Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 411

Sports are the worst form of...well...anything

 

Nah sports are well above games and miles above podcasts.

 

Sports could be removed from reality and we'd have world peace. That's how bad they are.

 

What

 

I like low stakes multiplayer games like super smash or Mario kart (really any Nintendo multiplayer). I absolutely do not care about any other games though. I’d put every medium above them.

 

On the topic of sports, the NFL and American football in general is boring. I’d put baseball above it. I watch it pretty much only in social settings.

 

Football is trash. Might get better if anyone involved in it cared about the players as human beings but I doubt we’ll ever see that

 

Sports is a fun way to be part of a large community

 

i like sports they're good imo

 

My dad is a huge hockey guy and I grew up going to Lightning games at the Ice Palace. I always felt tempted to get into the Bolts as an adult, but I missed that whole near-dynasty Stamkos era and feel like I'd be going in too late.

Also I live literally down the street from the Blue Jays spring training stadium (I can literally hear Jays spring training games from my apartment) but for some reason I never went to a game for the same reason.

I feel about sports the same way some people feel about getting into Star Trek or Dr. Who or something. I want to get into, but there is so much lore I missed that it is intimidating.

 

Go Bolts and yeah Stamkos leaving has been big sad.

 

I think the last time I was really invested in sports was the late 2000's/early 2010's Joe Maddon/Evan Longoria era Rays.

 

I think my biggest sports hot take/unpopular opinion is that the NBA’s shot clock should be 30 seconds.

 

Sports are good, but if you’re putting sports over music, books & film you’re a silly goose. Visual art/photography would probably go between film and TV for me. Sports before TV as well. So:
1. Music
2. Books
3. Film
4. Visual Arts/Photography
5. Sports
6. TV
7. Games
8. Podcasts

edit:
And Theater before games

 

Yeah I love the rioting when my team loses

 

So the only games you enjoy are the ones that in no way try to have a story, characters, plot, worldbuilding, etc.

I mean, enjoy what you enjoy, but it kind of irks me a bit to be like "I put every medium above these games that I don't play because those aren't the kinds of games that interest me." How can you do any real comparison if you've never actually experienced them on their own terms?

I'm going to regret this.

 

I have played other games before. That’s how I know they’re bad.

 

Games fall very short compared to other mediums of storytelling. Might as well say you like movies for the music.

 

Cite examples. Give me games with stories that you have played and explain how they fail as stories, as experiences.

 

I just don’t go to games for stories. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in Binding of Isaac. It rules, it’s very fun. There is lore that the fans are like obsessed with. I think it’s dumb as hell. If a game is marketed for the story/character development rather than how fun it is to play, I am out. That’s not why I play games.

 

Exactly this.

 

Well, do what pleases you. It just seems strange to me to then put an "exclamation point" on this medium is a bad medium when you don't even play the kind of games that might either change or at least reinforce that opinion.

You might as well say music is low grade because it can't tell a story without ever having heard a concept album. It's severely lacking in the appropriate experience to make that kind of determination.

 

Musics purpose isn't to tell a story but if storytelling was a necessary part of it I would also judge it more harshly than more effective mediums.

 

Okay. That really isn't my point. My point is not how harsh you would judge it, my point is judging it at all without having any experience to judge it by.