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There are so many ways to prepare a hamburger that I'm not even sure it's possible to have this opinion, unless you just don't like ground beef. Which I guess is actually kind of reasonable Unpopular opinion: Battlefield Bad Company 2 is overrated.
Tall/superstacked hamburgers suck ass If I'm gonna have food that doesn't involve cutlery, I want to be able to fit the stuff in my mouth without real problems: Most sandwiches, pizzas, smaller burgers and such manage this with no problems, but when you try to eat something like a Big Mac, it gets stupid how wide you must force your mouth in order to get a proper bite out of it. Not to mention that tall towers of food are also fucking nightmares to keep from falling apart, theres always some lettuce or sauce that drips out or the patty/buns start sliding.
I dont know if its just me getting older and realizing this and its always been this way, or if its a newer phenomenon, but Im finding that humanity is too widely susceptible to cognitive bias and manipulation for me to believe in a meaningfully brighter future. It's different in more intimate settings since anyone can get along with just about anyone on a surface level, but now that more and more of the volume of human interaction is occurring in impersonal settings (like the internet) where ingrained standards of relating to one another are absent entirely, our propensity to being divided and vile towards one another is only growing by the second. So long as the internet exists and we exist within this media/content driven paradigm, things will only get worse.
The Elder Scrolls VI is probably going to be really fucking bad
Again with this shit? What is it with people on this forum projecting ill intentions on people who happen to use a somewhat developed vocabulary? Some people just prefer to use precise wording when expressing themselves. Just because they don't talk in slang doesn't mean they're being snobby. This kind of attitude sounds like it stems from some kind of inferiority complex.
nice false equivalence. at least weed won't completely ruin you and only has a few rare side effects.
That kind of disdain and cynicism is shared by a lot of people. A lot of the horrible things that happen in the world stem from these systems that desperately strive for profit in spite of the welfare and safety of others, it's been happening for thousands of years. You can't act surprised that people are sick to fucking death of it.
Watching western liberal democracies in Europe, North America, and South America gradually handing power over to far-right nationalists who promise to weed out corruption and protect the native population from The Others makes it hard to feel optimistic for the future of the human race. Like I feel like I've we have been here before and know the results of what we are doing.
The world has always been flawed. Every great achievement was done with slaves, every advancement fought for and blood was always spilled. No wonder we're cynical, we just see the world for what it is without going "but it's always been like this so it's okay"
That's bloody nice and all but if you ignore the problems they're still kinda there, and to people where their outlook on life isn't 100% selfish (i.e. having any sliver of "I care about other people") then the only way you can avoid any sliver of cynicism is deliberate pure ignorance. The inequality in terms of megacorporations isn't "oh bother they have more money than me ergo they can afford more video games I want more video games :c" like you seem to be implying with your rather tone-deaf reply to saladboy, it's "megacorporations' greed fuels bad things" further extended with "and I want to reduce these bad things". The cynicism comes into play when you start asking "okay so how do I reduce these bad things" and boom, you have the post you made fun of Yahnich for making. No one's deliberately being cynical, they're wanting to improve things instead of just blithely puttering about with half the lights on upstairs going "haha loo kBIG pyramid coool =)". Sure, if the only thing you seek is self-benefit then switch those damned lights off, but that's not the "good" option.
The more money you have, at a certain point changes its function. For most people money is a vital tool necessary to buy THINGS you need to survive. After a certain point though, money is no longer about survival. At that point, money determines how much influence and power you have over people, and politics.
Pointing out the bad things isn't focusing on the bad things nor is it denying the existence of good things, though. It's merely pointing out that, indeed, there are a lot of bad things out there, and a lot of it is rooted in the same sort of attitude. Negativity is necessary, since it lets you see things that are bad and go "hm this is bad", which is a necessary precursor to "and it shouldn't be so" instead of going "but there are good things in the world so that's okay =)". If you do some introspection into your negative qualities and come out with just "yeah that's okay" instead of "I should try to improve on these" then you've done a boo-boo. A level of cynicism is necessary for improvement instead of just complacency with how things are okay as they are.
