It took me a long time to learn this: If you are not having fun, just stop. If you still want to know how it ends, read or watch a summary.
Life’s too short to be wasted on mediocrity.
Took me way to long to learn this lesson. I also found just because an audiobook is horrible, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love the physical novel. Sometimes it comes down to the narrator.
True, especially for videogames
Read a novelization of Planescape Torment, watch a video about Outer Wilds etc… if you don’t enjoy the gameplay
Sometimes, especially with books, you have to give it a chance.
This is very relatable to me. When you are in too deep, you cant just drop it.
I find it hard to get very far in poorly made media. I cant even hate-watch/read, my fucking backlog is too large to waste time on garbage art.
I just finished the third book in a trilogy that I thought was kind of mediocre. But I thought the first book was good; it’s just that the last two didn’t live up to it. The ending was okay, but the middle was a mess. Wish I’d just read a summary now but whatever, it’s behind me.
Me reading “Optimal Illusions”. The author seemed like she was on her way to blaming capitalists for optimizing for all the wrong things but then she suddenly took a hard right turn and proceeded to blame math instead of businessmen for why capitalism is out of control. Ended with a nice stroking of Sam Altman’s ego. She now lives on a tiny island in Washington where the liberal mathematicians can’t hurt her.
This is how people consume media now. They enjoy it and want more but will only say negative things about it and thrash around in the throws of mock disgust so strong that they start to actually believe their own BS. Well, at least that is how Marvel and Star Wars fans consume media anyway.
