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The future of streaming TV is choose your own adventure books but it's written by AI and you have to pay for each decision
and your decisions will be stored in a law enforcement database so they can predict your personality and beliefs to ensure you’re not a bad terrorist
Also the average tv viewer(universally understood to be dumb rubes who are 5-10 years behind in their tastes and opinions) get to vote on the shared universal timeline of the adventure that you experience.
Don't forget the continent of g*mers who would swarm on this just to keep it from being woke.
Should James stick his hand down this bloody hole?
95%: No
5%: Yes
Democracy has failed us.
The business model seems to be that Konami is threatening the fanbase that dumb rubes will make stupid decisions about "The Silent Hill Canon" and so that if they want things to not become fucking stupid and bad, they should pay for premium season pass minigames so they can cobble together a coherent narrative.
With the secondary threat that this will matter in future games, despite the fact that the games that Silent Hill fans actually think count do not have a particularly shared "canon."
Edit: My second guess from where this business model came from is some guy at Konami watched the Jerma Dollhouse stream right before a pitch meeting.
I notice a gradual blurring of the line between fiction and reality.
Characters are no longer just a set of traits that can be adapted and updated to keep with the times. They're treated like real people, but in a fixed state with a right or wrong canon.
One of the earliest examples I can think of is Optimus Prime. A lot of lonely kids saw him as a father figure in the 80s and now it's hard to tell stories with him that break away from that image.
The recent Transformers canon describes the robots as genderless, using terms and knowledge that wasn't widely shared forty years ago. It's jarring to particularly reactionary fans who don't want to think of their projected father figure as anything but male.
I bring this up because the idea of canon can be really dangerous in the hands of a soulless corporation. This soulless corporation is selling canon to the highest bidder. Companies do it regularly, but with extra steps involved.
IP laws and the commodification of canon sets a bad precedent for art.
And the blurring between fiction and reality means that it'll be easier to apply the logic of canon to the real world and real people.
If fictional people aren't allowed to change because of canon, and if fictional people are being treated like real people, real people are going to held up to a canon.
Real people are already held up to the standards of social constructs, and making those social constructs adhere to a canon is what leftists have been fighting against.
And to think people were claiming this game was going to be the start of Silent Hill's RE-esque renaissance.
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this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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