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BT - These Hopeful Machines (pg. 9)
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| Lews |
Oh, and to all the people who have said that listening to it multiple times they're starting to hear the good parts:
There is a thing in your brain that will make you think something is better than you originally thought because you have spent time and money on it.
So no, you're not actually starting to appreciate it. Your brain just is trying to make you feel better. Sorry.
Oh: I'm not even going to waste my time pirating this thing after seeing the album art. |
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| DRM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
So no, you're not actually starting to appreciate it. Your brain just is trying to make you feel better. Sorry.
Oh: I'm not even going to waste my time pirating this thing after seeing the album art. |
I have bought albums in the past and listened to them many times and I still hate them so how does that fit in with your little hypothesis then? |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by DRM
I have bought albums in the past and listened to them many times and I still hate them so how does that fit in with your little hypothesis then? |
Is that a serious question?
Will read it tomorrow, Jack ;) Odd reading a review from you on another site than TC lol. |
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| DRM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Is that a serious question?
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Yes it is. If you are suggesting that anyone who warms to this album after a number of listens are only doing so because we spent money on it and invested our own time in it. If this is the case then how is it that someone can purchase an album and invest time in to listening to it and still not like it afterwards?
This disproves your point that if you spend money and time on something then your brain will push you to think you like it. |
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| vinnie97 |
Just skimmed your review, System, and had to laugh at the last paragraph. We're indeed masochists. :toothless
Oh, and Massive Attack's 100th Window is an example of an album that defies your hypothetical convention, Lews (though, of course, it's not horrid to start out with like 'These Hopeful Machines,' so it may not be an accurate comparison ;)). |
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| Armitage |
| The weirdest thing about this album is that you could take ~10 second chunks out, line them up and it would be a teaser for what sounded like a decent album. It really sounds like BT listens to tiny, tiny parts of his tracks over and over. |
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| Lews |
Ooh you guys! You're all totally destroying "my hypothesis" and "my theory." Except for the fact that it's not actually mine. It's a psychological and economical phenomenon and I'm not making it up. It applies to pretty much everything you spend money, time (or in military , lives). Keep going though, you're totally making me look stupid.
Look up loss aversion, escalation of commitment, and sunk cost fallacy, thanks.
Obviously this isn't going to apply to every single thing in life, but keep throwing out examples, if it makes you feel better.
I was just trying to help :( |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Don't mind Lews. He's a cool guy but he can't argue for . |
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| vinnie97 |
| somebody's butt hurt! Sorry, dude, taste is far too subjective to apply that theory so rigidly. |
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| dipsetrenegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Oh, and to all the people who have said that listening to it multiple times they're starting to hear the good parts:
There is a thing in your brain that will make you think something is better than you originally thought because you have spent time and money on it.
So no, you're not actually starting to appreciate it. Your brain just is trying to make you feel better. Sorry.
Oh: I'm not even going to waste my time pirating this thing after seeing the album art. |
So wait, you can only like this album if you're a brainless idiot? Way to make value judgments and completely contradict yourself? I hate trolls who think their opinion is a fact. Time to grow up. |
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| DRM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Ooh you guys! You're all totally destroying "my hypothesis" and "my theory." Except for the fact that it's not actually mine. It's a psychological and economical phenomenon and I'm not making it up. It applies to pretty much everything you spend money, time (or in military , lives). Keep going though, you're totally making me look stupid.
Look up loss aversion, escalation of commitment, and sunk cost fallacy, thanks.
Obviously this isn't going to apply to every single thing in life, but keep throwing out examples, if it makes you feel better.
I was just trying to help :( |
Most people are well aware of this but I think you are taking what you have heard far too literally. This process may well happen but it is not a rule and statements like
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
So no, you're not actually starting to appreciate it. Your brain just is trying to make you feel better. Sorry. |
are a little overzealous when you clearly don't have the where with all to back it up |
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