darkSpyro

media portrayal of rich people being selfish and greedy is brainwashing the lower class. most of the time rich people have earned their lives of money but have this constant struggle of maintaining their status. sure working 9-5 m-f where company time is being wasted on workers going on facebook. jobs that pay a lot have workers working the majority of the days while sometimes pulling all night shifts. there are people who go for days straights without being able to see their children. the hate for rich people is envy

What is your definition of "rich"? How much money would one have to have to be considered rich?

media portrayal of rich people being selfish and greedy is brainwashing the lower class.

sure working 9-5 m-f where company time is being wasted on workers going on facebook.

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What is your definition of "rich"? How much money would one have to have to be considered rich?

This is big right here.

We're living in an era in which a 6-figure salary isn't even "rich" anymore, it's just upper end of middle class.


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media portrayal of rich people being selfish and greedy is brainwashing the lower class.

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sure working 9-5 m-f where company time is being wasted on workers going on facebook.

You lose all credibility when you counter a stereotype with another stereotype. Miss me with that bull****.

Wages for the top 10% have grown over five times as much as the bottom 90 in the past decade. Between outsourcing and automation, income inequality is only going to get worse - hell, not even STEM is safe.

Lower class Americans, especially those just entering the job market, are pretty damn scared of how they're going to make a living in the future. But sure, they're just jealous and brainwashed lol amirite.

Seriously. Miss me with that bull****.

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What is your definition of "rich"? How much money would one have to have to be considered rich?

This is big right here.

We're living in an era in which a 6-figure salary isn't even "rich" anymore, it's just upper end of middle class.


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media portrayal of rich people being selfish and greedy is brainwashing the lower class.

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sure working 9-5 m-f where company time is being wasted on workers going on facebook.

You lose all credibility when you counter a stereotype with another stereotype. Miss me with that bull****.

Wages for the top 10% have grown over five times as much as the bottom 90 in the past decade. Between outsourcing and automation, income inequality is only going to get worse - hell, not even STEM is safe.

Lower class Americans, especially those just entering the job market, are pretty damn scared of how they're going to make a living in the future. But sure, they're just jealous and brainwashed lol amirite.

Seriously. Miss me with that bull****.

cool. its like my opinion or something.

Pepsi > Coke

Pepsi > Coke

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I don't drink soda and don't really care about it anymore lol

The only good opinion.

soda is gross

People call out toxic cesspools often enough and fairly enough but you know here's a personal one.

Spyro fandom scared me off and did much worse to a good friend.

They discourage any kind of criticism. They say you're just blinded by nostalgia if you prefer the original and this has happened even with popular opinions (like the music). This I've seen happen in response even to largely positive opinions. Popular opinions also get a bit of derision. Remember when people were saying the skyboxes or Nestor were nitpicks? I do. The people who did this kind of thing wouldn't apologise or own up when they marginally improved the skyboxes and continued to act the same. The fandom in general has a lot of bootlickers, frankly.

I sort of would have liked to be part of some Spyro community, honestly- or moreso I would have liked to be able to actually hang around a bit and actually have a discussion, and then move on (I knew as soon as they announced it noap Spyro is not for me, however, also had nowhere to discuss this and it's still hard for me to accept)- but I see it as all the same.

That kind of thing is honestly toxic too. It's just the other extreme from a negative opinion hivemind. It very much happens and there are very much, very much, much worse insults people get for this kind of thing, and it doesn't get called out or remembered. People just remember the critics as whiners. People don't remember other fans scaring off people who would like discussion or telling others they're crybabies.

That's what it feels like, being a critic, anyway.

You can say what you want about my opinions, Spyro-related and otherwise, but I do not try to blindly hate Spyro, I truly try to explain my points so people at least understand most of the time and I'm actually adding something rather than just saying how I felt, and I still feel shunned simply for having negative opinions. I'm not going to try to be more positive for the sake of being even if I think something has more good or more bad. Nobody asks me to criticise my favorite games, which I've fawned over, harder. Even though that would effectively be the same request: to force myself into saying **** I don't feel deserves mentioning or that honestly wouldn't matter to or particularly strike me, kinda-thing.
I'm also sort of speaking here for that good friend of mine and dozens of strangers I've seen elsewhere. You can't deny this kind of thing exists in plenty of cases and probably will not be called out for plenty of them (in my experience, I definitely think so).

And with so many other cases honestly. It's just nostalgic game remakes seem the worst for it.

Oh yeah. I remember feeling like I got the stink-eye for not liking Odyssey. Still upsets me and that attitude still persists about that particular game (look at Anderson's critique of the game and sort the comments by newest).

It's ALWAYS the critics who have to piss off and it's so unfair. Where are we supposed to go? Do you think all of us just aim to create cesspools annd want to banish us there? I never feel welcome sharing many opinions as someone like this and I really, sincerely, don't just try to hate.

You don't need to look for it. Just check certain responses to TFB's tweets and how people try to piss off any critics. Like that Twilight Harbor one which as far as I know is an unpopular level overall. It's not really some small fringe, it's pretty common.

Keep pissin on Skylanders though.

I'm not a huge fan of MCU Spider-Man movies. They're not terrible (objectively, they're pretty good), but they just don't capture the tone of Spider-Man for me, definitely not on the Peter Parker side of things. And pretty much any time they have a chance to delve a little deeper into something that could lead to a heartfelt or introspective moment, they just ignore it in favour of more jokes.

It's not a huge deal since we at least have other non-comic sources of Spidey media right now (Spiderverse and Insomniac Games), but MCU Spider-Man is the one that will always get the most exposure so I feel he should be better.

pedophiles who come out and are trying to better themselves by announcing their urges are unnatural or awful should be praised and encouraged. better to fix yourself because being a pedophile doesn't mean you have to be a child molester.

I say this unironically. The Lorax is actually a good movie and has a better ending than most animated movies that I've seen.

the new one where they beat pollution and logging with a wacky chase?

A weird thing about my tastes is that I've always preffered Crash WoC to Crash 3.

Yeah same ><;!

I never understood the love of chubby characters like preferring old school chubby Pikachu (Not that I dislike Chubbichu), like I get it's cuter to some people, but to me it just looks.....bad and unappealing to look at almost.

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I never understood the love of chubby characters like preferring old school chubby Pikachu (Not that I dislike Chubbichu), like I get it's cuter to some people, but to me it just looks.....bad and unappealing to look at almost.

Not about chubby pikachu, but i know I got really excited over Mei from overwatch (despite not being able to play the game) because she is a similar body shape to me and isn't seen as a joke because of it. That's potentially what a lot of people think. Not saying your opinion needs to change, just thought as someone with the opposite opinion I might help explain my side.