Silent Hill

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Why the fuck do some people care so much about the political opinions of everyone else especially with people that create things.? I don't ask the guy making my burger what's his opinion on the economy. This dude just makes video games I dont care what he believes just make more video games.

 

[TVB]

Why the fuck do some people care so much about the political opinions of everyone else especially with people that create things.? I don't ask the guy making my burger what's his opinion on the economy. This dude just makes video games I dont care what he believes just make more video games.

Because video games were never designed to be current-day political. I mean yes, there are game series such as GTA, CoD, Metal Gear and Fallout have political (and/or historical) elements and/or context, but they were never designed to be modern day left-wing political. But Silent Hill was never a political game, like at all.

 

[X Prime]

Why the fuck do some people care so much about the political opinions of everyone else especially with people that create things.?

According to semi-modern political science, everything is political. Combine with the perpetual fear of Hitler 2.0 appearing and there's your recipe for freaking out about everything.

It's actually why that kind of Twitter-esque left-wing insanity has become so dominant. They push and push and push because they believe they can never give an inch, and that kind of insistence wears people who just want to play video games down.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Wait, was something actually added to canon or is it just that tranny fanbase usurped him?

No, nothing happened. It's just the fanbase crying over Ito's retweet.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Why the fuck do some people care so much about the political opinions of everyone else especially with people that create things.? I don't ask the guy making my burger what's his opinion on the economy. This dude just makes video games I dont care what he believes just make more video games.

Zizek of sniffing and wearing CWC's shirt fame has a short little film wherein a scene features him walking in the desert, drinking a Kohka Kohla. He talks about how back in the day, people sortof acknowledged the innate sin of consumption and felt compelled to do something to offset it - volunteer, plant trees, attend church etc. Then companies started saying they'd donate to this or that charity if you bought their shit - bingo! Now your consumption is ethical. You don't need to lift a finger after you've bought a shirt made by indonesian sweatshop slavers, because .02% of that purchase went to needy orphans in uh somewhere or something so you've actually already helped make the world a better place just by buying something.

People who get up to this constant politicking, of either swipe (even if the zeitgeist bends more to the left), are not especially well-adjusted or social creatures. They are not especially prone to engaging with community, volunteering, and so-on and so-on. But they are prone to consuming. However, ethical consumption isn't quite enough, because their entire microcosm-existence revolves around consoomers; IE, everyone's consumption is already explained away as ethical. You're free from that internal sense of guilt, but not from online social shaming - enter a new evolution, moral consumption. Everything you consume MUST be top to bottom moral, just, righteous - and if it isn't, you have to throw a hissyfit. Moral consumption allows you to say "you're supporting the good guys" just by buying a fucking video game. You harass people on the internet who break the mold, and this is how you rationalize to yourself that you are not just a neutral influence on the world, but a positive one despite the fact that all you fucking do is consume product.

tldr; it's a modern ritual to deflect from any sense of internal or external obligation to provide something positive or of value to the world to offset your consumption, which is also why you always see the stupidest, most useless examples of human detritus doing this shit

 

[X Prime]

Admitting to listening to Zizek is the real Silent Hill.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Oh no! I won't be accepted among A&H shut-ins. Anyways.

 

[X Prime]

Not sure what AnH has to do with how citing Zizek in an attempt to sound smart has the opposite effect.

Because video games were never designed to be current-day political. I mean yes, there are game series such as GTA, CoD, Metal Gear and Fallout have political (and/or historical) elements and/or context, but they were never designed to be modern day left-wing political. But Silent Hill was never a political game, like at all.

This is correct. Any attempt to pretend this isn't mostly coming from one side is silly. The last couple of even semi-major controversies have all come from perpetually ass-blasted left-wing Twitterati, with Hogwarts Legacy being the ur-example.

There is a reason for this. You often have to take some kind of general education courses as part of your studies in college nowadays, and they all push the kind of thinking that leads to this.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

I was attempting to sound smart? Man, I'm learning a lot today. But I do want to focus in on your apolitical stance on it. You're saying, without a doubt, all of those twitter accounts are 18+ people who have attended college? That this isn't a social compulsion primarily among left-leaning consoomers insecure about the fact they contribute nothing to the world but noise; rather it's top-down indoctrination that necessitates action at the proverbial wellspring of universities?

And when people throw Keurigs off of balconies, torch their Nikes, and landfill their Disney box sets, what makes those different from these types of hissyfits on twitter? See, both of them are applying pressure to companies or individuals to get with the 'right' politics, so I need to understand why the one is based and the other is cringe.

I just find it hard to grasp how being a consoomer is based under any circumstances, but I guess if I just politicize my purchases in the right way, I'm actually making a positive difference in the world just by that. Okay, yeah, I've walked myself through it - if I just buy the right merch and support the right devs, I can absolutely rationalize being an antisocial shut-in. I think I might even develop a victim complex to pair with it! Thanks for helping out!

