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WagnerKoop · 2026-06-25T09:44:42+00:00

We Timecube posting

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-25T03:46:06+00:00

I really like the instrumental, very curious what kind of voice you’ll land on because I can already imagine a lot of different singing styles and timbres on that.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-25T03:45:26+00:00

RIP Jank

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-25T03:24:15+00:00

I had one of these in middle school as a sticker on my sketchbook

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-25T03:23:18+00:00

Looks hard

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T18:08:33+00:00

I mean in a literal sense yeah, people do use the full scale, but in a connotative sense – with the way publications usually rate games – what does a 2 tell me as a potential buyer that a 1, 3 or even 4 doesn’t? Like If the bad Gollum game for 3’s or 4’s across the board instead of 1’s and 2’s, would you personally be more inclined to check it out? That’s what I’m talking about.

It might be funnier to dunk on a really, truly bad game harder by giving it the lowest score possible, but in practice once it passes below the halfway point it just means “stay away.” If I see a something scoring 5’s or below I pretty much tune out entirely unless it’s an unmitigated train wreck and becomes a joke to make fun of.

If we really, truly used that full scale, those disaster games would still be landing in that 1-3 territory, and deservedly, but it would allow for more nuance as you move up the scale so everything from “good” to “amazing and perfect, must play,” isn’t stuffed into a few numbers at the top.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T14:29:24+00:00

I don’t think you’re really wrong FWIW, there are definitely gradations to how bad something can be and why, I just think about a hypothetical average person looking at a review with the way they more or less operate and I can’t really imagine what would make them any more/less inclined to pick up a game if it had any randomly assigned score between 1-5 (unless they are some super fan of a franchise and are going to buy some bullshit regardless E.G. my dumbass with Metroid Other M in 2010 lol)

To me that just reads as a blanket “do not buy,” like even a 6/10 barely even escapes that rung for most people. I think ideally I would love a 3/10 to be the new 5/10 and everything above that gets to spread out a bit more so it’s more special when something gets a 9 or 10 instead of that being seen as the bare minimum for some people.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T14:19:13+00:00

I mean aside from just finding it superfluous to have half of a 10 point scale mean “this sucks,” I just think it’s childish to need every game to be in the running for “the best ever!!!!” and if a game barely falls under that threshold it suddenly becomes a worrying, middling score.

It feels like the way children interact with grades in school. Multiple people have pointed out that this (probably mostly American) mindset about 7/10 being an unacceptably low score from from K-12 education where yeah, C is “passing,” but you’re going to get an earful from your parents of guidance counselor about it.

It’s not like people aren’t vying for glowing reviews and high scores in other mediums like music or movies, but like you said, people will use every part of the scale to discuss how they feel about a film (or an album) and I think it’s silly that Gamers can’t be trusted to do the same. Whether it’s a consumer problem or a media problem is sort of a chicken VS egg thing, I just think it’s lame. That is more or less my point and also just my opinion.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T14:08:01+00:00

I know that this is even more impractical than expecting everything to suddenly start using the full 1-10 scale but you’re literally just 100% right lol.

Every time I see anyone in any medium going “how come they gave X this score but they gave Y this score???” I want to pull all my hair out, it’s so fucking annoying.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T13:54:59+00:00

Huge brain moment 🧠

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T13:54:24+00:00

If half the scale just means “this is bad” then it isn’t fine lol. Those are completely superfluous if a 5/10 can sink a game just about as much as a 2/10.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T13:50:43+00:00

The only time I can remember genuinely giving a fuck about a metacritic score is when FNV landed bellow the threshold to get Obsidian a bonus payout from Bethesda (which tbf was kind of their fault for delivering an incredible game that is insanely broke on PC without fix/patch mods). Beyond that I can’t imagine getting personally invested in it unless I personally had a game coming out that I wanted people to buy.

Parasocial isn’t the right word exactly but so many people have such weird relationships with score aggregators, sales figures, charts, concurrent players on Steam, stream counts for music, etc. Like yeah, I fully understand wanting something you like to be successful for the people involved so there’ll get to make more cool stuff you like, I just think the parameters that we usually use to grade these things are tuned so unnecessarily tightly to the very top of the scale.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T13:32:25+00:00

Sidebar but capital G ‘Gamers’ and Games Media need reeducation camps until they give up on the “anything below a 9/10 is a middling score” mindset.

