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Furries. No hate, just not even remotely interested.
And anime.
This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn’t such a glaring blind spot for me, because it’s something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There’s 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I’ve never been interested.
There are plenty with just one or two seasons and that’s it.
Reality TV or Anime? Cause either way, the medium just isn’t my thing.
Sure, whatever. I’m just saying it’s a very broad cultural Japanese thing, and not just “hundreds of soap opera” episodes, or Naruto or whatever, I don’t even know myself. A lot of variety is what I’m saying.
It’s actually pretty interesting. I guess “the west” is kinda prejudiced about what anime really is.
No, I agree, and I’m not saying I dislike it for a good reason or even a vastly informed reason; I’ve watched a few, and they felt varied in content and style and tone (at least to me). I’m just saying sometimes it’s as simple as “just don’t like it”. I don’t like eggplant either; had it prepared a few different ways. I don’t think it’s that I just haven’t found that magical preparation or mix of seasonings or whatever; just not a fan.
No judgment since I think many anime shows are not worth the time, but anime is just another medium, like books, more than anything. If there’s a genre of something you like on another medium, then there probably are some decent shows for that genre in anime.
Lots of anime is written with a specific audience in mind, such as the most well known anime shows being written for teens and young adults. Even more, most anime has a specific gendered audience as its target audience.
I personally didn’t care too much for anime until I watched some very high quality shows that pulled me more into the medium.
Yeah it just seems like a random style of cartoon to me, i dont get why ppl are obsessed w this one type. Im probably just too ignorant
I find the idea bwhind each show is more compelling and tends to be more mature to what the west peovides in the same (animated) genre.
You get the odd show like ‘Invincible’ that is more mature but they are way more rare than on the eastern entertainment domain.
Can’t really say I have noticed much shows that are on the level of ‘Avatar the last airbender’ in western tv (and that alone is a controversial topic of if it’s a western cartoon or more eastern in influence)
FLCL has like 6 episodes and is a good entry point
That is like pushing someone into the deep end of weird.
I know you’re struggling to get into this genre, here try this story about a kid who grows a phallic unicorn horn from his forehead…
Yeah I was probably too young to grasp that when I first watched in ~2003. It was one of the first anime I watched with relatively adult themes, but was drawn in by the art style and music. The sexual overtones were lost on me.
FLCL is great, but it is pretty damned weird and better with knowledge of the material it parodies.
Cowboy Bebop is the entry point to anime. It’s mostly episodic so there’s no need for a huge time investment. You’ll know if you’re going to like it or not after an episode or two. The only problem is that it’s so damned good, it’s only downhill from there.
I’m kinda in this boat but I have a soft spot for anime that I grew up with in the 90s and early 2000’s.
There’s also some more recent stuff that’s been generally OK, but I can never keep up with conversations about it because I’m just not in that sphere at all really.
Hit me with some Gen 1 Pokémon, Avatar: TLA or old Ghibli stuff and I’m waxing poetic instantly lol
Sports culture. Betting, fantasy leagues, statistics. I immediately flatline if the conversation turns to it
Some folks get deep into D&D and build encyclopedic knowledge on estoric spell combos, some delve deep into trains, and some memorize how many lifetime touchdowns Joe Namath has. Dumb, but I understand it.
Its that reason why I say everyone is a nerd about something.
Yah, you may be talking to the former school jock/football star who was barely handed their diploma, but ask them about their sport/the industries around it. You will likely get a better lesson on statistics and managment that you can get out of most text books. (Assuming you can keep the conversation focused)
People usually like talking about their interests.
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with being into football, just like there’s nothing wrong with not being into it. If you’re an asshole about either of those things, that’s a problem.
But they don’t scream at you and call you a weirdo if you say you’re not interested.
Meh, even that is different. One facilitates an activity YOU partake in. The other is an activity you watch others do. Obsessing over how well grown men perform at children’s games is odd. Structuring your weekend around observing other people exercise while you sit on the couch…is weird.
I don’t drive a train though???
Same here. And it used to cripple me during meetings, and basic conversations with coworkers. I’ve worked in sales, construction, and inventory management and the sports convos were inescapable and apparently a huge key to relating to customers and colleagues.
