3mo ago

Small things youre really salty about?

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)

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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
- 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.
  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
- Fantasy in general
  Even the magic in such fantasy stories can be so boring and formulaic. "I can cast 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
- 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.
  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
- I agree on fuckin' everything. Well done, now I feel less alone. o/
- chinese medieval stuff
  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
My biggest personal pet peeve is the overuse of medieval Europe as a setting in fantasy, especially stuff like isekai. Like come on authors, you can do so much better. Instead of butchering medieval European politics and worldbuilding, why don't you trying butchering the lore of other regions of the world? Maybe instead of slaying a dragon, we could have our protagonist do a battle of wits against a djinn (idk if that's their thing, just throwing out ideas)
Or maybe it's my fault for looking too much at such stories.
- It's not your fault in any case. The authors use that well known medieval vibes setting out of ignorance and convenience. Not maliciously perhaps but they clearly don't give much of a shit about historical accuracy or coherent political-economical-social orders that can survive scrutiny.
  The reason it's always European medieval vibes is because everyone in the Anglosphere and adjacent ones are familiar with them. Think about it, among stories that gain popularity with western audiences nobody tries to specify the position of a duke, but anything inspired by west-Asian or Chinese history is followed a 90 second/2-3 page explanation.
- Honestly I wish (at least as an Amerikkkan) that we got more middle eastern mythology. It Honestly seems interesting but I barely know where to start and it's never adapted anywhere. Plus, I basically only know what a Djinn is in passing
Ads.
- uBlock Origin on Firefox Desktop/Mobile + YouTube ReVanced on Mobile + ReThink DNS are life savers, don't know how I can live without them, specially on Mobile where Ads are even more egragious.
  
  +1. I haven't seen a single ad for many years.
I absolutely hate how hardware is made to be impossibly hard to repair nowadays while also incredibly expensive to replace in the Global South. Your month's worth of minimum wage cellphone broke a button? Your options are either paying half the phone price to replace a piece half the size of the phone, or getting a new one.
I absolutely detest Aaron Sorkin's writing. I hate how entertaining it is, I just watched an hour's worth of the newsroom clips. I enjoy it, but I can't stand all the smug, self-satisfied liberal drivel. West wing is even worse in that regard, it's chock full of apologia for the worst active war criminal on the planet, given the veneer that he's just a guy trying his best to save the world he's in the process of murdering.
I dislike video essayists read one (1) book and make a 40-120 minute video about a large topic using mainly that one book. This is also one of the good reasons to look down on the musical Hamilton and the people who like it too much.
I may be skirting the definition of small but DRM and client side anti-cheats. Some of them are basically malware, sifting through the user's files. Fuck knows what's stopping it reading my browser, getting my banking info or email. Besides, a DRM's only as good as how long it takes folks to produce a crack in the first place. Once it's out there, best publishers can do is lock out further content, and truth be told, I've yet to find any such content that's worth the money or the time to play.
I really dislike the Legend of Korra. I adored Book 1 as a media illiterate kid. Then it got worse and I got older. The gang isn't very likable, much of their adventures feel like a waste of time, the gaang's story got butchered and the world building got obliterated. I seem to be in the minority in disliking even Book 3, Zaheer, and his flying technique. (stranding still, floating isn't a natural behaviour of air and isn't encompassed by being the leaf)
- I used to LOVE Legend of Korra as well, and while I don't hate the show, it hasn't aged well in how much of a neoliberal bootlickery series that it is.
Nerds complaining about videogames.
Just kidding, I get that way sometimes as well, lol. I guess it's just something that gets a bit tiring because I see it a lot more often, likely since Lemmy attracts people who are more online/tech inclined, so we tend to have quite a bit of videogame talk on here.
KOTOR 3 was never made and instead we got a single player game in MMO form (SWTOR) that was really badly managed for like 10+ years now and that made mockery of the main characters from KOTOR in how hamfisted its inclusion of them was. Part of what makes it grating is the storytelling in SWTOR is not bad exactly, but it's clearly made worse by being part of an MTX and lootbox infested MMO that was cobbled together with bad management in its development and is riddled with bugs and poor infrastructure design. It's clear that it was made by people who understand single player games best, but they made an MMO instead because reasons. Oh and on top of that they tried to emulate WoW in aesthetics and came out with something more cartoon looking than realistic, which just bothers me personally on visual preference.
A small thing, really, but it's a good example of how capitalistic "all-the-profit"-chasing took something popular and turned it into a shallow cash cow. Similar arc with the Assassin's Creed series, but much more gradual in that case. What started out as more of an adventure game with story as the primary focus eventually became "open world" repetitive gameplay with "let's see if we can get you to spend in the store" as the focus and story in the back seat.
- Damn, yeah. KOTOR got given such a short stick after the first game. And it sucks cause the 2nd is great (although even with the patch it's very obviously unfinished)
- that made mockery of the main characters from KOTOR in how hamfisted its inclusion of them was
  Right, Revan from SWTOR had nothing in common with the one from KOTOR.
  
  Also bugs me about Revan that (spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't played them): ::: spoiler spoiler By SWTOR giving him and the exile a set gender, it kinda trivialized the point of the first two games keeping that as a player choice. :::
- I really enjoy SWTOR but I fully understand why people are mad that it replaced KOTOR 3. And badly managed is right, they blew their load with the Knights of the Fallen Empire stuff and ever since the plot's just been a total mess.
  
