Topic: Other Unpopular Opinions (tech and non-gaming media) v2

@Pastellioli agree with most of this.

I also disagree with the common sentiment that Elon Musk ruined Twitter. Twitter has always been awful. In that sense, Musk and Twitter are perfect for each other.

@Buizel Yeah, I do think that Twitter was also still awful before he took helm of the site. The bad behavior of the users was still thing I saw before and why I never downloaded and made an account on the site, and the new changes that came give me more of a reason not to. I still wouldn’t have downloaded Twitter anyway even if Elon Musk didn’t buy the site and took control.

@RygelXVIII Agreed. Everyone on social media is so obsessed with getting followers, likes, and whatnot, when it sort of does nothing in the end I feel. I was obsessed with that when I started using Instagram, but I’ve luckily stopped and don’t really care if someone follows me or not. Plus, if you have a lot of followers, it can be very stressful and you pretty much have to make sure you post almost every single day and minute so you don’t lose your audience. If I am being honest, it feels nice not having a bunch of followers and being able to post whenever I feel like it. A lot of people want a huge presence online, but it doesn’t provide anything meaningful or beneficial when you get it, and a lot of the time people want it to get validation from others, which was the exact same thing I wanted when I started an account.

Honestly, I consider Trolls to be one of the best series DreamWorks has made. Trolls is popular, but the cartoon community on YouTube and Twitter tends to consider it to be one of the worst. I feel the series has a lot of heart to it. The first movie is silly at first, a bunch of trolls having fun and throwing a party, but as the adventure to save Poppy's friends goes on, it does show a lot of heart and a really imaginative world. The two other movies expand on the world and families of the characters. Plus, I love the musical numbers.

Also, I remember being a part of a DreamWorks related community, where I got bullied for having Poppy as my favorite DreamWorks character, and not the status quo of Shrek and Po (of Kung Fu Panda) that the cartoon community pushes. I don't go there anymore.

Yes, popular series, but going to put my opinion down as "unpopular" given how people tend to treat Trolls online at other places I've been to.

@Pastellioli A great quote I heard, regarding Social Media -

"Don't compare your own 'behind-the-scenes' to someone else's highlight reel"

@CJD87 That is pretty important. I do think with social media, a lot of people hide their troubles and true feelings to keep a perfect and flawless persona online that will appeal to lots. I just seem to always forget that sometimes how some people act and show online could be fake and could just be exaggerated for the public. Sometimes people gushing about how great their life is makes me feel that I have a really boring life when I’m sure that having a boring life is fine and that they could be exaggerating or lying.

@Sunsy Although Trolls is not my favorite film series, I do think it’s far from abysmal like what cartoon and film reviewers like to say a ton and I think the first film is enjoyable. There are a lot of nice things about the films, like how lighthearted they are, and the animation; oh my gosh, I love how fuzzy and handcrafted the world and characters look in the films, especially as I like art a lot.

I do like the Shrek and Kung Fu Panda movies a lot, but it sometimes does feel like the cartoon community sort of puts them on a pedestal and trashes on anyone who also like other film series by DreamWorks besides those two. I think my issue with some people on the internet is how intolerant they are with opinions instead of respectfully disagreeing with them. Sorry you had a negative experience like that.

Oh, and I have seen how film and cartoon fanatics act on Twitter and I remember it being so AWFUL.

When things try to get better, they just get worse.

It's one the opinions/sayings that I've formed over my years on the world wide web.

Can't look up to anyone nowadays because of the possibility that they're a bad person, and we don't know that yet.

For every consumer 'win' there always seems to be 2 anti-consumer choices to make up for that.

And politics ( especially in the U.S where I live) has been absolutely crazy for the past few years.

Despite all this, I still have some hope that things will get better..
But it's fading fast.

@Tanookduke that point you made about looking up to people is right. I’ve seen so many popular and seemingly normal people and celebrities that everyone loves get exposed and revealed as having done terrible things and just seeing them go on damage control and have their careers crash almost immediately afterward. I just wish the world wasn’t full of so many bad stuff and negativity, plus it’s easy for these people to be unproblematic, but it sadly is very common and seems to never stop.

