Poll of the Day > things you liked as a kid and now dislike today as an grown-up?

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life

I still like good chocolate, but most of the stuff that's out there that was fine as a kid (Hershey's, etc) is garbage to me now.

captpackrat posted...

I still like good chocolate, but most of the stuff that's out there that was fine as a kid (Hershey's, etc) is garbage to me now.

Recently had this when I found TimTams at my local store. The regular ones were pretty garbage but the dark ones are pretty good.

Snow. Wouldn't mind it so much now if it weren't for the ice it leaves when it melts.... >_>

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As an adult? Maybe (I'd say it objectively sucks and always has, but I won't fight with people who love it).

As a child in the 80s? No. When you were a kid, college sports were universally terrible and boring. And the ultimate sign that the fun part of the day was now over and TV would be utterly worthless to you for the next two days (at least). It was the hard cut-off where you went from all of the major channels showing cartoons made explicitly for you to suddenly being a vast wasteland of nothing.

Unless you had a pathologically-obsessed sports dad who watched (and forced you to watch) and basically programmed you to love it as well (which I consider to be a form of child abuse), odds are you didn't give a shit about NCAA anything when you were 8 years old.

Bummer.

Whomever did the Saturday programming for our Fox affiliate was an absolute badass.

They usually ended the morning with shows focused on the older boy demographic Spiderman, X-Men, Exosquad, The Tick, Batman.

After the cartoons ended, they almost always had a double feature that almost always played into this demographic with martial arts, robots, aliens, monsters, shoot outs etc. They often paired a movie with its sequel or something thematically similar.

A huge portion of my pop culture exposure came from the Saturday afternoon Fox movies. I could be misremembering a where I saw a few of these, but at least 90% or better I have specific memories of seeing them for the first time on KLJB Fox TV.

Alien
Aliens
Predator
Predator 2
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
Terminator
Terminator 2
Robocop
Robocop 2
First Blood
First Blood: Part II
Rambo 3
Rocky I-V
Over the Top
Bloodsport
Universal Soldier
Hard Target
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Chopping Mall
Night of the Comet
Big Trouble in Little China
Overboard
Smokey and the Bandit
Duel
Maximum Overdrive
Final Countdown
Batteries Not Included
Mad Max
Road Warrior
Thunderdome
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Legend of Fong Se Yuk
Legend of Fong Se Yuk 2
Masters of the Universe
Cyborg
Willow
Romancing the Stone
Top Gun
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Highlander
The Fly
Batman 89
Batman 66
Last Starfighter
Enemy Mine
Planet of the Apes
Blackhole

Im sure I'm forgetting even more.

We had Sunday cartoon as well here, not as densely packed, as Saturdays but I was always bummed to miss them having to go church. I recall Ghostbusters, Bucky O' Hare, and Mighty Max being Sunday toons here.

The Legend of Zelda
Platformers

I loved every zelda with Majora's Mask being the last one. When Wind Waker came out I was bummed at the graphics but decided to give it a try anyway thinking they were going to do something different. Twilight Princess sealed the fate for me when I had the realization that they were going to continue to use the same formula for all of eternity. I noticed they designed every dungeon to go find this item to get you to progress further in the dungeon and then you beat it and repeat for all the dungeons.

Platformers I wouldn't even say that I liked but it was more that I didn't know what more the world had in store. I played all the Marios and thought that was gaming. Then I got a PC and learned about roguelikes which I really have way more fun with. Now platforming isn't even a gaming experience in my mind because I dislike the idea of pressing a button at a certain time would equal success. I fell in love instead with the idea of my decision making and knowledge of the game even through trial and error would equal success.

Random tangent here.
I'm not sure why anyone would consider a can of Chef Boyardee a meal. That lacks any real caloric value, and isn't even a meal (a can has 300-500 calories). I'm guessing the type of person that eats this crap is a grazer and doesn't really think about their caloric intake.

I think it's easier for me to think of stuff I didnt like as a kid that I now like as an adult other than obvious stuff like kids shows you grow out of. Pretty much all the games i liked as a kid i still can find enjoyment from. I know I used to love soda and now I might drink a drink pepper like once a year and then wonder why I did when I finish it

Birthdays

Ariel_Cerveza posted...

Winter, now that i've experienced driving on ice, i could do without it.

Go snowboarding

Icegoten200 posted...

I loved every zelda with Majora's Mask being the last one. When Wind Waker came out I was bummed at the graphics but decided to give it a try anyway thinking they were going to do something different. Twilight Princess sealed the fate for me when I had the realization that they were going to continue to use the same formula for all of eternity. I noticed they designed every dungeon to go find this item to get you to progress further in the dungeon and then you beat it and repeat for all the dungeons.

This is what I reference when I say Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were very much needed in changing the LoZ formula. A lot of people complain it doesn't "feel" like a Zelda game because of lack of linearity and Dungeon puzzles, but I say that the old Zelda formula was starting to get real stale. I had a similar experience, barely getting anywhere in Twilight Princess and skipping Skyward Sword, nor did I play whatever it was that came out on 3DS.

