I agree with your post, except that one part.
To be fair, most market research people are just lazy twats who go on social media to see what's popular. The end result being that what they end up with is only what the online "influencers" see as good, not what the Average Joe sees as good. They no longer ask themselves "what is good for the customer" but instead, "what's hip on Twitter/Facebook right now?" It's obviously lazy, but I reckon that at least half these people weren't hired because they knew how the average person thinks, they're just good at BSing their way through a meeting and not shitting themselves when talking to the boss. The other half got hired because HR wanted to make sure there are enough women/POC/LGBT people in a company to make it diverse.
A lot of people born in those early years, from the 80s onward, still think that the world works the way it did back in those years. They can't fathom why their kids couldn't find work during the 2010s, nor could they fathom how established brands could fail. They just grew up in a prosperous part of western history and assume things will always go the way it did back then.
Which really confuses me.
See, I don't consider that to be "market research". I don't work with marketing (thank God!) but statistics was one of my minors and market research was one of the subjects covered. What these people do isn't market research, it's just an exercise in confirmation bias and oversampling the wrong demographics. So I suppose my argument isn't that they don't do it, but that they don't do it right. Like, at all.
You're talking about a crowd who thought Robocop busting perps in Detroit looked cool, instead of it being social commentary on how broken Detroit is. They even made a statue of him there, didn't they?
As I said, most of modern market research is just checking at what the kids in social media like now. That's why social media has a lot of undue influence in what modern corporations do nowadays. For instance, they think going woke will earn them money, since they see all the woke yahoos in social media.
I know im late but it seems like faggots are trying to make anime character archetypes into a exclusively "queer" thing now. Of course anime fandoms have always had faggots but they are way more prevalent these days.
Anyone got anything on John Wick?
🚦 A-Game - Abuse Allegations against John Wick [formerly 'Can someone sum up this John Wick (game designer) thing?']
I've just run across this Twitter thread from Rob Vaux, the former brand manager for 7th Sea 1e, discussing how the Paizo discussion has reopened old trauma from his interactions with John Wick. There's a full thread, but relevant issues include bullying: "@wickedthought bullied other staff...forum.rpg.net
Also with larger settings like warhammer (or star trek, or star wars) people forget all those intervening decades matter a lot to the setting. If you want to 'make a new 40k' you gotta start pretty small. And then you may need a decade or two to build on it and scrape away the less cool bits. You can't really make something like 40k overnight because it's just to big. And that's only the setting, making an entirely new game system is its own project.
John Wick, what I remember about him is he got pissy because he wasn't relevant enough to be included on a list of games rated by wokeness with green game companies and creators being non woke or anti-woke and red games and creators being as woke as can be. Of course that one list doesn't really care if the games they make are good or not, just their political views. One of the creators on the list, Darrick Dishaw, aka Venger Satanis actually did get in a bit of a slap fight with John Wick a few weeks ago. I am not sure how much John Wick qualifies for a thread at this point, but Darrick himself is very much an incompetent hack, hypocrite, and lolcow himself with quite the internet history and there is a thread on him in Prospering Grounds that is complete and we are just at this point waiting for it to be moved. feel free to have a lookAnyone got anything on John Wick?
🚦 A-Game - Abuse Allegations against John Wick [formerly 'Can someone sum up this John Wick (game designer) thing?']
I've just run across this Twitter thread from Rob Vaux, the former brand manager for 7th Sea 1e, discussing how the Paizo discussion has reopened old trauma from his interactions with John Wick. There's a full thread, but relevant issues include bullying: "@wickedthought bullied other staff...
I like a lot of OSR products but I'm really suprised people like James Raggi, RPG Pundit, and the "BroSR" don't have pages here yet. I don't have the attention span or autism some of you fine folks have when making these pages. But someone who is smarter than me really needs to. Shit like Raggi starting out as an edgelord and then hiring a bunch of wokies. All so he could pretend to be a leftist and then acting suprised when his male feminist friends turned out to be rapists and his female friends and gf me tooed him because he took a picture next to (((Jordan Peterson))). Then you have Pundit's constant fucking drama with being autistic about what the OSR is and what "old school gaming" should be. And the BroSR are bunch of edgy christcucks who think Rules as Written is a bible and all deviants are godless heretics.
Who are BroSR?
There were two sides to Zak's story. His crazy narcissistic side. And his Ex's crazy narcissistic side. Somewhere in that drug and twitter fueled delusion is the truth. Zack used his power and influence for his own gratification which may have been sexual. So did his cum-addled fuck buddy. The stories about Zack are either exaggerated or untrue. But he still did and continues to do shady male feminist shit. He's not a good person. He's doxed, blackmailed, and bullied other people.
Pundit talks about SJW's as though they smothered his mother.
They tried to get him doxed (not that he's especially secretive about his life) and successfully fucked with him selling his books on drivethru and other venues. The outrage against one Uruguayan baby-boomer is absolutely beyond imagining.
In the Darrick Dishaw thread in Prospering Grounds, we actually have been wondering if we should make a separate community watch thread for the OSR fanboys or not since we do have this thread, but at the same time these guys are a special breed of autism so we aren't quite sure.
It's just a matter of volume. If these guys produce so much milk as to overwhelm this thread, spin them off into their own thread.
