>>14333361i mean i don't think starting to dislike something necessarily means it's worse, just that it's changing. i used to like western pop a lot, then i stopped liking it and moved on to kpop, and now i'm listening primarily to things grungier rock and non-idol jpop. despite moving from genre to genre 90% of the music i listen to now has been released within the last 2-3 years, same as always.
i think people really violently overexaggerate the direction of gaming. pay to win battlepass yearly release FPS games with planned obsolescence are a horror to witness, but call of duty is just one game series. just as many masterful games are coming out today as ever, they just happen to be alongside an ever increasing number of terrible games. black ops doesn't somehow invalidate one step from eden or breath of the wild in the same way bionicle heroes didn't invalidate super smash bros melee or halo 2. games in general age like milk, so people just get sad that their life has changed in a way that they can't play ocarina of time for the first time again then say that it's EAs fault.
in general i very strongly believe that the accumulation of knowledge and technological advancements make almost any medium better over time. it's extremely reasonable not to agree with the general consensus of what's popular this exact moment, and big companies are usually going to push headlines with terrible products because that's the way life is, but i truly think that every single person can find an artist in any medium that is making something they like more than anything that could have even been made in that medium 5 years ago. for certain arts and certain people's tastes finding that artist might be quite challenging, but in almost every case it's not "old good, new bad" as much as "the part i like used to be popular, now that the part i don't like is popular i can't be assed"
>>14333375i'm sure there's only so much damage dangerous levels of motivation can do
