Blades Runner
Posts: 561
Joined: Friday, 18th January 2013, 01:08
Location: Medical Mechanica
Let's make friends! Overrated shit you hate! ://D
Feel free to discuss overrated shit you hate, and to tell me how very, very, very wrong I am. This is CYC, afer all.
Inspired by Sar.
Literature:
Lord of the rings - I can't even read this shit. Macho-corny. I can't fucking care about the first dewdrop over the most tender straw of grass in a meadow full of frolicking elves. Also, tom bombadil. To add insult to injury, the songs.
Steppenwolf - I did read this shit, much to my un-enjoyment. Romantic. Deep-felt. Intensely emetic. I've tried my best for years NOT to empathize with this sort of characters or narratives. Would have been a lot better if the main character (can't remember the name if it's given) did indeed commit suicide and turned it into a short story.
Videogames:
the Metal Gear franchise - Ugh. Macho-corny again. At least this one is more homoerotic and has lots of foe-yay - probably the only aspect worth saving. Pointless mindfucks and pitiful war-scarred characters I don't want to hear. I've tried playing some of them, but unless it's with a buddy they're completely boring.
Counter Strike - I used to play the original half-life mod back in the heyday of gaming ciber-cafés where I live. And you know what? My money was way better spent playing other games where you didn't have to wait 5000 hours until the next round doing nothing if you weren't on par with the rest of the people. I did play though, when nobody was up for playing anything else. Quake III, Half-Life or Soldier of Fortune were way better shooters unless you were some sort of military apparel buff (which I'm not)
the Tekken franchise - I played this too, mostly 3 and 5. Slow, cumbersome, weird controls, inane characters. Still fun with friends, though, but about as much as any other fighting game that's not a total turd. I do confess that I have beaten Jinpachi several times over (most of the time by spamming a single blow), and I must admit that funny endings are funny.
Anime:
Naruto - The one time I actively tried to watch it, I fell asleep. Because "Ninja" is an excuse for anything, even for not-ninja. Talk about devalued words.
Bleach - What the hell is this. A sloppy mess of bland mythology. The manga is somewhat better, even if I don't like it, it's readable and the author knows his way around both fun and drama. If anyone could explain to me WHERE THE FUCK DOES THE NAME COME FROM, they'd lift a weight from my shoulders.
Western comics:
Death, from The Sandman - For reasons to hate "The High Cost of Living" see the entry on Steppenwolf. It's an exercise in self-pity. The character itself in the main series isn't particularly bad, but neither is it the charismatic star some fans want to make it. "The Time of your Life" is somewhat better, even if only because it covers homosexuality issues, but not worth dying over either.
Philosophy
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - A great upside-down pyramid of distilled nonsense carefully balanced on the tip of the nose of a madman with cybernetic life support from the state and the academia. Fuck, no.
Martin Heidegger - The guy who actively and confessedly didn't want to make sense or be understood, because it's not the speaker's responsibility to be clear or make themselves understood, it's the listener's responsibility to "keep the ear attentive to what the being tells us" or some such other nonsense, and because being intelligible is sucide for philosophy (says he). The guy butchered words, interpretated older writers by the brown seat of his pants, and all-around spouted gibberish out of his facial butthole. I would seriously order the burning of all his books and condemn him to damnatio memoriae were I in any position to do so. Or at the very least forbid teaching of his life and works in any sort of institution.
to be updated whenever I remember about anything else from the bunch of overrated shit I hate
Hirsch I wrote:Also,are you calling me a power-gamer? this is highly offensive! now excuse me, I have to go back to my GrBe game, that I savescummed until trog gave me a Vampiric +9 claymore.