Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2."
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[QUOTE=wauterboi;49137387][B]EDIT for clarity[/b]: You're still not catching my drift.
If you focus too much on how you perceive someone to be awful, it's [I]very[/I] easy to make yourself look like a jerk in the process, and it's very easy to alienate them so much that they won't look from your point of view. This is why I've recently made an effort to dip out of conversations that turn nasty enough that I can't remain level-headed, and to ultimately remain more respectful when I talk to people. It's something I'm getting a lot better at, and something I think others should try to take on as a personal challenge as well.
I can't speak for others, but the way you're quick to try and tear him down and evaluate his entire being based on one aspect of his life - even if this aspect about him is dumb - is really off putting in my opinion. And I don't think anyone here is terrible - I just think you're a bit too wound up on this one aspect of him in a way that kind of defeats your purpose.
I mean, it is the internet and people can act however they want, but it really does seem like you're offended in some way that I'm not understanding.[/QUOTE]
i actually am almost offended by how some people will put more effort into attempting to justify spoiling everything, when it takes exactly 4 keystrokes to use the spoiler tag. its actually takes more time and effort to explain why you arent an asshole (even though youre wrong) than it does to just tag something and not cause any issues.
i love this thread
[QUOTE=bhomer2;49137716]I like guns, and think more people should have them.[/QUOTE]
Please can you add to this statement?
I literally cannot grasp how you could think more people should have guns.... Especially in your country...
I think it's completely okay to feel proud of your race and your race's culture(s) and accomplishments. It's fine as long as it doesn't transform into contempt/hate/racism towards other races and their cultures.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49137850]i actually am almost offended by how some people will put more effort into attempting to justify spoiling everything, when it takes exactly 4 keystrokes to use the spoiler tag. its actually takes more time and effort to explain why you arent an asshole (even though youre wrong) than it does to just tag something and not cause any issues.[/QUOTE]
It actually takes 9 as you have add [/sp] at the end or the spoiler tag won't work.
As far as untagged spoilers I think it's fine to post untagged spoilers in a thread made specifically for a thing. For example, if I had to spoiler tag everything about Saren in the Mass Effect thread it would make talking about him and anything related to him (i.e. the entire main plot) annoying both to post and to read. It's a thread where those details have been common knowledge for 8 years, so if you're a newcomer to the thread you expect there to be unmarked spoilers and can avoid them mostly by sticking to the OP and not reading any active discussions, it's fine to post old spoilers unmarked because they are common knowledge and and people can take measures to avoid them.
Now if a spoiler is recent enough that someone actively following a thing can be spoiled you should use spoiler tags in the dedicated thread, and you should use spoiler tags on any spoiler that isn't completely meaningless without context or so widespread that it's basically impossible to avoid. Like Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's dad is so far reaching it's difficult to find people over the age of 5 who don't know, or "Snape kills Dumbledore" being completely meaningless because the reason he did so is the important part.
It's been like 3 or 4 pages fucking hell Antichrist [B]drop it.[/B]
Unpopular opinion: I liked Godzilla 2014, but only because the Brian Cranston portion and design of Godzilla himself were both so damn good.
The "main" character is a worthless piece of shit that resulted in a film called Godzilla where there is only 20min of actual monster fights
I believe duels should be legalized under a tier system. Something which escalates from court system, non-violent confrontation, less then lethal, and then lethal.
My reason for believing this, is that if two parties truly went through the tiers and didn't resolve their differences before a lethal option, so be it. It's clearly something which otherwise would not be resolved through a courthouse and therefore is a blood feud of sorts which could only be resolved through a resolve of a blood stamp.
It's also not a big shocker that fighting sports are slowly becoming more violent as we are trying to reinstall a gladiator system of sorts. I'm in full support of a gladiator arena type system if it means resolving conflicts between parties and states via the aspect of weeding out the most violent supporters of both parties.
I think Bladerunner is boring, in the same vein that I find 2001: A Space Odyssey to be. Yeah sure, the films look great, but nothing actually happens in them.
Ok guys, big one: I don't find pictures of underaged girls arousing
Especially if they come from an anime
[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49139472]Ok guys, big one: I don't find pictures of underaged girls arousing
Especially if they come from an anime[/QUOTE]
what the FUCk you weirdo
Eyewitness testinmony holds too much weight in courtncases.
[QUOTE=Bathtub;49135707]thats the cycle nowadays
a game gets overhyped to hell and when it doesn't meet peoples every expectation its called shit even though most of the time theyre around a 6-8 out of 10, like f4 or battlefront[/QUOTE]
it's because AAA games cost ridiculous amounts of money now so they need to be sure everyone has heard of it and knows how good it will surely be just to turn a profit, which a scaling amount of people fall entirely for and feel extremely stupid afterwards.
every big-name release that uses that marketing model is at once a gamble and entirely predictable, like betting your life savings. technically there's a chance it won't backfire but seriously what kind of world would it be if it didn't
I really dislike avatar borders and think they look kind of gaudy
eh I like when people have 1px black borders, makes them look neater.
