I try to be relaxed and understanding, but I'm prone to geeky "you're wrong!" and such now and then, but i'm really getting annoyed/sick of the lists i keep seeing. Take a TV show/comic/movie that's pretty universally liked and then make a top 10 list about how it's got bad moments. I just read one that was "the 10 worst episodes of Batman: the Animated series" and i nearly did a spit take.
You know what happens when I find myself watching one of the "bad" episodes of B:TAS? I thank the light that i found a good show on so i don't have to all the other dreck out there.
Beyond that, it seems like so many of the lists Cracked.com or other sites do are purely opinion. You're entitled to your opinion, but using that opinion as if it's self evident that it's factual is pretty presumptuous to say the least. And assuming everyone else is just nodding along at home with your list is hubris at an obvious level.
So basically, if you're gonna make a top 10 list, assume what you're actually doing is trying to convince other people that what you're putting out there is true, and not that you're the long prophecized geek messiah and your word is law for the rest of us.
*Salute*
I'm BATMAN!
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