For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk

Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn't have a good time watching the 90's anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn't like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, "but the comic is 10x better" (I know it's manga, I'm just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don't like dark fantasy in general, since they're edgy, pretentious, and worst of all... they're ugly. There's a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty

The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.

Side note: there's a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It's just that entertainment is so subjective that it's not mutually exclusive to writing.

About Berserk, the comic is 10x more miserable, the show literally adapted the happiest part of the story

Succession
Mulholland Drive
Kill Bill

Dr. Who

All of them. I have tried.

I did not like Baldur's Gate 3. I have tried multiple times now and I just don't like it.

David Duchovney had a TV show called Californication that a lot of my friends liked and thought was funny. I didn't like it because, unlike Bojack, the "antics" of the main character was the punchline and I just thought it was very sad.

Game of Thrones

Tried multiple times, couldn't get into it.

I couldn't watch Berserk because of all the sexual violence. We are not the same.

It is sad, the show ends with him going to prison as a sex offender.

The best parts of that show were the seasonal guests like Rob Lowe and Callum Keith Rennie.

I love Dr who, but I don't ever recommend it because it's a very... specific taste...

The Witcher games. Everyone tells me how great they are and I have tried playing them, but it just feels like a chore and it never hooks me.

I could not get into Andor despite really wanting to.

It’s kind of silly.

I watched some. A lot? I don’t regret it, but I came away with the feeling I got dropping Supernatural: I’m not nearly done, yet I watched too much already.

Yeah, I didn’t like the gameplay.

Watching quest highlights on YouTube is a good way to enjoy it, though.

Game of Thrones. There needs to be something positive, even just a sliver.

Ohhh, I get it about Berserk, although the "triumph" of will and goodness despite the Hellreaiser styled tragedy seen in the OG anime was enough for me to love it. Kinda traumatizing though, NGL.

From what I've heard, Breaking Bad. I've talked about it before but I cannot follow a protagonist I dislike intensely, which in this case is due to his weakness, amorality, selfishness and sociopathy. Bro, either go to a real country and get treatment or just die, it's alright, no need to become a drug kingpin and have bodies on you unless you want to use your last moments on Earth to spread mayhem and lock that Hell ending for yourself. Even in the first few episodes I was just tired of this weak, pathetic man, and I couldn't stomach it. However, my wife and many other people have said nothing but good things about the show so I understand there's probably something to it, maybe the drama is interesting, maybe it's really well acted, maybe the sets are beautiful, idk, I didn't watch much.

TW2's combat and overall gameplay I could stomach and even enjoy, but for some reason I could never do the same with TW3 (and RDD too, they just felt so slow). Which is a pity cause it looks like a great game if I could just get over its, well, gameplay. 🙃

Titanic.

That's the movie where they show his disgusting face all the time, but I can't stand his ugly frontside that totally ruins this otherwise good movie.

Breaking Bad. Well, the episodes I watched.

Great characters and some interesting plotlines, but the whole thing revolving around drugs and their distribution has been a great put off. I found Better Call Saul more enjoyable for that same reason.

Monty python

Lord of the rings. I watched the whole trilogy of movies, and I tried to read the Hobbit. They're all so boring, I don't get the appeal.

Same. Tried a few times and but the tough fights took so long I’d start getting impatient, especially when I kept losing and had to keep redoing them. People really love that game so feels like I’m missing out but I just couldn’t get into it.

They made an episode about that btw. The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award.

The Godfather. It insists upon itself.

The Office

Back when it was still Twitter, I posted "when does the office get funny? I've watched about 6 episodes across 3 seasons and haven't LOLed once, I just keep wondering why this show is popular"

Every character sucks unrepentantly and I can't watch it. Same issue with Boardwalk Empire, there are zero good and likeable characters in the entire show, everybody is awful.

The Hobbit book isn't great. The Lord of the rings books are great. They're just written differently.

Don't remember the exact seasons but I think the first couple were a little slow/off. It picks up.

The Florida Project. It's a great film, but I wanted to strangle a lot of the people in the movie because they're so perfectly and realistically obnoxious. Especially the six year old. They're all great actors and I never want to see the movie ever again. Still glad I saw it once. Kinda like how I'll never rewatch The Wire, I just felt gross after.

Same. GoT always struck me as scripted misery porn

Very apt description

Final Fantasy. There's too much 😭

I tried very hard, but I did not enjoy The Outer Wilds.


For those who don't know, it is a first person exploration game over ~12 planets within a small solar system. There is a core game loop that lasts about 20 minutes wherein you can fly your ship anywhere and explore until the cycle ends.


