say you could only done of the following for the rest of your life

Hovered over literature and TV but I had to go for music. Which has a bit of its own literature and television inside it with the added bonus of sounds.

tv eats most of these categories. I even have crappy games on my dvr.

sports, because old sports are boring but old everything else is cool

Who watches old sports?

7.30pm GMT Wednesday 29th Ferbruary 2012: ILF comes together and watches the 1978 World Cup Final - Argentina v. Holland

if I didn't pick "music", I would be giving up my low-level second career

Rules clarification request: Will I have unlimited access to all TV/lit/music/etc that has come before, or will I only have the access to such things I have now, which is relatively great but also inescapably limited?

What about books that are not fiction/"literature"? That's other or "literature"?

Music.

I don't keep that up-to-date with literature, and there's enough old stuff to keep me going happily (though I would miss newer philosophical things etc). Same sort of thing with movies. The rest I'm not into enough, I guess. I'd miss having the TV on, but most of what they show these days is repeats, so I'd be fine, amiriteoramirite?

Games. Then I'd come up with a game where you could go into a VR version of your house and, say, watch a polygonised virtual TV. On your physical TV.

movies. they often have music in them, are often based on literature (and/or games), depict sports, sometimes have boobs, etc.

musical boobs are less rewarding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrPRTuAZVe8

Sports surprisingly easily. I could fill up the next 40-70 years quite easily with movies, music and literature I haven't fully explored. Television is a bit tougher, but sports has a number of ancillary benefits (travel to Europe to see soccer, etc.) as a choice.

snooty younger me would shake his fist angrily but tbh the real answer for me has to be games.

sports

oh god, misread the question in my hurry to make boob jokes. this only applies to new stuff?

uh, err, still movies. only want to see most movies once or maybe twice, if that. old music i can listen to over and over again forever. plus avatar 2.

most books i want to read are old. the rest of these options are crap.

thank god porn isn't eliminated

You could prefix 'porn' on all of those options, maybe including 'porn sports'.

Television in a walk. There's very little new music, film, or literature that excites me much anymore, but a pretty rich history of each that I've yet to fully dig into. Whereas I seem to get into new TV shows all the time.

tv prob won't exist in anything close to its current form in 20 years so it seems like a bad 'rest of your life' choice

voted music

jjj, I was wondering why you weren't picking "music" and then I realized that by picking "games" you are effectively silencing all of the ppl who come to your store and try out the guitars poorly

can you make stuff in any of the categories?

strike through games and tv easily b/c i don't even do that shit anyway.

reluctantly letting literature go, tbh i've never placed much emphasis on being au courant with the literature scene and there's so much in the past to keep me going.

with film it's the other way round, i watch current stuff and buzzed-about films so i can talk about them. but i don't obsess over film like even 1% as much as i do over music, i'm a consumer not an obsessive of the form. i can just watch the old stuff, i'll be fine.

aaaargh sports vs music. sports literally useless unless you're following it in real time. new music is obviously my lyfe.

i actually think i'd go for sports. i can imagine giving up following new music more easily than i can imagine stopping caring about tennis. though w/r/t the latter if azarenka and sharapova dominate for much longer that might be worth a rethink.

can you make stuff in any of the categories?

I assumed "no", hence my easy answer

this q will prob then be answered by what I want to make rather than what I want to interact w/ then

I.....dunno

hmmm this sucks....games are my pick probably because they are getting better and will change more over time than the rest

but

sports seems almost useless when not in the context of the now, so that would be the only one that would be rendered pretty much worthless, whereas there are obv lots of good old games

as far as books/tv/movies/music there is just so much good stuff you could watch from the past that it wouldn't really matter that much

i think i take games here, i definitely don't care as much about new games right now as sports or new music, but losing out on them has the highest potential opportunity cost imo if proper virtual reality is developed in my lifetime

Oh, shit, I didn't even think about making stuff. Obviously it'd still be down to music vs literature for me, but if we sidestep the issue of whether critical stuff is 'literature' then it's still easily music, simply because I occasionally manage to finish a musical project, whereas all my lit remains barely quarter-finished.

sports easily w/ tv 2nd

lit and i didnt even have to think about it.

I don't see anything about create, so I'm still going w/ sports

ciderpress has a good point about how games prob have the most room to grow, I'm not even a big game person but it would suck to be someone itt sitting around watching new episodes of community while everyone else in the world was playing some vr tron game

it would suck to be someone itt sitting around watching new episodes of community

it would suck to be someone itt

it would

it does

games are getting worse, not better

If I didn't vote for television I would never get to watch the final season of Breaking Bad.

I guess there is a good chance that the most popular vr game would be farmville

but then you could make the last season of breaking bad into a song

or a sport I guess

That'd be a fucked up sport.

waltball

Close call between music and movies. Not sure which.

