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.
Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.
I’ve heard “I don’t trust people who don’t have instagram” more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how’s the current sentiment
Nowadays it’s “I don’t trust people who don’t have PixelFed”.
/s
Social media is the devil. I have Lemmy and that’s enough
Agreed.
I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.
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.
GoT’s rise to popularity is almost as crazy as its sharp fall into irrelevance.
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.
I’ve read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.
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 think his name is actually Bondjames Bond
Its actually Bond Jamesbond
What kind of fucked up first name is “Bond”, are his parents governments or companies
I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.
I’ve only seen the first two parts of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
You monster. That’s somehow even worse than not seeing it at all
“I bow to no one.”
…or whatever the hell Aragorn says when he kills Sauron.
Ill news is an ill guest
I haven’t read or seen LOTR. Everything I know about it has been pieced together from parodies and references in other media. The magic the gathering crossover set was probably the biggest exposure I’ve had.
It would be interesting to get your take on LOTR and see how close you are to the actual story.
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.
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.
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
I never manage to finish it, I started it twice already, and there are some gems there, there’s one scene in particular which I LOVE: https://youtu.be/yXuhtZ9lh9A but for some reason can never get myself to finish it.
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)
They only made 4 seasons of Game of Thrones. Really wished they had made more, but what can you do?
I have never read the Harry Potter series.
I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.
Yeah I think I’m cool with that.
Do you still enjoy fantasy aimed at kids? if you do the series is good. If you don’t you’ll see all the flaws
They’re not bad, if you enjoy the movies the books are at least as good, and they explain lots of the plot-holes I had with the movies. But they’re definitely not great, there are still several plot-holes and stuff that she clearly made up as she went. That being said, they’re enjoyable, and you should get through them fairly quickly.
Never saw:
• Game of Thrones
• Breaking Bad
• The Walking Dead
• Maybe have only seen 2 or 3 Marvell movies.
• Haven’t seen a single episode of any anime.
• Couldn’t name a famous YouTuber if I tried.I’m sure there’s more, but for now, that what I can come up with.
I’ve never seen Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or any of the rest of the mandatory drama television genre. I gave up partway through watching Battlestar Galactica and kinda just stopped watching television.
For awhile there, the only non-technical conversation I could have was “Did you see Game of Thrones last night?” “No, I don’t watch that show.” “Oh. Bye.” Humanity’s ability to talk about anything except heartburn drama television for the last decade and a half kind of weaned me off of socializing.
Only ever seen one episode of The Sopranos (enjoyed it, but never went back for some reason).
Never seen:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Game of Thrones
- Oppenheimer (nor Barbie)
- Forrest Gump
- Saving Private Ryan
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Rocky (seen 2-4, but not the original)
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Good Morning Vietnam
- Braveheart
- Brokeback Mountain
- Borat
- Any of the Daniel Craig Bond movies
Mafia stuff always aggressively puts me off, I have no taste for it at all and find no enjoyment in it. I never watched The Sopranos, and despite being a huge movie geek in general I’ve never managed to stay awake during any Godfather movie.
Maybe I was “bumped off” in a past life or something.
Ha, maybe :-)
I generally enjoy that sort of thing, Godfather, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, etc but the Sopranos is just so big, I need to set aside some time to watching it. I have the first 4 seasons on DVD, but never watched them yet!
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.
Never seen any of the Lord of the Rings and have no plans to.
Correct.
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.
