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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Dec 4, 2011 19:39:39 GMT -5
Anime fans don't like weeaboos either. No one likes weeaboos. Weeaboos like weeaboos. I'm really missing weeaboostories right now...
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 4, 2011 19:50:59 GMT -5
Anime fans don't like weeaboos either. No one likes weeaboos. But weeabos like anime and anime seems to be what largely inspires them to act like an international embarrassment to both Japanese and Western cultures. Again, not saying everyone who likes anime behaves like such a bellend, just that the weeabos have largely centred their asinine subculture around it. Basically.
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Post by chad sexington on Dec 4, 2011 19:54:38 GMT -5
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Post by Doctor Fishcake on Dec 4, 2011 19:58:06 GMT -5
Soccer, definitely. It is the opiate of the masses round here to the extent that if you even call it soccer you get subjected to abuse for using "that fucking American word"...never mind the fact that it's a British word.
Also, Britain's other national sport, recreational grief. It seems like no individual family's personal tragedy is too sensitive to be hijacked by the red tops and the faux quality papers to become public property. It's become a fucking commodity, bought up by people raised on a diet of intrusive reality TV who hate the idea that someone somewhere could be feeling something, even if it's pain, and they'd be left out.
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Dec 4, 2011 21:51:53 GMT -5
- Family Guy. It took South Park to finally peg it: The jokes are made up by manatees in a tank putting random pop-culture references into an ax + bx + c = y formula. There is nothing funny about a show that relies on gag-a-minute nonsense and clobbers you over the head with its Aesop messages. The same goes for...
- The Simpsons. This show has sucked for a long time and it got worse since the movie. Homer is only stupid (until the plot demands that he become smart), Marge has become a completely blank slate of her former self, Lisa is a Mary Sue for the author's viewpoints and Bart is an unfunny slapstick machine. The problem with this show is that it relies on only a few characters to make gags - and none of them are relatable.
- Glee. Jesus Christ, how much political correctness and minority representation can we cram into this bitch? It's simply not funny or entertaining. Also, it really pisses me off when people say the only reason they like incredible songs is because "they heard it on Glee".
- 99% of anime is crap. Some of it, like Black Lagoon, is actually pretty fucking amazing if you can get past all the fanservice.
- Halo. In fact, all FPSs.
- Thirty Rock. It's not funny at all. All of the characters are annoying. It's like watching an excruciatingly bad parody of itself.
- iCarly. In fact, anything Miranda Cosgrove has ever been in. She has a face for bitchiness, which is probably the only character she ever plays are bitches. Every character she's ever played is a psychopath. She doesn't care about other people, she only "forgives" them when they fall to her whims.
- Phineas and Ferb. I don't see what's funny about the show, and I mostly feel bad for the sister.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Dec 4, 2011 21:56:42 GMT -5
Is this supposed to be dissuade me?
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Post by Deimos on Dec 4, 2011 22:25:42 GMT -5
Naruto - I know way too many people that love this thing.
Lady Gaga - Shes an idiot
Ellen Degeneres - Extreme idiot
Oprah - She has terrible taste in books. Seriously
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 4, 2011 22:33:52 GMT -5
Fuck yeah!
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Dec 4, 2011 22:41:04 GMT -5
Seth MacFarlane. He didn't make three shows, he made the same show three times. It relies on lame cutaway gags and shoves its "CONSERVATIVES ARE BAD" message down your throat. Preaching is bad enough when people I don't agree with do it. (That said, American Dad is tolerable because its at least honest about its conservative bashing)
Idiots in my fanbases. This is mostly extending to idiot Bronies and idiot metalheads. The thing you're a fan of isn't a gift from the heavens, its entertainment. Not everyone is going to like the same thing. You're making the rest of us look bad. (That said, I still don't get why MLP is such a meme fountain).
People who lump everything pertaining to a subject into the "sucks" category. Yes, this one's targeting you FPS and anime anti-fans here. You haven't play/read/watched everything. You have no grounds to claim that everything sucks.
People who claim something sucks because a few of the fans are idiots. First, a shout out to the person who inspired this bit, Art! Every single fanbase has its vocal minority of idiots. Yes, they're fucking annoying, yes they give the rest of the fanbase a bad name, but that's not the fault of the thing that inspires their stupidity.
