Unpopular Opinions

[Zontar]

-Mass Effect 1 is the weakest game in the series in terms of characters, gameplay and exploration.

I know that liking something or not is subjective, but how can ME1's exploration be the weakest in the series, given it's the only one of the three games which even has it?

 

[Zontar]

I don't like The Big Bang Theory and think it sucks and isn't funny. (though this might not be as unpopular as I previously thought)

Yeah, this isn't that unpopular of an opinion in these parts. Hell, it's why in a previous post I stated I DO like the show, since despite its popularity it has quite the hatedom.

I like Miles Morales as the new Spider-Man.

I haven't been following Marvel since I dropped comics all together due to both Marvel and DC making it clear they didn't want my money, how are they handling Miles with the whole "merging of the 616 and Ultimates universe" business?

I think the Thrawn Trilogy sucks, and found Admiral Thrawn to be an overblown ass of a villain who was too super perfect at figuring out his enemies movements, simply because he studied their *uses pompous British voice* "Aaaaahhrt"

Funny enough, the author himself in later books had Thrawn and other characters laugh at how much of a tactical and strategic genius the rumours about him painted him out to be, with different characters either proudly claiming or lamenting (depending on which faction they where a part of) that if even half of it was true he wouldn't have lost (and later died).

Though in all fairness, when he was created, he was desperately needed as an intelligent amoral villain to balance things out of the Empire due to its massive over-saturation of stupid-evil villains at the time. Which is probably why his trilogy is what kicked off the coherent Star Wars EU and turned the materials from a mess of a train-wreak into a halfway decent universe.

 

[tm96]

-fast and furious 8 is garbage

How do you know its not even out yet unless you're from the future. Tell time traveller how screwed has the future become.

 

[TakerFoxx]

I think people can agree on the core imagery of a utopia at least, if not how it's organized.

And therein lies the problem. Sure, we can agree that peace, acceptance, and happiness are great and would be an intrinsic part of a utopia, but no one has the slightest clue how to bring that about, and once you start to go into details, cracks start forming. Without specifics, all you have are a bunch of nice sounding but ultimately meaningless buzzwords. [/quote]

I'd argue we're a lot better about ideologies coexisting than we were the generation before and the generation before that and so on.

Who's we? We, meaning western culture? The world at large? The internet? No, not really. Sure, there is more acceptance of certain previously persecuted ways of thinking and minorities, but in turn other problems just rise up to replace them. There have been plenty of cultures in ancient times that were far more open minded and accepting than we ever will be, and they had problems that we find appalling. Humanity is essentially running in place, constantly evolving but never really progressing, at least not as a whole. In time, the problems we solve will come around the gamut, with new prejudices replacing old ones. Why? Because it's not a hivemind. It's made up of individuals, each with their own set of strengths, flaws, prejudices, and virtues.

Another one of my unpopular opinions is that there are individuals who can achieve something that, for all intents and purposes (since true perfection is by definition impossible), any of us would consider perfect. Someone who has never lied, never given into temptation, someone with a perfectly balanced life, someone who fully realized their inner potential. Heck, maybe someone who has managed perfection in all those areas rather than just one. It bothers us because we think it destroys multiple narratives we have culturally constructed. It makes us feel inadequate or that there is a limit to how far we can go or whatever. In reality, I think it opens a lot of doors for us to recognize this is possible. A utopia does seem possible to me.

Sure, certain individuals are capable of reaching "enlightenment," (whatever that means) and/or a state of...well, not perfection, but the closest a person is able to anyway. But a whole society, one that has millions of individuals being born into every day? It's...not going to happen.

Though I should note that despite my pessimistic tone, I actually love humanity, flaws and all. I prefer to look at people's strengths and triumphs while trying to understand their flaws instead of condemning them, because most of the time I am no better. However, so long as evil exists, utopia is impossible. And so long as humanity has the option to be evil, evil will exist. And so long as free thinking exists, people will remain divided. But as removing free thinking and the possibility to be evil will also take away a huge part of what it means to be human, then I'd rather society remain imperfect.

