What is with grown ass men and women liking Childish shit? Pokémon,

SORRY I CANT ADULT TODAY :)

I CANT EVEN

>>80207794
Are you referring to a specific situation? What exactly caused you to make this thread? A lot of individuals grew up reading the Harry Potter series; it's really not surprising in the least that people like it well into their adult years.
>MLP
Are you from fucking 2010 or something?
>Coloring books
What is this even about? Man fuck you for wasting everyone's time with this thread.

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I prefer these patrician book covers good sir

because nostalgia

I still play Pokemon sometimes.

>tfw cannot read 18 volume Russian qt plagiarism version starring a genderswapped Harriet Potter because JK got it banned from ever being translated or sold in the UK

>>80207925
LONDON
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Because numale culture and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puer_aeternus#Peter_Pan_syndrome

>>80207794
In the case of horsies, there wasn't such a thing as "bronies" until they put big expressive anime-like eyes on the characters, which caused autists to stampede over to it like fucking crazy.

>>80207794
Pokémon games are surprisingly deep though.

>>80207794

There are complex philosophical concepts in these materials that are not overt. This is why grown adults love children's stories even more.

>>80207885
Everyone looks Jewish

>>80207794
I remember the first book getting big while I was at school and thinking it was for children only.

then again this entire board is for children

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In terms of pottermblr, maybe their minds have been so dulled the by the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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>>80208097
>a-at least the books were good though
>"No!"

Never get tired of that.

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Because society is collapsing but nobody has any idea how to fix it, so people are surrendering to infantilism.

Most adult fans of things are people who liked them as kids, and never stopped liking them just because they grew up.

>>80208154
All I get from this is Clinton is good, and Bush is bad.

>>80208154
I think it's less "society is collapsing" and more "it's getting really out in the open now that the world is meaningless." Before we could really pretend, and distract ourselves with shit. But hell, we had TD S1 aired on television. Could you imagine such a thing airing 40 years ago? Wouldn't fly at all.

Society has a ways to go yet, my man. Just wait until NK collapses, or when sea levels start rising and people in Florida/California have to move further inland. THAT'S going to be some shit. We're living in the fucking golden age for all the shit that'll happen in 100-200 years.

>>80207794
Harry Potter had a few strong moments, but I don't have much respect for JK anymore.

>>80208154
>the silent generation
H-how many are left?

my real life oneitis loves harry potter.

also, I 've spent three stints in the mental hospital, two out of the three featured people coloring in their books. like, really fast indicating they practiced at home.

just my 2c

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>>80208275
In the past people could turn to powerful ideologies to fill the vacuum, but those were largely discredited in the 20th century. It's immensely stressful to know that things are getting worse without having any outlet for the aggression and fear that knowledge causes. The ideologies of the past provided that outlet but there are none today, so people turn to childish fantasies instead.

>>80207794
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with an adult being a fan of something childish. At the end of the day, you like what you like.

My issue is that that I'm seeing more and more adults using this stuff as their primary basis and lens for interpreting the larger world around them. This means people projecting infantile narratives of us vs them, good vs evil, onto the world, and trying to fit the world into categories similar to those displayed in this media.

It's concerning because, for example, I'm fairly anti-fascist (by definition, not as a retarded antifa punching teachers for going to talks) and infantilizing yourself in response to that really isn't helpful.

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Real cultures have fifteen year olds who kill themselves acting like they're 50.

When the reverse takes hold, turn out the lights.

>>80208617
>i'm fairly anti-fascist
woah what a bold position

>>80207794
Adult coloring books are pretty comfy.

>>80208692
>every position has to be bold

whoah

Is Gunpla childish?

>>80207794
Why are you on /tv/?

reminder someone will misuse the CS Lewis quote itt to defend their childish ways.

>>80208617
In most cases it's not about the intent. It's about the result.

>>80208692

around these parts it is a bold position

>>80208097
I went to this thread just to make sure this was posted.

Favorite copypasta after Imagine.

>>80208514
This is literally the most cherry picked graph ever made.

Is my dad an adult for watching fox news for 6 hours a day instead of watching movies?

Nation of people raised by divorced parents

>>80208983
What the fuck are you talking about? It just demonstrates that certain countries have been increasing their nuclear arsenals.

>>80209029
Do I need to tell you about your mother with her ankles above her shoulders, son?

>>80208514
What the hell kind of graph is this

>>80207794
As a 28yo I can say that the 1st harry potter book came out the year I turned 11. Every brony should walk off a cliff

There's no issue with enjoying those things.

It's concerning that people take it for more than what it is though: children's entertainment.

I know fair amount of people (including me ex) that regarded Harry Potter as actual fine literature.

>>80208514
>>80208275

The only thing I don't get is when people escape into these childlike fantasies they are subjecting themselves to generally a morally black and white dichotomy. Then they turn around and support people like Trump, who are in almost every sense is a cartoony villain. Not here to Trump bash, I just find it curious that they don't escape into something a little more complex or accommodating of their RL views.