People who try to claim that games like Dynasty Warriors and Zelda suck because its "always the same," but turn around and play Call of Duty or Madden. Formulaic content is not inherently a bad thing. The problem is when people try to claim that their formulaic game isn't, then try to say that something formulaic they don't like sucks because its formulaic.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 4, 2011 22:57:30 GMT -5
I second this emotion, though I also extend it to people who insist on whining about the things they're a fan of. In fact, I think Broken Bases might be even more annoying than people who unquestionably hate or unquestionably love something.
Hey, I've played several of the big names. GoldenEye 007, Medal of Honor, Halo. Maybe some others, I dunno. Point is, I don't need to expose myself to every title of the genre, no matter how obscure, to establish a general rule. There may very well be exceptions here & there, but if someone's going to claim to me that FPS #8457692 is so great, they'd better be able to explain something about the game to me that I can't predict.
That goes for anime, too. If someone has seen the big names of the various genres, & somehow hated them all, then I am forced to admit that they have sufficient grounds for shoehorning them all under 1 rule. However, I think the mistake people make with anime is that "anime" is a single monolithic entity the same way "movies" is.
We differ here, as well. I accept that some amount of formula is going to exist, but even in the stuff I'm a fan of, I don't like repitition.
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Dec 4, 2011 23:07:49 GMT -5
Hey, I've played several of the big names. GoldenEye 007, Medal of Honor, Halo. Maybe some others, I dunno. Point is, I don't need to expose myself to every title of the genre, no matter how obscure, to establish a general rule. There may very well be exceptions here & there, but if someone's going to claim to me that FPS #8457692 is so great, they'd better be able to explain something about the game to me that I can't predict. That goes for anime, too. If someone has seen the big names of the various genres, & somehow hated them all, then I am forced to admit that they have sufficient grounds for shoehorning them all under 1 rule. However, I think the mistake people make with anime is that "anime" is a single monolithic entity the same way "movies" is. Way to miss my point. You're more than welcome to dislike FPSes or anime if you have no interest in it or haven't enjoyed the examples you've experienced. But there is no fact in the statement "all FPSes/anime suck." You haven't experienced every single FPS or anime in existence, so you have no grounds to make such a statement. Formula isn't the same as repetition. Zelda, for example, uses a similar formula in each game, but the content itself is usually new and different.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Dec 4, 2011 23:10:48 GMT -5
People who claim something sucks because a few of the fans are idiots. First, a shout out to the person who inspired this bit, Art! Every single fanbase has its vocal minority of idiots. Yes, they're fucking annoying, yes they give the rest of the fanbase a bad name, but that's not the fault of the thing that inspires their stupidity. Hey, I dislike weeaboos and I dislike anime. Since the two are somewhat related, I figured I may as well stick both in the same category.
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Dec 4, 2011 23:25:16 GMT -5
People who claim something sucks because a few of the fans are idiots. First, a shout out to the person who inspired this bit, Art! Every single fanbase has its vocal minority of idiots. Yes, they're fucking annoying, yes they give the rest of the fanbase a bad name, but that's not the fault of the thing that inspires their stupidity. Hey, I dislike weeaboos and I dislike anime. Since the two are somewhat related, I figured I may as well stick both in the same category. Right, so you blame that dislike on the weeaboos?
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 4, 2011 23:25:18 GMT -5
I think it comes down to this: Either I can make a statement about the genre based on representative examples, or I cannot. Whether that statement is "I dislike this" or "This sucks" shouldn't matter. I think you are also failing to make an important distinction here: Saying, "The genre sucks" is NOT the same as saying that every single example of the genre sucks. If that is not what the statement means, then it does not follow that the person needs to experience every example of the genre before they can make it.
If something goes by a similar formula each time, it might be called "repetative." Because the formula is repeating. It's kind of a definition thing. That said, that does not mean it has no new content. It's more about balancing the old & the new. And, if you ask me, making a major change to the formula every now & again is the best way of accomplishing this.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Dec 4, 2011 23:29:29 GMT -5
Hey, I dislike weeaboos and I dislike anime. Since the two are somewhat related, I figured I may as well stick both in the same category. Right, so you blame that dislike on the weeaboos? Not really. More like I don't care for anime much and I can't stand weeaboos, and then the two feelings of disdain form some sort of unholy synergy with one another to further magnify that already rather strong disdain. It's the joining forces of the two, kinda like a really shitty Captain Planet.
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