#negative criticism

[family-trauma]

Yup, this right here, unfortunately. I tried to set boundaries and clearly told them to stop but I got much more criticism, was told to stop arguing and being disrespectful, was told that they have to constantly criticize me because I make mistakes that force them to criticize me and lastly it's because they love me lol.

I think I've become mostly insensitive to their words now after knowing that they are knowingly abusing me and unwilling to admit it.

#absurd #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mental wellbeing #toxic #toxic family #toxicity #toxic people #dysfunctional family #selfhelp #self help #self therapy #negative criticism #contant criticism #toxic love #emotional abuse #family-trauma

[jiggerypokeryfiddlesticks]

CW: Negative criticism

So I finally watched AMC's Interview with the Vampire and while there were some good parts, overall it... wasn't great. There were so many problems that I wouldn't even know where to start. And it did the same shit as the IT movies. Like why bother changing the time period? So you can shoehorn in a dated reference to fucking Bezos? Really? They made one change which lead to another, which lead to another, and so on until the story was unrecognizable and all meaning was lost.

There are so many issues even in the first ten minutes that they might as well have called it Interview with a Vampire instead, cause it sure as hell isn't the vampire. The only resemblance these characters share with their book counterparts are their names. It seriously gave me flashbacks to that horrible Queen of the Dammed movie, exactly what I was afraid of. But, to be fair, at least this time it's actually queer. Though I could have done without the boring 'let's explain queerness to the straight audience' moments.

Also that shit with burning the original tapes was a fucking slap in the face to fans of the book and Anne Rice herself. Like fuck you Rolin Jones. Or... I wonder if some of the problem's are due to Christopher Rice. I mean one of the worst books I ever read he wrote. But I don't know how closely he was involved in the show.

Anyway, all that being said, I wish they had just made it an original vampire story, then I could have enjoyed it without getting pissed every five seconds. Because there were a lot of things that I did like about it, they just got drowned out. Maybe I'll change my opinion if and when season 2 comes out. I'd happily eat my words because, as annoyed as I am, I still want to see where they are going with it, but I don't know what they could do at this point to fix it.

#jp watches AMC IWTV #negative criticism #first impressions #VC has been such a large part of my life #seeing it constantly being butchered is so frustrating #at least I still have the '94 movie #THAT is how you do an adaptation

[kthulhu42]

"I get it. I do"

This entire post proves that you don't.

Women do not want a flower. We don't need a flower to appease us or validate us. We want actual, structural, institutional change. Because we are- from birth - subject to misogyny and sexism in every aspect of our lives. A flower is not going to change the pay disparity we face. A flower is not going to stop domestic violence. A flower is not going to help women suffering for decades due to medical misogyny.

We want to tear the system apart. You want a flower to soothe your ego.

We are not the same.

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #feminism #sexism #gender critical #It's easy to just want the flower when you can opt out of all the negatives #Because then you have male privilege and a flower #And the woman who gave you hers has nothing.

[cherry-delite]

Because I'm a design freak, I went and color picked the pallets of each main character for comparison.

For a "fun" lil' guessing game, they are presented unlabelled and in no particular order. These pallets are so unbelievably redundant that I actually put one character twice by mistake at first, and it took me way too long to realize.

#hazbin hotel critical #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critique #helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #i feel so bad for any animator that has been underpaid to animate alastor and his 1700 different shades of red #main tags are for filtering purposes I apologize if this ends up on those #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #hazbin hotel negativity #helluva boss neg

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

What the actual fuck is this take????

