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Also that they CAN be streamers, which is an oddly specific rule. Don't know why that would need to be specified. Like are we worried that Grace Van Dien leaving acting for streaming would disqualify her or something?
this is much easier now
the challenge was originally created by streamer QTCinderella as a joking challenge for other streamers to prove they aren't misogynists:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AnimatedCourageousJayPeoplesChamp-xKZTABt4dXKYgnxq?tt_medium=redt
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is inspired by this bit:
Here's a statistical analysis of the streamers that got called out in that original post and actually did the test, which is actually kind of interesting despite the dude's delivery:
A Statistical Analysis of the Name 100 Women Challenge 10:09
And here's a follow-up with more people who did the challenge:
How Fast Can Women Name 100 Women? - A Statistical Analysis 10:06
The average time in that small sample size is 26:28, by the way, just in case you want to compare your own results. 30:48 for men, 12:37 for women.
I wouldn't describe that as a problem at all.
I will say, the original intent is good. I'm always going to approve of exposing/driving out misogyny.
Give me time, and I can give you a list of anything you want. But on the clock? It's going to be a disaster. I know many things, but I'd still almost certainly absolutely bomb on Jeopardy.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
oh i can rattle off a hundred vtubers no problem
Out of curiosity, I looked at his spreadsheet to see what the least popular categories were. Not much to report on, but I do find it amusing that the only entries for "CEO" are three different misspellings of the name of the CEO of Youtube. (Though to be fair, it is not a common name and I assume they did the challenge without looking up anything.)
I got to 100 in 13 minutes and 29 seconds, mainly from the world of entertainment with a handful of politicians and Marie Curie doing her bit for the sciences
10% had variations of Catherine as a first name, interestingly - I think I got into a groove
Lots of women with links to famous men, too - Janet Jackson, Barbara Bush, Karen Carpenter, Nancy Sinatra, Bindi Irwin
Repeat, Dan has gained remote control of the gamerscent.
Its not showing on my feed
People love that series!
They're secretly robots, you see
Horizon's popularity has often felt like (James Cameron's) Avatar popularity, to me. Where it's definitely real, there's clearly an audience that shows up, but there are huge swathes of people who are like, "I choose not to acknowledge the existence of this." An antipathy that manifests as a willful blindspot.
I wonder where that comes from. I know that for me personally, I'll sometimes take a thing and CHOOSE not to care about it. To say to the relentless hype/discourse apparatus that defines gaming social spaces, "Not this one. Can't make me care about this one." Drawing a boundary, reclaiming some of my time and sanity. Big, expensive genre stuff is often a place where I do that, anything with a marketing push big enough for me to feel like I'm DOING SOMETHING by tuning it out.
I personally don't trust anyone who's NEVER out of sync with popular opinion, who always just has the consensus opinion. It makes me feel like none of their opinions are really theirs, that they're crowd-sourcing their views. Which is maybe unfair! But I like a little bit of contrarianism, a willingness to go against grains.
(I also think Horizon sucks, so, it's easier for me to be all abstract and conceptual about all this)
Very much a "I enjoyed it at the time, and then didn't think about it once since then." situation.
Hilariously the second game dropped in the window of Elden Ring so it’s lunch got eaten again
which isn't to say that they're necessarily bad - i play a lot of them and have a good time up until i get bored and don't finish them - but they can just kind of mush together. especially if you're a games journalist guy and the only times strangers talk to you about them is to yell about sony console war stuff
I kind of wasn't even aware it was a big sony exclusive though, all of them also coming out on PC has totally eroded any sense I once had of certain titles being exclusives
https://www.ign.com/articles/helldivers-2-is-playstations-fastest-selling-game-of-all-time-with-over-12-million-sold-in-12-weeks
it's been really successful for them
The new crew doesn't really play any of the big open world games apart from Spider-Man. Ragnarok went mostly undiscussed (Though Dan gave GoW 2018 5 stars). Nobody plays Ubi games. (Alex was the only one who touched those, and Vinny some Division 2 iirc).
It's partly the nature of their work, they need to discuss games every week so you can't spend a month farming sidequests in Valhalla. Part is that the current crew aren't really attracted to these games anyway.
Still, it came up in the GB Discord and I looked at the numbers, Horizon 1 sold around 25m copies up to 2023, 8m in it first 6 months. Horizon 2 sold around 8 in 12 months, no new numbers since a year ago. Those are pretty serious numbers, but there may a Rebirth problem there, where the sequel is much bigger and more expensive to make, but sells less.
I like the combat part of Horizon even though in 2 it's definitely overcomplicated for no reason apart from making the game big. It's also crazy to me how poor all the loot interactions are in a $200m AAA game, there are so many items and drops and you use almost none of it, because you are always limited by drops from machines that only exist on certain high end parts of the map. If you look at guides, they almost all advice to beeline to a certain vendor and buy a few weapons, then complete boring side activities for 2 legendaries, use that mix to do the Arena then never upgrade them much because by the time you can farm the mats you are already strong enough to beat the game, and the DLC has better once you start it. And NG+ has upgraded tiers of weapons, so farming endgame is pointless. The whole core of the gameplay crafting loop is undercut by its balancing. Or a simple thing about how to upgrade some pouches you have to go swim after fishes that swim at 97% of your swimspeed, who has fun holding forward for a minute until a "Press Y" prompt appears. Oh and you need 3 40% drops, so that's 9 fish on average for 4 extra arrows.
Storywise it has many quite interesting elements which makes the native-american cosplay aspect of it a Problem. It was a bad idea when they started it in 2013 as a Dutch company and it hasn't gotten better since. The fact that they're currently shopping it in Hollywood seems insane to me.
And it's a real shame because the idea of 'tech bro screwed up the world to total ecological collapse, and a last minute hail mary was to create an artificial ecosystem with machine animals (who clean up the mess until humans can be reawakened), but because of further fuckery the humans don't know this' is a really cool hook.