Funko Pops, to me.
I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn’t work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there’s so much representation and variety that it’s good to have a few.
If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.
Crocs. I got my first pair when I was a teenager and they still work now (edit: 30yrs old); though I recently got a new pair because the bottoms were completely smooth on the old pair.
“Ugly” cars. Aka Pontiac Aztec, PT Cruiser, Fiat Multipla, etc. Yeah, they might be ugly as sin, but they’re more interesting from a visual standpoint. I’d rather have the road filled with ugly cars than filled with cars that mostly look the same.
Many got over the hate and now appreciate them. They are also common addons for overnight hiking/bikepacking trips for when you set up camp and your feet are tired.
PT Cruisers would be fine if they were just ugly. Those things were notoriously unreliable.
Are they, though? They’re just Dodge Neons under the hood. And there were a ton of pt cruisers. I still see them now, 20 something years later. People seemed to take care of them and pass them onto their kids as they got older.
Dodge Neons weren’t reliable either. I rarely see PT Cruisers these days unless I’m at a scrapyard.
My neighbor drives one around and it definitely belongs there, it just gets louder and makes more random mechanical failure noises every time he drives it by
Everything from Chrysler is junk. I worked for several dealers and general used car lots with my auto body shop business. Everything dodge/chrysler/plymouth was cut rate junk since the late 70’s and still is. At wholesale auctions, they are the joke cars people only bid on because they are so damn cheap it justifies playing roulette. Everything goes wrong with them.
Like here we are nearly 20 years since I painted and I still remember there is a champagne/charcoal/silver metallic paint that came on Dodge/Chryslers. The color code was 4Q2. There were more unrelated variations under that color code than almost any other at the time. The only one I encountered that was worse was the charcoal metallic used on Chevy/GMC trucks and suburbans. That one has tone variability between yellow, red, and blue where getting it wrong meant remixing the color coat. With 4Q2 it was metallic grain size, tone between blue and yellow, and the flop characteristics (apparent color tone and clarity when viewed from an oblique angle).
I remember many times thinking to myself that someone knew, if you have not figured it out, say “4Q2” out loud and fast… It was freaking personal, all those times I struggled with that color. Those cars were the dead inventory that was ever present on many lots I worked for, and they sat at the mechanics bays for much longer than any of the rest.
Preaching to the choir lol I wouldn’t touch a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Fiat with a ten foot pole
Wearing crocs as I type this.
I own two pairs. I apologize for nothing
Crocs were hated? When?
For me they just popped out of nowhere and everyone started wearing them all of a sudden which I found it weird. I am yet to own crocs myself. Not that I hate them, nor I am trying to avoid them, I just found them as weird.
Crocs were hated? When?
I would say they are still hated right now.
I just find them ugly, but there are some people with almost visceral reactions to them. “That’s not even a real shoe” kind of thing.
Lol yeah I do kinda find them ugly but since they are everywhere, they look less ugly as I got used to seeing them ig.
Palestine
Nickelback. Hate started as a joke but became real. Not like they’re groundbreaking, but they don’t deserve the amount of actual hate they got.
Also Korn’s dubstep album. Not every song was a hit, but there were quite a few bangers on that track list. Get Up got me into dubstep and still goes hard.
Nickelback fed and banked on that polarization.
The worst that Nickelback is, is that they’re just vanilla and bland. But they’re also a band that has at least maybe a single or two songs that you might like. I really dig the Feed the Machine track from them and a few others.
Korn’s dubstep album was…interestingly bad.
That’s another thing that’s unfair! Vanilla being synonymous with plain is nonsense. Vanilla is a flavor, and it’s delicious.
They have 2 or 3 songs that I consider to be fantastic, but a lot of generic stuff. Photograph is their worst song and was so overplayed when it came out.
Also Korn’s dubstep album. Not every song was a hit, but there were quite a few bangers on that track list. Get Up got me into dubstep and still goes hard.
I just listened to it again, and it is definitely not as good as I remember it being. I was a fan of it, but I can definitely see how fans of either Korn or dupstep would have disliked it. “Get Up!” in particular is still just as good as I remember, though!
I feel like sometimes people just want to feel like they’re a part of something. Not consciously, necessarily. But like, “the in-group says nickelback sucks, so if I make a joke about how they’re bad people will laugh, and like me, and I’ll fit in”
A lot of people never really stop being teenagers.
Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
Both had awful parents and public struggles with addiction, but people just like looking down on “party girls”
TBF I think Hilton was deliberate to some extent. She rode the wave of controversy she created and made a name for herself separate from the family name. She’s still controversial, but she’s independent.
Lohan was just an addict in a downward spiral chased by harsh public opinion. Unfortunately the public loves to see a star fall.
I mean wouldn’t you want to separate yourself from people who put you in essentially an abusive prison/lockdown camp for nearly a year because they didn’t bother trying to help you with your ADHD?
Paris Hilton shares story of traumatic abuse while testifying before congress
‘Stolen’ exposes horrors of pricey rehabs for troubled teens
I resented that culture insisted I care about people who, as far as I could tell, hadn’t done anything. I don’t care about how much someone parties, or if they’re rich, or have a sex tape. Lohan was an actor, at least- I don’t want to hear about Paris or the Kardashians because why?
I was surprised when I learned that Pikmin 3 is often disliked or even hated. It’s shamelessly my fave game of the series. I get that the story is shorter than it should be and it’s more linear but it has this charm that’s unmatched, and I enjoy the graphics style so much that it inspired several facets of my artstyle even. Also the mission mode is just the right difficulty and a ton of fun!
