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> Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible. The older culture, where the tropes stem from, d
by perching_aix 1y ago
> Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible.
The older culture, where the tropes stem from, doesn't follow the tropes? What?
- tolerance 1y agoI don't think that's what he means.
- lmm 1y agoOlder works often conform less closely to the tropes, because the tropes weren't established at that point. When a medium or genre is new it often goes through a Cambrian explosion phase where there are all kinds of wildly varied pieces, and then things settle down and coalesce on the specific approaches that have proven successful.