ever wanted to express an opinion on something but afraid of getting backlashed, well not here (maybe).

simple, post an opinion of yours that goes against the mainstream, not just about vydia games, but anything.

i personally think pokemon is incredibly overrated, and the franchise has been the same thing oever and over again but with more pokemons, except for X Y where they finally did a change. and yes i played it and liked it, but its not something i would get hyped so much about.

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Minnesota Vikings SUCK!!!

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the worst movie I've ever seen.

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now THAT is an unpopular opinion.

here, medal for most unpopular opinion in this thread.

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Haha, I know. Thanks...I think.

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ಠ_ಠ

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I don't even know this movie ._.

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I could understand you finding it to be a bad/terrible movie, but WORST movie you have EVER seen?
There are LOADS of movies made just to be terrible that im sure youve seen.

I dont really care for the Holy Grail movie either :|

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It might have been made worse by my friends laughing uncontrollably at things that I don't think were even supposed to be funny.

Also, to be fair, I haven't watched many bad movies.

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do you even laugh?

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I laugh at pretty much everything.

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This!
Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but definitely the definition of overrated to me :P

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Well it takes a special kind of english humor to really appreciate it i guess.

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I take it you haven't watched Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

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Haha, no I haven't. Is that a warning?

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It's not really a movie. Just like How to Irritate People, it's more of a series of sketches with a common theme.

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I think Not getting Dual Titan's and getting and Xbox One is a much better investment.

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Edit oh wait you mean for real?

I like playing the game Towns more then I liked the new Fallout games.

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Dual Titans and an XBOne are probably both poor decisions.

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this

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i think (most) modern feminists are a bunch of noisy, self-righteous cretins. they use the guise of equality to obtain the exact opposite, and get a leg over men (hoho).

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That is CERTAINLY not unpopular

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it is on many avenues on the internet, like say, reddit and neogaf. game journalism is plagued by feminist agenda, too. "this woman looks too womanly and her clothes are slutty, you're a sexist pig for making this game" most recent example i cared enough to read about was the thing about hideo kojima's reasoning behind quiet's (from MGSV) character design.

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john walker (from rock, paper, shotgun!) is starting to be annoying as fuck. equality means: Women=men=trans=what-Ever-You-Want-To-Identify-Yourself, not "women>men, being a withe straight male is wrong, and if you don't think like me in every single aspect of life, you are worst than hitler"

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yeah. it's all getting very old very quickly.

i just want them to leave and never come back.

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*in my experience

are you happy now?

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I'm ranking up both of you in my imaginary list of steamgifters that don' suck. Don't let me down!

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Origin is a pretty good platform.
Bastion is overrated.

Oh and the level design in the original Deus Ex was plain and amateur.

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Origin was better when it let you play the game without the client, for some reason every game I try now requires the client to pop open.

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Invisible War was way better than Human Revolution.

The original was still the best by far, though.

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Wow....this is by far the most unpopular opinion on this thread, because I've never heard this before, that's for sure!

Still, good to see someone liked the 2nd game.....most wouldn't even acknowledge it! Only problem I had with it was its length!

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The Office is a terrible show

Democrats are just as bad as Republicans (I hate to get political, but, it's true)

Capitalism doesn't work (no that doesn't mean I'm a commie)

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ricky gervais is one of the most unlikeable people on this planet. it's his face, his laugh, the way he has his hair... probably the fact that he's everywhere is enough to make me really not like him. i don't get why he's so big in america... the accent perhaps?

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I actually really like Ricky Gervais, I have to admit that if he didn't have that thick accent I would probably think he's just a douche lol, but I love the laugh regardless

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Anyone with the will to become a politician is a terrible person at heart.

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This, a thousand times this.

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You're right, capitalism doesn't work. No system of government humanity can create will work. Which is why the US Constitution says "In order to form a more perfect Union". Let's be honest; Humans suck at politics. The fact we can do it shows we are the most advanced species in the universe, but we're still not advanced enough to do it well.

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The fact we can do it shows we are the most advanced species in the universe,

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Universe is one giant ass fucking thing mate. Hell, even just our own galaxy is fucking huge.
HELL, it could be argued if we are the most advanced species on the planet at this point.

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Lets not do ourselves down here. Unless the Martian soil yields some unusually advanced [and inexplicably malevolent] bacteria, our species is probably up there with the greatest [and most dangerous] minds in our entire solar system...