 

[X Prime]

Moving on.

I want to object to the notion expressed earlier in this thread that Westerners can't do psychological horror. There's nothing unique to the Japanese psyche that suggests they have some kind of monopoly on anything other than crushing wage slavery and lolicon, which may or may not be related.

The problem with the Western designed games is that they just had bad devs, I would say.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

I do like the AnH touch, but why not use '&'?

 

[byrne_]

The twitter faggots are gonna start saying "Hatune Miku designed Pyramid Head" now.

 

[Korpon]

I want to object to the notion expressed earlier in this thread that Westerners can't do psychological horror. There's nothing unique to the Japanese psyche that suggests they have some kind of monopoly on anything other than crushing wage slavery and lolicon, which may or may not be related.

The problem with the Western designed games is that they just had bad devs, I would say.

This. I think it must be a weeb thing because Silent Hill itself is heavily inspired by American horror, specifically Jacob's Ladder, a psychological horror film. It's the publisher's fault for giving the IP to retard devs who probably never even played the original games.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

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Moving on.

I want to object to the notion expressed earlier in this thread that Westerners can't do psychological horror. There's nothing unique to the Japanese psyche that suggests they have some kind of monopoly on anything other than crushing wage slavery and lolicon, which may or may not be related.

The problem with the Western designed games is that they just had bad devs, I would say.

Westerners and Japs have different cultures and thus different life perspective. One's focus on a topic and how it is handled will be vastly different between the two. It's not that Westerners are bad at it. General Americans seem to prefer shock horror (visual horror) whereas average Japanese prefers psychological horror (mental horror). Doesn't mean you personally prefer these things because you're one or the other. It's the average that matters when you're trying to make money.

 

[Psyduck]

Get ready for the tranny cope of "Well akshually Silent Hill was never good to begin with!"

Fucking. Good. Get out of my lawn stitchtits

 

[Dan of Steel]

I replayed Silent Hill 1 recently and just wanna say it still holds up really, really well. A lot of stuff "clicked" with me that went over my head playing it when I was younger, and Lisa's death/already being dead hit me harder too.

 

[TVB]

I was attempting to sound smart? Man, I'm learning a lot today. But I do want to focus in on your apolitical stance on it. You're saying, without a doubt, all of those twitter accounts are 18+ people who have attended college? That this isn't a social compulsion primarily among left-leaning consoomers insecure about the fact they contribute nothing to the world but noise; rather it's top-down indoctrination that necessitates action at the proverbial wellspring of universities?

And when people throw Keurigs off of balconies, torch their Nikes, and landfill their Disney box sets, what makes those different from these types of hissyfits on twitter? See, both of them are applying pressure to companies or individuals to get with the 'right' politics, so I need to understand why the one is based and the other is cringe.

I just find it hard to grasp how being a consoomer is based under any circumstances, but I guess if I just politicize my purchases in the right way, I'm actually making a positive difference in the world just by that. Okay, yeah, I've walked myself through it - if I just buy the right merch and support the right devs, I can absolutely rationalize being an antisocial shut-in. I think I might even develop a victim complex to pair with it! Thanks for helping out!

Nigga, what are you even talking about?

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Nigga, what are you even talking about?

My point there is that constantly politicizing video games (or, say, chicken sandwich joints or hobby supply stores) isn't an order coming down on high from universities. In the same vein, politicizing coffee machines, books about wizard schools or dungeons, and french fries wasn't an order coming down on high from the catholic church. Both are stupid, vapid, consumerist trends people get in to to feel they've "done their part" without actually doing anything.

In this example, the silent hill dev blocked some retarded neets on twitter. The neets feel like they've really stuck it to the man, but anyone not mentally handicapped realizes fuckall happened. They're not brainwashed college students complicit in a shadowy conspiracy to destroy the west: they're the same kind of aimless loser that torches their nikes and thinks they've made a huge statement about BLM or whatever before buying another pair of shoes. It's just retards looking for purpose in purchasing.
Games generally, and Silent Hill especially, aren't political at all, nor is buying them or playing them. Neither are shoes, nor coffee machines, nor chicken sandwiches, nor glider planes. But people who exist on this planet only to buy shit will always, always, always bring their politics in.

 

[X Prime]

Imagine trying to pretend people aren't shaped by their education as they grow up. Just to get in some bothsidesism.

Next they'll say nothing happened at Midwich Elementary.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Pretty sure one guy from among those posted tweeting about Ito actually has a job, and the rest of them don't look like they either work or have any educational background to speak of - like a third don't even seem to be in the US, lol. Hence "retarded neets."

But yes, yes, we'll fix this all and get politics out of our games by regulating those banks colleges, or something. I too long for the halcyon days of reasoned, apolitical discourse on video games before those darn college students got involved and made everything political.