Why Modern Entertainment is Garbage

[@thedoruk6324]

Daily kratos podcast addiction fullfilled

[@UndeadBrett]

I'll be honest. As someone who had been tuning in to Darkmatter for years before he ever showed his face, I never would have imagined he would look like the spitting image of the God of War, which is somehow fitting for a life long atheist.

[@Arlondev]

@@UndeadBrett He looks like Kratos if he was a good guy. Like Kratos if he was Athenian instead of Spartan

[@TabathaTMartin]

Imagine Darkmatter battling God from the bible, GOW style

[@Yehan-s3c]

Oh u one uped me u SOB lol😂

[@leahcimnaerc9543]

New God of War game set in our Era. Where Kratos fights the modern Era of Gods. Like Ken Ham, Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump....etc. He does cool executions in game.

[@RealPumpkinJay]

That’s why, whenever someone brings up contrasting pictures that suggest men aren’t real men anymore, I share an old photo of John Wayne in short shorts and loafers, carrying a purse.

[@TabathaTMartin]

Shut's em up real quick i bet

[@fledermauseimglockenturm7655]

Without getting all Joe Jackson. I don't think that's how you should be assessing who the real men are.

[@thefisherking78]

​@@fledermauseimglockenturm7655I think that was kind of the point. I don't have to believe that it's a good gauge of how "manly" someone is to understand that such a pic can rock an oversimplified worldview.

[@MaphistosChosen]

Wait till they find out who high heels were made for...

[@petehjr1]

@@MaphistosChosen a bunch of fruity, wig wearing, makeup poofing, poison letter righting founding fathers.

[@athy8763]

"if you focus on only the bad movies and video games of the old days, youll actually have an entire library of garbage, too big to experience in any lifetime" this is literally how avgn is still kicking and its the coolest thing to me

[@rockhound3.14]

I fuckin LOVE AVGN ❤❤❤❤

[@meh2510]

He's gonna take you back to the past, to play the -----y games that sucked --s... Hello, fellow nerd fan.

[@deadlyninja112]

🤓 squad

[@alb9022]

@@meh2510 why even type like that just to self censor lmao

[@TheEyeTeaMan]

@@alb9022 because youtube comments will delete the comment otherwise

[@aprotosis]

If buying is not owning, then copying is not stealing.

[@frogglen6350]

OK. Go into a store and try taking food without paying for it. See what happens

[@aprotosis]

@@frogglen6350 What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

[@NearLife4life]

@@aprotosis Regarding frog, you know boot lickers gonna "lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick"

[@noahbio]

@@frogglen6350ok but I’ve literally walked out of a grocery store and drove home and then realized I forgot to pay for my basket so what’s your point?

[@christopherscholl639]

@@frogglen6350 I think you are ignoring the implied context of OP, or maybe you don't understand that there is a specific context, i.e. digital media, that does not apply to the sale of foodstuffs. Your retort is a different context, and does not actually address the logic of OP's statement

[@afterhourscinema782]

*_Remember..._* ...if it's not PHYSICALLY in your hands, you DON'T own it. *PERIOD.*

[@justinallen2408]

Even then they have ways to make disc's not work too it's as simple as forcing an update that breaks the game on disc's and they don't have to do anything

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

More and more things cease to be truly yours even if you physically hold them in your hands. It started in the 1990s with computers (forced updates), then moved to software in general (you can install it once, you can't pass it on like a book), video tapes and discs (can't show them to anyone), cars, even houses (restrictions on how you are allowed to modify them)...

[@heatseekerx51]

Reminds me of an Ann Barnhardt quote: "If you can't stand in front of it with a gun, it's not yours."

[@BlazingOwnager]

@@justinallen2408 People can generally crack that though

[@hefdef9961]

what if its a file on my computer with no drm on it?

[@zach464]

Old people piss and moan about young people and vice versa. Always have. Always will. We refuse to break the cycle.

[@VoidHeadtheBroken]

The damn summer's too hot and humid and winter is too cold and dry. Does all of human existence reduce to complaining about the thing right here and right now? Yes, and I'm mad about hat.

[@DrakeTimbershaft]

A friend once asked me, “Why do New Yorkers complain about the weather so much?” I replied, “We treat nature like some public utility. We write angry letters to the Mayor’s office with the hope that he’ll magically turn every day into the merry month of May.” My people. 😂

[@BlazingOwnager]

Nah. People love to just always slap this label on things as it's a neat little pact explanation for nostalgia, but it's really not that. We have such a wide access to content from so many eras now, and the act is, the youngest generation is watching tons of 80s movies because of the draught of new stuff right now. If I was ranking media eras I'd probably go something like.. 60s: C, 70s, B+, 80s, A+, 90s C+, 2000s S, 2010s A, 2020s F. Also people have been nostalgic for the 2000s / early 2010s since since like 2015. This is not the normal cycle.

[@kimsland999]

In my day... oh point in reference.

[@brainspin7518]

Complaining is humanity's favorite pastime . Didn't you know? It's so much easier than fixing things (solving problems)... appreciating what we have &/or what's around us (i.e., living in the moment).

[@shadowdante1102]

I used to feel like modern media was trash, till i watched a movie from the 70s that wasnt a timeless classic. That woke me right up.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

the School of MST3K

[@space.youtube]

You realise you're making the same mistake only in reverse, right?

[@chomcat9919]

@@space.youtube they're pointing out how media has always had trash, media back then wasn't any better than media today.

[@BlazingOwnager]

There's literally metric tons of awesome 70s movies that aren't timeless classics. There's also tons of terrible films made in the 70s.

[@tortiecatman]

Was it Zardoz?

[@faidou9954]

We didn't start the fire, it was always burning as the world kept turning.

[@21forevergone]

I don't wanna set the world on fire

[@tysonn4736]

No we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it.

[@aceautonewportky]

Billy Joel

[@sebastianrivera9537]

@@tysonn4736 And we must ask, what started the fire? Where were its embers?

[@GwyndolinOwO]

You can't fight the Homestuck! Though it's weird and random, it's the greatest fandom You can't fight the Homestuck! True, it's quite outrageous, but it's so contagious!

[@CedarCream]

As a connoisseur of trash and bad movies, every decade is filled to the brim with them. They far outnumber the good ones.

[@BlazingOwnager]

What bums me out is I had a gem of a recommendation for you, but it's name and service are both shadowblocked on youtube. Arrrgh.

[@FireyDeath4]

@@BlazingOwnager Write an acronymous sentence about it

[@aliahope-wilson4449]

It's not even that nobody will risk paying artists to make their original ideas. Most of us don't even have time or energy to put our ideas to paper. People joke about how art majors end up working at Starbucks or McDonald's or whatever, but then complain that there's no good art being made anymore? Where do they think those great artistic minds are at? Minimum wage jobs, long hours and no time or energy at the end of the day. Then if you do get a job in the field, like I did, it's usually working with other people's stuff, not your own.

[@GenerationX1984]

They're demotivated by not getting paid. That's where the artists are.

[@aliahope-wilson4449]

@GenerationX1984 Maybe for some, but that's not true for my community. I'm not demotivated, nor are any of the artists I know. The ones who have the resources do amazing work, although they can't get much money for it, they do it because they love it. I love supporting them, even if I don't have time for it myself, because it's good to have art in the community. But you have to get the resources first, which means money.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

​@@GenerationX1984Artists struggling to make ends meet is nothing new either. Thousands of writers, painters, sculptors died in poverty over the centuries.

