• Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
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[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49945757]I plan on getting a graduate degree in history. The only real job prospects are professors and writing books about subjects. But according to people like Scott Walker that's a "useless" endeavor. I should be an engineer that "actually" contributes to society. My intellectual pursuits are "worthless" because we base our "worth" on purely money. Before, college was about becoming a well rounded individual with your education and challenging your worldviews. Now people don't care and go "ugh do I have to take these liberal arts classes for my *SNORT* computer science degree". College was creating a better citizen and a better person. Every class you take is valuable to that. Now it's just become glorified vocational schools. Also, you can say the same for any degree. You can literally learn to program by yourself with books and tutorials on the internet. But so many people pay for a computer science degree. Why? You can learn anything by yourself, but you're going to mix up all the information and sometimes some concepts are important to learn before others (This goes for like, any subject). Classes are there to construct concepts for you in a manner that's easy to digest and puts everything into an easier perspective. They're built to make understanding knowledge less of a burden and use the experience of the teachers to give you the rundown. Liberal arts are built to deconstruct your worldview and challenge everything you've known in life and see things from different perspectives and value discussion. Liberal arts challenges the system as well. Problem is the system is winning, and nobody cares about liberal arts anymore. There are fewer and fewer liberal arts degrees coming out the door. People acting like "omg all these liberal art grads" haha yeah right. They're all probably business grads. Physical science grads are going down too. Before you could feel like going to college for whatever you feel is your passion or drive. Now you're told "No, English degree is worthless, you're ruining yourself, get this engineering degree, or this business degree, or this nursing degree."[/QUOTE] If you're that angry about what people will think of your college degree then just don't go. I feel like I'm learning more than I was when I was interning and getting more connections with people which helps build what I have learned in my classes. I also have gotten insight from my professors that I wouldn't have gotten from reading a book or watching videos because it's harder to say whatever you want in a book then in a classroom.
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49945757]Before, college was about becoming a well rounded individual with your education and challenging your worldviews. [high horse bs..] College was creating a better citizen and a better person. Every class you take is valuable to that. Now it's just become glorified vocational schools. [/QUOTE] The fuck does this mean? You're implying that you're above the people that don't take liberal arts classes, you know. If whatever branch of liberal arts is what you're into, go for it, but Jesus Christ tone down your attitude a bit. [editline]16th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Ghost_Nixon;49945909]If you're that angry about what people will think of your college degree then just don't go. I feel like I'm learning more than I was when I was interning and getting more connections with people which helps build what I have learned in my classes. I also have gotten insight from my professors that I wouldn't have gotten from reading a book or watching videos because it's harder to say whatever you want in a book then in a classroom.[/QUOTE] The ability to ask professional people aren't just there in a book either. It's hard to question a book like you can a teacher/professor
[QUOTE=Ghost_Nixon;49945909]If you're that angry about what people will think of your college degree then just don't go. I feel like I'm learning more than I was when I was interning and getting more connections with people which helps build what I have learned in my classes. I also have gotten insight from my professors that I wouldn't have gotten from reading a book or watching videos because it's harder to say whatever you want in a book then in a classroom.[/QUOTE] If missing the point was an art you'd be Leonardo Da Vinci. Literally a sentence after I said "You can learn on your own" I mentioned how much help classes can be. And it's clearly much more than just "people angry at my degree", it's the systematic opposition to anything having to do with my degree. Also, internships don't really apply to liberal arts classes much at all. Maybe you can sell your soul to get a publisher to look at you're writing and build your portfolio. People feel "Forced" into taking an engineering degree. Not saying every engineer is forced into it; as I said, people have passion for everything in the books. But more and more people who AREN'T passionate force themselves to take the classes. I nearly fell victim to this myself and felt like it was a societal pressure on me. I decided fuck the system and went for what I want. But people aren't doing that. Seriously "Angry abotu what people think about my degree". I'm upset over a systematic withdrawal from liberal arts education and cultural perceptions and shaming of the degrees. It's far more than "just upset". It goes beyond that. What a goddamn over simplification of an idea.
For all the flaws and cost that his actions involved, Mao Zedong was overall what China really needed if it wanted to be and remain a world power. Maybe not it (or anyone else did for that matter) wanted or liked , but what it needed
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;49946054]For all the flaws and cost that his actions involved, Mao Zedong was overall what China really needed if it wanted to be and remain a world power. Maybe not it (or anyone else did for that matter) wanted or liked , but what it needed[/QUOTE] If that's the case then it wasn't worth it.
I wish more Academy Award winning films were more fun than "arthouse." It's like 90% of them are totally depressing or sappy romance films with odd directions to get a rise out of viewers. "The diseased/addicted/mentally impaired always get the Oscar." [IMG]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oscarbait_9451.jpg[/IMG] (Steven Seagal is shit, but you get the point.) Mad Max: Fury Road, despite what many people think here, is a good example that you could have a fun action film with engaging characters. tl;da: I hate Oscarbation films.
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;49946666]I wish more Academy Award winning films were more fun than "arthouse." It's like 90% of them are totally depressing or sappy romance films with odd directions to get a rise out of viewers. "The diseased/addicted/mentally impaired always get the Oscar." Mad Max: Fury Road, despite what many people think here, is a good example that you could have a fun action film with engaging characters. tl;da: I hate Oscarbation films.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't even call this an unpopular opinion, there are pages dedicated to this on TVTropes. Being fun and creative is inversely related to your chances of winning awards in the entertainment mediums. Works that can double as news story specials, on the other hand, get rave reviews for being realistic portrayals. Newbery Medal books in particular are notorious for it.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;49946732]I wouldn't even call this an unpopular opinion, there are pages dedicated to this on TVTropes. Being fun and creative is inversely related to your chances of winning awards in the entertainment mediums. Works that can double as news story specials, on the other hand, get rave reviews for being realistic portrayals. Newbery Medal books in particular are notorious for it.[/QUOTE] I just wish films didn't try so hard to be deep when they should be geared towards being creative and engaging.
