• Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
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[QUOTE=Rudevinny;51158337]How about Sikhism? While it probably has its share of dicks like every religion, I don't recall hearing anything overly bad about Sikhs. The teachings of Sikhism are also very positive from what I've read.[/QUOTE] But they're also a really small population, so of course you won't hear too much. From what I know they're okay and compared to hinduism the equality they teach is quite a breath of fresh air. also carrying a knife around for your religion is pretty rad
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51155902]Because to do good, you have to have the potential to do bad and that potential to do bad is essential to free will. There is no point in having a creation that is only capable of doing good because it does not have the choice of doing something that is not good. The good are only good when contrasted against the bad. The bible records 4 people that went their entire lives without committing a sin but we don't hold them in special regard because they have never had an opportunity to fail and rise again higher from that failure. Also, why do you assume that god is benevolent? What restricts God from creating evil as well as creating good? As I talked about earlier, evil is needed to drive people to do good.[/QUOTE] I didn't say make it impossible to do bad anyways. I just said to make us reluctant to. And I don't assume that he is. That's what basically every Christian says and what the Bible seems to imply. [QUOTE]What restricts God from creating evil as well as creating good?[/QUOTE] Nothing but there's still the question of [I]why[/I]. Sure evil needs to exist for people to be able to understand good. That doesn't need to mean they exist in equal measures however. Especially when the species in question is one who far too often is completely lacking in self-awareness and foresight and thus needs a bit of help to not strive towards actions that aren't necessarily good.
I still like Valve
I think "Sad Donkeys" and "Sad Elephants" (People who vote only out of begrudging party loyalty) are actually far worse and far more damaging to the political system than diehard Dems/Reps. [editline]6th October 2016[/editline] I.E: A Sad Donkey is only voting for Hillary because Stein and Johnson don't appeal to them, or they feel that Trump is too dangerous. Vice versa.
I thought Sanders would save america.
Battlefield 4 is easily the worst game in the entire series, and both BF3 and Hardline were better games.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;51161130]Battlefield 4 is easily the worst game in the entire series, and both BF3 and Hardline were better games.[/QUOTE] I'd say after all the patches, Battlefield 4 is almost objectively better than BF3
[QUOTE=Zotobom;51161261]I'd say after all the patches, Battlefield 4 is almost objectively better than BF3[/QUOTE] I have yet to play a popular FPS game that feels as shitty and laggy as BF4 does. Hardline is BF4, except done correctly. Shame no one plays it.
Also, the maps are terrible. There are a handful of good ones but by and large the content is ultra underwhelming [editline]6th October 2016[/editline] oops broken automerge sorry
[QUOTE=The Jack;51160388]I thought Sanders would save america.[/QUOTE] Stop looking for saviours in politics
Battlefield 2 is my favorite Battlefield game.
It fucking baffles me that they keep putting the bullet physics into BF games, it doesn't make the game more [I]~~realistic~~[/I] it just makes it feel like I have 700ms ping.
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;51161871]It fucking baffles me that they keep putting the bullet physics into BF games, it doesn't make the game more [I]~~realistic~~[/I] it just makes it feel like I have 700ms ping.[/QUOTE] yeah I don't get it because I can play ArmA 3 and that game feels great, feels very realistic, but BF4 just feels like i'm firing a turd out of an ass cannon
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;51161374]Stop looking for saviours in politics[/QUOTE] Why not? If anyone's got the power to save the world. It's the politicians
[QUOTE=Joshii;51159915]I still like Valve[/QUOTE] The Half-Life thread is a long, dull rollercoaster in which people sport their nostalgia and stubborn views about whether that sick hoop-da-loop is actually happening or what. I find it fine that everyone likes to talk about a piece of art, criticizing it from every single angle and finding something unintentional that actually fits with everything, but then there's the part when you should separate the art piece from the author, especially when it's about your expectations. Every artist wants to do something new, experiment with things and inventing a new piece out of it. But not every art piece is worth showing to the audience, there are rejects and tons of drafts which we may never see, but it's only the artist's own intention to show something he/she sees worth something. As such that Valve has infinite amount of resources and no tight-deadline schedule to throw something out of need, instead they can do everything at once and see what sticks as long as they want. Of course they will have to realize they need a compromise between experimenting and releasing games in a few years, but I'm sure they will do that once in a while again, we just need to contain our excitement over things that we don't know about yet.
