When something like that happens, I think it stems from having something they genuinely like, but the current, available product is crap. Going to the wrestling example, smarks (smart marks) like good wrestling, but the current product that they can access is supposedly mostly poor.
Arguably, this forum has a significant component of bashing current games, comics, or movies/tv (though we may not consume much of it) rather than completely disregarding it.
The people who still post here are the ones who saw from the beginning that games journalism was just a symptom of the disease. It's impossible to become apathetic when the thing you are angry about threatens your very existence.
We aren't here to just bash shitty games. We're here to talk about the societal rot that is causing games to be shitty.
When something like that happens, I think it stems from having something they genuinely like, but the current, available product is crap. Going to the wrestling example, smarks (smart marks) like good wrestling, but the current product that they can access is supposedly mostly poor.
Arguably, this forum has a significant component of bashing current games, comics, or movies/tv (though we may not consume much of it) rather than completely disregarding it.
The people who still post here are the ones who saw from the beginning that games journalism was just a symptom of the disease. It's impossible to become apathetic when the thing you are angry about threatens your very existence.
We aren't here to just bash shitty games. We're here to talk about the societal rot that is causing games to be shitty.