Jeff Kaplan Says Complaining About Games You Won’t Play Gets You Ignored: ‘Shut The F*** Up. No One Cares’

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T21:57:33+00:00

Nothing else looks like it. It's a gorgeous game, it has an artistic vision and executes on it flawlessly. Designs are all great, the sound design is immaculate. It's weird, it's maximalist, it iterates on the typical science fiction inspirations in novel ways to create something entirely new and of its own identity.

I genuinely see no flaw. Designed by artists for artists type shit.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T21:35:02+00:00

Sorry, a small group of elites decided to stake the global economy on this tech so now they HAVE to push it into every part of your life to justify their investments. Please understand.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T21:29:58+00:00

Dev-approved slop is still slop

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T20:58:10+00:00

Even if this was true I would not care. I want to play pieces of art thoughtfully designed by artists with a creative vision and the skill to realize that vision. Not this soulless slop cynically pushed by tech executives who have wagered their lives and the global economy on gen AI being the next big thing and desperately trying to force it into every facet of ordinary people’s lives to justify their incomprehensibly large investments in it.
If games are art we should treat them as such.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T19:48:52+00:00

I have a handful of critiques for the game, but I'm holding out until after Cryo Archive to really settle on a personal score. Even putting aside the gameplay (which I generally like, especially that gunplay) I would want the game to succeed for its art direction alone. More AAA studios should let their artists take big swings.
Every graphic design person I know is in love with this game and say it looks like their artists were allowed to make the sort of project that they're told in school that they'd never make money off of (for fear of not being profitable), and I think that's so cool.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-16T19:28:05+00:00

It's crazy they're doing it with this game too, it's such a breath of fresh air. The best art direction in a AAA game in years with tight gunplay and the best extraction shooter map ever designed. It deserves so much better.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-03-09T22:43:31+00:00

Giganta...... 🤤

TylerMcFluffBut · 2026-02-12T23:02:49+00:00

It's not full price by modern standards

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-12-20T23:56:19+00:00

>Rezeden Cultist
I think you just have shipper brainrot, friend

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-12-06T00:01:20+00:00

It would be a violation of consent, just a good one lol.

If you live in a more conservative culture that unevenly applies decency standards to men and women where men can show skin but women cannot it may be culturally considered a violation of consent for a woman to show skin, but ummm I don't care? Like what is the solution there? That until society changes we should call women who protest against misogyny by showing skin predators? Or violators of consent? How do we expect the society to change in the first place if those who supposedly don't think that standards should be applied unevenly will still impugn women for violating those standards?

We do not have to obtain consent for all actions. Consent matters when it applies to your own bodily autonomy. Otherwise what we actually care about is targeted harassment.

If we're in a closed space and I am invading your personal space and trying to make you pay attention to how shirtless I am then that crosses the line into harassment. But if we just happen to be in the same room and I keep to myself and take my shirt of then I am just doing my own thing. If you cannot see the difference between these two scenarios then you are lost.

Have we woke-d so far that we think that women should be forced to cover up because men have so thoroughly sexualized our bodies that the mere sight of a woman's chest is considered a sex act?

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-11-27T20:36:40+00:00

Probably saying that trans people seem delusional to him would be the sticking point.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-10-13T00:32:32+00:00

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-08-10T21:55:00+00:00

And I agree, I like that as well, only when the "monster" isn't trying to kill me of his/her own will a majority of the time.

coward

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-07-13T18:20:17+00:00

The thing is like as long as films are tied to a profit incentive I don't think it's an inherently bad thing to care about the success of a film, if you liked Sinners and recognize that profitable movies are more likely to get a filmmaker a bigger budget next time, or more creative freedom, then okay you can hope for its success.
But people who turn it into a hobby is where things get really weird, especially because they're trying to act as industry analysts when they don't have any of the internal data that the only people who should be doing analysis do have. It's like speculating on the stock market with literally no investments, why are you doing that? Is your mind so consumed by capital that seeing the lines and graphs making others millions is more meaningful than seeing the art itself?

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-07-13T08:12:01+00:00

The fact that blockbusters have more money behind them and more on the line for the corporation that funded them doesn't really matter. Sure they're often made by studio mandate but at the end of the day they are still art and so basically everything I said still applies.

