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

[QUOTE=ichiman94;49811970]zombies are plain dead as a concept anyways, I cannot imagine how a outbreak can happen same with planet of the apes[/QUOTE] Well the new planet of the apes basically has a [sp]disease that spreads super rapidly through human populations while the apes are immune, allowing the apes to grow in numbers[/sp]

Yeah, the new planet of the apes has a pretty solid premise.

I don't get why everyone's like "humans will be extinct in 50 years TOPS" or "in the next century we will all be slaves to mind reading governments" From the way things have been progressing the past millennia, the year 2500 will probably be a fucking amazing time to be alive.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49813668]I don't get why everyone's like "humans will be extinct in 50 years TOPS" or "in the next century we will all be slaves to mind reading governments" From the way things have been progressing the past millennia, the year 2500 will probably be a fucking amazing time to be alive.[/QUOTE] The future can never be better. Any advancement will turn against us, usually because of the abuse of such advancement. Technology should rarely match certain ambitions like screwing with time or age. It'll be a violence towards the laws of the universe and we won't ever foresee it before we fuck up as we always do.

[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;49813932]The future can never be better. Any advancement will turn against us, usually because of the abuse of such advancement. Technology should rarely match certain ambitions like screwing with time or age. It'll be a violence towards the laws of the universe and we won't ever foresee it before we fuck up as we always do.[/QUOTE] You are absolutely right. Life was so much better back in the good ol' days. We didn't have to worry whether or not we had enough money to take a vacation in the Bahamas for a couple weeks because we didn't even know anything existed outside of the Great Rift Valley.

[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;49813932]The future can never be better. Any advancement will turn against us, usually because of the abuse of such advancement. Technology should rarely match certain ambitions like screwing with time or age. It'll be a violence towards the laws of the universe and we won't ever foresee it before we fuck up as we always do.[/QUOTE] what an awful way of looking at the world

The idea that STEM > Liberal Arts is a toxic mentality that's turning University from being about learning to being a job factory. Liberal Arts will better your understanding of the world than any STEM degree could hope to. I can understand the mentality with the rising prices of college in America, but people suggesting we should "only fund STEM degrees" for universities is insulting to the intellectual culture of Liberal Arts and the ideas of learning in general.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49813668]I don't get why everyone's like "humans will be extinct in 50 years TOPS" or "in the next century we will all be slaves to mind reading governments" From the way things have been progressing the past millennia, the year 2500 will probably be a fucking amazing time to be alive.[/QUOTE] I think it's more likely that civilization will collapse and then rebuild itself into a substantially better version of itself before collapsing once more and repeating the process all over.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49814361]Most people go to university for jobs, though, not to learn about the world.[/QUOTE] Still doesn't excuse the bizarre superiority complex of STEM graduates and the idea that somehow human progress is based entirely 100% on non-humanities or non-art-related studies.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49814465]Still doesn't excuse the bizarre superiority complex of STEM graduates and the idea that somehow human progress is based entirely 100% on non-humanities or non-art-related studies.[/QUOTE] anyone who bashes the idea of liberal arts needs to take a good long daydream of a world without writing or art

I don't get why people always say it's STEM degree holders who are like this when the only time someone is elitist about the degree they have or are doing it's a fucking engineer or a compsci major or a first year physics major. As someone doing a science degree who manages to not be an elitist shitcunt and is surrounded by people who also manage to not do so, it irks me when I get lumped in the trash. [editline]26th February 2016[/editline] That's not to say that all or even a significant amount of engineers, compsci majors, or physics majors are like that, it's just that the trash tends to have a common source.

Fasten your tinfoil hats STEM subjects are funded rather than arts subjects because the arts often encourage questioning the status quo and promoting social change whilst scientific advancement is far less a creator of such problems and to actually make something discovered you'd still be reliant on the means of production that are owned by the rich

[QUOTE=The Jack;49814700]Fasten your tinfoil hats STEM subjects are funded rather than arts subjects because the arts often encourage questioning the status quo and promoting social change whilst scientific advancement is far less a creator of such problems and to actually make something discovered you'd still be reliant on the means of production that are owned by the rich[/QUOTE] liberal arts don't do much to question the status quo when universities teaching those subjects as just as likely to reinforce societal or elite beliefs as they are to challenge them. many new fields recently created in universities (like african american or gender studies) primarily exist as sinecures for rent-seeking academics. maybe in the past sure, but universities aren't the places where people questioning the status quo go these days

Not all Liberal arts are created equal.

if you'd willingly spend 60k per year to live in a dorm and be taught gender studies, you are fucked up that is an absolutely enormous amount of money to spend on something that is an ill-defined intellectual hobby. that debt will do far more to oppress you than your genitals ever will.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49814904]if you'd willingly spend 60k per year to live in a dorm and be taught gender studies, you are fucked up that is an absolutely enormous amount of money to spend on something that is an ill-defined intellectual hobby. that debt will do far more to oppress you than your genitals ever will.[/QUOTE] If you score the position where you actually teach the stuff its a free ride.

To be fair in this world it's pretty much impossible to get a job that requires a humanities degree with the exception of law school

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49813870]Amiibos are terrible. They are glorified, awful dlc. Locking away content from games until you buy a 15 dollar statue is always terrible.[/QUOTE] As far as statues go though, they're actually pretty high quality. I actually want the Shovel Knight amiibo just so I can have a Shovel Knight figure on a shelf.

