That is so true, unfortunately..

People literally CHOOSE to ignore that soldiers aren't the only ones dying.

So many innocent people get caught in the middle of the fire, they don't deserve it

War is not Moral!

That is all.

Here's an unpopular opinion:

Guns are awesome. That's right, civilian gun ownership.

So not unpopular with me!


Last year I did the next best thing I can; I got electric powered BB versions of the Ingram MAC10 and the AK47!!

The AK actually features real woodwork and metal, so it´s actually quite heavy!

I want a gun, but I don't trust myself with one

I have always felt the same. Not trusting myself with one. But I have not thought about suicide in a long, long time, so I might be ok with one. I have been giving some thought to it lately. I suppose to be prepared in case of a zombie apocalypse if nothing else.

I was thinking maybe something like a Smith & Wesson 4506, or one of the 'modern' Colt 1911's. They were made to stop a charging horse, they ought to work just fine against a zombie or living human

Lucky Muricans who can get a hold on those legally

You can't have a gun!

I lived in Arizona for a while and they're open carry. I was counting down until I turned 21 and I could buy one... but I moved back to California.

I would like to have a gun. I would feel much safer if I knew I could protect myself from would be stalkers (I've been followed while walking home way too many times). However, my dear youngest brother has quite the temper. I trust myself, but not him when someone pushes him into a rage. While I'm sharing a roof with him, I'll just keep a taser in my bag.

I still own three

I've got a pretty large number. Over 30 at last count. It includes single shots, bolt actions, semi automatics, and revolvers.

My favorite has got to be the Springfield XDM. Guns are definitely dangerous if you don't handle them properly but are otherwise safe so long as they're in proper working condition.

Here's an unpopular opinion:

Horses. I hate them. They aren't majestic or impressive in many ways. They're dumb, quick to panic, and dangerous.

They were,however, very useful to our ancestors...

Plus, they're delicious!

*Destri runs from the thread*

Great in lasagne, from what I've heard.

Goodness! That IS unpopular. Certainly among certain clans of elves. . . .

My elf does agree that they can be quick to panic and dangerous however. Oh, and they do have plenty of horse sense, you know, so maybe not dumb either. And, at least in Buffy's dictionary, if she looks up majestic or impressive, there's a picture of the horse-crazy elf's mare!

I've got real life experience being dragged and thrown by them so it is possible that I'm jaded.

That's what I figured. I almost asked whether you had been thrown, had your foot stepped on or both.

My real life experience is primarily with the the real Superian. She was my grandfather's mare and the granddaughter of Gallant Fox (Gallant Fox, in 1930, became the second Triple Crown winner in history). Anyway, when my grandfather got her, the filly was so young that he carried her in his arms to put her in the back of his truck for the trip home to his ranch. She grew into a beautiful thoroughbred and, as a hunter-jumper, filled his basement with blue ribbons. A typical thoroughbred, the leggy mare was skittish, high-strung and every bit a 'one man horse'. She and my grandfather adored each other though. Yep, I was in awe of her and she was majestic to me. When it came time for my character to name her horse, the choice was easy.

My current annoyed and therefore opinion thingy -

Just because you don't understand why people collect certain things, doesn't mean it's wrong, childish, nerdy or stupid...Whatever it is...

Well now I'm curious...

I would rather use my gun on myself than implant a RFID chip.

/Megalomaniacal sarcasm on
That is just crazy talk! What I think is the only thing in the world that matters.
/Megalomaniacal sarcasm off

Since Napoleon? 500 Trillion Dollars? Holy damn, does she have a daughter I can marry????

David Icke - Interdimensional Entities

Oh what a nut-case! You believe this conspiracy crap Mirocu? You of all people?


Psst, kidding. Ever checked out what those crazies are doing at CERN and admitting thy want to open portals to Oblivion, ergh, I mean another dimension? The CEO admitted in an interview they want to send something through or throw something in there.

Unpopular opinion: I believe in demons, hell and that we're living in the end times.

We don't need demons DE, anything they can do we can do better. And apparently we're more motivated too.

My unpopular opinion?

