• Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2."
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[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49530110][sp] Just kidding, I know it's flawed, but it's still probably my favorite Pixar film. [/sp][/QUOTE] Something being flawed doesn't really have any bearing on whether it's someone's favorite or not. Donkey Kong Country 3 is my favorite game in the series but I'll freely admit it's not as good as DKC2. [QUOTE=Sector 7;49532019][url]https://fafsa.ed.gov/[/url] literally anyone can qualify for federal student loans, and the less money you make, the better of a deal you get. I also went to one of the cheapest schools in my state for an associate degree after doing job market research.[/QUOTE] Or you can get no deal at all regardless of income like me. I applied on three separate occasions and every single time I never heard back from them. When I contacted them again I always got a "we lost your paperwork" response. I would have easily qualified for aid if they hadn't been totally fucking useless.
Warframe sucks.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;49536320]Something being flawed doesn't really have any bearing on whether it's someone's favorite or not. Donkey Kong Country 3 is my favorite game in the series but I'll freely admit it's not as good as DKC2. Or you can get no deal at all regardless of income like me. I applied on three separate occasions and every single time I never heard back from them. When I contacted them again I always got a "we lost your paperwork" response. I would have easily qualified for aid if they hadn't been totally fucking useless.[/QUOTE] My mom almost missed hers last year because her school kept denying her FASFA paperwork, saying that the taxes said one thing when they literally and very clearly said something else. They can be very quick to say you are more capable than you really are.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;49536350]My mom almost missed hers yesterday because her school kept denying her FASFA paperwork, saying that the taxes said one thing when they literally and very clearly said something else. They can be very quick to say you are more capable than you really are.[/QUOTE] or you can be me and get the maximum possible funding from fafsa and have it not even cover half of your collage tuition in any of the schools that you were accepted into
Not a fan of Day/Night cycles in games. [editline]15th January 2016[/editline] I have only a few exceptions, primarily GTA and MGSV (however it should be eaiser to fast-forward to the day time in GTA)
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49534117]honestly, I fucking loved having no money [/QUOTE] If you had broken your leg or something worse you'd be homeless with pretty much no way out.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49539563]If you had broken your leg or something worse you'd be homeless with pretty much no way out.[/QUOTE] yes, so? I'm not saying that being poor is great. I'm saying that independence was a meaningful experience.
There should be nothing wrong with living with your parents for a long time. However, in the later years it should be you supporting them. [QUOTE=Sector 7;49532019] that is, in fact, literally how it goes. Unemployment rates for 20-24-year-olds peaked at 11.2% last year; if you are looking for a job and are unemployed, you are the minority. If you can land a full-time position, you can find a place to live in any half-decent state. If you can also find one other person who doesn't mind living with you, you can afford a place in most of the country (outside of major cities.)[/QUOTE] Employment doesn't mean having enough money to have a quality of life. Also, 10% is a big deal and in some European countries its much much higher. [QUOTE=Sector 7;49540764]yes, so? I'm not saying that being poor is great. I'm saying that independence was a meaningful experience.[/QUOTE] You're pumping yourself up as this great hardworking self made man and putting down other people. The fact that government aid helped you and the fact that you'd be screwed if an accident happened (an accident that the government should make sure doesn't ruin you forever) is something worth pointing out.
[QUOTE=bdd458;49539499]Not a fan of Day/Night cycles in games. [editline]15th January 2016[/editline] I have only a few exceptions, primarily GTA and MGSV (however it should be eaiser to fast-forward to the day time in GTA)[/QUOTE] Like the only game I've seen actually do something interesting with day/night cycles is dying light, nights are full on nope mode in that game.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49540830]There should be nothing wrong with living with your parents for a long time. However, in the later years it should be you supporting them. Employment doesn't mean having enough money to have a quality of life. Also, 10% is a big deal and in some European countries its much much higher. You're pumping yourself up as this great hardworking self made man and putting down other people. The fact that government aid helped you and the fact that you'd be screwed if an accident happened (an accident that the government should make sure doesn't ruin you forever) is something worth pointing out.[/QUOTE] Even though people say that people need to make themselves move up out of their rut, statistically speaking that doesn't happen, and I'm willing to go as far as saying as the government and industries are against you. They want people groveling over the bottom of the barrel wages.
Though I feel like a lot of his latter opinions come from a mix of lack of patience and expecting different things out of a game than most people do these days, I actually didn't find a whole lot of points in Egoraptor's Zelda sequilitis to be something I really disagreed with.
I felt that his video on Megaman was pretty spot on, but I tend to disagree with most of his other stuff.
I still don't understand how can someone that makes good analysis videos like those play video games so poorly like he does on Game Grumps. Don't get me wrong Arin is a great guy but he really sucks at trying to learn new video games. He almost never puts in practice what he preaches.
Smartphones are not smart.
[QUOTE=SoftHearted;49542421]I still don't understand how can someone that makes good analysis videos like those play video games so poorly like he does on Game Grumps. Don't get me wrong Arin is a great guy but he really sucks at trying to learn new video games. He almost never puts in practice what he preaches.[/QUOTE] I'm sure a lot of it comes from the nature of the show and doing commentary. Most commentators do seem 'bad' at video games because they can't give it 100 percent focus because they're trying to talk at the same time, which is harder to do than it seems. Focus too much on the game and you'll find yourself trailing off, not talking, or not making any sense. They're also usually trying to keep an eye on the clock and their recording to make sure everything's going fine. Game Grumps in particular puts a lot of focus on the commentary over the game, to the point that it's almost like a podcast sometimes, because the game often might as well just be random background footage. This is probably part of the reason they play retro games as well. Retro games might be really hard, but they're usually very simple, and low on text or instructions, which I imagine leads them in to a lull where they're not really paying that much attention to a game even if it's a more complicated one like Windwaker because they're so used to just being laid back and talking to each other. Arin in particular has this super huge lack of patience though and he often can't bear to sit through dialogue boxes or pay much attention to cutscenes, which is just his fault really. I don't really care too much though, I watch Game Grumps to hear their stories and jokes, not for the games.
