Hot takes

[Ikagura Ikagura]

If they made me God Emperor for a day the first thing I would do would be to change the calendar we use. Having every month be a different number of days, causing the day of the weeks to shift from month to month is crazy. Either we should do 12 months of 30 days, with a 5/6 day "extra" week at the end of the year, or 13 months of 28 days with New Year's/Leap Day as an intra-monthly day. I'm in favor of the latter, that way every single month would be exactly four weeks and be identical. No more buying calendars every year, it would always be the same.

Calendars are messy because of the fact they are never the same per years...

I'm wondering why they're not separating years with the same number of days.

 

[Boo Man]

Morse should still be taught and used (Same with the NATO phonetic alphabet).

It's bad for coded messages but perfect for communication in case conventional methods are unavailable thanks to its binary system
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Hexadecimal can also be nice but trickier.

When i was young i got a fire cracker with a small piece of paper in it that had a morse code key exactly like that. Me and my friend at school memorized the whole thing and could communicate all sorts of ways. we could even decipher it automatically and string together sentences but that was a long time ago and my memory has faded since then

 

[aquova]

I'm wondering why they're not separating years with the same number of days.

Because there are 365 days in a year and that doesn't really divide evenly into anything. So you either have to have months with different days or extra days that don't fit into any month. I'm a fan of the latter, and there are some calendars that do it (Egyptian, French Revolutionary), but it's a hard sell.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Because there are 365 days in a year and that doesn't really divide evenly into anything.

~365 days of 24 hours each. There could be more ways to subdivise days and years with those 8760 hours.

Maybe it's more convenient for divisions so at the end of the day it's not a big deal even if lunar calendars are also a thing.

And let's not get started with Sols on Mars and other planets.

So you either have to have months with different days or extra days that don't fit into any month. I'm a fan of the latter, and there are some calendars that do it (Egyptian, French Revolutionary), but it's a hard sell.

The Gregorian calendar is quite "recent" for human history.


It's interesting that we're using this calendar that has a religious origin yet we've used the Common Era naming to avoid any references. Maybe a "truly culturally neutral" way of counting time is sadly hard to do... Humanity's universal calendar and year won't be a thing until long after (like Gundam's Universal Century).

 

[MajesticSiN]

water isn't wet

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

Shrek 1 > Shrek 2

 

[Bakuma1997]

(Thing you like) is overrated

 

[moonbits]

(Thing you like) is overrated

(Thing you hate) is actually good

 

[deceptionfalls]

strawberries taste sour as hell and people only like them for the aesthetics rather than the taste, everything strawberry flavored just tastes artificial, you like the idea of a strawberry rather than the fruit itself

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

(Thing you like) is overrated

It's too late, I've drawn myself as the Chad and you as the Soyjak, I win the internet argument!

 

[Bakuma1997]

It's too late, I've drawn myself as the Chad and you as the Soyjak, I win the internet argument!

NOOOOOOO! That way now i am wrong without objetive defenses!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

(Thing you hate) is actually good.

I've seen a ton of essays about how something that isn't popular (or usually panned) is "actually genius"...

 

[moonbits]

I've seen a ton of essays about how something that isn't popular (or usually panned) is "actually genius"...

and its made by someone 10 years younger than you

 

[shadowcat]

Punk gets better with the prefix "pop-" or "skate-" added to it, not worse.

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

Also the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy sucks and is quite frankly a huge insulting disgrace to its predecessors (the OG EVA TV series and duology of films) on the same level as the Star Wars Sequel trilogy

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I think pineapple on pizza is good!

I wholeheartedly agree

 

[Moreno909]

My hot take?

"Thread Necro'ing" is a good thing. Conversations can always have more input added from new people...suspending or penalizing folks for wanting to add to a conversation is really crazy, imo. I'll never understand the anger it causes.

Yeah, I get it if it's just some newb going "GIB LINKS PLOX" but if it's a legit query or addition to the topic, why be mad? Just my two cents.

Agree

 

[SpectreOverflow]

The fact that streaming services release entire seasons at once flat out hurts the products they are trying to deliver by eliminating all speculation and doing away with any possible curveballs before they can even be thrown. That's why so many otherwise promising shows get shelved after a season or two... the hype is lost to exhaustion.

I know this is an older post but I wanted to throw something in:
Say what you will about Hazbin Hotel, but they go down the route of releasing two episodes a week for each season, usually meaning the entire season of about 8 episodes is released over the span of a month. It's a really sound strategy - I imagine there's probably a few other shows that do this, but this was the first example I could think of.

 

[Guinea]

Stargate SG-1 is better than Star Trek and Star Wars combined.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Stargate SG-1 is better than Star Trek and Star Wars combined.

I could agree about Star Wars but Star Trek is a much bigger debate.

 

[Pudendum]

It may sound silly but I like goofy album covers, it makes me feel younger when an album isn't afraid to be silly (or cringe as the kids say)

 

[Beellucizarus]

I prefer the online phase of Phantasy Star to the classic phase.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I prefer the Online phase of Phantasy Star to the Classic phase.

Either way both are better than whatever New Genesis is trying to be.

 

[Beellucizarus]

Either way both are better than whatever New Genesis is trying to be.

Without a doubt

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Without a doubt

I can kinda understand people liking Online over the Classics.

As much as they got good stories they require a lot of energy and perseverance.

Phantasy Star I without a proper GameFaqs map (or drawing them yourself) is harder to do. The Sega Ages 2500 series version on the PS2 called Phantasy Star Generations was a pretty good remake mechanically but at the cost of having a "cheap" looking game with a 2D art style that doesn't have the charm of the original nor the quality of the Online nor Universe games it's harder to get into. The Switch version of the Sega Ages release added an automap (which fills as you advance) and an easier mode for people who don't want to grind but sadly it's digital only on the Switch.

At best you can try the SMS Power romhack that vastly improves the game while having a more faithful script but once again it doesn't have an automap. I'd love to see the best of both worlds.


As for Phantasy Star II the story is much better but alas, the dungeon and battles are a hassle to do because of the slowness of characters that aren't on the center of the screen (so this makes bad visibility) and the flashing that are an eyesore. The Genesis Mini II release apparently fixed many issues (as well as the Phantasy Star Collection version on the Saturn with fast running yet is only in Japanese).

Phantasy Star III is the black sheep for a good reason and we needed more save files for each generations to get to see each endings so you'd need savestates specifically for them.

Phantasy Star IV is on the other hand perfect (despite the grinding) but that's because it was the end of the series.

Online may have a clunky battle system (with combos to keep) and the lack of Photon Arts make it stiff yet I still prefer it over spamming PAs which is sadly what HL becomes in PSU and PSO2...

I still think that Portable 2 (Infinity) has made my opinion of Universe much better. PS Zero could've been a better PSO if the DS had a proper stick and had a ZL/ZR.

I need to get into PSO2's first trilogy of episodes which was a solid story before they changed director for Episode 4.

That franchise had a see-saw kind of release, both good (if not really good) and mediocre releases...

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

The NES Simpsons games arent that bad