenagers before, but at least they got a harsh sense of reality, when suddenly they had to care for 3 children and pay a house. Todays teenagers (writers of games) are adults, have jobs in media, and write lazy edgelord stories. They collect pokemon cards, and play Wow classic. No responsibilities, no reason to evolve and grow up. So the topics they write stories about are edgy and full of stupid millenial and genZ humor.

I'm sorry your "responsibility" sucks so badly that you somehow can't have fun in life and therefore hate those younger than you,@@livinlicious.

This is a really insightful point. My older relatives-- they don't care one bit about sounding "cool". They are corny, but I love them. Maybe I should think more about being like them in that way

His point is Stalbjorn that responsibility is necessary and fun all the time isn't okay that is something that you should take from it. However, is that really fun in life just playing games and collecting pokemon cards? Just because someone doesn't do these things or like to do these things doesn't mean they lack fun in their life and that shit that is considered fun is just absolute dogwater@@Stalbjorn

@@SimioniFeteroSungiJR"They can still collect Pokemon Cards when they are 35 now". I find it ridiculous that they assert that one cannot be an adult with fully-handled responsibilities while maintaining a relatively simple hobby (card collecting).

Well, Thor having two goats to pull his vehicle is one of the few things Marvel Thor actually took from the original Viking sagas. Seriously, look up Tanngnjost and Tanngrisner and see for yourself.

@@blondbraid7986but where they screaming goats?

@@razor6827 Yes, they were screaming goats in Norse Mythology. It's a real legit thing.

​@@razor6827 Yes. They were. That's what's so tragic lol

@@KevinoftheCosmos true they hired millenials to write for millenials and cringe genz

@@KevinoftheCosmos no it's not. Get out.

yeah and i feel the same thing about the first two games, they're objects of that time, if you go in those games without the nostalgia glasses you gonna cringe as hard as you cringe in Borderlands 3, they just told the people to write the same type of dialogs, and this doesn't work anymore

@@justanidiotmk2749 it is... A lot of the people working on saints row (and handling their Twitter, look it up) are in their early 20s... It's 2023... So what does that make them?? Lol sad how you need to be talked to like a 5 yr old

@@master-dukecuthbert5061 well are they hired by a company? Simple as that lol sad how it's so hard for you to understand a joke.

They used to.

It’s like having Easter every single day, non-stop, eggs being filled everywhere you look, it’s been said on a children’s book I forgot the name of, where the moral was, “If you have Christmas everyday, then it becomes less special, and just becomes another day”

Game writers now be taking inspiration from Gex

This is so annoying to me, makes me happy to see true Easter eggs nowadays like the titanic reference room in Jedi Survivor

I think it is just what happened to spoof movies. If you watch Airplane and Scary Movie, it is filled with pop culture references, but they were all used as a joke or to make fun of what they were referencing. But if you watch the later spoof movies, before the genre died, such as Disaster Movie. The joke is the reference, like no reference ever adds anything to the story or even is written as a joke or parody. It is all just, remember this? I think the same thing happened, they wrote a quirky and quick-witted character that made pop culture references and people liked it. And then, other media started doing the same. Copying the same character, just every single time they did, they made the character less interesting and shallower. Now, it is everywhere, these shallow characters that they all just want to act cool and make pop culture references. But there is nothing to the reference, nor the character. Writers are just lazy and think that just making a pop culture reference is enough, for people to like their characters.

and making better games than the idiots before them. Learning from mistakes is what prevents them. There's a cycle and we're slowly leaving the dumbass phase.

They have no clue how lucky they are not to grow up with the cringe

Soy boy is a gen x millennial term

The gameplay is amazing which makes the writing that much more sad

Those kind of people were never told to git gud.

they wouldnt survive an x-box lobby, the only way they survive twitter as is is by blocking people they dont like

Sued by kratos

@@A-wy5zm Many also mistake the fact that change aint looking for friends. The wheel of progress will fuck anybody over. Hence the complaining.

​@@Vincrand The competitive guys finish as MMA-fighters The cooperative guys rule the world. 😉

I feel like they do this because there is no laugh track after each punchline like in tvseries, so they cant train people.

