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Phoenix Wrong wrote:

Frozen sucked.

Thats not a unpopular opinion, i think everybody hates it by now.
-I hate american animation, games, and music, it seems were more concerned with making "ACTION GOREFEST SHOOTER NUMBER XXI" or "Genaric rapper rapping about booty and guns: the album" then making quality games like Mother 3, or quality music like coldplay, eiffel 65, or producing good rap songs like before lil wayne appeared.
And for fucks sake, is it impossible to have western animation aimed for adults that isn't another "Seth McFarland show." he's ok, but his humor and voice actors get grating, and collage humor.

Surma wrote:

Thats not a unpopular opinion, i think everybody hates it by now.
-I hate american animation, games, and music, it seems were more concerned with making "ACTION GOREFEST SHOOTER NUMBER XXI" or "Genaric rapper rapping about booty and guns: the album" then making quality games like Mother 3, or quality music like coldplay, eiffel 65, or producing good rap songs like before lil wayne appeared.
And for fucks sake, is it impossible to have western animation aimed for adults that isn't another "Seth McFarland show." he's ok, but his humor and voice actors get grating, and collage humor.

We have South Park, Futruama, Venture Bros, Simpsons, robot chicken, etc.

-I feel like there's circlejerking among Pro-GGers within Gamergate, at least on this site. Don't get me wrong: I consider myself a pro-leaning neutral, and I see them as the more rational side, but I've come to dislike the attitudes of pro-GGers.
-I hate Half-Life 3/Episode 3 jokes. They're annoying and unfunny, and just show how people blindly consider Valve to be infallible, something I also really hate. They're probably my second least favorite meme (I consider it that), the first being The Cake is a Lie (funnily enough, another Valve meme). Just fuck that meme.
-I'm not into yuri.

Even though my waifu is Madoka, I have to state that Madoka Magica is one of the most overrated series to come out in this decade. Most people praise it to be one of the best deconstructions (subversion) of the Magical Girl genre, even though it's not the best, and not even the first deconstruction; there are others before such as Utena, Princess TuTu, and Full Moon. What those series have in comparison to Madoka Magica is that they are three times longer in length; compared to MM's 12 episodes, the others have at least 39 (52 in Full Moon's case) to develop their characters and time to expand on their themes; the pacing is better for these series as well, since they don't have to rush everything in 12 episodes. Madoka Magica falls here since it's impossible to develop five characters in 12 episodes. You know a show is overrated when one of the side characters goes through good development, while the main protagonist is never developed. Though many people like to crap on Sailor Moon for being a generic magical girl anime, during the time it came out, it can be considered a subversion as well; before SM, most Magical Girl series were just fun and games for little girls, yet when SM came out, it flipped this idea upside down. The stakes were higher when compared to old Magical Girl series, since there were never stakes in the first place. Tension came as a result and you wanted to see more of this; Sailor Moon managed to do what other Magical Girl shows failed to do before it came – appeal to both the male and female demographic.

Theodore Bongsmoker wrote:

I've never understood the complaints about CGI in movies. I think the best CGI is a rival to live action and the worst CGI still looks better than average claymation.

My complaint against films that rely heavily on CGI is that if the majority of the film is going to have animated CGI you might as well just make an animated film. Just take this stop motion test from Tippett Studio back in 1992 for the original Jurassic Park for instance. And stop motion and animatronics have become really advanced over the years with great examples like the works of Laika which uses 3D printing to assist with facial animation sculpting and the animatronics shown so far Star Wars 7 look incredible.

- I find blonde hair unattractive and prefer black and brunette hair much more favorably.
- I really don't see how people call Goths special snowflakes. All I see is a really cool fashion style that just attracts a certain minority of people.
- Boycotting a company or someone's projects/products based on their beliefs over your own makes you no better than how you imagine them to be.
- I don't have a problem with Amiibo, but I don;t think someone should complain or spend over 70 dollars on something that's 13 dollars to begin with. The only way the scalping can stop is if no one buys from the scalpers and force them into going in debt over wasting thousands of dollars on multiple figures.

