GuillermoGage

I wonder if this will end up being similar to "Post your unpopular opinions" The few. The proud. The Marines. The fewer. The prouder. The Mariners. I think I made that up yesterday, unless someone else in the world thought of it.

AKIRA is one of the best movies ever. When I say that, I do not mean that it is just a personal favorite of mine, but that I sincerely believe that the movie is blatantly better at doing what it sets out to do moreso than any other movie chosen at random. Specifically, make sure to see the version dubbed into English by Pioneer Pictures in 2001. I am not even remotely a fan of the "genre" that the movie is from.

I dislike most anime, but I really like how anime openings use Japanese people's really cute interpretation of rokkinrorru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDE8U5sxQbM Rokkinrorru, Asian Man! Rokkinrorru with your cute Engrish! I watched the entire first season of Darker Than Black on my grandma's digital cable without even bothering to get into whatever fanbase it has, or even bothering with the show's, I dunno nihilist-y themes? Whenever I browsed the free anime section at grandma's, I would most often select a show and then X out of it a minute later when I found out it was incomprehensible schoolgirl vampire crap.

That being an unpopular opinion is simply sad. Being a gamer doesn't have to be a full-blown lifestyle. People often buy prestigious console-exclusive games and their sequels and threequels solely to be "in the know". Basically, I suspect that a lot of people play "mature adventures" like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Bioshock, Dead Space and stuff without thinking if the experience is legitimately better than movies and books, just because it is interactive. I did not mention multiplayer games to point out that single-player games also have an ugly image associated with them.

Here are some games I have played since the beginning of 2009. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion whilst at relatives's houses. some of the Orange Box games/Portal 2 I don't/haven't personally own or play video games or game systems for the past year except for Zelda Skyward Sword. I actually put on airs and am a bit prideful from not being part of this whole gamer craze. I don't like this marketing and lifestyle idea that being a gamer or a console owner is a "way of life" Compared to movies and TV shows, games are this huge comparatively expensive time investment, and I especially don't like media that doesn't enrich people, whether it be: Dumb celebrity reality show gossip crap, cliche crime dramas that are most certainly not an educational example of how crimes are really solved, and instead are harmfully unrealistic post-Movie SpongeBob being a gross douchebag. braindead schoolgirl anime that is basically what Japan culturally has instead of dumb sitcoms. and pew-pew multiplayer bro shooters, that, while requiring some measure of skill and mental awareness, are still not really productive and just celebrate a culture of violence and killing people. If I'm gonna plunk 50 hours into a game, it needs to be something that will captivate me the whole way through. So, unlike most other Bronies, I don't associate with unofficially-affiliated fandoms like TF2, Minecraft, and stuff that involves shooting people constantly. Also, from the 45 minute I played of it, Mass Effect is boring and overly "adult" and mature. I don't like this vaguely liberal direction Western gaming is taking by slipping "current issues" into games like games are hip and contemporary and culturally relevant for the weekend like primetime TV. It is more insulting than what Japanese gaming is doing.

Every single one of those opinions are popular opinions. I don't like it when this thread becomes a complaint place where people just say "I hate this this this".