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The Guild: I didn't like. I assume it would have been watchable if I played MMO's. Then again, most "rpg nerd" movies I've seen are also awful.
Quentin Tarantino: Is the single most overrated hack in hollywood.
Anime: I tried, I really did. I even asked a few friends to point out some series that I would like. Ghost in the shell is just more grim-dystopic cyberpunk and I couldn't stay awake for Cowboy Bebop or Howls moving castle.
Star Trek (2009): I hate the fact that this movie turned me into the whiny fanboy because "they ruined Star Trek forever!"
4e: I had a friend who was disappointed that the 4e game the group started after its release ended accuse me of "never giving it a chance!" We played that game every Saturday for six months for 8-10 hours a game. I gave it more of a chance than I gave Scion. I've gotten really good at pretending that I think the game is "a good gateway game for people" between not wanting to sound negative on the podcast and working at a FLGS and not being allowed to give my real opinions on things, but honestly, I just don't like the damn thing.
Joss Whedon in general: I actually liked the Angel series more than Buffy, but he has way to much hype attached to himself any more. I dread what he might do to the Avengers movie (or Wasp and the other characters as I'm sure it's going to become.)
Dollhouse: This show had an awful premise and while Eliza Dushku is pretty, she is nowhere near the actress needed to pull off playing a different role every week and making me care.
I can't stand Warhammer. 40k or Fantasy. It's not the rules (the RPG rules, I haven't played more than 2 40k wargames) it's the fluf. I just can't stand the grimdark bs.
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Quentin Tarantino: Is the single most overrated hack in hollywood.
Nah, that would be James Cameron...
Star Trek (2009): I hate the fact that this movie turned me into the whiny fanboy because "they ruined Star Trek forever!"
Nah, Berman ruined it long before J.J. even thought about making a movie that didn't suck (like, early '90s)
/contrariness
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I love Joss Whedon's ear for dialog and his penchant for making characters with internal motivations as well as external forcings on their actions.
He's like the world's coolest GM for the kind of RPGs I like to play.
I cannot stand Joss Whedon's horrible world building, and his ability to string together a plot and resolve it is only marginally better than Neal Stephenson's.
Neal Stephenson is horribly overrated. Yes, he was the first SF writer who actually wrote SF about people who think like hackers, but his prose is leaden and he's in love with the sound of his own writing. He also cannot end a book effectively.
Speaking of leaden prose, Joe Michael Straczynski can plot well, and do worldbuilding, but good god, do not let him anywhere near characters, and burn any dialog he writes unread.
Should I ever have more money than sense, or, test my time machine by winning Powerball a few times, I intend to present Whedon and Straczynski with an offer: I'll fund the production of a TV series at 2 million per episode, and will write checks for two half seasons in advance, and write checks for additional half seasons at the dailies of the first arc, provided they find some way to merge their respective talents while chucking their respective suckage.
I grew rapidly disenchanted with NuBSG. Even if one episode has a shout-out to one of my products in it. The only heartwarming thing I have to say about the ending of that piece of s$%@e is that because the Colonials arrived at 150,000 BC, and the Agricultural Revolution happened at 8,000 BC, we can rest assured that the Colonials died out from being too frakking stupid to live.
(You have cheap orbital access, and how many thousands of tons of refined metals in orbit, with the asteroid belt within reach? Plus machine tools, water filters, the ability to predict the g#%+**ned weather by watching clouds from up top, the ability to transport people by air for medical emergencies? And you go and spread out over the Earth in different locations to die off, all because Technology is Evil? I'd rather have our species evolve from telephone sanitizers...)
I generally dislike anime. About its only redeeming virtue is that the people who want to watch porn but not encourage an industry that treats 18 year old women as disposable commodities have an ethical way to do this.
Oh, and you kids? Get the hell offa my lawn. :)
I love Joss Whedon [...]I generally dislike anime[...]
I really LIKED you man!
I can't stand Warhammer. 40k or Fantasy. It's not the rules (the RPG rules, I haven't played more than 2 40k wargames) it's the fluf. I just can't stand the grimdark bs.
I bought the Dark Heresy core rulebook and several others solely based upon the fluff. I love grimdark. XD
I like amateur Munchkin. I don't like "lol, check out all these Munchkin game modifiers we showed up with the screw up the game with because we paid for them" Munchkin.
I grew rapidly disenchanted with NuBSG. Even if one episode has a shout-out to one of my products in it. The only heartwarming thing I have to say about the ending of that piece of s@#@e is that because the Colonials arrived at 150,000 BC, and the Agricultural Revolution happened at 8,000 BC, we can rest assured that the Colonials died out from being too frakking stupid to live.