Just could never get into it, and not the type to fake it either. Unless I’m playing the sport, I could give a fuck less about others who I do not and will not ever know playing a sport.
Why people are infatuated with celebrities.
Same reason people like watching TV dramas. It’s escapism. They get to vicariously live someone else’s more colourful life - or are glad they’re not living the celebrity’s real or acted horrible life - for a short while to get away from their own.
And anyone on a screen is usually better-looking as well, which is a big draw.
This is a really fair way to put it. I can’t understand it personally, but I read fantasy books to escape the real world, and I tell anyone I can that I read fiction only because I live in the real world and I’ve had enough of its shit. So appreciate your shedding some light on it, because I certainly didn’t understand it (celebrity nonsense). Still don’t, but maybe I will soon.
That’s a fascinating subject IMO.
Like there is a king/celeb/hero/… hole in ther mind they just must fill.
Fashion
Tiktok and ai chatbots.
Tiktok and most kinds of short form content for me. I have a few friends into Tiktok and I’m sure it’s fun but I just don’t care to check it out.
I’ve tried to see what the appeal of short form content is. Twitter, mastodon, and bluesky have all ended up being a shitty RSS feed interrupted by the opinions of strangers for me. Now I’m just over trying to get it. It’s just another weird ass thing that tonnes of people are into.
Religion. Even when I’ve taken the time to look up the difference is between a Catholic and a Christian, or a Shia and a Sunni, it seems like within minutes at most, that knowledge just sublimates.
difference is between a Catholic and a Christian
Not sure if the error was intentional to make the point that you don’t care, but Catholics are the largest denomination of Christianity, rather than an alternative to it.
The Dutch make a distinction between Catholic and Christian.
looks surprised
goes to check Dutch Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katholicisme
Using Google Translate to convert the overview to English, I get:
Catholicism is considered the largest movement within Christianity. The term derives from the word “catholic” and comes from the Greek (καθολικός - katholikos), meaning general or universal. The term “catholic” was first used in the context of the church by Ignatius of Antioch. In a letter to the Christians of Smyrna in 107, he wrote: “Where Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”[1]
Catholicism is united by two creeds, the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, and can be divided into:
Christians who unite under the Bishop of Rome (the Pope): Roman Catholics
Other Christians who call themselves Catholic
That sounds like they’re classifying it the same way I’d normally see it in the English-speaking world.
I’m talking about the Dutch, not academics and Wikipedia article writers. When someone is talking about someone who is “Christelijk” they mean protestant.
I’m from New Jersey and we all make a very big distinction between Catholicism and Christian. And lots of us were raised Catholic around here, and Christians all seem to be late-in-life converts, at least where I’m from. And I’m a typical nothinger now, but I’d take Catholicism and it’s bullshit (not kid touching) over what I’ve experienced with the Christians around here, never met a faker bunch of people.
Maybe more to mean like the original belief vs the now off-spring?
It’s appel vs fruit. There are lots of types of christianity, chatolicism is a type of christianity.
denomination
Yeah, thats what I thought
My favorite thing about Christianity is how all the different sects pretend that every other sect isn’t actually Christian
Amen brother.
Usually how those divisions occurred is much more interesting.
I’m fascinated that certain ideas have persisted over millennia and curious what it is about them that has captured minds so consistently. Religion, but more broadly spirituality, seems to have a constant presence throughout human conciousness and that is quite remarkable.
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Think of it in terms of gladiator movies, the crusades, the fall of Rome. That shit is history, knights in armor, clash of cultures, and is full of drama as game of thrones
Cricket.
The kardashian universe. I’ve never seen an ep, don’t know their names or whatever the fuck they do or say. As a 30 year old woman I feel like a unicorn not knowing shit about fuck when it comes to that whole thing.
Good for you - seriously, are you single?
LMAO! I’m married and now basically live the life of a 95 year old legit couldn’t be happier. Never had an instagram either. I don’t wanna get caught up in that shit.
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I think it’s funnier if I just never attempt to “get it”
23 skidoo daddy-o!
What’s to get? Not a lot of depth if any to any of these. Like someone huffed glue and laughing at a fly on a wall.
