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thirty-two
@j.holmes.codes

I think games are weird, inheriting a lot from comics and maybe 80/90s "nerd" culture, where the characters/IP somehow become more important the authors and writers. Like, I just cannot imagine anybody wanting a new "Beatles" album that includes zero members of the original Beatles.

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Martin #509
@martin509.bsky.social

People are used to thinking about fictional canon as if it's some kind of platonic thing that has an objective form and rules, and writing a story in it is just a matter of computing the logical next thing that happens.

Martin #509
@martin509.bsky.social

See also: whenever people justify stupid shit happening in a plot with circular logic that boils down to "well it HAD TO happen this way because of [reason given in-universe for it happening]" as if that wasn't also something a writer, uh, wrote

thirty-two
@j.holmes.codes

I've definitely met comic book fans who will buy every issue of a franchise—because they love the "character"—but complain about its ups-and-downs the in storytelling, but cannot for the life of them ever name a single writer that worked on the runs that they enjoy or hate.

thirty-two
@j.holmes.codes

but then again, maybe i'm just old, because the Beatles thing, thats the main selling point for every AI generated music platform that exists right now: Have you ever wanted to hear the Beatles perform a opera, but where Ringo throws down some mad-freestyle-ryhmes in the middle about Mr Beast?!