# One-offs that you love despite disliking the rest of the genre. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548 "2013-12-31T06:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/81 "2014-05-13T04:22:10Z")
I’ve never cared for any first-person shooters that weren’t made by Valve. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/82 "2014-05-13T10:34:51Z")
I don’t really like (but don’t hate) most Judd apatow movies, but LOVE the Forty Year Old Virgin. I loathe Jim Carey’s comedies and love his serious or semi-serious movies. The Truman Show is my second-favourite film and he’s brilliant in Eternal Sunshine. I’m yet another to dislike country but love Johnny Cash and most Dolly Parton. I dislike both hip-hop and R&B, but Ms Dynamite is fun to listen to. Wikipedia just told me she’s the eldest of 11 siblings! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/83 "2014-05-13T11:27:52Z")
Not wild about the rash of vampire and zombie shows, but I could watch any episode of **Buffy the Vampire Slayer**. Not the movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/84 "2014-05-13T13:06:48Z")
> [@Trepa\_Mayfield](#): > > I’ve never cared for any first-person shooters that weren’t made by Valve. Not even _Doom_ back in the day? _Goldeneye_? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/85 "2014-05-13T14:37:55Z")
Not a gamer, no first person shooters, no rpg, no Civilization, Second Life or Sims. The only games I like are puzzle-types. EXCEPT… **Blizzard’s "Diablo**", all of them since the first, and **WoW**. Got thoroughly sucked in to a life-stopping degree with every one, for many weeks, and If my life depended it I could not explain it. Really…with every one of them I reached a point where I barely slept or functioned at all, played til blurry-eyed, sleep 4 or 5 hours, wake, start again and put in another 16-18 hours. Blizzard got me in my 30s, 40s and 50s. The only other game that came close was a precursor BBS-based TEXT version of the same thing called Arena. And I have sampled lots of other similar games with similar elements. Nothing. Not the slightest bit of interest in any of them. So weird. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/86 "2014-05-13T17:37:46Z")
I don’t like downbeat electronica, nor even the acoustic slow songs by said artists, even though acoustic slow songs are usually the same regardless of genre. I guess electronica artists are not so great at acoustic guitar and piano 🙂 But I like _My Brother’s Blood Machine_ by _The Prize Fighter Inferno_, a side project by Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria. It’s mostly slow or at least not-fast songs, and is a mixture of guitar and electronica. Its slow songs are even reminiscent of the slow acoustic songs an electronica artist would make. And I like nearly all the songs, the fast, medium, and slow ones. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/87 "2014-05-14T03:27:54Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I’m not a fan of kissing movies, but I do like **The Princess Bride**. Oh, man, I wish there was a Like button because this post! And I agree with [control-z](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) about not liking Westerns, but loving the remake of **True Grit**. I have to stop and watch it if I see it. I also don’t care for raunchy comedies or chick flicks, but \*\*Bride’s Maids \*\*was both and it’s another must-watch-if-it’s-on movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548.md?page=4)