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keyblader1985 posted...

That's a very immature viewpoint though.

Most people discussing media of all kinds online are extremely immature, though.

Especially people talking about video games, honestly.

I mean, we fight blood wars over which console is better - we're not really doing all that well on the ability to step outside of oneself and accept that different people have different subjective perceptions.



keyblader1985 posted...

If you don't like the genre at all you don't say it's a bad game; you just say you don't like it.

But now that I say that, that's what lots of people do to shut down anything they don't care for. Sports that aren't popular in America are dumb, rap is garbage, etc.

Yeah, you're sort of touching on the problem there.

When people are talking about movies, almost NO ONE says things like "That movie wasn't something that appeals to me" or "I personally found that movie lacking." No, people say "Man, that movie was terrible" or "That was so bad."

We all sort of just view the world through our egocentric/ethnocentric lenses where we generalize our opinions and present them in more objective ways, so it becomes almost a knee-jerk response to describe things solely in terms of how WE see it, and not tack things like "It seems to ME that..." or "...but that's only my subjective opinion" onto the ends of any given sentence. It's EXTREMELY rare for anyone to present their specific opinions about something in a way that strongly emphasizes their awareness of how subjective their personal perception is - at best, the subjectivity is implied, and at worst, it's ignored.

This is actually a problem with English in general (and a problem at least some people have attempted to fix in the past):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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