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Some food ones:
Microwaveable rice tastes better.
Mayo makes everything worse.
Kettle Chips are awful now, used to be good but now the quality has gone all the way down.
Pizza is better with only cheese and some herbs as toppings.

Movie takes:
Bride of Chucky is not good, was trying too hard to be hip to the times.
Most Saw movies have aged awfully with an ugly visual style (everything a weird green) and that awful mid-2000s editing style.
The Disney Star Wars movies are more boring than awful, really not worth the rage or time people spend bitch or defending them.
Sean Penn was comically bad in Mystic River.
Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 are pretty fun movies.

Gaming:
PlayStation does have a very weak lineup, but the bitching about how it has no exclusives because they now come to PC after 2 years while giving XBOX a free pass is just autistic.
Nintendo make too many Mario games, get they sell but within the next few months got, Mario Wonder, a Mario RPG remake, a Paper Mario remake, a Wario Ware game, Mario Kart DLC, Mario vs. DK, a Princess Peach game, and a Luigi's Mansion 2 port.
PC gaming is getting worse with the huge price increases for each new gen, for it becoming more common for games to get shit PC ports that don't ever get a fix and what feels like AMD giving up competing with Nvidia tech such as DLSS.
 
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Adults (especially childless adults) who watch Bluey are fucking weirdos.

“iTs JuSt A wHoLeSoMe ShOw!”

There’s plenty of wholesome adult shows as well. You’re a grown adult watching a cartoon meant for toddlers and trying to find some deep life affirming validation in it. Hell, I wouldn’t even bat an eye if an adult took a trip down nostalgia lane and watched an old Disney/Pixar/Don Bluth movie, but something about being this obsessed with a cartoon meant for kids still shitting their diapers just weirds me out.
 
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Dwight Frye said:
There’s plenty of wholesome adult shows as well.
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Any nostalgia bait like The Kids Are Alright or The Wonder Years reboot works.
There's some cheesy nonsense called Perfect Harmony about a university singing professor adjusting to living with Kentucky hayseeds that's wholesome.
Old TV (from decades ago) is wholesome.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Any nostalgia bait like The Kids Are Alright or The Wonder Years reboot works.
There's some cheesy nonsense called Perfect Harmony about a university singing professor adjusting to living with Kentucky hayseeds that's wholesome.
Old TV (from decades ago) is wholesome.
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We get this baby boomer TV channel that does massive marathons every weekend of old sitcoms, things like Gomer Pyle USMC, WKRP in Cincinatti, Family Affair, or Petticoat Junction, and while they aren't Zoomer wholesome like "uwu unproblematic" they're old school wholesome; simple plots that resolve in 30 minutes or less, familiar characters, comfortable settings, and sometimes surprisingly modern humor that catches you off guard. The only one I haven't liked so far is All In The Family (Edith is the best and Archie is a stupid shitass.) I think people should go back and watch those old shows again, there's value there that's been forgotten. Like buried treasure in the sand of the hourglass.
 
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Chromeo said:
We get this baby boomer TV channel that does massive marathons every weekend of old sitcoms, things like Gomer Pyle USMC, WKRP in Cincinatti, Family Affair, or Petticoat Junction, and while they aren't Zoomer wholesome like "uwu unproblematic" they're old school wholesome; simple plots that resolve in 30 minutes or less, familiar characters, comfortable settings, and sometimes surprisingly modern humor that catches you off guard. The only one I haven't liked so far is All In The Family (Edith is the best and Archie is a stupid shitass.) I think people should go back and watch those old shows again, there's value there that's been forgotten. Like buried treasure in the sand of the hourglass.
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My Baby Boomer father watches that. I like Gomer Pyle and I haven't seen much of it but I like the idea of The Andy Griffith Show, it has actual accurate Appalachian voices since Andy and Barney's actors were from Appalachia and it likewise depicts a small Appalachian town of that time in a way that's so realistic and understated that it's recognizable but most of the audience wouldn't even notice the setting.

RFDTV also has a lot of old stuff like that.

Frasier isn't wholesome as such in the sense of being warm and cuddly - it's the opposite, show's about cold snobby elitist types and their gritty father - but it laughs at people like academics and socialities while not feeling malicious. Most modern shows feel malicious and biting in some way.

