Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
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[QUOTE=Badballer;49916833]Sorry for the flaming, but anti vaxxers are where I lose it a bit. I'll edit my post.[/QUOTE]
That's understandable, just be careful with that sort of thing. I'll edit my quote from you so that people don't gang up on you.
I swear to god if there is another major epidemic of a nearly erraticated disease in a developed nation it will be the result of a bunch of anti-vaxxers living in the same neighborhood.
"bruh herd immunity? fuck that lets get sick and infect other people 'specially the immunodeficient 'cos nature and freedom am I right"
As offensive as this apparently is to people who are way more proactive about their country than everyone else is, I think if there really is nobody on the ballot you want as president, and there's [I]nobody[/I] going you agree with, or you really do not care at all about politics, you are not morally (and shouldn't be legally) obligated to vote and you shouldn't. I think it should be as easy as possible, I think ideally you should vote, but guilt tripping everyone is not the solution to voter apathy.
And yes, I believe it's perfectly valid to complain about the political system as it is, or the president, even if you didn't vote.
[QUOTE=Badballer;49916833]Sorry for the flaming, but anti vaxxers are where I lose it a bit. I'll edit my post.[/QUOTE]
I'm not an anti-vaxxer. learn to read and then return.
[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;49916867]"bruh herd immunity? fuck that lets get sick and infect other people 'specially the immunodeficient 'cos nature and freedom am I right"[/QUOTE]
same with you. I support medical immunization and oppose the practice of the government strongarming people into doing the right thing. I also think a person should have complete control of their own body and what goes into it. These are not crazy ideas.
Do you at least agree that the government should enforce vaccinations in the case where the person is not able to make that choice, like children?
At least the Aus gov is taking some preliminary steps in the right direction with no jab no pay (and I believe it was NSW with no jab no play).
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49916381]the... millions? roughly 30,000 people die from flu-related complications (usually respiratory inhibition) yearly, the vast majority of which are older than 65. This isn't "millions" of innocent toddlers dropping dead from an easily preventable disease;
the number of annual childhood flu-related fatalities is about 97.
so: flu vaccination is already very popular; deaths are very low, and almost all of them are among the demographic which is already looking for an excuse to clock out.
You're saying we should give one of the most unpopular governments in the Western world - the one which was knowingly performing crimes against humanity only forty years ago - the power to [i]force medical procedures on people,[/i] in order to save .2 out of every 100,000 children?
how about this: educate the public about vaccines, make them easily available, and let nature take its course. we already do that, and the system works completely fine.[/QUOTE]
you're forgetting the existence of other diseases too
like if it wasn't for antivaxxers and "muh freedom" idiots, then measles wouldn't exist anymore. a lot of dieases have made a return because of retards and hack frauds like andrew wakefield
What I don't get is that you're against dipshits voting because they are dipshits, but having them vaccinated by law is wrong because it infringes upon their rights?
[QUOTE=Qaus;49911209]Donald Trump would do less harm to America than Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton.[/QUOTE]
Just wanted to clarify exactly why I hold this opinion:
Ted Cruz is a Christian fundamentalist (aka Christian extremist), the last thing this country needs the combination of church and state. He literally implored to people to [I]ignore[/I] the gay rights Supreme Court ruling. He constantly talks about God and prayer and whatnot, and we definitely do not want this man in office. Like, at all costs. If he gets the Republican vote, vote Democrat.
Hillary Clinton is scum. She's a liar, a prime example of flip-flopping, and she parrots. She's a corporate sellout and enjoys playing the sexism card. She bought out the Human Rights Campaign probably with her Citi/Goldman Sachs/JPMorgan Chase funding just to try and steal the LGBT vote, which is ironic because a literal quote from her is "I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman." When approached after coming out as a supporter of LGBT rights later on, she replied with "I 'evolved' on gay marriage". Yeah right, to say Hillary 'evolved' on gay marriage is like saying Peter Parker 'slightly changed' after being bit by a radioactive spider. Quit reading from a script you sad excuse for a human wallet. She's like her own husband's antithesis. She calls herself a Democrat but she's far from. If Hillary gets the Democratic vote, vote Republican.
Trump, on the other hand, isn't a Christian extremist and he can't be bought out. He has no script and has no reason to lie about anything. There's some things he rarely talks about probably because his public speaking habits are poor, but he legit wants to amend America's relations with Russia and wants to stop any and all military activity outside of areas that are a direct threat to America or its allies. (Most of the middle east!) That's actually his plan to reduce national debt because he's absolutely mortified by how much military spending is going on. [URL="http://i.imgur.com/24W4AAJ.jpg"]That sounds familiar, doesn't it?[/URL]
He's a loudmouth and a jerk and says a lot of racist stuff, but the worst he could do to the country is public image. His Great Wall of America won't be finished. The logistics and its funding plans are a joke and he's going to give up when Mexico says "nah". It also won't even do anything other than mildly insult any and all people living south of the border. There's literal tunnels underneath the existing fence and a wall won't fix that. Oh and to anyone saying he hates immigrants, that's entirely false. He hates [I]illegal[/I] immigrants. I'm pretty sure he's mentioned at one point that he wanted to streamline the citizenship process, especially so for people crossing the Mexican border (yell at me very angrily if this is wrong.)
