Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=legolover122;43741039]The "oh but she's a thousand years old" excuse for getting off to little girls in anime and games is absolutely retarded. At least own up to it and not try to bullshit your way out of it.[/QUOTE]
I made that joke in that one thread, meant it as a joke. I don't think anyone actually uses it in a serious manner.
But at the same time, they're drawings, there isn't harm in fapping to drawn pictures.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;43742010]Valve should do a better job to keep consumers from making a bad decision on steam. The developer-set messages are usually useless.[/QUOTE]
The Early Access thing often amounts to only "Hey we promise all this stuff." then a handful of pictures and videos chosen by the person making the game to make it look good. It's atrocious.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;43740585]Early access games need to learn from DayZ's all-caps warning to not buy the game.[/QUOTE]
Most people agree that the only reason to buy DayZ SA right now is because it's cheaper than it will be when the beta and the retail are released.
[QUOTE=Bordellimies;43743497]I made that joke in that one thread, meant it as a joke. I don't think anyone actually uses it in a serious manner.
But at the same time, they're drawings, there isn't harm in fapping to drawn pictures.[/QUOTE]
Don't get me wrong, I don't really care what anyone does by themselves or w/e, everybody's into some weird shit. I'm talking the people who be like "oh she's 18 it says so on her wikipedia page" when she be looking like ten years old. Like if that's what gets you going, go for it. Don't be trying to make excuses though, it doesn't look great.
I'm not talking exclusively on facepunch, but in general places that are hubs for anime discussion. You get one dude that goes "nigga that's weird" chances are you'll get multiple people whipping out the "the lore says" spiel.
I miss t-pain
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;43734331]I like modern art.[/QUOTE]
I don't like art.
Like, I can appreciate the effort that goes into a lot of sculptures, painting, architecture, e.t.c and it is interesting to learn about what the story is behind it, but art itself never held much actual "meaning" for me.
Take the quintessential Mona Lisa for example. Why the fuck is it so popular? Sure, it is a nice painting, but I believe in practical things and ideas. I don't believe art holds some intrinsic value of deeper meaning, be it emotional or intellectual. A painting doesn't really reflect anything other than a painting, and maybe the story behind it.
[B]Basically, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.[/B] I don't feel every piece of work needs to hold some inherent and complex meaning. Maybe that is the problem itself; not art, but how we view it.
It's hard to explain. art just doesn't do it for me.
you do realize people appreciate art because, yknow, they like art? the look of it? the effort put into it? its significance? the emotions it stimulates? it's incredibly ignorant to think that everyone that enjoys art does it just so they can be "2deep4u"
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;43744252]I miss t-pain[/QUOTE]
I miss T-pain the person
[editline]31st January 2014[/editline]
that nigga was wacky
[editline]31st January 2014[/editline]
Just fucking look at him
[IMG]http://www.myplay.com/files/imagecache/photo_345_square/files/artist_images/tpainbio.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;43744335] A painting doesn't really reflect anything other than a painting, and maybe the story behind it.[/QUOTE]
also, gosh this is such a stupid thing to say. if someone's sad, they can write a sad song, or write a sad book, and guess what, they can paint a sad scene or express their emotions through sculpting or any other medium they choose. why does it hold any less meaning that way? to me, it sounds like you think it holds no value just because you don't like it and can't be bothered to try and understand it.
I like to consider myself a pretty deep and analytical person, I love books, movies, and weird music, but I cannot for the life of me see what it is that people find interesting about (mostly classical) paintings. They don't offer anything but aesthetics to me, and 99% of classical paintings are aesthetically dry. I love seeing concept art, neat paintings, etc, but if it isn't an interesting subject (a painting of a bridge is not an interesting subject), I don't see the point in 2014.
Scouring novels for subtext is cool. Scouring a freezeframe of mundane things is not.
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Of course most Asian art and certain European art have really cool subjects and I'm interested in that, but for instance, when I was in France, the vast majority of the paintings were frankly fucking boring.