I never looked up to him, but there was this music artist I did listen to who was apart of this popular Japanese band, and while I wasn’t a fan and only heard his music occasionally, I thought his songs were good, but he got revealed to be a bad person for doing something pretty serious that I shouldn’t mention here, and his career pretty much ended after he admitted to doing bad deeds, plus a game I played is removing songs with his name attached and the group he was apart of disbanded to avoid being associated with him and how bad he chose to act. So pretty much anyone, no matter how nice they act and look and no matter how well they do in their profession, can be hiding such awful stuff that is waiting to be revealed to the public.

@Pastellioli Nice to see someone who gets it. I love the arts and crafts aesthetic too. When I was a kid, I use to use felt a lot for crafts, similar to the materials used for the scrapbook scenes. Plus the detail is there in other Trolls things. That Trolls event I went to where I met Poppy, even Poppy was fuzzy upon hugging her (Universal really put the detail in her). It's kinda like the Yoshi games now that I think about it.

I have to agree with that. It's like the standard for animated movies are so high, even though other animated movies are fine. I've like other movies by DreamWorks too, not just Trolls. Even saw Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken and Puss In Boots The Last Wish in theaters too. I even like Spirit Untamed, consider it underrated too (guess that counts as an unpopular opinion too, lol). Thanks, I don't go there anymore because of it. Shame too, since I was hoping to meet some Trolls fans there.

I agree 100% on that.

@Sunsy I do think it is pretty high. I believe that after The Last Wish came out and stunned everyone with its animation and pretty mature themes about life and death and accepting that death will come one day, everyone seemed to expect more masterpieces and deep films from DreamWorks afterward, and were even expecting their own version of the Disney Renaissance to occur after, so when they released more simpler and lighthearted films like Ruby Gillman after that, I can remember the cartoon and film community being so annoyed and disappointed, but I also remember some people getting angry at it simply because they weren’t working on Shrek 5. I think it’s also because of the recent animated films that came from Disney at the time, especially with Wish, which a lot of people thought was bad, so a lot of people were expecting DreamWorks to push out more deeper masterpieces like The Last Wish and them possibly beating Disney.

@Pastellioli Indeed, and yup, I remember the whole attitude the cartoon community had about DreamWorks beating out Disney too (side note, it reminds me of console wars, but with animation studios). I feel it's important to remember, not every animated movie needs to be deep to be good. Not every movie needs to be a "Puss In Boots," to be great. That's the thing with animation, you can do anything in it.

Not to mention, DreamWorks does have other series they work on too. I was satisfied with Trolls Band Together as a Trolls fan, that movie was made for those who like Trolls. Ruby Gillman was something original they were trying (personally, I liked it). Even Kung Fu Panda 4, gave fans of the series something new. I hope Shrek 5 gives those who wanted more Shrek something they wanted. DreamWorks is now more than just Shrek.

Hmm. Not a Dreamworks fan at all, but I will say How to Train Your Dragon is probably my favorite film trilogy since the turn of the century. Each film is excellent in its own right, with successive entries growing with their audiences, and it ends in a narratively and emotionally satisfying manner. It also respects the intelligence of its (presumably young) intended demographic more than most Hollywood films for adults do.

I should probably watch the Puss in Boots films. I've only seen the first one, which struck me as the sort of decent but forgettable spinoff film that used to go straight-to-video in the good old days. That said, the sequel was apparently pretty good (the sky-high Tomatometer score certainly intrigued me)? I felt like people were meme'ing when they went on about how much they liked it at first, but the more I look into it, the more I feel like it might be worth a watch.

@Ralizah You definitely should watch the sequel sometime. I did like the first one, but the sequel absolutely blows it out of the water. It’s so fun and entertaining while having a very important, serious, and deep message, and I’d say that it probably is one of DreamWorks’ most thought-provoking films. I saw it on my Xbox first and then saw it another time in the theater.

@Sunsy It definitely does feel like console wars. They do have a lot of other popular IPs alongside Shrek and Kung Fu Panda, and while I do like those, I definitely don’t mind them doing original films besides those two. It still shows that the studio has creativity and doesn’t latch onto the same IPs all the time.

@Ralizah As someone who seen both, IMHO, the second Puss In Boots was even better than the first.

