No one ever reads or watches what I recommend (that’s a lie, one person does). I usually don’t expect others to engage with my interests, I wouldn’t hold a grudge if they don’t. But it upsets me when this occurs in the event of exchanging recommendations with someone who ends up not reciprocating. This has happened on four separate occasions with different people. While I’d actually read the book, give my opinion and genuinely engage with them, they would postpone doing so and constantly make excuses until they think I’ve forgotten. One time I made a promise with a friend to watch a series of their choice and vice versa, guess who did and who didn’t (“My internet connection is so bad” you’re literally watching other shows as we speak…)

This begs the question: are my recommendations this bad? I’d like to put that to the test. Here are the recommendations in question:

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    People just don’t want to consume your shit, but are stuck in some bullshit white lies social pleasantries that NTs love to play instead of cutting through the bullshit and just saying, “I’m not interested lol.”

    Why they are not interested could be for a plethora of reasons:

    1. They have pleb tastes and can only find joy in consuming the lowest of lowest denominator slop.

    2. They think you have pleb tastes and look down on you for consuming lowest denominator slop while consuming pretentious shit that they can barely force themselves to enjoy.

    3. They have a massive backlog that they feel anxiety just thinking about and they’re barely holding it together only for you to add to an ever-expanding backlog.

    4. They have no free time whatsoever and use the very little free time they can ration to choose the completely safe option by going on a pure nostalgia trip consuming the same work for the 200th time because they know that they’ve enjoyed the work the 199 times they consumed it meaning they probably will enjoy the work when they consumed it for the 200th time.

    I haven’t consumed any of your recommended works and I probably won’t. Here are my reasons why:

    • Avatar: The Last Airbender
      Everything I’ve read about the series point to an orientalist (in the not-necessarily-pejorative artistic sense where different Asian cultural motifs gets smashed together not the pejorative political sense about the so-called superiority of Western civilization over the inscrutable Orient) work created by white people who don’t understand Asian cultures. Their politics are not very good either and while most critiques say that the first series hid their trash politics better than the sequel, it doesn’t lead me wanting to give the series a chance.

    • The Tatami Galaxy
      Overall, I’m just not into anime. The trailer and Wikipedia article doesn’t have anything jump out that I would be interested in. The art looks cool I guess.

    • Parasite
      Everything about this movie point to capitalist recuperation where the proles get their release valve movie about how capitalism sucks before going back to their cages. I really don’t want to see a movie about how a worker and his family get immiserated by some rich assholes. I mean, if I wanted to hear about workers being immiserated by rich assholes, I just need to talk to my coworkers. And reading the plot summary of the movie honestly killed any interest I have in seeing the movie. At basic level, any anti-capitalist work must have the rich be eaten somewhere in the work for it to actually count as an anti-capitalist work. And that’s bare minimum. Better anti-capitalist works show us the means and methods in which the rich finally eat shit at the hands of the working class.

    • Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
      This one is probably the most interesting one, but reading the author’s background makes me think the work is going to massively informed by his scholarly work, if not a full polemic about whether message he wants to spread. It’s very hard to not suspect he has modern Coptic Christians in mind as one of the factions or he sets up the theological dispute that is only truly resolved with Islamic theology. I would rather read his scholarly work except everything he wrote would fly over my head, meaning I would probably need to read multiple books like an intro to Coptic Christianity, an intro to Islamic philosophy, the Quran, and so on before I can even engage with his scholarly work, which would then provide me the context in which to consume his fictional work.

    I suppose this is the reason why NTs just lie and say they will consume them when they won’t lol

    • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      I would rather read his scholarly work except everything he wrote would fly over my head, meaning I would probably need to read multiple books like an intro to Coptic Christianity, an intro to Islamic philosophy, the Quran, and so on before I can even engage with his scholarly work, which would then provide me the context in which to consume his fictional work.

      I like your reasoning lol. And thank you for your input, very enlightening.