2017: Unpopular opinions thread

[I'm a Puppy!]

Here's a controversial one:

The Princess Bride is painfully average.

You know what? You're actually sorta right about that when I come to think of it. The fencing was cool but I can get why you'd feel that way.

[I'm a Puppy!]

The Killing Joke wasn't even that good a book. Of course the movie didn't work. Don't get the hype. Must be nerdy fanbois salivating to those pictures

[Cerveza mas fina]

There are no cool dinosaurs.

There's nothing cool about a group of animals that mostly look like oversized featherless birds.

You keep to outdoing yourself, truly the WOAT.

clearly not an unpopular opinion in 2017

[Mr. Nobody]

FF6 sounds great until you actually play it.

Stat progression tied to espers 

Everyone essentially becoming a mage thanks to espers being tied to stat progression 

14 characters but only 4 actually matter 

Having to regather characters during the second half of the game 

Forcing you to use characters you wouldn't bother with at various points in the game 

[Momo]

The Killing Joke wasn't even that good a book. Of course the movie didn't work. Don't get the hype. Must be nerdy fanbois salivating to those pictures

I dont think anyone in my comic circle (there are lots) has anything but revulsion for Bruce Timm's killing joke. Cant say this is unpopular.

[VomKriege]

The Killing Joke wasn't even that good a book. Of course the movie didn't work. Don't get the hype. Must be nerdy fanbois salivating to those pictures

It never was. Alan Moore himself never thought highly of it either, and considering how smug he can be about his other work that should tell you something. It just has some choice quotes, cool moments, and a pretty cool(and debatable) ending.

Plus the art is nice but also stiff and lifeless at points (but that's an opinion I have with much of Bolland work, even and especially on his iconic Dredd runs).

[Positive Touch]

FF6 sounds great until you actually play it.

Stat progression tied to espers 

Everyone essentially becoming a mage thanks to espers being tied to stat progression 

14 characters but only 4 actually matter 

Having to regather characters during the second half of the game 

Forcing you to use characters you wouldn't bother with at various points in the game 

DISLIKE FUCK YOU BUDDY

[CatsCatsCats]

Assassins Creed is one of those games I just never picked up for whatever reason, so the first one I played was the pirate one for free as a games with gold game -- didn't get very far until I decided it was stupid as fuck

[Mupepe]

Black Flag was the best since 1 & 2 though!!

[CatsCatsCats]

Guess I can safely write off the series then 

[Mr. Nobody]

It's time to put Ace Attorney to bed. The games are just overly long now and every case has to tie into a semi-convoluted backstory.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Agreed, trials and tribulations was a great ending for the series. They should either let it die or start a whole new series.

[chronovore]

The Killing Joke wasn't even that good a book. Of course the movie didn't work. Don't get the hype. Must be nerdy fanbois salivating to those pictures

I dont think anyone in my comic circle (there are lots) has anything but revulsion for Bruce Timm's killing joke. Cant say this is unpopular.

Just to be clear, Puppy is talking about Moore's work, and Momo means the animated adaptation, right?

Was the book originally supposed to be part of the main DC continuity, or is that just something that got worked in after-the-fact?

[chronovore]

Assassin's Creed as a series stifles the creativity of it's development team, the settings they choose and videogames in general. It takes cool ideas and locations we either haven't seen before or haven't see in a while turning them into the same checklist open world, automated gameplay you've played since 2007. It should have stopped with the revised history aspect after Ezio's last game and went with Desmond as a lead in a pseudo futuristic modern world like it was clearly aiming for as a finale.

Assassin's Creed Origins would be my most anticipated game ever if it wasn't more AssCreed garbage. People asking for feudal era Japan or any other interesting setting for the series should instead hope for new IP's to take advantage of it.

Yeah. 100%. It was surprising to me that Watchdogs became this story about privacy and social networking, when it clearly could have been the adaptation of Desmond's near-future, high-tech and parkour game that you and I both thought was coming.

Instead, I thank my lucky stars: WD1 was a pretty good game, and WD2 recognizes the full potential of the setting. If it had been saddled with AC plot trappings, it would have been a fucking slog.

[toku]

they should have made another game with altair, still my favorite setting they've done

[Oblivion]

I do not like the art style of Super Mario Odyssey, which, up until E3, was not an unpopular opinion. 

[Oblivion]

I do not like the art style of Super Mario Odyssey, which, up until E3, was not an unpopular opinion. 

Is it just the realistic human characters in that one zone? Or do you mean the entire game?

Mostly the realistic human characters and New Donk City in general. At least, at first. The more I look at other levels though, some are also a bit questionable. Like that forest level. The grass and trees seem to clash a bit as well, imo.

[benjipwns]

The Killing Joke wasn't even that good a book. Of course the movie didn't work. Don't get the hype. Must be nerdy fanbois salivating to those pictures

I dont think anyone in my comic circle (there are lots) has anything but revulsion for Bruce Timm's killing joke. Cant say this is unpopular.

Just to be clear, Puppy is talking about Moore's work, and Momo means the animated adaptation, right?

