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oh boy I do love threads being locked after a month on a relatively slow forum

Anyway, here's another thread for speaking your unpopular opinions.
This has the potential to become something toxic, so keep Forum Rule 6 in mind more than usual and remain civil.

I'm gonna start this thread off with my most unpopular opinion:
I really don't "get" Untitled Goose Game. The artstyle is pretty unappealing to me and it really doesn't look like it would hold my interest even at a short length. I honestly think it's overrated for what it is, and it doesn't help that it's basically inescapable while it's in the "flash in the pan" stage.

I like Disney's remakes…most of them anyway. I'm not interested in the Alice movies, Maleficent or Dumbo, but all the other recent ones I have enjoyed. I basically see them as experiments to see if they can adapt their stories into live-action, and for the most part it's worked out. My most favorite one is the one that has gotten the least attention (both the old and the new in fact) which is Pete's Dragon. I just feel alone with everyone being on an anti-Disney bandwagon, because I still believe they know how to put out quality products even if they aren't original.

I kind of want to see the Cinderella remake because I'm a sucker for Lily James (she's gorgeous).
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I'm not super heavy on the Joker bandwagon and I'm kind of afraid to see it. Not because of the scare tactics by the media, but more along the lines of it not going to live up to my expectations. I can acknowledge that character study movies can be great, even if they aren't for everyone (like Taxi Driver or The King of Comedy), but I feel like this film, based on the trailer wears its Taxi Driver influence on its sleeve to the point where it'll probably be stuck under Scorcese's shadow. So yeah. Hopefully, I'm not the only one dragging my feet to see this movie.

Of course, there's going to be a counter-argument of "don't judge a film by its movie trailer" but I think it also stems from me thinking that The Joker, while a great villain, gets super overhyped. Not to mention he is the embodiment of ironic cringe online, so maybe that'll also play a factor in my enjoyment (not taking the film seriously because of what The Joker personifies online).

fake meat tastes better than real meat. Real meat is just generally kinda gross. Some brands of fake/veggie meat isn't great, but some are way better than real meat. I just ate a carrot burger for lunch for the first time and it tasted amazing.

The electoral college needs to be eliminated. Congress represents the states, while the president should represent the people, and thus, be elected through popular vote.

A netflix or Steam monopoly is bad. having competition is good.

We need single payer healthcare

Nuclear is cool, but wind and solar is a better solution for short term and long term energy needs due to its scalability

Daylight savings time needs to end. Sticking to one universal time would be cool too, like everyone agreeing to set their clocks to UTC. You'd no longer deal with adjusting times a different time zone.

I believe that there was more than one shooter when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated and I also believe that Sirhan Sirhan was a “Manchurian candidate”.

I still like watching the Nostalgia Critic and I think that some of the skit reviews is ok with the exception of The Wall review. If Doug's bad films or #ChangeTheChannel didn't end him, then why would The Wall do the same?

There's 7.7 billion people on Earth, your unpopular opinion is popular somewhere.

Oh yeah, I think Enchanted Portals should get a chance

I support technocracy as a political entity

most people shouldn’t be allowed to vote

I like Godzilla 98

the Master of Diguise is by no means the worst movie ever

I honestly think that jontron may be racist

I am for censoring fucked up porn, because sexuality is one of the most primal parts and associating that feeling with fucked up things can translate to irl

You ever tried the “impossible” kind of fake meat?
it’s really damn good

Like the Impossible Whopper?

I still haven't tried impossible or beyond burger. I will eventually

I sort of feel the same about the loss meme. It just isn't funny. It also seems to be contained to KYM from my experience. Can't say I've seen this anywhere else.

Yeah, i think Qdoba has it too

Severely Authoritarian and extremely powerful regimes, like The "People's Republic" of China, can only be properly dealt with through Isolation, International Ostracizing and Military Intervention.