 

[rosac]

Supes is also one of my favourite superheros. Not because of his skillset, his ability to punch anything into submission, but his humanity and "there is always another way." This is best seen in Superman vs. the elite and all star superman. I'm still pissed at Man of Steel for ignoring these elements. (Zod even says "This only ends one of two ways superman, either I die or you die!" Literally all they had to do was do something to get rid of Zod without killing him and have supes say "There is always another way." BOOM. Done.)

You're missing the point of that scene, which was that sometimes, there ISN'T another way, that even the best of us have to face difficult choices. The whole idea that Superman can solve any problem just because he's Superman is one of the reasons a lot of people don't like the character, since it's hard to relate to someone who always gets to have his cake and eat it.

That's a very valid point, but I (personally) prefer Superman as the utopian ideal. He can fix everything, it just causes him a great moral and sometimes physical difficulty.

The whole "not having his cake and eating it" would make more sense if it had been established in more detail that superman avoided violence, or at least lethal/incredibly destructive violence. It was shown throughout the film that Supes always tries to save others regardless of the impact it could have on him (bus scene etc.) which shows one ideal he has.

That way killing Zod would be seen as superman crossing one established line (no killing) in order to maintain another (saving innocents at all costs), that this foe was too much for him to deal with within these ideals etc. This would be a great moral issue that grealy affect Superman, but without establishing Superman as avoiding lethality the killing lacked any real significance in my mind. Not even with a darth vader "noooooooo"

 

[Proto Taco]

1) It should be illegal for children to participate in religion until the age of 18. Sure there'd be a lot of people who'd break it, just like with underage drinking. But at least it would lend recourse to prevent situations like the Duggars where the children are indoctrinated before they're even old enough to formulate an opinion or worldview.

2) As a trans person who needs hormones to maintain any kind of level of functionality, the 'trans umbrella' drives me batshit. If I could take a pill that made my brain function right without HRT and me feel better about holding an honest relationship with someone, I'd do it in a heartbeat. All this 'be yourself' bullshit has to stop. Being trans is a medical problem, not a soapbox. The sooner the hipsters get over it and real research can be done on it, the better.

3) Not a single wealthy person on the planet deserves or has earned their money. No matter how hard you try, how many buzzwords you spit, or how well you pitch the capitalist agenda, nothing can convince me that one person is worth over 30 times the salary of their average worker. As soon as the Steve Jobs of the world can personally manufacture, ship and sell all their own product, THEN they will have earned and be deserving of their money, but not before.

4) Pro-Lifers are halfwits who've never stopped to consider if the child even WANTS to be born. Until a fetus can answer the question, "do you want to live?" It is both unethical to make the decision for the fetus, and also daft to suggest a living, breathing, conscious woman has any obligation to what amounts to a mammalian vegetable in her uterus, incapable of both thought and speech.

5) Religion is absolution for the weak conscience. Taking full responsibility for both your actions and the consequences of events beyond your control in your life will open up far more to you than any deified low-budget philosophy ever will.

6) States' Rights advocates need to stop being so noncommital and just admit they're anarchists. At least the 'war on women' was honest with its agenda. Seriously, I've talked to real anarchists, as well as real States' Rights advocates, and they both told me exactly the same things.

I'll stop there to save space...

 

[Dalisclock]

-Mass Effect 1 is the weakest game in the series in terms of characters, gameplay and exploration.

I know that liking something or not is subjective, but how can ME1's exploration be the weakest in the series, given it's the only one of the three games which even has it?

I think he's talking about Mako. Which I'm going to voice the unpopular opinion that I don't hate the Mako, but it could have been implemented better.

 

[Zontar]

-Mass Effect 1 is the weakest game in the series in terms of characters, gameplay and exploration.

I know that liking something or not is subjective, but how can ME1's exploration be the weakest in the series, given it's the only one of the three games which even has it?

I think he's talking about Mako. Which I'm going to voice the unpopular opinion that I don't hate the Mako, but it could have been implemented better.

Still, it's hard to have exploration in the later titles be an improvement when you completely remove them. And it seems Bioware is aware of this since they seem to have the Makos making a return for Mass Effect 4. Who knows, it might be an actual true sequel to Mass Effect instead of just a game which continues the story like Mass Effect 2 and 3 where.

On that note: I don't consider Mass Effect 2 or 3 to be Mass Effect games because they removed exploration and the RPG elements to all but a token level and the plot undergoing a sudden radical shift which makes it clear EA was involved and there's no way either game's plot, in their entirety, where Bioware's vision when they started.

