Agree with you on a couple of those
Coffee: the second foulest brown liquid
Children: like rats, but you get in trouble if you attack them with a spade

also

Harry Potter: Any series longer than 4 books is almost always rubbish*
Wheel of time: see above (though it lasts slightly longer before becoming too repetitive)
Games consoles, all of them: why don't people just develop single screen multiplayer on PCs?

*Discworld doesnt count, due to not being continuous narrative. Nor do plotlines that span multiple series provided there is a decent gap between the sets of books (for example Geomancer and Song of the Tears by Ian Irvine).
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 19 Jul 2009, 21:53, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Games consoles, all of them: why don't people just develop single screen multiplayer on PCs?
Four people using 1 keyboard and 1 mouse...?
( Captain V, Sun 19 Jul 2009, 21:58, Reply)

Plug the control pads in via USB
and then you're done. keyboard mouse for those that want it (theres no particular reason to limit it to one on USB), so you can get a choice of controllers.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 19 Jul 2009, 22:01, Reply)

Bit cramped round the desk?
And what about all the different controllers you'd end up with because of the lack of a standard?

Also you'd never get the sorts of graphics you get in console games because very few people don't have PCs that can handle it.

More prevalent hacking in online multiplayer games?

And never really owning a game because of DRM would be crap.
( Captain V, Sun 19 Jul 2009, 22:09, Reply)