Things you just don't "get".

[ninjaRiv]

I don't get why I enjoy CoD. Lag means that I'm pumping whole clips into guys while they take two shots to fuck me up. There are guys hiding in corners who literally do nothing but run to those corners after I kill them. I have found many room with more than three snipers all pointed in one direction. Several times. In the same match. After I slaughtered them. These people are the reason I have triple kill medals.

Also, the maps are badly designed, especially in BO2. The spawn points are stupid (I have spawned in front of an enemies line of fire a lot).

Why do I like it? Why does anyone like it?

 

[N3squ1ck]

I don't get people who don't get drugs or clubbing, whilst I don't like those two things (well I don't like most of the drugs, but alcohol is nice), I understand why people like them: to escape reality, same reason why I sometimes play a lengthy game of Civilization or watch movies that I already saw all day.
Also wih alcohol: it makes it easier to bond with people, for example, I am naturally a very quiet person, too shy to really talk with many people, but when I drink a reasonable amount of alcohol I am like a normal person.
Cigarettes help coping with stress: let's say you have to write an essay for your literary studies class in uni, and you are way late, because you were laying in the bed with the flu and couldn't write due to fever and all that stuff that comes with it, you can make small breaks that don't lead to procrastination. Plus nicotin helps relaxing (at least me)

sooo that said, here comes what I don't get:
When people are homo- or xenophobic or intolerant to certain groups of people in general: it just doesn't make sense to me to be against other people or their freedoms to do what they want.
Fanboyism (that one was mentioned and discussed enough already)
and last but not least: Apple. I don't understand why one would pay more for a phone or tablet that can do less and takes away your freedoms to install whatever software you want. (But then again, I am a Linux user and like that naturally am concerned about the freedom of software)

 

[Phasmal]

I'm with you on the strip club thing- another part of it I don't get is women who are okay with their partner going to them. I mean, it's like it's only not cheating if you are paying for it?
I don't understand it.

I can't imagine it will help you much in your understanding, but I am one of those women and the plain and simple fact is that I don't consider it cheating at all. It's paying to watch ladies be arousing, I suppose I equate it more with porn than prostitution. If I did consider it cheating and wanted to be a fair and open partner (which I hope to be), I'd have to stop watching any film with attractive men being attractive and sensual in it. I'm not prepared to do that, so there we are!

Ehhh... still don't get it.
Finding actresses/actors attractive is fine to me. Looking at people is fine.
Getting someone to rub themselves on you is over the line.

I mean, if your partner got like a neighbor to give them a lapdance, that would be cheating, right?

Still, if it makes you and your partner happy, then I'm not judging it, I just don't understand it.
Luckily, my boyfriend and I are on the same page about it.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Agreed on the stripclubs.
Also furries.

It's like... either fuck animals or fuck humans. Don't mix dat shit together, yo.

Furries are not inherently about fucking anything.

And as for why a lot of Furries are attracted to Anthro characters... well, i do get it. Some people would find it appealing to add some cuddly fur, cute cat ears and a fluffy tail to an attractive female body. Stop looking at me like that.

What i don't get the appeal of? Swearing as a source of humor.

 

[Catie Caraco]

I don't get roller coasters. I don't get paying to be frightened half to death. I've done one roller coaster in my life, in the 6th grade, and thought I was literally dying. I swore to myself "Never.Again." and I've kept that promise to myself. Ugh. It also comes with a very nasty side effect of headache/motion sickness. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

[TheLastFeeder]

I just don't get Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law".
I have read it 3 times and all I get is the last page that tells me to burn it after reading.

 

[Spinozaad]

I think it's a blast to go with strip clubs with my matey-mate blokes. It's a good laugh. It's not about the strippers, it's about the sleazy atmosphere, the shitty music, the bombastic presentation. And occasionally you'll have a simply mesmerizing performer.

But really, I think strip clubs are far more asexual than your average night club. Anyway...

