Yep. Mostly faked and even if not- who cares?
Now that I think about it, the whole reason I share movies I love with my friends is because I want to see their reaction. It stands to reason I’d like a similar thing on YouTube.
I was thinking about that earlier when I saw the post and thought that some might be akin to a reaction video. Some “walking simulator” type games really have little game play and you’re essentially just hand cranking the media along. Others might be more interactive but you’re really watching to see the player react to major plot developments like a character death.
Broadly, though, I agree that the layer of gameplay between the person and the media means each player has a different tactile experience with the game – not like each person will have a different reaction to a song based on their personality but more like if each person was hearing the song played at different tempos or repeats or skips or layers missing, etc. It’s just mechanically different.
So different but I think still potentially sort of cousins to one another.
ETA: The creator described his game thusly: “I made it for a certain kind of person, to hurt them.”
I like this guy. I’m not making any assumptions about how sincere he is, but in any case, I find him amusing. If he’s just pandering to old white farts like me, fine. He at least puts some effort into selling it. “These are some cool, smooth brothers, all right? You gotta have…your confidence level has to be at an all-time high to come out there with the…the man got, I don’t even know, like the damn fairy godmother, the thing, the suit, I don’t even know what it is…they don’t give a damn! ‘I’ll still take your girl!’”
Oh absolutely. Sometimes I watch my favourite Youtubers playing a puzzle game and I enjoy smugly knowing the solution while they squirm in frustration. But sports commentators are often professional reactors as well.
Last year I was staying at a friend’s house and found out that she had never seen A Princess Bride. So we did a search and found it on one of her streaming services. As I had suspected she loved it, and watching her watching it was marvelous.
That’s an interesting observation. SRV is very well known, but that doesn’t necessarily mean people are familiar with his music. I think he’s actually a great example of that.
As an odd coincidence, it used to be very difficult to find spoilers for that show on the internet. I watched maybe two seasons, but it seemed like they were doing a lot of stuff just to fill an hour in a lot of those episodes. I was interested but bored, so I stopped watching and started looking for spoilers.
This is great. I forced my nephew to watch that movie when he was about 11-12 years old. He was just like the kid in the movie. He was bound and determined to hate it, and he made it to the point where the priest says "Mawwiage before he broke.
He died 35 years ago and was never a top 40 artist. It’s understandable how someone younger who didn’t grow up listening to rock.
There’s a Gen Z musician and music analyst (I don’t know what to call these guys. There are a lot of channels with young people who obviously studied music in school) who was recommended to do a video on School House Rock. And I totally believe he’d never heard them. The only reason my children know them all is because we bought them the VHS of it when they were young. And my kids are now in their 30s!
My favorite movie is I Heart Huckabees which is very hit or miss. I either get laughter or “WTF?”
He always loses me early on when he starts getting excited about keys. Mystifying amount of specific knowledge I cannot follow.
This made me chuckle. If I wanted to listen to someone trying to hammer out how a song toes, I’d go visit my buddy so we could do it together.
If he would figure that stuff out before the video, that would make it watchable. But then it wouldn’t be much of a “reaction” video, would it?