just didn't work for ya

[Torkuda]

Ever had an experience where people raved about how wonderful something was, and you wonder what they got, cause you sure didn't have that experience.

It's this way with me and MAC computers. I'm sorry, I never met one I liked. Bought one about a year ago, used it for six months, having several problems off and on, most having to do with it's operating system just doing things for no reason, (like shutting off the internet) and me having to go through all kinds of head aces trying to fix it. Tech help people rarely knew what to tell me. Then after I stopped needing it for a MAC specific job, I stopped using it for six months, sick of the damn thing. When I got it out again to show my friends at school something I had been working on, it broke. And I don't mean, got a bug, I mean the screen completely failed and I had no choice but to take the thing in for repairs, a process that took 2 weeks. Meanwhile my windows computer got a virus, and it was back to standard operation within three days of taking it in. My biggest frustration with windows is that ctrl alt delete is no longer a priority function, but really... was there ever a priority task manager type system on MAC? I remember that if my mac ever got stuck, it was stuck and that was it, I had to restart the entire computer.

Really I'm not sure what it is, I don't even USE my mac, let alone abuse it, and it still fails almost all the time.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I feel this way with the Halo games. I remember Halo 3 was the first rated M game my parents let me buy/play, and I was so hyped, and my entire reaction to it was just 'meh' I thought it was ok, but I stopped playing it and just forgot about it. Halo Reach was different, I loved the characters and the story was quiet emotional with me, but the gameplay was still meh. And don't get me started on Halo 4. The story was the only thing that kept me going.

That entire series just never clicked with me. I didn't hate it, I saw really no problems with it...It just didn't work for me.

 

[Torkuda]

Yea, I guess I was too harsh on my MAC. After all, I still have it, so it works, I just never saw where all the praise was coming from. Seems to have just as many problems as the PC if not more.

 

[Elfgore]

My friend and Team Fortress 2 and the Halflife series. He has over 700 hours on TF2 and has beaten the HL games at least fifty times. He always goes on about how amazing they are and how I need to play them. I've played TF2 for about four hours and have only gotten two hours into Halflife. I just find them rather boring and not very entertaining.

I suppose it's okay, as I rant nonstop about how awesome Mount and Blade is to him.

 

[FalloutJack]

X-Box and the Halo series. They didn't feel like things I should be getting into. Oh, they're (usually) functional and done well, but there were some rather pointed turn-offs.

 

[Flutterguy]

Most people don't spot gimmiks or understand marketing tricks it seems. The new consoles are a great example of this, particularly the Xbone. It relies on swapping between different programs and integrating social media into everything, when it is a device you buy to play videogames. Yet for the same price to I could build a PC with much greater gaming capacity that could also be used for, well, everything else. Hell i can even use controllers or plug into a TV.

Don't get me started on candy, alcoholism and people who claim to know gods plan.

 

[Flatfrog]

Pacific Rim. I just couldn't stand it and I couldn't understand the amount of love it was getting, especially here.

RPGs, especially Pokemon. As someone who loves D&D, computer game RPGs always seem to have taken away all the joy of playing the part of a character in a fantasy world and replaced it with mindless number-crunching.

 

[Flutterguy]

Please start on alcoholism.

How does that work for anyone?

Couldn't tell you. Met alot of people who seem to think it does. I guess if you were a high-functioning alcoholic it would, but I've never met one of those before either, seeing as it's a depressant hardly seems like it's helping anything.

 

[MrBaskerville]

Please start on alcoholism.

How does that work for anyone?

Couldn't tell you. Met alot of people who seem to think it does. I guess if you were a high-functioning alcoholic it would, but I've never met one of those before either, seeing as it's a depressant hardly seems like it's helping anything.

I'm not sure alchoholism means what you think it means.

I remember watching Battlestar Galactica because everyone was raving about how great it was. I didn't get it, it felt as if i was watching an entirely different show than anyone else, it was just an awfully acted soap opera in a boring and gritty setting with very silly robots. Never made it past the third episode and i actually stopped watching tv-shows from then on (with the exception of comedy stuff).

 

[Luke3184]

Most people don't spot gimmiks or understand marketing tricks it seems. The new consoles are a great example of this, particularly the Xbone. It relies on swapping between different programs and integrating social media into everything, when it is a device you buy to play videogames. Yet for the same price to I could build a PC with much greater gaming capacity that could also be used for, well, everything else. Hell i can even use controllers or plug into a TV.

Don't get me started on candy, alcoholism and people who claim to know gods plan.