>>80207794
I was about to write a long, serious reply, but if you really have to ask such questions you wouldn't understand anyway.

>>80207794
Didn't his relatives hate and neglect him? Why did they buy him adidas shoes then?

just checking if there is the potter pasta

AAYOo we finna up in one of da most thugged-out borin franchise up in history. For real each episode followin tha pimp wizzle n' his thugged-out lil' hommies from Hogwarts Academy as they fight different shitty muthafuckas has been indistinguishable from tha others fo realz. Aside from tha fucked up porno, tha series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement n' ineffectizzle use of effects, all ta make magic unmagical, ta make action seem busted

Maybe tha take a dirtnap was busted when Rowlin didn't want no Spielberg directin tha series; she made shizzle tha series would never be trippin fo a work of art dat meant anythang ta anybody; just cross-promotion ta make loadz of chedda fo' her books. Da Harry Potta series might be anti-christian (or not) yo, but it’s certainly tha anti-Jizzy Bond series cuz it don't accept wonder, beauty n' excitement. No one wants ta accept tha real deal. It aint nuthin but tha nick nack patty wack.

>a-at least tha books was phat though
"AW HELL NAW"
Da freestylin is dreadful; tha book was shitty fo' realz. As I read, I noticed dat every last muthafuckin time a cold-ass lil characta went fo' a strutt, tha lyricist freestyled instead dat tha characta "stretched his fuckin legs"

I fuckin started markin on tha back of a envelope every last muthafuckin time dat phrase was repeated. This type'a shiznit happens all tha time. I stopped only afta I had marked tha envelope nuff muthafuckin dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowlingz mind is so governed by cliches n' dead metaphors dat dat freaky freaky biatch has no other steez of writing. Lata I read a white-ass, gangbangin review of Harry Potta by tha same Stephen Mackdaddy yo. Dude freestyled suttin' ta tha effect of, "If these lil playas is readin Harry Potta at 11 or 12, then when they git olda they will go on ta read Stephen Mackdaddy." And da thug was like right yo. Dude was not bein ironic. When you read "Larry Potsmoker" yo ass is, up in fact, trained ta read Stephen Mackdaddy

>>80210174
They're probably from tesco or some shit

>>80210174
Those are 2.5 stripes not 3.

>>80207794
because adulthood is hard and a great many parents were in no way prepared to raise their kids in the internet age

There's o age restriction on what you can enjoy. People grow out of playing with toys, and move on to collect them, thus still finding enjoyment in said toys, albeit in a different way.

Enjoying whimsical stories that aren't necessarily catering specifically to children in their tone, vocabulary, or anything of the sort, is entirely understandable, moreso than the example I gave wherein people still find joy in toys. Even if they WERE catering to kids, some people still find joy in a more nostalgic way, or perhaps just on a base level of "This is cute." and whatnot. There's many different ways to enjoy something.

Shit isn't hard to figure out, I don't get what's with some people and, for one, not understanding this incredibly easy to understand concept, and two, why the fuck anyone cares what absolutely anybody else does or enjoys what they do.

But what the fuck else should I expect of this place, bunch of angsty ass teens and college kids still working on how to critically think.

>>80207794
>Why are so many adults acting like kids, nowadays, /tv/
in case you haven't noticed, young adults of today grew up with Harry Potter and Pokemon

>>80209961
What? You accuse people of subjecting themselves to a black and white dichotomy, but then you assume everyone who supported trump must be into Harry Potter?

>>80209961
>they are subjecting themselves to generally a morally black and white dichotomy

Yes. The world's far more complex than a black and white young adult/children's show. It's an escape to a world where you know everything, rather than live in this one with so many uncertainties.

Those three things don't really belong in the same category at all though

Makes more sense for an adult to like Harry Potter than it does my little pony, also the people who play Pokemon generally play competitively which is not really different to any other game

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>>80210338
Best post.

>>80208097
yep there it is.

thanks friendo

>>80210495
No I never made that assumption. I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. No offense anon.

>>80210501
Taking the Trump example again, I agree it is uncertain that Trump is a bad guy. But he has all the hallmarks of a bad guy according to Harry Potter. Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views. That's where I'm confused. I guess I've never experienced that level cognitive dissonance before.

>>80210553
its pasta bro

>>80207794
The HP films are fucking great compared to every other blockbuster series they are all kino.

>>80210672
As if that somehow negates its validity.
>>80210641
You're somehow implying that the people who adore Harry Potter n' shit voted for Trump. I'd bet my left nut they did not.

>>80210641
>>80210641
>Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views.

Because some people like being outraged

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>>80210338
Take note of the man child, kids.

Please don't be him.

>>80210641
>Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views.
It's called learning. Or as the old saying goes, "Broadening your horizons".

I don't agree with everything I read or watch. I want to see what others are interested in. I don't need an echo chamber.

>>80210703
You didn't hear about the book burning I take it.

>>80210705
lol that wouldn't fit with what we are talking about. We are talking about people reading harry potter to escape into a more simplistic world. I'm just wondering why people wouldn't escape into something that might justify their sociopolitical views as opposed to Harry Potter.

