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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.
Celebrities, French language
Short form content that isn’t a to the point tutorial.
Hell, on that note, tutorial videos where the person rambles on and on and on before finally showing you what to do. I came for a tutorial on how to do something and not a blog!
NFTs. I’m too old for that nonsense
-American health insurance
-High level maths
-American taxes
I just gonna TLDR my list:
- Brands
- New Music (Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren)
- Religious fanatics, my parents specifically
- Hookah
- Calculus
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.
Anything outdoors. Like I go on walks for exercise cause I don’t like the gym, but if I wasn’t trying to lose weight I wouldn’t bother. Anytime I talk to someone and they wanna talk about nature, wild animals, plants, or outdoor sports (honestly sports in general can be added here) I just tune out.
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I think it’s funnier if I just never attempt to “get it”
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Spicy food.
I can’t comprehend how individuals or entire cultures choose to just deal with the pain until they build a tolerance.
Sure it probably made sense when the choice was to starve or to eat something that hurts (even a little), but as soon as non-painful food was available, why continue with the kind containing “Don’t eat me!” chemicals?
I’m with you. And I don’t mind some spice from time to time. In fact, I’ll shill some Dirty Dicks here, absolutely the best hot sauce there is - because it has good flavor, which so much spice seems to forget. I’ll eat with folks who are like “Tapatio on everything!” and I just wonder if they actually like the food they’re eating, or just know that they can tolerate the spice, so anything carrying the spice is palatable.
it’s not painful to people who have a natural tolerance to it
I guess if that’s really a genetic thing and not learned then it makes sense, but that isn’t the impression I’ve gotten.
I’ve definitely met people who physically cannot tolerate spicy food, but then I’ll go and eat the exact same thing and think it’s quite pleasant.
obviously I’m not calling you a liar, but I’ve definitely seen it happen
You don’t dive into the deep end of pain. You start with midline uncomfortable and work your way up.
But why though?
Why do you season things you cook? It’s delicious.
I don’t use seasonings that hurt. And literally can’t imagine a flavor so good it would be worth that.
Everything I’ve had with even the slightest amount of capsaicin is something I thought would be much better without it. In extreme cases I can’t even taste the normal flavors the food would have because the pain is a stronger sensation.
Even a mild Jalepeno?
Especially those.
In some people it causes the body to releases enough internal happy drugs that it is worth the discomfort.
I’ve never understood that either - Is it different from say stubbing a toe or biting a tongue? (Not hard enough to do permanent damage) Those should release endorphins also, right?
It seems to me like people rarely hurt themselves on purpose except food and sex stuff, and the sex stuff appears to be uncommon.
I agree that flaming asshole level of heat is silly. But capsaicin activates heat receptors - people with less tolerance perceive it as pain but for those of us that can tolerate it, it’s more heat coupled with maybe just a little pain. Heat (or the perception of heat) can act as a flavor enhancer.
Every time I put a damn pepper in my mouth I’m like WHY the hell did I just do that? Now my mouth is hot, the food feels so warm I can’t even eat and I hate all of you!! 1!1!! 1
I like a little spice but don’t get the people who are like “I’m ordering the flaming asshole wings. Boy, my asshole is going to be on fire tomorrow.”
You know what I like? Not having a flaming asshole. We live in a world where food has a neverending variety of flavors. Get one of the many delicious flavors that don’t involve scorching your asshole.
Sports culture. Betting, fantasy leagues, statistics. I immediately flatline if the conversation turns to it
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.
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.
Video games. They were fun as a kid on a rainy day but they’re completely lost on me now
video games have come a long way in the last few decades though. the variety of genre, play style, art style, etc. is absolutely astounding for someone that grew up playing bootleg games on a C64. There are some that are basically like an interactive movie, puzzle games, building games, and then your usual shooters and sports and mario-type platformers. If you ignore the AAA-slop, there’s some really high quality content out there.
It’s not about quality.
Don’t be offended, I realize I’m the weirdo here, but they seem so pointless to be so time consuming. Entertainment in general is pointless, but I don’t spend hundreds of hours watching a movie.
I’m not into TV either though, so maybe it’s sitting still that I don’t like.
When I was a child I played and really enjoyed AAA open world games with loads of collectibles like ACBF or Just cause 3.
Nowadays I enjoy rogue likes, story games and visual novels much more. It is less of a time sink and sometimes I really feel like I got value from it. Like insights into myself or reevaluating some beliefs.
Here are some story games I particularly enjoyed:
- Citizen Sleeper
- Epistory
- DDLC
- Novi News
- Oxenfree
- The wolf among us
- Frostpunk New Home
- Frostpunk Last Autumn
- Road 96
- Yes your grace
Rogue likes I enjoy:
- FTL
- Into the breach
- Hyperlight Drifter
- The king is watching
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Out there. Omega edition.
- Banners of ruin.
- Inscription (particularly part 1)
Great puzzle games:
- Talos Principle 1
- Portal 2
- Superliminal
- Stanley Parable
Entertainment is a “social lubricant”, so it’s not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.
The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.
I’m the same way.
Put on a movie and I’m asleep before the first scene is done.
I’m a tinkerer, need something to do with my hands and keep my mind occupied or I lose all interest. Video games often fill that but don’t feel useful in any way. They aren’t even a distraction from my real life, they’re just something to do I guess. Which isn’t what I like to do I guess
For me, video games have always been about “accomplishment,” which is why I don’t think I was ever into the battle royales and that ilk. Do it, win game, repeat. I liked games that you built up to stuff, longer, more difficult levels, that sort of thing. I also enjoyed racing cars in Forza, but that was almost a workout, squeezing the controller, it would get my heart racing. Platformers like Celeste did the same.
I used to enjoy sitting down and playing some shoot em ups with my buddies, but it was more social hour than the game.
Golf
American paranoia that everyone cares what they wack off to.
Starbucks specialty coffees, just go to Dairy Queen already and get out of my line.
At first I thought you were talking about whacking off to golf
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.
FLCL has like 6 episodes and is a good entry point
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.
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’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
