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

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say from today forward you could only watch/listen to/read/play etc anything new in one of the following categories. which you would you choose?

(to be clear, you can watch/listen to/read/play old stuff in the rest of the categories)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
music 28
sports 23
literature 13
television 10
games (video, computer, board etc) 8
movies 5
other (?) 0


J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:39 (thirteen years ago)

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.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

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

bnw, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

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

these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:44 (thirteen years ago)

Who watches old sports?

Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:45 (thirteen years ago)

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

The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:48 (thirteen years ago)

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

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:52 (thirteen years ago)

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?

andrew m., Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

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?

emil.y, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:17 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:20 (thirteen years ago)

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

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

musical boobs are less rewarding

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

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

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:24 (thirteen years ago)

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

Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

sports

dayo, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:27 (thirteen years ago)

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.

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:28 (thirteen years ago)

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

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:29 (thirteen years ago)

thank god porn isn't eliminated

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

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

Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:32 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Dr. Buzzard's® Original Banana Bread (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)

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

iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:38 (thirteen years ago)

voted music

iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

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

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

can you make stuff in any of the categories?

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

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.

liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

can you make stuff in any of the categories?

I assumed "no", hence my easy answer

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:53 (thirteen years ago)

I.....dunno

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:54 (thirteen years ago)

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

l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

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

ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

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.

emil.y, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:59 (thirteen years ago)

sports easily w/ tv 2nd

balls, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:15 (thirteen years ago)

lit and i didnt even have to think about it.

jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:25 (thirteen years ago)

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

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:32 (thirteen years ago)

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

iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:35 (thirteen years ago)

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

The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

it would suck to be someone itt

iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

it would

The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:38 (thirteen years ago)

it does

jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:41 (thirteen years ago)

games are getting worse, not better

these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

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

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:46 (thirteen years ago)

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

iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

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

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

or a sport I guess

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:48 (thirteen years ago)

That'd be a fucked up sport.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:48 (thirteen years ago)

waltball

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:49 (thirteen years ago)

Close call between music and movies. Not sure which.

clemenza, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

OMG music.

โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:26 (thirteen years ago)

Sport, by a distance, followed by TV.

pandemic, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:29 (thirteen years ago)

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

cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

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

improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:35 (thirteen years ago)

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

when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:02 (thirteen years ago)

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...?_?)

sleepingbag, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

drugs

Lamp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:17 (thirteen years ago)

I like watching old sport.

boxall, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:21 (thirteen years ago)

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.

arby's, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:26 (thirteen years ago)

comic books, the finest form of literature

Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:42 (thirteen years ago)

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

Dr. Buzzard's® Original Banana Bread (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 26 April 2012 02:13 (thirteen years ago)

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.

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:05 (thirteen years ago)

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

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:31 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:36 (thirteen years ago)

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

diafiyhm (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:40 (thirteen years ago)

Music, without a question.

EDB, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:44 (thirteen years ago)

Also I could give up new films perfectly easy.

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

Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:45 (thirteen years ago)

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

diafiyhm (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:46 (thirteen years ago)

chose games because vr tron.

Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:52 (thirteen years ago)

.. which is in the past.

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

Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:53 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Upt0eleven, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:53 (thirteen years ago)

sports maybe?

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:20 (thirteen years ago)

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

fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:23 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:13 (thirteen years ago)

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.

poxen, Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:28 (thirteen years ago)

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.

poxen, Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)

hmm

fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

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

fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:11 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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.

fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:09 (thirteen years ago)

only brockian ultra cricket from now on

raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:12 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:22 (thirteen years ago)

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

frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:32 (thirteen years ago)

Have to go with music, followed by literature.

musicfanatic, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:34 (thirteen years ago)

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

musicfanatic, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:37 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:33 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:48 (thirteen years ago)


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