Taste

edited 2014-05-04 04:35:53 in General
do you ever worry that you have bad or no taste in media?
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  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck no.

    Everything I love is both equally terrible and equally amazing.
  • edited 2014-05-04 04:47:07
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^why are you using Adolf Hitler with cat ears for an avatar

    ^hm?
  • silly, it's not adolf hitler, it's a catboy that just happens to look like him, he gets that a lot
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Everything has faults. Everything has merits.

    Never be ashamed of liking something. Because you like it. And because you like it, you give it merit.

    Unless it's like. Birth of a Nation or Mein Kampf or something. Something that could be construed as actually evil.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Okay, you got me:

    This is yet another thing spawned from my insecurities about 101 Dalmatians: The Series. People keep telling me not to feel ashamed over it, but I keep worrying that watching it means I have regressed somehow. I don't even have nostalgia as an excuse; I remember next to nothing about it from my childhood!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You worry too much
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Anonus, you're absolutely right. You of all people - an aspiring Media MogulTM - should know better than to become strangely obsessed with a third-rate cartoon Disney shat out of its Self-Exploitation Department.

    I hereby order you to become obsessed with something actually good.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i do actually worry about this sometimes

    taste is subjective and no one taste is superior to any other

    but i do feel that some things are superior to other things in particular respects, and i do sometimes worry that i'm rather undiscerning, since most heapers seem to have stronger opinions about music and works of fiction than i do

    in particular, i feel like i express negative opinions too infrequently, which might be indicative of some kind of weakness of character
  • kill living beings
    really disappointed this isn't about sensory physiology
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Anonus, you're absolutely right. You of all people - an aspiring Media MogulTM - should know better than to become strangely obsessed with a third-rate cartoon Disney shat out of its Self-Exploitation Department.

    I hereby order you to become obsessed with something actually good.


    well

    What do you consider good?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    whatever you think is good, I'm not gonna do all your thinking for you
  • edited 2014-05-04 18:00:12
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    well, okay

    (I could tell you weren't being totally serious with the "third-rate cartoon" comment though)
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    In all honesty, I find your interest in that show a little odd. But whatever floats your boat, I'm not the final arbiter of what people should be into.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    in all honesty, i don't think it's a dreadful cartoon

    it's nothing special, but it can be entertaining
  • edited 2014-05-04 18:25:10
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    101 seems like something I would've watched back when I was 14/15, during those times I was bored at 2 AM and there was nothing better on TV.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    101 seems like something I would've watched back when I was 14/15, during those times I was bored at 2 AM and there was nothing better on TV.

    Heh, same.

    I watched a lot of those disposable Canadian cartoons back then for the same reason.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Oh my god I just thought that 101's gotta be better than Girlstuff/Boystuff or whatever other abortions litter the DHX Media library
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    This is yet another thing spawned from my insecurities about 101 Dalmatians: The Series. People keep telling me not to feel ashamed over it, but I keep worrying that watching it means I have regressed somehow. I don't even have nostalgia as an excuse; I remember next to nothing about it from my childhood!

    Just say it's a "guilty pleasure". That's what everyone else does.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Okay.
  • Tachyon said:

    in particular, i feel like i express negative opinions too infrequently, which might be indicative of some kind of weakness of character

    no it just means you're level-headed.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I've thought that people are sometimes overly negative in order to try to build up their own self-image. "See, I know all this stuff is terrible, because I'm above it all! Look how great I am!"
  • The phrase "guilty pleasure" is awful and I hate anyone who uses it. Everyone should just like what they like and not be little bitches about it.
  • edited 2014-05-04 19:33:23
    ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Meth: My anti-drug guilty pleasure
  • The phrase "guilty pleasure" is awful

    ye.

