Unpopular Opinion

discord is a black hole for information

Traditional reasoning says you should prefer open forums like lemmy that are available and searchable to the open web. After all, you're posting to help people, and that helps people the most. The platform (like reddit) may profit off of it, but that's fine, they're providing the platform for you to post. Fair deal.

Plus people coming for high quality information helps the community and topic back. You attract other high quality contributors, the more people use/partake in the topic you are discussing, the platform often improves with the revenue etc. It's not perfect, but it worked

AI scrapers break all that. The company profiting is the AI company, and they give nothing back. They model just holds all the information in its weights. It doesn't drive people to the source. Even the platform doesn't benefit from bot scraping. The addition of high quality data may improve the model on that topic and thus push people to engage in said topic more, but not much, because of how AI's are trained, while you need some high quality data, a lot more important, especially for lesser known topics, is amount of data.

So as more of the world moves to AI models, I don't really feel like posting on public forums as much, helping the AI companies get richer, even if I do benefit from AI myself.

Holy shit, I need to rant about this because it’s driving me insane. Lately, it feels like every new show drops a single episode and then forces you to wait months for the rest.

Who actually enjoys this? A whole week for one episode? That’s an eternity in real life. By the time the next episode airs, I could be a completely different person—new job, new hobbies, maybe even a new brain—and suddenly, I don’t even care about the show anymore.
It’s like some 80-year-old corporate exec is sitting in a boardroom, smashing a big red button labeled "FEED THE MASSES" once a week, doling out TV like it’s fucking rations.

Some more reasons why it sucks:

• You forget the plot (and the whole vibe) between episodes.

• If an episode sucks, you just wasted a week of anticipation for nothing.

It’s like walking out of a movie halfway through and coming back seven days later for the rest. Who does that?

How I cope? I refuse to watch until the entire season is out. I want to enjoy the story properly, on my own time, without this drip-fed nonsense.

Back in the day, TV was just cheap filler for people with nothing better to do—endless soap operas where the most exciting thing that happened in a week was somebody’s amnesia curing or a long-lost twin showing up. Who had time for that?

But now? TV has evolved into something better than movies. We get deeper storytelling (no rushed 2-hour limits), higher production value (some shows look more cinematic than blockbusters), actual character development (instead of cramming arcs into a single film)

Yet studios still release episodes weekly like it’s 1985 and we’re all waiting around for Days of Our Lives. Newsflash: We’re not.

After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don't even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.

~~Unpopular preference, maybe? I've worked the title a few times but can't get it phrased as a concise opinion. Regardless, I think it still fits the spirit of the group.~~

SMS Texting in 2025 sucks. The overwhelming majority of "unknowns" texting me are marketing BS (that I didn't sign up for), scams, and other junk. It's almost at the same state that calling was ~10 years ago. Even besides that, texting a friend/family member to have a conversation feels so... wasteful? It's something I used to do and now never would. Anecdote: I also barely respond to texts at this point unless it's a direct question, "I'm at the store, do we need milk?" "Yes." Even still, half the time I'd just call them to say "yes." According to my cellular provider, I've sent 16 SMS messages since March 25th.

If I'm trying to contact someone, I always just call them unless I know they won't pick up and have told others to do the same with me.

Counterpoint to this is that some people think it's rude to cold-call, which is fair, but I have a good enough relationship with the people I keep regular contact with so that they know they can just call back at their own decision. Other than that, I'm only calling businesses/customer support, so it's a moot point.

That's it, that's all I care about. Plus if you want to eat it a bit later, they get soggy and nasty.

~~It’s lazy. It has no place in quality communities.~~ If you are a mod and feel ~~so overwhelmed~~ unable to keep up with the posts in your communities, then ~~you need to~~ please consider bringing on other quality mods ~~and /or step down and let someone else do the job~~ to help you.

/rant

Edit: as was pointed out, my post was overly negative toward mods. I apologize. I should’ve waited before posting this so I didn’t come across as inflammatory.

If you don't know what a scanlator is, it's a portmanteau of scan + translator and is a person or group that scans and translates Manga from Japan.

Online theirs this unspoken rule that scanlators seem to follow of not scanlating if another group is scanlating the Manga.

But the problem is that sometimes you can get stuck with a bad scanlator either from not translating things well or being a horrible human being and inserting that into the translation or just ruining the Manga somehow or some sort of combination of those.

It's why I'm fine with multiple scanlators especially when theirs a bad scanlator ruining things

Game prices for the past 30 years haven't kept pace with inflation.