>>80207794
don't forget capeshit OP

>>80210774
see
>>80210774

This has nothing to do with learning. We are talking about adults reading children shit. Read the thread before you post.

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>>80210786
>You didn't hear about the book burning I take it.

?

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>>80207794
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my Mums favourite film until... actually probably still is.

People still liking shit from their childhood hasn't changed it's the nature of appreciating media that has. No one cared what your favourite film was in 1955. It wasn't a big deal nowadays it's common small talk.

More so the whole Fandom thing has encroached into visual media so people are major fans of say Harry Potter and Pokemon and buy lots of related products because they want to. Those product just weren't available to previous generations.

I used to hang out in Milsurp stores as a kid and they were full of Boomer manchild stuff. John Wayne merchandise. Clint Eastwood stuff. Westerns and War films merchandise was the norm.

Lord of the Rings was as big as Harry Potter in the 70s it's just if you wanted LOTR merchandise you had to make it yourself. I was about to say people would have got tattoos and stuff too if it was as culturally accepted as nowadays but actually i know a guy who has a Gandalf tattoo from the 70s.

Also the nature of what kids grew up with was much different. My Dad grew up with Mecanno and model steam engines and as an adult he tinkered with LandRovers and now just electronics of different sorts.

I grew up with videogames now my go to entertainment is tabletop games with friends. Not necessarily my fault that mecanno was unfeasibly expensive in the 90s and teaching ethos was You Can Be Anything! rather than we're at war with Russia make yourself useful!

Also a little of pic related. Beta defeatism as it is.

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>>80207794
What makes a work childish? The fact it's targeted at kids? Or the fact the main audience is made up of kids, regardless of the intended audience? Or again, the presence of certain, specific elements that are inherently childish?
The first option is fully arbitrary, the third one is ridiculous, and the second one seems credible, but it doesn't take into account kids from different times and places don't necessarily like the same things.
However, if we accept this premise, the logical conclusion is that the only meaning of the word "childish" is: "something that is mostly enjoyed by kids", not "something made for kids" or even worse "something that SHOULD be enjoyed by kids and only kids".

Regardless, even if "childish" and "adults" were inherent properties of media, does anything prevent adults from liking kids' stuff or the other way around? And ascribing some kind of moral imperative to these labels is ridiculous:
>you're an adult you SHOULD only read adult stuff. If you don't then you're in the wrong
>you're a kid so you SHOULD only read children's stuff. If you don't then you're in the wrong.

It's fun and often they don't take it too seriously (with some exceptions like MLP and Pokemon) unlike people who are obsessed with what is adult and what isn't.

>>80210828
Basically a bunch of Trump supporters were enraged that she was posting typical leftist talking points on her twitter (which she had been doing for years) after Trump was elected and burned her books. It didn't really make sense on any level. That's why I'm here trying to wrap my head around it.

>>80210693
/thread /tv/ can't admit it but they are good

>>80210703
Yea I love HP and voted Trump

>>80210922
>often they don't take it too seriously

Yeah they do. You are obviously unaware of all the autistic screeching that fucking play generated from even "casual" HP fans.

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They're adult children
The kind that hang up shit like this in their homes and have movie posters hanging in their rooms/living rooms. a prime example of these type of humanoids are the movie reviewers that get spammed here daily: rlm men, that chris tuckerman dude, et cetera

Weird that I seen this ..my girlfriend has asked me a few times to buy her coloring books ..I have just kindve laughed it off ..
>im 23 she's 21.
But I go to her house the other night and get ready for bed .
>I work 8-5 everyday but weekends as an assistant in my father's office
Laying there trying to go to sleep while she has the lights on..tv on..everything on sitting there surrounded by markers and colored pencil and shit ..just kindve annoying.. Its not even like..how do I say it ..adult coloring? It's literally the kid coloring books u can get at the dollar general filled with owls and ducks and butterflies. Like wtf ? I could honestly care less what anybody including my girlfriend wants to do in their free time but when I have to work in the morning I want to lay down with her and go to sleep.. She doesn't work by the way and I'm currently trying to save up for an apartment

>>80210672
I'm the dude who posted it, and it's not pasta. You shitting me? Is this how you fucking people react to somebody actually putting more effort into their post beyond memes and all that bullshit? Good lord.

>I'm a man I must put away childish things.

I have a friend like this I posted this in an identical thread last week but the poor bastard keeps clothes for 4 months before selling them and got rid of all his toys at a certain age then again all his consoles etc in his 20s and now he works and sleeps and goes to his therapist.

It's a meme. Sure manchild shit is cringe but so going out of your way to exist properly.

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>>80207794

You know there are people who think Harry Potter is better than The Lord of the Rings.

>>80211115
>She doesn't work by the way and I'm currently trying to save up for an apartment
So she's behaving normally as a pre-emancipation girl.

This is why women were treated like children their whole lives once upon a time. Feminism is out of fashion and it's a fucking good thing get over it.

