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I would describe myself perhaps not as a car enthusiast but as a car lover (eg I don’t know how to do anything more than checking some fluids and replacing air and oil filters and spark plugs), although I do have to agree on a few of those points and disagree on others. I’ll explain from my perspective. I do think that there are some really cool performance cars out there. But I agree; for the most part, the idea of those cars is rather dumb. There’s no point in cars that can do 0-60 in less than 7.5 seconds. Floor anything faster than that from a stop, and very suddenly you’re already at the speed limit. To me, the ideal performance car is the Abarth 124 Spider. I believe that driving pleasure is more important than how fast a car does 0-60 or how fast a road car can lap the Nordschleife. I enjoy watching Formula 1, half for the skill of the drivers, and half because of the engineering involved. Racing big hunks of metal around is a very complicated affair; not only do the drivers need to have a great understanding of the tracks and racing lines, but they require proficiency in physics (eg to manage the balance of the car through corners), they need to conserve fuel while maintaining position, manage engine, tyre and brake temperatures, and of course race side-by-side with other drivers at great speed. The engineering that goes into the cars is insane, and the racing can be quite strategic as well (eg tyre and fuel strategies). Car loans are quite dreadful. I’m glad that I paid for my car outright. I went for a second hand Ford Falcon for $11,000, and it has served me well (for the most part) over 5 years. Hummers are absolutely idiotic. SUVs are too; it’s just a never-ending arms race of people wanting a larger, higher car than everyone else. In my ideal world, most families would have nothing larger than a Ford Focus - we had a 00’s Mazda 323 hatchback when I was young, and we were perfectly happy to drive that even interstate. The consumerist part of car culture is quite dreadful. Eg the unrelenting number of limited edition models of cars. But yeah, the brand wars and all that is just idiocy. The whole Ford Falcon vs Holden Commodore (Ford vs Gam) rivalry here was pointless. Cars are cars. Enthusiasts should like cars for what they are, not what badge they have.
Rocksteady's next game should be a Mortal Kombat: Special Forces reboot
Babies are ugly af
Yeah, I don't think this is unpopular. Every time someone says a baby is cute, there'll be someone nearby thinking "well, no it isn't." That, and most babies look really similar. Yours isn't special, Carol.
I believe games need more dance battles. I'm not even joking, imagine how fucking sweet it'd be. Imagine Bioshock: Fontaine, the protagonist, Andrew Ryan just having a 3 way dance battle. Fallout New Vegas, imagine the entirety of the NCR, the Legion and Vegas crowding around the Courier representing his faction, and then like a Mr House robot, that legion guy at the end of the game, and some NCR guy all bustin a move. Deus Ex: Imagine JC, Walton Simons and Bob Page all using their augments to krump to a beyond human level. Wolfenstein 3D: BJ Blazco and Hitler facing off, some nazi tunes kick in, Hitler starts break dancing, so BJ retaliates with some sick ass American music and just pops off with some backflips and cripwalking and fucking serves Hitler in front of the Nazi regime. It could even be used as a means to fix a bad ending. Like what if after the credits the game just says "Did you find the ending satisfying? Y/N". You say No, the game fades back in, you see the protag and the antag facing off, a disco ball lowers to the scene, laser light show and shit, smooth criminal starts blasting, and bam you've got a fucking dance battle. I think this could've fixed so many games like Divinity OS2, Bioshock Infinite, Metal Gear Solid 5, or any other game you may have played that had a shit ending.
Soo... This? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJHfjFa1CI
What if Mario just pulled out a fucking gun and shot Bowser
I think it's 50% parents talking up how their kids are awesome and 50% kids actually being awful. Not every kid is awful and not every parent talks about their kids are hot shit.
