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yeah man bush jrs dog paintings turned me into a bible thumping neonazi with their intense political statement
lmao show me a pebble in varying locations and I'll find you a different political statement or ideology as well. That's such a bizzare blanket statement, can you find me the political message behind fortnite? Art is only as political as the creator intends it to be, or if it has a popular interpretation of being as such, not inherenty. Hbomb's political interpretations of fallout felt shoehorned because few people saw the same intent or interpretation as he did.
I haven't watched that video, or played fallout, but anything that's post apocalyptic is almost definitely going to have some pretty serious political messages, eg, how the apocalypse happened. But! As I said, haven't played the game or seen the video, so I have no idea, so I'm not saying that's a fact, but I would be shocked if there was no message at all behind how the earth became to be destroyed.
Anyway I'm not saying all art has to be political to be art, that seems to be missing the point. I'm saying historically art has massively been used as political expression, and continues to be this way. For every game that's totally mindless there's plenty that have themes and messages and those are inherently political. For example you'd be hard pressed to find any 'gamer' that doesn't like or appreciate Metal Gear Solid. And talk about political! It's nothing but. I'm just saying I would love to poll the people who say they want politics kept out of games, and what their favourite games/franchises are, because I can say with some certainty there will be some big political shit on that list. None if this is fact, I use a lot of hyperbole because hey I'm a passionate person who enjoys that kind of language, so obviously, these are my opinions, as if that needed to be stated. But also, I'd bet money on them if I were a gambling man.
Well, distilling away the hyperbole we agree then that art is not inherently political, but obviously it can be and there's great value and commentary in games. As far as people wanting games to be apolitical, I just find that desire to be both naive and biased. I bet loads of those people who want politics out of games are generally just bitter right wingers who wouldn't care when there was a game that agreed with their viewpoint.
This is an understatement.
He likes the Star Wars prequels!
I can't quite recall Hbombs exact read on the political themes of Fallout, but aren't the OG Fallout games like, intensely political in nature?
The isometric RPGS especially almost feel punk rock in their general attitude and handling of political material.
It's not about whether or not fallout has political themes, it's about which it does have. I really want to go back to it reference my point, but the damn thing is an hour and a half wrong. I don't really remember if it really deserved all that ire, but that's the attitude behind the criticism it was given.
Yeah, I get what you mean- I was tempted to go skim the video to try and figure out which part you meant before replying, but as you said it's a long ass video.
I guess I'l wait for my yearly rewatch.
he was objectively right
I agree but I just know a lot of people wrote him off after the DS2 video
I never got this. One bad opinion doesn't a bad person make.
Hbomb also doesn't like Warhammer 40k, but hey, nobody's perfect.
trans rights ok
People didn't write him off because he liked DS2, they wrote him off because of his horrible arguments in favor of DS2.
Anyone who has got 10 hours to burn should watch Mauler's sentence by sentence deconstruction of HBomb's video.
Yes, one of the main themes of Fallout is it's criticism of American excess and consumerist culture.
Which is why I hate that Bethesda have turned it into "LOOK, VAULT BOY! WACKY!".
while hbomberguy's dark souls 2 video is bad, i don't exactly consider mauler's response great either
rather than just refuting the video, he goes through it sentence by sentence as if it was an academic paper rather than a video essay that's primarily for entertainment and has lots of (attempts at) comedy in it
most of the runtime of the response videos ends up being pretty pointless, which is a shame, because a more concise and focused video that refutes hbomberguy's points without spending most of the time nitpicking the language he uses in each and every sentence he says would be fantastic
The problem with his DS2 video IMO is less that DS2 doesn't deserve defending, but more that a good chunk of his arguments were nonsensical or poorly communicated (such as lifegems) and quite a large part of the video was devoted to "and here's how Dark Souls 1 was actually shit!" rather than telling me how DS2 is good. Bringing down another work does not elevate the work you're actually talking about.
Mauler is a huge douche in his own right tho
There was some mini controversy semi-recently because some smaller youtuber took issue with the fact mauler and chums seems to see their own opinions as objective facts and don't actually seem to properly understand the concept of subjectivity.
They have this weird criteria for how a work can be "objectively good", clueless as to the fact that this criteria is in itself just a list of their own subjective preferences, and will literally write off other reviewers as "merely subjective reviewers" if they disagree on these elements.
I watched the dude try his "sentence by sentence deconstruction" on another video- and he just ended up missing the point entirely because he kept pausing to drone on for 10 minutes about how retarded the original video maker was, but his own criticisms would have ended up being addressed if he had just waited for them to finish talking.
Let's not forget one of his arguments was that people who don't like DS2 are just playing the game wrong, and they should play the game like he does.
Well you can't accuse him of leaving anything out or taking things out of context when he goes through it line by line at the very least. Which I believe is one of the reasons he did it that way.
I remember that in DS2 i accidentally skipped the entire poison dungeon because my SL was past the minimum for the castle.
That shit is horrid game design.
You can accuse him of misinterpreting something however. Purposefully or not.
Going through something line by line a good response does not make. If the response covers everything but does a shit job of doing it. It's not a good response. And honestly? The fact he made it a 10 hour video series is a serious indicator that his response is doing something horribly wrong. If you can't condense you points into something actually digestible, you've fucked up and you're wasting everyone's time.
I started that video, and the second he tried to describe, objectively, what is, and is not fun, I closed it. My rebuttal to that rebuttal is that just because you don't find it fun doesn't mean Hbomb doesn't. There. I made that 'sentence by sentence deconstruction' irrelevant.
there is absolutely merit to what hbomb said about people straight up playing DS2 wrong. "if you try and lock on like in DS1, you will have a bad time because the game is different" isn't exactly too far-fetched of a statement. of course locking on all the time in a game with a ton of group encounters is gonna lead to catastrophe
This isn't the problem in DS2
In DS2 locking on to a SINGLE ENEMY with no others around leads to catastrophe
Because the controls are fucking broken.
i don't know what you mean. i certainly don't remember having any trouble with that? as far as i remember it controls the same in that regard.
I mean, the only real reason to play DS2 is to meme on enemies with the UGS class weapons, so locking on in a waste of time anyway as you wipe out an entire planet in a single swing.
It definitely doesn't. One thing I remember happening a lot is a weird fucking half second long pause for your character to slowly turn around every time you tried to run away from an AOE attack, which got me killed every singe time until I stopped locking on.
can anyone tell me what the best stats for leveling a sorcerer in pve is?
The problem is, Mauler does exactly that.
When you pause a halfway through a sentence, or halfway through a paragraph, or halfway through a shot- and critique the content so far divorced from what proceeds it, then you kinda are taking what is being said out of context.
A good example would be the response to Jack Saint's video that I posted about earlier. At one point Mauler pauses a section of Jack's video in which he's criticising Mauler's inability to articulate his points in a snappy and concise fashion- Mauler rants about how a video being long doesn't necessarily make it bad- and then plays the rest of the section where Jack Saint goes on to state that a video being long doesn't necessarily make it bad, and lists a few content creators he feels produce effective longform content.
So Mauler wasted ages attacking a point that wasn't even being made. That's on top of the time he and his friends spend pretending to/ genuinely misunderstanding minute linguistic details or accents and Jack slagging off. It's no wonder his videos ramble on for hours at a time.
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