rollerdude said:
^But the thing, Furie, is that the ride isn't piss poor. It isn't bad at all, it's just not good. They're all faffing over the ride because they're spoiled with their glass smooth B&Ms, and especially Intamins at CP, and have too high of a standard set every time they ride a wooden coaster. They need to toughen up a bit and take a rattling, even one as rattling as SOB.
I don't quite get it?
I've been rattled to death by a lot of wooden coasters. Some of them I consider good, but rattly.
However, if given the option of good and rattly or good and smooth - then good and smooth is the future. I shouldn't have to bite back pain to enjoy a ride. My ability to combat the pain given me by a coaster shouldn't alter my opinion of the ride.
It's all about distraction. If you're enjoying walking down a country lane and the birds are singing and the sun is shining - then you get smacked in the face by a thug, it ruins the walk. It's a nice walk ruined by the shock of pain. If every time you walk down that lane you get smacked in the face - you eventually just say "I don't like that lane, I always get smacked in the face and I'm fed up with it".
Once you have a large coaster count, you start to get fed up with coasters smacking you in the face. You start to look at the ones that are good and don't scar you for life.
Now, pain is subjective, and enjoyment of pain is too - so there is always going to be a discrepancy. However, telling somebody that if they could just learn to enjoy the hurt, they'd enjoy the coaster is silly. People shouldn't have to completely change themselves to enjoy a ride. If the ride doesn't suit, it doesn't suit.
From what I've heard of SOB, it's only a minority that seem to actually enjoy the ride. In my book, that means it's target audience are the few masochists out there who like to have a good beating on a regular basis.
There's nothing wrong with that, whatever floats your boat - but sometimes, you just have to accept you're in a minority specialist group
