Wesley Crusher’s character in TNG could have been done so well if they slowly built him into a genius instead of Gene Roddenberry using him as a self insert to stroke his own ego right out of the gate. By the literal 3rd episode of season 1 Wesley’s fate was sealed and even though the backed off on him and tried making him a more normal character later in the show but people just hated him too much by then.

Which sucked because he had good character development later on. Like, right as he was getting to be “not insufferable.” I remember thinking on my first watch “you know, he’s not so bad now” and then they pull him from the show entirely.

I hate how everyone buys into the myth of “the government budget should operate how a household budget operates”. It’s not the fact that it’s wrong that bothers me the most, what really bothers me is how it’s nearly impossible to explain why that analogy is bad. I read a whole book about MMT in part so I could explain why that analogy is wrong, and I still basically can’t do it well. When I try people just think I’m full of shit because the analogy is so easy to understand and the real explanation is not intuitive if you don’t have a solid grasp of economics (which is maybe 5% of the population at best, and most of those people, even liberals understand why the government isn’t like a company or a household).

(FWIW I’ve fallen back on the Keynesian “deficit in a recession and surplus in a boom” even though I don’t actually believe it. That seems to be something people can grasp better)

I don’t like it when people say that ‘fast food tastes bad and only [insert chud group] would like it’. I get where this is coming from, but fast food is designed to taste good, and for most people it does. That line of thinking really only causes victim blaming for people with health issues due to how addictive processed food is.

• The whole “alternative medicine” grift and its various hangers on.

• People that think “organic” food must be inherently better in every way.

adverising boards being replaced by advertising screens with video. it makes me apoplectic

I hate how it’s impossible to get into new things these days without a tidal wave of spoilers constantly being blasted in your face. Take Invincible, yeah it came out 15 years ago but can I go five minutes without someone just casually spoiling a major plot development or even the ending?

I’m salty that AA games aren’t a thing anymore since investors only want the big moneys and indies are all generic pixel art.

Michael Bay and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT

The Witcher tv show’s perversion and complete abandonment of the books. Like I can understand changing a story because a scene will be hard to capture on film but its like they read an AI summary of the books and then decided it needed a bunch of random new things because it sounded dull.

City council just voted to buy the police an APC (that they don’t have a use for, and if they did it probably wouldn’t be good) while at the same time raiding the library reserve funds to keep taxes low

So much frustrating stuff like that going on here lately, and the city subreddit is absolutely unbearable about all of it

I absolutely detest Aaron Sorkin’s writing. I hate how entertaining it is, I just watched an hour’s worth of the newsroom clips. I enjoy it, but I can’t stand all the smug, self-satisfied liberal drivel. West wing is even worse in that regard, it’s chock full of apologia for the worst active war criminal on the planet, given the veneer that he’s just a guy trying his best to save the world he’s in the process of murdering.

I dislike video essayists read one (1) book and make a 40-120 minute video about a large topic using mainly that one book. This is also one of the good reasons to look down on the musical Hamilton and the people who like it too much.

I may be skirting the definition of small but DRM and client side anti-cheats. Some of them are basically malware, sifting through the user’s files. Fuck knows what’s stopping it reading my browser, getting my banking info or email. Besides, a DRM’s only as good as how long it takes folks to produce a crack in the first place. Once it’s out there, best publishers can do is lock out further content, and truth be told, I’ve yet to find any such content that’s worth the money or the time to play.

I really dislike the Legend of Korra. I adored Book 1 as a media illiterate kid. Then it got worse and I got older. The gang isn’t very likable, much of their adventures feel like a waste of time, the gaang’s story got butchered and the world building got obliterated. I seem to be in the minority in disliking even Book 3, Zaheer, and his flying technique. (stranding still, floating isn’t a natural behaviour of air and isn’t encompassed by being the leaf)

the continued manufacture of electric guitars, we have enough, please just stop ;_;

I absolutely hate how hardware is made to be impossibly hard to repair nowadays while also incredibly expensive to replace in the Global South. Your month’s worth of minimum wage cellphone broke a button? Your options are either paying half the phone price to replace a piece half the size of the phone, or getting a new one.

My biggest personal pet peeve is the overuse of medieval Europe as a setting in fantasy, especially stuff like isekai. Like come on authors, you can do so much better. Instead of butchering medieval European politics and worldbuilding, why don’t you trying butchering the lore of other regions of the world? Maybe instead of slaying a dragon, we could have our protagonist do a battle of wits against a djinn (idk if that’s their thing, just throwing out ideas)

Or maybe it’s my fault for looking too much at such stories.

From TV show, the pacing of it.

Its like someone made in a lab a show that is only just good enough to retain my attention while actually doing and saying very little.

Nerds complaining about videogames.

Just kidding, I get that way sometimes as well, lol. I guess it’s just something that gets a bit tiring because I see it a lot more often, likely since Lemmy attracts people who are more online/tech inclined, so we tend to have quite a bit of videogame talk on here.