Trends and Movements

[DevilishlyHandsome49]

Out of any medium, what are you favorite and least favorite trends or movements going on?

Fav: The increase of independent film and game development, more emphasis on creativity in schools and more tolerance towards different races and sexuality (the factual knowledge being spread about them)

Least Fav: A teaser for a teaser trailer for a trailer of a movie (*glares at Marvel*) rabid hyping of popular things, reaction vids, microtransactions in games, anti-sjw's

[#00Buck]

Fav: Bowel movements.

Least Fav: Wet bowel movement.

[Vallium]

I like the increasing awareness of gender issues and how we shouldnt lump people into behaviors,interests, and interests based on being born male and female. Things like the easy bake oven being marketed to neutral genders, and the new Star Wars movie (a concept marketing might have originally catered to boys) is attempting to cater to all genders as well (not a fan of HOW thats happening, but an improvement nonetheless. Still hoping society can come to a point where no ones going to flame a man for not being manly enough and vice versa. People are people.

least favorite trend is the state of the education system. I sont know if its just me but I find it dead. It just wants to push work at you, pump out grades. Theres no care or interest in doing it. I think Id be better of teaching myself things. On top of that, the expenses of going to school puts you in such monumental debt...

[DevilishlyHandsome49]

2 hours ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

I like the increasing awareness of gender issues and how we shouldnt lump people into behaviors,interests, and interests based on being born male and female. Things like the easy bake oven being marketed to neutral genders, and the new Star Wars movie (a concept marketing might have originally catered to boys) is attempting to cater to all genders as well (not a fan of HOW thats happening, but an improvement nonetheless. Still hoping society can come to a point where no ones going to flame a man for not being manly enough and vice versa. People are people.

least favorite trend is the state of the education system. I sont know if its just me but I find it dead. It just wants to push work at you, pump out grades. Theres no care or interest in doing it. I think Id be better of teaching myself things. On top of that, the expenses of going to school puts you in such monumental debt...

You're not the only one thinking education is dead. I never wanted to go to college because of the fact but because of the stigma of "its college or you'll have a hard time in life" I was made to go anyway. I just want to learn how to write better, maybe film and acting. I bet it'd be cheaper and easier going under an apprenticeship or taking private classes by an expert in whatever skill I want to learn more about, rather than locking down in a major, having to take classes that arent even relevant for my future

[AshleyAshes]

Post Secondary education is basically not a great idea unless you really like the field you're getting into and you've researched the industry for it's employment opportunities.  The problem is, no one tells you that, they just tell you to go to college.  Then there are the minority who tell you to never go to college when that's not the right answer either.  Different things for different people and people often need more information than is within their immediate grasp to make the decisions they need to make.

[LazerMaster5]

I love how mainstream pop is giving way to other genres of music, which is about time.

I hate the doucheboard, good thing it is on the decline. I guess that is what happens when they spontaneously combust.

[Hux]

I never really followed trends or really cared much about pop culture, but it seems like things are getting more and more bland by the day. Maybe I'm just noticing how vapid pop culture can be.

Things I hate:

1. Super hero movies. I always hated them. They're everywhere and I can't escape them.
2. I don't like video games anymore, but it might just be because I'm getting older. None of them stand out at all to me at this point, day-one DLC, pay-to-win, forced multiplayer, dumbing down mechanics in niche games to support a broader audience at the expense of depth and marginalizing core players, rabid fanboys/girls viciously haranguing anyone who dares criticize they precious vidya, and Todd Howard. Fuck that guy. Oh, #gamergate and #anti-gamergate, fuck both of them I just want to play vidya without SJW's and MRA's trying to cram their bullshit into my hobby. Who cares if an indie developer might've fucked a guy for a good review of a shitty HTML game? And who cares if some people are pissed off about it? Neckbeards and Legbeards alike are cancer. 
3. Movies all seem so stale these days, always with the edgy bullshit and pseudoscience. Fury Road and Inception are the movies I've liked that came out in the past  few years, and they weren't masterpieces either. They were okay. Come, burn me at the stake for not thinking Fury Road was God's gift to this Earth and  that Inception wasn't the most intelligent film forever11!!!1! They were decent, that's all.
4. Politics seem to have become more polarizing. It's not enough remain apathetic or neutral anymore or else you're the enemy. I've noticed a lot of people now have an 'either you're with us or against us' mentality, especially on the left.