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

New Dr. Who sucks. Occasionally they have a great episode but mostly it's a childish, in love with itself mess. The old show was frequently boring but I can't remember wishing that the bad guys would kill the Doctor. With the new show however, I honestly hoped that when the Doctor got locked in the Pandorica that it would be the last episode.

The 1998 Godzilla movie wasn't great but it wasn't as bad as people think.

If you actually pay attention to what's going on, Dynasty Warriors 3 has one of the best stories in video gaming. It got me to read a translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I loved it and it opened up a new world of Chinese literature to me.

Pickled eggs are good.

Not sure about some of the rest, but DW3 as an intro to that period of Chinese history? Hell yes. Same here. It's not going to teach it to you on its own, but like you, it made me very curious.

Of course you don't know about the rest; this is the unpopular opinions thread! It is good to find someone else who can value the joy of Dynasty Warriors from a literary perspective. Most folks just liked it for the voice acting.

 

[MrPhyntch]

A couple of categories of opinions to share with the world:

Light/inconsequential:

Spoiler

I have never understood the love for Obsidian. I couldn't play much of Kotor2; Fallout New Vegas is terribly dull, poorly designed, and utterly forgettable; and most of their original stuff has been incredibly buggy and bland.

I enjoy trash TV/Movies a lot. I actually like The Big Bang Theory, loved Transformers 1 and 2, and continually watch crappy unrealistic crime scene shows, not for the forensics, but for the character development.

I vastly prefer gamepad controls, including (especially!) for First Person Shooters. My wrist is jitterier than my thumb is, meaning that I get vastly improved accuracy with a thumbstick than my mouse.

Shipping bothers me, particularly same-sex shipping of obviously straight characters, or hero/villain shipping. Extra points for both (see: Harry/Draco, Kaiba/Yugi, Aang/Zuko, etc...)

Pokemon is the only "real" anime (read: not abridged) that I have ever really liked. I tolerated DBZ and watched it with my friends, but was never a huge fan. I can't stand "modern" animes largely because most of them are subbed (I need glasses to read, and hate having glasses on, I watch shows to relax) or require massive history and cultural lessons about a culture I don't actually have much interest in. (for one example, is Onii-chan "brother/sibling", "close friend", "mentor", or something else entirely? I've seen it used in all those contexts, and it confuses the hell out of me. I'm not going to learn college-level material to enjoy something like this.)

I never found Earthbound/Mother3 to be that charming or emotionally hitting.

Grand Theft Auto series of games are terrible, and you're a terrible person if you like them.

Heavy/major

Spoiler

Video games DO have tendencies to cause violence/aggression...... in vacuums. Most people are able to disconnect and enjoy something without taking them and their subject matter literally. There are people, however, who have issues (such as parental neglect or straight-up mental disorders) who believe in the dehumanization of the masses of people they slaughter, mainly because they've never been taught (or are able to comprehend) any different. However this same dehumanization also happens in almost all other media as well. Gamers just like to try to isolate games as a "that's not us" thing.

Modern society is WAY too oversexed. It's likely largely a rebellion against older overly repressed days (as well as a little bit of we've always been closet perverts), but it genuinely angers me that literally EVERYTHING is about sex. If I like someone, I want to have sex with them. Two men can't be good friends/roommates (post college) without also banging regularly. A hero and villain are thinking about how to defeat each other next time they meet, obviously they want to play "hide the zucchini". It's bullshit, and society at large is trying to push sex way further than it ever needed to go.

Incest is no squickier to me than homosexuality. After all, what's the problem with two consenting adults? As long as they don't have kids, there is LITERALLY no difference.

Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and Ephibophilia, (attraction to prepubescent, pubescent, and post-pubescent minors respectively) are sexual attractions and/or fetishes, almost identical to homosexual. Obviously the exploitation of a minor is very different from consenting adults doing what they want, but these three are simply sexual attractions, and a person who has these attractions but does not act on them should be treated like a human being, and if a person reaches out to try to get help/support, should not be ostracized for something that they cannot control.

