Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43759334]Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace was a good movie.[/QUOTE]
This. I really don't understand the unbridled hate it gets.
Game Grumps sucks ass
[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]
Feminism is good
We're all fucking socially incompetent nerds fucking admit it
[QUOTE=Virtanen;43759558]This. I really don't understand the unbridled hate it gets.[/QUOTE]
have u seen the redlettermedia review
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;43759616]Game Grumps sucks[/QUOTE]
Game Grumps was awful when it was Arin & Jon - I always felt that Jon was the weakest link and you get the vibe that they obviously aren't friends anymore judging by the fact that Arin acts like he doesn't exist anymore. Then again, I never got the appeal of Jon. His show feels like a bland AVGN style review with little emphasis on the review and more on rapid fire comedy. What he lacks in humor he makes up in shoehorning in Jacques for cutesy animal appeal and other things.
I have no doubt in my mind that he's probably the nicest guy ever and he's doing what he loves doing and I admire that a lot, but I just don't get his appeal. I wasn't jumping for joy when he left GG, but I didn't exactly have a crisis over it either.
[QUOTE=R-money;43756044] it would always piss me off so fucking much when i would be shitting in class [/QUOTE]
you shouldnt do that in class
Finland sucks a hairy asshole.
[QUOTE=darcy010;43758661]I have absolutely no sympathy for drug addicts.
Sure if they're trying to get better I'm rooting for them.
But the whole "I came from a bad home" or "I was young and stupid" are just terrible excuses for something that's so damaging to everyone around you.
[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]
The only legitimate excuse is if you are forced (Not pressured) into it. Like girls whose pimps shoot them up so they become dependent.[/QUOTE]
Much of the damage is caused by illegality FYI and the lifestyle choices that become associated with it. Also the poor availability of unbiased educational material.
[QUOTE=NoaJM;43759849]Game Grumps was awful when it was Arin & Jon - I always felt that Jon was the weakest link and you get the vibe that they obviously aren't friends anymore judging by the fact that Arin acts like he doesn't exist anymore. Then again, I never got the appeal of Jon. His show feels like a bland AVGN style review with little emphasis on the review and more on rapid fire comedy. What he lacks in humor he makes up in shoehorning in Jacques for cutesy animal appeal and other things.
I have no doubt in my mind that he's probably the nicest guy ever and he's doing what he loves doing and I admire that a lot, but I just don't get his appeal. I wasn't jumping for joy when he left GG, but I didn't exactly have a crisis over it either.[/QUOTE]
Jon irritated me. I always felt that Jon was just coasting along on Arin's jokes constantly in old game grumps, and nine times out of ten he'd just end up ruining them. He just tried way too hard to force things. Game grumps also had the problem in that both of them were pretty bad at games at times.
I stopped watching them ages ago but from what I saw I think Dan seems okay in both of those regards, although he didn't exactly come across as being hilarious he seems like an okay guy. Arin on the other hand seemed to have lost a lot of his will to do it after Jon left. He just didn't seem anywhere near as excited. I don't know, maybe they've settled into a new dynamic since I stopped watching them but that's what I got from the first couple of months of it.
[QUOTE=NoaJM;43759320]Polotics[/QUOTE]
In England, billboard advertisements for election campaigns never seem to be 'we're great' but rather 'the enemy suck' (even though that party probably would have done the same thing just as bad/worse)
I don't actualy have any loyalty towards british labour... I just want to keep the conservatives out of goverment. I don't like the changes they've made in the past years. Particularly I think the minister of education is totally incompetent and worsened the system in many ways for seemingly no reason whatsoever.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43759334]Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace was a good movie.[/QUOTE]It had potential but it had lots of stupid shit that doesn't make sense, the CGI was also horrible. Unless the movie centers around them kids shouldn't be in movies.
Though we did get some cool stuff from it like the racing and the double bladed lightsaber.
But still, how is it a GOOD movie?
Despite what the movies might have you believe, there is no such thing as an 'underdog bonus' in real life.
