• Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2."
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I like Starwars but hate Empire because the dickheads win. I hate jaja the stoned man slug along with the prequels if that makes you feel any better.
[QUOTE=Swiket;49785302]It redeems itself in the last few episodes IMO.[/QUOTE] Yeah but the middle of season 2 is filled with filler that goes fucking nowhere.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;49785367]I like Starwars but hate Empire because the dickheads win. I hate jaja the stoned man slug along with the prequels if that makes you feel any better.[/QUOTE] the bad guys win on some things, but the good guys learn from their mistakes and come back as stronger less easily-manipulated characters next time. it's not a happy ending but it's not just a flat out downer either
I process it differently to most people. In my mind it's like saying : "my favourite part of world war 2 was when the nazis invaded France". I just don't see the emotion or whatever it is you guys see. I have a similar dislike of wizard fantasy games. I think my brain is wired differently to most people.
It's part of the three-act structure the original trilogy has. A new hope introduces us to the characters and develops them a bit, and we see them get some victories. Empire strikes back is meant to have the protaganists at their lowest point, and to just fuck them over pretty much. And that's to make return of the jedi all the more satisfying when they do overcome
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;49785664]I process it differently to most people. In my mind it's like saying : "my favourite part of world war 2 was when the nazis invaded France". I just don't see the emotion or whatever it is you guys see. I have a similar dislike of wizard fantasy games. I think my brain is wired differently to most people.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;HJWr7nAt8ik]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWr7nAt8ik[/video] Whenever I get into a relationship that better be me and the girl, just sans stormtroopers, vader, me being frozen in carbonite.
People who blame mass shootings on mental illness have no idea how it works and as someone with a mental illness it's frankly of disgusting how little understanding people have on the issue [QUOTE=RichyZ;49767134]well because usually being gay doesn't make you more predisposed towards violent acts toward your fellow man it's not cool to just throw everyone with mental health issues into asylums and pretend it's ok but it's really dumb to compare being born gay with being born with a mental illness that can make you incredibly dangerous given the right circumstances[/QUOTE] The comparison to LGBT rights was bad but he's not exactly wrong. We treat mentally ill people unfairly. People need to stop acting like mentally ill people are a ticking time bomb, more often than not they're the victims of violence then the ones who perpetrate it.
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49786410]People who blame mass shootings on mental illness have no idea how it works and as someone with a mental illness it's frankly of disgusting how little understanding people have on the issue[/QUOTE] Not all mentally ill people are shooters but most all shooters are clearly not all there
While I find the word dickpics funny, I really don't get the idea behind it. I mean why would anyone send a "Ooooh lamour gaze upon my majestic joystick" because it's just a utilitarian tool to do a job. It's like sending pictures of rakes and shovels, there's not much to say about it. "I just bought them off ebay" "Nice"
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49786410]People who blame mass shootings on mental illness have no idea how it works and as someone with a mental illness it's frankly of disgusting how little understanding people have on the issue The comparison to LGBT rights was bad but he's not exactly wrong. We treat mentally ill people unfairly. People need to stop acting like mentally ill people are a ticking time bomb, more often than not they're the victims of violence then the ones who perpetrate it.[/QUOTE] are you trying to say that MOST of mass shooters are mentally stable? that doesn't mean that everyone thinks that everyone with mental illness is going to do that, its just an accurate description
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49785909]Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain is a fucking PS2 classic.[/QUOTE] Is that really an unpopular opinion? Speaking of wrestling games, I think WCW Mayhem was better than Smackdown 1.
[QUOTE=ichiman94;49787225]While I find the word dickpics funny, I really don't get the idea behind it. I mean why would anyone send a "Ooooh lamour gaze upon my majestic joystick" because it's just a utilitarian tool to do a job. It's like sending pictures of rakes and shovels, there's not much to say about it. "I just bought them off ebay" "Nice"[/QUOTE] That's just cause you're not attracted to men there are some titan dicks that make me drool I can tell you that
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;49785563]Yeah but the middle of season 2 is filled with filler that goes fucking nowhere.[/QUOTE] The reason for that is simply because Lynch and Frost were forced to reveal the killer half-way through the season. Still, I enjoyed the filler.
