For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

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    Overwatch the video game. TF2 felt better in every way - no I didn’t play the original team fortress. I never felt good playing the overwatch, never cared about all the backstory considering it had no standing on the game whatsoever - I’m sure they’ll add a campaign some day though. The mechanics felt so floaty and slidy, and I never felt like my hits registered at all. The community sucked even more because everyone was “one game off going pro” because they got a cool kill 10 rounds ago. Rocket league was less toxic and that’s saying something. Oh and sooo repetitive. I hear the irony of comparing it to rocket league then saying that, don’t worry.

    I’ll take the low blow and say Blizzard can get fucked as a company too, I’d be happy if they went bankrupt tomorrow. They’re like the worst of the worst in the video game industry.

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    Dr. Seuss. I really don’t know why, but that stuff is creepy and disturbing in a way that almost nothing else is. All of it. The art, the writing, the themes. I literally just can’t even.

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    Harry Potter, even ignoring how much of a piece of shit the author is the books just aren’t particularly well thought out.

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      There are so many simple solutions to the problems presented in the books, but JK is too afraid of challenging her own status quo.

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      I agree. To be fair though the books have A LOT of extra shit that make the movies actually make sense.

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    The Netflix adaptation of Altered Carbon or “How a good read was turned into an absolute boring pile of dog shit”

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    Director Dennis Villeneuve. I don’t like emo and the guy is playing only that card.

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    Director Dennis Villeneuve. I don’t like emo and the guy is playing only that card.

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    American football. Fox turned it into a video game you can’t play.

    Mens soccer. Stop with the fucking cry baby drama! Women’s soccer is better in this regards.

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    The US version of The Office, LOL.

    Watched 8 episodes and would rather watch paint dry for the rest of my life than watching the rest of the series.

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      The first series was trash because they pretty much tried a shot for shot copy of the UK version. The second series was basically a reboot and was amazing from there on till about season 6 iirc