I hate how it’s impossible to get into new things these days without a tidal wave of spoilers constantly being blasted in your face. Take Invincible, yeah it came out 15 years ago but can I go five minutes without someone just casually spoiling a major plot development or even the ending?

Wesley Crusher’s character in TNG could have been done so well if they slowly built him into a genius instead of Gene Roddenberry using him as a self insert to stroke his own ego right out of the gate. By the literal 3rd episode of season 1 Wesley’s fate was sealed and even though the backed off on him and tried making him a more normal character later in the show but people just hated him too much by then.

Which sucked because he had good character development later on. Like, right as he was getting to be “not insufferable.” I remember thinking on my first watch “you know, he’s not so bad now” and then they pull him from the show entirely.

From TV show, the pacing of it.

Its like someone made in a lab a show that is only just good enough to retain my attention while actually doing and saying very little.

I don’t like it when people say that ‘fast food tastes bad and only [insert chud group] would like it’. I get where this is coming from, but fast food is designed to taste good, and for most people it does. That line of thinking really only causes victim blaming for people with health issues due to how addictive processed food is.

I absolutely hate how hardware is made to be impossibly hard to repair nowadays while also incredibly expensive to replace in the Global South. Your month’s worth of minimum wage cellphone broke a button? Your options are either paying half the phone price to replace a piece half the size of the phone, or getting a new one.

I absolutely detest Aaron Sorkin’s writing. I hate how entertaining it is, I just watched an hour’s worth of the newsroom clips. I enjoy it, but I can’t stand all the smug, self-satisfied liberal drivel. West wing is even worse in that regard, it’s chock full of apologia for the worst active war criminal on the planet, given the veneer that he’s just a guy trying his best to save the world he’s in the process of murdering.

I dislike video essayists read one (1) book and make a 40-120 minute video about a large topic using mainly that one book. This is also one of the good reasons to look down on the musical Hamilton and the people who like it too much.

I may be skirting the definition of small but DRM and client side anti-cheats. Some of them are basically malware, sifting through the user’s files. Fuck knows what’s stopping it reading my browser, getting my banking info or email. Besides, a DRM’s only as good as how long it takes folks to produce a crack in the first place. Once it’s out there, best publishers can do is lock out further content, and truth be told, I’ve yet to find any such content that’s worth the money or the time to play.

I really dislike the Legend of Korra. I adored Book 1 as a media illiterate kid. Then it got worse and I got older. The gang isn’t very likable, much of their adventures feel like a waste of time, the gaang’s story got butchered and the world building got obliterated. I seem to be in the minority in disliking even Book 3, Zaheer, and his flying technique. (stranding still, floating isn’t a natural behaviour of air and isn’t encompassed by being the leaf)

• The whole “alternative medicine” grift and its various hangers on.

• People that think “organic” food must be inherently better in every way.

the continued manufacture of electric guitars, we have enough, please just stop ;_;

adverising boards being replaced by advertising screens with video. it makes me apoplectic

• Google/Microsoft everywhere. Anything you do, people expect you to use Google’s/Microsoft’s suite, and they look you weird when you don’t.

• Spam e-mails

• Job search, you have to tell even you dog’s birthday to apply to any job, 0 privacy, they never tell you why you didn’t got rehired, they most times don’t even tell you that you didn’t get chosen, you just wait infinitely. But it is even worse when there are 10 rounds of interviews, activities and whatnot.

• Most games run on Linux, the problem is mostly anti-cheats, most anti-cheats support Linux but a lot of games just choose not to turn it on for Linux, so we get blocked from playing those online games.

• Constant remakes/remasters of games, sequels and “live action” remakes of cartoons, those corps have billions in their pockets, but choose not to take the minimal risk of creating something new.

• Paywalled articles, there’s even the ironic paper about the inaccessibility of scientific research, and that paper was paywalled. But I have found the open source project Marreta (sledgehammer in Portuguese) that works really well to read paywalled news (and remove ads).

• On Dungeon Keeper, that game was so cool, I’m sad that the same happened with Command and Conquer, Red Alert 1 (and specially 2) where awesome games, but now are dead, and the last game launched was a shitty mobile game.

• Fantasy in general (RPG, Games, Shows), it is so satured with over the top stuff, that it just stopped being fantastical. You don’t find a normal King diminishing the amount of silver in silver coins to fund his war, only a beautiful and rich warrior-King. You don’t find a normal small medieval castle, just a 18th century chatteu. Every has magic, so it just loses the charm. Etc etc etc. And the worst thing for me, is how Eurocentric this genre is, and it’s not even the enterity of Europe, it is just Anglo-French centric. You never get arabic medieval stuff, chinese medieval stuff, or african medieval stories.

• Cool artwork, I don’t know, I just hate artworks that try to make the character look super cool, it really irks me.

• When you buy something at the bakery, and the “filling” is so fucking small, you mostly just eat bread dough

City council just voted to buy the police an APC (that they don’t have a use for, and if they did it probably wouldn’t be good) while at the same time raiding the library reserve funds to keep taxes low

So much frustrating stuff like that going on here lately, and the city subreddit is absolutely unbearable about all of it

Michael Bay and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT

The Witcher tv show’s perversion and complete abandonment of the books. Like I can understand changing a story because a scene will be hard to capture on film but its like they read an AI summary of the books and then decided it needed a bunch of random new things because it sounded dull.

I’m salty that AA games aren’t a thing anymore since investors only want the big moneys and indies are all generic pixel art.

Nerds complaining about videogames.

Just kidding, I get that way sometimes as well, lol. I guess it’s just something that gets a bit tiring because I see it a lot more often, likely since Lemmy attracts people who are more online/tech inclined, so we tend to have quite a bit of videogame talk on here.

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