The unpopular opinions thread.

Shit, that reminds me I have to respond to someone over a similar post!

I'm not the artsy type at all, but I generally keep my opinions to myself on this one. I don't need to devalue someones passion. I never understood why so many others were so quick to disparage it.

Sorry for the long delay in the reply. I was going to post earlier, but got side-tracked.

1. I understand that one could hold such a nuanced view. I even agree with it to an extent, having been a product of it myself. What I think however is that there is some level of logical connection that generally goes towards a great many subjects, and I'd go insofar as to say that if you applied yourself, you'd seriously excel at a lot of scientific endeavors over rhetorical ones. Understand, I wasn't attacking or questioning you in a hard manner; I get many of the same questions for Political Science and International Relations, for which I hold a Master's Degree. I will say that I tend to lean more towards the practical, however. In that aspect, I'm particularly skewed toward the sciences. As an aside, you fall under the Humanities spectrum of Liberal Arts, whereas I'm on the Social Sciences end of is. I'm not trying to say anything with this statement by the way. 

2. I'm the opposite, I thrive and exist for challenges; call it primitive ego, call it the need for dominance and excellence over peers if you want. A lot of science types, myself included to an extent (even if I get mocked for being involved with a 'lesser' science), don't really get the need for interpretative being; we prefer being orderly, organized, and rational. This is to kind of explain how I feel about it; I personally don't understand the appeal of wanting to have such a tremendous focus on self-expression, when I'd rather work towards a goal that advances us as a society. This is just my opinion however. When it comes to practical means, I think that science has art beat, and since that's what I put value in, I think that's why I skew towards science; You don't go to a musician or painter or graphic designer to solve world hunger or clean renewable energy or building a space station to house research facilities. 

What I'm saying is that I personally do not put much value in the artsy institutions;  but of course, who am I but a random internet text-voice who can tell you all about International Relations, Military Intelligence, and the nuances of political science from ideological and practical means? I don't know everything after all. I'll leave the art to the artists. I don't like devaluing another's passion after-all.

3. As I said, I don't do this. I do believe that people should be more willing to discuss their views and work towards logically resolving conflict and getting points of view across. I don't know where you got the idea that I'd limit rights based on this from.

7. I don't know, you should check out many of the artist-video gamers ( ) who don't have a clue about how physics work in space, lol. Orbital mechanics = the faster you go, the higher you go, and the slower you need to go to stay in orbit! Some people think you can just float there! 

But don't get orbital mechanics wrong, elsewise, you turn into Skylab.

8. Was it an intentional rip-off? Just saying, when does affectionate homage end, and when does blatant rip-off begin? I'll drop it though.

I'm tired of zombies. I was never into that whole vampire period either...I managed to make it out of that without ever seeing one single scene from Twilight.

It's time for sci-fi to make it's major comeback...it's long overdue.

confession: I did start to watch True Blood for the 1st time ever 2 weeks ago and I gotta admit..it hooked me..I now watch 2 episodes every night.

 I agree with you for the most-part. Stephen King's problem is he suck's really, really bad when it comes to endings. Some of his work is really interesting. I love The Stand,  Storm of the Century was intriguing,  he did a small series called Kingdom Hospital that got my interest. When I was a little kid, Pet Sematary freaked me out...and because of It, my youngest sister became permanently afraid of clowns. If only he could come up with better endings.    


Honorable mentions go to The Tommy Knockers, Rose Red and The Langoliers. 

You lucky, LUCKY person...I wish I never saw Twilight.  

Hmm, let's see how many people this one pisses off.

Remember my list of movies that are meh at best? I forgot one.

Princess Bride. I have no idea what the point of that movie was, but I feel like that's time I won't get back. I don't think a live action fairy tale works as well as some might think.

I guess I disagree. I seem to like even sillier live action than that Xena, for one.

Princess bride was like a BioWare game, it was more about the characters than the story imo.

Dark Souls series sucks.

I'm with you on this one. Every time I see it, that movie just makes me irrationally irritable.