[@theboombody]

Too much competition and too few open spots.

[@aliahope-wilson4449]

@@olmostgudinaf8100 Excuse us for getting other jobs so we don't die in poverty lol

[@Trainsnek]

Not sure who you were before on youtube, after the "Why I left anti-woke" vid I got onto watching your channel, happy to see people using proper arguements instead of "cultural degeneracy" or whatever on the right. Keep it up!

[@andrasbiro3007]

Straw man arguments. That's not proper at all.

[@Linapolitics]

I really hope he becomes an actual card carrying communist one of these days

[@poopscoop9016]

He went on an og reddit atheist -> flirting with “anti-sjw” -> calling out “anti-woke” bullshit arc

[@megamillion5852]

​@@andrasbiro3007Is the "straw man" in the room with us right now?

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Perhaps. More people are catching on. While he wasn't explicit, this video is a denunciation of capitalism.

[@t.d.mcintosh]

Can't wait to see people leaving comments that misunderstand the video before it's out long enough to watch the whole thing.

[@steelcry6665]

This shit makes me lose my damn mind.

[@markzuckergecko621]

Aren't you kinda doing the same thing by commenting about comments you haven't even read yet?

[@CosmicDorns]

No that comment is a prediction.

[@CoderOfBugs]

​@@markzuckergecko621 Sort of, but, to be fair, I think Dark Matters last video suffered from this fate. So, the original comment is likely just stepping ahead of potentiality as an ironic sarcasm. Which, does do the same thing, which does kind of actually defeat the point of the comment, self refuting the critique by being contradictory. But, hey, it was a joke, so it's probably okay, I guess. Depends if their goal is catharsis or an effort to prevent the behavior. I would guess their effort is catharsis, so it doesn't matter that it's contradictory. But this has been an overly analytical, and likely flawed, comment, so I'll stop now.

[@eightmycereal]

@@CoderOfBugsLol i like that you went in depth about something that you’ll probably forget you even thought about. I’m like that

[@x10018ro]

Capitalism has ruined most media. Companies are less and less likely to take risks, which annihilates creativity, trying to cater, rather than expressing a vision.

[@kiriebalaka]

That and ai and its all about a quick buck. Especially upcharging movies and games way more than needed

[@fellowgoyimwhite7630]

Capitalist caters tô whatever sells the most,the only moral value in it is money

[@bluecoin3771]

Capitalism is not just big corpos like Apple and Google, it's commerce in general. It's the Ma and Pa store, it's the flea market swap meet. Trade is not the issue, it's the megacorpos.

[@markzuckergecko621]

Couldn't possibly have anything to do with mobs of online losers spending all day searching for racism. No chance that would cause filmmakers to shy away from taking risks with controversial movies, and just do sequels, reboots, and shared universes instead.

[@frogglen6350]

Most media....was never good in general. And capitalism has nothing to do with risks. Go play a Yakuza game or Metaphor Refantazio normie

[@williamrusso3130]

One aspect that wasn't touched upon was how the opinion of art can change with the times. 20 years from now, something panned from this year could become beloved, and vice versa. So many "great" pieces of art that have stood the test of time were hated and/or misunderstood upon their release.

[@adams13245]

Like John Carpenter's The Thing. I've heard it was critically panned on release, but today is viewed as a classic.

[@williamrusso3130]

@adams13245 It was also a remake. There were probably people bitching how it didn't even compare to the original.

[@interloc1290]

Very True, Another interesting phenomenon is how much does artist intent actually factor in? I think we’ve all seen a movie that was self serious but so terribly executed it became an accidental comedy gem or a light hearted joke that actually reveals a deep insight. Full disclosure I literally paused the video to go watch the trailer for “Vampire Hookers” And it may have inspired my comment.

[@RictusHolloweye]

The works of Shakespeare were considered bawdy and targeted at the common rabble. Now they're considered high theatre.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

'the thing' was awesome at the time, and nobody even realized it was a remake. I was there.

[@bluecoin3771]

A lot of companies chased veteran talent away. They don't want artists, they want yes men that will print money, and then they act shocked when we spit out their generic slop. If I have 1 message to modern media, be it Disney, Dailywire, or anything in between, it is to know this; don't ever treat your customers like morons. People can tell the difference between a work made with heart, and a spiteful trashfire better than you can think.

[@Ten80pete]

I think what makes it so profitable is that there are too many who are only too happy to swallow it all and ask for seconds. Think about this: whenever some issue starts trending and the side that opposes whatever it is (let's just call it "X" for absolutely no reason whatsoever 😉) will first brush it off, justifying thusly: "Eh, this is just a vocal minority screaming over the silent majority." I think that's what production companies tell investors. Maybe even that's too optimistic, and they don't have to tell them anything because the investor doesn't likely care if the art they paid for is pig shit smeared on a fence, as long as the number on the check that comes back to them is bigger than the one they wrote.

[@kappasphere]

I think the daily wire is pretty successful in assuming all of their customers are morons, most likely because in this case they are correct

[@Little_Lepus]

I meaaaaaaan, I wouldn't say we as customers aren't morons, just that we're novelty seeking. If things get to same-y we notice. Honestly, I would rather have more remarkably bad movies like Trolls 2 (1990), over something boring like Minions. Though, Scarlet Overkill is a very fun character and I wish she had been the main focus.

[@abstract5249]

Apparently, we can't tell the difference. That's why the most successful films and video games continue to be derived from franchises. We're paying for them. Original work exists, of course, but most of us don't have the time or energy to find them.

[@spankyjeffro5320]

Okay, fine. I have a message from developers: "Stop demanding our work made with heart be free. Stop playing developer and demanding we make 'your' game 'your' way. If you want quality and heart you have to pay for it. Games cost money to develop. Online games cost money to keep them online. Continued developments, updates and patches all cost money, too. Stop being filthy cheapskates, stop trying to play developer and pay the real developers for their real efforts.".

[@regalx1]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1229">20:29</a> "What's sad to me is that there will be Millions of Great Stories out there that will remain Undiscovered or Untold simply because none of the people with power will take a chance on them" I clicked on this video for fun and came out with depression.

[@meh2510]

On a positive note, thanks to the internet and places like youtube or self-publishing sites, creators are not as restricted to getting their stuff seen as they were a couple of decades ago.

[@XPISigmaArt]

I deal with this all the time when people say "games aren't good anymore." Mean while they most often are just playing COD and League, and don't touch any of the modern gems.

[@DrakeTimbershaft]

I often sing praise for original titles like “Stellar Blade” and “Black Myth: Wukong.” Yes, while the latter is based on the folktales of “Journey to the West,” the story and graphics have a life of their own. If there are other permutations of the Wukong character, I doubt Black Myth: Wukong shares any similarities with them.

[@frishter]

Because modern games are designed for the "modern audience" ie 1% of the population. They'd rather continue playing their old games.

[@XPISigmaArt]

@@frishter Modern games are made for most gamers, that's why it's so formulaic. What modern audience is only 1 percent of the population? Around 40 percent of the world are gamers, and they are all in the modern age.

[@soboring1826]

Indie scene is awesome though. UFO 50 shoutout. Didn't get enough love this year. Yet it's a fantastic piece of art.

