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I'll be honest and say I didn't even know he uploaded a video saying that stuff, I just knew he posted a picture of him playing Xenoblade 3 on a Steam Deck on twitter and then other people were talking about how he apparently advocated for pirating.

I'll own up to this fuck up by admitting that I think I got Mutahar and Jim "Stephanie" Sterling confused because I seriously only just now remembered it was Sterling who made a video literally titled "why it's morally right to pirate Nintendo games."

Sigh… Where do I even begin?

It legit bothers me how some users on this site will go to bat and die for gender non conformity like tomboys or femboys, but the moment actual trans people enter the discussion they act like we "ruin everything."

As I said before, average KYMcores these days care more about some stupid culture war shit than non brainrot stuff

The world would be a better place without the internet

Spending too much time around here warps your views because this place puts a magnifying glass on irrelevant """"controversies"""" that last like 40 minutes

looks at +- of my recent comments

I appear to be perpetually missing them.

…I still dont care if Bridget is trans or not and I find people fighting over this kind of silly, maybe I am missing the deeper meaning or something shrug

the mary sue/gary stu cringe culture is fucking retarded

This less an unpopular opinion and more a fact often neglected, but the vast majority of English speakers aren't native speakers (native speakers are less than 25%). For that reason, any spelling reforms (which will never happen) should take them into account. English is special in that its international character, after all. I have my own ideas for improvements (I have an English degree with a linguistics emphasis, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about), but I don't think many would be popular.

On a related note, only around 20% of English speakers use imperial measurements, so including metric conversions should at least be standard. I would say that metric should be the default with imperial in parentheses, but that wouldn't go over well with the more nationalistic Anglos and Yanks.

I think the issues presented by dialects and non-native speakers are even larger than you're framing it to be. Any English spelling reform would have to either A) somehow properly reflect every significant dialectal variation of every word in one unified system, or B) split the language into a handful of similar, but non-identical systems. The first is practically impossible to achieve, at least without creating something that's either ugly as sin or entirely alien to everyone who already uses the language. The latter, while more doable on paper, is highly unsatisfying, and would serve to fracture the Anglophone world for no real gain. The best option going forward, in my eyes, is to wait a few centuries until the major dialect groups have diverged enough from each other to make it feel more justified.

@Kups
And how, exactly, do you plan to "make" everyone use metric?

Also, America technically uses metric, as our customary units are defined in respect to metric units.

Railroad infrastructure (both freight and passenger) in the United States is badly in need of renovation and evolution. That's why, despite his presidency being far from one of the best, I'll aways support Joe Biden's advocacy for rail.
Speaking of Joe Biden, while I don't think he'd be a good fit to run again in 2024 (despite some big, recent wins), some of his cabinet members could be decent contenders to take his place. Two that I think of are Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Not to disrespect Bernie Sanders, but we need some fresh blood (although it would be cool to one day see one of his supporters become President of the United States).
Disney should try to incorporate more of their Disney Channel properties into their theme parks. They don't necessarily need to be lands or rides, but something along the lines of clever easter eggs, or maybe even restaurants based off their shows. One example would be having Anne's Family Thai Restaurant from Amphibia as an actual place to dine in Downtown Disney.

Disney is on a track to becoming a monopoly and people who are begging for Disney to buy out more companies worry me. Like why on earth should a company that specializes in entertainment be able to own just about every aspect of entertainment?

The era of indie games made for let’s plays and youtubers had and still has a horrible grip on indie games to this day. Mainly in regards to games who had potential to being good but decided to throw away all their potential to maintain shitty YouTube fame. Looking specifically at Yandere Simulator in regards to that.

The current culture surrounding gamers right now is troubling. I’m mainly talking bout the level of entitlement and levels of harassment some game devs have to go through because they nerfed a thing, buffed a thing, are delaying a game due to in studio reasons, etc. and it’s more concerning because some people think harassing game devs is a viable way to get a point across.

The current culture behind fanbases in general is rather troubling. Not just gaming, but movies, anime or other TV shows, etc. Constant arguments, harassments, going after creators, even doxxing, like…how did pop culture stuff lead to cyber civil wars??? Granted stuff like this isn't new, but these days it's more out in the open. we all enjoy the same things, no need to bring up someone's race or gender and whatnot, no need to harass someone for their opinions.

I don't understand why people still recommend Logitech Gamepad. The F310 lacks vibration, the trigger buttons are incredibly stiff and I would rather have the old playstation L2/R2 buttons than whatever the heck those are, and I'm not a fan of its D-pad at all.

