Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be - General

Reading confessions thread makes me realize how poorly adjusted a large amount of FP users are to the real world. Not all, but quite a few.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;50255898]You shoulda saw the anonymous confessions thread, that shit was off the wall man[/QUOTE] I don't know, man. It's not anonymous and it's still pretty off the wall.

[QUOTE=ghghop;50255890]Reading confessions thread makes me realize how poorly adjusted a large amount of FP users are to the real world. Not all, but quite a few.[/QUOTE] I remember when the first one just started with fairly innocent stuff like "I sing in the shower" or "I speak my ideas aloud" and then basically turned into a balls to the wall, weird fetish discussion.

i have no idea why, and i know its fucking stupid, but i cant get enough of Dat Boi

[QUOTE=ghghop;50255939]I don't know, man. It's not anonymous and it's still pretty off the wall.[/QUOTE] Real life is hard dude

[QUOTE=Bathtub;50256744]i have no idea why, and i know its fucking stupid, but i cant get enough of Dat Boi[/QUOTE] It's the definition of a forced, unfunny meme with no substance

[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;50256912]It's the definition of a forced, unfunny meme with no substance[/QUOTE] you're absolutely right, and yet i still laugh

Scott Pilgrim is the first movie that made me feel old.

[QUOTE=Qaus;50237780]Piracy should not be considered a crime until all software/media/services are distributed worldwide and fairly converted to local currencies if monetized. Not doing this is tantamount to asking for people to illegally download because they have no other means of getting it. [editline]1st May 2016[/editline] Also everyone here should stop eating shit pepperoni[/QUOTE] Piracy is in my books a necessary evil. In general it's wrong if you're just pirating something instead of paying for it like normal, but there's a lot of circumstances where that's not the case. For one, it's the best and often only tool for games preservation. If a game dies or becomes so rare it's unfeasible for anyone to play it, then I think piracy is perfectly acceptable. Games like Quarantine are rare and go for over 100 bucks on ebay for the PC copy, for instance. Games like CarnEvil are only available if you're willing to drop like a thousand dollars on a giant ass arcade cabinet. Often, you can't even pay the developers if you wanted to anyway, because the only copies available are on ebay or some shit. Or, the developers went out of business years ago. Or, the games are old as hell and the developers, if anything, make a minuscule fraction of their current profits from it. Like Konami is really banking on the sales of Contra anymore. That all probably sounds obvious, but they're all blanketed as piracy regardless and [I]someone[/I] has tried to get all of them to be considered illegal. As for other media, sometimes it just isn't available to you because of where you live or some shit, sometimes people are just too broke to afford media otherwise, sometimes people want to demo something but can't without pirating because there was never a demo released. Sometimes people can't afford something, pirate it, and then pay for a legitimate copy later when they can. It's a morally grey issue in my books, but I heard someone say once that they think rather than banning piracy, developers and companies should be forced to compete with it, and I've always liked that idea.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;50257045]Old as in you remember the games that were referenced or old as in you felt like you were getting too old for movies like that? I wouldn't blame you either way, it's not for everyone.[/QUOTE] I felt like I was too old for the movie.

I prefer HL1's low-def character models over the HD ones

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50257207]Piracy is in my books a necessary evil. In general it's wrong if you're just pirating something instead of paying for it like normal, but there's a lot of circumstances where that's not the case. For one, it's the best and often only tool for games preservation. If a game dies or becomes so rare it's unfeasible for anyone to play it, then I think piracy is perfectly acceptable. Games like Quarantine are rare and go for over 100 bucks on ebay for the PC copy, for instance. Games like CarnEvil are only available if you're willing to drop like a thousand dollars on a giant ass arcade cabinet. Often, you can't even pay the developers if you wanted to anyway, because the only copies available are on ebay or some shit. Or, the developers went out of business years ago. Or, the games are old as hell and the developers, if anything, make a minuscule fraction of their current profits from it. Like Konami is really banking on the sales of Contra anymore. That all probably sounds obvious, but they're all blanketed as piracy regardless and [I]someone[/I] has tried to get all of them to be considered illegal. As for other media, sometimes it just isn't available to you because of where you live or some shit, sometimes people are just too broke to afford media otherwise, sometimes people want to demo something but can't without pirating because there was never a demo released. Sometimes people can't afford something, pirate it, and then pay for a legitimate copy later when they can. It's a morally grey issue in my books, but I heard someone say once that they think rather than banning piracy, developers and companies should be forced to compete with it, and I've always liked that idea.[/QUOTE] agreed 100% in fact i would actively lobby for video game archival laws that allow 'piracy' of games under certain circumstances like you described.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;50256304]I remember when the first one just started with fairly innocent stuff like "I sing in the shower" or "I speak my ideas aloud" and then basically turned into a balls to the wall, weird fetish discussion.[/QUOTE] Is it really that bad? I pretty much never open threads like LMAO pics and confessions and I suppose that that was good on me. [QUOTE=Bathtub;50256918]you're absolutely right, and yet i still laugh[/QUOTE] Yep, this is essentially the definition of guilty pleasure I use, something that you acknowledge to be terrible, but can't help but like. Some people think a guilty pleasure something that they like that others hate, but imo, that's fucking stupid. A lot of memes are like that for me, I just try to keep them to myself at least.

