Ive been in totk hell but while I was playing, I wondered why I was doing things faster. Or more accurately why I finished the main quest faster.

Its because of the storyline!!!!! Theres a sense of urgency!! Like even more urgency than botw!! In that game you could go HOURS without doing the main story BC YOU WOULDNT SEE ANYONE

I spent a good 100 hours just wandering around not only because I was exploring but I could do resource gathering without touching the towns.

But totk!!! TOTK has people EVERYWHERE. They're walking the roads, they're camping in forests (heck addision was on the side of a mountain the madlad). It's populated and people are united and fighting in a way that botw's people didn't. It's so cool and I'm still scared of fighting anything harder than a boko but I get invested and I bring koroks to their friends (albeit with a sigh), I rush through the main quest because I know Zelda! I'm invested in her!! I want her back.

And damn do they sell the urgency. Everyone is worried, everyone wants to find Zelda and Link, everyone wants to HELP. It's such a perfect difference to botw and its quiet solitude and peaceful apathy.

Replaying ace attorney is funny bc phoenix acts like getting picked on for an afternoon in elementary school was the worst part of his life as if his college girlfriend didn't try to fucking frame him for murder

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

your unemployed friend at 2:13pm on a tuesday

Real.

i used to say “puppypuppy” to call the loma babies when they were really small. for outside playtime, for mealtimes, for snuggles, whatever. now when i say it, it activates some feral part of their brain. this works on all of them btw.

puppy mode: ACTIVATED