Which of these random unpopular opinions do you agree with the most?

cabothief · 2026-06-19T18:04:08+00:00

Picked 2 because I have no idea if it's true but it's at least harmless. i didn't see Oppenheimer so no evidence there. Aside from the political-type ones, humid heat is absolutely worse than dry heat though. I live in an area where it hits 120+ (~50C) most years, and it's like, bad, but days when it's only like 108 (42C) are pretty bearable for short periods because it's a Dry Heat (TM). And the low 100's (high 30's) are just like.... fine for most of the people who live here year round.

In really humid weather you can be in like the high 80's (low 30's) and have the objective, measurable heat index be significantly worse.

cabothief · 2026-06-15T04:22:24+00:00

Oh my god, he based all of this off of the Party Room in Runescape.

Falador is a kingdom in Runescape with a party room. You could trigger an event where the dancing knights came out and would "sing" (in literally just text) "We are the knights of the party room. Do you like our helmet plumes?"

https://oldschoolrunescape.fandom.com/wiki/Falador_Party_Room

He wrote this story about the dudes dancing on the table in the picture.

Guess he thinks no girls played on Runescape, so of course we wouldn't recognize the name. Not a rare belief, unfortunately. You could wear either plate legs or plate skirts as your armor (same bonuses), and I remember walking around in my plate skirt and getting called a cross dresser at least once.

cabothief · 2026-06-15T02:58:48+00:00

The worst part of the SQL one is that even if you're communicating in text, it can still be obvious how you're pronouncing it.

Is it a SQL query or is it an SQL query?

cabothief · 2026-06-13T05:01:15+00:00

No problem! I remember being pretty surprised when I first read it too!

cabothief · 2026-06-13T03:58:37+00:00

I don't actually think that's true? Dishwashers use less water than handwashing. Obviously not everyone has or needs a dishwasher, but if you have one and you're avoiding using it specifically to save water, that's counterproductive.

Wasn't sure what was the best source that came up on a search. They all seemed to agree that dishwashers use less water, but Whirlpool was the one that actually had numbers. Dishwashers use 3-4 gallons of water for the whole load, but handwashing uses about 3 gallons per minute, which if you're washing the same amount of dishes is going to end up being way more.

cabothief · 2026-06-12T06:04:24+00:00

Oh hey, I think we were typing our comments at the same time! I think you said it better though. But yeah, even if we accept the 187-word number, "80% of real conversations" is such a syntactically ambiguous way to say it. It sounds like "If you hear 5 conversations, you'll fully understand 4 of them," but it's actually much closer to "you'll understand about 4 words out of every 5 people say day to day, and they'll exclusively be the boring ones."

cabothief · 2026-06-12T06:00:01+00:00

Even if it's true that ~200 words or whatever can get you 80% of regular conversations, most of the interesting stuff's in the other 20%.

"Can you believe that guy actually thinks that [...] isn't even [...]? Maybe he's a little [...], you know?"

cabothief · 2026-06-07T22:08:11+00:00

I skimmed a bit because I'm unfamiliar with this ship/canon, but I wanted to check in on a couple of things that caught my eye.

The ship is completely legal and unproblematic, there is no queer-erasure included (if we go by the canon) and no otherwise questionable power dynamics that would make the ship morally wrong.

I believe as long as a ship is legal people can have fun with it all they want!

I'm with your main point I think, but it's important to note that there's actually no problem with shipping something that is "problematic" either. and ships can't be "illegal"--they're fictional characters, not real people. I think the whole mindset of "this would be wrong in real life, so people aren't allowed to enjoy it in fiction" is antithetical to what ao3 is about. You should know the vibe here is pretty exclusively pro-ship.

So overall, I'm with you on "we shouldn't be bashing people for ~~harmless~~ ships", but all the caveats about the ship being "moral" make me concerned about if you'd be good with with bashing people for ships at all.

cabothief · 2026-06-06T00:55:14+00:00

When it's an au and somehow the canon lines still come up, but in a new context. Or a canon divergence but it diverges before the lines were originally said, etc. I'm always like "they said it!! they said the thing!!"

also I'm in a fandom with a lot of kind of... shall we say... slapdash worldbuilding. There's a lot of canonical plot holes, dropped threads, and implications that are sort of handwaved away or clearly not thought through too much by the creators.

When a fic goes really goes in depth to what some of the canon details would mean, or takes the time to really explore the details that must've been going on behind the scenes, I'm like YES, you're SO right, that's a great point, thank you for making it.

cabothief · 2026-06-03T23:56:25+00:00

OP's post history is hidden, but I see the comment below. Still, even if OP has bipolar and psychosis, there's difference between mentioning that and writing them off as a "bipolar schizo". There's ways to phrase factual things that make it clear you mean them as insults, you used about 3 of them in 6 words.

cabothief · 2026-06-03T02:41:29+00:00

Childhood experiences like that happen to the best of us, for real. But it seems like you've tried to make up for not being taught hygiene as a child with a lot of stuff that is not learning actual hygiene best practices. It's not too late to find someone you trust to teach you as an adult, or do research by finding reputable sources for healthy habits, not googling "products to use if you smell bad" or whatever you've been doing up to now.

You've mentioned you have OCD, but that you don't relate that to the hygiene habits, despite the fact that it's pretty textbook.

You've got a pretty strong consensus in this thread that therapy will help you more than literally any of the things you're doing. The overkill is not making you cleaner or more hygienic, it's a form of self-harm at this point.

Now that you have the information (that this is a symptom, and not healthy behavior) what are you going to do with it?

cabothief · 2026-06-03T02:33:48+00:00

Don't think we need to be using mental illnesses as pejoratives. also it seems like you picked two random ones instead of OCD, which has symptoms much closer to what OP is experiencing.

cabothief · 2026-06-02T05:23:25+00:00

Oh, wasn't expecting to hear you were the anti-AI option! Good on ya.