The CPC is simply too big and too powerful to be left alone anymore, we need direct and aggressive action now if we don't want to see things get worse than they already are. They've already infiltrated parts of the media, how long before they start sabotaging infrastructure whenever The US or some other rational nation does something they don't like?

I'm still getting Pokemon Sword and Shield (mainly Sword), I could care less about the battle animations and the National Dex and at this point I feel people are just nitpicking everything about it instead of looking at all the good shit to look forward to. If anything, that nitpicking bullshit is no different to what cancel culture does.

I like Imagine Dragons

Another one:

Classic/Vanilla WoW is a terrible game. It has good parts obviously, and it's not difficult to see why it is enjoyable for some, but the players act like it's the second coming of jesus,a flawless masterpiece and the pinnacle of MMOs. The game was made in 2004. It's simply going to be outdated in 2019.

Persona 5 and main-core Pokemon games are traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash, and it only proves that the only real barrier casuals have with JRPGs is being user friendly

Dragon Ball Z and Jojo are fun sometimes, but everything you should avoid when writing fiction most of the time

Slice of Life anime is the lowest form of media losing even to porn, it's like mexican soap opera for people who can't speak human and a detriment for dialogue writing in anime that lost it's touch since the 80's

There is only three good MCU movies, Thanos is in one of them, none of them are Spiderman or Iron Man films

The gamplay is Last of Us is great, and this is why it deserves to be considered a good movie game

Outside of game controls and camera, dated is a stupid argument for any media

It's harder to make a comedy show that's funny in almost every episode than a serious show with a good plot

Art means "skill" likes the greeks used the word, it can be any act done by humans as a practice, in post classic era the word "art" has no meaning other than being used as a scapegoat to be taken seriously

Metioning a meme is not a joke, actually most memes are not real jokes

I really dislike the modern anime/manga scene, mainly because of its two most prominent genres:

Gacha, aka "randomly generate generic anime woman, stuff her into a hideous outfit, slap a tangentially related hairpin on her, say she's a boat or an airplane or a laptop or something, rinse and repeat, make billions of dollars. Optional: Use a few million of that to fund an 'anime' that's 23 minutes of said anime women with all the personality of their image file counterparts doing absolutely nothing." Yes, my issue with gacha games is not that they milk thousands of dollars out of players for the sake of the frail hope of unlocking a rare jpeg; it's that they're creative black holes. I realize my priorities are strange.

And the "cute girl doing cute things" category, which I realize has existed since manga was a thing, but it's gotten really overbearing in the past few years. Take your favorite waifu stereotype (disproportionately massive chest optional but highly encouraged, since the author apparently refuses to just bite the 6.5×50mm bullet and draw porn already), make her either a complete airhead or a complete jackass to a "main" character we're apparently supposed to care about even though he doesn't even get a name two thirds of the time, and then spend 500 chapters watching said cute girl do completely random shit, while the >plot alternates between A) introducing a new (equally well-endowed) side character who'll be forgotten by next month, and B) teasing the romance we know will never actually happen because it would immediately end the manga even though it would at least add some dimension and is what most of the readers actually want to see.

I realize I sound way more bitter than I'm intending, and I realize both of these genres do have their place, but when there's so much content saturating the scene with zero creative effort put into it, it really tilts my cartridge like nothing else. Honorable mention since it seems to thankfully be falling by the wayside: Isekai. Fuck isekai. That is all.