I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.

Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.

You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.

(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)

Just look at fitness influencers, atheletes, male and female who have peak human bodies as examples, ppl like showing off their bodies when they are physically fit and look good.

I never got the whole oversexualized angle when it comed to most comic book appearences, they look very tame compared to rave or even gym outfits meant for mobility, do superheroes not need mobility?

I'm definitely not wrong here. Literally everyone.

Stop it.

people will navigate even the most convoluted software when motivated enough

I don't care if it's in a shitposting community, a meme community, or a news community. If the image or text is generated it should be labeled as such, and failing to label it should be grounds to remove the post. AI slop is a plague and its only going to get worse as the tech matures (if it hasn't already peaked).

I'm so tired of having to call it out every time I see it, especially when people in the comments think it's a photoshop work or (heavens help us) real. Human labor has real tangible value that plagiarism machines can't even pretend to imitate and I'm sick of seeing that shit without it being labeled (so I can filter it out).

The entitled attitude and acting like there's something unethical about article paywalls makes me roll my eyes. Find a way to bypass it or a copy on one of the archive sites, and post that. Or post nothing. Responding with just "ugh paywall, how dare you/they" sucks.

Itt people angrily downvoting and building head canon of me of why I don't find them clever for pointing out the obvious.

A proper unpopular opinion!

His art somehow manages like every single scifi concept art you will find on Artstation and Deviantart combined. And the consumerist slope that the Electric State movie wound up being kind of proves he is a sell out given the anti-consumerist message of the book.

when it comes to their books.

The way LOTR was written made it so fucking boring, I dropped it halfway through The Two Towers.

The Twilight series, on the other hand, was so entertaining that I read it till the very end. I don't care if the characters are trashy / drama is crap / whatever; I just want to be entertained.

You go to lift up a chip and most of the stuff (toppings) is left on the tray.

Try to scoop anything up and you get so little that it’s more headache then it’s worth.

Not saying they shouldn’t exist, just I would never order them.

Feel free to burn me at the stake 😔

I think it's good that it exist though it being own by giant corporation and the copyright issues along with it is questionable. But in terms increasing productivity it's obvious. Though everyone can generate but not everyone has an artistic mindset and be able to produce what their thinking. Artist should leverage it to increase or get inspiration for their next big thing, essentially treat it like those custom brushes but on a higher level. Imagine animators having the ability to tweak movements in between frames making it super crisp without much effort. All they will have to do now is produce key frames and describe the in between process. Graphic artist generating starting scenes which they can work further to do some concept art. No longer having to spend overtime animating a scene for an episode that is to be aired the next day. A mangaka having to draw backgrounds for their manga. This means no need to do overtime to reach a certain quality that customers demand. Though the question it replacing artist entirely at some point in the future, I don't think it will happen since people in general especially to art wants a human touch on things. Though if that time comes we might have a bigger question to answer.

10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.

And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.

And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.

And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!

I get it, prices of games going up sucks but games rose to about $60 (cad) during the wii era. Put that into an inflation calculator and you end up with about $90 nowadays, it's not really a price hike out of line with general inflation. The switch 2 pricing isn't out of line with AAA PS5 games either ($80 for a digital copy has already been the case for a while there).

Games are not free to make and modern games have longer dev cycles and therefore cost more to make as well.

Consoles are also typically sold at a loss with the idea that software sales will make up for the loss. Were games to remain the same price the console would likely be significantly more expensive.

I get that consumer purchasing power is down due to wages not keeping up with inflation but sadly the reality is that if making a console and games for it are unprofitable then they'll stop making them.

Lemmy.World is running a charity event running for the month of April, and I’ve signed up our community to participate.

Details in this post.

The gist of it is that you comment !LemmySilver under posts or comments you think deserve attention, and at the end of the month, the users with the most awards will have money donated to a charity in their name.

Let’s spread some positivity in this community, and good luck!

Right now, 50%-70% percent of traditional news is an article that paraphrase what a source links says.

Simply pointing me to the source link is more than enough for me to get the info.

The weirdest type of articles, are those that announce new products, The product is not available yet, so what does news websites do is that they paraphrase the press release. Matter of fact, a lot of times you would go to the product page only to find that they used a news service to publish their press release (I see it happen most of the times on TechCrunch)

I think I clarified my idea here, it's not worth violating my privacy to read a news that can be read ad and tracker free on the source website.