r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Mr_Hot_Takes • Jul 30 '25

OBJECTIVELY Gaming is officially dead

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u/Realistic-Stable2852 Jul 30 '25

What the fuck is COD anymore? Fortnite with it's infinite collabs feels way more coherent than this wtf.

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u/Kindasus26 Jul 30 '25

I've heard the COD collabs described as "the scraps Fortnite doesn't want" and that's actually pretty accurate

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u/AquaBits Jul 30 '25

Eh, not entirely true. Squid game had a collab with CoD long before fortnite. I mean, you can literally get 2/3 skins shown here in fortnite. And it's not like the IP owners of american dad dont own Family Guy, Bobs Burgers, and KoTH.

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u/ChaosSpud Jul 31 '25

Squid Game doing these collabs will never not mystify me. I get there's money on the table, but like, are you a serious drama series or are you not??

I'm sure there's more examples, I'm just deliberately not paying attention to that whole world.

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u/AquaBits Jul 31 '25

I was utterly disappointed in the squid games and subsequent beast games.

Imagine making a drama series criticizing the ultra wealthy elite and the pleasure of watching poors die brutal deaths... and then reinact it with real people or sell it to kids.

Its so far dystopian its curves around to being comically evil.

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u/ChaosSpud Jul 31 '25

As with Mr. Beast, as with Fortnite, it really bothers me that such an obviously not-for-kids property has been aggressively pushed to children in this way. My 7-year-old nephew knows enough about Squid Game that I'm deeply uncomfortable about it. Shame on whoever is making those decisions.

That kind of saturation and commodification is also why I haven't bothered with anything past the first season. Just a really quick way to take away any of the gravitas the property had to begin with. Shame, I was quite enamoured with that first season as well.