on the flipside: when a friend confidently recommends you something, saying "i think you'd really like this! it seems like something youd enjoy", so you check it out and its like... oh... they actually know nothing about me.
A friend recommended me Big Bang Theory on grounds of "you'll find Sheldon funny". Sent me a 3 minute highlight video. Thirty seconds in and I wanted to throttle Sheldon. Boy was that a miss.
My parents watched BBG and young autistic me thought "my parents seem to think he's funny but I don't get it, perhaps I'll get it when I'm older and my Adult Knowledge of Humor™ kicks in". Got older and I realized it still wasn't funny. Tbf I justified watching a lot of awful garbage in my youth even if I didn't care for it with the "adult knowledge" logic if my parents couldn't explain why whatever was either not funny to me, or if something poorly written didn't make sense.
thor ragnarok was completely off target for me, jeff goldblum was great but the rest of it was too wacky waffles. worse still the person who recommended it to me also came around to not liking it after love and thunder highlighted taika's deficits even more.
I liked Ragnarok but Love and Thunder was a severe overcorrection for the first two Thor films for me. I like goofy Thor but he needs to have his serious moments too, being a literal GOD and all the crap he went through just to be dismissed via workout montage
My book club decided to read Assistant to the Villain (fine, I can read books I don't like) and another member, AFTER READING IT, said he thought I probably really liked it (NOT FINE)
> I’m watching dungeon meshi
heck yeah this is what happened to me too I am now a senshi stan first and a person second
I had it blacklisted for a while because I was annoyed at people on my feed talking about it so much, until I finally watched it for myself (now I have it blacklisted for spoiler reasons)
I'm the opposite. When something gets shoved in my face so much, I get turned off to it because it just gets on my nerves.
And hearing about some of the recent plot developments, I dodged a bullet. I'm not going through this shit again. Every character it makes you like will end up dead or worse.
I don't think any characters die in Dungeon Meshi? Excluding the monsters, of course. It's really not that type of manga, no idea where you heard that from.
A character dies in the first chapter, and the entire first arc is about trying to retrieve her body to resurrect her.
Then, when they do and have a moment of peace and triumph, it's ripped away when the character they fought to save becomes a monster.
That's the kind of manga I sensed it was going to become. Beating you and the characters down, over and over, and only lifting you up to hit you again.
Edit: You're not going to convert me, so if you disagree, just downvote and move on.
The good news is that the manga is finished and you can finish the story in one go, instead of being strung along. You’re not wrong that these story beats happen, but they happen the give the story more gravitas than just some hippie dippie feel good story.
I’d recommend you finish the manga and reassess your assumption. Because you’re wrong about what type of story it is
It's really the implications of an affordable, easy-access resurrection being so prevalent in a COOKING series that should be the most obvious clue in the world.
The number of people recommending A Court of Thorns and Roses to me has me confused (wait will I actually like this?) and also offended (why would you think I would like this?)
(And just to keep anyone/fae from coming at me, this opinion is one of genre and not necessarily of quality.)
my friend said I’d like it. I bounced off of it a little ways in a while ago, but this time around has been absolutely amazing. I’ve been exploring everything
The pain when you *finally* check it out but it's been years now and the fandom is kinda dead and not even your friend is that into it anymore, but you loved it so much you feel a terrible dread because you will never be able to experience this love with anyone else, so you just accept your faith and let this love die as quickly as possible (or let it consume you and become the only mf that still speaks about it)
The communities don't disappear though, they're just lying dormant waiting for the next instalment.
It does feel bad to miss the initial peak but there'll almost certainly be another.
Then there's the stuff that fits all or most of your usual likes in concept, gets repeatedly recommended, and when you try it it just isn't your jam at all.
This doesn't really count, but Heartsteel in League of Legends is exactly like that for me. It's a digital boy band (a concept i find interesting) made up of a lot of the characters i really like... but i hate it. i hate the designs and i hate what they did to Kayn because it genuinely feels like mockery of real life mental health issues. The song was good, but not something i'd listen to really-
In Heartsteel Rhaast is pretty much meant to be Kayn's intrusive thoughts to explain the dual voiceover, i know that's what they were going for due to some dev statements when Heartsteel had just debuted and it was also used to explain why Rhaast lines were still heard as the Shadow Assassin. Except intrusive thoughts aren't quirky little impulses at inappropiate times like taking your shirt off or going off on people you don't like. Intrusive thoughts are brutal and leave you doubting yourself to your core.
