Vondy Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Have no desire to read/watch Game of WangstThrones or Harry Potter. Game of Thrones is really well done, but for some reason, the opening of the second season completely lost me. I just kind of shrugged and said "whatev." Haven't watched since 3/4 of the way through S2E1. My daughters love Harry Potter and harangue me for being ignorant of their Pottage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Haven't read comic books in a long, long time. I have no idea what is going on in any of the universes. Never played an MMO. Don't want to either. Only video games I play are little time wasters on my phone. Currently I'm playing a crossword puzzle app. Never seen Dr. Who and don't know anything about it other than he travels in a phone booth and the people who are always talking about it are ones I don't want to talk to. Never seen Serenity or Firefly. Or Battlestar Galactica. Saw the first Harry Potter movie and didn't care for it. Saw a girl naked once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 My daughters love Harry Potter and harangue me for being ignorant of their Pottage. I've seen like every other Potter film, so I have a really hard time keeping the stories straight in my head. Read every book though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 If you're still watching, it hasn't lost you. You're just trying to make yourself feel better. touche. Maybe I should stop then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Never read or watched Game of Thrones, nor had any desire to do so. Watched the pilot of the newer Battlestar Galactica and didn't feel the need to watch any more. From what I heard, if I'd kept watching it, I would have been rooting for the Cylons. Tried playing a few MMOs (City of Heroes / Villains and, very briefly, Champions Online) but didn't care for them. I refuse to call them MMORPGs as IME a vast, vast majority of players are not RP-ing at all. Read the Harry Potter books but only reluctantly watched a handful of the movies. Never watched Blade Runner except for bits and pieces in passing. Don't like Zombie Apocalypse or Anime / Manga at all, and only reluctantly play any fantasy RPGs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roter Baron Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 I have never watched The Big Bang Theory although I have the first season on DVD - was a gift from one of my students. I am just indifferent about it. Never liked South Park. I think The Hobbit blew chunks and I even sold the DVD back to Amazon. Did the same with the new Conan for the same reason. Same with Avatar. Only Matrix was worse! Yes, all three of them! 3-D technology did to movies what techni-color did to black-and-white films and talkies did to silent movies and silent movies did to the theater and the theater did to telling stories 'round a campire - IT DESTROYED and DESPOILED an art form! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Like Bolo I haven't been interested in modern MMORPGs. Maybe it's because I played too many MUDs back in the day, but from what I've seen, there's just too much time spent commuting and mining for stuff, and combat is just a preprogrammed series of moves where movement is irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 I haven't seen either of the Hobbit movies, and I don't feel any compulsion to change that fact any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 I saw the first, haven't seen the second yet. Hope to do so after Christmas, though the comments by my brother make it sound disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 never seen Spinal Tap or Blazing Saddles. Okay saw Blazing Saddles this arvo. The breast thing was Robyn Hilton's and the one gag that worked for me was the toll booth. The storyline was good and kept me watching. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCoulson Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 I've seen like every other Potter film, so I have a really hard time keeping the stories straight in my head. It might not be that you've seen too few to make sense. They cut a lot of necessary plot out in favour of nice looking setpieces that don't exactly make a cohesive film together. DeleteThisAccount and DoctorImpossible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Although I am a high school chemistry teacher, I have never watched Breaking Bad. I accidentally saw about three minutes of one episode, and that was all I'm ever going to need. Ditto for The Big Bang Theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Although I am a high school chemistry teacher, I have never watched Breaking Bad. I accidentally saw about three minutes of one episode, and that was all I'm ever going to need. Ditto for The Big Bang Theory. Breaking Bad is not required viewing for your job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 It's a relief to know I'm not the only one who hates The Big Bang Theory. I was afraid the whole world had gone insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Can't stand it, myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 never seen Spinal Tap or Blazing Saddles. Saw Spinal Tap since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Ditto for The Big Bang Theory. It's a relief to know I'm not the only one who hates The Big Bang Theory. I was afraid the whole world had gone insane. Can't stand it, myself. Love The Big Bang Theory!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Theory's all right. Show, not so much. Silicon Valley on HBO, however, was hilarious. If you desperately need geek humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCoulson Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Speaking of the Big Bang Theory, how did the show writers expect a bunch of nerds to empathise with a nerd like Leonard, who doesn't want to be open about his nerdiness, and laugh at Sheldon, who is probably more similar to all of us? DeleteThisAccount and DoctorImpossible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 I've only seen The Big Bang Theory a couple of times--it seemed like all the humor was based on showing how stupid smart people can be. I do watch AMC's Comic Book Men and TBS's King Of The Nerds--although when I posted about that show when it first premiered, no one here was interested. Ternaugh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 The Big Bang Theory's premise is for nerds/geeks subculture interact with the mainstream culture as seen from the perspective of the mainstream (i.e. Penny). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 I haven't watched anime in over 10 years. I haven't played a console game since 1999. That will change very soon as someone got the boys a Wii for Christmas. We just haven't hooked it up yet. I have never played a single sit down RPG of any kind. I have read rule books of different systems and even wrote a computer program to help me build characters in one of them. I used to use those rules for building characters in my fiction. Now I just use the packages for ideas and don't worry about balancing the party. I have watched exactly one episode of B5. That was plenty. I have seen only pieces of reruns of the original BG on a friend's cable in the late 80s/early 90s. I have not seen one episode of the new BG. I recently traded in all but three of my Discworld series on a book swap site. I stopped watching Voyager after Seven of Nine joined the crew. I realized I was watching the show not for the story, not for the sci-fi, not even for the characters. I was watching it because of Jeri and her catsuits. I loved Enterprise and DS9. ENT because it went back to the roots of exploration and optimism. DS9 because it threw out Roddenbury's rule of "the future is going to be nothing but awesome!" and looked at what happens when you take away the Federation's creature comforts. Yes, I love the war seasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnStrawberry Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Can't blame you on Voyager, by far the worst Trek show. But if epic space battles are your thing, you owe yourself to give B5 another chance - each season tops the last (well maybe not the last one but still good). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 @FrankL: B5: Skip the first and last seasons. Start with Season 2. New BSG: Watch the first two seasons then come up with your own ending for the series. Voyager: Ski the first and last seasons, and all seasons in between. DS9: Skip everything up until the Dominion War. Sit down RPGs: Remind me again why you are here? Roter Baron and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Sit down RPGs: Remind me again why you are here? Camaraderie, mainly. Even though I don't play, I have created many characters in several different systems. And I'm a writer, this place discusses sci-fi, fantasy, and other genres I like. While I can't answer questions about specific rules, I can answer when people ask about creating drama in their setup. And I've asked questions on those lines, too. This place has a whole lot of geeks, and I feel comfortable here. Burrito Boy, Greywind, Pariah and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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