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I said this on the page before previous, but unpopularity is determined in relation to your surroundings. Here, that opinion is exceptionally unpopular. But in a space dominated by some flavor of insecure political extremist? Not believing it might get you banned.

It's a funny twist of irony that political extremists are unified in their disliking of horseshoe theory (except maybe ancaps?). Whether you consider that a self-fulfilling prophecy or a kafkatrap is a matter of perspective I suppose.

I would be so down for My Adventures With Superman to just up and have Clark face off against Eradicator Lois Lane instead of Injustice Superman, Justice Lords Superman, just any evil Superman.

In fact, if they do have Eradicator Lois Lane, have her kill Injustice and Justice Lords Superman and have a there be skeletons of Captain Hero, Omni-Man, Homelander, Brightburn, and maybe Tighten as well, implying that Eradicator! Lois Lane killed them all, seeing them as a mockery of Superman's legacy

Paranoia is often quite useful if you want to survive on the internet

The lord of the rings sucks. They're some of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I really dislike modern zombie survival fiction where the main threat and focus is not the zombie but the fall of organized states and civilization, and how this makes humanity turn into primitive-minded psychopathic barbarians. It's extremely overdone, repetitive, and overall boring. And of course, this also means that despite The Walking Dead, which practically created the genre and popularized it.

That trope far predates the Walking Dead by decades in several other pieces of zombie media, but its certainly the most insufferable about if only for the how long-winded the series is.

My bigger issue with zombie fiction is how organized states fall so quickly, or more importantly, at all. Maybe with the exception of the extremely OP zombies from Return of the Living Dead, I mean how hard would it be to stop a unthinkingly stupid, slowly shambling, mob of the undead? At worst, it would be a localized threat that some backwater militia armed with shotguns could easily defeat (which was the case in Night of the Living Dead), but evidently police nor even professional militaries cannot?

Dead Rising kind of tackled the question of "how quickly would organized states fall, if at all", and their answer is that they don't, at all. Zombies existing are kind of just the norm, and any outbreaks are immediately contained within an extremely small part of society(i.e. a mall, a resort town, a city)--by the military, no less, who give any trapped survivors a limited amount of time to find a way out before they literally just purge the place with conventional weaponry, returning everything to normal.

Granted, one of the biggest threats to the player characters is the pharmaceutical industry and the effects that the zombie uprising has had on it (i.e. you need to find a dose of Zombrex, which is highly expensive, every single day or else you turn into a zombie.). Oh, and they're also the ones behind most of the outbreaks, since they need people turning into zombies to sell their anti-zombie medication.

In Shaun of the Dead they got things quickly under control in just half a year.

I don't get why people are saying Jun Sunoe's music in Sonic Superstars "sucks." I get some people may be slightly put off by the fact him and Tee Lopes opted to use different synthesizer sound fonts (with Jun's being something closer to Genesis sound fonts), but I like his use of Genesis sound samples, in particular I've always really liked the sound of the "Genesis snare."

Does this go for the Ralph Bakshi version too?

Uh, sure. Whatever the hell that means.

We just lived through a pandemic where there were protests against doing anything about the disease, it makes sense to me how the zombies take over

We may survive climate change, but if we dont, we would….kind of deserve it. Like it would be our fault

Though if the worst comes to pass you just need to build massive bunkers…but still

I find breasts unatrractive, especially the oversized ones. Genuinely don't get the appeal

I do like a good ass though

I think it is a good idea for women to lift weight, bulk and gain muscle.

Cause you gotta stay safe somehow, strength can be damn useful

I believe that cheese, onions, and pickles are the only things needed to make a good burger. Condiments varies by personal preference, but anything extra like lettuce and tomato and you might as well order a salad rather than a hamburger.

The site frequently crashes on mobile and it takes up a lot of memory on my computer so I might get crucified for this but…

I wouldn't mind another redesign to the site. Just… not the kind that was done the last time it was attempted.

I got a weird one today:

I genuinely believe Ubisoft is telling the truth when they said those AC: Mirage ads popping up in weird spots in other AC games was nothing more than a technical screw up. Yes Ubisoft does deserve to get dunked on for some stuff, but I dunno I do genuinely feel they weren't lying when they said the ad was only meant for the main menu ("franchise news" in main menus is common in modern Ubisoft games) but a small programming error resulted in it appearing in other menus by accident.

