Yeah I know that identifying people with the products they consume is bullshit but the brain forms associations nonetheless

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Soulsborne games. I later tried Bloodborne and had an okay time with it but still felt myself actively trying to hate it because I hated how fucking obnoxious the fans were (seemingly less so nowadays, self-awareness I guess?) about the difficulty of those games.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I still remember when dark souls came out (demon's souls being the first entry in the soulslike genre) and the PS3 dark souls players mocking xbox dark souls players for struggling and not being real soulslike players because they didn't play demon's souls.

      I still want to play the games but I'm not going to interact with the fanbase.

    • Goadstool
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      edit-2
      27 days ago

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    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      how fucking obnoxious the fans were (seemingly less so nowadays, self-awareness I guess?) about the difficulty of those games

      Honestly the only people I've seen obnoxious about the difficulty are people who've never played them before. People who have actually played them know they are nowhere near as difficult as people make it out to be.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      In this case it's more like the fandom inadvertently prevented you from making a terrible mistake

  • Parzivus [any]
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    3 years ago

    Honestly, any Reddit community eventually drives me out with the comically low effort memes/screenshots/horny posting. Maybe I should stop using it :thonk:

  • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Marvel/DC

    Dungeons and Dragons

    Everything by Nintendo

    Rick and Morty :pickle-liz:

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Every form of media that has individuals with some noticeable level of popularity. I recently learned about the shit with Kanye straight up harassing Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian and the circus around Kanye enabling all the bullshit. His stans are out here sending death threats and shit. I love the NBA but in recent years, stans being toxic as fuck as made me root against players I generally used to enjoy watching. Notice this shit with stuff I don't even delve into, like K-Pop. Usually it used to be relegated to online spaces, but I see this shit spilling out IRL where people can't stomach any level of criticism against the object of their affection. I'm just ranting