I don't know if this new open ended experience will be good to continue in the future though, it's probably going to need significant renovation to feel fresh again. But I would really like to see a lot of the lessons learned from them continue in the future, particularly allowing multiple solutions to problems or to just cheese them altogether.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sweets, mostly. I haven't really enjoyed sweet snacks or desserts since I was a kid. I'm much more likely to want a second helping of the main meal rather than a dessert if I've got a choice.

same here

Judgmenl posted...

Random tangent here.
I'm not sure why anyone would consider a can of Chef Boyardee a meal. That lacks any real caloric value, and isn't even a meal (a can has 300-500 calories). I'm guessing the type of person that eats this crap is a grazer and doesn't really think about their caloric intake.

You just described their target audience: children. You eat it after school, a few hours before dinner.

Salrite posted...

Recently had this when I found TimTams at my local store. The regular ones were pretty garbage but the dark ones are pretty good.

I like the caramel TimTams.

pedro45 posted...

You just described their target audience: children. You eat it after school, a few hours before dinner.

That's just bizarre because that doesn't fit into any reasonable eating schedule I have researched online. How many calories are these kids eating a day? For me, I try and do 1000 calories for breakfast (5am) and 1000 for lunch (1pm), and as I burn 2000-3000 calories a day, I may do a small snack around dinner time (5pm). On days I'll eat out (usually Fridays or Saturdays) I'll delay Lunch a couple of hours but it's really not good from a metabolism standpoint.

pedro45 posted...

You just described their target audience: children. You eat it after school, a few hours before dinner.

Canned pasta is nasty. I never liked it as a kid.

I'm not even a huge fan of pasta anymore and only really want it for a special occasion (e.g. baked zitti at the holidays). Pasta is so heavy and really limits what else you can eat during a meal and doesn't reheat / meal prep well at all compared to something like rice / other rice like grains.

That being said I want to try an air fryer baked pasta at some point. Need to find a good recipe for that first tho.

Judgmenl posted...

I'm not even a huge fan of pasta anymore and only really want it for a special occasion (e.g. baked zitti at the holidays). Pasta is so heavy and really limits what else you can eat during a meal and doesn't reheat / meal prep well at all compared to something like rice / other rice like grains.

That being said I want to try an air fryer baked pasta at some point. Need to find a good recipe for that first tho.

I like fresh made pasta since I can make my own.

Canned pasta always smelled like ass to me. Plus I don't like red sauce.

Salrite posted...

This is what I reference when I say Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were very much needed in changing the LoZ formula. A lot of people complain it doesn't "feel" like a Zelda game because of lack of linearity and Dungeon puzzles, but I say that the old Zelda formula was starting to get real stale. I had a similar experience, barely getting anywhere in Twilight Princess and skipping Skyward Sword, nor did I play whatever it was that came out on 3DS.

BotW really was a breath of fresh air that gave new life to a increasingly stale franchise.

Perhaps no other Zelda game has reminded me of the original LoZ like BotW did, what with the completely open world and sense of exploration.

The dungeons are kinda lacking, though. The Shrines are a neat concept but those got stale pretty quick and there's way too many of them. Oh well.

Summer
Thanksgiving
Nintendo (as a company)

HylianFox posted...

The dungeons are kinda lacking, though. The Shrines are a neat concept but those got stale pretty quick and there's way too many of them. Oh well.

My experience with shrines in both games, in theory sounds great to scatter mini puzzles throughout the world. But in practice, the process is dreading having to go through a puzzle and either relief that it's just a gift, excitement at how simple the solution is, acceptance that I understand what to do but annoyance at how tedious it is, or just full annoyance at the exceptionally tedious and finicky ones. I hated the gyro puzzles in BotW and was very thankful they were completely removed in TotK.

Although, dungeons always felt like a chore to me in Zelda games. I much rather had the exploration and questing. Which makes sense why I loved the more recent ones so much.

Entity13 posted...

Nintendo (as a company)

It's really sad actually. I grew up as a Nintendo Kid, and even as a young adult when we'd keep hearing about scummy developers, I always thought Nintendo was the reliable, shining example of a company that would never let me down. But the reality is, everyone and everything will disappoint eventually.

Judgmenl posted...

and doesn't reheat / meal prep well at all compared to something like rice / other rice like grains.

Really? It was one of the better things to meal prep in my experience. Once cooled, I'd divide it into portions, wrap those in foil and freeze them. When I wanted pasta I'd move a portion to the fridge, let it thaw overnight then warm it in the microwave the rest of the way. The difference in quality between that and fresh pasta is pretty small to me.

Judgmenl posted...

That's just bizarre because that doesn't fit into any reasonable eating schedule I have researched online. How many calories are these kids eating a day? For me, I try and do 1000 calories for breakfast (5am) and 1000 for lunch (1pm), and as I burn 2000-3000 calories a day, I may do a small snack around dinner time (5pm). On days I'll eat out (usually Fridays or Saturdays) I'll delay Lunch a couple of hours but it's really not good from a metabolism standpoint.

Do you know any humans from 10 years old to like 25? You just eat and eat...