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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8127672" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>If you reject my premise or my conclusion that is up to you. I am not particularly invested in persuading folks. I am weighing in. But these conversations have not been enjoyable on my end so I tend to be pretty guarded (especially with posters like [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER]). But that isn't what I said. I said there has been a narrowing of what is possible creatively. When I look at the various pockets of creative discussion online I see people who start to share the same aesthetics and who start to parrot the same critiques. There may be a number of pockets, but within those pockets, people all kind of start to look and sound the same creatively to me.</p><p></p><p>Look at my responses. I am not saying 'the internet and social media is all bad for creativity'. I am saying these things are a double edged sword, they have some negatives, and some of those negatives impact creativity. In my own experience, I had to stop listening to people online to restore my own creativity and I had to use social media a lot less to restore things like my focus and attention span (and my ability to absorb more long form media as sources of inspiration).</p><p></p><p>If you see something different when you look at the creative landscape in the hobby, fair enough, it is a highly subjective judgment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8127672, member: 85555"] If you reject my premise or my conclusion that is up to you. I am not particularly invested in persuading folks. I am weighing in. But these conversations have not been enjoyable on my end so I tend to be pretty guarded (especially with posters like [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER]). But that isn't what I said. I said there has been a narrowing of what is possible creatively. When I look at the various pockets of creative discussion online I see people who start to share the same aesthetics and who start to parrot the same critiques. There may be a number of pockets, but within those pockets, people all kind of start to look and sound the same creatively to me. Look at my responses. I am not saying 'the internet and social media is all bad for creativity'. I am saying these things are a double edged sword, they have some negatives, and some of those negatives impact creativity. In my own experience, I had to stop listening to people online to restore my own creativity and I had to use social media a lot less to restore things like my focus and attention span (and my ability to absorb more long form media as sources of inspiration). If you see something different when you look at the creative landscape in the hobby, fair enough, it is a highly subjective judgment. [/QUOTE]
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