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Hey Pandas, What’s Something That Got You Excited, But Disappointed You When You Learned More About It? (Closed)
As people with different interests, we tend to enjoy different things. And when something catches our interest, we get excited to see what comes of the project. Be it a movie, a tv show, a video game, or whatever else it may be.
However, when more details emerge, there are times when our perception of that project change immediately. Was there a new project you were excited for that disappointed you when new details on the project came out? And if so, what details sunk the idea in your mind?
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#1
Being an adult. I couldnt wait to grow up when I was a kid. Now that I've been here for 14 years, I can confirm that IT F*****G SUCKS!!!!
Final score:
33points
Lytha Hawkeye 2 years ago
Been "adulting" for 17 years and it does suck......still better than my childhood, so I'll take it!
Carianne Sanders 2 years ago
I knew I wanted to be young forever.. 17.. maybe 21 for liquor lol.. I still don't want to be an adult but I have teenage grandchildren! Damn it!
Eileen Lapping 2 years ago
Sea monkeys …I did all the dishes for my family of 7 for an entire month one summer when I was a kid, to get my mother to buy them for me (advertised on the back of comic books). They definitely weren’t the cute little smiling circus stunt performing creatures depicted…actually brine shrimp eggs. I learned what caveat emptor means at the age of 7.
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#2
Being old enough to vote and then realizing you're usually not voting for someone but against someone else.
Final score:
32points
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
I'm just about done with the crappy politico. I usually vote in everything, city, county ,etc. But , I'm sick and tired of all the 'talking heads' and the lies . Don't care about anything, anyone of them say anymore. None of them care about the hard working , minimum wage people,who are struggling. They only care about themselves and their assanine ideas. In my opinion.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Doesn’t count much but in my school we had to vote for house captains, sports captains etc and many of the candidates were terrible selfish a******s so I voted for the least assholish person. None of the a******s won the election but sadly everybody voted for a moron who doesn’t take anything seriously and he’s slowly started becoming a bully
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I remember being so keen to vote for the first time and we had both state and federal election that year. From memory I was happy with the experience, but by the time the next ones came around I wasn't so pleased.
Elizabeth VanDyke 2 years ago
I learned that voting is like someone telling you that you have to have one leg cut off. The choice is yours.
#3
The American Dream...as a kid growing up, I was taught that you should study hard, go to college, study more, work hard, buy a car, buy a house, work hard, go on vacation twice a year, raise a family, work hard, go to the Dr often, go to the Dentist often, work hard, pay your bills, Retire with benefits and plenty of $$$ in order to enjoy the Golden Years...the American Dream right? I Realized in my early twenty's the American Dream was just that, a mother humping fantasy! No matter what the job or how hard I worked, no matter who I vote for, the American Dream is in reality a f*cking nightmare! In the Real World today, Everything is Outsourced, OVERPRICED and everyone is Underpaid! Add Climate Change and lack of Healthcare and Corruption in the government and you have the result of "too Expensive to live/die" in the world now.
Final score:
27points
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
just wait till you visit africa/middle east and see what your dream costs.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Europeans should heed this warning, too. They didn't get where they are off the backs of their own, in their lust for gold, silver, and commodities. We're still doing it ---- lithium for batterie4s doesn't fall from heaven, avocados aren't cheap b/c they're so easy to grow, etc.
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LaztRetiredGuy 2 years ago
Here I am, living in the tropics, retired when I was 51. Guys that worked with me couldn't figure out, I didn't make more than them. I spent less. People have no clue how to manage their money. My co workers all had nicer house, nicer cars, went to restaurants, and were in debt and broke, while I soldiered on and saved and got out of the rat race.
#4
being alive 💀
Final score:
23points
Pandapoo 2 years ago
Anthony, glad to have you here. We can’t choose our birth parents, where we were born, etc.. There are many things in our lives that we cannot control. Just realize, YOU can get past this.
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Tiddlez 2 years ago
If the multiverse is real, I'd be more disappointed that of all these cool universes with magic and dragons and cool laws of physics, I end up living in THIS dumpster fire of a planet.
