Imagine doing the same review show since 2007.
A kid born in 2007 is turning 18 this year.
The entire bethesda fallout series was released after this.
Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted all born that year (and most of those franchises now long dead).
George W. Bush Jr. was the President that year.
The xbox 360 was in its second year of production.
The nintendo Wii had been in production for just a few months.
The top movie of the year was Spider-man 3, followed by Shrek 3. (Actually, there were a lot of bangers released in 2007 -- remember when the movie industry made multiple good movies in a year?)
The future must have seemed so bright. They probably were going "Wow, this stupid review show about old movies is doing great! I can't wait for all the cool things I'm definitely going to be doing over the next 18 years!"
And 18 years later you're still doing the same stupid review show about old movies.
If Stargate had been reviewed in 2007, then it would have "only" been 13 years old, meaning the review show is older than a lot of the things it reviewed at the time.
It's like being kitty pride and losing control of your powers, getting stuck in a wall and not being able to escape that wall for decades.
He tried to escape. He tried to kill the critic and move on. But he couldn't stop drinking the Dionysian wine of his one success. And when he brought it back, it was with a deep resignation. He knew what his future looked like, and he fought it, but he lost.
The one thing though -- it isn't just this one creator, Doug Walker, trapped in that wall. Looking back at 2007, the media that was produced, the video games, the movies, the TV, (not the music, that was horrible in 2007), it seems like many elements of the culture peaked that year, and this one guy getting trapped in his hit review show is just a symptom of the problem.
Zero Punctuation came out the same year, and let's be real with ourselves -- you can kind of feel that Yahtzee has been pumping the cash cow for 18 years as well, but you can feel he really wishes one of his other properties had taken off -- he's written entire science fiction universes, fantasy, social commentary wrapped in alt reality fantasy. He's done video games. His bread and butter is still that 18 year old wall his ass got stuck in.
It makes me wonder -- So many of these people went nuts with TDS in 2015 -- was it really because of Trump, or was it because the latent anger and resentment towards a world that became trapped in ice, and wouldn't let them escape? At least a one hit wonder like Vanilla Ice can go off and build houses for a living, his hit is created. But these guys need to keep on creating the same content week after week, because their content is ephemeral for nearly anyone who watches it, and falls off the algorithm in a few weeks no matter how popular it once was.
A kid born in 2007 is turning 18 this year.
The entire bethesda fallout series was released after this.
Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted all born that year (and most of those franchises now long dead).
George W. Bush Jr. was the President that year.
The xbox 360 was in its second year of production.
The nintendo Wii had been in production for just a few months.
The top movie of the year was Spider-man 3, followed by Shrek 3. (Actually, there were a lot of bangers released in 2007 -- remember when the movie industry made multiple good movies in a year?)
The future must have seemed so bright. They probably were going "Wow, this stupid review show about old movies is doing great! I can't wait for all the cool things I'm definitely going to be doing over the next 18 years!"
And 18 years later you're still doing the same stupid review show about old movies.
If Stargate had been reviewed in 2007, then it would have "only" been 13 years old, meaning the review show is older than a lot of the things it reviewed at the time.
It's like being kitty pride and losing control of your powers, getting stuck in a wall and not being able to escape that wall for decades.
He tried to escape. He tried to kill the critic and move on. But he couldn't stop drinking the Dionysian wine of his one success. And when he brought it back, it was with a deep resignation. He knew what his future looked like, and he fought it, but he lost.
The one thing though -- it isn't just this one creator, Doug Walker, trapped in that wall. Looking back at 2007, the media that was produced, the video games, the movies, the TV, (not the music, that was horrible in 2007), it seems like many elements of the culture peaked that year, and this one guy getting trapped in his hit review show is just a symptom of the problem.
Zero Punctuation came out the same year, and let's be real with ourselves -- you can kind of feel that Yahtzee has been pumping the cash cow for 18 years as well, but you can feel he really wishes one of his other properties had taken off -- he's written entire science fiction universes, fantasy, social commentary wrapped in alt reality fantasy. He's done video games. His bread and butter is still that 18 year old wall his ass got stuck in.
It makes me wonder -- So many of these people went nuts with TDS in 2015 -- was it really because of Trump, or was it because the latent anger and resentment towards a world that became trapped in ice, and wouldn't let them escape? At least a one hit wonder like Vanilla Ice can go off and build houses for a living, his hit is created. But these guys need to keep on creating the same content week after week, because their content is ephemeral for nearly anyone who watches it, and falls off the algorithm in a few weeks no matter how popular it once was.
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@sj_zero This is all true but it makes it sound like everything was fine up until 2007, and it wasn't. Culture has been stuck in that wall since around the 1980s.