Unpopular Opinions v. "this might get a lot of disagrees BUT..."
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Summer wins because of longer days. The heat is never THAT bad to me, either. Maybe I'm just used to it, but heat only gets to me when I get into a hot car that's been sitting out for a while. Or with no AC.
I feel like most of the people who struggle with heat just live in places that get hot very rarely, and thus don't have AC, so really struggle with it when it does come around. Being outside when its 95 is nowhere NEAR as bad as eing inside an un-air conditioned building when its like, 80
I personally prefer lush, green trees. I love when you're driving through a hilly, forested area, and it's just seas of green.
Maybe I sound like a fuckin psycho for this, but I love dark and cold days. When there's no bugs, no loud birds, and no snow just yet. It's very calm and quiet outside, and I wanna put on a cozy sweater and just take a walk.
It also sucks trying to cool off in the summer, where it's much easier to warm up during the winter. When it's super cold just put on more layers. When it's super hot though? You can take off everything, but still be sweaty and uncomfortable.
When I went to Vancouver after not leaving Texas for a few years, it blew me away that the color green even existed in nature. Everything here is a shade of washed out brown with maybe some green grass in areas that are watered constantly.
I like an early fall overcast with drizzle and strong winds.
Here's a controversial one that I haven't expressed before.
Mental Illness and other issues genuinely can be a burden on others (friend groups in particular).
Now, that's not to say that your friends and family shouldn't be supportive, but I think there's a limit to what they can do for you beyond just platitudes like "I'm here for you" and "you're not a burden". If their issues extend beyond a simple emotional bump-in-the-road, then they'll probably only going to respond to the help given to them by professionals who know how to deal with their behavior and issues.
I've been around people with mental illness for years now, and I don't think I've ever seen it solved by simple support, and more often than not, it eventually just wears on everyone else.
How it usually goes is - person rants about their depression/whatever else or has a breakdown, people try to offer meaningful support, the person having the rant/breakdown ultimately may calm down but wont have any of their underlying problems resolved, and the cycle will repeat for as long as they have these issues in perpetuity. In worse cases, this feedback loop can cause toxic thought patterns of the person feeling like they cant be helped, or that people are ignoring them (when everyone else inevitably cannot handle constantly being exposed to misery and negativity), or whatever else, which can turn quickly into drama or tension.
The simple fact is, that I said earlier, is that it is very difficult for people to put up with constant negativity and misery, even if it is justifiable and out of the persons control. The best thing a friend group can do is simply say "I think you need to see someone about this".
I like cloudy days to be honest, means I don't sweat my ass off when I walk home from school
Quest mods for games are pretty much trash. in my experience using quest mods for new vegas, skyrim, etc... they're not designed well. the creators may be good at creating an interesting storyline but the balancing for the quests and the dungeons end up being a slog and godawful to go through. For example I'm playing New Vegas Bounties II. It has a few dungeons which are WAY too big, like there was no reason for them to be that big, with an INSANE amounts of enemies. It's not fun to have to go through that many enemies in such tight spaces and have them spawn in areas you've cleared. I noticed the same shit in the Courier's Quest mod or whatever, gives you a house at the end but jesus its dungeons were BAD. also actually that too sometimes the quests themselves go on WAY too long, like in NVBII there's a major quest line that's just the same thing a billion times trying to track one guy: go to spot, not there, find note/get ambushed/both. You do it like 8 times, it's not fun.
Quest mods are bad.
I hope Dragon Age 4 turns out okay
Winter and fall would be so much better if the days weren't so fucking short
I will defeat your opinion.
Fall/Winter is the ultimate dream team combo- fite me
Days are just too damn short in winter. I hate the sun going down at 5 pm
There is no greater tragic ending than that of the main character of 'I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream', unless someone knows of a worse one.
why would I, youre right
winter can be a bit hellish for some people when temps go extreme low for weeks, so I wouldnt rate it as high as fall. but overall 8/10 season, would drink hot choco in snowy parc again
fall is mostly temperate, nice rain cooling the air, the trees are colorful and they not shooting pollen everywhere, and it has halloween, its objectively the best season
Recommendation algorithms need to be seriously reformed or outright banned. They are way too strong of a force for social media platforms to wield with such reckless abandon. They're polarizing society, creating toxic thought patterns in individuals, sequestering millions of people into smaller, more closed-off echo-chambers and communities, encouraging conspiracy, etc. So long as they're built to encourage user interaction, aka investment, they cant be surprised when users end up being "invested" and "interacting" with increasingly extreme and psychologically manipulative content, like propaganda, fake news, and conspiracy.
That's just the socially critical stuff too. I think recommendation algorithms have also been a travesty for creativity on the internet. Instead of creating things that appeal to others on their own merits, people have resorted to creating things that appeal to lifeless computer algorithms that have misplaced priorities.
I feel like content on platforms like Youtube has degraded in artistic quality for each and every single year the algorithm has dictated content suggestion. All it cares about is user watch-time and uploader frequency, which has discouraged carefully crafted and creatively dedicated works in favor of things like lets-plays, vlogs, and video essays, which prioritize low effort, high frequency, and long watch-time. This sort of content is mediocre by design. It's easy to churn out and addicting to consume. Animation is the most notable and easy to observe casualty of this, but it's been a general trend for more than a decade now. You can thank monetization and the integrated career-ification of YouTube for this as well, but that's another discussion entirely.
It's a shame that the most "high-effort" content on YouTube these days is essentially wordpress blogs and reviews with canned clips of whatever they're reviewing overlayed on top of it.
i never knew FP was full of people who enjoy frozen penises, miserable rain, more miserable rain, even more miserable rain, dark clouds that are darker than my future prospects, screeching children next door who are complaining because the temperature is 2 degrees lower than that of the core of the sun and enjoy copious amounts of darkness indoors.
(ok for real though summer is not as good as spring)
frozen penises means that the scrotum pulls the nuts to the body, making them look cute and firm, not sure why you hate that...
See, this is why we need the optimistic rating back
Black Mirror spoilers from Clovis' post:
"This basically means that the consciousness of the murderer is trapped in a physically inescapable room, unable to die, and forced to listen to a single christmas carol on repeat - the same one playing when he caused the crime that resulted in this predicament - for hundreds of thousands of years."
There's about 1440 minutes in a day so 1.44 million years per day. Assuming a weekend is approximately three days in total, counting Friday night and such, that's about 4.3 million years.
I dunno if this opinion is actually unpopular, but i think it needs to be said anyways:
Physical copies of the Link's Awakening remake should have a reversible "THIEF's Awakening" boxart.
I just walked 6 hours in rain and thunder without rain gear, and I fucking loved it
The best word in the English language is "context".
The best word in the Spanish language is "capitán".
Why isn't the best word in the English language "captain" then? Why isn't the best Spanish word "contexto"?
"Capitán" sounds way more 'sophisticated' than just "captain". "Contexto" just sounds goofy. Like someone tried to be funny and slapped an 'o' at the end of a word.
I couldn’t care less for weapon skins in games; they’re incredibly tacky, and often hurt the style of the game even when they‘re visually fitting.
Maybe if they were actual war paints used by a resistance movement or something, but most games just have them as lazy monetization that everyone buys into. It’s part of the same gamer aesthetic that gaming hardware suffers from, and a major example of why I still think classic AAA games were stylistically better.
What I’m saying is, gamers have no taste.
The best British-English word is Lieutenant, pronounced way better than in American English TBH!
My favorite word in the English language is Lackadaisical.
You're wrong, the best word in the English language is "Squeakuel" and/or "Snackrifice"
the best word in english is repertoire
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