Odd confessions.

I thought that was of A Midsummer Nights Dream.

As for the sex scenes in Deadpool, I thought it was supposed to be intentionally jarring in some parts. I mean, come on, if you're going to see a Deadpool movie, you gotta expect certain things, and it's certainly not anything I'd expect to be able to watch with my parents without there being some awkwardness.

I had a piece of spicy Sushi, didn't even notice until I'd already swallowed it.

I actually like Michael Bay's Transformers series. Does that mean I think it's a good series? Good ness, no. There are good movies that I don't like (Slumdog Millionaire and half of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies), while there are also bad movies that I actually do like, such as aforementioned Transformers series.

Speed Racer, though, is both a bad movie and a movie that I dislike.

So, they're your guilty pleasure, in other words?

Nope! I don't feel slightest amount of guilt.

Now, if I were to honestly believe that they are good movies, then I would be guilty.

I don't think you necessarily need to feel the exact emotion of guilt for something to be a guilty pleasure, I mean, the way I define mine is "I know this a bad movie, but I enjoy watching it"

Sometimes I imagine what my life would have been like in the hypothetical alternate timeline in which I was a girl.

For the meantime I'm pretty much happy with being a guy. OCD can just fuck off however.

If "guilty pleasure" does not actually involve the emotion of guilt then it's not a very useful term, is it?

I find it more useful when used for things that one actually DOES feel guilty for enjoying. For example, my guilty pleasures are Iggy Azalea songs and Supernatural because both are actively harmful and reductive and yet I still garner enjoyment from them. Meanwhile there are things considered bad that I enjoy guilt-free because even though they're bad, they're harmless — High School Musical, for example.

but high school musical is damaging to people who like good music

or people who try their best to defend zac efron

of which i am both

edited 1st May '16 6:23:08 PM by golgothasArisen

are you implying that "i want it all" and "bet on it" and "status quo" are not objectively high art because if so then i think we simply have nothing more to discuss here, good day sir/madam/non-gendered-honorific-of-your-choice.

i don't even remember "i want it all" but i do know that "status quo" has irritating lyrics imo

My little pony is my guilty pleasure and I don't feel the slightest guilt about it. And I don't think it is harmful in any way. And I don't think it is bad. (Except for the early seasons.)

Explain that.

My sister seems to genuinely like The Legendary Starfy.

Which version, if I may ask?

Gen 4. I used to like gen 1.

The defining thing about a guilty pleasure is that you know you're not supposed to like it, but you do anyway.

The guilt part comes from something which can be recognised as guilt from feeling so, or from being guilty of being a fan of it.

I watch a lot of shows meant for very young children. I don't mean shows like mlp which also enjoyed by adults, shows that are very clearly meant for only young children. Max and Ruby (I got a book signed by Rosemary Wells last year when she had a book reading at my library. I was the only person there who wasn't a young child or the parent of a young child. No regrets whatsoever), Peppa Pig, the Backyardigans. Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is still my all time favorite show. I also get books from the children's section a lot. I watched MLP from the absolute first episode because that was a channel I watched regularly anyways. It made me so happy when the show got popular, because there was finally something I liked that other people liked too.

Well I am textbook asynchronous development. Intellectually I function much older than my calendar age, but emotionally I function much younger.

I'm somewhat similar, depending on the show. I still think The Upside Down Show is fantastically enjoyable.

I love it whenever I see an ad for Neighbours or Home and Away and it says someone is gonna die. I like to imagine the cast dwindling down and down until eventually nobody is left, and then those damn shows finally end.

I mean, if you like the shows, that's fine, but I get a stupid kick out of it

I've always been pretty slow at outgrowing shows for as long as I can remember. I was still watching Barney and Friends when I was 8, I only stopped keeping up with Arthur and other PBS Kids shows in college, when I stopped being able to watch shows on an actual television (since my dorm didn't have a TV), and when the lemur who played Zoboomafoo died, I watched several episodes of that show. I think in general the only reason I ever stopped watching a show was because my sister (who is five years younger than me) outgrew them. I'm actually contemplating going back to watching PBS shows since a lot of the cartoons I currently watch are on hiatus. I think I'll watch all the episodes of Word Girl now that show is apparently finished.

In general I've always been comfortable with watching shows that were meant for people much younger than me. It's a completely different story with books, though. I think it's because I've always feared that if you read books intended for people younger than you, it's because you're not smart enough to read books intended for people your age or older. It's completely not true, I'm aware, but it's a fear I haven't exactly been able to let go of, actually.

edited 3rd May '16 4:39:13 PM by DeathsApprentice

A am leery of trusting the idea of standard intellectual development or standard emotional development. Like requests of "act your age" and claims of "mental retardation" and whatnot. It feels like it falls in the same category of fallacy of Evolutionary Levels. On the surface it seems plausible, but at its extreme it implies things like evolutionary regression. Which is absurd. (Although it does make a good tv show plot.)

I absolutely despise the "organic" food industry.

Me too! Although more tolerate but just barely. And it is really annoying because where I live, quite a bit of fresh produce is only available organic.

Yeah, the organic food industry is a load of BS.

I have a pretty strong memories of details from almost every movie I've ever watched.

........Except for Star Wars series, for some reason. It's not like I dislike that series.