I don't "get" a lot of the people on this forum anymore, simply because there's a generation gap and/or experience gap. Then again, a lot of people here seem to have a "Paragon" view of themselves or of life, while I (to keep the Mass Effect analogy going) tend towards the "Renegade".

Life is so much better with a little bit of sleaze.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Y'know I don't *get* alcohol in general. You're seriously telling me to drink something that dehydrates you, makes you ill, makes you look and act like a complete twat and generally lowers your IQ for awhile? How about no?

Sounds like you've never had alcohol.

I've got nothing against tee-totalers, but seriously, it's not nearly as drastic as you suggest. Responsible drinkers don't get ill, don't look or act like a complete twat, and can manage the dehydration.

Ah I suppose you've yet to see Walsall, Manchester, London and practically any UK city on a Friday/Saturday/Sunday night have you? If throwing up in gutters was a sport... As you say, "responsible" drinkers. Not many of those around these days i'm afraid.

Anyway I don't even like the taste of alcohol and i've no intention of going out of my way to find something decent, So moot point, moot point. Anyway, anyway any half serious amount of alcohol might fuck up my medication and I don't want that now.

So i've got three perfectly good reasons to not drink. I'm not judging you for drinking by the way, I can't be judgemental to people if I tried. It's a personality flaw really. I see a random criminal on TV accused of whatever and i'm like "he's probably not that bad, maybe he's just had a bad day. Everyone makes mistakes. Maybe he was set up?"

Though the one thing I like about alcohol is the hilarious terms we use to describe extremely drunk people.

"Yo man I got absolutely shitfaced last weekend!"

If you think about it, that sentence should never be commonplace and should be really weird to anyone overhearing

 

[The Wykydtron]

I think it's a blast to go with strip clubs with my matey-mate blokes. It's a good laugh. It's not about the strippers, it's about the sleazy atmosphere, the shitty music, the bombastic presentation. And occasionally you'll have a simply mesmerizing performer.

But really, I think strip clubs are far more asexual than your average night club. Anyway...

I don't "get" a lot of the people on this forum anymore, simply because there's a generation gap and/or experience gap. Then again, a lot of people here seem to have a "Paragon" view of themselves or of life, while I (to keep the Mass Effect analogy going) tend towards the "Renegade".

Life is so much better with a little bit of sleaze.

You think good evidence for this generation gap would be you still having Extra Credits badges on? XD

What a mess that was... Ah well. Another one would be to ask how many people remember Zeel. You'd get either "who?" from new people or "Ohhhhh god yeah, Zeel. Fuckin' Zeel" from every single other person.

I've seen a few interesting new people on lately though, 's pretty cool.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

That's what we do in the name of status symbolism: we cut off the dicks off of whales and use them for seat upholstery.

My new quote of the day

Also, I don't get people who can't separate fact from opinion. I wonder how I'm able to go on the Internet at all. Like when people argue over whether which console's controller is better or try to defend liking something that is objectively shit. For example, I liked the Doom movie but I'm not going to try and convince anyone it was a work of art

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I don't understand why people are so fucking obsessed with celebrities. I get the whole thing of fantasizing being them or having what they have, but I mean going to the point where we basically idolize them; we hold them to a higher pedestal than normal, non-famous people. Because Justin Bieber or Nicki Minaj did this or that, it gets blown up to high proportions. It's as if we forget that these are still people, and people do dumb shit sometimes.

This.

What I really don't understand is when all the women where I work talk about celebrities like they're all best friends. I'm sorry ladies but just because you saw the wedding photos in OK magazine (or whatever) doesn't mean you are (insert generic celebrity here)'s bestest friend foreverest. They say things like "Oh, but she's such a nice person" when they've never met the person in question! It's quite hard to hold my tongue in these instances but I am severely outnumbered!