If it comes down to Cruz vs Hillary, it doesn't matter who you vote for, we're boned.
Bernie Sanders >>> Donald Trump >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest.
You're forgetting that Trump's not a politician, he's a businessman, and history has shown that they don't make for the best presidents
He isn't even that great of a businessman.
Plus his top income/corporate tax cuts is estimated to add 10 trillion debt within the next decade.
You have the right to do more or less what you want, as long as it does not harm others.
Refusing to get vaccinated directly harms others.
I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about this.
Hillary voted with Sanders on 93% of issues and puts out democrat policies that are slightly less left leaning than Sanders. Calling Hillary a republican is delusional and is one of the biggest and most dangerous lies the democrats could be dealing with. It's like you've never even read up on her and just get all your info from /r/politics
Anyone who's first candidate is Sanders and second candidate is Trump is less politically intelligent than any Trump supporter, and that's saying a lot
[QUOTE=xZippy;49915731]The Wire has to be one of the most boring shows I've ever seen in my life.[/QUOTE]
Your opinion is so wrong and shit I will literally fight you for it if you come to Australia.
I'm really sick of post apocalyptic/monster stories having a theme of "the real monster is MAN" and being the same/very similar character analysis that several other movies already did
The gaming industry's recent focus on fighters, MOBAs, eSports, VR, and the Souls series still annoys the utter piss out of me.
All of those I'm either apathetic to or utterly despise and it seems they're the only things gamers these days care about. Can't wait for the whole "prove your worth" gaming trend to be over.
Way ahead of you. Of the three Gen8 consoles, it's the only one I own.
Seems like every single other gamer and game developer on Earth disagrees with me, though. "It's only [i]true[/i] gaming when you're climbing the ranks and crushing the inferior beneath your feet, bro."
What exactly is the "prove your worth" trend? Competitive gaming? Challenging games? Because both of those have been going on for decades now.
What are "Prove your worth" games? Fighting games are one on one match up that have been around for 25 years, MOBAs and eSports are just the evolution of competetive RTS and FPS, which been things for about 20 years also, and the Souls games underlying theme is literally "You can achieve great things if you don't give up."
VR is just a nascent technology which will (if it doesn't flop) become an alternative to playing on a flat screen, some games will be great, some games will be awful, and some games will be fine but not use VR in a meaningful way. In other words it'll be the exact same as today except you can move your head and the view will change. Conceptually, not literally.
VR is the only thing there that's "Prove your worth" and it is the thing that has to do the proving itself. To many people it already has, not to me but I don't care about VR either way.
If you think the game industry is just "fighters, MOBAs, eSports, VR, and the Souls series" then you're pretty blind to the state of things.
- Shooters are becoming more experimental now that the mainstream audience is thoroughly fatigued with the modern setting, many of them are trying to recreate the feeling of old shooters such as Wolfenstein or Doom, and the ones that aren't are trying to reinvent the mechanics of old shooters with advanced movement abilities.
- Story based games like Telltale's series and Life is Strange, along with Walking Simulators like Gone Home and Ether One have found a comfortable niche.
- Stealth games have received a huge boost with Metal Gear, Splinter Cell, Hitman, and Dishonored having high profile releases. While smaller stealth games like Invisible Inc, Volume, Gunpoint, and Mark of the Ninja have brought stealth out to people who don't normally look at the genre. Thief, while not a good Thief game, had solid mechanics behind it that could show promise for a future game, but hopefully a new IP rather than a sequel.
- RPGs have exploded in recent years with casual RPGs like Skyrim and Fallout 4 selling better than their predecessors ever did, the old school revival with Divinity: Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity, and the upcoming Torment: Tides of Numenera all having wildwly successful crowdfunding campaigns. On top of The Witcher 3 being the most gargantuan RPG ever released with a well told main story, a huge world, and a ton of little details in the environment.
- Strategy games too are doing well, even if RTS has lost its throne, we have a multitude of Turn Based Strategy games with Civilization, XCOM, Age of Wonders, Endless Legend, GalCiv 3, and many others released pretty regularly. We also have games like Frozen Synapse, Door Kickers, Frozen Cortex, and Blitzkreig 3 to cover you real time tactics stuff, though AFAIK they do all have a pause to plan function.
- Racing games are also doing very well, especially on PC which is fucking unprecedented, with Assetto Corsa, Project Cars, Dirt Rally, BeamNG.drive, and the Need for Speed games all available. There's even Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Microsoft are even bringing Forza to the PC, that was almost unthinkable 2 months ago.