Mass shootings becoming more prevalent. It's just depressing at this point. Even qots  is that people are becoming used to it, like it's not even a big anymore.

Things I like:

1. Skinny jeans seem to be going out of style. Thank God.
2. Uh... shit I can't think of anything else. Damn, this is depressing.
3. Oh, trans people seem to be getting more acceptance in the mainstream. That's nice.
4.  Hipsters seem to be dying off. That's about it.

This year's presidential candidates seem pretty wacky. I guess it'll be good watching their debates for comedic value.

Oh boy, that's alot of incoherent spaghetti!

[Pignog]

On 2016-01-20 at 10:01 PM, AshleyAshes said:

Post Secondary education is basically not a great idea unless you really like the field you're getting into and you've researched the industry for it's employment opportunities.  The problem is, no one tells you that, they just tell you to go to college.  Then there are the minority who tell you to never go to college when that's not the right answer either.  Different things for different people and people often need more information than is within their immediate grasp to make the decisions they need to make.

I basically agree with this. Some families are better at preparing their kids for post-secondary and navigating through it to an end-goal like employment. For example, I'm the only person in my immediate family (second in my entire extended family) to have ever gone to university, and although I'm not doing anything meaningful with it right now, I don't regret the experience and I'm thankful I even had the opportunity. For most people in my family no one ever told them to go to college, and if I had to guess most of them were told not to go because they lacked the ability or intelligence, which couldn't be further from the truth. None of them had any idea of what college was like, how to apply for aid, how to succeed in courses, what intern-ships were, how to plan for a career, and so I couldn't turn to any of them for advice. And I think this experience is far from an outlier. A lot of students in Canada and the US (can't remember if it's a majority) report being the first generation of their family to attend post-secondary. So we have this group of students passing through universities confused about what they want to get out of it, and lacking an understanding about how their school works, and what they're going to do with their education once they're done.

[Pignog]

On 2016-01-19 at 6:48 PM, WolfNightV4X1 said:

least favorite trend is the state of the education system. I sont know if its just me but I find it dead. It just wants to push work at you, pump out grades. Theres no care or interest in doing it. I think Id be better of teaching myself things. On top of that, the expenses of going to school puts you in such monumental debt...

It's a complex issue but the dominant belief right now is that post-secondary institutions should be run like businesses. You're likely in a crowded classroom being taught by an underpaid and overworked grad student or adjunct professor who'd rather be doing their research. I've been outta the game a couple years now so my memories are failing me on this, but maybe Onnes could chime in on the state of education in North America (I bet he's gonna say it's great!!) since he's the resident professor.

[AshleyAshes]

8 minutes ago, Pignog said:

I basically agree with this. Some families are better at preparing their kids for post-secondary and navigating through it to an end-goal like employment. For example, I'm the only person in my immediate family (second in my entire extended family) to have ever gone to university, and although I'm not doing anything meaningful with it right now, I don't regret the experience and I'm thankful I even had the opportunity. For most people in my family no one ever told them to go to college, and if I had to guess most of them were told not to go because they lacked the ability or intelligence, which couldn't be further from the truth. None of them had any idea of what college was like, how to apply for aid, how to succeed in courses, what intern-ships were, how to plan for a career, and so I couldn't turn to any of them for advice. And I think this experience is far from an outlier. A lot of students in Canada and the US (can't remember if it's a majority) report being the first generation of their family to attend post-secondary. So we have this group of students passing through universities confused about what they want to get out of it, and lacking an understanding about how their school works, and what they're going to do with their education once they're done.

