Caught Being Biased - #39

I think it was Bruce that said on Dude Soup once that you're more likely to praise something you put a lot of money INTO rather than something you were paid to do. If you get a game for free, you already have that game, and if you're TOLD to praise it, it won't be as genuine as something you sunk $60 of your own money into and have to justify to yourself.

Hear someone say his and I have seen it becoming true more and more "Why be informed when you can use feelings as facts."

I owe a lot to gaming.  

Some of the "Both sides" chatter is really context dependent.  There's quite a difference between talking about video games and which platform you like best versus espousing white nationalism or claiming that LGBT folks don't deserve full rights as citizens.  (Getting your information from multiple sources is good, but that doesn't mean catching up on current events through Breitbart and The Daily Stormer.)

I really liked the second segment, which was nicely personal and interesting.  I hope that Glitch Please is doing well enough to continue running, since it looks like Youtube views have dropped off a cliff and there are no longer any sponsors.

/S/ I agree with all of your comments. Discussion closed.

I find it interesting that you talked about the way multiplayer gaming has changed and board games.  My family personally has become obsessed with Board games because local multiplayer in games has been really sub-par.  Also board game cafes/restaurants are poping up everywhere around Toronto it really makes game night epic.

I think a lot of the people who scream "You're just biased!" are generally either: 

1) Trolls, trying to get a rise out of people for their entertainment to help ease their problems that they can't address IRL / they're trying to have fun at the emotional expense of others and don't actually care and need to learn social boundaries, but we can't teach them that because it's the internet and it's very easy to slip out of the consequences / people craving drama for the sake of drama

2) People who don't know how to communicate properly and use buzzwords to address what they're trying to say about issues they've noticed (biased, fake news, etc...)

For the most part, I find it to be the latter, rather than the trolls. 

At least from what I see on The Know, your team does a great job at being careful with your sources, and trying to bring up both sides of an issue. If you do decide to discuss personal opinions, it's either blankly stated, or the tone of the conversation changes. I haven't seen all your videos however, so maybe there have been one-off moments where it could have been edited/directed better to the audience? I think it's important to note those kind of comments, but to also take it with a grain of salt.

To add to that as well, I've come to the understanding from my own life experiences that everyone is going to be subjective about anything, especially with how easy it is to google your local  echo chamber. From my point of view, as long as people use sound logic, or even better well sourced facts, to support their reasoning, and are open to having a level-headed discussion about it, I welcome it. Even then I understand with big audiences, that can't always happen. It's a lose-lose at the end of the day.

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Ok, I have serious problems with the anime Reddit's definition of what constitutes an anime. Not only is it extremely limiting, but their own definition could be used against them because it's so badly written. 

IE "An animated series" would mean they're not allowed to discuss any Studio Ghibli, Shinkai/Hosoda films, the shorts that come out of the animator expo (ME ME ME, etc), or other Japanese animated movies, but you bet your ass that everyone and their mother was discussing Your Name on the reddit (which it should be mind you). 

Not only that, but how many people do you know on the anime reddit are actually talking about Hanna Kappa, which would fit their definition? Overall, it's just a bad. So bad that even they don't follow until someone on the reddit isn't happy about something popular being discussed on their (like ATLA, RWBY, Shelter, The King's Avatar, etc).

No, I don't want anime to only mean anything that's animated (because that's the extreme opposite, and when people outside of Japan use it, they obviously don't mean that), but anyone that uses it as their only defense, doesn't have a clear understanding of how art/film works.

Ashley could def get away with Purple highlights.