Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-37627195-20181216064822

Top 5 Things I Hope Happen in 2019:

1. Shit gets back together. Not kidding. I would like ONE F*CKING YEAR without countless celebrity deaths, a school shooting happening every damn minute, and innocent celebrities suddenly being treated like Hitler because of offensive tweets they wrote YEARS ago. Is that too much to ask!?

2. While I understand that the 2010s are certainly the nostalgia reboot era and it's inevitable that the trend will continue into the final chapter of the decade. I hope some of the reboots/remakes of preexisting pop culture icons are actually y'know, decent and faithful to the original source material next year.

3. Some of the 2010s slang finally starts to die out. I find some of the modern popular slang words incredibly annoying and I'm sure we'll all cringe when looking back on them in the future as well. I get that every decade has their own "catchphrases" of sorts. For example, the '90s had "cowabunga", "dude", "radical", and "tubular". The 2000s gave us "pwnd", "noob", "chillax", and "bling bling". The 2010s spawned "hashtag", "selfie", "twerk", and "derp" but enough is enough, I think we've overused those terms to death.

4. Robot Chicken becomes funny again. While occasionally very clever, I felt like the 9th season of my favorite stop motion animated program dropped a little in quality last season. There were definitely some skits here and there such as the Slender-Man and Stranger Things parodies, that I consider to be classic Robot Chicken material but most of it was just bizarre and random for no reason. They also overused certain themes to death such as politics, modern day preschool shows, and Disney movies (I wish they'd parody some non-Disney cartoons more often). I hope season 10 gets good again because if not, I think I'm gonna have to call it quits for Robot Chicken which would be very unfortunate considering how consistently great the first 8 seasons were.

5. Hollywood producers finally realize that edgy does not always equal good. Nowadays comedy relies way too much on vulgarity, mainstream rap music is loaded with an annoying amount of profanity, horror is nothing but a bunch of jump scares, and modern metal music is nothing but a bunch of "edgy" dudes screaming at the top of their lungs about how much they hate God, Jesus, and religion. I wish people could finally figure out that shock value isn't always necessary to produce good, memorable content. It's very possible to make something amazing without resorting to offensive/inappropriate content that is there simply for shock sake alone. Not everything needs to be loaded with cuss words, gore, sexual content, allusions to drugs, blasphemy, political rants, toilet humor, and mean spirited jabs directed towards celebrities to be good. Memorable characters and well written stories can sometimes be enough.