When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it's not elevated above other responses.
That's it. That's my hot take.
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Yeah that's probably good advice
Also it avoids that the first 10 comments will be from people trolling you for the exact thing you used as an example instead of answering the question
It's "fewer than" not "fewer then"
I'm shaking and crying rn
This is peak
Or is it pique?
... Probably both. Peak pique.
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Oh god I almost don't want to say this in this environment...
Techy people aren't the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.
I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people... Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.
Eg." I'm great at maths therefore I'm logically infallible". Or "I'm an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best"." I'm a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".
This platform is proof positive of this take lmao buncha tech nerds who can't read to save their lives
God help you if you accidentally use an analogy on here
Ben Carson is the epitome of this for me - absolutely brilliant neurosurgeon, ate up every bit of the MAGA party line.
I'm not like this but I am very curious.
When I went to the dentist and they were taking molds of my teeth I shared that I was a 3D printing hobbyist and wanted to know a bit about the process. I always start with an apology "sorry I'm curious by nature as an engineer but could you share details on X?"
Dude was the owner and gave me a full run down. He even told me about the time he got a free rental for a crown 3D printer to have on site. It was stupid expensive but it was free to use for a few months. Then pay to keep it. Get crowns in hours instead of days. He returned it because labs do much better work.
I feel this, my frustration isn't that people aren't smart enough to use tech, but that smart people panic around tech and can't learn or experiment. Like I get it, but you have to dive in at some point surely
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People who can't stand being corrected. Instead of learning and improving, they feel diminished and hateful.
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Legos with stickers suck. They should just print it in the parts or not have a design. It's too much stress on the person building them :/
Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.
I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it's just a way of expressing that very soon we're gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we're in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.
This is not even a hot take. It's just facts.
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The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is "on accident". No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.
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I've got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
I've been complaining about the cyberpunk genre for years and 2077 is basically a distillation of everything wrong with it at current. They use the aesthetic and gut the meat, to the point where they're often the very things cyberpunk is supposed to be critiquing. Soulless cash grabs its embarrassing we let it happen. 2077 wasn't even mechanically fun for me. My favorite genre and I feel like we've rarely made things better than just reading neuromancer. We should have plenty of really mind blowing rhings with this much time to improve on it but it's so few and far between 😞
I didn't dislike it, but it didn't live up to my hopes after all I'd heard about it.
I don't regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.
I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can't beat up on them for that.
- It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such
I'm amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly
but the actual core gameplay didn't grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.
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The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn't play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.
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I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.
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I wasn't that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint
it's kinda "hunt for the hidden object" stuff
but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show "flashbacks" to earlier events.
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Obtaining and managing clothing is a significant chunk of game and content, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn't have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.
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Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they're surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don't really have that much gameplay point.
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Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn't really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it'd be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.
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We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.
Armchair activism. The least you could do -- literally.
It's "hashtag activism" these days, which is a term I really hate.
I can't help but notice that identity politics stuff ramped up to 11 right as Occupy Wall Street was fizzling out. I really think the alphabet soup agencies unleashed this monster on all of us
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We pivoted from real activism to bumper stickers and yard signs and campaign donations to candidates who signalled the right wealthy class social virtues in the 90s and haven't looked back
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Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.
For some reason, people using the contraction "everyday" as a noun drives me insane. "Everyday" is an adjective (e.g., an everyday activity), "every day" is the noun (e.g., I do this activity every day).
It doesn't matter. It doesn't.
Login is always a noun in my mind and the verb is "to log in". There are some other weird ones with me in IT due to, I suppose, being older.
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Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.
It's just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other's bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.
Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.
Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn't matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don't understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be "their own" while there's many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don't think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they'll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it's small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.
I don't understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don't see any logic in it.
Eh, the people you have the strongest emotional bonds with are likely the people you've spent the most time with. Logically that would be family for most people. Kinda weird obsession with blood ties their mate, don't have to be related by blood to be family.
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Ass is better then tits unless the tits are great then I can handle a Hank Hill ass.
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My hot take is that I don't care what other people's hot takes are.
If you believe in the Marxist critique of art for art's sake, congratulations, you are a religious evangelist.
(I do however, believe in Nietzsche's critique of art for art's sake, which is that it fundamentally does not exist)
“It gets better” is an awful statement. You don’t really know that. Bit of a thought terminating cliche for people who still have such a chance.
I don't think pineapple belongs on hamburgers either. It tastes okay, but there's so much extra liquid that it's like holding a bun full of soup.
You have to grill that pineapple ring for a bit. Slightly less liquid, much sweeter
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