[QUOTE=RustyGears;47405549]As long as somebody doesn't directly harm somebody or something (in a logical way, so nothing like "but the bible!!"), I don't care if they are trans, gay, a furry, otherkin, a brony, etc. People that hate on people for something personal like those just need to grow up and stop being so immature and childish.[/QUOTE]
The only one that pisses me off is otherkin, a completely fictional condition. It's likely that there is something genuinely off about many of those people, given that they want to reject their human identity so badly. But you don't have the brain of a wolf. You're speaking a human language, wearing clothing, goofing around on a computer, watching Doctor Who or some anime.
Not that I ever harass such people, but I can't imagine deluding yourself into believing you're another animal is healthy. It seems like the person is just screaming for attention, desperate to be special and unusual.
how hard is it to enjoy something without making it such a defining quality, like really you can't fault people for making the assumptions they do
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;47404719]I don't think schools prepare kids for the world[/QUOTE]
I'd argue the social side and the learning how to deal nonsense like learning for exams not for learning is pretty good (better known as critical thinking/problem solving).
Although I couldn't really say having never experienced 'the real world'.
Can I add that people are really demeaning and condecending to teenagers, we are real people with real thoughs and feelings. Why doesn't our world classify as 'real'?
[QUOTE=Rossy167;47407169]I'd argue the social side and the learning how to deal nonsense like learning for exams not for learning is pretty good (better known as critical thinking/problem solving).
Although I couldn't really say having never experienced 'the real world'.
Can I add that people are really demeaning and condecending to teenagers, we are real people with real thoughs and feelings. Why doesn't our world classify as 'real'?[/QUOTE]
For the record I'm a teenager too and attend High School, and really our world won't matter after school unless your sports career travels with you to college or somthing. We don't earn a wage, we dont provide for ourselves, we dont live on our own. Schools Don't prepare us for these tremendous changes when they should in my opinion
[QUOTE=wauterboi;47404247]I am against the death penalty not because I think life is precious, but because I don't trust our government and most people (including me) to make the decision between life and death for an individual. More importantly, giving the government the ability to kill someone wraps everything in tons of black-and-white rules when a lot of situations aren't black and white.[/QUOTE]
I'm somewhat against the death penalty, mostly because serving out a life sentence is a lot more punishing than your life being ended. The death sentence should be optional for prisoners who get a life sentence, if they don't want to spend the rest of their life locked up.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;47407169]Can I add that people are really demeaning and condecending to teenagers, we are real people with real thoughs and feelings. Why doesn't our world classify as 'real'?[/QUOTE]
"Teenagers have no reason to be stressed."
Like lmao fuck you how about I just quit my job and drop out of school and stay at home the rest of my life because then I [I]actually[/I] wont be stressed like for some reason you think I'm not.
People saying teenagers have nothing to stress over makes me shake my head. Luckily I've never heard anybody irl say that.
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what the fuck I thought this was "shit that gets you mad"
I am retart
I really deeply enjoyed the driving physics in GTA IV. They were skewed for gameplay reasons but real life driving techniques applied and you had to respect your car, but could still pull off crazy cool stuff sometimes since it was slanted to be fun rather than punishing. Everyone who i've seen complain about the driving physics in IV don't slow down for corners at all or really even concider any basic driving concepts at all and then go "god these physics are terrible" when they floor it down 90 degree turn in an alley in an SUV and slam into the wall. I dropped GTA V pretty quick because the driving felt so cheap and shallow, and it's the main avenue of movement in the world which means it's the gateway to basically all of the game. Plus stunts don't mean anything anymore if you can steer your car in midair like it's stunt mode in Rush 2049 or whatever
The whole 'anti-Monsanto' thing is a massively annoying circlejerk and has been for a while now.
Political Correctness hasn't gone mad
Linkin Park isn't bad.
Now I haven't read the Bible yet, but I've heard some people say that thou shalt not kill doesn't apply to war, but I think it ought to if we're going to have that as a biblical rule. Still being able to wage war on each other and kill each other that way as well as engage in capital punishment is awfully ~convenient~ and reeks of human design, not Godly design. I think if there was a God, they'd probably espouse pacifism.
I think stalker is overrated
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I really dislike TF2. I think the fanbase is cringey and the characters are stupid.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47412186]I really dislike TF2. I think the fanbase is cringey and the characters are stupid.[/QUOTE]
I think the characters are fine but it's really sad now how you can't ever go a match without seeing useless conga liners spamming lenny faces. Really wish that vanilla servers were more of a thing.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47412186]I really dislike TF2. I think the fanbase is cringey and the characters are stupid.[/QUOTE]
You should meet the Dota 2 community then
Or all MOBA playerbases, for that matter
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47412186]I really dislike TF2. I think the fanbase is cringey and the characters are stupid.[/QUOTE]I still think it's a fun game, but I really miss the original RED Vs. BLU story. It was simple, yet mysterious at the same time.
Now there's aliens, robots, and a bunch of other random shit. I have no idea what's going on. Going back and playing old maps like cp_well makes me miss that simple theme.
