Things You Want To Get Into But Just can't

Lazy Newb Pack and tilesets can fix that for you.

@Ozbourne Check out The Let's Play Archive. All of the LPs there are finished and categorized, so you can read/watch whatever game sounds interesting at your leisure.

As for me, what I can't get into...

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.

I'm not sure why, either. It's a very well-made show, objectively speaking. It's just...something about it I can't jive with. I can't tell what it is, though.

We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)

Homestuck. Why?

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I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Thanks, Rai.

Stupid doomed timeline...

Fucking Dwarf Fortress.

I love it. I understand it. I do not play it because I don't have the time or the patience, god damn, what the fuck is even going on, jesus. But the stories are neat.

EVE Online, too. Incredible stories come out of that game, and it's neat conceptually, but when I play it, it becomes one of three things: Space Economy Simulator, a really shitty version of Asteroids that you can't lose, or "Goddamnit I just got ganked by pirates again, there goes all my money."

月を見るたび思い出せ

Lost Girl. LGBT-friendly, supernatural, magical happenings. Sounds like fun. And yet, it really doesn't work for me.

PM box is always open.

It's not so much the look that bothers me. I just want to be able to use my goddamn mouse and maybe a goddamn dropdown menu instead of navigating everything with the keys (and having to remember the invisible menu shortcuts) like it's 1983.

Join my forum game!

I think you can use your mouse for some things. It doesn't really bother me much.

Door Stoppers in general. :C

edited 9th Apr '13 4:12:16 PM by CassidyTheDevil

My homework.

‽‽‽‽ ^These are interrobangs. Love them. Learn them. Use them.

Ba dum tish.

Cass:

Alma's daily count of weird references and Youtube embeds is rising~

You need an adult.

Stop before you reach the pop culture reference singularity and every Shout-Out ever collapses in on you D:

Allow me to present my rebuttal:

You need an adult.

Well, if you insist, you can fack me I guess.

Justified, The Sopranos and Once Upon A Time. All of which have some really good actors, are supposed to have decent acting, serviceable storylines and intelligent scriptwriting, but none of which I can watch more than an episode at a time.

Oh, I got one. True Blood. My interest was piqued when I heard some people talking about it reverently, as though it were a "real" vampire show and not one of those sissy Twilight pretenders. Except it totally is. This one I have actually seen many episodes of (as Mum is a fan and I sometimes just watch stuff with her so we can be together), and I can never shake the feeling that I've seen "this kind" of vampire before—namely, in Twilight. They do that "racing around the room at super-fast speeds because of their SUPER VAMPIRE REFLEXES" that Twilight vampires do. And Vampires are Sex Gods. Can't forget that one.

Supernatural vampires were better, IMO—closer to what I imagine a vampire to be. Seductive or sexual in nature, but fundamentally monstrous and demonic. They're not a disprivileged underclass struggling for equal rights amongst humans—they are, by all rights, evil.

I want to see a work in which the usual escalation of a vampire's powers is reversed—that is, they get weaker when they drink blood, although it's necessary to their survival, and the longer they go without blood, the more powerful they become. It makes sense because, as the needs of the vampire become more urgent and death gets closer, they would develop powers that would enable them to secure their survival more easily. Skyrim sort of did that.

edited 10th Apr '13 4:08:08 PM by Alma

You need an adult.

John Green's books.

I feel obligated to read them as a Nerdfighter and finally got around to finishing The Fault In Our Stars. I liked it, but in a way that made me merely finish the book without provoking much thought after I put it back on the shelf. In addition, Nerdfighteria seems to consider it gospel, a new classic, etc., but... I feel like I've read better. Though I have his four other books, I don't particularly want to read them. *shrug*

And on that subject, Nerdfighteria in general. I like the Vlog Brothers and joined their fan-forum, but I find the community off-putting.

edited 10th Apr '13 4:44:57 PM by CrystalGlacia

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

Panty and Stocking I really like the animation,and the music,but the humor and "whacky" storyline just isn't jiving with me.I get what they are trying to do,but I guess it's just not my thing.

Dragon Age. I've started Origins no less than three separate times with a different origin each time and only got past the Grey Warden initiation twice, and past the first town you visit afterwards once. I like the concept, I like the lore, I like the gameplay, but apparently there's some kind of it factor that's missing for me.

Somehow you know that the time is right.

I tried watching Supernatural. It seemed like an interesting show but,I got bored. The plot was too slow for me.

edited 20th Jun '13 3:46:20 PM by Mu5icl0v3r

Quite a few webcomics.

Fist Of The North Star. I like it. I really, really do. I just can't get into it enough to watch more than the first few episodes.

Same thing with Earth Bound. I made it up to Threed, but that was only after playing the game for a few hours every few months. It's a fantastic game, and probably my favorite JRPG.

I think this is a result of feeling like I shouldn't be wasting time with stuff like this when I've got projects of my own I need to be working on.

Weird in a Can (updated M-F)

I have a friend that keeps sending me manga pages from Naruto and Bleach and I feel like I should at least indulge her but I have no idea how to say politely "No. This sounds awful." I skipped a weeb phase for the most part and I'd like to keep it. Maybe I should say I don't like shonen...?

This is sort of what happened to me with Skyrim and Oblivion. On my first character in each, I just wasn't feeling it for some reason. Then I made a new character, a switch flipped, and the game was fun all of a sudden. It could have been because of the class or skill set I chose. I don't know.

You need an adult.

Roleplaying. It seems like the kind of thing I would be interested, but I couldn't find a time to get in, how to get in, and how to stay in without the roleplay proceeding.

I used to roleplay in my teenage years.

My brother tried to introduce me to The Walking Dead. I don't mean to offend any fans of it (and I apologize if I accidentally do), but the darkness and edginess was a little much for me.

I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.