[@Llortnerof]

@@frishter Nonsense. It's just that they only remember the old gems and have forgotten the old garbage.

[@charlesmclain6558]

According to this country's oligarchs. We will own nothing and like it.

[@JoaoCosta-ly1sw]

Private ownership is a capitalist value. The viewers of this channel don’t like that.

[@rainbowsorceress2082]

​@JoaoCosta-ly1sw no, owning the things you buy is nice

[@markzuckergecko621]

@@rainbowsorceress2082 just as long as nobody buys more things than you, that's bad.

[@themachine5647]

Same with our health here!

[@richardvennel9679]

Wife just ordered a set of custom Guillotine earrings from an artist online. I’ve been mulling over a meme: a Caution yellow sign with a stylized Guillotine on it, and the phrase “Oligarchs, Mind Your Heads”. I am a peaceful person by nature. But don’t mistake peaceful for harmless. We all have a right to self-determination, self-actualization, and very importantly, self-defense.

[@TheCrimsonIdol987]

Speaking as a musician, and a creative type, THANK YOU!!!! Finally, somebody has the balls to say people contribute to the very problems they complain about.

[@treeforged9097]

Musicians are the biggest contributors to this problem. Every rock band uses the same gear, a celestion speaker with an sm 57 and there all using fishman fluence pickups. On the EDM side there using just a few synths, like serum or massive. In the rap world it is basically just a few themes like, being the best at everything, making lots of money and being with a lot of women. Same song, same theme every time. If you think there is music being made that is not driven by selling gear, making money or just using the same stuff over and over that has worked in the past then you gotta name names.

[@jasonlamar6347]

Nashville puts out great sounding, well-produced music. How much of it is really good? What will actually be remembered? I don't think a ton of people put much thought into it, at least until we get older and I find myself doing it now. The types of music now don't bother me. Not everything has to appeal to me. It's how generic so much of it sounds. It could be just me but every time a pitch corrected vocal comes on the radio I cannot stand it. Lol...

[@alyssaakabob]

This and the reflection on how he stopped being anti-woke is why I just subscribed.

[@andrewwallwork9257]

Just bought my copy of Vampire Hookers for DVD, thank's for the recommendation, fam!!!

[@KingK-v9x]

Demon knight & the bordello of blood my guy.... I miss when they put tiddies in horror movies 😪

[@Elkator955]

The good thing about culture warriors is that it is a good way to determine whether a piece of media is quality or not with a basic rule of thumb. If it is a masterpiece (even if it is LGBT as fuck): They will not talk about it at all. If it is great: They will say it is woke before it comes out, and then some say it is actually anti-woke after. If it is good: They will say it is woke before it comes out, then shut up or edit it a lot to make it look worse. If it is alright: They will say it is woke, and pick one or two scenes to nitpick over and over-edit it to make it look even worse. If it is bad: They will say it is bad because it is woke, then keep mentioning stuff that has nothing to do with wokeness. Exceptions strengthen the rule.

[@BoinkadelicJones]

I was wondering why not right wingers were talking about Baldur's Gate 3. But your comment tracks for me

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

Yup, didn't hear anyone about Furiosa having too many strong women.

[@ambrosebrooke-y8b]

C77, bg3, hogwarts legacy, there so many examples but people just wanna find the biggest rage bait crowd they can find and act the same if not worse than the people they are criticizing.

[@skyaero8773]

This is why games like Concord are a goldmine for culture warriors. Very few problems it had were anything to do with Wokeness or DEI and the one thing that could be argued did, the character designs, had become so focused on that some claim that is the sole reason it failed. But since Concord is just a bad game no one was willing to bat for it even a little bit (and I don't blame them really). I doubt many people saying it failed because of woke were culture warriors themselves. They were likely just regurgitating what they heard because it was fun to dunk on the shitty game at the time. And that opens them up to the culture war narrative and reinforces the beliefs of those already inside it.

[@ambrosebrooke-y8b]

@@skyaero8773 THIS. I wish people would recognise that the anti woke community is genuinely the worst thing to happen recently. criticizing them alone leads to them lying out their ass about you being "woke". a cyberpunk 2077 update happened earlier today and ALL a dev had to say within any context was something like "I come from a team of mixed cultural backgrounds" and they SCREAMED woke in the live chat.

[@MrZauberelefant]

So, according to culture warriors, the problem is not the people who hold all assets and strings and take the decisions based on their material interests, but some 20-year old with blue hair?

[@The6thMessenger]

See the problem with DM2525's position is that, dude analyzes this as if it's a matter of random shit. But the way it should be analyzed is by Cause and effect. Such as when you had companies and IPs doing well before -- and took a fucking nose-dive, what did they do for that to happen? Simple, they became woke, they produced woke-shit. Cause and Effect, Rules and Consequences -- sheer fucking karma. But no, DM2525 will obviously not acknowledge that, but instead espouse a different narrative so he'd appear to have a point.

[@RenSako]

@@The6thMessengerNo, they put money first. Writing went to shit, "woke" or not. The left or the "woke" bogeyman or whatever you're scared of hates bad writing and lack of creativity too. More than you guys, because we actually care about the quality of the art and not the presence of non-white non-male non-straight people. When your complaint amounts to "there's black people/women/whatever in my movie/game/whatever" you don't actually care about the art. When none of you can agree on what is woke or not because it all matters on whether the media is good and successful or not, and your opinion on the matter will change depending on what is useful, you don't actually have a position. You're just offended. Suck it up, buttercup. People that aren't like you exist. Sorry.

[@ecchidragon8038]

@@The6thMessenger It's good to know that you didn't take in the message - Tells a lot about you.

[@daltonadams4672]

​@The6thMessenger Now that you've vented your peake, now provide evidence to justify your ire.

At least RedLetterMedia is here to remind us of all the shitty movies from decades ago.

[@acheyawachtel9409]

at least a lot of those old shlock movies are made with a real vision instead of being based off of what profit it may make back

[@frogglen6350]

​@@acheyawachtel9409 So just like many movies today 😅 A piece kf garbage is still garbage regardless of the intention

[@Solid--Snake]

​@@acheyawachtel9409 you really think people didn't do stuff for profit in the past? you can't be this naive

[@alicewright4322]

there are so many movies made, when you also add in foreign movies and low budget movies. There will always be many terrible movies, and some hidden gems. for me the issue is how many good and unique movies there are and how easy it is to find them. and what percent of high budget movies are cynical products vs art. it seems harder to find the low budget gems, and it seems like a higher percent of high budget things are products not even attempts at art.

[@treeforged9097]

Notice how they don't review movies from the present anymore because it is legitimately all garbage. Theirs no survivorship bias going on just actual garbage being exclusively produced.

[@timothylewis2527]

My wife and I spend a lot of time going back to watch movies and TV shows from the 80s and 90s. Often we find that a lot of what we enjoyed back then just doesn't hold up. I guess everything really is better when you're younger.

[@Daneelro]

Or you just remember the good bits. Especially in 1980s TV series, quality was very inconsistent. For me an extreme example is Here's Boomer, a show about a stray dog who gets attached to and helps a different person each episode. I first saw it in the mid-1980s when I was a kid across the Iron Curtain, where state TV imported 7 episodes, all of which were great. A few years later, when I was in West Germany, I caught a TV re-run and found out that there were actually 24 episodes. But my excitement about the never-before-seen episodes quickly waned as those were uninspired garbage. (BTW turns out the communist state TV wasn't just short on cash or out to censor even a kids' show, but cared for quality.)

