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CasanovaZelos posted...

no matter how you phrase it, no one is going to care about an Elden Ring joke if they don't care about Elden Ring.

I feel a lot of things about this sentence. Yes and no.

Regarding the larger context about the rest of the post, multiple satire sites has multiple niches and they seem to do fine elitist or not. Is satire inherently elitist? I kinda think so since there is an assumed understanding before it's read that someone will read it literally unlike you the smart one, but I'm not sold yet. Hard-Drive, Reductress, Babylon Bee, what have you -- any that's not the Onion or the general genre of political cartoon comic strip probably ain't big enough to not be inherently niche. That's just joke structure and audience size before even touching on understood references like double-jumps.

What does that niche audience know? Epona's in the opening scene of the most celebrated game of all time. Agro was in one of the biggest PS2 games and had a popular PS4 remaster. People know Elden Ring just came out and is huge, but I wasn't sure Torrent was as well known. I don't really know the age
emographic for Hard-Drive but I played it safe with whether or not people knew it. I figured knowing rhe name of Torrent and its power of super-jumping was the most niche information referenced to their audience, but it may not be (might be Agro's name that's most obscure).

I think this sentence of yours is the safe bet and the broader truth, but there is room for exceptions including some I've submitted for more obscure games. I don't live or die by it, as reasonable as it is.