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Entertainment is becoming increasingly customizable and personalized. It’ll get to the point, like you said, that we’re not watching the same movie, playing the same game, etc.

It feels like we’re losing something, a shared experience, in favor of an increasingly narcissistic attitude that everything needs to shapeable to individual preferences instead of accepting things as they are.

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I dunno. Entertainment is sort of inherently selfish, right? It is an unproductive thing we engage in to make us happy.

I’d be somewhat interested in something like a git that generates movies, that my friends can push to.

Extremely widespread mass media fiction broadcast are sort of an aberration of the last 75 years or so. I mean, you’d have works in ancient times—the Odyssey—that are shared across a culture. But, that was still a story customize by each teller, and those sorts of stories were rare. Canon was mainly a concern of religions.

It’s just for fun, we give it far too much weight nowadays.

The idea that entertainment is selfish because it doesn’t produce anything is offensive to the core.

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