Topic: Most Tedious Internet Debates

The rare good thread revival. totally not biased

Even ignoring that, I've seen enough people who live lives that seem odd to me for one reason or another, but if they aren't hurting anyone, its not generally worth my time to care.

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No debate there, it is universally considered to be one of the best Christmas movies ever made. Yep, universally.. not a single person thinks otherwise. 🥸

It may have been serious at one point but now it is 100% just a meme. I think Twitch even has pineapple pizza as one of the universal emotes.

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For myself, the 'is mobile gaming real gaming'. This annoys me both when people debate it forever and also when people don't debate it and just assume 'no'. Get over it, your granny playing candy crush is just as much of a gamer as you are playing Apex. More generally the 'you aren't a real gamer if/unless you play X' debates. This affects whole genres of games as well as certain devices. Don't be game-ist! (note that these debates also often involves a heavy dose of sexism, age-ism, various other isms; fundamentally any debate which starts with the premise 'I am superior because' usually is not a good debate).

Something that really gets on my nerves is the whole Pokemon VS Digimon debate. I get why it started since they were airing around the same time when both anime first started, but nowadays whenever it’s brought up, it feels like someones trying to just start some kinda war between the fandoms. It’s not the end of the world if you like both!

Sorry if I rambled a bit there, just wanted to get that off my chest.

@Moffo It doesn’t even make sense to compare the two imo. Digimon was a tamagachi spin-off meant for young boys.

@Moffo when I was younger I used to compare them, now that I think about it the only similarity they have is that they’re monsters you can capture. Now I think it’s fun to compare the two in a fun way, like this Pokémon vs this digimon, but everything else is just silly lol.

@Moffo I always like to bring up Shin Megami Tensei to throw a wrench into the debate. I think SMT and Digimon have more in common with each other rather than Pokemon and Digimon. But hey, I enjoy each series regardless. Each have their own fun games.

Who the fastest fictional character is, who the strongest is, who is the most underrated, etc.

@HenryKibble THIS. I just… so many series have different power levels, contradicting sets of lore, etc. that it makes the idea of comparing them pretty much pointless.

I love debating power levels, feats, speed, etc etc. It's fun; I always do it in any comment section. But, most of the time, these debates( not specifically mine) always end up in name-calling.

As a general sports fan, the Michael Jordan vs. Lebron GOAT debate is so overdone and tedious. It's comparing apples and oranges. Different eras and different competition. Even in other sports, comparisons and debates between players/teams of different eras can still be kinda interesting and have some merit, but this one in particular just annoys me for some reason, and neither are my favorite NBA player.

When peoples complaining for the slightly change of Peach facial expression into confident face, peoples suddenly freak out and hating the changes.

“Are video games art?”

Audiobooks aren’t reading. I guess if you go by definition, no but who cares at the end of the day. Whether you listen with ears or read with your eyes, we both read the same story and that’s what I care about.

I remember my lecturer at UNI (Computer Science) going on about what the difference between Art, Science and Engineering was. Because some from the school of Engineering aren't particularly keen on the idea of Software Engineering being a thing, because software isn't really something you can "Engineer"

The general argument went something along the lines of this. Art is the act of expression, it is a subjective discipline. You can't measure the output objectively. You aren't bound by hard, physical rules. You are just noodling away at something and creating subjective pieces of expression

Science on the other hand is a discipline. Science is the act of creating a hypothesis, testing it by measuring an objective output and drawing a conclusion. It's in some ways similar to art because you're still discovering new things as part of the process. But what you're discovering is something that's measurable

Engineering? Engineering is the act of implementing well established rules. You have a set of well established structures that you exist within and you have to figure out a way to implement that to solve a specific problem. You're not really discovering you're more just extrapolating a set of laws

Games are built with all three.... but the end product is most definitely art

@Summer235 Ehh, I care. Audio books don’t come with the benefits you get from reading. Your reading level doesn’t increase, nor does your understanding of literature. It’s mostly just getting the story and nothing else.

Why would your understanding of literature be any less from hearing the words versus looking at those same words on a flat surface? I mean, if you aren't paying close attention or thinking that is true but it's just as easy to not pay close attention or think while looking at words.

Also, this thread is inevitably descending into making the arguments which the former people listed as the most tedious arguments. 😆 I apologize for contributing to this.

“Is Nightmare before Christmas a Halloween movie? Or a Christmas movie?”

I legit think it’s both, I feel like it mix both really well and I feel like my perception of the movie changes depending if it a Halloween or Christmas honestly.

@Snatcher It's a Christmas movie.

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@EaglyBird I'm Canadian so it's before both holidays so that still makes it a Christmas movie.

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