Undertale.
That is a really creative use of the meme template!
I’ve got a coworker who loves Formula 1. She’s seen me nerd out about my special interests with our students (mainly astronomy) and has told me often how much she wished she had someone to nerd out about Formula 1 with. I feel for her, but if most fans are bad news then maybe she’s dodging a bullet?
Definitely dodged a bullet.
Or liking things that doesn’t have a big fan base works too. For instance, a lot of novels.
Meanwhile, when novels do have a relatively large fanbase, boy, better stay away from them
Ive found Dungeon Crawler Karl fans are really nice people.
And yet the Brandon Sanderson fandom is pretty non-toxic.
That is such a ravenclaw thing to say.
Brb, writing GRRM a letter asking him to finish writing my slop before he dies.
First two books of ASoI&F were pretty good, I thought. Then the rest were just him writing himself in circles, ever more slowly. Then the TV adaptation came out, to initially great acclaim, and then ended with a damp fart.
Yes, there were more problems with the end of the show than just his plot, or lack of it, but I can’t see that the ending will be redeemed without substantial changes, and his skills as a writer don’t really extend to “writing towards the desired ending”.
I think if we do ever get a conclusion to the book series, it will be written by someone else; I believe he’s left instructions to destroy all his notes and work-in-progress when he dies?
I believe he’s left instructions to destroy all his notes and work-in-progress when he dies?
Do you trust it to be more profitable to follow those instructions or to disobey them?
Even if you interact with the fandom, you are certainly not doing it in public, be it on forum, Reddit, Lemmy or Discord, you will encour the risk of gettin flashed with either some strange images or see other things you don’t wanna see and this get worse the bigger the fandom get
Let me in!
Star Wars. It’s not perfect, and sometimes bad, but avoiding the fanbase gives me peace.
No one hates star wars / Trek like star wars / Trek fans.
It’s not easy, but you can like them both and still dislike the fans.
I find it extremely easy to like both and dislike the fans!
It’s the rule of 3! For both Star Wars / Trek, I only like 3 movies / series!
Which ones? [Hehe…]
I’m old school. For SW it’s the OG trilogy all the way. For Trek it’s TOS, TNG, and DS9!
“All ‘jedi’ had was a bunch of muppets.”
I actually liked the most recent star wars movie. there I said it.
I desperately hope you don’t mean episode 9.
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but damn, do you even like the rest of it? Or other sci-fi and fantasy in general?
The absolute disrespect of not bothering to try to create a coherent world in episodes 7-9 was staggering.
If a piece of media’s plot or storytelling is a bit meh, that’s forgivable, but when you’re just straight up not bothering to think of the logistics or established rules within a fantasy/sci-fi world? Please no. Please stop.
Or at least be writing something supernatural where there are barely any rules and you can hand waive whatever you like.
I’m not the biggest fan of 9, I liked the mandalorian movie
Ah, I haven’t been keeping up to date! Shall check it out :)
Not in love with all of Disney star wars, but Andor is hands down the greatest Star Wars I’ve seen, so I’ll forgive them for the rest of the stuff I don’t like as much (not including Star Wars episodes 7-9, straight to jail)
I just couldnt get into andor, and I say that thinking the best star wars movie is rogue one lmao. it was just a little bit too much talking for me.
I gave up on it midway through season two, maybe I’ll give it another shot now that xmen 97 ended its second season
I suppose we just enjoy different things about Star Wars then, for me it’s all about the world building, and seeing how characters act within it, the battles and action are just a climax to everything else (I feel this way about all sci-fi and fantasy).
Not saying you only watch it for the battles, but I do mostly watch it for the talking haha
It’s why I still very much enjoy the prequels, despite them being pretty shoddy on the plot (Anakin’s fall could have been written soooo much better written it hurts. Probably would have needed an extra movie to really sell it though. The Clone Wars TV show episode where Tarkin and Anakin meet for the first time was great if I recall correctly. It made kinda make sense why Anakin bought into fascism in the end.)
