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Some things are just sancrosact in the geek subculture, and I'm sure some of you out there have things that you just don't care for that your other fellow geeks rave on and on and on about.
For example:
For myself, I find Stanley Kubrik's 2001: Space Odyssey to be a long, boring movie. Every time I try to watch it, the same thing happens: I get through the monkey fight, and the part where things are floating around on the space shuttle, then I fall dead asleep. When I wake up, HAL has killed some of the crew, and Dave is trying to pull his plexiglass circuits. From there, I can watch it to the end. What happens in the middle, I have no idea, and I honestly don't feel like I'm missing anything important.
Even worse, I find that I am not the biggest fan of Tolkien's writing style. I love his stories and have ever since I first read them as a kid, but I find re-reading the old classics (LotR, and to a lesser extent, The Hobbit) to be a bit like wading through knee-deep mud. Maybe I'm just getting lazy in my old age.
For myself, I find Stanley Kubrik's 2001: Space Odyssey to be a long, boring movie.
i can understand this, but give it another try -- the quiet middle part helps to build the tension.
Even worse, I find that I am not the biggest fan of Tolkien's writing style.
well, there's a reason some refer to it as "bored of the rings."
Honestly, I find Kubrick boring. Maybe his work is too "deep" for me.
Honestly, I find Kubrick boring. Maybe his work is too "deep" for me.
ever seen "dr. strangelove?" it's not deep at all, and consistently makes "best movies ever" lists.
I don't like MT Dew.
I've never played an MMORPG and my last PC video game I've played was Doom in '95.
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I don't like superhero comic books. Don't care for anime (or understand the whole Japan fetish thing at all, really). Hate, with a passion, CCGs. Don't read much fantasy lit (and, other than Elaine, zero D&D lit). I think Allan Moore is an overrated hack. I think vampires are played out. Completely. I think WoD sucks. The concept, the Goth thing, all of it. The only video games I play consistently are sports titles. No FPS, no RPGs. I've never played an MMORPG. I don't get the fascination with really poorly acted sci-fi fantasy shows (like 99% of anything syfy airs). I like bad movies though, so that's weird. Other than Firefly, I dislike Joss Wheedon's shows. Other than Cloverfield and Star Trek, not a J.J. Abrams fan.
Basically, I'm just a sports and film geek that plays TTRPGs.
I'm not big on video games. Oh, and I hated Spider Man 2. I mean, seriously, are you really going to expect someone to stand in front of a miniature sun for eight hours a day to push down tiny solar flares with octopus arms that are connected into the person's spine? Seriously? First of all, who would sign up for a job like that? Second, what happens when that person needs to go to the bathroom or... you know... DIES OF BOREDOM?
Also, you aren't going to shut down a fusion reaction by pouring water on it. That's just going to make it worse.
I've never had any interest in seeing Babylon 5, (the new) Battlestar Galactica, or (the new) Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
i've never liked any version of star trek.</blasphemy>
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I don't like superhero comic books. Don't care for anime (or understand the whole Japan fetish thing at all, really). Hate, with a passion, CCGs. Don't read much fantasy lit (and, other than Elaine, zero D&D lit). I think Allan Moore is an overrated hack. I think vampires are played out. Completely. I think WoD sucks. The concept, the Goth thing, all of it. The only video games I play consistently are sports titles. No FPS, no RPGs. I've never played an MMORPG. I don't get the fascination with really poorly acted sci-fi fantasy shows (like 99% of anything syfy airs). I like bad movies though, so that's weird. Other than Firefly, I dislike Joss Wheedon's shows. Other than Cloverfield and Star Trek, not a J.J. Abrams fan.
Basically, I'm just a sports and film geek that plays TTRPGs.
Oh, and I hated Spider Man 2...
What *I* hated about Spider Man 2 was that Spidey is supposed to have spider strength, and there he was fighting Doc Ock, who was essentially a normal man with some machine limbs thrown on. Spidey is seen punching Ock full in the face... and yet Ock shrugs it off. How? If the moviemakers wanted to choreograph the fights so that Spidey loses, that's fine. Just have Ock use his arms to keep Spidey AWAY from his face.
(Of course, this isn't the sort of thing you lose your geek card for. On the contrary, this is typical nerd rage.)
