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.

 

[Lanefan]

I used to think you were cool!

I figured somebody would jump on that one.

I got through, in total, about 2 and a half episodes of Babylon 5 and bounced off it, never to return.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Collectible Card games and MMORPGs. Also LARPing.

 

[Knaves Quill]

Once upon a time I spent way too much time and money on the Legends of the Five Rings collectable card game, and burned out so hard on playing competively I lost any desire to ever play a card game as such again.

 

[Zardnaar]

Star Wars beyond the Skywalker saga. I think "refuse" is probably too strong a word, but yeah the extended universe has little interest to me.

Magic the Gathering. When it first hit I didnt have the money for it along with other priorities (like paying for college). I havent met anyone that has been a serious collector and player that makes it sound appealing.

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 read WoT and gave up around book 7. Only half of them are bad is funny. Works for Star Trek as well.

Fantasy. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings no interest.

Animie and Manga are one thing for me. 0 interest.

 

[Autumnal]

There’s a fairly small list of things I actively refuse to engage with (usual suspects here), a fairly long list of things I’ve either got no curiosity about or have sampled and don’t wish to engage with any more, and a goodly number of things I’ve got no objection to and may well enjoy some but where there are things I enjoy more in such abundance that I seldom get that far down the list of possibilities.

Like Reynard, for instance. I love portal fantasy, but have tried enough isekai to feel secure in my dislike of a bunch of the conventions. Doubly so for litRPGs. It’s always possible someone will do either or both in ways that do work for me, and I trust pill hear about it from someone who can explain its distinctiveness. Then I’ll read it. In the meantime, not.

There are a lot of things I might or might not like but simply can’t afford on my fixed income. And there are things I might or might not like but can’t play because of my disabled body’s bad reflexes, erratically slow cognition, etc. I do my best simply to not give CCGs, most computer games, etc, any attention. Frustration and jealously feed my depression, and it’s already a serious risk to my health.

I like a lot of very dark and bleak stories in various media, but have a raggedy frontier of what’s too much. They do t match up well with any subgenre categories I know of, so I usually talk about them only with other fans of dark, bleak stuff.

My major personal no-go line is about methods rather than subjects. When someone hates on something o like, I know not to bring it up to them. If someone has very fixed and firm views about what’s good and bad in a category, I probably won’t talk about it with them; if they have a really passionate and vocal hatred of anything prominent in the field, whether I like it or not, I definitely won’t talk about it with them.

When I find enthusiasm but not uncomfortable passion, expansive preferences open to new entries, a willingness to discuss and an interest in learning as well as teaching, there’s someone I’ll want to share with and expect to have a good time.

 

[MGibster]

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.

When it became more well known here in the United States, I had to ask some of my coworkers who had children what it was. I think the second Harry Potter book was out before I realized Potter was a character and not the author.

I got through, in total, about 2 and a half episodes of Babylon 5 and bounced off it, never to return.

Nothing wrong with that. If it doesn't click it doesn't click.

Like Reynard, for instance. I love portal fantasy, but have tried enough isekai to feel secure in my dislike of a bunch of the conventions. Doubly so for litRPGs.

I love zombie fiction, but I've deliberately steered clear of properties like Marvel Zombies and Sense and Sensibilities and Zombies.