Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
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[QUOTE=The golden;50004133]$200 isn't going to get you a very good phone, even from an import brand...
I would say the minimum you need to spend to get any sort of quality is around $350-$400. That's a lot more than what many people can afford. I know it was more than what I could afford when I got my phone.[/QUOTE]
I bought a £40 phone and it performs very admirably.
I don't really care about smart phones. The only reason I feel the need to have one is a rather small but frustrating one, which is Valve's little "you can't trade without smart phone confirmation" scheme. Wish I could disable that shit but idiots have to continue getting their shit hijacked somehow.
Since getting my macbook I've used my phone very very little
There's pretty much nothing I use it for other than phone calls and the occasional text (which I wish would just be superceded with more convenient forms of messsaging by now)
[QUOTE=The golden;50004133]$200 isn't going to get you a very good phone, even from an import brand...
I would say the minimum you need to spend to get any sort of quality is around $350-$400. That's a lot more than what many people can afford. I know it was more than what I could afford when I got my phone.[/QUOTE]
I guess the main factor is where you're getting your phone from. If you know where to look, you could get an ASUS Zenfone 2 (4GB) for about $250 USD, albeit lightly used.
On the topic of phones, I have to wonder how much of Apple's popularity is deserved. I still find it rather dumb that a mac for basic computing costs as much as a gaming PC.
Sleeping in dead silence is the worst thing. I gotta have fans blaring so it drowns out any other sounds.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip are all you need, sugar gets an ok too
[QUOTE=RichyZ;50008010]Oatmeal raisin is the best cookie[/QUOTE]
I disagree that it's the best but it's strange how unpopular it seems to be.
Telecom companies should stop selling their data packages in megabits, because everything else is measured in megabytes. Yes, i know the chances of that ever happening is 0% because tech-illiterate people will think that their 56 Mbps connection is 56MB/s and not 7MB/s
[QUOTE=The golden;50004133]$200 isn't going to get you a very good phone, even from an import brand...
I would say the minimum you need to spend to get any sort of quality is around $350-$400. That's a lot more than what many people can afford. I know it was more than what I could afford when I got my phone.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Mining Bill;50003949]Phones are nearly a requirement in the world today, and a lot of jobs or universities require you to use apps that only work on higher end phones. Not everyone can afford the lump sum they cost, so they get contracts. Same reason people rent instead of buying a house, it's not dumb.[/QUOTE]
I would agree years ago, but nowadays? What kind of software is needed that won't run on something like, say, a [URL="https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-g"]moto G [/URL]with a 1.4 ghz quadcore A53 with 2 gb of ram and pretty nice build quality? Today there's lots of great phones at cheap prices.
I also don't think it's very comparable to refer to renting a house for quite a few reasons, such as ownership coming with various risks that leave you on your own, the requirement to live in that house for at the very least 5-10 years to come close to getting your worth out of it when selling, etc..
[QUOTE=flashn00b;50010924]Telecom companies should stop selling their data packages in megabits, because everything else is measured in megabytes. Yes, i know the chances of that ever happening is 0% because tech-illiterate people will think that their 56 Mbps connection is 56MB/s and not 7MB/s[/QUOTE]
That's a historic thing that just stuck unfortunately and will probably never go away.
Probably going to be really unpopular here: The main reason why many people are poor is because of themselves and their attitudes. Nothing or no one else. Hear me out:
Today there just seems to be this trend where people attempt to one-up each other by trying to be glamorous, and wasting so much money towards that end. People waste hundreds or thousands of dollars on tattoos, they buy the most-expensive smart phones, and they get other things on finance which they'll struggle to make the repayments on.
Anecdotal, but take my ex. She's from a poor family who live in a housing commission. She has a job, but she has to have her parents or friends drive her to and from work and other places, because she doesn't have a car or motorbike. She actually wants a motorbike, and second-hand motorbikes aren't awfully expensive. You could probably find some good ones for well under $1,000. However, instead of saving up for that motorbike, she blows all of her money on getting drunk with her best friend several times per week and eating (expensive) takeaway frequently. But even if she did manage to save up enough money, she's prioritised getting $600 worth of tattoos over getting a motorbike. Yet, if she had the motorbike, her work would probably offer her more shifts as she would be more-available (she wouldn't have to organise lifts), and she would even be able to find other, better paying, work.
