always on those yang's lady generals

Robert Hainard (1906 - 1999). Bialowieza. Color woodcut. March 9th, 1956.

taste is literally just discernment. i don't think you can have 'bad' taste, or rather, i think 'bad' taste is an absence of taste, an inability to articulate what you enjoy and understand why. but of course i don't think people with no taste in games are 'gormless or unintelligent' -- i have very little/shallow taste in film and music, nearly none in painting, sculpture, photography, and that doesn't make me a moron, just a person with limited time in the world who's made choices about what skills and bases of knowledge to develop. even so, it's perfectly possible for someone to have taste that's at odds with my own--to, for example, love pokemon's type system but not care at all for the narrative of training pets, and so significantly prefer casettebeasts.