(Damn, I need some kind of chaser after making people read all that. Uh…. I liked Star Trek 2009. Fuck Into Darkness though.)

into darkness is probobly the film i hate the most of all time

take out the enterprise in atmosphere and honestly, star trek 09 would be one of the better movies

Eltsin was a goddamn bastard who got elected via CIA meddling, sold much of what he could, crashed the economy in an already unstable country, did shock reforms (as recomended to him by certain somebody) to create an oligarchy, shot up the legitemate parlamient with tanks, godfucking drunkard – and best of all – hailed as a hero of Russian democracy by western folk, who believe evil megalomaniac Putin rigged Saint Eltsin's brain to elect him, even though mister vodka submarine did it himself, setting up Russia for another 20 years of authoritarianism, but now with stability instead of anarchy and mafia-ridden streets. This is why i don't like to accept western "recommendations" for us to cozy up to the West and maybe reconsider the offer of getting everything we have left sold off to them for a democracy stamp on our foreheads. Hacking up your former rival, who decided to reconcile himself and maybe leave Cold war behind, and then calling the resulting goverment aggresing without a reason is not how you show the superiority of the blessed superior Europeans to us mere mortal unwashed Roozgies. Bloody hell

Unpopular opinion threads are garbage. There's little meaningful dialogue to generated from people bitching about things that are probably only loved by a demographic not native to the site they're made on.

I think the addition of the KYM collector bot is useful to augment the image uploads of users. With the lessening of user uploads, as well as lack of interest of users uploading about certain things compared to their popularity online, it helps to cover some of the missing blanks. In combination with the google text to metatdata feature, it has helped to prompt a few entries that we would likely have never had an article about otherwise. (However my disdain for "so unfunny it's funny" makes me seriously question the need to have it collect images for the "ok buddy retard" gallery. Similar to Comedy Cemetery. Additionally, it would be much better if images could be sorted into best fitting galleries by active image mods, but most of us now have real lives that we can't really sort like we used to, and there aren't a huge number of notable candidates to pick up the slack).

There are some users that I think the site would be better off banning rather immediately even if they have not done anything that breaks explicit rules. Behavior that drives friendly and contributing members off of the site while they themselves contribute little to the site itself outside of unwelcoming comments I think is more than enough to logically reason the site would be better without them.

Anything that has something to do with a topic of controversy users seem to take as place to have a Card Blanche discussion the controversial issue instead of the actual subject of the entry itself. This is IN SPITE OF THE FACT USERS SEEM SIMULTANEOUSLY UPSET THAT THEY CAN'T ESCAPE SAID CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS AND LONG FOR THE GOOD OL' DAYS

WHEN KYM TALKED MORE

ABOUT MEMES NOT

CONTROVERSIES

And of course, when mods try to push discussion towards entries explicitly dedicated to those exact topics via comments to be nice and not hand out warning/suspensions and/or not delete comments so users don't think we're deleting comments due to "wrong think" then those comments get downvoted and attacked.

I hate how anything users dislike with the site itself is automatically assumed to be "mods fault". Mods don't control user interface, site functionality, or front page content in any way shape or form. Even entries that are clearly marked as only having Admin/ non-moderators having created/edited the entry get blamed on mods for existing. Obviously I'm part of the demographic that get's blamed for those things, but it's hard to want to say on the site when users get mad at you for not changing/fixing/doing something that is out of your control and you want changed/fixed/done as well.

KYM meta images/ screen caps that are meant to be specifically about other users I don't think should be on the site, even in the kym gallery. The potential for user shaming, (even if not accompanied by a brainlet/clown makeup/etc.) is likely to drive off people who might mean well and are willing to contribute. Likewise, see above about mods. Even talk about admins bothers me a lot. Venting frustration about what seems to be priorities I understand. But there's a difference between wanting things to be better and forming an admin hate circle jerk, burying any comments by them, and screen capping their actions.

>There are some users that I think the site would be better off banning rather immediately even if they have not done anything that breaks explicit rules. Behavior that drives friendly and contributing members off of the site while they themselves contribute little to the site itself outside of unwelcoming comments

Yea, Mare should have been banned ages ago

Or demodded, at least.

