That's because unique and pretty much all its synonyms have positive connotations. It's quite frustrating because in-and-of-itself uniqueness is not actually positive.

Well, one of our synonyms here for unique is "Phil-is-wrong."

Hey, I thought that was your thing.




Seriously. Couple that with the fact that when people say they're "unique" it's usually "unique just like everybody else" and it becomes one of my least favourite words due to over and mis-use.

My graph thingy.

Apparently I intensely hate comedy.

Which is weird because Slice of Life is near the top and the two often overlap...

K-on is actually a hard-hitting police procedural drama. JEEZ.

The thread subheading is gone, but you had months to study and learn from it. Come on now.

"We've gotta unravel the mystery behind the grizzly untan murders... right after tea and cakes."


Ha, that one took me a second.

i have no idea. i like a lot of surreal and "DEEP" stuff, like cat soup and lain, so it might be from stuff like that


edit: asuka from evangelion?

Lots of the things I gave low scores to were series that I watched years ago when I was first getting into anime. In hindsight, I've realised that several of them are, in reality, not very good and thus rated them low.

Plus, I don't really like giving too many things high scores. I have no idea why...

Also I've dropped quite a few series and I figure that if you drop something, you kind of need to rate it below a 4. Otherwise you didn't really hate it or whatever and didn't have much of a reason to drop it. Unless you couldn't find it or whatever.

That's your inner troll coming out.

Rating systems are inherently flawed because everyone has a different idea of what 10 and 0 and even 5 mean. imo it would work well if we all agreed 10 = excellent, but not perfect (because nothing ever is), 5 = mediocre, but worth watching especially if you're into the genre, and 0 = terrible, not worth it no matter what. But often people equate it to grades in school so 10 = perfect, 9=great, 8= good, 7=passable, 6 = failing grade and there's pretty much no reason to get into anything below unless it's laughably terrible, in which case people will often still give 2 or 4 or something.

Or even better, people could just write out their feelings and opinions with, you know, "words"

Exactly.

Especially in non-professional* reviews, 10 point systems rarely use anything below 6. It's quite frustrating.

Words are by far better, but take a lot more time to produce and consume. With number you can get aggregate scores (that mean nothing because people use the scale differently), that give you the average opinion.

As for the 'if you drop it you need to give it a low score' is flawed thinking.

I was really busy from late last year up until a few weeks ago. I dropped lots of things I found passable just because I had limited time. Or just an inexplicable inability to jive with something in the show. Like me with Cowboy Bebop. I've got nothing in particular against the show, I just don't care. I don't think it's bad. I simply don't care enough to keep watching.

Not liking Cowboy Bebop is just plain wrong.

Not if you dropped it because it was rubbish, which is probably what Starra meant.