[quote=@Raptra]
I guess I'm the first to give this a hard 'no' lol, I definitely prefer silence when I'm doing anything solo that requires creativity or concentration, and that includes writing/RPing. I can tolerate background noise when I'm in my office or in public, but I won't impose it on myself when I can have the peace of silence.
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[Quote][indent][color=gray]I should explain the subject we are treating in this way: If a big diamond is cut up into pieces, it immediately loses its value as a whole; or if an army is scattered or divided into small bodies, it loses all its power; and in the same way a great intellect has no more power than an ordinary one as soon as it is interrupted, disturbed, distracted, or diverted; for its superiority entails that it concentrates all its strength on one point and object, just as a concave mirror concentrates all the rays of light thrown upon it. Noisy interruption prevents this concentration. This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing. The most intelligent of all the European nations has called “Never interrupt” the eleventh commandment. But noise is the most impertinent of all interruptions, for it not only interrupts our own thoughts but disperses them. Where, however, there is nothing to interrupt, noise naturally will not be felt particularly.[/color][/indent][/quote]
[indent][indent]— Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Noise"[/indent][/indent]