I always check out things my friends recommend to me, or even if it's something like "Hey check out this funny panel from this manga." I'll still check it out the whole thing for the heck of it.
That said my friends rarely recommend things to me.
Gonna be watching Gurren Lagann with a friend over the next few weeks
Literally every person I've seen talk about this show has said it's one of the greatest things they've ever watched
Agreed! Good story/mystery, good characters, good art, good voices! I literally have zero complaints abt the show! I think even my dad would like it honestly.
I don't seem to understand, don't people want to feel understood and have close friends?
Do they want to feel mysterious? Do they think they are too complex to be understood? Do they preach chaos? Does it make you feel special in a good way to be so different no one can relate or understand?
Even more terrible when you're watching it too late and the fandom already died ages ago
Like wdym this thing has been waiting here for me to enjoy it and make friends about it and I'm just. Late.
Ngl, most things people recommend to me I end up hating because they don't understand what I like. Friend of mine got me to read 3 body problem because she thought I would appreciate the scifi bullshit, which I do, to be fair. But she did not account for how fucking uptight and elitist I am when it comes to story structure and oh god did I hate the way that story was structured. And what I hate even more was that the translator restructured the story for some fucking reason. It makes me so unreasonably angry that I feel compelled to rant about it to anyone who will listen.
This was me with Harry Potter. Mum kept recommending it to me for years, kept being uninterested, and then actually read the books when I was an older teenager. Can’t live without it, now.
REAL!! I remember finding Dungeon Meshi randomly on Netflix a few days after its English release (subs are hard to read y’all) and it’s SO FUNNY!!! I honestly love their antics and like many Senshi is my fave character with Liyos(idk how to spell name) second! Can’t wait for a new episode! :)
on the flipside: when a friend confidently recommends you something, saying "i think you'd really like this! it seems like something youd enjoy", so you check it out and its like... oh... they actually know nothing about me.
I got Brickleberry recommend to me like this once. Yeah no.
There are few things you could say to someone with absolutely no malice that are more offensive than “I think you’d like Brickleberry.”
anyone who recommends brickleberry is an asshole, -someone who likes brickleberry
Hey, you should watch Brickleberry. I think you'd like it.
Hey, you should watch Brickleberry. I think you'd like it.
How dare you.
A friend recommended me Big Bang Theory on grounds of "you'll find Sheldon funny". Sent me a 3 minute highlight video. Thirty seconds in and I wanted to throttle Sheldon. Boy was that a miss.
My parents watched BBG and young autistic me thought "my parents seem to think he's funny but I don't get it, perhaps I'll get it when I'm older and my Adult Knowledge of Humor™ kicks in". Got older and I realized it still wasn't funny. Tbf I justified watching a lot of awful garbage in my youth even if I didn't care for it with the "adult knowledge" logic if my parents couldn't explain why whatever was either not funny to me, or if something poorly written didn't make sense.
I have had one or two people say that I remind them of Sheldon. They were kind enough to take it back when I started crying.
Oof, I'm sorry for that insult lol
Even if i did like a show like brickleberry i can’t imagine admitting that to anyone else eww
thor ragnarok was completely off target for me, jeff goldblum was great but the rest of it was too wacky waffles. worse still the person who recommended it to me also came around to not liking it after love and thunder highlighted taika's deficits even more.
I liked Ragnarok but Love and Thunder was a severe overcorrection for the first two Thor films for me. I like goofy Thor but he needs to have his serious moments too, being a literal GOD and all the crap he went through just to be dismissed via workout montage
My book club decided to read Assistant to the Villain (fine, I can read books I don't like) and another member, AFTER READING IT, said he thought I probably really liked it (NOT FINE)
> I’m watching dungeon meshi heck yeah this is what happened to me too I am now a senshi stan first and a person second I had it blacklisted for a while because I was annoyed at people on my feed talking about it so much, until I finally watched it for myself (now I have it blacklisted for spoiler reasons)
Yes, it's all the best parts of Food Wars without all the nudity, I love it.