#hazbin hotel negativity #hazbin hotel negative #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critique #anti hazbin hotel #helluva boss negative #helluva boss negativity #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #anti helluva boss #vivziepop negative #vivziepop negativity #vivziepop critical #vivziepop criticism #vivziepop critique #anti vivziepop #spindlehorse negative #spindlehorse negativity #spindlehorse critical #spindlehorse criticism #spindlehorse critique #anti spindlehorse

[normal-thoughts-official]

posts that will probably get me mauled by feral hounds but I do find it funny how Taylor Swift has managed to somehow convince most of her fans that she is the most oppressed person on Earth when she is actually one of the most privileged. She's literally a white one percenter whose dad is so rich he just bought a chunk of one of the biggest record labels ever once she was signed with it just for funsies. And of course with the CO2 emmissions thing right now it's more obvious than ever that TS holds enough power over literally the entire world than most people can even begin to comprehend. Yet somehow all her fans are convinced that all the petty ego fights she gets in on twitter are actually a Misogyny Issue and she is overly criticized and hated on because she is a woman (which is super unique of her and definitely not something that over 50% of the industry also is)

Like obviously misogyny is real and Taylor, like every other woman, is subjected to it. But there is such a thing as context and when it comes down to it the backlash Taylor faces as a woman is minuscule compared to the incredible amount of privilege and entitlement she has as a white burgeois first worlder cishet able bodied neurotypical thin conventionally attractive etc etc etc etc celebrity, which actually makes her less likely to face consequences for her actions and encounter backlash, not more. Especially outside of a music industry/celebrity-only context

But because she is part of one (1) oppressed group she has managed to milk that for all its worth and convince her fans that actually she has no power, no privilege, no ways to shield herself from well deserved criticism and absolutely anyone who speaks against her in any way or context is just being an agent of oppression against her, one of the most sheltered people in the world. Unironically fascinating

#anti taylor swift #taylor swift critical #taylor swift negative

[the-king-of-lemons]

#tone indicator slash lighhearted or whatever it is you guys say when u wanna criticize the qsmp and not get harassed #qsmp #qsmp fr #qsmp french #its only like the 10th time something like this has happened it surely cant be a pattern or anything #tiggady tags #qsmp neg #< tagging this so i actually dont get harassed tho #(genuinely dont believe its malicious or anything but at this point i wouldnt blame people if they did start suspecting that like- #these type of things happened so many times specifically to the french speaking ccs/fans that it does kinda appear as tho its purposeful)

[blue-likethebird]

Reusing the memory system from botw for the tears of the dragon storyline in totk was such a terrible decision on so many different levels that it’s honestly kind of impressive.

While the botw memory system had flaws of its own, there was one small but significant thing that worked in its favour: botw’s memories were largely separate from the main plot in the past, and have absolutely no bearing on the story being told in the present. Aside from a few specific instances (ie the calamity striking, the ceremony, Link and Zelda becoming closer) the memories are all self-contained moments that emphasize character development over driving the story. Because there’s no major narrative throughline between them, it gives players more freedom to discover in any order regardless of how much they’ve progressed through the main quest without running the risk of stumbling across a memory that ruins something else later on in the game.

(This got long so the rest of my analysis is going under the cut.)

The biggest change between the memories from botw and the dragon’s tears from totk is definitely what kind of information these cutscenes relay to you as the player. Botw’s memories are primarily snapshots of small interpersonal moments that hold very little significance to the greater narrative taking place in the past. Totk’s memories are the greater narrative. With only one major exception -that I’ll touch on in a sec-, every cutscene in the dragon’s tears shows a crucial moment of story development with no time left to explore the characters driving that story forwards. There’s no organic moment revealing, say, a quirk of Rauru’s that Mineru finds annoying, or Sonia’s sense of humour, or any of our literal Main Villain Ganondorf’s motivations for going to war with Hyrule. If there’s any moments of character focus they only happen in ways that advance the plot (meaning the only real character focus is on the characters totk wants the entire universe to orbit around, namely Rauru and Zelda), and as such it’s harder to bring myself to care about what happens to anyone.