Counterpoint: Onions (and garlic) can make food taste amazing.

However, it feels like it has become a culinary crutch sometimes.

People who deal with FODMAP issues have a hard time trying to find available "safe" food options unless they make everything they eat from scratch. Most of the things I've seen are easy enough to avoid with the biggest exception being garlic and onions. I'm not saying that every restaurant and prepared food needs to take those ingredients out, but it should be easier to get food people can eat and not be in pain without having to make everything from scratch.

It was morally right to punch those nazis

I enjoyed first 2 Mafia games, Sleeping Dogs and Scarface more than any GTA game.

Also 2 is the only good Saints Row game.

I think that given his nature as the Anti Mario, I think a Wario game with a T rating could work.

A Wario game where Wario pulls a glock on the Giant Spear Man

Seeing how Bethesda has been on the waves because of Starfield being meh to many and how Emil Paugliario (or however his last name is spelled) is disliked while people try to prop up Obsidian and Fallout: New Vegas, I legit will say this one unpopular gamer opinion:

I can't see Fallout: New Vegas as some GOAT nor would I see it as the "best game on Bethesda's engine." For Obsidian, I enjoyed Stick of Truth more and I honestly prefer Fallout 1 & 2 over New Vegas. I don't care how one can tell me it had former Black Isle devs working on it, New Vegas to me is its own thing that's just an offshoot of Fallout 3 that made OG Fallout references and that's it. For best game on Bethesda's engine, that's divided between Morrowind and Daggerfall. Former for its writing and how big the world felt without having conventional fast travel and while the latter had expansive dungeons that felt more fun than a Skyrim draugr tomb and better combat than Morrowind and other TES games.

Also to say this as an unpopular Bethesda gamer opinion: mods that "fix" Todd's games will only be the unofficial patches. I tried the third person combat overhauls that existed for Skyrim. I'd say they felt like Great Value Dark Souls but after replaying OG Lords of the Fallen, they felt more like an off-brand Lords of the Fallen. Popular mods people all mention don't even arouse my interest beyond bug fixes and anyone saying how Skyrim's third person combat can be improved by mods, I'd prefer people taking notes from other games like Dragon's Dogma or Mordhau.

"Where's that DAMN 4th garlic? Waaaah!"

The Matrix is a terrible movie. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace came out the same year so 1999 was actually good. Also Keanu Reeves plays John Wick now so that makes up for it. So does Speed.

the warhammer 40k fandom is one of the most obnoxious and unbearable fandoms on the entire internet

100% agreed

Its often a unending competition over imperium and chaos over who can have more obnoxious fans, imperium is winning obviously.

Yes I am a fan of warhammer and No I aint the exception obviously, I am just saying

Not anyone here however, or that has posted before here either, I am talking mainly abiut reddit and discord warhammer

I would know cause I used to have a friend who was obsessed with it

Disney should overshadow the cheap horror schlock using Mickey by rereleasing Runaway Brain and House of Mouse. But we all know they’re not going to do that.

Warhammer is neat but I always feel wary about wanting to engage with some people in the fandom. When it comes to people who mainly prefer the Imperium I feel it's an instant red flag if they unironically call the Imperium "the good guys" because first off that's wrong, Warhammer doesn't really have "good guys" for the most part, but also I've noticed that the people who hold that specific opinion often are also unironic fascists who who do in fact wish the entire planet Earth was ruled by a theocracy like it is in 40K. It's one thing to engage in silly ironic roleplay where everyone is in on the joke, it's another entirely when you turn "I wish I was an Imperium Commissar or Black Templar" into your entire personality. Most recently I outright groaned when dudes with 40K profile pics who were saying "brother" to one another were saying shit like "you will never be a woman" and "I highly doubt this thing is a female" in YouTube comments towards a vtuber who hasn't even said if they're trans or not (said vtuber, Gaz Acantha, has a baritone voice).

