Every time I post about the function of rules in TTRPGs I'm starkly reminded that there's a big chunk of the indie RPG sphere who think of TTRPGs as a. a performance being put on by the GM for the audience of their players, and/or b. a mechanism for the production of TV-episode-shaped narratives.

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i don't think "turn your brain off" movies are real it's just a defense mechanism for admitting we like stuff that we know we can't explain

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As an aside (this whole thread is an aside) this is a reason people look back fondly on early Twitter as it had an incredible level of the "noise that turns out to be signal" - actually interesting information you didn't think you wanted to know. (Now of course the secret third thing is racism)

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My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

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Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

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