Embarrassing stuff that you used to like?

Twilight, Naruto, and Bleach. Yeah, I had an edgy middle-schooler phase, too.

I also used to think that anime, manga, and light novels were the height of human achievement, looked down on anyone who didn't feel the same, and went so far as to do a very large research project on them for school. I lost a lot of acquaintances that way, and quit Japanese media entirely (with the sole exception of video games) around my sophomore year of high school when it started affecting the way I saw the world.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

I was a big fan of the Police Academy movies at the time too. Although I was a kid back then so I guess I have an excuse. Police Academy 6 was the only one I actually saw in theaters. All the rest I only saw either on TV or on tapes. After seeing them so many times I just got bored with them.

edited 7th Jul '14 3:31:57 PM by codytheheadlessboy

"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. Patton

I liked Police Academy and Police Academy 2. Hey, I was, like, three when the first one came out, so don't judge!

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'

Re: Cracked. Actually, Cracked was actually pretty good in the 80s when they had underground comics artists like Dan Clowes and Peter Bagge working on it. As for embarrasing stuff i used to like, Youngblood. I just liked the character designs, it wasnt until later i realized that not only was the writing bad, but the designs were just insanely freaky (even moreso than most 90s comics).

The articles I've read from 80's and 90's issues seemed to be totally toothless and unfocused, though. Also, they seemed to parody lower-end properties a lot of the time. They did far more cartoon parodies than Mad, and sometimes went for stuff that was already comedic to begin with (Hot Shots!, Kindergarten Cop) or too under the radar for anyone to care (Mighty Joe Young, EDtv, The Patriot). They even churned out a second parody of the 1998 Godzilla movie over two years after the fact!

Many of their artists were good to great, I'll admit — they even had Tom Richmond for a short time before he defected to Mad — but their writing was sorely lacking. That's especially surprising, since many of their later parodies were penned by Lou Silverstone, who used to work for Mad. Granted, even at Mad, Lou was a bit off the mark at times — his parodies themselves were mostly great, but he sucked at parody titles ("Miami Price", "I Love Luny", "Groaning Pains").

edited 9th Jul '14 9:30:30 PM by Twentington

Xplay. My life used to revolve around that show. Then G4 came along, forced a lot of TechTV hosts to move, and then everything went to hell. The tone of the show got nastier and nastier, and less funny, until I hated pretty much everything about it. I learned that nothing is worth that much investment in a frickin' TV show. Honestly, I probably wouldn't have gotten that into it if I had any gamer friends growing up. Or any friends.

I really feel like the G4/TechTV merger wasn't something that the TechTV people actually wanted. Or maybe it sounded good on paper, but when they got back to work, the reality was very different...

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

Waitwaitwait... Dan Clowes, the guy who wrote Ghost World, worked for Cracked?

edited 10th Jul '14 7:55:18 AM by Aldo930

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Avril Lavigne and Simple Lan

Ron Barrett, the guy who did the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book and I believe some work for National Lampoon, was an artist in Cracked for a time too. They also poached Don Martin from Mad in the late 80s, and he worked with them until his death.

Also, Cracked's flagship artist John Severin worked at Mad back when it was a comic book. There are some issues of Cracked where Severin drew practically the entire issue.

edited 10th Jul '14 2:13:50 PM by Twentington

Oh yeah, i also used to like all those Teen Horror books like the Fear Street series and the like. Basically, i was obsessed with horror at the time and had already read all the Stephen King novels available to me, so i just checked out those books. Looking back the plots and "twists" were pretty predictable. I even read the "Friday the 13th" novels which were just about people getting possessed by Jason Voorhees's mask for the most part. Havent really revisited these books since High School and have no real desire to (and to be honest, even though i still like horror movies, the only horror novels i read now are stuff by King and occasionally Dean Koontz, my literary tastes now run more to fantasy and action).

Vampire Knight. Never again...

Kingdom Hearts and most JRPG plots.

Oh God, I remember that issue. In hindsight, it's one of the most hilariously stupid and pointless things ever, especially with how completely and utterly seriously it takes itself.

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Look at my username.

I take it you were a big fan of Digimon.

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Bring Me The Horizon and Papa Roach. Oh, middle school days...

edited 26th Aug '14 8:55:18 PM by XJTordecai

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I'm thinking more along the lines of Naruto.

...the Beyblade anime. Because of summer vacation reruns, I must have watched the first season about four or five times. I still remember the lyrics of the opening theme, and I listen to the music now and then, but...for the sake of preserving my fond memories, I'm not gonna watch it again. >__>

Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!

Also, Jeff Dunham.

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