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im pretty sure with how big the universe is there is millions of species far more intelligent that ours

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The third one is good up until the last part. I don't think that system would work, but hey I respect that they came up with an idea. It's a conversation worth having.

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Wait, I was referencing something? I just pulled that crap out of my head xD

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Capitalism does work, just for a very very small percentage of people :p (I agree though)

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Bacon tastes terrible, no matter how its cooked, what you season it with (or plain), how thick it is, or "style" its packaged in.
Game of Thrones is a terrible series, show and book form both. Nothing but a clear copy paste from a few real classics.
If you cant go a single day without insulting someone, you should probably just shoot yourself.
If woman want to be equal so damn much, then they shouldnt be shocked when they get smacked when attacking a guy or when they have to pay when they invite a guy to dinner.
Shatner was the worst thing to happen to Star Trek.

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oh.... come on... he wasn't... that.......... bad.

i liked him in "Boston Legal" and "Shit my dad says"
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He was... so very terrible... that I... wanted to... cut my ears off.

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Now, I'm not defending GoT, since I don't have an opinion of it, but think about this: None of William Shakespeare's plays were original. All of them were based off of someone else's story/play, or a real life event

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Shakespeare knew how to write with style at least. He is worth reading for it alone if one has an issue with the content.

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I've played like 5 hours I think more in Half-life 2 and I still don't think It's interesting and I have no plans on completing It for now.

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You should've played it around the time it was released.

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Valve is just about money like every other company. Half Life 2 is way overrated
EA is not a devil incarnated but normal company.

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That's true.

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sometimes i kinda think this thread is getting way out of hands

but lets keep going and see what happens

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why? this thread is AWESOME...

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origin is better than steam in some ways

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i hate to agree with you, but it is less of a resource hog and it's generally much more responsive. valve should just recreate the steam client from scratch. that would be the day.

i really like the way they display games in your library, too. virtual game cases.

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I don't know how but i get more download speed in origin than in steam. Maybe there are less people using origin that's why..

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Nearly everyone has really stupid, half-baked, uninformed opinions on things and they rarely, if ever, need to be voiced out loud, whether solicited or unsolicited.

This is, ironically, just an opinion.

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I agree with this. lol

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I believe we should be more open minded and do research on how to make homosexuals straight and straight people homosexual because of the vast possibilities that will come with sex drive customizations. Not only should everyone have full control over who they are, but some people are treated criminals instead of victims. Some homosexuals do not want to be homosexual as a simple example, but they say that things like serial rapists and serial killers both get off doing what they're doing the same as how we get off from sex. If we can do more research to see if that is true, we could not only give people a bigger option on who they are, like if the day comes when people are no longer immature with homosexuality, people can decide to be gay if they are tired of the opposite sex. More importantly, pedophiles, rapists, and maybe would be serial killers can be cured from their temptation. Some people might want to customize fetishes too in order to get rid of it completely or to please their mate. There, I said it... Basically stop treating pedophiles and such as criminals but as victims to a mental disability and we should do research to cure them!

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Let's say this was possible.. I only think the amount of pedophiles, rapists and serial killers will increase rather than decrease.

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do you really think people would become a pedophile by choice? it's at the very least taboo if not completely illegal in most countries, and would get you killed or at least locked up. what would anyone gain from it? kids are also annoying and gross, no thank you.

i could definitely see people deciding they want to be gay or lesbian for a while, if they've come out of bad relationships with the opposite sex. haha.

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It need not be by choice.. people can be forced to be one.
I am sure there will be few curious people who would want to know how it feels to think like pedophiles.. people can be strange :P

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ohh, i see. yeah, i have a morbid fascination with serial killers, which i hear quite a few people do... it'd be interesting to know what the mind of a serial killer is like for a little while.

"people can be strange", i hear that. :D

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I don't see anything wrong with thinking like a pedophile for a bit out of curiosity, especially since you can always change back before causing actual harm to children.

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Unless.. your mind feels that you shouldn't turn back.

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I highly doubt anyone would have the ability to just shift their mind to something harmful to others without someone to enforce them to change back. Even so, I am not for forcing people to change. I am simply for people having control. If people want to go to prison instead of changing to what their society deems as criminal activity, they should be allowed to.