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
We have books and imagination at least! That’s how I deal with it anyway
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry to hear that. I've found it seems to relate to how your family treats you, how many/the quality of your friends, and your basic living conditions. I've seen really poor kids with good kind parents who are happy, and I've seen really rich kids who are cruel and miserable because their parents neglect/ignore them, and I've seen middleclass kids who are suicidal because their parents abuse them. It really is luck of the draw. Personally my life's been great and I enjoy it. Would ride again.
#5
Medical school. An endless grind of rote memorization of anatomical parts shoved into the brain alongside complicated physiology (biochemistry!). I want to beat Grey to death with his frigging Anatomy.
Final score:
16points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I'm sure they were expecting something more exciting, rather than the 95% incredibly dull continual grind they are dealing with.
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) with Jim Carrey. A live action version of the movie seemed so cool. You may or may not have noticed though, it is a completely different story from the original. Like, absolutely opposite, completely different message type of story. The original How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a sweet story about a wholesome town that wins over a mean grinch with its resolve to stay positive and grateful for having each other. The Jim Carrey version, on the other hand, paints the picture of a promiscuous, debaucherous, and outright mean corrupt town that drove the grinch to his nastiness. It's the opposite story of what it once was. I find that upsetting and prefer the original. The Grinch is supposed to be the mean one and the Christmas town is supposed to be the nice place. That's the point. The Carrey version was a fine film in and of itself, but don't call it the story of the Grinch. Different grinch, different town. I'm sure opinions will differ, but as you see I'm quite passionate about this, ha ha.
Final score:
15points
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Absolutely agree on this one. I also hated everything about Cindy Lou Who: the way they aged her (she's a toddler in the book/animated version), that stupid hairdo, the horrible "Where Are You, Christmas?" song she sings, the fact that they took a character who speaks only 11 words in the animated version & turned her into a main character. Dreadful.
#7
High School and being a teenager… Sounded so cool cuz oh independence and oh I’m becoming a woman! Nah bro that stuff is there but it’s overpowered by depression, anxiety, fear of failure, overprotective smothering from my mom, being treated like a child but expected to act maturely… you get the point :/ Oh and let’s not forget the intense fear of growing up when you reach high school and realize you’re expected to move out and make your own living in 4 years.
Final score:
15points
MadameMalfoy 2 years ago
omg the “being treated like a child but expected to act maturely” is soooo true
Mysteria (Submission author) 2 years ago
Like we’re not even allowed to use the frickin bathroom without permission! Do teachers think banning bathroom breaks will stop people from vaping in there? And don’t get me STARTED on the whole “Why didn’t you go at break? 🤓”
Load More Replies... StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
Especially the last one. That’s what I have anxiety about the most. I’m in the same boat as you, mostly. Except I love my mom and her smothering shows that she cares
#8
Becoming an adult when inflation is at an all time high, rent is insane, owning a house is out of the question, and I will probably never be able to live "comfortably" while minimum wage barely moved an inch.
Final score:
15points
#10
I saw we were having a dance at our school. I was super excited until I found out it was a silent disco… In a silent disco you all wear headphones and listen to the same music. IMO, it’s just gonna be super awkward bc we can’t even talk to each other. Like, why can’t we just have a DJ like the last dance?!
Final score:
11points
whateves 2 years ago
Yep, that just sounds like a bad idea all around. Can't they just get a couple of bluetooth speakers at the least? I'd rather have bad sound quality than that mess!
MadameMalfoy (Submission author) 2 years ago (edited)
Exactly! I think this is supposed to be a way to get to know the new kids that are coming, but how can we do that if we have headphones on?! And they are doing a meeting at the same time of the dance in the same building! If that’s the reason for the silent disco, why can’t the dance be that Friday instead of the Thursday of the meeting. The whole thing is just confusing and weird.