I went to college not to 'get a job' but to 'nail this'.  I started playing with film and editing stuff with two VCRs and a CD player, moved on to anime music videos and a lot of hobby stuff like that.  I really loved it and eventually I decided that I wanted to do this professionally and I went all in.  The first college was a bit of a flop, I mean, it was an okay two year program but it focused too much on broadcasting than film making.  I made my best there, I was the only one crazy enough to dump $1000 in their own money to make a 10min cop show thing while borrowing from every resource in the school, including using the school's simulation ER for the nursing program to have a shoot out in.  It was more a technical achievement than anything but that was the point, it wasn't to make a good short film no one would ever see, it was to pad my demo reel.  Off to Toronto, all or nothing, for a post grad program at Sheridan, another $15k in tution there but that was worth it.  I got to specialize in visual effects compositing and ran with it.  Internship, graduated, first industry job, at the secondary industry job and moving up through the areas in my field and getting paid for it.

Not so much the post grad program, but the two year school I went to?  A lot of them were kids.  I mean kids who had been going to school non-stop since Kindergarten and this was just two more years of school.  Some stood out but a good number were there because they had to be there.  I knew what I wanted, I knew there jobs, and I went all in to get there.  But I was also older than most of them, I didn't go straight from high school to college and I was damn sure what I wanted even if I wasted a lot of time to figure that out first.

 

[Taikugemu]

On 1/20/2016 at 0:01 AM, AshleyAshes said:

Post Secondary education is basically not a great idea unless you really like the field you're getting into and you've researched the industry for it's employment opportunities.  The problem is, no one tells you that, they just tell you to go to college.  Then there are the minority who tell you to never go to college when that's not the right answer either.  Different things for different people and people often need more information than is within their immediate grasp to make the decisions they need to make.

  Well, here in Brazil we have the mentality  "you better get on college right after high school or you're a fucking loser". Mostly because higher education is generally the "better" option for social mobility(?).

[Onnes]

13 minutes ago, Pignog said:

It's a complex issue but the dominant belief right now is that post-secondary institutions should be run like businesses. You're likely in a crowded classroom being taught by an underpaid and overworked grad student or adjunct professor who'd rather be doing their research. I've been outta the game a couple years now so my memories are failing me on this, but maybe Onnes could chime in on the state of education in North America (I bet he's gonna say it's great!!) since he's the resident professor.

I think a large issue is that people go into it thinking that they'll just go through the motions, get a piece of paper, and then have a job. Universities were never meant to be job training, and even though they've moved somewhat in that direction, they are still organized around broad liberal arts education.

If you go through just doing the bare minimum to not fail out, then you probably won't leave with anything substantive besides debt. On the other hand, if you look at university as a chance to immerse yourself in a culture dedicated to learning, and all that entails, then you should come out of it with valuable knowledge and skills that would be quite burdensome to pick up in your spare time alone.

The underlying problem is that many people simply don't care about what universities, even at their best, actually offer. They want vocational training, not a liberal arts education. They are going to find themselves spending most of their time on things they don't want to care about, and they are not going to recognize the relevant opportunities that are there because they mistake optional for unnecessary. The whole system is stuck meeting a demand that it was never meant to fill.

[Vallium]

34 minutes ago, Pignog said:

It's a complex issue but the dominant belief right now is that post-secondary institutions should be run like businesses. You're likely in a crowded classroom being taught by an underpaid and overworked grad student or adjunct professor who'd rather be doing their research. I've been outta the game a couple years now so my memories are failing me on this, but maybe Onnes could chime in on the state of education in North America (I bet he's gonna say it's great!!) since he's the resident professor.

Admittedly Im only knocking something that hasnt worked too much thus far in my experience. Its not like I cant handle the courseload, its just the wide range of subjects and I cant handle them all. And the degree itself requires all which I may not need after all.

Im going with my gut and researchhere, putting myself in the field and getting more direct experience along with certification for job experience, and go for a more direct college course plan. I feel that will help me more, and allow me to feel less jaded.

I imagine its different for everyone but if I get education I need something quick and direct to the point.

[#00Buck]

Education is highly over rated. 

Some people who never got an education feel like they missed out on something. 

If they're successful and happy I tell them they didn't miss out on anything. 

The thing I hate the most is when people use their education to try and make other people feel small or stupid. 

It's almost like that's the only reason they bothered to get an education in the first place. 

 

 

[funky3000]

I'm not on top of trends, really. So I can't say my favorite.

But my least favorite is Hotline Bling. Keep that shit in 2015.

