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2nd Amendment posted:I agree these are pretty basic concepts, which is also why people dismissing them is so shocking. They're just making fun of you for being presumably over the age of 17 and finding them mind blowing. *2nd amendment poorly restating the problem of evil as if they came up with it* kneel before my insights christianailures!!!!
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People mistaking their beliefs with self-evident truth and therefore not only not examining them but dismissing the act of examination is very bad.
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2nd Amendment posted:People mistaking their beliefs with self-evident truth and therefore not only not examining them but dismissing the act of examination is very bad. Yes, this is very well trod freshman year of college, late teens level philosophy stuff.
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I don't come to the unpopular opinions thread to have people question me. I come here to describe reality as it is out here in the Desert of the Real. But if too many people agree with your post, you should get a sixer for posting off topic.
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Ragnar34 posted:I don't come to the unpopular opinions thread to have people question me. I come here to describe reality as it is out here in the Desert of the Real. I dunno sometimes it’s nice to fight about something deeply inane, like ghosts and the color green
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2nd Amendment posted:People mistaking their beliefs with self-evident truth and therefore not only not examining them but dismissing the act of examination is very bad. Thank you for this awakening. I'm now going to go make a DMT tea from my Moonflower plant and contemplate the unknowable nature of "green".
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Credit where it's due: Dr. Phil is a piece of poo poo, but at least he has the good sense not to embarrass himself bumbling through a senate run, unlike his colleague Oz.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Credit where it's due: Dr. Phil is a piece of poo poo, but at least he has the good sense not to embarrass himself bumbling through a senate run, unlike his colleague Oz. so far
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Oct 4, 2022 15:43
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when posting it is unnecessary to use punctuation beyond making yourself legible. Therefore writing "it's" when you mean "its" is one of the worst things you can do online. pointless pedantry and not even correct
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Oct 4, 2022 15:55
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Atticus_1354 posted:Thank you for this awakening. I'm now going to go make a DMT tea from my Moonflower plant and contemplate the unknowable nature of "green". That would resolve the current dilemma of ghosts vs green. Or you could say green is a quale. Not that qualia theory doesn't have its own issues but it's a heck of a lot better than a consensus-based reality where you'd have to accept the existence of ghosts before you accept the existence of green.
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The Asylum has done far more damage to American cinema than Disney
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I've never seen a single one of their movies but I am happy they exist.
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Aramek posted:I've never seen a single one of their movies but I am happy they exist. You shouldn’t be.
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Ragnar34 posted:I don't come to the unpopular opinions thread to have people question me. I come here to describe reality as it is out here in the Desert of the Real. [meta]Like 70% of the things posted here are default euroman opinion and 20% are things like half the population believes. It's part of what makes the thread good.
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Oct 4, 2022 19:57
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Gripweed posted:The Asylum has done far more damage to American cinema than Disney There have been very few opinions posted ITT that made me react as strongly instinctively as negatively as this one, i'm ready to throw hands. They have their share of misses but they are a national treasure.
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Oct 5, 2022 00:26
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like seriously how can you see 6 headed shark attack and not realize this is peak cinema
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Like having weight classes in boxing, there should be height divisions in basketball. Imagine how much more interesting watching a Manlet division game would be.
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Gaius Marius posted:Like having weight classes in boxing, there should be height divisions in basketball. Imagine how much more interesting watching a Manlet division game would be. Welcome to 3 Point Land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8PrE-zyZQ
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Gaius Marius posted:Imagine how much more interesting watching a Manlet division game would be. This is a whole industry in Manila btw
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Oct 5, 2022 02:11
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People who insist on turning items off in Smash Bros are actually bad at the game.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:like seriously how can you see 6 headed shark attack and not realize this is peak cinema Their intentionally bad joke movies are bad, but they aren't the bulk of their output. Most Asylum stuff is knockoff of popular movies with legally distinct titles, or movies that try to sell themselves based purely on the poster. And those are all terrible. All of them are 90% army men talking in a room. But the fact that they're all bad isn't what's damaging to cinema about them. What's damaging is that super low budget movies made quick to fill slots has been a thing in cinema forever, but it used to produce good stuff. Roger Corman is the most influential person in the history of cinema, so many great actors and directors got their start working on movies called stuff like "The Horror of the Atomic Man!" The First movie Francis Ford Coppola directed was a Psycho knockoff shot in 9 days called Dementia 13 that he was able to make because another movie wrapped early and Corman was like, hey kid make a movie. Cannon Pictures, even loving Full Moon, they produced a ton of garbage but they also produced some good, interesting, or unique movies, and trained up a generation of filmmakers. Now The Asylum fills that position in the industry, but their formula is so rigid they never produce anything interesting, and they aren't training up new filmmakers. They have shut down what was a major talent pipeline into the industry.
