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by convolvatron 1612 days ago
I wouldn't think it would take putting in any hours to be a crazy outlier - just a markedly different value system.
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Which itself requires hours of listening to alternative influences in order to develop, no? The pressure to conform within 2 sigma is strong in almost any society IMO.

What people don't seem to grasp is that most of the supposed alternatives to mainstream are pretty mainstream too or we wouldn't have stores like Hot Topic in the first place.