So like, obviously it’s fair to still be mad about the Armenian genocide or fall of the USSR. So I’m more looking for little things most people ignore but You’re hung up on for one reason for another.
I.e, my salt would be
● EA buying the developer of dungeon keeper and turning it into a crappy mobile game (I know someone made their own version like the old ones but still)
●In fact actually just the fact that big studios bought up a bunch of immersive Sim IPs and then killed them, either remaking them worse of draining them of all their original charm (Deus Ex, thief, prey*
I know prey got a good remake but that was 90% unrelated to the original prey and Bethesda got that by specifically killing the company making prey despite the fact that they had a functioning product)
●Subscription services being everywhere
● JJ Abrams in general and his stupid mystery box specifically
●Disney in general, and that their live action remakes are such a hit despite being so garbage
● The really annoyingly pervasive idea that a writer is in conflict with their reader and needs to beat them/not care about them (i.e, Emil Pagliarulo’s paper airplanes, Steven Moffats obession with besting the audience in his Sherlock remake, Alex Aster’s obsession with trying to make sure people won’t predict her twists in her Lightlark series, etc.)
●The fact that I’m always told to “just use uber” when I say I don’t like having to drive when it’s both stupid expensive and the company is the bane of my existence
●Philanthropy
(Yes part of this post was just me venting, sorry)
Google/Microsoft everywhere. Anything you do, people expect you to use Google’s/Microsoft’s suite, and they look you weird when you don’t.
Spam e-mails
Job search, you have to tell even you dog’s birthday to apply to any job, 0 privacy, they never tell you why you didn’t got rehired, they most times don’t even tell you that you didn’t get chosen, you just wait infinitely. But it is even worse when there are 10 rounds of interviews, activities and whatnot.
Most games run on Linux, the problem is mostly anti-cheats, most anti-cheats support Linux but a lot of games just choose not to turn it on for Linux, so we get blocked from playing those online games.
Constant remakes/remasters of games, sequels and “live action” remakes of cartoons, those corps have billions in their pockets, but choose not to take the minimal risk of creating something new.
Paywalled articles, there’s even the ironic paper about the inaccessibility of scientific research, and that paper was paywalled. But I have found the open source project Marreta (sledgehammer in Portuguese) that works really well to read paywalled news (and remove ads).
On Dungeon Keeper, that game was so cool, I’m sad that the same happened with Command and Conquer, Red Alert 1 (and specially 2) where awesome games, but now are dead, and the last game launched was a shitty mobile game.
Fantasy in general (RPG, Games, Shows), it is so satured with over the top stuff, that it just stopped being fantastical. You don’t find a normal King diminishing the amount of silver in silver coins to fund his war, only a beautiful and rich warrior-King. You don’t find a normal small medieval castle, just a 18th century chatteu. Every has magic, so it just loses the charm. Etc etc etc. And the worst thing for me, is how Eurocentric this genre is, and it’s not even the enterity of Europe, it is just Anglo-French centric. You never get arabic medieval stuff, chinese medieval stuff, or african medieval stories.
Cool artwork, I don’t know, I just hate artworks that try to make the character look super cool, it really irks me.
When you buy something at the bakery, and the “filling” is so fucking small, you mostly just eat bread dough
to add to this, it’s the same for nerds like me who are into weapon based martial arts
i found a hema (historical european martial arts) club with mild issue, but finding a hama (historical African martial arts) club is basically impossible
You actually get shitton of Chinese medieval stuff in the internet, but it’s mostly wuxia and xianxia with various levels of magic, from heavily romanticised but still human, through murim stories (funnily enough large part of those are Korean) that can range from low to high fantasy to xianxias where towards the end godlike beings are throwing galaxies at eachother.
Yeah you are right, but recently I was looking for BRP Medieval Chineae settings, but all I would find was Japenese Japanese and more Japanese, like there’s only two medieval type of settings, Anglo-French and Japanese. I got stressed out with that lol
Go to any manga or novel agregator and there will be tons of Chinese stuff, but what i mentioned in previous posts. I like those though so for me it’s the question of finding good one to read.
Problem with especially Chinese novels and manhuas is that the translators aren’t often lasting long and then the translations are picked up by some shitheads with google translator that do absolutely no proofreading and seems to know neither Chinese nor English so you can imagine how that reads.
Even the magic in such fantasy stories can be so boring and formulaic. “I can carry fireball and healing spells” yeah what about a magician that can control bread mold and psychedelics? It’s fucking magic. Show me the wierd shit.
This is how I kinda felt about Lightlark. The main character is literally from a race(?) Of people who are forced to subsist on human hearts. But she’s special and simultaneously normal so she doesn’t have to. Like if you’re going to write that don’t be a coward and chicken out
And then they love to portray the king and/or queen as magnanimous individuals who are doing their best with a tough situation against barbarian hordes and demons or some such enemy that is so horrific, it makes them look better by comparison. Need fantasy where the royals are trash and the people collectively organize a revolt against them, but that would probably be uncomfy for the capitalists and more uncomfy for places like Britain, where the monarchy still exists.
Honestly I wanna write a fantasy setting where it follows the events of the French revolution, but the French revolution and pre-capitalist history and histiography hurts my brain too much for me to simply write it
Reminds me, I always prefer to write made up settings because I don’t want to do months of research trying to get historical accuracy to write about a real time period. And then on top of that, do it only to have somebody be like “actually, in this period, they hadn’t invented the doohickey yet, they only would have been able to use a doodad.”
I agree on fuckin’ everything. Well done, now I feel less alone. o/