@Pastellioli Agreed, it would be boring if DreamWorks only did Shrek and spin-offs, and didn't do other series and movies. Not to mention, the other series they make do have their fans too.

I extremely hate to see peoples misinterpreted something neutral or harmless or utilizing the stuffs into inappropriate rated 18+ stuffs on movies and video games.
Because of them, we cannot talk those stuffs in positive way since there was one people who made those stuffs into evil stuffs.
I have zero respect with those creator and therefore i will always hate them and their creations.
They destroyed the innocent image of neutral / harmless stuffs into disgusting 18+ stuffs.
We cannot talk some examples of the stuffs like joker, lollipop, the right way of using the chainsaw, etc in positive way because peoples already portrayed them as evil 18+ stuffs.
Those creators are really problematic peoples.

Probably a popular opinion but I think people expend far too much energy complaining about media that they themselves don't consume. If you don't like something? It's probably not for you. Get over it. Move on. Life is too short to waste energy complaining about things that don't impact you....

..... with that said, they did ruin Dr Who. Dr Who should be campy SciFi not cheap fantasy

@skywake Agreed, I mean it is fine to not like or prefer a piece of media and it not being your taste, but why would you go on heavily hating and criticizing it if you haven’t seen it yourself? I think latching onto the popular opinions people have on a piece of media is ingenious, and you should actually watch, listen, read or play the piece of media to in order form your own opinion. Some people only take a dump on some media just because it’s popular and everywhere, and I maybe saw that about once or twice recently, but I saw it the most with this super popular animated show which was everywhere earlier this year. I don’t really know anything on it and I’ve never watched it and I won’t, since it’s not really that interesting to me and it isn’t my taste. I saw a bunch of hate towards it on places like Instagram, but I think a lot of the hate I saw just really seemed to be from people who did not know what it was and only people just following the popular public opinion, and I think it was super rare to find actually valid criticisms on it that were from people that actually watched it. It’s fine to dislike it, but again, why would you hate so heavily on a piece of media and waste time on it when you never saw it?

If I don’t like a piece of media, or if a piece of media is everywhere and it sometimes annoys me (like modern pop songs that repeat almost all the time on social media and on the radio) I don’t go hating it to a huge degree and I just ignore it and don’t let it ruin my day. Also, some people just have a huge hate towards the creators of some media they dislike for some reason. They always act like they hurt their family or something.

I don't really like the mandatory of using Chinese language as something we have to study.
I mean, Japanese language is also very important and i personally prefer Japanese language than Chinese language despite myself is half Indonesian half Chinese people.
I just think Chinese stuffs from their language, entertainment, products are less interesting for me than Japanese stuffs.

I'm not sure they've really changed it that much. Of the new Doctor's episodes so far I'd say only three are more fantasy than sci-fi (goblins, Maestro, fairy circle - and the latter is really just an alternate timeline episode like they did before with Donna). Maybe also the finale but the villain there already existed in the show and already had effectively supernatural powers.

There's always been stuff in Doctor Who that's pretty much fantasy anyway, it just turns out to be aliens that act like witches or ghosts, rather than actual witches or ghosts. The in-universe explanation of 'the thing with the salt' allowing more supernatural elements into the universe just means they can keep doing stuff like that without having to explicitly link it to aliens, but you could always just imagine that the goblins etc are in fact aliens if you prefer - I don't think it was definitively stated that they're not.

And they certainly haven't dialled back the campiness

@Pastellioli
I think a lot of it stems from the way a lot of people consume media, of all kinds. It's less about deriving entertainment from pieces of art or exploring new ideas and points of view. Instead it's more about collecting and rejecting various trinkets that you can use to build your identity

Not that I'm not also guilty of this, I certainly am. It's unavoidable to some degree. And it's certainly something that's been a thing since forever. I just think it's something that people are doing increasingly too often. It's like.... rather than sitting down and watching the latest Star Wars series and then talking about it instead people wait for a youtuber to put out a video explaining why they shouldn't like the latest Star Wars series and then just parroting those points

It's like, you don't have a view worth considering if you're doing this ALL the time. What you have is an identity you're trying to impress everyone with. And I'm not particularly impressed by that. At all. It's the least interesting kind of view to have