Is it true that the brain prefers things that it experienced during its early years of formation? Or that these things influenced the brain in some way and thus they're highly regarded by the human who saw them during formative years? This would explain vidja game, movie, radio show, tv, etc. nostalgia.
You tend to remember mostly the good things about the past, so it always seems better looking back.
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Anonymous2007-06-30 11:43 ID:MpfevTzC
how true it is
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Anonymous2007-06-30 14:48 ID:pf3Mx8U0
>>2
But even while youre in your formative years playing or watching those olden days vidya games and movies, you love them. The ones you dont love, you ignore or dont care about.
But what I'm saying is that the works themselves dont necessarily have much merit - they'd be seen as mediocre by those who don't experience them as a child. And yet if you experience them as a child, something about your brain glorifies these works, or perhaps the brain comes to prefer things close to those it experienced in childhood innately BECAUSE it experienced them in childhood.
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I think it's because children are less critical. They're simply more likely to no see the flaws. I recently downloaded pirates of dark water, which I loved as a kid. Now I'm seeing a cliched plot and pretty uninteresting characters. Hell, even things I am enjoying right now I'm criticizing in the back of my head.
I don't think any child goes "well, that was predictable" while watching a film they're enjoying.
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Not true. All I remember is getting my ass beaten for bad grades.
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No experience = no knowledge. They have nothing to compare with, so nothing seems cliche.
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Anonymous2007-07-01 2:36 ID:Jf0pQlpY
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You cant stop nostalgia, it effects even you; in your choices, your likes and dislikes, whether you know it or not.
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Cliche isnt a good criticism of anything anyway, because its based on things you've viewed before, when no one has had the exact same viewing habits as you. Something could be the most cliche work in a genre ever and yet if someone just saw that as their first experience of that genre, they wouldn't have any idea that it was cliche. 'Cliche' is for the jaded.
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Anonymous2007-07-02 1:34 ID:+2am3GYg
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That's true. But it goes for every kind of criticism. Kids just don't read a book and think it's awesome while at the same time thinking "this part could be better" or "this doesn't make any sense". It's either cool or not. Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong.