Devil's Advocate: This is for the adult gamer set who only have a prescribed amount of time they can spend on gaming. They get a chance for a few hours every few weeks. Their lives are overwhelming with details and information they need to remember regarding every day life. They simply don't have the mental capacity to remember all the details from a game they spend two to three hours on once every few weeks, not when their mental focus is given to you know, real fucking life.

While I understand the frustration with such writing, because it bothers me as well... I don't have a job where I work 60 hours a week nor do I have children. I'm kind of the exception to the rule when it comes to being able to give a game my full attention. Further, I have always had an incredibly good memory and attention to detail. Most people I have met in my life simply... do not have incredibly good memories or attention to detail. That doesn't make them bad people who are living life wrong, it just means their brains work differently or they're putting that mental energy to different things.

If we want people to pay attention to these stories, well, we've got to change fucking society from the ground up so they have the free time to actually be able to do so. Whinging about it like this isn't going to magically make people pay better attention when they have to split their time with taking care of their children, which obviously should take priority over a fucking video game.

People act like the Netflixication is because people are all busy staring at their phones... I posit that it's actually people cooking meals, doing dishes, doing laundry, ironing clothes, and a thousand other tedious daily activities where they're trying to squeeze in some entertainment while also paying attention to something else entirely.