I don't get why people find being an atheist/liberal so cringey. I mean, yeah, if an atheist is going around town shouting "ATHEISM FOREVER! GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU BELIEVERS!" then I can understand that, but if they just treat their beliefs like normal people I don't see what the problem is. as for the liberal hate, yeah, some people take it too far and slam people with other opinions, but like I said before, if they keep their political views to themself then it shouldn't be considered bad. In fact, I'll go as far to say that the others slamming these completely ordinary people are cringey.
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;49787962]I don't get why people find being an atheist/liberal so cringey. I mean, yeah, if an atheist is going around town shouting "ATHEISM FOREVER! GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU BELIEVERS!" then I can understand that, but if they just treat their beliefs like normal people I don't see what the problem is. as for the liberal hate, yeah, some people take it too far and slam people with other opinions, but like I said before, if they keep their political views to themself then it shouldn't be considered bad. In fact, I'll go as far to say that the others slamming these completely ordinary people are cringey.[/QUOTE] it's weird that despite the fact that a good half of FP is atheist/agnostic, people still make fun of anyone calling religion dumb
[QUOTE=Mining Bill;49787978]it's weird that despite the fact that a good half of FP is atheist/agnostic, people still make fun of anyone calling religion dumb[/QUOTE] maybe because you can still be atheist while respecting religious institutions?
Lolicon and shotacon are fine and if you like them that's fine and you really shouldn't be ashamed of it and we really shouldn't treat it as any different than any other weird internet fetish. I think equating either with pedophilia and loli and shota with actual child pornography is just silly, stupid, and if anything a disservice to actual victims of child abuse. And it speaks of a bizarre inability to separate reality from fiction, might I add. Actually putting people in prison over it especially would be stupid. It would be a massive waste of state and police resources over what is essentially a harmless victimless 'crime', and ruin an actual person's life over fiction in order to aid absolutely nobody. Like I was just reading about the [url=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/zamii070-harassment-controversy/photos]Zamii070 drama[/url] and I found out that after the SU crew defended her people started going nuts on them too and dug in to Rebecca Sugar's past and found out she drew porn of Ed Edd and Eddy and accused her of drawing child pornography. Um, no? Um no? Like if you find it gross or whatever I don't care that's fine I get it but [t]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/edwikia/images/8/88/Wee_Roaches.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100722013857[/t]/=/[img]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/scarfheroes/images/b/b6/Jobel.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150329235809[/img]
i don't know about putting people in jail for it but i think it should be treated the same as a rape fetish, e.g. not the kind of thing you should be telling people about
Inglorious Basterds is Tarantinos best film Yes, I have seen Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs
[QUOTE=Clovis;49788055]well would saying Duelists of the Roses be a ps2 classic be considered an unpopular opinion? its one of those games where barely anyone knows it, but those that do love it for the most part. well anyone who actually beat the game[/QUOTE] My family loved Duelist of The Roses, even though my parents weren't interested in regular Yu-Gi-Oh. Just a few weeks ago I actually got them interested again after setting a game up with PCSX2 and Steam Link
[QUOTE=Cone;49788369]i don't know about putting people in jail for it but i think it should be treated the same as a rape fetish, e.g. not the kind of thing you should be telling people about[/QUOTE] Oh definitely, people should keep their fetishes to themselves and whatnot but I just don't think it's pedophilia or whatever like a lot of people bitch about I personally find the people who get turned on by things like quicksand, zentai costumes, and literally balloons more perplexing
People who suggest Trump is better than Hilary because he isn't bought out by big business lacks the most basic of critical thinking skills.
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49788662]People who suggest Trump is better than Hilary because he isn't bought out by big business lacks the most basic of critical thinking skills.[/QUOTE] The way I see it, both of them are shit. However, I prefer the enemy I know to the enemy I don't. Trump is an ignorant, bigoted, stupid bully, but at least I know that he is outright. He doesn't apologize for his personality or try to hide it. With Clinton, however, her constant deception (and manipulation by yes, the big businesses) is what causes her to be so potentially damaging.