(You have cheap orbital access, and how many thousands of tons of refined metals in orbit, with the asteroid belt within reach? Plus machine tools, water filters, the ability to predict the g%+@+%ned weather by watching clouds from up top, the ability to transport people by air for medical emergencies? And you go and spread out over the Earth in different locations to...
The early episodes of BSG to me is the best TV I've seen in a long time with my favorite being "33". Jumping into the series at a point where people were beginning to come apart due to exhaustion and lack of sleep.
The show started it's nosedive when they landed on New Caprica. To me the whole thing was this convoluted stunt that was thought up to make a cheap political point. I understand that the creators of BSG didn't like the Iraq war, I didn't either. But to blow a whole season on it showed just how stupid they were. It just killed all the momentum for the series. The only thing left was all they mystical religious crap. And in the end .....well God did it all and it's going to happen again. Then as mentioned above they decided to abandon their technology. Wow I guess the idea of dying to dysentry or some other medieval illness was just too much to pass up.
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 have the opposite problem; I think the good animes are so much more beautiful than western animation, but the stories and characters all too often suck. I wish Joss Whedon would team up with a good anime artist, 'cause that just might turn out to be the best film-stuff ever!
(Okay, I named JW just because of all the hate going on here. Seriously, I never really saw Buffy or the guy from Bones play a vampire, but Firefly was fun. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk smack about JW. What's the big deal?)
I rarely post on the Paizo messageboards.
if you larp or play you-ge-oh or how ever its spelled i wont see you a person that is where my nerd line is drawn
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if you larp or play you-ge-oh or how ever its spelled i wont see you a person that is where my nerd line is drawn
I always ended up watching the last few minutes of raw Yu-Gi-Oh because it was just Mondays at 6:30, just before One Piece at 7 and Inuyasha came on at 7:30. I saw just enough of it to go "Thank God, this is so awful, it won't make it back to the U.S." One Piece I could take or leave - it was too bizarre for me to easily understand what was happening in raw Japanese. Inuyasha I was obsessed with. I even unplugged the phone at 7:30 to make sure my Inuyasha watching went undisturbed.
Then I got here and Yu-gi-oh was all over the place. :(
Meitantei Conan, at 8, was interesting. It taught me a lot of crime related Japanese. I don't think I'd ever have picked up useful words like fingerprint, footprint, criminal (or maybe "guilty person"? hrm), suicide or homocide in Japanese without it. And the scenes with the native Japanese voice actress playing the English teacher "correcting" other characters' English was priceless!
Is there any better way to study Japanese than to watch raw anime and read comic books jointly?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show- Quite possibly the stupidest movie ever made. All copies of this film need to be burned for the good of humanity. Those that feel the need to perform it onstage should be given a full frontal lobotomy....if they even have a brain left. As Mr Cranky would say, this film is proof that Jesus died in vain.Glad someone else here hates this film (although the Time Warp is a catchy number I'll admit).
That said, am I the only one here who really likes Joss Whedon?
I dislike all musicals, not just The Rocky Horror, boring thing. "Musicals are the lowest form of communication." -Homer Simpsons
I very much enjoy Joss Whedon, though I'll agree, the fact that he keeps going back to Fox shows insanity.
I don't care for most anime, yet I'm one of the biggest naritards you'll ever meet.
I can't get into Dr Who, even the current stuff, I've sorta tried. It feels to much like a show you should see from the beginning, and I'm not sure anyone should have that much free time.
I find star wars boring, even 4-6.
Love me some wolverine.... But alot of the new stuff sucks. If I could create a best of and just read that over and over it would be beautiful. Proving my fan-boy-dom I even love X-23... though I hate his son.
I've never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft, \I'm sure I'm going to be banned from the boards for this one\, and I'm not really interested in reading them either. And I read a lot of stuff.
I don't think geek culture is anywhere near as innovative, individualistic, or rebellious as its adherents often make it out to be. Quite the opposite.
I also think fandom is fandom, and it's all pretty much the same set of cultural tropes, positive and negative, directed at different objects. Romance novel fandom isn't materially different from scifi fandom.
The internet taught me both of these things.
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I have never seen, nor have I any interest in seeing, Dr. Who. I mean, I really don't get the premise at all. What exactly is he supposed to be doing? Plus, almost any program based around time travel is probably going to wind up with some serious paradoxes and continuity issues, I'd think.
The premise is that he's an alien who travels throughout space and time fighting bad guys.
ANY show with 50-odd years of history is going to have paradoxes and continuity issues.
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I have never seen, nor have I any interest in seeing, Dr. Who. I mean, I really don't get the premise at all. What exactly is he supposed to be doing? Plus, almost any program based around time travel is probably going to wind up with some serious paradoxes and continuity issues, I'd think.The premise is that he's an alien who travels throughout space and time fighting bad guys.