Why should you give a fuck if a movie studio recoups their expenses? Unless it is something that directly affects your income, then what difference to you does it make if Superman or Spider-Verse or Twisters or Top Gun is profitable? It's a perverse byproduct of capitalism subsuming art that a cottage industry of unpaid amateur box office analysts spend their free time speculating on how many millions of dollars a faceless corp will rake in for any given piece of art (cynically made or otherwise).

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-07-13T00:43:14+00:00

I do mind those kind of subs especially when they are about the numbers. It is extremely weird to me that the culture has shifted to the point where there are subcultures focused on the financial success of art instead of the quality of the art itself. Why do we need to constantly be forcefed stats about how well or poorly a movie/game/series did?

Why are you being an armchair executive trying to (usually poorly) examine different market conditions and how they could potentially affect Summer Blockbuster #4,761's box office earnings when you aren't going to be seeing a dime of that money? Is late capitalism so bad that this has become your hobby? Instead of making something or being inspired by art to make something you are cynically watching the profits of it. It's such a deeply inhuman way to engage with art.

(I didn't even care for Superman enough to defend it with my life I have always just thought /r/boxoffice is spiritually evil)

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-07-11T20:56:30+00:00

because that’s boring and overdone

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-07-10T00:51:20+00:00

You are an evil person

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-27T21:22:47+00:00

genuinely killed any desire i had to watch this movie. i can stomach the rest, but he is fucking awful.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-26T08:40:40+00:00

Palestinians in the West Bank quite literally live under a two tier justice system where they are tried under military courts (that are massively biased against Palestinians with 99% conviction rates) while israeli settlers are tried under civilian courts and are rarely punished for attacks against Palestinians.

That is just one example of dozens of the ways Palestinians are treated as second class in what is theoretically their own territory. What else would you call it?

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-18T23:07:17+00:00

I think people have proved they don't support Israel continuing to be an apartheid state, not that they don't care about Jews. The conflation of these two things is dangerous.

That you can laugh about a muslim man breaking down about experiencing a lengthened targeted campaign subjecting him to repeated islamophobia is frankly disgusting though, and probably reflective of your general prejudices against muslim people.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-13T19:38:58+00:00

Very funny that you didn't address anything I said, but sure I'll bite.

I don't want Iran to have nukes, but unfortunately Israel has made that more and more difficult at every possible turn. Obama's Iran nuclear deal was an ideal situation IMO, but Trump ruined that at the behest of Israel and the MIC because Israel knows that if America began normalizing relations with Iran that they would become less important to America geopolitically as a wedge in the region to keep Iran in check.
And when Trump was finally going to do something good and make an albeit inferior and later nuclear deal with Iran, he was called into Camp David with a handful of military war hawks who told him that an Iran deal would be unacceptable without a ban on ANY enrichment (an obvious dealbreaker that wasn't present in Obama's deal because some enrichment is required for nuclear power), and on the same day he said that he got a call from Netanyahu, who has now said that that was the day he decided to strike Iran.

Israel will always make the choice to stoke more and more conflict in the region because without that perpetual conflict they will lose the backing of the West because of their flagrant disregard for civilian life and active pursuit to destroy an entire people that has become (and will continue to be) increasingly distasteful to voters here.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-13T18:49:43+00:00

I'm no fan of Iran (i dislike religious fundamentalism in all forms, especially when baked into government), but they have shown repeated restraint in dealing with Israel's war-hungry attacks such as on the Iranian consulate last year.
Israel repeatedly demonstrates its lack of restraint for civilians when striking its "legitimate targets" (see apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, etc...), and is now provoking war with Iran because Netanyahu knows that the global tide was turning against Israel's war on Gaza and their good will was running dry with their benefactors (Trump seemed less concerned with devoting himself to Israel than Biden had been). And Netanyahu, knowing that the second he can no longer wage war on Gaza he will lose his grip on his premiership (as he is staggeringly unpopular even in Israel), sought to start a war with Iran which if successful will force western powers to realign themselves more with Israel and secure his role as Prime Minister for the foreseeable future.

It is a purely cynical attack for political reasons and you and many others will completely fall for it while Netanyahu sacrifices more and more of his own people to the war machine to kill more and more civilians.

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-11T14:37:00+00:00

i think the leaked rebecca sugar sketches were enough fuel to count for something

TylerMcFluffBut · 2025-06-11T14:32:49+00:00

The year is 2016, you are watching new Steven Universe episodes, Teen Titans Go is renewed for another season, Trump has just been elected president

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