Sometimes I feel stupid for getting excited when Miracle of Sound interacts with us on the forums, but then I realise that, hey, this guy's doing something real. He has genuine talent. He's the sort of person we should look up to and draw our aspirations from, not those bloody fakers on the TV. /rant

 

[Stasisesque]

I'm with you on the strip club thing- another part of it I don't get is women who are okay with their partner going to them. I mean, it's like it's only not cheating if you are paying for it?
I don't understand it.

I can't imagine it will help you much in your understanding, but I am one of those women and the plain and simple fact is that I don't consider it cheating at all. It's paying to watch ladies be arousing, I suppose I equate it more with porn than prostitution. If I did consider it cheating and wanted to be a fair and open partner (which I hope to be), I'd have to stop watching any film with attractive men being attractive and sensual in it. I'm not prepared to do that, so there we are!

Ehhh... still don't get it.
Finding actresses/actors attractive is fine to me. Looking at people is fine.
Getting someone to rub themselves on you is over the line.

I mean, if your partner got like a neighbor to give them a lapdance, that would be cheating, right?

Still, if it makes you and your partner happy, then I'm not judging it, I just don't understand it.
Luckily, my boyfriend and I are on the same page about it.

I was specifically talking about the strip part of strip clubs. However, if he wanted a lapdance while there I still wouldn't consider it cheating. There's a difference between a stripper doing her job and a neighbour doing it. Though I feel I should make this clear, my current partner doesn't go to strip clubs, I just have no problem with them and would not consider it cheating if he did.

 

[Artina89]

I have never understood why people like to go out and get so drunk that they pass out in the street. I live in a city, and I have to wake up early in the morning for work, just when the night clubs are closing, and the number of people I see that are passed out and the paramedics have to be called just baffle me. I like a drink as much as the next person, but I like to be in control of my faculties even more.

 

[Eddie the head]

I don't get people who can't distinguish between a good story teller and a good writer. For example, the Harry Potter books are a good story, Rowling is a mediocre writer. This works for other things too, such as people saying that Bob Dylan is one of the best singers ever, even though he's tone deaf (what he is is one of the best songwriters ever).
Basically people who think that people are great at everything because they are good at one thing...

I get where you're coming form. It's like the one picture I saw someone link where they compare the lyrics of some Nickelback song to I want to say the Beatles. The Nickelback song is talking about pressure to conform or something and well "yellow submarine." They seamed to come to the conclusion that the Nickelback song had better vocals because they had "better" lyrics. But I always thought that it was about how you say it, not what you're saying.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Pretty simple, what things can't you understand?

Women.

True story.

 

[Nouw]

Not flushing the toilet.

What the actual fuck? It's pushing a freaking button!

 

[Callate]

"Alpha" males. Or females, either, but it's the males I have to deal with. Men who think that any interaction with other men has to involve some kind of competition. The guys who have to make any conversation (especially around women) about how much more their job pays, or how good they are at sports, or the college they went to, or the black belt they allegedly have in some obscure martial art, or how awesome their cars are. Men who use the fragile framework of polite social interaction to try to get away with insulting other men, sometimes right from the introduction. Even among their friends.

You know what? Some behavior you should get out of by the time you're in your early twenties, and this is possibly the best example. I don't want to have to have my emotional and verbal guard up around people who I'm supposedly on friendly terms with; in point of fact, I refuse. Life's too short to put up with people who think with their dicks, and I've gotten to the point where I will flat call out such behavior and tell people so.

You think you're an apex predator? How cute. Go piss somewhere else; this place belongs to human beings.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Why people like:
-Transformers(I genuinely know people that do)
-Metal Gear
-Twilight(seriously, if its because its core fanbase lack direction in their lives, there are other ways to find them)

Why people believe:
-Conspiracy theories
-Pseudo-scientists

Why (some) people:
-Smoke at 13/14
-Act like dickheads without being aware of the consequences their actions cause
-Are homophobic (Stephen Fry once said that there are (either 426, or) 624 species of animal that have gay sex, yet man is the only species that exhibits homophobia)