ANY show with 50-odd years of history is going to have paradoxes and continuity issues.
Agreed on the continuity issues. Also, one of the more interesting aspects about the show is that MOST of his incarnations abhor the use of violence and choose to adher to some sort of vow of nonviolence, so he uses his brain to fight.
Also, one of the more interesting aspects about the show is that MOST of his incarnations abhor the use of violence and choose to adher to some sort of vow of nonviolence, so he uses his brain to fight.
That's one of the main selling points of the character to me. A character who actually prefers nonviolent solutions to problems is a pretty rare creature in a genre dominated by men in rayguns shooting and punching their way to success.
Not that I necessarily dislike violent heroes, but it's nice to have a character that resolutely is not violent to the point where seeing him do violence is a shock in itself.
I have no strong feelings about George Lucas or Star Wars either way, even episodes I-III. The family guy spoofs on the other hand...well, does that make me a bad geek?
I've never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft, \I'm sure I'm going to be banned from the boards for this one\, and I'm not really interested in reading them either. And I read a lot of stuff.
You're not missing anything spectacular. Lovecraft is alright, but a disappointment after all the hype.
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(Okay, I named JW just because of all the hate going on here. Seriously, I never really saw Buffy or the guy from Bones play a vampire, but Firefly was fun. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk smack about JW. What's the big deal?)
I dunno, maybe because, with the exception of Firefly, most of his output is targeted to 15 year old Goth chicks?
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I don't think geek culture is anywhere near as innovative, individualistic, or rebellious as its adherents often make it out to be. Quite the opposite.
I also think fandom is fandom, and it's all pretty much the same set of cultural tropes, positive and negative, directed at different objects. Romance novel fandom isn't materially different from scifi fandom.
The internet taught me both of these things.
Yeah, I agree.
And the world implodes.
Yeah, I agree.And the world implodes.
I thought I saw some tentacles out my window earlier. It figures.
I grew rapidly disenchanted with NuBSG. Even if one episode has a shout-out to one of my products in it.
Really? Tres Cool. What was it?
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I don't care much for Star Trek and I can't stand Kirk.
I fail seeing through a nostalgic lense, so while I like many old (and often cheesy) movies I just can't talk myself into admiring bad acting and worse plots just because they were done in (or before) my youth.
I don't care if a movie "holds true" to its (book, comic, older movie) roots, as long as it's a good movie.
I have yet to experience geek rage if my taste disagrees with someone elses.
I don't care much for Bruce Campbell (I find Army of Darkness Entertaining and like him in Burn Notice though).
I haven't read many superhero comics and those I did read were entertaining but not worth geeking out about them.
I like most of Joss Whedons work.
I have yet to dislike a movie just because it has famous stars in it or just because it was a major success.
I actually like Avatar, even if it wasn't the greatest movie of all time.
I like Tolkiens writing style better than Howards.
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.
I hate Ringworld. And Wheel of Time. And Salvatore's works.
I prefer traditionalism, even though it's become something of an oddity.
Oh, and I think the Conan novels/short stories are the defining work of fantasy literature.
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(Okay, I named JW just because of all the hate going on here. Seriously, I never really saw Buffy or the guy from Bones play a vampire, but Firefly was fun. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk smack about JW. What's the big deal?)I dunno, maybe because, with the exception of Firefly, most of his output is targeted to 15 year old Goth chicks?
Let's not forget to throw Dr Horrible (with the ever-awesome NPH and Nathan Fillion) thrown onto the list of exceptions along with Firefly and some of Whedon's screenplays - Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Toy Story.
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I have never watched the original Star Wars trilogy, I hate anime, I want to find the rarest cards for Magic the gathering then burn them publicly at gencon (magic can burn in hell D&D/PF forever, I hate all other card games. I have seen some of the Star Trek various series and don't care for them. Most things from syfy network annoys me. I don't like most superhero movies (did we really need a Wolverine movie, weren't the other 3 x-men movies already wolverine movies?), however i don't mind the Christopher Nolan versions of Batman. And I like Joss Whedon only because it annoys Freehold DM.
Let's not forget to throw Dr Horrible (with the ever-awesome NPH and Nathan Fillion) thrown onto the list of exceptions along with Firefly and some of Whedon's screenplays - Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Toy Story.(Okay, I named JW just because of all the hate going on here. Seriously, I never really saw Buffy or the guy from Bones play a vampire, but Firefly was fun. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk smack about JW. What's the big deal?)I dunno, maybe because, with the exception of Firefly, most of his output is targeted to 15 year old Goth chicks?
Let us not insult my beloved gothic maidens by associating them with Whedon.
I hate Video Game RPGs, I can play Neverwinter for a while, but I get bored around the second act. and I did manage to get through FF7, but I'll never play another.