Great way to put it

Perfectly said

Omg I work with a guy like this lol

To be fair, repetition CAN work in comedy, but it takes a skilled writer to do it.

True, true, and true, but they also think that quirky is beyond cool, so . . .

Quirky is a much better term for it

@@goodbuddy7607 sorry i killed seven people im such a scorpio UWU 😜😜😜😜 😋😫😫😫😫😛😛😛😛!! im such a quirky chungus O M G L M F A O S T D O S! 😎😎😎😎😎😎 but how can i be as quirky as benito mussolini though 😭😭😭😿😿😿😿😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you lol, the whole “you’re trying to write cool people but you’re not even cool yourself” bit was throwing me off. Plenty of great writers who make cool characters are often not the epitome of cool themselves and that’s probably what makes it work.

quirky implies they stand out. you can't have a whole generation of quirky.

Well I kind of wonder if some stuff is just bad on purpose for the attention. Apparently Scooby Doo spin offs are released every few years and Velma is the only recent one I know about because my youtube feed is nothing but people ragging on it. Being notoriously bad is probably a lot better than never being heard of. I wonder how many hate watchers these shows get.

@@theodis8134 there IS, however, such thing as bad publicity.

Honestly a lot of the popular examples, to me at least, feel like corps wanting to push a writing style that they *think* younger generations will be with, without understanding like the intricacies of when/why certain kinds of arguments are said. Like it's not that every point or weird argument or twitter slang is just nonsense, but I don't think wheoever is pushing/funding a lot of these shows and media understand the difference

Part of it extends from just trying to appeal to "diverse" audiences. I have no idea what the composition of the writing room looks like, and I will not speculate. However, it very clearly was made to appeal to the people who do the fucking clap emojis while saying "we need a $25 an hour minimum wage, now."

@@SirProdigle *ding ding ding* The people in these writing rooms, almost certainly, have connections and inroads into them. Relatives that work in the industry, went to the same fraternities/sororities as the people who are related to said people. This isn't inherently bad, and we need to start admitting that we would do the same thing if we could, however when higher ups give these people a directive to appeal to a young, hip demographic, they are at a loss. They just make Poochie.

"hidden"

at this point those 2 are synonymous.

Isn’t it kind of weird how they go hand-in-hand. It’s like in order to be this bad you have be an agenda driven writer and it’ll never be good.

More like open agendas😂

​​@sonic-templeoselma becomes so much more easier to understand when you understand that the "Mystery gang but in high school and with a focus on Velma's story!" is just a mask hinding the true plot of the show: Mindi's self-insert solves crimes while being extremely unlikeable because the writters aren't out of touch with modern culture but out of touch with humanity altogether, apperantly It's not a genuine prequel to Scooby Doo, it's Mindy's fanfic given big-time budgeting.

Any Scooby show without the titular dog is not one worth watching.

That show is utter trash and should have never been green lit.

Being Helen Keller couldn’t save you, you’d still have to sit and listen…

​@TheBottleneckedGamer you sure we're thinking of the same Hellen Keller?

@@TheBottleneckedGamer I'm pretty sure it would be a great game if you were Helen Keller. Idk how anyone could make you do something you can't physically do.

Also Helen Keller is probably a myth. People say she flew a damn plane 😄

Bl2 is just as bad. last time my friend dragged me through it I had to turn off the voice acting to enjoy it

That's actually a really good point, never thought of it that way

Well said

Nice to see you here. I wonder why your comment hasn't gotten more attention yet

@@compatriot852he has no heckin' checkmark to verify this post as peer reviewed and backed by science

@@CivilizedWasteland Thanks for the clarification kind stranger have some reddit gold and some updoots

love your vids, i need more soy lore !!!

I guess the idea that anybody connected to Infinite could actually comprehend irony was, ironically, beyond their comprehension. What a mindfuck.

I miss 2010 Shane Dawson

Indeed, anything that's actually edgy will get you suspended from most internet platforms.