I wonder how many anti-piracy people listen to Pandora with their adblocker turned on

people use pandora?

black people do have a distinct "black smell" to them

[QUOTE=Durrsly;50255213]Most "graphical overhaul" mods for older games that add really high res textures and bump mapping to low poly models just look bad. I even think Morrowind Overhaul just looks iffy in motion because you still have Morrowind's janky animation underneath. The one exception i can think of is the SHTUP pack for System Shock 2.[/QUOTE] I think why the SHTUP pack works is because it's not pretending to be a 4k next-gen mod. It's just cleaning up some of the badly stretched textures. [editline]4th May 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50257207]Piracy is in my books a necessary evil. In general it's wrong if you're just pirating something instead of paying for it like normal, but there's a lot of circumstances where that's not the case. For one, it's the best and often only tool for games preservation. If a game dies or becomes so rare it's unfeasible for anyone to play it, then I think piracy is perfectly acceptable. Games like Quarantine are rare and go for over 100 bucks on ebay for the PC copy, for instance. Games like CarnEvil are only available if you're willing to drop like a thousand dollars on a giant ass arcade cabinet. Often, you can't even pay the developers if you wanted to anyway, because the only copies available are on ebay or some shit. Or, the developers went out of business years ago. Or, the games are old as hell and the developers, if anything, make a minuscule fraction of their current profits from it. Like Konami is really banking on the sales of Contra anymore. That all probably sounds obvious, but they're all blanketed as piracy regardless and [I]someone[/I] has tried to get all of them to be considered illegal. As for other media, sometimes it just isn't available to you because of where you live or some shit, sometimes people are just too broke to afford media otherwise, sometimes people want to demo something but can't without pirating because there was never a demo released. Sometimes people can't afford something, pirate it, and then pay for a legitimate copy later when they can. It's a morally grey issue in my books, but I heard someone say once that they think rather than banning piracy, developers and companies should be forced to compete with it, and I've always liked that idea.[/QUOTE] I hope I don't get banned for piracy on this, but I had to pirate a game that I bought. I bought Rocksmith for the PS4, and then eventually wanted it from the convenience of my computer. So then I bought Rocksmith from Steam along with Rocksmith 2014 because I liked the original so much. Somewhere down the line I lost the cable, so I look to see if I can use my professional Rig Kontrol hardware to play my guitar. Turns out you can't, because the tone cable is somehow an anti-piracy measure. I tried to find a hack that allows me to use a microphone, but unfortunately the only way to do that is to unintentionally crack the game allowing for the use of DLC content without paying for it. (I don't advocate pirating Rocksmith of course.) And that's the state of the world we live in right now. Shit is broken for the loyal customers and has to be cracked to work. Shit is inconvenient for the loyal customers and has to be fixed by the pirates. Shit sucks. If companies don't like piracy, they need to stop looking at customers as a guarantee and start serving the customer again. A lot of companies like monopolizing on content so that customers [I]have[/I] to do shit their way and pay extra, as opposed to creating loyal customers that [I]want[/I] to adapt to their methods and pay extra just out of loyalty and being a fan.

I think Beyoncé is overrated. People give her way too much credit I won't say she's bad. She has a good voice, she dances well and all. But seriously, her albums have like 20 songwriters, sampling of lots of songs, lots of producers, there's someone to think about the concept of her albums and videos, etc. Yeah, I know most popstars work that way but still...

[QUOTE=RichyZ;50255738]Fp is usually at least 6 months late to a meme being remotely funny, and always on time for the unfunny forced ones[/QUOTE] all memes are trash and i love trash

[QUOTE=Chef Neelix;50259852]black people do have a distinct "black smell" to them[/QUOTE] i'd go so far as to say all races have some sort of characteristic smell to them

[QUOTE=Chef Neelix;50259852]black people do have a distinct "black smell" to them[/QUOTE] HOLY SHIT. I thought I was the only one that noticed this. It kinda smells like old wood furniture. I tried explaining this to my friends last week and they all thought I was crazy.

Monster tastes fine. I wouldn't go so far as saying it tastes good, but it's far from intolerable

[QUOTE=FiveEyes;50261435]HOLY SHIT. I thought I was the only one that noticed this. It kinda smells like old wood furniture. [/QUOTE] Nigerians smell like sandalwood and I always just assumed it was aftershave or something.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;50256304]I remember when the first one just started with fairly innocent stuff like "I sing in the shower" or "I speak my ideas aloud" and then basically turned into a balls to the wall, weird fetish discussion.[/QUOTE] It just feels like to post in there it's required that you have some weird fetish and be bone-crushing depressed at some point.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;50256304]I remember when the first one just started with fairly innocent stuff like "I sing in the shower" or "I speak my ideas aloud" and then basically turned into a balls to the wall, weird fetish discussion.[/QUOTE] In the one thread alone there's been someone confessing to being into necrophilia and another who admitted to baking using his own poop as ingredients. I really don't know how much lower that thread can get.

[QUOTE=The golden;50262838]Well to be fair there isn't any other place to post that stuff. It's going to look like there is a lot of it in one thread but that's just simply because there is only *one* thread for that topic. On top of that: People are weird and do weird things. Some people will be vocal about it, others not so much. Normality is not as common as you think it is. :v:[/QUOTE] normal people just manage to hide their quirks better

Because MGSV and Doom 4's retail versions require you to download the full game anyways, I think we're overdue for PC games sold in BluRay discs.

why would you intentionally buy a PC game on a disc??

[QUOTE=Sector 7;50264268]why would you intentionally buy a PC game on a disc??[/QUOTE] In the case of Bethesda games, a lot of them have collector tat (i.e: poster-sized world maps in Elder Scrolls games, Alduin Statue for Skyrim). Also, Canadian telecom companies are shit and America's taking notes from Canada.

if a company wants to sell a collector's edition or a physical copy of a huge game they'd be better off putting it on a flash drive rather than expecting everyone to have blu-ray players