I dislike Star Wars and Star Trek, and most all Sci-Fi in general. I have no interest in shows like Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, and whatever else there is. I like Dune, read all the books.
I hate the LotR books, and only marginally enjoyed the movies.
I liked Dr. Horrible the first time, but I've... grown cold to it. I haven't been interested in anything else of his.
The only fantasy books I enjoy are the Song of Ice and Fire series.
8-bit music is annoying and I don't like many "classic" games.
I hate comics and comic book heros. Why are there like 200 versions of Batman?
I don't like Seth MacFarlane's work, early Family Guy was alright, but I haven't watched that in a long time.
I don't like messing with computers.
I hate Lost, Heroes, and especially Big Bang Theory.
I hate Warcraft lore AFTER Warcraft 3 and I don't like the story of Starcraft 2 (SC1 is probably my favourite game).
I'm sure there are more things I can come up with as I'm reminded.
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.
Or you are high.
And I like Joss Whedon only because it annoys Freehold DM.
I knew it.
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Neal Stephenson is horribly overrated. Yes, he was the first SF writer who actually wrote SF about people who think like hackers, but his prose is leaden and he's in love with the sound of his own writing. He also cannot end a book effectively.
Snow Crash kicked seven kinds of butt. At times it felt like Hunter S Thompson was writing a cyberpunk novel, and then it got into Inuit gansters with nuclear weapons implanted in their bodies and 5000 year old Sumerian linguistic brain-hacking and stuff that was just weird.
Diamond Age was tolerable, just. I've read three or four books he's written since (Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle, etc.), and I can't even tell them apart, as everything has been an interminable bore, IMO.
Some writers just seem to have one good story in them.
My geek-fail is not getting the attraction for Princess Bride. My gaming geek friends quote it constantly, and I find it tedious.
Then again, one of my favorite fantasy movies has *muppets* in it (Labyrinth), so I've got no high ground to stand on. :)
I too, do not care for the Princess Bride. The only reason I don't care for it is because for a summer and a half, it as the ONLY movie my friends could agree upon, so I ended up watching it dozens upon dozens upon DOZENS of times. I think I can still quote the movie without enthusiasm at the drop of a hat.
Let's not forget to throw Dr Horrible (with the ever-awesome NPH and Nathan Fillion) thrown onto the list of exceptions along with Firefly and some of Whedon's screenplays - Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Toy Story.(Okay, I named JW just because of all the hate going on here. Seriously, I never really saw Buffy or the guy from Bones play a vampire, but Firefly was fun. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk smack about JW. What's the big deal?)I dunno, maybe because, with the exception of Firefly, most of his output is targeted to 15 year old Goth chicks?Let us not insult my beloved gothic maidens by associating them with Whedon.
Everything that just happened in this conversation is...fair enough. As with the publisher who wants to replace all N words in Mark Twain's Huck Fin, I don't care enough one way or the other to get worked up over it.
Or you are high.
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.
Yeah, this is what I was told by people of the 2001 generation.
You can add me to the 2001-is-godawful-boring list.
I don't think geek culture is anywhere near as innovative, individualistic, or rebellious as its adherents often make it out to be. Quite the opposite.
I also think fandom is fandom, and it's all pretty much the same set of cultural tropes, positive and negative, directed at different objects. Romance novel fandom isn't materially different from scifi fandom.
The internet taught me both of these things.
+1
Well, the internet, but mostly my group of ex-anime-tard friends who really didn't want to see me go down that path.
Hmm...It's unfortunate when friends try to keep you from getting into something they used to like.
... which brings me to that I have only played *two* games as a PC in a real game in the 1 1/2 years I've been trying to get into RPGs: apparently in my town, it's really really hard for a girl to get accepted in a game.
My sympathies; picking are mighty scarce around here too. Have you tried starting your own group? That's the only reason I've been able to play for a year and a half now.
I can't seem to get through the movie Blade Runner.
There's no appeal for me in MMOs (or ANY online game, for that matter).
Can't fathom why anyone would even want to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Never seen Space Odessey.
Although I read a TON of gaming books, I think I've read like three actual story books in my entire life.
I dislike prestige classes and other-than-classic races for characters.
I enjoy the straight-forward hack-N-slash games like the PS2's Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath games. I tend to lose interest when games get to complicated.
Speaking of which... I've tried three or four time to complete the Baldur's Gate 2 game on the PC but always stop playing when I get to the drow city part in the underdark. (I can still say that I LOVE the concept of the game though).
Ultradan
Or you are high.
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.
While I'm sure that would help you enjoy the film (especially the trippy multicolored crazy crap near the end), I think it might actually make it less clear what's actually going on.
Either way you view it, it's still full of stars.