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is the only way this ends that I back off from my actual opinion and yield to someone calling me intellectually dishonest? Is that the goal? Or should I start talking about how honestly you are approaching interpreting my point?

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

I stand by what I said!

To me the other perspectives are always imagined because they aren't in the review with us and cannot represent themselves.

If there's something in the work that inspires this reflection, you can always make an argument, but I just don't see "not for me" helping any review

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

Fav part of Ghost of Yotei so far is that Atsu is maybe magic? I hope the story eventually leans more into that. Getting a sense of her connection to nature in a way that feels way more salient than it did in the last game

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

I am not really concerned with the absence of saying something is good or bad.

I am concerned with invoking other (imagined) perspectives when one says "it's not for me," because I am reading a review to read about the "me" in question.

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

sorry i can't return your call i have been owned in the marketplace of ideas

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

not sure.

maybe you should.

keep posting.

😈

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

all of your tweets about "it's not for me" are appearing on my podcast this week

i am sorry

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

incredible dining squad sign me up

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

Totally! But, I’m not saying a critic’s job is to objectively call something good or bad. a critic should make that call because it situates their worldview. “Good” and “bad” in criticism are expressions of what the critic values and what they think art is for

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

In your baseball example, the difference is that you’re describing a personal stance rather than performing tolerance toward consensus taste. When used critically, “not for me” can signal fear of misjudging the canon—a submission to the authority of taste rather than a genuine reckoning with it.

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

It gestures toward self-awareness while actually deferring to dominant taste (“others like it, so it must be valuable”). But I am not interested in the imagined value of others in a specific review!

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

apologies if i am misunderstanding i am trying lol

I think we’re aligned on the value of interrogating why something does or doesn’t reach us.

My issue with “not for me” is when it replaces that interrogation. I think it’s often deployed as a rhetorical shield.

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

jordan i think the difference here is that you are presenting your opinion about the sport.

I would think if you were going to write a piece of criticism you would be able to interrogate your dislike of the sport--what has/hasn't reached you--without excusing it as inherently "not for me"

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

not brave enough to meaningfully discuss this, good luck!!!

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

need someone to tell me how this puppy runs on Switch/how that version looks on Switch 2

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 28d

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

nice extended reading on Hades 2!!

bsky.app/profile/jaym...

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

i kept waiting for hades 2's twist, and i wrote about what we got instead aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...

Hades 2's Story Doesn't Change The Status Quo - Aftermath

Melinoë's journey is more about acceptance than change

aftermath.site

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

No, it's backstory. It explains why the protagonist is the way they are, but it doesn’t necessarily justify why this story starts now.

Inciting incidents start the story's *present action*

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

what do you think the inciting incident is in Ghost of Yotei?

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

Why does a story start when it starts is a fundamental question every storyteller attempts to answer when working on any creative work.

It is why typical storytelling structure starts with an opening image and then a *catalyst*

You create a sense of "everything was ordinary until..."

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 2d

In your dreams

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 2d

best trailer for Metroid Prime 4 we have gotten so far.

Baby Suit Samus

Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social · 2d

Nintendo just shared this four-minute animated short without any context whatsoever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

Close to You – Nintendo

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

www.youtube.com

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 2d

(yes the reveal that Pikmin were moving stuff is incoming)

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