The guilty pleasure thread (Irony-free zone)

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The Wykydtron said:
I may occasionally enjoy hunting for decent romance fanfics when there's a pairing I like. I can't turn off my taste filter entirely though so I tend to stop after I run into a few of those absolutely terrible ones.

What even is good sentence structure or paragraphing?


Oh and I really like even the most generic of the comedy/romance/slice of life animes. Don't even know why. Baka to Test is still my favourite comedy anime of all time and the romance bits are actually decent.


BEST OPENING EU!
Why? Why would you do that? Now I have to decide between watching other shows and animes and re watching Baka and Test. Its so good! It really needs more episodes.
 

l3o2828

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NeutralDrow said:
I find E-Rotic's music to be really catchy. My favorite song of theirs is "Help Me, Dr. Dick."

Do I win?
Legion said:
... I like the song "Everytime we touch" by Cascada.
Don't show yourself out quite yet. I like that song, but I exclusively listen to the <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbJ0aXxpTfM>Nightcore remix.

...in fact, Nightcore remixes (especially of Nightwish songs) are another weakness of mine.
I love you....I was talking to E-rotic by the way.
My fave is probably Gimme Gimme Gimme.

Talking about music, i really really enjoy Kyary Pamyu Pamyu even if i think she represents everything that is wrong with Yatsukata Nakata's music.

Videogame wise, Postal 2.

Movies...Mh, I suppose Charlies Angels.
 

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Wafflemarine said:
I am going to have to go with my Warhammer 40k obsession. I have over 70 novels Pretty much every game and I enjoy reading the lexicanum trying to learn all of the lore. My friends get pretty annoyed when I just don't enjoy Starwars or Startrek or really any other Scifi anymore
Why is this a "guilty" pleasure? I certainly don't feel guilty or ashamed over my own 40k obsession. Although I can and do enjoy other Sci-Fi.

The best thing about it is I got my Dad hooked over a year ago so me and him will just chat about our books while we hang out and grill. One day ill have to try and get me and my dad some commissar cosplay sets he wants to be Gaunt but Gaunt does not have a large beer belly.
He could do Corbec?
 

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I still watch the pokemon anime... Charizard's back, baby!

Besides that, I loves me some Power Rangers as well! I've also seen a few episodes of Super Sentai ,which (if you didn't already know) is the Japanese series that Power Rangers is based(as in mostly ripped off) from. Speaking of...
Has anyone else seen this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjAlH17WmcM

There's a great big megazord vs giant monster brawl (duh) at the end with all the Sentai Zords
It's friggin EPIC (In an awesomely cheesy and over the top Power Rangers/Super Sentai way)
 

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I'm a sucker for special effects, fight scenes and other pizazz in movies, so I tend to enjoy a lot of otherwise crap films if they have neat visuals. Case in point: Daybreakers. The plot was all over the place and the acting was forgettable, but the premise of a world ruled by vampires kept me going to the end.

I also have a soft spot for the gormless facial expressions of Nicholas Cage. The National Treasure films were pretty good, and the last fim I saw with him in (Season of The Witch) featured Flying Demon Zombie Monks and Ron Perlman headbutting Satan in the face, so much fun was had.
 

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Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron. Now, the game is legitimately well made, but it's notorious for being a bit of a sell-out. Y'see, the original game was this really unique, almost Rogue-like treasure hunting game and Panic was a 2D platformer. This was the '90s and 2D platformers were more common than shooters are now, so you can imagine the fans were a bit upset.

I vastly, vastly prefer Panic on Funkotron.
 

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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

No irony here.

Most people can't handle how ridiculous things got with the third iteration. I always felt like it made it more lovable.

:)
 

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Fanfiction reading.

I can't help it. I know 99% of it is turds but that one percent...

Shining gems buried in radioactive feces.

I also kinda like Space Jam. Yeah. I am Lucifer incarnate I know.

Oh and op? Closet digimon fan here too. Love everything about the series and movies. Dub or Sub. Dub for utter absurdity, Sub for great anime. Both of them complete a picture I need in life.

Dragonbums said:
I also have to be the only person in existence within and out of the Sonic fanbase that actually thinks the soundtracks for Sonic R are pretty dang good. (So much so that I have the whole thing in my ipod)
Hello fellow lost soul, your music is welcome in my party.
 

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Oh wow this really is one of those topics where you just can't come up with anything once you're on the spot huh? The one thing that comes to mind is how I actually kinda like tuned cars. I don't know the first thing about cars and the stereotypical car tuner culture makes me cringe, but I have to admit the results are noteworthy.
 

