Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
Lol WoTC is not surprising at all.
It's quite amazing and sad at the same time how people like this can just keep getting hired for these big jobs.
The infestation at WoTC is VERY deep.

I still dunno what happened with Vampire Bloodlines 2, not sure if it got cancelled or what I was really looking forward to it tho Bloodlines 1 was a great RPG and they got the guy who wrote and directed it I believe.
But then he got fired and they had hired some rando Rock Paper Shotgun journalists to write for the game <_<.
It's not even that uncommon it seems that game journalists get hired as writers in games...

Rock Paper Shotgun btw is the same outlet that were invited to one of the Fanfests and the guy from the site who went there asked some rly dumb questions about brothels at the QnA and his entire article was extremely derogatory and just mocking the whole event.
I dunno why so much of the Western industry is such a circus.
Part of Western culture in recent decades has been for journalists to insert their personal beliefs/takes/thoughts into their work, rather than work from an objective foundation. In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's been part of Western culture in recent decades to insert personal belief into everything, especially if it's antithetical to so called traditional values.

It's a hard charge waving the banner of progress, but what it really is, is a hard charge to societal destabilization. It gets these people hired because it creates a buzz, out of which can come really good or really bad PR. The buzz makes money either way.

Now, I'm not saying this is the first time artists and writers inserted themselves into their works. Oh heavens, no. It is the first time that all subtlety has been stripped away, and so instead of a thought provoking masterpiece, you get an attempt at thought-control via entertainment medium. And far more fiction that's just fan fiction, rather than crafted fiction. That is to say... look at one of the newer comics of Superman. They made Superboy or Superman from one of the multiverse Earths bisexual and an activist. He has kissing scenes with his boyfriend in the comic, and the boyfriend happens to look like the comic's author to a T, at least at time of writing.

Basically, a lot of Western media has been co-opted by activism of all shapes and sizes. The goal then becomes message first, entertainment second. Which kills entertainment value. Nothing wrong with what's being presented, merely how it's being presented. The same messages could be inserted behind and secondary to the entertainment, as they should be.

Unfortunately, then, the writing would have to stand on merit rather than on how much buzz it creates. How many clicks it generates. That's the way I see it, anyway.