Controversial Opinions (For Everything Other Than DC Comics)

[The Negative Zone]

Calling video game characters Mary Sues is typically pointless when games focus around making you feel awesome and amazing instead of someone with flaws and limitations. Take Starkiller from Star Wars the Force Unleashed, the character gives you some of the most overpowered force powers because this is what makes a cool video game.

[Kirby101]

Yelp is the fucking devil.

Yelp is a God send, especially when travelling.

[Jack Dracula]

Science, faith, or both?

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"Incurable tumor disappears from Texas girl’s brain after community lifts her in prayers"

"Nearly six months after an 11-year-old old Texas girl was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, doctors can no longer find a trace of it after her family and friends prayed for a miracle.

“And we got it,” said Gena Doss, the mother of Roxli Doss, in an interview with KVUE.

And now everyone is thanking God for His blessing.

“Praise God we did,” her husband, Scott, said...

Dr. Virginia Harrod with Dell Children’s Medical Center told KVUE that DIPG is a rare and devastating disease.

"It is very rare, but when we see it, it is a devastating disease. You have decreased ability to swallow, sometimes vision loss, decreased ability to talk, eventually difficulty with breathing,” she said.

The doctor explained that the 11-year-old had gone through weeks of radiation treatment but there was no expectation that the tumor would just disappear. Roxli’s recovery she said is “unbelievable..."

While doctors treated Roxli with radiation they did not expect to cure her. The Buda community, where the family lives, decided to pray with her parents for a miracle.

“Her diagnosis has broken the hearts of our entire community. We have been taken to our knees and called to battle by storming the gates of heaven with our faith filled prayers. We know the one thing the doctors didn’t factor in was our God, and He is in the business of miracles!” the group said.

And on Monday, as word spread of Roxli’s unexpected recovery, the group gave God all the praise and thanked everyone who prayed.

In a poem written by Roxli in school this past Thanksgiving, she wrote: “To everyone, thank you. You were kind to me, you raised money for me, you prayed for me, and you healed me. You showed the world, not all heroes wear capes.”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/i...n-prayers.html

Whatever the reason for the young lady's recovery, I'm very happy for her and her family.

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

This is true, but I think black people need to pay closer attention to voting records, policy etc. Imo I don't think we do, we just see a familiar face and give them the benefit of the doubt because they're black, a Democrat, or they're not a Republican.

I agree, I think those people shouldn't be complaining when they're being too risk averse to actually pic a candidate that'll help them. I think the electable excuse is a kinda self fufiling prophecy voters are stuck in.

The Congressional Black Caucus Leadership is sorta kinda trash too.

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

While I'm at it, the way the Obama's handled the Jeremiah Wright situation was opertunistic cowardice

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...db99056c8a7?ck

[dancj]

Science, faith, or both?

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[I]"Incurable tumor disappears from Texas girl’s brain after community lifts her in prayers"

A million to one shots happen one in a million times. No divine intervention needed.

Fantastic that she's better. Terrible that she got cancer in the first place.

Just strange that people will praise God for curing someone of cancer that he gave/allowed in the first place (and didn't cure in millions of other cases)

[Kirby101]

To call the WWII generation America's greatest generation is a bit of an exaggeration. WWII generation is no greater than the Revolutionary War generation who fought to make their country independent from an European empire or the Civil War generation who fought a war to end slavery.

Well the Civil War had almost as many Americans fight for dlavery.

The greatest generation is a recent named coined by Tom Brokaw in 1998. It was an effort not to forget the WWII veterans and build a WWII memorial before they all passed away.
Also a slap in the face to baby boomers.

[DrNewGod]

To call the WWII generation America's greatest generation is a bit of an exaggeration. WWII generation is no greater than the Revolutionary War generation who fought to make their country independent from an European empire or the Civil War generation who fought a war to end slavery.

To call the WWII generation America's greatest generation is a bit of an exaggeration. WWII generation is no greater than the Revolutionary War generation who fought to make their country independent from an European empire or the Civil War generation who fought a war to end slavery.

That's a fair comment. People forget that the Revolution wasn't a one-season gig (1775-1783), and for a very long stretch of it, it looked like the unruly colonists were gonna lose. At the same time, people fixate on WWII; that generation also endured The Great Depression, so they had a pretty miserable stretch running almost unbroken from 1929-1945, and almost all of it was on film.

The Greatests do have something that everybody can feel nostalgic about. Conservatives love the fact that the US of that time beat up the Nazis (shush. no comparing the Eastern Front body-counts with ours), became The Uncontested Economic World Champions (shush. no pointing out that everybody elses factories were bombed flat), and that it was okay to Red Scare anybody that wasn't mainstream. Liberals love the fact that the US took a massive socialist swing (shush. no pointing out that a lot of it was unsustainable), that the US heavily invested in education (shush. no pointing out that it was partly an effort to prevent another Bonus Army of 1932 debacle), and that people eventually pushed back on The Red Scare.

Well the Civil War had almost as many Americans fight for dlavery.

The greatest generation is a recent named coined by Tom Brokaw in 1998. It was an effort not to forget the WWII veterans and build a WWII memorial before they all passed away.
Also a slap in the face to baby boomers.

If it was a slap, not deliberately so I think. Also, IMO, a lot of the progress the Boomers like to claim was actually the work of their predecessors. David Halberstam's The Fifties is a great look at that.

[Kirby101]

America still had a segregated military during the WWII and didn't desegregate the military until after WWII. In addition, Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps.

What is your point? I ws explaining were the phrase came from.

[Starter Set]

To call the WWII generation America's greatest generation is a bit of an exaggeration. WWII generation is no greater than the Revolutionary War generation who fought to make their country independent from an European empire or the Civil War generation who fought a war to end slavery.

Well, i guess it depends what your criteria are. WW2 created today's United States. Before that the US were a kinda secondary player on the world stage in terms of politic. (already an economic powerhouse though)

And speaking of WW2 and controversial topic, did you know that the allies killed more French civilians that the Germans ever did during that conflict?

Yes, and here is you first clue why people in France weren't always as welcoming as the cute "historical movies" are trying to portrait. And that's not even mentioning all the rapes and looting who took such an importance that De Gaulle warned Eisenhower that if that **** didn't calm down the French were going to side with the Germans.

Now that would have been a fun turn of event.

[numberthirty]

The "Yule Log" program is a rather crafty bit of television. They did a lot with a pretty narrow set of parameters.

[The Darknight Detective]

The "Yule Log" program is a rather crafty bit of television. They did a lot with a pretty narrow set of parameters.

Yes, indeed. I grew up with it as a kid during the '70s on Long Island, since WPIX began airing it a year I was born in 1966.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays!

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

Lane keep assist is just a DUI preventer. I mean my CT6 basically drives itself.

[Emperor-of-Dragons]

it's tough making female bad asses, cause women bad asses tend to have their own political "baggage" and divisiveness. If she's too tough physically she's shallow, if shes more Machiavellian than physical she's no real bad ass and plays into the Macbeth trope that people see as problematic. Men don't have these political land mines when writing them...for the most part.

[Emperor-of-Dragons]

People claim HipHop fans (especially "old heads") are too critical of today's "rap". But I think we're totally reasonable compared to HardRock/HEAVYMETAL fans. Just go visit the pages of Loudwire, Metal Hammer etc to see what I'm talking about. We're waaaay more objective