You have permachild parasite to fuck. Colouring is alot quieter than knitting or crochet like your Granda put up with.

>>80210925
That's interesting. Only thing I can think of is they don't actually read her books and did it to spite her.

>>80210949
>Yea I love HP and voted Trump

Why? Not attacking, I'm asking what you agreed with Trump on to vote for him.

>>80210925
Christian Fundamentalists have been burning Harry Potter books since day 1. It's nothing to do with Trump.

The media eat it up and blow it out of proportion because readers love it. Pokemon too because they were demons. Yada yada don't believe everything you hear.

>>80211208
Source?

>>80210786
>I'm just wondering why people wouldn't escape into something that might justify their sociopolitical views as opposed to Harry Potter.

Because then they couldn't complain about it.

>>80211319
>It's nothing to do with Trump.

Tell the thousands of people that directly tweeted her saying it was to do with Trump.

>>80211378
Yea you're right. Conceded.

>>80211346
My sister, she thinks Harry Potter is better than The Lord of the Rings.

>>80211435
Has she read the LOTR?

By the way if she's under 15 this is a complete nonstory.

>>80207794
Why do you care, sugarcube?

>>80211406
Thanks for being civil anon but I still don't get it. Like how can one be a Harry Potter fan and rabidly support a guy who on pen and paper is "evil" according to their favorite work of fiction. I can only assume it's like this anon said >>80211262
>they don't actually read her books and did it to spite her.

But then some guy in this thread admitted to being a fan of both so I don't know. It just boggles my fucking mind. Wouldn't it just make you feel shitty? Or are people on some next level escapism and I just suck at it.

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>>80211435
My ex who is 25 thought HP was better than LOTR. Both books and movies.

She also claimed to "love dystopian settings" but in reality she liked shitty self insert stories that happened to be in dystopias like Divergent.

>try to get her to read entry level stuff like 1984 and Brave New World
"Sounds boring."

>get her to watch Children of Men
"I didn't like it"

People are stupid.

>>80207794
daily reminder that /pol/posters are the new bronies who were the new furries

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Is it ok to like anime as an adult?

>>80211553
People are stupid. Best way I can summarize it until that guy tells me why he voted for Trump I suppose.

>>80211578
This guy's got it right.

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>>80211644
No.

>>80211644
anime movies yes
not anime shows

>>80211459
She's older than me, she is 33 years old. She also hated the new Harry Potter play and doesn't consider it part of the real story.

>>80211644
No, don't let /v/ or child loving jap "men" tell you otherwise

>>80211644
its never ok to like anime at any age

>>80210313
This can't be stressed enough. I'm 22 and my parents had no idea the kind of shit the internet would bring. How do you parent around this massive attention sucking thing?

>>80211959
We're past the worst of it I think.

Kids today are more into their phones than sitting on the PC all day.

It's kinda like how our generation has less drivers than the previous ones. Back in my Dad's childhood his parents got the first car that was ever in our family. Cars were fucking rad and he was vehicle obsessed for the rest of his days.

In 1990 most people got the first home computer that was ever in their families and the same shit occurred now boys spend a fortune on ricer PCs and the latest consoles more than boy racer cars (tho it's still common ofcourse).

I think kids of today will be more inclined to shrug off computers and the internet. After all it's only getting worse from here on out anyway. We've past the Wild West days of internet freedom.

>>80210313
Fucking this.

>>80211959
If you ever decide to have kids, man, just love them. Take them shopping for groceries with you, take them hiking, get them involved in the world they live in physically. When you're out shopping and they're 5 or something, just ask 'em something simple like "are you a chicken or beef kinda boy/girl?"

Fucking saddening to me to watch mothers or fathers shopping with their kids and the dad or mother is on their phone, not giving a fuck. Or worse, when they GIVE the child the phone to occupy themselves because the parent can't deal.

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>>80210220

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>>80207794
Harry Potter is great, fuck all of you.

>>80212280
It's certainly better than The Hobbit movies.

>>80212164
>Take them shopping for groceries with you
Don't do this. Grocery stores get crowded enough without everyone bringing their fucking families to shop with them.

>>80211578
Stop cherrypicking. I love dystopian settings and think the hp fipms are better than the lotr films. The lotr books are better. I love children of men and brave new world .

>>80212164
One time I was at the store and there was a MILF with her kid. The kid was really well behaved just walking with her silently everytime I saw them. As I was aiting at the sandwhich counter they walked by an the kid asked in like the most subdued, well behaved tone, "Can we have one of those sandwiches next time we come here?" Suddenly the MILF fucking explodes at the kid "ALL YOU EVER FUCKING DO IS COMPLAIN. SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

I still don't know what I saw to this day.

>>80211578
Women are huge plebs, everyone knows this mate

>>80212344
I'll take my family where I goddamn well please. They'll be on their best behavior because I'm not a cunt of a mother or father who gives their kid a phone and then wonders why, as if it was beyond all of their comprehension, they start screaming or picking on their sibling for attention.

