Dilettantes gon dilettare. They find a "H4RDCOR3 G4¥ME" that's juuust right for their casual mangina's delicate pH balance - PREPARE 2 DIE MIRITE FELLOW GAMERS - and then, hooked on validation, proceed to torture everyone else to death with it. Their interest was never particularly genuine, being conditional on not getting their FEELZ hurt too badly - and so their frame of reference remains minuscule, and they cannot intuit when it's time to STFU and talk about something else.Blinge wrote:Have we spoken about the cringefest that is any game journo interviewing From/Miyazaki about Armored core?
the guys wanna talk about the mech game and ign nerds constantly try to bring the topic back to Souls.
It's borderline disrespectful.
Lt. CMDR Borisovich Yvegny von BigDong III: "IN TWO SECOND, COMRADE, THIS GO STRAIGHT UP YOU ASS"
Spoiler
"An so, herr we habu new counter-offensibu: 'Giganto Facku-Off PyruBankah Ramming Storaito Uppa You Arseholeru...' "
"Nice try, Miyazaki-san, but that's TOTALLY a Powderkegs reference, stealth BBverse mirite audience lololololool!"
"Uh, weru, I mean... no, not rearry-"
"*LINK TO VAAGIVIDYA*"
They also tend to take on the worst aspects of the "hardcore gamers" they'd previously shunned, once they've dragged their grotesquely over-levelled pincushion arse over the line to Real Boidom. There was this cracking thread on REEEEsetera - long since disappeared, as is their Chekaesque wont - where this dude opined that BB would be more enjoyable if he could sprint-pan without resorting to The Claw. Gets a chorus of "PFFFT GIT GUD BRO, L2SOULZ" - one genius is like "Um, sweetie, you should CAREFULLY OBSERVE UR SURROUNDINGS instead of RUNNING AROUND BLINDLY lololol" - only for bro to reveal that he's the DLC speedrun 100% WR holder, and just wants an easier way to no-lock headshot Patients and Villagers, like he's used to doing in Ninja Gaiden II.
CUE CRICKETS
...I suppose it's a bit like the "Karen" or "Ginger" slurs in the US and UK, respectively. An unfortunate swathe of people aren't actually against casual bigotry in any principled sense; they just pretend to be for social credit goodboi points. Offer them an acceptable outlet, and woof, they'll take your hand off. Pearl-clutching "STOP BEING ABLEIST HOW DARE YOU POST THE PIGEON VS DEAN TAKAHASHI VIDEO" turns into idly vicious "LMAO GIT GUD NOOB" really quick.
tbh though - as long as Miyazaki & co keep making bank, IDGAF. Still feel bad for em, but I'm sure they, too, are hep to what a bunch of classless fucknuts their company's "newfound fanbase" tends towards.