Just as examples:

  • I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
  • @[email protected]
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    Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.

    • I Cast Fist
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      I’ve heard “I don’t trust people who don’t have instagram” more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how’s the current sentiment

      • SeekPie
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        Nowadays it’s “I don’t trust people who don’t have PixelFed”.

        /s

  • Tedesche
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    362 months ago

    I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”

    I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve tried multiple times, but it doesn’t gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also ‘lotr with abundant sex’ just doesn’t sit well with me.

      And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.

        They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can’t think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I’d say that most fantasy that I’ve read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.

        That being said, I’m basing this on the books.

        • @[email protected]
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          Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.

          But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison

      • @[email protected]
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        Honestly odd to me. I mean its expected for any show to become irrelevant when it ends, thats normal. But the way it was hated on i dont get. The ending was exactly what was foreshadowed since the first season, but people were still confused and angry as if it was an illogical story progression.

        I actually rewatched the whole thing starting last week and finished it today. All the characters make sense, they did what the always said they would. Maybe that was boring for people.

        • @[email protected]
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          Fair enough, if you didn’t notice a drop in quality or whiplash character/plot developments all I can say is that I’m kinda jealous.

          I will disagree with you on the fact that it’s normal for any show to become irrelevant when it ends. Shows that are good enough and capture audiences the way GoT did initially can go on to become much more and maintain relevance potentially for decades. It’s rare, sure, but I think the opportunity was there with GoT.

        • @[email protected]
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          While the ending is exactly what I expected it to be, I think the last season was rushed. But I agree, I don’t get the hatred people gave it, I had stopped watching a few seasons back, but watched the last one because people around me were watching it, but from the books it was fairly clear that that was the ending all along.

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            One trope that I really hate are these bypasses where characters almost meet but then miss each other. Happens way to often in this show.

            Thanks for the links :)

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      I’ve never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don’t feel the need to.

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      I loved the books, but just kept wincing trying to watch the TV series, never made it through.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.

    I’ve never seen a harry potter film.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni
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      You’re not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It’s one of those stories that are “just there”. Not really much depth.

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      I fell asleep during all of the Harry Potter movies I tried to watch. That’s not meant as a judgement on the quality of those movies. I just couldn’t help it.

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      I was not interested in Harry Potter until I visited the Universal Studios portrayal of Diagon Alley, that is really well done and sucked me right in. Watched all the movies after that. Even then the plots weren’t amazing but the world building is great.

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      i was thinking i’m weird when my friends are talking about harry potter and i only know few things about it while they talk the whole story 😭

    • @[email protected]
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      The harry potter movies were not good. Daniel Radcliff, however good of an actor he is now, back then, wasn’t. he literally ruined those movies.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    162 months ago

    I’ve never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there’s an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      You monster. That’s somehow even worse than not seeing it at all

      • classic
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        I watched the 3rd only for the sake of completion. I found the whole trilogy just okay. Fine as a summer movie but that’s it

    • @[email protected]
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      I haven’t read or seen LOTR. Everything I know about it has been pieced together from parodies and references in other media. The magic the gathering crossover set was probably the biggest exposure I’ve had.

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        It would be interesting to get your take on LOTR and see how close you are to the actual story.

  • @[email protected]
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    I got my nerd card revoked after a convention when I revealed that I hadn’t seen any of the Marvel movies. And this was about 10 years ago. I eventually made exceptions for Deadpool and GotG.

  • Chozo
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    Most comedy movies from the 00s-10s, for me. Anchorman, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Step Brothers… If Judd Apatow was involved or it starred SNL celebrities, I probably never saw it.

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    Never saw:
    • Game of Thrones
    • Breaking Bad
    • The Walking Dead
    • Maybe have only seen 2 or 3 Marvell movies.
    • Haven’t seen a single episode of any anime.
    • Couldn’t name a famous YouTuber if I tried.

    I’m sure there’s more, but for now, that what I can come up with.

  • Rob T Firefly
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    I didn’t watch the show Firefly. I had already been using this screenname for a long time when that show came out, but people began to assume I was a fan and named myself after it.

    While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

    I do have the DVDs on my shelf, having picked them up cheap secondhand ages ago thinking I might just get it over with someday, but the more I’ve learned about Joss Whedon over the years the less inclined I find myself to check it out.

    • @[email protected]
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      While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

      fwiw, Firefly is nothing like Buffy.

    • @[email protected]
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      Joss Whedon is problematic, but dang he made some good TV. There’s a reason Firefly got a movie after not getting picked up (Serenity, it’s also great), and a reason it still has a devoted following to this day.

      …But oh man that opening song… lol

  • I Cast Fist
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    I never watched Game of Thrones. I only watched the very last episode because the friends decided it’d be fun to watch, and even then I was disappointed lol

    I also never read any books based on any RPG or other games (D&D, World of Darkness, 40k)

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    I have never read the Harry Potter series.

    I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.

    Yeah I think I’m cool with that.

    • @[email protected]
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      They’re not bad, if you enjoy the movies the books are at least as good, and they explain lots of the plot-holes I had with the movies. But they’re definitely not great, there are still several plot-holes and stuff that she clearly made up as she went. That being said, they’re enjoyable, and you should get through them fairly quickly.

    • @[email protected]
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      Do you still enjoy fantasy aimed at kids? if you do the series is good. If you don’t you’ll see all the flaws

  • metaStatic
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    you don’t know what you don’t know.

    nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.