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> The future But probably not in my lifetime. > aesthetic preferences, story arches you respond to well, your current mood that's not how content consumption

> The future But probably not in my lifetime. > aesthetic preferences, story arches you respond to well, your current mood that's not how content consumption works. > will still be people working on the skeleton or basic structure of such content That's not a real issue, we are still writing stories based on very few skeletons and very few archetypes, invented millennia ago (and maybe they are even older of the ones we discovered).

lukebuehler 5y ago
How does content consumption work then? Would you not say there are clear characteristics, like your preferred genres, that matter quite a bit whether you will like a movie or not?
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  > How does content consumption work then? simplified, there are two main branches: - those who consume everything, kinda like maximizing the investment or "it makes me company" - those who consume things that need to pass some kind filter generated content would (maybe) reward the first group, but without some very good hit they will probably go back to downloading stuff, but not the second. At least not yet and not in the foreseeable future. There's a difference between computer aided content and computer generated. Jurassic park wouldn't exist as it is without technology advancements, but the novel was already good. Another example by Crichton is WestWorld. The original was written and directed by Crichton himself in 1973, the original movie is great, the second chapter is good, the tv-show is visually astonishing, but after 2 seasons, I stopped watching it. The material taken from the first two movies had ended and nothing really interesting have come out after from the writers (IMO). Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a great book from 1864 and I honestly prefer the movie from 1959 than the its latest 3D incarnation from 2008. Not because older is better, but because the 1959 version is more centered around the story and it aged better. Probably because Indiana Jones hadn't come out yet and the director didn't try to imitate it.

lukebuehler 5y ago

How does content consumption work then? Would you not say there are clear characteristics, like your preferred genres, that matter quite a bit whether you will like a movie or not?

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
> How does content consumption work then? simplified, there are two main branches: - those who consume everything, kinda like maximizing the investment or "it makes me company" - those who consume things that need to pass some kind filter generated content would (maybe) reward the first group, but without some very good hit they will probably go back to downloading stuff, but not the second. At least not yet and not in the foreseeable future. There's a difference between computer aided content and computer generated. Jurassic park wouldn't exist as it is without technology advancements, but the novel was already good. Another example by Crichton is WestWorld. The original was written and directed by Crichton himself in 1973, the original movie is great, the second chapter is good, the tv-show is visually astonishing, but after 2 seasons, I stopped watching it. The material taken from the first two movies had ended and nothing really interesting have come out after from the writers (IMO). Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a great book from 1864 and I honestly prefer the movie from 1959 than the its latest 3D incarnation from 2008. Not because older is better, but because the 1959 version is more centered around the story and it aged better. Probably because Indiana Jones hadn't come out yet and the director didn't try to imitate it.