I think the biggest difference migjt have been that the weirdos stopped being low key about it. Cause we got shitty new people but they were friends of long time customers who seemed to be influences in previously cool enough guys. My partner at the time’s family was more a bush than a tree and was very hippie oriented and had a lot of the kind of people who played dnd before 2e, math degree hippies who could game out a living with poker instead of working snd did so even though it seemed way worse of a time. My partner’s uncle who I was living with had basically an open house with a pound of weed and a giant pile of board games and just liked hosting that kinda stuff. It was an open house in thar regard. The way nerds used to operste and do now is so different. We used to play the 0th school of DND, open table, and it was soooo fun. Its like this:
It’s ‘nerd-shit’ turning from what was usually an interplay between the hobbyist, who played and created for fun and community, and the professional, a hobbyist who had somehow parlayed creation into a living, to the interplay between the company, who is only interested in turning a profit and will actively harm a community by exclusively targeting the desires of it’s wealthy members, if it means generating more profit, and the consumer, who does not create but simply consumes and collects for their own individual satisfaction whatever that may entail.
Streamers and critics, are, btw, not hobbyists, they are professional consumers, those who are paid to consume product, the most toxic aspect of the dialectic, as they simultaneously have the loudest and most present voice in the industry, but represent the least amount and most privileged of people. Critics can be useful, but a critic should ideally also be actively engaged in the art of creation to some degree, or at least done so in the past. That doesn’t mean what they created has to be good or groundbreaking, it just means that they themselves understand what it means to create and not simply consume. An excellent critic can often elevate the criticism itself into a form of creation, but that is a rare talent indeed.
I think the biggest difference migjt have been that the weirdos stopped being low key about it. Cause we got shitty new people but they were friends of long time customers who seemed to be influences in previously cool enough guys. My partner at the time’s family was more a bush than a tree and was very hippie oriented and had a lot of the kind of people who played dnd before 2e, math degree hippies who could game out a living with poker instead of working snd did so even though it seemed way worse of a time. My partner’s uncle who I was living with had basically an open house with a pound of weed and a giant pile of board games and just liked hosting that kinda stuff. It was an open house in thar regard. The way nerds used to operste and do now is so different. We used to play the 0th school of DND, open table, and it was soooo fun. Its like this:
https://youtu.be/slBsxmHs070
Nerd shit used to be a social thing
It’s ‘nerd-shit’ turning from what was usually an interplay between the hobbyist, who played and created for fun and community, and the professional, a hobbyist who had somehow parlayed creation into a living, to the interplay between the company, who is only interested in turning a profit and will actively harm a community by exclusively targeting the desires of it’s wealthy members, if it means generating more profit, and the consumer, who does not create but simply consumes and collects for their own individual satisfaction whatever that may entail.
Streamers and critics, are, btw, not hobbyists, they are professional consumers, those who are paid to consume product, the most toxic aspect of the dialectic, as they simultaneously have the loudest and most present voice in the industry, but represent the least amount and most privileged of people. Critics can be useful, but a critic should ideally also be actively engaged in the art of creation to some degree, or at least done so in the past. That doesn’t mean what they created has to be good or groundbreaking, it just means that they themselves understand what it means to create and not simply consume. An excellent critic can often elevate the criticism itself into a form of creation, but that is a rare talent indeed.
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