Post #1496219

2026-04-17 03:27 UTC

@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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@szczurtorebkowy@ohai.social 2026-04-17 03:37

@boon But it's still you who does the skipping, you decide what's not relevant to you. And even skipping you get some idea that there's a long description of economic relations or plants on the meadow near the river Niemen. And I thing that's an enormous difference. @kasica @srebrna

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@srebrna@circumstances.run 2026-04-17 06:12

@boon Most clickbait recently is generated by LLM anyway, and I have trained myself to catch clickbait on first 2-3 sentences. In case of my story, they were given a TASK to read it and draw a picture. And this was a group of ~10-13 y.o. so not 40+ ppl burned by everyday social media crap, but kids now unable to actually READ. Even if it's a two-page story in a printed magazine. I think the only parts I ever skip are cosmic battles in the Honor Harrington series. The author goes into such unnecessary, repetitive DETAIL...! Two hundred missiles were shot, of which one hundred were taken off by decoys, eleven went off course .... the remaining three hit the aft port lower deck nineteen, twenty and twenty one which suffered air loss and explosions, killing thirteen crew members, a dog and a warrant officer stuck in the toilet. The moment I see first missile launch, I skip to the next dialogue :>

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