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)

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    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.