#extra thoughts

Wow anon, you really are asking to be hunted for sport. The fandom's darling child, a coward and unlikable!?!? Someone is already writing a dissertation about why you are wrong. Not me, to be clear, but someone will.

Honestly this was closer to my views of Kevin on my initial read through of the books. But after the EC, lots of random info from Nora in ask, breakdowns of his character by the fandom, and finally The Sunshine Court my views on him have changed a lot. He is still not beloved by me. I don't read Kevin-centric fics, and if he is completely missing I'm fine with that. Also I hate the Kevin/Andrew/Neil pairing. Or Kevin with either of them separately. It's a big nope for me.

It seems like this fandom is literally quietly for a while and slowly dying because this fandom is small barely any members on there after it’s exposed for weeks nothing new.

He comes off as a hungry guy. He has insatiable lust for power. The One Being: Devours everything. The Amulet is that thing that eats everything. His freaking skeleton hands are huge and grab everything.

He wants everything. Shinnok comes off as that kid that wants another roll at the dinner table but his mom told him no. Hence why he is one of the skinniest characters in the franchise. He couldn't have shit and so now he wants it all. Give him his extra roll damn it.

It seems evident to me that Notch originally created a male character, with masculine features and a masculine name, and then later decided they were agender. It leans right into the cultural thing of masculine features being allowed to be gender neutral while feminine things are marked as non-neutral.

And obviously I'm not criticising real people here! If I met Minecraft Steve in real life, I would not have anything to say about their gender. But Steve is a character in a video game who is defined SOLELY by their appearance and name, and I think notch/Mojang could have done a much better job of actually creating nonbinary characters for their game.

"It's the Myers Briggs test but for gamers" - I agree 100%. It has the same flaws and the same fundamental issues. However, I think it does get a small amount of credit for being focused on motivations rather than just "this is a fundamental identity truth".

"it's missing questions about FEELINGS and emotional responses. E.g. I play horror games to feel scared, I play cozy games to feel happy, etc" - I couldn't figure this out yesterday but I fully agree - there's no space in the quiz for gamers who are motivated by the game making them feel an emotion. And as people pointed out, that is a commonly accepted motivation for engaging with movies and shows! So why isn't it in their quiz?

"whether or not I like something depends on the game - e.g. with collecting all the things: in a platformer where that's the entire point? Absolutely! But in an open world game if there's 500 feathers hidden in random places and the only reward for collecting them all is an achievement? I don't care, I'm ignoring the feathers" - this is the point I was making yesterday. It's hard to identify a single motivation when I play a variety of games for completely different reasons. I would argue that the idea that someone can be driven by one specific core motivation is fundamentally flawed, because even though I would say I'm someone who likes 100%ing a game, I have only ever reached 100% in a tiny proportion of the games I've played.

The video itself showed off some stats that were somewhat interesting, like the survey found completion was the strongest motivator overall. The video then asked the question "is this because people are fundamentally motivated this way, or is it just because games are designed to encourage and reward completion specifically?" And then proceeded to.... Not answer the question.