What's your "unpopular opinion" ?

BrAndreyu · Jul 7, 2021

thecolorsblend said:
Probably the defining characteristic of Web 1.0 was a complete Wild West type of attitude. You could say anything, do anything, whatever. You might encounter opposition or disagreement, of course. But that's part of the fun.

Agree agree agree! The old internet was an amazing place that was still exciting and even somewhat dangerous because everyone had webpages and could put up whatever the heck they wanted to (remember Gene Ray and "The Timecube"?) Now the internet is dominated by social media and inappropriate contentography and it's largely become a toilet of liberalism and wokeness where no disagreement is allowed, so no dialogue is actually had.

thecolorsblend said:
Women seem to interpret disagreement as conflict and women are generally conflict-averse. I've even heard women say that comment sections getting shut down on news sites is a good thing because it lessens the chance of disagreement.

Yeah the presence of feminazis and militant lesbians has arguably ruined the internet, but it's getting worse now that Generation Trans is taking everything over and stating that anything less than glowing adoration and celebration of their alternative lifestyles is akin to "hate" (which interestingly enough, causes people to go from being indifferent toward them to openly hating them, so they are doing themselves no favors by encouraging censorship and the end of disagreement online).

Social media has largely ruined society though. People are now more vain and self-absorbed than they've ever been and having a bunch of woke Stasi patrolling social media constantly to harass and "dox" people who don't fall into line behind leftist orthodoxy is causing a real problem in America and like I've said, conservatives and normal people need to start loudly fighting back, literally if need be because we've already seen that the hard left is willing to use violence against people for the "crime" of carrying the American flag.

eastcoast_bsc · Jul 7, 2021

chevyontheriver said:
So you like baseball? Which is mostly watching the grass grow.

I love baseball. Its the strategy.

Gnarwhal · Jul 7, 2021

thecolorsblend said:
"Light speed" seems to be used idiomatically in Star Wars. Rather, the characters appear to be travelling through a different dimension (i.e., hyperspace) and use that as a sort of shortcut to whatever their destination might be. Even "hyperspace" might be an idiom tho.

I actually forgot about that. I don't know about Star Trek cause I never followed the franchise that closely, but I know in Stargate their hyperspace drives opens a window in subspace that the ship enters. So I think technically the ship is traveling at normal sublight speeds while in a separate layer of space (or as you put it, another dimension) thus achieving superluminal travel.

But they also have inertial dampeners like I mentioned before which offset the effects felt with acceleration like that.

thecolorsblend said:
Probably the defining characteristic of Web 1.0 was a complete Wild West type of attitude. You could say anything, do anything, whatever. You might encounter opposition or disagreement, of course. But that's part of the fun.

Oh man that's so true, Web 1.0 was kind of libertarianism personified. I miss those days so much, the internet just felt like raw information. Not skewed or slanted or biased, I didn't feel like I was being herded in a direction with every link I clicked.

Remember the plethora of search engines there were back then? Before "googling" became a synonym for web searches. There was Bing, Lycos, Ask Jeeves...man the goodness of the internet, if it ever had any, died with Netscape.

thecolorsblend said:
Web 2.0 is defined by social media. And social media are defined by the presence of women. In the Web 1.0 days, women used the Internet to check email or shop or something. The joke went "There are no women on the Internet". They were there. They just weren't on message boards and whatnot, mostly.

Interesting connection there, I hadn't looked at it in those terms but that's absolutely right.

thecolorsblend said:
But Web 2.0 changed that. Women are visibly online now (i.e., they're on social media). And at this point, I think it's safe to say that Web 2.0's defining characteristic is censorship, heavy moderation, etc.

Without question, Web 2.0 is defined by control entirely contrarian to the libertarian values of 1.0.

thecolorsblend said:
I find this rather interesting. That's the polite way to phrase it anyway. Men seem to get something out of disagreement. There is dialogue and ideas/opinions are shared, they're discussed and whatever, it all comes out in the wash. Disagreement isn't rly a big problem. For men.

Of course, that's how we're wired. For mental battle just as much as a physical one, our minds need that kind of strength conditioning and the web is/was a good resource for that because we can learn new things and then challenge those things.

thecolorsblend said:
But for women, it seems to be. Women seem to interpret disagreement as conflict and women are generally conflict-averse. I've even heard women say that comment sections getting shut down on news sites is a good thing because it lessens the chance of disagreement. And that's simply not a male attitude at all.