In recent interview with Scorsese, I agree wholeheartedly with his opinion on Marvel movies and majority of superhero films. There are some stand outs, sure, but majority of these films I find to be glorified kid movies. I despise how the industry has been strangled by this genre for years, always trying to outdo one another as the next blockbuster hit. Always trying to appeal to the widest possible demographics with artificial hype. Constant spin offs, tie-ins, sequels. and remakes, crap that never ends, etc. They are more akin to advertisements to infantile audiences than actual films. I recall actor Simonn Pegg caught flak over similar sentiments some years ago as well.

For the most part, I still enjoy Anime we have now, but I feel it has stagnated tremendously for several years. Another thing that upsets me is the sort of "fire & forget" attitude with the sheer overproduction in the amount of shows we have now. As if they are made to push Manga sales instead of standing on their own accord, although I feel this is obvious to everyone who watches already.

I think Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a lot better than people make it out to be, I feel like people immediately look at the microtransactions and immediately disregard the game, which I feel like isn't fair to it at all. While I won't defend its p2w aspect and overall I think the first game is still better at an objective level, I honestly have more fun and prefer to play the second game. It has (in my opinion) a much prettier, charming, expressive, and appealing art style, it has much more content up its sleeve, which many more levels, plants, zombies, all with much more unique and varied attributes and designs. It has Plant Food, the turbo button, among other cool extra features such as the Battlez mode and Piñatas. The music is still great, and it's WAY more challenging than the first game. While I don't think it's perfect by any means, I still think it's very underrated and gets more hate than it deserves.

Even though they're lazy and stolen content, I find reaction videos really fun to watch.

I've never understood the hype (and I guess also sometimes unhype) for the Star Wars franchise, it just seems to me like another ol' sci-fi universe, which there's nothing wrong with, I don't hate the series, I'll watch a new movie if it comes out just for fun but that's about it, I've never understood the big fuzz about it.

I might sound naive or like a weird hippie, but I think the world needs a bit more positivity; a lot of times do I see in so many places (KYM included) people just getting at each other's throats the most, shitting on everyone, proving that you're so much better and everyone else is inferior; cultures just based around negativity, is it really hard to let people be people? to simply be able to tolerate each other and coexist?

Honk

Rockstar games peaked in the late 90's/early 2000's, and games focusing on realism are overhyped.

100% agree with this right here with the anime thing. It's a miracle that I manage to find legit decent anime that isn't jsut yet another fanservice bait iskekai dum dum show. Like I can understand folks enjoying these shows but what happened to the days when folks judged a story based on story and artistic merit? Rather than whether or not I can fap to it. I'm sick of tried of stupid zoomers who don't know good anime until it one punch them in the face.

And speaking of, every time I watch old anime especially from the 90s and 2000s….I can't help but cry for some reason. Shit was simpler back then…and this will get me hate once again but I will never ever find cute girls hot. They come off as childish to me why I hate seeing rule 34 of them. I much prefer more mature and cool women than this…things.

Another unpopular opinion: just because a character jsut so happens to be gay does not mean folks should make a big deal about them for better or for worse. They're a person first and foremost, not some gay agenda. IT WON't turn you gay. Also, it isn't the be all end all of it a work is good or not.

I hate yuri more than yoai but bara trumps them both as well as woman's love stories that actually star grown and somewhat butch woman, not cute intimations of them.

Thicc Ass and thighs with moderate sized breast > big tiddies with skinny frame

I will never get monster girls as a concept. Like I can see the appeal in something familiar yet somewhat inhuman but at the same time, most of these look like pasty hits chicks wearing Halloween costumes. And if you bother actually making them proper monster ladies some dumb ass might label a FUCKING FURF## for dare making them more cool. I guess we all can't have nice things, ey? The irony is I love monsters…jsut not this way.

I like femme presenting boys a lot but can we use a better term than t##p? Not every artwork depecting cross drawing boys is trying to trick you.

Maybe I'm bias cuz I'm black, but we need more sexy black waifus besides nessa.I'm starved for that shit.

also

AHEM

FUCK POKEMON

FUCK SONIC

FUCK WAIFU CULTURE

FUCK DISNEY

FUCK POPULAR CULTURE

>Rockstar games peaked in the late 90's/early 2000's, and games focusing on realism are overhyped.