Load More Replies... Michelle 2 years ago
That sounds terrible and the adults that allowed and are putting this on are in my opinion morons it's proven facts that there is a severe problem with the youths of the generation you sound off having social and emotional problems at an alarming rate and they say it's the constant screen time the texting the never being not able to be reached the posting everything you do and the fact that because of all these reasons and a thousand more that y'all don't have the abilities to "normally socialize" or have hard times maintaining "real world relationships" being a teenager is already hard scary awkward as f**k miserable time for a lot of kids doing a "social" event and faking the "social " out of it and promoting this weird no real human connection s**t in kids in their most important development years molding who they are going to end up being as human being adults is in poor taste and bad judgement but that's just my opinion
MadameMalfoy (Submission author) 2 years ago
And we are a small school. we are all friends and love to hang out with each other. i don’t think anyone will even do the stupid headphone thing. we will all probably just socialize, bc that is what a dance is for.
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MadameMalfoy (Submission author) 2 years ago
wow i looked at the other responses and mine seems so shallow now lol
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
I don’t think so! There’s so many responses, this is actually a nice, less-anxiety-inducing one for me
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Only reasons I've heard of for a silent disco are to cater for people who have sensory issues, so they don't get overwhelmed, or because they are worried about noise complaints, and since you haven't been told about the first one being the reason, and they had a dance with a dj last year, it seems weird.
#11
Relationships. Disney sells us lies about true love and happily ever after, but in reality it's hard work and once you've been hurt the first time, you are super careful about giving your heart to anyone ever again. It takes decades to recover fully.
Final score:
9points
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Yeah, Disney has a lot to answer for. Starting with "Steamboat Willie" and ending with whatever the most recent princess-y horror is.
censorshipsucks (Submission author) 2 years ago
and that "happily ever after" c**p. What they need to do is show snowwhite with three kids doing all the housework while the prince reads the newspaper and goes off to play golf.
Ima Manimal 2 years ago
Disney is all fake and made up and wrapped in plastic. I’ve never felt the “magic”.
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
Disney is here to sell you a load of garbage! They only care about their bottom line. After they turned their backs on Johnny Depp, because of Allegations.; since proven to be complete Lies. They have been hemorrhaging money . They are begging for him to return, because they finally realized that they screwed up. In my opinion.
Dogcat vet (retired) 2 years ago
If I want to watch real life wow politics, I'll watch the news or read google news. Disney in my opinion is for escapism and entertainment, not to get lectured at about how horrid I am.
Carianne Sanders 2 years ago
I grew up with Disney, starting in the '60s, in an old art deco theater.. it Was magical. But there was always a happy ending, a handsome prince, the underdog prevails. Beans & BS.. not in my life
#12
Family vacations
Final score:
9points
Lene 2 years ago
Ah yes. Sounds so great in theory. And then you go somewhere and the baby is sick the entire first evening and night. The two older kids are upset the first day because the vacation house is so small and they want to go home. Then they find that the playground is AWESOME and there are some kids their age there as well. They make new friends -who have suddenly gone home and now you have two kids who are crying their eyes out because they miss their new friends. And then they don't want to go home because what if their new friends come back? And we go home and the kids are back in their routines and we, the parents, start thinking that next family vacation will be better.... 😬
#13
Got Into weightlifting as a teenager and wanted to look the guys in the magazines. No clue they were on steroids. Now I’m in my 40s and most of those guys are dead from steroid abuse. Now I see modern body builders and clowns.
Final score:
8points
#14
Religion. As a teenager it was my major focus. I went to seminary college out of high school expecting to find great purpose and instead found business as usual, the same venality we find among humans everywhere. And I discovered that the concept of God they presented was far too limited. Basically they still conceived God as having human characteristics including all of our faults -- jealousy, anger, venality, arrogance, needing to be worshipped. It struck me that there was nothing divine about God as they created Him nor was there any reason why there should be separation between any individual and whatever the organizing force of the universe might be. No real God would need to be worshipped. Plus these would be priests were all terrified of women. It is a strange thing we have created with religion. So I took myself and my cosmic thinking elsewhere.
Final score:
8points
ThatFriendlyFox (she/her) 2 years ago
Part of this is true, and i am religious. God has no faults, and any good church is not SCARED of women.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
So you're saying creating the world with the ability to get how it is isn't a fault?
Load More Replies... Wyndmere 2 years ago
God is not arrogant, venial, or many of the other ways you described the picture that church you attended painted of God for you. It was far from accurate. God does not need to be worshiped. God is worshiped because he is worthy of being worshiped. You should find out who God really is; you will be totally amazed.