[QUOTE=ghghop;49139195]Unpopular opinion: I liked Godzilla 2014, but only because the Brian Cranston portion and design of Godzilla himself were both so damn good.
The "main" character is a worthless piece of shit that resulted in a film called Godzilla where there is only 20min of actual monster fights[/QUOTE]
Those fucking anti-climaxes (the closing doors scene when Godzilla and the MUTO were just getting started) pissed me off to no end.
I often feel American movies don't really showcase the main character / thing anymore - it's the drama subplot that makes up a majority of the film most of the time. And even then, in the 20 or so minutes of Godzilla's screen time, I recall at least half of it consisting of him hiding behind smoke effects.
This is why I generally prefer things from Japan like kaiju movies and anime. While I too liked the movie, the Toho films take a gigantic shit on it.
White people on FP for the most part can't take jokes aimed at white people.
If, in LMAO pics, someone posts a racist comic about black people or jewish folk, or anyone else, it'll get spammed in funnies. It might get some dumbs, lates, disagrees, etc. One or two people may even complain, but the thread moves on anyway because lol race jokes. The poster might also very likely get banned, which will make the post rake in even more funny ratings. I've laughed at these same posts, so I won't make myself out to be some objectively neutral party observing those who rated funny as morally wrong, etc etc.
Then, sometimes we'll get a joke aimed at white people, or men, or white men, whatever. The comic, joke, whichever it is will get funnies, but will usually get more negative ratings and even more complaints than the former. Why? Because for the most part white people on FP can't take a joke when it's aimed at them. I'll laugh just as much at these same kinds of jokes, because hey, inappropriate race jokes make me laugh too.
The funny thing about these jokes is that the ones about non-white people are always purely racist garbage, with slurs or silly stereotypes thrown in for added effect. Again, I myself am not excluded from those rating those jokes funny. But the ones about white people are usually really light-hearted, being in the same vein of that "haha white girls and their pumpkin spice lattes" joke. I laugh at these as well, for obvious reasons. People on here will probably say something ridiculously childish like "If it offends you, just ignore it", so why not apply that same logic to the white people jokes in LMAO pics? Just a thought, really. To expand on this, whether you're a white European or American or whatever else, race relations between typically "white" people and non-white people have been completely shit for centuries, and a joke made at the expense of someone's humanity or one which dehumanizes them in the same style of racism and stereotyping that has made them out to be animals or objects for all of their known history from the perspective of outsiders to that group is definitely infinitely worse than something as simple as "haha, white people don't season their food" or "dohoho, white girls only wear uggs". Especially when the dehumanizing and bigoted racism/stereotypes are drilled into the heads of your people for ages, to the point where just existing as X group or people makes you hate yourself for being part of X group of people.
I might even get banned for this post, because apparently pointing out hypocrisy might constitute as racism itself to someone else.
To expand [i]even further[/i] on this, just to cover a little more ground, [b]NO[/b], I'm not telling white people to just take racist jokes, because even [I]I[/I] get sick of more harsh jokes like "Hey, all white people do is go around the globe and rape and pillage and murder" just as much as I get annoyed by jokes and simplistic statements along the lines of "All black people do is start riots because one of them got killed by the police". Because yeah, people can be pretty damned prejudiced towards white people (and the whole "white" identity thing isn't an absolute globally, for some people at least. I'm not an expert on the dynamics of race/ethnic relations outside of the Western hemisphere, but I'm always open to info if you've got it). But even after stating this, I won't ignore history.
Facepunch has becoming much more right wing, the entire Sensationalist Headlines forum is full of flat out reactionary stuff on race, feminism and refugees
apparently this is an unpopular opinion because I got "called out" on it in said subforum.
[QUOTE=greeley;49138782]Please can you add to this statement?
I literally cannot grasp how you could think more people should have guns.... Especially in your country...[/QUOTE]
suppose you're a mugger. if you think someone has a gun, are you going to try to mug them?
[QUOTE=bhomer2;49141882]suppose you're a mugger. if you think someone has a gun, are you going to try to mug them?[/QUOTE]
Suppose you're a mugger, and you think someone else might have a gun. If you keep mugging people, you'll just have to adapt to what's happening around you. Criminals and crime adapt to changes in society. A bunch of people having guns won't stop people from committing crimes. If you yourself have a gun and want to mug someone, you just have to act first.
