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Post by Snake on Oct 17, 2017 16:24:53 GMT -5
I wish online deals and things didn't require a Facebook account. Like, hey, pledge your soul in allegiance with one specific company in order to get a discount off this thing! Yeah! This trend is so freaken annoying. I would prefer not to have any deals or buys tied to a social media or google account. |
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Post by GamerL on Oct 17, 2017 17:53:19 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment. College campuses are a bizarre little subculture that I can't even begin to comprehend, nor do I understand most of liberal politics nowadays. Ten years ago even the staunchest of liberals understood that free speech means protecting speech you don't like, no matter how much you hate it, because otherwise you don't have free speech at all, what's changed that it's so hard for people to understand that? I don't like white supremacists are hardcore right wingers either, but by trying to just shut them down instead of engage them in debate you wind up only helping their cause by making it seem like a liberal worldview can't hold up to analysis or debate, which makes people take those worldviews more seriously, otherwise why would liberals be trying to censor them so much? I'm also really uncomfortable with how absolutist the left has become nowadays, you can't criticize certain things or certain figures without instantly being deemed as "playing for the other side" and all this stuff is just pushing people away from liberalism, they've turned conservatism into the new counterculture and the new "rebel" and that's a very dangerous thing. I think that musical themes have really fallen behind visual in movies. take star wars for example, with the original soundtrack being so much of the experience, versus the prequels. i think this is a trend that really started with jurassic park and the huge investment into visuals there. Even the best movie score themes nowadays lack that certain factor where you can hum it and someone will recognize it right away, I don't why that fell out of favor but it's been that way for a long time, I'd say the last instantly recognizable movie theme would be John Williams' Harry Potter theme. |
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Post by Ike on Oct 17, 2017 22:45:05 GMT -5
  I like tattoos |
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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 18, 2017 9:12:20 GMT -5
Ten years ago even the staunchest of liberals understood that free speech means protecting speech you don't like, no matter how much you hate it, because otherwise you don't have free speech at all, what's changed that it's so hard for people to understand that? I don't like white supremacists are hardcore right wingers either, but by trying to just shut them down instead of engage them in debate you wind up only helping their cause by making it seem like a liberal worldview can't hold up to analysis or debate, which makes people take those worldviews more seriously, otherwise why would liberals be trying to censor them so much?. Please go debate a Nazi then report back to let us all know how that works out for you. |
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Post by Snake on Oct 18, 2017 10:39:46 GMT -5
I like tattoos Nicely done, you got a good artist working on you~ One trend I do not care for are facial piercings. Eyebrow piercing, nose rings, etc. Well, on men, I don't care. But to see it on a women, just not my cup of tea. |
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Post by kaoru on Oct 18, 2017 12:22:49 GMT -5
I particularly hate that one topic that someone just seems to need to bring up about every two or three weeks. And just when I feel like it got mostly ignored this time at least and there are some other posts distance in there, there is one person that has to chime in one last time. You know, the free speech nazi one. Can we get over that one finally?
*not refering to anyone in particular btw, just in general.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 12:37:58 GMT -5
Let's not turn this into a witch hunt for members of this community. We fight enough as it is!
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Post by Ike on Oct 18, 2017 15:18:51 GMT -5
I sincerely wonder how many people complaining about college campus culture have been on a college campus lately. They're not uniform bastions of safe space ideology, you just get the worst examples of it filtered through the internet by people who look for things to be angry about.