Abortion is straight up murder. I can't say that we, as a society, have the means to legislate it properly (after all, if you allow it in cases of rape, there will be a lot of fake rape reports, and a lot of people who don't have the courage/ability to report a rape would be forced to have babies they shouldn't, so that would be hard to deal with), but from a pure moral/ethical stand point, it is just straight up ending the life of someone who otherwise never had a chance and only caused you some mild discomfort at times (again, I'd allow for health reasons as well, but as above, sticky situations enforcing that).

Western society's treatment of mental health issues is appalling. In 90% of the populace's eyes, mental disorders are either terrible things we must hide and cover up, or excuses to get away with terrible behavior. In reality, mental health issues are just like physical health issues, and need to be treated as such. If I broke my leg and bone was sticking through my skin, you wouldn't tell me that I should just walk it off/rest a few days and it'll take care of itself. And you wouldn't accept it if I used it as an excuse to feel you up while you took me to the ER on account of my "delusional state". We need to try to treat and correct mental health issues, and not overdiagnose like we've been doing lately in society.

I have more, but I typed me a wall of text here, I think I'll call it a night.

 

[Unpopular Opinions]

This thread needs my presence.
- the ending of the third Mass Effect was made perfect (since it was a warriors death. Self sacrifice in the name of the greater good) by the downloadable extended version.
-If recreational marijuana is made legal in the U.S., they need to tax the living hell out of it.
-final fantasy sucks.
-People who use terms like CIS need to be hit with a brick. You fight against labels, and then turn around to put one on the rest of us? Hypocrites.
-It's ok to hit a woman... When the call rises for it. Just like with anyone. Like if someone is coming at you with a knife.
-Women ***** (note: feminazis) about equality, and then expect preferential treatment like they are somehow better than the rest of us. If you intend to be my equal, I expect you to act like it and NOT ***** when someone doesn't hold back when working with you.
-Steam is ripping you off. If someone can take a game/s away from you without your authorization, you do not own that game.
-MURICA is a terrible place to live. All the morons you see toting guns and waving flags are just a bunch of blind sheep.
-The voice actor behind Vegeta is a terrible human being. He pushed Nadolny (OG voice of Gohan) out of coming back to redo Gohan JUST because he wanted someone else to do it. He didn't consider her good enough. So he forced her away. This is why I swapped to subs and flat out REFUSE to support the English releases.
and I suppose that is all for now.
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Un-Popular Opinions

 

[ObserverStatus]

-The Matrix sequels are criminally underrated.
-All the other characters in The Phantom Menace are so boring that I actually kind of like Jar Jar.
-Mass Effect 1&3 were somewhat pretentious games, I liked Mass Effect 2 better because it didn't take itself as seriously, and let itself have fun.
-Metroid Prime 2 is the best Metroid
-Rarity is best pony

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

Not that many are coming to mind. But I would proabably go with Bioshock 2 being the best game in the series.

As well as Mass Effect 3's ending being just fine.

Also the only Nintendo property I care about at all is Pikmen.

 

[Gyrick]

Oh boy, where do I begin?

- I thought "The Last of Us" was overrated.
- Princess Peach is one of my favorite characters in the Mario universe; she is way more complex than people give her credit for.
- I think that Final Fantasy VII has not aged as gracefully as the rest of the games in the series.
- I actually like some "free-emium" games like "Candy Crush" and "Final Fantasy Record Keeper," though I never pay any money for power-ups.
- I prefer the original Mega Man games to the X and beyond.
- On the anime front, I did not like Clannad and Clannad: After Story. I think Kanon tells a much better story (I guess my avatar is a dead giveaway).

*hides in a corner*

 

[jamail77]

3. G.W. Bush wasn't a horrible President. Carter was the last horrible President. However the last decade of Congress has been pretty well shit, too much party infighting and petty disputes, lobbyists have too much pull on both sides for the People to really have any say in what gets passed and how it affects US citizens.

4. If someone has worked hard for their money, no one has the right to begrudge them for having it. Rich folk aren't all trust fund babies (people like Paris Hilton are worthless though) and they do pay sufficient tax. Hell they carry the burden for most of the country as it is, making them pay more is kinda punishment for being successful.

3. Interesting. I'm used to people who think Carter was horrible tying it into the Presidents after him, but you think he was the last horrible one period.