All in the Family is good, and I think it's exceptionally sharp in how it handles race. Archie was written to be the dumb bigot but he ended up being relatable to much of his audience that liked his angry old dad vibe, and most importantly, he isn't written as evil. Not even as a bad person. Just a flawed person. And his Black neighbor is just a non-stupid version Black version of Archie. It was, back when Civil Rights was still a fresh topic, making points about how the world is full of bigoted fools of all kinds.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
All in the Family is good, and I think it's exceptionally sharp in how it handles race. Archie was written to be the dumb bigot but he ended up being relatable to much of his audience that liked his angry old dad vibe, and most importantly, he isn't written as evil. Not even as a bad person. Just a flawed person. And his Black neighbor is just a non-stupid version Black version of Archie. It was, back when Civil Rights was still a fresh topic, making points about how the world is full of bigoted fools of all kinds.
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One of the episodes I saw was one of those Rashomon-style stories where different characters recall the same event, it was Archie, Edith, the daughter and her boyfriend (husband?) out at dinner and they were trying to remember what had happened earlier that night with a black repairman. Archie remembers him being this like, super woke mau mau type that was aggressive and scary (and remembers himself being perfectly reasonable,) while the liberal son-in-law remembers the black repairman as a pickaninny "oh I's sorry I didn'ts means ta do nuffin, no sir!" type and Archie as aggressively racist, while Edith remembered the situation accurately (the repairman was a normal guy and Archie was accidentally racist, so dude stood up for himself.)

I liked how it portrayed the liberal as being just as racist as the conservative, even though the experience of watching two racist characters mischaracterize the same guy was just painful to watch.
 
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Chromeo said:
One of the episodes I saw was one of those Rashomon-style stories where different characters recall the same event, it was Archie, Edith, the daughter and her boyfriend (husband?) out at dinner and they were trying to remember what had happened earlier that night with a black repairman. Archie remembers him being this like, super woke mau mau type that was aggressive and scary (and remembers himself being perfectly reasonable,) while the liberal son-in-law remembers the black repairman as a pickaninny "oh I's sorry I didn'ts means ta do nuffin, no sir!" type and Archie as aggressively racist, while Edith remembered the situation accurately (the repairman was a normal guy and Archie was accidentally racist, so dude stood up for himself.)

I liked how it portrayed the liberal as being just as racist as the conservative, even though the experience of watching two racist characters mischaracterize the same guy was just painful to watch.
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Sanford and Sons is also good for stuff critical of race. They're basically junkyard dudes, collect other people's trash. Gritty, grounded old Black man father and young woke radical son. The father clowns on the son's exaggerated Pan-Africanist Malcolm X foolishness all the time.

BTW Mount Airy, NC, the town Mayberry from Andy Griffith is modeled on, is also the place where the original Siamese twins (Chang and Eng Bunker) settled down. They became slaveowners and their sons fought for the Confederacy.
 
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For a genre like hip-hop celebrating 50 years of its existence, it’s brought nothing but an underwhelming, mediocre rise of rap music that will be forgotten in the next five to ten years top.

Maybe 20 years if it’s lucky to do that.
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I hate how with almost every piece of marketing, it involves corny, pop rap.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Sanford and Sons is also good for stuff critical of race. They're basically junkyard dudes, collect other people's trash. Gritty, grounded old Black man father and young woke radical son. The father clowns on the son's exaggerated Pan-Africanist Malcolm X foolishness all the time.

BTW Mount Airy, NC, the town Mayberry from Andy Griffith is modeled on, is also the place where the original Siamese twins (Chang and Eng Bunker) settled down. They became slaveowners and their sons fought for the Confederacy.
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That show is a remake of Steptoe and Son. The UK original was a lot more bleak.


And All in the Family was also a remake of Till Death Us Do Part
 
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@Product Placement Much American television is. Specific countries seem to specialize in specific artforms (like Italians with painting and sculpture, Germans/Austrians with classical music, etc.) and it seems to me like British people specialized in performance arts (stageplays and television).
 
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One of the main reasons for believing in heaven and hell is to teach people from a very young age about the concept that their actions may have consequences that don't happen right away or are immediately obvious. If you get used to the idea that if you're bad you're going to go to hell, it's easier to understand the concept that if you do crimes you're going to go to jail
 
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Dilf Department said:
>Feminine girls are better than tomboys
>Makeup is not bad and should be used by all women
>Men who date asian women should be treated like coal burners
>Men who shave are faggots
>Weedcucks are stinky faggots
>People who think dolls are scary are faggots
>Shonens like Jojo, Demon Slayer, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter and Chainsaw man are overrated and gay
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when you say shave, are you just talking legs and armpit hair, or face too?
 
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