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I mean just an example:

Step 1: Commit murder
Step 2: Destroy evidence
Step 3: Delete memory of you committing the murder
Step 4: Live guilt free
Step 5: Profit?

Profession Sleeper Assassin

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
    6·
    9 days ago

    Based on the other comments, I wonder…

    If we could re-read, re-watch, or re-play our favorite media over again for the “first time”, we might consume significantly less media.

    Why try something new that statistically isn’t likely to be the GOAT when you can guarantee an awesome experience with something you know, because you already know it’s great?

    I can imagine someone who only replays one game repeatedly for decades, only watches one or two movies over and over, only reads one book or series again and again, decade after decade.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      41·
      8 days ago

      I would be very weary of doing that, some of my favorite media was good because of the circumstances I was in when I first consumed it.

      One such example for me is Metal Gear Solid, a lot of what made that game so special for me would not be the same today, some examples:

      • Controls were good back then, but today they would be very bad.
      • I didn’t spoke English back then, so a lot was trial and error until I found a version in Spanish, and then I loved the way the game tells you what to do (by radio calls) but that would be very annoying today
      • There’s one part that it needs you to look at her physical game box, which wouldn’t be a thing nowadays.
      • Psycho mantis, all of it, but namely:
        • He named other games I played (by reading my memory card, which is not a thing anymore)
        • He made my controller move by itself (nowadays everyone knows controllers vibrate, I sure didn’t back then)
        • I needed to plug my controller to the second slot (controllers no longer have slots now)
      • At the time I liked the story, nowadays I think I would roll my eyes to lots of it.

      And just like that I feel that every media I liked might have lots of stuff that depends on the situation I consumed it originally.

      • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com
        1·
        1 day ago

        There are some great pieces of media out there that pioneered or popularized a genre, game mechanic, whatever. Playing/watching/listening to it for the first time years after release (whether or not you’ve experienced it before and had your memory deleted, honestly), these groundbreaking pieces of media can seem very derivative even though in reality they blazed the path.

        I think the television show Arrested Development is a good example of this. Watching it for the first time today is a totally different experience than when it aired because of how much it popularized mockumentary-style single camera comedies.