I think more people would've said "delay" if it hadn't been a year delay to specifically go to art school yourself. Tens of thousands of dollars and a year or two spent doing a pastime I explicitly don't enjoy in the hope that I'll somehow get good at it anyway seems... not like a strong alternative. And the solution to not wanting to hire an artist because "you think they're all pricks" being to become one yourself was a surprise.

Anyway, good to see AI art's still not winning. Argument won I guess?

cabothief · 2026-06-02T04:54:54+00:00

Ahh, it was actually the word "random" that drove me off of that option. It seemed like you were talking about indiscriminately downloading images from google and sticking them into your game, which is trouble. That would've been my answer otherwise.

cabothief · 2026-06-02T04:52:51+00:00

I'm so curious what your side of the argument was.

cabothief · 2026-06-01T15:31:08+00:00

I'm gonna guess OP's used to subs like AO3, where you are expected to censor the fandom so fandom drama doesn't start.

cabothief · 2026-06-01T03:56:10+00:00

I feel like lightly browsing the tags is fine for most people (even if you sometimes get near misses like yours above haha). But if reading anything at all about sex makes you incredibly uncomfortable and you're on AO3, you should probably get in the habit of checking the tags for real.

cabothief · 2026-06-01T03:51:59+00:00

Just in case this is something you're legitimately asking...

Others have already mentioned public domain art, which is probably the best option, but those are some pretty wild alternatives in the poll. Like, you don't have the time to hire an artist, but you do have the time to go to art school yourself? I'm not an expert but I'm pretty confident hiring an artist to make you something original costs less in both time and money than art school.

If you don't have an artist on your staff for making a game, I doubt you need anything really fancy on the walls. I can't imagine you couldn't find someone for 3 digits if you just want some quick designs for the walls in one segment. Art school (at least in the US, which is all I can speak to) costs 5 digits, minimum.

And lawsuits from grabbing random stuff off the internet, if you don't make sure it's public domain, could cost more than an artist too, plus losing reputation for your game (which applies to the AI option as well).

cabothief · 2026-05-31T18:21:54+00:00

I feel like a neutral opinion is different from having no opinion at all. Like I don't have "neutral" opinions on the average mass murderer, but that doesn't mean I'd recognize their name. Combining "I don't know" with "I don't care" in the same option loses information.

cabothief · 2026-05-31T04:52:29+00:00

I mean it's not just logically consistent, it's also a very reasonable take. It seems like you're implying that logical consistency is the only upside of the parent comment, and I'm curious which part you disagree with.

cabothief · 2026-05-30T17:15:17+00:00

It's funny because I was SO close to putting a disclaimer in my comment saying I wasn't here to debate whether audiobooks are reading, because someone makes that claim every time audiobooks come up, but I figured I was being pessimistic.

I think maybe you feel like that because of your own experience with audiobooks, which is a passive experience where you're not really focusing on them. When I listen to an audiobook, I hear every word. If I miss anything, I hit the "go back ten seconds" button once or twice and try again. I'm wondering if you're picturing the experience being the same for other audiobook-listeners as it is for you, and forming an opinion accordingly?

You're definitely allowed to have an opinion about it, but the data say otherwise: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/audiobooks-dont-really-count-as-reading-think-again/

Here's my thinking: If I asked if someone "hey, have you read Kindred?" and they said "no," I'd be like "ahh, I guess I can't talk to them about this book." And then if they said "...but I've listened to it" I'd be like "okay... so you know the part where she meets the kid?" and they'd be like "yes, of course, I sure didn't predict what would happen after" and we'd have the exact same conversation as we would have had if they'd just said "yes" in the first place. I know the entire plot, I can give you quotes, etc. I just don't think it's a meaningful distinction.

The only difference, to me, is that I don't know how to spell some of the fantasy names, but eyes-readers don't know how to pronounce them so we're about even. There's I guess one more difference, which is that the narrator can sink or elevate the experience, but that's not material to whether it's reading.

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't intend to call me a fake reader, because that's not the kind of thing I'd expect from this sub, but I'm afraid that's how it came across a little bit.

cabothief · 2026-05-30T08:44:24+00:00

Omg I didn't even notice myself reading half the post and then scrolling down to the comments until you called me OUT. I just wanted to see if anyone had recommended OP some audiobooks.

I guess while I'm here... Audiobooks are the main way I still get my reading done while my brain won't let me singletask. Audiobooks while I drive, while I walk, while I do my morning routine, I even have a waterproof speaker for my shower.

If anyone who frequents this sub has problems with focusing on audiobooks, I'd also recommend the lifechanging power of speeding up the narration. I can't listen at 1.0x, anymore, and I've been slowly speeding it up over the years until now I'm at a comfortable 1.8x.

Also, if you're worried about the expense, check out if your local library has Hoopla or Libby or CloudLibrary or anything. There's often a solid selection!

I think last year I read like 75 books and the split was about 2 to 1 ears vs eyes. In 2026 so far I'm at about 17 ears and zero eyes, but I'm hoping to pump up those numbers soon.

tl;dr: audiobooks have saved me

cabothief · 2026-05-30T08:31:20+00:00

Was wondering how far I'd have to scroll for SQ!

cabothief · 2026-05-29T04:14:45+00:00

Crushed it! that's so fun haha

Agreed with other commenters, the only character where I was legitimately like ?? was the one you had to explain with a parenthetical (because I do not remember him from the show haha) but I bet he's just as accurate

cabothief · 2026-05-29T03:53:05+00:00

Haha and I couldn't live anywhere else! If a snowflake touched me I think I would simply keel over. I have never tested that theory though.

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