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I don't like superhero comic books. Don't care for anime (or understand the whole Japan fetish thing at all, really). Hate, with a passion, CCGs. Don't read much fantasy lit (and, other than Elaine, zero D&D lit). I think Allan Moore is an overrated hack. I think vampires are played out. Completely. I think WoD sucks. The concept, the Goth thing, all of it. The only video games I play consistently are sports titles. No FPS, no RPGs. I've never played an MMORPG. I don't get the fascination with really poorly acted sci-fi fantasy shows (like 99% of anything syfy airs). I like bad movies though, so that's weird. Other than Firefly, I dislike Joss Wheedon's shows. Other than Cloverfield and Star Trek, not a J.J. Abrams fan.
Basically, I'm just a sports and film geek that plays TTRPGs.
Oh, that's just Part One of a seventeen episode series...
;D
I don't like cons. While seeing the new stuff and playing a game is cool, the crowds suck and so does the hype.
Paizo-con is probably an exception.
Puns are stupid.
Oh, and I hated Spider Man 2...What *I* hated about Spider Man 2 was that Spidey is supposed to have spider strength, and there he was fighting Doc Ock, who was essentially a normal man with some machine limbs thrown on. Spidey is seen punching Ock full in the face... and yet Ock shrugs it off. How? If the moviemakers wanted to choreograph the fights so that Spidey loses, that's fine. Just have Ock use his arms to keep Spidey AWAY from his face.
(Of course, this isn't the sort of thing you lose your geek card for. On the contrary, this is typical nerd rage.)
Yeah, it bugged me when I first saw the movie (pun not intended). But I can get behind it, for two reasons:
1. Spidey knew who Ock was, so perhaps he was pulling his punches, reluctant to truly harm Octavius.
2. Ock had an outside force affecting his neural system, to the point where he turned from a benevolent man to a homicidal mad genius - who's to say the same force didn't increase his pain resistance?
Combine the two and it sort of works. Yeah, it's a stretch, but one I find acceptable in a comic book universe.
Now, what I can't get behind is the fact that Octavius knew his robot arms can mess with his brain, and designed a chip specifically to prevent that from happening... a chip that he then placed in the only part of the construction that was open to damage. What the heck? He must have had tons of that super-alloy to build the whole thing, and he couldn't spare enough to cover the one thing protecting his brain from being raped by an unstable A.I.? In a device specifically made to allow him to work in dangerous outside conditions? Some genius he is.
All that said, I quite liked Spiderman 2. I enjoyed watching it. But Spiderman 3... oh my God, that was a full-scale disaster.
Honestly, I find Kubrick boring. Maybe his work is too "deep" for me.ever seen "dr. strangelove?" it's not deep at all, and consistently makes "best movies ever" lists.
I own Dr Strangelove. Still find it boring.
I don't like superhero comic books. Don't care for anime (or understand the whole Japan fetish thing at all, really). Hate, with a passion, CCGs. Don't read much fantasy lit (and, other than Elaine, zero D&D lit). I think Allan Moore is an overrated hack. I think vampires are played out. Completely. I think WoD sucks. The concept, the Goth thing, all of it. The only video games I play consistently are sports titles. No FPS, no RPGs. I've never played an MMORPG. I don't get the fascination with really poorly acted sci-fi fantasy shows (like 99% of anything syfy airs). I like bad movies though, so that's weird. Other than Firefly, I dislike Joss Wheedon's shows. Other than Cloverfield and Star Trek, not a J.J. Abrams fan.
Basically, I'm just a sports and film geek that plays TTRPGs.
I don't think you had any geek cred.
You know what I hated about Spiderman 2? The same thing I hated about Spiderman 1 - the bloody series is TERRIBLE.
Felicity Day is kinda cute but she is in no concevable way the "Hawtness" that most geeks think she is.
IMO Star Wars in all its forms has always sucked, especially Bobba Fett. The same goes for Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable and Bishop.
Michael Keaton as Batman was the worst casting choice ever.
Felicity Day is kinda cute but she is in no concevable way the "Hawtness" that most geeks think she is.
IMO Star Wars in all its forms has always sucked, especially Bobba Fett. The same goes for Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable and Bishop.
Michael Keaton as Batman was the worst casting choice ever.
If you are obviously going to be trolling, you totally left out Firefly, Farscape, Stargate, and anime.
If you are obviously going to be trolling, you totally left out Firefly, Farscape, Stargate, and anime.Felicity Day is kinda cute but she is in no concevable way the "Hawtness" that most geeks think she is.