Was the book originally supposed to be part of the main DC continuity, or is that just something that got worked in after-the-fact?

The book was originally pitched to Moore to do his own version of an origin story for The Joker as a one shot. But it was so popular and it arguably rescued the Barbara character from being cast aside even though Moore now thinks that was the worst part of it and doesn't think it was ever any good. (Bolland was the reason it was even done, Moore did it as a favor, and even Bolland didn't like the finished book.)

Which it isn't really, and I never understood how it became the definitive Joker story, there are many better Joker stories. Legends of the Dark Knight when it was an anthology series where the issues weren't necessarily canon did a lot of really fun issues imo and rarely gets mentioned in Batman comics talk. Even the earlier stuff that's supposed to be semi-canon that's set after Year One but while Bruce is still becoming Batman is good stuff too. They later did another series like that and I think they did an e-comic series too.

There's a Booster Gold issue where he tries to go back in time and save Barbara. That was a great series. For the second Justice League movie, Snyder should just use the JLI characters plus Batman. You need the heavy guns for Darkseid, not chumps like Cyborg or Superman.

Wait, none of these are unpopular opinions.

[benjipwns]

The only two times Darkseid was plausibly defeated were both by Batman.

[benjipwns]

It even holds up animated


Also, "gotcha."

[Joe Molotov]

The only two times Darkseid was plausibly defeated were both by Batman.

prep time

BTW, my introduction to Booster Gold was him and Blue Beetle getting their asses kicked by Doomsday in the Death of Superman arc, I was like "lol, who is this jamoke?" But later, I rediscovered him during his post-Infinite Crisis series, and I really loved it, and went back and read the old JLI run, and even the early-2000 revival, where they formed the Super Buddies, which made Wonder Woman killing Max Lord after he murdered Blue Beetle really awkward. Also there's a really good episode of Justice League Unlimited, where he's forced to do street-level work while the "real" Justice League fights Trigon or something, and he ends up saving the world anyway but everyone thinks he's Green Lantern.

[toku]

whew andre braugher darkseid the only darkseid as good as michael ironside darkseid

[Great Rumbler]

Super Buddies was one of the best things that DC ever did. Netflix series please.

[chronovore]

whew andre braugher darkseid the only darkseid as good as michael ironside darkseid

Oh, shit. I had NO IDEA. Now I want to see Darkseid animated dubs with Captain Holt's dialog inserted.

[Madrun Badrun]

Step off the moonshine

[I'm a Puppy!]

The best that can be said about the sonic series as a whole is that the first 3 games were very important and not bad.

[Mupepe]

Soup is subpar.  All of it.

[etiolate]

I will cut you.

[Tasty]

I will cut you.

Ted Cruz?

[Valkyrie]

Soup is subpar.  All of it.

Thank goodness you have other traits that make you a cool person.
Soup is the best.

[Mupepe]

Ok let me amend that. Top Ramen/Maruchan is the only soup that qualifies as delicious.

[chronovore]

Ok let me amend that. Top Ramen/Maruchan is the only soup that qualifies as delicious.

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[CatsCatsCats]

I like soups with fat in em

[chronovore]

I think Penn Jilette is pretty smart, so I don't understand how he can be a libertarian.

[Oblivion]

Ok let me amend that. Top Ramen/Maruchan is the only soup that qualifies as delicious.

My man. 

What flavor?

[Oblivion]

Top Ramen? Like just the poverty tier instant ramen?

That's the one!

[Valkyrie]

How dare you call instant noodles "ramen". The wapanese inside me is screaming.

[Mupepe]

Ok let me amend that. Top Ramen/Maruchan is the only soup that qualifies as delicious.

My man. 

What flavor?

Half Spicy Beef and Half Spicy chicken.  sm3sogood.gif

[hampster]

The bombcast has lead me to believe showering in the dark is not popular but I find that impossible because dark showers are amazing

A long hot dark shower in the dead of winter is one of life's finest pleasures

[chronovore]

How dare you call instant noodles "ramen". The wapanese inside me is screaming.

As much as I find his unpopular opinion irredeemably unpopular, he's referring to a brand from Nissin in the USA. Most Americans think "ramen" are those fried noodles awaiting rehydration, with MSG-based soup. I've had to convince a few people that it's not what I'm suggesting we eat for lunch when we tour Osaka. Once they have the real deal, it's an amazing transformation to behold.

[chronovore]

I hope that doesn't come off as ramensplaining.

[benjipwns]

Instant ramen is one of those foods with the greatest performance gaps I know. I want the cheap American effort free level like Maruchan or we're going to start talking stuff where I can't read the flavor because there's no English on the package and the clerk can't help because they don't really speak English either. But there's a whole array of in between level stuff that is usually just the worst that tries to tempt you with this whole facade of "we found the secret key to making this worth 25 cents instead of 20 that Maruchan hasn't!" and it's always garbage.

Blew a roommates mind in college when I added my own spices (and a chopped green onion) to Maruchan once and he was like "I didn't know you could do that!" And I was like...why couldn't you, it's just a packet of spices not magic dust. (Or is it?)

