Are there really that many M’s on NU?

  • #1
Two questions.

A) I’m confused, how do you read a genre or anything until you hate it? Do that many like pain so much they can’t stop when they merely dislike it? If this applies can you explain why you did it?

B) If A applies to you, did you decide if you like or dislike hot peppers by grinding them into your eyes for 2 hours?


Just confused by all the threads I’ve seen hating western fiction, CN fiction, JP, harems, KR, webnovels and even NTR.

Why not get out early before the pain gets intense? 
 
  • #3
I wouldn't do it with a book personally, but for example.

I read 800 fking chapters of one-piece and I hated every moment of it...but...
I have 800 chapters of ammunition to shit on that pile of garbage in the comment sections.
Whenever I have a difficult day I can always shit on Onepiece , it's therapeutic. 
 
  • #4
Hm... Well, sometimes you give a genre a chance. It's possible that you had a bad first exposure and if you do a little more digging you'll find a gem. So you dig and dig, hoping to find something good. Then you realize you dug yourself into a deep pit that you'll struggle to climb out of. And for what? You found nothing at the bottom.

Tropes are different than genres. It's possible to hate a trope because of poor execution or by being unwillingly overexposed to it. In the second case, you've got people reading "around" the annoying trope to enjoy the overall story.

And you can straight up hate a trope while avoiding it like the plague. Because you hate it, you gleefully take every opportunity you can find to complain about it.

I don't know how someone can logically claim they've read enough of a country's fiction to know for sure they hate all of it. Fiction is such a broad term after all... 
 
  • #5
For me, it's kind of hard to meet my high expectations. If I look at tags and decide Nope, or read those terrible female protagonist Chinese novel summaries and decide nope...then I wouldn't be reading much at all now would I? Gotta go deeper and look at the reviews and spoilers...maybe even read a few chapters first. I've read novels I had to quit reading because it had everything I liked but put into such a way that I couldn't help but feel depressed. I've also read novels I couldn't help but love even when some of it grated on my personal values.

What can you do when you love the protagonists so much that when they do something wrong to you and are praised for it because the author willed it? Get angry and stop reading? No, accept it, feel bad about it, and move on because in the grand scheme of things...the only things that matter are what you enjoy more in the end.

So, in conclusion? It's complicated. 
 
  • #6
There's no M in NU...

Jokes aside, I won't read any genre I hate. If I do keep complaining about a genre I actually read, it only applies to those novels (and those specific tropes and/or their executions) of that particular genre that I hate and hv thus dropped, and not usually the ones I am currently reading. I repeat, I do not hate all novels of that genre. 
 
  • #9
I used to be like that so I understand the feeling. Still don't know the reason though. Maybe it's this: having too many uncompleted stories is like covering your desk with half read books left open at the page you left off at. It looks messy, it's distracting, makes it harder to work, and feels wrong.
For this example:
Desk = your mind 
 
  • #11
i always filtering my release list with tags or genres that i hate, so i wont torture myself 
 
  • #12
Summoning local NUF maso's
@Exitiumm @Quaesitor @Ophious 
 
  • #13
Mmm....I stick everything in labeled folders, then put all those folders into a generally labeled folder like misc. 
 
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