Patrician trainer wrote:

Even though my waifu is Madoka, I have to state that Madoka Magica is one of the most overrated series to come out in this decade. Most people praise it to be one of the best deconstructions (subversion) of the Magical Girl genre, even though it's not the best, and not even the first deconstruction; there are others before such as Utena, Princess TuTu, and Full Moon. What those series have in comparison to Madoka Magica is that they are three times longer in length; compared to MM's 12 episodes, the others have at least 39 (52 in Full Moon's case) to develop their characters and time to expand on their themes; the pacing is better for these series as well, since they don't have to rush everything in 12 episodes. Madoka Magica falls here since it's impossible to develop five characters in 12 episodes. You know a show is overrated when one of the side characters goes through good development, while the main protagonist is never developed. Though many people like to crap on Sailor Moon for being a generic magical girl anime, during the time it came out, it can be considered a subversion as well; before SM, most Magical Girl series were just fun and games for little girls, yet when SM came out, it flipped this idea upside down. The stakes were higher when compared to old Magical Girl series, since there were never stakes in the first place. Tension came as a result and you wanted to see more of this; Sailor Moon managed to do what other Magical Girl shows failed to do before it came – appeal to both the male and female demographic.

I like PMMM too, but it is pretty damn overrated, especially in the character development department. There's more character development in the video games and drama CDs and things then in the actual anime.

I'm not too keen on the Nintendo fan base lately. They reacted as though their E3 showing was a disaster of biblical proportions. There were some really promising games like Star Fox Zero and Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam, but no. They weren't enough.

The Nintendo fan base set their expectations way too high. All those fake leaks are more like wishful thinking. And given all the bad decisions Nintendo made over the years such as:

-Releasing the Virtual Boy
-Botching a deal with Sony which resulted in the Playstation
-Botching a deal with Phillips, resulting in those crappy Mario and Zelda CDi games
-Sticking with cartridges instead of CDs for the Nintendo 64, costing them third party support.
-Thinking online play would never catch on by the time the GameCube was released
-Botching the marketing for the Wii U, resulting in a disappointing launch
-Losing third party support, again
-Their YouTube policies
-Releasing games like Splatoon in a not quite finished state.
-Failing to embrace online coop and voice chat and other things that are the norm for games today
The way the fans reacted is overblown and really illogical. It looks like Nintendo's fanbase might even be one of the worst fandoms I have ever seen. So much spoiled rottenness. So much salt. How much do you want to bet I would end up like JJ and get downvoted for having something negative to say about anything Nintendo related?

I don't like how the KYM userbase is too biased towards Nintendo and in some ways, PC. We need to give Sony and Microsoft a chance here.

-I've said this before, but I hate Urban Dictionary. What was once a site for submitting slang terms degenerated into a cesspool of overly-sexual slang terms, biased definitions written by idiots and pseudo-intellectual morons who think that being cynical makes them smarter than everyone else, and conspiratards who think that blindly believing in conspiracies makes them smarter than everyone else (trust me, look up stuff like David Icke and Alex Jones on there, and see what you get) -all this from a lack of quality control. I'm actually frustrated that no one else really seems to acknowledge this stuff, or at least the pseudo-intellectual garbage. There's better, unbiased slang dictionaries out there.
-I don't like Penny Arcade. I don't find it funny, and just don't get what people find funny about it.
-As others have said, there's a bit too much bias towards Nintendo, not to mention Nintendo
circlejerking.
-TV Tropes annoys me in some aspects. I've spoiled several shows I wanted to watch from browsing on there; though that was my own fault, I still like to blame TV Tropes. I sometimes disagree with some tropes that are applied to works, thinking that they don't really apply, or that they're going a bit too far applying that trope there.
-Just because someone is anti-feminist or anti-SJW doesn't mean that everything they say and do is right. Even if they are right, it won't really change my opinion of them if they're particularly bad or if I disagree with them.
-I feel like a large portion of the Zero Punctuation fanbase blindly agrees with everything Yahtzee says, taking him seriously and sees his opinions as infallible (possibly because he's cynical, or just sounds smart). I like Zero Punctuation, but in my opinion Yahtzee shouldn't really be taken seriously (though he does make good points). I hate fanbases that blindly agree with the creators' opinions and change their opinions to those of the creators. Just because Yahtzee reviewed a game negatively doesn't mean that you should start hating it.
-I don't take /pol/ seriously. Even if they are occasionally right, it doesn't really change my opinion of the board, nor does it mean that I have to agree with them all the time.
-Just because an SJW or feminist supports something doesn't mean that you should automatically oppose it, unless the thing they are supporting is particularly bad. For example, if an SJW supported gay rights and abortion, you shouldn't oppose those for that reason; it's stupid. You shouldn't automatically oppose women's rights because a feminist supports it in a wrong way; that's also dumb. You're committing the association fallacy there.
-I get annoyed by Sonic genwunners (that's the best term I can think of to describe them) who say that the classic Sonic games are superior to the modern Sonic games, especially the Sonic Adventure games. They tend to say stuff like, "the camera is terrible, so the game is automatically shit." That doesn't automatically make the 3D Sonic games (specifically Sonic Adventure) terrible, don't assume the games are terrible because they have flaws. It's idiots like these that make me hate the Sonic fandom and isolate myself from it.

