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Alright, time for my mandatory Unpopular Opinions Post. Let's get this over with.
"You're late. You know the deal. You can Omelaspost for a Funny, or you can make an interesting post for an Insightful."
Here in Unpopular Opinions Poster Civilisation, no one chooses to make interesting posts. It's better to make the one joke everyone knows for the Funny, rather than risk your entire life for just one Insightful rating.
"Tomorrow you better not be late, or I'll have you posting for Informative reactions as punishment."
"Yes sir, sorry, I won't be late next time."

Down here, us Omelasposters only get one Rating a day. One Funny rating is just enough to get your post:reaction ratio to the next day. But that's the life of Unpopular Opinions Poster Civilisation. If you wanna survive, you have to Unpopular Opinions Post. Every Omelasposter has the same goal, and that's to make it to the top thread, where all the Brothers Karamazovposters live. Except, most Brothers Karamazovposters are born on the top thread. If you're an Omelasposter, there's only one way up, and that is through the Temple of Unpopular Opinions. The Temple of Unpopular Opinions is the only structure on SV that combines the bottom thread to the top thread. To make it up, you have to post an impossibly hard Unpopular Opinion Reply that no Omelasposter has ever completed. And that's assuming you even get the chance to post the reply in the thread. The inside of the Temple is protected by a barrier and the only way an Omelasposter gets past the barrier is if they've earned a gilded post. I've never even tried getting a gilded post before, but if I'm going to rank up to a Brothers Karamazovposter one day, I'm gonna have to.
 
Dandadan is a great example of this meme







Dandadan is a example of putting up with problematic elements in order to get to something TRULY Special

And whilst I can't get everyone to watch it I can request they at least get to episode 4 if they are feeling up to it


I can't even tell if this is a "hot take" or the "coldest take" considering some people drop it in the first episode because of the"Serpoians"

But my actual Hot Take is the Serpoians... Aren't that problematic (they are but they are meant to be creepy villains)... Maybe it's because I'm in the United States and the trope of being "Probed" by Aliens isn't new or unheard of (I will admit it does feel very Icky in a way that made my jaw kinda drop... Mostly from the Dialogue which whilst Humorous has a sense of discomfort about it)
 
Aineko said:
...really? The only settings that comes to mind where wizard is a title excluding women are Harry Potter plus cases intentionally painting a bullseye on a sexist establishment.

...admittedly I am having trouble thinking of recent notable stories using the title of wizard at all.
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Fairy Tail is the only thing that springs to my mind that uses Wizard as a title instead of just a casual descriptor. Fantasy novels nowadays like coming up with fancy-pants names for magic-users, though that's hardly new.
 
Wateryblue said:
I can't even tell if this is a "hot take" or the "coldest take" considering some people drop it in the first episode because of the"Serpoians"
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I tried but there were only so many pee pee poo poo jokes I could take before dropping it.
MysticKnightJoe said:
Fairy Tail is the only thing that springs to my mind that uses Wizard as a title instead of just a casual descriptor. Fantasy novels nowadays like coming up with fancy-pants names for magic-users, though that's hardly new.
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I honestly think "magician" or "mage" for short are the superior names anyway.
 
'Dan da Dan is good' is not a unpopular opinion, that was the most popular show last season and probably only second to Solo Levelling last year. It has a 4.9 star rating on CR and their post of the second season trailer has something like 4 million views.
 
Axslashel said:
I honestly think "magician" or "mage" for short are the superior names anyway.
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I've always felt mage is better yeah, it feels more serious. More technical. Thaumaturge is also pretty great. Will-worker is fine but it feels too New Age for my tastes. Whenever I hear it I feel a strong concern that I'll start seeing someone spell magic as "magick" and then my eyes are in danger of rolling so hard they pop out of their sockets.

Magician though feels off tbh, it's just too connected to the profession. It might be a little snobbish but I feel like if I were a wielder of phenomenal cosmic power I wouldn't want to be associated with trumped up illusionists.
 
I feel like in hindsight, Independence Day is a funnier movie than Mars attacks. Just entirely unintentionally.
 
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MysticKnightJoe said:
Fairy Tail is the only thing that springs to my mind that uses Wizard as a title instead of just a casual descriptor. Fantasy novels nowadays like coming up with fancy-pants names for magic-users, though that's hardly new.
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Off the top of my head, there's Conjurer, Enchanter, Mage, Magician, Mystic, Sorcerer, Thaumaturge, and Wizard. "Warlock" and "Witch" may also be present, sometimes based on gender lines, sometimes not. "Conjurer" might be used as a subtype label instead, alongside "Evoker, "Illusionist", and "Necromancer", usually borrowing at least a bit from the Dungeons And Dragons schools, or at least a common ancestor.