I don't like charities, because of what they represent: The fact that the wealthy/powerful are comfortable not dealing with problems. Charities can't solve the problems, but they can let people pretend that something's being done.

this is why i left

These conspiracies are rooted in deep antisemitism

Remove my post if you must, i probably deserve it but something needs to be said about all of this.

I've seen quotes from David Icke, a legit insane person

quotes from people who work at InfoWars, a tabloid site who spout transphobia, islamphobia, homophobia, racism and sexism.

i probably wont be back but this has been on my conscience for ages

Personally, I don't think that your post should be deleted.

Conspiracy theories are accumulations of BS invariably built around either paranoia, insanity or prejudice. Reminding everyone of that every now and then is a good thing, if you ask me.

That's my opinion, unpopular or otherwise.

Edit: Oops, didn't know that wasn't covered by the autocensor. Corrected.

I'm glad we see eye to eye

David Icke is absolutely 100% nuts. If you need more background on him, he (somehow?) popularized the theory that there are shape shifting lizard people controlling various world governments and collectively form the illuminati.

That said, I'd call leaving the forum over two posts in one thread rather than simply presenting an explanation of why Icke's half baked ramblings should be discredited a little dramatic.

This. Looking at the above I don't see something 'rooted in antisemitism', I see something that is definitely anti-Rothschild. As a black male nothing is more offensive to me than when I see someone who is black/jewish using the race card/antisemitism bias as a club to smack down someone else's opinion. It trivializes the very real oppressions that our ancestors survived in order to give us the lives we now enjoy… and it dishonors their memory.

My two cents.

I agree with Kiln here.

Let me also add that I don’t understand becoming intolerant when presented with exactly what this thread solicits – unpopular opinions. And Impy, you are the one that created this thread!

Now that said, chorrol is primarily to support discussion of The Elder Scrolls and gaming-related things, not politics or religion – two topics that are infamous for their incendiary and friendship-destroying potential. We enjoy quite a bit of latitude in our discussions here because our members are magnificent about respecting the views and feelings of others. I do not see a real problem at this point, however, should it become clear that this thread is a bad idea, it may need to be closed. And it can certainly be closed if the thread originator so requests.

To be clear, I wasn't supporting anyone. I was simply noting that it would be easy to discredit David Icke rather than just leave the forum by simply presenting some of his views.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Fallout 4 kinda feels like Skyrim with guns, judging from the stuff I've seen in YT. Oh, and am I the only nerd who thinks that the new model for the Combat Armor looks distinctively like the armor of a 40K Imperial Guardsman? It's much more pronounced in the intro, at the end.

Well aside from the setting, NPCs, combat, and lore, they are remarkably similar. Almost as if the same folks made both games

Agree on the combat armour/guardsman thing though. The X-01 suit of power armor, when painted with Vault-tec colours, looks a lot like Ultramarine gear. Some NPCs also refer to Super Mutants as 'Greenskins'. I'm sure it's all just a big coincidence...

I'm gonna wait for a 40K mod; the aesthetics of the Imperium would just fit in soooo well with Fallout. Imagine Dreadnoughts having a duel with Liberty Prime ughhhhhh

Many people often say that Fallout 3 is Oblivion with guns as well. It's no surprise, given that Bethesda made them both. All four games are open worlds, give the player the option of being nice or a right bastard, etc...

I dunno, to me F04 lacked that special certain something that made it one of the Fallouts. Don't get me wrong, 4 is a solid hit and the hours I'm gonna spend on it will steal my time but like I said, sometimes it feels like a Skyrim-Esque FPS rather than a fullblown FO.

My biggest gripe on FO4 is that all those skill based conversation options are now gone. Skills themselves are gone so I get it but it's still disappointing.

Not sure if this is an opinion or a quirk, but it irks me to no end when people refer to the PS4 and Xbox-one as 'next-gen' gaming systems. They lost the right to bear that moniker once the first console appeared on store shelves. At that point they became and remain 'current-gen' systems, though I granted them permission to go by 'new-gen' for the first year or so. I worked at a retail store that sold the bloody things for some time and steadfastly refused to call them 'next-gen' after launch, which likely vexed my superiors to no end. I admittedly sometimes went a bit over the line lecturing coworkers on the error of their ways. Didn't get myself in hot water doing so. I was pegged as an eccentric by that time, and was in any case old and on my way out.