The fact they increase the price without making any improvement is utterly mind boggling, not even changing to a paper box package (something that other modern controllers did). While I don't own an F710, it's wireless only with no port makes it very unappealing nowadays, and with its price you can get something like 8bitdo or Gamesir. I guess their biggest appeal is that they're sturdy, but it doesn't make up for any of its shortcomings (plus mine broke with its cable issue).

Old Order 66 lore (where clones were simply conditioned to follow the various Orders) is better than these neural chip things we have now.

It really cheapens the autonomy and individuality of clones when they literally cannot disobey by default.

Animal rights groups should be stigmatized

Muscle women in anime turn me off nowadays.

I used to enjoy it but it gets to a point where it becomes a fetish as it invites lots of weird people into it, similar to how the 'thicc women' started to have their own downfall years ago. I'm seeing muscle women fanarts to the point that they look similar to FGO's Barghest, the boobs being much bigger than their head looks worse into the mix.

People who jokingly answer "sauce" requests are not funny 9 out of 10 times. It's literally the same joke repeated over and over again, unfunny low-effort attempts at originality for the sake of upvotes and burying actual useful/funny comments.

It's like a meme subreddit but worse. I don't understand how such comments are so damn ubiquitous and upvoted on the internet

"Sauce" itself is agonizingly unfunny tbh

All the more incentive to provide the dang sauce!

Website of endless cockteasing…

Honestly I agree that it isn't funny to say "sauce", but at least it has a clear purpose – to find the source picture/artist/actress/whatever.

Wannabe comedians are just noise.

College degrees arent always worth it or fealsible.

I mean its certainly a good thing to have but you need to really think if you want to take out a student loan, it can often times not be that worth it….

Opinions on college are strange.

Whenever it's brought up you'll see a bunch of smug jackasses appear going "You actually paid money for a piece of paper? Guess you're dumber than I thought" but it still remains a pretty popular thing to do after one graduates high school as far as I can tell.

I believe post-secondary truly is a personal choice depending on a number of factors, including more personal ones such as learning style and finances. Whether it's no post-secondary, trade school or university, there's never going to be a one-size-fits-all answer for these kind of things

To play Devil's Advocate, artists often draw muscular woman that way to maintain a feminine silhouette. The large busts help fill the visual space that accompanies having a wider frame while helping to keep that feminine shape. In fact, drawings of people have distorted anatomy to resolve the issue of visual gaps (which Plague of Gripes noted in a video).

I don't know about any downfalls with thicc women. If anything, it's more that the threshold for what constitutes "thicc" is far too low. Not wanting to draw double chins is one thing (even though double chins are often fairly subtle until people are just about morbidly obese, while people who are otherwise a fairly healthy weight have a double chin due to jaw shape), but not drawing a paunch or love handles is just cowardly.

Politicians and billionaires deserve to be assassinated.

Jokes aside
deserve? yes
I'd rather a fair trial with execution though

Arrabiata > regular red sauce for any pasta that isn't baked.
There I said it.

Women are NOT imo worse physical fighters than men.Yes men are often stronger, yes men often have more stamina, men are often heavier and harder to knock down but…so what….

Women (at least cis women) don't have dick and balls.

Like…people forget it IS easy to kick someone in the balls and that balls are super squishy and vulnerable. Like A LOT of the time a women will struggle with fighting a man until that woman gets a swift kick in the balls then…that's often it the woman won. You can kick a women down there too but it's not as obviously…undefended as men are down there.

Like yeah it's a crude "dishonorable" way to fight but it's obvious men have a massive "kick me here" sign that is a massive liability at least if you are not wearing armor, while women at least don't have any obvious weak spots.

Men are also often bigger, taller, thicker….sounds like an advantage? Well it kind of isn't, at least not always, the bigger you are the easier it is to get shot or hit…you are a bigger target ESPECIALLY relevant against bullets. One bullet that hits you and you are done regardless of how buffed you are.

Add the fact that I am pretty sure women are often physically faster and more agile than men and I am pretty sure women have tons of physical advantages over men…even if men are beefier.

Not only beefier but bone-ier; the difference in durability makes doing decisive damage to a female body a lot easier than a male's; the nutshot becomes pretty much the only easy win a woman has over a comparable male counterpart; but it is rather hard to accomplish if seen coming. (source: 10 years of schoolyard kicking)

A male on the other hand has greater arm and leg length making it a lot easier for him to maintain a distance where he can protect his testicles while still able to hit on the universal human weak point: the head.

Add in the capacity for a male to resort to defensive tactics and wait out the unfair sex's decisive advantage in a test of stamina, and I have to disagree on the basic premise

You arent wrong about the guns, God created men, Colt made them equal and all that, though I think the size difference advantage becomes cancelled out at long range by the difference in eyesight.