Skype ruined the [highlight]:3[/highlight] and [highlight]\o/[/highlight] emoticons.
Spam threads are fun when there aren't any dumb page-stretches.
[QUOTE=TAU!;49141899]Suppose you're a mugger, and you think someone else might have a gun. If you keep mugging people, you'll just have to adapt to what's happening around you. Criminals and crime adapt to changes in society. A bunch of people having guns won't stop people from committing crimes. If you yourself have a gun and want to mug someone, you just have to act first.[/QUOTE]
that doesn't answer the question, and it kind of feels like you are calling me a mugger for having a gun.
[QUOTE=bhomer2;49141962]that doesn't answer the question, and it kind of feels like you are calling me a mugger for having a gun.[/QUOTE]
Okay, my answer is this: adding more guns won't necessarily solve the problem, if even a little. Sure, more people will have guns -- but more criminals with guns, who are also willing to use those guns and other weapons -- are only going to get more ballsy about what they do when committing crimes and whether or not they use their weapons. This is nothing as simple as thinking adding more guns to the equation will just scare off criminals absolutely.
Whether or not you personally own a gun does not make you a mugger, which is not what I intended to say.
[QUOTE=TAU!;49141844]I'll laugh just as much at these same kinds of jokes, because hey, inappropriate race jokes make me laugh too.[/QUOTE]
I'm more likely to laugh at jokes aimed at white people personally. Most racist jokes involving non-caucasian people aren't actually funny, they're just offensive or dumb. At least when a racist joke about white people is posted it's more likely to be at least somewhat accurate, if a generalization.
[QUOTE=TAU!;49141982]Okay, my answer is this: adding more guns won't necessarily solve the problem, if even a little. Sure, more people will have guns -- but more criminals with guns, who are also willing to use those guns and other weapons -- and they're going to get more ballsy about what they do when committing crimes and whether or not they use their weapons.
Whether or not you personally own a gun does not make you a mugger, which is not what I intended to say.[/QUOTE]
either way, if I am getting mugged, I want to be able to defend myself, and I think that other law-abiding citizens should also be able to defend themselves.
Most black jokes are pretty much just "haha aren't they inferior!". E.g., bench can support a family, takes 9 months to take a shit, etc..
Also having switched from one side of the spectrum to the other I don't really agree with "Facepunch is conservative" or "facepunch is liberal!", I think people just magnify their opposition. In reality there's a pretty diverse mixture on facepunch, the only real generalizations I could make are things such as "accepting of gay people", things that you pretty much end up banned for disagreeing with.
[QUOTE=bhomer2;49142117]either way, if I am getting mugged, I want to be able to defend myself, and I think that other law-abiding citizens should also be able to defend themselves.[/QUOTE]
That's fair, you have every right to defend yourself, and owning a gun to do so is entirely up to you. I just think that we should work on fixing the elements in our society that create crime and criminals, rather than dousing the fire with more gasoline.
[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49127992]Having absurdly large titles is a design choice I still question the reasoning of to this day.
It looks so ugly when someone takes up 1.5 screens worth of space to post 2 words.[/QUOTE]
90% of the posts I end up writing, I delete them before posting because I consider it a waste of screen-stretching space.
Guns are threat to peoples safety and should be heavily regulated by the government.
[QUOTE=Aldawolf;49141881]Facepunch has becoming much more right wing, the entire Sensationalist Headlines forum is full of flat out reactionary stuff on race, feminism and refugees
apparently this is an unpopular opinion because I got "called out" on it in said subforum.[/QUOTE]
I'll talk about it here since it's been about a week or two after the shitstorm I caused in the Anita Sarkeesian thread.
I flat out stopped responding because people were straight up treating me like I was an idiot for my feminist views and my feminist questions. In the past, when I've taken the alternate side, I usually end up with a lot of agreeance.
I dunno, I think part of it is that a lot of people are genuinely tired of the feminist movement and I don't blame people for feeling so annoyed, but to an extent I didn't really think like a lot of people were opening up - at least not enough to try and break things down for me so that I'd understand their point of view. I wasn't trying to call anyone out or trying to be mean or anything and it bothers me a little bit that there was a lot of that aggression that came after everything I said. Dunno.
I try to look at both sides and take the best of both sides, because I think both sides are onto something in the debate when it comes to things like feminism and feminism as it pertains to video games, but I've yet to really find that safe place where I can talk and ask questions. The bigger thing is I kind of want to be allowed to be wrong and I want others to be allowed to be wrong as well, as long as people are focused on debating fairly without becoming too aggressive about it. Because I'm not focused on tearing people down - that's the biggest problem I have with the new feminism - I'm not trying to turn my ideology into a weapon to beat down on others.
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