[WolfyAmbassador]

I like that there are more atheists who are speaking out against Islam.

Edited January 23, 2016 by WolfyAmbassador

[Astrium]

Vaping. Man buns. Whipping and nae-nae-ing. Bandwagon reactions to celebrity deaths. Donald Trump. I hate a lot of things.

[Butters]

I like the hipster fashion trend that's going on these days. I cannot tell you what it was like growing up in the 90's days of over sized shirts and pants. 

[PastryOfApathy]

23 hours ago, #00Buck said:

Education is highly over rated. 

Some people who never got an education feel like they missed out on something. 

If they're successful and happy I tell them they didn't miss out on anything. 

The thing I hate the most is when people use their education to try and make other people feel small or stupid. 

It's almost like that's the only reason they bothered to get an education in the first place. 

It's especially fun walking around Harvard watching all the smug cunts who routinely hang around there. Mmmm...

For the topic I'm glad bronies finally died down. I know pot calling the kettle black and all that, but still it just reminds me of how obnoxious furfaggotry used to be and that's terrible.

I like the hipster fashion trend that's going on these days. I cannot tell you what it was like growing up in the 90's days of over sized shirts and pants. 

All I can think of are those shitty shirts that everyone used to wear with like Bugs Bunny or something all blinged out and gangsta and shit.

Edited January 23, 2016 by PastryOfApathy

[GamingGal]

On 1/22/2016 at 11:12 PM, Onnes said:

I think a large issue is that people go into it thinking that they'll just go through the motions, get a piece of paper, and then have a job. Universities were never meant to be job training, and even though they've moved somewhat in that direction, they are still organized around broad liberal arts education.

If you go through just doing the bare minimum to not fail out, then you probably won't leave with anything substantive besides debt. On the other hand, if you look at university as a chance to immerse yourself in a culture dedicated to learning, and all that entails, then you should come out of it with valuable knowledge and skills that would be quite burdensome to pick up in your spare time alone.

The underlying problem is that many people simply don't care about what universities, even at their best, actually offer. They want vocational training, not a liberal arts education. They are going to find themselves spending most of their time on things they don't want to care about, and they are not going to recognize the relevant opportunities that are there because they mistake optional for unnecessary. The whole system is stuck meeting a demand that it was never meant to fill.

My main issue with colleges is how everything is becoming more.....for profit I guess is the way to put it. All that matters anymore is money money money. I get that professors need their pay and all that, but making the fee so high that students can't afford it without amassing debt is insane. I went to college and game away with the most bitter taste in my mouth. I'm not sure if I plan on going back to finish my degree (maybe a year into it right now?) simply because I'm not quite sure I see the worth. For some job fields a degree is necessary, but for the more artsy ones? I'm not so sure.

Anyways, on topic.

I'm tired of weed being such a damn obsession. Look, I get it, you like to get high, but can we do/talk about something else?

[Hewge]

Favourite: The next new meme

Least Favourite: The old new meme

[Endless/Nameless]

2 hours ago, Hewge said:

Favourite: The next new meme

Least Favourite: The old new meme

I made this just for this occasion. I may need to find something more productive to do with my life...

[Kinharia]

Things I love:

• Transgenders are being recognised as actual people, it is now tabboo to be dickish to them here
• Gays/Lesbians are also finally accepted. I'm honestly shocked no one attacked me when KookyFox was over
• The Giants of the gaming industry are quitting. A sure sign that games will become shit so I can finally quit my addiction.
• Socialism is on the rise in Ireland, finally the morons that led the country since our independance will be old news and soon forgotten.
• The old bigots who caused and fought in the civil war are dying off in painful deaths.
• People here are starting to become more experimental with their food. No more meat and spuds, we're getting Mexican, Carribbean, Malayasian etc.

Things I hate:

• Anti-Vaxxing is actually on the rise... fucking morons should be sterelised.
• Post-Secondary Education costs too much, only the rich can afford it.
• My Generation and the next ones are ill-disciplined and need to be smacked.
• Teachers are paper Tigers that can't punish unruley children.
• Education is shit here.
• Hipsters are still a thing.
• Feminists think they're actually oppressed here even though the law favours Women over Men.