IMO Star Wars in all its forms has always sucked, especially Bobba Fett. The same goes for Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable and Bishop.
Michael Keaton as Batman was the worst casting choice ever.
Firefly is the only good thing you mentioned.
Firefly is the only good thing you mentioned.If you are obviously going to be trolling, you totally left out Firefly, Farscape, Stargate, and anime.Felicity Day is kinda cute but she is in no concevable way the "Hawtness" that most geeks think she is.
IMO Star Wars in all its forms has always sucked, especially Bobba Fett. The same goes for Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable and Bishop.
Michael Keaton as Batman was the worst casting choice ever.
Pah, Firefly is the worst. Or at least not better than the rest. Firefly wasn't a bad show, but I've seen paid for ratings more on par with the worth of a product. You know what was a good Western Sci-fi show? The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
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I don't like superhero comic books. Don't care for anime (or understand the whole Japan fetish thing at all, really). Hate, with a passion, CCGs. Don't read much fantasy lit (and, other than Elaine, zero D&D lit). I think Allan Moore is an overrated hack. I think vampires are played out. Completely. I think WoD sucks. The concept, the Goth thing, all of it. The only video games I play consistently are sports titles. No FPS, no RPGs. I've never played an MMORPG. I don't get the fascination with really poorly acted sci-fi fantasy shows (like 99% of anything syfy airs). I like bad movies though, so that's weird. Other than Firefly, I dislike Joss Wheedon's shows. Other than Cloverfield and Star Trek, not a J.J. Abrams fan.
Basically, I'm just a sports and film geek that plays TTRPGs.
I don't think you had any geek cred.
Trust me, I'm not exactly crying about it.
I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
*ahem*
I hate...
The Assorted And Horrid Works Of One Joss Whedon
MMOs
Card Games
FPSs
4th Ed D&D
4th Ed Shadowrun
CoC(may give it another chance in the future)
nWoD(save Changeling and Hunter)
I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
Did not care for My Name Is Bruce.
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I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
Bad movie? With a crazy JFK? Yeah, I'm there.
I think Bruce Campbell, Star Trek (TOS, even numbered TOS movies, the reboot), Star Wars (4-6), Eighties fantasy movies (Beastmaster, Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, etc) and Monty Python are my actual geek vices.
Oh, and some comics (JTHM, original Tank Girl - hated the movie, though - TMNT), just not regular comics.
Everything else? Not so much.
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I hate WoW, especially since alot of my PF friends play it. its a constant distraction.
Only reason I like Captain Kirk is cause of the new movie. TNG is ok, but I cant watch alot of it in one sitting.
Havent watched Return of Superman, or Napoleon Dynamite.
I think Joss Whedon's Buffy series was an angsty teenager version of Power Rangers. I do enjoy Firefly, Dollhouse, and Dr Horrible, though.
I like the Drizzt books, and have read the Hobbit, bt cant get more than like 3 chapters in LotR.
The only good actor to play Batman so far was George Clooney (including Christian Bale).
Ive never watched Highlander, Stargate, or any Star Trek other than TNG.
I actually ENJOY the Star Wars prequels, especially Episode 1, though i do fast forward through the Anakin + Padme scenes in Ep 2.
Off the top of my head, my favorite video games are: Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Smash Brothers.
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I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
Bad movie? With a crazy JFK? Yeah, I'm there.
I think Bruce Campbell, Star Trek (TOS, even numbered TOS movies, the reboot), Star Wars (4-6), Eighties fantasy movies (Beastmaster, Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, etc) and Monty Python are my actual geek vices.
Oh, and some comics (JTHM, original Tank Girl - hated the movie, though - TMNT), just not regular comics.
Everything else? Not so much.
I found Bubba Hotep to be boring as hell. I do like Bruce Campbell though.
Oh and not liking the Tank Girl movie does not reduce your geek cred, it just shows that you have taste :)
Urgh... Tank Girl Movie... I suddenly feel quite unwell.
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I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
Bad movie? With a crazy JFK? Yeah, I'm there.
I think Bruce Campbell, Star Trek (TOS, even numbered TOS movies, the reboot), Star Wars (4-6), Eighties fantasy movies (Beastmaster, Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, etc) and Monty Python are my actual geek vices.
Oh, and some comics (JTHM, original Tank Girl - hated the movie, though - TMNT), just not regular comics.
Everything else? Not so much.
I found Bubba Hotep to be boring as hell. I do like Bruce Campbell though.
