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Does anyone else not have a favorite anything?

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Every time some one asks about what my favorite something is, I always end up drawing a blank. It's not that I don't love things, but I can never pin point what I like the best. Also, what I really like ends up being what I am into at the time.
 
Ya, I'm the same.

I can't say what my favourite anything is. Or my "Top 5" or whatever is.

I like what I like when I like it. :/
 
I find I consume enough things that actually picking a favorite becomes kind of arbitrary, because how can you actually quantify it at a certain point? Like with music, I can name some albums that have really influenced my tastes a lot, but I can't name an all time favorite.
 
CrazyDude said:
Every time some one asks about what my favorite something is, I always end up drawing a blank. It's not that I don't love things, but I can never pin point what I like the best. Also, what I really like ends up being what I am into at the time.
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What is your favorite innernet forum?
 
I have a bunch of things that I can name you a favorite of. Band, author, animal, color, video game. But I could only narrow down my favorite TV show to one of two, and I don't have a favorite movie really. I'm sure there are other things I don't have a favorite of.
 
It's not that you don't have a favorite, it's that you haven't thought about it. It probably isn't as clear. But if somebody went through a list of say movies you liked and told you "if you had to choose one or the other, no matter how small the difference in enjoyment" chances are you'd end up with one at the top.

As to myself I'm similar. When people ask me about my favorite movie, band, book, I tell them I have no clue and give them what is likely to be up there. I tend to even separate it by genre.

"I don't know about movie over-all but for sci-fi it's X or Y"

For video games I also separate by genre. RPG and stuff.
 
Some things I have favorites like games-Super Metroid, Bands-White Zombie&The Cure, Favorite song-The Cure's Disintergration. On the other hand there is no way I could pick an all time Movie,TV show, book.

I don't see an issue with not having a favorite as long as you really like things, you don't have to pick.

I kind of worry about people that are completely ambivalent though.
 
I have a hard time picking it up favorite things, but I WANT to have favorite things so I am always thinking about my favorite things.
 
"Today it's <....>"

I actually have clear favorites and don't worry about it much. Good is good, favorite is simply something that has longer, deeper emotional connection, generally not too related to the quality of the work.
 
Talking about what your favourite thing is rarely amounts to an interesting conversation, it is more of a list discussion.
 
I used to but not anymore. Your taste changes, you changes, and what you want changes, depending on where you are, what you are doing and what is going on right now.

Sometimes the "perfect" music track can play in a situation or when you are in a certain mood, but it is by no means your favorite.
Also, I never want to give myself away to fanatically "BEST THING EVAR" something. Everything is just carbons... Carbons I don't even understand how stick together.
If I had a fork small enough to pick apart the individual electrons that hold me together, I could eat myself. But there is this invisible glue to everything.

Why ask me about my favorite color when that fucking doesn't exist. It's just some shitty spectrum tricking your eyes. You can't even see wi-fi beta waves. And I have a AC router with tri-band. FUCK EVERYTHING.
And the worst people? People who ask you who your best friend is. What the hell kind of question is that. That is like asking what your favorite tomato soap you ever ate was. Your best friend is only the best friend within a certain context.
All human beings are selfish, and we like other people when they make us feel a certain way and have a distance from ourselves and allow us to maintain a certain image of who and what they are.

"ohh. there is my friend jerry. he likes turtles and the color purple". < That is the description of a human being. But if you act all like "JERRY IS BEST FRIEND 4EVAR" then you're down a psychotic spiral, because Jerry can't maintain that pressure. Live with Jerry, have sex with jerry, work with jerry, go into business with Jerry, and you will see how your view of Jerry changes.

That's the thing. You are just a organic clusterfuck of random facts, information and habits. You don't understand anything because you're living inside a membrane and controlling it through a pastry slob sorta hairy primate version of mini kaiju.
There is no best, because best is not a thing. And how the fuck is pitbull famous? I HATE PITBULL. He is one of only two musicians I genuinely dislike.
Tl;DR - There is something psychotic about labeling things as best, most, favorite. Arbitrary constructs to make sense of something because you couldn't possible comprehend the scale of the universe. The attempt to quantify and list shit in order of how much you like it makes as much sense as trying to bleach your teeth with cheetos.
 
Reizo Ryuu said:
People who say they don't have a favourite anything, are the most boring/blandest people I've met.



Someone is a debbie downer
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No. There is nothing interesting about you saying your favorite list in order. It will satisfy someones OCD but that is about it. Nobody cares your bland listings. How dare you even insinuate that there is anything interesting about that?