To illustrate the point I’m trying to make here, compare the memories of the champions Link regains during the divine beast quests to the conversations with the ancient sages at the end of each temple. The memories make passing mentions of the ongoing preparations for the calamity, but the real purpose of those scenes is to showcase who the champions were as people before their deaths and give us a reason to mourn them, even though we know at the start of our journey that they’re all long gone. In contrast, the conversations with the ancient sages are all about the events of the imprisoning war and their promise to Zelda that their descendants will come to Link’s aid in the future, very obviously copy pasted for each of the five times that cutscene is brought up (which is a particularly egregious moment of bad quest design but that’s a rant for another time) in such a way that none of the 5 incarnations of that cutscene reveal anything new about the ancient sages as characters, to the point where none of them even show their faces. I care about Daruk because the game shows me that he cares deeply about the wellbeing of his fellow champions and brings out the best in others. So why should I care about the nameless, faceless sage of water? What’s there to move me about their struggles if my only interactions with the sages are a series of exposition dumps? If the game can’t give me a reason to sincerely care about its main characters, the whole rest of the story is meaningless.

(As an aside, I get the feeling someone on the dev team caught on to the issue I’m describing here, because the tea party memory sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the dragon tear cutscenes. It’s such a jarring change of pace to have the otherwise plot-heavy dragon’s tears come screeching to a halt for a scene where Sonia sits down with Zelda to have a cute little tea party and talk about absolutely nothing of significance that the whole thing almost seems like it was hastily tacked on to the story later. Given that the next (chronological) memory sees Sonia fall victim to an unceremonious death by chiropractor, it feels like someone realized that Sonia really doesn’t do or say much in the scenes before she dies and threw together the tea party scene so players would have at least one moment to look back on fondly when she’s fridged. But I digress)

The story told in the dragon’s tears is a highly linear one. But the open-ended nature of botw’s memory system remains, meaning that these tears can be found and viewed in any order. At first this doesn’t seem so bad, since the first two tears you’re likely to find if you follow the game’s intended path are also the chronological first and second of the memories you can discover through these geoglyph tears. But after those first two, the game kinda gives up on guiding you towards these tears in a way that flows well with the story they wrote: the closest tear geographically to the two the game initially guides you towards correlates to one of the penultimate scenes of that entire storyline, while the next scene chronologically is found almost halfway across the map. As such, it’s all but guaranteed that you’ll spoil yourself in some way without using either a guide or the (somewhat unintuitive and never fully explained by the game) little map in the forgotten temple. Finding memories in order didn’t matter so much in botw because the scenes you could find still worked well as standalone scenes before you discovered every memory and pieced together the full picture, and the game is never trying to surprise me about the characters’ fates at the end of this storyline: hell the first memory you’re guided to shows the calamity striking. But in contrast, viewing a dragon’s tear at the wrong time can completely ruin the story they’re trying to tell in those cutscenes. During my playthrough, for example, the first tear I found after the game stopped guiding me to them showed Ganondorf removing Sonia’s stone from her dead body. At this point I had known Sonia existed for all of like an hour, so every subsequent appearance she made was ruined for me by the fact that I already knew she was nothing but cannon fodder to be killed off for the sake of another character’s pain (Rauru and Zelda a-fucking-gain). I expected to be pissed that it was so easy to spoil myself, or maybe sad in passing that a character with her potential was so underutilized, but instead I just felt… tired. I wasn’t even halfway to the first settlement and already I was completely numb to the story the game was trying to tell.

But the worst was yet to come. And oh boy was it ever a low point for storytelling in the Zelda series. Remember how I said up above that the memories in botw had no connection to the story in the present? Let’s just say the same cannot be said for the dragon’s tears.

It’s May 2023. I’ve just finished the sage of wind questline. I still have hope that the story the game is trying to tell will be good. Deciding that I’ll go to Goron city next, I head towards the Thyplo skyview tower to expand my map, catch a glimpse of a nearby geoglyph from the air, and glide over to check it out. This geoglyph shows me a memory that not only recaps the entire dragon tear storyline, but also ends on a bit of foreshadowing about Zelda’s fate that’s about as subtle as a brick to the fucking face. By exploring -the thing the game claims it prioritized above all else in the design of its world and quests- I’d once again been hit with spoilers for a major story detail.

