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I used to get so mad when I'd see a book get made into a movie or picture book and it was always a very realistic interpretations of the world and in my head it was far more extreme and colorful. I remember seeing the drawings for 'a far away tree' and thinking wtf it's not just a regular tree it's supposed to be magical.

The real trick is to play games that leave much to the imagination, like a book can.

I haven't seen the video but I read the interview (equally gross), and it's kinda like that. I don't remember it hitting the floor but he admitted that it got a little crooked when it was going in, which was one of the main contributing factors.

Apparently he had done it before (and continues to do so) with no issue because he filled them with water first, so the density counteracted the tension.

Also he was like 50ish when it happened.

Science fiction is one genre that just doesn't translate well to the screen. The ideas are too big for a budget and too alien to be adequately depicted. I'm grateful that one man is capable of making twenty hours worth of content in less than a year; it's more sustainable than millions of dollars being spent on two hours of entertainment.

Tv can lead to imagination and books can leave no lasting impression.

However in recent years I've taken more to books because video programmes seem to be getting dumber.

I can do both.

As an artist, a good movie or videogame can get my mind racing with cool ideas to draw or model.

I can think of plenty of shows and movies I watched as a child that stimulated my imagination possibly more than any book did.

To your statement there is higher volume of shit video content than shit literature.

Spend some time on a fanfiction site and get back to me on that.

As someone without aphantasia, I don't always quite get it either. Reading is often a last resort medium for me, but it does have it's place. Plain text primarily engages my narrative imagination (where is the story going) and only a little bit of visual imagination (since it's kind of hard to convey certain things like body language in text without being very boring), while for example a video might invoke narrative, visual, and auditory imagination. Video games are even better to me, as they engage narrative, visual, auditory, and decision making imagination. It's about stimulation to me, the more coherent the better, and books just don't seem to stimulate enough for my imagination to kick off to where it's enjoyable to read.

I've just stopped watching anything coming out of sloppywood. I'd rather support small content creators.

I completely agree with you with the caveat that on rare occasions it can. I am personally very excited to see what directer Denis Villeneuve will do with Rendevous With Rama. That book is almost begging for a faithful screen adaptation since so much of it is describing the scale and layout of the inside of the O'Neill cylinder. I say this as someone who is known in my friendgroup for always hating adaptations and reboots, etc.

As a person with aphantasia, I've enjoyed it since I was a child. But my parents read to me every night before bed for a long time, and so my hunch is that I latched onto it because of that positive association.

Looking at TWO of the longest running franchises... both of them are sci-fi.

What a ridiculous conclusion.

Its actually so much funnier watching people compare the "blandness" of the TV to the book lmao.

That's the thing where your brain overlaps sensory information with areas for processing of other senses, no?

"How I spend my leisure time is superior to how you spend your leisure time."

As though trash books and thought-provoking television don't exist.

Edit: oh wait... I see the actual joke. Thought-provoking television indeed.

Science fiction is one genre that just doesn't translate well to the screen.

60 years Star Trek of puts the lie to this statement.

They are saying one uses imagination and the other doesn't.

Both kinda do though because at first i couldn't imagine what the boy is watching, but after i saw that video for myself not a day goes by without imagining it.

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Ah, a relic of the late stage of this meme format where hardly anyone remembered what the "POV" stands for.

Good thing it effectively died soon after