Problems with opinions...

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

I want to know at what point the world went insane where one person could not have an Opinion about any subject without doing intense research on the subject at hand.

Lets take a recent thing I have posted about, Maroon 5's new CD. I have heard well over half of it and listened to snippets of it on Amazon.com yet I am not allowed to say that I do not like the band or the CD because I have not listened to the entire album. Does that make sense? Do people actually do things they don't like for extended periods of time just so they can announce to people that they didn't like what they just did for an extended period of time?

Lets also take the New Zelda game...I played it for 9 hours...The game takes about 40 to beat if you played it straight through. So I played 1/4th of the game and disliked pretty much every minute of it. Why am I not allowed to say that this was in fact a bad game? It doesn't matter if you liked it and I shouldn't be rebuked for it.

I also don't like the Wii and feel its control scheme is clunky. I again get the "You haven't given it a chance" excuse. Does this make sense? Must I play EVERY game on the Wii to completion before my opinion that the system is nothing but a party system will be accepted instead of rebuked? I didn't play every Genesis game ever made but I still liked that system.

Granted yes some of you don't know the difference of acceptance and total rebuking of an opinion. You don't HAVE to agree with anything I or anyone else says. However you do have to accept that some people don't like what you like and they have a right to say they don't like something without having the person that does like something telling them that they just don't understand how awesome this thing is because they just can't comprehend how great it is.

There are men in the world that enjoy having a cheese grater rubbed onto their manhood. They get sexual arousal from this pain. Do you think that these men go up to people tell them what they do and say, "Hey have you ever tried it before? Then don't knock it." Then the other person goes home and rubs his junk on a cheese grater and passes out from the pain. The next day they approach the previous man and say, "Yep, I tried it and don't like it." Does the first man have the right to say, "You didn't do it till you received sexual gratification from it therefore you can't formulate a real opinion on the subject."

I can understand if someone never tried/heard/ate something and automatically doesn't like it how you can kind of accuse them of saying they don't like it cause they have never tried it. But there are some things some people just will never like. I hate racing games that don't encourage you to maim the other drivers in some way or do insane crap to win (See Burnout and Rush games). I write off all non-arcadey racing games as "Racing Games" and don't pay them a second glance. Likewise, when I hear music I don't like I pretty much don't like the band that put out the music. For example Linkin Park no longer plays "Nu Metal" and has strayed from it on their recent CD. At the moment I do not like them that much anymore because they betrayed what made them great and have become a band that sounds like they just want to be on soundtracks now...Which they are actually.

Sciler · Mistress Age: 46 Gender: Joined: 15 Sep 2002

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

Aiman · Demon Knight Age: 43 Gender: Joined: 14 Jan 2003

Power to the people! Woo!

Gaaz, how do you know about this cheese grater thing? Hmm...?

Also, as far as I know, Maroon 5 is a boyband. I think they're latin and they suck. Razz

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

I know of the cheese grater thing from listening to the Howard Stern show before he went Satellite.

Aiman · Demon Knight Age: 43 Gender: Joined: 14 Jan 2003

Sciler · Mistress Age: 46 Gender: Joined: 15 Sep 2002

I love Stern!

I dont like beer much either, but I have found, surprisingly, that I think I can tolerate Corona as long as there is lime in it. Takes out the bitterness some.

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

SirGunslinger · Rebel without a clue Gender: Joined: 21 Jun 2007

You sound like you need lots of alcohol... and some apathy =)

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

I'm pretty stoic and and border on apathetic when it comes to other people. But I don't think I've ever told anyone their opinion was wrong because they have never experienced something "enough." Now if you said something like "I hate the Halloween movies." and you have never saw them then yeah...I'll yell at ya.

I'll tell someone their opinion is wrong straight up and defend why it is. But I'll never say something like, "You only think that Judge Dredd sucks cause you haven't seen it 16 times like me."