>>80212387
Man that's bizarre.

>>80207794
Alan Moore said it the best:
>“To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence."
He was talking about capeshit movies, but it's the same deal.

Star Wars. George Lucas 'tricked' the studio to give him full merchandising rights.

It was the ploy of the century and now everything is merchandised and pushed to have a similar reaction as Star Wars.

>>80212529
>complexities

The banalities and tedium as well. The elephant in the room is that real life is only this cool, interesting experience if you're attractive/privileged, otherwise it's pretty awful. Modern technology has given unprivileged people the ability to retreat from the horribleness of existence, and more power to them in using that ability. They have nothing to gain from doing otherwise.

>>80212316
The direction of lotr after FOTR is poor. The editing pacing everything.
>>80211262
I voted for Trump because I didn't want Hillary plain and simple.
>>80211208
I think the HP films are better because they are extremely underrated and Jackson and lotr are overrated. The hp films are more of a clinic of filmmaking, they are very tight. And I appreciate the different progression and atmosphere.

>made this thread on /tv/ and /pol/
who's the child again?

>>80212451
>Man that's bizarre.

It was. I wanted to say something but there were like 5 other witnesses and no one even looked in their direction so I thought maybe I was in the wrong. I heard everything they said clearly. I had to tell myself maybe the kid is a nightmare at home but my autism was fucking with me because the kid didn't even complain. Also the fact that he was a model child with his behavior was fucking with me. A big part of why I noticed them was because after I noticed how hot the mom was I was like wow, that kid is super well behaved. Anytime I think about it though I just think about how rough that little boys life must be. :(

>>80212634
>I voted for Trump because I didn't want Hillary plain and simple.

Oh, alrighty.

>>80207866
$20 says OP likes Star Wars and obsesses over it because he grew up with it.

Making arguments about which nostalgia is "better" is one thing, but calling people out hypocritically is something else entirely.

>>80212382
>HP Films better than LOTR

disgusting

>>80212729
And you recognize that at least in terms of PR, Trump has more in common with Voldemort than Hillary does right?

>>80207925
It's alright for the most part, even though half the series is all about will-they-won't-they relationship drama and silly puns. There's also a spin-off starring a self-aware Donte.

>>80207794

28 here, I play world or tanks and am thinking about getting back in to yugioh cards after like...2 years.

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>>80207794
>What is with grown ass men and women liking Childish shit? Star Wars, superheroes, The Hobbit, and Trix are for kids, not adults.

>>80212767
Yes. But I also understand the sentiment of wanting to keep Hillary out of office. Fucking private conferences, hardly any touring. Fucking disgusting for a presidential candidate. Trump isn't much better, and yes i recognize Trump is more flamboyant and seemingly more "villainous" than Clinton. But if all of those HP loving folks voted for Trump solely to keep Hillary out of office like anon there, I can't rightly fault them too hard. I can still fault them a little, I guess.

I'm 25 and still buy and build Lego.

>>80212859
Oh I have no problem with people voting for trump. I just don't understand how they can like Harry Potter at the same time.

>>80212754
Pleb lotrfag redditor detected. I used to love them before I could dissect them. Merry and Pippin suck after fellowship and so does almost everything with frodo. They are bloated messes and you are a Hackson apologist faggot. Christopher Tolkien hates you.

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>>80207794
>adults aren't allowed hobbies

>>80212966
I'm not saying they are better than the books (they aren't).

But they are sure as fuck better than the HP films.

>>80212754
You're talking to a redit movie buff, like a huge one too. Check him out: https://letterboxd.com/azkaban/

>>80207794
Pokemon games are like the only competitive multi player RPGs that aren't MMOs, it's a cornered market

>>80212859
>>80212957
I didn't want another Clinton or Bush. I recognize the two party system as worthless so why does it matter that I like HP. I don't actually think about hitler and voldemort. Remember the ministry was corrupt as fuck before he even takes over.

>>80212529
Pegg said it better
>"Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control."

>>80213038
But they aren't. Even if you think TTT is great which it isn't. The only bad HP film is GOF. I'll take 7 very different good films over two good films. Again I like lotr a lot but you are seriously blind to the top tier film adapatations hp are. They are better than the books. They capture the tone and aren't overstuffed with random everyday happenings like most of the books. They are focused.

>>80207794
>Pokémon, my little pony, Harry Potter, and coloring books
I don't think the situation is the same. Adults who like pokemon and harry potter are millennials who grew up with these things and like it for the nostalgia, I have no idea what's up with bronies and never heard of adults liking coloring books.

>>80213067
You are just better at escapism than me anon. Nothing wrong with it. Thanks for answering my question.

>>80212957
>I just don't understand how they can like Harry Potter at the same time.

I thought it was succinctly answered: He didn't want Clinton in office.

>>80207885
the fuck

>>80211644
I have a friend who keeps talking to me about these new animes he's finding. Do I just kill him?

>>80207794
pragmatists conditioning religious cohesion for escapists.

