Common Room S4E7: Hot Cross Buns

You just threw me back to my teenagerhood installing english patches on ROMs to emulate tokimeki memorial girls side games and sadly watching all the translation projects for the boys side games fall apart... memories. wonder how those translation projects are doing in current year

likewise my thing with Persona is that it constantly gets credit for inventing shit it didn't invent, but on some level i realize that's because the stuff that actually invented it can be super esoteric and inaccessible for reasons ranging from weird archaic design to bad UI to language barrier issues (fucking inexcusable that there's still no way to play any Tokimeki Memorial game in english btw)

Kzinssie

agreed! but some popular things are less appealing when you have experience with the stuff it draws from that may be a harder sell. like i've genuinely never watched any other stuff that does the "sitcom but fucked up" format so wandavision being another one of those doesn't even really register for me

Kzinssie

something's popularity is never inherently good or bad!

The Shrieking Shack

i used to have like a complex around people making fun of the mcu but honestly i just think that people engage with different mediums/genres to different degrees and thats okay. some things youre fully on board with the lowest common denominator popcorn trash, others you get deeper and deeper into more and more esoteric subgenres. i have extremely pleb tastes in film but then ill turn around and play obscure japanese PC98 dungeon crawlers and scoff at people who think Persona is some cutting edge thing

Kzinssie

no I appreciate Xeecee being a cynical crank about marvel, I hate it too but like, I don’t wanna shit on the people who do enjoy it, but I really do hate it looooool. Wandavision has been the only thing that genuinely tempts me tho just because I do enjoy sitcoms and I do like older sitcoms and my sitcom history..... so even if it’s cringe having something basically be the Evoland of sitcoms interests me. I just don’t care about superheroes at ALL so idk how well it will grab me if they do move beyond that format into just marvel centric stuff. Idk. Means having to ask my dad for his Disney+ password and installing it on my iPad and I’m just too lazy for that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