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

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[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49273653]Sure, but people run the risk of going in with too many expectations because they've taken too much of the hype stuff seriously and can't ground themselves and be ready for anything, especially not average. People get so fucking upset if something doesn't meet their expectations they've built over the months of hyping up they've been doing, which can often mean anything less than perfect. Also, yeah, really, hype culture. I don't have a better name for it, do you? It's a large sweeping aspect of humanity that's constantly constantly being done by millions of people, and it has a lot of the same patterns and actions and behaviors. It's a cultural thing.[/QUOTE] well it goes without saying that if people are excited about something they'll want it to be good and will be disappointed if it isn't some people are more excited and will eventually be more disappointed if something isn't up to their expectations, but that's not something i'd consider "dumb" and certainly not something i'd compare to a pack of vultures or get angry about being excited is fun, so let people be excited, if they're disappointed then that's too bad, but there's nothing wrong with that and calling people being excited "hype culture" sounds really demeaning, it's just likeminded people sharing eachothers' excitement, it's more extreme now than before thanks to how easy it is to find likeminded people, but i don't consider that a bad thing

[QUOTE=Otterman;49273220]I don't like the long scenes and pauses in Samurai Jack. Like, in the third episode there is a pan of this robot bug army but it takes I think 20 seconds long. I get that it's supposed to show you the size of the threat but I already get it's going to be a hard battle for Jack. I love the show, just don't see the appeal of long pauses and long sceanery scenes. I guess it's because I'm used to fast paced entertainment.[/QUOTE] Because having everything moving at a breakneck pace makes everything the same pace. Slow scenes help make the combat scenes seem more intense in comparison. During combat sometimes pauses will occur too as trying to make a move too fast can be a fools move. Which leads to staring competitions to see who will make the first mistake/move. It also provides a chance to show exhaustion and character expressions in general to the situation which is much harder to truly observe if everything is flying around. A movie that employs slow pace and pauses extremely well is Harakiri. It's free and its a fucking great movie with great talent and skill involved in every aspect of it. Furthermore its the kind of movie that simply doesn't get made anymore which makes it a breath of fresh air in comparison to most stuff that gets made today. [video=youtube;gBxnOKPprsM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBxnOKPprsM[/video]