"Sage" is not inherently magical, but occasionally gets used as a title of magical mastery.

And then there's "exotic" types like Onmyouji/Yin-Yang User, or the directly-translated stuff like "Taoist Priest", because in Chinese mythology apparently all magic-users gain their powers from philosophical/religious studies.

I suspect the proliferation of terms is partly due to the desire to categorize and subcategorize different styles of magic, placing them in neatly tabulated lists like RPG classes. This is difficult to do for RL myths for obvious reasons, but certainly much easier in a world constructed for that purpose.
 
One neat little version was the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, where a Magician, a Wizard, and a Witch were all very different things. In particular Wizards messed around with a form of magic that changed them on a biological level and they absorbed ambient magic via their staves. Magicians were your standard scholar mages, and witches were more ritualists.
 
The artists for comic books should be challenged to make the many muscular white guys have unique looks. I suggest an entire comic book run where they're all wearing the same clothes and all that differentiates them is their body type and face.
 
SzechuanSauce said:
The artists for comic books should be challenged to make the many muscular white guys have unique looks. I suggest an entire comic book run where they're all wearing the same clothes and all that differentiates them is their body type and face.
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Honestly aside from a few infamous examples this hasn't really been that big a problem? Main example I can think of would probably be the Robins
 
Harry Potter as a story is so strongly structured that it's borderline impossible to avoid the stations of canon without changing cornerstone parts of the story entirely, be it the teachers, what and when Voldemort does things, etcetera.

As such, I feel that probably the best thing you can do in a fanfiction story is to, well, change that, even if you're going for something that would in most other settings normally not involve that. Say, you're doing an alt-Harry of some sort, it's still a really good idea to change events outside of the main character because otherwise a retread of at least large segments of the story is near unavoidable.
 
Fourthspartan56 said:
Whenever I hear it I feel a strong concern that I'll start seeing someone spell magic as "magick" and then my eyes are in danger of rolling so hard they pop out of their sockets.
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That is fine if and only if the setting can accurately be described as magitech (magitek?). So Final Fantasy and a few others.
 
Axslashel said:
That is fine if and only if the setting can accurately be described as magitech (magitek?). So Final Fantasy and a few others.
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I get why you'd connect the two but the Magick spelling doesn't have anything to do with techno magic. It's a term that originates from Alastair Crowley (the actual guy- not the character in a dozen urban fantasy stories lol) and has a decent amount of presence amongst New Age and 'occult' subculture.

This makes it, IMO at least, painfully cringe.
 
Some religions are millennia old, some are not. This is fine.
 
I really like the Legend of Vox Machina cartoon. But I don't like Critical Role. Does this make sense?
 
Fate/Type moon


Something I absolutely hate is how much people seem to vilified or all usleses goddes jokes about Ishtar, which is quite absurd considering most of sumerian/akkadian mythology she's portraited as rather benevolent goddes,

Compared to mythological Ereshkigal who's straight up more evil but revisioning including removing part of being married to nergal and several other god's.


Or even how hypocrit people are about how she's somehow more villain then giglemesh same gilgamesh who would let majority of humanity die becouse big boomer moment humanity of this day sucks back in my day
 
I'm pretty sure worrying about differences between Fate characters and their inspirations is a path to madness.

(Gilgamesh gets forgiven because people like his overall style, I think.)

-Morgan.
 
The thing with Fate is that a lot of subsequent works have re-written the original lore and characterisation to such an extent that they might as well be different characters. Sure, you get justifications for stuff - Gil was corrupted by the Grail! or whatever - but Grand Order, Strange Fake, and the other various spin-off's are just such a different scale and tone to the original work that there almost isn't anyt point comparing them.

Thread tax: Movie Thanos is a better character than Comic Thanos.
 
Sumanai said:
Thread tax: Movie Thanos is a better character than Comic Thanos.
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I don't think this is unpopular, I've seen a lot of people say this and I agree. Someone with an internally consistent extremist ideology is a lot more interesting than the guy whose entire motivation is crying about Death not being his girlfriend. Having a somewhat better major villain just wasn't enough to save the cinematic universe as a whole.
 
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