it’s not “everything” it’s literally his independent aesthetic conclusion
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Fun fact: car companies have design people specifically focused on making sure doors close with a satisfying thunk
I bet there’s product design literature on this. I suspect there’s a strong aural component. It’s a kind of anti-music, like anti-jokes.
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why anti-music? a satisfying sound is more music than noise
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There’s no tension-resolution thing going on. It’s just straight up resolution. Like anti jokes aren’t incoherent or unfunny, they just don’t set up and resolve a premise. But I’m not attached to the idea. Just seems to fall short of musicality.
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I’d summarize it as something like “reading mind in the revelation of precise fit”
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The design examples have precision of fit going on but the soap and other found-ritual examples seem to have significant messiness and imprecision
In fact we might have here a perfect challenge for you: the oddly satisfying mess. Extra credit: involving mild destruction
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I think oddly satisfying destruction tends to be about revealing organization (put there by minds??) that was present but invisible
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like I could see this happening for secretly-complex man-made materials and certain plants and fungi
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Hmm shades of puzzle theory here, except there’s only 1 true fan theory or something
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Dominoes are a good example. Mildly destructive, no surprises in the information revealed by falling cascade. Just oddly satisfying validation with mild garnish of zemblanity. Messiness is hard to inject there though.
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yeah but SO much “mind” to be read in the placement of the dominoes - even half an inch of error and the whole thing fails
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