Point is, after all these years, those two systems are STILL commonly referred to as 'next-gen'. It still makes me grit my teeth and let out an occasional growl. It's all silliness of course, but my stance on the matter is not shammed.

I think it's understandable to refer to them as next-gen, simply because the older consoles have still been getting new releases. While we've got the overlap the PS4 and Xbox One are still the new, next generation of consoles.

I actually share this quirk with you, Decrepit. I am also irked when a movie is referred to as an 'instant classic' (what does that even mean?), or when anything is called the 'best ever'. It annoys me that 'like' is the fourth word coming out of most people's mouths these days. I consider it the ugliest four-letter-word in the English language now (having supplanted 'can't' and 'tried' in my book).

I recall another of my unpopular, or at least minority, opinions. It concerns the movie Jaws. I saw it in a packed theater during its initial run. I found the whole business rather ludicrous and unbelievable. Also unintentionally (???) funny. I couldn't keep myself from laughing aloud through many of its supposedly dramatic action scenes. The rest of the audience, who for some reason seemed to take the film far more serious than I, was not pleased. I was getting evil-eyed right and left. But what could I do? To this day I've yet to understand what all the fuss was/is about.

I always consider Jaws to be in the same group as Sharktopus and Two-Headed Shark Attack. Silly 'horror' films that one shouldn't take seriously. If I want to see something about sharks, I'd much rather watch a documentary.

Decrepit, I believe you just may have been ahead of your time. I sort of think that Jaws was originally received as a scary movie that actually gave people pause about ocean swimming. Over the years, however, it has 'morphed' into a comedy. And kind of a fun one at that. 'We're gonna need a bigger boat!'

I completely understand Decrepit's issues. Horror films in general have, to me at least always been painfully predictable and boring, most often both lacking in writing and acting, the sole redeeming factor most often being the soundtrack.

As for the 'Evil-eye'. I physically fell asleep on no less than Three occasions when I went to see 'passion of the christ'...and I snore...loudly when forced to sleep in that kind of upright position.

There were no happy campers in that audience let me tell you.

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. I say that's bs.

What is true is that nothing in 'our universe' can travel faster than the speed of light where 'our universe' refers to everything within the light speed boundary.

Anything traveling faster discovers tiny bits of matter suspended by their instantaneous positions in 'absolute space'; absolute as opposed to our 'relative' sense of space. In physics, the suggestion of an absolute space is heresy. Nevertheless, space is merely up/down, right/left, forward/backward and any arbitrary units of distance we wish to measure movement by. To claim that matter distorts space as Einstein asserts, is to inherently imply an undistorted space or an 'absolute space'.

A Hydrogen atom, if expanded to a radius equal to the Empire State building, would consist of a nucleus the size of a softball and a single orbiting electron the size of a grain of salt. That, and a whole lot of empty space. At speeds above the speed of light, everything would be caught in freeze-frame mode and suddenly consist of pretty much empty space. Any number of universes, just as nebulous as our own, could pass through our absolute space each on it's own absolute vector, with virtually little or no interaction. Each enveloped in it's own speed-of-light boundary. So many universes from all directions might not produce more than a mere wind of interaction, perhaps like the effect of gravity; the-universal-force-without-a-source.

Hawkings predictions of black holes was verified by the fact that xrays are generated near it's 'event horizon' (the closest we can come to referring to the surface of a black hole). These xrays are the result of matter merely precipitating in space out of nowhere and nothing. They simply appear. In fact, the theory is that matter is constantly being created and destroyed in our universe. Could these be bits of matter robbed from other universes by the power of black holes as they pass through our absolute space?

That's my story and I'm stick'n to it.

Next gen is just a marketing buzz word that indicates to consumers that they're buying something from the future that is superior to the previous generation. While they are superior, it is time to start referring to them as current gen. One problem is that some devs, although very few, have continued to build games for last gen systems up until very recently. This enforces the idea that the old consoles are somehow still the current gen. I agree with you, it is annoying.