I had seen people talking about how TSPUD would be lost on youtubers and streamers and I hadn’t really believed that. Until now, and like, yeah, they all keep failing at one specific point and it’s. .disappointing?
I understand not everyone is going to enjoy games and play games exactly like I do, thinking that would be stupid of me, and I know that. Usually I don’t care how other people play games, it’s whatever, let them vibe and enjoy something their own way, if it annoys me I just won’t watch it. I love seeing people experience my favorite games for the first time! I absolutely love seeing people begin to love the thing that I do!
But seeing the way that certain youtubers and streamers play through The Skip Button ending makes me want to rip my hair out. It’s not supposed to be a quick ending! You’re supposed to sit through all of the Narrator’s dialogue!! That’s the entire point of the ending. I have seen so many people either jokingly or genuinely get annoyed because ‘oh my god, he does talk a lot’ so they spam press the button to get to the end and it’s like, do you, do you not understand the point? Do you not get it?
The Skip Button Ending isn’t about getting to the end to see how much time you can skip, or to find a way out, it’s not even supposed to have an objective to it. It’s to watch the Narrator, Nate as I call him, fall deeper and deeper into his own creation. Another user had pointed this out, TSBE is used to show that you are powerless to save him, there is nothing you can do, once he made the skip button, you were lost to his creation just as much as he was. You are forced to kill him, to cause him to lose his mind, to make him fall into the never-ending spiral of self-doubt and control one’s creation can have over their entire life.
That ending means something, that ending is supposed to make you stop and consider the consequences of what you’re doing, it’s the same premise of the real person ending and the zending, you are forced to hurt Nate to keep the story going, and it’s supposed to hurt you as well, but they don’t grasp that? I guess? They skip through all his dialogue, missing the point he makes about how games aren’t supposed to be funny or have a point, they can just exist and that’s okay. Games don’t need to appeal to everyone, they don’t need to be perfect, they aren’t sacred or Devine works of art.
They are meant to be enjoyed by people who will enjoy them.
Not every ending needs to have some bigger meaning to it, some are just you jumping off a landing and being call powerful, some are just a long winded story about a bucket, some are long critics about video game development and the culture around whether or not you’re enjoying something in the ‘right way’, and sometimes, they’re just an ending. But this one is something. It’s critiquing exactly what they’re doing, which is skipping over important thoughts and ideas because it wasn’t funny or entertaining, they skip over it because it wasn’t what they wanted which is EXACTLY THE POINT THE GAME IS MAKING - TO NOT DO THAT BECAUSE YOU WILL LOSE OUT ON WHAT THE GAME IS. And they will never know that, because once you skip the dialogue, it’s over. You get that ending once and then never again.
Another thing that really irritates me is that, 1. people in the comments also won’t know and 2. now the epilogue will be lost on you. If you skip Nate’s spiral in TSBE then when you eventually do everything else and get to the epilogue, it won’t hit the same way. Part of what made the epilogue almost make me start sobbing was because you realize, you were there, you watched as Nate fell to his own work, YOU were the one who pressed the button that killed him, YOU were the one that led to the office building crumbling and leaving nothing but you and endless desert because the creator was gone, and you killed him. And once you get back to the office building, the two doors are shut, you can no longer make a decision, because you already made it when you pressed the button.
Almost all of this is lost to the youtubers and streamers who skip his dialogue because they’re doing it for a bit, they want to see how it ends, they are genuinely annoyed Nate is talking so much, they’re doing it for chat, they want to cut time so they don’t have to edit as long. All they’re doing is losing themselves the coolest ending in the entire game.
And this is just what I think based on the game! This isn’t even getting into my annoyance of people seeing Nate as just the game’s narrator and not his own separate character with thoughts, feelings, and character development. But that’s for another post, this one is getting long enough.
TLDR; streamers and youtubers skipping over the meaning in The Skip Button Ending and what it says about both them and the game industry annoys me to the point of where I cannot watch people play this game. The Skip Button Ending isn’t about the destination, it’s about how you got there.