[QUOTE=Hakita;49273718]well it goes without saying that if people are excited about something they'll want it to be good and will be disappointed if it isn't some people are more excited and will eventually be more disappointed if something isn't up to their expectations, but that's not something i'd consider "dumb" and certainly not something i'd compare to a pack of vultures or get angry about being excited is fun, so let people be excited, if they're disappointed then that's too bad, but there's nothing wrong with that and calling people being excited "hype culture" sounds really demeaning, it's just likeminded people sharing eachothers' excitement, it's more extreme now than before thanks to how easy it is to find likeminded people, but i don't consider that a bad thing[/QUOTE] Eh, I think you have a lot more innocent view of this kind of thing than I do but I also think we aren't talking about quite the same thing. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pmW9uFBuE[/media] Here, I think this puts it a lot better than I can while providing a lot of specific examples along the way. I guess if you honestly get super excited over media releases, watch trailers, pick apart background scenes, read leaked scripts, look at random behind the scenes photos that may or may not have been taken when they weren't supposed to be, and pay close attention to every single bit of marketing or every single action the actors take or say or whatever, any scrap of info you can get on it, and you play or watch it and you never get disappointed, that's fine in your case I guess. But what I'm saying is that many people do engage in those behaviors almost obsessively, which leads them to fall victim to a marketing machine that morphs their expectations of what the final product is going to be like and how great it will be, and then they come out the other end feeling disappointed and betrayed. A lot of people can't handle it healthily and don't have the, for lack of a better word, principle to stop themselves from having too high expectations. Often being tricked because many games and movies are advertised these days with things that are not even in the final product. A lot of people routinely find themselves disappointed by media they had extremely high expectations for, feeling like they've been personally betrayed by the creators. 'S not good for you. It's not even good for media at the end of the day. If people had some more restraint, maybe companies would take advantage of them less. Maybe movie trailers would reveal less, maybe E3 wouldn't be a fucking disaster, maybe the games and movies we get shown before release wouldn't feature content the creators can't actually deliver, maybe early access would be a marginal part of Steam and not it's own genre filled to the brim with half-baked games that will never get finished, and so on.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49273833]Eh, I think you have a lot more innocent view of this kind of thing than I do but I also think we aren't talking about quite the same thing. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pmW9uFBuE[/media] Here, I think this puts it a lot better than I can while providing a lot of specific examples along the way. I guess if you honestly get super excited over media releases, watch trailers, pick apart background scenes, read leaked scripts, look at random behind the scenes photos that may or may not have been taken when they weren't supposed to be, and pay close attention to every single bit of marketing or every single action the actors take or say or whatever, any scrap of info you can get on it, and you play or watch it and you never get disappointed, that's fine in your case I guess. But what I'm saying is that many people do engage in those behaviors almost obsessively, which leads them to fall victim to a marketing machine that morphs their expectations of what the final product is going to be like and how great it will be, and then they come out the other end feeling disappointed and betrayed. A lot of people can't handle it healthily and don't have the, for lack of a better word, principle to stop themselves from having too high expectations. Often being tricked because many games and movies are advertised these days with things that are not even in the final product. A lot of people routinely find themselves disappointed by media they had extremely high expectations for, feeling like they've been personally betrayed by the creators. 'S not good for you. It's not even good for media at the end of the day. If people had some more restraint, maybe companies would take advantage of them less. Maybe movie trailers would reveal less, maybe E3 wouldn't be a fucking disaster, maybe the games and movies we get shown before release wouldn't feature content the creators can't actually deliver, maybe early access would be a marginal part of Steam and not it's own genre filled to the brim with half-baked games that will never get finished, and so on.[/QUOTE] i hadn't considered the marketing aspect of it before, and i do agree that i don't like it, but creating excitement for a product is precisely what an advertisement is supposed to do however, i still don't agree with you, yes being too excited for something will cause you to get disappointed, that should go without saying, but being hyped is still not a bad thing the people who do all that little stuff like look at behind the scenes photos would have extremely high expectations regardless, the only people who look at things like that are people who are already super excited advertisements warping people's expectations isn't a new thing nor is it caused by 'hype culture', but i dont like the idea of telling people to stop being so excited for something if someone is excited and then disappointed, that's too bad, but it's their own fault really if they're excited, let them be excited and if they're disappointed, let them be disappointed all those marketing things you mention at the end would still be the same, regardless of the existence of 'hype culture', even if people stopped having high expectations for things, movie and game trailers would still be the same, as would E3, and people would buy early access regardless, it's a shitty business practice but it's definitely not the fault of 'hype culture' honestly, i see where you're coming from, but you can't expect all people to try to be extremely unexcited about everything, that would just be boring being excited is fun and talking with people who are excited is fun and doing things about things you're excited for is fun, sure some people have problems and are obsessive about that kind of stuff, but 'hype culture' isn't the cause of that and people shouldn't stop being excited because of that

[QUOTE=usaokay;49273955]People are more upset that FF7 Remake going to be episodic. [/QUOTE] ... Come again?

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49273996]I couldn't see them releasing each episode as a $70 game, so what's it matter? The gameplay looks solid, we know it's going to have a good story, the graphics look beautiful and we get it sooner. What's to complain about, again?[/QUOTE] The price in the end is what I fear. As long as it doesn't go above the price of a normal AAA game then I suppose it's fine. Hopefully people wouldn't have to launch every episode individually and will be able to just play the entire game when they all are released

[QUOTE=usaokay;49274281][url]http://www.geek.com/games/final-fantasy-vii-remake-is-episodic-to-stop-content-being-cut-1641526/[/url][/QUOTE] Since we are on the subject, I think the time has come to drop episodic gaming once and for all I don't know under which premises it was born, but nowadays is another gaming trend (among MOBAs, cartoonish shooters and shoved open world) that fails to meet its supposed objectives (namely, no cutting content and better overall quality. For reference, see Telltale games)

I have never felt the desire to purchase any episodic game with the exception of HL2:E1/2 (and I only got E1 because it came with the orange box) but that might be because they generally seem incredibly uninteresting. What's the deal with Telltale games? are they just totally linear story-type things or what? there are a gazillion of them on steam and none of them look fun

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49275558]I have never felt the desire to purchase any episodic game with the exception of HL2:E1/2 (and I only got E1 because it came with the orange box) but that might be because they generally seem incredibly uninteresting. What's the deal with Telltale games? are they just totally linear story-type things or what? there are a gazillion of them on steam and none of them look fun[/QUOTE] They seem to be heading towards making their games more linear, unfortunately. though when they first started they were a lot more traditional with their point and click games.