4. Ignoring whether or not the rich give back to society proportionally fair to those who are not rich, a lot of people complaining about the rich don't begrudge them for their wealth so much as the influence it gives them. Any hard work that got them that wealth does not necessarily give them better expertise than the rest of us on the policies they have influence on. Heck, it wasn't too long ago Mark Cuban was giving some monumentally uninformed advice [footnote]He was stubborn enough to argue with people more educated than him on the issue from an award winning investigative journalist/data guru/past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists to ordinary healthcare experts[/footnote] on maintaining personal health that made sense to him because that's how he handles his investment portfolio. The Dunning?Kruger effect is especially dangerous with those who have that much power.

Then, there's the fact that once you break past a certain level of wealth you actually pay less in taxes than the wealthy people you just left in the dust. [http://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8712109/irs-tax-rates-rich] I guess you could argue the top .1% and beyond earned a lower tax rate, but I do think this is worth pointing out for sake of comparison to other wealthy people.

Most concerning though is that the richer you are that much more astronomical are the chances a majority of your wealth comes from places like capital gains and dividends. There's no denying the education and hard work put into that, especially to get those people in the spot to make such investments, but they also get plenty of time to let their money make money on itself when they're not doing anything. Most people don't have the luxury or access to the necessary education to do that and have to continue putting in just as much hard work versus the lull time one can get while their money is making money. More initial effort, education, and experience for less later effort. I'd argue that aspect of our system is worth begrudging until
[ol][li] A majority of people have the necessary access to opportunity to understand how that works even if they ultimately can't or won't take advantage of it[/li] [li]A sufficient amount of the money to come out of it goes back into the infrastructure that helped generate it (society) because chances are the person that money is going to is not going to do that themselves on the scale necessary. The growth is too large compared to the overall effort put in for you to make me believe they earned ALL to come out of that. Working income is a different story because it doesn't grow like that[/li].[/ol] Note that I'm not arguing that everyone should be able to make a lot of money in investments like that, but the lack of knowledge on it and the scale of exponential growth is worse to me than income inequality because only the ultra wealthy can have it make up so much of their wealth. Even the less wealthy are somewhat cut off from it.

And, honestly? I don't know of a single suggested tax revision that would put a majority of the wealthy in a position where they could not still go about with the successful life they lived before. I don't think it's a punishment until they suddenly are crippled in a significant way from doing what they do. A few less 0s at the end of their paychecks is not going to cripple them in the same way it proportionally would those of the middle and lower class.

so i just finished the last season and ..... i dont see any romantic attraction. [snip]

Yeah you missed something. Namely, how friends typically don't also stare into each other's eyes while holding both of each other's hands in a pose that has been reserved exclusively for romantic couples while "The Avatar's Love" plays in the background and the scene refers back to the original series' ending of Aang and Katara doing the exact same thing. It's really not ambiguous so long as you look at it more closely than "they're just holding hands."

Also, creator intent [http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace]. I thought that got around by this point, but I guess not. If you have time for something longer and don't avoid Tumblr at all costs there's also the staging evidence [http://heartlighting.tumblr.com/post/105606009782/final-bows-or-korrasami-is-canon-because].

-Skyward Sword is a great game

Good, not great. Sure.

and very, very, very muchbetter than Twilight Princess, since SS had some actual balls of its own and didn't just pander to the OoT and MJ fans, but actually did something original and did it well.
[snip]
-Naruto was ok, even kinda good at times until the war broke out.
[snip]
Also, after having read some of the posts in this thread, I believe fascism comes to us much more naturally than we like to think, probably more than democracy.

On par...maybe. What can I say? I have got a lot of nostalgia for TP. TP may have pandered, but what was clearly pandering was polished and had good ideas of its own. Much of what was original about SS wasn't as equally polished. It ultimately balances out I think. TP had more sword techniques, SS had directional sword fighting. TP had Midna, SS had lackluster Fi. TP had a darker aesthetic, SS stood out. TP had Ganondorf usurp the more interesting villain, SS had...Ganondorf(Demise is Ganondorf as far as I'm concerned. Very original) usurp the more interesting villain...hmmm.

The series had potential. The more religious allegory, philosophical, meta, wide-spanning it got, the harder it was to read/watch. Considering how long those themes stretch on for once any individual arc went full throttle with them I'd argue it maintained a more consistent level of downright, pretentious stupidity.

