When he’s right, he’s right. It’s boring, backwards, childish nonsense that exists just as a conveyor belt of escalating power fantasy gratification that has cannibalized several different mediums but video games most of all.

“My miserable power fantasy of choice has a right to exist”

I don’t care one way or the other. What sucks is that “fantasy” as a genre has decayed so completely into “bottom of the barrel power fantasy” that it’s taking up a ridiculous volume of air. It’s so fucking sad watching writing be like isekai where there’s no real conflict, it’s just a machine to have a puppet show of a world where everything exists to jack the player/viewer/reader off with the main character being the most specialist boy ever and you never need to face an uncomfortable emotion or doubt for even a second. Every problem can be over powered by you, every woman wants to fuck you and typically only you, everyone loves you or soon will or else is a Bad Person to overpower, etc. etc. etc. It’s just depressing lotus-eating escapist bullshit that seems to radiate contempt from the devs/authors.