Lene 2 years ago
I studied religion at the uni. That is the history of religion. This allowed me to take a look at all sorts of religion and I found it great. :) most religious people that studies religion at the uni drops out. I think it's because they are faced with their religion from non-believers' views and that can be a tough one to swallow. In my class only 1 person who followed a religion kept that and finished his studies. I am the only one, that I know of, who found their religious path by getting a glimpse of so many and one of them just felt extremely right for me. :)
#15
Wokes. When I learned of this ideology, I believed it to be good and positive. I now realize that people who call themselves Wokes are vindictive, sometimes violent in their actions and words, and not open to discussion. According to the Wokes, THEY are always right. The past is always wrong and THEY are the best. I can't wait to see how future generations will judge them for their acts of eradication and cancel culture and erasure of history.
Final score:
7points
Frances Pitchounetta (Submission author) 2 years ago (edited)
No. I wont to sleep. And have a dream.
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AnonymousApple 2 years ago
People have co-opted "woke" as an insult. Anything can be taken to an unfortunate extreme. That doesn't invalidate the positive changes most people are trying to make. Besides, EVERYONE thinks they're right and the best. That's not exclusive to "woke" people. I've never met anyone less open to discussion than Trumpers, who vocally despise "woke" people.
The Hamster 2 years ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
#16
Finding an app for a show/movie you really want to have, only to find your you have to f**king pay for a stupid subscription or purchase fee that’s like $40/mo
Final score:
7points
#17
Technocracy. I thought it was voting smart people to be president/prime minister but found out it meant only smart people can vote.
Final score:
6points
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
Now I have to learn what technocracy is… and why people downvoted you
Samsquatch (Submission author) 2 years ago
Small movement that happend a few decades ago
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#19
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I was about to come out of my skin when it opened! I heard some not-so-hot reviews before I saw it, but I thought - This is STAR WARS, dammit, and I'm gonna enjoy it! I didn't.
Final score:
5points
#21
Growing up. Being a teenager. I cannot believe I was SO EXCITED to grow older, to have coolness and all that. It is pain. It is anxiety. It is not the fun I thought it was.
Final score:
4points
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
Oh, honey. You've not gotten to the real fun. Being an adult and having to do Everything by yourself. ALL day, every day.
Pandapoo 2 years ago
I didn’t have coolness, but I had independence once I turned 18 and it was worth the struggle. If you’re still a teen and living with your parents, just try to enjoy it as best you can and choose your friends wisely.
Me, Myself, & I (She/Her) (Submission author) 2 years ago
thanks for the advice!
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The US Marines. If you want to know what sociopathy and awful leadership are then visit your local USMC. Recruiting office.
Final score:
4points
#23
The future! Whelp, I´m here now in the future all the way from 1960 and HoooBoy, can I tell you how disappointed I am.
Final score:
4points
#24
The original How the Grinch Stole Christmas was beautiful. I never wanted to be an adult, yet here I am...
Final score:
3points
#25
Driving.
Final score:
3points
Lene 2 years ago
I only learned to drive because my bf and I moved out on the country. At age 36 I thought it would suck to drive and my anxiety went through the roof all the time. My driving teacher said that eventually I'd start to love driving. Am 39 now and I still am not fond of driving at all. I do it on a daily basis and all that. But nah, I prefer to be the passenger.
#26
The Colbert Report. I once adored the show, and even now when I watch clips it's captivating and hysterical. But I found out that it's not all in good, harmless fun. It's consciously, utterly harmful "fun," and won an audience by manipulating them with jingoistic propaganda while pretending to satirize jingoistic propaganda. It doesn't improve my opinion that the host has been stalking a woman since the show started and steals her writing. For the squeaky clean, friendly public image he puts out and defends with bullying and endless lies, he's not a good guy.
Final score:
3points
#27
Being an adult
Final score:
2points
#28
I used to be a huge iCarly fan as a kid (literally was one of my favorite shows growing up), and Sam was my favorite character. I even used to watch the spin off of Sam and Cat too. I read Jennette McCurdy's (the actress who plays her) book. Great book, but now I can never bring myself to look back at either show the same way now that I know what she was going through.
