Whining

Unfortunately, I'm a quite negatively inclined person, so whining, grumbling and complaining are my common activities as well. To not sink other pages, if I want to talk negatively about something (or if I just don't like a paragraph), I will leave it here (but still I limit myself).

Online gaming and game dramas

I used to play competitive online games before, but thankfully I abandoned them around 2021: it's so stupid that those games give you more (often only) negative experience than something positive. No matter if it's team vs team or 1v1 people mostly hate each other simply because someone doesn't play the game as someone else want them to welcome to the internet. It can be perceived as a normal thing (personally I was okay with it when I played online games even if I knew it's wrong), but when you quit online for a year or two, you realize how ridiculous it is.

I still have a bad habit though: instead of playing modern games I prefer to read news or discussions about them. Those useless dramas about game development/technologies/graphics/GPUs are more interesting than the games themselves since ! funny enough ! business that exists only to make money treats games as a money making machine. Remembering today's state of probably any large area (putting sugar and wheat into any food to make you buy it even if it's bad for your health; forcing to buy pills to dull the symptoms at the cost of making something else worse; so on), no wonder AAA games crumble in terms of quality and variety tooltip-iconSubjective and contradictory judgement, to each his own I guess. Probably it's more about the older well-known studios: I'm still salty because I used to like game series they released, and yet they also want to add ad banners even to paid games. Public companies chase their stock values to please black 🧱 and other investors, then blaming everything else to justify why another "product to consume" sellings have fallen. However, personally I don't advise to be interested in exploring that meaningless internet noise: let yourself enjoy games you can enjoy, if you can't, switch to something else.

"Music used to be better before"

Only one thing makes me sad in music: when people complain about new albums or just new music from specific artists: "it used to be better before". An instance of absurd situation on the example of Infected Mushroom: when I checked comments about 2020+ albums I saw "prior to 2017 was better", when I checked comments about 2015 albums I saw "prior to 2012 was better", when I checked comments about 2009 album I saw "prior to 2007 was better", when I checked wikipedia page about 2007 album I saw "the reviewer set low rating and concluded that blending of genres had not succeeded". Can people just let it go and allow artists create new music they want to create? There is a ton of new music to discover each day! Even I'm not bound to currently favourite artists, if someone stops making music in some certain style I enjoy, I just listen to something else or come back when I get used to the new style if I really care. I think usually music preferences change over time not only among producers, but also among listeners, so do people really think they are able to listen to the same one style without changes for decades?

Opinions on music

One day I ran into reaction videos by a music producer that I was a bit familiar with before and I decided to check what they say about my most favorite tracks from certain dubstep albums, since the producer was trying to be like... more "objective" and point out something that can be improved "objectively", if applicable. It turned out they denoted exact parts as disadvantages or misses that made those tracks click for me:

  • "it seems like there is too much going on on the stereo" β†’ THATS WHY I LIKED IT
  • "this part is high frequency orientated and clearly lacks bass" β†’ THATS HOW I PREFERRED IT TO BE
  • "this fake drop ruins the tension on that part, it would be better if the track went straight to the drop instead" β†’ THATS MY FAVORITE PART OF THE TRACK

I came across the usage of the expression "hit or miss" in the context of preferences: "there is no reliable way to say for sure if someone will like this or not", "if you like it, you like it; if you do not, you do not". It is not a discovery to me that people might have different preferences, but what if "hit or miss" is actually EVERYTHING in this world? So that seeking opinions is only meaningful to wonder what other people think about something. An actual proof or explanation of why some work is good for you or not does not exist, you might have your own specific reasons that no one else in the world has. And when it comes to music... my only guess is that it's either you can "catch" something in the song that you like or not. There is no way to explain to another human why you like to listen to specifically those angry robot noises without swapping brains or something like that, which basically makes the simple question "What music do you like?" one of the two questions I hate the most. Add to that the fact that I often have to re-listen to the song several times to finally understand the melody and enjoy it, and music preferences begin to seem completely random.