Hayashi

No, some of the music of the NES and SNES era are the best music ever written. And I was born AFTER that era, so by the childhood argument my favourite music ought to be of the early Pentium games I played... I only heard the music of the SNES era more recently. They are actually THAT GOOD.

Ditto, the thing that people still listen to Mozart and Beethoven even though they've been dead for centuries.

I'd argue that music nowadays is regressing to the lowest common denominator of rhythm and losing all the melodic complexity I like. And melodic complexity is perfectly achievable using only 8-bit instruments.

On my end my visual imagery is... (read more)

The funny thing is that after reading it I realise the article you mentioned may also lead to generalising from one example. In my case there's someone in my life whom the author would probably consider as my limerent object, based on the 'outward signs' that someone would be able to pick up as mentioned. However, to me I personally don't really care so much as to whether it's reciprocated, and also in a way don't really have a way to stop it from my end. That is, I cannot will myself to stop caring. I can also perceive in quite a balanced manner the person's attributes, but can never apply this... (read more)

I agree that 1/3 is too low a number that has never cheated. I'd say that of the people I study with, and we are at a remarkably high level of education in a profession with a fiduciary role, about 90+% of them cheat.

I'm one of those who don't cheat, for the reason you gave that I don't care about grades. However, I study in order to improve myself to be better at fulfilling my chosen role in society and for the knowledge's sake. Cheating in no way improves understanding or knowledge, and is thusly completely useless to me. However, I not only do not fail school, but conversely am one of... (read more)