    Largely it is a social construct that people use to help them deal with insecurity about what they like, which is not healthy.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    mmm... i don't know, i definitely feel like i tend to overlook weaknesses in entertainment media i like, since i tend not to notice them until other people point them out to me

    i also tend to fixate on particular things at length... maybe not to the extent that some people do (or am i just more ashamed of drawing attention to myself by posting about them?) and only becoming aware of their flaws once the shine has started to wear off

    also i'm sorry but

    you're level-headed

    image
  • Tachyon said:

    mmm... i don't know, i definitely feel like i tend to overlook weaknesses in entertainment media i like, since i tend not to notice them until other people point them out to me

    i also tend to fixate on particular things at length... maybe not to the extent that some people do (or am i just more ashamed of drawing attention to myself by posting about them?) and only becoming aware of their flaws once the shine has started to wear off

    that's actually quite normal.
    Tachyon said:


    you're level-headed

    image
    I don't get why this is so funny, you seem pretty evened to me.



  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i get angry and upset about stupid things IRL like all the time

    i'm not so bad as i used to be, but it's still bizarre to me when people online say i'm levelheaded
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    you're so head-leveled
  • edited 2014-05-04 20:07:01
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    FEEL

    NO

    GUILT

    YOUR TASTE

    SUPERIOR TO ALL TASTES

    BECAUSE IT IS YOURS

    NO GUILT

    NO SHAME

    ONLY PRIDE

    (unless like you are obsessed with Custer's Revenge or something)
  • Anonus said:

    do you ever worry that you have bad or no taste in media?

    No.
  • edited 2014-05-05 02:34:29
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    "Guilty pleasure" is a convenient shorthand for "I recognize that this work has flaws, and may even be something that most of my peers hate, but I enjoy it anyway".

    Calling something good often carries an implied condemnation of anyone who dislikes it. Calling something a guilty pleasure doesn't carry that same baggage.
  • It often also has the implication of acknowledging something about the work that isn't socially acceptable, beyond just a consideration of quality.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    MetaFour said:

    Calling something good often carries an implied condemnation of anyone who dislikes it.


    D:

    i was not aware of this
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Maybe "often" is too strong. It really depends on the person.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i see

    i don't think 'guilty pleasure' is such a terrible phrase, although i seldom use it because i try not to feel guilty about things i enjoy
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I CONDEMN YOU ALL FOR LIKING THINGS THAT I THINK ARE SHIT

    THINGS THAT I THINK ARE SHIT:
    • Fucking nothing.
    • Everything has a worthiness.
    • Everything that exists should exist.
  • edited 2014-05-05 03:04:13
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    what about racist tracts, @kingCrackers?  personally I think those probably shouldn't exist
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Yeah. I've reached a point where, in most media, I just don't care what anyone else thinks of my taste. If they're gonna think less of me for liking X, that's their problem, not mine.

    Though there are some exceptions, I guess.
  • That's something within a piece of media, he is saying that all media have some value.
    MetaFour said:

    Calling something good often carries an implied condemnation of anyone who dislikes it. Calling something a guilty pleasure doesn't carry that same baggage.

    I really do not wish to engage in any behavior that perpetuates the mindset that there are Good Things and Bad Things and that there is no middle ground in between, and that both of these categories are set in stone.
  • MetaFour said:

    Yeah. I've reached a point where, in most media, I just don't care what anyone else thinks of my taste. If they're gonna think less of me for liking X, that's their problem, not mine.

    Though there are some exceptions, I guess.

    No one really cares how abnormal your tastes in porn are
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Do you have any porn that simulates being in a meaningful relationship? That's my fetish.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    MV's now gonna throw some homophobic slurs at you probably
  • There are, at least, written works that manage to be sexy in the context of a meaningful relationship.


  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Racist tracts need to exist because then we know what racist tracts look like.

    Not to say we shouldn't try and make it so that more don't get made, just that the ones that do get made have a place with us as an evil thing.

    Also we can laugh at them.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i take the opposite view that no media needs to exist and none of it has intrinsic value

    i feel like that's a trivially true statement and people will roll their eyes at it but yeah
  • edited 2014-05-05 04:26:52
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    some media needs to exist because its artist(s) needs for it to
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    that means the artist requires it

    but the universe doesn't need it, or the artist
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    well

    I meant that they really really wanted for it to exist
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i know

    but i mean, the artist doesn't have to exist either, in the grand scheme of things

    that's just a thing that happened
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