What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[Greg K]

Geek Media I refuse to partake in (or mostly refuse to partake in)

• Superhero Comics
  • DC Comics: Pretty much anything after 1993 or 1994 with the exception of material by James Robinson, Mark Waid's Kingdom Come, Mark Waid's Silver Age and certain Vertigo titles
  • Marvel Comics: For the most part anything after 1987-1989. There are a few exceptions such as Kurt Busiek's Avengers, Christopher Priest's Black Panther, Mark Waid's Captain America, Ed Brubaker's Captain America, and Marvel Knights Daredevil by Kevin Smith, David Mack. Plus, I still want to check out Runaways, Ultimate Spider-Man with Miles Morales, and the Ms Marvel series with Kamala Khan.
• Boardgames: I am not, completely, adverse to playing all boardgames. I just have very little interest. I will play Settlers of Cataan, Heroquest, and Talisman, but I don't own the games nor have I played them since the 1990s
• Collectible Card Games: I played a little bit or M:TG back during Revised and got out right after Fallen Empires. It was fun, but once I put together full sets of Revised and Fallen Empires, I didn't want to invest more money in the game and soured on the idea of collectible games.
• LARPing: I did a little bit of LARPing in the 90s and tried it again a year or two before COVID to accompany my godbrother and help out his character, but it never really clicked for me.
• Miniature Gaming: I never had an interest
• Video Games: Again, like board games, I have very little interest in video games, but there are a few exceptions that have my interest: Cyberpunk, Dispatch, Divinity Original Sin, Dragon Age, Red Dead Redemption, and some of the Telltale games look interesting (yeah, some of them are kind of old now). So not completely adverse

 

[Richards]

To be fair, that was more likely the fault of the screenwriters than Lee.

Agreed, but it completely soured me on his take on Holmes. And he went along with the lameness of the line, so I still blame him for that.

Johnathan

 

[Micah Sweet]

Geek Media the I refuse to partake in

• Superhero Comics
  • DC Comics: Pretty much anything after 1993 or 1994 with the exception of material by James Robinson, Mark Waid's Kingdom Come, Mark Waid's Silver Age and certain Vertigo titles
  • Marvel Comics: For the most part anything after 1987-1989. There are a few exceptions such as Kurt Busiek's Avengers, Christopher Priest's Black Panther, Mark Waid's Captain America, Ed Brubaker's Captain America, and Marvel Knights Daredevil by Kevin Smith, David Mack. Plus, I still want to check out Runaways, Ultimate Spider-Man with Miles Morales, and the Ms Marvel series with Kamala Khan.
• Boardgames: I am not, completely, adverse to playing all boardgames. I just have very little interest. I will play Settlers of Cataan, Heroquest, and Talisman, but I don't own the games nor have I played them since the 1990s
• Collectible Card Games: I played a little bit or M:TG back during Revised and got out right after Fallen Empires. It was fun, but once I put together full sets of Revised and Fallen Empires, I didn't want to invest more money in the game and soured on the idea of collectible games.
• LARPing: I did a little bit of LARPing in the 90s and tried it again a year or two before COVID to accompany my godbrother and help out his character, but it never really clicked for me.
• Miniature Gaming: I never had an interest
• Video Games: Again, like board games, I have very little interest in video games, but there are a few exceptions that have my interest. Cyberpunk, Dispatch, Divinity Original Sin, Dragon Age, Red Dead Redemption, and some of the Telltale games look interesting (yeah, some of them are kind of old now). So not completely adverse

So, just TTRPGs then? No other kinds of game really interest you?

 

[jian]

The ability to correlate information and recognise patterns does not require you to first stuff your brain with huge amounts of information. If you think it’s an ability specific to the medical profession, then you have already failed to understand how it works. It’s something people start to learn to do as small children, and if you don’t pick it up then you will always find it difficult. It’s certainly not something you can easily learn as an adult. Don’t believe me? Read up on educational theory.

Sure, there are a great many common conditions. Those are the medical equivalent of trash mobs. It’s the uncommon conditions, or the common conditions that appear different because the patient has multiple overlapping conditions, that matter.

Sigh… no, that’s not how anything works, but I don’t think anyone else needs to hear about my opinion on the subject and I’m happy to close this discussion.

Another genre thing I’ve definitely fallen out of love with is the two big superhero comics (Marvel and DC, I mean) and possibly superhero comics in general. Even reading the ones from my youth* now reminds me that often, they just weren’t very good then, let alone now. The locked in 10-year continuity just really restricts the storytelling and makes it feel as if all the characters are in some form of hell or ten-year Groundhog Day cycle, which is really depressing.

*The 1990s, it was a dark time. So many pouches. So much exposition. So many extreme makeovers.

I’d probably make an exception for a couple of writers (Al Ewing, basically) but really, there’s little left for me there.

 

[Greg K]

So, just TTRPGs then? No other kinds of game really interest you?

Yes. Again, there are a couple of board games I will play if someone wants and a few video games I want to try. Otherwise, pretty much rpgs

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Holmes (irritated): "Never mind about that."
What? You can't even be bothered to come up with a reasonable explanation about how Holmes deduced that bit of trivia based on his observations of the subject at hand? Why am I even bothering watching this movie?

That's a matter of writing, not acting. And in a visual medium you can leave things for the audience to deduce, not everything has to be spelled out. It's entirely understandable that Holmes should become frustrated in explaining every little thing to someone who should be able to work it out for themselves.