Partying. The whole idea of dressing up to leave one’s home after dark to visit a dimly lit, overly crowded place with overpriced drinks and snacks and music so loud you can’t hear yourself think.
Seems entirely unnecessary. I feel like social connection is so much easier when you can see and hear each other. Being able to get enough sleep and not needing to pay through the nose for 5 peanuts is also nice.
We had this cool medieval style basement tavern where we hammered nails in a stump with an axe, threw axes, played darts, drank beer out of horns and got wasted
Sounds awesome!
I feel like this is only one specific type or partying where you go to a business. There are many forms of DIY partying which involve spending less money and allow you to see and speak to people that you are parting with.
Yeah, that I understand more. At least for people who are more extroverted than I am, lol. But being in a setting in which you can see and hear people while not needing to pay insane prices sounds way more reasonable.
Dark Souls games.
Or Final Fantasy games.
Or GTA.
Alcohol. Or drugs for that matter. But alcohol is the one that actually pisses me off when depicted in media. It’s always some character downing a glass of something and then having this super happy face and enjoying themselves. Like, fuck off? Anyone I know who drinks doesn’t even enjoy the flavor of it, and it being romanticized into this fancy, social drink is genuinely infuriating.
As for drugs, I just don’t understand the reason why someone would want to alter their mental capabilities.
Trauma Trauma can easily make it where you can’t stand your own thoughts or how you feel. So anything that augments that can be very attractive.
I’d day mental health too, even if you don’t have known traumas. Major depression, etc. But I know women who can’t relax or aren’t very intimate unless they drink. But as someone with an alcoholic father, alcohol has some big dark sides. Even if you are happy when you drink, it can really mess your brain up.
As far as drugs go, I’ve tried basically everything but opiates (well I’ve smoked opium, but nothing else. I avoid those) and the way some drugs can change your visual, auditory, and even temporal perceptions is the most amazing and interesting experience in life. It’s truly incredible. I don’t do much anymore, but I’m so happy I have tried what I did. Beyond perception, certain drugs have made me feel pleasure beyond anything I could possibly imagine. Some people told me stuff like that could ruin other pleasures in life, but I have not at all had that happen. Perhaps heroin or fent could do that.
I understand why people do it (logically). But altering what I hear, see, taste, etc. is something that doesn’t call to me at all, so I don’t understand why people want to do it.
I guess it’s more of a “I can’t relate”?
That’s totally fair! I was straightedge for my early life and also didn’t understand. Something changed for me when I was in my 20s. I decided to try cannabis and realized everything I was told about drugs was wrong. I can’t smoke cannabis anymore, it gives me crazy anxiety. But I do take MDMA every four months or so with my partner, because it’s the best feeling I’ve ever experienced!
The coolest drug I’ve taken was 5-MeO-DiPT, or “Foxy”. It altered everything about the world. It was the only thing I’ve ever tried that changed time. My partner at the time and I were listening to music familiar to us, and both noticed notes stretching out way longer than they usually do. The body feelings were also insane. I would never do it again hahaha
Genuine question: have you ever tried alcohol or weed?
Not saying you have to but it would make the point that at least you know what you’re rejecting and why
Don’t enjoy alcohol like that.
It can have a particular taste I might enjoy every while but I know the risls and try to keep it a low number. And I feel like I can be at risk for addictions. So I was never drunk and never plan to.There has only been one alcoholic drink that I’ve enjoyed and it was because it tasted more like juice than alcohol. Also I was 17 at the time (accompanied by trusted adults) so that might’ve influenced it.
I get why people drink, and it’s not like I’ll care about any random person downing drinks left and right. What makes me mad is the overly-romanticized way it’s depicted in media 99% of the time, and how normalized it is.
To each their own, but fuck any depiction in media that romanticizes them.
Absolutely.
Sadly some amazing tasting drinks contain alcohol. :/
And I’d prefer if they just tasted like that without the actual alcohol.Edit: Phrasing ;)
Krispy Kreme donuts. Cold Stone Creamery. Cake Pops.
The one thing Krispy Kreme has going for them is if you can get them fresh and warm, they are pretty damn good, and they generally make them fresh all day. But at least in my area, what they did is open a handful of locations where you could get them freshly-made, let those build some hype for a year or two, then close them down and sell the pre-packaged garbage in grocery stores and gas stations.