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Charli said:
I also kinda like Space Jam. Yeah. I am Lucifer incarnate I know.
Hey, I like Space Jam, too. I've never really thought of it as a bad movie... but I guess it is kinda bad, when I think about it. Guess I'm adding THAT to my guilty pleasure list, too.
 

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HellbirdIV said:
Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers.

<youtube=Y07I_KER5fE>

As in, the whole thing.
Ah yes, a hammy essay on the dangers of Fascism. Love that one though the TV series completely missed the point despite being overall OK.

My guilty pleasure is just about every cartoon from the 90s, good or bad. To this day I still get shivers whenever I hear this.


Is it a guilty pleasure if you do not care what other people think as you openly assert your tastes?
 

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The Ratatouille movie tie in game. I don't know what it is about exploring kitchens and sewers, but it made me really feel like I was playing as a rat.

Payday: The Heist. I shouldn't like this game, I really shouldn't. Slightly cheesy voice acting, slightly wonky camera, the music is too techno and thrashy for my tastes. In fact, after hearing about the release of Payday 2 and how it'll improve on the first one, I began to like Payday less and less. But my god, it feels so wrong to play it and yet so right.
 
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I enjoyed the latest Schwarzenegger. Yes that one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Stand_(2013_film)]. It's ridiculous[footnote]For instance that over-the-top comic relief that is simply just there to annoy everyone? That setup where you know exactly what will happen? That ending where a computer-animation assisted sixty-five year old guy beats up the big bad who is at least thirty years younger with his bare fists?[/footnote] and bad but at least it kinda knows that it is. A friend of mine described it as a party movie - and I think that label fits it perfectly. It at least has a semblance of self-awareness - much unlike another movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606378/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1] that I happened to see the week after and really do not like [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.401091-Escape-to-the-Movies-A-Good-Day-to-Die-Hard?page=2#16511627].

Moreover I also enjoyed the latest SimCity - it's a broken, barely playable mess but it really gave me 20 hours of fun play-time and it will probably do so at some point later, too (like in 2 years or so, when I hope the mess has been fixed a little and that tiny twinkling hope of mods turns out to be true (though I don't count on that))....
 

Leemaster777

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Saulkar said:
Is it a guilty pleasure if you do not care what other people think as you openly assert your tastes?
Well, considering that this entire thread is FULL of people doing just that, I hope so. Otherwise everyone here is a dirty, dirty liar.

Also:


This is on my Ipod. No regrets, ever.
 

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BBW porn. I think i win this thread

Seriously people theres no such thing as a guilty pleasure unless of course its illegal. If you enjoy it dont be ashamed
 

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Duke Nukem Forever. I think its good. I think its a jolly fun ride. It dared to use color outside of brown a grey, its simple gameplay is enjoyable, Duke's a pleasure to listen to, and never has a game done so well to make the player feel part of the world with how Duke's body is fully present in first person (The only other game to ever do it so well was the first F.E.A.R.), and how he can spin chairs, swipe toilet paper rolls and pointlessly fling things around.

Its got its problems, but I really liked it, and I'm going to keep hoping that this won't be the last we see of Duke.
 

