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I would add that "a formula" doesn't mean it's bad. I regularly drank beer since like when I was 14 until when I was like 35 or something? I do it way less now
by pvarangot 4y ago
I would add that "a formula" doesn't mean it's bad. I regularly drank beer since like when I was 14 until when I was like 35 or something? I do it way less now but still sometimes drink beer.
My favorite style changes. Sometime I just drink a new one because like dopamine hits and I get excited about the potential novelty and discovery. But it's beer, and I think there's nothing wrong with it. From bud light to like whatever quadruppel or super IPA monstrosity someone in the Bay Area decided to brew and that may work as an antiseptic, I like them all. There's a formula and I like it, and I also like Marvel movies. Maybe I'm a basic bastard and I'm making a cardinal sin by spending my money on non innovative things and I should be only watching surreal pieces shot in a single take where at least one actor committed suicide or got addicted to opioids while shooting the movie. Don't get me wrong, those are great too and specially the followup documentaries. I also can then participate in high stakes intelectual debates. But that's a formula too.
And maybe I should drink sours but fuck that.
But yeah I think your analysis is great but I also think it's important to say that milking successful formulas is not wrong or morally reprehensible. If you scam people or whatever while doing yeah that's bad, but letting the chicken lay the golden eggs and not changing anything about it is pretty much ok in my hierarchy of sins.
- orzig 4y agoI can't match the near-unhinged brilliance of the above comment, but I'll add that many meditation traditions encourage serenity by inspecting the details of the ordinary instead of a constant grasping for new stimulation.
- pvarangot 4y agoIt's also of note that no meditation tradition drinks sours.
- Ericson2314 4y agoThere's a lot of monastic traditions of fermentated foods; I would not be so sure.
- m3047 4y agoI brew. I've known a lot of weird fanatics. A friend who also brews and is serious enough to do meditation retreats has gotten into a thing where he's making beer harvested with wild yeast in turn harvested from ginger root... some tradition somewhere he says.
- tjr225 4y agoEquating whatever random super hero drivel is being shoved down your throat to meditation is quite the stretch.
- scarface74 4y agoThe MCU by itself has made over $25 billion world wide and that’s not counting the Fox/Marvel series that Disney now owns. They must be doing something right. And that’s just in theaters. That’s not counting money made via syndication, licensing, home video, etc
- dougabug 4y agoSure, but they have tapped into a pre-existing fan base and many decades of storylines, themes, and characters. Disney has also done this successfully with the Star Wars franchise, and the Mouse House will likely continue to make most of its profits in the future from long standing cultural properties.
- tjr225 4y agoJust because it makes a lot of money doesn’t mean it’s not drivel.
- scarface74 4y agoWell, maybe if it is the most popular content, have you thought that your taste may not be inline with the majority?
- tjr225 4y agoWhether or not the majority is into drivel is not my concern.
- dccoolgai 4y agoAgreed. Every once in a while I read a comment on here that makes me wish I could read a whole book in its style.
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- Ericson2314 4y agoTo vaguely respond with an analogy, when I don't care what I'm drinking I don't drink Budweiser, I drink water. It's good to not be insufferable in constantly policing oneself to follow the trend. sure. But watching Marvel movies isn't the only alternative.
- astrange 4y ago> From bud light to like whatever quadruppel or super IPA monstrosity someone in the Bay Area decided to brew and that may work as an antiseptic On this note, Pliny the Elder (the highest rated IPA in the Bay Area) used to be hard to find but recently is just everywhere, and it turns out it tastes horrible. But it’s like single-origin horrible. Like drinking the highest quality grass clippings.
- pvarangot 4y agoYeah tell me about it. I had a good one in the cafe in Point Reyes where it was on the tap but the last few were bottled and it was not that good.
- jmyeet 4y agoAnother commenter described what I meant using what I think is a more accurate term: assembly line. My point is that creating original content is a creative endeavor that doesn’t naturally scale. MrBeast is obviously successful but that doesn’t mean you can just cookie cutter another 100 MrBeasts. That’s not how it works.
- pvarangot 4y agoI mean you probably can, but art and engineering are more of a spectrum if anything. Even if the CCP seizes all of Apples assets in China can they create another iPhone? I don't think so. If part of that is getting people to pay 1000 bucks for it.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoWhy aren't there independent studios creating content and selling to the highest bidder among the streaming camps?