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http://youtu.be/R8LHNnXvlpE?t=1m50s

Not the best source, but it is hard to google for in my experience.

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there's actually a documentary called "a place for pedophiles", which looks into a facility that attempts to control their urges and feelings towards children... their methods are honestly, in my opinion, pretty sick. you might be interested in it, but if you're like me you'll just come out depressed, ha.

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you know, when you forbid a human f something, it only makes them want it more. a.k.a no criminal, pedophile or any of that kind would allow to be submited to this proceedure, and im sure that could kinda cause damage in the brain, since them machine would be figthing hard against it (im no medic to know if this si truth or not). also if that happened, then organizations would use this same tecnology, to awake the criminal that is in everybody, making more criminals than the ones that are takeon out of the street.

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The procedure, if done correctly, should make them want something more. Making something illegal doesn't make people magically want it, but if they want it they will want it more so if it is illegal. What I am saying is make it so they don't want it at all and replace the desires with others.

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your conceptualizations of these states of being are entertaining in their near-excessive simplicity.

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no need to be mean, guy.

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elaborate.

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To be brief:

Genetic modification: 1) we're still pretty far medically and scientifically being able to do this with any kind of reliability; 2) it isn't/won't be a silver bullet, especially for things that have rather profound psychological, societal, and behavioral contexts involved to them.

Human sexuality is already a spectrum, gay/straight aren't on/off switches.

Way more than sexual satisfaction is involved with the pleasure centers of our brains.

We already do lots of research in neurosciences, genetics, physiology, and biochemical fields related to these issues and conditions, not to mention in the social sciences. It's not a monolithic "dump funding into gene-research". Genetic tailoring the way you're envisioning it is still science fiction.

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It isn't science fiction like you think it is. Additionally, the only reason we are so far from real progress is because it is so controversial to people. There is no reason to stay away from this project because of fears it will be difficult, that is laziness and cowardliness. Regardless, you claim we are already doing lots of research on it when the projects that had any progress, at least to my knowledge, have been shut down due to people getting upset because there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. Regardless, being that trialing a pedophile to time in prison is a death sentence, I don't see the relevancy to how reliable it is when we can experiment constantly until we find a solution. Giving up is stupid and I, quite frankly, believe in numbers more than morals. If putting pedophiles through constant experiments to find a solution to not only protect our children but to help future pedophiles is what it takes, then grand. Don't get me started on how I feel about serial killers and serial rapists being experimented on. :p

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Yes it is. Actual genetic engineering of human beings is still in its infancy; at the current moment we're mainly researching gene therapies for specific diseases, not altering genetic code in newborns. The genetic modifications we're likely to see first within the next decade-25 years are those related to specific diseases and genetic conditions.

And controversy is not really the reason for the "slow progress". To be sure people like to write articles about potential ramifications (which I agree are overblown imaginations most of the time), but honestly this kind of scientific progress just takes time, especially considering the complexity of what is being done, and takes time to get it right, which is obviously important. Honestly the much bigger impediment to progress is lack of funding for the sciences that could make the breakthroughs needed to go further. I agree 100% that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality, but please cite the studies/research shut down on homosexuality and genetics because of controversy, I'd be interested to hear about that if it has indeed happened.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about with imprisoned pedophiles. Reliability is an incredibly important facet of the scientific method, i.e. how we do modern-day science. If you're actually advocating for trial-and-error human experimentation on live prisoners, wow that is really fucked up. Not to mention really troubling from both a moral and legal perspective, even if they are completely convicted dangerous pedophiles, killers, and rapists. I get that this is the unpopular opinions thread but still, jesus.

But anyway. Conceptually you're just way off still. What you're describing isn't how science works.

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You're making science more complicated than it is, which is silly. Science is just a repetitive process of guessing until a more likely choice is available to serve is a theory. Simple as that. As for your major concern on the safety of pedophiles, serial killers, and rapists, I find that amusing. Who was there to stop these people from doing harm to their victims? If they are going to treat people like trash, why not treat them like trash back for the sake of a better future? This is how silly our world works. We complain about a problem, treat the criminals like victims but do not do anything to treat them but just cast them away into prison or death sentence, and we still wonder why it is a problem.

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Holy crap, that is a great idea. Somebody needs to try to accomplish this. Heck, maybe you x3

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lol, with how I am doing in school? The only thing I will contribute to society is bitterness.