Any participant in a conflict who is significantly weaker than his foe will almost always get his shit knocked down. Any historical examples of a supposedly weaker combatant making a comeback and achieving victory or stalemate in the end is due to regression to the mean, i.e. the differing levels of strength between the two sides converging after a long period of time.
People like to often cite the exploitation of a belligerent's underestimation of their opponent's strengths as a sort of feat characteristic of the Underdog, yet the word [I]underestimation[/I] contradicts this very notion, as underestimating your opponent simply means that he has strengths you have failed to consider.
[QUOTE=Clovis;43761811]My favourite Star Wars film were 3 and 6, which seems a bit cliche, but my least favourites were 2 and 5. Especially the latter, I really felt that absolutely nothing happened in 5, it was almost like watching a "filler" movie where it was just explaining what happened between 4 and 6, nothing really significant or remarkable about the movie[/QUOTE]
nothing really significant or remarkable except for the fact it's the best in the franchise
i know this is the unpopular opinions thread, but i'm just sayin. it doesn't need to be big and glorious to have a lot to it. in terms of character development for example, ep 5 is WAY better than ep 4 or 6
Episode 4 master race.
Empire can suck a dick! Death Star 1! Whiny Luke! Living Ben!
Pushing for super realism in most games is what is doing the most damage to the to video games today
Not as in interactivity, but the subject of everything being more realistic.
[QUOTE=Trainbike;43760590]Jon irritated me. I always felt that Jon was just coasting along on Arin's jokes constantly in old game grumps, and nine times out of ten he'd just end up ruining them. He just tried way too hard to force things. Game grumps also had the problem in that both of them were pretty bad at games at times.
I stopped watching them ages ago but from what I saw I think Dan seems okay in both of those regards, although he didn't exactly come across as being hilarious he seems like an okay guy. Arin on the other hand seemed to have lost a lot of his will to do it after Jon left. He just didn't seem anywhere near as excited. I don't know, maybe they've settled into a new dynamic since I stopped watching them but that's what I got from the first couple of months of it.[/QUOTE]
I've always felt like Jon didn't become [I]really[/I] popular until Game Grumps. Before the show even started, I had known about Egoraptor and the Awesome Series and all those cool things he did for a long time, but I had never even heard of JonTron. And I knew about Danny and Ross and the things they had done before they made their debut on Game Grumps and Steam Train too. It just gives me the feeling that Jon wasn't as widely known until he and Arin started up the show. Maybe I'm wrong, but there has to be some truth in it.
All of that being said, of course, I don't think Jon was unfunny or annoying on GG. He had his moments, and hearing his ridiculous laugh always made me giggle. I was a little upset when he left, but after a month of Arin and Danny, I was okay again.
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[QUOTE=Clovis;43761811]I really felt that absolutely nothing happened in 5[/QUOTE]
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The next iPhone should be called the iPhone 2
[sp]Apple skipped a number when transitioning from iPhone to iPhone 3G[/sp]
[QUOTE=flashn00b;43762605]The next iPhone should be called the iPhone 2
[sp]Apple skipped a number when transitioning from iPhone to iPhone 3G[/sp][/QUOTE]
That would be "Xbox One" level stupid.
I, being born in the mid 90's, watched I,II and III before IV, V and VI.
The plot for the orignial trillogy was totaly spoiled by me watching the simpsons. BUT honestly I don't realy see that much of a difference in quality between the three. There wasn't actualy much that particularly stood out other than perhaps vaders final moments. The phantom menace was probably the most memorable one; I was like... Four or five or something and thought it was realy cool (especialy the podracing) But when I look back on it now I see shitty acting and bad directing. I suppose they're all like that realy. You all look at starwars with the rose tinted goggles and drunken stupor of nostalgia.
I've also become a lot more critical of the lord of the rings/The hobbit as of late. The acting isn't always great and the dialogue isn't always good. Sure they're still great movies; but I almost cringe whenever Eldrond appears.
[QUOTE=The Jack;43763873]I, being born in the mid 90's, watched I,II and III before IV, V and VI.