You know what’s funnier than 24 Patrick ?
Much of the outrage culture online is rather foreign to me. It’s not necessarily that I don’t “get” it but I simply can’t relate with the people who engage in it. Writing angry messages about certain people and events, having people pat me on the back for sharing views that they agree with and reading other people sharing these same same views just seems like some kind of fart smelling gathering which simply just doesn’t appeal to me. It’s all just meaningless noise. That kind of “conversation” could go on forever and it wouldn’t ever achieve anything.
You’ve just described 95% of lemmy
Sup, I’m only here to get mad.
Which is why my keyword-based list of content filters grows by the day. Trying to block the noise feels like a full-time-job sometimes.
I straight up quit lemmy for almost a year due to people pushing stuff so hard where even unrelated communities weren’t safe from anything and no one would care because c/all would act as one feed anyway. It really does feel like people want to be outraged for the sake of outraging rather than wanting to change something for the better while doing it at the cost of undermining what they wish to “protect”.
“Can’t stop the signal, Mal.”
Greed. Ignorance. Intolerance.
Your workout, food, or personal hygiene regimen.
Exploitation, expropriation, or extortion.
Your subjective experience of opening a box, playing a video game, or viewing media.
Whatever the newest slang is, the only exception is if I want to embarrass some kids by using it wrong
And a good skidibi toilet to you, sir
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Sports
Sports are fine when you do them. Watching strangers perform is quite uninteresting.
I had a thought while watching the Winter Olympics recently. Perhaps the Olympic Committee could send an every day hobbyist first. As sort of an OMG this course is bonkers. Just watch. Let’s say we take the type of skier hitting the Giant Slalom with nothing but some apres ski big talk & bragging of mogul crushing skills and let the poor mf’er do a gravity and inertia display? I’d watch. Then, the Olympic athletes would showcase their passion, skills & talented dedication towards this common sought goal.
Streaming gaming. I barely game (almost never), so the idea of watching others do it as entertainment is bizzare to me.
I’m cleary in a minority, my kids do it and I’m told it’s akin to watching sports, but whatever - i’m just answering the question Goddamit!
don’t really understand spectator sports either
I’ve always felt like the wrong sports are popular (both to participate in and to watch)
Since the Olympics were on recently, I found myself watching a lot of luge, skeleton, etc. That looks like a fucking blast.
A well put-together marching band or drum corps show is something to behold.
Once in a while you can find a lumberjack competition - log rolling, 2 person crosscut saws, climbing trees with an axe, etc.
But instead of cool stuff like that, we want to watch people fight over a ball.
So the basic question is what’s your reason for watching?
I also think luge looks like a blast … to do. I’ll watch it during the Olympics to bring back childhood memories of sledding. But I can’t imagine watching it in general. There’s no teamwork, no visible skill, no scores, and you can’t see the whole course. All you really have for the spectator is the finishing time and slo-mo instant replay. I’m not saying it doesn’t take skill, of course it does, I’m saying it doesn’t manifest in a visible way for a spectator to appreciate.
There are a few reasons why I’ll watch a stream or let’s play of a video game:
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the sports angle. If you like to play a game, be it basketball or A Link to the Past, watching someone else play it extremely well can be gratifying.
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Additional performance. Streamers themselves are characters, watching someone react to the game can be compelling in a way that’s difficult to describe.
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Rediscovery. Watching someone play a video game I know well can help me see it through fresh eyes. I can never play A Link to the Past for the first time again, but watching someone play it for the first time can help revisit that experience.
I’d like to add to 2.
Some games streamers play, I wouldn’t enjoy myself, but watching them play it and add to it makes it fun.
I’ll watch a lets play of games I play to get new ideas for play style or if I am not understanding a mechanic, or even just to learn how to play in the first place if the tutorial sucks
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It reminds me of being a young man smoking bongs on my friends couch while he plays GTA3. I’d still prefer to watch a friend play a game in person but there’s less time for that these days.
I just gonna TLDR my list:
- Brands
- New Music (Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren)
- Religious fanatics, my parents specifically
- Hookah
- Calculus
I hear ya, especially on #3.