[@hamobu]

Yeah like the original Star wars for example. The dialogue in that movie is just awful. Characters are two dimensional. It's also a bit cheesy.

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

​@@hamobu Star Wars was always bad. People just think the old ones were great because they were media-illiterate children when they first watched them.

[@arnaudgerard1971]

@@Itcouldbebunnies I'm sorry, numbers don't lie. They get often misinterpreted, but they don't lie.

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

@@arnaudgerard1971 ??? I'm talking about quality, not how much money it made.

[@aderynalbarelli5899]

That last line had me like "wait, this isn't just about media, is it?"

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

Dude, you've become my favorite KZbin Channel. As usual, brilliant. Zero disagreement here. Just a small addendum. I strongly encourage anybody reading this who has an intellectual bent to read Walter Benjamin's masterful essay called "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Kratos, you are the GOAT!

[@BloodyInitiate]

Thanks for this reminder. I keep forgetting all this, even as I try to remember it, tell it to others, and imagine I’m above the typical mistakes. I keep forgetting.

[@EnterpriseC14]

Did we forget the 1980s, were it was literally sitcom garbage, and literally advertisements in the forms of Cartoon Shows? Like Married with Children and the Simpsons were GENRE defining in the 90s. ITS A CYCLE.

[@Daneelro]

Strangely, most of the antiwoke-scolds crying about how much better the 1980s were are too young to have lived through it. I did, and I did not forget the garbage.

[@kylegonewild]

No, we didn't forget. It's just gotten worse. You're acting like Sitcom slop went away

[@Daneelro]

@@kylegonewild You're deliberately misconstruing the OG comment. 1980s sitcom slop was much worse than in the 1990s.

[@Pudddle]

@@Daneelro just fyi, "wokescold" isn't the word you want, that's a completely different thing (agressively purity-testing progressives)

[@DrakeTimbershaft]

Every time I hear some kid rhapsodize about the golden age of the 1980s, I want to show them a succession of photos of homeless people and AIDS patients and say, “It all started in the 1980s. Don’t get me started with the yuppies.” Oh, and what did kids in the 1980s do? Get nostalgic about the 1960s. Riots, assassinations, police brutality… but hey! Woodstock! Peace n’ love maaan!

[@PatrickWDunne]

If I didn't know better, I'd just say Darkmatter's recent videos are aimed at debunking The Critical Drinker and his audience.

[@josephwest3287]

I genuinely don’t understand folks who say there’s no good art coming out. I have so much media both new and old I’m interested in exploring that I know I’ll never get to experience it all.

[@aarter2913]

I feel this all the time it can get overwhelming

[@Pudddle]

they are lazy and un-curious so they don't try to find good art, just accept the big-budget slop and enjoy the dopamine hit of jumping on a hate-train

[@morganqorishchi8181]

They typically exist in a bubble in which they only engage with whatever art their friends are into. So if their friends are only watching Marvel movies and complaining about Star Wars and Disney, to them, that's all the art that's out there at the moment. While the rest of us have big to-play lists of games and to-listen lists of albums and to-read lists of books and to-watch lists of movies and show, they're over there going, "Why is nothing good coming out?"

[@BlazingOwnager]

There is.. but it's the exception and it's coming from studios outside of "the system." The games industry is crashing and burning - unless you look at AA and A titles. The film industry is creatively bankrupt - unless you look at A24 and other "AA" studios of the film world. This is repeating over and over. It's the large high budget stuff that's failing, and a lot of that has to do with politics even if people don't want to hear it. Smaller studios aren't subjected to it.

[@roycampbell586]

​@@BlazingOwnagerWhen have the big studios ever been the people making the goot stuff? ET wasn't an indie game. Though I don't think that actually matters anyways. There are good games to be played, far more than you actually can play, so why waste time caring about who made them?

[@RIPTiggy]

It feels like the longer humankind exists, the more properties come into existence and are saved to be seen by future generations. With the creation of art becoming less risky and easier to pump out, I think this will only get worse over time. And as technology becomes more advanced and easier to access, it becomes more apparent when there is an overlap of lyrics, music, and movie dialogue/plots. The older I get, the more obvious it becomes to me that there is a limit to the core stories that can be told, as I see them recreated over and over and over again. The palatability of the art viewed depends entirely on the POV of the audience, which can change (or remain static) depending on the individual. This seems to make it harder for truly unique art to be seen and appreciated, when there is so much content to sift through. This is why I love classical music, as there are usually no lyrics or voices to distract from/cover up the bare instrumental skeleton. I just feel that the further I go back in time, the more content I find that is the source of a current piece of content I have already watched.

[@ryanreedgibson]

One of the few comments I agree with.

[@Ozzy3000]

I got Vampire Hookers on VHS... you lost the bet, Kratos.

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

Super Horni Brothers

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

Hornio Brothers

[@brainspin7518]

There's no accounting for taste (old or young)....He'll probably cover that topic in the next post.

[@aarter2913]

quite fond of indie games, amazingly a lot of the stuff i like most doesnt need a budget that can only be repayed by top grossing profits to feel like a complete experience. and it's cool being able to recognize the vision small groups or even individuals have in their works. Ive started getting that kind of mindset with indie animations as well, and far from just the popular series making headlines. Something definitely changed in me when i stopped having that gut reaction of "this should be a series/franchise" when finding a cool short film that fully covered it's own scope, and instead moving on to see other entirely seperate interesting stuff with their own quirks. Im not exactly begging for big established shows and films to be made more frequently to satsify us consumers

[@BlazingOwnager]

You're not wrong. Indie games and AA independent studios are at the peak of their game, while AAA and huge budget films are crashing through the floor.

[@curiositypiqued6573]

The money. People who are rich in money but poor in brains/empathy will continue to gatekeep and decide what we can & cannot see/like,etc

[@carlfratus7481]

So... people who are rich in money?

[@frogglen6350]

Who is deciding what you can't like or dislike?

[@JoaoCosta-ly1sw]

Really? I can access all manner of information from different sources with a few clicks. Nobody is gatekeeping anything from me.

[@Alex-02]

@JoaoCosta-ly1sw Yes, but I believe the problem is more like information being forced upon you rather than it being withheld from you.

[@JoaoCosta-ly1sw]

@@Alex-02 You can trick the algorithm.

[@amplethought]

Aaaaaaand this is why I am subscribed. Saying something different generally means saying something new. Or at the very least, not shouting into a cave and loving the echos’ timbre.

[@GodofToast]

everyone will always call everything new worse than what came before until the end of time

[@frogglen6350]

in Filthy Frank's born in the wrong generation vid, he pointed this out. People who grew up in the 60s complained about media in the 80s and 90s. Really, the stone age had the best music. Nothing top@ cavemen banging on sticks and rocks.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Literally not the case. People quite loved media in the 2010s. People do not in the 2020s. Look at the box office. Those returns don't lie. This is just a platitude that tries to brush off a very real plummet in quality.

[@BababooeyGooey]

@@frogglen6350 My favorite music is the quantum fluctuations that gave birth to the Big Bang, SO I AUTOMATICALLY WIN!

[@Alarios711]

@@BlazingOwnager "The returns don't lie". They don't lie about people having less disposable income and less leisure time yes.