Oh and not liking the Tank Girl movie does not reduce your geek cred, it just shows that you have taste :)
Urgh... Tank Girl Movie... I suddenly feel quite unwell.
I think my first post killed my geek cred. :D
But, the Tank Girl movie? Can't stand Lori Petty (and do not find her remotely attractive), Booga isn't a freaking idiot, um, where's Steve and Club Koala? etc...
I liked The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. but it's not hard to like anything with Bruce Cambell in it.
Bubba-hotep anyone?
Bad movie? With a crazy JFK? Yeah, I'm there.
I think Bruce Campbell, Star Trek (TOS, even numbered TOS movies, the reboot), Star Wars (4-6), Eighties fantasy movies (Beastmaster, Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, etc) and Monty Python are my actual geek vices.
Oh, and some comics (JTHM, original Tank Girl - hated the movie, though - TMNT), just not regular comics.
Everything else? Not so much.
I found Bubba Hotep to be boring as hell. I do like Bruce Campbell though.
Oh and not liking the Tank Girl movie does not reduce your geek cred, it just shows that you have taste :)
Urgh... Tank Girl Movie... I suddenly feel quite unwell.
Bubba Hotep was actually the best of Campbell's B movies. But come on, what's wrong with the Tank Girl movie? I mean, Ice T as some sort of mutated Kangaroo gangster? A+ right there.
I hate Spider Man 2 because I used to work at a grocery store that occasionally sold cheap TVs and DVDs. Which meant for a whole summer I was treated to Spider Man 2 on infinite loop behind me. (Two hour movie on an 8-hour shift means what, kids?) And it was a slow enough store I actually had time to notice.
In other words, I know every single thing that happens in that movie, but not necessarily in what order they happen.
Regarding 2001, it really helps you know whats going on if you either read the book already, or have someone who has read it for you narrate the movie.
Because Kubrick is kind of anti-exposition.
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Bubba Hotep was actually the best of Campbell's B movies. But come on, what's wrong with the Tank Girl movie? I mean, Ice T as some sort of mutated Kangaroo gangster? A+ right there.
Army of Darkness?
As for Tank Girl, it's so bad that it's actually a punishment for shoplifting in certain countries.
You'll be telling me you like the Judge Dredd Movie next...
*ahem*
I hate...
The Assorted And Horrid Works Of One Joss Whedon
MMOs
Card Games
4th Ed D&D
You're breakin' my heart, man! I have gamer geek cred, but my Paizo cred is in the toilet 'cause I haven't sought out 3.x games since 4e came out. :) I'm also getting back into M:tG, though I don't buy randomized merchandise anymore so I proxy my cards instead.
Don't know if it counts as geek cred, but I just tried to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show. I got twenty minutes in and had to turn it off. Like most musicals, it felt like the writer thought "Hm I might as well tack on some kind of plot" ten minutes before handing his pile of musical numbers to the director.
I don't care about campaign worlds, one way or the other, aside from PS. I'm happy to play whatever setting my DM wants to run but I couldn't care less whether canon is followed or what the current edition writers did with the setting. I don't even know what the Spellplague is.
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Can't stand Anime - much to the chagrin of several of my friends. Never quite figured out the attraction. Stories are OK, but the animation is just bad. Every artist copying every other artist seems stale to me.
X-men comics are over-rated. Marvel flooded the market and diluted the storyling so I can't keep track of what's happening. Haven't bought them in years. Unfortunately, Marvel is now doing the same thing with almost their entire line (how many books need to have Wolverine or Deadpool in them, anyway? - and now Thor is all over the place and Spider-man is published 3 times a month), so I may be forced out of Marvel comics entirely soon...
Not a fan of CCGs based on intellectual properties (i.e., Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.).
HUGE sports fan. Avid Fantasy Baseball/Football player (not sure if being a sports fan is anti-geek, but since houstonderek mentioned it, I'm gonna pile on).
Don't care for fiction (novels, comics, etc.) based on TV shows or RPGs (although I have enjoyed the first couple Pathfinder novels, so I may have to revise my stance here).
Oh, and Bruce Campell RULES!!!
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I like guns in my fantasy.
Tolkien wrote really cliche stories. (Which is odd since I like Eddings.)
I haven't watched a sci-fi series since ST:TNG.
The only MMO I play is Facebook.
I probably haven't seen even half of the movies everyone talks about. (No Tank Girl, Bubba Hotep, 2001, Highlander, etc.)