Crotch strikes still work on women, given the sensitivity of the clitoris and potential hymen damage (depending on the hymenal shape.) Men often have a speed advantage as well. Sports have sex segregation and weight classes for good reason. Sports for prepubescent children only need age segregation, though.

Striking the genitals is only an effective tactic when not seen coming and a considerably small target (lol). To back up Greyblades, the universal weak spot that will quickly settle any engagement, inside a ring or out, is the head. Given that males have a natural advantage of longer reach by virtue of having longer limbs, they have a decisive advantage in landing said hits from farther away whilst simultaneously putting their balls out of harms way.

A couple of solid strikes to the head will sit anyone's ass down, regardless of which sex throws it. Women can certainly be talented fighters and could defeat a male opponent, but you can not ignore they will almost always be at a natural disadvantage for said reason above ( among a few other things).

Most people rip on 4chan's userbase as degenerates. But what they do not know is that most those cats are pretty competent when it comes to hobbies. But unfortunate circumstances, be it from bad luck, self-inflicted hatred, or toxic ideology, are what keeping the anons from reaching their full potential. Out of the bad comes some small roughs of good:

Locating Burger King Foot Lettuce guy and his inevitable firing.

HWINDU Capture the flag via astronomy and jet trails.

Missile Strike on a Syrian terrorist training camp.

Dusty the cat's rescue from an abusive owner.

These fuckers are undoubtedly smart but are horribly unfocused and stagnant. But to quote Revolver Ocelot:

"They just need a mission."

yeah I think I overestimated women´s physical prowess they arent great at fighting.

This is one reason why I like guns at least…so they can shoot men at least

It just seems fair, that it doesnt matter how strong you are you still get shot and die.

"Most of"? You linked a few isolated accounts over the course of many years. Unless you think that their modern populace of social networking diaspora and underage teenagers have more than 50% of them locating people, then you can find instances of that on nearly every social website. A good portion of those links are related to its political board, which has by far the most traffic on the website, so it's also going to be overrepresented because that board is usually the entry-point for a sea of idiots attracted to the most overrepresented and unintelligent interest out there (politics).

Creatively, they're bankrupt. Whatever unique traits or niche that website had was lost the moment Poole left, which is why the fourteen-year-olds who encompass the majority of its posting base nowadays know absolutely nothing about it. You tell them the website was created nearly two decades as an otaku hangout for SomethingAwful refugees and they'd be dumbfounded, because most of them are Discord/Twitter users whose "interests" consist of spamming tired buzzwords and derailing threads with irrelevant political tangents about whatever flavour-of-the-month boogeyman the microcephalic chimpanzees manufactured in their addled, empty head. The notion that it was created for something other than the childish drama they spend the entirety of their day fixated on would be lost to them. Hell, most of them can barely have the literacy to read anything more than a single sentence. In fact, the remainder of the original posters that may still hang around on boards like /a/ or /jp/ loathe them for being tantamount to a malignant cancer that never bothered to integrate or lurk… unless said posters alrady grew disillusioned to the point where they left for more obscure image boards with an at least nominally higher degree of quality control.

There is no difference between 4chan and websites like Discord, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube at this point. The overlap in userbase on the most frequented boards with those websites is nearly one-to-one, and the quality is about the same (or worse, if you can believe it). There's no misconception or undeserved ire at this point, its just another virtual drama hive, like nearly every other high traffic website.

This is the UN-popular opinions thread sir

Every single meme, web sub culture, and just internet media in general feels so soulless and empty right now.This is my first time logging in here in like a year and a half because everything just fucking pisses me off right now.

Almost every creator I once liked on Youtube has either left the platform for something better or their content turned to pure dog shit because anything with any kind of bite is taken off.

I can't stand how anything with any sort of edge is stamped out by nanny state blue check marks. The people that think object labeling memes are funny and manage to laugh at the same retarded video of a cat dancing for MONTHS have the nerve to say what is and isn't funny.

On top of every social platform actually going out of their way to show you stuff that is designed to make you angry (this is a proven thing) The one silver lining is being more productive because I just genuinely have no motivation to use Twitter or Youtube anymore.

Everything's either a fucking gay political argument or brain dead idiocracy level trash. Being alive long enough to see how revolutionary Youtube was for content and creativity only to see that slowly dying turning into cookie cutter griffter dog shit. We sacrificed endless possibilities of creativity because someone might say a bad word.