[QUOTE=ichiman94;51162379]The Half-Life thread is a long, dull rollercoaster in which people sport their nostalgia and stubborn views about whether that sick hoop-da-loop is actually happening or what. I find it fine that everyone likes to talk about a piece of art, criticizing it from every single angle and finding something unintentional that actually fits with everything, but then there's the part when you should separate the art piece from the author, especially when it's about your expectations. Every artist wants to do something new, experiment with things and inventing a new piece out of it. But not every art piece is worth showing to the audience, there are rejects and tons of drafts which we may never see, but it's only the artist's own intention to show something he/she sees worth something. As such that Valve has infinite amount of resources and no tight-deadline schedule to throw something out of need, instead they can do everything at once and see what sticks as long as they want. Of course they will have to realize they need a compromise between experimenting and releasing games in a few years, but I'm sure they will do that once in a while again, we just need to contain our excitement over things that we don't know about yet.[/QUOTE] The hate Valve gets for reason such as "They don't make games anymore" or "They only care about VR" is ones I find silly. For example, Source 2 got leaked years ago with those redone L4D2 maps and I think there was a mail list(?) or something that someone who was visiting Valve took a picture of and it had L4D3 on there I'm pretty sure, and last year they officially decided to announce Source 2 and releasing a beta of it for Dota 2 and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere they also had plans to port CSGO over to it aswell. And the hate they get for working on VR forgetting the fact that the one they're going against mostly, Oculus, has been trying to make exclusive games and such just for the Oculus, and I bet if Valve dropped the Vive the Oculus would've caused VR to become sour for a lot of people who want to get into it. I know there's been a long gap since their last singleplayer focused game, but I just think people should learn to be patient cause it's not like Valve are gonna up and leave and no one will get anything from them ever again.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;51162082]Why not? If anyone's got the power to save the world. It's the politicians[/QUOTE] because the world isn't ending or going to shit, so there's nothing to save the world from.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51162747]because the world isn't ending or going to shit, so there's nothing to save the world from.[/QUOTE] Climate change? Natural resources ending a bit sooner every year? Making sure people want to kill other people less?
[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;51162765]Climate change? Natural resources ending a bit sooner every year? Making sure people want to kill other people less?[/QUOTE] the worlds been in crisis ever since its inception, although now and in the near future it'll be quite unbearable
[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;51162765]Climate change? Natural resources ending a bit sooner every year? Making sure people want to kill other people less?[/QUOTE] We're doing well on the latter I think, on average the number of conflicts has been going down with a few hiccups here and there. I'll grant you that climate change isn't looking very good now so add that as a caveat to my previous post.
Let's not forget that the American people are more politically divided than we were during the civil war. And that's before this year's election, which is one of the worst things that could possibly have happened to the nation and will only end up making everybody even more divided and even less interested in the political system, which is pretty much the worst combination of two things that can happen.
[QUOTE=The golden;51159917]At least he's somewhat deserving of it. Worst was treating Gabe Newell as some sort of messiah of the gaming industry. Fuck that was so annoying.[/QUOTE] Yeah taking billions in government money to "save the environment" by replacing luxury gasoline cars with luxury electric cars and privatizing space exploration while treating his employees like shit sure is great. He's okay, but he's not amazing or anything. [QUOTE=gokiyono;51162082]Why not? If anyone's got the power to save the world. It's the politicians[/QUOTE] Such a huge focus on one guy is stupid imo. Even if he got in he has to work within our current system and he would have limited political capital. And even policies he gets may not even stick. Just look at the NHS in the UK and how it's increasingly under threat. The people are far more important than any guy in a suit. This doesn't really apply to bernie, but most of the people he'll be working with will be paid off by companies too and will pretty much only do what their leash-holders allow unless overwhelming popular opinion demands otherwise. I'm glad a lot of history courses are actually taking the focus away from focusing on big people, because often they aren't as important as they get hyped up to be.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51163021]Yeah taking billions in government money to "save the environment" by replacing luxury gasoline cars with luxury electric cars and privatizing space exploration while treating his employees like shit sure is great. He's okay, but he's not amazing or anything. [/QUOTE] You have a very narrow definition of "amazing" if you don't think a native African breaking into both the American auto industry and the space travel industry only qualifies as okay I mean, that is some pretty serious counterculture bullshit. You've got to be one hell of a deflated person to think a man [i]with his own spaceship company[/i] rates in at "meh." I consider a person amazing if they don't litter and have at least one cool hobby.
