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.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Dec 22 2015, 10:54 AM

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.

The Star Wars Prequels aren't half bad.

Next thing you´re gonna tell us Jar Jar was just annoying

Ah, but you see, I left that statement open ended. I merely suggested it's not 'half bad'....


Rather, it's completely bad.




And we shall all kneel before Darth Binks!

I for one welcome our Sith Overlords, no matter their race...

Playing Battlefield 1 and some ways I like it and some ways I kinda don't. To be fair the game does allow you to switch teams if one side become to dominating but that feels wrong for some reason, then again if the other team don't give a damn then I guess it's okay to commit treason . Another Gripe I have with it is not being able to see the enemy clearly, there's been times I'll be looking at a corner of a building or tree and there will be nothing there only to be kill by someone who was right where I was looking at. The game also feels like Battlefront sometimes---then again it IT made by the same company so.....

Yeah I guess in real life you could defect to the other side in a war. Might get you shot by either side in the middle of a battle though, lol

Battlefield 1 is good in some ways but one of my main issues is that there are many automatic and semi automatic weapons being fielded that were never considered for use by militaries. The vast majority of the fighting was done with bolt action rifles but in BF1 3/4 of players use machineguns.

I believe that the actor who portrayed Uriel Septim VII during Daggerfall's intro did every bit as good a job as did Patrick Stewart in Oblivion. (The fellow standing beside him play Chancellor Ocato, on the other other hand, is sort of stiff. Then again it's not much of a part.) I'd have been perfectly happy had they used him again and spend the money saves on Stewart's fee to hire additional voice actors to add a bit of welcome variety to the game and/or create additional dialog lines for the populous at large.

Khajiit has never really understood what hiring those big name folks for voice acting brought to the game. Seems like they could've found lesser known folks that would have done just as well and for cheaper. Sean Bean, for instance, sounded very flat in this one's opinion.

To be honest I always quit in Battlefront. I always play Empire and whenever they force
me to become Rebel terrorists I just leave the queue. Not a popular opinion but I can't stand playing as the Rebels.