That's probably why cancel culture seems to be women-lead, starting with unworthily prominent voices like AOC, Omar and Tlaib, and then it took off from there.

thecolorsblend said:
For a lot of stuff I do online, I'm socked up so that if I say anything that I know is truly edgy, there's no way in hades anybody can ever dox me. Which is a pretty big change. It shouldn't be this way. People should be able to speak their minds freely.

But we can't. Because women are on the Internet now.

tl;dr- My unpopular opinion is that Web 2.0 sucks.

Smart man, it's just a shame that has to happen though but there are basement dwellers lurking in every forum and every comm box on the internet just looking for a chance to get their rocks off by doxxing a good citizen.

I agree with that unpopular opinion though, Web 2.0 does suck.

eastcoast_bsc said:
I love baseball. Its the strategy.

Ahhh baseball. My first love. It's also liturgy. It mirrors the Mass I've discovered.

eastcoast_bsc · Jul 7, 2021

ReesePiece23 said:
Well, those are fighting words.

It's your loss anyway. You're on the East coast among literally the best hype breweries in the world and you've alienated yourself. I cross the pond to Brooklyn every year just to pay a couple of my favourites a visit.

And to escape the dourness of the UK. You have no idea how tiresome it is to live amongst such misery all the time. I mean, you're allowed to dream every now and then... It hasn't been privatised. Cheer up.

LOL I actually listened a to Brew Master and he stated that a Lager is more sophisticated than an IPA. An IPA can be masked by all the over the top hopiness but a Lager has to stand on its own.

I just feel that the whole IPA thing is a trend.

boughtwithaprice · Jul 7, 2021

thecolorsblend said:
"Light speed" seems to be used idiomatically in Star Wars. Rather, the characters appear to be travelling through a different dimension (i.e., hyperspace) and use that as a sort of shortcut to whatever their destination might be. Even "hyperspace" might be an idiom tho.

That's not rly a problem. Star Trek takes place primarily in a single quadrant so warp drive is usually more than enough. As for Star Wars, as above, it's not an issue because they're travelling through hyperspace.

The problem you describe is basically the premise of Star Trek Voyager tho. The starship Voyager gets stuck all the way over in the Delta Quadrant and the crew must find a way home. Because even at non-stop maximum warp (which isn't feasible, let's face it), the trip would take decades. Now, I'd never argue that Voyager is the greatest Trek show ever. But it's better than its rep would have you believe, I think.

In the end, I don't need Star Trek or Star Wars to show me plausible science. I just want them to tell me good stories. Sure would be nice if they could go back to that.

I did like the stories, it was cool to see 24th century people interact with twentieth century situations

Gnarwhal · Jul 7, 2021

eastcoast_bsc said:
I just feel that the whole IPA thing is a trend.

It absolutely is. When I was a newly-legal drinker I was lead to believe people who appreciated IPA's were connoisseurs who not only knew how to taste a beer but also understood the whole process from harvest to bottling.

That's was some bull.

I never enjoyed IPA's but I always pretended too just cause all my friends and roommates and folks were (maybe they were also pretending). Nowadays though I just don't care, ales and lagers are better. Don't care if some rando hipster group thinks it's less cool or manly. I like what I like.

BrAndreyu · Jul 7, 2021

eastcoast_bsc said:
I just feel that the whole IPA thing is a trend.

It is, it's a hipster beer that wouldn't be popular if some tool in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn with a mustache tattoo on his finger and a fixed gear bicycle wasn't seen drinking one at a fashionable bar.

Gnarwhal · Jul 7, 2021

BrAndreyu said:
It is, it's a hipster beer that wouldn't be popular if some tool in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn with a mustache tattoo on his finger and a fixed gear bicycle wasn't seen drinking one at a fashionable bar.

Dang't that was me at one point. I didn't have live in Williamsburg or have a mustache finger tat...but I was that hipster dude for a minute. Woe is me.

BrAndreyu · Jul 7, 2021

Fenwick said:
I didn't have live in Williamsburg or have a mustache finger tat...but I was that hipster dude for a minute.