You could also just... Focus on improving those flaws? Why is it a matter of obsessing over flaws or focusing only on good traits? This is falling into the exact same trap people were pointing out to you with your views on Yahnich's post.
there is nothing wrong with cynicism insofar as it does not impact badly the interpersonal social relationships one has
There's a line between being eloquent and being r/iamverysmart material
...And pretending that you do objectively know where that line stands rather than give people the benefit of the doubt makes you come across as a pompous asshole, ironically.
Considering the projection towards our climate in the next couple of decades, I think calling our planet "godforsaken" isn't much a stretch tbh
This may not be an unpopular opinion on FP but I just do not see the appeal in battle royale games. I bought PUBG when it was first available to play with friends and after playing for 30 hours, which included one solo win and several squad wins, I feel like I've experienced everything to see in the genre. I'm not going to argue against the adrenaline of being one of the last people fighting it out in a rapidly diminishing circular arena but I feel like the time and effort of getting to that point isn't worth it.
Morrowind was Bethesda's last unironically good game. Past that, you see a slow, steady decline overall in originality, writing quality, and even game balance, the ridiculous power curve for the player is a good thing. The aggressive enemy levelling introduced in Oblivion was complete killer for immersion and the feeling of character progression, and the nerfs (or outright deletions) of more powerful magic abilities means you felt like you never got appreciably more powerful. And this isn't coming from a position of nostalgia. I played Morrowind in 2016, years after I played all the other Bethesda games, including Fallout 4 which I played at launch.
I totally agree but I had a lot of fun with Oblivion, too
Actual unpopular opinion, Morrowind is a static bore of a game. The quests are all by the numbers "go get this", "go escort them", "go kill whatever" quests with nothing remotely interesting in them. The world is well written but you have no real agency in that world and you aren't even a character since the dialogue system is really just an information directory. The game plays like a D&D lore book where you're everyone's servant. Things are happening but you're rarely allowed to be a part of them.
This is an issue with every Bethesda game that hit its peak, arguably, with Oblivion and Fallout 3. At least Morrowind had an interesting world to explore while you tramped around doing everyone's chores.
Nintendo hasn't made a great controller since the SNES. Gamecube was fine, but I hated the tiny D-pad.
Fuck this generation-blame bullshit. Boomers didn't ruin the future for us. Corrupt leaders who manipulated the public into supporting them did. Do people just forget that the 1960's happened? How about environmental movements in the 80's? It's true that we wouldn't be where we are now without things moving us here to begin with, but that goes both ways.
related to this: the N64 controller isn't as bad as people make it out to be
Honestly this is why I've become a lot more jaded and cynical recently. Like, I'm not some crazy conspiracy theorist normally, but it really feels like it's the people vs the rich, and that they've been directly and indirectly 'controlling' the public through symbolism, the media, etc, for a long time. Morals have been stretched against us, about not cheating and lying and all that, but look at what the rich and those in power do every damn day? Older generations are 'taught' to hate on newer ones through the media, and newer ones taught to hate on older ones through it as well. And this applies to a lot of things. The big guys don't give a shit, it's just controlling sheep. It's really disheartening. I'm sure that i'm just looking at it too deeply, and it isn't like that, etc etc, it just feels bad. And this is the unpopular opinion thread, after all.
like, the d-pad was the only thing that felt weird to me but i have big hands so what do i know
Not sure if this is truly "unpopular", but in an OCD sort of way, I need all my filenames - and file extensions to be all lowercase. Just because.
The people in power keep us fighting amongst each other so we don't turn on them: they make sure to fuel the war between men and women, old and new generation, citizens and immigrants, left and right policies etc.
Land Rovers aren't as unreliable as everyone makes them out to be.
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