Things with which we have a seething love/hate relationship

[Eschaton]

I'll start:  the rebooted Star Trek films.

Anyone else?

Edit:  While they're very entertaining, with good art direction, and flawless performances by Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto as Bones and Spock, respectively, and it is nice to see an Uhura who isn't a flat character, and the music is awesome (when it isn't the same tune over and over) it just feels wrong in the way that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull felt wrong.  Chris Pine is not Kirk (although he does have his moments, they're way too few and far in-between), and the overall tone is less about exploration and hope for a brighter future and more about mindless action and conflict.  And the Enterprise never has a consistent scale.  And the Cadet to Captain nonsense at the end of the first one.  And how Scotty has been reduced from a shrewd negotiator, competent lone operator, and brilliant engineer to a fricking clown.  It's too dark and angsty, when it shouldn't be.  Star Trek and Star Wars can be compared to each other in the ways Batman and Superman can be compared:  Batman is dark and angsty.  Superman is about hope.  Star Wars is about conflict and overcoming odds.  Star Trek is supposed to be about a bright, hopeful, nigh-utopian future.  Something to look forward to in these dark times.

 

[Quigon]

Skyrim.

I think the main story is boring as balls, the faction based sidequests slowly dissolve into boring stretches of hammering the shoulder buttons for half an hour, the combat system is hella awful, yet I just logged 70 hours on a new save. I don't know why I enjoy it so much. I just do.

Quick edit actually: MOST of the faction stuff is boring for me. The Dark Brotherhood on the other hand was awesome.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I actually liked the new Star Trek... granted, I'm not a fan of old Trek. (Except Picard. I really like Picard.)

 

[djDarkX]

Windows OS...let me explain why.

While I grew up using Windows everyday since Windows 3.11 WFW (and before that, MS-DOS), it has become apparent that Windows can be pretty unstable at times, is a huge resource hog (4GB RAM to run Win7 x64 effectively enough?  20GB for base install?  Really?) and super-imposes itself on the user (making it harder to adapt to a new, different operating system due to program incompatibilities between systems because developers are forced to develop for an establish system).  Now, that being said, I highly praised Windows 98 Second Edition (as it was a HUGE improvement over First Edition...trust me on that), Windows XP (which I still use on older PC's without hesitation) and Windows 7 for it's speed and design (although broken program compatibilities and depreciated driver support from XP doesn't help it's case sometimes...) because they were well-executed systems and usually were stable enough for me to work with.  That being said, I just wish Windows was more open in terms of letting other systems have the same brands of software in their repertiore.  Examples being Adobe Audition, more AAA games, Photoshop, a plethora of office/tax/bookkeeping software and other such things for Linux or Mac (yes, I know Mac has Photoshop and Audition, but it also lacks some things Windows has been hogging).

Anyway, I love Windows to an extent and I hate it to an extent.  I don't love it so much that I'd never say a single bad thing about it, but I also don't hate it so much that I'd never use it.  And perhaps my picks for why I love/hate it aren't sound, but they are what make me love/hate it.  Windows has always been one of those topics for me that has either made me happy or angry, so I guess it's legit.  Except Windows Phone.  It can burn.

 

[Cozzer]

Roguelikes and such. It's a three hours of love, three months of hate thing, but I can't stop thinking that the NEXT one will be the one I'll really love.

Except Binding of Isaac, that was a love-love relationship.

 

[Eschaton]

Frick Windows 8.  I have never hated an OS so much.  Although, I will admit that Windows 7 is my favorite OS.

 

[Darkanine]

Axis powers:Hetalia

While the first four seasons are great,I feel they they deviated away from what made it interesting (Storys based off actual world history) and have had quite a few original stories,watching them made me realize that the characters just weren't that interesting and the story carried the series.

 

[Volrath]

The Oscars. Oh Lord, the Oscars. I suppose every movie buff does. They make such boneheaded decisions and more often than not, ignore the best stuff in any given year in favor of formulaic stuff tailor-made for awards and not much else. However, all that crap makes it more thrilling on the rare occasions they do something you like, in my case when Spirited Away won Best Animated Feature against some big CG-heavyweights. I also have a lot of fun trying to predict them every year, even when I'm predicting outcomes I'm not thrilled about.

 

[gvduck10]

Rune Factory Frontier.... I just wanted that game to be over!!!! But I was already invested, so I had to keep going til I was able to get at least one ending. For the record: I'm pretty sure I was at or over 80 hrs when I finally got married (which I considered enough, even though that's not an actual "ending") - I did complete the main storyline also. and that does trigger credits and save game+ status

@Cozzer: Azure Dreams, a total love-love-love-love- (...you get a lot of girlfriends) roguelike game. If you've never played it, I HIGHLY suggest it. It's on my TOP TEN of all time.

 

[wildwes]

Genderbended Link. 

I don't like genderbended video game characters (especially not Zelda characters) and a female Link really just causes more confusion for people who don't know about the series but... female Link is surprisingly sexy... I should probably stop talking... 

Edit: And on a slightly more serious note, FFX-2 is another one. It's very fun and being able to switch classes or jobs or whatever in the middle of battle is just awesome but... it can be appallingly girly at times, and what did they do to Yuna?! She seems... kind of not like Yuna. 

 

[Lorenze]

Technology is general.

It's amazingly awesome and can be extremely helpful and entertaining...when it works.

When it doesn't, I just wanna smash whatever I'm using into a billion pieces. I would've never have

been able to make so much development progress, or finish school essays without my laptop, but it has

the most annoying tendency to just not start up or suddenly turn off. Often when I'm really busy and couldn't save my work.

Good times, good times.

 

[MyLordRobinson]

RPG Maker.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Cell phones. They are so useful, but I hate the idea that people think they should be able to get in touch with me 24/7 no matter where I am.

 

[Celianna]

The internet.


If I'm on it, I won't do any work. But if I'm not on it, I'm dying on the inside and won't do any work.

 

[Jawnsunn]

anime.

because it degrades lower and lower every season. I guess that there are a few that come that are good, but honestly I hate the writing in all of them and stupid generic moe art style annoys the **** out of me.

I also have a love-hate relationship with japan now because they chose a stupid One Piece game over uh, I don't know... this?

 

[echo]

First Great Western Trains.

How I love their low prices and convenient and frequent London to Reading trains, but oh, how I can't abide the ridiculous amount of deserted first class carriages they have which inevitably leave me standing for the whole journey with my face squashed up against someone's sweaty armpit.

 

[orochii]

RPG Maker.

This.

 

[Eschaton]

America.  Most powerful country in the world, dumbest citizens.  Is this what Rome was like?

 

[Touchfuzzy]

America.  Most powerful country in the world, dumbest citizens.  Is this what Rome was like?

Idiots live everywhere. The US doesn't really have any more than any other country.

 

[Espon]

Free cell phone games.  Why are they so bloody expensive if you want anything, and yet I continue to keep playing them anyways?  I tried to take pride in being a free player, but they always try their damnedest to bar you from anything decent.  Unfortunately it's impossible to throw a few bucks at it to get anything.  No, everything must cost like $30-100.  Used to play one and there was a card you can buy for $425.  Why bother getting a PS4 when you can get a virtual card of a scantly clad woman with large breasts instead?  And yet, I just keep on playing and complaining.