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Henchman of Santa posted:People who insist on turning items off in Smash Bros are actually bad at the game. Yes! The chaos is part of the point and being able to rapidly assess what you have and how to use it is the true hallmark of skill. It's not street fighter and it's not intended to be, damnit!!!
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Gripweed posted:Their intentionally bad joke movies are bad, but they aren't the bulk of their output. Most Asylum stuff is knockoff of popular movies with legally distinct titles, or movies that try to sell themselves based purely on the poster. And those are all terrible. All of them are 90% army men talking in a room. boomers getting handed opportunities and then not handing the next generations opportunities in turn you say?
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Gripweed posted:Their intentionally bad joke movies are bad, but they aren't the bulk of their output. Most Asylum stuff is knockoff of popular movies with legally distinct titles, or movies that try to sell themselves based purely on the poster. And those are all terrible. All of them are 90% army men talking in a room. You couldn't think of a better example of survivorship bias if you tried Like that is the platonic ideal of the concept
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I like Troma Films. Lloyd owns.
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Manager Hoyden posted:You couldn't think of a better example of survivorship bias if you tried The difference is that Croman and Troma and Cannon produced survivors. They made some movies that are still good today. The Asylum hasn't. Even their joke movies like 6 headed sharkpocalypse or whatever, at best they get a chuckle and are viewed once. That's literally my entire point, all these companies produced huge quantities of garbage movies, but the old ones produced some ok or even actually good movies, and trained a lot of people who went on to work on good stuff.
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Naturally-occurring bad movies are much more fun than movies that are intentionally bad, and deliberately aping the style of the real thing.
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hawowanlawow posted:boomers getting handed opportunities and then not handing the next generations opportunities in turn you say? All pulling up Jacob’s Ladder behind them
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Gripweed posted:Their intentionally bad joke movies are bad, but they aren't the bulk of their output. Most Asylum stuff is knockoff of popular movies with legally distinct titles, or movies that try to sell themselves based purely on the poster. And those are all terrible. All of them are 90% army men talking in a room. I think that pipedown was shut down anyway. But other ones are open. The barrier to entry to theaters is lower than ever and well at least prior to covid. There's always a chance that if a film manages to get in front of the right eyes that it has a chance to get national indie theater distribution even if it's a director's first film and made for a few thousand dollars, which wasn't the case all that long ago. And if you can get a film distributed like that and it does moderately okay there's a solid chance you can get a shot at getting your film developed at an indie studio with a bigger budget and from there the faux indies and then regular films. Not to mention we're seeing people go from indie film ---> multi million dollar budget Netflix film fairly often.
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hawowanlawow posted:boomers getting handed opportunities and then not handing the next generations opportunities in turn you say? baby boomers are just people. it's not like they're a cabal of sorcerors that planned everything out and theyre no better or worse than anyone else
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Blaming and hating on the previous generation is a time honored tradition and I look forward to 20 years from now some Gen Z 30 year old complaining that us Gen Xers are holding all the wealth and keeping them from being able to own a home. Honestly, I think that's when I'll feel like I finally "made it".
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Robobot posted:Blaming and hating on the previous generation is a time honored tradition and I look forward to 20 years from now some Gen Z 30 year old complaining that us Gen Xers are holding all the wealth and keeping them from being able to own a home. Gen X-er's will be overlooked as usual, it's those Millennials who will be held to blame. It's also Likely it'll be the Gen Alpha young adults who throw the blame. Gotta stick with the pattern afterall.
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Either the boomers will still be holding all the wealth in 20 years or the concept of wealth will be meaningless in the Wastelands.
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It'll probably be the latter given our current trajectory, but I can see Alphas and/or Zoomers heaping a lot of blame on us Millennials for not doing enough to demand change. I'm guessing they'll say (as many already are) that we were too obsessed with '90s nostalgia or the War on Terror. And in fairness to those kids, a lot of their criticisms probably won't be too far off.
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Shibawanko posted:baby boomers are just people. it's not like they're a cabal of sorcerors that planned everything out and theyre no better or worse than anyone else well except in the case that I quoted in which that is exactly what happened
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I'm an 83 model and my life owns. Course I saw an article that called me a "geriatric millennial" so lol.
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hawowanlawow posted:well except in the case that I quoted in which that is exactly what happened Latt is gen x (1966), Rimawi looks young enough to be gen x but is a late boomer (1963). Strain is late boomer (1960). What I find amusing is how the world memoryholed the problems the late boomers faced in the early and mid 80's and has collectively settled on the prosperous and greedy image. And that'll repeat for the coming generations.
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I'm an 80 model, so got a few more miles on me. I'm in general pretty happy with my life. I got a condo and I'm saving for a new house, got a car I own, got a girlfriend I love, got a family I love, no major health issues, and there's a bar and a grocery store within walking distance of my place so I always have food and alcohol close at hand. My life is pretty damned good all things considered.
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