The unpopular opinions thread.

I thought the movie The Blair Witch Project sucked and wasn't scary at all, it was more annoying than anything.

Most horror these days relies on jump scares your excessive gore. While certainly frightening,they lack a true sense of terror.

I personally think War of the Worlds (2005) is the most effective 'horror' type for a film in my personal opinion.

I personally find Federation fans(from the Gundam UC fandom) to be among the most ignorant, backwards and just plain stupid people you can ever have the displeasure of conversing with. Plus they aren't in the same mold of me, being a supporter of Zeon and all, though...is this unpopular?

I mean our two factions have more or less split the fan base for the last twenty years. I suppose it wouldn't be unpopular to those who endorse what I endorse, but would be against those who stand against it. Eh whatever fuck it, this is giving me a headache.

In closing? Here is standard Zeon propaganda meme



Sieg Zeon Feddies!

Battlefield 1 is a joke and doesn't portray at all very well the first world war.

I could write a whole article why it is not the first world war, despite trying to appear as such in this game and why it seems much more like the second world war. I can be okay with some freedoms taken since it is a game, but nope, they went with fully " not realistic " at all, whether in the gameplay ( automatic weapons as hell, I have even seen a rocket launch ) or the background. The immersion is totally not there for me except a few seconds sometimes. 

Also as a fan of history, I do not like historical revisionism, even in a video game. I'd give a zero just for that to EA and Dice. What do they learn at school nowadays in their country ? They had an opportunity to do something really different and awesome with this game, they totally failed. Thanks god I didn't buy it.

Youtube, and demo is your friend.

I was actually hyped for BF1, I've always been very interested in the first world war and read many books about it - but then I realized its....battlefield and an AAA title. My blitz-boner shrunk into oblivion.

I'd have loved a proper game set up in WW1 but all I see is a funny run and gun arcade style shooter game which has absolutely nothing to do with the tactics, problems and battles of this major war. Heck, not even the guns are accurate.  In WW1 90% of the time was spent in dreary dirty trenches half underwater, enduring never ending artillery bombardment, gas raids, nightly skirmishes and snipers.  The attacks consisted of wave attacks of thousands of soldiers fighting their way through mud, mustard gas clouds and barbed wire only to be greeted by dozens of machine guns. And the next day they lost the 200 meters or so of ground they gained. 

This game is nothing like that and  its at best a funny arcade shooter that does a very poor job at representing that conflict.  

If you want a glimpse of what WW1 was really like I can recommend a very old, but still very good movie: All quiet on the western front, and the excellent book '' In Stahlgewittern'' (Storm of steel) written by the German soldier Ernst Jünger. Especially reading that book will make you think about all the media BS you've heard about the first world war. 

I'm unclear as to what position you're critiquing endeavors towards equality from. The bold makes it sound like you're coming at this from a relativistic standpoint, but I might be misreading it. Are you saying that some races, genders, cultures, and religions have greater overall value than others or that the mere idea of assigning overall value to these categories and ranking them is misguided?

I do think it's possible to say that one cultural aspect is objectively better than another. By pretty much every measure that's relevant to humans, the caste system and open defecation are worse practices than less discriminatory class systems and indoor plumbing. I don't think there's much push back to be had from that. And if we take these and various other culture aspects together to represent the culture as a whole then, yes, we could certainly say that Culture A is superior to Culture B. Not in every respect. Not for every person. But overall.

The same could conceivably be done for any other categorization of people, including race, sex/gender, religion. In theory. In practice, it gets quite messy. Because first, there needs to be a set of commonly agreed upon aspects by which we can compare the two groups. Then there needs to be an effective way to measure those aspects without biases. Then we need to decide on the relative weights those measures have on the overall value of the group. And then even if a difference is found, we still need to ask ourselves how significant of an impact that difference should make on our judgments.

As an example, let's say it was found that Group A has, on average, 10 more IQ points than Group B. Okay. That's an objective difference that exists between the groups. Given a random sample of each group and no other information about the samples, it is more likely for the sample in A to have an equal or higher IQ score than the sample in B. But with the existence of so many factors that might be contributing to the difference and the variance within each group, what relevance does this result really have in the real world? If that objective measure cannot reliably predict relevant outcomes or if there are far better ways to predict those outcomes, then even though it exists, the sensible thing to do is to ignore it. Especially given our historical tendency to let such trivial differences unduly guide our thoughts and behavior.

Yes, exactly. They're always better when they make you think, when they've incorporate a true twist instead of one that's predictable. It doesn't work for me when all it is is people running away from the bad guy and oooh, look, bad guy just jumped out of hiding. Ooooh, look, gross display of blood and gore. Ooooh, bad guy's dead, oops, no he isn't. Oh yay, now we're in for a sequel to this worthless piece of crap...big woop. They're pretty well all the same and usually ten minutes into it you can predict the outcome. At least with a well done sci-fi horror, anything can happen, and you get introduced to some neat creatures, sometimes. I like a well done horror spoof like Tremors or Tucker and Dale vs Evil over most of the horror shows that are made now a days. I think movies like The Blair Witch Project, The Grudge and Hostel just ruined horror shows for me.

If I may play the devils advocate a bit here.  But equality will never be an actualized.

Women will always have more rights then men.  Lets take maternity leave as an example.  I've never heard of a business that offers maternity leave to men.  Should they get it?  From a moral stand point, its only right and fair.  But will they get it?  I very much doubt it.  Why would a business want to keep a position open, that is not making any money for 6 months, for anyone?  If it wasn't mandated by law, businesses wouldn't do it.

I want to add on my even more unpopular opinion to this one by saying that I don't the government should do this either.