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Yeah ok, why not just go there when it opens. It’s like sneaking at plots and sets in a new movie, a great way to spoil it

by m3kw9 3y ago

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
Some people are interested in how things are built and work, not just the black box that does stuff for them.
- hnbad 3y ago
  This reminds me of when I first realized some people would genuinely get upset if I tried to understand how magic tricks were performed. It was completely unfathomable to me that some people would prefer not to understand it and genuinely enjoyed a trick less if someone had "ruined the magic" for them. On the other hand I very much enjoyed shows like Penn & Teller's Fool Us, which were based around the idea that there are known ways to perform the various tricks but the real art was in doing it in such a way you genuinely couldn't tell even when you knew (or in order to win the show: finding a new way to do it and then performing it in such a way that experienced magicians still couldn't tell).
- martyvis 3y ago
  I very much fall in to that category having been a "Texas Tank Watcher" (the self-appropriated nickname given to those keeping a close eye on the SpaceX development in Boca Chica) for the past 4 years or so.
hnbad 3y ago
It's a sign of maturity to come to the understanding that different people like different things for different reasons and sometimes even the same things for different reasons. You can go to a theme park and enjoy the experience and let that be the end of it and that's perfectly fine and valid. Or you can follow the design and construction of attractions at dozens of theme parks, deeply immerse yourself in the history of it and the people involved and analyze aerial pictures on a near-daily basis. Neither way is "doing it wrong" and both can happily coexist alongside each other as long as there's an understanding that they're interested in theme parks for different reasons. It's like complaining about literary studies being a thing because you prefer reading books for the experience. Of course there are less reputable sites which abuse the information generated by these people to produce clickbait speculation aimed at "casual" theme park goers but that isn't the fault of those generating that information, that's the fault of the sites trying to turn a buck with it.

Yeah ok, why not just go there when it opens. It’s like sneaking at plots and sets in a new movie, a great way to spoil it

by m3kw9 3y ago

Yeah ok, why not just go there when it opens. It’s like sneaking at plots and sets in a new movie, a great way to spoil it

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago

Some people are interested in how things are built and work, not just the black box that does stuff for them.

hnbad 3y ago
This reminds me of when I first realized some people would genuinely get upset if I tried to understand how magic tricks were performed. It was completely unfathomable to me that some people would prefer not to understand it and genuinely enjoyed a trick less if someone had "ruined the magic" for them. On the other hand I very much enjoyed shows like Penn & Teller's Fool Us, which were based around the idea that there are known ways to perform the various tricks but the real art was in doing it in such a way you genuinely couldn't tell even when you knew (or in order to win the show: finding a new way to do it and then performing it in such a way that experienced magicians still couldn't tell).
martyvis 3y ago
I very much fall in to that category having been a "Texas Tank Watcher" (the self-appropriated nickname given to those keeping a close eye on the SpaceX development in Boca Chica) for the past 4 years or so.

hnbad 3y ago

It's a sign of maturity to come to the understanding that different people like different things for different reasons and sometimes even the same things for different reasons. You can go to a theme park and enjoy the experience and let that be the end of it and that's perfectly fine and valid. Or you can follow the design and construction of attractions at dozens of theme parks, deeply immerse yourself in the history of it and the people involved and analyze aerial pictures on a near-daily basis. Neither way is "doing it wrong" and both can happily coexist alongside each other as long as there's an understanding that they're interested in theme parks for different reasons. It's like complaining about literary studies being a thing because you prefer reading books for the experience. Of course there are less reputable sites which abuse the information generated by these people to produce clickbait speculation aimed at "casual" theme park goers but that isn't the fault of those generating that information, that's the fault of the sites trying to turn a buck with it.