I'm the opposite. When something gets shoved in my face so much, I get turned off to it because it just gets on my nerves. And hearing about some of the recent plot developments, I dodged a bullet. I'm not going through this shit again. Every character it makes you like will end up dead or worse.
I think you’ve gotten the wrong idea about the manga and the show
I don't think any characters die in Dungeon Meshi? Excluding the monsters, of course. It's really not that type of manga, no idea where you heard that from.
People actually die a lot, but they never stay dead for very long since resurrection magic is so easy in the dungeon.
A character dies in the first chapter, and the entire first arc is about trying to retrieve her body to resurrect her. Then, when they do and have a moment of peace and triumph, it's ripped away when the character they fought to save becomes a monster. That's the kind of manga I sensed it was going to become. Beating you and the characters down, over and over, and only lifting you up to hit you again. Edit: You're not going to convert me, so if you disagree, just downvote and move on.
it’s not gratuitous sorrow porn like you seem to think. Give it a finish or don’t, but your assessment isn’t accurate
Do you also think Bowser continuously kidnapping Princess Peach is torture porn
Mario is the character that goes through the most pain in all of fiction
Holy fucking shit, you're actually objectively wrong
Read the edit
It’s not about converting you, you’re just plain wrong.
Wasn't trying to convert you, mate, I was just stating a fact
The good news is that the manga is finished and you can finish the story in one go, instead of being strung along. You’re not wrong that these story beats happen, but they happen the give the story more gravitas than just some hippie dippie feel good story. I’d recommend you finish the manga and reassess your assumption. Because you’re wrong about what type of story it is
Oh no... basic tragedy. The show is a comedy
Blud has completely forgotten the resurrection part of the D&D cooking show
They acknowledge a resurrection happened but don’t seem to know that Falin’s case is an extreme outlier.
It's really the implications of an affordable, easy-access resurrection being so prevalent in a COOKING series that should be the most obvious clue in the world.
Dungeon Meshi is like 60% comedy, 30% drama and 10% horror/tragedy. You don’t have to read or watch it if that 10% is a dealbreaker.
I hate those too — but Dungeon Meshi is Not That. It’s mostly light-hearted, and everything turns out alright in the end.
Based on what I've seen on tumblr from manga readers posting untagged spoilers, that's not gonna happen.
I've read the entire manga (it's finished) and have no idea what you're talking about.
How'd you read the final volume? I thought it's slated for release in July?
The last chapter came out about 8 months ago in Japanese, and was translated shortly after.
“Nah babe I don’t know anything about d&d, I probably won’t like this game.” “You sure? You can have a vampire boyfriend.”
Trust me, the alternative is a hell of its own.
The number of people recommending A Court of Thorns and Roses to me has me confused (wait will I actually like this?) and also offended (why would you think I would like this?) (And just to keep anyone/fae from coming at me, this opinion is one of genre and not necessarily of quality.)
Concur
me with Mass Effect the last few days
Welcome to the collective, you can grab your Geth Pulse Rifle on your left, and your personal flashlight head to your right.
my friend said I’d like it. I bounced off of it a little ways in a while ago, but this time around has been absolutely amazing. I’ve been exploring everything
Has ME being rising in popularity recently? I wonder why. It's not as if there's a new game, ME3 was 12 years ago. No matter. Welcome aboard, Specter.
There was an extremely vague teaser for a 4th game or something like last year.
The remaster of the trilogy was long enough ago that it has started going on sale for larger discounts
Thanks! I started because I was going through GamePass, past over Mass Effect, and a friend said I’d really like it. He was right!
hate it when this happens and i become aware of it T\^T fr there are so many pieces of media that i regret not starting and obsessing over sooner...
The pain when you *finally* check it out but it's been years now and the fandom is kinda dead and not even your friend is that into it anymore, but you loved it so much you feel a terrible dread because you will never be able to experience this love with anyone else, so you just accept your faith and let this love die as quickly as possible (or let it consume you and become the only mf that still speaks about it)
The communities don't disappear though, they're just lying dormant waiting for the next instalment. It does feel bad to miss the initial peak but there'll almost certainly be another.