Also FUCK REALISM IN GAMES! I don't give a shit how impressive and cool it is, it's gonna age like milk when The next installment comes around.

So this is the hot takes thread…Well,

> Personaly I don't think the new pokemon game is garbage but suffering from bad marketitis.

> Trump is not the worst president ever, that award would go to hoover for the great depression or andrew johnson. to me he's High D tier honestly.

> I think some users here not gonna name names take things way to personally or too eager to fight. I mean I like to jump in the fray too don't get me wrong but geez it feels they have no respect at times.

> I feel that the world will be fine, humans often fear that the end is always near that their time is almost up, and yea things are definitly not pretty. But I don't think it will be in our lifetimes that it will all end that we still got time left to change or grow.

I think the release of GTA V is the exception to that, but otherwise, yea.
thats probably a popular opinion, tbh.

There shouldn’t be any political communities online. People use the internet to find others with similar interests. If those are political interests then of course you’re going to turn narcissistic.
We’ve got the perfect storm of cherry picking and social conformity right here and people wonder why there’s suddenly so many lunatics.

This is the worst take in this thread

>If those are political interests then of course you’re going to turn narcissistic.

why? Finding like minded people don't turn people into narcissistics. The lack of engagement with people different than you is more likely to do that. With the internet, you are surrounded by billions of different people and ideas. People in rural areas aren't exposed to people different than them like people in cities are, so the internet is vital to those.

>there’s suddenly so many lunatics.

When was there not many lunatics

Who?

I generally think that the current state of Movies is kinda stale. A majority of the movies made nowadays is either Super Hero flicks in an expanded universe, crappy reboots, a couple original ideas that either somehow work or fail. That also extends to horror movies since most are either reliant on jump scares, trying to outdo Saw in its gore department or try to have a dumb idea for an original concept. Look at Truth or Dare and you’ll see where I’m coming from.

Doesn’t help that Marvel ruined most film goers into thinking there will be post credit scenes in movies and expecting every movie to be made into its own set cinematic universe.

A brony mod who after 3 years after the fandom started to wane refused to let it die and constantly post more ponies. At least I think that's what the case is.

There is far too much stigma attached to saying “I don’t know,” or to admitting that you were wrong about a position or opinion you once had.

I know this is only "unpopular" among a select group of people but fuck it I'll just say it anyway: Skyward Sword controls perfectly fine and anyone who said the controls feel broken is just playing it wrong. Same with Star Fox Zero.

DmC 2013 and Metroid Other M were still a lot of fun to play even if the stories weren't that good (DMC2 is still the worst Devil May Cry because it's fucking boring, and I don't think I can call any Metroid game "bad").

Kingdom Hearts 3 was basically a perfect conclusion to the Xehanort saga to someone like me, someone who actually played every damn game in the series, so if your only exposure to the series before KH3 was KH1 and 2 then it's your own fault for not understanding the story because you treated the handheld games like they weren't important, when in reality they were REALLY fucking important.

Fallout 76 isn't a good indicator of the state of Bethesda studios itself. Its engine was made by a small subsidiary with minimal experience, while most of the main Bethesda studio was likely working on getting Starfield done and beginning pre-production on TES-VI. It was a minimal effort throwaway concept meant to stave off the wait.