Please introduce me to the guy that rant and raves about how great being an alcoholic is! Are you sure you're not just mixing it up with people who like to go out drinking?

OT: Team Fortress 2, I just can't get into it for no discernible reason.

 

[Flutterguy]

Most people don't spot gimmiks or understand marketing tricks it seems. The new consoles are a great example of this, particularly the Xbone. It relies on swapping between different programs and integrating social media into everything, when it is a device you buy to play videogames. Yet for the same price to I could build a PC with much greater gaming capacity that could also be used for, well, everything else. Hell i can even use controllers or plug into a TV.

Don't get me started on candy, alcoholism and people who claim to know gods plan.

Please introduce me to the guy that rant and raves about how great being an alcoholic is! Are you sure you're not just mixing it up with people who like to go out drinking?

After working many shitty jobs I noticed they brag to each other daily. Some of which have been younger people sure, but plenty are 40+ men who brag about drinking too much the night before on a wednesday, and then have others pick up their slack.

 

[Multi-Hobbyist]

Gaming industry as a whole now.
I used to love being part of it all and looking forward to what the future had planned. But ever since the first rumors started popping up about these next gen consoles, I started hating the gaming community. For being a bunch of children, with the majority of their comments not focusing on positive possibilities, but rather on each other and hating for the most asinine details. Then EA had to go and completely soil their trousers, DRM went out of control, and Microsoft/Sony had to fight like kids over property space in a sandbox.
Though, if you're looking for a more solid .... thing, I guess I'd say keyboard controls for gaming. Never could get used to WASD or any other type. Ever since SNES and using the massive Joysticks for DOOM, need a controler in my hands. Though, the mouse is a lot easier for camera control.
And the Call of Duty franchise. Just something about a game's premise, gameplay and it's engine being copy pasted over and over isn't very fun.

 

[Luke3184]

After working many shitty jobs I noticed they brag to each other daily. Some of which have been younger people sure, but plenty are 40+ men who brag about drinking too much the night before on a wednesday, and then have others pick up their slack.[/quote

That's just regular drinking combined with being an arsehole, alcoholism is a dependency on alcohol via addiction which people are generally either in denial about or, if self aware, not that pleased about, you know, due to the conditions tendency to wreck lives, relationships and health.

 

[sanquin]

Dragon age Origins. I've played a few hours of it. And when I look at it objectively I can see why people love it so much. But it just doesn't work for me. The combat is...just somehow boring to me, and for some reason I can't get into the story.

The same goes for Assassin's Creed 1. Played it, didn't like it. Didn't play 2 or 3. Now I got myself AC4, and I love it. Maybe because I love pirate themes and this game does it very well. I even like the assassin parts. Maybe because they're easy, so I can just mess around in those missions? I dunno.

 

[Something Amyss]

Most people don't spot gimmiks or understand marketing tricks it seems. The new consoles are a great example of this, particularly the Xbone. It relies on swapping between different programs and integrating social media into everything, when it is a device you buy to play videogames. Yet for the same price to I could build a PC with much greater gaming capacity that could also be used for, well, everything else. Hell i can even use controllers or plug into a TV.

Don't get me started on candy, alcoholism and people who claim to know gods plan.

You mean you can multitask on a PC? That sounds like balderdash to me!

A lot of stuff just isn't for me. That's not to say it's bad, because often it isn't. I don't get hooked into a lot of the must see shows. I was curious as to how Breaking Bad turns out, but since someone spoiled it for me, my interest in finishing the show is nil because I wasn't that big on it. CoD games can be fun, but not so much that I care about Ghosts (Call of Duty: fire sale). I don't really like anything Apple. I'll catch Game of thrones eventually, but I'm not all that interested.

I'm actually quite happy living a niche life, though.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I have never enjoyed the xbox controllers that have come up throughout the years. I have yet to try the xbone's controller but I've read it is a lot the same to the 360's. It has never been comfortable. I've tried Playstation controllers and liked them better using them for the first time even though I'm reliably informed by my friends that they are terrible. <.<

I also never got why people like iTunes. I hate that program and actively work around it when using the iPods I've been gifted.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Breaking Bad.
Internet was all up about how great it was, my friend told me that it's awesome and I tried to give it a go. Managed to watch 2 seasons and it was kinda... meh, for me. I mean, I do acknowledge that this is a very good TV-series and I definitely see the appeal, it just never clicked with me. I'm simply looking for different things in my story and none of them was present in Breaking Bad.