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> The cost of all this is that nuance and the ability to have a single train of thought People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming. The rise of video ga

> The cost of all this is that nuance and the ability to have a single train of thought People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming. The rise of video games, and the success of narrative ones, should tell us that people engage with the content and focus. For hours at a time. But they need to care about it, expect way more quality and are way less tolerant of mediocrity. That's sure not great for Hollywood producers, cry me a river. Libraries are reinventing themselves in many places, IMHO they'll happily outlive movie theaters by a few centuries.

milesrout 1y ago
People definitely watch YouTube videos while playing video games and play games on their phones while watching TV/movies. Narrative video games are a tiny and obscure niche.
stevenAthompson 1y ago
> People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming. I'm aware that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen. Many, many people no longer have the patience for narrative in any form and as a consequence literacy rates have been declining for years. > Libraries are reinventing themselves in many places They have no choice. People can't read anymore. Fifty four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level.
- squigz 1y ago
  > I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen My personal experience as a gamer and running a gaming community for many years does not line up with this at all.
  - stevenAthompson 1y ago
    > My personal experience as a gamer and running a gaming community I think that's the rub. Your experience is with people who care. For example, I'm a cinephile. My personal experience is that people have home theaters with 100"+ screens, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, and they would never use a cell phone during a film. That's not most peoples reality though.

milesrout 1y ago

People definitely watch YouTube videos while playing video games and play games on their phones while watching TV/movies. Narrative video games are a tiny and obscure niche.

stevenAthompson 1y ago

> People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming. I'm aware that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen. Many, many people no longer have the patience for narrative in any form and as a consequence literacy rates have been declining for years. > Libraries are reinventing themselves in many places They have no choice. People can't read anymore. Fifty four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level.

squigz 1y ago
> I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen My personal experience as a gamer and running a gaming community for many years does not line up with this at all.
- stevenAthompson 1y ago
  > My personal experience as a gamer and running a gaming community I think that's the rub. Your experience is with people who care. For example, I'm a cinephile. My personal experience is that people have home theaters with 100"+ screens, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, and they would never use a cell phone during a film. That's not most peoples reality though.