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

1984 doesn't even reflect today's events exactly. There was another piece of dystopian fiction where everyone was numbed by the entertainment industry. Can't remember the name though. Something with little world or somethijg.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;49832386]brave new world[/QUOTE] And quite frankly this is what's happening to an extent

[QUOTE=GreenBH;49830844]I think hatedoms are more to do with the fact that what they hate is probably intrusive to unrelated things. This applies to pretty much anything - furries, bronies, /pol/ to name a few examples of hatedom subjects. See, the problem with furries for example wasn't that they jacked off to furry shit. This is and always has been the internet - if we wanted to we're only just a few clicks away from watching big-breasted girls with twelve-inch dicks fucking eachother and everyone knows everyone else has at least one weird kink or two. It's no secret anymore - nothing's wrong with having a fetish or fascination as long as you keep it to your god damn self, but unfortunately not many subcultures have fully grasped this concept. No, the problem with furries at first was that most of them were so obnoxious about it. Everything had to be made furry in some way. Every forum avatar and signature had to be made a fursona. They just couldn't keep the fact that they were hardcore furries to themselves and had to broadcast it to everyone and their mother. Naturally when this was met with derision, they doubled down on their effort and set out to be the biggest cunts they could be about it, labelling the rational reaction to their antics as "fursecution". Now granted I would find it a little bit weird at first when grown men are watching a little girl's TV show about magical ponies and unicorns, but as long as they don't try to persecute others who don't like it or try to incorporate ponies into every other discussion about anything, I don't give a shit and I shouldn't. This is exactly why on 4chan of all places you're not allowed to post ponies anywhere but its own board, because it was just one of those things that became contagious to everything else. Not by fault of the fact that it was ponies, but because of how far bronies took their obsessions. It's not the subject itself, it's what it does to everything and everyone around them.[/QUOTE] I'm going to rewrite my article and actually post a way better version of it, but you're only noticing the bad eggs. The good eggs that didn't do all that obnoxious shit remained unseen because you didn't know about it. Therefore, the fandom doesn't suck, obnoxious people suck, and they need to be treated as separate from the group. It's the same thing with feminism: feminism doesn't suck, awful feminists suck.

i thought deadpool wasnt very good

It makes sense for countries to treat different nationalities differently based on their countrymens behavior. People from Nigeria and the Philippines should have a faster track when immigrating because of how well behaved and productive they generally are. Same with Mexicans going into the United States. [QUOTE=Recurracy;49832375]1984 doesn't even reflect today's events exactly. There was another piece of dystopian fiction where everyone was numbed by the entertainment industry. Can't remember the name though. Something with little world or somethijg.[/QUOTE] [url]http://imgur.com/gallery/Os3Be[/url]

The B.C.E/C.E dating system is stupid

[QUOTE=Cone;49832310]RUB MY BELLY AND PAT MY HEAD[/QUOTE] [I][B]witchcraft.[/B][/I]

[QUOTE=Cone;49832310]if george orwell were alive today he would probably shoot himself from the amount of people trying to get his approval on every minute facet of their life GEORGE GEORGE SOMEONE TOLD ME THEY DIDN'T LIKE UNDERTALE ON TUMBLR AND I SCREECHED AT THEM FOR THREE HOURS DO YOU FEEL THIS ECHOES THE EVENTS OF [I]1984[/I] IN ANY WAY SO MR ORWELL WE ALL KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ON SOCIALISM BUT WHERE DO YOU STAND ON GAMERGATE GEORGE THESE OTHER PEOPLE ARE WASTING TIME PLEASE COME RUB MY BELLY AND PAT MY HEAD[/QUOTE] You're completely right. George Orwell is the most appropriated and bastardized man on the internet. His works have been made a joke by people who haven't read them or just read it in high school because they had to.

[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49833412]You're completely right. George Orwell is the most appropriated and bastardized man on the internet. His works have been made a joke by people who haven't read them or just read it in high school because they had to.[/QUOTE] Yeah, nowadays it's the thing to compare something to if ya wanna sound intelligent

The stupid thing about Orwell is that he was a fallible mortal like the rest of his. Some of his ideas were dumb and some of the stuff he done was dumb. In spite of this, he is touted as some kind of prophet because he predicted CCTV or some shit.

so i used snapchat the other day it's like brave new world isn't it? *instant standing ovation*

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49832582]I'm going to rewrite my article and actually post a way better version of it, but you're only noticing the bad eggs. The good eggs that didn't do all that obnoxious shit remained unseen because you didn't know about it. Therefore, the fandom doesn't suck, obnoxious people suck, and they need to be treated as separate from the group. It's the same thing with feminism: feminism doesn't suck, awful feminists suck.[/QUOTE] Everybody is noticing the bad eggs. Unfortunately in most cases the bad eggs just so happen to make up the majority of eggs as a whole which gives both the fandom and the subject a bad name. Therefore, the bad eggs tend to represent more than the good eggs because they tend to be much more vocal. Thus the only reason the good eggs remained unseen is because they kept their kinks to the lowdown so naturally nobody cares for anything either positively or negatively until a portion of people start being obnoxious about it. That's the whole point.

