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Probably everyone in this thread can think of a game they loved as a kid and can now find intolerably poorly-designed but man, even back then this game was considered a heinous piece of garbage. Yet for me as a little seven-year-old this game was as good of imagination fodder as LOZOOT/Pokemon/FFVII/SMRPG and I loved it.
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Hell, I was a fan of the show as a kid (and still am) and was apprehensive when I heard about this movie. So many things pissed me off. Especially the throwaway line about the Chariot and Space Pod being destroyed in the crash.
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I was about 10 when The Phantom Menace came out, and I thought Jar Jar Binks was funny and silly. At the time I didn't get all the racial stereotyping or why all the grown-ups in the audience hated him so much. Also stroopwafels. I used to love them when I was a kid and was so happy whenever my Dutch relatives brought them over. These days they're pretty easy to find in the UK, but they're just far too sweet. The cinnamon biscuit bits are nice, but there's just too much sugar in them and the syrup sticks in your teeth.
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Nickelback. I don't want to talk about it. Dave Eddings The Belgariad and the Mallorean - despite realising 2 books in that the characterization boiled down to racist? stereotypes, the female characters all sucked and Kheldar/Silk was obnoxious as gently caress and needed to go away and take drat near everyone else except for Beldin, the Twins and Relg. Also, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High/Twins, Joanna Campbell's Thoroughbred Series.
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Weird Al. What was I thinking. I actually saw him live.
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Smoking. I haven't smoked a cigarette in 10 years and I can't believe I ever did. There's nothing good about it, but for some reason I thought I enjoyed it at the time. It turned out the only reason it felt satisfying is because it satisfied the craving for more of it. But then when you quit for good, hey guess what, you no longer have an urge to satisfy.Floorgazer posted:A poo poo-ton of nu metal in the late 90's. Korn and Staind, mostly. I don't know how well it's held up because I haven't listened to it in years, but I will say Korn had ONE good album: the first one, where he got all his pent-up childhood rage out all at once. It was raw and cathartic, and then after that it was like "Welp I forgave my dad and now we go on fishing trips. Here's a song about driving cool cars!" 
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I used to love the first Michael Bay Transformers movie. Then again, I was 11 when it came out
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Bomrek posted:Gaia Online. I followed your cue and checked my account. It is over one billion. 
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Feb 3, 2014 07:32
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Inspector Zenigata posted:In my defense, I was young and I cringe every time I remember recommending their music to my friends. You know that feeling where you talk up a song as being really good, and the instant you start playing it you get really self conscious? I do. Never again. For me this was the Exies. I actually lucked out on that though, the 6th grade field trip where we got to walk around and bring our CD players was delayed and I got to avoid the shame of unleashing that on my friends. Last weekend I went through some of my old middle school music and yeah... Lots more crappy early 00's alternative: Saliva, Hoobastank, HIM, KoRn, Linkin Park, etc. Interestingly I feel more comfortable defending Creed or Nickelback more than any of those bands.
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Rollersnake posted:You're going to call the Lone Wolf series terrible and not bring up the racism? Karate Bastard posted:The racism, oh sweet mother Mary the racism! Every cocksucker and his mom is either a swarthy ratty-eyed towelhead or a straight-backed aryan. If you choose to stab the friend of the family go to page "GOOD JOB", otherwise turn to page "DEATH". I guess it's been a while since I read any of them, because I remember it mostly being monsters as bad guys. Giaks (orcs, basically), zombies, skeletons, giant snakes, etc. Although there were also the drakkarim, which I was never sure if they were meant to be evil humans or just something that looked kind of human or what.  A CRUNK BIRD posted:They Might Be Giants What's wrong with They Might Be Giants?
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Tiggum posted:What's wrong with They Might Be Giants? They were defeated by Triangle Man.
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Angry Avocado posted:Maddox, and angry people ranting at stuff online in general. I still find it really funny just how obsolete Maddox became.
