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Up and Coming
May 15, 2017
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Arguing on the internet

Scott Adams (the guy who writes and draws Dilbert) has a blog.  
In that blog he has written all sorts of things that are controversial.  Hell, he predicted Trump's election months and months (a year?) before it happened.  He's also a  published writer and trained hypnotist, among other things.  

His latest post was pretty interesting because it echoes one of my long-held axioms of forum arguments - ad hominem is the last resort of someone who is fresh out of logical responses.  Here it is for those of you who might enjoy reading it.

Scott Adams lists three other ways to tell you've "won" a political argument, but I think these apply equally to the discussions we have here on the board.  I know I've been guilty of a few of these over the years, so I'm going to try to avoid them if possible.
I guess this is fair warning that I'm going to judge others based on a few of his criteria as well.  If you commit any of these four internet argument sins, I'm going to smile and move on to another subject.

I know this may fall on deaf ears so I've prepared a quote from Arnold in his breakout role: 
"And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!"

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    Inspiring
    June 1, 2017


    Speaking of arguing on the internet @cybereality has Oculus considered doing an official Discord Server? or maybe we could start an unofficial one? Then @Zenbane can have his own channel in there .. it will be called "HTC Fanboy lashing and torture room" ..... but seriously I would love for that to be a thing.


    I also think it would be a great space to coordinate game events etc.
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    Inspiring
    June 1, 2017
    afaik there is already an oculus discord
    A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on forums?
    Up and Coming
    June 1, 2017
    There are too many devices like this now to use and learn. Everyone is using Slack now. I have to get use to Slack and what the flimflam is Discord? It seems I'm always behind the curve on these things even though my office used to be a 30 second walk from where the first web-server and web-page was run and hosted.
    Honored Contributor
    June 1, 2017
    A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.
    June 1, 2017
    Zenbane is always low blowing elboffor

    This is what they do. Much of chats here is playful which after long crappy hard days is just fine 

    Why am i even pointing this out :D
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    June 1, 2017

    vannagirl said:

    Zenbane is always low blowing elboffor

    This is what they do.


    I'm offended :'(
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    June 1, 2017

    nalex66 said:

    Now I'm curious about @Zenbane's low blow against @elboffor. I read just about everything on this forum, and I don't remember anything particularly terrible.  :/

    I can only think of two moments:

    1)
    He said I had sand in the vagina, and I said he was the sand.


    2)

    I asked him to remind me about his German heritage during a conversation about Nazi's.


    Other than that... it's been flowers n' rose petals.


    Inspiring
    June 1, 2017
    As the third clown, and the only one yet to speak out, I feel I must say something on behalf of clowns everwhere - don't let the (shirtless) man get you down. 

    Some folks will never see the genius that we are, or how fantastic a job we've done getting our greasepaint in all the right places.

    Some will never understand the time it takes to endlessly quote Zenbane and follow that up with a "stay golden, ponyboy." or just how long it truly takes to find every post he makes and give it a hearty LOL.

    Some day we will be appreciated for the joy we bring to Zenbane, but ladies and gents, today is not that day.


    Inspiring
    June 1, 2017

    vannagirl said:

    Zenbane is always low blowing elboffor

    It's pretty hard to hit @elboffor without low blowing him...


    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    June 1, 2017
    I want to be a clown too.




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