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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9308971" data-attributes="member: 18">A mere sampling of my personal geek sins:1) I have a reaction somewhere between boredom and loathing to most webcomics. Yes, including whichever one you like. Yes especially Homestuck - that can piss right off! Yes I have no time for Penny Arcade nor Order of the Stick - the latter is inoffensive but oof. Sorry XKCD, you can suck a black hole or whatever nerdy nonsense (I will additionally confess there are a few XKCDs I can at least respect). A rare exception would be Kill 6 Billion Demons, but only because the art is absolutely great - I still haven't read much of it.2) I haven't watched any of the new new Doctor Who yet. No not because I'm a racist! I just feel like I'm not really ready for that whole high-energy wackiness vibe. I will eventually. I also haven't watched I think a single complete episode from before the 4th Doctor, almost the opposite of [USER=7030100]@J.Quondam[/USER]!3) I don't like Lord of the Rings much. I don't like Tolkien or his style much generally. None of the characters really speak to me (Samwise a bit maybe). But through various nerdy processes I have come to learn an enormous amount about LotR and Tolkien, and have a grudging respect for the old anarchist! And can inexplicably come out with weird bits of Tolkien knowledge that serious fans often forget or just don't know.4) I think good art and just lots of art is more important than good writing in TT RPGs (aside from for rules clarity). Also all the like short stories and flavour stories and stuff in TT RPGs? Please stop putting it in them. I could count on one hand the number of times it's improved a TT RPG. To be fair this has significantly declined as a practice since the '90s.5) I think people should stop saying Dark Souls/Elden Ring/Soulslikes are hard. They're not. I don't even mean "Git Gud", you don't even need to do that! And especially who think they're like master players because they're good at it - they aren't. They're pretty straightforward games that just adopt a learn-by-dying approach to gameplay, and I'm really surprised people still act like they're unusual when like half of all action-y RPGs/games are Souls-adjacent and Roguelikes are huge. I feel like a lot of people are getting discouraged from playing games they'd have a lot of fun with because of people's desire to claim these games are really difficult and gain kudos from that.6) I believe that Brandon Sanderson is not a good writer, and much worse, he could be one, but he chooses not to be because it would be harder. Several of his books he touches real meaning or true ideas or real emotion, and then leaps away like he touched a hot stove. And nobody should be buying any more of the awful Stormlight Archive books, for god's sake people, you're just encouraging the man.7) Basically every nerd loves twee things except me and I don't get it. Just twee destroys me at a cellular level. Like, if I was the badguy in a movie, you could throw twee on me, and I'd melt. And nerds love twee - horrible horrible twee. To be clear what I mean is:affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twee[/URL]And it's not like I don't like things which are cute or delicate or quaint, because I do. But there's some combination, some threshold which can be passed and twee is reached and I cannot stand it. Some level of affected posturing that if exceeded, I cannot stand. I am afraid to say there have been times, particularly in Moffat's run, where Doctor Who reached this level. Missy was intolerable. A few times nerd favourites like Steven Universe did too (probably not when you'd think either).I feel somewhat similarly about edge which is kind of like on the affected to honest scale, at the same end as twee, but on the cute to mean scale, the opposite end, but that doesn't have the same cellular revulsion, more of an "embarrassed for you" vibe.I'm sure I'll come out with more and worse later lol.</blockquote>

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