Guilty pleasure media? - I know it's shit, I just don't care.

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In terms of YouTube channels, there's one called Oddity Archive

he talks about the odd bits in technology, like really interesting technological things that happened briefly, like the Circuit City backed DRM DVD Rental Service DIVX (not the video codec), TV signoffs, the histroy of Analog TV, the history of Laserdisc, the history of Premium Channels that weren't HBO, to the Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion of 1987, It's really autistic stuff and he's not really funny despite trying to be funny, but this shit is really interesting and he knows he's not that funny.

 
Ghost hunting TV shows, Its all bullshit but I still like to hear the local history and spooky stories of a location, all the walking around in the dark talking into cameras is essentially just teenage antics with high budget props that go beep.
 
Yugioh Anime.

It's fucking Garbage, but I can't stop watching it season after season.
GX is the greatest pile of garbage ever to grace the Television.
It's like wathcing an orphanage burrn to the ground, it's a horrible experience for all parties involved and yet you just can't stop looking at it.
 
I used to watch World's Craziest Fools, presented by Mr. T. It was a clip show of people making themselves look like fools, having stupid accidents, failing badly at committing crimes, mad drunks etc. but they'd also play stupid phone calls made to the emergency services & run amusing animations to help tell the story.


 
GX is the greatest pile of garbage ever to grace the Television.

You haven't seen Arc-V and V-rains have you? Arc-V was a spectacular train wreck, and..V-Rains while not as directly bad, I still think might be the worst of the lot. V-Rains didn't even have the protagonist get another duel against the Kaiba of the series, and the final boss is someone committing suicide by cop.
 
Disney parks videos. I know social media influencers and Disney obsessed millennials are part of why Disney is absolutely shitty (both in quality and business practices) these days, but I like the parks more than any of the other things Disney does and I especially like the videos where people cover things I wouldn't/haven't done at the parks or history. I do roll my eyes at any and all GALAXY'S EDGE IS SO AWESOME!!! vlogs, though.
 
I kinda dig 2 and a half men.

Charlie's basically the living American Dream. Banging dumb sluts every day and drinking yourself to death in your giant beach house.
 
With all the talk of Star Wars crashing and burning, this is relevant.

Has anyone read The Jedi Prince series? It was a series of short (super short actually) books for young readers that got released in the 90s and they are TERRIBLE. I couldn't tell if the people that wrote them are stupid or if the writers assumed that the people reading them would be stupid, but they are dumb to a degree that is shocking.

That said, they are a blast to read. They are so wildly incompetent that they are kind of fascinating and definitely hilarious.

Just to point out some of the high-low-lights:

1) Han Solo spends the entire series watching his "dream house in the sky" or a bachelor pad in Cloud City. Now I'm not claiming that I could write great Han Solo dialogue, but I'm pretty sure the words "Dream sky house" should never come out of his mouth.

2) Leia spends the entire series planning her wedding to Han, to the point that it is her main focus over dealing with the bad guys (who are so wildly incompetent anyway that I guess I don't blame her).

3) Acronyms! Acronyms every where! Have you ever wondered what it is like to read a book that looks like it was spelled out by Alphabet soup? If so, check these out!

4) Idiotic use of pre-established lore. Apparently, Darth Vader's glove is a powerful dark side artifact and a symbol of authority among the Empire (my question is which glove as he wore the same kind of glove on both hands). Also, there is a Mount Yoda, because of course there is.

5) This one's funny because I was having a conversation with a friend of mine comparing all the Star Wars books we've read. He said he's read the worst of the worst, and I said "No way dude, I have. The Jedi Prince Series". And he was like "Oh how bad is it?" and I said "Well, The Emperor has a son that is a triclops" and immediately he goes "Okay, you win" lol. But yes, seriously, The Emperor has a son that is a triclops, a trait so well known that a different character is able to assume the mantle of leadership over the Empire because he's a triclops too!

6) As I mentioned earlier, the villains are laughably terrible. They feel like they were written for a Saturday Morning cartoon and are so hammy in their villany that they would probably embarrass Skeletor. Trioculus (yes that's his name, he is the aforementioned pretender to the throne) is such an incompetent derf-wad that he gets frozen in carbonite AND also killed by a droid that is designed to look like Leia, who he planned to marry and make his Queen of the Empire. (Yes, that's real). This joker wanted to be the next Emperor/Darth Vader and he got frozen and eventually killed, and all before the sixth book. Oh there is also Zorba the Hutt, Jabba's daddy who swindles Lando out of Cloud City (probably the only real victory any bad guys get in this series) and also has a braided beard. No seriously, I'm not kidding.


7) Speaking of that, the illustrations inside the books are wonderfully silly. Take a look at some of these:


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8- Oh and each book has environmental messages like save the whales, deforestation is bad, all of that stuff. None of it feels in place with Star Wars at all, and it just comes across as a second rate episode of Captain Planet, but it is hilarious to watch them try to shoehorn environmental messages in stories that largely take place in space.

And I could go on and on. Bottom line, these are easily the worst Star Wars books ever written, but GODDAMN, they are so funny! I guess if you're going to be bad, go all the way with it. These things are funny as hell and I got a perverse enjoyment out of them.

If you want something quick and so-bad-its good, check these out. I read them as a kid and thought they were dumb, and I easily found PDFs online of the books and nearly spit my beer at the computer from laughing so hard. And again, they are super short, so it won't be too hard to get through them all if you want to.

ToplessRobot did an article about the series years ago, so check that out if you're interested.
https://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/03/10_crappiest_parts_of_the_star_wars_jedi_prince_se.php
 
If I can think of one right now: Street. Fight. Compilations!!!

Sometimes, watching niggas fight is funny, because violence is funny in the right context. And honestly, I don't do guilty pleasures - I do unpopular opinions. Which is what most of the (mostly animated) TV/Streaming/films/music/reading/YouTube/etc. is, anyway for me. If I liked some thing, everyone else tends to not so much.

Either way, I'm proud of everything I like, even if everyone else cringes at / disses on / simply hates it. And, honestly, THAT is how it should be... But look where we are - it seems you can't like anything anymore, unless you're part of some cancerous fanbase or other BS like that.
 
I forgot to add this one but Todd in the Shadows. He's the only TGWTG alumni I still somewhat regularly play as background noise.
 
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