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What's your geeky pop culture blindspot?
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RadioJoNES64
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Most things Marvel. The movies are so bland and boring to me (I guess I Dr. Strange is an exception) and having to juggle around 40ish different story lines for each character seems very daunting. I'd say DC too but I like the Batman Animated Series.
EDIT: I like the old Spider Man movies too. Even 3. The dance scene was worth it.
EDIT: I like the old Spider Man movies too. Even 3. The dance scene was worth it.
Diprosalic
Banned
Star Trek
Haven't seen a single episode or movie.
Haven't seen a single episode or movie.
JohnMatrix
Banned
I don't know anything about Doctor Who or Dragonball Z
Count Dookkake
Member
Most Trek after TNG.
Buffy
MCU
Not being able to get laid.
Buffy
MCU
Not being able to get laid.
I read enough about other topics I'm not into that I wouldn't consider them blindspots. For example, I've seen only one episode of Dr. Who (ironically an episode the Doctor isn't even the star of) but have read enough rants on io9 that I could hold a conversation about Moffat with a Whovian. Same goes for anime, DnD, board games...
But youtubers and twitch streamers who play video games is weird. No amount of empathy will ever get me to even try to understand the culture of watching people play video games or getting invested in their ideals.
But youtubers and twitch streamers who play video games is weird. No amount of empathy will ever get me to even try to understand the culture of watching people play video games or getting invested in their ideals.
I get that there is an aspect to game streaming that is similar to watching pro sports. People better than you doing impressive things you can't do yourself. I just think that it is boring to watch.
Yup, Harry Potter and Dr Who, I guess I'm "supposed" to like them but they do nothing for me, I dislike dr who and and impartial to HP.
Buffy is another too, too cheesy for my X-files tastes
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Heh I think he means Anglosphere.
I'm pretty clueless when it comes to comic book super heroes. When I was a kid most american super heroes seemed so vanilla next to stuff like DBZ and Pokemon, so I never got into them. Batman and Spiderman are okay though.
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Also not a Star Wars fan. I've (probably) seen all of the first movie at one point or another in separate chunks, but I never sat down and watched it all in one go. Just never cared much.
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Also not a Star Wars fan. I've (probably) seen all of the first movie at one point or another in separate chunks, but I never sat down and watched it all in one go. Just never cared much.
hey_monkey
Banned
It's definitely a little off but the whole weird culture in the industry around reviews and really just reviews in general... it's fucked all the way down.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Streaming, I guess I missed the boat on that and didn't realize it had blown up quite like it did. Will probably remain my blindspot since I'm not into it
How can you make such a pretentious post and have a wrestling avatar?
Stormwatch
Member
Anime, comic books (not the movies), Star Trek (not the movies), and Dr Who for me. I did just try watch a couple of episodes of Dr Who recently, though. It seems like the kind of thing I could eventually get into. There are just soooo many episodes out there.
CaviarMeths
Member
Well, OP covered mine. I saw the first HP movie in theater. Never bothered with the rest. I tried to get into Doctor Who. Gave it a good honest shake, stuck out a whole season. Just wasn't feeling it.
Oh, and CW as a whole, I guess. None of their capeshit shows or other various Implausibly Handsome 30 Year Olds Posing As Teenagers shows ran any sort of appeal with me.
Oh, and CW as a whole, I guess. None of their capeshit shows or other various Implausibly Handsome 30 Year Olds Posing As Teenagers shows ran any sort of appeal with me.
Obliterator
Member
100% Dr Who.
Pretty much all of my other "geeky" friends love it and talk about it but I just have zero interest in it. I sat through an episode one time and it just did nothing for me. I don't actively dislike it or anything like that but I don't feel compelled to take part in it or the fandom at all
Pretty much all of my other "geeky" friends love it and talk about it but I just have zero interest in it. I sat through an episode one time and it just did nothing for me. I don't actively dislike it or anything like that but I don't feel compelled to take part in it or the fandom at all
Megalosaro
Banned
Dr. Who I guess. But I suppose that's not true. My nephew was big into Dr. Who so i picked up stuff through him
broncobuster
Banned
Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer, and to an extent, most table top games. Exception is 40K that I picked up on from games and whatnot.
hey_monkey
Banned
Perfect description.
capitalCORN
Member
Same as you OP. Harry Potter and Dr. Who.
I was already near my twenties when the Harry Potter phenomenon occurred. By then I was reading Zola, Marques, Huxley, Hemingway, etc.
And for Dr. Who. I had a incomprehensibly large fear of aliens as child. Even though the shows would air after school, marketed at children, I could not bear a second.
I was already near my twenties when the Harry Potter phenomenon occurred. By then I was reading Zola, Marques, Huxley, Hemingway, etc.
And for Dr. Who. I had a incomprehensibly large fear of aliens as child. Even though the shows would air after school, marketed at children, I could not bear a second.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Dr. Who, Buffy, Firefly, Star Trek (ALL incarnations) and Battlestar Galactica (both original and modern version).
It is part of the reason I HATED that post-Scream slasher/horror trend in the late 90s throughout the majority of the 00s. It was like that "formula" hijacked my favorite movie genre. Basically, it is like "Hey, lets get popular, known faces out of Teen Beat magazine and get them to star as main characters." Yeah, while some of that still exists, its to a lesser extent (you still see it with some of the more teen-aimed movies like the first Ouija), but the bulk of it seems to have gotten over that type of shit.
DC/Marvel comics. I just can't keep up or care about them. It's not that they can't tell wonderful stories(they can and they do) but the fact that there is no beginning-middle-end coupled with endless crossovers that make it necessary to read a lot of other comics...it's just not for me.