[url]https://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/[/url] If you still can't understand what I'm talking about, I urge you to read this essay.
I would gladly pay for Paid Mods. The problem is the fact that the majority of them are literally unsupervised and put no effort into at all.
[QUOTE=doomevil;49947139]I would gladly pay for Paid Mods. The problem is the fact that the majority of them are literally unsupervised and put no effort into at all.[/QUOTE] I think paid mods are a nonfunctioning idea in the majority of cases. On paper it sounds great, because guy makes thing for the game and gets rewarded for his work, but it's so much worse in practice. Nevermind that Valve wants so much of the cut that there's no incentive to make paid mods, there's so much theft, copyright infringement, and instability with the product that I don't see modding as a viable market for major titles in any realistic circumstance.
You're right in that the bad outweigh the good, in terms of competition and lower quality and companies taking advantage of that. I suppose donations and a patreon is a better alternative to getting paid.
It should at least be very heavily curated, as in, most mods flat out aren't capable of being accepted.
Most of the issues with paid mods were already brought to light during the Skyrim paid mods debacle. Even if the pay was fairer to the modder, even if you're fine with more microtransactions, even if it wasn't superimposed on a heavily entrenched free modding scene, even if it didn't encourage companies to be lazier with their games and reap money from modders who do their job for them, the biggest issue is quality control. It works fine for Valve games where mods are largely aesthetic, but the more things that can go wrong with mods, the more of a nightmare it becomes to have quality control, especially regarding compatibility between mods. Imagine having to buy and install something like [URL=http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/12249/?]FCOM for Oblivion[/URL], one of the largest and most complex overhauls ever made. Not only that, but it is a mod that relies on multiple other mods, each with their own complications.
I have an absolutely inflexible no-microtransaction policy for games that aren't free. If they want to start charging for mods, well, no more mods.
It appears that Tom Clancy's The Division is yet another piece of unremarkable garbage that has been advertised in the past months as the messiah of open world and shooter games, capable of changing the genre forever And the sad thing is that people keep jumping on such bandwagons with zero critical spirit and learned NOTHING from the Destiny debacle
[QUOTE=GarbageCan;49946855][url]https://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/[/url] If you still can't understand what I'm talking about, I urge you to read this essay.[/QUOTE] I still would like to have an explanation of what makes you such a better citizen, just because you've taken liberal arts, and why you feel like you're better than say, a plumber
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49942059] ridding america of obamacare and gay marriage will be incredibly easy for him to get the ball rolling on, which would be pretty fucked[/QUOTE] Gay marriage was a supreme court thing, he can't do anything about that.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;49951282]I still would like to have an explanation of what makes you such a better citizen, just because you've taken liberal arts, and why you feel like you're better than say, a plumber[/QUOTE] I never said it was just liberal arts, it's having a well rounded higher education. There's a reason they make you take unrelated classes to your major as electives. I have a history major and I still have to take math and science classes, and I'd say those are important to having a well rounded education as well.
I liked Donkey Kong 64
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49952652]I liked Donkey Kong 64[/QUOTE] I wasn't aware that this was unpopular? I love that game.
[QUOTE=Nintendo-Guy;49952673]I wasn't aware that this was unpopular? I love that game.[/QUOTE] I thought so too until I started seeing people talk about it where everyone apparently thinks it's worse than Banjo Kazooie and an excessive collectathon and shit :v:
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49952695]I thought so too until I started seeing people talk about it where everyone apparently thinks it's worse than Banjo Kazooie and an excessive collectathon and shit :v:[/QUOTE] to be fair saying "worse than banjo kazooie" doesn't mean that its a bad game
Epic Games should put a $15 price tag on UT4 if it means keeping mods free. Don't get me wrong, I'd be willing to pay for mods though I also acknowledge Bethesda's paid mod controversy, and I think Epic would rather distance themselves from said controversy.
OVER 32 HOURS OF CAMPAIGN GAMEPLAY (if you can be arsed to collect everything, if not, its actually 4 hours long)
I don't like the use of character classes in games. That doesn't necessarily mean I think they're bad games or it really hinders the experience for me, but I would just like to customize my character completely to my liking.
I know this is the opinion we joke at in the thread title, but for real, I really don't like Half Life 2, at least not anymore now that I'm older. I've definitely always thought the game is just ugly. Regardless of the graphics technology and how good it was at the time or whatever, the game looks horrendous (a lot of it being due to the awful textures with grass that looks like grass after a cat's eaten it and puked it back up and whatnot), the guns are some of the weakest sounding and feeling I've ever seen in a game, the puzzles are obnoxious, stupid, and bring the game's flow to a complete halt at random, and the parts that I do like where it's some big shootout in a city or whatever are thrown out the window frequently for sections that are just fucking boring and make me go ugh whenever I realize I'm going to have to spend the next hour or two playing them to get to something I like, like the boat section and the car section and Ravenholm. I do love me some Half Life 1 though.
I like religion.
HL2 is [i]still[/i] fucking incredible, and is still #1 in FPS worldbuilding. Highway 17 alone has more post-apocalypse than all of Fallout 4.
The only thing I don't like about hl2 is the bullet sponge enemies.
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