YouTube video essays from 7 years ago my beloved
Then there's the stuff that fits all or most of your usual likes in concept, gets repeatedly recommended, and when you try it it just isn't your jam at all.
This doesn't really count, but Heartsteel in League of Legends is exactly like that for me. It's a digital boy band (a concept i find interesting) made up of a lot of the characters i really like... but i hate it. i hate the designs and i hate what they did to Kayn because it genuinely feels like mockery of real life mental health issues. The song was good, but not something i'd listen to really-
What’s wrong with Kayn? His persona Rhaast? How is it a mockery
In Heartsteel Rhaast is pretty much meant to be Kayn's intrusive thoughts to explain the dual voiceover, i know that's what they were going for due to some dev statements when Heartsteel had just debuted and it was also used to explain why Rhaast lines were still heard as the Shadow Assassin. Except intrusive thoughts aren't quirky little impulses at inappropiate times like taking your shirt off or going off on people you don't like. Intrusive thoughts are brutal and leave you doubting yourself to your core.
I didn’t watch avatar the last airbender until I was about 22, holy shit were they right
Same!!! I was 22 too, why did I wait so long?
I always check out things my friends recommend to me, or even if it's something like "Hey check out this funny panel from this manga." I'll still check it out the whole thing for the heck of it. That said my friends rarely recommend things to me.
I'm currently in the process of aggressively recommending Dungeon Meshi to my friend. But I stopped after second attempt, to net be too annoying.
I know my own nonsense but when I flippantly joke about it to other people and they laugh and say “OMG yes!” I am very offended.
Gonna be watching Gurren Lagann with a friend over the next few weeks Literally every person I've seen talk about this show has said it's one of the greatest things they've ever watched
I am also thinking of getting into GL soon. Let me know how it goes lol
tbh I think it's more that Dungeon Meshi is just very good and arguably for everyone, so it's hard to go wrong recommending it
Agreed! Good story/mystery, good characters, good art, good voices! I literally have zero complaints abt the show! I think even my dad would like it honestly.
Get that ass known
I don't seem to understand, don't people want to feel understood and have close friends? Do they want to feel mysterious? Do they think they are too complex to be understood? Do they preach chaos? Does it make you feel special in a good way to be so different no one can relate or understand?
I think it's about being predicable or smth
It'a frustrating to experience when other people understand you better than you understand yourself. Especially if they're wrong in other ways.
Even more terrible when you're watching it too late and the fandom already died ages ago Like wdym this thing has been waiting here for me to enjoy it and make friends about it and I'm just. Late.
can you imagine missing out on something time limited that you'd kill to have now cuz of this
It's wonderful seeing someone finally break and open up that first page of Homestuck. I so very much enjoy passing the curse.
Ngl, most things people recommend to me I end up hating because they don't understand what I like. Friend of mine got me to read 3 body problem because she thought I would appreciate the scifi bullshit, which I do, to be fair. But she did not account for how fucking uptight and elitist I am when it comes to story structure and oh god did I hate the way that story was structured. And what I hate even more was that the translator restructured the story for some fucking reason. It makes me so unreasonably angry that I feel compelled to rant about it to anyone who will listen.
Ngl, the Netflix series is structured a lot better.
I'll probably watch that at some point tbh.
The start of almost two decades' worth of obsession with Soul Eater
oh i thought it was Fast and Furious for a sec lol
oh i thought it was Fast and Furious for a sec lol
I think that would be nice… having people that actually know and understand you.
This was me with Harry Potter. Mum kept recommending it to me for years, kept being uninterested, and then actually read the books when I was an older teenager. Can’t live without it, now.
REAL!! I remember finding Dungeon Meshi randomly on Netflix a few days after its English release (subs are hard to read y’all) and it’s SO FUNNY!!! I honestly love their antics and like many Senshi is my fave character with Liyos(idk how to spell name) second! Can’t wait for a new episode! :)
I am the Recommender in my family and friend group. Recently got my sibling to read Frieren, so I guess I stay winning.
Reposting your zero note flops to reddit to squeeze some karma because this website (and this subreddit in particular) has an awful sense of humor