Chit-Chat: On Tuesdays Oryx and Triforce think it's Wednesday

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Oryx said:
An excerpt from my old account on a forum at 13:



I was basically the worst.
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Oh no. Your second point is the only thing I have a problem with how can you do this to me???
 
Arago said:
Oh no. Your second point is the only thing I have a problem with how can you do this to me???
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I THOUGHT IT WAS COOL. I also thought I was a badass and smarter than everyone around me and I so, so wasn't. It was the teenage equivalent of when I was 5 and tried to convince my mom that I didn't need to go get shots at the doctor because I went without her and already did the shots.
 
Kurono said:
Yes, of course. The appeal to emotion.

Very good to rely on when you don't have much else.
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Why not? Everyone else does.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have people moving for gun control, pro-life stances, and thinking Frozen is the best thing since Jesus Coming.

Believe me, I agree with you; emotion fogs logic and sound reasoning. It has no place in any discussion of anything period. But that doesn't stop a good fight from being entertaining.
 
Oryx said:
I THOUGHT IT WAS COOL. I also thought I was a badass and smarter than everyone around me and I so, so wasn't. It was the teenage equivalent of when I was 5 and tried to convince my mom that I didn't need to go get shots at the doctor because I went without her and already did the shots.
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You sounded like a cool 5 year old!
 
CarcharOdin said:
Why not? Everyone else does.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have people moving for gun control, pro-life stances, and thinking Frozen is the best thing since Jesus coming.

Believe, I agree with you; emotion fogs logic and sound reasoning. It has no place in any discussion of anything period. But that doesn't stop a good fight from being entertaining.
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i really don't wanna discuss politics. too much for my insect brain

I have to disagree. There's always a place for emotion in discussion. It can fog logic and reasoning but it's also often the basis for good logic and reasoning.

I'm just saying there's no need to abuse someone else's opinion with your own. You don't have to be harsh to get your message across.

of course i'm beginning to make it sound as if you were really all that harsh to begin with
 
Kurono said:
i really don't wanna discuss politics. too much for my insect brain

I have to disagree. There's always a place for emotion in discussion. It can fog logic and reasoning but it's also often the basis for good logic and reasoning.

I'm just saying there's no need to abuse someone else's opinion with your own. You don't have to be harsh to get your message across.

of course i'm beginning to make it sound as if you were really all that harsh to begin with
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I don't think that's what he was trying to do at all. I think he was just stating his opinion on something that was being discussed, and his opinion happened to clash with the person he was directing it to. Which was probably the reason he was inspired to post his opinion in the first place. And there really isn't anything wrong with that, don't you agree?
 
Kurono said:
i really don't wanna discuss politics. too much for my insect brain
I have to disagree. There's always a place for emotion in discussion. It can fog logic and reasoning but it's also often the basis for good logic and reasoning.
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Okay, I'm confused. Several posts ago you were chastising "appeal to emotion" as "something to rely on when you don't have much else." This implied to me that using emotion makes for a weak debate, which I agree with.

Now you're saying it "often [is] the basis for 'good' logic and reasoning."

Which is it?

I'm just saying there's no need to abuse someone else's opinion with your own. You don't have to be harsh to get your message across.
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True, I don't have to be, but I am anyway because that's how I roll. Try not to take it personally. Or do take it personally, I couldn't care less.

of course i'm beginning to make it sound as if you were really all that harsh to begin with
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I wasn't.
 
CarcharOdin said:
Okay, I'm confused. Several posts ago you were chastising "appeal to emotion" as "something to rely on when you don't have much else." This implied to me that using emotion makes for a weak debate, which I agree with.

Now you're saying it "often [is] the basis for 'good' logic and reasoning."

Which is it?
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both. because a fair balance of both gives you perspective.


True, I don't have to be, but I am anyway because that's how I roll. Try not to take it personally. Or do take it personally, I couldn't care less.
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Noted.


I wasn't.
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I know, gosh.
 
And this is the part where everyone backs away awkwardly while the growling dies down.
 
CarcharOdin said:
My aunt just showed this to me on Facebook:

https://www.people.com/article/wisconsin-girls-12-charged-after-stabbing-friend-19-times-slender-man

I can only hope this doesn't lead to the censorship of anything SlenderMan related, because Marble Hornets is the second best thing on Youtube.
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As unfortunate as this incident is, I don't think it's going to censor anything Slender Man related. It may cause the makers of the game to release a statement, but nothing further than that. The article makes it sound like they didn't even know that it was a video game, as they discovered it on some creepy pasta website. They'll most likely be inspected and diagnosis with some mental condition for their actions, but it could possibly fuel and reignite the debate of if violent video games correlate with violent actions.
 
Wow, that's pretty bad when something such as a video game winds up being the culprit of an attack like that. I knew the whole time that Slender Man was a video game before anything else, because I had a friend from high school show me the game, live over Skype nonetheless D:
 
Zach said:
Wow, that's pretty bad when something such as a video game winds up being the culprit of an attack like that. I knew the whole time that Slender Man was a video game before anything else, because I had a friend from high school show me the game, live over Skype nonetheless D:
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Well then you knew something wrong because the game was created after the myth. The original was created on Something Awful and it had a large following before the game was created.
 
I've read that article before at KYM; this may be yet another result of parents not doing their job correctly on raising their kids to not mimic what they see on television and computers.
 
That's very disturbing... but sadly, what I am more disturbed over was the thought of Jess being a mod.
 
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