@@totallynotthebio-lizard7631 seek help

@@ForbiddenSlurp there's a difference between edgy and "limited edgy"

@@ForbiddenSlurp Nah, those are zoomers

I mean, the obvious answer is "people whose parents don't die when the person 15." So right away you have most people, then a good percentage of those parents support their kids financially wwaayyy later than past generations. For reasons that can be parasocial, but often just simple economic shifts in Western society.

That's why you decided to dress as a female?

Yeah they dont care about the product. They only care about themselves

@@A-wy5zm because if you're in a team that cares, these people stand out like a sore thumb and ruin the social and collaborative environment. If your team is full of these types the team wont exist for long and will go through endless restructuring. There is a balance between the self and the team, but the balance described here is off

​@@A-wy5zmthese games only sell because they were preceeded by well written good games, therefore the company has a reputation already and doesnt have to try. Hence triple A games mostly sucking but they still sell

​@@chasehitchcock6684Dude is literally the type the entire video is about.

​@@spew42im pretty this guys just trying to start shit with people and doesn't have anything to actually add

I'll be real that was kind of the point of the twins. We weren't supposed to hate them because they were just doing bad things but hate the portrayal of their character as well. So if you hated them and cringed at the stereotypical millennial behavior then good. Ava though....there was no hope for that.

If you've seen the deleted scenes they had some legit story elements where Ava did grow. Why they didn't include it idk, but I don't blame the writers here because they had a script in mind. It just sucks the publishers don't care if the game can't be done on time

Not to mention that the writers missed a huge opportunity to make Troy a much better character of having him kill Tyrene and taking her powers for himself. Would’ve been a really cool addition to the story. Ava though, yeah no hope there

Most of the gameplay was nearly identical to the earlier Borderlands games. And, yeah, the writers were definitely sniffing their own farts when it came to Ava and the streamer twin villains. Some much of the writing was awful. Killing off Maya was terrible - it felt like they were following a checklist to kill off a character from the previous game like what happened to Roland, without any of his death's heroism or emotional payoff. Ava was genuinely unlikable, and honestly she never got less so.

Too much forced grrrll power, wannabe handsome jack endless irrelevant monologues and not enough corporate dystopia and pandora psycho gags which was the appeal and humor of the originals

@@A-wy5zm then come to LATAM

@@A-wy5zm you really seem defensive when someone challenges your views

@@MalekitGJ how does that challenge their views lol someone else being even less wealthy doesn't make you wealthy. The writers live in the wealthiest areas of the country but barely get paid enough to rent their parents' guest room and buy instant ramen packets from the gas station. Not exactly living large

@@k--music yet they have access to highband internet & eat at least 3 times a day everyday. Suuuuuuuuuuuure, whatever flies your boat

@@MalekitGJ you eat at all? Try being someone’s pet iguana they literally have to rely on an owner for food smh

Yeah thats just the NCAA or ROTC (in a very roundabout way with many steps in between)

Your giving them too much credit. How millenial of you.

ngl that sound like a really good idea for a casual management game

That's just real life bro 😂

@@leto_atreusII which part lol

Social media and it's consequences have been a disaster for the woman race.

In GOW being told to be better feels like someone wants the best for your well being, while at the same time its a line with a lot of depth and meaning to the main protagonists... In Borderlands being told to be better feels like your boss trying to make you feel like shit because he will not have a bonus paycheck at the end of the year because of your bad performance...

That's because in GOW your character is actually trying better himself, while in vast majority of other games and media it's just "be better how i want you to be because you have to have the same morality as i do and agree 100% with my twisted worldview based on fake feelings baked into me by manipulative social media clout chasers and teachers"

Its also a joke in gow, since the combat is way simpler, its just stats.

@@rRekko cringe dude

Your pfp suggests you have great taste in video games

Self aware? I don't think they are even that self aware at all. I think it's not being self aware but more self absorbent for oneself

Complete lack of self awareness, and lack of awareness in general aspects.

Don’t forget zero meaningful consequences and pop culture references and member berries.