As a side note, modern art is the epitome of what people generally don't like about art, so nobody should be judged for disliking that.
I like fax machines.
Like fuck man that sound. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEP BEP BEEP BEEP.
It's like music to my ears.
People who say things like "I cannot for the life of me see what..." are being stupid. It's not much of a stretch to see why people are attracted to a subject even if you can't identify with it personally. I feel like those kinds of people aren't used to seeing things beyond their personal perspective, and going around unable or unwilling to think about the way other people think is a boring fuckin way to live your life.
[QUOTE=The_Funk;43744864]People who say things like "I cannot for the life of me see what..." are being stupid. It's not much of a stretch to see why people are attracted to a subject even if you can't identify with it personally. I feel like those kinds of people aren't used to seeing things beyond their personal perspective, and going around unable or unwilling to think about the way other people think is a boring fuckin way to live your life.[/QUOTE]
it's another textbook example of a phrase that started off as a serious exclamation but then degenerated into some relatively meaningless words, like what happened to literally and epic.
[QUOTE=The_Funk;43744864]People who say things like "I cannot for the life of me see what..." are being stupid. It's not much of a stretch to see why people are attracted to a subject even if you can't identify with it personally. I feel like those kinds of people aren't used to seeing things beyond their personal perspective, and going around unable or unwilling to think about the way other people think is a boring fuckin way to live your life.[/QUOTE]
I like when people make sweeping assumptions about my life based on a few words.
Guess I'll have to shelf that one for when I'm dying in a forest and writing in my survival journal.
[editline]31st January 2014[/editline]
Because I try to step in other peoples' shoes constantly, all day, every day. I can't ask myself "why" in trying to understand someone's motives or feelings without. You might want to rethink your little hypothesis there.
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;43744628]also, gosh this is such a stupid thing to say. if someone's sad, they can write a sad song, or write a sad book, and guess what, they can paint a sad scene or express their emotions through sculpting or any other medium they choose. why does it hold any less meaning that way? to me, it sounds like you think it holds no value just because you don't like it and can't be bothered to try and understand it.[/QUOTE]
No, it holds emotional value. Did you miss [I]the story behind it.[/I] It is right there, in the post.
I am not saying it is any less than any other medium, but my point is that [I]it isn't anything more.[/I] I don't think it is really art itself but the culture built around it, how pretentious people flounder it as having some deep significance about life and your inner self. My point is that a painting is like a book or a song; to me, I take it at face value. What it depicts. If a painting holds emotion because it depicts a very emotional scene, then of course I recognize that value. I don't think it is any less than that, but it really isn't any more.
My argument was mostly for stuff like the Mona Lisa or lots of modern "art" that doesn't really reflect any value or emotion. That isn't to say [I]all[/I] art is like that, but I do feel like it is a disturbingly common trend to believe that art is something deeper than it really is. A good example is a painting I saw a few days ago called "Guernica". It had an aim to depict the sadness, horror, and grotesqueness of war, and it did just that. It had a lot of emotion and had a clear message. It was obvious what it was about even without knowing its backstory.
I was probably a bit harsh to say that I don't like art, because I do like some art. I just don't like how people over examine and over analyze it beyond face value, and bloat rather simple imagery and artwork to stress some grave meaning or symbolism.
And it isn't just painting. I dislike the ending of [I]2001: A Space Odyssey[/I] because I thought it was bloated and pretentious. It didn't really convey anything at an immediate value. Oh, I am sure I could go online and read theories on what Kubrick meant but, in my opinion, it just felt like it was trying to be "deep" for the hell of it.
I thought I explained all of this well enough already. The first fucking sentence of my post explained that yes, [B]I do appreciate the effort that is put into this work and the stories and emotions works of art portray[/B]. I just don't believe it holds deeper meaning than what can be taken in by looking at it at face value.