To me there’s no such thing as a food sci-fi and fantasy without politics (in the sense that there’s some disagreement which motivates people). More trade disputes and blockades please, less holdo maneuvers that break existing rules of the world. The holdo maneuver would have been great to destroy the Death Star with some Kamikaze X-Wings jumping to hyperspace through it…
The battles, to me, are only interesting if one fleshes out the world and the political disagreements.
I once started watching a Chinese fantasy show (was learning Chinese, and like sci-fi/fantasy) and it opened with a 10 minute battle, no context. Immediately turned it off, like why do I care, show?
The Mandalorian and Grogu or Rise of Skywalker?
The fucks a grogu
Baby Yoda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grogu
That’s not a baby yoga that’s a glug shitto
mandalorian.
I like that one as well. It’s cool to watch Mando do PG John Wick stuff, Rotta the Hutt was a surprisingly chill dude which was neat, and that part in the middle that was all puppets was a lot of fun to watch. Babu Frik was (in my opinion) the only good part of Rise of Skywalker, and the other little dudes in Mandalorian and Grogu were just as fun!
I’m sure there a plenty of people who enjoy Harry Potter, who’ve never heard of the controversy.
And, I hope they never do. Let people enjoy things.
Go ahead and downvote me now.
You’re hoping for people to unknowingly support a transphobic activist? For the sake of enjoying a mediocre book series? Odd priorities.
They’re hoping that someone can enjoy one single thing in their life without being told they’re a garbage human being for supporting “X”, or who didn’t do “Y”, or who is related to/was roommates with/worked with over the Z years the author(s) were alive.
It’s like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon except somebody somewhere thinks someone involved is a POS, and now you are too for liking it.
Rowling is alive and very active, though. This isn’t a tenous connection by way of vague association, the author in question is (1) alive, (2) profits from buying their shit and (3) uses that money to make the world worse.
Every few years I find a kpop act I like but holy shit, the fanbase is fucking horrible. I’d rather try getting into League again before I’d interact with those creatures.
My exception to this rule is Pokémon ROM hacks, relatively small fan base though which helps
I have found another.
Did you try Phoenix Red 2.0 yet? I’m also excited for the 2 remakes of Alola that are upcoming.
I haven’t! I’m going through Elysium for the first time on an Rg34xx, feels sooooo cool.
The Aloha ones are like my most anticipated games on the horizon, not just for rom hacks but full stop! Lazarus was easily my favorite game of the year, I’m really trying not to do a 4th play through lol
Lazarus was so good. I ended up throwing speed up on to shiny hunt all the static encounters towards the end of the game. Was a great time.
Plus I loved the Alolan Raichu buff. Surge Surfer creating an electric terrain + Choic Specs/Focus Sash meant that my Raichu was dominating. Just had to watch for the occasional sucker punch or pursuit haha.
I had fun with Odyssey, too. I’m not as excited for Odyssey 2, however. Not really sure why actually.
Pokémon fans make the best Pokémon games and it’s not even close
Probably a good idea, OP. The F1 fanbase has become a circus in the past decade. A lot of newcomers bringing their tribalism mentality of other sports along with them, not understanding how F1 works.
If you actually do want to get involved in a motorsport fanbase, GTs. But watching the NLS stream with chat while Max is in a team can be fatiguing. 100+ teams on track over many classes, so effectively 16 races going on, and every five mins his fanbase, that has no idea what they’re watching, start arguing about F1. Some genuinely say it’s their first GT race and ask a lot of questions, the fanbase is thrilled and explains everything with welcoming arms.
Definitely true. I’m a 43 year old guy who’s loved F1 since the 90’s and living in a small rural town I didn’t even have anyone to talk to about F1 in person. Fortunately, but in the end, unfortunately there is a coworker on a different crew. That is a big Formula 1 fan, but he is a Max fan and I by fan I mean one of “those” Max fans. He is very short tempered about any race that Max doesn’t win and he is still convinced that McLaren cheated last year to win. And also sadly he is very racist towards Lewis and Yuki so I don’t interact with him at all.