I didn't like Killing Floor when I tried it. Maybe I'll give it another shot but as it stands I'm just not a fan.
[QUOTE=simzboy;47412369]I still think it's a fun game, but I really miss the original RED Vs. BLU story. It was simple, yet mysterious at the same time.
Now there's aliens, robots, and a bunch of other random shit. I have no idea what's going on. Going back and playing old maps like cp_well makes me miss that simple theme.[/QUOTE]
Red vs. Blue (the Halo series, I mean) has pretty much the same problem. I don't mean to disrespect the dead, but when Monty came on board, every episode just seemed like an excuse to showcase his fight scene animations.
The early seasons had a plot, yeah, but it was simple and funny. The plot post-Blood Gulch Chronicles is just cringe-worthy, and tries too hard to be edgy and serious.
[QUOTE=Gurant;47410824]Political Correctness hasn't gone mad[/QUOTE]
Multiculturalism is the best thing that has happened to society because now I can get doner kebab on chips and a curry pie in one round trip and live in ecstasy for 10 minutes.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47409109]That's not to say that adults can't form their own ideals, but a lot of them (at least in my experience around here) are very set in there ways and are completely unwilling to change any part of their life.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately it seems to be basic human nature to get set in your ways as you get older. Most people slowly start giving less and less consideration to anything that challenges their beliefs the older they get. Though I couldn't say for sure why this is (other than older people thinking keeping the status quo is the best option for stability), just that it's obnoxious as hell and can be really frustrating to deal with.
In countries that have been built around a 2-party system, the 2-party system is the most effective and efficient way that the government can function. The very point of minority parties is that they can have the balance of power, and push their viewpoints - which are generally more narrow - therefore effecting change in their specific field and helping balance the major parties. Most minor parties could not function if they suddenly got a majority of votes, and it would quite literally send the country haywire. We need people to start being politically active and force the politicians to actually listen to us, not give our vote to some minor candidate/party who's more idealistic than realistic.
I love mayonnaise, to the point where I will pour it on just about anything.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47412186]I really dislike TF2. I think the fanbase is cringey and the characters are stupid.[/QUOTE]
i don't really get how you can think the characters are dumb, but the fanbase thing is completely true.
altho, if were gonna be fair here, any game as popular as tf2/similar to tf2 would have equally as cringey a community. thats pretty much a given.
I'm sorry to push my own opinion to you again, but no, till you haven't played a MOBA for a fair amount of time you don't know what HELLL sounds like
I'm not defending the Team Fortress 2 community or anything, mind you. It could be one of the reason I can't play the game anymore
[QUOTE=shauntp;47415121]In countries that have been built around a 2-party system, the 2-party system is the most effective and efficient way that the government can function. The very point of minority parties is that they can have the balance of power, and push their viewpoints - which are generally more narrow - therefore effecting change in their specific field and helping balance the major parties. Most minor parties could not function if they suddenly got a majority of votes, and it would quite literally send the country haywire. We need people to start being politically active and force the politicians to actually listen to us, not give our vote to some minor candidate/party who's more idealistic than realistic.[/QUOTE]
the thing about two party systems, especially those found in the US, is that two two parties eventually end up being two wholly opposing factions that fight tooth and nail against anything the other side does, even if it is beneficial to them. This leads to a [B]massive[/B] political deadlock, and a complete and total inability to do [I]anything[/I]. In the end it's always a better idea to have an odd number of political parties, because then there's always a factor which can sway any debate towards a majority vote.
Now for an actual opinion, rather than a small rant about polotics.
I think that old games which are revered as amazing classics that have not been topped to date, are generally actually pretty bad games. (Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, GTA: 3, GTA: San Andreas, Deus Ex, Morrowind, Goldeneye, and many others) They're simply mechanically inferior to modern entries in their series, which makes them feel clunky and in turn makes them borderline unplayable. Ocarina of Time and Morrowind are the single worst offenders in this catagory, I've played both and their modern counterparts, and both of them feel like broken games that hardly deserve their praise. OoT being a linear, handholding, manotonous affair, and Morrowind a hyper slow, incredibly clunky and dull expirience. meanwhile their current counterparts feel smooth and nice to play from the get-go, and don't suffer from extreme dating. While Skyrim might not quite have the amazing quests and stuff from Morrowind, and lack it's depth in enchanting, magic and such, I can at least stand to bear to play it for more than 5 minutes, because i don't move at the pace of a disabled snail. Overall i think they were good [I]at the time[/I] but have failed to age properly, and i hate it when people go on and on and on about how they're so good, and that modern entries have failed to capture the "magic" and so forth that they supposedly put out, i sort of shake my head in disappointment, because they clearly are looking through rose tinted glasses, and fail to critically examine the games they're talking about.
[B]Tl;Dr[/B]: Two party systems suck, and old video games aren't as good as people say they are.
Typing of the Dead should replace All the Right Type in every elementary, junior high, and high school.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;47419306]Typing of the Dead should replace All the Right Type in every elementary, junior high, and high school.[/QUOTE]
Honestly there should just be a Mavis Beacon x Typing of the Dead crossover already.
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