[QUOTE=Sector 7;51163224]You have a very narrow definition of "amazing" if you don't think a native African breaking into both the American auto industry and the space travel industry only qualifies as okayI mean, that is some pretty serious counterculture bullshit. You've got to be one hell of a deflated person to think a man [I]with his own spaceship company[/I] rates in at "meh." I consider a person amazing if they don't litter and have at least one cool hobby.[/QUOTE] Amazing for him. I'm sure personally he's a great, intelligent, and hard working guy. Though, a white guy born to an engineer in South Africa during the 70s somewhat makes the "native African" less impressive, it's not like he clawed his way out of poverty/oppression. I'm talking more about his effect on the world, yes, he's doing good things. But focusing on him neglects the large amount of government money thrown at the enterprises people talk about, spacex, solarcity, and tesla, and the workers who bust their asses taking low wages and huge overtime hours to get it done.
receiving government money does not invalidate a business. The man started two enterprises which have seen the popularization of the electric car and a massive reduction in the cost of space travel. Both of these businesses have had an enormous research impact on their respective industries and have changed the public face of 21st century business for the better. There is only so much one person can literally do, and Elon Musk is pushing on that boundary. If his company actually sends humans to mars he will become a permanent hero in western culture. [quote] He's okay, but he's not amazing or anything. [/quote] fucking nonsense
Sure maybe okay is an understatement. But worshipping him is retarded imo, for the reasons I've stated there. Many many hands made it happen. Yes, acknowledge him for what he's done, but it's hilarious how people will just circlejerk all day over how great he is.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51163304]Sure maybe okay is an understatement. But worshipping him is retarded imo, for the reasons I've stated there. Many many hands made it happen. Yes, acknowledge him for what he's done, but it's hilarious how people will just circlejerk all day over how great he is.[/QUOTE] People are seeing a figurehead, a role-model who is breathing life back into the dream of space travel, somebody who is releasing patents on his company's own technology so that the industry will thrive, and they like him. To many people, he represents the antithesis of cynical modern capitalism, and they're falling in love with the optimism and the passion that he's associated with. Nobody thinks that he's literally on the factory floor building rockets with his own two hands, but he [i]is[/i] the person who risked the capital to chase an idea, and he has been using every resource at his disposal to build his business. Every one of the nameless workers at his companies is there because of him. You cannot pretend that there is anyone in his employ who has put a greater part of their life into the business than him.
[QUOTE=Sector 7;51163347]People are seeing a figurehead, a role-model who is breathing life back into the dream of space travel, somebody who is releasing patents on his company's own technology so that the industry will thrive, and they like him. To many people, he represents the antithesis of cynical modern capitalism, and they're falling in love with the optimism and the passion that he's associated with. Nobody thinks that he's literally on the factory floor building rockets with his own two hands, but he [I]is[/I] the person who risked the capital to chase an idea, and he has been using every resource at his disposal to build his business. Every one of the nameless workers at his companies is there because of him. You cannot pretend that there is anyone in his employ who has put a greater part of their life into the business than him.[/QUOTE] the antithesis of "cynical modern capitalism," all brought to us by a guy born to a wealthy white couple in a country literally segregated to his benefit, and sustained by..... everybody else. He likes to claim that the government money is unnecessary, but spacex, solarcity, and tesla would be dead without it. Sure, he'd have zip2 and paypal money, but that's a fraction of everything else. Also "every resource at his disposal" is pretty hyperbolic. Unless you have a nice source, I'm just going to go off of the healthy payments and stock he's received from his companies and say that he's enjoying himself just fine.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;51159440]I didn't say make it impossible to do bad anyways. I just said to make us reluctant to. And I don't assume that he is. That's what basically every Christian says and what the Bible seems to imply. Nothing but there's still the question of [I]why[/I]. Sure evil needs to exist for people to be able to understand good. That doesn't need to mean they exist in equal measures however. Especially when the species in question is one who far too often is completely lacking in self-awareness and foresight and thus needs a bit of help to not strive towards actions that aren't necessarily good.[/QUOTE] Good vastly outweighs evil, we just hear about evil more often. We hear about big evils like ISIS but we don't see the small good things that billions of people do everyday and the small goods ultimately outweigh the huge evils When you talk about a benevolent god, that's proven wrong by God himself. [QUOTE] Who makes peace and creates evil; I am the Lord, Who makes all these.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51163437]the antithesis of "cynical modern capitalism," all brought to us by a guy born to a wealthy white couple in a country literally segregated to his benefit, and sustained by..... everybody else. He likes to claim that the government money is unnecessary, but spacex, solarcity, and tesla would be dead without it. Sure, he'd have zip2 and paypal money, but that's a fraction of everything else. Also "every resource at his disposal" is pretty hyperbolic. Unless you have a nice source, I'm just going to go off of the healthy payments and stock he's received from his companies and say that he's enjoying himself just fine.[/QUOTE] Disregarding the weird idea that taking home a paycheck from your own company is somehow immoral... in what way are government contracts and rewards invalid as a source of income? This isn't welfare we're talking about, this is business available to anyone willing to fulfill a technology need.
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