Why do so many people heavily obsess over shows?

[Foxscotch]

explain in detail the plot of dark souls and the main mechanic behind JJBA
no wiki

uh dark souls is about fightin skeletons or some stuff and jojo has spirits that help you fight
it doesn't matter anyway, what I'm saying is you're implying that the "complexity" is the only reason people don't like them, which is obviously an absurd concept

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[PhantOS]

you aren't an intelligent human until you fully interpret the theme of the 7 deadly sins in chowder, and write a full 1000 page character brown townysis on each of them

[Outpact-]

you aren't an intelligent human until you fully interpret the theme of the 7 deadly sins in chowder, and write a full 1000 page character brown townysis on each of them

funny when I actually do essays on film characters and did once see which of the deadly sins a character has committed.

[Køtt]

because people enjoy watching them? did OP live under a boulder before television shows were first aired

[Tactical Nuke]

uh dark souls is about fightin skeletons or some stuff and jojo has spirits that help you fight
it doesn't matter anyway, what I'm saying is you're implying that the "complexity" is the only reason people don't like them, which is obviously an absurd concept

in order to understand what exactly is going on, you need to know a lot about the plot/mechanics, and there are people who won't go to that length because JJBA is so confusingly insane at points and Dark Souls is just plain loving hard

the people who are willing to go that extra mile end up major fans, but it's less that it's "complex" and more that it's not really accessible

the best place to start with JJBA in order to understand everything is with the first volume, Phantom Blood, which is pretty much as cliche as you can possibly get (Jonathan Joestar is pretty much every other super-powerful anime hero), the personality only gets going in Battle Tendency and for some people that's too late to get invested

Dark Souls isn't just difficult, it's punishingly difficult and will purposely forget with you all the time, and it's very vague on specifics; it took me three playthroughs and several wiki-searches to get to the final boss and I still haven't beat him yet, plus you have advanced techniques for getting max damage or whatever that even I don't get yet

it's not "people are dumb" or "us JJBA/DS fans are smarter than everyone else", it's purely a "how much time am I willing to put into this" thing

[PhantOS]

it's not that people are dumb or that us JJBA/DS fans are smarter than everyone else

[Trogtor]

[TheKid]

ya idk, only thing i can say is that there's nothing inherently wrong with people enjoying things, being inspired by them, and talking about them. people can be obnoxious about it and that can be annoying, but if just seeing innocuous discussion or inspired content related to a fandom elicits a negative reaction from you that might be smth you gotta sort out on your own

You ever heard of ok ko

[otto-san]

You ever heard of ok ko

[PhantOS]

the virgin viewer vs the chad plot brown townyst

make it trogtor

[Køtt]

You ever heard of ok ko

...Wack.

[Trogtor]

the virgin viewer vs the chad plot brown townyst

make it trogtor

already sleep

[Mr.Noßody]

Fandoms exist because when you have no real direction in life, you tend to grasp at the the easiest things available to you so that you can be attached to something. And because of mob mentality, the notion is extenuated and validated by the large amount of like minded people also looking for something to attach themselves to.

Liking something that you can defend as being good is all well and fine, but when you devalue that content by constantly drawing attention to it is where you become a problem.

[Tactical Nuke]

Fandoms exist because when you have no real direction in life, you tend to grasp at the the easiest things available to you so that you can be attached to something. And because of mob mentality, the notion is extenuated and validated by the large amount of like minded people also looking for something to attach themselves to.

Liking something that you can defend as being good is all well and fine, but when you devalue that content by constantly drawing attention to it is where you become a problem.

this

[Marios]

Fandoms exist because when you have no real direction in life, you tend to grasp at the the easiest things available to you so that you can be attached to something.

So if you have to reach for 'the easiest thing available' to be 'attached to something', this means:

1) You don't have a pet
2) You don't have a lover
3) You aren't married
4) You don't even have friends
5) If you fit any of the above, you don't actually like/love them

Or in short you're like the biggest nerd who spends all his time in his mother's basement, doesn't even get visited by his mother anymore and therefore has to be attached to his last resort, a fandom. And since fandoms can grow to millions of people, that means we have millions of millions of people spread out in different fandoms who have nothing to love or be attached to. Right?

And because of mob mentality, the notion is extenuated and validated by the large amount of like minded people also looking for something to attach themselves to.

Thus said basement dwellers convince other basement dwellers over the internet that fandoms are the way to go.

Liking something that you can defend as being good is all well and fine, but when you devalue that content by constantly drawing attention to it is where you become a problem.

This paragraph has nothing to do the one above. Just because people with 'no real direction in life' attach themselves to a fandom, does that mean they constantly advertise their favorite work around? Why aren't there people wearing sandwich boards to show how much they love a particular show, without even working for the show?

I love Ace Attorney but I don't go around shouting OBJECTION!!!, do I? Chances are the only reason you know I love Ace Attorney is because I explicitly mentioned it right now.