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The B part of Occam's razor

written in 24/10/05 03:57 GMT+8

You probably heard about the short version of this razor, but let me cite it from Wikipedia.

"Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity"

The keyword is "necessity".

And that's the B part of this razor: What's necessity?

I personally will call it "Consparicy Theorist's razor" though. Since, if you happened to read some of their theory on well, stuff in general, you will spot a shining feature: They are simple explanation.

Now not all simple explanation is bad of course, but without proper understanding, you will act like the "You are gay" guy in the comic about logic.

Which, can you guess what I'm gonna talk about? That's right, "Why games are bad now?"

Now the common ways a game can be bad are as many as the amount star can be, but it boils down to two major factor: money and time.

Why this game sucks? Probably the script sucks. Why script sucks? Probably the writer is a novice at their job, or the studio didn't pay their writer enough, or the studio set a absurd deadline, or well, all of the above plus extra, vice versa.

But there's some people feel worse, they think the game industry as a whole sucks now.

Which, well depends on which side are you looking and how you interpret events.

If you are focusing on stuff like ableism, sexism and stuff like that, depends how sensitve you set this radar, you probably are gonna piss off on most of game you find, for example Sims 4 is ableist because it lacks um, disabled-friendly building or it doesn't have disabled people as sims, I don't know, I don't really played Sims back then.

But is that because devs just want to exclude these people? Probably no.

The thing is, making stuff takes money and staff also needs to remember things, so maybe they just forgot or not having enough time to make this OR the management thinks this is not very important.

And on the flip side, if you are dead on finding the race you hate, the gender you hate, or even in some cases the country you hate, of course you are gonna piss off when some games mentioned those people exist.

But is that because of devs want to piss you off? In most of the case, no.

Pretty damn sure most reason those people exist in the game is because those people exist.

Unless......they are trying to farm the rage.

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Which to me is absolutely absurd, shit I got a big ass button to push and you will went crazy rage? Man you should go have a therapy with those who deemed every devs didn't make disabled people into games ableist and those who deemed every devs who just want sexy women in their game sexist.

So, what's the razor has to do with all this?

Well, like the reason why most of people believes planned obsolescence begins from the light bulb. (which is probably not, check the Technology Connection channel for detail)

Cause it's a simple explanation.

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"Why bulbs had a limited lifetime? Cause a bunch of rich asshole just want you to buy more bulbs"

"Why games are bad? Cause it got black people and LGBTQ+ people in it. Cause feminist screeched. Cause of DEI."

"Why this games sexist? Cause the women in this game got a huge breast. Cause this game uses women as a prize. Cause the sexy women character is made with "male gaze""

Yeah, man, a three-year-old can see it bruh, it's totally true and nothing more than that sure.

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Now, same as other things in this world, there would be some devs just want to hurt you by not having disabled people in their game, by making the main female character wearing bikini, by um, making you play as a female character that's not sexy apparently?

But I can guarantee those are edge cases. Most of devs just want to make a good game, tell a good story, depicting what they saw.

Yet some of them, lacks time, lacks experience, lacks resource to live (money), lacks a lead who will take proper feedback, so the game flopped.

Please stop using Occam's (or Conspiracy Theorist's) razor on every phenomenon you see, and try ask more "Why".

The world we live in is more complex than the razor can shave.

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