I'll mention something different for my own contribution than my usual:

I've always hated Seinfeld, including when his show was brand new. "It's a show about nothing!" was a thought terminating cliche in the 90s that was used to pitch the show at me again and again by its fans, and also to dismiss any and all problems I had with the show and its ultra-privileged smarmy main character. If I got anything valuable out of that show and for that matter his stand up routine, it was a lifelong allergy to New Yorker comedy that front loads a whole lot of "I am a New Yorker which means I am smarter and tougher and wiser and more cultured and more sophisticated yet more grounded than you" self-aggrandizement into the set. :nyet:

EDIT: Please post your own disliked Hexbear-approved popular things! Don’t just reply to mine! :rage-cry:

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Disco Elysium. "Yo, I'm seeing a fuckload of text-bubbles and not a lot of sick combos."

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      Tangentially related, but it's kind of amazing to me how dontnod made Remember Me, which was just all about sick combos and sci-fi memory editing fuckery, and then they made Life is Strange, where you're a teenage lesbian walking around and dealing with trauma.

      Don't get me wrong LiS is one of the best games I've ever played, but I genuinely don't get how Gamer Bros absolutely hated Remember Me, but love Life is Strange. Dudes will really spend a decade bitching about walking simulators and lgbt themes in games and blue hair and female protagonists, and then their favorite game they've ever played will be a walking simulator with a female protagonist whose girlfriend has blue hair.