You need to add in an unwillingness to tolerate 'tropes', except for their self-insert personality quirks which are totally not tropes to themselves. A perpetual revolution against characters and Ideas that aren't theirs.

It annoys me that we get bundled in with gen z. Anyone younger than 27 isn't a millennial.

I'm in this camp

It's why I only play games from the 90s to 2010s now

@@babelfishdude this shit was never funny in any generation

You got time

I’d be more worried about being eaten by some random dude

Kind of what makes him famous I guess

I don't know how you're getting that impression. If someone complains about something, does that mean they think it's the worst thing in the world?

So his ability to take something he enjoys/interested in seriously?

Ok, is there an end to this point?

Whats the point of this comment?

Oh no. You just described Deadpool basically lol.

this should be a mod

deadpool did it before it was cringe, it a way that borders on it@@ArcangelZero7

Love the Ryuko Matoi pfp

"DID I JUST KILL HIM? WITH MY FREAKING KNIFE?!"

What’s so bad about them keeping how they assemble and paint their models so secret? I’m new to painting and assembling minis, and I understand why new people wouldn’t want to post them online.

I don't post anything to any social whatsoever, so I'm playing devil's advocate, but I'd rather die than post my assembled minis because they fuckin' suck, lmao.

​@@randomidoit9605 it's about shift from doing hobby aka painting and assembling to being proud of being a consumer, just buying more and more

​@@randomidoit9605because they just buy them and don't use them. They don't even assemble them. Boxes just lay there for years

@@Beef3Dman Ace Combat will always have a place in my heart ✊👍🤝

I think its just a section of millenials that were always going to have a problem when people moved on from paying attention to them on social bubbles. As the man said, 'people who already have a high opinion of their opinion'. They're loud and vulnerable.

the video should be called how shitty youtubers and twitch streamer ruined gaming

​@@swilson5320 Dude for real I'm getting super tired of culture war bullshit and people whining about their first world problems in like hour long video essays and on twitter about representation in their videos games and the writing not being deep enough. Like holy shit do you actually have so few problems this is what you sink your time into talking about?

I'm still refusing to become boomer

@@taylrthegreat Yeah man it takes concentrated effort to not slip and fall into a lot of boomery. That's where your brain naturally wants to go and you have to take time out of your day to make a point of pulling yourself out of certain mental swamps that just happen as you get used to "how things should be". You start accepting the status quo and resenting the next generation for pointing out things you didn't get right or figure out. The young are there to make change in society and push the status quo forward the old are there to guide and help them achieve the better future we're too jaded to be able to see. I feel like millenials as a generation are getting to that stage in life where you realize you make a big switch to giving wisdom instead of receiving it which is a weird precipice to be at. I just hope we're kinder to the generation after us than the one before us was to us

I’d say borderlands 2 was a favorite and trying to play 3 was so hard and cringe with the villains I was enjoyed the side quest over the main story

As if they are the main characters of movies or something. They think the world revolves around them.

@@thisisfyne how so?

😂😂

If I see someone collects a lot of anime figures, I assume he has dakimakura waifu instead of real wife

@@kormannn1 fair, but consider the following: touch grass

@@mauriceanderson5413 Often times the best jokes are a reflection of reality.

Wheres the lie?

Member Star Wars? I member!

Like the game Smite. As much as I prefer the gameplay of Smite over League, Riot is still the slightly better company because they're not stupid enough to make Nickelodeon skins from tv shows that were cancelled over 15 years ago. If I wanted to play a game with dead shows, I'd go play some kind of Nickelodeon game they had like once or twice of PS2 or some shit. My generation of gaming is over. Doesn't mean I have to stop gaming. It means that gaming companies need to stop pandering to my generation. It's the era of the Zoomers and Alphas now. Every joke and pop culture reference should be made from THEIR generations, not mine. If I wanted pop culture from the Millennial gen, I'd just play old games. I'm currently running HP and the Chamber of Secrets, and would never want it remade fully. I just wish it was remastered, to be easier to play on new tech. I want the future of HP games to be what Hogwarts Legacy is doing. It's using lore that wasn't used in the original games, books, and movies, and then adding its own spin on it to modernize it more. Old shit should only be INSPIRATION for new. It shouldn't be constantly rebooted and remade over and over again, just copies of its older selves. Because I lived through the cringe of the 2000s, and it was fun! I used to completely say EPIC to everything, as well as YOLO and even SWAG sometimes. But seeing games trying to bring back that humor makes me want to hurl myself off a cliff

