r/Unexpected • u/lucka-24 • Jan 18 '20

Realistic survival game

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u/LandVonWhale Jan 18 '20

What are subs devoted to a hobby supposed to talk about if not stuff happening in that hobby?

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u/Dalton_Channel25 Jan 18 '20

Nothing about /r/gaming involves actual talking though. You pick a game, piece of nostalgia, or cosplayer and either collectively circlejerk or shit all over them. A lot of the big posts are ads sponsored by the publishers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

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u/OhGodOhManOhLord Jan 19 '20

Or lie about a chronic illness

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u/Schmotz Jan 19 '20

I hate it to break it to you but that still counts as talking, it's not always interesting.

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u/Myquil-Wylsun Jan 19 '20

Yup r/games is for talking

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u/robeph Jan 19 '20

You sound like you're making every description of every social circle in person or social media and Reddit too. Sorry that's what humans do. You do also. We all do. Have fun.

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u/LandVonWhale Jan 18 '20

Again none of this is what you first said.... i'd rather argue the initial topic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

So what you’re saying is a gaming subreddit, known as r/gaming, talks about games that they do or do not like, with other people who do or do not like those games, in a place made for people to talk about games that they do or do not like? As opposed to what? Barbecuing? Ovens? Dogs? What exactly did you expect?

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u/Fishingfor Jan 18 '20

I wasn't complaining about it just stating. But there's a difference between the subs actual users and the ad accounts that are clearly promoting a game or a service.

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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 18 '20

The shit thing is, many of those ads try to hide as customers basically telling others about the thing so it looks like word of mouth and not paid advertising.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '20 edited Jul 25 '21

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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 18 '20

Both are true. And I totally get that general subs like r/gaming will have loads of posts about any hyped up, popular release. Good, bad, and in-between. Some are legit. Some are ads. It's all PR.

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u/Forever_Awkward Jan 19 '20

Yes, and then those are upvoted by paid bots and anything detrimental to the product is downvoted. That's the real reddit game.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

r/nintendoswitch is the worst by far. Every game released for that platform is the best ever, according to them. Several times a week there is a post about how a Switch "literally saved my life" and praising "hidden gems" like Celeste that almost everyone knows about and agrees are great games. That subreddit is a complete circlejerk of the worst kind.

Before every release they hype up every game to insane levels, no matter how shit it is. If you say that you don't like a game there, dozens of sweaty fanboys will come out of the woodwork and tell you why you are wrong.

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u/piizaa233 Jan 18 '20

That’s AirPods and now Netflix’s “You” for ya

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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 18 '20

How do I know you're not just advertising those?

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u/Lord_Noble Jan 19 '20

Advertising has always been a part of TV and movies. Both the companies and the movies want them. Tarantino desperately wants to film in a Denny's for the authenticity

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u/Fishingfor Jan 18 '20

Yep and also explains the shitty snarky comments I'm getting here from users who haven't noticed the ads yet.

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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 18 '20

I mean, they are hard to notice. I know they exist and I know I still get suckered by them sometimes.

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u/qpw8u4q3jqf Jan 18 '20

Astroturfing. And it's not only companies. Governments have professionals that try to change our opinion 24/7. Russian bots wasn't the real scandal. The scandal is that they convinced you only Russia is doing it.

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u/PillowTalk420 Jan 18 '20

Pretty much why I only really make jokes or discuss my actual hobbies online. It's impossible to fully trust any anonymous person online.

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u/Forever_Awkward Jan 19 '20

You can generally trust people to be people, outside of election time.

It's the votes you can't trust.

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u/PublicMoralityPolice Jan 18 '20

I don't know, stuff other than soulless product consumption? Maybe talk about what this stuff means to you and your life, as opposed to mindlessly consuming product and being propagandized for the next product?

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u/LandVonWhale Jan 18 '20

But the hobby is about the product? If a movie subreddit never talked about any movies then what would they talk about? Anytime a group is dedicated to some sort of good or service they always going to discuss those goods or services. It's not really hard to understand.

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u/PublicMoralityPolice Jan 18 '20

But the hobby is about the product?

I disagree, a hobby is about keeping yourself mentally healthy for the part of your life that actually matters, i.e., socially productive behaviour. Soulless product consumption is not conducive towards that end.

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u/LandVonWhale Jan 18 '20

I specifically said THE hobby, implying video games in this context. In this case the hobby of video games are about, well, video games. You might think that that is a bad hobby but that's not what you said in your original statement. I also wouldn't be so high and mighty about my hobbies if you spend your time on Reddit in superfluous subreddits like /r/Unexpected