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Reviews in any medium are entertainment whether it’s film, music, games, hardware, food. Ultimately it’s someone’s subjective opinion on something. If you actually want to be happy with your choices your best bet is to find a reviewer with the same tastes and preferences as you and follow their train of thought. If you hate horror movies, you’re not going to enjoy “bring her back” no matter what the critics say.


Most of the time, I don't think it's subjective, I just think the reviewer has a conflict of interest. Especially pre-release products.


and thats why "influencers" are big


I can't relate to their behaviour, so even if they had the same taste i would not want to be associated.


you might not have found the ones that like the same stuff has you just yet


You know, thats true.. I wonder how much pain one has to endure before finding the right one.


Easy way to outsource your thinking. Next step in this epopee will be/is already GenAI.


You can’t do all of your “thinking” yourself. You’re not a lone, isolated subsistence farmer. People have been reviewing things for other people for centuries, and it’s been a valuable service.


You are not wrong, but one thing is thinking about what others said and thought previously, generating maybe new ideas, or maybe not, but at least making them yours. Just parroting or blindly believe what others says, it's a tad different.




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