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You Are A Elf posted:At least we can all agree that GTA: San Andreas had the best radio stations and music. K-ROSE is the most fun to listen to and there hasn't been a station that entertaining since. I'd go even further and say it is by far the best game overall out of all in the series. I bought GTA 4 and 5 and have about 2 hours played on each because I just can't get into them, whereas I have close to 1000 on san andreas.
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You Are A Elf posted:At least we can all agree that GTA: San Andreas had the best radio stations and music. Actually it's The Saboteur.
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Nov 27, 2016 13:07
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Obama was too naive to become president at that time.
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You Are A Elf posted:At least we can all agree that GTA: agreed
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yeah I eat rear end posted:K-ROSE is the most fun to listen to and there hasn't been a station that entertaining since. I've never cared for Liberty City in any way, shape, or form, so GTA III, Liberty City Stories, and IV just don't aren't any fun. Oh boy, another NYC-like setting. How *yawns while saying this* exciiitiiing  Saint Mark's Bistro mission in San Andreas was pretty dope, though.Nothing beat K-ROSE or K-DST out in the desert. Learning to fly at the Boneyard while listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival or Merle Haggard as the sun rose over the desert horizon was something amazing.
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Nov 27, 2016 21:28
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Cartoons and video games are for children.
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You Are A Elf posted:At least we can all agree that GTA: San Andreas had the best radio stations and music. Related to this, but I wish games would stop using licensed music and actually put some of their monumental budget set aside for licensing to actually create or even pay dudes to create in world music for the games. Using licensed music, for the most part, is a cheap way of creating an emotional connection to the game world based on people's attachment to the music. The GTA games were the best when they actually had dudes creating media for their own alternate world, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6x3MCjBaQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYy69qOJWoM I'd much rather they did stuff like this again as opposed to selling my record collection back to me.
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San Andreas is definitely the high point of the series. The newer games seem... pointless? I dunno, they lack the spirit that made SA awesome.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:09
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The 'thing missing' is that you're not 15 years old any more.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Terrible movies are typically more entertaining that good movies. Low-budget, awful science fiction or horror movies are more fun to watch than current high-budget blockbusters. I don't think this is really an unpopular opinon, per se. There are lots of people who love the campy, terrible B-movies and have a lot of fun watching them with a lot of other people.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:The 'thing missing' is that you're not 15 years old any more. Nah.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:33
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Rush Limbo posted:Using licensed music, for the most part, is a cheap way of creating an emotional connection to the game world based on people's attachment to the music. Or, you know, setting the mood, environment, and era of the game. But seriously, that's exactly the purpose of using licensed music, especially when using it in a period piece. I don't find it cheap at all.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:34
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Vice City had the Best Soundtrack, and GTAIV's soundtrack was kinda lame
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Nov 28, 2016 01:41
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bobjr posted:I'd say this is inaccurate for me just because I've seen people treat kids differently depending on if it's their own or otherwise. If someone treats kids like poo poo then they're probably not good people in other ways but if someone avoids or ignores a kid I don't see it as a bad thing, when I've seen people who dote on kids act horribly otherwise. How they treat service/retail members or animals works better for me. Yeah; in public areas there are often very good reason for a parent to ignore a child who is throwing a fit or acting inappropriately. Giving young children attention when they behave like that just teaches them that behaving that way is effective. But yeah, there's never an excuse for a parent to either hit or insult their child, much less in public. It's just that I've seen people comment on parents being bad because they see them ignoring their children in public.
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You Are A Elf posted:At least we can all agree that GTA: San Andreas had the best radio stations and music. "Spit Game" by Pretty Ugly & Royce da 5'9" (GTA III) is my favorite song from the series, but Radio X is my favorite radio station. The Gen-X radio host parody was so spot on and hilarious.
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The humour of South Park is completely embroiled in normalising xenophobic, alt-right and libertarian values. The fact it subsists nowadays as a beloved American television show tells you everything you need to know about the average American public.
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Nov 28, 2016 02:58
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I've never watched South Park, but this is the first time I've heard it described as hard right-wing propaganda.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The humour of South Park is completely embroiled in normalising xenophobic, alt-right and libertarian values. The fact it subsists nowadays as a beloved American television show tells you everything you need to know about the average American public. Actually, the humor is in putting that poo poo in to the spotlight and making a caricature of it. At least it was while I was still watching. Dunno what it's like now.
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Nov 28, 2016 04:07
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The humour of South Park is completely embroiled in normalising xenophobic, alt-right and libertarian values. The fact it subsists nowadays as a beloved American television show tells you everything you need to know about the average American public. You should provide some examples of the show supporting these values, because I think you're full of poo poo. Also, please provide a definition of "alt-right" beyond just "people to the right of me".
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Nov 28, 2016 06:09
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Two seasons of Rick & Morty, from a storytelling standpoint and despite Dan Harmon's marketing of those skills, contain less nuance than a single episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.