But that's another thing. She has no ambition. She wants to work as a bartender for the rest of her life. A dead-end job that pays worse than a shelf stacker, and is a job that should only be done by uni students while they are studying. Studying at a technical college or university in Australia is free until you earn about $50,000 per year (where you then make income-based repayments), yet not just my ex, but a lot of people don't even want to put the effort in for a two-year diploma, which would open so many doors. Many people are complacent doing dead-end, unskilled work; work which will probably be made redundant over the next few decades.
I'm not saying this as someone who was given 'a small loan of a million dollars'. I was kicked out of home at 17 and I had to make something of that. But I've seen that most of the fault with people being poor isn't neoliberal governments, or stingy employers, or immigrants or offshore businesses taking jobs, but people who don't know how to spend and save money.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;50010924]Telecom companies should stop selling their data packages in megabits, because everything else is measured in megabytes. Yes, i know the chances of that ever happening is 0% because tech-illiterate people will think that their 56 Mbps connection is 56MB/s and not 7MB/s[/QUOTE]
Other than what you and thelurker1234 said you should also consider that the vast majority of people who deal with telecom companies are quite illiterate when it comes to that stuff so it would only serve to confuse them and make them think they're getting ripped off. That'd cause a lot of outrage and backlash against a change.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;50010924]Telecom companies should stop selling their data packages in megabits, because everything else is measured in megabytes. Yes, i know the chances of that ever happening is 0% because tech-illiterate people will think that their 56 Mbps connection is 56MB/s and not 7MB/s[/QUOTE]
I think some of them want but if they do it, peoples will be like "Wait, this one give us 7MB, but the other one 56Mbps".
They're stuck with megabits.
Plus the whole story of paying 0.05€ per Mb on your phone if you use the internet is full stupid.
Just feeling sorry for the less fortunate doesn't automatically make you a better person.
Now, if you helped them, that'd be a different story.
Crispy bacon is shit and I don't understand why anyone likes it.
Also, there's something about (in particular Sunni) Islam that is fundamentally broken, that makes people want to blow themselves up/fly a plane into a building/cut someone's head off. There doesn't seem to be any common denominator between them all; they come from all over the world, from different socio-economic backgrounds, including western converts. The only linking factor is this shitty violent, aggressive religion. And I don't care for comparisons to the crusades, or violence committed by other religions. The crusades were fucking 500 years ago, Christianity has moved on since then; and the amount of death and misery stemming from any other religion is blown out of the water by Islam.
Counter Strike would be severely improved with the removal of the AWP.
Yeah, it's iconic, and yeah, it still requires skill to use, but I'm so sick of half of both teams carrying AWPs, one shotting me if I get in their path.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50024061]Counter Strike would be severely improved with the removal of the AWP.
Yeah, it's iconic, and yeah, it still requires skill to use, but I'm so sick of half of both teams carrying AWPs, one shotting me if I get in their path.[/QUOTE]
It stomps in pubs, but it's a high risk, low reward weapon. You get very little cash for kills with it, it's expensive, and the worst thing you can do is feed it to the enemy team.
It's quite balanced at high level play.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50024109]It stomps in pubs, but it's a high risk, low reward weapon. You get very little cash for kills with it, it's expensive, and the worst thing you can do is feed it to the enemy team.
It's quite balanced at high level play.[/QUOTE]
I know that it's balanced but the problem is that it just isn't fun to fight against a good AWP user. Some of them have such insane reaction and twitch aim skills that you basically have to kill his teammates instead and flank him because trying to peek even once means you're dead.
I feel like a huge amount of the problems people experience with awps could be alleviated if people were more willing to buy smokes. I see a lot of low skill CS games where people just do not buy (m)any grenades at all.
Everyone always plays in such a self centered manner in low end play for any even remotely competitive game.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50024422]I feel like a huge amount of the problems people experience with awps could be alleviated if people were more willing to buy smokes. I see a lot of low skill CS games where people just do not buy (m)any grenades at all.
Everyone always plays in such a self centered manner in low end play for any even remotely competitive game.[/QUOTE]
Often I feel reluctant to buy grenades because I hate almost all of them. The smoke grenades don't do anything except halt everything because nobody is going to move through smoke, but nobody is going to shoot through smoke unless it's blind either. The biggest benefit is cover to move around but it's not [I]that[/I] necessary, at least not for casual, and I just hate waiting for it.
Then there's flashbangs, which I honestly wish didn't exist. In CS:GO or any other game in the universe. Having my screen suddenly flash bright white and giving me temporary tinnitus is not pleasant or fun. I don't like it being inflicted on me and I don't like inflicting it on others a ton either.