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Mirror's Edge didn't have many gameplay faults, and people who complain about its difficulty just stink at it. Or at least lack patience.

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I thought this is a popular opinion! Completely agree by the way!

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Being a loser isn't necessarily bad

Due to the fact that rich stupid people get laid more often then they should, over the course of centuries the human race will slowly devolve into a race of idiots

Spending too much time on any hobby is still stupid

Believing in yourself has never achieved anything

Pokemon is overrated

The N64 controller isn't actually that bad

Macintoshs are ugly computers

Steam is still a shitty glorified DRM service that lags too much and is still poorly optimized

We should just legalize drugs and let people die of overdoses, thus solving most of our welfare problems

I am a terrible person

Any type of organized following, be it fanboying or fangirling or religion or brand devotion is incredibly stupid and mundane. Just follow what's good and what works, and admit it when something sucks.

I leave you with this thought: Souls are like butterflies - wandering, beautiful things that you can only keep for yourself after you've driven pins through their hearts.

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"Due to the fact that rich stupid people get laid more often then they should, over the course of centuries the human race will slowly devolve into a race of idiots"

i'm pretty sure i read an article somewhere that said pretty much this. have you seen idiocracy?

edit: here we go http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/05/26/think-fast-are-we-really-getting-dumber/
it seems to be more that smarter people have fewer children, though. smart people need to start having more babies to compete.

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Steam is, but eh, I do enjoy DRM services because they keep all my games on the cloud in one area. I only hate it when games have many different ones.

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Ok. You asked for it.

Morrowind is the worst Elder scrolls game (well, I never played Arena, but I think I'll hold onto my opinion). Because it's booooring.

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You are an awful casual and I hate you. D:

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Haha, casual...

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What else could someone be who prefers the oversimplified mechanics of Oblivion and Skyrim to the awesomeness of Morrowind? :P

I don't actually hate you by the way. Just saying >.>

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Actually I prefer infinite dungeons of Daggerfall to any of these :P

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morrowing was boring in my opinion too, and really ugly looking, i normally dont judge games by their graphics, but everyone in the game looks so fucking ugly it takes you out of the experience, how can you be in a fucking medieval world if no one has a fucking beard anyway

call it nitpicking if you want.

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The "Big Bang" and Darwinian Evolution sounds crazy and takes just as much faith to believe in as Biblical Creation.
Neither, biological evolution nor biblical creation should be accepted as science, as they cannot be observed, reproduced / experimented on, or proven...
As such, this big bang and evolution nonsense should not be taught in schools as fact.

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This! :o
Evolution is a pretty well accepted theory, but it's still this, a theory!
Theories should be taught at schools as theories, not facts...

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Evolution can be recreated and observed in animals such a fruit flies and lizards. DNA is also generally accepted, and supports evolution.

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Biological evolution is not the same as adaptation. When i was taught evolution, they claimed one kind of animal became a totally different kind. this cannot be recreated or observed.
evolution, there must be a change of kinds. bird to lizard, lizard to fish. dog to horse.

the lizard is still a lizard.

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aaahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahh

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sorry.. just kinda hard for me to believe that every living thing evolved from one little cell and that a big explosion created the universe. explosions normally cause disorder, not order :/

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Hm, just to get things clear, I do believe in this :B
I just think there should be a difference between telling kids that "something is true", and telling then that "the chances of something being true are so high, that it's most likely that it's true"

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With science the best you can get is "the chances of something being true are so high, that it's most likely that it's true" and judging by the results of scientific progress I'd say that's a pretty good approach. The reason you cannot be 100% sure is that you must allow a however unlikely possiblity for a however small error. Once you find evidence that points out the error (and you are always on the lookout) you correct it. By this logic, even if you are 100% right, you still cannot be 100% sure that you are right.
Having said that, for some topics including evolution and Big Bang, the amount of supportive evidence is so overwhelming and comprehensive that there is relatively little room for error. There is room for improving our understanding but it would take something truly absurd to show that these two theories are wrong in principle. One would have better chances by betting for a flat earth at the centre of the universe than those two being wrong.

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Why did i bother even opening this thread,I knew it would be full of facepalm material.

Unpopular opinion: All religions are man made, and their gods do not exist.