And no one else seem to give a single shit.

you sound like a doomer here

also here's a shitty opinion:
pixiv is just japanese deviantart with shittier moderation

I understand this isn't all that unpopular anymore but fuck it might as well use this more like a vent thread:

I hate how much of a dickrider Dunkey fans can be, and his hatred of JRPGs but praise and constant defense of Last of Us 2 shows the dude is such an annoying "anti weeb" that he reminds me too much of 00s era Xplay. I can't help but find there's also a certain level of irony in how he and other "Nintendo fans" (really people who are only fans of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid and basically nothing else) love the shit out of a Japanese company while simultaneously hating certain games for "appealing heavily to Japanese audiences."

Y'all need to start posting some actual unpopular opinions more often because there's too many opinions here that I agree with.

Alright
I don’t get the appeal of spicy food, yeah a little spice adds something but it quickly ovverides the flavor and makes it hard to eat much

I haven't kept up with Dunkey but it does make me wonder if any of this was exaggerated for the sake of entertainment or if he's serious on that, I haven't even seen his TLOU2 video but that's more of just being tired of seeing the game's drama in any way after seeing enough haters and fan boys jumping over it.

As for my own unpopular opinions: I honestly choose gameplay over cutscenes. I get cutscenes can be important in telling the story and all but as someone that's gaming 99% of the time in single player, I want to jump into the action and interact with the world around me, whether it's fighting a bad guy or just looking at the environment. I feel this may as well be unpopular enough since I managed to get some rando on Twitter buggered enough that their last response was hoping I'd get banned from every single player game just because I choose to skip cutscenes. Then again, I feel I wouldn't be the only one in wanting to skip cutscenes so this may not be an unpopular opinion or as unpopular as others.

Also as a side note for a vent: While Twitter is of course just one facet and doesn't represent a whole fandom, I feel like seeing a few gamers on there that engage in console war shit of 2022 and all that managed to make me feel like why people from the 90's or 2000's could see gamers as manchildren. Like, I can get doing this for shits and giggles and all that but I feel like some people will still end up taking this seriously when it's already been 20 some years and most of us aren't in elementary school or high school. Then again, I'm probably expecting too much from one site.

I honestly could care less about Bethesda using the same engine. Granted, this could be nothing more than contrarianism but I feel like that the problem with Bethesda games wouldn't lie solely on the engine as much as how much the team working with it can optimize and improve it. The reason I say contrarianism is after seeing a guy go over the unreal 5 engine and all the comments I see, 90% of them are just complaining about Bethesda jank but not giving any more in-depth reason to go for Unreal 5 beyond it being less janky. I'm also going to use this to catapult to another opinion in that speaking of Unreal 5….

I find the videos of Mario 64 or Zelda Ocarina of Time models being in Unreal engine to be meh. While the graphics of the Unreal engine are nice, I wasn't feeling much hype seeing someone putting Mario and Zelda models into the Unreal engine. Like yeah, it's nice to see the characters with the lighting and shadows and all that but I just felt like the biggest I could do was go "meh" to it despite a comment going "Nintendo, why haven't you hired this man?" Then again, with this and the previous opinion, part of me wonders how many people realize that game development isn't an easy thing to do.

I wish the left went back to being more anti-corporation, they are getting way to procorporation for my tastes. I am kind of anti-corporation myself, I am not a communist but I sure dont like them either (they are very greedy and manipulative to say the least)

Agreed, it's actually quite interesting how the right, even hardline libertarians, is more reliably against big corporations than the left is. I'm genuinely curious as to how the fuck we got here. The only significant corporation with which the "old order" still stands is SpaceX, and that's just because Musk isn't using money he doesn't have to solve issues he couldn't solve.

This segues into another interesting topic: DDOS mitigation services. I'm going to be frank here and say that if a service drops a site because of a bunch of angry emails and tweets from literal nobodies, they've failed to do their job and didn't accomplish anything noble. They've saved future DDOSers some money, set a worrying precedent, and potentially even exposed themselves as hypocrites. The latter is the case with Cloudflare, which still protects The Pirate Bay; while it's a very based site, it's also one that engages in far more illegal content than Kiwifarms does.

Except they are? You're confusing "the left" with radical liberals, a very common mistake in the US.
What do you mean communists are greedy? and in what way or form are they manipulative?

I've seen self-proclaimed "anarcho-communists" praise social media companies for banning people they don't like without any sense or pretention of irony, among many other curious things (I've seen similar groups act the same way when presented with, for example, rainbow capitalism). The main group of leftists I've seen who don't frequently act like this are tankies, and they worship foreign (usually CCP) boots so it's not that much of a difference. It's by no means every leftist, but damn if it isn't a lot of 'em.

As for communism, it's an inherently greedy and manipulative ideology, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that its adherents are frequently one or both of those things.