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Daily Thread: Tuesday's (not) dead 20/06/23
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Funny what a difference it makes when you have people at work that have similar common interests than you do. Not to shit on people who love reality TV, but hearing that kind of stuff day in, day out in the office is enough for me to put my headphones in and drown the noise out with whatever genre I want for the day.
Change the topic to videogames and sure enough 30 minutes goes by in a blink (to which I'm sure those who want to talk about reality TV are then chucking headphones in themselves haha).
I would rather soap operas, at least soaps talk about social issues , reality tv is just nasty
One of my other big loves is pro wrestling, which is like... violent soap opera (in the easiest way to ever explain pro wrestling). Some of the people I know who love reality TV scoff at pro wrestling claiming it's scripted and fake. Which is true, but reality TV is no different... but at least with pro wrestling the physical element takes practice. Reality TV just seems to be "influencer A has a beef with influencer B, which influencer C tries to remain relevant".
wrestling is meant to be fun, it doesn't take itself seriously and is in on the joke. I like it.
reality tv likes to think it's real
Most (if not all) reality tv is still 'scripted' in a way. Produces guide the outcomes and create drama for views.
Source: a friend worked on the crew of MAFS for a few seasons and shared some inside info.
Oooh spill!
I watched a couple of seasons with Mum as she preferred FTA to streaming or arr'ed, peaced out for the ball cupping one and we tuned in again last year when Olivia went Olivia.
Producers encouraged infidelity, if sparks didn't fly from the start. If sparks did fly, the couples would be 'tested' a bit more to create tension. Most groups scenes heavily edited to paint certain people as 'villains'.
About 50% of the participants only signed up to create drama. Producers would spread fake rumours and see how people reacted, then they'd try to make the rumours reality if it looked like shit was going to get juicy.
Ooooh what games?
Had a conversation about Starfield and how one of the older blokes at work couldn't get his head around it being a Microsoft exclusive - which then sent me into a dialogue about the current Activision buyout that's going on, as well as explaining No Man's Sky and how people are comparing it and Starfield (and how the devs have to say that the games are different).
But also a mate at work who's into RimWorld, which is weird because the types of conversations you have with other RimWorld users often leads to some really suspicious activities and then having to justify them - which is fine for other RimWorld players, but maybe not people who have either never played the game, or haven't played a videogame since Tetris on the OG GameBoy.
Yeah I’m not sure I “get” starfield. I didn’t enjoy no man’s sky after NEXT or whatever the update was that everyone said it was suddenly good. And I’m not sure I’ve ever LOVED a Bethesda game unconditionally. Fallout 3 was great, but buggy as shit. Skyrim was just as bad. Fallout 4 was a repetitive mess and the less said about 76 the better. Not sure why Todd Howard still has a job tbh.
Yeah, I pre-ordered No Man's Sky and played it a fair bit on launch. I tried to get back into it but for some reason I found that all of a sudden I was building bases and stuff where as all I wanted to do was fly my spacecraft.
And I get where you're coming from with Bethesda - especially with the buggy mess their games can be. It's why I'm holding out with Starfield - I'll get it six months down the line when it's on sale or something. For me, I loved Fallout 3 and Skyrim (bugs aside) but Fallout 4 didn't grab me nearly as much, and Fallout 76 was online so ew, gross. They haven't even set a release date for the next Elder Scrolls game, and asides from that, Bethesda's IP is centred on the devs who made Dishonoured and what not, which I was never really a fan of. I tried, but I just don't have patience for games that require me to sit in the dark for five minutes, meticulously mapping out what routes the bad guys take so I can take them down quietly (only for them to still spot me anyway because of some bug or whatever and I'm back to square one).
Completely agree on dishonoured. Mrs loves it, but not my cup of tea at all. I HOPE Starfield is awesome. I loved the old freelancer game (hence why I backed star citizen)