Just as examples:

  • I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
  • tiredofsametab
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    Pokemon here. I played go for like 20 mins. I was in highschool and super busy when the first came out and never got interested.

    Game of thrones and a ton of shows (when I lived in the US. I’ve been living in Japan the last 10 years so I have no clue what’s current).

    Also hawk tuah and such. I don’t have TikTok or basically any social media anymore so no clue what’s going on.

  • @[email protected]
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    I have bookshelves full of Superman comics, graphic novels, books, basically anything in print I can get my hands on. And I’ve read every last one of them. I grew up on Christopher Reeve Superman films and will still watch all 4 of them. I’ve watched the old Fleischer cartoons, Super Friends, the 90s animated series, and all Justice League shows. I own the entire Smallville series on DVD. I was one of the dozen or so people who subscribed to DC streaming service before Max. And I’ve watched every Superman movie and TV show that came out in the last 25 years.

    I’ve never gone back and watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. There is no reason I’ve never watched it other than I just haven’t gotten around to it.

  • @[email protected]
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    305 months ago

    Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”

    I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.

    • @[email protected]
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      I loved the books, but just kept wincing trying to watch the TV series, never made it through.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve tried multiple times, but it doesn’t gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also ‘lotr with abundant sex’ just doesn’t sit well with me.

      And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.

        They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can’t think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I’d say that most fantasy that I’ve read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.

        That being said, I’m basing this on the books.

        • @[email protected]
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          Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.

          But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison

    • @[email protected]
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      35 months ago

      I’ve read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        Honestly odd to me. I mean its expected for any show to become irrelevant when it ends, thats normal. But the way it was hated on i dont get. The ending was exactly what was foreshadowed since the first season, but people were still confused and angry as if it was an illogical story progression.

        I actually rewatched the whole thing starting last week and finished it today. All the characters make sense, they did what the always said they would. Maybe that was boring for people.

        • @[email protected]
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          Fair enough, if you didn’t notice a drop in quality or whiplash character/plot developments all I can say is that I’m kinda jealous.

          I will disagree with you on the fact that it’s normal for any show to become irrelevant when it ends. Shows that are good enough and capture audiences the way GoT did initially can go on to become much more and maintain relevance potentially for decades. It’s rare, sure, but I think the opportunity was there with GoT.

          • @[email protected]
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            One trope that I really hate are these bypasses where characters almost meet but then miss each other. Happens way to often in this show.

            Thanks for the links :)

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          While the ending is exactly what I expected it to be, I think the last season was rushed. But I agree, I don’t get the hatred people gave it, I had stopped watching a few seasons back, but watched the last one because people around me were watching it, but from the books it was fairly clear that that was the ending all along.

    • Rob T Firefly
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      75 months ago

      I’ve never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don’t feel the need to.

  • tover153
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    45 months ago

    Someday, I am going to watch “The Notebook”, and “Forest Gump”, not on the same day.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      These things could work as a meetup thing. I also haven’t. I think I’d be more enticed if I gathered with a bunch of randoms who also haven’t seen it, and watched it together

  • Horsey
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    I can’t make it more than an hour though the first Lord Of The Rings without falling asleep. It just doesn’t fancy me.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve never seen 2001: Space Odyssey, I already tried watching it multiple times, but always end up falling asleep.

    Similarly, I’ve never managed to finish Firefly, usually watch a couple of episodes and forget about it.

    Also up until very recently (less than 2 years ago) I had never played any Call of Duty games.

  • @[email protected]
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    Yes, all three of those.

    I’m also not really into superhero stuff so I’ve seen like 2 Marvel movies.

  • @[email protected]
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    35 months ago

    I know it’s been out forever and a day, but Prometheus being in the Alien canon is kind of a spoiler.

  • Rob T Firefly
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    I didn’t watch the show Firefly. I had already been using this screenname for a long time when that show came out, but people began to assume I was a fan and named myself after it.

    While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

    I do have the DVDs on my shelf, having picked them up cheap secondhand ages ago thinking I might just get it over with someday, but the more I’ve learned about Joss Whedon over the years the less inclined I find myself to check it out.

    • @[email protected]
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      Joss Whedon is problematic, but dang he made some good TV. There’s a reason Firefly got a movie after not getting picked up (Serenity, it’s also great), and a reason it still has a devoted following to this day.

      …But oh man that opening song… lol

    • @[email protected]
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      While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

      fwiw, Firefly is nothing like Buffy.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    145 months ago

    I’ve never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there’s an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.

  • I Cast Fist
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    I never watched Game of Thrones. I only watched the very last episode because the friends decided it’d be fun to watch, and even then I was disappointed lol

    I also never read any books based on any RPG or other games (D&D, World of Darkness, 40k)

  • @[email protected]
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    155 months ago

    I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.

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    I’ve never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.

    I’ve never seen a harry potter film.

    • @[email protected]
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      The harry potter movies were not good. Daniel Radcliff, however good of an actor he is now, back then, wasn’t. he literally ruined those movies.

    • @[email protected]
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      I fell asleep during all of the Harry Potter movies I tried to watch. That’s not meant as a judgement on the quality of those movies. I just couldn’t help it.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni
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      115 months ago

      You’re not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It’s one of those stories that are “just there”. Not really much depth.

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      i was thinking i’m weird when my friends are talking about harry potter and i only know few things about it while they talk the whole story 😭

    • @[email protected]
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      I was not interested in Harry Potter until I visited the Universal Studios portrayal of Diagon Alley, that is really well done and sucked me right in. Watched all the movies after that. Even then the plots weren’t amazing but the world building is great.

  • @[email protected]
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    Star wars and Lord of the Rings

    I’ve seen enough clips and overviews and “facts about” clips to understand that I am not interested enough to invest the time it would take to watch either series. The story of the production of Star Wars is very interesting, the actual story the movies tell, not so much.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    45 months ago

    I technically only played my first pokemon game (official) on emulator around 2020, despite my brother having gen 1, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about that personally.

    Anyways, some people would probably look at me weird for never having played games like any Resident Evil games or any of the Mass Effect games or really many games like them (BioShock series not included, love those games). Same thing for anything Final Fantasy (excluding 10 on PS2, which I never finished and lost the memory card with my save file). Name just about any game over the past decade that won awards at a big game show and there’s a real good chance I’ve never played them once. Never played on a Wii U (a blessing), Xbox past 360, or anything past PS3.

    I have also never seen most of the marvel Rickey Rats owned films. Same with a lot of live action films. Name a real popular one to come out over the past decade, maybe decade and a half, and I probably have not seen it (Sonic not included because I actually enjoyed the first couple and cannot wait to eventually see the third despite the VA of Shadow). Hell, even growing up I didn’t watch many live action films because I just didn’t care compared to the amazing world of animated cartoons, so my knowledge of live action films is a lot lower than my cartoon knowledge.

    Speaking of cartoons/animation, I have never watched a single episode of Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kono Suba, or JoJo, among an absolutely massive list of anime that currently have relevance and such that are currently popular and in people’s minds. Also never seen influential older stuff like YuYu Hakusho or Fist of the North Star either.