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Does anyone else feel less willing to humor media these days? (hexbear.net)

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I feel like I'm pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I'm always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own... I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I'm just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I'm going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I'll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Other than things other people on the left recommend repeatedly I'm generally into just rewatching a lot of old good stuff. I mean I guess to my credit I have a pretty large amount of media, more than two dozen TV shows, over a thousand movies. I get a lot of enjoyment out of riff audio mixes for B movies and worse. Like watching objectively terrible stuff while people are making fun of it is great fun compared to watching better production value but still terrible soul-crushing stuff that everyone is saying is great.

I would say do make a conscious effort not to get trapped in a kind of paralysis seeking perfection, watch something new once a month if you can, even if it's not necessarily new, even just new to you like a classic movie you've never seen before.