If it isn't clear because my Youtube account has a different name: This is my video. Far Cry 5 (FC5) is a game that has haunted me for a long time. 8 years ago, while sitting in a boring lecture...
If it isn't clear because my Youtube account has a different name: This is my video.
Far Cry 5 (FC5) is a game that has haunted me for a long time. 8 years ago, while sitting in a boring lecture and reeling from having recently played it for the first time, I wrote a rant here on Tildes about this game that flowed easily from my finger tips, even if it may be tough to read and so specific it sparked no discussion. No harm done, really. Some time later during Covid, I found myself in one of those late night online discussions and somehow we ventured into the topic of this game and I began ranting with such vigor that it took me about 40 minutes to finish. A friend in the discussion literally left their chair, went to the toilet, grabbed a drink and returned 10 minutes later and I didn't even notice and was still going.
I'm now out of university, my life is quite different, and it's been 10 years since I've played it for the first time. Indirectly, FC5 is one of the reasons I try to engage with media on a deeper level now, simply because of abysmally dogshit the story is. I've begun learning the complicated skill of video editing, and have found essay writing and editing to be a fulfilling hobby. I'm not looking to turn it into a job, because I am not interested in having Google and Youtube's recommendation algorithm become my new masters. To be this is purely my own creative expression, and while I strive to improve with every video, I don't want to make them differently to have broader appeal. If they change, it's because I want to. This is my stuff, and I'm proud of it.
In a way, despite it's absolutely terrible messaging, FC5 is responsible for that. Maybe I would've found my way towards this hobby without it too, but I think it would've been much later. Either way, I owe a strange thanks to this piece of art, no matter how despicable its message might be.
If it isn't clear because my Youtube account has a different name: This is my video.
Far Cry 5 (FC5) is a game that has haunted me for a long time. 8 years ago, while sitting in a boring lecture and reeling from having recently played it for the first time, I wrote a rant here on Tildes about this game that flowed easily from my finger tips, even if it may be tough to read and so specific it sparked no discussion. No harm done, really. Some time later during Covid, I found myself in one of those late night online discussions and somehow we ventured into the topic of this game and I began ranting with such vigor that it took me about 40 minutes to finish. A friend in the discussion literally left their chair, went to the toilet, grabbed a drink and returned 10 minutes later and I didn't even notice and was still going.
I'm now out of university, my life is quite different, and it's been 10 years since I've played it for the first time. Indirectly, FC5 is one of the reasons I try to engage with media on a deeper level now, simply because of abysmally dogshit the story is. I've begun learning the complicated skill of video editing, and have found essay writing and editing to be a fulfilling hobby. I'm not looking to turn it into a job, because I am not interested in having Google and Youtube's recommendation algorithm become my new masters. To be this is purely my own creative expression, and while I strive to improve with every video, I don't want to make them differently to have broader appeal. If they change, it's because I want to. This is my stuff, and I'm proud of it.
In a way, despite it's absolutely terrible messaging, FC5 is responsible for that. Maybe I would've found my way towards this hobby without it too, but I think it would've been much later. Either way, I owe a strange thanks to this piece of art, no matter how despicable its message might be.
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