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TheRightToArmBears

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When it comes to games... meh. Mainstream isn't half bad, if only there was more of a plot to games, then I'd find complaining difficult.

But when it comes to music? Mainstream tends to bring out the worst. Examples: metal; Slipknot aren't bad, but they're really not the best metal band on the planet by a long shot. Rap; There's some good stuff out there if you look deep. Ska; great genre, hasn't seen mainstream in years. Punk; Green Day anyone?
 

esperandote

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it only happends to me with music, if i ike a song then i see everybody hearing it i like it less. i like my songs to be kind of "mine"
 

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esperandote said:
it only happends to me with music, if i ike a song then i see everybody hearing it i like it less. i like my songs to be kind of "mine"
I think songs tend to get more annoying the more you hear them. I loved 3oh!3's "Don't Trust Me" when I first heard it last year, but now that it's EVERYWHERE I can't fucking stand it.
 

Xanadu84

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I no longer consider liking or disliking any game to be bad. It's just your choice of entertainment. Instead, I think that people who like certain games I think have a good argument for being bad, should view there enjoyment of that game as a guilty pleasure. I'm sure we all have them.
 

vampirekid.13

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i dont have the item, movie, game or whatever. i hate the fans. because they are horribly unintelligent human beings that ask (in mass may i add) for stuff that makes the item/movie/game bad.

i am stuck w/ a super nintendo and ps1 simulator until the gaming industry gets its head out of its ass and im pissed about it.
 

MusicalFreedom

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I generally don't like mainstream stuff, but not because it's mainstream. it's just generally shit when it is.
 

Veylon

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I think we're almost getting to the point where hating "mainstream" is what's 'in' and being popular is 'out'. How often do you hear someone say "I like mainstream"?
 

Toasty

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Er. In my opinion, 'mainstream' games would be the likes of Wii sports and mario cart.
Mainstream vs non-mainstream is The Pussycat Dolld vs any game not barbie or sport related.
 

Et3rnalLegend64

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I honestly don't care about if it's mainstream or not. I only care if it's good or not. It's just that "mainstream" games tend to be focused on more, so you know if it's good or bad usually. Regardless, I'm not really keeping up with the news so I don't know what's out or coming anymore.

AkJay said:
I just dislike people who "Hate" Mainstream, just because they think it makes them cool to do so.
And this, most definitely. They're all annoying.
 

KingPiccolOwned

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Thibaut said:
You forget that the lands of mainstream games (with GTAIV, Halo and Gears as country's to put it figuaratively) are ruled by 12 year-olds or adult people with enough brain damage to be the equivalent of one...
Not entirely, God of War is mainstream by now and it isn't. Even if they do play it no one can be annoyed by them since the creators haven't broken down like every other game developer and included multiplayer. If you can't tell I don't enjoy multiplayer that much.
 

Vrex360

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I think people who talk big about hating things mainstream are honestly absolute pricks. I mean yes I myself hardly immerse myself in mainstream culture (almost all of my time spent in my video store is in the 'cult' section) and I can admit that a lot of the stuff in movies that are made to sell to wider audiences do tend to not appeal to my senses and I much prefer movies made just because they wanted to make this movie regardless of how it would sell in fact right now in my own opinion I can think of about FOUR movies in the Australian Mainstream Cinema worth watching, Public Enemies, Coraline, Inglourious Basterds and District 9.... all else is garbage and if I want anything else I go to one of the independant theatres. I can understand that... but just because a thing is popular does not automatically make it bad, it depends on the quality of the product itself. It also does not make someone special to say 'I like things obscure and rare over the blandness that swamps the industry' because that's just being annoying.

I want to say something for the record, I was never 'hypnotised' by mass marketing and media hype when I started liking the Halo series. I picked up the controller at a friend's house and played and had the time of my life (at the time, come on my life has a little more meaning) and I just got into the series from there. That's it, in fact in Australia there WAS no major media hype for the release of Halo 3, it wasn't on billboards and TV commercials and they never brought the drink here either. So my excitement was entirely based on it's own merits. That's the thing, just because it is popular by the mainstream doesn't mean everyone is drawn to it like a flock of sheep because of marketing. People do still have free will and people just happened to like that game, and I was one of those people. That's actually a great example of self righteousness I think, behaving like yours is the only opinion that is 'right' and therefore if someone's taste differs to yours then they must have been 'brainwashed by the media'. As I said before it's not the hype it's the product itself and maybe if millions of people all loved it maybe that means there was something there that maybe you didn't see as it's not to your taste. That alone doesn't make them WRONG nor does it make you RIGHT and it certainly doesn't prove you WRONG either and it doesn't prove them RIGHT. People have different tastes... that's all.
 

Arrers

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I don't keep much track of what's mainstream and what isn't. Makes it easier to make my own opinions about things, as well as giving me a strange habit of avoidng hype.

Wasder said:
But when it comes to music? Mainstream tends to bring out the worst. Examples: metal; Slipknot aren't bad, but they're really not the best metal band on the planet by a long shot. Rap; There's some good stuff out there if you look deep. Ska; great genre, hasn't seen mainstream in years. Punk; Green Day anyone?
I find that not mainstream music can have it's disadvantages too. Look at british indie rock bands.most of them are influenced by the same sort of bands, leading to some sort of musical inbreeding. Seriously, find any two bands and try to tell the difference. roughly eight times out ten I can't tell any major differences.
 

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AkJay said:
I just dislike people who "Hate" Mainstream, just because they think it makes them cool to do so.
This. It's more blatant in music than anything else though. I can't tell you how many people would flame me on, say, Ultimate Guitar if I said I liked Green Day (which I do).
 

Mozared

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I usually hate mainstream stuff not because it's mainstream, but because it's retarded.

I go by the reasoning that things are mainstream because most people like them, and since most people are stupid this must make most mainstream things stupid. I get proven right time after time anyway.
 

AvsJoe

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Most things become mainstream because at some point in time, it earned it. Yahtzee touched upon this in his review of Call of Duty 4 if I'm not mistaken (I might be). But some people, when they become famous and tonnes of moneys is thrown at them, make an assumption that everything they do will be amazing from here on out and, thus, mainstream crap is born (and when you make an assumption, you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'mption', whatever that means). I don't hate the mainstream, in fact I envy those people who made it there, but I dislike the crap that comes from it.
AkJay said:
I just dislike people who "Hate" Mainstream, just because they think it makes them cool to do so.
I agree. These are the people who get on my nerves.
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BlackIronGuardian said:
If I like it, I like it. Simple, really.
Same rule that i follow.
Yup, same here.
 

General Ken8

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Mainstream is for people with no lives that have nothing better to do than back up crappy music, games, clothing, and stupid fads, like constant texting and text speak
I think that pretty much sums it up well