The first 60 minutes was GOD AWFUL. So much hand holding and text conversations that it turned me off to the game completely.
U2 for that album that they gave away for free
U2 was very obnoxious and pretentious in the 2000s. We’re talking, they thought they were as popular as Jesus without saying the quote the Beatles did way back when.
Glad they aren’t really much of a thing these days.
The same one that was installed on people’s devices without their knowledge or consent? I think you’re avoiding the real issue there.
It was added to the libraries in iTunes. Not forcefully downloaded.
Bono didn’t go through everyone’s iPhones
In an era when libraries synced automatically and space was valuable.
Bono did get Apple to do something invasive and shitty.
I feel like, but then, U2 was on their way out as a band. They weren’t bad, but they were ubiquitous for so long that people were getting sick of them.
I know the band still tours and makes music still, but I feel like that giveaway was the watershed in breaking their popularity.
Starfield. The game isn’t bad, it just isn’t as good and the game design was especially outdated for its release window. It’s legitimately a better RPG than most Bethesda games.
I’m fairly confident modders will actually be able to salvage it despite its flaws.
I remember being underwhelmed when elite dangerous released an expansion that let you explore some planets on foot. And then starfield released.
I had fun with it. I don’t pay attention to the story anyway. Skyrim and oblivion didn’t have great stories imho either.
For me, it’s just so boring. Plus the character writing is meh
I enjoyed the basic formula of past Bethesda games and Starfield delivered more of the same plus some cool extras like being able to disable and board/capture spaceships. I don’t understand the sentiment that’s it’s outdated. Modern AAA games are not dramatically different in design to games from 10 years ago in my experience.
Seconded. I actually enjoyed the game for what it was, almost Skyrim in space. Almost, don’t shoot me for saying that.
I had fun with the various factions, with constellation, and the story was reasonably unique but maybe not extremely enthralling.
That said, my expectations were basically zero. I purposefully ignore all prerelease hype about video games as it tends to ruin the actual experience of playing the game for the first time.
I’d be less annoyed with it if it were bad. It’s just the most boring thing. There’s nothing interesting going on. If it were bad there’d be a reason to care about it.
It’s just really annoying because Bethesda used to care about doing something interesting with their games. It’s just increasingly gotten more generic though, and Starfield is the worst of it.
Some of the questlines were fun, like the Pirate Double Agent questline.
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Recency bias answer, but City Skylines 2
They bit off way more than they could chew with the new game and it shows. Now, it has some good ideas that I’m happy for implemented, like upgradable buildings and base resource extraction. However, I feel like this has been part of Paradox Plaza’s problem in not having a clear design vision that has been fully vetted before going into production.
I’m sure the game could end up like Stellaris where the game is rewritten in a way to make it fun, but that is going to take some time.
Does it show? This is exactly what I’m talking about. I don’t understand any of your criticism of CS2. What vision is missing?
The economy and traffic are a lot more fake than the game lets on. The developers tried building in an actual housing market, but ended up having to get rid of all the landlords. There is an idea of resources being used, but it isn’t really implemented.
It might have better if the devs promised less as part of their dev diaries, but here we are. It says something that they can’t release a DLC because the game doesn’t feel finished enough to warrant a DLC.
The economy was addressed months ago.
I don’t even know what fake traffic is lol!
The housing market was bugged causing everyone to be unable to afford rent like real life.
It just seems like you don’t want to be happy about CS2 and should just stick to CS1.
I want to be happy about it and I’ve played a city recently.
It still doesn’t address that the game is not at the level it was sold and, while they are fixing it, it is going to be a while and probably won’t be the same game advertised.
Cats the Movie.
I just want the butthole cut.
MIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLK
The ending of Battlestar Galactica.
Honest question: So it’s still worth the ride?
I loved the vibe, and the Newtonian (-esque?) space battles, but I kinda dropped off, and after the ending was spoiled for me I was like “Wow. Saved myself the time.” Lol
But is the show worth it overall? I’ve liked things with silly/bad endings before. :p
Yes, it is still excellent even by today’s standards, and you can see why so many new shows followed their big budget approach.
There are a couple small parts that can be a bit hard to get through, but for me that’s just part of the situation they are in, and it is all totally worth it.
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion. You are not left wondering or half expecting a sequel.
Cool! I appreciate your opinion! I should really stick to it this time. It seems besides The Expanse (still gotta watch that one) or Orville, we’re simply not spoiled with great sci-fi/sci-fantasy shows anymore. :)
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion.
Oof, you’ve got a point there, pardner. (cries in Firefly)
Posting one for Firefly!
High Guardian Spice. I’m not personally an enjoyer of it, but the amount of criticism it received was vastly, vastly out of proportion simply because it was “woke”.
And as Ada said, trans people.
Mass Effect 3’s (ultimate) ending:
I get it. I get that after a series of EXCELLENT games that touted meaningful choices, “select an ending video” was lame.
Were there better ways it could have been done without planting an infinite “tree of death” taking into account every player’s individual choices from the entire trilogy? Sure!
I’m sad that this resulted in things like death threats and crap, from people who obviously have no idea what game developers do for a living. They obviously didn’t deserve that.
The added “green ending” still gets hate even. It was fine. The game was fine. It told a story and was a blast to play through. (Even despite EA’s constant executive meddling!)
I wish it wasn’t profitable to whip people into riotous frenzy over such things.
Friday by Rebecca Black
Agreed but her 2013 cash grab sequel titled Saturday did not receive nearly enough hate.
Buying music as CDs. Sure they were expensive at their peak, but they came in high quality, I could rip and do with them as I wished, while still having an offline copy. I have a lot of my old ones from childhood
