Pandering Olympics

[@gregowen2022]

I feel you. I want to be positive, but IT'S SO HARD! When everything is either mid or just terrible, it's tough to be optimistic. I'll be slobbering all over Shadow of the Erdtree, though!

[@TheMelMan]

I hear you Greg. It's almost like the only way is backwards because there is very little to look FORWARD to. Hope you make a video on that. I'm still trying to find my entry into FromSoft games and I'm open to being convinced.

[@skaidonC]

Taking the "psyop" idea and dialling it up to 11: See Ayaan Hirsi-Ali's essay on subversion in the Free Press. Now whether she's wrong or right the effect is exactly as you say here - this direction Western entertainment has taken has created division where none used to exist.

[@TheMelMan]

Interesting. I will definitely check that out, thanks! Things feel too relentless and coordinated to be a coincidence.

[@skechmous]

I miss the good old days when media was just media - rate it on overall quality not everything else.

[@TheMelMan]

Feels like another parallel universe at this point.

[@crownedshyness9656]

I’m not sure about amplifying division but I’m positive that video games & other media have taken over by activists & suits who don’t care.

[@TheMelMan]

Unintended consequences then.

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

Are you familiar with Hate Inc?

[@TheMelMan]

I wasn't until now. Just googled it. It's linked to my theory?

[@TacoDangerous]

Great video!

[@TheMelMan]

Thanks Dangerous 👊🏾

[@crownedshyness9656]

Polictics aside, what is your opinion on Horizon: forbidden west? Gameplay was fun, but hated how long the story was.

[@TheMelMan]

I just keep hearing not so nice things about it so I still haven't played it. I've heard that complaint before. Long, boring, the one that bothers me most is that they apparently changed her personality. That would annoy me.

[@JonahFinch-li7zn]

I get wanting to be positive but not everything is sometimes it’s better to be serious and expose the bullshit instead of letting it go unchecked because it won’t leave anything to be desired

[@TheMelMan]

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