This is a few days old now but on a Nintendo server I’m part of there were people arguing about the price and this one guy came in saying, quote “you shouldn’t be hyped for it”, at other points him and another guy just complained when others were interested in the games and not talking about prices. I don’t even like Nintendo and hell would freeze before I buy a Switch 2, but it just affirmed how some people make their entire personality complaining. I’ve known this guy and had him blocked for years but I do give blocked posts a chance again sometimes, and I have never seen this guy humble or apologetic or remotely positive about anything. I’ve only ever seen him post to complain, he’s a jerk when you call it out, it really bothers me how some people just don’t change when they’re so obviously unpleasant. Though as for him specifically at this point it’s just funny he tried to stawman me as a fanboy with that classic “leave the multimillion dollar company alone” meme aimed directly at me, when I was one of the first to complain and was calling out his attitude instead. Like how tone-deaf can you be that your attitude is the problem and it’s not that I disagree with your opinion (because I don’t really), it’s just too absurd.
This is probably going to be a bit controversial but, “voting with your wallet” can be seriously overrated sometimes. Is it important and would it be a collective good? Yes but. These two people were trying to act like it was a moral dilemma and just spread negativity to a server with a dozen people. If you’re just going to do that it’s genuinely a “stop having fun” tier response. I DO vote with my wallet on almost everything (I don’t even use Amazon, imagine how annoying that can be when everyone defaults to it and so much is so hard to find here), but I’m not going to lie the biggest impact I have on my own is that I feel morally better for where I put my money in and sometimes just find better products (for what I do, Linux stomps all over Windows, I’m tired of hearing that it isn’t for everyone and seeing people act as though MacOS is much “better”). With that said I’m really not excited to see Lilo and Stitch sweep having basically boycotted Disney for the last decade and a half, there’s a lot about that remake specifically that bothers me and I can smell how much money it’s going to make. Yet here I am and I want to see the Minecraft movie which some people feel similarly about. I’ve been a good boy so let me have a cheat day. Only reason I’m not actually seeing it is my boyfriend is too far to go together and I know the theater is going to be full of kids rather than the zoomers in on the joke group I would actually want to see it with. Garrett seems so me-coded, THE NETHERRR
Also OTOH: “just shut your brain off” is always a lame response, the reason critics respect movies like that so much less is that they take so much less effort and I say this as someone with mega brainrot, it really bothers me that people think critics must be all pretentious and think they have power when they absolutely see how little impact they have and recieve all kinds of nasty complaints from fandom. I used to want to be a critic but then I saw how many people hate it and the anti-intellectuallism and how i would just have had no impact
This is probably going to be a bit controversial but, “voting with your wallet” can be seriously overrated sometimes. Is it important and would it be a collective good? Yes but. These two people were trying to act like it was a moral dilemma and just spread negativity to a server with a dozen people. If you’re just going to do that it’s genuinely a “stop having fun” tier response. I DO vote with my wallet on almost everything (I don’t even use Amazon, imagine how annoying that can be when everyone defaults to it and so much is so hard to find here), but I’m not going to lie the biggest impact I have on my own is that I feel morally better for where I put my money in and sometimes just find better products (for what I do, Linux stomps all over Windows, I’m tired of hearing that it isn’t for everyone and seeing people act as though MacOS is much “better”). With that said I’m really not excited to see Lilo and Stitch sweep having basically boycotted Disney for the last decade and a half, there’s a lot about that remake specifically that bothers me and I can smell how much money it’s going to make. Yet here I am and I want to see the Minecraft movie which some people feel similarly about. I’ve been a good boy so let me have a cheat day. Only reason I’m not actually seeing it is my boyfriend is too far to go together and I know the theater is going to be full of kids rather than the zoomers in on the joke group I would actually want to see it with. Garrett seems so me-coded, THE NETHERRR
Also OTOH: “just shut your brain off” is always a lame response, the reason critics respect movies like that so much less is that they take so much less effort and I say this as someone with mega brainrot, it really bothers me that people think critics must be all pretentious and think they have power when they absolutely see how little impact they have and recieve all kinds of nasty complaints from fandom. I used to want to be a critic but then I saw how many people hate it and the anti-intellectuallism and how i would just have had no impact
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She doesn’t like the IV bandage, or not being able to go in the basement, but otherwise she seems like herself.
