Blaugust/Promptapalooza Day 2

Blaugust has been a blogging event that has been around for a few years now, and I’ve been happy to participate. Every year, and sometimes twice in a year, gaming bloggers, pop-culture bloggers, media bloggers, and pretty much any type of blogger has a chance to come together and share their experiences blogging. It’s a lot of fun, and I love the community that it has spawned.

But not every pop-culture, gaming, or media darling is embraced by everyone. Today takes a look at a prompt that was put forth by Dragonray over at Azerothian Life that speaks to this issue.

But before I look into my thoughts about the question, a little preamble…

Promptapalooza Day 2

Normally about this time of year, I would be working on Blaugust and trying to figure out how I am gonna keep up with all the blogs that are posting every day. This year, I think I’m in a similar situation except we’re all following a series of prompts that Belghast over at Tales of the Aggronaut has put together.

I kinda like it. Not only do we get a bunch of different perspectives on some cool themes, but we also get a chance to explore different blogs.

Maybe this will even get me back into my Six Degrees posts when the dust settles. I used to really enjoy traveling through six degrees of blogging, and if things work out well, I think I’ll jump back on that in September…But for now, we have Blaugust: Promptapalooza.

I Don’t Get Battle Royale Games

For this second day of Blaugust, we have a prompt about not understanding a particular fandom…

Dragonray posits:
What is some popular piece of content/media that seems to be universally loved that you have never been able to understand?

This is an easy one for me…I do not understand the Fortnite, Pubg, battle royale craze. When these games were focused on survival like ARMA or base building like Fortnite’s original plan, I could understand the allure but a free-for-all battle royal with 99.9% of the players losing…I just don’t get it. People are ‘happy’ when they make it into the top 10 for a game. I mean, there has to be something said about a game that makes it excruciatingly simple to get into the next match once your dead, but that, of course, is because you’re supposed to be dead. That’s what the game is really about. If ever a game mode was made for the 1 percent of PvP gamers who are actually good, this is it…the rest is just content for the top players.

And NO…if you have a life, are over the age of 24, or play more than one game, you are NOT one of the top 1% of PvPers that actually win these things consistently…you’re just content for those players and all the cool looking virtual clothes in the world are not gonna make you any better.

Perhaps it has something to do with people liking reality TV or YouTube/Twitch streamers because I don’t get them either, but that is definitely one segment of popular content that I do not find enjoyable.

It’s a Wrap

I think it’ll be interesting to see how Blaugust works out this year. We already had Blapril, and I think that was a resounding success, but we’re all still socially distancing because of COVID.

With everyone still indoors, I think Belghast has come up with an excellent idea for Blaugust, and I’m all on board. We can interact and stay distanced by promptapalozzaing.

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