Board 8 > If you had to anti-recommend some form of media, would you?

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This is brought about by a post that caught my eye of a public library that has an anti-recommendation display - "We're willing to rant about these at checkout, and here's why!" I work checkout at a fairly large library, so I have a few things to say on the matter, but what examples in media - books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, livestreams do you personally dislike yet still see the merit in?

Sticking to books, I have a few for my own reasons (The Hobbit, audiobook version of the Hunger Games, Nicholas Sparks in general, The Scarlet Letter) but I'm waiting to see if poaching the anti-recommendation display idea goes through with my administration.

Gacha

Media of the "social" variety

redrocket posted...

Gacha

Gacha bad, but I love Project Moon so I'd recommend Limbus Company even if I will never play it myself.

Underleveled posted...

Media of the "social" variety

I recommend social media remain existent so it quarantines some of the shittier people I know.

Wait, so the topic is asking for media that we don't like but still see the merit in?

Uh, fighting games and racing games in general I guess. Oh also Monster Hunter series.

Raka_Putra posted...

Wait, so the topic is asking for media that we don't like but still see the merit in?

Yes! Specific examples if you've got em, too.

Theres a book I've read recently called The Authenticity Project which I thought had a great premise but, as much as I like bittersweet endings, killing off one of the most likeable characters - and having the main PoV female character get together with an alcoholic with the writer doing a soapbox about herself being a social media influencers character and day-mom-box-wine tippler herself just rubbed me completely the wrong way

Raka_Putra posted...

Wait, so the topic is asking for media that we don't like but still see the merit in?

The topic is confusing because this seems to be the final question, but the situation described seem to suggest actively recommending people disengage from it, which ought to be reserved for media you find objectively low-quality or harmful.

And yet the topic title seems to be asking something else entirely. Would I anti-recommend something that I don't like but still see the merit in? I certainly wouldn't be afraid to justify my dislike for it, especially if it's popular and people question my low opinion on it, but I'm not going to say "this should be avoided."

Another example I'm thinking of is Game of Thrones. I loved the series when it was running, but I wouldn't ever watch after season 6 again; likewise, I couldn't get very far into the books because so much of them were lists of names and who's screwing who - literally, politically, or mortally - and I just lost interest in the overarching plot. I prefer to gush about my headcanon (the 7 Queendoms was basically writing itself once Winter suffered continental warming via the Littlest Stark) but nope, gotta kill em all too.

Isquen posted...

Yes! Specific examples if you've got em, too.

Alright, then I recommend the Monster Hunter series.

If you like learning attack patterns of monsters by actually observing it live in a 3D environment, then hatching a plan to take it down, usually by crafting equipment and items that you usually need to grind by taking down weaker (but still powerful monsters), this series is for you. Oh and when you actually engage it in combat we ready to parry or dodge its attacks with near frame-perfect accuracy.

It made me really miserable (a friend made me play it) and I'm not touching it with a 10 feet pole. I'd rather drink boiled orange juice.

Edit: But if those things sound like right up your alley, it's actually really polished and focused on the experience and you won't be let down.

Sorry the question is vague, as I *am* at work, but let me try and rephrase it.

What's a piece of work you can talk at length about that you could still sell somebody on viewing/reading for one reason or another?

In my two examples, I actually rather liked The Authenticity Project's writing style and characters - apart from the two alcoholics, and just hated that they wound up the best off in the ending. In Game of Thrones, the series especially, I thought the pacing was brilliant and the overarching storyline great (until it wasn't.)

First thing that came to mind is Umineko but that's probably in part because I was talking about it elsewhere today. Game takes too long to say things; it devotes too much time to the finer technical aspects of mystery novel construction; and metafiction is generally not a thing I find compelling.

Still not sure I understand the question but I THINK my answer would be Pyre.

That game was way too bleak and depressing for my tastes and it gets very repetitive by the end, but I appreciate the artistry of a lot of what it's doing, and I completely understand why plenty of people love it to bits.

Isquen posted...

Sorry the question is vague, as I *am* at work, but let me try and rephrase it.

What's a piece of work you can talk at length about that you could still sell somebody on viewing/reading for one reason or another?

In my two examples, I actually rather liked The Authenticity Project's writing style and characters - apart from the two alcoholics, and just hated that they wound up the best off in the ending. In Game of Thrones, the series especially, I thought the pacing was brilliant and the overarching storyline great (until it wasn't.)

I think the rephrase is just confusing me more

One Piece I guess

anything with Denuvo in it.
and i think Lost is probably the first series a lot of people had that'd define this.

Probably Xenosaga if I'm understanding the question correctly

redrocket posted...

Gacha

y'know what
it's this