Has ILX reached 'Peak Opinion'?

that's a big peak you got there

ILX found its opinion no more point in discussing things

Ban everyone

hardman stance on the x axis, nuance on the y

i'll try to be more 'pinionated

i do not agree with this poll

That's your opinion

i gpot lots of opnions who wants one

The Grand Canyon is too big

oreos are too small

Overrated.

judgment > belief > opinion >> view = outlook > attitude > persuasion

Peaks are too tall.

songs are very long. it should be verse > chorus > end.

way harsh on 'tude there, m8

swap attitude and belief imo

fuck off, imago.

b b b but

no

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My mental state is inversely proportional to the number of opinions I hold

Core opinions are present but the number of things I dont need to have an opinion on are many. Some of the most beloved of opinons could probably do with a loosening of the grip

Some of the opinions were never really even mine but the opinions of more strong willed people that overcame the flimsy defences

that's what you think

i buy mine in bulk

well, you know what they say about opinions

yeah but who cares what they say

well, you know what they say about opinions and assholes!

rimshot

opinions are like assholes, everybody wants to have one and they always stink!!

Everyone's entitled to an asshole

*garts*

as opinions become scarcer, their value increases. Therefore people will actually pay attention to my opinions in ~2018, if I still have any.

Perhaps post-millennials simply are not interested in strong opinions anymore

quite a bit of anecdotal support for this, this is also the normcore idea m/l

With the internet and everything, it's become way too hard to distinguish a genuine opinion from a sarcastically provocating troll sometimes.

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such nonpinion

schlump wrote this on thread TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE on board I Love Everything on Sep 23, 2014

flattering these neanderthals imo xp

Ѿ (imago) wrote this on thread Has ILX reached 'Peak Opinion'? on board I Love Everything on Sep 23, 2014

swap attitude and belief imo

EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)) wrote this on thread iced coffee on board I Love Everything on Sep 23, 2014

xp tbh if you ask for "black coffee" it is insane to put sugar in it imo

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid) wrote this on thread Azealia Banks on board I Love Music on Sep 23, 2014

Well, the 1991 EP (the last thing she put out that was not trash IMO, other than the new song) came out more than two years ago

k3vin k. wrote this on thread mike woodson job search tracking thread, plus triangle offense knowledge assessment quiz (nba offseason news 2014) on board I Love Hoops on Sep 23, 2014

hawks could be a top4 seed if healthy imo. the east might actually be intersting this year

zero content albums (darraghmac) wrote this on thread 77 family problems thread on board 7Curtis's 7borad on Sep 23, 2014

well handled IMO.

its as good an opportunity to reinforce the urgency of her finding a place for herself before things get very cosy- and IMO thats a positive thing to have happened while things are still going well and there's not been much friction.

I've got nothing but full trust in your ability to handle this tbh so IMO its just a good time and space for you to vent and us to repeat that yr pretty awesome.

Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs) wrote this on thread Autechre poll -- ILM ballot poll #57 on board I Love Music on Sep 23, 2014

I'll probably do just tracks instead of albums. All their albums are of roughly similar quality to me. IMO the EPs should count as albums proper, I think it would be more interesting that way.

zero content albums (darraghmac) wrote this on thread 77 family problems thread on board 7Curtis's 7borad on Sep 23, 2014

yr pretty awesome imo

Simon H. wrote this on thread Noteworthy album covers of 2014 on board I Love Music on Sep 23, 2014

One of my fave albums of the year also has a p rad cover imo:

╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080) wrote this on thread Lonely guy just thinking baout things on board I Rate Everything on Sep 23, 2014

abbs u shld do a comic book of all the lonely guys imo

example (crüt) wrote this on thread Come To Daddy EP on board I Love Music on Sep 23, 2014

Funny Little Man was my vote! It's so weird and ear-wormy. Flim is nice but kinda played out imo, whereas IZ-US stands out more and more every time I listen.

k3vin k. wrote this on thread mike woodson job search tracking thread, plus triangle offense knowledge assessment quiz (nba offseason news 2014) on board I Love Hoops on Sep 23, 2014

i think the heat will beat whatever their vegas prediction is gonna be, they could actually be a good team imo

Ѿ (imago) wrote this on thread Autechre poll -- ILM ballot poll #57 on board I Love Music on Sep 23, 2014

nah it's in the same ballpark IMO. sure it doesn't fuck with the beat quite so much but it has other subtleties and its song-structures are extraordinary. it's delicious. i've been listening to it this evening and have some changes to make to the ordering of my ballot as a result ;)

ugh (lukas) wrote this on thread New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

I exclusively use Spotlight and a tiled window manager

Me too, although the share of my stuff which is manageable as local files is smaller and smaller. I wish it wasn't the case. Most of the organizational stuff I do in Lightroom or iTunes should be possible in the Finder, imo.

sarahell wrote this on thread Sadly on board I Love AFL on Sep 22, 2014

pandas are overrated imo

Greer wrote this on thread Azealia Banks on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

Yeah, that's pretty fire imo.