>>80207866

I like the way you post

>>80214003
>still hasn't put him out of his suffering
you're a bad friend.

>Mentally ill psychotic person starts bait thread hoping to make people angry

>Angry mentally ill users respond with rage filled posts

>Mentally ill psychotic person takes pleasure in creating anger because he's mentally ill

>In doing so his mental illness worsens

>>80213168
The every day happenings over the course of the school year is what made the books charming.

The series falls apart in terms of world building. I can't put it on the same level as LOTR.

>why do adults try to find ways to distract themselves from the fact that everything in this world is against them?

>>80214109
To be fair, few series compare to the level of World building in LotR

>>80207885
>Harry Potter and The Missing Shekel.

>>80214247
>Harry Potter and the Gas Chamber of Secrets

>>80214271
kek

>>80208514
>>80208154
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>>80212957
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>>80211319

lol /pol/ and /x/ seem heavy in here.

>>80214271
>>80214247
>and the Prisoner of Auschwitz
>and the Goyim Of Fire
>and the Order Of The Goyim
>and the half blood Jew

>>80214380
Man, notice how you contributed absolutely NOTHING to an otherwise completely civil discussion about the correlation between HP readers and Trump voters.

>>80207794
low test

>Why are so many adults acting like kids, nowadays, /tv/?

Actually a moral judgement on your part, your opinion.

Your opinion is meaningless.

Why are there so many people over concerned about a line between adulthood and childhood when it comes to issues of media consumption?

>>80214439
>Why are there so many people over concerned about a line between adulthood and childhood when it comes to issues of media consumption?
Because those who make such distinctions like to use that to judge others as inferior to them.

>>80207794

Because they realise that being a child is the only time you really feel happy, in your whole entire life.

>>80210899
it's childish because it doesn't challenge anything

harry potter isn't a good source of moral dilemma

good is good and evil is evil

that's dumb, that's childish

>>80214109
The films are long enough to have just enough of that comfy feeling. 4 and 8 are just pure action addrenaline though. In fact plebs that hate on the latter ones don't like the slower feel and how they are more focused on the trio and character driven. The world is rich enough for the films and more. The only bad adaptation imho is goblet of fire. Everything else does more than just justice to the books. You'd have a hard time arguing films 1-4 are better than the books, no matter how good 1-3 fioms were but I would say you could have an easy time arguing films 5-8 were better than books 5-7 and I loved the books. They cinematically added some bravado.

It's fine to like 'childish' things, but unacceptable to like shit things.
My issue with adults who play Pokemon, read Harry Potter, etc. is that they're frolicking in shit. They're too stupid to discover new things by themselves.

Because millennials are easily manipulated. Why not affirm your political views by making Trump Voldemort and Uncle Bernie as Dumbledore? Your natural reactions to things only means anxiety and depression disorders, so color in these books and forget about self improvement! Nah my dude it's totally okay to play pokemon in your late 20's because you enjoyed it as a kid haha :) My (nonexistant) god, can't wait for the new star wars movie because we're geeks in our 30's! Woodworking? Cooking? NO! They reinforce gender stereotypes! Be productive and play Legend of Zelda on the new Switch because it's like that one game from nearly 20 years ago!

>>80212957
>I just don't understand how they can like Harry Potter at the same time.

You mean the kid who started his own militia when the wand grabbing government came calling?

>>80214903
>Only Millennials are nostalgia obsessed shit heels
>Ignores the fact that there's been 80's nostalgia for well over a decade to appease the Gen Xers

>>80207794
We all have that inner piece of childhood with us that we never want to let go. Most of us grew up with these more "children orriented" books, movies, and video games yet we still love them to this very day. It's an escape from the growing stresses of adult life, a chance to relive a part of our lives that had ltlle to no problems. There is a reason why young adults in their 20's get fucking hyped for games like Pokemon or Smash Bros, or look forward to reboots like the new Power Rangers movie. You may say like a parent ranting to their budding kids, "GROW THE FUCK UP", but it just doesn't happen like that. Our brains want that familiar security blanket. Listen to Chance the Rapper's song "Nostalgia", you'll understand a bit better.

>>80216040
*little
Fuck my phone.

People are retreating into childhood fantasy in the face of of a dramatically more complex and, as more is revealed, sickeningly corrupt society.

Its no surprise people are running off into escapism as this world of ours gets darker and darker.

>>80214402
>Harry Potter and The Blood Libel

>>80207794
Because the distinction between "adult thing" and "child thing" was always pretty much arbitrary and useless

>>80209961
> like Trump, who are in almost every sense is a cartoony villain
Are you actually retarded? He's a useful idiot at worst.

Back in the day, by the time you were 25, you would have a wife, a few children, and a steady job that paid enough for you to live off of and where you could hope to stay for the rest of your working life. All this responsibility turned you into an adult.

Now, by the time most people are 25, they're tens of thousands of dollars in debt, don't want to get married because divorce is exceedingly likely and a huge range of available sexual partners can be found online, have rent to pay for, and are working retail for slightly above minimum wage or are in an entry-level office job making ~40k ($30k after tax if you're single) with no job security. Having a kid by this age is basically a guarantee that you'll be trapped in lower-middle class poverty, if not worse, forever. It's a completely dead-end lifestyle, so people regress to their childhoods.

