Increasingly certain that the reason I bounce off Blaseball like a bullet off Superman's chest is because 90% of it is the fandom around it, and right now, I want to watch or read or play stuff with like, 0% fandom around it.
I want to go "I enjoyed/did not enjoy that television program, comic book, motion picture or video game" and have that be the end of it. I don't wanna browse the wiki, I'm not gonna read the fanfiction, and I'm definitely not gonna get into pointless internet slapfights over it.
Criticism is vitally important, and I will still read critics. But right now I want to read them to be alerted to stuff I've never heard of that is brilliant, instead of having my own opinions fed back to me.
To be clear, if you love Blaseball, go wild. This is, if anything, a vent about the larger issues with the content-comes-to-you model, where even if I don't really want to read about the thing, guess what I'm gonna wind up doing anyways.
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re: Blaseball realization
To be clear, if you love Blaseball, go wild. This is, if anything, a vent about the larger issues with the content-comes-to-you model, where even if I don't really want to read about the thing, guess what I'm gonna wind up doing anyways.