[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49814250]The idea that STEM > Liberal Arts is a toxic mentality that's turning University from being about learning to being a job factory. Liberal Arts will better your understanding of the world than any STEM degree could hope to. I can understand the mentality with the rising prices of college in America, but people suggesting we should "only fund STEM degrees" for universities is insulting to the intellectual culture of Liberal Arts and the ideas of learning in general.[/QUOTE] I have less of an issue with LA degrees than I do with LA majors that genuinely think they're infinitely more cultured than everyone else. Also art majors (at least the ones here) are some of the most out of touch people I've ever met.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49814814]Not all Liberal arts are created equal.[/QUOTE] By design though they essentially are created equal. At my school I could get a computer science degree through the liberal arts college, but still a large majority of the classes I would take would be ones all other liberal arts majors have to take too. The way I have always seen it is that a STEM degree is more of a planned job route, a liberal arts degree shows you are smart in multiple areas, and a fine arts degree, if not through liberal arts, shows you are an excellent creative thinker. There is no hierarchy of degrees.

Rockstar needs to get Sgt_Mark_IV involved with Grand Theft Auto's development.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49811331]How would you make a show that just revolved around killing zombies?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't, that would be almost as bad as making a show about zombies and then completely forgetting about them for entire episodes. Imagine an episode of X-Files when Scully and Mulder decide to take a weekend off work and nothing supernatural happens. Nobody wants to watch that, and if they do they're forgetting what the show is supposed to be about. [quote]Tonight on The Walking Dead, absolutely no Walking Dead people.[/quote]

[QUOTE=splenda;49816847]a liberal arts degree shows you are smart in multiple areas, and a fine arts degree, if not through liberal arts, shows you are an excellent creative thinker.[/QUOTE] A degree does not in any way shape or form indicate that you are smart or good in one area or another, it just means you accomplished the curriculum required for that degree to the satisfaction of your university.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49816902]A degree does not in any way shape or form indicate that you are smart or good in one area or another, it just means you accomplished the curriculum required for that degree to the satisfaction of your university.[/QUOTE] It indicates both. At least, for most employers it does. If it didn't, then it wouldn't increase your chances as much as it does for a job (or in some cases give you any chance at all)

[QUOTE=Blazedol;49816936]It indicates both. At least, for most employers it does. If it didn't, then it wouldn't increase your chances as much as it does for a job (or in some cases give you any chance at all)[/QUOTE] It indicates to an employer that you are considered qualified by a university, whether or not you are any good at something is another mater entirely. There is a reason some jobs require you to actually have a portfolio of work to show off. Depending on who is doing the interview if you just show up with a degree and nothing to actually prove you can do good work you'll barely get the time of day. Other times you can show up and just spout a bunch of buzzwords and the interviewer will lap it up. The whole, degree=job train of thought is generally horseshit. It will absolutely open doors for you but you'll have to prove your actually capable.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49816959]It indicates to an employer that you are considered qualified by a university, whether or not you are any good at something is another mater entirely. There is a reason some jobs require you to actually have a portfolio of work to show off. Depending on who is doing the interview if you just show up with a degree and nothing to actually prove you can do good work you'll barely get the time of day. Other times you can show up and just spout a bunch of buzzwords and the interviewer will lap it up. The whole, degree=job train of thought is generally horseshit.[/QUOTE] It's true that usually a degree alone does nothing, and I'm not saying it doesn't. It's just you're going to have a hard time getting a lot of jobs without a degree, even with jobs with portfolios. While a degree doesn't really tell how good at the jobs you are, it does add to how many years of experience you have, and employers in that type of industry want people with experience. That's just one group of jobs, though. There are still plenty of time jobs out there that you can get without a degree, but it's not like it won't help.

[QUOTE=Blazedol;49817007]it does add to how many years of experience you have[/QUOTE] No employer will take into consideration the time it took you to get a degree when considering your years of experience, unless you were doing internships that entire time or maybe it's a post-grad degree and lab work is taken into consideration. It's not like every class you're taking or every year in uni is dedicated solely to things relevant to your major considering core classes are a thing. I still stand by my original point, a degree doesn't inherently mean you are smart or good at something. I just means you have a university declaring you educated and qualified in a field.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49817063]No employer will take into consideration the time it took you to get a degree when considering your years of experience, unless you were doing internships that entire time or maybe it's a post-grad degree and lab work is taken into consideration. It's not like every class you're taking or every year in uni is dedicated solely to things relevant to your major considering core classes are a thing. I still stand by my original point, a degree doesn't inherently mean you are smart or good at something. I just means you have a university declaring you educated and qualified in a field.[/QUOTE] Keep in mind I was talking about jobs with portfolios, and in that case almost all the time they do, as for as I know. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Outside of that, I can't say with 100% certainty, since I'm not necessarily interested in those jobs.

[QUOTE=Qaus;49816899]I wouldn't, that would be almost as bad as making a show about zombies and then completely forgetting about them for entire episodes. Imagine an episode of X-Files when Scully and Mulder decide to take a weekend off work and nothing supernatural happens. Nobody wants to watch that, and if they do they're forgetting what the show is supposed to be about.[/QUOTE] The title of the Walking dead refers to the survivors, not the zombies. (Though you could say it refers to both)

[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49814250] Liberal Arts will better your understanding of the world than any STEM degree could hope to. [/QUOTE] "Understanding of the world" is very subjective and vague so I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this. It seems like you've defined "understanding of the world" to capture the qualities of a Liberal Arts degree but ignore the flaws.