Unpopular Opinion

I saw the movie in high school, when it came out on VHS, and I loved it. I bought the book, and couldn't put it down. It was perhaps my favorite piece of sci-fi for a while. I thought John Travolta was delightfully hammy, and that the movie was extremely quotable and fun.

A coworker of mine were just talking about musicals this morning, and my strong dislike of Hamilton. For some reason, it popped into my head that I would love a musical of Battlefield Earth, and John Travolta should sing in it. This sentiment was not shared by my coworker. So, yeah, that's it.

I don't agree when the term "drugs and alcohol" is used as this is implying that alcohol is not a drug. The term feels manipulative and purposeful. It is frustrating to see the social acceptance for a harmful drug because it is taxable and socially accepted, but other drugs such as cannabis and psycadellics are heavily stigmatized. Still in large number of places and society's these drugs are not socially accepted. If a drugs legallity was based purely on the damage it can do to your body, alcohol and cigarette would certainly be illegal.

It can be frustrating to be looked down on while being told that weed smells bad and is bad by someone smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. They have been greatly decived (i understand weed is not "healthy" but my point is its less harmful than alcohol and has more use cases including some for medical purposes).

With game pass popping off the last 18 months it seems like Xbox has really hit their stride as a publishing house. Admittedly they've largely done this by throwing billions upon billions of dollars to buy IP, but Expedition 33, Palworld, blue Prince and other hits popping off shows this hasn't exclusively been the case.

Meanwhile, Sony have had the most expensive flop in video game history with Concord, PSVR2 basically being DOA, and a perplexing pivot to chasing live service trends has meant that the system has missed out on several potential first party hits. Their subscription service pales comparatively to game pass, and there is very little of interest coming in the pipeline.

The PS5 has won this gen over Xbox in terms of sales, but I think customer confidence in their approach has dropped massively, at least for me.

Preface: I'm neither equipped nor here to diagnose anyone with body dysphoria or anything like that.

I totally get the appeal of working out, getting a nice summer/beach body, staying fit/healthy and all that. That's all well and good. But the degree to which bodybuilders intentionally overdo it just looks awful to me. Like, to me, they all look like tiny little heads atop roided-out, spray-tanned, lumpy, disproportionate looking bodies.

That just looks gross to me, and I can't see the appeal of wanting to do that to yourself.

I originally watched season 1 (great experience), then I skipped seasons 2 and 3 because of the bad feedback. Decided to check out season 4 because I like the setting and Jodie Foster. Season 4 was solid, but I didn't like the ending.

So one day I decided to check out Season 2 (I knew nothing about it beyond a few actors that were in it and that a lot of people were complaining online); "how bad could it be?" I thought.

I was shocked how much I liked Season 2. It felt down-to-earth, a more naturalistic experience if you will. I really liked the ending, not that common for US series. A refreshing dose of realism.

There were some stupid parts in season 2. There was one episode where the over-the-top action didn't feel real. Occasionally there was too much drama. I also couldn't take Vince Vaughn seriously, although I did get the impression that he was genuinely trying (and I liked his character).

While season 1 was very good, it was fundamentally more style over substance. It was more of a fairytale for adults. Season 2 on the other was more of a story about life. One that requires more thought than the relatively stereotypical plot setting of season 1. Season has a "low risk" setting. Season 2 had a much more bold setting and they were willing to try something radically new and not build off the core viewer expectations set in Season 1.

I do think season 2 was better than season 1 because it explored more complex motifs and because of the refreshing gritty ending. Season 2 was also more original than season 1.

Yeah, the stories can be really great, some of the best in gaming, especially GTA4 and the RDR games, and this is more targeted towards GTA5. But oh man, these games feel so fucking sloppy control wise. I push my controller in one direction for a moment and my character takes like 2 steps in that direction. Aiming feels clunky and you basically have to rely on auto aim. GTA5 is also piss easy. Like, the only reason I have ever died in GTA5 is accidently driving into an explosive or off a ledge.

Everything takes fucking foreverrr to do, especially in RDR2. Like, I get that its impressive how the animations interact with each other and how everything in the fame world is affectes by you, but I dont want to manually pick up every item.

I don’t mean singing in a foreign language, I mean if they aren’t enunciating their words.

There is a style of singing where the singer rolls one word into the next word, or just cuts a word off. I find it distracting and I tend to skip the song very quickly when I realize what they are doing.

While it is a popular way to sing, I have never enjoyed it. I heard some of it in the 1980s but it wasn’t widely used. Today I find a lot more singers doing it.

At first, it seems innocuous: baby on board! Please be a little more careful driving near this vehicle.

But what does this imply? Shouldn't we be driving carefully enough to preserve life and health, regardless of who is in the next car over? Does the absence of a "baby on board" sticker imply "don't worry about us as much! Feel free to be more aggressive" ? I'd hope not. Besides, babies aren't the only people who are more fragile than an assumed strong, healthy adult. Cars everywhere have plenty of elderly people and people with various conditions who would be in more serious danger in a car crash. I'd go so far as to say everyone on the road is somewhere on a spectrum between "peak human physical and mental condition" and "extraordinarily fragile", and we cannot know or judge where each person is at. We should be driving carefully out of an abundance of caution no matter what.