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AcetylCoA! posted:Dave Eddings The Belgariad and the Mallorean - despite realising 2 books in that the characterization boiled down to racist? stereotypes, the female characters all sucked and Kheldar/Silk was obnoxious as gently caress and needed to go away and take drat near everyone else except for Beldin, the Twins and Relg. God damned yes. I dont think theres any overt racism as I tried to work out who was who the last time I read the books and the most I could pull was that the Murgos might be asian looking but then the rest of the other bad "Races" seemed to be just like everyone else. So basically a planet of white people I think. However every single loving female character in the series are loving terrible reprehensible people. I was amazed at how much I actively hated Polgara's character through every single book. Eddings has absolutley no concept or idea how women actually think or act beyond awful sterotypes. Garion also has zero defining character traits and simply is an awful character insertion puppet for the reader. Silk isnt so bad, one slight marysue character is nothing compared to how bad so many of them are.
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Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Those led to role-playing games, which led to a horribly awkward adolescence. Also, I somehow read the entire Left Behind series, a series of twelve books that take place during the Book of Revelations. Sounds cool, right? Unfortunately, the authors are hardcore evangelical Christians who wasted enormous potential by making it about one-dimensional characters exchanging sermons and moving through repetitive action scenes that read like a third-rate Tom Clancy knockoff. They kept recycling a plot where one of the Christians gets captured by the evil global government, and then someone rescues them with a plane. The authors used some amusing verbal gymnastics to avoid writing profanity. The anti-Christ, who becomes an unintentionally comic figure, says things like "What in the world?" and "Pish-posh" like a stuffy English governess.
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Feb 3, 2014 15:54
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Das Boo posted:I'm surprised I'm the first one to say it, but anime. I'll still defend Satoshi Kon, Naoki Urasawa and Hayao Miyazaki to the grave, but holy loving hell is the bulk of that stuff as terrible as the people who thrive on it. Same here. I used to obsessively watch awful anime as a teenager, until I met the most obnoxious Glorious Nippon-worshipping weeaboo I've ever met before or since. He made me ashamed by association to admit I watched the stuff and eventually I realised that most of it was utter poo poo. There are still a few series I watch from time to time, mostly for some dumb escapism, but nothing I'd ever describe as good. And seconding whoever said Star Wars novels. The X-Wing series was terrible but somehow entertaining.
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Alpacalips Now posted:Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Those led to role-playing games, which led to a horribly awkward adolescence. Which is kind of odd, because if I remember correctly there is some crazy violence in there. Like, a husband and wife found with their brains blown everywhere in a diner, and people throwing themselves in-front of trains and surviving because of an obscure verse about death not finding people. Just piles of meat, moaning on the train tracks.
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Tiggum posted:I guess it's been a while since I read any of them, because I remember it mostly being monsters as bad guys. Giaks (orcs, basically), zombies, skeletons, giant snakes, etc. Although there were also the drakkarim, which I was never sure if they were meant to be evil humans or just something that looked kind of human or what. I am like soooooo torn between going to projectaon and digging up some right juicy examples of swarthshaming to post here, and actually just not, because goddamn. Knowing me I probably will.
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Baldbeard posted:Which is kind of odd, because if I remember correctly there is some crazy violence in there. Like, a husband and wife found with their brains blown everywhere in a diner, and people throwing themselves in-front of trains and surviving because of an obscure verse about death not finding people. Just piles of meat, moaning on the train tracks. When Jesus actually shows up (spoilers) he goes to town on people, melting off faces left and right. Which is okay, because, y'know, bad guys. Better to die a horrible melty death at the hands of the Lamb than remain unmelted and evil. Also, millions disappear at the start when the event happens. Logically, that mean drivers, pilots, doctors in the middle of surgery - people in the middle of important tasks - just got poofed into nothingness. But the books never really touch on what should, by all rights, be a gigantic catastrophe. Bargearse posted:Same here. I used to obsessively watch awful anime as a teenager, until I met the most obnoxious Glorious Nippon-worshipping weeaboo I've ever met before or since. He made me ashamed by association to admit I watched the stuff and eventually I realised that most of it was utter poo poo. I still watch the stuff - nowhere near as much as I used to - but encountering those idiots really made me focus on the good stuff, rather than watching the same pandering crap everyone else was watching.
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Nutsngum posted:God damned yes. I dont think theres any overt racism as I tried to work out who was who the last time I read the books and the most I could pull was that the Murgos might be asian looking but then the rest of the other bad "Races" seemed to be just like everyone else. So basically a planet of white people I think. As I recall - every nationality had a stereotype - the Arends were hot-headed; some other nation was populated by Ren-faire rejects. I found Silk incredibly obnoxious - especially since I was supposed to identify with Polgara and Ce'nedra. How come the boys get this cool badass whatever dude and I get the most useless immortal witch ever.
