I was excited to see that Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne was reviewing extremely well, a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, living up to the high scores of the previous show, one of the best game adaptations of all time.
Users reviews are useless because they’re easily astroturfed for bonkers reasons.
Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.
This has forced me to create a new system I like to call “talking to your friends”. If I wanna know if a movie or show is good, I ask Rebecca or Muhammad because they have similar interests to me. If I wanna know if a game is good, I can talk to Eugene or Jake. Is this music any good? Well, Marcy has similar tastes to me but not always so it’s a toss up.
If I don’t got no friends with that interest, well, time to find a niche online community and start chatting people up.
Yah, maybe my post came off as “haha nerds, try my foolproof method of having friends” when what I actually meant was “The state of the modern world has caused me to abandon what could be thought of as technological improvements because they are far worse at accomplishing their goal than the old ways.”
Reviews have probably never been unbiased, but there’s so much general misinformation now that even a glut of info is unreliable for figuring anything out.
Or just not care about other peoples opinions on things and just watch what catches your eye. If it doesn’t seem interesting by the nth episode just drop it.
That’s time wasted and you’re usually manipulated into it anyway with cliffhangers and flashy visuals instead of quality content.
If something is going to face plant like game of thrones, I want to know in the beginning before I get invested. All forms of marketing are geared toward hiding those face plants to drive viewership, but it’s the only metric people really care about: is this movie essentially longform clickbait that isn’t going to pay off in the end, like so much of the other shit coming out recently
On the other hand, pretty much anything I’ve ever disliked I’ve discovered through reviews or mentions online, while nearly everything I liked I’ve just stumbled upon myself.
Users reviews are useless because they’re easily astroturfed for bonkers reasons.
Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.
This has forced me to create a new system I like to call “talking to your friends”. If I wanna know if a movie or show is good, I ask Rebecca or Muhammad because they have similar interests to me. If I wanna know if a game is good, I can talk to Eugene or Jake. Is this music any good? Well, Marcy has similar tastes to me but not always so it’s a toss up.
If I don’t got no friends with that interest, well, time to find a niche online community and start chatting people up.
Also because they usually judge criteria differently. They watch a lot of movies and are looking for things the average person isn’t.
that’s going to cap your bandwidth to what your friends have time to watch… not criticizing, i do the same, but honestly fuck bribed reviewers.
Yah, maybe my post came off as “haha nerds, try my foolproof method of having friends” when what I actually meant was “The state of the modern world has caused me to abandon what could be thought of as technological improvements because they are far worse at accomplishing their goal than the old ways.”
Reviews have probably never been unbiased, but there’s so much general misinformation now that even a glut of info is unreliable for figuring anything out.
Or just not care about other peoples opinions on things and just watch what catches your eye. If it doesn’t seem interesting by the nth episode just drop it.
That’s time wasted and you’re usually manipulated into it anyway with cliffhangers and flashy visuals instead of quality content.
If something is going to face plant like game of thrones, I want to know in the beginning before I get invested. All forms of marketing are geared toward hiding those face plants to drive viewership, but it’s the only metric people really care about: is this movie essentially longform clickbait that isn’t going to pay off in the end, like so much of the other shit coming out recently
On the other hand, pretty much anything I’ve ever disliked I’ve discovered through reviews or mentions online, while nearly everything I liked I’ve just stumbled upon myself.