Unpopular Opinions

[Poetic Nova]

I have another one:

Nintendo stopped being good ever since the release of the Wii. Maybe I'm bitter over other M, or the dozens of Mario games they keep releasing but their post-GC consoles by far became my least favorite.

As for their handhelds, well, ever since the 3DS it rather became confusing and it just feels like milking to have a new or tweaked (3)DS every few months or so.

 

[Poetic Nova]

My biggest "unpopular opinion" would be that the Pokemon gen 5 games (Black and White/Black 2/White 2) are easily the best in the series. Best story, best characters, a good region, great new features, and excellent music. The gen 5 Pokemon themselves are terribly underrated in general.

I want to shake hands with you.

Pokemon White was the first handheld Pokemon I really enjoyed since Blue. Dispite my issues with Nintendo.

 

[Poetic Nova]

The Lego Movie got ruined by its live action scenes. Made me wanted to stop watching as soon as the first one came up.
Damn shame, since the rest was pretty good.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

- I enjoy Sword Art Online.

God DAMN, I just came to this thread to say the same thing. Buggerin ninjas... Gotta come up with a new one... Um...

I like Kid Icarus Uprising's control scheme and think it benefits greatly from it, cause I feel the game wouldn't function as well without it

This outta get me killed for sure!

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I made a list:

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- I'm a long time anime fan, and I prefer dubs.

- I can't stand any of Ikuhara's work. Utena, Penguindrum, whatever that bear one was, I couldn't stand any of them.

- I'm one of the few people on this site that seems to like Sword Art Online.

- I think Elfen Lied sucks, both the anime and the manga.

- Hellsing is really fucking stupid, but enjoyably stupid.

- The third Pokemon movie is actually pretty good.

- Guilty Crown was okay.

- I don't like Bakuman.

- Spice and Wolf is okay.

- Akira is okay. I respect it, but I can't say I liked it as much as everyone else.

- Blood-C is the best of the Blood series.

- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia is an amazing anime.

- I loved the Aku no Hana anime.

- I still love K-ON! You guys can take your idol anime and shove it!

- I don't like metal music very much. The mostly bore me.

- Man of Steel was okay.

- I like feeling old.

- I think blow jobs, cunnilingus, and any sort of oral stimulation outside of kissing is disgusting.

- I think Wind Waker is better than Ocarina of Time.

- Yukiko is best girl.

 

[the_dramatica]

-capitalism is the best form of Government
-cheddar cheese tastes awful
-whole wheat bread tastes better than bleached bread
-Bolton vs Baratheon is the only decent subplot going on in a game of thrones atm.
-fast and furious 8 is garbage
-people should be allowed to take reduced sentence times if they accept torture instead of waiting around in prison

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

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.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

None of these opinions really seem all that unpopular.

The world has an excess of people. Too many people are illiterate and live in poverty. It's a miserable existence and a drain on society as well as the environment.

I think we'd be better off if most nations were bombed with weapons on a level of destructiveness similar to nuclear warheads, as long as they leave no radioactive waste.

Specifically, the nations that have barbarians for citizens who keep their own dictators in office.
Any nation that doesn't meet a certain standard of progressiveness gets deleted. Not just the people, but the cities and villages too. 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.

 

[happyninja42]

I don't like Dragonball Z, and have only watched like 0.5 of one episode, which was all grunting and powering up, so I didn't see the point of seeing any more. (Though I fucking LOVE DBZ Abridged by Team Fourstar, which happily doesn't require a knowledge of the show to appreciate the humor)

I've never played Pokemon, and I never will.

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)

I also don't like Seinfeld, and never did. It isn't funny.

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.

I actually thought Jar Jar was funny in a few scenes, and he genuinely made me laugh in those scenes. (They were very few, but they did exist.)

I liked Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG.

I thought Legend of Korra sucked, because it was a poorly told story with a terrible main character. I don't care what her sexuality is, that has no bearing on why I think the show sucked.

Let's see, what other nerdy things do I like/dislike compared to the masses?

*ponders*

Oh, I don't use twitter or facebook, and think they're pretty damn useless.

I like Miles Morales as the new Spider-Man.

I did like the idea of FemThor, but then I read it, and found the writing sucked, which killed my enjoyment of the concept.

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"

 

[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:

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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

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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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