I think it is fine if it is used once or twice and for one character only. And only if that character grew up in that time (or is obsessive), to convey how obnoxious or idiotic that character is or to be lighthearted. But when every single character does this it makes me think I am seeing 20-30 of the same person (looking at you Marvel).

The consumers are also the problem too here. While your point is right in terms of the writing in games it also comes down to the actual games released. How many remakes re-releases or reboots of existing games have there been and how many fans of games call or want their favourite olds games to receive that treatment? The writing reflects this because the researchers and executives believe that that nostalgia aspect is important to pander to in many different ways.

@@vietnamesericefarmer2602 I agree but I think it depends on the game as well and how it is treated. For example the Dead Space remake. This remake took a 15 year old title (that I played a lot mind you) and gave it lots of visual and gameplay overhauls and generally made it better than the original. But then you have TLoU Remake that just took the visuals and did nothing else (and wasn’t that old to begin with).

Yeah, it's really awkward how Millennial writers speak in Joss's voice and write like him.

Arguably this is what made many of the early Marvel'verse enjoyable. It was fun/funny for most part but took serious moments seriously, maybe a possible quip from some character do it was more in their nature (and sometimes in bad times its best to still retain a degree of sense of humor).

yeah it's called contrast

So many millennial writers seem to take that Joss Whedon quote and run like it’s gospel without realizing that Joss Whedon was actually a talented director who knew how to manage the tone of a film.

Buffy and Angel were both masterpieces but Joss really did mass murder all Western entertainment for like 3 generations

@mikuhuntu4xbot228 Boring in comparison to the timeless Tolkien narrative. It’s also so on the nose as to be offensive to the audience’s intellect.

exactly. the scale in modern day writing is too small. They need to tackle greater parts of the human experience that transcend time and don't become dated within a year. Like existential questions. Everything Everywhere all at once is a great example that milenials can tackle these greater subjects in a new millennial style without it feeling cringe, condescending, or on the nose. They just need to get off of twitter and look to things outside of themselves.

@@yum8666 I just watched that recently and loved it. It’s the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen, but I really liked the core message. I took it as an antidote to nihilism, and probably social media (seeing everything, from everywhere, all the time) but choosing to be present with the people around you. So, it was both hyper relevant to today, while exploring something timeless and human.

@@yum8666 So basically like ontological questions that are timeless instead of things that are more of a trend.

​@mikuhuntu4xbot228boring political message because Elves are inmortal meaning their work is almost like a "god like creation" MEANING people from Numenor and humans can never buy nothing from them because the price Like literally is the stupid concept Ever the Witcher books about racism and etnic cleaning IS literally better than what writers of RINGS pull off

@@vrabo3026 Those were the best of times.

Well I mean, that still happens today, plenty of games today let you escape from reality just like older titles.

No, I don't. Most stories, whether they intend to or not ,seek to spread a moral, philosophical or political agenda. Even a simple Mario game spreads a message of helping others and having fun.

​@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355The fact you can't see the difference between a basic moral idea like that, and spreading modern political talking points is why this hobby should've been gatekept harder.

@@vrabo3026 Back before the dark times, before EA normalized Microtransactions in the industry.

The masculine urge to explore the wilderness and build a home with your drunken self-appointed uncle to win back your wife and kid.

Nah bro they should’ve written “And so do you Uncle. SYKE GOTTEM!” that would’ve been so funny on god fr fr. And when Uncle got kidnapped by the Skinner gang, bro, some many fire joke opportunities and they missed them all. Nah bruh their writing ain’t it fam

Spoiler alert geez😢

The worst it's when they're selling subpar products that criticize capitalism and society even though they're just another cog on the machine

As a millennial I find it odd because we were taught to be skeptical and to form our own opinions as opposed to blindly following what some guy thinks.

