Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@SeraphimDawn  
because the internet cannot report the news objectively. more so than certain news organizations, there’s always an angle or are more focused on the sensationalism.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Mainstream outlets are becoming more like those sensationalist clickbaits themselves.

@SeraphimDawn  
too bad that it’s the clickbait that gets all the attention. so even if a credible news org gets all the facts straight, it just gets ignored for being ‘too late’.

@SeraphimDawn
 
Frame the issue lad, frame the issue. The key is to read a piece of news from a left leaning site, a right leaning site, a somewhat center leaning site, then from some citizen run blogs. Then you look for the threads that are similar between them, those are probably the strands of truth cleft from the bias and fluff.

@OptimusPrimevil  
There is no such thing as credible news outlet anymore.  
Which means people will have to use their own common sense and brains to work more nowadays.

@Zincy  
I tend to go for sites that expresses all sides of the argument.

@SeraphimDawn  
Or at least if one side is utterly stupid, the site that follows the more ethical side.

@SeraphimDawn
 
There is no site on the planet that is free of bias just as there is no person on the planet that is free of bias. I refuse to believe that any news site fairly shows both sides of the issue without some sort of subtext.
 
Unless you get all of your information of Opposing-views, and even that site is wiki style and capable of bias.

@SeraphimDawn  
no offense but not EVERYONE is on the net. yeah while the techies are all wired up, a hefty chunk of the population still isn’t online in one way or another. that’s why tv,radio and newspapers still have a place.
 
shutting them down because “it’s all in the internet” is just tech bias.

@Zincy  
I know. That’s why I go to multiple source before I confirm a claim.

I don’t give a fuck that Nintendo’s president carc’d it, as any sympathies I would have were pissed away by what I consider one of the worst fanbases in existence: Hardcore Nintendo fanboys.

@Ebalosus  
Dude, he just died today, be a little sensitive, would you? And I’m more of a Sony guy too.

@Virgil Stormblade
 
No, because to quote Razorfist:
 
July 11th = ‘Iwata MUST resign! Nintendo is dying!’  
July 12th = ‘The world has lost a GENIUS!’  
What a difference an untimely death makes.

@Ebalosus  
Guy did a lot of work with Nintendo. He basically did a lot. Sony is even mourning his death. have a heart.

@Ebalosus  
Assholes in the fandom won’t stop us from paying respect to the great man.

@Ebalosus  
How about not relying on others to voice your opinions and make your own? Oh wait, you already had, you just decided to be completely and utterly callous about it. You still hold grudges for so long, nothing good they did, have done, and will do, would make a difference to you. You still cling on to your hatred and refuse to see the good in things that you hate, as if there is no redeeming factor to it.
 
Is that how you want to be remembered? As a sad man who never forgives others, no matter what? Think on it.
 
My apologies for this, I never wanted to go off on this, but I just wanted to get this off my mind. If I’m gonna get banned for this rant, I’ll take it with dignity.

@igotnopicks  
@SeraphimDawn
 
>>142502p (merged)
 
Please Note: I did not say that I’m glad he’s dead, I said that I just didn’t care that he was. Not because of any ill will towards him or Nintendo, but because I just don’t care. If you care, then go about that in whatever way suites you, I mean that sincerely. Remember: Indifference =/= malice
 
…Unless you’re implying that I should care just because a lot of other people do?
 
@Ore-O
 
I guess you haven’t been paying attention. I have said positive things about ME3

@Ebalosus
 
Wow man that’s pretty damn weak. If your own personal directions can be so easily influenced by a crowd that you’d act that way, it may be time to reevaluate some things. Sign of a person with no sense of self, reflected only in his views of the masses. Nothing more than an angry mirror.
 
 
In regards to the post that came right before mine. Our definitions of malice vary, because what you said was pretty damn hateful.

@Zincy
 
>Replies to earlier post  
>Ignores justifying post
 
I guess that you’re right, I do follow the masses…

@Ebalosus
 
For starters, your post popped up after I had hit send, but honestly it doesn’t change my opinion as I don’t believe your justification.
 
Never said that you followed the crowd, but you let it influence you way too much. You allowed a vocal bunch of bitchy twatles to make you so angry at a given situation that you’d casually disregard someones death.
 
Also, your state wasn’t apathy. Apathy is not caring, or just being meh. Your post dripped with anger, spite, and vitriol. That wasn’t meh, that was anger.

@Zincy
 
No, no it doesn’t. It’s not a “vocal bunch of bitchy twatles” that make me angry, it’s their egregious hypocrisy that makes me angry. I don’t care what people are fans of, but I do care when said fans bash either other fandoms, or other things people are fans of that they themselves are guilty of! Case-in-point: Nintendo fans bashing CoD and CoD fans for liking the same product being re-released year-after-year, even though they themselves are guilty of that.
 
Like what you like, but don’t accuse others of what can easily be accused of yourself, that’s why tend to be critical of Nintendo fans, as they will accuse others of things that equally can apply to themselves. This isn’t just Nintendo fans I’m critical in this regard, but a lot of other fandoms as well. I tend to focus on Nintendo more due to cultural factors than any others (Nintendos are rare here, thus Nintendo fandom isn’t well understood in my neck of the woods.)

@Ebalosus
 
 
So you’re basically going to rage at a systemic bias that’s pretty much present in all major groups? You’re going to be yelling for a long time then because it’s not going anywhere any time soon.
 
You yourself have most likely been guilty of doing the exact same thing. We all do it, it’s an internal bias. So, you’re accusing others of what can be, and is most likely applicable to yourself, and really every other person on the planet. I forget the exact name, I’m fairly sure it’s a form of attribution bias in relation to in-group/out group, I’ll have to look it up again.

@Zincy
 
Not quite sure what you’re trying to attribute to me. You’d be surprised by how nonchalant I actually am (Hint). All I said was that I’d call a spade a spade…but according to you, I’m some sort of OCD-nihilist.

@Ebalosus
 
Careful there, if the point flies over any faster it may cut your ear.
 
I said you’re accusing them of something that literally every single person on the planet is guilty of at one point in time, which is ironically why you’re accusing them in the first place.
 
There is a fundamental bias to see an action as right when it’s personal, or done by your in group, and see the exact same thing as wrong when done by an out group. It’s what those fan-boys are doing, I’ve done it before, and you’ve done it before.
 
So to base you rage on “don’t accuse others of what can easily be accused of yourself” is kind of ironic when you think about the fact that you’ve easily been the one making that exact bias before in your life. And don’t say you haven’t, everyone’s done it at least once. No one is an infallible saint.

@Zincy
 
Ok, you must be taking the piss, given that you’re telling me what I already know. This has gone from insulting the content of my character, to outright hilarity.
 
I can’t wait to pass this along to my Twitter mates (some of whom are psychologists) for their take on all this. I’m only but a former sociologist, not a psych major.