Wow. That's usually a belief founded over the long term. Those posts must have been pretty intense.

That obese women shouldn't model. They're not being "brave" they're promoting an incredibly negative lifestlye IN THE EXACT SAME WAY A SIZE ZERO MODEL DOES. And yet they get a lot of shit. Some women put on weight easily, some cannot put weight on. But for some reason being skinny is seen as being evil by a sector of modern "feminists" whereas being proud of your body despite weight issues is ok.

I have literally never seen this. Yes, the section of feminists you're referring to discuss body image, but I have never seem them go for outright obesity in modeling or unfairly harass the anorexic except in hyperbolic perceptions. The closest I have seen is attacks on fat shaming, which is more about downright hatred towards the severely obese that isn't helping them get their health under control. The cheering I see is towards any model that isn't unhealthily skinny, maybe a few chunky women, but nobody in an unhealthy weight range.

None of these opinions really seem all that unpopular

I know, right?

Boom, gone. Clean slate. Any nation that does not perpetuate a culture of liberty and progress is a nation the world doesn't need dragging it down.

I think that basically just leaves a handful of European countries.

I don't, however, take this "view" of mine very seriously. If I actually had to be the one to push the button to armageddon, I wouldn't. I don't think that I have thought it all through nearly well enough and I don't think any human has the place to make that decision over billions of people. I don't trust a single human being to make the right choice. I'd also hesitate because I know that between all the rubbish of the world that desperately needs some clearing up, some of the valuable, ethical people would also be lost.

Boom, you say? Clean slate, you say? No human should do it, you say? I got your answer

I actually like the line from Attack of the Clones about sand. It's like how eskimos have 40+ words for snow. For a kid born on a desert planet, he would have VERY strong opinions about the stuff.

[snip]

I thought Legend of Korra sucked, because it was a poorly told story with a terrible main character.

The meaning behind the words were fine, but the delivery of them and the corniness of them outweigh any merit behind their intention. Luke and Han both agree to get Lucas out of the dialogue chair

Just how low are your standards? The show was ultimately a disappointment, but I have seen way too much from the true bottom of the barrel to use "terrible" to describe Korra.

I'd argue we're a lot better about ideologies coexisting than we were the generation before and the generation before that and so on.

Who's we? We, meaning western culture? The world at large? The internet? No, not really. Sure, there is more acceptance of certain previously persecuted ways of thinking and minorities, but in turn other problems just rise up to replace them. There have been plenty of cultures in ancient times that were far more open minded and accepting than we ever will be, and they had problems that we find appalling. Humanity is essentially running in place, constantly evolving but never really progressing, at least not as a whole.

Humanity. On the grand scale of things I don't think those new problems are as damning. While there have been individual cultures that were better about this stuff I don't think there is a point in history where humanity, the world, was better about this. I'd say it's more akin to us running in place and taking a step once in a while.

4) Pro-Lifers are halfwits who've never stopped to consider if the child even WANTS to be born. Until a fetus can answer the question, "do you want to live?" It is both unethical to make the decision for the fetus, and also daft to suggest a living, breathing, conscious woman has any obligation to what amounts to a mammalian vegetable in her uterus, incapable of both thought and speech.

Well, many of them are religious and could potentially easily sidestep that by the common theme that suicide is a sin. If a fetus could communicate and already thought life wasn't worth living many of the religious would argue letting the person go through with it would be aiding them in sinning and against your religious obligation to convince that person of the sanctity of their life.

 

[Strazdas]

Oh, want to start a flamewar?

Fine: Twilling movies were ok. Not good, not bad[footnote]Especially compared to what kind of crap ive seen. i watch way too many movies[/footnote], just ok. Instant flamewar.

Thats not enough. ok, heres another unpopular one. Im not pro-life or pro-choice. Im pro-abortion.

Not enough fuel in the fire? ok. how about this: Freedom of speech is freedom from consequence, because if there is consequence for speech its not free now is it.

Call me back when firemen arrive.

 

[happyninja42]

I like Miles Morales as the new Spider-Man.

I haven't been following Marvel since I dropped comics all together due to both Marvel and DC making it clear they didn't want my money, how are they handling Miles with the whole "merging of the 616 and Ultimates universe" business?