  I genuinely enjoyed some of the class stories, but even at their best, they felt held back by the MMO shell for me. I don't begrudge anyone liking it though, preferences are preferences. I've had times I sunk quite a bit of time into because it was close enough to KOTOR vibes, but I also got burned multiple times by bugs and bad management and unwanted changes all around. And yeah, KOTFE was... well, jeez, I could get into a whole thing about that alone lol. I don't think the story of it was bad exactly, but it threw out so much of what was already there, took forever to get it back, and the gameplay was padded to hell with never-ending fights to stretch a little bit of story into something longer.
- Imagine making the most expensive game of the time, using one of the biggest IPs, as sequel to one of the best selling series of games, and deciding to make it an inferior clone of WoW.
  Then they wonder why it couldn't keep their players.
  
  Great example of combo of greed and unrealistic "visions". If they'd just aimed for something solid and sustainable of its own kind, they probably could have done it and gradually built a strong audience on IP fame alone. Instead, they aimed for the next solar system and made it to the corner store. Millions sunk into enormous amounts of voice acting, vain attempt to compete with the most popular MMO, and they couldn't even field a solid multiplayer infrastructure for mass player events. And then they did so bad at launch and the people in charge had so little faith (or money probably) in them to turn it around, they booted tons of people and had nowhere near the resources needed to continue the class story arcs, so they shrunk it down enormously and eventually had to go F2P/MTX to make it work.
  I'm convinced if it wasn't "the only star wars MMO" with the easy money-making that brings, it would have shut down long ago.
I don't like it when people say that 'fast food tastes bad and only [insert chud group] would like it'. I get where this is coming from, but fast food is designed to taste good, and for most people it does. That line of thinking really only causes victim blaming for people with health issues due to how addictive processed food is.
I'm salty that AA games aren't a thing anymore since investors only want the big moneys and indies are all generic pixel art.
City council just voted to buy the police an APC (that they don't have a use for, and if they did it probably wouldn't be good) while at the same time raiding the library reserve funds to keep taxes low
So much frustrating stuff like that going on here lately, and the city subreddit is absolutely unbearable about all of it
Steven Moffats obession with besting the audience in his Sherlock remake
it isn't even a mystery story, those give the audience the clues throughout the plot so the audience can either figure it out along with the characters, or see how they could have pieced it together at the end and have an "Aha!" moment
BBC sherlock just pulls answers out of it's backside that were never given to the audience at all
it's just a not particularly well written character drama where the characters are involved in mystery solving
I hate how everyone buys into the myth of “the government budget should operate how a household budget operates”. It’s not the fact that it’s wrong that bothers me the most, what really bothers me is how it’s nearly impossible to explain why that analogy is bad. I read a whole book about MMT in part so I could explain why that analogy is wrong, and I still basically can’t do it well. When I try people just think I’m full of shit because the analogy is so easy to understand and the real explanation is not intuitive if you don’t have a solid grasp of economics (which is maybe 5% of the population at best, and most of those people, even liberals understand why the government isn’t like a company or a household).
(FWIW I’ve fallen back on the Keynesian “deficit in a recession and surplus in a boom” even though I don’t actually believe it. That seems to be something people can grasp better)
I hate how it's impossible to get into new things these days without a tidal wave of spoilers constantly being blasted in your face. Take Invincible, yeah it came out 15 years ago but can I go five minutes without someone just casually spoiling a major plot development or even the ending?
- Getting on fucking YouTube to look up something completely unrelated and having "X characters death scene" spamming my feed like " Oh, thanks fuckers, I guess I can just not care about this entire fucking season I was looking forward to watching. "
  I too, had Invincible spoiled. lol
  
  It just fucking happened again. I was going down my home page, not even looking at Invincible and just saw a short whose title and thumbnail was a major spoiler for the last arc. This is just unfair at this point.
Michael Bay and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT
The Witcher tv show's perversion and complete abandonment of the books. Like I can understand changing a story because a scene will be hard to capture on film but its like they read an AI summary of the books and then decided it needed a bunch of random new things because it sounded dull.
- Michael Bay ~~and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT~~
  All you needed.
- That's funny because I really like Michael Bay's Transformers.
From TV show, the pacing of it.
Its like someone made in a lab a show that is only just good enough to retain my attention while actually doing and saying very little.
- It was just the other side of the interesting barrier for me. I think I got through 3 or 4 episodes before I realized I was bored.
  Its kind of like Lost. Just enough intrigue to keep most people watching and engaged but I couldn't be fucked after the second season.
The whole "alternative medicine" grift and its various hangers on.
People that think "organic" food must be inherently better in every way.
Edit:
People who use leaf blowers to move dust around outside. What a wonderful waste of energy and effort.
- To add on to your second point, people who go too far into the organic thing often get led into slightly more...outlandish ideas, such as the (god forbid) raw meat diet.
  
  Don't even get me started on biodynamic agriculture.
advertising boards being replaced by advertising screens with video. it makes me apoplectic
Wesley Crusher's character in TNG could have been done so well if they slowly built him into a genius instead of Gene Roddenberry using him as a self insert to stroke his own ego right out of the gate. By the literal 3rd episode of season 1 Wesley's fate was sealed and even though the backed off on him and tried making him a more normal character later in the show but people just hated him too much by then.
Which sucked because he had good character development later on. Like, right as he was getting to be "not insufferable." I remember thinking on my first watch "you know, he's not so bad now" and then they pull him from the show entirely.
the continued manufacture of electric guitars, we have enough, please just stop ;_;

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