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Tiggum posted:What's wrong with They Might Be Giants?
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Libertarianism: I thought it was The poo poo as a young poli-sci major, then I ventured into the Real World and realized that the coercive power of the government was piss in comparison to the coercive power of corporations. Now I'm a socialist. Power metal and prog-metal: I don't even want to elaborate. Just a terrible decision all around. Thankfully, discovering shoegaze, trip hop, and modern indie rock pulled me out of that cesspool. WoW and other MMORPGs: The Worst video game genre, and to this day why I consider "addictive" to be a dirty word when it comes to games. Those are my big three regrets. Also, everyone I dated before I met my wife.
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Bargearse posted:Same here. I used to obsessively watch awful anime as a teenager, until I met the most obnoxious Glorious Nippon-worshipping weeaboo I've ever met before or since. He made me ashamed by association to admit I watched the stuff and eventually I realised that most of it was utter poo poo. This poo poo right here. In my case the weeaboo was also a fierce defender of lolicon 
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AcetylCoA! posted:As I recall - every nationality had a stereotype - the Arends were hot-headed; some other nation was populated by Ren-faire rejects. I found Silk incredibly obnoxious - especially since I was supposed to identify with Polgara and Ce'nedra. How come the boys get this cool badass whatever dude and I get the most useless immortal witch ever. It got even worse in her biographical stand alone novel "the sorceress Polgara" because one of her defining traits was the fact that she hated her father for leaving her mother, who then died from childbirth. In the original novels eventually it reveals that her mother actually survived and reconnected with her family, but in the biographical novel it was also revealed that Polgara was in lifelong constant psychic contact with her mother, never told her dad she was still alive and let him grieve over her for hundreds of years. Also her father didn't leave her mother, but was instead forced to be away on a quest, which Polgara also knew. So there was literally zero excuse for her hating him all her life, and in fact it was HE who deserved to hate HER for keeping this information to herself. I used to love these books as a teen, but now I realize they are just Xanth with loving. Which brings me to my next terrible thing: loving Xanth novels. I read every single loving one of those until "Yon Ill Wind" and memorized the character backstories for every character. I actually cried when Grundy the Golem became flesh. They were easily understood fantasy for kids books for the longest time until Piers Anthony got bit by a vampire Pedobear.
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Some good ones for you older goons in your 30s: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. No, I don't mean the reboot, I mean the originals. It was just so goddamn 1980s and hasn't aged well. I can still sit down and watch an episode of GI Joe or Transformers and feel a bit nostalgic, but I am stupefied by how much I was into loving He-Man and now can't stand it. The entire cartoon is like a ginat homo-erotic love letter to bodybuilders. Profesional Wrestling. Wrestling and I had two flings, once in my childhood in the 80s, and I sort of rediscovered it again in the late 90's/early 2000's when the WWF/E was doing its "Attitude" thing. God, I was such a little Hulkamaniac mark when I was a kid. I really thought Earthquake broke Hulk Hogan's ribs and was sad that he might retire. I was upset and complained to my dad when the Ultimate Warrior beat Hulk Hogan at Wretlemania in Toronto. I used to buy WWF magazines at the drug store. I tried watching Smackdown a couple weeks ago, and after sitting through the whole thing I finally realized why I had to be either 10 years old or stoned out of my gourd to enjoy it. It also doesn't help that the wrestling business itself is probably at an all time low in terms of quality. I also read Dragonlance, Star Wars, Warhammer and other nerd novels. I don't really regret that though most of them beat any of the poo poo you can find on TV. new phone who dis has a new favorite as of 21:03 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Anime for me too; I have a few movies I keep around because they are good but yeah by and large most of it is awful.