@@ExarchGaming Homie, you're talking about pop-culture/mainstream here. 2ndly, Education is opinion. Idk how long it has been since you been in school, but history is taught in a way that teaches you how to correlate data, interpret them and string together narratives to make sense of things (though, US education does suuck a lot and is statee dependend). What you are seeing now is the inability of people to properly understand the world because they stopped studying new things that aren't related to their interests or job dependent, and those that try to study new stuff often times completely forgot or never understood how to properly study. Like, there is a reason High school teach you only thee easiest form of scientific writing and despite this most still fuck it up beyond comprehension... If you knew anything about education (which you should since your talking about the problems of studying (not learning, learning and studying mean different things)) than you should inherently understand that knowledge is interpretive, which is why we developed the scientific method to agree on an interpretation collectively. AGREE on AN INTERPRETATION. This is what we call the peer-review process. In order to change your knowledge you need to challenge the academic notions in accordance with scientific approaches. This is why you have no idea what you are talking about, because you only ever learned the condensed versions of highly complicated subjects to help you understand you own cognitive biases and how to avoid them. Right now, you're just talking about pop-culture. I'd make a metaphor: You are the 21 century internet soccer mom and baseball dads. Y'all don't know what you are talking about, y'all keep making up dumbass theories and y'all act just as arrogantly in your opinions because your opinions are somehow related to your self-worth or some shit, idk? Like prove someone wrong and they get as mad as if you insulted some dudes favorite football team or some shit.

@@luvhair255 It's always the teacher. It's only over time (over the course of your life) where you begin to challenge the knowledge taught to you by your elders. All our knowledge is born this way, even yours. We learn from those who came before, then we challenge those who taught us, and then we learn a little bit more about our species in the progress.

I couldn't imagine looking up to my college instructors. Kinda sad if you do. For example you could have idolized Alexander the great instead you idolized a 10 year professor who went to Greece twice.

Glad I’m not the only one who didn’t like the characters. Idk what it was but non of them clicked with me like other BL games.

I feel like you can always tell when writers think of a narrative tool and then create a character around that narrative tool because everything about the character seems forced. I personally struggled with this in my first couple of scripts and stories, until I finally started to essentially do what you do. I always create the setting first, motivations second, and then from those two things, the characters personalities, and lastly thematic elements. Just like real life, we are who we are because of the circumstances we grew up in, which shaped are beliefs, values, biases, and motivations which in turn led to our personalities.

@@budthecyborg4575 not necessarily just acting, character in a narrative that are written well have a fundemental belief system and behavioral set. in my favorite game, pathologic 2, every notable character has something to gain and their own belief systems to push, and it makes the game compelling as a narrative.

@@MajinRixch hey that’s how I generally write too. *Most* characters end up appearing in my stories as a result of the setting and not really the plot, but I feel like that’s partly because I just enjoy world building a lot.

Imagine that... develop the character and then that character should respond genuinely in response to the world and conflict around them. . I wish more writers understood this EXTREMELY SIMPLE concept. There are poorly written characters, and then even worse imo, there are characters that break their persona to insert some kind of narrative from the writer. It's so obvious to anyone paying remote attention, and I instantly lose any type of connection/understanding I might have made with the character.

yeah, we aren't born with complicated world views. Same way goes for making a believable character. Obviously you'll still have an idea or a purpose for the character existing in the first place , which could be, say, that they're an anti-capitalist.

@@ha-kh7ef The movie is a timeless classic that still appeals to young and old alike, and so people were expecting a show just as good, not the cringefest they got.

Does she have the haircut?

Ah, Willow. I will forever remember the time that medieval fantasy TV show had a character utter the phrase, "Hey, new girl, where you at?" Riveting.

@@ha-kh7ef Don't you ever say an unkind word about Willow.

I... suppose that is true. I kind of half liked it though, it wasn't all bad.