Egoraptor has bad taste
Bill Nye isn't bad. I actually learned quite a bit of interesting stuff from the videos he's made.
I kinda wish the Star Wars Prequels had been included in the latest Battlefront and I think it highlights how the Prequels may actually be a good thing for Star Wars in a way. I've seen a lot of people who hate the Prequels rejoice over their lack of inclusion but it really does highlight how in a bizarre way, the Prequels are necessary to the Star Wars series. The Prequels might be ass but you can't deny they gave us a shitload of Jedi, Sith, soldiers, spaceships, robots, force powers, and aliens, and it's ideas have inspired a lot of the better part of the Expanded Universe and games. Battlefront 2 and Jedi Knight and all kinds of cool shit we got from the EU just wouldn't be the same without the Prequels.
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;49542867]Bill Nye isn't bad. I actually learned quite a bit of interesting stuff from the videos he's made.[/QUOTE] I thought people really like him..? Never really heard anyone say anything bad about him.
I don't think celebrities has to be nice people off camera
"Hispanic" is intellectually bankrupt when used to describe people from central/south America, and here's why. "Hispania" is in reference to the Iberian peninsula, housing the nations of Spain and Portugal. These two nations have a multitude of ethnicities, such as Galician, Portuguese, Castillan, Catalan, Basque, Andalusian and so on. We, in the United States, refer to them as "Portuguese" or "Spanish". When referring to any Spanish-speaking individual from the menagerie of countries in central/south America, we use the term "Hispanic". That dilutes not only the meaning of the term, but forces all C/SA people into a single group. That'd be like calling someone from Guatemala "Mexican" because they have a slightly different accent than what we would consider a "white Spaniard". I refuse to use the term "Hispanic" in reference to those from Central/South America. Not out of some sort of spite, but because it's just flat out incorrect to say that. Mestizo, Mulatto, Andean, or even just using Mexican, Guatemalan, etc. is not offensive and should be used on papers. In America, if someone were to come from Spain, we would have them as "Spanish" and not Hispanic, which is just retarded.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49543343]I hate the term "african-american" If you were born here, you're american. Doesn't matter where your daddy came from. If we applied that to everyone else, I'd be Irish German American. But no, I'm just american.[/QUOTE] We say "asian american" too
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49543343]I hate the term "african-american" If you were born here, you're american. Doesn't matter where your daddy came from. If we applied that to everyone else, I'd be Irish German American. But no, I'm just american.[/QUOTE] Like it or not though, race needs to be discussed. Those disambiguation exist as commonly held politically correct ways to refer to a person's race.
Super 8 was not great. You can't have a monster eat and kill people then at the end go "JK he's a good guy, he still ate and killed people, but he is sad :("
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49543822]How do you even define it? One race has different color skin and a slightly smaller nose?[/QUOTE] I appreciate the sentiment of togetherness but you are figuratively throwing genetics out the window
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49543343]I hate the term "african-american" If you were born here, you're american. Doesn't matter where your daddy came from. If we applied that to everyone else, I'd be Irish German American. But no, I'm just american.[/QUOTE] They want special treatment and so hold onto the term.
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49544163]I appreciate the sentiment of togetherness but you are figuratively throwing genetics out the window[/QUOTE] Race does not exist. It has nothing to do with genetics. [url]http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2583[/url] You should give that a read, it's from the American Anthropological Association. Especially the first paragraph which deals with genetic differences. The concept of Race is entirely social.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49542944]The Star Wars prequels are some of the worst written big budget films ever made, if not the worst considering their success. But the planets they established, the creature designs, the droid designs, the extra lore they added, the cool double-bladed lightsaber Maul has... The prequels are fucking garbage as films, but they added so many cool things to the universe that it's impossible to ignore.[/QUOTE] The CIS were the coolest part of Battlefront II. Not being able to play an HD Droideka makes me mad as fuck.
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;49544149]Super 8 was not great. You can't have a monster eat and kill people then at the end go "JK he's a good guy, he still ate and killed people, but he is sad :("[/QUOTE] The ending to Super 8 was a total cop-out
[QUOTE=bdd458;49544192]Race does not exist. It has nothing to do with genetics. [url]http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2583[/url] You should give that a read, it's from the American Anthropological Association. Especially the first paragraph which deals with genetic differences. The concept of Race is entirely social.[/QUOTE] it's absolutely bewildering to me that you can say that race literally doesn't exist. Racial demarcations might be arbitrary and useless, but people absolutely do form cultures around shared genetic traits, and the attributes associated with race [i]are[/i], in fact, genetic - the article you linked does not actually deny that. It states that the differences are "arbitrary and subjective," which is true. Maybe we can safely throw "racial" traits in the same bin as any other genetic variation, but that doesn't mean they're imaginary. You can't handwave something away just because it's a "social construct." Social constructs are pretty important.
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