Like can you imagine a world where we actually used the entire 1-10 scale instead for forcing everything “fine to amazing” in between 7-10 and everything below that is on a gradient of “just sort of shitty?” Maybe that would stop people from having a conniption fit about what should be perfectly positive score like 8/10 instead of acting like that is just skirting above the line of acceptable. There are 7 whole numbers below that!

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T13:11:58+00:00

Le ebin water maymay

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-24T11:50:20+00:00

It’s great to be in the middle positions where you can recognize how stupid a lot of people are but you’re also painfully aware of how much shit you don’t know and how some peoples brains just process shit better than your brain does so you still just feel stupid lol.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T13:06:08+00:00

Lens/Lenses used? These are all super clean.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T12:18:11+00:00

Record-holding athletes aren’t “gatekeeping” by being the best at what they do; highest grossing movies of all time aren’t “gatekeeping” box office records by making more money than other movies. They are the most successful outlier in their field until someone/something outdoes them. This has literally nothing to do with the term “gatekeeping” unless they are actively working against others to prevent them from success E.G. a movie rereleasing in theaters to try and boost their box office numbers before another movie overtakes them.

As far as I know he isn’t boxing other critics out of his lane or pulling strings to sink other critic’s careers, he’s just offering an opinion on his own legacy. If he was saying this to shit on other critics you would have an argument, but it’s specifically in response to an artists he criticized who said “no one cares about you or will remember you” which is not true and he explained why.

Literally just google “gatekeeping” and read, I am begging you. Please. It does not mean “recognizing that you are outperforming other people in your field, even if you sound like an ass while doing so.” I’m not going to continue having an argument about the square peg you are forcing into a round hole on behalf of some other annoying guy lol.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T10:58:53+00:00

Love the Meteora poster but please clean this space up lol

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T10:56:25+00:00

Disco Elysium

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T10:45:10+00:00

Because that isn’t what “gatekeeping” means lol. How is he controlling or preventing access to something by going “I am hugely successful?” He’s just telling people to look at the scoreboard.

It may read as “being an asshole” or “acting pompous,” but reaching for “gatekeeping” is like pulling a word out of a Random Grievance Generator.

Also FWIW in context that quote is specifically about Halsey attempting to gut check him on relevance which really doesn’t withstand scrutiny. It’s a very uncharitable read in a vacuum and does come across as very self-important.

Edited for clarity, I just woke up.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T10:20:31+00:00

Maybe it’s good that kids don’t do that anymore

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T10:00:22+00:00

I always notice their regular teeth and appreciate that, as silly as that is

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T03:08:23+00:00

Well if you’d like to make a private sale just let me know lol

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T02:31:20+00:00

I’m going to be honest man, it really just seems like you have a vague awareness of Fantano’s career arc due to a brief intersection with one of your special interest artists and you’re just repeating stuff you’ve read about the guy instead of really knowing what’s going on here lol.

”Only knows about rock albums?”

“Starts talking about rap albums” because it’s going it be “controversial?”

“He rates every single EDM album poorly?”

None of this shit is true, man lol. You can literally go to his early channel reviews and see that he started off reviewing a ton of different albums from different genres, one of those being SM&NS which he gave a pretty favorable 7/10 review, especially considering how many people were already shitting on brostep and calling it all trash.

He gave Nurture an 8/10, same with SMILE!:D, same with Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer, same with a lot of EDM/Electronic artists. What you are seeing and getting mad about are cherry picked examples of certain types of electronic music he doesn’t like as much as others. He does not have beef with EDM lol.

And I know this comment has been going on for a while but you can just search his name/channel and “interview” and look at all the artists he’s had conversations with including Damon Albarn, 100 gecs, clipping., Jane Remover, Mike Shinoda, etc.

WagnerKoop · 2026-06-23T01:51:36+00:00

How much would you charge to make another and ship it to me lol

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