General

Mario Sunshine is the worst 3D Mario game.

Epstein didn't commit suicide.

Speed limits

Metallica's early albums are awesome and anyone who says they suck are objectively wrong.

The world is a vampire.

Nirvana Unplugged is the best live album of all time ever and nothing else comes close, or will ever come close.

Pretty much none for awhile. People are too focused on being right about anything and everything so much so it's made me more cognizant of what I say and fact vs fiction. I try to state opinion versus fact unless I slip up or am being facetious. Frankly I find it's a little embarrassing when someone argues opinion as fact in earnest.

Now the large majority of people don't, but it doesn't always come across that way in text... like some people accused me on Super Metroid in noname's thread.

Megadeth > Metallica 💥

Feeb wrote:

I believe to my core that a big part of the awesome for those early Metallica albums was due to Dave Mustaine. He is definitely beloved in the metal world ; but I don't feel it's as much as it should be. He deserves more for his whole contribution to metal.

Feeb wrote:

Rust in Peace is better than any one Metallica album, but the Kill em All/Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets run is better than most Megadeth as a whole. Peace Sells and Rust are the only 2 perfect Megadeth albums, rest is haphazard at best.

For me and music, my opinion is that Immolation is far more deserving of the level of success that Cannibal Corpse has as an old school death metal band still releasing music. CC just got lucky.

KCPenguins wrote:

I get it. Honestly, GTZ went from being one of the most argumentative sites I ever knew...to the most sensible. Seriously, it's not perfect but it feels way ahead of most other online places with people who have different opinions but still aren't accusing each other of wanting to physically kill the other for those beliefs (as ridiculous as that crap is).

People have lost their minds on most sites. I know relatives that don't speak to each other anymore because of crap they post on social media.

Thankfully this place is pretty mellow except for the occasional flare up, ya know, like hemorrhoids.

BucketofJustice wrote:

S&M, not even close.

BlueJava wrote:

Plussed

I'll put myself in the minority here but I actually enjoyed Death Magnetic, not on par with the first few albums obviously, but I felt it was closer to a return to form after the garbage of St. Anger etc.

ChrisKW1 wrote:

Haha...I fully understand. I think I'm one of the nine people in existence that liked Danzig's techno/dubstep albums! :D

Death Magnetic was a good album. Then again I’m a Metallica fanboy and I enjoy St. Anger, so how much can I be trusted?

Death Magnetic is pretty good, Hardwired has some true bangers though. Spit Out the Bone is up there with their greatest songs.

theyrhere wrote:

Man this one is tough. I love Immolation, they’ve objectively never put out an album I would rate lower than good. I do think Cannibal Corpse deserve their level of success, even if it was right band right time. They arguably got better after Barnes departed even though their early albums still remain the most popular. Either way both bands are putting out quality albums late in there careers which is uncommon

For the Metallica/Megadeth debate, I think Megadeth is better but Metallica branched into rock to gain a bigger audience and succeeded. If someone not into Metal ask for a recommendation, I always tell them to listen to Holy Wars. If they don’t feel something listening to that they may not ever get into Metal. Rust in Peace is perfect and beats any Metallica album. Megadeth have also released crap in the last 10 years that would fit right in with their late 80s/early 90s output.

I guess my opinion that I take as facts are the big 4 are the big 4 for a reason. Their influence on every genre of metal is massive and shaped the scene for 20 years. Even though there are other Bay Area bands better (testament, vio-lence), their influence wasn’t as large outside thrash.

Trve/kult/whatever you want to call it Black Metal is the lazy and boring at this point and staying true to it is holding back a lot of euro black Metal. The Asian and American BM experimentation has allowed BM to actually advance beyond “this must sound like crap”.

The real name of the band is Megadave. No fudging clue what Megadeath is.

theyrhere wrote:

Loved most of the music on Death Magnetic, but hated how it was mastered. I'm not normally picky about stuff like that, but everything crackled on whatever speakers I listened to. I hear later releases cleaned that up, though.

I haven't caught up with their new stuff since then, except for a bit of S&M2.

As far as opinion/facts, I still think GIF is pronounced "jiff" like the peanut butter. For this, I cannot be trusted.

New thread name: What are things about metal music that are technically opinions for you, but they are really facts?

Gif is pronounced jif, just like the peanut butter. I think the guy that created it gets some say in the name, right?

I would think he gets all of the say!

I will pronounce it like Jif peanut butter 'till the day I die. I don't care if I'm wrong about it.

Didn't Obama do some sort of executive declaration that it's a hard G? (Because that's a thing, apparently.)

People at work almost universally use a hard G.

I’d actually prefer to pronounce it jiff bc it’s more fun
But i guess the reasoning is the first word is Graphics
Never heard a jiffer in real life. I’ll respect it when it happens

What's the second word in NASA?

Ummm Aeronautics? I think.

So why isn't it pronounced NAySA?

It is if you ask Ricky from Trailer Park Boys

Do you pronounce Aeronautics Ayronautics?

Anyone who disabled the +/- on their posts are people that tend to say things that are often - able

Most governing bodies of health, medicine and nutrition base their recommendations on corporate pimpage and not on how well or how adversely their recommendations or guidelines actually impact health, medicine or nutrition.

3hitcombo wrote:

That’s an option? Ive never seen someone with an un-plus-or-minus-able post

DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:

If you're subscribed you can disable seeing the +/- system.

You can be negged and never see it

Right, i knew about that but the post implied disabling scoring on their posts, not hiding the scoring system in general

You can also disable scoring in marketplace threads you create.

I have scoring off. I don’t care about pluses or negs, and it’s been great. I’ll admit that I’ve turned it on a time or two since coming back, but it’s been way better without the scoring system in my opinion.

neg me all you want, I love negs! They're red.

I'll give some plusses and an occasional neg , but I don't give two craps about any that I receive. I chuckle at the times when people get butt-hurt over such an insignificant act as negging.

citizen_zane wrote:

That was kind of my “fact”. Those people care too much. For a reason…..