My main objective in this game is to find Zelda. It’s the only driving factor behind my journey towards all these different regions. The current big mystery I’m supposed to solve is why Zelda’s causing so much hell for the people of Hyrule. I now knew exactly where she was and what the deal with her appearances in other parts of Hyrule was, and I’d found it completely by accident by doing something the game says over and over again that it wants me to do. Unlike with Sonia’s death, this time I was a mess of emotions. I was pissed the fuck off that this open-world game had punished me twice already for trying to explore. More than that, I was disappointed that a game I had been so excited to play, from a series I had so many fond memories of, had let me down like this. With every subsequent quest where the sages and I chased a Zelda I knew was fake to our next objective, and every NPC wondering where she was that I couldn’t tell the truth to, that disappointment grew. The entire rest of the main story was ruined for me before I had progressed past 1/4th of the regional quests and a third of the dragon’s tears. There was no more sense of anticipation or mystery. I finished the rest of the game with a bitter taste in my mouth and haven’t touched it again since.

Do I think this story could have been good? Honestly, I don’t know, and by now I don’t really care either (that’s a lie. I care so so much and that’s probably why I hate totk as much as I do). But it’s all irrelevant, because like Cinderella’s stepsister cutting off her own heel so she can cram her foot into a glass slipper that’s never going to fit, totk is sabotaged by the devs’ insistence that everything fit itself into a world they custom-made for botw. This isn’t a new formula that the series is following, it’s Nintendo slapping a new coat of paint on an existing skeleton, and I’m not optimistic to see what this particular approach has in store for the Zelda series. Especially not at the price they’re charging for it.

#bluebird.txt #salt of the kingdom #totk critical #long post #totk salt #totk spoilers #apologies to my followers for the long-ass whatever this is #I do think about things that aren’t how much I hate this game I’m just in a mood lmao #negative #it’s fine if you disagree I just had to put my thoughts in words

[libakarm]

#homestuck #upd8 #homestuck update #homestuck spoilers #homestuck beyond canon #homestuck2 #hs2 #upd8 spoilers #homestuck 2 spoilers #jegbert #john egbert #Homestuck^2 #idk #memes #homestuck memes #friendly reminder to use the homestuck2/homestuck beyond canon negativity tag when you salt about the comic! #(not including constructive criticism) #you are entitled to your opinions and some would certainly love to filter them out or in when enjoying or loathing this revival #thank u /gen

[family-trauma]

This sums up what I've been going through for a while and never really understood what it was, until recently. Although there are memes out there about emotional damage (sometimes it can be good thing to laugh at the difficulties you've been through in life), it's still a very real thing alot of us has to fight against. A toxic household is still a very tough environment to be residing in due to the above mentioned points.

#absurd #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mental wellbeing #mental abuse #mental health #mentalwellness #toxicity #toxic people #toxic #toxic family #toxic traits #toxic behavior #emotional abuse #emotionally exhausted #emotional trauma #emotionally drained #negative criticism #dysfunctional family #family-trauma

[hailperseusjackson]

the way that, if you took away her armor and the two or three lines referencing it, you would literally never know that sabine was a mandalorian in the ahsoka show. filoni completely stripped her of her culture (and personality) and never gave her a meaningful scene talking about the destruction of mandalore or her family. all in favor of giving her a bad and poorly executed padawan storyline, because apparently a character can’t be interesting unless they’re a jedi

#i’m so mad. I’m so so so mad #complete character assassin nation for sabine #and i think Natasha could’ve done a decent job had she actually been given good writing #like anyone going in who hasn’t watched rebels is getting a completely different character #bc this isn’t sabine #ashowka negativity #filoni critical #sabine wren #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #star wars

[kronoscythe]

ik people have spoken about it before but this specific genre of fans that defend the show like rick is personally holding their families hostage is sooo...

