Secret or guilty pleasures

I'll admit to having liked DBZ in the past as well, despite it's ridiculously slow plotting, and the bizarre tendency of fighting opponents to allow each other several minutes of "powering up" without simply attacking while their guard is down.My other guilty pleasures?Transformers. I occasionally still look up G1 Transformers episodes. I own the original animated movie on DVD. And I still collect the toys. I paid almost $200 for a Masterpiece edition Megatron that was technically illegal to purchase in the US because it lacks the orange tip required of gun toys. Next on the list is a Masterpiece Starscream and/or Skywarp.World of Warcraft. No matter how many times I try to move on to a new game, it sucks me back in. Partially due to the fact that my girlfriend plays it with me.

Lies. Star Trek is just Communist Feelgoodies In SPAAAAAAACE!I can't stand treknobabble. Sure, I'll suspend my disbelief for FTL travel. But when you start to try to use real scientific terminology to explain your scifi, and you use terms that have nothing to do with what you're talking about, the bubble pops. And how freaking many Deus ex Machina plot devices of the week can you have?! And why on Earth would you ever bring civilian families on a vessel like the Enterprise?! A vessel whose primary mission is one of diplomacy and exploration (not to mention a heavily-armed flagship) is expecting to run into some trouble here and there. Bringing kids and civvies is flat-out irresponsible. And then the one-dimensional "aliens!" Klingons are all apparently idiotic SPACE VIKINGS who have directed energy weapons, but infinitely prefer to charge headlong into melee with one of the most poorly-designed weapons ever conceived! Apparently, their palce in Valhalla - er, the afterlife - is guaranteed by following the most idiotic combat tactics proposed by the loudest and stupidest suicidal maniac in your barely-organized unit.And don't even get me started with the Borg! They can "adapt" to directed energy weapons, but have demonstrably not been able to adapt to physical damage, yet nobody thinks to use a freaking replicator to manufacture semiautomatic weapons. Hell, Picard managed to down several in First Contact by using a Tommy Gun on a Holodeck, and then promptly engages in an EVA operation with only a few phasers whose usefulness they know will degrade after only a few shots, and Worf's combat knife (itself a stupid implement whose design purpose, judging by the bizarre blade shape, was specifically engineered to become stuck in an opponent's ribs and be worthless)! And antimatter?! What a stupid power source - you need an active containment system to prevent it from annihilating with its container, meaning loss of power for even a moment results in KABLOOIE!Bah!I often enjoy watching Trek, but I find myself in unfortunate position of needing to just not think at all about what I'm seeing and hearing to prevent my suspension of disbelief from completely evaporating.Star Wars has reached a similar place. In teh original trilogy, very little technobabble was used - Han misued the term "parsec" to mean a unit of time as opposed to its actual meaning, which refers to distance (though subsequent novels and apologists have suggested that he was actually referring to literally shortening the run by making his route approach more closely to a black hole cluster, thus making a reference to distance more appropriate), and the concept of "ray shielding" (which presumably stops directed energy weapons but oddly does not affect visible light) struck me as somewhat absurd, but at least nobody tried to explain the destruction of the Death Star as reversing the quantum polarity of the gravitons in the unobtanium power core to cause a neutrino cascade effect, releasing destructive photons that will overload the plasma relay matrix and give Darth Vader a really bad headache.Scifi series shouldn't try to explain how their supertech works. Better to just say "I have a faster-than-light travel mechanism."/rant

I forgot one.I listen to Dethklok. The fictional death metal band of Metalocalypse fame on Cartoon Network. Because I like the music.Clearly I have just eliminated any and all credibility on any subject pertaining to the arts. Oh well.I also listen to metal from other, less fictional groups. I don't have a particular favorite, per se - my tastes in music are eclectic. I often find I like one or two songs from a group, and nothing else of their collected works. But my MP3 player contains some amount of In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Iron Maiden, Dark Tranquility, and others.