First, I'm not angry, I'm handing out stickers. I really can't think of any entertainment media commentary that could make me angry.
Ok I'm immediately proven wrong. This does make me angry. Not you specifically, but the trend, the
demand even, to defer quality judgments. I see it a lot in amateur reviews, I see it in politics.
"How was the movie?" "Uh, it's okay. A 7. Enjoyable, I guess." And then I find out the person hated it. Like really really hated.
Would think less of anyone who didn't spend a night in jail for kicking a security guard in the nuts while demanding his money back hated. And the reason why he didn't say that outright was not because of politeness, not because he didn't want to risk me having liked it, but because, "uh, other people liked it? it has a 7.2 on imdb? eh? eh? I must be wrong?"
Yeah right you're wrong about your own impression you bitchass cocksucker. The only thing everyone is by definition the expert on is one's own opinions. How on earth did we concede
that to the hivemind. I keep seeing threads about it. "I hated this game, what should I rate it to be fair?", essentially trying to predict the eventual aggregate score. You rate it zero. And then the people who are interested in the aggregate score can look at the aggregate score, and those who are interested in your personal opinion can get it, too.
In politics, look for the great sin of Populism. What is populism? It's appeal to voters. Who then proceed to vote for you. Because they like your policies. Which you intend to implement.
What ghastly underhanded tactic!
I see it in this.
I see it in your post. "Why are you giving a bad sticker to my opinion, it's just an opinion, yours is no more correct." Well I think it IS more correct,
that's why I hold it. When I come to think another opinion is more correct, I change my mind. Not, like,
afterward -- it's what "changing my mind"
is.
I don't care about media specifically. This undermines the foundations of logic. A or B? "Well I'm absolutely sure it's A, but someone might say B, so I guess the truth is somewhere in between." WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN.
If you think something is a dumb choice, and then you see people making it, and you consider if it may make make sense after all in light of this circumstantial evidence, and arrive at the conclusion it's still dumb - then IT IS, to the best of your knowledge, and the people who are making it are BEING DUMB, and they deserve the bins.
Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way wrote a work of fiction purely for the purposes of entertainment. Cline wrote his for money, and succeeded. (No problem with either, I'd do it too if I could.)
The problematic thing for me isn't "dumb fun", it's the
dumb unfun. I want people to enjoy the shit they consoom, however retarded.
Over on the multimedia subforum there's a guy who spergs about his favorite franchise. I tried it on his (impersonal) recommendation and found it to be hot garbage. But he loves it, so, uh, congrats on having shitty taste? It's a personal value judgment. He's watching what he likes and having fun, it's The Right Thing to Do. The way he has fun trying to figure out a plot with more holes in it than the Menger sponge is
commendable .(I probably gave him a couple of bad stickers regardless).
I think it's much, much worse to consoom bad media listlessly (having "good" taste but not the presence of mind to
stop and do something else) than enthusiastically (having shit taste). The "it's fun if you switch off your brain" opinions are always the former. No one says this about something they love. We know this because no one says this about purely physical stuff when the consciousness isn't involved, like riding a bike or stroking a cat. "
It's fun if you don't stop and ask yourself if it is." Switching one's brain off is needed so that people don't notice they're bored and miserable. At least actual cooming has a natural cooldown period of post-nut clarity (or so consumeproduct.win says, am a wamen), for consoomers the next garbage bin has already been queued up.
They mean "it's better than watching paint dry", but it's current year + n, it's not actually competing with watching paint dry. Never before in the history of the world there's been more things competing for our attention.
No one ever needs to kill time.
But there's a lot of money involved in persuading people otherwise. The Industry must show Growth, and Growth means producing more garbage and keeping people passively miserable with infrequent and random injections of excitement.
The fucking extracts in this thread, oh god I'm crying.