I'm a gen z who was far more mature than two of my millennial friends, and as a result, I was shoehorned into the role of couple's therapist for people 6 and 10 years older than I had been at the time of knowing them. I gave up on them when I developed the self awareness to realize they weren't my problem. Now, I'm not "mature for my age" or anything like that, I just happened to be more grown-up than the "grown-ups" at age 20, which is a serious problem. Both of them were creative-types as well, and their writing styles and characters were like something I'd expect to find in a middle school's trash bin. I would later meet other millennials in D&D groups, and they acted the same, if not worse due to a superiority complex, taking it as license to bully anybody younger than them for not doing something they wanted. Gen z is not by any means perfect, but I know far less people my age who still think and act like seventh graders. So you are absolutely correct, a lot millennials are just children who never grew up, but will complain incessantly about "having to grow up too fast."

@@augurypleasant4506 as an older zoomer myself (‘99 bday), well said my friend. we have our own problems due to our generation’s early overexposure to the internet, but at least we aren’t like most millenials - grown children who legitimately think they’re the smartest and most mature people in the room. this has unfortunately led to pop culture as a whole suffering due to their influence (the quality of movies and shows have also taken a dive due to other problems like bad writing)

@@kaphizmey6229 Sorry to break it to you son but you are a millenial also. Gen Alpha '12-'22, Z '01-'11 Millenial '90-'00, Gen Y '89-'79 and so on.

@@jethrovaningen first of all, generations are measured in 1.5 decade increments, not 1 decade (gen alpha is 2012-2025, gen z is 1997-2011, gen y/millennials are 1981-1996, gen x is 1965-1980, etc). second, gen y and millennials are the exact same thing; what you’re calling “gen y” is actually gen x (which is my mom’s generation as she was born in 1966). and lastly, even if all your claims were true i would still personally identify far more with zoomers than i would with millennials based on life experience alone. nice try, my guy

⁠ You’re proud of being the most mature person in a d&d group? Entering the work force is going to be a cold splash of water to your face. Get better friends and stop blaming the company you choose to keep for your failings.

That guy was definitely a pedophile

What do you mean ? Berserk is always a shoujo manga. Can't you see the plethora of beautiful girl ?

There's always an exception. Though, I do have my gripes with Guts, to be honest. Mainly his enormous hunk of metal of a weapon, but that's not really related to his character itself.

Have you read Gigantomakia from Miura too?... If you haven't, go for it, I won't spoil anything tho.

You do know that that is wrong. It is just a meme in the Berserk Community why his chapters took so long. Truth was that at one point when he took a break he also mentioned he brought the new Idol Master.

it's the social media acceptance and the quest for likes; find your niche and go bonkers = likes, or don't take risks and try to please everyone = likes. older gens being anti-establishment etc was cool, nowadays conformity is cool. it's fascinating

That's bad advice though. You should care very much about how people and your society regard you. Its called reputation. You'll never own a house without one.

@@calculator91 both of you are right, however there is a balance, obviously caring for your own looks to the point where you have to take a microscope to inspect every single negative aspect society finds wrong to eradicate it is wrong, and will make plastic people who simply “go with the flow”, becoming another leaf in the wind, however this does not simply mean one could run around like a nudist on doomsday or to scream bomb on a plane, there is a balance for everything

@@calculator91 There's a difference between reputation and accepting whatever "society" tells you. To paraphrase Men in Black, individuals are smart, the masses are dumb. And you can own whatever you want without kowtowing to the masses, at least for now. I don't need to put prescribed phrases in my bio or toe the party line to have a good credit score. The affection of the masses is fleeting and often not worth the effort of winning.

Its not about approval, its about control.

bad writing comes from people trying to capitalize on a societal trend they don't personally have a deep understanding of. Actual progressives would write with more nuance.

​@lberghaus Except they don't, I don't know what rock you've been hiding under the last decade or so lol. It's all garbage, even the better stuff is excruciatingly mediocre.

@@Let_The_Foolish_Take_The_Lead I remember earnestly asking someone for a really good progressive figure to draw inspiration from and people were saying that if you pick a black man don't pick a colonized uncle Tom go with someone like Franz Fanon. When I tried to read him he opened up with a quote by Karl Marx, a white man.