Had also figured one time it was going to be cheaper to buy the twelve pack and not use the flavoring packs than buy just actual noodles (that I wanted) and those would probably not be worth the price premium. It was a Wal-Mart so general selection was limited. Worked out great, except for the whole part where I had twelve Chicken flavor packages. Had I known about the later roommate I should have saved them and dared him to use all of them with one package of ramen.

Here's an actual unpopular opinion, I sometimes like to actually strain out most of the broth with some of the flavors. Especially if I have toppings to mix in. Like the shrimp flavor I hated as broth for a long time, too potent, no idea if it's changed.

[benjipwns]

Most Americans think "ramen" are those fried noodles awaiting rehydration, with MSG-based soup.

i wish, it's just salt not real delicious MSG

especially not for twenty cents, Maruchan isn't made of money buddy!

[Oblivion]

Just bought 3 cups of beef flavored maruchan ramen.

Haters annihilated.

[Mupepe]

Instant ramen is one of those foods with the greatest performance gaps I know. I want the cheap American effort free level like Maruchan or we're going to start talking stuff where I can't read the flavor because there's no English on the package and the clerk can't help because they don't really speak English either. But there's a whole array of in between level stuff that is usually just the worst that tries to tempt you with this whole facade of "we found the secret key to making this worth 25 cents instead of 20 that Maruchan hasn't!" and it's always garbage.

Blew a roommates mind in college when I added my own spices (and a chopped green onion) to Maruchan once and he was like "I didn't know you could do that!" And I was like...why couldn't you, it's just a packet of spices not magic dust. (Or is it?)

Had also figured one time it was going to be cheaper to buy the twelve pack and not use the flavoring packs than buy just actual noodles (that I wanted) and those would probably not be worth the price premium. It was a Wal-Mart so general selection was limited. Worked out great, except for the whole part where I had twelve Chicken flavor packages. Had I known about the later roommate I should have saved them and dared him to use all of them with one package of ramen.

Here's an actual unpopular opinion, I sometimes like to actually strain out most of the broth with some of the flavors. Especially if I have toppings to mix in. Like the shrimp flavor I hated as broth for a long time, too potent, no idea if it's changed.

Regarding the bolded, I do this as well with certain flavors.

[Oblivion]

Wait, I fucked up. The instant beef flavored ramen has corn in it and tastes like crap.   

I meant to get the shrimp flavored one, which actually uses beef tallow and tastes more like beef than the beef flavored one for some reason. 

[Mupepe]

The beef flavor is only good as a mixer.  Chicken by itself =   Beef by iself =   Beef + Chicken =

Getting any of the spicy versions is an instant stat boost.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Top Ramen? Like just the poverty tier instant ramen?

That's the one!

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Vastly superior. Meat not included though.

gold standard of ramen

[I'm a Puppy!]

The majority of Republicans are subhuman.

I wouldn't say sub human, but I would say a majority of republicans lack basic mental faculties

[Momo]

Living an unhealthy lifestyle bring more joy moment to moment in life.

[Himu]

Every "real ramen" I've had is bad or mediocre and I'd rather have instant.

Also pho is way better than ramen.

[Himu]

Here's an actual unpopular opinion, I sometimes like to actually strain out most of the broth with some of the flavors. Especially if I have toppings to mix in. Like the shrimp flavor I hated as broth for a long time, too potent, no idea if it's changed.

What I do is drain the water and then sprinkle the package on the ramen and the let the spices sit on the ramen. Then they sink into the ramens interior and the noodles get dark and then I mix it in. Way delicious.

Also @ "I didn't know you could do that!"

[jorma]

Every "real ramen" I've had is bad or mediocre and I'd rather have instant.

This sounds nearly as deranged as my own "instant mashed potatoes" preference over freshly mashed taters.

[Yeti]

When I finish eating the noodles I like to dump  tortilla chips in the leftover ramen juices and let them soak for a bit then eat them with a fork

[chronovore]

Every "real ramen" I've had is bad or mediocre and I'd rather have instant.

Also pho is way better than ramen.

This is like saying meatball subs are better than pizza. Or, more commonly, apples are better than oranges.

[FatalT]

Here's an actual unpopular opinion, I sometimes like to actually strain out most of the broth with some of the flavors. Especially if I have toppings to mix in. Like the shrimp flavor I hated as broth for a long time, too potent, no idea if it's changed.

What I do is drain the water and then sprinkle the package on the ramen and the let the spices sit on the ramen. Then they sink into the ramens interior and the noodles get dark and then I mix it in. Way delicious.

Also @ "I didn't know you could do that!"

I thought that was how you were supposed to make Instant Ramen. Are you supposed to leave the water in there with the powder packet to make a broth? I always pictured Ramen noodles as just that, noodles. No broth.

[tiesto]

Sonic CD US soundtrack >>>>> Sonic CD JP soundtrack

[samfish]

Why can't I jerk off in public?

[nudemacusers]

Why can't I jerk off in public?

Please repost in the "tiny questions" thread.

[chronovore]

People who are Facebook and Twitter misery-exhibitioning the 16th anniversary of their feeling shocked and sad on 9/11 lack significance in their own lives.