The NEW! Guilty Pleasure Thread
 

I checked. There was such one in the past.

I won't bring it up because it was closed in my tabs hours ago. Plus, Nate could always find it again. Them mods are so handy.

So. What's your guilty pleasure(s)?

Here is mine.

http://famefad.com/wp-content/upload...ie-j-video.jpg

Shut the fuck up. She has a nice ass.

I have no idea who that is.

Because you're American.

Thanks. I'm still no closer to knowing who she is.

Jessie J. Pretty big singer in the United Kunts.

Ah.

I have no guilty pleasures that I'm aware of. I'm pretty upfront about what I like, regardless of what others think. Sweets are a guilty pleasure, I guess. But only because I feel guilty after I eat them.

Sometimes when I masturbate I'll poop a little.

It's no accident.

Usually most nerdy things I do, because in RL I've learnt to hide it, giving pretty much two different lives, RL life an Net life. I'm relatively happy with my set up now. Took me a while to build up though.

I guess... reality shows?

Rage comics.

Having lots of free time and wasting most of it on game-related activities, instead of studying or doing meaningful things that would improve myself or make me money. I always have a voice yelling at me in the back of my head about this.

EDIT: Oh right you want something that's really a guilty pleasure? WoW and Rage comics I guess.

Well, uhh, I visit the /v/ board of 4chan a lot and that's probably one of the main reasons why I don't like some things anymore. They are so cynical in there. I don't know, I don't really have guilty pleasures.

Tumblr has become my new guilty pleasure. It's guilty because I tend to spend a lot of time perfecting the theme I'm using or making a GIF.

Can't really think. I suppose playing games like TF2 for long periods of time is my guilty pleasure.

Oddworld forums, for the reason that it has become a tool for procrastination. It doesn't help that the action of clicking the link when my browser opens up is in muscle memory.
Other than that, I am totally unrepentant and not greatly discreet about my activites.

Staying up until the small hours of the morning playing video games. Family time is overrated.

Actually yeah come to think of it, The OWF is a guilty pleasure as well. I check it everyday at least. :)

Your guilty pleasure is fucking infomercials. :dodgy:

Music.

I can dwell into music for hours. When I was a kid, I grabbed my discman and could spent hours into a CD. These days, I spent my free time, on college, listening to music, studying while listening t music. That's my guilty pleasure.

And that makes you feel guilty because... ?

I suppose fixing hardware would be mine. It feels so good to know that after hours of tweaking with a hard drive or something it finally works. No better feeling I know of.

Also, recieving online purchases in the post after anticipating their arrival.

?

Mine is reading shonen manga (For young boys) that isn't the pokemon manga. The pokemon manga is a guilt free pleasure.

Because I've lost way too much time with music, and it had some repercussions in my life, being school or social life. You may think "That's impossible.", but life sure made it's way to show that's not.

It makes me feel guilty because I know I shouldn't find such enjoyment over it. Most people would consider it strange.

You both have weird guilt complexes.

I'm willing to accept that.

When you can hurt somebody because of something so trivial like music, you would be like this. Or not, different people, different emotions.

Yea but ... Denmark doesnt really have those :( And I dont own a tv *sigh* ...

I do enjoy the occasional infomercial though. I hope there's new episodes out! :D

All the Squall/Rinoa scenes of Final Fantasy VIII...

if you're good at something, you're good at it. make yourself even better. don't guilt trip yourself. become the fucking master of fixing hardware and disarming bombs.

EDIT:

fucking thread. okay, the most embarrassing guilty pleasure of mine is probably La Roux. i like 80's mucis. i think 80's chicks and 80's fashion is hot. i'd fuck La Roux because of that. but almost everyone i know thinks that music is wank, so i don't mention it. it's extremely fucking rare that i get embarrassed about something, but this is the worst for some reason. it's only music.

first one to say "lol wanker" get's their fucking face ripped off.

lol wanker!

But seriously though, you shouldn't be embarrassed, it's your personal choice. I've grown up listening to metal and rock 'n roll, so most of my friends. But as I keep growing up, I've been listening to more varied styles, like Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Circuit Bending, Techno, Hardcore, Turntable and others. First, they didn't understand how I could listen to that, but then, it grew on them, and now most of them listen to other genres. It's something you have to "teach" your friends. And they maybe even like it.

Herpy.

80s music, 80s fashion, 80s computers.

Any embarrassment I feel about liking something is purely based on the people around me. The things I like are relatively mainstream, but it's a minefield trying to predict what other people like, and what they find awful/ridiculous/wtf-inducing. I can't help feeling embarrassed automatically if I'm with someone who might not like what I'm watching/playing/listening to.

It's incredibly easy for someone to make me feel stupid for liking something purely based on their negative reaction to it. Unless I've formulated a strong argument for why I like something, I feel like they're instantly validated in not liking it.

I'm not likely to argue about it with them unless I feel I have a really knowledgable opinion on it, even if their view is simplistic or they don't explain it. Most of the time I can't be bothered with peoples' seemingly random and arbitrary personal tastes and I just wait until I'm alone to enjoy things that they might not like.

IBM PC 5150?

Yes. I had a couple of real 5150s back in about 94 or 95. One had the green screen with dual 360k floppy drives and the other had CGA with a 3mb Otari "Disctron" full height hard drive which used up the other two open drive bays. The original hard drive was a 10mb Seagate that went south for the winter so I picked up the Otari for almost nothing to replace it.

I've heard a 20mb Seagate Hard Drive spin up before. That thing was loud.
I know there was the Zenith computers as well around that time, I really want to get a Zenith Supersport 286/386 laptop. That would be great.

They seem loud compared to today's drives but aren't bad once in the computer. They're not supposed to be that loud, too, unless they have a lot of time on them, and the spindle bearings ROAR from wear. The ST-412 and ST-225 (10mb and 20mb MFM, respectively) are rock solid reliable drives. I had a 286 desktop once with a 10mb drive (make unknown) that was so loud and worn out it was unbearable. You had to leave the room to talk. Still worked.

I recommend listening to the ST-251 (40mb MFM) drive's startup sound, but the best video I could find on Youtube is the ST-277R, a 70MB RLL drive that is basically a '251 formatted from 17 sectors per track to 26 sectors per track. Same drive. I LOVE these!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh6sd-kdFFg

I remember building a 386 computer for my parents' store that had the ST-277 in it. The only problem was that the drive controller I was using didn't support RLL, only MFM so I actually formatted the 70mb drive down to 40mb because of the sector limitation. Good times.

The ewaste yards over here are just lousy with 90s computers and accessories. You'd love it. 80s computers are waaaay hard to find now.

Natey-poo, be a doll and take this to the retro technology thread pls?

I know there was a Toshiba T1100 on eBay not long ago, and there's a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33c on there now. Both of those were 80s.

As a young boy (which was only a few years ago), my guilty pleasure was seinen. And my brother's gnarly Alan Moore comics. The guilt stemmed from both the graphic depictions of... stuff... and the fact that I shouldn't really have been taking my brother's books.

Ponies are my guilty pleasure. Especially Fluttershy.

And you thought Steamer was bad for listening to music.