"Whats your favorite X" are the most boring threads on this forum < A great example.


Things are much more interesting when not talking about them as they are being held up as good as they can be. It's as good as it. That's all. Carbons.
 
I have a favorite in certain things. Not everything though.

Favorite website: Neogaf.com
Favorite Ice Cream: Rita's Vanilla custard with rainbow sprinkles. (I'm a 25 yo man with a pretty big beard. The looks I get when I order are amazing)
Favorite TV show: Game of Thrones (Cemented in place by this last episode which was the best episode of TV I've ever seen in my life.)

I don't have a favorite movie.
I don't have a favorite song.
I don't have a favorite OP, although if I did you would be in the running.
 
I like too many things for different reasons to have a favourite. I always take time to answer because I think of too many things and don't know which to choose. Favourite band, video games, movies etc.

I think it also changes frequently, and to settle on a favourite can sometimes stifle you liking something else if you get too attached to your 'favourite'.
 
I used to have an impulse to try to rank all sorts of things in hierarchies, but as I've grown older and my horizons have broadened I have for the most part moved away from that, though not entirely.
 
Well, I have a favorite movie, at least a few games I would call favorites, and a favorite type of music. I don't necessarily have a favorite food or other things.

The thing is, my "favorites" aren't things where I've memorized shit so even though I like them a lot, I can't spout out quotes or remember all the minor things that go on.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
No. There is nothing interesting about you saying your favorite list in order. It will satisfy someones OCD but that is about it. Nobody cares your bland listings. How dare you even insinuate that there is anything interesting about that?

"Whats your favorite X" are the most boring threads on this forum < A great example.


Things are much more interesting when not talking about them as they are being held up as good as they can be. It's as good as it. That's all. Carbons.
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How "dare" I do what? (lol)
seriously LOL
I never mentioned lists, nobody is saying "hey give me a top 10 of [X]", because that's fucking ridiculous and not how people have conversations, but getting people to talk about their "favourite X", is a very easy way to get them to become more enthusiastic and open up more, which in turn can open up an entirely different convo altogether.

"satisfies someone's OCD", hahaha jesus dude.
 
Jacob said:
I used to have an impulse to try to rank all sorts of things in hierarchies, but as I've grown older and my horizons have broadened I have for the most part moved away from that, though not entirely.
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I'm in that transition period where I can't say anything is my favorite because there's something else that I've consumed that can compete with it equally. I stopped bothering with hierarchy discussions, they're huge time wasters. I'd rather actually consume the media then talk extensively about it over and over again. I've relegated my passions about certain things down to bullet points.

"I'll get back to you" seems to be the best way out of that.
 
I'm the same. People seem to find it odd. Personally I find the concept of having a favourite film or a favourite song or whatever more odd, but hey-ho.
 
I used to be able to say "my favorite x is...", then it became "my top three x is...", and now it's just pointless to keep track. If you enjoy a medium there is a good chance that you think very highly of multiple works without being able to rank them. And if you don't, you might need to broaden your horizons.
 
I'm the same but it mostly comes down to me not wanting to take the effort to figure it out. I always laugh a bit when I see people make a long list in order of their preference about something. I ain't got no time for that.
 
For some things, yeah, like video games I used to have this "top 10 favorite games!!111" list in my head but as I've played more and watched more I don't anymore and I rarely prefer one thing over another if they're both enjoyable.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
I used to but not anymore. Your taste changes, you changes, and what you want changes, depending on where you are, what you are doing and what is going on right now.

Sometimes the "perfect" music track can play in a situation or when you are in a certain mood, but it is by no means your favorite.
Also, I never want to give myself away to fanatically "BEST THING EVAR" something. Everything is just carbons... Carbons I don't even understand how stick together.
If I had a fork small enough to pick apart the individual electrons that hold me together, I could eat myself. But there is this invisible glue to everything.
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Everything is just quarks and leptons and bosons and hadrons.

The world is simple, miserable and solid all the way through. You'll get over it eventually. I almost have.
 
I am incapable of ranking things by number. I could never say with confidence that I would like one specific thing above something else at any time.
 
The only thing I have a favorite of is food and it's pizza. I have favorites (multiple), but can't ever seem to identify one thing as an outlier.
 
Yeah, I'm not 12 years old anymore. I don't have a best friend or favorite things. Just digging on everything cool. The world's too big.
 
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