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What do you enjoy that you shouldn't?
What things do you enjoy that you really shouldn't? I'll start with two examples:
Podcast: CAGcast - the podcast from Cheapassgamer. I've never been a big video game fan. The only system I own is a DS. This podcast is only about 5% DS news. Nonetheless, I love the podcast. The hosts have a real good dynamic, the humor is funny and the stories about CheapyD living in Japan are really entertaining. You know a show is good when I still look forward to it even though most of the subject matter isn't relevant to me.
Video Game: Freedom Wings (Nintendo DS). It's a role playing game combined with an air combat game. And let me tell you, both stink on their own. As a matter of fact, the whole game pretty much stinks. Yet for some reason I'm enjoying it. I think this is because progress is quite quick. I feel that I'm accomplishing a lot in a short period of time, which is satisfying. However, once everything is "liberated," I suspect this title will hit the shelf forever.
Podcast: CAGcast - the podcast from Cheapassgamer. I've never been a big video game fan. The only system I own is a DS. This podcast is only about 5% DS news. Nonetheless, I love the podcast. The hosts have a real good dynamic, the humor is funny and the stories about CheapyD living in Japan are really entertaining. You know a show is good when I still look forward to it even though most of the subject matter isn't relevant to me.
Video Game: Freedom Wings (Nintendo DS). It's a role playing game combined with an air combat game. And let me tell you, both stink on their own. As a matter of fact, the whole game pretty much stinks. Yet for some reason I'm enjoying it. I think this is because progress is quite quick. I feel that I'm accomplishing a lot in a short period of time, which is satisfying. However, once everything is "liberated," I suspect this title will hit the shelf forever.
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As for what I enjoy that I shouldn't? I don't think there is such a thing. Who is to say who should enjoy what? I don't think there is a such thing as should or should not when it comes to liking something. You like things for reasons. As long as you enjoy something, and have a reason for enjoying it, then you should enjoy it. If you enjoy something, but don't know the reason, you should figure out the reason.
I guess this question could be interpreted as "What do you enjoy that most people seem to think is crap?" It could also be interpreted as "What do you enjoy that you consciously think is crap, but it makes you feel good?"
If that is the question, then I think the answers are pretty easy. I kind of like playing BattleLore, even though everyone else seems to think it's a worthless game. I recognize that it isn't a deep and complex strategy game. There isn't that much to it. Despite that, I have fun playing it.
The other answer is obviously Initial D. I like Initial D a lot. I like the first season of the anime the most, but I like the entire manga and the second stage as well. I haven't watched the third or fourth stages, but I will some day. The majority of high brow anime fans put down Initial D. I understand why they don't like it, but I love this show.
I was just talking about stuff you like that on paper you shouldn't like. (thus my example of a videogame podcast when I don't generally enjoy videogames.)
I wasn't talking about some philosophical concept of wants and desires, and man's ability to define those wants. Sheesh. Uhh... dude... didn't you read my original post? I stated exactly why I liked those things that I was not expecting to like. Sheesh again. I noticed, Scott, that you didn't do this yourself with your two examples.
That sound in the distance is the sound of the fun being sucked out of this thread.
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is "Gigantor." I go back to the black-and-white version of the anime that I watched during my youth. I enjoy it because:
It was the first sci-fi/anime related TV show I can remember.
The hero, Jimmy Sparks, was all of 12 years old or so but could legally drive a car and fly a jet.
It also brings me back to the simpler, more innocent days of my youth.
well that sounds kind of callus... I mean sometimes pain is funny right?
EDIT: Hitman Hart: UFC, back in the day when Royce Gracie was king, was the shiznit.
It just seems to me that the newer UFC is becoming a bit more, well, pro-wrestling style entertainment. It's still fun to watch, but I liked the old way far more.