StillAdvance wrote this on thread mwah mwah mwah, it's the Cooly G thread on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

"i feel like few others could sing as casually as she does"

thats exactly the issue for me, though at the same time, and maybe this contradicts what im saying, but theres also this air of distance, of haughtiness, of never really letting her guard down.

shes also just plain flat IMO but ive not let that get in the way of my enjoyment of other singers so i should probably leave that one alone.

Οὖτις wrote this on thread HEY JEWS on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

are ppl who are more likely to resonate w/ issues like BDS also ppl who feel alienated from the jewish community in the first place

I would say yes probably to some limited extent

tho judaism as a theology+philosophy has a lot of space for outsiders to the community (both culturally - spinoza types - and even within the religion there are traditions of hermits and theological anarchists like the kotzker rav)

this is one of the best things about the tribe imo

lag∞n wrote this on thread New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

feel like that was a mistake on their part the base model shdve come w 32gb, noobs are always gonna go for the cheapest one and in this case end up with a not nearly as functional phone for two years, 16gb doesnt pass the "just works" test imo what with photos and apps getting bigger n bigger

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid) wrote this on thread R&B 2014 on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

Another new MJB track, "Therapy" is out: http://www.thisisrnb.com/2014/09/new-music-mary-j-blige-whole-damn-year/ (it's there despite the URL)

The song's not as good as the first two that were released but it's making me think that it won't be as big of a run for the dance charts as I expected (a good thing IMO).

93. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one (imago) wrote this on thread Autechre poll -- ILM ballot poll #57 on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

imo there's a clear, clear leap from LP5 to Confield - the former just doesn't grab me in remotely the same way, doesn't seem three-dimensional or sublime. but then I probably need to listen to it more, and this poll will probably succeed in making me do this

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl) wrote this on thread Michael "Omar" Kenneth "Little" Williams, Steve Buscemi, and ehhhhh Michael Pitt in Martin Scorsese's BOARDWALK EMPIRE on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

hard to say. maybe obvious is what they're going for this season, idk.

have enjoyed the last 2 eps, was worried the whole season was going to be as dull as that opener.
still not loving the nucky flashbacks, finding them more and more annoying

joseph kennedy casting is A+, dunno about the accent but his look is A+
always meant to say the same about the guy who plays bugsy, looks very similar to the old photos imo..maybe a little on the skinny side is all

ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton) wrote this on thread TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

agree with minimalism, but chopped peppers are important. serrano chilies are perfect heat imo.

the late great wrote this on thread Autechre poll -- ILM ballot poll #57 on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

i think everything post-ep7 is their "late period"!

to me it makes more sense than thinking of it chronologically because they seem to me infinitely more settled on a sound post-gantz graf than they did in the early days.

imo "early period" is when they sounded like a lot of other early idm (i.e. not terribly distinct from b12, for example), then "mid period" is when they were radically switching up the vibe on every album (tri-repetae through confield) and then "late period" it pretty much all sounds like a blend of lp5 and confield

Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee) wrote this on thread TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

No option for "they're both disgusting"?

― emil.y, Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree with emil.y 100% - ban this sick filth imo

― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 20 September 2014 17:37 (2 days ago) Permalink

Thread valuable for uncovering disgusting savages.

marcos wrote this on thread TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE on board I Love Everything on Sep 22, 2014

also i think both are best served in their traditional ways. houmous as a sandwich spread or wrap spread is kind of gross imo (except for maybe falafel, and even then i prefer baba ghanoush on it) but served with warm quality pita it is amazing

Josh in Chicago wrote this on thread Don't Fear the Reaper vs. Hotel California on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

Actually, the kitschy Gipsy Kings version does it justice just fine, imo.

Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs) wrote this on thread King Crimson: Classic Or Dud on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

To me the 81-84 Belew records are destroyed by the Absent Lovers double-live set which gets nearly every song I liked from those releases and IMO improves on pretty much everything. It's so full of energy that I remember going back to those vinyls and thinking my turntable was broken - no way the originals were that slow!!

One thing I loved about the first incarnation(s) of Crimson was how intent they were on doing their own thing. KC often gets lumped in with Yes or Genesis but IMO I think they are closer to Van der Graaf Generator or Magma, they always tried to plow ahead with their own sound for better or worse and even a record like In the Wake of Poseidon has a number of charms that you don't hear on a lot of other progrock albums. I never quite came around on Islands; to me it sounded like a record with some great ideas but it never quite realizes them. I admit though that I haven't heard it in nearly a decade.

EveningStar (Sund4r) wrote this on thread King Crimson: Classic Or Dud on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

Hm, I've never heard Islands or Lizard tbh. I've only known one person who reps for them and I assumed he was a bit off. (He HATES the Belew era and doesn't care too much for the Wetton era.) I'm a little intrigued.

I've liked Discipline for a long time but I've been getting into Three of a Perfect Pair and Beat. They're a bit poppier than Discipline, getting into Police and Peter Gabriel territory sometimes, which I don't mind. I feel like Belew tones down some of the most obnoxious elements of his delivery. Some great stuff in this show imo.

Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned) wrote this on thread Rolling Metal Thread 2014 on board I Love Music on Sep 22, 2014

it's a good record that speaks for itself imo, give it a shot

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imagine a world of everlasting non-opinion
no one disagreeing or necessarily agreeing
but instead running toward a point in the middle of the park
as if the imminent leaping group chest bump was an escapable source of gravity

and now imagine that all of that would have happened, except for what you did. and what you did was post an opinion about something

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should read "Feel like I am seeing fewer and fewer opinions being expressed on ILX" imo

Stating an opinion is one of the lowest forms of communication, just above stating a preference. (Both below offering an analysis, which is what this post barely aspires to.)

opinions are like assholes, they're the opening of the anus

I am of the opinion that opinions are not to be scorned as unnecessary impediments to happiness, but can be a rich source of oneupsmanship.

posts are like roasts, norm macdonald's was the best

opinions are so gross now

we're missing the dialectical method training school of nabisco, momus and mark s to sharpen the post-millennials debating skills

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

does anyone know anyone who actually says "fewer"

There's a number of people here who enjoy at least some of this music and are not going to post on this depressing thread about it (any more).

ILM at it's very worst.

― everything, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:58 (Yesterday)

ops sux unless they're chall

Let it all out folks. Just purge it away...

does anyone know anyone who actually says "fewer"

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, September 23, 2014 4:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I say "fewer", and it drives me crazy when people use "less" when talking about countable objects because I honestly cannot parse it.

Have less opinions

the other day at breakfast i was seated next to this couple who were discussing movies or rather the dude was declaiming to his girlfriend all his advanced opinions about movies and they were obviously completely terrible and i said to the person i was dining with 'i dont want to have any opinions about anything ever again'

most opinions are super embarrassing to have i think esp about stuff that isnt that important

pontificating has never been agl

"have less opinion" would work if we treat "opinion" as an ether exchanged between assholes

i used to say it a lot, now i say it fewer.

surreptitious iphone recorded unbroken take of bored girlfriend being regaled with film opinions (lamp, 2014)

if i am annoyed at a restaurant or something my wife tries to distract me by, like, baiting me into pontification and lengthy, grandiloquent bullshit exegeses so i'll stop making bitchy comments about fellow diners or whatever. i know she's fucking doing it but i just can't stop myself so i'm sorry to all the lamps in the world who have to sit at nearby tables and hear that shit.

viz i know having public opinions, especially loudly, is n in any way agl, but how the fuck else are you going to fill all the empty time and space between now and the grave

also say fewer ffs ~opinion~

this guy used the phrase 'the godfather, which is an obvious masterpiece' in his long discussion of the 'hero's journey' as it applied to w/e shitty movie they had seen the previous nite and i kept listening because i really wanted to know what movie they were even talking (listening) about and instead i just got to hear him talk about 'cat warriors' and condescendingly tell his gf that it 'was in b&w' and it was like the a/v club come to life and it made me feel horrible

also i mean i have been thinking that its kinda impossible to formulate a 'take' on any kind of yuppie culture bullshit that doesnt seem overblogged and cripplingly pointless but 'for your consideration: the pervasiveness of recap culture hias made all ideas worthless' incriminates itself

recap culture, is that dentistry?