@@off6848 That checks out lol

​@metalhead6526it's even slowly creeping its way into anime and manga as well.

Well said. Also, absolutely accurate. Love this video, love the original author of that video, I'm grateful for they both denouncing these abominable realities, which are not less true because they are horrible. BTW: The writing in Hogwarts Legacy is really good, it's just a good game, with excellent voice acting, no matter what haters say.

That is why the writters of the Saints Row reboot failed so hard, they cannot write gangster characters. Rockstar actually had people that were part of this underbelly of society giving them material for inspiration, what does the Saints Row 2022 devs had? A bunch of privileged college kids writting self inserts.

This is why I always encourage Black and Hispanic people to get into gane developing. When the industry is predominantly white and male, the delivery is always going to be corny if it's not about dungeons and dragons.

Are you saying people need to experience horrible things to be able to show them? Thats really going to minimize the available pool of devs and writers.

@@Chris-ks4sw No, I'm just saying its much more effective to write about something you've experienced firsthand, and the themes he expresses in the works can click with just about anyone in the world. It's not a targeted small audience he was appealing to.

My favorite part of fallout new vegas is that there’s no “good” ending and all 4 factions can be debated on being the best one

A good game has no politics. Because politics don't matter. Fastfoward 3000 years and nothing political mattered. What does matter is the human soul and the histiry forged from it. The essence of what we are never changes. Good storied are ones we can all relate to and understand as humans. Not because its pushing an agenda but because we are all human and we can all share the feeling of pain, anguish, joy, love and sorrow. A good story connects with you on a human level, not a political one

Kotors story was somewhat all about this!

Older games' politics were timeless "political" topics. e.g. positives and negatives of an authoritarian regime. Older games asked the player a question. Newer games just insert whatever political topic is hot at the time and try to prescribe a right answer.

Tactics Ogre is a good example. In one situation one player's choice lead to a small town getting slaughtered while a creepy music plays. It is a solution but a controversial one

correct. 30:09

They're still way overpriced where I live, so for me it's kinda retarded. Then again I heard of 12/24 eggs being worth over ten dollars so maybe they aren't that bad

These aren’t Millenials. These are gen z

@@Garl_Vinland Tbh, yeah, in poor countries like mine it is primarily gen z and the tryhards of the millennial generation. Though idk, at first I saw how most were those born in say 95 and 99.

I have a Goku Funko Pop figure. It's not that that by itself is a problem. It's just a red flag.

Sanderson said that he could write characters more intelligent than him as he makes them able to react and think about the plot details he's creating. As a writer he has the luxury of knowing the future and so can make his characters more or less able to act wisely in respect to the plot.

@@deisophiagaming8216 That makes sense in that particular instance.

The creator begets the creation. Many of us in the 40 and below, including myself (I’m 41), haven’t really lived all that interesting a life. We have a culture of infantilization. We aren’t given strong archetypes to model ourselves after. Our hormone levels are screwed up. So many factors result in people who can’t really write authentically interesting characters and stories. Even a buddy of mine who has his PhD in writing. He’s got this lame left winger perspective. What do you do with that?

@DeadManWalking I think that is happening too. Part of what I'm saying isn't to blame anyone but to be objective. Many of us in the western world have easy lives compared to all people, historically. Now throw in a lack of self awareness or development, indoctrination that happens in college, growing up with the internet and it's vapidness and its lack of space that cultivates authenticity, lack of deep friendships, and you don't have ingredients for good art, let alone writing.

You know he's a grifter right?

To many are white or not into pushing the victim complex narrative. So they aren't allow on the big stage.

@@AlexanderBC42 nepotism will always be around , the problem is they usually would give them behind the scenes type of jobs not something big like lead writer lol

@@F4c2a Which is made more annoying by the fact that they do this at the expense of the important messages the original writer already wrote into their work XD

They won't hire them unless they fit their LGBTQIASBEODSHE+ Quota.....

I thought that is what happened with Forspoken. Didn't S.E. hire a couple allegedly great authors for the writing? Look how that turned out :)