Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@Don’t  
Agreed. It’s the Van Halen M&M’s incident of legal cases where the media latched on to blame the person stirring up the fuss about something when it was actually the fault of the company that didn’t care about their wellbeing.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Now I gatta ask what is the “Van Halen M&M incident?”

@Vivace  
Mm, I’d say those born into wealth could count as lucky.  
Not what I’d call it.
 
There’s good luck and bad luck, and I don’t believe in either.
 
Why? Well, luck assumes that the universe is working with or against you, and I seriously don’t think the universe gives a damn one way or the other. You’re either prepared or you aren’t, and the rest is by chance.
 
There’s a difference, yea: luck is the concept that circumstances happen to you; chance is just what happens. It’s not egotistical, and it doesn’t permit the roles of victor or victim. Sometimes you benefit and sometimes you don’t, but it’s seldom ever about you. It just is what it is.
 
But that’s just my opinion, don’t listen to me.

@GasMaskGuy98  
You never seen me play D&D before than.

@Beau Skunky  
The way the story goes: American rock band Van Halen had a contract rider that specified that they wanted a bowl of M&Ms in their dressing room backstage, but with all the brown M&M’s removed. At one show, they found a brown M&M in the bowl and went on a destructive rampage that cost over $80,000 worth of damage.
 
What really happened: Van Halen did have the contract rider, but there was another motivation behind it. Van Halen had very heavy and expensive equipment and staging for their shows, so everything at their concerts had to be done to exact precision to avoid technical errors. The brown M&Ms were a test to make sure everything was being followed to their specifications; if there wasn’t a bowl backstage or they did find brown M&Ms in it, they would have to go back and line-check the entire production. As lead singer David Lee Roth put it:  

 
At one show at Pueblo, Colorado, David Lee Roth went backstage and found the bowl with brown M&Ms in it. Sure enough, technical specifications had not been followed, and the staging sank through the arena floor because the venue staff hadn’t bothered to look at the weight requirements. The whole thing had to be replaced–and imagine how bad it would have been if the band was on it when it sank. After this, David Lee Roth did destroy the dressing room, causing maybe a few thousand dollars of damage, but the staging problems were what cost $80K.
 
Unfortunately, because the media likes to twist things around, the story was changed around to portray Van Halen in the wrong, and nowadays the M&M thing is commonly spun as celebrities being divas and freaking out about anything.

@Meanlucario  
You never seen me play D&D before than.  
Once again, because it is the internet, it is worth stressing that I am not criticizing people who do believe in luck. If you do, that is fine.
 
But with that being said… you’re right, I haven’t.

@TheHappySpaceman  
I see, as I said it’s very easy for the media to twist everything.
 
Heck, I still remember when gamer journalists & sites like DKVine used to spread rumors that Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Donkey Kong “Hated Donkey Kong Country,” even though he uncreditedly helped Rareware make the game, spoke well of it in interviews, (I honestly can’t find the interview where he supposedly bashed it) and ironically was the one who wanted to revive the series on Wii.
 
So you can’t believe everything you hear.

@GasMaskGuy98  
I was making a joke about how bad my rolls are. And I rolled three natural ones in a roll once, you give you an idea.

@GasMaskGuy98  
Yeah, luck is closely related to chance. It’s certainly a connotation the term has. I mean, you could do everything right toward a goal and still fail. I’d call that unlucky.
 
Luck | lək |  
noun  
Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions: it was just luck that the first kick went in | this charm was supposed to bring good luck.

@Meanlucario  
I was making a joke about how bad my rolls are. And I rolled three natural ones in a roll once, you give you an idea.  
Right, well… sorry. I don’t really know much about D&D or tabletop RPGs in general; never had the, uh, chance to play them.

@Beau Skunky  
Yup, that’s the truth.

@Vivace  
Yeah, luck is closely related to chance. It’s certainly a connotation the term has. I mean, you could do everything right toward a goal and still fail. I’d call that unlucky.  
Luck is chance viewed through the spectacles of good or bad fortune, for a lack of a better term. It’s good news (at least for you) if you win the lottery, and it’s bad news if you happen to be one of the passengers on the aeroplane when it crashes. Chance, therefore, is the objective reality of random outcomes in the real world, while luck is a consequence of the subjective value you place on those random outcomes. Luck, we might say, is chance given a human face. Comprehending this gives us a clearer view of reality, and a clearer view of reality means we can choose better courses of action.
 
Bottom line: nature makes chance, humans make “luck”.
 
And BTW, that’s just one definition. Take a look at the Dictionary by Merriam-Webster, for example.
 
The definition I am most familiar with is Noah Webster’s classic dictionary definition of luck, which is “a purposeless, unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favourably or unfavourably for an individual, group, or cause.”
 
Like I said, I don’t believe in luck. The above definition alone is reason enough not to, but that’s just my opinion.

 
I didn’t find Spinal Tap that funny when I first watched it. Mostly because most of the stuff that happened wasn’t too far off from reality.

@Dex Stewart  
Even the 18” tall Stonehenge?

@TheHappySpaceman  
Especially the 18” tall Stonehenge.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Some of the stuff was pretty far out,but I watched Spinal Tap long after I had read a bunch of Ramones and DVDs,in fact I watched Spinal Tap because Nigel looked kinda like Johnny.  

I never understood the hate for Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He never seemed that annoying to me.

@TheHappySpaceman  
 
I always liked Wesley. He wasn’t my favorite or anything but he was fine, especially later on.  
I really like that one Robot Chicken gag with Snerkles though.  
Kill Wesley,Keep Snerkles.

@Dex Stewart  
I guess I was young enough when first watching TNG that I didn’t mind the fact that there was a kid on the ship. He wasn’t a great character, but I don’t get the seething hatred that Trek fans have for him.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Him being a child actor may be the main problem.

@TheHappySpaceman  
The First Duty is one if my favorite episodes,also Journey’s End,that was a cool one.@Meanlucario  
I liked him in Stand By Me,and he was the voice of Martin in Secret of Nimh.

@Dex Stewart  
Really? I loved Secret of NIHM. (Good ol’ cutesy family friendly nightmare fuel.)  
“Stand By Me” was great too.
 
@Dex Stewart  
@Dex Stewart  
Alot of it’s humor is a bit subtle.
 
Hilariously, because of that movie they actually started making amps that go up to “11.”

@Beau Skunky  
Spinal Tap became a favorite to me after I watched the Commentary. All the actors are in character. The Blu-ray had a clip of a concert where they actually had the Stonehenge prop. It slowly begins to descend,only to get stuck halfway.

@TheHappySpaceman  
He got annoying in retrospect for me, but it is nothing really Neelix levels. Wes was more of sigh of early seasons problems

@DeathCloud  
I liked Neelix,too.  
The only series that outright annoys me is Lower Decks.