Final score:
2points
#29
I was very disappointed when I found out that DJ Frankie Wilde is not a real person :(.
Final score:
1point
#30
being 10. like, what did i dot o this world for it to be so FREAKING CRUEL TO ME?!?!?!?
Final score:
1point
Georgia (Submission author) 2 years ago
ugh i know like, 10 is THE WORST age
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Cooter McCoughlin 2 years ago
That's painful to read. I felt exactly like this at that age. I hope this kid can see that thing's do get better. You find there are actually other people your age who feel the same way and have similar interests. You learn to embrace the things that make you different. You use those things to become successful because greatness isn't achieved with normal ideas. Your childhood will fly by. There are so many amazing years to look forward to. There is someone special out there just for you and if you decide to have a family then nothing else will ever matter the way they do. Being a kid can suck and if any kids are reading this and feel like the world is against them, I felt the same way for a long time. I was severely depressed from preschool all the way through high school. But in college I found good lifelong friends. They're even stranger than I am! I found a wife and we had kids! At ten I never would have seen happiness like this in my future. I found it though and so will you!
#31
Toki pona. I thought it was a fun concept but it seems like everyone associated with it is an incel so I noped out if that. The language itself also has really bad vibes so that's part of it. I'll just stick with learning french
Final score:
1point
#32
Clinkers. I thought they where solid chocolate balls but no they had to ruin them with their insides.
Final score:
1point
#33
Early retirement (@36). Seemed like a dream, and I volunteer to contribute to society and spend time... But you quickly learn all your friends and people your age are never available to hang out like you are, and some are jealous/resentful! And in my case it wasn't even voluntary (I liked my job but was laid off due to Covid at the beginning, just happened to have a profitable "hobby")!
Final score:
1point
Carianne Sanders 2 years ago
Enjoy Yourself! I played through my 30s, 40s, & 50s.. finally gave up my profitable hobby to step into the real world.. not all it's cracked up to be. Have fun, smile, laugh, make memories.. you'll be glad you did, I think.. I know I am
AnonymousApple 2 years ago
"Never available to hang out like you are." Because... they have jobs? Sure, some are jealous, but you're seriously complaining that your non-retired friends aren't able to hang out as often?
#34
A very recent one that stung me. I am someone who very much became a fan of Invincible from the Amazon Prime show. I knew of the comics, but I never personally read any of them just due to not finding them. A few days ago, they revealed a trailer for a new game called Invincible: Guarding the Globe. And the trailer looked good. The character models of Invincible, Atom Eve, and Monster Girl looked great in a 3D cell-shaded art style, and the cutscene looked good... Until another Atom Eve and two more Monster Girl's showed up. That's when the game started to be sus. And just a few seconds later... they tacked on the gameplay. Which happens to be your standard mobile phone "RPG" that would see your team battle against another, but only requiring the most minimal of involvement from the player, and every other character more than likely needing to be bought. Screw me for hoping for a fighting game, or maybe even a "Marvel Ultimate Alliance"/"X-Men Destiny" styled RPG, am I right? Let's hope the Mortal Kombat 1 rumours are true, so that way an Invincible character will be able to have a better first video game appearance.
Final score:
0points
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
I know this struggle...a few years (10) ago, my husband & I had been anticipating the release of a new game (vs fighter) which was supposed to be the "Game of the Year". We had reserved it meaning, we were on the list of who gets it 1st upon it's release. Once the game was released, my husband picks it up on the way home from work. He paid a little less than $120.00 for this game. He gets home, we put it in...short story about a short game. HUGE disappointment. It took under 13 hours to beat it. The game was supposed to be similar to Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat...it sucked. My husband said the demo was more exciting than the actual game.
#35
Mass effect andromeda I love mass effect trilogy but this one was garbage just go back to commander Shepard
Final score:
0points
#36
One D&D! Like I was super hyped about it, then they messed around with their OGL, and the more we see of their "play test" stuff the less I like it. The ruined my favorite class (Bard) and so much just makes NO sense whatsoever!
Final score:
0points
#37
being a gifted and talented kid. i'm so burnt out and I can barely do anything now and my teachers from school think i'm doing something good
Final score:
0points
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