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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1017 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
Confession time:
What do you enjoy despite its mock-worthy status?
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1017 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
I like country music. Not all of it, but I only listen to it when I'm in the car. I can't confess this to my rocker friends, family, or spouse.
I also like Tool, White Zombie, Lincoln Park, and... Nickel Back. I know. That last one is apparently very shameful. I can't confess this to my work colleagues. They apparently have much more refined tastes in their radio programming -- they listen to NPR all day long. I also like the True Blood series on HBO and read the entire series of books (9 in all) within a week's time. It's supernatural, silly, smutty, and thoroughly addicting. NOT something I admit to my atheist or college-educated friends. I like cartoons. Not all of them, but I'll check out the new cartoons on Nickelodeon to see if any catch my eye, and I love the Pixar flicks (my current favorite is WALL-E). I fell in love with, and am totally addicted to, the Nick cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. Last week, I borrowed the series from a friend and spent the entire week watching it. I so love that cartoon that I'm thinking about boycotting M. Night Shyamalan's new live-action movie of it because the casting doesn't do justice to the spirit of the series.
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4217 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
I can't confess this to my rocker friends, family, or spouse. Are they that narrow minded that it would create havoc if you told them?In my case, I couldn't care less what my family or friends listened to. Each person has his own tastes. As for cartoon, I am partial to those I watched as a child and have quite a few DVDs of these such as Popeye, Superman and old Looney tunes. There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
1. This site? I know no one here has an issue with this kind of site, but I don't think it's as easily accepted by general western society as a whole, yet. Although things do seem to be moving in that direction, I think.
2. Dragonball (before GT) (anime). 3. Kung Fu Hustle (movie). 4. Okami (PS2 video game that's a bit... "colourful"). 5. Overpower (Marvel Comics CCG, now discontinued). 6. Bunch of general "nerd" things - Star Trek (NG, DS9, Voy.), RPG video/computer games (although they're becoming much more mainstream now), comic book movies and character stories...
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4970 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
What do you enjoy despite its mock-worthy status? My own company! Edited by Jumped Up Chimpanzee, : style
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1017 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
It's all in fun, blue.
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1017 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
Did you see the live-action film of Dragonball?
I was going to mention my participation on forums, too. I belong to several and have made many friends. A lot of people still don't understand this. Although it's certainly different today than even just 5 years ago. I like playing Crash Bandicoot and Lego Star Wars. They're a hoot.
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1017 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
Good for you!! lol
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
roxrkool writes: Did you see the live-action film of Dragonball? No, my fascination began and ended with the cartoons I was able to watch on TV I've always had a soft-spot for anything resembling honour. Goku (in Dragonball Z) is one of the most honourable characters I've ever come across... most likely because of his imaginary cartoon existence. Paraphrased from memory, not direct at all: (After being beaten to a useless pulp in his fight with Piccolo)Goku: Looks like I'm going to die. Krillan (Goku's best friend): No! Goku, you can't die, surely you can pull through??! Goku: Nope. *dies* The naive honesty mixed with a refusal to string his best friend along with false hope had me laughing for a long time And a paraphrasing of Goku's fighting philosophy: "I don't fight to win. I fight in order to gauge my abilities against an opponent. I don't try my best so that I can defeat others. I try my best so that my opponent can truthfully gauge their abilities against me."
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4045 Joined: Member Rating: 7.6 |
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.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Hmm, some overlapping stuf I see.
Love anime (not all of course, but when there's a good one, ooh boy) Transformers fucking rock. WoW rocks as well. Star trek is the shit Star wars isn't... (though the KotoR games are very cool) RPG's are the best games ever made. What else...Oh yeah! G.I. Joe! And of course Warhammer 40K (the lore, the tabletop just doesn't appeal to me for some reason). I hunt for the truth I am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping handMy image is of agony, my servants rape the land Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore. -Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead
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Lithodid-Man Member (Idle past 2959 days) Posts: 504 From: Juneau, Alaska, USA Joined: |
Well at the top of that list is Star Trek. I not only own all of the series and movies but the complete collection of the Playmates ships and 8" figures (as well as hundreds of other ST figures, toys, and memorabilia). Not really a secret pleasure but a source of occasional teasing by colleagues and friends.
Probably the most embarrassing is the fact that I LOVE Survivor. I completely hate all other reality TV, but during the Survivor season my whole family becomes obsessed, it is a good part of our conversation, etc. We made the error a few times of discussing it outside of our family, and got to hear the whole "it is exploitive..." lecture. But it is our Thursday night family activity. Doctor Bashir: "Of all the stories you told me, which were true and which weren't?" Elim Garak: "My dear Doctor, they're all true" Doctor Bashir: "Even the lies?" Elim Garak: "Especially the lies"
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CosmicChimp Member Posts: 311 From: Muenchen Bayern Deutschland Joined: |
I like Jack Vale's "The Pooter" series on youTube. I'm about ten minutes away from ordering one of these devices.
Anything involving candid cameras and surprise comedic moments, I just cannot get enough of. There is a TV series called Just for Laughs that has become my favorite show but I'm embarrassed to tell anyone. Edited by CosmicChimp, : added a bit more
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onifre Member (Idle past 2979 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
I'm a freak for Top Chef - I also LOVE old school wrestling.
Music would be Dido and Bon Jovi. That's about it. I don't really do much else that isn't within the "cool" status, lol. But I have to agree with Stile, this site is the guiltiest of pleasures that no one close to me knows about. - Oni
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4045 Joined: Member Rating: 7.6 |
Star trek is the shit Star wars isn't... (though the KotoR games are very cool) 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
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