Fact a bunch of my comments in the forums lately are getting equal amount of upvotes and downvotes has me curious, am I getting downvotes because what I'm saying isn't all that unpopular, or is it legitimate bigots wanting me to shut the fuck up about them? Because if it's the latter then no I won't shut the fuck up.

honestly, i feel like that's how it goes with unpopular opinion threads. whether or not the thread quite literally exists exactly for that purpose, people will still downvote you if you say something if you say something they don't like.

or someone (or a couple people) could just have a massive hate boner against you who'll just downvote you no matter what you say

i think that 99 percent of the coffee should be creamer and milk. no one likes black coffee. ADMIT IT

the anti-woke NPCs would soyface at sonichu 10 if it was released today! (the gay holocaust is le heckin based)

that is indeed an opinion

The US (and possibly west as a whole) is too detached from death
it's obviously not a good thing generally but it's always gonna happen to everyone and we need to stop pretending it isn't

Getting riled up about "death threats" on the internet is nonsensical and stupid.

Why, you may ask? Well, that's because those so-called "death threats" are not really death threats at all. If some really angry rando on the internet tells you to "kill yourself" or wishes that you die, that's not a threat; that's just internet trash talk. And the usual response to that should be to ignore it and not actually give it much thought because it's meaningless, and for the life of me, I cannot understand why there are people who love to make such a big deal out of such crap.

Of course, now if that trash talk is actually accompanied by "something else," like a phone call or a hack on your computer, or you have any sort of evidence that this rando can actually make his words actions then yes, you have every right to actually take this seriously.

To me it depends, if its a random guy messaging me KYS after getting bodied in a game thats irrelevant, but if IDK an artist or someone gets several messages like that and "death threats", yeah they may not be real but they can still be scary and we have to understand that not everyone reacts the same to such negativity, I think its understandable to be upset

I cannot stand people who use terms like white knighting or white savior complex. What's wrong with simply wanting to do what's right. Why do they have to think that you're only doing it because you gain something out of it. Is it so hard to believe someone can do something out of the goodness of their own heart.

I think the whole trend of mental health awareness is just dumb virtue signaling and only focuses on the symptoms instead of the larger cause. Sure modern life has brought in many benefits and got better in many ways, but it also feels so empty and meaningless.

You see all those articles on how are more lonely and depressed and commit more suicides, but no one ever proposes any actual solutions. They don't address the fact the current society is atomized and people have no sense of community or family. I don't consider myself religious at all, but religion definitely served its purpose when it gave some people meaning or hope, now many people have nothing to live for.

But instead of addressing any of those issues, they will just tell you to take magic pills or see a therapist. This is a part of a much bigger issue that no one wants to talk about. It's clear to me that many people don't actually care about others mental well being and they just want obedient worker drones.

You see all those articles on how are more lonely and depressed and commit more suicides, but no one ever proposes any actual solutions

no you don't understand the solution to suicide is to ban all guns

I cannot stand people who use terms like white knighting or white savior complex. What's wrong with simply wanting to do what's right. Why do they have to think that you're only doing it because you gain something out of it. Is it so hard to believe someone can do something out of the goodness of their own heart.

the reason people get called that isn't because they're "doing what's right", it's because they make mountains out of molehills and completely discard the feels of the people they claim to be defending because those people aren't seeing red over a complete non-issue like they are.

basically still trying to dictate how these groups of people should live and think, despite the fact that they claim to believe that said people should be treated like equals

There are two telltale signs that someone is only in it for themselves:

• They come into the situation without context, or "bring their own context"
• They impose their judgement without consideration of the people involved, especially the people they are intervening on behalf of

There's a lot of things driving this disconnect, but here's two that I think are important: Tech literacy and the corporatization of the Internet. I've observed that the demographic most likely to not give a shit about death threats fall roughly into the late Millennial/early Gen Z region, which coincides both with the people most likely to be innately skilled at using a computer and the period of time when the Internet was becoming more interconnected, but was still largely anarchic and uncontrolled.

I also think that both tech literacy and Internet corporatization are inherently connected, with many traditional pieces of Internet advice (like "try to stay anonymous" and "don't click on random links you dipshit") being eroded by websites like Facebook over time. This also makes me wonder: are kids told rhymes like "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me" any more? It's easy to dismiss death threats if you remember that they're just words unless they're appended with your current geographic location. Same goes for insults.

Additionally, some people may see it fit to play up how upset and scared anonymous death threats or insults actually make them feel. Usually, because doing so helps them make money. There probably isn't as much money in it now as there used to be, due to greater competition and fewer marks, but it can probably still make a pretty penny if you cry hard enough.