If Star Wars just had the very first movie and not a whole series

@SW-User I just lost so much respect for you.

@BlueMetalChick I'm more concerned that you had any to begin with. My dislike of Star Wars is actually remarkably mild, because it's just not that interesting for me. What makes me react like I did above is the CONSTANT reminding of it, being blasted with it any time literally anything that could be connected to it comes up, regardless of how tenuous that connection may be. For example, 4 May was my grandma's birthday, and then George Lucas ruined it. I try to remember her on that day, but with everyone always posting star wars stuff on that day makes remembering her incredibly difficult.

I enjoy Warhammer 40k far more, mostly because it's utterly absurd and (at least pretends it) doesn't take itself as over-serious as star wars is always portrayed. It's like being burnt out on something you already didn't enjoy through a flood of exposure.

@SW-User Lucas didn't actually come up with May 4th being "Star Wars Day." That originated from fan clubs. Which makes sense because fuck fan clubs of everything, even things I like.

Where the hell do you live that you're constantly confronted with Star Wars? That's fucking weird.

Warhammer 40K is the autistic little brother to all other science fiction IP's. It tries to do what Monster Hunter did in the fantasy genre and operate on a power level so enormous that everything is a just a little bit silly, but instead it completely fails at it and instead just ended up with a fanbase of idiot neurodivergent theater kid analogs who scream about everything being heresy.

@BlueMetalChick I'm fully aware of it not being Lucas's fault, but without him those fan clubs wouldn't have existed in the first place. But really, the fault is with nerds.

It feels like it, OK?

Well now that I know what you think of it (and me, through that bit at the end)... it does confirm my feeling that nobody likes me very much, especially when I won't shut up about my little plastic space men.

@BlueMetalChick in his defense, I grew up when Star Wars was marketed like crazy, by today’s standards it’s pretty tame now, but just imagine growing up with all that?

@SW-User It's an unfortunate fact that nobody can make something that other people like without other people fucking ruining it. I've experienced it myself. When I used to have my own band, we had a lot of local success. I was young as hell at the time, still in high school, and my classmates loved the music we played. And I absolutely despised it. They had to make it into a thing. Like being a fan of the music was some kind of personality trait and they were unique cos they got the inside references that nobody else did. I was hostile as fuck to my own fans because I was so appalled by their behavior.

@CrustyDDingus Well, I am younger than both of you, so that does make sense.

@BlueMetalChick That about sums up both 40k and star wars for me. I'm 29 and the world just sort of blurs together with all the thoughts that still linger, haunting and taunting me. Although that sounds more 'completely unhinged' than anything. Anyway, with that combined with, as DD said, constant marketing when I was younger (plus knowing people who will not shut the fuck up about it) - it starts to feel inescapable.

@SW-User it usually helps when you just narrow something down to a manageable level, I’ll probably still play a Star Wars game or even a Warhammer 40K game but I won’t get swept up in the fandom or their deepest lore. I only where my interests coincides with the given media.

@SW-User My favorite science fiction IP is and always will be Halo. If you ask me, Halo is a timeless masterpiece that can never be eclipsed. And yet I HATE the Halo community. I go out of my way to fight with them because most of them are so fucking ugly.

And tbh, even though I love Star Wars, I loathe the Star Wars community too. Not even half an hour ago, I was battling with a bunch of people who like the fucking Clone Wars, which is the worst piece of Star Wars media ever made.

@CrustyDDingus I've managed to get 40k down to that point already (it helps that I don't interact with the fanbase online much at all, and just pick out the bits I like), but Star Wars has been far harder to do it with, because it's ubiquitous: everyone knows what it is, and it's just kind of assumed that everyone likes it so I end up bombarded with it despite disliking it.

In short: I can control what I like and how I interact with it, but I cannot control everyone else.

@BlueMetalChick speaking of Halo... 🎮 we’re gonna play, someday. Not sure when.