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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It seems to me that you just like snarking because it makes you feel superior.
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You really need to stop worrying about my motives for taking issue with some of your stated opinions. It also wouldn't hurt for you to get over your snark aversion. It's odd.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
What does the word generic mean - According to Merriam-Webster one of the definitions of generic is
"having no particularly distinctive quality or application "
Apparently in your experience, you have never seen people channel surf or simply put something on just to have something on. I have. As I pointed out the extraordinarily obvious that fact even the worse rated program on tv has people who watch it. Are you trying to argue that the worse rated program has a particularly distinctive quality or application? For that matter, even the worse YouTube video has someone who will watch it, just because they noticed it. No particularly distinctive quality, they just were browsing and happened to come across it.
Hollywood use to churn out what was called b-grade movies. Many times, it was simply a generic western churned out in less that a week. John Wayne made a lot of this sort of movie before he became a star. Typically, it was just filler to keep the audience occupied before the main feature came on. By most sane definitions, this is generic programming, not that I expect now that you have driven you stake in the ground that you will admit the obvious.
There is a lot of content out there that has no distinctive quality. People still watch it.
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What a lovely dissertation on "generic" as it applies to television content. The only problem I see that it doesn't even remotely address the falseness of your claim that people who prefer new and original (and don't rewatch show or movies) do so at the expense of quality. Not to mention the false equivalence you've made in suggesting that new and original equals "new generic" in the first place. Read your own words again and tell me how anyone couldn't have taken them any other way than I did.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Some video consumers want new generic stuff, and don't re-watch shows or movies. They want new and original over quality.
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Still a terribly inaccurate statement. As if "quality" and "new and original" are somehow mutually exclusive. But whatever. You clearly can't look past a little snark to see the errors of your own words. So feel free to continue to be wrong. Someone has to be.