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Super cereal opinions:

-Capitalism screws ordinary people over in many circumstances and I believe a certain few important industries should be nationalized to benefit the public:
-Healthcare, including the pharmaceutical industry, as for-profit drug companies cant be trusted to keep drugs accessible to all.
-All transport and utilities
-All lawyer and law businesses, to prevent the rich from having access to better lawyers and therefore being 'let off' with crimes a normal person would be severely punished for, as how is a law system fair if one person stands a better chance of conviction than another one for the same crime?
-Banks

Tl;dr While the free market isnt a bad idea per say, for things that have a big influence over peoples lives, capitalism allows the common man to get fucked over. All this might be very short sighted of me, and I probably don't know enough of economics to make a fair argument, but hey, opinions…

-Marijuana should be decriminalized but not fully legalised. It shouldn't be supported because it is still damaging to health (if only slightly) and not sold publicly, maybe only allowed to be given by state healthcare services for addicts.

-We shouldn't get rid of nuclear weapons just yet, we should just reduce our stockpiles as low as possible for now until we have a clear worldwide agenda on getting rid of them, as one nation ending their nuclear program is just going to make that nation weaker and not bring us any further away from the prospect of nuclear war (This is why I don't support people like The Green Party and the Scottish National Party wanting to get rid of Trident)

-Nuclear power is fucking brilliant and should be actively pursued by every nation as a way of tackling CO2 emissions and tackling climate change. Any 'environmentalist' who says we can get Carbon free electricity without going nuclear is deluded.

-I would be OK with the death penalty being used for criminals like mass murderers.

Now for some stupid shit:

-There is no point in owning an Xbox One or a PS4, with the vast majority of notable games available for PC (which is cheaper in the long run), and the Wii U having the more unique exclusives.
-No fandom is really truely 'bad', its just the wankers in it shout the loudest. And some fandoms have a few more of these wankers.
-This site isn't all that bad :^)
-I actually enjoy (watching) some sports.

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I have gained a really strange and confused view on incest.

I no longer think "incest is wincest" people are fucked up, (but I still think it's kinda a weird fetish especially if it's sibling incest), and I no longer think incest is completely degenerate. But I do think that an incestuous relationship is for the most part a bad idea and would take a lot of work, because of the mixing of two very different and very strong relationships, and, if the relative is older then them, or is a parent/aunt/uncle, the problem with power dynamics. I also think certain kinds of incest are worse than others, for example, parental incest and sibling incest is the worst kind of incest, while step-relative incest and long-lost relative incest isn't as bad.

Plus I think incest shouldn't be a crime.

Despite this, I still think that incest simply can't be normalized. Because over time, people would slowly become more and more susceptible to diseases and deformities, and it would just be a disaster.

And I could never form a relationship with my own relatives.

Just….

No.

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I can't stand the way Harley Quinn has been depicted for the last few years. It's like they took one of the most memorable characters from my childhood and turned her into a stripper. Really, I don't think she works as a character outside the context of the DCAU.

