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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 22, 2011 18:26:01 GMT -5
Just one word: jeans f***ing jean,why people like it so much?do they think it makes they cool by magic?Its unconfortable,ugly,and everyone has one My jeans are actually quite comfortable. Then again I always get jeans a size bigger than what I usually wear, so they aren't too tight.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 22, 2011 18:29:29 GMT -5
Because maybe they aren't the exact same game with updated rosters? The changes may seem small, but they do update the games beyond the rosters. For example, I'll just use NCAA Football 12, they've changed the single player "story" mode for the game Road to Glory to include your full senior year of high school as opposed to just the state championship playoffs, you can finally make a multi-position player(my guy is a running back/free safety), and the colleges will recruit you differently for each position, like for example more schools want my guy for his running back skills than the colleges that want him for his free safety skills, and now in RTG you have to earn your way to a scholarship from the school(s) you want, unlike previous RTGs where you can just simply pick the school you want to go to at the end of your senior season. They also changed the dynasty mode, now you can customize the conferences however you want aside from the name and logo of the conference, and you can pick to be an offensive or defensive coordinator if you don't want to simply be a head coach. These are changes that were not in any previous version of the NCAA Football games, then there is some changes they made to actual gameplay itself, like the tackling system has been changed and blockers will intelligently move to unguarded defenders instead of moving along a pre-determined path. They aren't major changes, like I said, but they do change the games each year. You can't really tell that much if you buy them every single year, but if you buy them every two years, the changes tend to really stand out. Buying it every few years makes sense to me, because the small changes add up. It was the type that buy it every single year that I don't get. True, I rarely buy sports games back to back years. This year is an exception to me, as I'll be getting NBA 2K12 because 2K11 was just too damn good and it looks like they'll be going back to that well as the cover athletes this year are Jordan, Bird, and Magic Johnson, that, and well, let's be honest, this could possibly be the only NBA basketball I get to see this season.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 18:32:35 GMT -5
Back when I was in like 5th grade it seemed like everyone was walking around with a Pacifier for some reason. Currently, My Little Pony. The pacifiers came from rave culture, but I haven't a clue how they became mainstream. My sister had dozens of them. Non-ravers who use ecstasy also.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Jul 22, 2011 19:02:19 GMT -5
Anime. Or more specifically, pictures of scantily-clad, creepy Asian "girls". I don't really get the whole love of Japanese culture in general. I'm not a huge fan of anime, generally speaking (I really liked DBZ back in the 90's but come on...almost every young male in the US back then did), but I can certainly see where it appeals to a lot of people. Animation, by virtue of being animation and not live-action, provides a medium where all sorts of stories and effects can be incorporated that simply aren't feasible with real-time film counterparts--and at a minimal budget, too. Western animation can do this too, but to what extent? From what it seems to me, there's a lot of animes that cater to a more mature audience than Western animation not just because of a tendency to have more graphic material, but because of more "intelligent" plots and arcs and in many cases, substantial character development and the like. There's not many Western shows that can do that (Batman: TAS is a decent example of a Western show that provided many of these aspects, but to a large extent, it still isn't as mature as many animes). They provide a very unique "product" and there's so many to choose from about a great many things--they're not all for everyone, but there's almost always something for someone. Whoa, just whoa. We can argue about a lot of things, and I do like individual Anime shows. BUT it is hardly a unique product, any more than Western animation. The only difference is that the Japanese recognize that these shows can be consistently aimed at adults as well. However, like most television shows they are rife with cliches (to the point of ridiculousness), strange expository methods (at least in contrast to what happens in the U.S.), and over use of the Monomyth trope. Much like anything if enough of it is put out then the crap and the flaws inherent to the storytelling medium will come out to the fore. So I never got the rush of popularity of Manga and Anime, and I especially didn't like how the more obnoxious members of those fandoms would decry comic books and western animation as "lesser forms." Neither one is inherently superior. Much like I don't get Juggalos and the music they involve themselves with. I get that the largely misanthropic message of the music fits with the niche of this sort of hopeless lower class/lower middle class crush from the old Rust Belt/Death of Manufacturing industry in different parts of the country. But I was born in California, my equivalent music was NWA, and thrash punk, not Clowncore rap, or whatever the term is. That said, I don't hate Juggalos or the music. I just don't GET it. And Goths, again, I am a Cali kid, and as I alluded to, the music of our societal decay fit into hardcore gangster rap or angry rock music. The closest we have to it is The Lost Boys, and that was a campy take on classic Goth stuff. So much so it was a hairsbreadth from satire. And lastly, Neo-Romantic literature. Or the people whom come close. It's my term, so I'll just list off some writers... but basically this new Modern/Urban Fantasy that really started with Anne Rice, and got pushed up again in the late 90's and on into today. A few notable exceptions aside, it just... it takes the worst parts of the Romantic movement and then blindly jabs them into modern times, and tries to gloss it with some LA smog, and NYC grit.