> sees karma

man, this is legit an unpopular opinion…

I hope you didn't think people actually wanted unpopular opinions here

Globalization allowed multicorporations to grow way to big way to fast so I am not sure if it was a good thing or not

@Fruity and MrLake

The paradox of "unpopular opinion" threads. Plus there's the huge can of worms that is "if someone's unpopular opinion involves support for highly unpopular forms of government like fascism or communism do you upvote because that's the point of the thread or downvote because this is an unpopular opinion that probably should be taken elsewhere?" Because yeah there's a pretty huge gap between opinions like "I don't like Disney and/or anime" and ones that go "I unironically think Hitler and/or Stalin did nothing wrong."

lemme preface this and say i don't hate anime, i'm just very picky with it as of late. im just sick of folks trying hardest to say "there's more to these moe anime than you let on" but when i give a try, i stop at episode one and never watch again. it's sucks but that's how i am i guess. i can't really help it.

counter: globalization gives consumers more choice, since they don't have to buy from the local store that has a monopoly and can instead buy from any small business around the world.

my god, this thread is only a reminder of how much it sucks to reply to multiple posts at once on these forums.

Anyways, You also have to keep in mind you unpacked a lot of opinions at once. I definitely agreed with some things, definitely disagreed with some.

Also, I find the 3 episode rule is pretty good to follow. But if you absolutely positively cannot make it through a single episode, then moe/SoL/cute girls doing cute things anime probably isn't for you.

I feel that the Night themes in Super Mario Maker 2 should’ve used music from the Donkey Kong Country games, Yoshi’s Island, Wario Land, and other Mario games.

Examples could have:

• The Forest theme in the Super Mario World game style use Forest Interlude from Donkey Kong Country 2

• The Airship theme in the Super Mario World game style use Fear Factory from Donkey Kong Country

• The Sky theme in the Super Mario Bros 3 game style using the Star Maze music from Super Mario Land 2

• The Desert theme in the Super Mario Bros game style using the Easton Kingdom theme from Super Mario Land

• The Forest theme in the Super Mario Bros game style uses the Donkey Kong Land 2 arrangement of Stickerbrush Symphony

• The Underwater theme in the Super Mario Bros 3 game style using the Water music in Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land

• The Overworld theme in the Super Mario World game style uses the Flower Garden music from Yoshi’s Island.

• The Overworld theme in the New Super Mario Bros U game style would use the Overworld theme in New Super Mario Bros Wii.

The reason this counts as unpopular is that even though a lot of people dislike the music box used for the night theme, I don’t think they’d expect or even think of using music from games like Donkey Kong Country, Wario Land, and Yoshi’s Island much less other Mario games.

I’d also love for HAL Laboratory to make a My Hero Academia game, particularly in the style of the modern Kirby games. The quirks of the cast could make for some fun gameplay. Imagine blasting through hordes of enemies as Bakugou, freezing and burning foes as Shouto, using your gravity powers to throw some unlucky sap into other baddies. Plus imagine unlocking Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Bandana Dee, Gooey, and Magalor as unlockable characters, or even an post game world that has All for One turned into an eldritch abomination as the true final boss.

I think that if Sakurai were to include just one Non-Video Game Character, it should be Popeye due to his history with Nintendo like how Donkey Kong was originally a Popeye game, the Popeye game from 1982 being made by Nintendo, and the game & watch game based off Popeye.

I’d also not mind having a non-video game character in Smash since we could possibly have remixes of music from their licensed games. Imagine getting a remix of Big Apple, 3 AM from Turtles in Time, Downtown Springfield from the Simpsons Arcade, The Moon from Ducktales, Crocodile Conundrum from AVGN Adventures 2, or Bikini Bottom from Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

I hate the term "person of color".

It's just a way to say "black person" without actually saying it. A way to mince words, or try to minimize any accusations of racism. At that point you might as well just say "non-white".

Just say black, or whatever race you were really referring to.

Another one:

Here on KYM we can be a bit elitist. Like, it seems 70% of the memes we see here are met with hate or begrudging acceptance. People here are always bitching about memes.

Of course, that's not to say that all memes made are super fresh and unique, but there's a point where I start questioning why some people even bother coming on this website if all they do is complain in the comments section.

I agree to some degree. This is a meme wiki overall and stuff needs to be documented regardless of quality. What I don't like is Tic-toc only memes and Literally who's being constantly featured on the front page.