I remember watching some gameplay demo a year or two ago and they got this gravelly-voiced guy to do the voiceover telling you how awesome the game was going to be. It reminded of those super-douchey EA plugs for their games with wailing guitars and dudebros, it turned me off of the game. I haven’t been paying…

“The kids need to have fun” would be great on a tombstone

There’s also the fact that, by nature, most teenagers are sorely lacking in life experience and the attendant sense of perspective that it provides.

I think our society continues to affirm the fact that real people are both likeable and unlikeable, virtually without exception, and that audiences simply aren’t comfortable with that fact.

I mean... it’s understandable, to some extent... I am often watching a movie or playing a videogame to escape a variety of…

The obvious counter to your point, assuming your assertions are true, is that you may have provided the best excuse not to dwell especially on that side of the picture in a narrative. The kids lack the ability to actually grok it and it’s so obvious to the adults as to be anodyne. Who is that side of the picture…

I think I might have failed to be clear previously, I’m not saying that teen angst should be dismissed or patronized. I’m saying that the flip side of the coin of teen behavior goes unacknowledged in a lot of games and movies. Yes there’s the pain and uncertainty of dealing with being an emerging person, the flip side…

Or even use that infantile/self-indulgent angle as a mine for cheap drama, which is more obnoxious than anything. Clearly there’s enough of a market for this that we keep seeing it, though.

“deeply honest portrayal of the inherent angst of being 17"

Yeah, turns out that the Greatest Generation lied to us when they wrote about their own history. One example among many, rationing was widely ignored until it was made law.

“Life goes on. Whatever we need to keep going, it is what it is,” said Clovis resident Claudia Winton. “We’ll take caution and stay out of crowded places. The kids need to have fun.”

yet all of that is buried underneath one of the clearest examples of how disgusting capitalism is overall.

“create one of the most ambitious games of all times”

So you’re saying you shouldn’t do it the the campus police department’s parking lot on a weekend, without a catch pan, but with only an empty windshield washer fluid bottle, which fails to catch more than a few ounces, then quickly drive off when you’re done, leaving a giant red patch of ATF in the packed snow that…

Here’s a picture of a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 V8. My neighbor has one in his driveway. It makes 345 HP and 375 ft-lb of torque. When I walk my dogs in front of this truck, the top of the hood is just above the bottom of my rib cage.

That smacks of ex post facto rationalization. The aesthetics of both corporate design and custom nodding of the front end of trucks has been following a trajectory or “overly large and aggressive.” Trucks have been adequately cooled without these monstrous front ends for years, as well as sports cars, super cars, and…

I think I understand your point, and I have run into this when discussing popular anime that I find to be disappointing. These discussions cut both ways: if you want your favorite art to be accepted, then you also have to be open to it being criticized. Otherwise, you are just advocating for the other side of…

I don’t really mind most of the dimensions of your brother’s truck, but those grills and the front end height bother the shit out of me. They look like they’re purpose-built to destroy as much as possible when they run into a pedestrian or other car. I got into a car accident with a truck from 2018 last year and it…

That's a lazy response 

With all those gizmos, are you situationally aware of of how small girls will think your penis is? 

A person’s response is up to them. What I took from this article is that the author is stating that they have acknowledged the “badness” of the art they enjoy. That’s totally fine, I acknowledge those feelings and validate such a person in having those tastes. The flip side of that coin is that if you choose to adorn…