Post #1496218
2026-04-17 00:28 UTC
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@boon@wspanialy.eu 2026-04-17 03:27
@kasica @srebrna There are movies I watch on fast forward so I get it a little bit - people like the story, not so much the language, and just maybe there are some boring parts to skip - like the important to the world building yet very tiresome part about economy in Dukaj's Black Oceans. I understand the urge for summaries, but I don't endorse them - it's counterproductive. From my point it is easier and better to push thru - that's the only way out, this is the way. But also I think this is because people grew so accustomed to click bait, they don't want to waste time over a disappointing story. That's messed up isn't it?
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@srebrna@circumstances.run 2026-04-17 06:06
@kasica In case of the summary of my story, they were not reading it by choice, but because it was used during drawing lessons as basis for the task - they were supposed to draw an illustration. But that's nearly the same case - if you are supposed to draw a picture for a story, the summary will NOT work... But certain age ranges are so accustomed to doing this, we're basically seeing a cohort being raised that will be unable to parse a short instruction... :(