Unpopular Opinions!

[K-NiGhT]

^this. He's not spectacular but he isn't offensively bad either. He's fairly entertaining.

qft.

[blueflower999]

I'm still waiting for an actual reason for not liking him besides "I don't like him"/"His fans are outrageous"

He didn't play 999

[FireArrow]

What do you even do in calculus?  I'm gonna be doing calculus next year, I suppose, but I don't even know.  Is it just more algebra but cooler?

Here.

I'm a bit shocked you don't know what it is if you're in precalc now. :I

[MaestroUGC]

^this. He's not spectacular but he isn't offensively bad either. He's fairly entertaining.

Actually, he is pretty offensively bad, but he has toned it down in recent months. I just hate how it's not about the games, it's about him. He doesn't focus on the game he's playing it and celebrating it like most other LPers and gamers who do this sort of thing, for him it's just background noise while he screams like an idiot. I doubt he cares about what he's playing, and you could probably mix-and-match his commentary and gameplay and there would be no difference.

[MasterProX]

Actually, he is pretty offensively bad, but he has toned it down in recent months. I just hate how it's not about the games, it's about him. He doesn't focus on the game he's playing it and celebrating it like most other LPers and gamers who do this sort of thing, for him it's just background noise while he screams like an idiot. I doubt he cares about what he's playing, and you could probably mix-and-match his commentary and gameplay and there would be no difference.

I used to watch him play Amnesia: TDD, but I couldn't stand watching him stop for several minutes at a time fooling around with and talking to a goddamned chair. It's not even funny or entertaining.

Also, Tchaikovsky is the best [classical] composer. Ever.

[Mashi]

Calculus is what happens when you decide to make Mathematics actually useful.  Most Mathematics that's learnt prior to Calculus relates to static objects; as in, no dynamic movement occurring.  Calculus is the study of change.  To give an example of what I mean by static and dynamic; if I asked what distance a car travelled if it ran for 5 seconds at 30 m/s, would you be able to calculate it?  Now what if the car was accelerated at 2m/s^2 originally and if the acceleration was increasing 2/ms^3?  Basic Maths isn't helpful anymore despite this being a reasonable situation.

What I find hilarious though, is that Calculus itself is pretty much based on finding slopes, when it's broken down, but yet it's so complicated.

Honestly though, nearly all Maths prior to Calculus is useless unless something rudimentary is performed (like averaging or statistics (which technically requires Calculus, even though it's not mentioned in most classes)).  The only subject even less useful that I've found is likely General Biology, especially when taught in a classroom setting.  Pointless rote memorisation that has absolutely no use or application on its own, because everything is too general, as the name states.  Not to say that Biology as a field is useless, but topics only become applicable upon specialisation.

[FierceDeity]

Also, Tchaikovsky is the best [classical] composer. Ever.

Again, how is this an unpopular opinion...? Like, I know so many people who eat, sleep, and breathe Tchaikovsky (personally I prefer Holst, but still...)
Like, maybe not everybody would agree that he's the best, but most still acknowledge that he's pretty amazing...

[mikey]

Calculus is what happens when you decide to make Mathematics actually useful.  Most Mathematics that's learnt prior to Calculus relates to static objects; as in, no dynamic movement occurring.  Calculus is the study of change.  To give an example of what I mean by static and dynamic; if I asked what distance a car travelled if it ran for 5 seconds at 30 m/s, would you be able to calculate it?  Now what if the car was accelerated at 2m/s^2 originally and if the acceleration was increasing 2/ms^3?  Basic Maths isn't helpful anymore despite this being a reasonable situation.

What I find hilarious though, is that Calculus itself is pretty much based on finding slopes, when it's broken down, but yet it's so complicated.

Honestly though, nearly all Maths prior to Calculus is useless unless something rudimentary is performed (like averaging or statistics (which technically requires Calculus, even though it's not mentioned in most classes)).  The only subject even less useful that I've found is likely General Biology, especially when taught in a classroom setting.  Pointless rote memorisation that has absolutely no use or application on its own, because everything is too general, as the name states.  Not to say that Biology as a field is useless, but topics only become applicable upon specialisation.

Gotcha.  So say there were a hole in a bucket and you were trying to fill it up, you would use Calculus?  Maybe that doesn't work... BUT I totally agree with the biology thing.

[Mashi]

Yup!  Exactly!  You could even apply Physics at that point and fill in for the constants to make an overall equation for it.

[mikey]

  I know what I'm gonna do today...

[MasterProX]

Again, how is this an unpopular opinion...?

Here, no one likes Tchaikovsky.

[MaestroUGC]

What gave you that idea?

[MasterProX]

What gave you that idea?

How'd you respond in twenty seconds...?

My music teacher asked several people who their favorite composers were... the most popular among them were Bach and Mozart. A few said Chopin. There were a few others I forgot, too... but no one picked Tchaikovsky. When I said mine was Tchaikovsky everyone looked at me with disgust. 

[MaestroUGC]

Tchaikovsky stands as one of the most emotional composers I've ever heard, and he worked in an era were emotion was king.

Russians in general tend to leave everything on the table in the arts (excluding that blotch of an era known as Communism, though there are wonderul exceptions), resulting in very raw and personal experiences in their music.

He is, by no means, an unpopular composer, with a vast amount of his works making their way into pop culture one way or another. Hell, the Nutcracker is Christmas music

[SlowPokemon]

He famously hated his nutcracker music, which only shows how powerful his other stuff was. Though honestly my favorite classical composers are Beethoven and Chopin.