Oooooh tasty! A discussion in changing tastes over the years - The Bear and Badger

dynamiteReady

Escape wrote:

dynamiteReady wrote:

Grin Fandango

Comedy, is it?

It is now.

Wookienopants

davyK wrote:

Material is so easy to get hold of now....I can remember the thrill of a smuggled VHS copy of The Exorcist being played in the "TV room" in school, a banned film at the time, and being subsequently caught on by a teacher and being chucked out.

I remember a VHS copy being passed round our school when I was 10. My mate next door got it and we watched it round his one evening.
I didn't sleep for weeks. Scared the three of us so much we had nightmares that lasted ages.
It was such a thrill knowing you had a copy of a film that was all but impossible to see at that age

regmcfly

Tempy wrote:

it's ok it's a joke for H

I see you

Moot_Geeza

It's not really a change in taste, but in terms of desire to play I'm far more regular with my gaming than I was a few years ago. I'm regularly putting 1-2hrs in two or three times a week. Five years ago I was struggling to fill a top five in our GotY threads, but I listed over ten for 2016. Music is always a constant as I listen to it for most of the day at work, plus I've even started sticking something on the Fostex/Schiit/Fiio headwobble combo while I watch football, as I've realised I lose nothing by muting the commentary.

What has suffered is the number of films I watch per year. Since I stopped obsessively buying dvds, I've also lapsed into an all-time low of only watching one or two a month unless I'm off work. It's even worse with TV - I watch Catastrophe and I saw Quarry & Rillington Place recently-ish, but that's it off the top of my head, unless I get a text like 'Rich Hall is Countrier Than You - BBC4. Looks like the kind of shit you like'.

[Deleted User]

I'm not sure how much my musi tastes have changed, I think they're more stuck in a rut. My iPhone is probably at least 90% stuff from 1990-2010.

My film tastes have probably changed the most; my appetite for 'torture-porn' (never liked that description but you know what I mean) and CGI-feats have diminished somewhat. Don't get me wrong, I still like some CGI-heavy films, but I think I've seen the world (nearly) end too many times for it to hold much sway.

With games, my tastes are probably broadening rather than changing. I used to only like games where you have immediate control of something, and didn't get on quite as well with strategy or RPGs, but that's changed somewhat.

Diluted Dante

I've stopped watching films, and instead consume a monstrous amount of TV. I prefer the longer form of storytelling a TV series gives you over the 90 mins to 2 hours you get in a film. Pretty much only films I watch these days are Marvel, and that's largely because they're still sort of long form given the shared universe.

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