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Lost never delivered on its initial promise of cool science fiction mystery. It became increasingly clear as the seasons went on that the writers had no fucking clue where they were going with any of this stuff and just gave up and everyone-was-dead-all-along was the only way out even though they promised early on that wasn't the case. Fuck that show and Abrams in particular.

Star Citizen. I'm less disappointed in the tech demo than how Chris Roberts has handled the business end of it.

I grew up on Wing Commander, Privateer, Starlancer, and Freelancer. I still have all those games on physical media with original boxes. And the Wing Commander CIC is the one website I still visit daily since 1997-ish. So when Roberts pitched a new space game back around 2012 I was thrilled. Well, we all know how that turned out. I've given up waiting for any release of Star Citizen and Squadron 42.

The Korean Netflix adaptation of one of my favourite Japanese books called 終末のフール (shūmatsu no fūrū, roughly 'translate to fools in the end of times'). The book was about a collection of stories told from the perspectives of different residents of an apartment building in a world that's come to accept the fact that a planetoid is going to destroy the Earth in a few years. Some struggle to decide whether to have a child or not. Some question whether there's even a point going to school. Everyone has hard decisions to make but they're all oddly cool with the fact that their time on Earth is limited. They felt enlightened to me because I think most of us spend our days ignoring the finiteness of our lives.

On the other hand, the K-drama was a generic apocalypse survival show. Everyone just screaming and yelling. At least, that's how it started off as and I lost interest immediately. Even the English title was stupid—Goodbye Earth. Ugh.

65 was such a missed opportunity. It's about a guy who crash lands on Earth right before the asteroid that kills the dinosaurs. Spoiler alert: he escapes just in time to avoid the asteroid. It's just a generic survival movie with generic monsters. Waste of a premise. It should have shown the beautiful side of the dinosaur world and made us sad when they died

Everything Everywhere All At Once. People hyped it, I watched it and thought it started out OK and then just became a stupid mess. And I really like off beat movies.

I'm still mad about Interstellar

Assassin's Creed has been going downhill since Revelations. The movie wasn't good either.

Dragon Age 2 just that one at some point it was unbearable. 1 and 3 (inquisition) are awesome.

cant think of anything other atm (but probably incoming)

The last Divergent book. I want to like the Divergent series more. The authour was inspired by a lot of things I like. But I think she wrote the first two books without a thought-out plan for the third. They leave the city and you expect there to be some big purpose for divergents in the outside world and then we just get a lot of nothing. We get an explanation for the factions that make them make even less sense than before.

I am still mad that I paid actual money to see Valerian and the city of 1000 worlds

Payday 3. I had 2k hours in Payday 2, done every heist on death sentence one down and when the beta for Payday 3 came out my friends and I tried it and wow it was bad. We tried it again after it came out and had a few patches and it's still bad.

Dragon's Dogma 2.

Loved the first one. Only negative I had seen about DD2 was the performance wasn't great. It's fucking dookie. Tons of great ideas that aren't executed well or for more than a single, short-as-fuck quest and then never used again.

The best part of the game is the Sphynx; and even those puzzles are a bit stupid toward the end. Like needing to remember where the very first medallion thing you picked up was. By the time you'd realistically find the Sphynx without any external guidance, you'd have found a ton of those fuckers and you sure as shit wouldn't think to mark down where after the fact.

Combat gets repetitive quick as enemies spawn constantly, and this includes big shit like griffons that can literally fly in while you're approaching the end of a long journey and snatch you up and carry you across the damn world to their nest.

Every little thing you do has some long-winded animation you can't cancel tied to it, and NPCs walking along roads constantly stop you to initiate meaningless dialogue; it doesn't just not respect your time, it pisses on it.

And to top it all off the story is stupid, short, and ends abruptly before you even know what the hell is really going on. This is including what little extra you can get after a NG+ cycle which makes it even more annoying that you are required to do the whole fucking game twice to still get a shitty ending that doesn't answer a single question you might have about the events of the plot.

I fucking hate this game.

The movie version of The House with a Clock in its Walls.

The movie birdman!

I read about it as an piece of art and what I saw was simply boring.

I might not have understood it or have been in the wrong state of mind, idk.

Cyberpunk 2077. Hands down.

Disappointed doesnt even fully encapsulate my feelings throughout knowing this games existance

Heres a list of a 100 words that describe what I felt at various stages; Since its been announced all the way to the last hour I sunk into playing this game

7 years of developement time for one of the worst releases in gaming history

Not even an RPG as orignally promised, just another futuristic shooter.

Just missed damn near every mark, I'd time machine back just to tell myself to let that game go

Most of the major series. Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad… what contrived situation can writers either a) use as shock factor, or b) make the situation worse in some incredibly unlikely way. Throw in a dose of shitty relationships, too. While not actually putting a ton of effort into plot, wit, thinking characters instead of reactionary ones, or original ideas. They’re soap operas with varying degrees of violence that get worse writing as the show carries on.

Forza Horizon 6. Saw a whole bunch of videos of people going ga ga for it. Was excited. It finally releases proper on steam, and it doesn't work with a wheel. The cars feel AWFUL, more like hovercrafts than cars. The super corporate, cheesy bullshit "story". Very glad I bought on steam so I can get my seventy fucking dollars back. What a shitshow. A very, very pretty shitshow.

I guess books fall in the "whatever" category :P I was majorly disappointed by The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. I actually enjoyed reading about 85% of it, but the ending completely ruined it for me.

Season 3 of Forever Knight. An embarrassing, cartoonish end to a good show with a great premise.

Every Resident Evil movie.

FDR American Badass.

It's a B-movie starring Barry Bostwick as Franklin D. Roosevelt, fighting against Nazi werewolves with a heavily weaponized wheelchair.

The trailer was hilarious. And then I actually watched it with a few friends for one of our monthly film nights.

You know when someone tries way too hard to be edgy and vulgar and it goes from funny to downright uncomfortable? This was like the film equivalent of that. Some scenes genuinely drag on way too long because Bostwick needs to crack another half-a-dozen sex jokes. He genuinely comes across as lecherous, creepy and giving me Chevy Chase vibes (not in a good way.)

We made it about 30 minutes through the film until we had to switch it off because it was just so bad. And I genuinely had to apologize to everyone for even nominating this movie.