Oh they just don’t get F1 yet.
Talk about the mid-pack teams only with him. We all know the good shit is with Alpine, RB, Haas, and crossing fingers for Williams and Audi. Following one driver and one team, may as well just put the 4 min YT highlights on instead of watch the actual racing.
Maybe remind him the Max has no trophies. They all go back to the team after the race.
lemmy.world/c/formula1 is small enough that we occasionally acknowledge a race happened.
Sonic the Hedgehog for me. I love the franchise, but I stay clear of the fandom. So many weird people latch onto Sonic stuff and make it all icky and creepy. I guess that’s what happens when a company like SEGA claims “Everything is canon.”
I at least like that a few pieces of Sonic media lampshade this.
In one episode of Sonic Boom (a show designed to be watched high by adults) he’s kidnapped by an aardvark that’s a rabid fan.
“Oh! N-no, I wasn’t trying to escape, I was just…reading some of this fanfiction! Ooh. Sonamy, spicy!”
“Oh. Yeah, I don’t really even care for it, but it seems requisite for the readers.”This is kinda funny for me because “Sega” is an Italian slang to say “masturbation” which seems rather fitting to the fandom
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sega
Amazing. I will never see it the same.
Truly the most elegant language ✨
Also perverts. I was absolutely obsessed with Sonic Archie comics and finding forums as a kid was how I learned about furry porn. Scarred and older, a decade later, saw how cool Sonic Mania was and wanted to interact with others. And there it was again… Pervert shit.
I’ve been mostly obsessed with the comics as well. I built a website just to track all the comics and arrange their covers in proper reading order.
It’s out of date right now (I’m currently working to get it updated, actually), but all the Archie Sonic comics are listed in order. You can check it out here.
Hey this is really cool! It has like a nice retro website vibe!
People like you make the internet awesome!
This is the way.
My god the F1 crowd is awful. There is no debate on rules or issues, there is only “I’m right and your a fucking idiot for disagreeing”. I want to get more into GT3 as I’ve always preferred it in racing sims, but it’s kind of hard to follow comparatively.
For sure I don’t think F1 is gonna change for the better anytime soon with the fan base. But yes there are definitely other options to watch. WEC is goated right now and WRC is as well too. The WRC needs some new regulation because it’s slowing becoming off road F1 in terms of cost. Super GT is always has a special place in my heart too.
Everyone is saying this fanbase bad or this fanbase bad it seems they have forgotten football exists and Liverpool
how do you enjoy this stuff knowing that the impacts of every gallon of gas guzzled for ‘just funsies’ is dooming our children’s environment?
just curious.
Yes that is very important to me as well. If I’m honest I just turn my brain off while I watch it. I know that’s not the answer you are probably looking for but it’s a small enjoyment in my life with all the craziness and negativity in the world.
racing EV’s would be more exciting. especially unlimited.
I fucking hate the culture that normalizes rushing headlong into our own destruction, not just idling along, but mashing the gas into the floorboards
racing EV’s would be more exciting.
Formula-E has been a thing for a few years, and this year notably included a mandate to drastically increase the reliance on the battery units over the ICEs for power in F1. In either case, it’s not really there yet, but I’m looking forward to the day that it does get there.
Formula E had (I don’t know if it’s been rectified since) a pretty significant issue with the batteries just not being able to last for F1 race distances on several tracks. They haven’t got the top speed and endurance at those speeds that the F1 hybrids deliver, and because it’s a racing sport, you can’t just make the battery larger to add capacity without a significant impact on your race pace, nor can they just pop into the pits and patiently wait for a rapid charge to finish topping off their batteries.
