Disagree (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Monday, March 23, 2015, 18:39 (3770 days ago) @ Cody Miller

If a game "doesn't get good until later" that means it's designed improperly. And why play a boring game to just have fun later, when you could play a game that's fun from the start?

Some of my favorite albums are ones that take a long time to "get." Part of that comes down to that fact that our brains require a bit of time to adjust to things that are new. In the case of music, if you aren't familiar with a genre, or a related genre, your brain literally cannot hear all of the nuances and appreciate what you are hearing. Most of your brain is at work trying to make sense out of what you hear as noise. This is why most people don't switch genres that often. Familiarity is built subconsciously over time and eventually you get competent. At that point you can decide whether you actually like something more fairly. This all happens without us knowing it. Sometimes we hear something brand new and we like it right away, other times it takes work and pays off. This usually has to do with what we've been primed to like based on our life experiences and it is why classical music listeners hear rock as just noise. It is at the heart of why most western music listeners cannot immediately appreciate all of the "extra notes" in Indian music, which sound cacophonous.

I think this same phenomena applies to a lot of different areas of our lives. Sometimes, you need to be primed to understand something, and it is worth sticking it out. That is why I've learned to trust certain people's judgments, even if my initial experience is different. Sometimes we need to learn how to have fun in a new way.