[@TabathaTMartin]

I've found that over the years that those that equate new art to be "bad", are those who believe that their own subjective view on what is "good" often means that it's objectively good. They think every piece of art has to be objectively outstanding, without understanding why the like the art they like.

[@PartofHistory214]

Or that something they think is bad must be objectively bad to satisfy their ego.

[@Dylan-xe3we]

Listening to this guy reason is like a warm shower after a day of listening to people failing to do so. Subscribted!

[@tooltime9901]

Idk... Vampire Hookers sounds like something I would watch...

[@markrothenbuhler6232]

It's streaming on Tubi, and now I want to watch it!

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

Sounds like it could be fun, but it could also be as bad as Lesbian Vampire Killers. Remember, an appealing title does not an appealing movie make.

[@tooltime9901]

@markrothenbuhler6232 good to know.

[@Mordakar]

"What I do not own...is Vampire Hookers". I have no idea why, but something about the way this statement was made was hilarious. Your look? The slight sarcasm in your voice? Well played, sir. As always, you're a legend. Keep on keeping on.

[@blatherskite3009]

Wise words. And, yes, the traditional criticism of communism (mentioned at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="542">9:02</a>) couldn't be further from the truth. Soviet film directors were enabled to make very personal and downright weird films that would never be greenlit under capitalism where the expectation that they must turn a profit trumps any concerns about "art." Sure, they weren't permitted to criticise the government that was funding it, but not being able to criticise communism doesn't really limit you very much when you're making a film about, well, anything else. It leaves a lot of available subject-matter. Besides, what U.S. film is allowed to level serious criticism at the very organizations, institutions, and investors that are funding its creation? None. So, exactly the same "control" is wielded over U.S. film. For example, the U.S. military will provide hugely expensive hardware and invaluable know-how that adds immensely to a film's authenticity and production values, but you only get that if you agree that they get to vet and approve the script, and put a red line through any perceived criticism. It's exactly the same set-up, but arguably more hidden and therefore more insidious. And that's why films like "Top Gun" (and its sequel) play out more like recruitment films.

[@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov]

In that case I wish I could live in such a society so I can make films (and the scripts and scores for those films) based on the weird and freaky images and stories from my dreams and sleep.

[@Proletarian-ud8du]

As much as you're right and it can be seen as something to celebrate, sometimes you don't want a hugely experimental and bizarre concept movie but rather something that's familiar but with heart in it. The experimental nature of Soviet films probably is one of the factors of why people wrongfully perceive them as lacking quality.

[@blatherskite3009]

@@Proletarian-ud8du That's true. I'm sure I must've watched "Independence Day" more times in my life than I've seen "Stalker." You don't want every film to be cerebral or "challenging" - sometimes some burbling trash with big explosions and clearly-defined heroes and villains is what the heart desires. As with most things, there's a sweet spot somewhere between the two extremes.

[@mannysilver211]

"Big explosions, and clearly defined heros and villains." Suddenly, my mind went straight to the first 3 Micheal Bay transformers films.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Communism always leads to failure. Always. There's no exceptions, and there can't be, because it's antithetical to human nature.

[@drbenwaymd]

You are knocking it out of the park recently.

[@janusvariant4701]

You genuinely are a reflection of the modern day Kratos; the Kratos from Valhalla and Ragnarok. A man with knowledge and understanding from experience. A man with strength, but also the knowledge of when to use it. We are so lucky to have someone like you among us in society and not just in fiction. Thank you.

[@Alex-02]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">9:30</a> “There’s always a bigger fish” -Qui-gon Jinn

[@JaaShooUhh]

Philosophical Kratos back at it again. Time to listen closely.

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

Dark Kratos

[@Anglomachian]

It’s what happens after almost a century of treating capitalism as if it were some unquestioned religion. Any criticism of it is treated with a knee jerk reaction of something like “It’s better than the alternative” or “Why don’t you go live some place else then?”, sadly by people who objectively do not benefit from the system they defend.

[@krisdevine7123]

Nicely said.

[@markzuckergecko621]

@@Anglomachian but it is better than the alternative. All the problems anti capitalists complain about would still exist in a socialist system, except it would be much worse. This isn't a theory, we've seen how it plays out, with every socialist nation that's ever existed.

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

Q:"Why don't you move somewhere else?" A:"Because I'm poor, and capitalism has been spread globally, taking advantage of many countries and using war to override the vote of the people of other countries" And then when someone says it's better than the alternative it's just like ok? For who? Most criticisms for socialism apply to capitalism too. Its not the disagreement, it's the FEAR that displays how ignorant America is. Its one thing to disagree with someone but it's another to paint them as dangerous simply for having different beleifs, regardless of the reasoning behind such beleifs.

[@Anglomachian]

@@markzuckergecko621 why do you assume that the only two options are capitalism or socialism? That’s part of the rot, the propaganda that’s plagued America especially, but my own country as well I’ll admit.

[@frogglen6350]

​@@randomguyontheinternet7940 wow. I had no idea war didn't exist before capitalism

[@diegodeleon4388]

I use to watch your animated videos on religion when i was like 12. They were funny and the first step to me finding my own path in life. Glad the algothem brought your content back into my feed gonna do what i was to scared to do as a kid, out of fear my parents would see what i was watching and sub

[@Malt454]

In film, one of the main problems is that the studio system used to at least acknowledge that different movies suited different audiences, and vice versa. Now it's largely one-size-fits-all, usually pitched at the maturity level of a teenager, because the widest possible target demographic also represents the lowest possible risk to return on investment. Whether movies of the past that I like as an adult were ever "good" or "bad", they at least speak to me AS an adult and represent adult sensibilities. Now, the studio emphasis is only on a few big expensive projects that only speak to "the adolescent in all of us" and, after a while, I get sick of being treated like a teenager and tired of the diet of mental cotton candy just because it's someone's most effective business model.

[@slyceth]

You're forgetting the value of a "cult classic". Making a unique piece of media that feeds merchandising and a generation of spinoffs. One such example is marvel, they have no need to innovate anymore, their brand carries their value. But a new company can't easily get their hands on an existing IP, so they WILL have to innovate and launch their own Star Wars

[@Account.for.Comment]

Frank Zappa said it in the 1980s. It is not usually the old out-of-touch executives who were the problem. It was the "hip young, executives who believed they know what the people want. These people tend to work their ways up, so it is hard to tell them they are wrong. Now the data confirmed or believe them. The antiwoke crowd also falls into this category, they simply don't fall into this category.

[@Malt454]

@@slyceth- But most real "cult classics" never made any money, so that was never really the Marvel business model versus simple wide-band popularism, and I wouldn't call putting established and decades-old characters on screen in front of clear ready-made audiences innovation - it just hadn't been previously done as effectively before because the technology to do it didn't exist.