Vaas Montenegro from FC3 wasn't as great a character as people make him out to be.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;43745336]Vaas Montenegro from FC3 wasn't as great a character as people make him out to be.[/QUOTE]
he is shit teer character
[QUOTE=CrucialSeBBi;43736965]I like racist jokes, rape jokes and offensive jokes in general[/QUOTE] I love that mixed feeling of "That's funny" and "Holy shit that's bad" that shock jokes give me.
[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;43738254]Won't thisispain/yawmwen/iJeax just be unbanned on Garry's birthday though?[/QUOTE]
This really seems to be an unpopular opinion but I think Garry shouldn't ever do the birthday unbanning crap. Sure it gives some legitimate users a second chance but it results in some truly atrocious posters getting unbanned who take months to get rebanned simply because they don't technically break the rules all that often. (See Blackbird88 who had finally gotten himself permabanned only to get unbanned maybe a month later.)
[QUOTE=legolover122;43743737]Don't get me wrong, I don't really care what anyone does by themselves or w/e, everybody's into some weird shit. I'm talking the people who be like "oh she's 18 it says so on her wikipedia page" when she be looking like ten years old. Like if that's what gets you going, go for it. Don't be trying to make excuses though, it doesn't look great.
I'm not talking exclusively on facepunch, but in general places that are hubs for anime discussion. You get one dude that goes "nigga that's weird" chances are you'll get multiple people whipping out the "the lore says" spiel.[/QUOTE]
On the flip side of things there though things drawn in anime style inherently look a lot younger than they're intended to as well. The big heads and thin bodies plus the large eyes makes them look fairly young even when they're drawn as elderly.
I like talking about the weather.
If you live on a small island, weather is a big deal okay?
[QUOTE=Alice3173;43731313]What is it with you and your massive raging erection for Valve? If Valve doesn't want to crash and burn badly they need to concentrate on solidifying the base they already have, not rampant expansion into useless areas like you keep suggesting. What Valve should REALLY do is recode their client from scratch because at the point they've reached with it the performance of it only gets worse and worse as time goes on.
They should also restructure the company to actually have something more resembling a traditional management style but more lax than usual. Their management style works for small teams but the bigger your company gets the more inefficient such a style is going to get and it's all but guaranteed that you're going to get people abusing the ability to basically do what they want as well as having issues with bugfixing because no one is going to want to bother with it. If the only one with any real command power in the company is Gabe which is what it seems to be from my understanding then he would only be able to properly manage maybe a couple dozen people at most. Valve has several hundred employees.[/QUOTE]
Personally I don't think Valve is inefficient with its current management style. Sure with a more hierarchical structure they could have made 10 half life's in 10 years but that would take away from their organic and spontaneity fuelled artistry and originality that only they produce and they'd probably be very samey.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;43746895]Personally I don't think Valve is inefficient with its current management style. Sure with a more hierarchical structure they could have made 10 half life's in 10 years but that would take away from their organic and spontaneity fuelled artistry and originality that only they produce and they'd probably be very samey.[/QUOTE]
They are very inefficient though, it's human nature to exploit such an opportunity. And it's outright the reason that bugfixes from Valve are so few and far between and why features the community wants take so long to be implemented, if they ever even are. (See a simple volume slider on store videos which took like three years to implement.)
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;43745055]I am not saying it is any less than any other medium, but my point is that [I]it isn't anything more.[/I] I don't think it is really art itself but the culture built around it, how pretentious people flounder it as having some deep significance about life and your inner self. My point is that a painting is like a book or a song; to me, I take it at face value. What it depicts. If a painting holds emotion because it depicts a very emotional scene, then of course I recognize that value. I don't think it is any less than that, but it really isn't any more.
My argument was mostly for stuff like the Mona Lisa or lots of modern "art" that doesn't really reflect any value or emotion. That isn't to say [I]all[/I] art is like that, but I do feel like it is a disturbingly common trend to believe that art is something deeper than it really is. A good example is a painting I saw a few days ago called "Guernica". It had an aim to depict the sadness, horror, and grotesqueness of war, and it did just that. It had a lot of emotion and had a clear message. It was obvious what it was about even without knowing its backstory.