The plot for the orignial trillogy was totaly spoiled by me watching the simpsons. BUT honestly I don't realy see that much of a difference in quality between the three. There wasn't actualy much that particularly stood out other than perhaps vaders final moments. The phantom menace was probably the most memorable one; I was like... Four or five or something and thought it was realy cool (especialy the podracing) But when I look back on it now I see shitty acting and bad directing. I suppose they're all like that realy. You all look at starwars with the rose tinted goggles and drunken stupor of nostalgia.[/QUOTE]
I was born in the mid 90's and my parents still showed me the original trilogy before I saw Episode I. And I still like it. I understand and agree that child Anakin was cringe-y and Jar-Jar Binks was just a bad idea, but when you take those two details out of the movie, it gets pretty good.
A lot of people I know complain that the prequel trilogy has too much emphasis on politics and negotiations and all that jazz, but during that time in the story, it made sense. There was no definitive, absolute ruling party in the galaxy like there was during the original trilogy, it was a number of different factions all trying to reach their own, personal goals. Some had formed alliances, and others were at constant war with each other. Looking at the story as a whole, the prequel trilogy fits into place very nicely.
[QUOTE=The Jack;43763873]I, being born in the mid 90's, watched I,II and III before IV, V and VI.
The plot for the orignial trillogy was totaly spoiled by me watching the simpsons. BUT honestly I don't realy see that much of a difference in quality between the three. There wasn't actualy much that particularly stood out other than perhaps vaders final moments. The phantom menace was probably the most memorable one; I was like... Four or five or something and thought it was realy cool (especialy the podracing) But when I look back on it now I see shitty acting and bad directing. I suppose they're all like that realy. You all look at starwars with the rose tinted goggles and drunken stupor of nostalgia.
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What? 4 and 5 in particular have great directing and pretty good acting. And I grew up with the prequels.
6 too was pretty good too but 5 was the absolute best imo.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43764180]I was born in the mid 90's and my parents still showed me the original trilogy before I saw Episode I. And I still like it. I understand and agree that child Anakin was cringe-y and Jar-Jar Binks was just a bad idea, but when you take those two details out of the movie, it gets pretty good.
A lot of people I know complain that the prequel trilogy has too much emphasis on politics and negotiations and all that jazz, but during that time in the story, it made sense. There was no definitive, absolute ruling party in the galaxy like there was during the original trilogy, it was a number of different factions all trying to reach their own, personal goals. Some had formed alliances, and others were at constant war with each other. Looking at the story as a whole, the prequel trilogy fits into place very nicely.[/QUOTE]
The prequels had a decent theory behind but the wooden acting and bad directing is incredibly obvious when you rewatch them (the dependency on CGI probably played a role in both factors).
While there are certainly people who are bisexual. I think there are a small amount of teenagers who would never actually participate in any romantic or sexual activity with someone of the opposite sex and just randomly call themselves that since they 'playfully flirted with someone the same sex as them while drunk' or think that someone of the same sex can be attractive (cause you know, men or woman can't objectively judge appearances without it being gay).
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;43764180]but when you take those two details out of the movie, it gets pretty good.
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lol wtf, if you have to ignore a major character in order for the movie to become good, it's not a good movie
even if you did take jar jar and anakin out, it'd still be terrible. it's inconsistent as fuck. it wants to appeal to all audiences but it changes styles abruptly, rather than find a middle ground. is it meant for adults or for kids? if it was for adults, it shouldn't have wacky scenes and characters, or anakin accidentally destroying the federation ship. but if it was for kids, then why does it have such dark themes out of nowhere, or scenes such as darth maul getting cut in half?
also, who's the protagonist? is it obi-wan? then why does he stay in the ship doing nothing for the entire tatooine sequence? but perhaps anakin is the protagonist? well, he probably has even less screentime than obi-wan, and only shows up after like 40 mins.
mind you, those aren't even half the problems this movie has, and taking out jar jar and anakin really wouldn't do much to fix it.
One of my biggest issues with the prequels is that they showed famous badassess Darth Vader and Boba Fett as whiny little kids, which took away some of the mystique that made them so appealing.
I hate the "momentum-based gameplay" of the classic Sonic games.