Removing the awp might have a positive effect on the game, but the problem is that it just wouldn't be CS anymore. The entire game's flow would change, the economy would get weird, and map balance would change an insane amount.
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;50024538]Removing the awp might have a positive effect on the game, but the problem is that it just wouldn't be CS anymore. The entire game's flow would change, the economy would get weird, and map balance would change an insane amount.[/QUOTE]
Good, frankly. Counter Strike doesn't feel like it's changed in 12 years, maybe longer. A lot of the same maps, same gameplay style, and from what I remember, same tactics. And same constant bull ass shit. And it can be fun, and that's why I still play it, but man there is just so much garbage and repetitiveness in the game.
I dunno, maybe it's because I feel like so much of it is 'we made a twitch shooter or whatever but we forgot to make much else'. Like there's so much shit that's completely arbitrary like 'Only needing one hostage' to win or whatever, because video game. Not to mention the community is dog shit. I play it and then I hear a bunch of 10 year olds argue and then someone with a dank weed avatar calls me a faggot and I wonder why in God's name I'm playing a multiplayer game again, and why I'm wasting my time with these people. I think if CS were a military shooter, I'd probably never play it. But I just dig the theme of cops vs criminals a ton, and CS just barely scratches that itch enough to get me coming back, but it's so paper thin.
This is an unpopular opinion in and of itself, but I think I would prefer it if Counter Strike were more realistic and emphasized squad tactics and real police/counter-terrorism tactics as opposed to a bunch of uncoordinated idiots running in different directions and having sniper fests. Something slower, where people are required to work together like in L4D, where you have to slowly walk and check corners, and you have more police gear at your disposal like riot shields, and breach mechanics, and what not. A little more like SWAT 4 or Rainbow Six Siege. I mean, hey, if I had RSS or SWAT 4, I might not even play CS. Now I know that's a huge departure from what CS is now, but for a sequel, why not? CS:GO is still here. What else are they supposed to do, be like CoD and release the same game again and again with graphical updates and not much else?
it sounds like you should buy RSS
I can tell you that SWAT 4's multiplayer is far from tactical. Rainbow Six: Siege is pretty good, though. That game has a lot of potential and honestly feels like what Counter-Strike would have been if it hadn't pulled a Pokemon and stayed almost exactly the same for 15 years.
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;50024740]it sounds like you should buy RSS[/QUOTE]
Yeeeeeeeep. Shame I don't got the moneys and my only other multiplayer shooter I like(d) is PAYDAY 2 which has been slightly dog vomit for the past year now.
Ubisoft screwed themselves making Siege a full-priced release. Yeah, it's a great game that I'm surprised even exists in the state it does, relatively untainted by the scourges of modernity, but there really isn't that much content. $60 for multiplayer, situations (glorified tutorials with AI on multiplayer maps) and terrorist hunt (co-op missions against AI on multiplayer maps) is a bit much, and I really think that's what turned a lot of people off. Sure, there are problems like spotty netcode, a really dodgy matchmaking (I should not be getting matched against level 100s when I've just started playing) and some funny balancing (Kapkan is only good if your opponents are oblivious and Frost is death overlord of Kill mountain until she's nerfed), but overall, I'm actually surprised that Ubisoft of all people made Siege. I would have thought their focus-tested and cookie cutter approach to making games would have turned them off from making a 5v5 tactical shooter.
Criminalizing cyberbullying is absolute bullocks.
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;50025430]Criminalizing cyberbullying is absolute bullocks.[/QUOTE]
it should be subject to disciplinary action by schools when non-serious and by law enforcement when someone is threatened or in danger of bodily harm. In essence, the same as irl bullying.
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;50025430]Criminalizing cyberbullying is absolute bullocks.[/QUOTE]
The problem is some people are serious and others are taking the piss and authorities can't tell the difference. Real actual death threats shouldn't go unpunished but "kill urself lol" isn't cyberbullying.
Basically Poe's Law but taken to the extreme.
[QUOTE=The golden;50026423]Tell that to the people that have been seriously mentally devastated by it or just outright committed suicide because I'm sure they would love to hear your opinion on it.[/QUOTE]
That depends
If somebody kills themselves over threats that don't go beyond "kill urself lol" then we didn't lose a cancer cure
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;50025430]Criminalizing cyberbullying is absolute bullocks.[/QUOTE]
You know cyberbullying can involve much more serious shit than "ur a liar lindsay" right?
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