This one doesn't bug me or anything, but I'm generally perplexed by the phrase "Doesn't respect the player's time," because I don't know what it means in relations to video games. It's lacking any sense of parameter needed to know how it applies as a criticism.
As far as ones that actually bug me, "historical accuracy" has pretty much become an avatar for "I wish this game only had white hetero-normative men in it" when discussing video games.
Yeah I'm getting pretty tired of the doesn't respect the players time argument too. It's a really valid criticism when you expound on it but I've been seeing a lot of just that phrase and just an assumption of "And you all know that's bad so moving on.."
Like, one way I think it's correctly used would be as a criticism of Super Mario Party. I really enjoy that game, and I think it's got some of the most-fun minigames and modes of any of the Mario Party series (Especially the rhythm-based music stuff), but the actual board-game part, I would argue, doesn't respect the player's time. I say this specifically for the criticism that there's so many un-skippable animations that don't add anything at all to the experience. I understand making the player watch them on the first round, but after that, they really need to be skippable. If a player gets a star on round 3, I don't need yet another ~8 second animation showing the change in the 1st place -> 4th place order. I got it, game, I really do.
But I hear the phrase "doesn't respect the player's time" also used a lot in terms of seemingly optional stuff, like side quests in open world games, or supplies management in stuff like Red Dead, stuff that seems like it's fundamentally a part of what the game is.
This one doesn't bug me or anything, but I'm generally perplexed by the phrase "Doesn't respect the player's time," because I don't know what it means in relations to video games. It's lacking any sense of parameter needed to know how it applies as a criticism.
As far as ones that actually bug me, "historical accuracy" has pretty much become an avatar for "I wish this game only had white hetero-normative men in it" when discussing video games.
The school where I teach made it into the tourney (Even if it is just one of those crappy play-in games, let's go #DunkCity), so I'm all hyped up for it. I'm totally in.
I don't even remember which movie it was, but I texted a friend to see if he wanted to go to see a movie. He said sure, he'd meet me there in front of the theater. I waited until the last second, and he never showed up. I hate being late to movies, so I went in and sat down. The theater was almost empty, only me and a handful of other people.
Near the end of the trailers, my friend comes in and sits down next to me. He whispered he had to make a stop first and that's why he was late.
He reaches into his coat and pulls out a bag and a spoon.
Inside that bag was a bread bowl full of soup.
He offered me the top part of the bread bowl they give you, and my response was "You brought fucking soup to a movie?"
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