>>80207794
Same. This series disgusts me and every girl I've ever talked to loves it.

>>80216850
This 'society' collapses in the next decade guarantee.

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>>80211435
lord of the rings is nothing but childish banalities

>>80209961

>Everyone who supports a candidate I don't like is an EVIL DEPLORABLE!1

Bro, don't wanna alarm you or anything... but I think you're infected with black and white dichotomy as well.

>>80216908

Society, collapsing? Don't be silly: society is invincible, it's too big to fail, and if it does it's going to starve as many people as it can for daring to defy it!

>>80214187
I was reading the conversation and decided to chime in.
what about Game of thrones books and LotR? Which on is better?

>>80214967

On the contrary, there exists a whole subculture of millennials that were manufactured as a second production run of Gen Xers because the 90s hadn't hit their regions of the world yet due to lack of quick information spreading from the internet, and when you hear someone sperging out about the 80s, chances are it's one of those.

Why are some adults obsessed with dragons, knights, and all the fantasy stuff that comes with it?

>>80217438
Arthurian legend and Shakespearean romance is a core part of anglo culture.

>>80217380
tolkien has a grander sense of scale and lore i guess, lots of nice prose too but it's a relatively simple good vs evil story compared to all the shit that happens in asoiaf which the fat cunt will never finish. also gurm writes more interesting characters (mostly)
fight me faggots.

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>>80207794

>people enjoy things? not me, I'm just a sad depressed individual and hate to see others happy
I see this a lot on 4chan. The sooner you break away from this mindset the better.

>>80217380
LOTR will always be better because it is actually a complete story. Game of Thrones will never end and Martin is obviously completely out of creative mojo, but he wrote more interesting characters.

>>80214271
Underrated

>>80217438

Romanticism, especially poignant when you consider that a large chunk of fantasy writers are World War vets that have seen first-hand the worst side of enlightenment: artillery shells leveling forests, cold and efficient automatic weapons destroying whole community's worth of people for less than 100,00$ USD, the dropping of the A-bombs. Often times, fantasy has allegory for some unsavoury portion of the Industrial Revolution or the other, because at that point technology and the creations of man have grown to a scale that their builders can no longer entirely control them: even if you shut the machines down, suddenly the populations they were supporting starve, as though they were held hostage by this force which subverts tradition.

>>80208617
>My issue is that that I'm seeing more and more adults using this stuff as their primary basis

This is what all people do all the time everywhere. Accurately interpreting the larger world and all of its complexities is a huge endeavor. We're always reducing shit and simplifying shit and turning to symbolism and categorization to make as much sense out of our lives and our world and ourselves as we feel compelled to. Different people go to different depths on that and everything else.

It's not as if people had complex morally grey nuanced views and understanding of the world before Harry Potter came along. Most people aren't particularly concerned with pursuing some accurate understanding of everything, or anything. Just enough to do what they want to do, if that.

Anyway don't overestimate your ability to understand how others think or what and how something affects anyone's mind. Don't overestimate your understanding of anything, or your self-awareness.

This is the most civil thread I've seen on this website in a long ass time.

Reminds me of nighttime threads in 2010.

>>80217551
Is it true that the author who wrote asoiaf wants the books to be as popular as LotR books? And he is jealous?

>>80207794
You're actually retarded OP

>>80217588
how are they more interesting? Can i have one or two examples. I have only seen a few LotR movies and Game of thrones show on hbo. The movies were nice, but the characters never stuck to me the way got characters has. Maybe it's because i saw the LotR movies as a kid.

>>80217699
God and the Devil are real.

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>>80207794
10/10

Kino thread.

>>80207794

Because everyone's depressed or has crazy anxiety and they revert to a child-like mentality as a defence mechanism

>>80218001
They are more realistic in the books, they act like actual flawed human beings where Tolkiens characters tend to be more black and white good-and-evil.

To give an example Queen Cersei is rather cookie cutter 'royal bitch' in the show, but the books she has a lot more depth and is probably the most well written female character by a male author Ive ever read.

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>>80218050
>To give an example Queen Cersei is rather cookie cutter 'royal bitch' in the show, but the books she has a lot more depth and is probably the most well written female character by a male author Ive ever read.
she's not even the most well-written female character in asoiaf

>>80218092
Thats your opinion

>>80217405
>That's not Gen X it's just older millennials
>Therefore you can't blame my generation for anything
And yet I still do.

>>80207925
Rowling is a cunt who got extremely lucky.

It's a whole different dimension when you become a parent and have young kids in the house.

>Why are you watching that kid stuff?!
>Uhhhhh...my kids like it and I'm watching it with them.
>Oh, okay then.

Kids are great douche repellent.