IMO they are still generally better than whatever other basic glazed donuts you can buy off the store shelf, but if there’s a local bakery that sells fresh donuts though, 10/10 they will be better than Krispy Kreme.
99% of Krispy Kreme in the UK is sold from a small display in a supermarket, where they’re stone cold and greasy as shit.
Mobile UI. It sucks. Yet the majority of people online are now connecting from it, and everything wants to be an app.
The keyboard is epic though. Totally designed in 6th circle of hell
Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn’t have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.
The Office
The TV Series or the real estate scam by the rich?
Mr. Beast.
Unsubbed from a person that featured him recently.
Can’t support his behaviour and anyone that supports his presence in any capacity.His annoying face is everywhere. Fucking Influencer products everywhere
Those soulless, empty eyes…
turns out hes a POS like witht he people associated with.
SUPREME
Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.
Why do we have to have massive stadiums everywhere ?
Pay for your hobby yourself.
Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.
There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.
I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.
i think there’s some sports that are a bit acquired tastes, like I don’t think the skill is immediately apparent the first time watching soccer, it’s “just people running around”. The strategy, technique etc is not immediately apparent. As opposed to like skateboard tricks or dry tooling/ice climbing competitions, which also have depth but are impressive without any prior knowledge, imo.
For me personally, it’s the fan aspect I don’t get. What’s the point of projecting the us vs. them mentality on some team, “we won”, and foflowing a team almost religiously, even building ones own identity around it, at least in part. In general, getting so emotionally invested in it, i don’t understand. And it seems to mostly be a team sport thing.
Hopefully I can illuminate
Team sport fandom traditionally trends with locality. You grow up with going to the local football stadium on the weekend as one of the options for how you spend your time. Your mates have the same choices, so even if you never pick it, you’re gonna hear about it at the very least
If you spend your time with a team, you get to know the players (which is kinda parasocial in most instances, ngl) and in many cases watch them grow over the years into incredible athletes.
Naturally, people end up proud of the people they support, doing well. It’s part of the human condition
That makes sense, though at least where I’m from it’s usually not local. At least people seem to care most about soccer and ice hockey teams that are not from where they grew up or where they live. Maybe more handed down by parents?
It’s mostly that shared parasocial relationships are weird to me. Like, the benefit of a parasocial relationship is that it helps with loneliness and fill social needs without any pressure. But a shared parasocial relationship, idk. You get pressure/obligations from your peers and you actually have a friend group for fulfilling social needs. at least i never felt an urge to combine my parasocial and social relationships.
I mean, if it was just some activity you did to spend time with friends, sure, i get it. But it seems like the sport itself is more central than a group of friends, to the point of getting ostracized for liking another team. Or getting into fights over which team is better, that kind of stuff. I know that’s not how everyone interacts with team sports, but there is a sizable chunk of people that do take it pretty seriously, and that’s where I don’t follow why they do that and what they get out of it.
There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don’t even ask whether you watch, it’s assumed you do, so they’ll ask stuff like “that match yesterday was awesome, right?” or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can’t comprehend someone doesn’t watch hockey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik&t=130s&pp=2AGCAZACAQ%3D%3D
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Conan O’Brien taught me how to deal with this situation decades ago.
Just say, “yeah, it was a real nailbiter!” that should buy you enough time to run away.
It’s fun seeing someone do something with Incredible skill /or great athleticism. Doesn’t need to be sport per se performance art like acrobatics or artistry e.g. Bob Ross have similar aspects.
Some sports I like to watch I have personally partaken in, in that way I can more appreciate the skill needed by the professionals.
Some sports I don’t know at all but I like to figure out the rules by watching and discovering what makes a great play (American Football is in that category for me).
I can watch sports I don’t play. Like football(both American type and what we call soccer), MMA(although I haven’t watched anything in years), basketball(but only NCAA), hockey, the occasional baseball game. I’ll make an exception for boxing and tennis, those are watchable even when I was deep into them. But golf‽ How does anyone watch that? I get walking the greens, and hitting it every few minutes yourself, but watching someone else just seems so boring.
Especially beyond the local level
I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.
Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.