[QUOTE=Cone;49788369]i don't know about putting people in jail for it but [it's] not the kind of thing you should be telling people about[/QUOTE] In reference to the Ed Edd and Eddy thing, I guess I have enough tolerance towards these kinds of things to laugh at them. They're pretty hilarious and nonsensical. It doesn't bother me, nor would I care if other people got into them either. In reference to the lollicon stuff, again I guess I just don't care. It doesn't bother me. But then again I'm an outlier on the bigger thing of pedophilia. Pedophilia can be bad, warped, and twisted, but to say it's black and white awful and off the table is weird. I've heard stories of normal people who have lost their virginity at really young ages, say 13, for instance. They lost it to someone far older than them, but they did so because the dude was ready for it and was legitimately asking for it on his own accord. The woman wasn't hunting for young people or whatever - it wasn't this undying lust for kids and only kids. It was a trusting, bonding moment as far as I understand it, and if anyone outside of this particular relationship were to have peered in, the immediate judgement would be that this guy was raped and immediately needs therapy. But it isn't like that, and things should never be that black and white. As far as I'm concerned, if the younger person in the equation is not sexually matured then it's not right, and if they're not the outgoing one in the relationship, it's not right. [I]Pressuring[/I] a younger person into doing stuff like this is wrong just like it is to pressure anyone into it. The problem with sexual relations of this type, in my opinion, is that the existence of consent can seriously be obfuscated and unreliable and it can become hard to really differentiate abuse from non-abuse. I think if a person is being very honest, however, and they're the ones that really wanted the experience in the first place, and they wanted it to be with someone they trusted, then I don't really see the issue. I generally don't say these things around people because, like the guy I've talked to about this, no one would ever understand.
There's pretty much no conflict between the church and science, and belief in such a conflict seems to be based more on false assumptions than anything else.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49788861]There's pretty much no conflict between the church and science, and belief in such a conflict seems to be based more on false assumptions than anything else.[/QUOTE] The problem is that the church in many religions want people to put their undying faith in God. People who teach god accidentally or purposefully end up becoming a part of that undying trust as they become the middle man. This also goes without saying, but believing in God is absolutely unscientific. To have a scientific mind and to believe in God is to make exceptions that would never be made for anything else, and to actually make those exceptions for anything else is to have an unscientific mind. Also, religion can also influence people with cognitive bias. Don't get me wrong - I don't care about religion as long as priorities are straight. Science should come first before God. When someone's operating on me, their priority should be the understanding of the human anatomy and not religious intuition [I]ever[/I]. Religion is not necessary in science and honestly doesn't belong. It causes more problems than it does good - for every Catholic-funded laboratory, there's a million more unaffiliated labs.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to believe that the universe may have been created. It's also completely logical to build ideas out of intangible evidence and cultural constructs, and to build institutions out of those ideas - especially if they're useful. There is a limit to what the mechanism of science can provide humanity, because we can never know the true nature of the universe (being limited only to its tools). There will always be that idea-space beyond the limits of knowledge, and I think it's a good thing that people play with it.
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49789637]I think it's perfectly reasonable to believe that the universe may have been created. It's also completely logical to build ideas out of intangible evidence and cultural constructs, and to build institutions out of those ideas - especially if they're useful. There is a limit to what the mechanism of science can provide humanity, because we can never know the true nature of the universe (being limited only to its tools). There will always be that idea-space beyond the limits of knowledge, and I think it's a good thing that people play with it.[/QUOTE] Why is it reasonable? It literally isn't. There's no evidence, so you have no basis to your belief. It's like saying, "Well, we aren't sure there are pink elephants, but because I haven't seen evidence to the contrary I'll just believe in it." It's literally irrational.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;49789652]Why is it reasonable? It literally isn't. There's no evidence, so you have no basis to your belief.[/QUOTE] Of course there's evidence. 1. the universe exists "something made it" is one of many hypotheses which explain this phenomenon.
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49788662]People who suggest Trump is better than Hilary because he isn't bought out by big business lacks the most basic of critical thinking skills.[/QUOTE] Or they have an opinion
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