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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by jacobolus on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:27PM (#20882015)
People tend to enjoy genre fiction because it is full of predictable filler. Not all entertainment has to be surprising or life changing.

Just spending time in the moment with an enjoyable story is not wasting it.

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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by microcolonel on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @08:02PM (#20882620)
I think this really is a case of to each his own. Pure fiction with drawn out descriptions and excess vocabulary drives me to anger.

I think I have a similar thing visually, where above a certain text size, I have a very hard time reading. The optimal text size for me is pretty small, even on a standard resolution display.

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