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[sigmaleph]

I have noticed that when recommending media I am tending to flinch away from calling it 'good' and instead tend to call it 'fun'

even though both are entirely subjective concepts, I feel like if I call something 'good' I sort of have to defend it in terms of successfully executing things like writing three-dimensional characters and having themes and all sorts of other things people who know art talk about. I am bad at identifying those things though, while I am usually pretty confident of whether I'm having fun reading something.

Maybe this is unnecessarily defensive, but it's not like I've never had the conversation going 'I think [thing] is good' '[thing] is bad because of x y z' 'I don't really have a counterargument to x y z but I still think [thing] is good'

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[contrarianarchon]

That's really fair; I find myself in the same position as that general argument; my typical position is to extol it's virtues and claim these make up for whatever flaws that my opposition claims it has. (Few things are truly flawless, and if you expect us to claim things with no issues ((or even no *major* issues)) as good, we're going to have a hard time)