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Post by paperchema on Oct 18, 2017 17:12:26 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment. College campuses are a bizarre little subculture that I can't even begin to comprehend, nor do I understand most of liberal politics nowadays. Ten years ago even the staunchest of liberals understood that free speech means protecting speech you don't like, no matter how much you hate it, because otherwise you don't have free speech at all, what's changed that it's so hard for people to understand that? I don't like white supremacists are hardcore right wingers either, but by trying to just shut them down instead of engage them in debate you wind up only helping their cause by making it seem like a liberal worldview can't hold up to analysis or debate, which makes people take those worldviews more seriously, otherwise why would liberals be trying to censor them so much? I'm also really uncomfortable with how absolutist the left has become nowadays, you can't criticize certain things or certain figures without instantly being deemed as "playing for the other side" and all this stuff is just pushing people away from liberalism, they've turned conservatism into the new counterculture and the new "rebel" and that's a very dangerous thing. I make no secret of my dislike of identity politics, but there are worse things you can do. Not to brag, but the American left is very timid compared to some countries in Europe. |
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Post by GamerL on Oct 18, 2017 18:08:36 GMT -5
A few tattoos are ok, I just don't understand why people get covered in them, that's not a good look to me. Ten years ago even the staunchest of liberals understood that free speech means protecting speech you don't like, no matter how much you hate it, because otherwise you don't have free speech at all, what's changed that it's so hard for people to understand that? I don't like white supremacists are hardcore right wingers either, but by trying to just shut them down instead of engage them in debate you wind up only helping their cause by making it seem like a liberal worldview can't hold up to analysis or debate, which makes people take those worldviews more seriously, otherwise why would liberals be trying to censor them so much?. Please go debate a Nazi then report back to let us all know how that works out for you. It shouldn't be too hard to make a nazi look like an idiot, on top of that college kids throw a shit fit over literally anyone who's conservative being allowed to speak, they literally want nothing but a liberal echo chamber, we're not talking literal nazis here as the only people they want to censor. As someone who's pretty centrist, yeah, I have a problem with one side demanding the other shut up and never be allowed to speak, I would have a problem if conservatives were refusing to ever allow liberals voices to speak. |
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Oct 18, 2017 18:36:53 GMT -5
The Tatoo trend that I don't really understand is where you have them thick and covering you so it almost looks like your wearing clothes. I find alot of sports stars and wrestlers tend to get these kind fo tatoos, and to me it's so ugly. Like take teh Rock, he has so many tatoos on his arms and chest, IMHO it looks stupid (Especially when you factor in that he has to spend ages in make up chairs covering them up for 99% of the films he acts in.).
As for Funkopops...I do find them ugly. I have 2, one is a goku one (As at the time you basically couldn't find DBZ merch much. Its a bit different now) and a TMNT one of Raph (As it actually looks a little like him, and he already lacks a nose normally anyway). Now these seem worthless as a few stores have opened up in my area that sell merch that actually looks like the various characters (both comic and anime/manga)
I think the other trend I find a bit sad is wikis. (and to a minor extend social media), as people used to make proper websites which I enjoyed finding and browsing. These days if you wanna look up like a comic book or TV show...you basically just find a wiki (usually a "main" one and sometimes a few small half dead ones). I mean wikis can be good for getting info, but they just feel a bit more lifeless than a website to me.
Lastly on anime...I find that the problem I tend to face is that there's just SO MUCH out there now, it can be hard to know about or find the actiony schlock stuff I used to enjoy back in the nineties/early 2000s, coz back then it was pretty much the only thing you used to see. I don't think that stuff has gone away, but it kinda gets lost in the crowd.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Oct 18, 2017 22:47:11 GMT -5
Not this again.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 19, 2017 5:34:13 GMT -5
It's not a trend that I hate, it's a trend that I miss, but whatever happened to those jean mini skirts girls used to wear in the 00s? They were cute, skirts in general seemed to have fallen out of fashion.
I'm also not sure what's up with high waisted jeans and shorts nowadays, they look like mom jeans, I get that because it's a new decade there has to be new fashion trends compared to the prior one, but the high waisted things seems more like change for change's sake and the low cut scenes of the 00s were much sexier.
I mean I'm not an expert on female fashion or anything, but it seems like the general looks girls would have, including hairstyles, back in the 00s were cuter than they are today.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Oct 19, 2017 10:33:29 GMT -5
Huh, that's funny. Just the other day I was thinking about how I've seen a lot of girls in jean skirts lately! Not all of those are 'mini', granted. Which they should be, cause it looks pretty stupid if they're longer.
Generally though, 00's fashion should never make any form of comeback ever.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 12:08:44 GMT -5
Short shorts with tights underneath are great. The good lord giveth, and the good lord taketh away.
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