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[40cakes]

Things that the rest of the world unconditionally adores that make me say "Meh."

Jude Law
Full Metal Alchemist
Yaoi
Final Fantasy VIII
Lord of the Rings
Pixar Films

>^..^

Comments

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

I have to profess a liking for all of those things. ¬_¬

With FMA, you need to get to episode 8 before you know whether it's going to eat your brain or not. Give it a chance!

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Agreed on Jude Law, yaoi, and LotR. Jury is out (hah!) on FMA.

[gecko32899.livejournal.com]

You don't...like...Pixar?

[emperorko.livejournal.com]

There are people who like FFVIII? That was easily the worst one of the series.

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

IX was so much worse!

[emperorko.livejournal.com]

It most certainly was NOT!

VIII had the worst system ever in a FF game. Summon, summon, summon, summon some more. Then it had that horrible "summoning affinity" that made summons useless if you transferred them between characters, and the wacky limit breaks that required button combinations. It was lousy!

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

The 'draw' system was lame to the power of ten, agreed. But the humble card game has never been more accessible or fun, and the looks and plot of the thing I felt made up for quite a bit. IX irritated me, and I could never put my finger on exactly why. Give me a minute.

i disagree

[raion.livejournal.com]

the key word here is unconditionally.
i can take or leave jude law, yaoi, or pixar.. some of the specific instances i have better opinions on.
final fantasy VIII is renowned to everyone I've met as the worst FF game ever, after the first five minutes.
full metal alchemist and lord of the rings I approve of, but not for the standard reasons.
the last couple episodes of FMA made me like it, as opposed to think it was kinda neat.
lord of the rings is a classic in that it has had a profound impact on the world at large. some people like it, and some don't, but that's not important, which is why there are classes on it.
-worth noting.. my brain was wired as a direct result of the lord of the rings. you DO NOT rip up trees in large numbers. I only remembered ents were the reason when the first movie came out.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

The tiny, tiny people? Or was I the only one frightened by them?

And *raises tentative hand* I liked VIII! Though it was much more for the story and the characters than the overall game play because every bit of "summon, summon, summon" rings true.

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

Pro-VIII I was going to cite the kinkiness of the school setting and all the pretty people in uniforms, but I didn't want to reveal my shallowness so early on. Oops.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

I just marathoned a bunch of FMA the other day and holy shit episodes 7 and 8 kicked so much ass. 7 in a creepy "I can't believe they did that!" kind of way and 8 for the very realistic "Oh yeah he is 12 isn't he?" fight at the end.

Stellar icon, btw.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd be lying if I denied playing for the pretty, pretty men. Of which there are many. Yay!

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

7 was unbelievable. I kept thinking 'no way, they're going to pull a happy ending out of somewhere', and then... and then... oh, God, I can't! Not again! Don't make me relive it!

That's when I knew FMA was not after all the fun comedy it pretended to be in episode 1.

Why thank you! I didn't make it, though. :3

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I like VIII. I'll agree that drawing can be a pain and the system is definitely tilted more towards summon that other ones, but if you use the junction system well you can have a LOT of fun, trust me. :D Plus I loved some of the characters and that counted more for me.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

And Squall's outfit. And the cowboy. And Laguna. Hey, sweet is sexy.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Unless you pack your attack slots with kickass spells early on, in which case it's "HAHAHAHA I OWNZ YOUR ASS, UNSUSPECTING SOLDIER!"

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

Oh, Irvine! And the possibilities of Squall/Seifer hatesex! Oh, how I do heart the hatesex.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

*whisper* It's Val's fault I haven't seen more FMA, `shaka! She still has my DVD of eps! ;)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I also loved Cid.

SHUT UP. It wasn't in a sex way!

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

It's always in a sex way! <3

[jaina.livejournal.com]

No no no! The second time I played through it, I realized that Cid had been apart from his possessed wife for...I forgot how many years now, but like a decade, and he was still so in love with her that he couldn't bear to see her die. That made me love his sweet, loyal self.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

I'm almost done with it, I swear!

[uiggu.livejournal.com]

Oh, Cid and sex, no no no. I was talking about the hot jailbait teenagers.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

My love for Irvine knows no bounds. *eyes shelf of doujinshi and ponders just how much she's spent on Irvine-related fan comics that she can't even read*

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

I remember taking down Seifer the first time in only one hit.
Seifer: You can't have beat me!
Me: I CAN'T HAVE BEAT YOU!