Geek Confessional Thread 2024

[Mind of tempest]

Hmm. Yes. I suppose in an actual visual novel ge protagonist would actually have something to say and not just sit there dumbly like a sack of cement.

I guess my point is the game is dominated by long-winded stretches where a lot of plot happens but wherein there's no actual gameplay to be found

well it has no cut scenes and has a plot what other option could they have used?

 

[MGibster]

Firefly does nothing for me.

I didn't watch the series when it originally ran because I was busy doing something else when it aired. But, man, I got so tired of being around people who didn't want to talk about anything but Firefly. I got around to watching the entire series when it came out on DVD, and while I enjoyed it, I couldn't figure out why it resonated with so many of my friends. I mean to the point where it seriously changed their social lives and one of them even got a Firefly tattoo. I thought it was a good show but it just didn't have that big of an impact on me.

I like the look and feel of anime, but in general (with exceptions, of course) I do not enjoy anime produced in Japan. I think I just prefer Western (geopolitical, not genre) storytelling tropes and beats. I can get behind Castlevania most of the other Netflix Anime, though.

I like some anime but I dislike a lot of the standard, tropes(?) used. The last anime series I enjoyed was Cyberpunk: Edgerunners but I disliked a lot of the over-the-top action sequences featuring characters unfazed after taking point blank shots to the face. Instead of looking cool it just looks silly to me. But the series had great characters so I was able to overlook the silliness.

love superheroes, but stopped collecting comics in the late 1990s. I watched several of the TV shows that popped up over the following years, and even caught a few of the movies.

The Flash/Iris relationship creeped me out. I know they weren't related by blood, but when you were raised in the same house and refer to the same man as father maybe it's a good idea you don't bone.

Despite being in the hobby for decades and having been a mod here for a few years, I am almost completely uninterested in the quasi-academic discussions about games. So a lot of the terminology like “story first” or “player agency” are nigh-meaningless to me.

I went to graduate school for history. I can have a rational discussion about the various historiographical schools of thought including Annales, Marxism, Consensus, and even New Left History. But when people sit down and start talking about RPG theory my eyes glaze over and I have trouble following the conversation and I start to wonder, "Are you really smart? Am I just that dumb? Is this all #A%#%#A?"

 

[MGibster]

I have a love-hate reaction to John Norman's GOR novels. Some bits I find really hot, while other bits stomp on my ick and squick buttons.

I had to analyze a science-fiction book for my Gender & Science Fiction undergraduate course and I chose the first Gor novel. As I recall, the first novel really didn't go off the rails all that much.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

My confession: I am a child of the 80s... and I've never seen "Gremlins".

 

[overgeeked]

"Are you really smart? Am I just that dumb? Is this all #A%#%#A?"

It’s alway the last one. Always.

 

[Edgar Ironpelt]

I had to analyze a science-fiction book for my Gender & Science Fiction undergraduate course and I chose the first Gor novel. As I recall, the first novel really didn't go off the rails all that much.

It's sometimes said that the first N GOR novels aren't too bad, but become horrid after that point. (Where N is a small integer, with different speakers giving different values for N.)

 

[Alzrius]

I have never, in my life, seen a Mad Max movie...and I don't feel any particular need to.

 

[MGibster]

My confession: I am a child of the 80s... and I've never seen "Gremlins".

I haven't seen it since 1984 or 1985. Oh, my. It's been forty years.

It’s alway the last one. Always.

The thing is, I think one can certainly look at role playing games and analyze them the same we do with literature or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That kind of thing should interest me but for some reason I feel like I'm falling flat on my face every time it's discussed.

I have never, in my life, seen a Mad Max movie...and I don't feel any particular need to.

Sir, the title of this thread is confessions, but that doesn't mean we accept heretics around here. I kid. I kid. I like Mad Max, not a fan of Thunderdome, and Fury Road was fantastic. But you don't have to watch everything. We still think you're a geek.

 

[Older Beholder]

Yeah, but that's also George Miller all the way.

Now, if it was suddenly NOT George Miller, and Disney came along and bought the rights to Mad Max, I'd be a-scared.

This reminds me that I saw someone say you could replace Demetus' henchman with muppets in Furiosa and it would be the same film...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This reminds me that I saw someone say you could replace Demetus' henchman with muppets in Furiosa and it would be the same film...

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"Same film" feels like stretching it any time you get Sweetums and the others involved.