>>80211578

>gf likes harry potter but also band of brothers

>>80218223
That + big boobs = ultimate gf

>>80218177
>raising little bastards instead of just getting pets
You failed. Enjoy all that time, money, and youth as it goes right down the shitter.

>>80207944
Hitler had Peter Pan syndrome so I think I'm on a good path.

>>80207794
We live in a day and age where most people from their early twenties to mid thirties are giant fucking man children/woman children and it's encouraged.

No one is having families, buying homes, getting married etc. No, everyone is a giant fucking child that watches shows like Adventure Time and read Harry Potter and shit.

If we were to get to the root of this problem and fix it we'd fix society.

>>80217699
Do you think people who are always into romanticism bad? All these super hero movies, knights slaying dragons, and cartoons. They care or know more about those worlds than anything else i think.

>>80218263
>'people' have been this brainwashed

I wonder where society will be in 10 years. 20 years.
I dont think it will even be around desu

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>the only actual debate on 4chan is about whether manchildren are allowed to enjoy things

>>80218343
oops meant to say "a bad thing?"

>>80218342
You wanna give me some money so I get get those things?

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>>80218342
yes, what is the meaning of this? ((who)) is it?

>>80218363
this is a pretty patrician thread desu

>>80218371
You know who to blame for this.

>>80218381
If you have the balls to name them.

>>80218342
>You fuckers need to stop using entertainment to escape the fact that the generations before you have made it impossible for you to succeed without a great amount of luck, timing, and a pinch of nepotism

>>80207794
The ironic thing is OP probably enjoys professional sports, something that has been entirely for children throughout history.

>>80218353
I can live/die with that.

>>80218425
Our generation was thoroughly brainwashed. I had an argument with a guy the other day on the meaning of earning your keep and hard work and he just kept trying to justify being a mooch and leeching off of the government. He was a Hillary supporter.

>discussing what is mature on a site dedicated to cartoons, porn and video games
>discussing what is mature on a shitposting board
4chan is the epitome of infantile Millennials.

>>80218417
Name them? At this rate they will dealt with within the decade, when it gets to the point the infrastructure of society isnt even functioning anymore even retarded farm animals get riled up.

>>80218425
And this

>>80218050
This makes me interested in reading the book asoif. I have a backlog though so gotta finish those first. I do like Queen Cersei though. I understand her decisions.

>>80218454
Same, I'd rather it implode than continue like this. This is a fucking joke and a sick mockery of human potential.

>>80218487
>implying OP is a millennial when he's clearly a past his prime Gen X manchild

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>>80218487
Awwee did he hurt your feelings?

>>80218479
>one shitty human being is all I need to judge a whole generation even though generations are only defined by when they were born and nothing more

>>80218425
This is how a spoiled kid thinks. You have more opportunities than any other generation before you. You're just lazy.

>>80218629
>one shitty human being

You need to go deeper. Hint, it sounds like broth milds.

Do you think further down the road JK Rowling is going to go insane/have difficulties? No one will take any new shit she writes seriously and all these fan theories being hurled at her surely have to eat away at her psyche.

Kind of like the lead singer from Warrant, the song Cherry Pie is basically responsible for his death and suffering.

>>80218717
>you have the opportunity to go thousands of dollars into debt to get a degree that will just barely get you at the ground level of a company that will pay you either just barely a living wage or not even a livable wage so you can keep living in your parents' place because renting is out of the question
I bet you're going to tell me that trade school is a viable option in this economy next.

>>80210925
Pretty sure you're referring to a tweet where one person said they'd burn the book, retardo

>>80207794
I just got here, but I just want to say that I'm honestly a little sad that such shitty bait spawned such a long fucking thread.

>>80218802
I think shes already built her lavish bubble of delusion that she will occupy for the rest of her life. Just look how she acts on social media.

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>>80218924
Dont anguish anon, this taint isnt going to last much longer. But you better be ready.

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>>80207794
>coming from a sperg who watches capeshit and shitposts religiously after a session of fapping to Chinese cartoons

>>80210716
I'll take the manchild over you, Mr. Goldstein

well OP, I'd say it's kind of related to the remake culture we currently live in. Rather than come to terms with the fact that the past is the past, modern "adults" insist on having the same old stories remade and rebooted so they can pretend they're still young and not at all sad.

>>80207794
Yeah OP, I still play Pokemon every so often. Literally who cares? You?

>>80208097
This image is some fine bait.

>>80208097
>Gormenghast not god tier
>not even listed
shit chart desu

>>80208737
only in comparison to building other kinds of model kits. But modelling in general is the patrician hobby

>>80218924
Listen faggot, forget everything you think you know. You don't have to like Trump but say the words I Will Make America Great Again until you stop laughing and you can say it with a straight face and until you make yourself believe it.

The Obama years of mediocrity are over. Cast off your chains and join The MAGA Movement. We have already created approximately 400000 new jobs. You need to try again for your father and your lineage who are rooting for you from beyond the grave.

Its not time to fret and despair in your filth but now time to act in the most vibrant economy since the Reagan 80s. I am sure you can do it.

We can MAGA together!