- I like Frozen.

- Metal Gear Rising was a great game and one of my favorite, it has enough depth to be more then a simple action romp, and enough action to not feel pretentious about having its depth.

- I like having diverse characters and inclusive atmospheres in games, just as long as they're done well. If you're gonna add multiple ethnicity to a world, I want them to have their own place of origin, culture, everything else the white characters have, and be fully fleshed out.

- /pol/ is an awful place, and while making a really offensive or horribly racist one-liner isn't bad, doing it ad naseum is just as annoying as any of the "sjw"-complain posting, if not more so.

- The Internet has too little accountability for when people act like complete tools, and being a troll doesn't cover death threats, doxxing, or really harassing comments.

- Gamergate and the Anti-Gamergate communities are the exact same, because both sides only want to shit on the other, and can't talk about anything else without making it all about what the other side would think of it.

- Stevens Universe is better then Adventure Time because its focus on characters and more consistent story telling makes it easier to follow and the connection to the characters and their stories stronger.

- I have been tempted to make a Gemsona

- Not all fanfics are bad, and I love crossovers or alternate universe stories

- Console Gaming and PC Gaming are both gaming, trying to argue how ones superior to the other is stupid.

- Fandoms are too nitpicky as they get older, and their desire for their thing to be "the best" does nothing but kill the thing they love. All of them could learn a lesson in being less passionate and more passive.

- I love over-the-top stuff, fanservice stuff, and overly-dramatic shit. The dumber it is, the greater I love it.

- Disney isn't evil, and is one of the better companies around as far as quality products are concerned.

- Games being "difficult" doesn't make them "good". Just because a game is hard to play, or requires the player to go through hoops to play it well, doesn't make it a good game. Old School Game Nostalgia is a circlejerk.

- The Easier a game is to pick up and play, the better a game it is. Because it doesn't forget that its a Video Game, instead of a Video Endurance Test.

- I prefer new school action rpg's to old school 90's pure rpgs.

- I don't really liked Avatar. It's a green aesop movie for older audiences.
- Jurassic World is flawed. The pacing is really slow (though I didn't fell asleep) and the plot is predictable. The only twist here is Indomius Rex is intelligent. What with more teeth?

- I liked Frozen (I guess this also counts as a popular opinion)
- Art class is my least favorite subject. No matter how well I do on a project, I feel inadequate. (I don't why I'm talking about school during summer, either.)
-Colors is a great album, but it's not BTBAM's best. That award goes to The Great Misdirect.
- I like this website.

Comedic Nom De Plume wrote:

- I liked Frozen (I guess this also counts as a popular opinion)
- Art class is my least favorite subject. No matter how well I do on a project, I feel inadequate. (I don't why I'm talking about school during summer, either.)
-Colors is a great album, but it's not BTBAM's best. That award goes to The Great Misdirect.
- I like this website.

"- I like this website."

This guy. XD

I used to dislike yaoi and yuri because they're just for straight people for the most part, but now I don't mind that fact. But I still don't like yuri (and lesbian porn in general) despite being attracted to women. Why? Too much foreplay, not enough….

Er, penetration.

I don't mind clones in Super Smash Bros.

I find myself having a better time playing with items disabled. I prefer to show off what the characters can do without items and test out my skills. Particularly on stages that are not too chaotic.

The whole casual-competitive conflict within the fanbase is starting to feel pointless given that Nintendo is opening themselves up to the competitive community lately, what with the Smash Invatational, Reggie's speech to the Melee community at EVO 2014, the fourth game having an online mode where items are disabled and wins and losses are recorded, a noticeable emphasis on improving characters from previous games, and the match between Reggie and professional player Hungrybox at the 2015 Nintendo World Championships. There are actually plenty of really nice people in the competitive community, but it's a shame that its reputation is ruined all because of a few bad apples who like to start fights with others over which game is better and do not give any sort of encouragement to players wanting to improve.

HeatEdgeSword wrote:

- I don't really liked Avatar. It's a green aesop movie for older audiences.
- Jurassic World is flawed. The pacing is really slow (though I didn't fell asleep) and the plot is predictable. The only twist here is Indomius Rex is intelligent. What with more teeth?