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I watched a lot of lovely romantic comedies when I was a teenager. Like sub-Kevin Smith stuff. I think it was around either Tomcats or Slackers (the movie with Big Pete and Laura Prepon, not the Linklater movie with a similar name) that I realized I had bad taste that I was inflicting on my family. I liked Nerdcore for the brief moment between discovering it and thinking it's all jokey semi-ironic novelty songs, and realizing that MC Chris has songs that are supposed to be serious, and it actually has a fanbase. This pretty much applies to all novelty rap in general. Twitch has a new favorite as of 21:59 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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In approximate order of age when I liked the things: Beast Wars. You know how sometimes you watch a cartoon from your childhood and you like it because of nostalgia and/or it's actually well-written for what it is, like Hey Arnold or the Rugrats? Well fire up Beast Wars on Netflix some time and see how far off it is from that level. The animation is literally the worst I've ever seen in any medium, even relative to the time. Adventure Quest. There were factions at my middle school between people who played this game and people who played Runescape, but the fact of the matter is that it's pretty lame. Thankfully I never paid to play, which you eventually had to do when it got too big. My username is actually the one I came up with in sixth grade, when I thought it sounded LOL so random! I'm really bad at coming up with usernames when I actually sign up for things so I still use it on this site. I don't feel like paying money to change it. The song "Walk" by Pantera. Just the dumbest meathead brodown song ever made. Pantera in general don't age well but this song is just embarrassing. NOOOOOO WAAAAAAAAY PUNK Van Helsing. I feel like I don't need to elaborate. Daredevil. Same as above. Any Adam Sandler movie. I still love Mr. Deeds and Happy Gilmore, but there was a time when I thought Anger Management and the Longest Yard remake were worth getting on DVD. I do genuinely like his roles in Punch Drunk Love, Funny People and Reign Over Me.
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Death metal and grindcore. I still have a soft spot for some black metal and doom every now and then.
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Death metal is still the home of some of the best bands in metal as a whole (and always has been), but alright then. EDIT: The power and prog metal post reminded me that I liked Dragonforce for a bit though. Henchman of Santa has a new favorite as of 23:00 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Count me as one more ex-gaia online person. I spent some actual money on that dumb poo poo  Also, Goosebumps books.
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Kevin Smith movies. I matured as time went on. His skill as a filmmaker did not. Oh, and Frank Miller. Specifically after 9/11 broke his brain.
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natetimm posted:Dragonlance, Star Wars, Warhammer and other nerd novels.   In addition to those, R.A. Salvatore novels, assorted other D&D related novels and Mercedes Lackey novels occupied a great part of my adolescent to young adult reading. I don't read them anymore. Somehow, the distinction between good fantasy / Sci-Fi stories (Tolkien, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Stephen King's Dark Tower Series, Heinlein, Haldeman, etc) and bad ones never really became clear to me until I passed the age of 25 or so. It's surprising how much a difference fallible, non-mary sue characters make. Also, Boone's Farm wine.  As a teenager, I was amazed by how awesome it was to throw a bottle in the freezer and have a diabetic seizure inducing alchoholic slushie in about an hour. I tried some a year ago and couldn't finish a single glass. Scotch and beer for me these days. Marathanes has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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SuitcoatAvenger posted:Oh, and Frank Miller. Specifically after 9/11 broke his brain. Dennis Miller as well. 9/11 ruined two of my favorite Millers.
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The Xanth series by Piers Anthony. I think I read most of them between the ages of 10 and 17 and looking at the list of books, there have been 16 released since the last one I read. I hadn't read anything by him in about 10 years when my parents found a box in the garage with a lot of my old books, so I decided to give them a try and see how they had aged. They hadn't aged well and I ended up donating all of them to the Goodwill. Anime is also something I spent too much money and energy on. Some of it I don't regret watching, but the number of times I stayed in to watch something like Evangelion instead of listening to my friends who were trying to get me to hang out, I feel bad even 12 years later.
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Supreme Allah posted:Dennis Miller as well. Miller's best attribute was his delivery. It's hard for him to say funny things with George Bush's dick in his mouth.
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Amanda Palmer. I really cannot think of a group of people she hasn't pissed off these days. A good litmus test for whether I'll be able to stand a person or not is if they stick up for Amanda Palmer.
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This liquid abomination. 12 years ago when I hit 16 I started going out to drink in the park with friends (a common pastime in the UK) and this was always the beverage of choice for the appealing-to-teenagers reasons of being cheap and and head ruiningly potent. It's basically a bottle of wine which is also loaded with hideous amounts of sugar and caffeine. Some politicians called for it to be banned on the grounds that this specific drink supposedly causes people to venture out with the sole intention of stealing and fighting. I don't think you could pay me to drink it now. A true hobo's wine.
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