What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[MGibster]

Wheel of Time books. Similar to the MtG idea, everyone I talk to makes it sound both amazing and terrible. "14 books and only half of them are bad!" The investment just puts me off. Same with the TV show Lost.

I only finished it because I had about 20 years invested in it.

No interest in anime or manga. No interest in Dr. Who. Very little interest in Star Trek.

I have no interest in Dr. Who either. I watched one season, enjoyed it even, but never felt the need to watch it again. I actually like Strange New Worlds, but I pretty much gave up on Trek with Voyager and Enterprise sealed the deal.

Warhammer. In all of its iterations. I think I would be able to appreciate it as satire (and I'm always willing to give CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM a bit of a pass in that regard), but it's a style of grimdark that I simply don't have the patience for anymore. I need there to be some hope out there, somewhere, to latch on to.

Warhammer fiction works best in short stories or little blurbs in game books giving us some background on why your little plastics guys are trying to murder my little plastic guys. It doesn't work as well when you suddenly have to have a whole narrative in the setting. I read one 40k novel, by one of the more highly rated authors, and while it was horrible, I didn't feel compelled to read any others. (How the heck did anyone finish reading the Horus Heresy novels? There's like 40+ of them.)

Babylon 5.

I used to think you were cool!

 

[jian]

There’s a ton of media I’m not really interested in and therefore don’t consume, but I don’t have strong feelings about it. I haven’t played a game on a computer since about 1992 - I don’t object to Planescape Torment or whatever, I just never got into it and don’t plan to. I don’t play any kind of tabletop wargame or collectible card game and basically never have. I basically read fantasy and sci-fi (including manga and comics), I play console RPGs on handheld consoles, and I roleplay with friends.

But I do tend to object to specific creators and corporations. I won’t buy anything Harry Potter related and I won’t get Paramount, for instance.

 

[Vael]

With one exception, none of the following are hard "no's", if a friend insisted and had an easier onramp, I'd probably give it a go.

Pokémon. I was a little too old when this started to get popular and missed it, and have little desire to dig into the list of various Pokémon and trainers and such.

With that, TCGs outside of MTG. Magic eats enough of my income, I'm glad Lorcana, Pokémon, YuGiOh and the others are around, but I'm not looking for another form of cardboard crack.

MMOs. I've tried. WoW, STO, SW: the Old Republic, a bunch others when I dated someone that was a big MMO guy ... these just aren't for me. I tend to be ... antisocial when it comes to videogame RPGs, so I'll enjoy my single player Mass Effects and Baldur's Gates and not delve into multi-player (though BG3 almost got me).

And finally, the exception is Harry Potter. There is no ethical way I can justify buying any of it any further while profits are used to support political oppression. I won't destroy or sell off what I already own, but that door is now locked. No more.