The Cuphead Incident: A Narrative Warfare Slipup

As I write this post, I'm listening to the latest episode of the Metro City Boys podcast. Right now, Oliver Campbell leads the boys on the topic of failure and building your way iteratively to success via mastery. This, for those not following the stupidity of the Fake Journalists lying about videogames, is about Dean Takahasi's shameful display of gross incompetence when he utterly failed to pass the tutorial of a fantastic independent game called "Cuphead"

The immediate Narrative shift was to harp on "skill shaming" (That is not a thing!) instead of putting on one's man-pants, admitting that you suck, and Git Fucking Good. Not that many of us didn't see that shift coming, as this is the second high-profile display of Fake Journo failure at the most fundamental skill of the job: not being ass at videogames. Remember that ridiculous video of the Fake Journalist failing to play 2016's DOOM? This is the same basic thing, only more shameful.

We're not asking for EVO-level skills. We're asking for sufficient familiarity that the reviewer can actually play the game as intended. That is what is lacking here. Yet the reaction is to lie, double-down, and project like a whiny bitch caught being bad at what he's said he's good at doing. Why?

Because this is a threat to the Narrative. Specifically, what Frame Game Radio points out as a critical component: the frame that journalists are the arbiters of truth. If people come to challenge that frame, they will begin to reject it more and more; rejecting that frame rejects the authority created by that frame, and therefore the power that authority confers. By means of fraud, the Fakes make war upon the population with the aim to rule over them.

And that's why you got to hammer these fakes. They're lying to maintain a frame of perspective that isn't any good for you, and nothing but a racket for them. The sooner these crooks get wrecked and replaced by truth-tellers, the better we'll all be.