Does CONTEXT matter when consuming media?

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[morgansmith]

Man... i just got a massive blast of nostalgia, playing fire emblem late at night under my blanket with a flashlight, trying not to get caught

[BenjaminAbbaszadeh]

God, I love Alex Faciane.
He, Brett, and Jesse have such awesome insights into such specific facets of life.

[Juhzr]

Alex is great. Chill, friendly and thoughtful.

[Eventide]

Context is always important in practically all facets of life. There's a certain charm to different things. Like the Game Boy bit mentioned here is that there's a difference between playing little games curled up on a couch, chair, bed, etc because it's like you get comfy and just take your mind off things for a bit. For movies, making a whole date out of something can change things too.. Like take yourself to the movie theater to watch a movie and it'll feel so different because you're really making a thing out of it.

[symphonicstorm]

And we can test this exact example in the world today!
The GameBoy and GBA games on NSO are infinitely more fun when you're playing the switch in handheld mode instead of in docked mode.

[vigilantScrivener]

David Lynch put it best when he said “you can’t experience the movie on your ffffucking phone”

[rob]

Also some games are designed to only work in their original setting. The best example of this is Castlevania on a CRT tv.

Look up the sprite work for Dracula, if it's pixel perfect it looks kinda bad. His eyes only have 1 red pixel, but on a CRT pixel bleed spills the light onto surrounding pixels and it makes his eyes fill out significantly better.

[davedunst]

This is amazing insight. Stuff that is assumed now, or just called nostalgia...all of these details matter!

[kaishido]

I agree with Alex, this has to be the thing that most of us lost with today's technology advancements.

[a_real_one]

He right, especially in era where some learn about movies from memes or gif of scene.
I sometimes feel we learn too much about a movie before scene is shot. It’s easy distort the context of movies.
Example look this picture (from camera phone with bad lighting)costume doesn’t look good. This should be Clause for concern.

[TheKitsuneOnihane]

You don't need a little light on your gameboy just use the street lights as you drive by

[DYNEsama]

I mean I love the fact I can play Game Boy games on my Switch, but for some reason it doesn't hit the same as it did when I was a kid with my original hardware

[Radignostic]

you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

[Robberator]

This is so accurate, my god. Tech from back in the day like the lines of crt tvs and monitors added so much texture and feeling of depth to old games that you just don't get from the crispness of emulators. Games also lose so much of their cinematic grandeur when you're playing them on a monitor that's in your face. Context is so essential to these experiences.

[IRMentat]

“Ask someone what movie to watch”.
Yeah interest that with “hey babe, what you want for dinner?” Same kind of result.