Maybe the idea is based on assumptions about the longer potential remaining lifespan of a baby, compared to an adult? A kind of utilitarian argument about reducing harm by preserving more years of life? If that sounds a bit familiar, it is part of the concept of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), which is an integral concept in Effective Altruism, among other uses. I won't go into the details of Effective Altruism, but let's just say it's a pretty terrible system for deciding where to spend resources that glorifies the ability of rich people to do philanthropy and provides support for some racist and eugenicist outcomes. In any event, it certainly doesn't make sense for every driver on the road to be making some kind of QALY analysis of their neighbors on the road at every point of the journey.

I believe that all life is precious. I make an effort to drive that way, too.

P.S. the best interventions to make driving safer for everyone are systemic and infrastructural: crash-compatible vehicles, available alternatives to driving, slower speeds, modal filters, etc. I don't blame baby on board sticker havers for the absence of these things.

1. Drinking Coffee stains teeth.
2. Caffeine pills is way cheaper than Coffee.
3. Swallowing Caffeine pill is more efficient than trying to drink coffee.
4. You can't control the caffeine dose with Coffee, but you can with pills.

Just added rule 6 to the sidebar that reduces some ambiguity between rules 4 and 5. 99% of posts here already do this, so there shouldn't be much change other than it being required now.

Rule 6: Defend your position

This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.

This won't be applied retroactively, but anything from here on out is expected to include some exposition to go along with the opinion itself

I think this is an unpopular opinion, at least among my star wars friends it is, but I genuinly think that The Last Jedi is better than The Force Awakens. I think it's more interesting, I think that the visuals are cool, I like the music more. Now I dont think its great, it has a ton of problems, and it probably has the worst fight choreography, i dont like how they portrayed Luke Skywalker, and I think that it was dumb that Holdo didnt tell Poe what her plan was.

But TLJ feels more unique and I absolutely love Kylo Ren in this movie, and I like Rey, I think she was done best in this movie. TFA was just kind of boring imo.

Edit: Mind you, I still think that all the movies in this trilogy are pretty crap. This one is just the one I dislike the least overall, ALTHOUGH, it probably ruined the trilogy the most, storywise.

Burn, shred, paint, spray, spit, piss, [removed by lemmy.world], whatever is in your hands, show them AI images in schools, museums and libraries is not ok.

I ripped one to pieces by myself and they did not call the police. Thats it ,that's the post.

There is no way to play out a full story by splitting the screen time for 3 stories. Even splitting it for 2 stories is not a good idea. By splitting the time that many ways it’s basically impossible to really flesh out a story and add depth. In a one hour episode you really only get 40 minutes of air time. If you split that for two stories you get 20 minutes of screen time to tell a story. 3 ways? Yeah now you are just wasting a show. You only get 13 minutes to tell a story.

Combine the above with the fact that we have less and less episodes per season, and This creates a real problem to tell a story of any sort

I think any sane world, someone would have stepped in a decade ago as an advocate, and gotten them the combination of mental health care and accountability explained to them in compassionate terms they could understand. There has never needed to be a fucking wiki dedicated to this person.

Early Sonichu is fascinating and compelling ad outsider art. Daniel Johnston famously had a breakdown and was protected from the world after getting famous. The world needs to react to weirdos with a little more kindness.

Y’all also have to remember that KiwiFarms started as a Chris-Chan harassment forum. Kiwifarms is so fucked up that cloudflare won’t even host them. There’s something about staring into the void long enough…

If you don’t tell the people why you are leaving, they don’t know what is going on. And this applies to businesses it applies to stores it applies to companies. It even applies to social media accounts. It even applies to your friends and family.

If you tell people why you are leaving, at least they can make a decision if they want to change or not. If the company or whatever is seeing less people coming in, but nobody will say why they’re leaving. How can they make the change?

There’s no realistic way that a manager or a host or the owner of a business or whatever could realistically ask every single person who comes through the door hey are you happy? Are you coming back? Is there anything we should change? That’s not real.

If you aren’t happy and you don’t say what is making you unhappy. Then that’s on you.

Not the business or the social media site or whatever.

They can’t read minds.

I should be able to host my own WoW server on my LAN, play CoD split-screen on my TV, or run my own Battlefield tournament on my own LAN.

Using the internet as an option for multiplayer or other optional features of games is fine, but there is absolutely no reason why a video game should ever require an internet connection.

People deciding that it is somehow acceptable to require an internet connection to play a game is a big part of the reason why we have DLC, buggy releases, microtransaction riddled games, and shitty, invasive DRM.

If you have ever been involved in the creation of games that require an internet connection then I hope your asshole itches until the day you die.

Edit: if the game is only available through digital distribution then an internet connection is a requirement to play the game because you have to be able to obtain the game to play it.