The thing I really disliked was that you only got ~10-15 minutes of exploration before you had to restart the cycle back at home and go back to where you started. There was also a plethora of environmental hazards that were instant death, all while you had oxygen and fuel to manage. Dying would also reset the cycle so it wasn't uncommon to spend 5+ minutes getting somewhere only to die and restart a few times. It just made me frustrated.


I did complete it with the help of mods that let me teleport to the key locations. People really liked the story but it really didn't hit for me. I feel like I was born with the cilantro gene for this game because I really didn't like it.

Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.

(The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)

Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever "time dilation" could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.

A few months ago I bought Slay The Spire. I do love roguelikes, I do enjoy card games. I even like roguelike deck builders (balatro is fantastic).

But after a few months I can say for certain, I hate Slay The Spire. I would like it more if it was fun.

I think I just watched two or three episodes and just wanted them to catch one small break but it was just downward spiral which kind of made me lose interest. If they don't have any success then what's that point of them losing.

I'm sure it changes later but I didn't have it in me. I understand that it's a masterful series.

I feel that if I had more insights regarding dnd and it's spells and classes I would have a better time.

the latest on seemed to be connected to machine god in ff13, bhunivelze, his own creations(LINDZEI goddess) were loosely responsible for the lore of the later FF games.

the later ones were total cringe. season 13+ are exactly what they joked about in the earlier seasons. thier alarming Hollywood face transformation(mar-a-lago equivalent, but hollywood style). i dont think the later seasons were well written, like the earlier seasons(the cast were the main contributors in the earlier seasons) but they gave up after 11-12. Kaitlin turning into a a karen, and ROB getting on roids and getting buff, and all the subsequent drama of him trying to sugar coat it. Rob macs, change his name recently. and his very questionable partnership with ryan reynolds, and a retired football star.

supernatural i never watched it when it first came out, like only like during the end of the pandemic i was binging on the clips. S1-S5 were the best, since its by kripke. but 6-15 were just cringey because its also gay/fiction by the fans.

ISAIP after season 12, were wierd and off putting, with mac roid use and him trying to defend it for some reason as a secret knowledge only he knows,(its not a secret people in hollywood are taking peds to make them look buff), and stretching his face to look younger.

Yup. That show sits in an odd place for me where it's genuinely interesting but it's too intense.

While each one of those games climbed mountains mechanically, they started in daggerfall and ended in Morrowind, with less charm.

Tweed. The campy British, passionate and dramatic but goofy and grinning with unabashed British culture. I found no easier way to describe the taste and style than just calling it tweed.

If you watched through peter capaldi's entire run and didn't like it, you're free from ever needing to try it again. Some of those episodes were masterpiece magnum opuses, built, layer by layer, as towering behemoths of interwoven , humanistic cultural lore. You cannot watch them. You just earn them. Much of doctor who is like that, especially as it gets super fucking good. I'm talking probably some of the best television that exists, maybe one in the top three tv things that exist.

And if you couldn't get there, that's okay. People have different tastes, different experiences, different enjoyments.

With doctor who, though, it's really easy to hate if you don't understand it or tolerate the British cheese.

I'm curious what you'd put as your top tv things (shows, eps, stories, whatever), and also why you didn't like doctor who.

1season and 2 were a really god monster of the week hunting show. Downhill from there but still watchable

I'm glad I saw them in theaters. I'm glad they contributed what they did. They're cool every many years. But holy fuck those are long movies. And people always want to watch the super extended directors cut versions that are like 4 hours each. One time we watched the first one after eating brownies. What a horrible mistake. That felt like literal days. I couldn't believe how slow time was passing, and then when we were done, it was only the first movie.

They aren't contiguous. If you actually want to try, preview their soundtracks and visual styles and pick based on what you like the most and just play that one.

1-5 are old af, 6 is old but the pinnacle of them, 7 8 and 9 were on newer hardware, 10 was on even newer hardware and is widely considered the last good one. 11 was an mmo, 12 was bland as fuck, 13 was less bland but the whole game was a hallway going one direction, 13 has a few spinoff/sequels, 14 is an mmo, 15 was 12 but newer and worse, and 16 is trying to be partially dark souls and is kinda boring.

Honestly, if you can put up with ps1 music and graphics, pick from 7, 8, and 9. Or just play 10 from the ps2.

And if you can't decide and only can put up with playing one, just play 7. Apparently it was the very first AAA game ever. Which is weird to think about.

Star trek ~ it just didn't hook me for some reason