I dont like most of the films in the MCU, not because I'm not a marvel fan, I just think they're boring and unappealing. The plots arent good enough to pique my interest, and the violence certainly doesn't make up for it. I did really enjoy Ragnorok and Dr. Strange, those are genuinely good films. Black panther was shit. I'm going through a bunch of them atm, in the hope that maybe some are good, and because I heard good things about infinity wars and I want to be able to enjoy that.
imo parents who don't fawn over or even show much outward appreciation for their kids are weirdos, because that's someone who agrees that kids are garbage but just couldn't resist spraying their DNA everywhere and are now desperately trying to get ahead of the curve
So is saying people hate on babies too much the actual unpopular opinion?
children are annoying, adults are dangerous, we should just kill everyone
On my old workplace all the women kept talking about how much they can't stand their kids, some even said they hated them and regret having them. Not that they present the majority of mothers, but just the thought that someone's parent can think like that. But it's still their flesh and blood, so of course biologically they will love them nonetheless.
Honestly I feel like Dr Strange could have been a totally stand alone franchise with nothing to do with Marvel/superhero comics
actually i'm gonna go ahead and say that most kids from roughly 3-13 are quite pleasant to be around provided you know how to work with them. it's just when most people see them it's because they're getting overexcited in shops or whatever, but in quieter places they're often genuinely really sweet and thoughtful.
Babies are delicious
Reptile from Mortal Kombat is cooler as an actual lizardman than just being "The Green Ninja"
Tentative agree, but I've always been more taken with him being a lizard that looks like a man. Like, he looks like Green Sub-Zero until he takes the faceplate off and he's got a lizard head. That's always been spookier/weirder than if he's just a reptilian humanoid.
Seth Macfarlane is a boring ass VA than just a actor or director. Dude is so pigeonholed that he's got two voices; "the geek" or "straight man/himself/Frank Sinatra" and he never does anything new with them or tries new material. People go up to him IRL and talk shows to do voices, but compared to other American VA's who put into more work as actors than him it's a bit insulting. Frank Welker is the next Mel Blanc and can do comedic voices as well as action, animals, and dramatic characters, but you don't seem him on modern talk shows or cartoon interviews outside of "Hey it's that Voice!" on Netflix. Plus he does Megatron and Scooby Doo for like this 4th time in the last 3 years and while that's cool people aught to hire him for more characters than that.
I getcha, it's mainly because I think lizard races are just cool and that Scorpion already kinda had that gimmick already with his skull head.
The "provided you know how to work with them" thing is a bit most people seem to struggle with, including parents. I have fewer issues dealing with my three year old niece than my sister does, for example, despite my sister actually being a decent parent simply because I have a shit load of patience with children and actually listen to what they have to say. (My sister listens but understandably doesn't have the same level of patience since she deals with my niece every single day, lol.)
Semi-related to the whole kids discussion, I feel like people who are super vocal about how much they dislike/don't want kids tend to lack maturity. Kids can be annoying shits, but if you're gonna get legitimately angry at a kid for doing kid shit, it says a lot about the way you process emotions. Like, there's a difference between being annoyed that you're on a plane with a crying baby and being annoyed at the baby for crying, you know? Bonus points if they refer to their pets as "furbabies" and spoil it to the point that it's borderline animal abuse (overfeeding, letting it shit indoors, not properly training/socializing it, letting it eat people food, etc.)
Pitbulls are cute when they're not angry even though it's not likely to find one that isn't IRL.
I can't stand people who treat their pet dogs like babies. I mean I know you love your pet, but don't overdo it
Oddly enough, I haven't seen a single angry, aggressive pitbull IRL. Most of the ones I meet are absolutely adorable
Lucky you
More people should own pets before they raise children. It gives you a lot of perspective on what raising a living being is like, and whether or not you can handle the commitment and responsibility.
YongYea is incredibly good at minmaxing his format to squeeze the optimal amount of money out of YouTube's engagement algorithms and suggestion AI. That's basically what he's doing.
ever look up a recipe, and find a super long article where the writer gushes over their own recipe for 25 paragraphs before showing the damn thing? it's the same idea, more space for ads https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/4eb979df-4dc6-4824-a6bf-a2e6966c47dc/image.png this is scrambled eggs there are 3 ingredients since i use adblock, i just figured the entire world of cooking had gone fucking insane, for a good year or so before realizing
First job of a true AI should be to to condense all the cooking essays of the internet into actual recipes.
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