#'the author approved a change so it must be a good one!!' WHO TOLD YOU THAT #i'd rather they just admit that they can't handle seeing criticism of the show and go #instead of making arguments like these #god forbid you say one negative thing about the series or you get jumped by half of pjotwt #pjo show #pjo show crit #not really but whatever

[pocketgalaxies]

crazy how in c2 they'll have three extensive convos checking in with each other while traveling like an hour in-game meanwhile in c3 they've been on the moon for days and still haven't discussed the following:

laudna fucking ate a guy

imogen's mom is a mythical legend amongst the enemy

orym vs. laudna's response to imogen giving into predathos

how did chetney suddenly learn to make hypnotizing toys

delilah briarwood

"some of us are expendable, we should get captured"

anything and everything they said during the trust exercise, including but not limited to:

laudna not being able to distinguish her thoughts from delilah's

imogen's disgust at delilah's inevitable presence

chetney's fear that his new family will leave him

orym's feelings about dorian

fcg relieving stress through murder

fearne's insecurities about their chances of success

ashton's guilt about the shard

and more!

#i'm not complaining i'm just complaining #the difference between the two campaigns is SO STARK and i don't understand why #that's a lie i do understand why. it's bc there's been a ticking time bomb in c3 for a full year's worth of episodes at this point #if not longer #so i get it. but also i'm gonna go crazy. #if they had a full 4hr ep of just debriefing and talking i'd be so much more engaged than another 4 hours of traveling through ruidus #ik there are a lot of ppl out there enjoying the moon lore and the npcs etc but i feel like personally my brain is in a tiny gloomy prison #and the only thing that can free me is SOMEBODY AT THIS DAMN TABLE ASKING 'ARE YOU OKAY?' #anyway! back to c2 :) #2h30m c2e59 #text #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #r: mighty nein #cr3 #cr negativity #r: bells hells

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

If you ever feel bad about your writing remember this:

You didn't write Hazbin Hotel

#hazbin hotel negativity #hazbin hotel negative #helluva boss negative #helluva boss negativity #spindlehorse negative #spindlehorse negativity #vivziepop negative #vivziepop negativity #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critique #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #spindlehorse critical #spindlehorse criticism #spindlehorse critique #vivziepop critical #vivziepop criticism #vivziepop critique #anti hazbin hotel #anti helluva boss #anti vivziepop #anti spindlehorse

[jinx-blackout-84]

Okay so basically at the start of the August drama specifically, Tommy made a skit video. You might wanna watch it for context, and if you do, it's called if youtubers were honest.

Here's the part I will be talking about for the post, though

Also for more context, dream has admitted to sexually messaging underage fans, and still associates with George, who made openly sexist comments.

He had a section in there about how Dream handled the Qsmp situation and was basically just making fun of him.

After seeing this, Dream gets on Twitter and starts liking and unliking posts making fun of Tommy.

Inniters get mad, ofc.

Drm stans are ticked bc their precious baby pedo is being bashed, inniters are fighting back.

Drm stans are calling Tommy abelist for the way he portrayed dream, he was not being ableist, he portrayed every character similarly,and are saying he was joking about Dream getting doxxed, which he never did.

Inniters are pointing out that Dream has tried to take credit for Tommy's career before and that this is bot the first time Dream has behaved like a manchild.

And then the Drm stans go after motherinnit.

She fights back, we fight back, all out controversy, that brings us to where we are now.... awaiting Dream's twitlonger so we can watch Philza bash him and end his career. (This has yet to happen but the second it does I'll add it to the post)

Also, a helpful don't stop the party edit to help explain things too

Be careful though, it flashes.

@give-grian-rights

@uncertaininnit

@timetokrill

@uncalamar

@atlusreadsrandomshit

@girldiomedes

@kyromaniacc

@happyunknownunknown

@colorsystem-color

@milkforartist

#Drm #dream situation #fuck dream #Don't stop the party #Tommyinnit #dsmp #mcyt #Qsmp #Quackity #tw dream #dream neg #dream critical #Tommy pos

[deepcoraldragon]

Bitzel perfectly summing it up

Like seriously, if you still follow him after everything, what is it gonna take?

#dream neg #dream situation #discourse #even the usual defence mechanism #that no criticism is ever in good faith bc it's just antis #has to fall apart at some point? #or you know #not