Back in the day releasing a buggy game was costly because it meant you would have provide the option to your users to receive updates by mail or in stores. DLC (or expansion packs) would have to be meaningful, because it would mean having to press new discs or make new cartridges in order to provide that content to your users and it wasn't worthwhile for the users to buy if it wasn't substantial. Loot boxes and other microtransactions wouldn't really be a thing because you would have no guarantee that anyone would be willing to buy them because they would have to be provided by mail or in stores on some sort of physical media.

DRM would consist of needing to have a disc in the drive and maybe having to verify that you had a unique activation key by verifying a cryptographic hash against a public key on the disc.

All of this made for better games because the games had to be worth the hassle of going to the store to buy them or waiting for them to be delivered in the mail.

It’s not the correct answer I’m after - it’s the conversation. If that were the goal, I could’ve just googled it myself. I’d much rather spend a few minutes speculating with you about what bird it might’ve been than have you immediately look up the right answer.

In most cases, when you feel tempted to take out your phone during a face-to-face interaction, you probably shouldn’t.

Ellie’s character model in the game is clearly based on Elliot Page before he transitioned. Go watch Juno, the resemblance is uncanny. Elliot won’t do it for obvious reasons so they had to get a replacement.

discord is a black hole for information

Traditional reasoning says you should prefer open forums like lemmy that are available and searchable to the open web. After all, you're posting to help people, and that helps people the most. The platform (like reddit) may profit off of it, but that's fine, they're providing the platform for you to post. Fair deal.

Plus people coming for high quality information helps the community and topic back. You attract other high quality contributors, the more people use/partake in the topic you are discussing, the platform often improves with the revenue etc. It's not perfect, but it worked

AI scrapers break all that. The company profiting is the AI company, and they give nothing back. They model just holds all the information in its weights. It doesn't drive people to the source. Even the platform doesn't benefit from bot scraping. The addition of high quality data may improve the model on that topic and thus push people to engage in said topic more, but not much, because of how AI's are trained, while you need some high quality data, a lot more important, especially for lesser known topics, is amount of data.

So as more of the world moves to AI models, I don't really feel like posting on public forums as much, helping the AI companies get richer, even if I do benefit from AI myself.

Holy shit, I need to rant about this because it’s driving me insane. Lately, it feels like every new show drops a single episode and then forces you to wait months for the rest.

Who actually enjoys this? A whole week for one episode? That’s an eternity in real life. By the time the next episode airs, I could be a completely different person—new job, new hobbies, maybe even a new brain—and suddenly, I don’t even care about the show anymore.
It’s like some 80-year-old corporate exec is sitting in a boardroom, smashing a big red button labeled "FEED THE MASSES" once a week, doling out TV like it’s fucking rations.

Some more reasons why it sucks:

• You forget the plot (and the whole vibe) between episodes.

• If an episode sucks, you just wasted a week of anticipation for nothing.

It’s like walking out of a movie halfway through and coming back seven days later for the rest. Who does that?

How I cope? I refuse to watch until the entire season is out. I want to enjoy the story properly, on my own time, without this drip-fed nonsense.

Back in the day, TV was just cheap filler for people with nothing better to do—endless soap operas where the most exciting thing that happened in a week was somebody’s amnesia curing or a long-lost twin showing up. Who had time for that?

But now? TV has evolved into something better than movies. We get deeper storytelling (no rushed 2-hour limits), higher production value (some shows look more cinematic than blockbusters), actual character development (instead of cramming arcs into a single film)

Yet studios still release episodes weekly like it’s 1985 and we’re all waiting around for Days of Our Lives. Newsflash: We’re not.

After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don't even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.

~~It’s lazy. It has no place in quality communities.~~ If you are a mod and feel ~~so overwhelmed~~ unable to keep up with the posts in your communities, then ~~you need to~~ please consider bringing on other quality mods ~~and /or step down and let someone else do the job~~ to help you.

/rant

Edit: as was pointed out, my post was overly negative toward mods. I apologize. I should’ve waited before posting this so I didn’t come across as inflammatory.

~~Unpopular preference, maybe? I've worked the title a few times but can't get it phrased as a concise opinion. Regardless, I think it still fits the spirit of the group.~~

SMS Texting in 2025 sucks. The overwhelming majority of "unknowns" texting me are marketing BS (that I didn't sign up for), scams, and other junk. It's almost at the same state that calling was ~10 years ago. Even besides that, texting a friend/family member to have a conversation feels so... wasteful? It's something I used to do and now never would. Anecdote: I also barely respond to texts at this point unless it's a direct question, "I'm at the store, do we need milk?" "Yes." Even still, half the time I'd just call them to say "yes." According to my cellular provider, I've sent 16 SMS messages since March 25th.

If I'm trying to contact someone, I always just call them unless I know they won't pick up and have told others to do the same with me.

Counterpoint to this is that some people think it's rude to cold-call, which is fair, but I have a good enough relationship with the people I keep regular contact with so that they know they can just call back at their own decision. Other than that, I'm only calling businesses/customer support, so it's a moot point.

That's it, that's all I care about. Plus if you want to eat it a bit later, they get soggy and nasty.