lamp i would read ur thinkpiece as i have at times similar despairing thoughts. my personal approach is one of scorn and hatred with interludes of self-loathing and hypocrisy when i inevitably take part in some yuppie cultural bullshit zeitgeist thing.

ilx has not reached peaked opinion there are potential ilxors in alaska and they've got opinions if obama were willing to airdrop laptops to these ilxors in alaska we wouldn't have to depend on the opinions of so many australian ilxors while at the same time feeling uncomfortable with the fact that the last clusterfuck was probably started by an australian ilxor men's rights thread was an inside job

S'right Tony Abbot sees fine future in mining as much option as possible and selling it to the Chinese whether they want it or not. Australian opinion is dirtier and more inefficient than anyone else's.

does anyone know anyone who actually says "fewer"

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Aw man didn't even realize this until you pointed it out

Think it's because 'opinionated' is measured with 'less' and so transfers naturally to 'opinion'

hmmmm, i think 龜 has me killfile'd.

Moving my bookmark

i have an opinion on this

oh, pine ship. opine, 'ship!

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and sim­plification help us to understand -- but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our compre­hension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formu­lated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

ilx is experiencing an extreme version of tendencies on the web in general. ilx posters are so good at being ilx posters -- so quick, knowledgeable, and savvy -- that they can communicate in these little gestures or asides and barely ever have to explain themselves. before posters log on, they know what the big issues are, what the possible positions are for them to take, what it means to take these positions, and how they can respond to the ones they disagree with. it is almost as if we are all thinking with the same mind. the elegance of these frictionless, zingful back and forths is a sign of their untruth.

it's not so much that people don't have opinions, but they have these prefabricated opinions that come already linked to an entire body of assumptions that everyone else in the discussion implicitly recognizes and acknowledges.

i'm as guilty of this as anyone by the way. and the predictability is part of what i like about ilx. but if one is intuiting a dearth of original voices and viewpoints here, i think that is the reason.

I hate opinions

other people's opinions only ever make me feel bad about my own opinions, why I don't read ILM

The Grand Canyon is too big

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:45 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oreos are too small

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:46 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

canyonoreos you're welcome

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I just can't work up the energy to have opinions these days... maybe once I quit my night job. In the meantime, I will continue to anticipate new releases & post to the most-current "what are you reading?" thread

lamp otm

tbh in my case it's not the opinions of strangers that puts me off, it's when I see my own opinions from like five or ten years ago pop up on ILX.

seriously, whoever posted the opinion here just before ilx hit the skids, QUIT IT

I read this thread thinking that it was abt ILX hitting 'peak onion'

just tried to click 'like' on karl's post

Like I read every instance of the word opinion as onion

Opinions are like onions: there's always another layer, and they make me cry.

a+

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm not voting in this poll

i think that not voting is, well... i mean i could go either way. it's whatever really, i guess

\_(o.o)_/

opinions are like assholes, they're the opening of the anus

if opinions were assholes, this place would be an airport

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

and that's not even counting all the ayes that have left or are banned

Opinions are inherent in any discussion that deals with the arts; e.g., music; ergo, ILXor.com.

just sayin, bro

s'all good, tho

Bummed at 龜's sentiments on twitter thread feel we all maybe need a srs talk about ilx and who each of us could fp more in order to improve things

ilx may be dying a slow death, but it's still a place I come several times a day

I dont know what i'll do if ilx dies, since i dont use facebook and im terrible at twitter and now i dont even have a RSS feed. maybe i'll stop using the internet entirely and ascend to heaven.

probably the most constructive thing to do is to stop posting on threads like this and post instead on threads of greater import

Ilx is not dying

I don't think.

Yeah, come on guys.

ILX is not dead, it just smells funny

i try to not have opinions but yall make it so difficult

Whenever I see this thread title I imagine it not to be about number of opinions expressed but about this single platonic ideal opinion.

maybe i'll stop using the internet entirely and ascend to heaven.

there is no heaven, only a hell, and this is it, the hell, we are in it

ilx has declined in terms of numbers of users, but it's...hit a plateau i guess? ilx is still one of my 3 permatabs at home and on my phone. still read several long ass threads a day. still make the effort to chime in with rote, poorly punctuated nonsense so that ppl remember my online persona b4 i die.

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come back, brodie