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[Anonymous No.20553044]

Isn't reading limiting creativity? You fill your brain with ideas someone already thought about, which I believe will lead you down paths that are aligned with those ideas. I think some of the most interesting pieces of media were made with very limited prior experience in given topics.
I am talking about like mostly building things and coming up with cool stuff.
What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.20553058]

>>20553044
No. Tropes exist, art/literature/film ideas are consistently recycled. Many old ideas, but they're just re-combined and expressed thru different mediums. Always has been that way, always will be

Also:
>Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge—as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge—is knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. This can include personal wisdom, experience, insight, and intuition.

[Anonymous No.20553552]

>>20553044
>Isn't reading limiting creativity?
no

[Anonymous No.20553838]

>>20553058
If you go in blind, you either come up with new stuff or make stuff that was already made before, which itself isn't bad.
It's just this feeling, that there is a lot of samey stuff out there, in most media, and people are following what works without much change, so it's often "x but with y". And I believe knowledge of certain things can limit what we come up with, given our brains already picking up stuff subconsciously.
I guess I am referring more to visual media, like if you gave tools to make a game to 100 people who never played a game, at least some of those would be creative and different from the current norms.