Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2." - General

[QUOTE=flashn00b;49735450]I think i'm a bit biased due to having played Warshift recently, an early access RTS with a pretty good mech sim built into it[/QUOTE] Call me boring, but I'd rather not it be risked tbh. Most attempts to blend RTS and third/first person shooting turn out quite bad.

Dr Who is massively overrated. It's enjoyable enough but I can't really find any of the doctors as badass or even likable as my friends who are really into the series do.

Doctor Who is a cool universe with good lore, but as far as I can tell there's never been anything good set in it.

Blink was fucking lame, weeping angels are not scary.

[QUOTE=Skyward;49736862]Blink was fucking lame, weeping angels are not scary.[/QUOTE] The Weeping Angels are boring because they keep making up bullshit to keep them 'scary'. Pictures of a Weeping Angle just make new Weeping Angles, the reflection of a Weeping Angel in your eye counts so now there's one in your eye. We're totally not making this bollocks up as we run out of ideas. The Cybermen and the Daleks can be scary because you know they're dangerous as fuck. The Weeping Angels and other enemies just keep getting new rules added because they're conveniently bested every time they show up.

Dr Who is bad and anyone who likes it should feel bad.

I absolutely hate it when artists try to force rhymes absolutely fucking everywhere [B]even when they make no sense[/B] Take this song for instance [video=youtube;u31FO_4d9TY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY[/video] Every fucking sentence is forced to rhyme with the last one and it just sounds so dumb and amateurish. The song is sacrificing actual good lyrics in favor of dumb rhymes and even though I'd otherwise like the song, I just can't listen to it anymore.

[QUOTE=Samiam22;49723404]I love all the songs on the OST (minus that Off the Pthumerian Line one because of PTSD I got while fighting Pthumerian Descendant), but the DLC just takes it further. Whoever composed Ludwig's second theme should get the soundtrack version of an Oscar. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzA_Oomra8[/media] Aside from that, Bloodborne is easily From's most well thought out game, and it was enough to make me get a PS4 specifically for it.[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbVEmzY5S4[/media] the whole theme is needed to fully appreciate how good it is. Also late to the party but mm here we go Ludwig is probably one of my favourite bosses of From Soft's games and maybe even all time. [sp]There's no grand story of Ludwig, just snippets of how much of a hero he is. When you finally meet him in the DLC, he's just like any other beast you encounter. Ferocious, unrelenting and blood crazed like all the others out there. The music reflects this, an epic yet solemn hymn playing in the background ("Feram tho Venator Sanguine Vigore! Venator Dominus Ama, va Nihilo!" "The vigor of a wild beast(animal) The blood of the Hunter! The Master Hunter Ah, he loves nothing!"). When you finally defeat him, he falls down about to die, until he sees the glow of his old sword. You see the humanity coming back from his eyes as he stands upright, wields his sword again and faces you as a hunter.[/sp] :')

re: dogs A handful of anthropologists believe that smiling [I]became[/I] an instinct for expressing happiness/excitement after many generations of millennia old human predecessors owned wolves/dogs and mimicked them. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] you could say that without dogs, we would literally live in a world without smiles

[QUOTE=Qaus;49739518]re: dogs A handful of anthropologists believe that smiling [I]became[/I] an instinct for expressing happiness/excitement after many generations of millennia old human predecessors owned wolves/dogs and mimicked them. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] you could say that without dogs, we would literally live in a world without smiles[/QUOTE] Explain apes smiling.

[QUOTE=Combine 177;49739648]Explain apes smiling.[/QUOTE] I thought apes "smiling" was suppose to be a sign of aggression since they're baring their teeth. Unless it's different between ape species or something like that.

[QUOTE=Captain;49739692]I thought apes "smiling" was suppose to be a sign of aggression since they're baring their teeth. Unless it's different between ape species or something like that.[/QUOTE] Lifting upper lip is aggression, lowering lower lip and showing lower teethes is smiling.

[QUOTE=Qaus;49739518]re: dogs A handful of anthropologists believe that smiling [I]became[/I] an instinct for expressing happiness/excitement after many generations of millennia old human predecessors owned wolves/dogs and mimicked them. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] you could say that without dogs, we would literally live in a world without smiles[/QUOTE] I don't think that's how natural selection works.

Roger Deakins deserves to finally win an oscar more than Leo

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49734213]it's funny though because I can safely say as a straight guy that nothing is gayer than a group of straight guys[/QUOTE] What? This makes no sense.

[QUOTE=SoftHearted;49734692]I think most insects are gross. I'm ok with a few of them. Like Mantis and Grasshoppers are all dandy on my book.[/QUOTE] Those are specifically gross.

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[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;49738993]Dr Who is bad and anyone who likes it should feel bad.[/QUOTE] I watched it for a little while and I'll admit some of the episodes were fun to watch but most of them were boring or complete garbage, and while being fun to watch occasionally is great and all, it doesn't warrant anything near the religious fanbase it has.

[QUOTE=Kljunas;49740321]I don't think that's how natural selection works.[/QUOTE] it isn't, it's purely sustained by social norms but is speculated to have originated from dogs and wolves.

Everyone says Tumblr is obsessed with Steven Universe and Undertale, but this is not true. Their primary obsession judging from what appears on the tumblr trending page every fucking day is whoever these two fucking guys are [img]http://data.whicdn.com/images/50600150/original.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=Qaus;49741407]it isn't, it's purely sustained by social norms but is speculated to have originated from dogs and wolves.[/QUOTE] You called it an instinct in that post so that confused me. But if you mean it's a social norm then yeah that makes sense.

[QUOTE=matt000024;49740823]What? This makes no sense.[/QUOTE] Guys are always gay whether they're straight or not. Straight guys though are especially gay.

[QUOTE=Kljunas;49741581]You called it an instinct in that post so that confused me. But if you mean it's a social norm then yeah that makes sense.[/QUOTE] i believe intelligent species can have multiple types of instinct. things like "kneejerk reactions" are very instinctual, but not at all genetic. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] a few thousand years spending times around dogs and wolves can do something for an intelligent species with social norms and a tendency to observe and mimic.

[QUOTE=Qaus;49739518]re: dogs A handful of anthropologists believe that smiling [I]became[/I] an instinct for expressing happiness/excitement after many generations of millennia old human predecessors owned wolves/dogs and mimicked them. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] you could say that without dogs, we would literally live in a world without smiles[/QUOTE] this implies that in societies without dogs, there is no smiling is this the case?

humans don't sit in one spot, especially for tens of thousands of years. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] and this is on basically every scale. individual, family, tribe, people that share the same ideology, creed, nationality, ethnicity, etc.

[QUOTE=Qaus;49741910]humans don't sit in one spot, especially for tens of thousands of years. [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] and this is on basically every scale. individual, family, tribe, people that share the same ideology, creed, nationality, ethnicity, etc.[/QUOTE] i have reason to very much doubt this. people who are born blind smile. why is this the case?

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49741984]i have reason to very much doubt this. people who are born blind smile. why is this the case?[/QUOTE] a blind child can hear their parents get excited when they smile and draw a correlation.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49741555]Everyone says Tumblr is obsessed with Steven Universe and Undertale, but this is not true. Their primary obsession judging from what appears on the tumblr trending page every fucking day is whoever these two fucking guys are [img]http://data.whicdn.com/images/50600150/original.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Those are Dan and Phil who are two of the most grating "personalities" on the internet since its inception

[QUOTE=Qaus;49742181]a blind child can hear their parents get excited when they smile and draw a correlation.[/QUOTE] that's clutching at straws like the existing evidence points to smiling (like many other behaviours) being an innate action rather than learned