The official unpopular opinions thread
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this thread is for unpopular opinions.
the only rule is: No flaming, use the vote buttons if you have to. but don't start a flamewar regarding opinions vented here.
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@Jarry
I'll start:-
Nolan is overrarted, he's a mediocre film director at best. and his batman movies are the worst of all the batman movies(yes, even worst than the george clooney one)
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PHP is not that bad. most of the people talking bad about it haven't even used it
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I don't think the music of Prince or Bowie is very good.
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This thread is a good idea.
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@Jarry said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
the only rule is: No flaming,
@Jarry said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
PHP
E_VIOLATING_OWN_RULES
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Plain text sucks, and it's not inherently better than any binary format (think something as simple as JSON but with fewer strings and more byte arrays). It was just here first so all our tools support it.
XML had its heart in the right place but in the end failed due to (among other things) trying to be everything at once, and trying to be readable for both humans and computers (which makes it bad at both).
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Git is overrated
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I like 1-based indexes.
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Big Audio Dynamite is better than The Clash. New Order is better than Joy Division.
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@slapout1 said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Git is overrated
That's actually a quite popular opinion around here. ;)
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Not all oracle products are shit.
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@PleegWat said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Not all oracle products are shit.
People spent millions on Oracle enterprisey stuff. But if I were in their position I wouldn't have the balls to say just use some MySQL databases, because 10 min of outage there is a large sum of money lost, and "nobody get fired for buying Oracle".
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@Boner said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I don't think the music of Prince or Bowie is very good.
Blasphemy!
Is this within the rules? I'm mostly just trying to be funny.
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@Jarry said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
- Nolan is overrarted, he's a mediocre film director at best. and his batman movies are the worst of all the batman movies(yes, even worst than the george clooney one)
+1
- PHP is not that bad. most of the people talking bad about it haven't even used it
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Not voting up or down, as they cancel out.
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Comic Sans is one of the best general-purpose fonts in existence.
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Leonard Cohen is a whiny bitch with a horrible voice.
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@Jarry said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Nolan is overrated, he's a mediocre film director at best.
Inception is particularly crappy. It's a mediocre action movie which pretends to be deep and intelligent, but utterly fails at being either. Both the story and the premise are utterly ridiculous from the beginning; and even if they weren't, that wouldn't make the movie any better, since almost all rules of the fictional world are disregarded at some point - the movie is full of inconsistencies and plot holes. In addition, not a single one of the characters is relatable in any way.
Nolan made exactly one good movie: Memento. After that, it became apparent that he's not a genius, but just got lucky and accidentally produced a masterpiece.
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@asdf I think you may be expecting too much from movies. Speaking of which:
I enjoyed watching the Star Wars prequels.
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@asdf His brother, though, did amazing work with Person of Interest.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I think you may be expecting too much from movies.
Because I expect them to either have a story that makes sense or at least not pretend to have one? I don't mind watching action movies, even dumb ones. However, Inception was advertised with extremely pretentious trailers and then turned out to be just an average action movie with a particularly nonsensical (and inconsistent) story.
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Because I expect them to either have a story that makes sense or at least not pretend to have one?
Because you think too hard about the story. Like Inception. It made sense. It was fun!
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Because you think too hard about the story.
You're missing the point. The problem is not that the movie didn't have a great story, it's that it pretended to have one and then completely failed to deliver.
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@asdf
Maybe you need to go deeper?
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
You're missing the point.<Woosh/ins>@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
The problem is not that the movie didn't have a great story, it's that it pretended to have one and then completely failed to deliver.
I remember a story.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I remember a story.
Admit it: You fell asleep after 10 minutes, like all old men do in the cinema.
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Oblivion is a better game than Skyrim
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Minecraft just went downhill after Beta 1.2, and is still going downhill to this day.
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Oh, also
VB.net is a fairly decent language
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@masonwheeler said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@asdf His brother, though, did amazing work with Person of Interest.
But this new Westerworld stuff is shit.