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i agree with that opinion that all religions are man made and their gods are not real

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I want to hang out with you for just a day, your worldview is strangely fascinating.

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WTF?! You telling me Spaghetti Monster isn't real?!
it's written in a book, go refute that, you scrub!
(lol)

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No, it's not real anymore, I ate all the spaghetti yesterday :P

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Not only it can be observated, it's a prerequisite for it to be accepted as a theory, but it doesn't mean our observations mean exactly what we see.
evolution is a theory supported by many, many scientific observations, and it's unlikely that new discoveries will change what we know about it, but it doesn't turn it into a fact!
Geez we found about quantum mechanics a while a go! it was unlikely that our previous physics knowledge would change, but now even the most well established theories have this and that little flaws that can't be explained because of the way sub-atomic particles behave :3

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The inside of the earth is a theory as well.

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Yup it is! :)
As I said earlier, I don't deny any of these theories. I strongly believe evolution is a thing!
I just think they should teach "this is the most acceptable theory" instead of "this is true".
I'm not saying it's like this everywhere, but back when I was in school some kids and even teachers used to mock people who questioned such things! (ok, it's more of a social problem, but the "misteaching" supports it)

Not so long ago they used to make fun of people who cogitated the possibility that the continents once were joined together. Boom, now it's the most accepted theory.
Not so long ago, they teached in school that it was impossible for tornadoes to happen in the south hemisphere. Boom, Brazil had 2 already.
Not so long ago, matter behaved in a way, energy behaved another way, and it was impossible for photons to behave as matter, since they always follow a "wave" behavior. Boom, when observed they act as matter :V

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:)

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The problem is - when scientists say 'this is the most current, acceptable theory' (which can be said about anything in real world, really) instead of 'this is true' then all kinds of idiots come out of woodwork and say 'we have this book written by illiterate shepherds where it says it is TRUE, and all you have is a theory, so bow down to us' making people cringe and also claim it is true as kneejerk. And it won't change until more people understand what scientists call a theory :|

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The saddest thing is that, while all school curricula include science, they usually limit themselves to teaching "facts" as a dogma rather than teach what science actually is and how it is done. Knowing some things about the world is important but by teaching them this way they give false impressions about science and then you have zombies walking around saying "science is a religion".
Just ask a high school - maybe even university - graduate what Newton's laws of motion or gravity is and you have a good chance of getting a decent answer. But if you ask them what is the scientific method, what is a control or what is the difference between scientific theory and scientific law you will either get dump looks from them or you will be the one giving them dumb looks after hearing their response.

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You're not thinking it through. That's adaptation within a species. Show me a fruit fly you've turned into a cat (or any other animal you've switched from one species to another) and then you'll have a leg on which to stand.

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I understand the concept of a scientific theory and how it's different from an everyday theory!
please read my post that starts with "yup it is! :)"
I clearly state what a theory is, how so close of "truth" it is, and how my problem is about how they teach it instead of denying the meaning of it

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DO you even know what a scientific theory is? :| Hint - it differs from slang meaning of this word. Gravity and electricity are a theory, too - wonder if you ever observed any of these? :|

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I do!
please read my post that starts with "yup it is! :)"
I clearly state what it is, how so close of "truth" it is, and how my problem is about how they teach it instead of denying the meaning of it

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I would look up the definition of the word "theory".

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I know it
please read my post that starts with "yup it is! :)"
I clearly state what it is, how so close of "truth" it is, and how my problem is about how they teach it instead of denying the meaning of it

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Ok, I think there's been some misunderstanding about my point of view here... I'll try to get things clear one more time:

I understand the difference between an everyday theory and a scientific theory.
I understand a scientific theory isn't just something someone came up with to explain things... It needs scientific observation and evidences to support a scientific theory for it to be accepted.
I understand that there is a great amount of evidence supporting darwinian evolution and the big bang. So much that it's high unlikely that they are wrong.

That being said, when I say that theories should be taught at schools as "something that is high likely to be" instead of "something that is true", I'm not saying theories should be denied, or even treated as unreliable information. There's been ages of study for these theories to become what they are today, which makes them some of the most reliable information we can get, BUT, that doesn't make them facts!