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Pacman world 2 ftw just for the arcade. I'm morally against stuff like Nightcore and Fanfiction. Write your own damn song or characters thank you very much for polluting the internet further. But people like it so each to their own, I want take your fun you'll outgrow it if the people who make it don't. Gah, the thought of 40+ people making nightcore and fanfiction, now I wonder who I thought made it in the first place. Any way. My guilty pleasures? Let's start with trolling, I like to think I'm pretty good at it too. I love it when people misinterpret my sarcasm and irony on the internet; or don't realize how self aware I am, yeah, I'm a fucking jerk, at least I play into my strengths.
Guilty pleasures? Valis and the later Dune books. Musically I'm sucker for just about anything from Tool to Pendulum; so I consciously have no taste in music and find myself listening to stuff I'm not sure I'm supposed to, like Daley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNo-L4-2P0w, or just about everything on Noisey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2Nck6Fcjg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOak9xDq_yA
However for video games? I'm constantly told I have the wrong opinions on a lot of games. I'm told I'm not supposed to like .Hack//G.U. And again, I can't stand nightcore and I've found myself with an aversion to almost all anime with the exception of the stuff I grew up on like pokemon and dbz or rurouni kenshin and gundam, but I try not to admit it; and I'll slit your throat for your Shogo Chara bull shit in a heartbeat and all anime looks exactly the same now, I miss old fashioned Ghibli and Akira style shit for the human shaped faces. Fuck your black rock shooter. Drrr was cool though. I'll only really watch an anime if it connects with me and a more emotional and personal level the way Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack on Titan do, but even Attack on Titan I feel like it would've been a cooler anime if it came out in the 90's when they didn't all look the same.
But back to games; as the kind of psycho I clearly am I fucking love WET and I convinced myself to play resonance of fate because, well, good luck finding a good steampunk strategy game made in the last decade. I felt like that thing got Steampunk better than a lot of people because ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THE FUCKING WILD WEST EVERY TIME.
So yeah, there's another good one steampunk; I like steam powered giraffe.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I hate liking, or I hate the pop culture and fandom around; or just stuff that's not targeted to me. And that's sort of why I hate Bronies, they think having an extremely guilty pleasure makes them a minority or entitled to their cause or some bull shit. I swear that was a joke or a troll that went horribly wrong. I'll watch an old episode Ed Edd n' Eddy but you'd need to try pretty hard to sit me down to fuckin' adventure time or whatever the fuck is on T.V. Speaking of which there's nothing I hate more, so I consider every t.v. show and many movies guilty pleasures by the medium alone nevermind whatever genre it is. I can watch along came polly and have a fun time; I enjoy Game of Thrones; no I don't, I enjoy the story and the books, HBO can bite my shiny metal ass. And I won't watch anything that ever was or will be on FOX legally. Netflix is cool but again. I hate T.V. and movies for a variety of personal reasons, depending on the thing I can think of a reason to hate on it. But what do I like if I hate so many games. I love Persona 4, but I can't stand some Pokemon games, usually because of the Pokemon more than because I already played Final Fantasy and don't feel the need to play a thousand JRPGS like everyone else. So this makes some nostalgic things guilty too, like Pokemon Ruby. But Garbodor forever fucked with my opinion of whoever the fuck Nintendo employs. I hate them for that piece of shit. Some artists died or got fired between my childhood and now. I do like final fantasy because it manages to keep things changing, but it has no sense of evolution I.e. That did work, that didn't work. I can't tell what genre they think those last few games where even supposed to be. They've lost touch with any sense of recurring themes; or aesthetic; or anything about the world or mechanics; those games have no direction. They're like an 19 year old high school dropout. Maybe I spend too much time watching Zero Punctuation and cynically search for the worst in everything but it's not like they make it fucking hard find. So what do I like? I mentioned I like Game of Thrones, but I don't I just like it that people can understand why I broke down crying to a Storm of Swords in my eighth grade math class. But books are where my pleasure get's guilty. No I won't read your 50 shades of grey or gray or whatever the fuck your little illiterate mind decides on. Fuck authors who can't decide what language they want to use. But I love VALIS and I love all of the dune books especially God emperor; but you'd need to hold me at gunpoint to read those house books written later. May favorite book ever is The Great Gatsby but that's an uninteresting answer so I'll give you A Scanner Darkly because Blade Runner is better than Do Androids dream because they cut the fucking Kipple and left in the motherfucking unicorn.
SO yeah, I'm a hypocrite and I'm the only one who's allowed to be.
 

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Until earlier this year, everything anime was a bit of a guilty pleasure. I seemed to have some crippling fear that if anyone caught me watching it they'd make me wear a big hat with "OTAKU" written across it and I'd have to parade around town and everyone would laugh at me. Or something.
Then I found out one of my best friends, who seems to do nothing out of the social norm, watches Azumanga Daioh and it made me feel better about watching it.

Despite that, One Piece and Dragon Ball Z are still the only things I'll openly admit to watching, anything "slice of life"-ey is still off limits. Only thing I've started watching that's even in that ballpark is Nichijou, and even then I'm having to wait until the wee hours of the morning to watch it to make sure my dad doesn't come downstairs and I have to somehow explain to him why I'm laughing at a bunch of little girls.
Or he might make me wear the hat again.
 

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Berithil said:
Years ago, when I was a cynical teenager, I hated musicals simply because... Well, I was a teenage guy and they're "musicals".

Now, I'm planning on being in one... Once I work a bit on my singing voice. Oh, what live theater and maturity can do to a person :p
Awwwwwwwww.....

I wish I could sing. I would absolutely LOVE to be able to do that. Unfortunately, after someone heard my singing, they passed "Brian's Law", which specifically states that my singing is considered cruel and unusual punishment. I thought they were going a little far passing a law so I wouldn't sing but I guess since they were pushing for the death penalty, I should be grateful...

shrekfan246 said:
Nothing wrong with liking musicals, my friend! Moulin Rouge is a fantastic film, even beyond the fact that it's a poppy musical. Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, practically every Disney film ever made... hell yeah!
I love Sweeney Todd! Music AND Tarantino-level of violence; what's not to like!?!