Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@harasha456
Which contrary to popular belief does not necessarily invoke Judeo-christian ethics.

Coinciding with religion is not necessarily aligning with it, stealing from it or disrespecting it.

Our feast days are spiritual in nature, honoring our veterans, thanksgiving and so on without invoking any religion.

Many atheist participate in the gift-giving ritual of the winter solstice, Just like Christians, and pagans, and well everyone else, it’s part of the civil ritual system of American. We give gifts just to be American, with or without god. This is the end of the business season, countless cultures feast at this time.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights have some appropriation of scripture. We can pretty much adapt a good idea from religion without being completely subjected to it.

‘In god we trust’ is invoking the civil spirit of goodwill. Though I won’t blame anyone for thinking we could word it differently.

Like the idea that killing is bad. This exists in civil spirituality too, because even if the killing is legal, we still feel uneasy about it, and we still squabble over it, and we still invoke the idea of spirits and gods wrath, without mentioning any religion in particular.

The idea that humans ruin everything is dumb. Nature is fucked up and cruel already humans. Humans suck, but that doesn’t mean they can ruin what wasn’t already a mess.

There’s a difference.

Predators gutting their prey and eating their entrails is hardcore and pretty fucked up, and could be seen as “cruel”.

No force on earth outside of the very laws of physics, however, have ever done as much damage as humans.

When your species gives asteroids and O2 bomb events a run for their money in terms of ecological damage, that’s pretty fucked.

@Zincy
I’m thinking more of the parasitic elements and how nature very rarely rewards kindness.

How people decide to draw a character shouldn’t be a big deal or matter to other people. I don’t know why some people are so sensitive to that. Draw them whatever race, whatever gender, change whatever you want about them they aren’t fucking real people so why does it matter. Reimagine them however you feel.

@Peregrine
Agree whit this

@Cosmas-the-Explorer I mean I am all for it too, as I associate them as being similar to journalists, that they are gatekeeping real talent out
I am just a bit more honest about the possibility of the solution being worse than the disease, depending upon who uses it.
Online creators should have been organising themselves, so they’d have a competitive service to offer to these strikes instead of merely ridiculing them hoping they’re struck down forever. When you not only explicitly offer better value than the strikers and could tackle the workload they had abandoned….
Basically the non-woke are wasting their opportunity here to full on replace all the “bad writers” they’ve been complaining about. I for sure would check out something headed by “Mr Davie,” Max Gilardi, or Betsy Lee leading a stable of fandom writers.
Like instead of plucking out just one creator at a time (ie vivzie) or hoping said terrible union “adopts” you, imagine if ao3/yt/ff/DA/etc creators had their own anti Hollywood union where a big money studio could grab a bundle of them at once to work on the pitch.
I’m sure we’ve all seen how elitist these people are, sneering at the youtubers and others as the ones not talented, while tarnishing and trashing series after series, especially if you paid even a whit of attention through “Gamergate,” well instead of all trying to compete individually, getting squashed when they mass spam angry letters about made up phobias to kick you off a platform, get your own protection services up and running!

Maybe you don’t even need a union immediately, you could set up a writing centred site similar to WeSearchr, except it caters to studio big wigs, offering “bounties” on everything from single line pitches to full season scripts, and multiple people could accept the same offer if seeking to build teams, so a bundle of experienced Trekkies would band together to join a studio “seeking the next DS9,” but unable to find any capable sci-fi writers in Hollywood. I think something like that would be your only option for seeing something like Space: Above and Beyond to completion, especially in this current climate, obsessed with finding only “next star wars” to milk merch off and how many unnecessary boxes can be ticked.

The Roman Empire was much worse than Nazi Germany.

If you didn’t possess any Roman (read: Italian) blood, you were not a citizen. And a Senator could have their entire family executed with the Senate’s consent.

And that’s not getting into Rome’s treatment of Jews. And unlike Nazi Germany there was nowhere for Jews to escape.

And yet people still call Rome a cradle of “Western civilization”. Lol.

@SleepySteve
You say that like Nazi Germany didn’t also do that but include their own citizens, as well as Stalin’s USSR.

Pure black coffee is the best! Sugar is bad for you and you never know if the milk from the place you buy the coffee from has gone bad already. It could have E. coli! Black coffee is the only one!

The bad things that a society did don’t erase the influence it had.

@SleepySteve
I don’t know if that’s the case for Jews. Jews were still tolerated and not systematically targeted for destruction in the way of Hitlers Germany.

They probably had more limited rights but not usually downright massacred.

If Hitler survived longer, it’s possible there might not even be any Jews in Eastern Europe.

Siege of Jerusalem says hi. There were even questions if Judaism would even survive after all that bloodshed.

@SleepySteve
Only the Assyrian Empire and Mongolian empire even compare to The Romans in terms of brutality before modern time.

They even brought upon their own destruction due to their refusal to treat Germanic tribes well, not even the educated ones they were allied with, their mentality was that if you weren’t Romanised you deserve to die even if you were their ally
They Legitimately deserved what happened yo them

I actually liked this movie….

one thing to be said about rome’s treatment of jews was that it wasn’t personal. that said my unpopular opinion is that the roman empire deserves nothing but condemnation for being an anti democratic state. rome completely died when ceaser crossed the rubicon and ceaser deserves scorn not praise.

@SleepySteve
You have the weirdest unpopular opinions

This was one of the worst memes of the 2000s.

@SleepySteve
Especially given that it was a guy parodying angry gamers but ended up with people thinking it was genuine

@Don’t
Oh, it’s a parody and all an act? This gives me new respect for the guy in the meme.

All that angry gamer stuff was so fascinating.

AVGN has the best content hands down. Unlike many of the clones, AVGN delivered actual content. He didn’t just set up a camera and start screaming, he takes you back to the past.

I remember trying to figure out if the german kid was faking it. He is. That’s good.

God look at all that old tech. At least nothing of value was damaged, besides maybe his hands.

@Beth
It helps that while he had ups and downs, the AVGN remains a beloved figure, partly because James made much more clear the difference between he himself as a person and the Nerd as a character, and also because he doesn’t merely brings games to trash everytime but also good or simply weird games to analyze and always does his best to showcase good and bad points of each game while maintaining the choleric performance and antics as the spice.

PS2, Gamecube and Xbox games don’t need remakes as much as PS1 and N64 games.

Humans look like humans for the former games even if a bit primitive. But for the latter they look like blocks almost resembling humans.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
A lot of times remakes aren’t just graphics upgrade. It’s also to improve gameplay story. Resident Evil 4 remake is exactly that, and the best part is the original is still on Steam. The two versions are so different you can choose to have different experience if you want.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
point taken that said I’d settle for nintendo actually porting gamecube games to virtual console for once.