Post your searing hot takes

My grand theory of the internet is that its humor has, for better or worse, never actually fundamentally changed. Any belief that it has is purely down to optics. Two of the most popular things among terminally online children right now are "Sonic.exe" and "Surreal source filmmaker series involving half-life characters grotesquely distorted for comedic effect". I'm sure there's plenty of tiktok memes whose stylings can be traced back to YTMNDs and such.

On a similar note I have yet to see any compelling evidence that labubus are in any way materially different from previous dumb fad collectibles. Dread from it, run from it, Beanie Babies arrive all the same
 
It seems less like you have an issue with post-credit scenes and more like you have an issue with people not appreciating the people that do 99% of the work on movies to instead hype the brainless Hollywood execs/a list actors, which is fair. I personally love post-credits scenes, they're a chance for the movie to shift gears a little bit after its main ending and either put funny bloopers that wouldn't fit anywhere else or expand the story a bit in a direction away the main move, such as an epilogue
 
BIG ASHLEY said:
kier starmer is nowhere near as strong as mega rayquaza i bet he doesn't even lift
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what. that's so mean. you take that back rite now. i'm gonna cry...
 
vanilla is low floor high ceiling as far as ice cream goes

it's flavor is not as powerful so a bad vanilla doesn't have a 'at least this flavor is hit' dynamic so much

but great vanilla that brings out its subtleties is really excellent
 
Welcome to mars said:
Vanilla ice cream is not a bad flavour.
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What people actually call vanilla is "basic," which leads me to a take of my own: We need to kill "basic" as an insult. All it does is make people self-conscious about their enjoyment of popular things, which leads to a plague of insufferable contrarianism upon all our houses. I'm an advocate for a post-taste society in general, and this is as good a starting point as any.
 
The importance of science and reliability in personality tests is overrated. The main purpose of personality tests is not to tell you who you are - that question is something you get to answer. Personality tests give you ideas and concepts in your toolbox, things to play around with and test and see how they apply to you or don't. I care way more about whether a test gives me helpful tools and concepts to play around with, versus scientific reliability, because I can filter out the junk from an unreliable test.

If a test spits out an attractive personality that could induce the Barnum Effect, that's an opportunity for you to think critically about whether it actually applies to you. That process gives you more information than receiving an answer you don't think about further, even if that second answer is correct.

A similar idea is that, even if a test has scientifically validated personality traits, fitting those traits into your model of yourself, deciding their importance, is a subjective exercise too. It's vulnerable to the same types of challenges - or learning opportunities - that these tests face generally.

As an exception, I understand that scientific reliability is important for some specific applications, like doing scientific research into populations and their personalities.
 
Adeleine said:
The importance of science and reliability in personality tests is overrated. The main purpose of personality tests is not to tell you who you are - that question is something you get to answer. Personality tests give you ideas and concepts in your toolbox, things to play around with and test and see how they apply to you or don't. I care way more about whether a test gives me helpful tools and concepts to play around with, versus scientific reliability, because I can filter out the junk from an unreliable test.

If a test spits out an attractive personality that could induce the Barnum Effect, that's an opportunity for you to think critically about whether it actually applies to you. That process gives you more information than receiving an answer you don't think about further, even if that second answer is correct.

A similar idea is that, even if a test has scientifically validated personality traits, fitting those traits into your model of yourself, deciding their importance, is a subjective exercise too. It's vulnerable to the same types of challenges - or learning opportunities - that these tests face generally.

As an exception, I understand that scientific reliability is important for some specific applications, like doing scientific research into populations and their personalities.
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This goes for astrology, too.
 
Agree for sure. Astrology was somewhere in the draft of this post I wrote in my head two to three hours before I posted the post I actually posted. Post post post post post. Post is a word.

I've long included astrology in an opinion bloc of my head that goes to the effect of "What spiritual practices get societally respected is fundamentally arbitrary" and I agree that it naturally applies here too.

I think some people very hostile to astrology assume, for those who do care about it, that they care about astrology more and trust it more deeply than is usually true. (Also with religion, actually.)
 
ImaginaryNeon said:
The Third Degree is a good weapon.
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Former Pyro main here (they're still my third most played class). It's good in a vacuum but ultimately if you want to hit multiple Medics at once you can just torch them with your flamethrower, which also interferes with their healing and has airblast to push them away from their pocket. Most of Pyro's other melee weapons are either generally better or have more relevant niche uses.
 
Mechalico said:
Former Pyro main here (they're still my third most played class). It's good in a vacuum but ultimately if you want to hit multiple Medics at once you can just torch them with your flamethrower, which also interferes with their healing and has airblast to push them away from their pocket. Most of Pyro's other melee weapons are either generally better or have more relevant niche uses.
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I just like the sound design on it.
And how it looks.
And how it allows me to perform my natural instinct of trying to melee a pocketed Heavy.
 
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