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I remember a story.
Admit it: You fell asleep after 10 minutes, like all old men do in the cinema.
Whaaaaaat? I didn't watch it at a theater. But really, I don't understand your hate for the movie:
- Neat SF-ish gimmick
- Cool effects
- Fun action
- Good actors
- Shamalamanalanamaya-like ending
OK, I need a new unpopular opinion:
I enjoy drinking Budweiser.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@asdf I think you may be expecting too much from movies. Speaking of which:
I enjoyed watching the Star Wars prequels.
I actually liked the prequels too. I didn't like the sequels, though.
This might be an unpopular opinion: Jar Jar Abrams is a shitty director and Force Awakens is one of the worst sequels ever produced. All of the world's rules get abandoned, the story is mediocre and actors are especially awful.
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@kt_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
the story is mediocre
How can you say that? The story is ANH
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Oh, also
VB.net is a fairly decent language
WOW! You have no shame!
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I've never watched Star Wars.
Not an opinion, but close enough.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I remember a story.
Admit it: You fell asleep after 10 minutes, like all old men do in the cinema.
Whaaaaaat? I didn't watch it at a theater. But really, I don't understand your hate for the movie:
- Neat SF-ish gimmick
- Cool effects
- Fun action
- Good actors
- Shamalamanalanamaya-like ending
OK, I need a new unpopular opinion:
I enjoy drinking Budweiser.
Like that, old man?
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@kt_ it can do everything C# can. Some things are nicer to use in C# (lambdas), and some are nicer in VB (switch statements).
I'd still choose C# when given the choice for new development though
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I enjoy drinking Budweiser
I don't really drink lager, but when I do, bud is no worse than any other, and considerably better than a lot. Peroni is the best lager though
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@kt_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
the story is mediocre
How can you say that? The story is ANH
But worse. It shows that Jar Jar knows nothing of Campbell's theory. There is no arch to the characters, they learn everything quickly and easily. The story isn't really ANH, it's a lot of stuff from the old trilogy mixed together by a crazy cook with no imagination, who thought that simply putting together all the best ingredients would get her a great dish, no matter that they putting lobster with vanilla ice cream.
And what they did to Han Solo deserves hanging.
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@kt_ it can do everything C# can. Some things are nicer to use in C# (lambdas), and some are nicer in VB (switch statements).
I'd still choose C# when given the choice for new development though
It also has this awesome syntax for handling XML, sure, I know. But I'll be never able to like it. Ever.
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@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Is this within the rules?
No, you're totally in for a bad time now. Check with the corrections officer.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@asdf I think you may be expecting too much from movies. Speaking of which:
I enjoyed watching the Star Wars prequels.
3 > 2 > 1* > 7 > 6 > 5 > 4
* - as hate watch after suffering through 4,5,6
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@Jaloopa said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I enjoy drinking Budweiser
I don't really drink lager, but when I do, bud is no worse than any other, and considerably better than a lot. Peroni is the best lager though
My regular is Yuengling. And I even spelled it correctly the first time!
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
It's a mediocre action movie which pretends to be deep and intelligent, but utterly fails at being either
I'll add my unpopular opinion on the subject, I enjoy movies with cool CGI, don't matter if the story is bad.
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@asdf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Admit it: You fell asleep after 10 minutes, like all old men do in the cinema.
and @boomzilla experienced the movie in a dream, that was a movie with a dream in a dream in a dream?
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@masonwheeler said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@asdf His brother, though, did amazing work with Person of Interest.
I have been watching that on Netflix recently.
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@wharrgarbl said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Is this within the rules?
No, you're totally in for a bad time now. Check with the corrections officer.
Aw man. What is my punishment for being a very bad girl?
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@LB_ said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Minecraft just went downhill after Beta 1.2, and is still going downhill to this day.
beta 1.7.3 for me, but I see what you're saying.
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I've never fully watched Firefly.
I don't like Star Trek.
I've never watched the new Dr. Who.
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I still like ColdFusion.