I mean the Bach which everybody knows you're talking about if you say Bach. The Bach to whose page Wikipedia redirects when you type Bach. The others just piggybacked onto J.S.'s reputation (including his father). Nevertheless I can't fathom the relevance of those to my argument.
I'm serious. I am really not understanding your argument? Dozens of Bach's mostly forgotten? Of course, for every genius known worldwide there are a million forgotten tryhards. Your point is?
As for the literature, I'm not saying there aren't good books being written today. But I quoted relevant examples: some of the highest selling books of the last decade: Fifty Shades of Gray and the most sold books in the world: Harry Potter. What is the connection between quoting examples of high selling contemporary literature, and being stagnated. I'm befuddled both by your incomprehensible argument and by the people modding your posts up. I just don't understand how anyone can defend the ridiculous thesis that old literature and music are inferior to today's literature and music.
What?? No, not at all! Are you for real? I love classical music. I don't listen to Bach because I've stagnated in the 17th century. I just think that it is far superior than any commercial crap that is produced today. Rock, with its "I'm so cool rocking the guitar", Pop, with its "chorus verse chorus bridge chorus", Rap with its glorification of shitty lifestyles, none of that interests me. The unfathomable intellectual depth of Bach's works is objectively superior. Even 20th century stuff like Pink Floyd or the Beatles is far more acceptable than this commercial made-for-teens stuff. Same thing goes for literature. If you ask a teenager if he prefers reading Heart of Darkness or Harry Potter, he'll pick Harry Potter of course. I know what I prefer, though. And it has nothing to do with stagnation or whatever.
For heaven's sake, shitty erotic fanfic like 50 shades of gray topped bestselling lists. I don't know what you make of that...
Most literature no older than 100 years looks now dated and plain boring (yes, even golden classics). Music from 2 decades ago is mostly stuff that nobody listens anymore (Yes, i know there are exceptions, but few and far between).
What on earth? Unless you are a teenager, I think most people appreciate classic books rather than the "bestsellers" of today. I also think that, bar teens, nobody really gives a shit about the boring dopamine-inducing mainstream music of today, but would rather listen to music older than 20 years. Your post makes no sense at all. If you think literature older than 100 years is boring you are clearly an angsty teenager who hasn't got it. Same thing if you think classical music is boring.
>When you're poor, stop spending money on non-essentials.
Like food, housing, school for your kids, etc. Don't talk about what you clearly know nothing of. Your comfy middle class position does not give you the right to speak like that about a reality that you can't even grasp.
Wouldn't that be a bit extreme? All the game asks you is to perform an update, or a simple check to make sure you don't have a rom loader installed. That isn't a problem to non pirates. I really don't see the problem with this, but even if there is a problem, if that's the only DRM PS4 has, I don't mind the nuisance.
Well, let's face it. There's almost certainly no other reason not to want to receive more features than avoiding breaking pirate game loaders... That talk of Sony Overlord is worth nothing in practice.
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I'm serious. I am really not understanding your argument? Dozens of Bach's mostly forgotten? Of course, for every genius known worldwide there are a million forgotten tryhards. Your point is?
As for the literature, I'm not saying there aren't good books being written today. But I quoted relevant examples: some of the highest selling books of the last decade: Fifty Shades of Gray and the most sold books in the world: Harry Potter. What is the connection between quoting examples of high selling contemporary literature, and being stagnated. I'm befuddled both by your incomprehensible argument and by the people modding your posts up. I just don't understand how anyone can defend the ridiculous thesis that old literature and music are inferior to today's literature and music.
The idea that nobody listens to music over twenty years old is about a dumb as it's possible to get in a syntactically valid sentence.
Yet he has been modded up to 5:Insightful. What's with /. today?
What?? No, not at all! Are you for real? I love classical music. I don't listen to Bach because I've stagnated in the 17th century. I just think that it is far superior than any commercial crap that is produced today. Rock, with its "I'm so cool rocking the guitar", Pop, with its "chorus verse chorus bridge chorus", Rap with its glorification of shitty lifestyles, none of that interests me. The unfathomable intellectual depth of Bach's works is objectively superior. Even 20th century stuff like Pink Floyd or the Beatles is far more acceptable than this commercial made-for-teens stuff. Same thing goes for literature. If you ask a teenager if he prefers reading Heart of Darkness or Harry Potter, he'll pick Harry Potter of course. I know what I prefer, though. And it has nothing to do with stagnation or whatever. For heaven's sake, shitty erotic fanfic like 50 shades of gray topped bestselling lists. I don't know what you make of that...
Most literature no older than 100 years looks now dated and plain boring (yes, even golden classics). Music from 2 decades ago is mostly stuff that nobody listens anymore (Yes, i know there are exceptions, but few and far between).
What on earth? Unless you are a teenager, I think most people appreciate classic books rather than the "bestsellers" of today. I also think that, bar teens, nobody really gives a shit about the boring dopamine-inducing mainstream music of today, but would rather listen to music older than 20 years. Your post makes no sense at all. If you think literature older than 100 years is boring you are clearly an angsty teenager who hasn't got it. Same thing if you think classical music is boring.
I dunno. The knee jerk reaction to optional, but enabled by default Kinect seems to be a little over the top, even for /. MS hate standards.
>When you're poor, stop spending money on non-essentials. Like food, housing, school for your kids, etc. Don't talk about what you clearly know nothing of. Your comfy middle class position does not give you the right to speak like that about a reality that you can't even grasp.
Wouldn't that be a bit extreme? All the game asks you is to perform an update, or a simple check to make sure you don't have a rom loader installed. That isn't a problem to non pirates. I really don't see the problem with this, but even if there is a problem, if that's the only DRM PS4 has, I don't mind the nuisance.
Well, let's face it. There's almost certainly no other reason not to want to receive more features than avoiding breaking pirate game loaders... That talk of Sony Overlord is worth nothing in practice.
The very slight difference being that my words aren't designed to kill in large numbers. What a retarded analogy.