What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[trappedslider]

Wheel of time and GoT and doing more than just reading The hobbit and LotRs and not reading the appendixes for them.
If it's not in the book before the end of the actual story I'm not reading it, and litrp, just doesn't interest me.

 

[Koloth]

Collectable Card Games. Dabbled with the Star Trek CCG at one point. So did a friend. We both figured out about the same time that it was a money pit with lots of waste cards. But it is a fun game to play. My friend plays with his wife on occasion using the already purchased cards.

Collectable Miniature games. Good source of minis for other play but the same problems with CCG with more storage issues.

Mostly ignore comic books. Not enough recreational time for the money spent.

 

[Deset Gled]

Minecraft. I would love it. But I can see the time sink that it is, and I know with 100% certainty I don't have that kind of time available in my life.

Most things based on a "multiverse". I am at a point where I see this as a giant red flag that nothing matters. Plots, characters, anything can be rewritten and retconned in the blink of an eye. Death is meaningless. Drama can be deus-ex-machina'ed at any point. It's just lazy writing. And if the writers don't care, why should I? There are a few exceptions to this. I am a big fan of anthologies (shows like Twilight Zone, movies like Tales from the Hood, etc), so I can appreciate things like Rick and Morty or What If that use the multiverse as a larger framing device to tell different stories. But if it's a part of a main plot, and/or people actively travel across it, I'm probably out.

Superhero movies, especially "cinematic universes". Only partially related to the above. I'm burned out. Watching them feels more like a homework assignment than fun. Find this reference. Be sure to remember this. Oh, here's the bad CGI where a giant city is destroyed again. Does this power make any sense? Is there any logic whatsoever? "No, but it makes a great narrative." Pass.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Not real big on Anime - some of the basic tropes of the genre and the aesthetics of the art style just rub me the wrong way... Which is kind of sad because I've read about some that I really might have enjoyed the premise of if they'd just had much less of the things that irked me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I can't think of anything with which I refuse to engage, but I haven't been really into collectable card games, collectable mini games, LARPing, or buying new comics in a while, and I've never read manga, and don't engage with anime all that much.

 

[Deset Gled]

I have no desire to play them, no desire to put my money towards them. I hate the idea of buying something that I don't know what I'm getting; that it has a collectibility aspect to it that makes me feels like I'm being manipulated in some way. Lootcrates and stuff like that raise my same hackles.

Collectable Card Games. Dabbled with the Star Trek CCG at one point. So did a friend. We both figured out about the same time that it was a money pit with lots of waste cards. But it is a fun game to play. My friend plays with his wife on occasion using the already purchased cards.

I have to admit that I think these game could be a lot of fun - if I had unlimited funds to play with. I enjoy some deck builder games, and the "sky's the limit" aspect has potential to be neat. But outside of that, I agree 100%.

What's so striking to me is the followup with things like this: Hasbro CEO Cocks and Execs Sued for Alleged Securities Violations

There's a lawsuit about manipulating the card market? But literally the entire enterprise is based on manipulating the card market. Like, that's the business. That's all they do and have ever done. It's like UFC fighters charging each other with assualt and battery. I get that there are rules, of course. But still.

 

[Umbran]

Refuse? Not much.

There's a few specific authors/creators I choose to not give my money to.

I generally don't bother with slasher flicks, or other highly gory horror.

 

[el-remmen]

I'll at least try almost anything. . . so I can't think of anything at the moment that I wouldn't try. There are a couple of things I literally have never tried - like I have literally never seen even a minute of any Dr. Who - but not because I refuse, just haven't gotten around to it or met that person that was like, "Watch this!"

 

[prabe]

Franchises, collectibles, unfinished stories (I'll read that planned trilogy once it's all published) and indefinite series fiction.

 

[TwoSix]

Almost exactly the opposite for me, or maybe some overlap. I can't stand the isekai frame narrative, the whole fish out of water in a different world portal fantasy thing, but I'm absolutely down for a strictly codified progression system.

I love both! Just as long as they aren't in a book with pictures.