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i feel like yeah i mean, gary is essentially a palaeontologist, but he has this like, Thing established early in the narrative about Bonds between pokemon and humans - emphasized in his eevee evolving into umbreon, of course, but this part of his character is…interesting, because we’re given hints that kind of go against the idea that in the indigo league he’s not as emotionally attached to his pokemon as, say, ash (a nod to his character inspiration in blue, obviously, who professor oak says can’t win because he doesnt love his pokemon enough or whatever. similarly in the anime prof oak is the one to point out the difference in ash’s and gary’s styles of raising pokemon, that ash values friendship and gary values strategy, which……..aren’t really mutually exclusive and ash shows us this too but whatever. my point is gary has lines and actions prior to that exchange that are kinda contrary to what prof oak says there). anyway i just woke up from a pretty intense nap to say that i think we all should lean into gary being more anthropological in his pokemon research compared to goh in particular who is a lot more scientific and whose character arc kinda functions around learning to accept that humans and pokemon can and do have mutually beneficial relationships, something he rejected initially under the assumption that pokemon can’t learn to help themselves if humans are always rushing in to do the hard stuff for them. like in a way they have a common goal of research yes but i think this is an interesting disconnect that would be fun to explore because its a big area of potential conflict that the anime doesnt show us because they have so many OTHER conflicts that make them good foils to each other And by the time they meet this isnt something goh is grappling with nearly as much as he was in the beginning. but i feel like later in his life it’s something he believed so deeply for so long maybe it could affect his research. i dont know how to coherently put this into words - that nap really drained my brain power, which was already low anyway - but i am so interested in the idea that a cold, detached view of science is antithetical to the study of it. and like who better to prove that to you then the guy who pisses you off so bad you stop being cold and detached about things without even realizing it
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(preface that i havent read the book so sue me or something)
i dont even know if its justified cause i havent seen the movie in years (and i saw it maaaybe twice) but i fucking absolutely hatethe tim burton charlie and the chocolate factory so much. the original movie is the fucking best i love it so goddamn much. the musical (preferably the broadway ver)? amazing love it so goddamn much. the fucking stupid ass tim burton movie having that stupid ass conflict with wonka where his dad sucks or whatever is fucking dumb and it takes away from the message of the story. yea willy wonka isnt supposed to be perfect but like making charlie not want to come to the factory cause he doesnt want to let his parents in and theres a whole dentist toothpaste thing is fucking STUPIDDD like why would you make willy wonka this immature shithead who is like "hey boy come work with me but leave your dumb parents behind cause we have candy isnt that awesome" like HUH willy wonka is supposed to be weird but not A FUCKING CREEP and ik im like "hes not supposed to be a creep" and its literally directed by tim burton but like who fucking cares tim burton made a shit willy wonka thats not my fault. the fuckin musical where willy wonka disguises himself as the candy store dude and in that way learns more about charlie and his love for the chocolate factory is AWESOME thats actually adding something to the base story thats a good fucking idea cause it just expands on charlies character by showing his inherent caringness and imagination he is the best charlie imo and like building an actual relationship with wonka and charlie is perfect like it just shows whats to come. the original movie having charlie just be a good fit cause hes kind deep down and thats literally it is fucking great as well cause like thats just literally part of the message of the fucking story
i guess charlie is good in the tim burton one but they spent so much time making me fucking hate wonka that i dont even remember cause all i can think about is that stupid fucking backstory where like his house disappears or something shit cause his dad is like how dare you want to consume sugar child im supposed to be abusive ig?? but in the most stupid ass way and in turn it makes wonkas trauma I GUESS?? fucking dumb and annoying at best
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the thing that gets me about the gfriend nazi debacle is that it was gfriend??? of all the groups?? like there are plenty of other groups with expansive histories of blackface, slurs, general racism or something so its something youd expect as a next step for a group thats already shown this kind of behavior. gfriend had z e r o history of anything. not even a cultural appropriation scandal. that and its gfriend? i can only equate it to iu making fun of some huge genocidal event, like its iu?? like that one came out of butfuck nowhere? no one would predict that on their 2020 bingo card
i knew nothing about gfriend before so it wasn't really a surprise in that way for me? like it was a surprise bc it's always a surprise when someone has a fucking nazi scandal, but i had no context for the group so it didn't really make that kind of impact on me.
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