Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@Meanlucario  
you mean Monkey Paw?

@icey wicey 1517  
Yep.

You know, it’s sad how Friedberg & Seltzer could’ve been great directors in the parody genre if they actually put in the effort instead of using juvenile humor, gross out jokes and shoving in a billion pop culture references ad nauseam. They missed the mark on what made Airplane!, Spaceballs and Scary Movie great and well beloved films.

After the movie Bumblebee, the next Transformer movie should be focused on Starscream now.

@Twi Clown
 
120 minutes of Starscream yelling about Megatron.

@Twi Clown  
i heard the next one’s going to focus on Optimus & Bumblebee. of course, nothing’s been 100% confirmed but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Use comments, you coding bitch.

@Scrabbleman  
What?

@Mikey  
I’ve been staring at this HTML page on Tumblr and there’s no comments on it, so I don’t know what half of these codes do.

Is it popular to like the trope of a strong person not caring enough to use their powers unless they’re needed (often due to laziness, seeing it wasteful to use it too much or thinking it takes the fun out of battle when no one is at risk of death)?

I honestly wish people would stop overreacting with what’s going on with YouTube, the FTC, and COPPA. If you want people to interact with your stuff on YouTube, just set your channel as “non-kid friendly” and move on.

@SD50-2  
Isn’t it the case that Youtube punishing non-kid friendly material because advertisement money?

@Meanlucario  
Not really. If you produce content that you declare as “kid friendly”, you could actually lose some ad revenue, as your videos won’t have “personalized ads” on them. If you produce “adult” content (basically, YouTube has to restrict it to 18 and above, which not the same as non-kid friendly), then you will not be allowed to run ads on it (IIRC).
 
It’s also worth noting that here in the US, a “kid” is legally defined as anyone being under the age of 13.
 
And quite frankly, had Google/YouTube not been so predatory about their data collection, this whole thing probably would’ve been avoided…

@SD50-2  
I don’t get the first part.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
Basically:  
*Kid friendly content: “non-personalized” (Google’s term, not mine) ads are what will be shown on a video of this type. However, as these are cheaper and not all that desirable, they won’t bring in as much ad revenue for the content creator, as they don’t utilize a person’s browsing/search history, from what I understand (which is probably where they ran afoul of the FTC and COPPA). Note: The term “kid” here in the US is legally defined as someone below the age of 13.  
*Adult-only content: I think this currently has to be flagged by someone watching, but videos that are “too graphic or sexual in nature” (IIRC) are restricted to people who are signed in and are at least 18 years of age. Ads are not shown on these videos, from what I understand.  
*If a video doesn’t fall into either of the above categories, the ads will remain just as they’ve always been.

@Meanlucario  
Not sure, but I’ve always appreciated characters who do that as having some sort of moral code that they follow unless they really have to use their powers.

@ILoveMyoozik  
I can enjoy that as long as doesn’t go into lawful stupid territory.

Review Bombing is toxic, It’s unfair, It’s fraud, It’s a malicious attempt to influence people into not buying/watching something, It only divides fans even further, It’s immature, and It’s flat out ridiculous.

@Typhoon2000  
Funny how your avatar fits your comment, sounds like something Brian Griffin would actually say

@Typhoon2000  
It’s people expressing their opinion on something. No fucking way is it fraud or unfair.

@Mikey  
Like review bombing Borderlands 2 because 3 is an Epic exclusive even though BL2 is a good game?

@Meanlucario  
Which site did that happen?

@Broken Adam  
People did that on Steam and reviewing sites.

@Mikey
 
Opinions can be unfair

@Zincy  
Especially when the “I’m in the right” mindset is used as justification.