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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

What's your personal media diet? Do you like similar adventure stories that are more local, or is that just not your thing overall?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    What’s your personal media diet?

    Books (mostly sci-fi - Permutation City by Greg Egan) are easy to fit into short slices of time.

    Video games (Cataclysm: DDA, Dwarf Fortress) are nice when you have a hour or more to concentrate.

    Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rCu2Daeyo) is always nice. Doesn't demand much attention, if you can't spare much, but can absorb any amount of it (more complex stuff like Maurice Ravel).

    Movies? I tried movies, but they require dedication (if I'm going to sit for 2 hours in front of my PC, I'd rather do something fun - and movie theaters are a whole new level of hassle), the content is either boring or nerve-wrackingly stressful.

    IIRC, the last movie I watched was some Star Wars something - it had spaceships just sitting just above a planet (instead of orbiting - why wasn't it falling down like a stone?), and when one spaceship flew near another, there was audible sound (rumble) in the other one. I suppose they must have played this rumble over speakers, or something. I can suspend my disbelief and imagine the "laser" weapons that shoot slow-moving pink plastic-looking cylindrical things are mislabeled as "laser", and are actually firing some particle beams or something, but I can't forgive sound transmitted through space.

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