You know what really grinds my gears?

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Does the Netflix front page just have that kinda power?

I think it's mostly that. Netflix is the Facebook of streaming services. Or the McDonalds, Walmart, etc. It casts such a wide net. People will sit through hours and hours of Netflix content just because it's on Netflix, as opposed to seeking out content elsewhere. And there is a ton elsewhere. But most people aren't going to look.

Word of mouth is a thing too. At work I will hear people talk about binging an entire long series, and sometimes their review will be "meh, it was okay." Always cracks me up.

[NinerFan1983]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When some people freak out just because you haven't watched a popular TV show or movie that apparently everyone else has seen already.

[Skyboxer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Is there a way for KB/M users to get feedback/vibration somehow, though? That will always be a drawback for me, personally.

Not that I know of but never looked.
Not to be "that guy" but... I did grab Doom for PS4 last week.

Just can't get used to it after playing all the rest on PC.
Just way to used to M/KB especially for the fast paced DOOM.
Gonna sell it and get PC version soon week.

From what I understand DOOM 64 PS4 supports M/KB but Eternal doesn't..
That's screwy if true.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The whole country is on house arrest right now. A random Netflix drop was bound to go viral.

eh, I think it's more that whatever is new and popular, whatever is trending, there will always be a faction of people who gobble up the new, popular, trending thing, to be included, and make others know that they're included

[TheMatrix31]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It doesn’t bother me but it baffles me, I just never realized how people choose what they watch. What are people being drawn to? Is it as simple as word of mouth or is there some hidden love of endangered animals I never realized? Like why is it this? Does the Netflix front page just have that kinda power?

It's a desire to fit in. It's trendy. They see people watching, they want to feel cool and hip and they say "yeah I watch it too!" It's how the vast majority of shows got popular in recent years, because the quality is damn sure not the determining factor.

It's like when I started watching Entourage back whenever it was because that's all my damn friends would talk about so I figured "hey I need to give this a shot otherwise I'm not going to have anything to talk about with these people." I gave it 3 seasons until I came to the realization and said "Nope, this ****ing show is trash."

I've muted the words about the tiger show. I don't give a **** about any tigers unless they're of the Detroit kind.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It's a desire to fit in. It's trendy. They see people watching, they want to feel cool and hip and they say "yeah I watch it too!"

Psychologically, I've kind of always been the opposite. If I'm the same as everybody, then I'm not standing out in my mind. Therefore, something that is popular for others is less enticing to me, unless I can attest to myself that it is absolutely something I want to experience for myself, and not "for others."

Maybe that's why I like flip phones?

[TheMatrix31]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I don't look to stand out either.

I just like what I like. Always been that way.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

This year really is a tour de force for anxiety/social anxiety.

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Biting into an apple only to discover it's rotten inside

[shogunofharlem3]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Finally having that free half hour to sit and play a quick game of something only to be hit with the Time to Update screen! Time to fire up the NES then, which ungrinds my gears after a few minutes, but then I remember how cheap those games were, and my gears are worn!

[KG]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Finally having that free half hour to sit and play a quick game of something only to be hit with the Time to Update screen! Time to fire up the NES then, which ungrinds my gears after a few minutes, but then I remember how cheap those games were, and my gears are worn!

One of the worst things about modern games, having to install them, especially on the slow PSN.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

And don't forget unskippable tutorials.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

One of the worst things about modern games, having to install them, especially on the slow PSN.

To piggyback off that, I don't like having games update normally by themselves on PSN. Especially when these updates are usually a couple gigs each.


I don't want to uninstall say, RDR2 because of its massive download size.

[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

That I don't get royalties for this stuff.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Biting into an apple only to discover it's rotten inside

when I was a kid, I caught a huge break with a cheap little chocolate pie, one of these crust pies with goop in the middle

I liked breaking them open and eating them from the center to the ends

welp, I opened this specific one up and it was all green and fuzzy

good thing I didn't bite right into it!