What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm too old and too poor to get into Magic: The Gathering. Hearthstone is plenty for me.

And no matter how much the fans insist on using Japanese terms from it in general geek shared spaces, I'm not likely to get into anime at this point, as a lot of the dramatic conventions in the most popular stuff (over-emoting, lots of screaming) doesn't appeal to me the way it does my kids. (I did enjoy stuff from the 1960s and 1970s, when over-emoting and screaming was something I was doing with my friends anyway.) I am looking forward to the second season of Delicious in Dungeon, though.

 

[billd91]

FWIW I think this is largely a stereotype forged online, one that usually does not prove true IRL.

If the people giving it a bad rep online weren't participating in the community, that would be true. But fact is, they are. And though they may be avoidable through my effort, I'm not really nostalgic enough for the OSR values of play to go to that effort.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’ve kinda cut my own groove in the Geekiverse.

I started collecting comics in the early 70s, and quit in the mid-1990s. I’m starting the process of donating my collection to various charities. The price vs enjoyment equation stopped resulting in positive numbers.

I ignore all of Star Wars except the first 3 movies. I haven’t watched any Star Trek that wasn’t on broadcast TV or standard cable. (I don’t watch any entertainment behind an additional paywall.)

I enjoy some anime, but won’t touch manga.

I love the RPG hobby, but have no real interest in LARPing beyond 1-2 summers of doing some NERO sparring…and that not in costume.

Used to be big in M:tG, but I eventually got tired of bad rulings & mechanics nerfs, releasing broken cards in different colors, cards that got barred from tournaments after just a couple of months, etc. Dropped out of buying shortly after 6th, and tournaments a year later. Early on, I dabbled in other CCGs, but only Magic held my interest. (Still have ALL the cards, though.)

I haven’t purchased a game for my iMac in at least a decade. It’s been all mobile games since then.

And while the last film I saw in theaters WAS a MCU movie, it was the first Avengers one. I also saw the first Iron Man. Haven’t seen anything else from Marvel, nor any of the DC movies. The only DC stuff I’ve seen was most of The Flash series on CW, plus a smattering of episodes of their other shows.