[@PsychedelicLasagna]

Hi DarkMatter. I just happened upon your channel last week and have slowly been "watching" (mostly listening to) more of your videos over the past few days. And I have to say, I've really only listened to 4 or 5 videos, but damn man... it's like you tapped directly into my brain. The thing you said that first really resonated with me was when talking about the many different definitions of the term "woke" being used simultaneously, but no one ever addressing that they're not even talking about the same thing. Man, I've been preaching about this issue for months now. It's been really relevant to me due to the election. Although I'm sure you've probably been thinking about this much earlier, based on your succint and efficient definitions, as well as your apparent understanding and explanation of the issue. And then literally TODAY I was complaining to my friend about how consumerism has destroyed the music industry. I totally agree that there are plenty of amazing artists making music, by the way. I just hate how much harder it is for them to be discovered, while these generic, recycled pop songs get pushed onto the youth, and those young folks just eat it up, unwittingly. Anywho, this is just a long-winded way of letting you know that your content is being appreciated! I'll keep going through the backlog, but looking forward to what else you have coming down the pipeline too! Unless you turn out to be some amazing charlatan, I'd say you've probably earned yourself a lifetime subscriber in me. Cheers!

[@BlazingOwnager]

The problem is words don't mean what they are supposed to mean on either side of the isle. But I would define it pretty clearly as 'intersectional identity politics.' If those are put before anything else in a product, it is doomed to failure.

[@Tempestial]

I think there's also something to be said for novelty of things. Such as the first time you experience an epic cinematic betrayal in fiction its awesome and gripping. But as you see more and more epic betrayals you start to almost expect it as you get old and more experienced as noticed subtle hints and signs throughout a game or movie until eventually epic betrayals start to feel played out or even cringe.

[@stormthrush37]

Agreed. The novelty of a given thing is most definitely an underrated factor.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

hedonistic adaptation. what that Tool song Stinkfist is about. "constant over-stimulation numbs me."

[@AlohaChips]

It may seem counterintuitive but this is why I tend not to mind spoilers. My philosophy is that, for most media, if something really is super well done, I will enjoy it whether I know how it turns out or not. If something's only or primary consumption value is in its novelty, I don't feel it's worth investing all the effort and disruption to everyone else that it takes to avoid spoilers.

[@brainspin7518]

Great point.

[@MarkTucker-dh2xu]

Thank you for years of honesty, integrity, intelligence and sharing it with me for free. I'll be back next chance I have extra thanks

[@hueyiroquois3839]

I think the main thing is that people forget things like Leif Garret, de Barge, and "Predator 2".

[@BlazingOwnager]

Predator 2 is absolutely S tier. I think in recent years people are re-evaluating that one - it went from a lackluster sequel to the lore defining gem of a film that it is.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

@@BlazingOwnager If you think that P2 was good, you must not have seen it.

[@Crimethoughtfull]

"Our world rewards greed"...thus CEO guy gettin' whacked. "We'll just auto-decline a bunch of stuff and then fighting lawsuits is cheaper than covering healthcare".

[@BlazingOwnager]

I have never supported someone more who did a deletion like that in my life. That dude is a national folk hero and both sides pretty much agree on that, wild in itself.

[@hollyd8989]

@@BlazingOwnager no, extremes on both sides agree on that. normal people think you are mental. Get off the internet

[@RedLeader327]

Generative AI is going to ramp up the amount of slop/bad art.

[@brynsable5218]

You've suddenly started showing up in my youtube recommendations lately and even though as a trans woman I'm not totally your target audience I love what you're doing and am happy to give you a subscription. Keep it up man

[@corey2232]

I don't think we'll ever get a year in gaming like 2007 ever again. - Halo 3 - Assassin's Creed *(New IP)* - Bioshock *(New IP)* - Mario Galaxy - Uncharted *(New IP)* - Mass Effect *(New IP)* - CoD: Modern Warfare (the one that changed everything) - God of War 2 - Rock Band *(New IP)* - Crysis *(New IP)* - Metroid Prime 3 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. *(New IP)* - The Witcher *(New IP)* - Crackdown *(New IP)* - Team Fortress 2 - The Orange Box Just look how many new, non-established franchises got their start here & went on to become major IPs. Then all the acclaimed sequels on top of that - truly an amazing year. And although I agree with this video, I will be that old man on yelling "back in my day," but only about 2007 😅

[@adams13245]

The Witcher is based on a book series, so it's not fully new.

[@corey2232]

@adams13245 True, but it was still a new game series, so it counts to me 😅

[@SipherothXIII]

Maybe people should watch and play indie movies and games if they want more original content.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Hard agree. It's where the good stuff is at. I've gotten more hours out of Barotrauma than anything released in the mainstream in the last 5 years

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

The race to the Lowest Common Denominator

[@oflameo8927]

If buying isn't owning; stealing isn't theft. Sail the High Seas! 🏴‍☠ I prefer independent media rather than A media.

[@kaceesnow]

You are one of the wisest men I know

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

💯💯💯💯

[@sammayberry4652]

I've been saying this for a while now. Too many games are no longer passion projects. They are corporate requirements.

[@frogglen6350]

People who think all modern media is garbage are just blinded by nostalgia and have zero tastes. AVGN alone pointed out how many horrible cash grab video games existed back in the 90s. Nowadays gaming and movies are more conventional. I'm glad I have access to all the yakuza games. I'm glad I don't need to buy multiple consoles to consume final fantasy or kingdom hearts. I'm glad there are other ways to watch anime outside of OVERPRICED DVD BOX SETS. I'm glad I live in an Era where Persona 3, 4, and 5 are on all consoles/PC Screw the 90s ad 2000s. They're overrated

[@frogglen6350]

I'm also glad I don't need to buy a memory card. When I was a kid, I had to keep my ps2 on 24/7 because mom couldn't waste money on a memory card. Complicated story. We were really poor.

[@bluecoin3771]

And yet Persona 1 and both halves of 2 haven't had ports since PSP. Also, in the case of Skullgirls, the vitriolic new owners of the license set out a patch to retroactively censor the game just to spite the original creator, thus setting the precedent that companies can retroactively make newer games worse if they so choose to. I'm not going to act like everything from the past was a gem, I have little to no interest in anything prior to the SNES era, but I'm not about to brush the sins of the new under the rug.

[@frogglen6350]

​@bluecoin3771 Yeah well Persona 1 and 2 are hot garbage.

[@OmniversalInsect]

Good media is still being made but it isn't really mainstream anymore.

[@BlazingOwnager]

EVERY generation has horrible stuff, but big studio releases have absolutely gotten worse. Box office and viewing figures don't lie. Comparing two movies or games from the same franchise just 5 years apart is a horrific downgrade of quality.

[@PhysicsPolice]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1260">21:00</a> I agree with most of what you're saying here. But I want to push back a little on the word "greed" because the people in charge of deciding the next movie or game aren't necessarily motivated by greed. At my company, we consider money-making potential very seriously when evaluating pitches because if the game fails to make money, the people not in the decision making room will lose their jobs. We're a family and we have to watch out for everyone, even and especially the individual contributors. This isn't a description of greed. It's more like a description of caring for other people. Job stability matters.

[@shjoed]

And also confirm with dark matter said about risk-taking we put out an EP in 2000 the band was Sleepy Hollow we sold over $3,000 of them on our own with no backing but the industry wouldn't have it and I was told straight from a woman who worked for one of the management companies that we were really good but the industry is looking for the next Metallica and next Pearl Jam and we didn't sound like any of that so yes the risk-taking side is 100% as well

[@RaySquirrel]

What we call “wokeness” and DEI is merely the end result of corporate homogenization. It is not really what appeals to a mass audience. It is a corporate middle manager’s idea of what would appeal to a mass audience. These corporate managers often highly educated elites who come from metropolitan areas on the east and west coast. These are ideological monocultures.