I was probably a bit harsh to say that I don't like art, because I do like some art. I just don't like how people over examine and over analyze it beyond face value, and bloat rather simple imagery and artwork to stress some grave meaning or symbolism.
And it isn't just painting. I dislike the ending of [I]2001: A Space Odyssey[/I] because I thought it was bloated and pretentious. It didn't really convey anything at an immediate value. Oh, I am sure I could go online and read theories on what Kubrick meant but, in my opinion, it just felt like it was trying to be "deep" for the hell of it.
I thought I explained all of this well enough already. The first fucking sentence of my post explained that yes, [B]I do appreciate the effort that is put into this work and the stories and emotions works of art portray[/B]. I just don't believe it holds deeper meaning than what can be taken in by looking at it at face value.[/QUOTE]
this entire post wouldn't have been made if you didn't assume everyone who likes art is a pretentious twat (guess what they're not)
Cyanide and Happiness is the most unfunny turd of a comic. I really don't understand how so many people find it funny.
[QUOTE=Trainbike;43749063]Cyanide and Happiness is the most unfunny turd of a comic. I really don't understand how so many people find it funny.[/QUOTE]
I've noticed that it's started to get less funny. Like 20 minutes ago I just went through all of 2013's comics and didn't even so much as smirk. I had to double take because a lot of the comics are just so goddamn similar. "Look at this funny face!" "Remember this joke?" "Hey, this comic is seemingly something normal... but it's not!! Haha! Didn't expect that, huh?!" "RAPE LOL" "Haha BLOOD/POOP/PEE!!!"
Not sure if that's because it's just getting worse and worse, or I'm just maturing with age.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;43750426]I've noticed that it's started to get less funny. Like 20 minutes ago I just went through all of 2013's comics and didn't even so much as smirk. I had to double take because a lot of the comics are just so goddamn similar. "Look at this funny face!" "Remember this joke?" "Hey, this comic is seemingly something normal... but it's not!! Haha! Didn't expect that, huh?!" "RAPE LOL" "Haha BLOOD/POOP/PEE!!!"
Not sure if that's because it's just getting worse and worse, or I'm just maturing with age.[/QUOTE]
Maybe, I enjoyed smosh years ago, but their target is 10-12 year old boys pretty much, so I'd of course grow out of it. I'd say they're not terrible because they keep their production value pretty good and they please their target demographic very well.
[QUOTE=The golden;43750002]I mean, besides the whole election fraud thing him and his cabinet committed. That should be grounds for being thrown in prison but apparently we don't care about committing fraud during the elections anymore.[/QUOTE]
Explain? I thought Canada was a fairly democratic and transparent country.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43750629]Explain? I thought Canada was a fairly democratic and transparent country.[/QUOTE]
Every country has some politicians who misuse their power.
That teachers give special tollerance for kids with 'adhd' and the like. It's fucking stupid. I don't have to deal with it much anymore seeing as how most of them get filtered out of education at the eleventh year but on wednesday I was playing dodgeball with some lower years. My team was full of the most obnoxious kids. They'd kick the balls around our side to make it difficult for teamates to pick them up. Two of them even went so far as to try and snatch the ball out of my arms. All the while they were shouting shit. Teachers totally ignored them.
If you're going to slap mental disorders over people you might as well make up mental disorders for any shortcoming a person may have. My brother'd have 'Chronic winer syndrome' My friend would have 'Clever airhead disorder' and I'd have 'Sloth work ethic disorder'. Maybe when we're born we can have guys measure our brains and the respective quality of each lobe and gland.
TL;DR:
You know, I'm fine with idiots getting more educational care but they realy shouldn't be tolerant for 'genetic' cuntishness.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;43750654]Every country has some politicians who misuse their power.[/QUOTE]
True, but the accusations he's making seem quite serious in that regard.
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