I started playing D&D with 3.5.
Can't stand Anime - much to the chagrin of several of my friends. Never quite figured out the attraction. Stories are OK, but the animation is just bad. Every artist copying every other artist seems stale to me.
I recommend Perfect Blue.
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What do you consider good animation? Japanese Anime is generally done to a much higher standard than the bulk of present day American animation. We use a lot of short cuts compared to the heydey of Chuck Jones.Can't stand Anime - much to the chagrin of several of my friends. Never quite figured out the attraction. Stories are OK, but the animation is just bad. Every artist copying every other artist seems stale to me.
Honestly, I don't consider any of the present day animation (American or otherwise) to be very good. I have a huge DVD collection of Looney Tunes and some of the Disney classics. THAT, to me, is good animation. We seem to have lost something in the transition from the dawn of animation to computer-aided animation.
Can't stand Anime - much to the chagrin of several of my friends. Never quite figured out the attraction. Stories are OK, but the animation is just bad. Every artist copying every other artist seems stale to me.
X-men comics are over-rated. Marvel flooded the market and diluted the storyling so I can't keep track of what's happening. Haven't bought them in years. Unfortunately, Marvel is now doing the same thing with almost their entire line (how many books need to have Wolverine or Deadpool in them, anyway? - and now Thor is all over the place and Spider-man is published 3 times a month), so I may be forced out of Marvel comics entirely soon...
Not a fan of CCGs based on intellectual properties (i.e., Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.).
HUGE sports fan. Avid Fantasy Baseball/Football player (not sure if being a sports fan is anti-geek, but since houstonderek mentioned it, I'm gonna pile on).
Don't care for fiction (novels, comics, etc.) based on TV shows or RPGs (although I have enjoyed the first couple Pathfinder novels, so I may have to revise my stance here).
Oh, and Bruce Campell RULES!!!
While I will always love X-Men, I labor under no illusions that it has jumped the rails long, long ago. Wolvering and Deadpool have become nothing more than gigantic in-jokes, and I'm not sure if they are being told tongue in cheek or if the p.t.b. are chuckling as the cash rolls in.
And I am as hardcore an Otaku as they come, so it's okay if you're not into anime- I have more than enough zeal to make up for your antipathy.
Let's see...
I don't care for Batman or Wolverine, both for more or less the same reason: they're considered top tier next to people that should realistically outclass them in every regard.
I found the Watchmen comic to be good but not mindblowingly so. I understand that it was a big deal when it came out, but as a younger generation comic book reader it was clear what was happening within a few chapters. I also enjoy calling it The Watchmen around serious fans because it agitates them for some reason.
I enjoyed the Watchmen movie and have no complaints about it. However I could barely stand sitting through The Dark Knight. I really liked Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
The new Battlestar Galactica was worth watching but no more then most decent shows. I could have done without season four.
While I find Megan Fox to be traditional good-looking, she just...off somehow to me. Something about her eyes.
Of all the Star Treks, I enjoyed Voyager the most.
I didn't care for Firefly. Please keep your sci-fi out of my westerns. Thank you.
Bioshock was okay.
I prefer the new World of Darkness to Dungeons and Dragons.
Never read Lord of the Rings. Fifty pages in and I had had enough. The Hobbit was good however.
Not saying that all Anime is bad, but I've yet to see one that I doesn't leave me feeling like I wasted a part of my life. I've ended a relationship in part because of Naruto.
There are lots of other things but lets leave it at that.
Don't really like space anything, except Star Wars, which is basically just samurai and western tropes in space, and to a lesser extend Mass Effect, which I kinda like.
Mostly tired of anime, but have fond memories of some from when I was younger. GTO, Slayers, FMP, Kenshin, and some funny ones that I enjoyed, but I don't remember titles.
Hate MMOs with a passion.
Like some of the better super-hero comics, but might be biased from a childhood where the alternatives were Donald Duck comics and eastern european stop-motion claymation weirdness. (Norwegians will know my plight)
What else... I like Dr Horrible's sing-a-long blog, and liked parts of Firefly, but mostly ignore Joss Whedon. If it has vampires in it and it is made after Bram Stoker's Dracula, I most likely hate it. Same with werewolves.
LazarX: +1 on Avatar - The Last Airbender. One of the better animation series I have seen in my life. The abomination that Shyamalan shat out does not do it a lick of justice.