- Indie games too have had a number of notable games, Superhot, The Witness, Rocket League, Hotline Miami, Undertale, and a ton of others that I can't remember off the top of my head. Indies have recognised that they need to stand out in an absurdly saturated market and we're getting absolute diamonds from it.
We live in a time where Deus Ex is getting a sequel and people are confident that it will be good and live up to the spirit of the original. A time where Ubisoft have decided to lengthen the time they spend developing their flagship franchise, where EA have given a Mass Effect game more time in development rather than push it out the door with its development issues, where Activision of all companies has increased the development time of Call of Duty to raise the quality of their games. If anything I'd say we're at the beginning of a new golden age for gaming, much like the early 2000s there is a wealth of quality and variety rarely seen. Sure there's more absolute garbage than ever but there have always been terrible games and awful business practices, you shouldn't let that spoil the great things that are out there though.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing came out in 2003, you know hat else came out in 2003? Rayman 3, R6 Raven Shield, Midnight Club 2, Rise of Nations, Planetside, Knights of the Old Republic, SSX 3, and a fucking ton of other incredible games. You forget the bad games, you remember the awful games, and you cherish the good games. Don't let the bad games of today ruin things for you, chances are you won't remember them in 10 years.
[QUOTE=Clovis;49923326]uh no? i play dark souls cause i like the lore and gameplay. i dont think people play these games cause they have something to prove, unless they're presented that way[/QUOTE]
To be fair, the general mentality in our Dark Souls thread is that you either passively accept every shit the players pull off in PvP and every bad design choice on the part of the developers or you are labelled as a scrublord who didn't "get" the "main ideas" behind the game and who should totally "get better"
[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49923624]To be fair, the general mentality in our Dark Souls thread is that you either passively accept every shit the players pull off in PvP and every bad design choice on the part of the developers or you are labelled as a scrublord who didn't "get" the "main ideas" behind the game and who should totally "get better"[/QUOTE]
The Dark Souls thread literally gave you answers to every question you asked. You disregarded most of those answers and then went on to bitch about the game because you did things people specifically advised you to not do. Of course people aren't going to take you calling the way the game does things "archaic bullshit" when that's the reason many people like the games.
Also people in the Dark Souls thread constantly talk about the problems with the games.
Do I have to actually quote the whole "if you don't leave yourself open to invasion then you are not playing the game right" bandwagon or the endless mockery to whoever had even the tamest bad experience with Dark Souls II?
Also, I'd like YOU to quote things such as
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49923692]The Dark Souls thread literally gave you answers to every question you asked. You disregarded most of those answers and then went on to bitch about the game because you did things people specifically advised you to not do.
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[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49923703]Do I have to actually quote the whole "if you don't leave yourself open to invasion then you are not playing the game right" bandwagon or the endless mockery to whoever had even the tamest bad experience with Dark Souls II?
Also, I'd like YOU to quote things such as[/QUOTE]
There's no bandwagon. People are just sick of casual players complaining that they can't summon their friends to play and also block invaders. That's not the point of the game, it isn't a happy coop game and it wasn't marketed as such. People know full well what the game is when they go into it, hell they usually go into it with an exaggerated view of the difficulty, and yet they complain that the game doesn't capitulate to their wants.
The people who play these games once and then whine that they got invaded, despite knowing full well that that happens in the game, have actively ruined the PvP systems for the active community. In Bloodborne PvP is dead because of how awkward it is to actually get an invasion, and in SotFS invading isn't worth the time because you run the risk of being outnumbered 3 to 1, or 4 to 2.
As for the second point, do you actually want me to dig through the old thread just to find posts where people gave you advice and you disregarded it?
play it offline if that's how you want to play the game but don't act like the PvP system is badly-designed
I don't enjoy a lot of intentionally bad, ugly, disgusting and usually oversexualized animation. Y'know, the kind of shit Adult Swim loves. Stuff like this
[img]http://i.cdn.turner.com/adultswim/big/img/2014/06/17/king-star-king_tn.jpg[/img]
I don't even know why this exists except for it's own sake and maybe the animators can't do animation that isn't disgusting and really just bad, but I don't find it funny or get why anyone would find it funny (like is it supposed to be funny I genuinely don't know), or interesting or, anything but thoroughly unpleasant really
it doesn't help that a lot of these shows try to be offensive but missed the memo about being offensive to prove a point or give some kind of message, or to be funny, or, anything, it's just trying to be offensive for the sake of being offensive to stir controversy, which is just fucking garbage attention whoring (no matter how much irony you're doing it with for fuck's sake) that requires no talent
but this is the kind of thing that fanboys jump all over and are like no it's ~TRYING~ to be offensive and immature, as if being offensive has some kind of inherent value
critikal sucks and his voice sucks even more
After experiencing the game myself on the PC, I must confess that Dragon's Dogma could be, shall we say, less [I]good[/I] than what I expected it to be
All the current name brand hand moisturizers are utter shit, and will never compare to beef tallow or the smoothness your hands have after tanning hides with brains.
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