People Justify Themselves So Much When It Comes to Not Playing A Fighting Game
and I think it's an nth example showing games media, streamers, youtubers, anime discussion, pop culture in general desperately need more black people not necessarily from the USA, black muslims, disabled black people, queer black people, and various combinations of all these
"is the game easy to learn"
"are the controls too hard"
"is the netcode good"
"Is it a dead game" (In particular, someone talking about steam charts gives me nearly the same reaction as seeing someone complain about Woke/DEI. My brain immediately stops considering that this person's thoughts have any value)
"what's the tierlists"
"Is Character X good at specific thing Y" (people asking ultra technical questions at day 0 preview events as if they're pro players)
When it comes to fighting game releases, people have been formatted to think in a certain way and always ask these same questions. They need to be comforted in their choice of not playing the game.
In my opinion most people simply don't admit that they just don't wanna play fighting games. And don't realize that there's no need to justify yourself so much. Personally I barely play fighting games anymore and just watch tournaments because what I liked the most was playing with my family, and we're all busy now that we're adults. And I hate loosing against strangers. I still play a few things from time to time but just to check out story modes and single player stuff.
Starting the 2010s especially people made up reasons that were never an issue in the past. Reasons like "motion inputs are too hard". In particular, claiming that "motion inputs are ableist and need to be removed for accessibility" is actually ableist imo.
People have been formatted by social media era to always have an opinion on something. I don't need a "good" reason to explain why I'm not playing Alt Sonic Yoru no Kimi or Hikatteru Yami Golgo 33. I'm simply not interested, not gonna make up excuses.
Moreover, we are always pressured to have the "good" opinion, to like or dislike a series for the "right" reasons. It's the usual problem I always bring up in how people always need to show they have the moralistic higher ground and aren't liking something "problematic" in a "problematic" way.
I think it's partly linked to the internet's irony poisoning problem. It's like it's forbidden to earnestly like something.
This problem is accentuated when it comes to nicher things such as fighting games. Fighting games also have a big history with minorities. Certain series like SNK games have always been much more popular outside than inside USA too.
Mecha anime, sports anime, and kids anime specifically are strident examples too. You always always see people making up reasons to not watch these. "I heard it's X, I heard it's Y" etc. Reasons that are completely nonexistent. The only thing you could say is "it's too long", but imo you'll have a much better time watching a 50 episodes series from before 2020 than four 13 episodes series currently on Netflix.
So I also think this is an nth consequence of english pop culture discussion being so White and USAjin centered. And how other languages discussions tend to copy what the English side do. I see it firsthand all the time with French and Japanese boring pointless discourses copying english ones.
Games media, streamers, youtubers, anime discussion, pop culture in general desperately need more Black people not necessarily from the USA, Black muslims, disabled Black people, queer Black people, and various combinations of all these. And as always I'm stressing out specifically "Black people" and not saying "people of color in general" because we need to break that taboo. You have to acknowledge that structural racism has a hierarchy based on people's perceived identity, with disabled black muslim queer woman being the biggest combo multiplier.
And needless to say being Black doesn't mean you automatically know how society is based on racism/capitalism and how to fight it. But it helps a lot as you won't be able to ignore it in the first place unless you're really rich and privileged.
I feel bad for the people reading my posts because I'm always repeating the same things all the time.
