The Unpopular Opinions

[Magus]

A fact. An opinion is something that is not empirically provable.

However, I do believe some opinions are stupid, i.e. those that do not match up with my opinion!

EDIT: What Snake said I guess. Except whether Gaga is ugly or not probably can't be based on anything but opinion. I guess they could show her to a thousand randomly selected babies and see how many cry...

[greed]

Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Also, all of you are terrible people and your opinions are equally terrible.

The Simpsons didn't reach it's prime until 1990. Admittedly 1988/89 Simpsons weren't bad, but I count The Simpsons as a 90s cartoon.

In related news, every single Donkey Kong game ever made is terrible, Pac-Man is a crock of shit, Japan has never made a great RPG, Golden Sun is merely okay, Problem Sleuth made me want to gouge my eyes out, the Punisher was really a pretty decent mindless action flick, Kingdom Hearts was enjoyable crap in the first game and then subsequently became straight shit, Pokemon should have died in a fire after the first sequel or two, the first Twilight movie was okay, the Ace Attorney games would be a million times better as a straight VN without convoluted puzzles that I don't give a shit about, the Star Wars prequels are okay, Tolkien was a mediocre writer, Star Trek has never been that good, and I have more of these but in summary fuck everything you love.

How can you have such terrible opinions?

Originally Posted by NonCon

Here's another: Gunbuster is the best show Gainax has ever made.

FLCL was Gainax no?

Originally Posted by Arcanum

Fallout 3 is better than Fallout New Vegas. Mostly because the Damage Threshold system makes all of your guns feel like pea shooters.

DT is a massive improvement and stops bullet sponges, allowing enemies to be dealt with quicker and easier as long as you know what you're doing, the only way you could have this complaint would be if you were REALLY bad at playing it. Also Fallout 3's writing was absolutely terrible, NV's was great.

Originally Posted by Arcanum

The voice acting is still pretty much the same in New Vegas, I don't particularly care about textures when it comes to massive sandbox games, and the karma system seems the same to me in New Vegas (i.e. if there's a difference, I don't notice it as a casual observer, so what's the point?).

The VA was greatly improved though? There's like 60 unique voices and much better celebrity VA in New Vegas.

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Cool story bro

Yeah okay, Looney Tunes was good. No good cartoons between them and The Simpsons.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Krylo

On the other other hand, any opinion given in this thread should probably just be understand to have the 'I find" or "In my opinion" thrown in front of it because this is a thread for opinions that are flat out unpopular.

Honestly half the ~Drama~ that goes down here could be avoided outright if everyone were to just assume that, in any opinion-related thread, people are representing THEIR PERSONAL OPINION.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Magus

A fact. An opinion is something that is not empirically provable.

Nah I actually intended to distinguish both forms of 'opinion' I referenced from 'facts.'
Because really, someone who studies music and language may come up with some empirical measurement that enables them to state "Here's why James Taylor writes better lyrics than Lady Gaga," but that's not a statement of fact akin to "Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC," even if empirical evidence in the form of studies is included.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Shut up Non I'm entitled to my own subjective opinion

No you aren't.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

the karma system seems the same to me in New Vegas (i.e. if there's a difference, I don't notice it as a casual observer, so what's the point?).

Karma changes were better scaled, making it harder to gain massive amounts of bad karma from minor actions like theft, but you gain much more for making good choices and bad choices, and a moderate amount for killing bad or good guys.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

beauty belongs to the eyes of the beholder. :P

Indeed

[Solid Snake]

Yeah that was basically the perfect comeback, Krylo. I gotta give you that.
(I still disagree with you and your Beholder though.)

[Marc v4.0]

Opinions can be very wrong.

Case in point, one of my Wifes coworkers is convinced that New Vegas was, seriously, an expansion pack that settles on top of Fallout 3 and you play the same character.

He will not hear or see any conflicting evidence.

[Magus]

They do try to do studies on "what makes this or that beautiful", but they're always severely flawed in that it's based on popular opinion. They ask a large random assortment of people to rate faces. So it's not really scientifically anything empirically provable, more a trend of what the average psyche finds beautiful.