Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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Given the amount of time per client, the guillotine operators during the French Revolution found that piecework was a far better paying model.

 

[J.Quondam]

Given the amount of time per client, the guillotine operators during the French Revolution found that piecework was a far better paying model.

They were definitely well placed to take a little off the top of every transaction.

 

[TiQuinn]

You can always tell which people are dedicated to act of arguing than the actual topic.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm not sure if everyone else is like this, but I've noticed something about myself.

The more hype I hear from my friends and neighbors about something, the more likely I am to try it--but only to a point. Past a certain point, I mentally check out and all the positive mentions in all the world won't bring me back. Even if I'm initially intrigued by it (the Game of Thrones TV series, for example) and it contains numerous elements that I like (dragons, magic, swords, court intrigue, Emilia Clarke), my interest will only handle so many people telling me how great it is. It's not a very high number either--it's like, twelve.

1 mention: I'm curious about it.
2-3 mentions: I'm interested in it.
4-5 mentions: I'm on board. Let's watch it next weekend!
6-7 mentions: Look, I said I was on board already.
8-9 mentions: C'mon, I said I'll watch it as soon as I can.
10-11 mentions: Seriously, you need to shut up about this.
12+ mentions: You lost me, I'll never be interested in it again.

It's been over a decade and I've only ever watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones. It was...fine. It's not that it didn't measure up to the hype, it's not like it didn't meet my expectations, it's just that I was already saturated with it before I started. It felt like showing up at the gym when I'm already tired: it's not the gym's fault.

Given the success of the show (and other pop culture elements like it), I think this is a "me" problem. Or at least my friends seem to think it's a problem; it disturbs them far more than it does me.

Anyway. Am I the only one?

 

[payn]

I'm not sure if everyone else is like this, but I've noticed something about myself.

The more hype I hear from my friends and neighbors about something, the more likely I am to try it--but to a point. Past a certain point, I mentally check out and all the positive mentions in all the world won't bring me back. Even if I'm initially intrigued by it (the Game of Thrones TV series, for example) and it contains numerous elements that I like (dragons, magic, swords, court intrigue, Emilia Clarke), my interest will only handle so many people telling me how great it is. It's not a very high number either--it's like, twelve.

1 mention: I'm curious about it.
2-3 mentions: I'm interested in it.
4-5 mentions: I'm on board. Let's watch it next weekend!
6-7 mentions: Look, I said I was on board already.
8-9 mentions: C'mon, I said I'll watch it as soon as I can.
10-11 mentions: Seriously, you need to shut up about this.
12+ mentions: You lost me, I'll never be interested in it again.

It's been over a decade and I've only ever watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones. It was...fine. It's not that it didn't measure up to the hype, it's not like it didn't meet my expectations, it's just that I was already saturated with it before I started. It felt like showing up at the gym when I'm already tired: it's not the gym's fault.

Given the success of the show (and other pop culture elements like it), I think this is a "me" problem. Or at least my friends seem to think it's a problem; it disturbs them far more than it does me.

Anyway. Am I the only one?

I know folks like this, but im not like that.

 

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[Ryujin]

I'm not sure if everyone else is like this, but I've noticed something about myself.

The more hype I hear from my friends and neighbors about something, the more likely I am to try it--but to a point. Past a certain point, I mentally check out and all the positive mentions in all the world won't bring me back. Even if I'm initially intrigued by it (the Game of Thrones TV series, for example) and it contains numerous elements that I like (dragons, magic, swords, court intrigue, Emilia Clarke), my interest will only handle so many people telling me how great it is. It's not a very high number either--it's like, twelve.

1 mention: I'm curious about it.
2-3 mentions: I'm interested in it.
4-5 mentions: I'm on board. Let's watch it next weekend!
6-7 mentions: Look, I said I was on board already.
8-9 mentions: C'mon, I said I'll watch it as soon as I can.
10-11 mentions: Seriously, you need to shut up about this.
12+ mentions: You lost me, I'll never be interested in it again.

It's been over a decade and I've only ever watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones. It was...fine. It's not that it didn't measure up to the hype, it's not like it didn't meet my expectations, it's just that I was already saturated with it before I started. It felt like showing up at the gym when I'm already tired: it's not the gym's fault.

Given the success of the show (and other pop culture elements like it), I think this is a "me" problem. Or at least my friends seem to think it's a problem; it disturbs them far more than it does me.

Anyway. Am I the only one?

Sometimes, on some things. The chance that I'll do something is often inversely proportional to how many times someone tells me to do it.

 

[el-remmen]

Gonna be away from the boards for the next 4 days. How many more pages will that thread have?

 

[Ryujin]

Gonna be away from the boards for the next 4 days. How many more pages will that thread have?

Probably about as many as this thread will have.

 

[payn]

I'm not sure if everyone else is like this, but I've noticed something about myself.

The more hype I hear from my friends and neighbors about something, the more likely I am to try it--but only to a point. Past a certain point, I mentally check out and all the positive mentions in all the world won't bring me back. Even if I'm initially intrigued by it (the Game of Thrones TV series, for example) and it contains numerous elements that I like (dragons, magic, swords, court intrigue, Emilia Clarke), my interest will only handle so many people telling me how great it is. It's not a very high number either--it's like, twelve.

1 mention: I'm curious about it.
2-3 mentions: I'm interested in it.
4-5 mentions: I'm on board. Let's watch it next weekend!
6-7 mentions: Look, I said I was on board already.
8-9 mentions: C'mon, I said I'll watch it as soon as I can.
10-11 mentions: Seriously, you need to shut up about this.
12+ mentions: You lost me, I'll never be interested in it again.

It's been over a decade and I've only ever watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones. It was...fine. It's not that it didn't measure up to the hype, it's not like it didn't meet my expectations, it's just that I was already saturated with it before I started. It felt like showing up at the gym when I'm already tired: it's not the gym's fault.

Given the success of the show (and other pop culture elements like it), I think this is a "me" problem. Or at least my friends seem to think it's a problem; it disturbs them far more than it does me.

Anyway. Am I the only one?

I guess I do have a variant of this. There have been a few things I have put off becasue initially they had crazy mentions. Though, as that thing got more seasons or books or whatever, folks started to sour on it. Some even have really bad conclusions which at that point im not reading/watching 5+ of something if its latter half and/or ending sucks. Too much investment at that point.