I think most people see Jurrasic World as just a fun popcorn flick, but not a very good film.

Regarding GG, I say that it still needs some form of organization, a group that can make an official stance on "No, we do not support the opinions of the bigots using the hashtag" as opposed to leaving their activists to fend for themselves. The Libertarian ideals are a double edge sword and it might do them well to blunt the edge facing them

Of course, I fear it might be too late for that and know that they're never gonna do it anyway.

My Little Pony isn't that great. I mean, the season premieres and finales are good,
and are entertaining at times, but the rest isn't…

-This is based on the threads I go to, but I really love Frozen; I never understood the hate it got.
-I don't really care for the background ponies of MLP (which is why the 100th episode surprised me to the point where I liked it).
-I think the fourth generation of Pokémon is one of the best Pokémon generations. It brought competitive and online battling to the scene, as well as some of the most well-rounded characters in the Pokémon franchise.
-Speaking of Pokémon, just because Red and Blue started the franchise and many people grew up with those games doesn't make Generation I the best generation.
-I found Evangelion and Attack on Titan to be snore fests.
-Cerebella's one of my favorite characters in Skullgirls.
-I don't care about breasts and butts; I'm more for her face and personality.
-I really hate Project M. I view it as a Smash Bros. made by whiny people who aren't happy with what they already have.
-I actually like a lot of current songs, no matter the performer. My rule for music: if it's catchy and I can listen to it for days, then I like it a lot.
-I enjoyed Iron Man 2 and 3, Spider-Man 3, and Superman Returns.
-I'm not really a big fan of Christopher Nolan's films. I only enjoyed the Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception.
-I hate using the word overrated. To me, overrated and underrated have no definition because it's all based on opinion.
-I don't think Geno will be in Smash Bros., despite the Smash Ballot.

>I actually like a lot of current songs, no matter the performer. My rule for music: if it’s catchy and I can listen to it for days, then I like it a lot.

I agree with you there.

Lesbian porn and Yuri are just awful

I dislike liberals more than I dislike conservatives

Metal Gear Rising was a masterpiece

Peter Molynex, David Cage and Tim Schafer are hacks

I think Spinosaurus is a bit cooler than T-Rex (motherfucker looks like a chimera of a crocodile, t-Rex and Godzilla)

Soul Calibur is one of (if not) the best fighting game series and trumps street fighter in every way

Dubs are almost always better than watching subbed

New Vegas is better than F3

Half Life is overrated

Dogs are better than cats

The Postman and Lone Ranger are great films

I enjoy all types of music, Country and Dubstep included

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I like voicing my unpopular opinions without getting so much flak for it, so I decided to make another list, this time mostly regarding review shows and video games.

- I would have liked JonTron's videos more if he toned down his extreme close-ups, random bits of text popping up and attempts at sounding like he suddenly got really drunk.

- On the topic of JonTron, I am annoyed by many of the game reviewers who quite clearly have been inspired by him. Caddicarus was just unbearable to watch, and I used to be subscribed to ProJared until his frantic editing and screaming become more and more apparent.

- Screaming, specifically octave-level screaming, is the bane of my existence and one of the key reasons I would most likely end up disliking a fictional character or even a real person.

- I love SomecallmeJohnny, but I like almost none of the friends associated with him. Elliot has to be the most prominent example, due to the aforementioned high-pitched screaming, and he, along with Matt, is the reason I unsubscribed from SGBLikesToPlay.

- The moment I watched 'Kickassia' was the moment I realised that Nostalgia Critic's videos started to degrade in quality, and 'The Legend of Titanic' was his last great review.

- I think Brentalfloss' lyrics are unfunny and not cleverly written. The same goes for Starbomb's songs (At least three of their songs revolved around one/two men trying to hit on one/two women.)

- People are wayyyyy too sensitive about things they do not like. Whenever they see something Twilight-related or just catch a tiny little glimpse of a pony, they act as if they just saw their house burn down, and they vent all the anger they can muster on one simple picture that never meant to threaten or harm in any way. More people should learn to act neutral and not come off as drama queens.