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;49264904]I think Game of Thrones is overrated as fuck and I don't enjoy it at all, but I'm not about to start calling out the fans on it and suggesting that they're all horrible people. Are you sure [B]you're[/B] not the psychopath?[/QUOTE] Ok ok, I apologise for over reacting and making a brash sweeping statement.

Game of thrones is like... Okay, you remember in The Two Towers when Gandalf prevents Aragorn from killing Wormtongue in Rohan? And then later, Wormtongue stabs Saruman in the back right as he decides to work with the good guys? It was in the extended edition, anyways. You think, "okay, they definitely should've just killed wormtongue" - but what's the difference between good guys and bad guys? You're not supposed to do the right thing on the off-chance that it'll eventually pay off, you're supposed to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. It's the only moment I can think of in the LotR films that asks meaningful questions about morality. Game of Thrones, despite being totally asinine and immature about a lot of things (TITTIES AND PSYCHOPATHS, SEASON RENEWAL PLEASE) treats the issue of morality with more of the complexity that it deserves. Different characters visibly become more good or more evil as they grow, and the show swirls with uncertainty about what it even means to be good or evil. Idealism and pragmatism clash pretty constantly, as well as selflessness and selfishness and empathy and apathy. The show has too many great moments and great characters for it to be cast aside because of its occasional writing problems.

The Knights of the Old Republic games aren't very fun in terms of gameplay

I think cyber-bullying is wrong and unjustifiable.

[QUOTE=Dark Swan;49277465]I think cyber-bullying is wrong and unjustifiable.[/QUOTE] haha just walk away nigga words on the screen My middle school history teacher who I didn't appreciate nearly enough had a quote for every day in class, one of them was "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words can destroy me". People underestimate how much damage you can do to someone emotionally with words if they're vulnerable enough. I'm kind of guilty of this shit but I've stopped, this "realz > feelz" mentality or whatever shouldn't really be a thing because some of the things you can say, even if it sounds petty, can ruin a person.

I'm not gonna call someone a pussy or anything like that over being vulnerable to bullying, but I feel like we should still help those people who are vulnerable to get better at ignoring hurtful words. In a gentle way, of course.

[QUOTE=Aldawolf;49277505]haha just walk away nigga words on the screen My middle school history teacher who I didn't appreciate nearly enough had a quote for every day in class, one of them was "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words can destroy me". People underestimate how much damage you can do to someone emotionally with words if they're vulnerable enough. I'm kind of guilty of this shit but I've stopped, this "realz > feelz" mentality or whatever shouldn't really be a thing because some of the things you can say, even if it sounds petty, can ruin a person.[/QUOTE] I think the internet has evolved past simply being [I]just[/I] the internet. It's becoming a major source of social interaction whether people like it or not, and as I've said before I've met cool people through the internet. People are quick to look at the situation and see the fact that this bullying occurs over the net and therefore invalidate it simply because they don't want to stoop to such an [I]antisocial[/I] level, or worse they don't want to analyze the fact that their words actually have meaning. It's easier to be a shithead and not face the fact that you're being one than it is to be a shithead and then suddenly realize you're making the place toxic. I totally agree that people should take things easier (even some Facepunch members on this forum), but at the same time I don't get why people can't resist being a gigantic dick. And of course the defense will be to say "I'm just fucking around and it's your fault you feel that way" at best, or the response will be to intensify the harassment with remarks about the "hugbox". I'd rather hang in the hugbox.

[QUOTE=Dark Swan;49277465]I think cyber-bullying is wrong and unjustifiable.[/QUOTE] it's hard to take cyberbullying as a serious threat when there's block/ignore features everywhere and basically every internet enabled device can be turned off. instead of trying to stop cyberbullying or even validating it as a threat by trying to combat it in any form, we should teach people how to properly react to it.