I was a punk rocker who thought that he was cool because he drank malt liquor out of a brown paper bag in alleys and spent most of his time figuring out how to get drugs & fornicating. I thought I was the coolest person alive, and it turns out at 35 that being "cool" isn't really worth anything because it doesn't get you a house, a wife, kids or even money to be able to do anything with. Once you stop going to shows every week, nobody cares anymore and you just become some sort of a pathetic loser who is desperately trying to hang onto misspent youth.

So compared to me, I think you're actually OK for having drank IPAs.

ReesePiece23 · Jul 7, 2021

BrAndreyu said:
Yeah I'll agree with that, I had a very real drowning scare with a buddy once because we drank like six of the Miller chills (they no longer make them) each and then swam out to a sandbar in Englewood, FL and then the tide began to come back in and we were having trouble getting back. By all rights we should have both drowned as we were very much younger and doing something stupid like going out into the water all lit up like the fourth of July, but God had decided that it was not our time and I thank him for that.

You've just reminded me of a time (YEARS ago, maybe 12 years ago or longer) when a mate gave me a lift home after a night of nightclubs, nonsense and testing my luck. We get onto the dual carriageway when he starts talking about bubblegum clouds, rainbow trails and 'the matrix' we're all living in.

I'll cut to the moral of the story: if a friend is quick to answer the phone at five in the morning and sounds upbeat about giving you a lift, either take a taxi or wait for the trains to start. Do NOT ask for a lift.

That was the scariest car journey I have ever experienced. He had no concept of speed whatsoever. It's funny looking back, but wow... He was mad for driving and I was madder for taking the lift.

ReesePiece23 · Jul 7, 2021

On the IPA front, I happen to enjoy it. I went through a phase of being pedantic about the hops "oh, this IPA could have done with a bit more Azacca and Sabro" - but I'm LONG over it. Just a straight talking west coast style IPA will do now.

But, that is just my hopinion. (And don't be hating on Williamsburg, that place has treated me good over the years.)

Gnarwhal · Jul 7, 2021

BrAndreyu said:
I was a punk rocker who thought that he was cool because he drank malt liquor out of a brown paper bag in alleys and spent most of his time figuring out how to get drugs & fornicating. I thought I was the coolest person alive, and it turns out at 35 that being "cool" isn't really worth anything because it doesn't get you a house, a wife, kids or even money to be able to do anything with. Once you stop going to shows every week, nobody cares anymore and you just become some sort of a pathetic loser who is desperately trying to hang onto misspent youth.

So compared to me, I think you're actually OK for having drank IPAs.

Sounds like the plot of SLC Punk!

BrAndreyu · Jul 7, 2021

Fenwick said:
Sounds like the plot of SLC Punk!

In a sense it was, except it was in Southwest Florida and we didn't beat up any nazis because well, there aren't any.

eastcoast_bsc · Jul 7, 2021

Fenwick said:
It absolutely is. When I was a newly-legal drinker I was lead to believe people who appreciated IPA's were connoisseurs who not only knew how to taste a beer but also understood the whole process from harvest to bottling.

That's was some bull.

I never enjoyed IPA's but I always pretended too just cause all my friends and roommates and folks were (maybe they were also pretending). Nowadays though I just don't care, ales and lagers are better. Don't care if some rando hipster group thinks it's less cool or manly. I like what I like.

Its like those who pretend Starbucks coffee is delicious. Not!

Praying Rose · Jul 8, 2021

thecolorsblend said:
In the end, I don't need Star Trek or Star Wars to show me plausible science. I just want them to tell me good stories. Sure would be nice if they could go back to that.

I have been a Trek fan since the TNG era, with DS9 being my favorite. I haven't seen Discovery yet because of all the terrible reviews. I did finally see Picard, though, which I have mixed feelings about. Hopefully season 2 will be better, but I'm not holding my breath.

BrAndreyu · Jul 8, 2021

eastcoast_bsc said:
Its like those who pretend Starbucks coffee is delicious.

I always get giftcards from my aunt for Starbucks, but I prefer Dunkin coffee if I'm not going to make my coffee at home. Dunkin makes a vastly superior Iced Caramel Machiatto. Starbuck's version is blah and the baristas always make it mostly milk instead of espresso.

thecolorsblend · Jul 8, 2021

Taodeching · Jul 8, 2021

I like the Star Trek show Enterprise and the title song. I even had "faith of the heart" as a ring tone once

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