- Cartoonishly wacky and grotesque art styles à la 'Ren and Stimpy' are bad when viewed both comedically and artistically. Such art styles tend to be too visually unpleasing for me, and I feel like the artists rely on the exaggerated expressions because they don't know how to write a joke.

- If one person hates a game solely because the plot is badly written, that person does not deserve to play video games ever again.

- I disrespect casual elitists more than I disrespect competitive elitists in the Smash Bros. fandom. Contrary to popular belief, many competitive players play for fun, but some casual players who attack the former for "not having fun" are just going against what they stand for, namely to let other people have fun.

The more vitriolic reaction from some parts of the Metroid fanbase to Federation Force is making want to buy the game just out of spite. As a huge Star Fox fan (I played Star Fox 1 on the SNES long before even knowing what Metroid is) I waited 9 years since Command to get a brand new entry on home consoles and the wait paid off, all you Metroid fans can do the same (yes I fucking count Other M, I liked the gameplay but not the story). For petes sake Star Fox didn't even get an entry on the Wii, Metroid got two, and one of them is considered good by many.

Are you someone who is disappointed at Federation Force? Fine, you can be disappointed and say how disappointed you are in a reasonable manner. (example: see "SomeCallmeJohnny"s video on the game)

But if you're one of the people who went so far as to make a fucking petition to get it cancelled and saying the developers at Next Level Games "should lose their jobs" over this one game, there's a reason Mega64 made a video making fun of you guys specifically.

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- I've actually grown tired of Angry Joe, mainly due to him doing let's plays now instead of reviews. I really did like Joe's reviews, and really loved when he would review a terrible game, but ever since the Ride to Hell review he hasn't reviewed a game that is awful and just laughably bad, but only games that get huge marketing put towards them. And truth be told, Joe can't really entertain me when he's doing an unscripted playthrough and should've just stuck to reviews.

- I actually think mobile games could be good, had their been strict rules on what can and can't be put towards in-app purchases and how many games a company or person can upload towards the store.

- I really hate it when people criticize Nintendo for gimmicks, but never mention the gimmicks Sony or Microsoft implement in their consoles and accessories. While the Kinect barely works more than half the time, Microsoft at least marketed and sold the thing like hotcakes, but later took out the Kinect 2.0 from the Xbox One after a few months to boost sales. As for Sony, most of their gimmicks are shitty attempts at copying Nintendo such as the PlayStation Move is basically a rounder Wiimote and the barely utilized touch pad on the PS4 is more of an afterthought then the Wii U's gamepad's larger screen.

- I really don't think VR will take off in gaming like many sites claim it will, and VR's popularity will mostly shine in training simulations and other practical uses.

- Somehow, Angry Joe's review never interest me that much. Probably has to do with his review trend to be pretty long. Sorry.

- I don't hate minion.

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- Most policemen/women are good people. They just get so much flak for things that are out of their control, such as other cops acting out of line. Cops can be dicks, but that's because they're human too. If you respect a cop and weren't doing something illegal, you generally will not have a problem. If you try to act sassy and egg him/her on, you deserve every bit of aggression they will give you.

- I find James and Mike Play to be boring. Mike is pretty funny when playing characters, but in the J&M Play he just comes off as kind of dickish.

- I found Journey to be kind of boring and a waste of my money. If a game has little gameplay it has to have an interesting world to grab me (such as Yume Nikki) but while Journey had pretty graphics I didn't really find myself immersed in the world. I just played it since I bought it on a sale and beat it since I heard it was a short game.

- The stand your ground law in Texas should be US law. If someone forcefully enters in your home, you should have every right to defend yourself immediately.

-Game grumps has gotten awful.
-I think that the Nostalgia Critic is running out of ideas and getting worse. I feel like he's less reviewing shitty 80's and 90's movies and more griping about big budget movies that either came out in the early 2000's or a few years ago. Seriously, he just reviewed Jurassic world, which is still in theaters. Also that review is mostly him whining and bitching about JW isn't as good as his precious Jurassic Park.

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The KYM IRC chat is a cess-pool of bullying and hate of anything different.