[QUOTE=Aldawolf;49277505]haha just walk away nigga words on the screen My middle school history teacher who I didn't appreciate nearly enough had a quote for every day in class, one of them was "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words can destroy me". People underestimate how much damage you can do to someone emotionally with words if they're vulnerable enough. I'm kind of guilty of this shit but I've stopped, this "realz > feelz" mentality or whatever shouldn't really be a thing because some of the things you can say, even if it sounds petty, can ruin a person.[/QUOTE] Cyber-bullying at its worst isn't just people typing mean things on the internet that you can just walk away from. At it's worst it follows you into real life. People spreading harsh rumors or compromising pictures can make day to day life pretty shitty. Our daily lives have become so integrated with the internet it's not hard to think of ways people can fuck with other people that they can't just ignore. It's like trying to say that to stop normal bullying you just have to ignore the bully. The only people that say this are people who've never had to deal with a genuinely dedicated bully. A better thing to encourage would be to better define cyber-bullying to differentiate it from actual bullying and someone just being a cock for shits and giggles.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49278620]Cyberbullying at its worst isn't just people typing mean things on the internet that you can just walk away from. At it's worst it follows you into real life. People spreading harsh rumors or compromising pictures can make day to day life pretty shitty.[/QUOTE] This is a serious problem that's not dependent on someone's internet presence.

[QUOTE=Qaus;49278631]This is a serious problem that's not dependent on someone's internet presence.[/QUOTE] It's not wholly different from regular bullying admittedly but it's not like the only time people say "cyber-bullying" is when someone says "lol fuck you, you fat pig" in a chat room. Dismissing an instance just because it's called cyber-bullying probably causes more harm than good.

In that case we need clearly defined traits for the term 'cyber-bullying' so we know what is and isn't a problem. [editline]9th December 2015[/editline] unpopular opinion: destiny is primarily a fantasy game that takes place in the future. it obviously does have sci-fi elements but i feel like calling it "sci-fantasy" is a misnomer because the sci-fi and fantasy elements rarely directly mix with eachother. [editline]9th December 2015[/editline] e.g. you're wearing power armor shooting aliens from another planet, but headshots result in the aliens' [I]literal soul[/I] pouring out of their neck.

Its much more complicated than that. You ignoring it and walking away from the screen, doesn't stop them lying about you and spreading false hoods. If you leave it unchecked there won't be a reputation to go back to. The truth is a majority of the bullying happens to an individual who fucks up once and is never forgiven for it. Forced to live the rest of their life as a laughing stock, cause a group of people prefer to live as massive pricks, than to be a human being. They get stalked, harassed, raided and doxed. And if people start to raise moral questions, the bullies remind the community what they did some odd billion years ago and say that their victim deserves everything coming to them. [I]You write something stupid on a forum? You get bullied for life. You make a bad piece of art? You get bullied for life. You apologise for what you done and promise not to fuck up again. They don't give a rats ass, then dos you. [/I] Worst of all if you do the right thing and defend any of these victims, you would be called a "White Knight" and loose all legitimacy in all arguments, just cause you have a bigger conscience. I seen it happen too much and it has to stop. The sad thing is it is very hard to change this culture, and if you even think of touching legislation, you get accused of "hating freedom of speech". Well excuse me for not having my speech comprised of only of Slander and Libel.

Most of Fix-Up Look Sharp thread stuff looks like try-hard trash.

[QUOTE=kyle877;49279134]Most of Fix-Up Look Sharp thread stuff looks like try-hard trash.[/QUOTE] examples pls

[QUOTE=kyle877;49279134]Most of Fix-Up Look Sharp thread stuff looks like try-hard trash.[/QUOTE] I'd love to know how.

like, i really don't know what you're talking about looking through the last pages of fuls, it's nothing but very simple coats, sweaters and shirts. nothing particularly unusual or strange. i'm legit curious because i visit it daily and i hardly ever see anything i'd call "try hard trash"

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;49279168]examples pls[/QUOTE] I'mma try and pick out pictures that aren't of actual FP'ers, 'cuz I don't wanna be a huge dick. Now I'm not saying every single example in there is trash, but I certainly think it looks absolutely ridiculous. [t]http://i.imgur.com/6IzgXMF.jpg[/t] I actually think this guy looks okay, but the way he has his pants over his boots(?) looks garbage, especially with that color. [t]http://i59.tinypic.com/1zx19tt.jpg[/t] Or wearing pants that are too short to actually reach the top of your shoes. It makes you look like you accidentally bought a pair of kids pants, but are too shy to go back and return them. [t]http://images0.chictopia.com/photos/mckenneth/6283478279/gold-sweater-sweater_400.jpg[/t] This embodies everything i hate about the FULS ideals.

Filters on emulators are unnecessary and do horrible things to the image. Just get an IPS display and calibrate it.

I cant really comment on fashion because I can't dress for shit.