Kingdom Hearts. People love it. I do not.
clarifying edit: the whole Disney meets Final Fantasy concept is just like peanut butter and pickles to me. I like (classic) FF, I don’t hate Disney, but the two just do not go together. From the plot summaries and fan videos I’ve come across, it strikes me that whoever writes this stuff loves to set things up but never knows how to resolve them, so I think I’d end up hating it even if I did find the concept appealing.
Oh and the fact Sora got into Smash over Waluigi still burns.
Six seven
Most things honestly. I go to possibly unhealthy lengths to put mental blocks between me and the world.
Honestly nothing. It’s almost like a compulsion, where I feel like if I ignore something I’m a bad person.
It’s nice to know I’m not alone in this feeling. Good luck and try not to be too self critical.
The kardashian universe. I’ve never seen an ep, don’t know their names or whatever the fuck they do or say. As a 30 year old woman I feel like a unicorn not knowing shit about fuck when it comes to that whole thing.
Good for you - seriously, are you single?
LMAO! I’m married and now basically live the life of a 95 year old legit couldn’t be happier. Never had an instagram either. I don’t wanna get caught up in that shit.
Sports
I had a thought while watching the Winter Olympics recently. Perhaps the Olympic Committee could send an every day hobbyist first. As sort of an OMG this course is bonkers. Just watch. Let’s say we take the type of skier hitting the Giant Slalom with nothing but some apres ski big talk & bragging of mogul crushing skills and let the poor mf’er do a gravity and inertia display? I’d watch. Then, the Olympic athletes would showcase their passion, skills & talented dedication towards this common sought goal.
Sports are fine when you do them. Watching strangers perform is quite uninteresting.
Cars. I drive them, but I leave the technology to the professionals.
It takes up a third of your income but you have no interest in it ?
Why would I waste a third of my income on a car? If push comes to shove, it may be between 5 and 8%.
Same. I’ll go as far as changing a wheel when I have a flat, but that’s pretty much it.
Otherwise, I can lift the bonnet and go “yep, that’s an engine” quite convincingly.
I thought I was the only one.
I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I’ve researched child psychology.
But ask me to explain what a car’s transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones…
Yeah, if there isn’t an unconnected hose or cable, that’s about the extent of my car knowledge.
Fashion
Why the Midwest(usa) cucks so much. Its like the cuck mecca of the world. Google it.
Why people are infatuated with celebrities.
That’s a fascinating subject IMO.
Like there is a king/celeb/hero/… hole in ther mind they just must fill.
Same reason people like watching TV dramas. It’s escapism. They get to vicariously live someone else’s more colourful life - or are glad they’re not living the celebrity’s real or acted horrible life - for a short while to get away from their own.
And anyone on a screen is usually better-looking as well, which is a big draw.
This is a really fair way to put it. I can’t understand it personally, but I read fantasy books to escape the real world, and I tell anyone I can that I read fiction only because I live in the real world and I’ve had enough of its shit. So appreciate your shedding some light on it, because I certainly didn’t understand it (celebrity nonsense). Still don’t, but maybe I will soon.
Hobby Horsing. It really is a thing and it’s not something freaky deaky strange. It’s just kinda cringy & well why not ditch the pretend horse thing and just parkour? That there is another thing that I don’t care about. I do enjoy the outtakes of parkour mishaps. On second thought, if a highlight reel of Hobby Horsing accidents exists, I’d absolutely watch. It could really be quite entertaining.
Stick with me here, Hobby Jousting.
I am so down for this.
There is a dude on Instagram who has been doing “hobby Enduro” which is basically the same thing but with an Enduro bike stick thing between your legs. I’ve been following it for a while because it seems like it’s ironic but it’s starting to get to a point where idk if the guy still thinks it’s a joke anymore.
Ok guys you got me. This is fascinating. Does the enduro guy have to make bike sounds with his mouth?
You & I both know damn well that he does.
Our neighbors three year old plays like that too.
Sports culture. Betting, fantasy leagues, statistics. I immediately flatline if the conversation turns to it
Some folks get deep into D&D and build encyclopedic knowledge on estoric spell combos, some delve deep into trains, and some memorize how many lifetime touchdowns Joe Namath has. Dumb, but I understand it.
But they don’t scream at you and call you a weirdo if you say you’re not interested.
Its that reason why I say everyone is a nerd about something.