I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well
I was really rooting for Yuki the most and he lost so many places 😭
granted they did switch something up on him without preparing him for it but stillotherwise man I hope the FIA learns something from this race, it was bloody horrible. I would’ve had a more entertaining time going to church with my father and listening to someone preach for an hour and a half 🙃
You can tell it’s a shit race when the coverage is mostly showing people in 14th-18th position. Normally I like Spa, and I like wet GPs because they’re unpredictable. But this was a procession. Not as bad as Monaco, but nearly.
Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.
I will not play pickleball.
AI, the only people hyped about it are corporate heads, and people trying to get into the industry via grad school pipeline.
hyping content creator as the goal for younger people to become? these people arnt really good models to follow and you hear them get into some kind of drama and find out they are pos: sniperwolf, mr beast, siderman. also liek to mention most current creators are often rich/come from wealth themselves, so it doesnt help people who arnt as rich as they are.
and then people still defending PEWPEWDIE? why are people still trying to give his previous support of bigotry a pass, just because he had a child now.
Most superheroes.
EDIT: SJW admins confirms that I have indeed been downvoted by Superman and Spiderman
Superheroes are gay.
Same LMAO they’re neat but I’ve always been so meh about them. And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again
It’s been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let’s spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn’t know what Batman’s deal is.
I love how the new Superman movie covered that in the first 20 seconds and then jumped in the action.
Holy shit I loved that movie.
I actually don’t know, only read it from reddit/lemmy that his rich parents died or something and now he wants revenge against the criminals that killed them?
also why he has a no kill rule, he doesnt want anyone to end up like he did
Pretty much
And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again
That’s the worst part for me, there are thousands upon thousands of superheroes to make movies about, but it’s always about the same ones. And you know what the sad part is? That every once in a while we get a different superhero with a cool movie/TV show and it either ends up becoming overused like Batman/Superman (e.g. Spider-Man, or Iron man) or it’s completely dropped and forgotten (e.g. Jessica Jones, or Spawn)
Personally superhero movies aremy crowning achievement as far as willing suspension of disbelief goes.
It’s fine that superheroes have powers and/or levels of combat expertise that would be impossible to achieve at their age WITHOUT superpowers. That’s just how it is.
That they solve all major problems by punching people and acting as less murderous COPS, though? THAT’S what I have to force myself to overlook in order to enjoy the escapist silliness I’m watching 😄
i think because mcu and decu have played it too death with subpar garbage most of the time.
Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”
It still is considered that, for reasons.
Because Apple is a marketing company
They’re a dongle company.
- Sell many dongle
- Remove port the dongle plugs into
- Invent NEW dongle
Repeat
How come they manufacture their own chips then?
C’mon bro, be serious. They don’t manufacture shit. They pay other people to manufacture and assemble their products.
It’s expensive and recognized. That’s about it. The UI is neat, I guess.
This is what I don’t get, the UI looks so dated and messy to me. Everything looks like it came out of the 90s and never evolved.
I had an iPhone once, but realized I couldn’t get a torrent client and decided I’ll never use Apple again.
Also if you go to like China, you wouldn’t be able to download a VPN app, whereas with Android, at least you can tell a friend who lives in the west to email you a .apk file.
Misinformed, this.
I only got an Iphone because using Android was severely limited in China and iPhones just work[TM]. VPN use is everywhere and normal there.
“Reality TV”. Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously “make it up as you go along”?
I can’t help but wonder how much the popularity of reality TV led us to where we are now. I don’t just mean how the US president used to have his own stupid show, but how many people grew up thinking that “watching people create drama” is peak entertainment.
The same era saw the decline and demise of a number of educational channels and shows. Is it a coincidence? I don’t know. All I know is there are lots of adults who grew up watching “reality” shows who now think politics are just a game to “win” and that when their opponents are upset, it’s amusing. It’s like the concept of empathy or working together don’t even enter their minds. Everything is just for entertainment, no matter how serious it is or how many innocent people get screwed over by it.
“watching people create drama”
Same reason soap operas are popular and why wrestling used to be huge (maybe wrestling still is huge, but I don’t feel like I hear about it as much).
People like drama. That it’s contrived doesn’t matter, it’s still drama.
This and 24-hour “news entertainment” are fully responsible for society’s woes, far as I can tell.
It’s cheap to make. People watch other people at their packagable worst. That’s about it.
