The future of streaming TV is choose your own adventure books but it's written by AI and you have to pay for each decision

The business model seems to be that Konami is threatening the fanbase that dumb rubes will make stupid decisions about "The Silent Hill Canon" and so that if they want things to not become fucking stupid and bad, they should pay for premium season pass minigames so they can cobble together a coherent narrative.

With the secondary threat that this will matter in future games, despite the fact that the games that Silent Hill fans actually think count do not have a particularly shared "canon."

Edit: My second guess from where this business model came from is some guy at Konami watched the Jerma Dollhouse stream right before a pitch meeting.

I notice a gradual blurring of the line between fiction and reality.

Characters are no longer just a set of traits that can be adapted and updated to keep with the times. They're treated like real people, but in a fixed state with a right or wrong canon.

One of the earliest examples I can think of is Optimus Prime. A lot of lonely kids saw him as a father figure in the 80s and now it's hard to tell stories with him that break away from that image.

The recent Transformers canon describes the robots as genderless, using terms and knowledge that wasn't widely shared forty years ago. It's jarring to particularly reactionary fans who don't want to think of their projected father figure as anything but male.

I bring this up because the idea of canon can be really dangerous in the hands of a soulless corporation. This soulless corporation is selling canon to the highest bidder. Companies do it regularly, but with extra steps involved.

IP laws and the commodification of canon sets a bad precedent for art.

And to think people were claiming this game was going to be the start of Silent Hill's RE-esque renaissance.

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