Yah, you may be talking to the former school jock/football star who was barely handed their diploma, but ask them about their sport/the industries around it. You will likely get a better lesson on statistics and managment that you can get out of most text books. (Assuming you can keep the conversation focused)
People usually like talking about their interests.
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with being into football, just like there’s nothing wrong with not being into it. If you’re an asshole about either of those things, that’s a problem.
Meh, even that is different. One facilitates an activity YOU partake in. The other is an activity you watch others do. Obsessing over how well grown men perform at children’s games is odd. Structuring your weekend around observing other people exercise while you sit on the couch…is weird.
I don’t drive a train though???
Same here. And it used to cripple me during meetings, and basic conversations with coworkers. I’ve worked in sales, construction, and inventory management and the sports convos were inescapable and apparently a huge key to relating to customers and colleagues.
Just could never get into it, and not the type to fake it either. Unless I’m playing the sport, I could give a fuck less about others who I do not and will not ever know playing a sport.
Furries. No hate, just not even remotely interested.
And anime.
This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn’t such a glaring blind spot for me, because it’s something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There’s 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I’ve never been interested.
There are plenty with just one or two seasons and that’s it.
Reality TV or Anime? Cause either way, the medium just isn’t my thing.
Sure, whatever. I’m just saying it’s a very broad cultural Japanese thing, and not just “hundreds of soap opera” episodes, or Naruto or whatever, I don’t even know myself. A lot of variety is what I’m saying.
It’s actually pretty interesting. I guess “the west” is kinda prejudiced about what anime really is.
No, I agree, and I’m not saying I dislike it for a good reason or even a vastly informed reason; I’ve watched a few, and they felt varied in content and style and tone (at least to me). I’m just saying sometimes it’s as simple as “just don’t like it”. I don’t like eggplant either; had it prepared a few different ways. I don’t think it’s that I just haven’t found that magical preparation or mix of seasonings or whatever; just not a fan.
No judgment since I think many anime shows are not worth the time, but anime is just another medium, like books, more than anything. If there’s a genre of something you like on another medium, then there probably are some decent shows for that genre in anime.
Lots of anime is written with a specific audience in mind, such as the most well known anime shows being written for teens and young adults. Even more, most anime has a specific gendered audience as its target audience.
I personally didn’t care too much for anime until I watched some very high quality shows that pulled me more into the medium.
Yeah it just seems like a random style of cartoon to me, i dont get why ppl are obsessed w this one type. Im probably just too ignorant
I find the idea bwhind each show is more compelling and tends to be more mature to what the west peovides in the same (animated) genre.
You get the odd show like ‘Invincible’ that is more mature but they are way more rare than on the eastern entertainment domain.
Can’t really say I have noticed much shows that are on the level of ‘Avatar the last airbender’ in western tv (and that alone is a controversial topic of if it’s a western cartoon or more eastern in influence)
FLCL has like 6 episodes and is a good entry point
FLCL is great, but it is pretty damned weird and better with knowledge of the material it parodies.
Cowboy Bebop is the entry point to anime. It’s mostly episodic so there’s no need for a huge time investment. You’ll know if you’re going to like it or not after an episode or two. The only problem is that it’s so damned good, it’s only downhill from there.
That is like pushing someone into the deep end of weird.
I know you’re struggling to get into this genre, here try this story about a kid who grows a phallic unicorn horn from his forehead…
Yeah I was probably too young to grasp that when I first watched in ~2003. It was one of the first anime I watched with relatively adult themes, but was drawn in by the art style and music. The sexual overtones were lost on me.
I’m kinda in this boat but I have a soft spot for anime that I grew up with in the 90s and early 2000’s.
There’s also some more recent stuff that’s been generally OK, but I can never keep up with conversations about it because I’m just not in that sphere at all really.
Hit me with some Gen 1 Pokémon, Avatar: TLA or old Ghibli stuff and I’m waxing poetic instantly lol
I’m a furry and even I don’t get most furries, haha!
