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Kinda surprising because it's obvious Druckmann's real goal is to be a pretentious movie/TV director a la Kojima.

Or maybe it's bullshit and in reality the show is falling apart because viewership collapsed and he's just jumping ship.
Por que no los dos?

The show was done the moment they decided to go for the Joel in One so early and axed the biggest name the show had going for it. And they somehow managed to not make Abby a roided tranny but still ended up with something just as entirely irredeemable that the audience didn't like.
 
As much as I enjoy watching leftist now turning on TLOU2 and Neil,lets not pretend they are hating this for righteous reasons.
They only hate this show cause of the whole Israel shit and Neil being a pro Israel fag.I got recommend a tlou2 video last week and majority of it is just crying about muh Neil is a zionist this and that. I still remember lividly how these grifting retards were shitting on us when the game was first out.
 
As much as I enjoy watching leftist now turning on TLOU2 and Neil,lets not pretend they are hating this for righteous reasons.
They only hate this show cause of the whole Israel shit and Neil being a pro Israel fag.I got recommend a tlou2 video last week and majority of it is just crying about muh Neil is a zionist this and that. I still remember lividly how these grifting retards were shitting on us when the game was first out.
Just like JK Rowling, if they step out of line on even 1 issue they're instantly Super Hitler.

It will be interesting to see if they keep it up when Intergalactic releases or if their need to consoom will override it.
 
Just like JK Rowling, if they step out of line on even 1 issue they're instantly Super Hitler.

It will be interesting to see if they keep it up when Intergalactic releases or if their need to consoom will override it.
Depends on how much Intergalactic also rides the woke train, since TLOU2 makes a point of including identity politics in a post-civilization setting where in reality nobody worth keeping alive gives a shit about such things.

It will be interesting to see if they try to justify troons being in a sci-fi setting though, since I've always thought the only reason trans people exist is because science can't breach the border of genetics. In sci-fi you can just handwave that shit and claim mankind has perfected sex reassignment surgery. In which case if men can fully become identical to naturally born women and vice versa, simply being trans becomes a state where you just want to PRETEND you're the other sex without fully crossing that rubicon yet want all the privilege, if not moreso, of being 'special'.
 
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Next guy!
 
Kinda surprising because it's obvious Druckmann's real goal is to be a pretentious movie/TV director a la Kojima.

Or maybe it's bullshit and in reality the show is falling apart because viewership collapsed and he's just jumping ship.
I have no idea what the interpersonal politics are, but I'd wager that there was some type of disagreement between Druckmann and Mazin born from the fallout of the collapsing critical reception and viewership.

Imo the most engaging (and interesting) part of TLOU2 are Ellie's chapters in Act 1, there was no reason for the season to shit the bed so hard, and it seems like Mazin's ignorance (or misinterpretation) of the source material had a big part to play. The episodes Druckmann wrote this season were the highlights (relatively speaking), and he obviously tried to write Potato as close as he could to Ellie despite Mazin undermining her character. If season 4 ever happens, I'm really curious to see how they'll handle Act 3. The entire Santa Barbara section didn't make any sense within the story of the game, I can't imagine how they'll handle it within the framework they've established in the show.

Mazin and Druckmann are egocentrists with delusions of auteurship, with very different creative visions and goals, fighting for control over a property that is quickly becoming worthless. Mazin obviously won the bout. I get the feeling Druckmann's getting out while he can before his reputation (such as it is) becomes even more tarnished. Give it a couple years, he'll be back with some other "prestige" television slop, but as the sole creative behind it this time.

Also, I just looked at Mazin's writing credits. People seem to regard him as some visionary genius because of his work on Chernobyl (which I haven't seen), but that really seems like a fluke because most everything else he's done is objectively dogshit.
 
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Also, I just looked at Mazin's writing credits. People seem to regard him as some visionary genius because of his work on Chernobyl (which I haven't seen), but that really seems like a fluke because most everything else he's done is objectively dogshit.
I'm pretty sure Mazin just lifted most of the writing from already existing books and only contributed shit like the female scientist who outsmarts everyone
 
Druckmann praises Clair Obscur Expedition 33 :story:

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The creators should say that they took inspiration from Cuckman on what not to do. Just shit talk AAA and the faces of the company as gamers hate them. The media, influencers and drama whores will give you all the free marketing you'll need for your next game.
 
Allegedly it's supposed to be violence breeds violence, but it's so shit it just gets memed into "Revenge Bad" because so many other works have done that item to death. It also doesn't help that the main characters both did it and burned their lives down for revenge, so yeah fuck it Revenge Bad.

You CAN do it but you need to, you know, have engaging characters and narrative to go along which Part 2 had none of it

Thing is, Part 2 tried to have a lot of "morals", revenge bad is just the major one but you can tell that the whole plot felt very moralistic and yet inconsistent with it.

Thats the most passive aggressively worded "I got cordially invited to fuck off from the set" that I have ever read.

Druckmann no doubt tried to pull the same stunts he did at N.D but the "God's chosen autist" forgot he wasnt the president of HBO and thus couldnt get away with 1/10 of the shit he gets away back at his HQ.

There is something rather poetic about Neil chasing a dream to break into movies, with him stabbing more backs than a roman emperor, ruined lives and careers only to finally reach the world he always wanted to be part of...and be rejected, basically "This is Sparta" kick-ed off. We all know this happened because he made himself unbearable even for Hollywood standards (which is saying a lot) and the fact that S2 has been a catastrophic flop where it was finally proven that not even normies like Part 2's plot (We could've told you that, Druckmann...). What else he has left but to return begruginly to gaming and keep working on his vanity project until he sinks down the whole company? His dream was just crushed so he doesnt really have anything else.

Couldnt have happened to a nicer guy.
 
So TLOU2 apparently unveiled a chronological mode that intersperses Abby's and Ellie's stories rather than forcing you to suffer through Abby's story uninterrupted.

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/0...emastered-chronological-experience-out-today/

Why would they release this now?
Because Druckman has extreme buyer's remorse and realizes he fucked up.

He could have been beloved forever by releasing stories focused on Joel and Ellie but he just had to have his precious muscle waifu and "muh revenge bad."

He could dismiss criticism of TLOU2 as toxic gamers but this man absolutely loves and fetishes Hollywood, being rejected by them had to hurt a lot.
 
Why would they release this now?
Because like other retards who self-destruct such as Ricky Rackets the Rail King, he thinks you can relitigate and do the same thing slightly differently and somehow completely overturn all the other things that happened. He isn't aware that this is completely fucking insane thinking, that it doesn't do anything to fix this at all, and that he's lucky Sony is this incompetent to let him do this since at this point no one wants to touch that pile of shit other than agitprop spewing never-played its, bile watchers, and idiotic contrarians.
 
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