My comment was regarding my own biases (in so far as I can know them) and, admittedly, maybe I should have considered how that might differ from what is true in generalized studies of attractiveness bias.

I do think people often make errors in assuming generalized statistics are at all relevant in any particular case,…

The argument (I think) is that these writers wanted to make The Witcher “better” (as they define “better”, of course) and that the changes they proposed (and largely enacted) did not actually make the stories better. The claim that they screwed up the story is completely compatible with them “giving it their best”.

Yeah, fuck arguments. It’s not as though that is a critical part of seeking truth, or anything.

I’m just not tracking your point then. In what way does your comment actually rebut my point, which (I thought) I conveniently summed up at the end of the comment you replied to?

Even the awareness of bias can function as a form of bias. I know plenty of people that are particularly hard on pretty people because of the cliche bias you’re describing.

Yeah, but, you’re still wrong.... not just wrong... you’re a crazy person.

Starship Troopers is great in spite of the book.

On the other hand... there is something very different about a multi-decade, cross-media, series that makes it somewhat more reasonable to be concerned about adherence to the source material. Words like “canon” start to be tossed around in a way that borders on…

Do you imagine they would couch it as “pissing that away to deliberately make a bad show”? I doubt they would argue that Netflix doesn’t want to make money... it makes much more sense that they would believe the choice was simply misguided (or some such). Netflix, like every other company, makes mistakes all the time.

But some fanjags want to believe that a writer would actively harm their own show, and thus their own career, out of some weird spite.

I don’t want to get into a whole *thing* here, but wouldn’t the fact that he “looks like that” actually make it MORE likely that you’d find him sincere and humble?

What is a “woke dumpster”?

It’s totally possible that it’s actually ideal to have “skeptics” of the source material on your writing team... but the reality of that, in any particular context, is going to be far beyond the perspective of any random person arguing on the internet. If the rumors were true then it’s possible that those writers made…

Yes, this has been true for his entire career, all the way back to The Tudors. Yet you don’t often get stories of him being “hard to work with”, which I think you would if he really was “at odds” even 1/10th as much as he’s been reported to me.

Virtually any bit of media, particularly those going on 30+ years old now, is going to be worthy of it’s share of specific criticisms. That isn’t really the same as disliking the source material in a more general sense (the tone the rumors had).

I think the main criticism isn’t regarding how “faithful” the adaptation is, but concerns around the rumors that several writers actively disliked the source material (both the books and the games). We all, understandably (I think), want people working on stories we care about to love (or at least respect) the source…

That seems a little apples/oranges.

Think about the timing mentioned in the article. They wanted to fix it “pretty quickly after it’s release” which would have been, at least in a legal sense, way too late for the sticker fix.

Yes. If you modulate your expectations to “slightly interactive movie” then you’ll probably have a good time.

I didn’t say there wasn’t evidence of broader issues... just that an anecdote, by itself, isn’t evidence of that... any more than my anecdote, of a great experience at launch, is evidence that the game was perfectly fine at release (for anyone other than myself).

It’s the nature of complex games, particularly those released on PC (complex hw/sw permutations), that not everyone will experience even the bugs that rise to the level of a patch note. It’s even possible that the bugs you experience weren’t even the ones that they mentioned in the patch notes... it’s complicated.