Like, I’m here to be an animal. I heard “people who like to be animals” and went “whoa, sign me up!” and it turns out a lot of furries DON’T like to be animals, they just… pretend to be animals but “oh that’s a character not really me” and they still consider themselves human…?.. also they’re only half-human-half-animals, not actual animal shape either?.. I don’t get it
turns out most of the actual “I’m just an animal” animals are the therians instead (once I found them I decided I’d be both). I’m still a non-character, non-anthropomorphic (the furry jargon for normal animal shape is “feral”) furry though, and the anthro furries can just deal. :3
– Frost
Owenfromcanada: I dont want to know anything about furrys
Forestbeast: super detailed descriptions of furry culture
This is hilarious. Don’t get me wrong, @forestbeasts@pawb.social , I appreciate the details - a fascinating glimpse at something I didn’t know - but it’s funny timing with some of the other threads here
Haha yeah! :3 I uh, misread the critter I replied to as saying “I don’t get it” rather than “I’m not even interested in getting it”. Cue the massive infodump. >,,>
I’m not that sorry, though. It’s still fun to talk about and also kinda hilarious that it happened.
– Frost
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and it turns out a lot of furries DON’T like to be animals, they just… pretend to be animals but “oh that’s a character not really me” and they still consider themselves human…?
Do you not consider yourself to be human?
Nope! I’m a wolf! :3
I’m trans, but for species instead of gender. Yeah that’s a thing. 🐺
– Frost
Don’t you think this kind of trivializes what transgender people go through? Saying you can be trans for species sounds like some sort of mockery of transgenderism
I used to think that, but then I realized human brains are kind of a mess so if weird things happen it’s fine as long as nobody’s hurting themselves or someone else
If that’s what they feel good for them, validity isn’t a pie and more for a weird niche group isn’t less for the rest
And if they’re trolling you’re failing responding to trolls 101
Celebrities, French language
The French language exists purely so that there can be English speaking with a French accent.
French was my only choice for a second foreign language in school and I hated it. Such a weird language. They need a writing reform. Bordeaux is just comically bad. English could use a writing reform as well.
I’m blaming the French when English needs a reform. Much of the language is stolen French, with the diabolical inherent spelling traps, the other reason reform is required is the halting of the vowel change, which is why some words, though written the same, sound different - one example: though (tho) and bough (bau).
Can’t see it happening to be honest.
Never forget 1066.
Yes but a lot is also language change. Knight for example was just spoken with a K and a fricative at that time and place. The writing just wasn’t adapted to the changes in speech.
True, true.
Heey I live there!
Can you deny it though?
Oiseaux !
We keep it that way purposely to annoy the English speakers, so that we can make fun of you.
Oh it’s not annoying me. I just don’t want to learn see or speak the language. Since I moved a little further from the French border that is much easier.
Streamer culture and Vtuber culture.
I don’t watch the streams or vods but the clips are funny/entertaining
Some aspects of streamer culture I get, I do not understand vtuber culture. Youtube started recommending one to me because apparently played a video game I like and watch videos about, and…as far as I can tell her job is to be professionally sexually harassed. Like, men used to whistle at showgirls in saloons, now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to “nut on” them.
Fun part is her mom apparently found out, and participates.
now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to “nut on” them
I almost feel bad for laughing at this.
vtubers are just ugly people. they know they won’t get as many views if they showed their real face, so they use an avatar.
Why are people down voting this?
Because it’s blatantly wrong. Many high profile vtubers have had their faces on stream or leaked and they are usually average to way above average looks and often get more views on their IRL content. I am sure some are ugly, but claiming it as a primary reason as if all vtubers have image issues is provably false.
Because we are all just tubes of meat and, barf.
This is how I know I’m old now; what little I’ve ever seen or read seems utterly stupid and vapid to me. “Oh, just watch Flimdiflub6g for 1 hour, you’ll get it!” No, no I don’t think I will.
I have no idea what the difference between those labels are.
Vtubers are a subset of streamers, they are subject to all the same drama and content. People just like to separate them because, similar to anime, there are many people who watch vtubers but don’t watch other streamers.
Vtubers are people pretending to be anime girls
Vagina tubers?
I was gonna make a comment about the differences before I realized I couldn’t tell you the difference between them outside of how they choose to represent themselves.
Oh, looks like I found mine.
I know nothing about both but since I suspect vtubbbing brached from anime subcultures I kinda get why they did.
Streamer though, I weirdly should be their demographic but I’m not.
I’m an avid gamer, I follow youtuber since vlog brother/smosh era, so I witness Pewds rise to fame but never find any joy in watching it live.
Like SovietWomble, his bullshitery series is top notch entertainment, I’ve rewatched the Arma and CS series multiple time, despite never played either one. Still didn’t like watching it live.
I think because it’s similar with the one with celebrities. I just don’t care with the parasocial aspect of it.
I can count the number of streamers I’m a fan of on three fingers, and the number of Vtubers I can even name on one
