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

[QUOTE=Qaus;49742181]a blind child can hear their parents get excited when they smile and draw a correlation.[/QUOTE] i think you don't understand the finer points of being blind [editline]14th February 2016[/editline] such as being unable to see their parents are smiling when they are excited for instance

This doesn't sound right to me but I don't know enough about smiling to dispute it

I wonder how much overlap there would be if you compared the violently anti refugee people and the violently anti gypsy people on sensationalist headlines

[QUOTE=Mining Bill;49743636]I wonder how much overlap there would be if you compared the violently anti refugee people and the violently anti gypsy people on sensationalist headlines[/QUOTE] 1:1

I would love to live in a world without advertisements (tv, billboards, internet, any form of ad) but I feel like that idea would backfire somehow, mostly on websites and anything that requires ad revenue and small businesses with little recognition

Its not xenophobic to be critical of and even outright despise elements of cultures that spit in the face of western progress. "Its just their culture" doesn't justify sexism and human rights violations. Doesn't matter if its the the communist party in China, King Saud or refugees in Europe. [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49741555]Everyone says Tumblr is obsessed with Steven Universe and Undertale...[/QUOTE] Its interesting how so many of them love a show that spits in the face of their values.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49741555]Everyone says Tumblr is obsessed with Steven Universe and Undertale, but this is not true[/QUOTE] It is, however, due to the fact that Steven Universe has lesbian love as a plot point (more or less) and in Undertale you can basically give your playable character, a kid, whatever sexual orientation you like

[QUOTE=Qaus;49741910]humans don't sit in one spot, especially for tens of thousands of years. [/QUOTE] People in the Amazon smile.

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49744891]It is, however, due to the fact that Steven Universe has lesbian love as a plot point (more or less) and in Undertale you can basically give your playable character, a kid, whatever sexual orientation you like[/QUOTE] Steven Universe has homosexuality? I thought that it was still considered "too soon" to have stuff like that in a kids show.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49744909]Steven Universe has homosexuality? I thought that it was still considered "too soon" to have stuff like that in a kids show.[/QUOTE] Basically a few of the gem characters, who, besides Steven, all look and act like women, are or try to be romantically involved with other gems. The excuse the show staff give is that they're rocks with forms that happen to look human and don't have human genders but they're all basically girls. There's still no human-on-human gay relationships and the gem ones are still played off rather causally and don't try to focus on the fact they're basically chicks and that's a huge thing or something.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49744867] Its interesting how so many of them love a show that spits in the face of their values.[/QUOTE] Like...what? The show has nothing but good things to say about LGBT issues and whatnot if that's what you mean. [QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49744891]It is, however, due to the fact that Steven Universe has lesbian love as a plot point (more or less) and in Undertale you can basically give your playable character, a kid, whatever sexual orientation you like[/QUOTE] Not exactly either? I mean you go on 'dates' with a couple monsters but nothing actually comes of it and whether or not your character is actually romantically interested or just going along with the weird is unstated. [QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49744909]Steven Universe has homosexuality? I thought that it was still considered "too soon" to have stuff like that in a kids show.[/QUOTE] Sort of. There are [sp]two gems in the show who are lesbians (although not part of the main cast SORT OF, it's complicated)[/sp] and it's very heavily implied [sp]Pearl had unrequited feelings for Rose Quartz.[/sp] The show gets a big rep for being pro LGBT but aside from a real progressive attitude, some extremely strong implications, and [sp]some lesbian gems who have only appeared in the show three times and have kissed on screen[/sp], and a minor venture in crossdressing once or twice, there's not much. Whether that's a lot or not I guess is your opinion, maybe it's more major when you take cartoon history in to account, but the show itself isn't [I]really[/I] the big gay palooza people make it out to be. Hell the majority of the characters shown so far are straight and there are numerous relationships and implied relationships that are not gay ones, too. I like that about Steven Universe though. It's actually got a really diverse and interesting cast of characters while also making it feel natural and not forced at all. It doesn't feel like it's [I]trying[/I] to be diverse if you know what I mean.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49744800]I would love to live in a world without advertisements (tv, billboards, internet, any form of ad) but I feel like that idea would backfire somehow, mostly on websites and anything that requires ad revenue and small businesses with little recognition[/QUOTE] It would probably backfire by sites like Forbes blocking access altogether if people use an adblocker. Jokes on them, I don't think I can actually ditch Adaway on my phone without wiping my OS entirely. Tho I'm not sure about it.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49745112] Not exactly either? I mean you go on 'dates' with a couple monsters but nothing actually comes of it and whether or not your character is actually romantically interested or just going along with the weird is unstated. [/QUOTE] Remember that we are talking about a website where people like to change the enstablished sexual orientation of several fictional characters on a whim

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49745163]Remember that we are talking about a website where people like to change the enstablished sexual orientation of several fictional characters on a whim[/QUOTE] like people haven't been doing that for years in slash fiction

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49744867]Its interesting how so many of them love a show that spits in the face of their values.[/QUOTE] why do people still say this they don't have the same mindset just because they visit the same website like, do people on facepunch have the same values? are my values the same as that guy who thought cops were immune to molotovs? or that one holocaust denier? boy i sure hope i don't have the same values as the guy who sent dick pics to people and that's just fp and we're not even half as big as tumblr

[QUOTE=Bordellimies;49739132]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] Speaking of rap: Even the most underground rap suffers from rap bingo, it seems. I wish there was more rap that wasn't so self-absorbed, or didn't reference other rappers or the "rap game", etc. As much as underground rap tries to be more profound, they nearly always shoot themselves in the foot in terms of creativity.

I genuinelly like the 1998 godzilla desing over the classic japanese one.