Now, when i say theories aren't facts, I'm not saying they are lies. I'm saying that our technology gets better everyday, and as it gets better, we have better ways of scientifically observing these theories so we can have a better understanding about them.
We believed that earth was flat because we didn't understand how could someone stand still on both sides of a globe without falling, it was a pretty well established theory back then (i guess). Then we develop enough technology to understand gravity.
We believed energy couldn't change it's behavior, and only acted as a wave (well accepted theory here! it's classical physics), then someone came up with the concept of quantum mechanics and now we know energy can behave like matter given certain circunstances.
We believed gravity was a force that attracted bodies towards each other (Newton stuff here, another damn well accepted theory!), but after Einstein's relative principles, now it's debatable if gravity is really a force, or just the way bodies warp the space-time around them, without generating force at all!

As I said, theories aren't facts. Of course they should still be taught at schools, and IMO it's very important to do so, but I think it's better to teach kids that, it's unlikely, but something they are learning may change, rather than teaching them that something is a fact carved in stone and later tell them "oops, I was wrong".

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I don't think you know what "theory" means.

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I think I do!
Please, read my enormous and boring wall of text (right above your post) where I explain myself better :D

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Evolution can be and is observed, reproduced, experimented on and proven. Evolution is a fact, and the theory of evolution simply explains what happens. If you seriously disagree with it you neither read the actual theory, nor you are familiar with the scientific term "theory".

As for Big Bang, it's just a misnomour. No one ever stated that there was an actual bang.

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People who claim something like this are only able to make up fairy tales, instead of educating themselves and doing research. "I don't understand it, so it must be wrong." Yeah, your logic is sound.

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Education (and intelligence) guarantees neither wisdom nor understanding.

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OMG you're that super lucky guy :D
I'm so your fan!

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this is simply an unpopular opinion

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I don't like Christmas.

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That makes two of us.

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I don't care about the charity, and family, and being good to people, and jesus stuff about christmas...
I like it because of free stuff and food '~'

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-The best games ever made have no 3D.

A game that can take a year to finish, like War In The Pacific Admiral Edition, or a game that is in ASCII like dwarf fortress, or a game where you spend your time being crushed instead of crushing like HPS Panzer Campaigns Smolensk 41, or a game where you move dots around like Command Air Naval Operations, are better than multi million games with 3D.

-Permadeath rocks

-Still playing MUDs

-Digital Privacy Matters

-Aurora ( pentarch ) is the best space 4x ever made.

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I don't the Nintendo company because the only thing that keeps them afloat is nostalgia. They just feed people their endless desire for nostalgia and Nintendo reaps hundreds of thousands off of that.

Also I don't like zelda games. Say what you will, it's still the same story just switched up.
Granted that The legend of Zelda: Wind Waker will always hold a place in the world of amazing games i've played.

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that's true, they should come up with new IPs ffs

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Star Trek is awful. Painful, even.

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Yup. Utter toss.

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You're right, Voyager/Enterprise sucked majorly.

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Nope, Enterprise was ok. Voyager and DS9 were written by 5 year olds, though.

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I'm sorry, what? I haven't watched DS9, so can't truly comment on it, but Enterprise? If you only watched the third season, I could get that, I really could, but everything outside of the third season was just dreadful!

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i always wondered how people do swallow it

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Skyrim isn't the greatest thing that ever happened to RPGs.
DRMs are a joke.
Chiclet keyboards are better than mechanical ones.

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I don't care about indie consoles
Pokemon games aren't worth the full price
Nintendo is horrible at marketing most of their consoles
EA used to make good games but I haven't enjoyed a game by EA in a long time
Movies are boring
Digimon World 3 is better than any Pokemon game
Survivor 2299 is probably a hoax
/r/gaming is the worst gaming sub-reddit I've ever seen

Is that enough or do I have to continue listing unpopular(?) opinions?

EDIT: I'll make up some new ones as time goes on.

Fable 3 was a fun game.
I'm glad that the Command and Conquer reboot was cancelled.

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OMG digimon world 3 is such a gem :D

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Yes it is. I still play it to this day.

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Digimon World 3, I love that game.

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"EA used to make good games but I haven't enjoyed a game by EA in a long time" Yeah, that's soooo unpopular...

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When you consider that I'm including Battlefield 3, the Mass Effect games, and The Sims 3 in the games that I don't like, I'd say it's pretty unpopular.

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Ok, you got a point there.

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Closed 11 years ago by twistedmetalero.