Everyone I see praises it as a work of art or something like that and all I see is an unforgiving, finicky mechanic that I have to fight against constantly and makes every level a goddamn nightmare unless you already have it memorized.
I specially hate the moving wall section in Hydrocity Zone where if you're one pixel off, the game will think you're in a slope and you'll begin to slide backwards. If you jump, you get launched towards the moving wall. If you wait for Sonic's momentum to stop, the wall crushes you. What a stupid way to handle the physics.
[QUOTE=Manibogi;43764867]I hate the "momentum-based gameplay" of the classic Sonic games.
Everyone I see praises it as a work of art or something like that and all I see is an unforgiving, finicky mechanic that I have to fight against constantly and makes every level a goddamn nightmare unless you already have it memorized.
I specially hate the moving wall section in Hydrocity Zone where if you're one pixel off, the game will think you're in a slope and you'll begin to slide backwards. If you jump, you get launched towards the moving wall. If you wait for Sonic's momentum to stop, the wall crushes you. What a stupid way to handle the physics.[/QUOTE]
Those are annoying issues but in my opinion water levels are the absolute worst in any Sonic game. It never fails, I reach the first water level and get stuck because of the annoying breathing mechanic. (Which would be less annoying with something resembling actual character control.)
I enjoyed Street Fighter The Movie... Please don't hurt me, it was mainly for Raul Julia and his awesome hammy acting.
[QUOTE=NoaJM;43759849]Game Grumps was awful when it was Arin & Jon - I always felt that Jon was the weakest link and you get the vibe that they obviously aren't friends anymore judging by the fact that Arin acts like he doesn't exist anymore. Then again, I never got the appeal of Jon. His show feels like a bland AVGN style review with little emphasis on the review and more on rapid fire comedy. What he lacks in humor he makes up in shoehorning in Jacques for cutesy animal appeal and other things.
I have no doubt in my mind that he's probably the nicest guy ever and he's doing what he loves doing and I admire that a lot, but I just don't get his appeal. I wasn't jumping for joy when he left GG, but I didn't exactly have a crisis over it either.[/QUOTE]
Yeah something personal definitely happened between Jon and Arin considering the immediate and hasty removal of Jon from the show, and how Dan and Ross were just supposed to have their Steam Train thing but instead Dan replaced Jon abruptly.
If it really was just "Jon moved to New York to live with his girlfriend" (which is still the case, I just don't believe that was all that happened) Jon and Arin would have announced it weeks ago and slowly ease Dan into the show, to avoid all the backlash that occurred when he just randomly showed up in the next episode.
Also the whole thing where neither Jon or Arin have not even mentioned each other once since their split also reinforces the possibility that their friendship ended somehow.
I know people want to push this into the past, and I can respect Jon and Arin's privacy and not try to delve deeper into anything, but I find it ridiculous how some people just immediately deny that anything happened between them, when it's obviously the case.
[QUOTE=Yogkog;43765987]Yeah something personal definitely happened between Jon and Arin considering the immediate and hasty removal of Jon from the show, and how Dan and Ross were just supposed to have their Steam Train thing but instead Dan replaced Jon abruptly.
If it really was just "Jon moved to New York to live with his girlfriend" (which is still the case, I just don't believe that was all that happened) Jon and Arin would have announced it weeks ago and slowly ease Dan into the show, to avoid all the backlash that occurred when he just randomly showed up in the next episode.
Also the whole thing where neither Jon or Arin have not even mentioned each other once since their split also reinforces the possibility that their friendship ended somehow.
I know people want to push this into the past, and I can respect Jon and Arin's privacy and not try to delve deeper into anything, but I find it ridiculous how some people just immediately deny that anything happened between them, when it's obviously the case.[/QUOTE]
Alarms didn't really set off for me until Arin and Danny played Family Feud, even though it had been played way way way way earlier with Jon. Arin seemed to act like it was his first time playing, no callbacks or references. Something really really really bad must have happened between them.
Warframe blows chunks. Me and my friend downloaded it and teamed up and did the first few missions and it's just piss easy. I don't know if i'm doing something wrong but the only time we failed was when the game didn't tell us how to capture the targets that had infinite health.
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