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Post by wonderbolts on Jul 22, 2011 19:06:26 GMT -5
Wrestling
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 19:07:56 GMT -5
I'm not a huge fan of anime, generally speaking (I really liked DBZ back in the 90's but come on...almost every young male in the US back then did), but I can certainly see where it appeals to a lot of people. Animation, by virtue of being animation and not live-action, provides a medium where all sorts of stories and effects can be incorporated that simply aren't feasible with real-time film counterparts--and at a minimal budget, too. Western animation can do this too, but to what extent? From what it seems to me, there's a lot of animes that cater to a more mature audience than Western animation not just because of a tendency to have more graphic material, but because of more "intelligent" plots and arcs and in many cases, substantial character development and the like. There's not many Western shows that can do that (Batman: TAS is a decent example of a Western show that provided many of these aspects, but to a large extent, it still isn't as mature as many animes). They provide a very unique "product" and there's so many to choose from about a great many things--they're not all for everyone, but there's almost always something for someone. Whoa, just whoa. We can argue about a lot of things, and I do like individual Anime shows. BUT it is hardly a unique product, any more than Western animation. The only difference is that the Japanese recognize that these shows can be consistently aimed at adults as well. However, like most television shows they are rife with cliches (to the point of ridiculousness), strange expository methods (at least in contrast to what happens in the U.S.), and over use of the Monomyth trope. Much like anything if enough of it is put out then the crap and the flaws inherent to the storytelling medium will come out to the fore. So I never got the rush of popularity of Manga and Anime, and I especially didn't like how the more obnoxious members of those fandoms would decry comic books and western animation as "lesser forms." Neither one is inherently superior. Oh anime is certainly not perfect. Nor is it "superior"--as I mentioned, I'm not a giant fan of them, and for a good reason. You're right, there are occasionally some serious cliches, and there's other things too--filler eps and arcs, for example--but they offer something that's quite different, by and large, from what you get from Western animation. And the inverse is applicable too. But it doesn't play out the same way as Western animation, and sure enough, plenty of people like those aspects--thus is it any surprise that it's so popular?
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Post by bob on Jul 22, 2011 19:12:54 GMT -5
the current pony love here, Twilight, and Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer movies
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Post by nate5054 on Jul 22, 2011 19:16:33 GMT -5
Just one word: jeans f***ing jean,why people like it so much?do they think it makes they cool by magic?Its unconfortable,ugly,and everyone has one Say wah?!?
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Post by Bishblast on Jul 22, 2011 19:20:02 GMT -5
This whole My Little Pony thing, most recently. Also, instrument peripheral music video games, dubstep, popped collars, flat bill baseball caps with the tags still on. I'm sure I could go on, if I thought about it, but I don't feel like getting frustrated. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 22, 2011 19:23:23 GMT -5
The Ponies. But then again, a ton of internet fads boil down to "how many silly pictures can we make with this?", and that show seems to fit that pattern.
Also, didn't get the love for Avatar, and still don't, really, but I don't think I'm unique in that regard.
EDIT: Oh, and MMOs in general. I couldn't care less about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Give me KOTOR 3, and finish the story you were telling, I don't want to go slaughter ten sand people so I can up my DPS to tank better. I just want to have fun and be absorbed into a story.
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Post by Bishblast on Jul 22, 2011 19:25:27 GMT -5
From where I stand, Avatar criticism is as abundant as its praise. At least in circles I associate.
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Post by Bishblast on Jul 22, 2011 19:26:03 GMT -5
Give me KOTOR 3, and finish the story you were telling, I don't want to go slaughter ten sandcrawlers so I can up my DPS to tank better. I just want to have fun and be absorbed into a story. Amen, brother. Sorry for the double post... all these years, and I still don't know how to edit in a quote.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jul 22, 2011 19:49:44 GMT -5
From where I stand, Avatar criticism is as abundant as its praise. At least in circles I associate. So many people saw that movie, it's something most people can talk about to one another, no matter what circle of friends you're in. I guess therein lies the beauty of something mainstream. That also brings more detractors and hardcore fandom people though.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 22, 2011 19:59:24 GMT -5
One for me is from my cousins: Trucks. They watch shows about pimping up trailer cars and cabs, subscribe to trucker magazines, taking classes for trucking, and generally love trucks. I just never got it.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 22, 2011 20:00:32 GMT -5
One for me is from my cousins: Trucks. They watch shows about pimping up trailer cars and cabs, subscribe to trucker magazines, taking classes for trucking, and generally love trucks. I just never got it. On that note, any kind of vehicle worship, really. Trucks, cars, motorcycles, whatever.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jul 22, 2011 20:07:03 GMT -5
Just one word: jeans f***ing jean,why people like it so much?do they think it makes they cool by magic?Its unconfortable,ugly,and everyone has one I like jeans because they go with anything. I get all of mine from a Japanese store (kinda like their H&M) called Uniqlo (which means either buying them online or going to Manhattan, since NYC has its only two locations in North America.) They're high quality and dirt cheap. Definitely seconding their ability to go with anything. That, and their so damned versatile; they're good for work, they're pretty resilient. You can do more with jeans and in jeans than you probably could in slacks, sweatpants or any of the other pant variations.
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Post by rebboj on Jul 22, 2011 20:24:55 GMT -5
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer movies I thought those movies were universally hated.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 22, 2011 20:30:38 GMT -5
Another fandom I never understood is Family Guy and the need to quote it...
ALL. THE. FREAKING. TIME.
Thankfully it doesn't happen here, but seemingly everywhere else on the internet? *shudder*
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Post by Cela on Jul 22, 2011 20:38:50 GMT -5
Spongebob among people older than 12.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 22, 2011 21:07:00 GMT -5
Okay, my next fad I don't get, I'm going to explain it through a picture: ![](http://cdn.gossipgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1237687236272.jpg) The Ponies. But then again, a ton of internet fads boil down to "how many silly pictures can we make with this?", and that show seems to fit that pattern. Basketballs. That is all
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