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I think that the last two Saints Row games were lackluster and dissapointing. I played SR1 and enjoyed it, and liked that SR2 was allowed to get a bit silly, a bit self-referential and understood that the main character, by the nature of the game itself, had to be an absolute psychotic loon. But at the same time SR2 was just teetering on that edge of the silly/serious divide that made it absolutely amazing for me. SR3 and 4 just went too far to the silly side, which I know a lot of people loved but I found to just be tedious.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:50
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steinrokkan posted:I've never watched South Park, but this is the first time I've heard it described as hard right-wing propaganda. It's heavy-handed satire in a style that makes it (also) appealing to everyone it's satirizing. This isn't South Park's problem or even a modern one, it's been the same way with satire and stupid bigoted people for centuries if not millennia.
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Nov 28, 2016 09:51
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What about Family Guy? That show does now just seem full of "ironic" racism.
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Nov 28, 2016 10:27
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Both are shows that ran out of original ideas years ago and only are still being made because they know people will keep watching it no matter how bad it is. The best shows know when to call it quits. In very rare cases shows can recover and continue to get better in later seasons (like supernatural in my opinion), but most of the time you get things like season 9-10 of Stargate SG-1 and every season starting with season 2 of The Walking Dead where they just keep digging and finding new ways to be bad until they get cancelled.
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Nov 28, 2016 10:38
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Walking Dead was never good though.
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Nov 28, 2016 10:43
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The first episode was really good. Downhill from there.
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It was good for as long as basic zombie costumes and stabbing people in the head can be engaging - about fifteen minutes.
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You Are A Elf posted:Or, you know, setting the mood, environment, and era of the game. But seriously, that's exactly the purpose of using licensed music, especially when using it in a period piece. I don't find it cheap at all. GTA isn't really a period piece, though. If we're to believe Rockstar and GTA itself, it isn't even set in this reality. I remember being impressed the first time I played GTA4 for all of about 10 minutes until I was driving along and Back in the New York Groove came on the radio. That would be an appropriate and cool song, if New York existed in the GTA world. It was sort of at that point when I realised they really don't give a gently caress anymore. You want to know how they could get talent throwing themselves at them to populate their world with original material? Tell people they can have their music/writing/other art project seen by millions of people all around the world. You'd get people willing to adopt any persona in game to have that opportunity. I guess it is safer to use established stuff, though.
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Rush Limbo posted:GTA isn't really a period piece, though. If we're to believe Rockstar and GTA itself, it isn't even set in this reality. Here's something that'll blow your mind: no work of fiction is set in this reality.
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Cheery Pepsi Max, despite having 0 calories, tastes exactly like regular Dr. Pepper; great
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Grandmother of Five posted:Cheery Pepsi Max At least it makes you happy, much like alcohol.
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Hattie Masters posted:I think that the last two Saints Row games were lackluster and dissapointing. I played SR1 and enjoyed it, and liked that SR2 was allowed to get a bit silly, a bit self-referential and understood that the main character, by the nature of the game itself, had to be an absolute psychotic loon. But at the same time SR2 was just teetering on that edge of the silly/serious divide that made it absolutely amazing for me. SR3 and 4 just went too far to the silly side, which I know a lot of people loved but I found to just be tedious. I haven't played the original but I agree about 2 and 4. The Third is where it starts tipping a bit too far but is still absurdly fun. SR4 is just meh because you can immediately to everything and it's in a virtual world so the ridiculousness of your actions aren't as funny as they would be in a "real" setting.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Two seasons of Rick & Morty, from a storytelling standpoint and despite Dan Harmon's marketing of those skills, contain less nuance than a single episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. I agree with this. I think the entire "comedy by approaching an emotional issue in an unemotional way" genre is tired as hell, and is basically propaganda for autists.
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have we acknowledged yet that every "unpopular opinion" thread on the internet eventually crumbles into dog whistle racism
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Pick posted:I agree with this. Can you provide an example of that? PHUO: Voice mail is a cool and good way to convey information. If I leave you one, you should listen to it!
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Nov 28, 2016 17:54
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Here's my unpopular opinion: please stop using autism as an insult. Oh wait, that's not an opinion.
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I think requests are also allowed, friend.
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People in the first world are weird and incredibly wasteful around food. That piece of broccoli that fell on the countertop for two seconds is still okay to eat. You don't have to toss everything one minute past its sell-by date, which is just put there arbitrarily the by food companies to make you buy more of their poo poo anyway. If your apple is a little bruised on one side, just cut that part out and have the rest. Or you can probably just eat the bruised side too, it won't kill you. Cheap cuts of meat, liver et. al are all delicious when prepared in the right way and you don't have to eat Trump steaks every night. If you go out to a restaurant and can't finish the meal, get a box and take the goddamn thing home. Don't leave half of it out to rot because you're too lazy to put something in a microwave for three minutes. We live in a world with increasingly strained resources and the utter disrespect some people have for the abundance that surrounds their lives drives me crazy.
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exquisite tea posted:People in the first world are weird and incredibly wasteful around food.  I think that's a pretty widely-known scientific fact though?
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exquisite tea posted:We live in a world with increasingly strained resources Sure, but food isn't one of them. We make enough food to feed the entire world, the problem is logistics/capitalism.
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