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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#26: Jan 7th 2013 at 10:08:19 PM

[up]*shotgun to knee for making an even worse and less timely joke*

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#27: Jan 8th 2013 at 1:05:59 AM

I may not agree with the exact percentage but I do agree that for all the good stuff out there is indeed plenty of crap.

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#28: Mar 17th 2013 at 2:51:39 PM

For films, yes.

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#29: Mar 17th 2013 at 3:17:01 PM

I would say 90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap. Does that prove it true? O_o

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#30: Mar 17th 2013 at 3:23:23 PM

Depends.

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#31: Mar 17th 2013 at 3:51:39 PM

I'm more of the 90% of everything is average or mediocre school.

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#32: Mar 17th 2013 at 4:26:59 PM

90% (or 100%, even) of some things are crap. For example, Twilight fanfiction.

Sturgeon's Law itself is fine, but I think it needs to be clarified. "90% of everything you wouldn't like". I don't think it's trying to say that 90% of everything is objectively crap, just highly dependent on the tastes of the consumer.

edited 17th Mar '13 4:27:38 PM by Alma

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#33: Mar 17th 2013 at 5:36:36 PM

So 90% of everything is crud and 90% of that 90% is even more crud. Crudception!

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#34: Mar 17th 2013 at 5:55:18 PM

Well, they say 62% of statistics are skewed toward pessimism, and the rest are all made up.

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SolemnDream Since: Jul, 2014
#35: Jul 13th 2014 at 9:08:28 PM

I believe that not only is Sturgeon's Law true, but that 90% of everybody is a relativist, so 90% of people are just going to say "it's only crap to YOU". I believe there are standards you can measure art and other work to, and with those you can determine objectively that something is crap or not crap.

If you PERSONALLY like something that is crap, that's not "it not being crap". That's "it being a guilty pleasure". Objectivity just allows one to recognize that what they like is actually crap. Simply liking or disliking does not make something better or worse.

Honestly, relativists just tick me off.

edited 13th Jul '14 9:10:57 PM by SolemnDream

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#36: Aug 2nd 2014 at 8:25:31 PM

Like a lot of you said, I think it's just that 90% of everything isn't worth our attention (though methinks the actual figure's closer to 99.38457%).

Though if everything was awesome, we'd be completely overloaded with awesomeness and paralysed by what to enjoy first, consequently enjoying nothing. So it has its place ~evil grin

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#37: Aug 3rd 2014 at 11:52:01 AM

@Solemn Art and entertainment is rather subjective though. Who decides the gold standard of objective quality; professional critics, popular opinion, you tongue?

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#38: Aug 3rd 2014 at 11:55:32 AM

[up][up] Everything is awesome.

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#39: Aug 3rd 2014 at 4:18:07 PM

Of course Sturgeon's Law is true. It's just that almost all of the 90% is so utterly forgotten that we don't notice it.

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