[@thisfool89]

Companies have been using "formulas" for decades to manufacture sucess in a trend. Record labes have been doing this since the 60's. The record labes would systematically pic and choose people to build a band/ group and pay entire teams of writers to come up with songs just like the ones that are toping the charts. It was done with Motown, rock and roll, punk rock, metal, pop, country and the latest mass offender is K-pop.

[@Slapbattler666]

This is why I dislike capitalism, it makes things not about passion but monetary incentive

[@gregoryreynolds3612]

Video games just keep getting better, I don't think anyone says the games from back in the day are better than now. No one I talk to anyway.

[@JeffryBozes]

Like, gameplay & graphics?? Totally agree. But when I think of games that had awesome plot in the last decade: BG3 End of list.

[@roycampbell586]

​@@JeffryBozesElden Ring, Hades, Chicory, A Short Hike, Celeste, Stray, Endling, El Paso Elsewhere. Death Stranding was insane but it was 2019. There's been a boatload of great stuff just since 2020 though.

[@kingplunger1]

@@JeffryBozes Disco Elysium, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty

[@lauritzen93]

You are just so well spoken. I wish more people would realize where the real faults lie and stop fighting each other instead of the big corporations. In the end we all loose here.

[@aliceinthewired]

Good shit is always being made. Just gotta care enough to seek it out.

[@graduallyatheist-l7p]

Yes

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

The Wild Robot is awesome, for instance.

[@samuelkuhn4067]

Rust and Humus and Humanity Lost are great too.

[@BlazingOwnager]

All the good stuff is coming from smaller 'outside of the system' sources. But you are right - there's great stuff there!

[@kellydalstok8900]

Inside Number 9 is a great series made with a lot of love.

[@curiouslyt2123]

My collage books were on tablets given to us by the collage. The collage won’t give you the i pad until the end of your graduation. I had to leave collage halfway through which meant also leaving the tablet behind ALONG with all the downloaded collage books and apps that were already paid for. Such as an apps us students use in medical fields and therapy that show us the body, the muscles, the bones individually or all tether or a section of the body. A 40$ app! I could not attempt to study to keep my skills sharp as I figure out what’s wrong with me, get a proper diagnosis to get the surgery I ultimately ended up getting. Then moved from the city and going back to school was still possible but not with all the time that has gone by and no access to all the study material I had while in school that I still should have besides my uniform and coloring books for medical students. I play games too and don’t like the idea of not having a physical game let alone games made where they are not finished and always need an update. If they decide to stop updates on games and start another project or out of business, they game you paid for will no longer be available. Oh it’s less wasteful if everything goes digital. There are a lot other places waster could be cut but not with things I pay for that should be mine for as long as I want it and works. Not for as long as they maintain a platform.

[@towellight9400]

Clearly it is the blinker fluid that needs to be changed to fix transmission issues.

[@gausscone]

Granted, modern transmissions and service manuals would have you believe transmission fluid is a cruel joke too.

[@wariodedede]

When I think of video games and its sequels, remakes, and remasters I think of Hideo Kojima being one of the most notable true auteurs in the industry. Death Stranding is one of my favorite games, but something like that probably wouldn't be as popular if it wasn't from Kojima who already had success through MGS. When you said "What's sad to me is that there will be Millions of Great Stories out there that will remain Undiscovered or Untold simply because none of the people with power will take a chance on them" it made me think that if Death Stranding, which truly does have a great story, probably wouldn't have come out the way it did (or at all) if he stayed with Konami. Which is precisely one of the reasons he left. Konami as of now has been focused on nothing but increasing revenue by making slot and pachinko machines and bastarding their old IPs in the process. Other than that, they publish remakes like Silent Hill 2 and MGS Delta while other developers like Bloober and Virtuos put in the hard work. For the gaming industry at least, Konami is the epitome of that statement.

[@FerretZinca]

Hey Darkmatter, I used to watch in 2015 as a kid in highschool. Seeing you now, im proud to have watched your content back then. Obviously I disagreed on certain things, but you were always comedic and intelligent, and seeing you speak on things like this now is awesome. Thanks.

[@intetx]

I really don't see what people mean. Much more great content and original content is being produced. You can literally watch a new movie with a new concept in your local cinema every week, in many placed daily. You can play so many great new games on steam with much more effort put in them than in the 80ties gamed, and you can do that with a new game daily! Just give new content a chance. Yes most will not be your thing, but I feel everyone is complaining nothing original is being produced, but everyone plays the same first person shooter concept over and over again. Just try one of the millions of other game concepts!

[@thunderrunner666]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="787">13:07</a> - Orca was amazing! Loved the ending, so bittersweet

[@Misanthrope111]

I like Orca way more than Jaws!

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"You are by far ther worst pirate I ever heard of." ". . . But you have heard of me . . ." The reason in this respect is obvious: the past always seems brighter because all of the unsuccessful media was forgotten, leading to the bizzare illusion that every play written in the 16th century must have been Shakespeare when by the fact that Shakespeare is the only 16th century playwright everyone has heard of should suggest the exact opposite.

[@itsjustameme]

There is one area where the quality has improved a lot. When I look at the cartoons that I used to get up early on weekends to watch I am astounded by how crappy the animations were. I used to watch Heman, Voltron, Transformers, and Dino Riders and the like religiously. I didn’t have a clue what they were all saying since they spoke english. In fact my first english may well have been “I shall destroy your all, Dino Riders” or something like that. And when I look at those cartoons today and compare them to what my children are watching I am just astounded at how bad they were and how I couldn’t see it back then. I did learn english though.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

What are you talking about? Those cartoons were awesome.

[@0110-q6n]

Animation didn't really "improve" since then, the fundamental techniques are the same they've always been. I mean, just look at older Disney movies. It's just that those specific cartoons were cheaply made as advertisements for toys, since that is how they made 99% of their money. Modern cartoons do not really rely on toy sales for profit, and the widespread adoption of digital animation has made the process cheaper (though more formulaic, imo).

[@itsjustameme]

@ they were. But by todays standards they look pretty bad

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

@@0110-q6n That’s a good point. Once again it’s just about money. Everything under Capitalism is based upon the bottom line in this perverted system. Kids don’t even play with toys anymore, their heads are glued to an IPAD at the age of 2 and end up on psych meds before puberty. Not to mention Walt Disney was known to be a pedophile himself back in the day. The Mickey Mouse Club was his brothel.

[@Amantducafe]

Same line of thought, this is why i havn't sit down to watch tv or movies, spend most of my time watching small/medium size youtubers that are exploring new concepts or presenting new perspective. The solution i've found for movies or series is simply watchint those small new directors and artists that use the internet or some form of film festival to promote their vision. As for games i mostly purchase small teams or single indie developers that also have a vision and, even if not a fancy triple A 4k ultrarealistic game, they offer an experience and game mechanics i like more than graphics.

[@eamonnca1]

People wax lyrical about the great music of the 1980s. I distinctly remember watching Top of the Pops on BBC in the 80s and thinking “well this is crap” about 90% of the time. I’d get quite excited when there was decent music in the charts because it was a rare treat.