[QUOTE=RedBaronFlyer;49833228]The B.C.E/C.E dating system is stupid[/QUOTE] Short of Unix time, there really isn't anything better. No matter what you use, you have to pick a random arbitrary starting point. Why fix what isn't broken? Daylight savings though. Daylight savings can go die in a hole. That should have been killed shortly after the invention of the computer. All it does is mess up absolutely everything, everywhere, all the time.

[QUOTE=jp_rsardeto;49832658]i thought deadpool wasnt very good[/QUOTE] yeah it felt like seth mcfarlane wrote a superhero movie, not really my cup of tea but most people seemed to enjoy it so v:pudge:v

Breakfast pizza is grossly underrated.

I like watching some of Shymalan's old movies. Please don't kill me .

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49832582]I'm going to rewrite my article and actually post a way better version of it, but you're only noticing the bad eggs. The good eggs that didn't do all that obnoxious shit remained unseen because you didn't know about it. Therefore, the fandom doesn't suck, obnoxious people suck, and they need to be treated as separate from the group. It's the same thing with feminism: feminism doesn't suck, awful feminists suck.[/QUOTE] In feminism the bad eggs are in leadership roles and celebrated as icons.

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;49837591]Short of Unix time, there really isn't anything better. No matter what you use, you have to pick a random arbitrary starting point. Why fix what isn't broken?[/QUOTE] I'm fine with the dating system itself but from what I can tell it purely exist to secularize a dating system by getting rid of any religious relations, on top of that I keep mixing up C.E. and B.C.E. when I give it a quick glance since it's one letter apart. At least it's just renaming the B.C. A.D. system and not like that French ten day week thing

The 2nd Amendment is an outdated law that existed after the fervor from the aftermath of a revolution and a fear of a plot of a 2nd British invasion. The conditions of the 18th century do not apply to the 21st century and unrestricted right to bear arms isn't needed in a modern democracy. American gun culture is a toxic breeding ground for terrible and innacurate ideas (e.g. Ben Carson saying that "If the Jews had guns they would've overthrown Hitler) and that a gun is somehow the answer to every problem. (Mass shootings? Add more guns!) and leads to horrible laws such as campus carry that threaten the educational institution meant to challenge worldviews, instead having to reinforce them to comply with the threat that a student with a gun may pose.

[QUOTE=flashn00b;49838643][B]Breakfast pizza[/B] is grossly underrated.[/QUOTE] What the pulsating spider christ is that

[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;49839585]What the pulsating spider christ is that[/QUOTE] pizza for breakfast at noon, paprikash

Pork bacon honestly doesn't taste that great. Turkey bacon tastes better.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49838733]In feminism the bad eggs are in leadership roles and celebrated as icons.[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised how few people know who these "icons" are. I'd consider myself a feminist and probably would be hard pressed to name one if you asked. You can be a feminist (and you should be) without acknowledging any bad eggs, no matter how "celebrated" they are.

[QUOTE=Duck M.;49839705]You'd be surprised how few people know who these "icons" are. I'd consider myself a feminist and probably would be hard pressed to name one if you asked. You can be a feminist (and you should be) without acknowledging any bad eggs, no matter how "celebrated" they are.[/QUOTE] but that's the thing with leaderless movements (or that have next to no structure), everybody's free to know somebody and not somebody else so it's all a big mess the feminist movement should try to be more credible, have some representative democracy so you "elect" a few spokespersons to talk in the name of the women, and also call out all the assholes hiding behind feminism to get bucks ahem sarkeesian ahem

[QUOTE=flashn00b;49838643]Breakfast pizza is grossly underrated.[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oyM25t3O1nA/hqdefault.jpg[/IMG] PIZZA'S NOT FOR BREAKFAST

[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;49839716]but that's the thing with leaderless movements (or that have next to no structure), everybody's free to know somebody and not somebody else so it's all a big mess the feminist movement should try to be more credible, have some representative democracy so you "elect" a few spokespersons to talk in the name of the women, and also call out all the assholes hiding behind feminism to get bucks ahem sarkeesian ahem[/QUOTE] I'd say its more of an ideology than a movement.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49838733]In feminism the bad eggs are in leadership roles and celebrated as icons.[/QUOTE] I want you to deconstruct feminism for me using everything you know about it and explain to me why it's bad

I didn't love Inside Out

I think you can be against a movement's followers and still agree with the central thesis of the movement. I think blacks deserve more equal justice in law enforcement. I think BLM supporters are stupid.

[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;49839585]What the pulsating spider christ is that[/QUOTE] Scrambled eggs, ground sausage and bell peppers. It's actually pretty good, though the best I can do in terms of a pizza crust is simply using a pita.