so fobcore to be up for two awards they deserve to win, lose both of them, not even show up to the awards show But dress up in silly outfits for their prerecorded performance. would expect nothing less from the band of all time tbh

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Mom: “God why do you give up so easily you can’t expect to be perfect immediately”

well you see mother when I’m not perfect immediately you burst into flames and bite my head off

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Gaming awards are weird this year. We have TGA, which has never made sensible nominations, and has publicly offended both the game developers, and the audience, by cutting the award winner speeches early and exists only for the hype and ads money, and to contrast we have GDC, which, well, Games Developer Conference, that consists of developers, is supposed to have critical merit behind it.

Yet, TGA gives Alan Wake 2 the Best Direction, Best Story and Best Visuals, while GDC gives AW2 Best Visuals only, while best Narrative goes to BG3. Also Tears of the Kingdom somehow got best technology???

Obv, I am a biased AW2 fan, and awards are generally meaningless, the normal disclaimer when discussing these things, y'know. Still, to me this is like an inverse of what should have happened, cause it's weird for TGA to NOT go for the obvious trendy game BG3, and for the GDC to follow said popular trend.

I don't doubt BG3 is good, not at all. I just doubt a 100+++ hour game can tell the story with the same impact that the 20-30 smth hour one can. Also, the hundred-hours game is rpg, so you have multiple choices, which normally leads to content cuts of the consequences of said choices, cause they are just not viable, for developers OR for players. And again, AW2 is a linear story with fixed characters, plus they make heavy use of the extended lore of the remedyverse. And it's a story about stories inside a story. Written by a writer, about a writer and for writers. Again, I don't mean to down BG3 and Larian - they are a great studio, a dying breed these days in the industry, I just don't think you can meaningfully tell a story over such a long period of time, pacing exists the chat in these cases.

Also, I am just. What Technology is GDC referring to when they award Tears of the Kingdom??? Specifically technology, not design, design went to BG3 there is no question about that. Like??? Switch is a not a new platform, the hardware has been the same for...more than 7 years I think, at this point? What kind of technology are they talking about here?

update: looked it up and apparently the tech award goes to TOK for the multi-leveled seamless open world and physics engine, again, on a Switch hardware. Yeah, I get behind this choice now.

I am a bit mad now that the GDC Innovation award didn't go to Viewfinder. Like, that game is LITERAL innovation, no other game did something like Viewfinder before...

Another great reminder that everything is subjective, and awards especially.

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when i didnt know how to tell the very first guy i ever went on a date with at like 13 that i did not like him because he was too tall and didnt like high school musical or my little pony, so i just started acting really weird and sending him blingees on skype until he asked to just be friends. and i said oh thank god and never talked to him again. i feel like that should have been the first sign of Something but instead i was like ah yes well done well handled i am winning an award in normal behavior 😌❤

bls are the equivalent of soap operas. to me.

i love him so much its not even funny

heehee hoo hoo procrastinating things so i rant here

So a show that exploud trauma of a real woman without her consent and a show that was such a mess to make that an actress walked of a set, and that is borderline sexualizing teens get a nominations, but 2 shows with phenomenal acting about people of different shapes, sizes, sexual orientations and races killing N@zi and white supremacists, don't. Like, I don't want to suggest anything, but I feel like this should be point out

I genuinely forgot about the MMAs. I remember watching le ssera performance and being meh about it. Bc there was SO much they could have done. Also not too related but back to their webtoon stuff I'm confused why they even have one? There was never any indication of their lore in their debut trailers or in their debut mv and comeback mv. Unless their lyrics do?? I feel like the hybe approach to lore is a sponsorship. Which I guess is fine but it feels so disconnected from the group itself that it's like what's the point of having lore?? Their intro videos like the hydra one were good and played into their model concept just fine.

With newjeans, I agree that their music is not award show friendly. For me, now that the debut glow kinda worn off a bit I'm realizing that their marketing really played a BIG hand in their music being interesting to me. Bc when I don't watch the mv the music feels more okay to me. Dunno if that's just me though. I wish they did some cool arrangement with the songs!! Like they did a dance break but none of them imo are great dancers except maybe hanni?

Ive, enhypen, and txt... I'm honestly confused on what they were going for? Like some parts were cool but others just?? The vcr being slow moving and in the middle felt awkward but not only that it's also they just weren't interesting to me.

i don't know anything about le sserafim 'lore' and i do my best to forget they exist as a group.

tbh it's not just their music, newjeans aesthetic/concept also puts them at a huge disadvantage for doing large scale stages. it's very hard to scale up quirky y2k tweens to something that can fill a stadium without adding something to it. the way that aesthetic has been adapted and interpreted allows for really good multi-medium integration (ie in the marketing), but because it's fundamentally based from existing physical objects, it's hard to scale it up in away that tone matches properly in this specific instance. the only idol that i think could probably pull it off would be yena, because she has that whole superhero bit from smiley that would allow for more spectacle + suspension of disbelief.

you and me both. i have no clue what any of them were going for. not to bring back my 'dont make me tap the sign' meme but if the logic of your performance is based in group lore that is not easily and immediately understandable to a layperson, it's a bad performance. especially at this type of event.

also all the times i thought to myself i'd really like seeing vic wearing a dress to some big award show this is not what i meant 😭