Like I had people tell me to just follow arcs instead but...eh, I just can't. Doesn't really work for me. I can see how it works for people, but the way the industry is set up just doesn't work for me.
Doesn't stop me from getting into stuff like Fables though.
Like I had people tell me to just follow arcs instead but...eh, I just can't. Doesn't really work for me. I can see how it works for people, but the way the industry is set up just doesn't work for me.
Doesn't stop me from getting into stuff like Fables though.
VeryGooster
Banned
Doctor Who and Supernatural.
I mean there are things I just don't follow but like those two are phenomena I doubt I'll ever immerse in.
I mean there are things I just don't follow but like those two are phenomena I doubt I'll ever immerse in.
'70s Baby / '80s Kid
I never got into Podcasts (Night Vale aside), and YouTube/Twitch culture is on another planet.
MST3K is one of my blind spots simply because, as far as I know, it never aired in Canada.
I saw an old episode recently for the first time, and all the "riffs" were lame groaners that sound like they come from that annoying friend who won't shut the fuck up.
Now, if I'd seen it when I was much younger, I might feel differently.
I never got into Podcasts (Night Vale aside), and YouTube/Twitch culture is on another planet.
MST3K is one of my blind spots simply because, as far as I know, it never aired in Canada.
I saw an old episode recently for the first time, and all the "riffs" were lame groaners that sound like they come from that annoying friend who won't shut the fuck up.
Now, if I'd seen it when I was much younger, I might feel differently.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
I really need to do a deep dive into Dr. Who. It's always interested me but I've never taken the time to get into it. I actually want to sit down and watch everything starting chronologically with episode 1 to current (I am aware that a bunch of the early ones are lost).
CarpeDeezNutz
Member
Ride or Die Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek NG geek.
Star Wars and Superhero movies, "meh".
Exception is Iron Man I liked the first two.
Star Wars and Superhero movies, "meh".
Exception is Iron Man I liked the first two.
Captain Zyrain
Member
A former girlfriend got me into Supernatural and I can't get out, but all the rest still seem silly/bad to me.. But.. Damn you Sam & Dean, I can't quit you!
I guess I wasn't ever really into the Marvel stuff before the connected movies came out, a little here and there but I didn't know who an Antman was or Winter Soldiers. I suppose the Disney movies made them more accessible.
uncelestial
Member
Marvel/DC. I will never ever be interested.
Frankly, the omnipresence of superhero bullshit is oppressive. I don't know who has an appetite for that much stuff, but goddamn it is not that fucking interesting.
Frankly, the omnipresence of superhero bullshit is oppressive. I don't know who has an appetite for that much stuff, but goddamn it is not that fucking interesting.
Honestly, you could start with the 21st century stuff. Since it was after a looong hiatus, they explain enough to get you through.
Futurama
All episodic anime that hit the US after about 2003 with the exception of Pokemon, and only then because I had someone living with me who watched it every morning. I know Pokemon was around before that, but it ran on TV forever here.
What's popular on YouTube and social media aside from Reddit. I do use Twitter, but only while waiting in lines and such - maybe 15 minutes a week total.
All episodic anime that hit the US after about 2003 with the exception of Pokemon, and only then because I had someone living with me who watched it every morning. I know Pokemon was around before that, but it ran on TV forever here.
What's popular on YouTube and social media aside from Reddit. I do use Twitter, but only while waiting in lines and such - maybe 15 minutes a week total.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Doctor Who, Dune, Dark Tower, Star Trek are the big ones I have pretty much zero knowledge on except for stuff like Doctor Who having a phone booth and Dune having sand worms ect.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
I kinda figured that, but the old stuff fascinates me more than the new stuff.
Kitsunebaby
Member
I don't particularly identify as a geek or nerd, but I share a lot of the same interests and go to the same conventions.
I never got into Star Wars. I was bored by the original trilogy when I saw it as a kid, saw the first two prequels with my family, never bothered to watch anything past that. Sometimes I think about trying to watch the original films again to see if they grab me, but I have such a backlog of movies I'm excited to see that I wonder if it's worth it.
I never got into Star Wars. I was bored by the original trilogy when I saw it as a kid, saw the first two prequels with my family, never bothered to watch anything past that. Sometimes I think about trying to watch the original films again to see if they grab me, but I have such a backlog of movies I'm excited to see that I wonder if it's worth it.
Cap'n Cook
Member
Pretty much all of it, I enjoy the movies but don't really have deep knowledge of them. I watched the original Star Wars trilogy for the first time about 3 years ago, I thought they were very good but could probably only name maybe 10 characters from those movies. I have yet to read a single comic book and the last anime I watched was Pokemon as a kid.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Star Trek (apart from the two Abrams movies)
Doctor Who (Watched two early Tennant episodes - wasn't for me)
Dragon Ball Z
Naruto
Battlestar Galactica
World of Warcraft
Warhammer
Actually, pretty much all anime except for Cowboy Bebop, Pokémon (as a child), Digimon (child) and Ghibli (and other movies).
Some snobbery happening ITT
Edit: I forgot how much nerdy stuff there actually is.
MMORPGs
MOBAs
YouTube/Twitch/streaming gaming
Dungeons and Dragons
JRPGs
Doctor Who (Watched two early Tennant episodes - wasn't for me)
Dragon Ball Z
Naruto
Battlestar Galactica
World of Warcraft
Warhammer
Actually, pretty much all anime except for Cowboy Bebop, Pokémon (as a child), Digimon (child) and Ghibli (and other movies).
Some snobbery happening ITT
Edit: I forgot how much nerdy stuff there actually is.
MMORPGs
MOBAs
YouTube/Twitch/streaming gaming
Dungeons and Dragons
JRPGs
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