OMG music.

Sport, by a distance, followed by TV.

sports pretty easily with games the only close second - I could be plenty content on already-published music, film, literature

Yeah, sports -- it spoils pretty quickly, everything else is pretty shelf-stable.

I chose music, but I didn't realize that precluded me from writing new books :(

Music easy, but I think the future of games could possibly be disturbingly interesting, so even though I don't really play v. many now I might feel like I was missing out in a few years

Everything else, w/e, movies are already done, literature is so not-21st-century, tv might have a few more good years in it but come on, sports are good times but not art what gives life meaning (or are they...?_?)

drugs

I like watching old sport.

i can immediately scratch sports from the list; i do like sports, but i don't care about them. this is a tough question because all these (remaining) categories have enough old content to keep me going for a very long time. the world is enormous and i am pokey. what does the literature category encompass, exactly? fiction and non? if it includes popularized science then i choose literature. maybe. hmm.

comic books, the finest form of literature

Cosign, maybe. It'd be a toss-up between the two most popular serialized fiction media, for sure.

lol, i was psyched that comics weren't included. that means i can keep reading comics no matter what!

anyway, i don't think that making things should be excluded. that's a whole different poll.

and i was wrong when i said movies. the only answer here is music.

I dunno, I'm reaching an age where exploring old music is becoming more exciting than most new music I hear.

games (video, computer, board etc) - meh
literature - hmm..
music - as per previous poster
movies - hmmm
sports - take them all away, i dinnae care
television - ah.
other (?) - a bit of it.

sports easily. i'll never run out of movies, books, tv boxsets or music, new music is rubbish anyway.

Music, without a question.

Games - could easily can this
Literature - would feel very guilty about doing this but so much past out there
Music - probably the same, if I'm honest, although it might kill going out dancing and festivals and stuff which has been a huge part of my social life
Sports - would never watch historical sports, this would be really tricky
TV - could live without it BUT it would kill a lot of sports watching

TV and sports basically cancel one another out so it's between literature and music and I'm plumping for literature.

Also I could give up new films perfectly easy.

With all these removed from my life I would read SO MANY books.

tv surely refers to stuff other than sports, matt

Tho, tbf, looking at recent trends would you rather remain ignorant of where spurs will be in may

chose games because vr tron.

Can we read synopses of new TV shows/books on wikipedia?

.. which is in the past.

Unless you mean 'upgrades' are included in 'new' (xpost)

I feel like I completely overconsume/overvalue according to newness so would appreciate being forced to catch up tbh.

I've watched my videos of Arsenal's 1994 CWC victory only once and the 1990 Ireland WC story no more than three times - clearly I have no interest in old sports.

sports maybe?

Music, totally. Maybe games tho. I mean there's such a wealth of old music and books I'd never go wanting tbh.

immediate reaction literature>>music>>>>movies

I went with literature, without analysis, because I had such a strong reaction

interested in arguments around the existing unexplored volume of work. so much lit, music, & film that I haven't explored, and could probably spend the rest of my life with what already exists. so it comes down to what I value as the most important art form, and I'm going with literature.

Don't do sports or games really, and I have a love/hate relationship with TV, though engaging and sometimes great TV continues to be made.

Does *not* picking sports mean I can never go running? In that case, sports.
Otherwise, if physical activity is still a go, it's a toss-up between lit and music.

Went with lit. I love TV and games, sure, but both are made with "time-suck" in mind. As in, brevity is not encouraged. I can't focus on either a TV show or a game for more than an hour feeling that my time is being wasted.

hmm

anyway, my head says if this is just down to watching stuff then television obv but if its DOING stuff i cant deal with the idea of never skiing again so sport

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Can someone pls explain to me how "only anything new" applies to playing baseball or going running, exactly? Im rly confused, the question doesnt even seem to work that way. I mean if you picked sports, how is "new sport" determined? Consumption rather than participation surely, unless you constantly make up new football codes or something lol.

only brockian ultra cricket from now on

I picked videogames cos even though I really don't play anything (haven't really been a huge gamer since Super NES) I am consistently amazed by the way the form is evolving, if only from a technical perspective. Playing videogames in the future will probably be a super immersive and mindblowing experience. I think it has a far bigger potential to evolve than music, literature, movies, or TV.

applying the "past" part of the equation to sports is sort of a red herring, since the idea of the past isn't the same as the other categories

Have to go with music, followed by literature.

and by literature I'm assuming that's all new books, both fiction and non.

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I wonder if the high sports result is a consequence of people thinking they couldn't run or play tennis ever again.

I think it's that there's an almost-infinite amount of music/movies/books to explore from the past, whereas no one wants to watch a random baseball game from 1972.