[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;49745123]It would probably backfire by sites like Forbes blocking access altogether if people use an adblocker. Jokes on them, I don't think I can actually ditch Adaway on my phone without wiping my OS entirely. Tho I'm not sure about it.[/QUOTE] It's just a textfile that adaway modifies that tells your phone "Hey, this website wants me to connect to THISIPADDRESS, but this textfile says that that address should actually go to 127.0.0.1, let's connect to that instead"

I don't believe someone is "born gay" but i do believe we are grown up and some sort of memorable event in our minds or personality which made us gay over a really long period of time. Its hard to explain but it believe that when i was younger, i would constantly watch dragon ball z and other shows where men would be muscular which i thought was super cool back then and gave me the idea where super-masculine muscle men were pinnacle of manhood! This soon made me develop some sort of manliness complex where i needed to be more manly when i was a teenager, and as a slightly flamboyant teenager who hit puberty late, it was a massive bummer to me. So i spent hours upon hours of dreaming about being more manly. Which later led me to being 18 and i worked out that i was gay. Now i don't know if i was gay BECAUSE of this complex i had to be manly. Or i was substituting this thought that "Manly men are cool" was infact really "Im attracted to manly men" So yeah. TLDR: I dont think people are born gay but i believe its a memory or thought "seed" that is planted and grew over many years.

[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] pretty damn late but this is true, i have a friend who loves tumblr and shes obsessed with these fuckers

Who the fuck are they?

[QUOTE=Qaus;49741910]humans don't sit in one spot, especially for tens of thousands of years.[/QUOTE] I can't speak for everyone but I've been sitting in the same spot for like 50,000 years now. It's actually starting to get a little uncomfortable. Maybe I should consider actually moving soon, at least into a more comfortable position.

The dog causing smiling conjecture looks stupider the more I look at it. I'd have to go punch the idiot who thought it up because he clearly isn't capable of basic observation. It's so beautifully wrong though, the wrongness is fractal and has a kind of beauty to it. In being so wrong it becomes perfectly awful.

Honestly the dog smile thing sounds like shitty Facebook clickbait

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49747924]Social networking is killing the internet.[/QUOTE] can you clarify what you mean by 'killing'? because right now i could easily say that social networking makes up for an enormous amount of internet use

[QUOTE=greeley;49745909]I don't believe someone is "born gay" but i do believe we are grown up and some sort of memorable event in our minds or personality which made us gay over a really long period of time. Its hard to explain but it believe that when i was younger, i would constantly watch dragon ball z and other shows where men would be muscular which i thought was super cool back then and gave me the idea where super-masculine muscle men were pinnacle of manhood! This soon made me develop some sort of manliness complex where i needed to be more manly when i was a teenager, and as a slightly flamboyant teenager who hit puberty late, it was a massive bummer to me. So i spent hours upon hours of dreaming about being more manly. Which later led me to being 18 and i worked out that i was gay. Now i don't know if i was gay BECAUSE of this complex i had to be manly. Or i was substituting this thought that "Manly men are cool" was infact really "Im attracted to manly men" So yeah. TLDR: I dont think people are born gay but i believe its a memory or thought "seed" that is planted and grew over many years.[/QUOTE] Are you from the past?

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49747946]can you clarify what you mean by 'killing'? because right now i could easily say that social networking makes up for an enormous amount of internet use[/QUOTE] yeah but most social internet use is pretty inane verbiage

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49748870]social networking brings in people who don't have any internet etiquette from the real world. People who don't understand how the internet works or how computers work. This wouldn't be a bad thing, but then the majority of the users who use the internet are people without those skills and now companies on the internet cater to them and people with good skills are left dealing with the lowest common denominator. The internet becomes a thing for everyone, even people who make the place worse.[/QUOTE] i think you are taking the internet too seriously my friend

[QUOTE=greeley;49745909]I don't believe someone is "born gay" but i do believe we are grown up and some sort of memorable event in our minds or personality which made us gay over a really long period of time. Its hard to explain but it believe that when i was younger, i would constantly watch dragon ball z and other shows where men would be muscular which i thought was super cool back then and gave me the idea where super-masculine muscle men were pinnacle of manhood! This soon made me develop some sort of manliness complex where i needed to be more manly when i was a teenager, and as a slightly flamboyant teenager who hit puberty late, it was a massive bummer to me. So i spent hours upon hours of dreaming about being more manly. Which later led me to being 18 and i worked out that i was gay. Now i don't know if i was gay BECAUSE of this complex i had to be manly. Or i was substituting this thought that "Manly men are cool" was infact really "Im attracted to manly men" So yeah. TLDR: I dont think people are born gay but i believe its a memory or thought "seed" that is planted and grew over many years.[/QUOTE] You were probably gay the whole time, just due to stigma and being a child (straight kids don't think "HOLY FUCK I WANNA JAM MY BONER INTO BULMA") didn't lead you to think much of it. Especially if you didn't have much knowledge the idea of you being gay was probably pretty alien, because surely you can't be one of those freaks? [QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49748870]social networking brings in people who don't have any internet etiquette from the real world. People who don't understand how the internet works or how computers work. This wouldn't be a bad thing, but then the majority of the users who use the internet are people without those skills and now companies on the internet cater to them and people with good skills are left dealing with the lowest common denominator. The internet becomes a thing for everyone, even people who make the place worse.[/QUOTE] But most of those people stay on social networking sites and don't really venture out, and the ones that do lurk/get shunned and laughed at until they leave or they conform, just like all of us were. This "death of the internet due to the influx of casuals" shit has been proclaimed since usenet

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;49749135](straight kids don't think "HOLY FUCK I WANNA JAM MY BONER INTO BULMA")[/QUOTE] Yeah, only gay guys want to stick things in anime women.