That aside, I can’t imagine Formula E really manages to deal much better with the major source of pollution and emissions for F1, which is shipping a full track worth of cars, drivers and support crew around the world many times a year. Of course, in that regard, I don’t know how many of the Formula E drivers are actual pulling in the sort of money to be owning and maintaining private jets for this purpose, and at least one of the F1 drivers has sold his off. I remember Lewis Hamilton used to get a lot of flack for telling people to go vegan to save the planet while using a private jet 20 odd times a year, and I guess he finally felt silly enough about that contradiction to sell it off.
Edited, realized my comment on F1’s new power unit rules was poorly written and confusing at first.
ok you’re right, bin it all. it’s a silly waste of resources.
Nowhere did I suggest binning it, and I support their eventual transition into being able to leave even hybrids behind. You stated “racing EV’s would be more exciting” and I just pointed out some of the issues that currently prevent it from being more widely adopted and more popular with motorsport fans at large. Otherwise, I doubt you’ll find many people to agree that a fully EV Indy 500 was comparable in impact of the event as it exists now if the vehicles could only do 2/3 of the distance with a car capable of less than half the power of the machines it’s meant to replace. An F1 car outputs 1000hp, while a Formula E car can do a touch under 500hp. This isn’t a knock on them, and I fully expect them to keep improving, but this is an edge case wear current EVs aren’t there yet.
Technologies pioneered in F1 have made their way into our lives over the decades, not just in the cars we drive, but in feilds as varied as pediatric surgery and air traffic control. Every car you’ve ever driven was more efficient due to something that was bleeding edge in F1 years earlier.
I’m not an expert so I couldn’t say how but I would be amazed if their current work with hybrid drivetrains don’t improve EVs.
Yeah, F1 burns a lot of gas, but calling it “just funsies” is short sighted. If you add up it’s effects over the years it’s a net positive and it’s not even close.
“just funsies”
bullshit, that’s exactly what it is. stop acting like idiots racing in circles is some kind of science program for the benefit of the proletariat, that’s absolute garbage - these teams are sponsored by some of the worst brands (WOO MARLBORO!) - to burn gas for ENTERTAINMENT.
shortsighted lol. net positive pfft.
what delusions
I’ve not crunched the numbers myself but the actual racing probably produces a lot less pollution than the logistics of teams and fans travelling to each race, and given that there are only 20-odd races per year all the fans travelling around the world probably causes less overall pollution than something like football where there are loads of big matches every week.
Interestingly one of the purposes/benefits of f1 is (supposed to be) pioneering new technology. For instance, the fuel is (supposedly) now sustainability produced, and I think a lot of the hybrid engine tech developed for f1 then made its way to road cars. Of course most of the biggest sponsors are oil companies looking to throw away the electric tech now, so who knows what the fuck the future looks like…
Technologies pioneered in F1 have made their way into our lives over the decades, not just in the cars we drive, but in feilds as varied as pediatric surgery and air traffic control.
it’s not worth the pollution.
period. also, you can’t just ‘nasa’ your way out of it, cute tho.
meh. none of this is a benefit worthy of the 60 years of hyping up pollution for funsies.
bin it all.
Amazing Digital Circus for me. Sad that I know people who didnt watch the show just because they wanted to avoid the fans.
I have never met ADC fans outside of cons, and there they seemed very fun.
The only fans I ever met irl were at the movie theater for the finale, and they were cool. The online community is, from what I’ve heard, pretty unwell.
A friend of my fiancee is a fan and put an episode on when we were over once.
I’m autistic but I’m not that fucking autistic. It takes a lot to make me cringe, but that show does it every other line, and seeing the friend squee at this strange rapey clownshow was almost enough for me to ask if we were sure about including them in the wedding party.
it’s existential horror with absurd comedy elements. Pretty much the definition of “not for everyone”, so it’s not surprising some (most?) people strongly dislike it.
Rapey??
Yeah what the hell there is no actual or implied sexual violence in the show. Or sex at all for that matter, thats explicitly stated
Let people enjoy things. Geeze. It’s a great show. I only ever watched the show with my friends.