I don't know honestly. I'm just now reading the Miles Morales stuff, and I'm reading it independent of the other comics coming out at the same time. So a lot of the crossover stuff about the collapse of American society and government is lost on me. Which is fine, as I really don't give a shit, and just want to read about Miles. So far though, I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm a sucker for Legacy stories, as I've stated in other posts, so the idea of someone taking up Peter's legacy after he dies really hits me in the fun zone. xD So far, the writing has been well done, and it hasn't made me groan, or roll my eyes for cheeziness or stupidity. I'm enjoying it.

I think the Thrawn Trilogy sucks, and found Admiral Thrawn to be an overblown ass of a villain who was too super perfect at figuring out his enemies movements, simply because he studied their *uses pompous British voice* "Aaaaahhrt"

Funny enough, the author himself in later books had Thrawn and other characters laugh at how much of a tactical and strategic genius the rumours about him painted him out to be, with different characters either proudly claiming or lamenting (depending on which faction they where a part of) that if even half of it was true he wouldn't have lost (and later died).

Though in all fairness, when he was created, he was desperately needed as an intelligent amoral villain to balance things out of the Empire due to its massive over-saturation of stupid-evil villains at the time. Which is probably why his trilogy is what kicked off the coherent Star Wars EU and turned the materials from a mess of a train-wreak into a halfway decent universe.

I don't mind there being an actually competent villain, hell I want those in stories. My issue with Thrawn was how he was so infallible. The way he was described, as knowing intimately, the military strategies of a culture, simply because he looked at their damn pottery or paintings is absolutely idiotic. That's like saying "I know how the US Army and Marines will deploy their forces because I've studied a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings." It's idiotic to the nth degree, and made him less "brilliant" in my mind, and more of a Marty Sue villain who was beyond fault. And yeah, the way he died, if he's so damn brilliant, why didn't he see it coming? I admit as a kid my level of tolerance for stupid in books was WAAAAY lower than it is now. I've become way more critical, but even then, as a kid I was rolling my eyes and saying "oh come on! That's bullshit!" when Thrawn would flawlessly defeat some group because he studied their finger painting. xD

OT:

Oh yeah!

I wasn't terribly impressed with Bioshock Infinite or it's "mindblowing" ending.

 

[hentropy]

Generally my biggest "strange, unpopular opinion" is the belief that children should be communally raised by a group of professionals. Allowing people who know nothing of child care to raise their kids, and our general feeling that children are the de facto property of their parents to raise as they see fit. It would also ensure that no child goes without a baseline early education and aren't limited by their parent's mistakes or financial status.

There are obviously other things to work out in that whole thing, but it seems as if we, society at large, have no problem treating kids less like the future of society and more like personal vanity projects that are the sole propriety of two people who have probably never taken a childcare course.

Otherwise, I piss everyone off on my gun stance, as I do not believe in one gun ban, and I don't think there should even be a waiting period. I do, however, believe people should be licensed just as they are with cars, but it should be handled by a third-party.

I also believe we should move toward a post-abortion US, though not overnight.

 

[happyninja42]

I guess another "unpopular opinion" simply based on statistics would be that I don't believe in a god. So yeah, I guess atheism would be included in that. It's a quickly growing opinion, but I guess by the masses, it's unpopular. So there's that I guess.

*honestly running out of things to describe at this point*

 

[Zontar]

I don't mind there being an actually competent villain, hell I want those in stories. My issue with Thrawn was how he was so infallible. The way he was described, as knowing intimately, the military strategies of a culture, simply because he looked at their damn pottery or paintings is absolutely idiotic. That's like saying "I know how the US Army and Marines will deploy their forces because I've studied a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings." It's idiotic to the nth degree, and made him less "brilliant" in my mind, and more of a Marty Sue villain who was beyond fault. And yeah, the way he died, if he's so damn brilliant, why didn't he see it coming? I admit as a kid my level of tolerance for stupid in books was WAAAAY lower than it is now. I've become way more critical, but even then, as a kid I was rolling my eyes and saying "oh come on! That's bullshit!" when Thrawn would flawlessly defeat some group because he studied their finger painting. xD

Its been quite some time since I read the books, so I could be wrong, but wasn't it implied that that was a lie on his part and it could have just been something he claimed for the sake of his own image?