[@derekofbaltimore]

For video games, this decade will certainly be considered a treasure trove of awesome games once we get over ourselves

[@Rayrard]

Nostalgia is a blessing and a curse. That's why we both ignore the pile of trash from the past, but then dig up the old stuff and ruin them today. Then the money-hungry elites don't care about quality, plus add whatever modern day messages and social movements that they think are important, but will just age that reboot like milk. I doubt most of the reboots will ever be remembered. Unlike Zombie Hookers, the biggest studios like Disney are digging up the zombies of the past franchises and ruining them, so they will be harder to forget because anyone now looking for Lion King or Mulan will have to be exposed to the bad soulless remakes. The BIG studios and BIG franchises are failing miserably, not just the forgotten films of the 70's-90's that no one remembers.

[@BlazingOwnager]

People have been nostolgic for pre-2015 since 2015. This isn't a normal pattern.

[@pabrodi]

The pop music of the 60s and 70s is objectively more innovative and exciting than nowadays pop music, and I didn't live through those decades. I know more music from the 60s and 70s than music from the 2000s. Those where decades in which whole new genres would come up year after year, while nowadays we have been stuck trying to emulate the 80s and 90s but with a different spin.

[@SinHurr]

Kratos, Vsauce here.

[@6dragondaddy913]

People already talk about the beginning of Marvel as if it was all bangers when only about half of them were

[@BlazingOwnager]

Honestly even the meh ones beat the new ones. After having watched some recent films and being sick of the now coined "Marvel Humor," I went back to watch Avengers... ... and it was actually very funny. The dialogue was sharp and witty. What we have now is a xerox of a xerox of a xerox made by people with no industry experience or love for the material.

[@graceggale]

He's based he's based. Also to anyone who is disappointed with the state of gaming today, there are hundreds of thousands of old games out there that were never given a chance. If you stop gobbling up the slop and check out like... The Xbox 360 library... PS2 library... 3DS library... Just to name a few... There's a metric shit ton of good games. Bet your ass didn't play any of the Etrian Odysseys.

[@kingplunger1]

Not even needed. The smaller games and indie market has more than enough good games to fill the void between the handful of solid big budget releases each year.

[@restlessoblivion]

I agree with your assessment that capitalism is ruining art. But when it comes to the age old sentiment that "art was good but now it's bad" I think there's also a cultural component. Great art is usually a reflection of and statement about the culture/society where it originates. And it's usually subversive or against the dominant mores that society. When people are younger, they tend to agree with those societal critiques to a great degree. But then those views become cemented in people as they get older, while art and culture progress. So the older a generation becomes, the less appreciation they have for the current art being made, because they're no longer capable of the same level of societal criticism that they were when they were younger. They feel attacked by the art, rather than seen/heard by it.

[@TheFinalChapters]

I think the AVGN would say that old games are not good.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

he's gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Absolutely not. If you're talking about Rolf, he LOVES old games. He just shows the bad ones for comedy.

[@Maryfs1]

I don't really care if a product is derivative, just as long as I like it that's all that matters. And I don't think shaming people for liking something that's derivative is really the right call. It creates I kind of superiority complex. People going around assuming they're better or more cultured because THEY value BETTER more ORIGINAL material than the uncultured masses. Just let people like what they like man.

[@Funnysterste]

It is exactly like back then when book printing was invented. The first thing they used it for was antisemitic flyers and the bible.

[@notchristianhodges8123]

I think we need to get rid of the copyright system, or at least slash its protections. If anyone could make a Star Wars movie, Disney would have a much harder time grossing billions off of a subpar sequel.

[@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov]

Anyone who was on the internet before 2023 when the A.I slop really started to take over would've seen all the beautiful, highly detailed and realistic drawings and people were making. Stuff more photographic in quality than anything made two hundred or even a hundred years before it. There is also great music out there that isn't the stuff you hear on the radio like Marcin Patrzalek and Ichica Nito, greatest guitarists of our time if not the greatest yet. Now it is being done away with by A.I in the name of fascism, capitalism and greed and it should come to no one's surprise why it is embraced the most by reactionary Far Right figures like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

[@frogglen6350]

Still not as good as the art from the 1500s

[@treeforged9097]

I have been playing guitar for 20 years, I am obsessed with it and even I cannot really listen to Ichia or Marcin for vary long. There good in like a short 40 second clip but there pretty nauseating to listen to for vary long. I could not imagine listening to an albums worth of there content in one sitting. If I, a dedicated guitar player, cannot find the value in them then how could you possibly think anyone who does not play guitar would think of there music as anything less then noise?

[@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov]

@@treeforged9097 Well they aren't the only examples of good music I have in the 21st century. There's the prog-rock bands Haken and Thank You Scientist who came around in the 2010s.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Facsism and capitalism. You keep using those words. They do not mean what you think they mean.

[@BlazingOwnager]

You honestly would not know what fascism was if a fascists boosts were crashing your backside, to paraphrase the quote.

[@bonescheffel7795]

Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is CRAP!"

[@autonomouscollective2599]

Theodore Sturgeon wrote that in 1957. Apparently nothing’s changed in 68 years.

[@bonescheffel7795]

@@autonomouscollective2599 It has been my experience that he was pretty spot on.

[@666MaRius9991]

Sturgeon was a damn prophet! 😲

[@slyceth]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1074">17:54</a> Elden ring is definitely derivative of Dark Souls.

[@gasparsigma]

Yep agreed. And Barbie is also original in story but heavily carried by the brand recognition

[@kingplunger1]

How so ? If you go by genre, everything is derivative. Thats like going into narrative analysis and coming to the conclusion that everything can be reduced to a handful of story concepts. Might be true, but its not a practical way of judging them.

[@slyceth]

@kingplunger1 same game same story same company same lore

[@MaphistosChosen]

Patreon goal for full Kratos Cosplay?

[@quaidrowan]

Plenty of great music being made right now if you know where to look.

[@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov]

Yes, like Marcin Patrzalek and Ichica Nito, greatest guitarists of our time if not the greatest yet.

[@OtherlingQueen]

I always have to tell this to Black Metal posers who only listen to stuff from the 90s, you can always tell when someone doesn't know what they're talking about when they resort to making their opinion that thing from very long time ago is their favourite and new thing bad because it's new.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

and not even just in the underground. Tyler the Creator and Kendrick Lamar both put out albums in the past 2 months, and they're both massive mainstream artists who make incredible music.

[@moviemaestro800]

Sammy Rae & the Friends have been making some delightful sunshiny neo-soul music that is as catchy as it is nostalgic in sound.

[@junfaa]

I'm really happy that you brought up online requirements and the lack of ownership in it as well as the lack of ownership in digital media. For years i felt like i was screaming into the void about this but It gives me hope that this subject is actually being discussed more and more.

[@PosiWritesStories]

A good amount of my favourite movies and shows of all time have come from the 2020s. Yeah if all you watch is like, MCU movies, sure it's not great, but I think if you're just willing to look a little harder you'll easily find better stuff. Arcane, Succession (two of four seasons came out in the 2020s, rest late 2010s), Everything Everywhere All At Once, Spider-Verse (one in 2018 and one in 2023)... I could go on and on really.

[@l.tc.5032]

Heretic. Great movie, mere weeks old.

[@FireyDeath4]

Oh man, you gotta check out indie games. They have clearly less rigorous work put into all their assets in total, but the dedication, vision and aesthetics make up for it umpteenfold, and they're very popular among gamers on the internet If this is the way we're going, I think we should all just collectively ditch art, and pursue googology instead. Beat those lousy investors at their own game and make sure the actually good-at-what-they-do people get on top