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Emperor Palpitoad wrote:

The KYM IRC chat is a cess-pool of bullying and hate of anything different.

this is an unpopular opinions thread, not generally agreed consensuses

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Minty wrote:

this is an unpopular opinions thread, not generally agreed consensuses

You just got upvotes for giving a popular opinion, your argument is invalid.

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-I think Nu-Metal is a great genre that just got ruined by over-commercialization. Like it had quite a lot of variety unlike say Deathcore. Like compare Linkin Park, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Deftones, Disturbed and Papa Roach with each other, all considered Nu-Metal.
-I don't like grindcore, it all sounds the same and is just bad.

Ellen pao did mostly nothing wrong. FPH was very shitty and deserved to be banned. However, victoria's firing was handled incorrectly because they did not have stuff in place for AMAs without her. The main reason pao got all the hate was because she was a WOC, and reddit hates both women and minorites.

•Shipping is stupid.(Being single is not an excuse to ship. I never shipped while I was single.)
•I think if you believe in conspiracy theories you need to rethink your life.
•I am republican.
•Both sides of gamergate should just shut the fuck up because it will never end.
•I like the star wars prequels
•I think The fine bros. are actually decent.
•So is smosh
•I think having a waifu is pathetic.
•Despite being a brony myself, I think most of the fandom is intolerable.
•Removing the confederate flag from everything is ridiculous.
• I think it's dumb that people think fox news is bullshit but when cnn reports the same thing they gobble it like candy, even though it's not different.

- I am pro-feminist, and think Gamergate is a waste of time. Speaking of which…

- I laugh at how people in the KYM community and similar websites accuse Caitlyn Jenner of being a waste of media airtime, while thinking "ethics in game journalism" is worthy of an 11-month internet war.

- Agreed with one of the above posters about how Reddit is sexist and racist. Redditors view themselves as being 'enlightened' and 'progressive' (words that by now make me want to vomit) but a more accurate term is 'brogressive'. In Reddit, I see bigoted shit get upvoted all the time in default subs. DEFAULT SUBS, not ones dedicated to racism.

- Anita Sarkeesian is not a radical leftist or radical feminist for applying Media Studies 101 to video games. If that is your definition of radical leftist or radical feminist, then you are either sheltered or a frat boy. Speaking of which…

- I on the other hand am a radical leftist, being a libertarian socialist. Speaking of which…

-No, Bernie Sanders is not far left. Until he advocates collectivising the means of production, I wish the internet would stop circlejerking about how socialist he is.

- Ellen Pao is not Literally Hitler. I had this viewpoint BEFORE she stepped down.

- I like games, but do not play them zealously nor consider myself a gamer. IMO, basing part of your identity on what is mostly consumerism is quite unhealthy. This is however a symptom of late capitalism in Marxist theory, and is unlikely to change soon. Speaking of which (repetitive I know)…

- Marxist critique, while less than stellar in practice, has proven itself in being EXTREMELY useful in analysing society. I'm not 100% Marxist, being an anarchist, but I dislike how much he is misunderstood by people unwilling to pick up a book. Or even read Sparknotes for that matter.

- Nowadays I'm not anti-gun, but that doesn't mean I'm handwaving the sheer amount of deaths caused by gun ownership. Instead of confiscating guns, they should be regulated by trustworthy institutions. Our consumer culture is far too militaristic and bloodthirsty for this to work in earnest though, meaning the western zeitgeist needs to grow the fuck up if we're going to reduce deaths.

- I'm not a conspiracy nut, but my knowledge of history has taught me to be wary of massive corporations peddling drugs. This does not mean I am anti-vaccination or in a neurosis about 'Big Pharma', because I utilise such technology myself. However I am aware that companies will attempt to make money. Again, capitalism.

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-I thought the Minions movie was pretty good, as I can separate my dislike for the annoying Facebook memes and over saturated marketing from my opinion of the movie itself.

-McDonalds is really not a bad fast food joint, the burgers are decent and I like their fries

-In some cases I actually like the Taco Bell versions of some traditionally Mexican dishes more than the ones made at actual Mexican restaurants (like quesadillas)

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