See, I avoid uncyclopedia like the plague (the plague avoided uncyclopedia by going out hundreds of years before Uncyclopedia was created. I, sadly, cannot do the same); but someone linked me to its article on OOTS, and I found it to be actually funny, by my abysmal standards of funny, at least.
"Rich Burlew currently updates the comic at such a depressingly slow speed that some have likened its appearance schedule to that of Halley’s Comet. Most agree that that is a gross understatement, however.
A new OOTS page is so rare, it makes a look ordinary gray.
Rich takes more time to draw one page of his stick figure comic then most writers take to write a whole book, or even a whole book series. Some say it’s a sick attempt at torturing his readers, others argue pure incompetence. It is certain, however, that Rich updates so rarely it is probable that you will never witness an update within your lifetime. Long-time readers still look back fondly at the days when the comic updated more than once a decade; now, however, it has slowed to an anaemic five hundred squillion years for each update (when Rich is in a good mood). And that’s when it’s not on indefinite hiatus"
It's funny because OOTS only once went 30 days without an update; and always updates at least once every thirty days.
Read the first episode of Dysfunctional Systems. Got the Winter Ending. Hahahahahahahaha. You marvelous goddamn bastards. Give them a glimmer of hope and then yank it away. But hey, I tried my best. If it's all going to end in failure, might as well make it end on my terms, right?
Now that Yvain has dedicated time to halting the spread of fascism across Less Wrong, perhaps I should think of forgiving him for pretending to discover a well-documented rhetorical technique and using it to defend evopsych and eugenics in the sleaziest way possible.
Now that Yvain has dedicated time to halting the spread of fascism across Less Wrong, perhaps I should think of forgiving him for pretending to discover a well-documented rhetorical technique and using it to defend evopsych and eugenics in the sleaziest way possible.
Read the first episode of Dysfunctional Systems. Got the Winter Ending. Hahahahahahahaha. You marvelous goddamn bastards. Give them a glimmer of hope and then yank it away. But hey, I tried my best. If it's all going to end in failure, might as well make it end on my terms, right?
Now that Yvain has dedicated time to halting the spread of fascism across Less Wrong, perhaps I should think of forgiving him for pretending to discover a well-documented rhetorical technique and using it to defend evopsych and eugenics in the sleaziest way possible.
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Less Wrong user Yvain discovered poisoning the well the non-central fallacy it's true.
Now that Yvain has dedicated time to halting the spread of fascism across Less Wrong, perhaps I should think of forgiving him for pretending to discover a well-documented rhetorical technique and using it to defend evopsych and eugenics in the sleaziest way possible.
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Less Wrong user Yvain discovered poisoning the well the non-central fallacy it's true.
Read the first episode of Dysfunctional Systems. Got the Winter Ending. Hahahahahahahaha. You marvelous goddamn bastards. Give them a glimmer of hope and then yank it away. But hey, I tried my best. If it's all going to end in failure, might as well make it end on my terms, right?
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Dysfunctional Systems is a sci-fi VN focusing on Winter, a student mediator, somebody whose job it is to bring order to chaotic "systems" (which seem to be other planes of existence, judging from what is said during the story). Winter is shadowing Cyrus, a professional mediator, mediating a world called Sule. Partway through, you discover that the president of the country of Brighton, tired of his people being oppressed by Grabea, the country they declared independence from, is planning to launch a nuke at their capital. At this point, Cyrus decides the best course of action is to shoot the president and let him be seen as a martyr to unite Brighton's citizens, whilst allowing the nuke to launch. You can dissuade him from doing this, and instead persuade the President to launch the nuke at the ocean to demonstrate their power instead.
Both these scenarios end the same way. The nuke turns out to be a "true fusion" bomb, powerful enough to create a star, and the entire planet is annihilated, Winter and Cyrus barely escaping.
As far as I know, the only thing Eliezer Yudkowsky demonstrates a knowledge of is how to make an academic expert out of yourself through credential forgery.
I know quite a few people I consider more well-versed in the subjects he deals in than I am, and I cannot name one of them who has ever said a single positive thing about him.
As far as I know, the only thing Eliezer Yudkowsky demonstrates a knowledge of is how to make an academic expert out of yourself through credential forgery.
I know quite a few people I consider more well-versed in the subjects he deals in than I am, and I cannot name one of them who has ever said a single positive thing about him.
Well, I know that Yudkowsky is smarter than I am. He said he was (actually, I was dreaming. In the dream, his name was Cow-Sky; and he was a cow colored like the sky. He said he was smarter than me because he could leap beyond the Moon but I was too short to see anything above a few feet. So I made a rocket out of crayon (it worked because a crayon and a rocket have the same shape. But it turned out that the rocket ran out of heat and I ended up cold in space. Then I woke up and realized my blanket had fallen off.) So, yeah, Yudkowsky told me that he was smarter than me.
Those kids at school who say that Barrack HUSSEIN Obama (he chose that middle name 'cause he's muslim) is planning a military Coup of the United States of America because he was born in Jamaica (an island off the coast of Kenya) and once he's dictator for real, nobody can kick him out for not being born in the United States Of America. Also, Mitt Romney made the economic crash happen with his thousands of trillions of dollars. He's where all the money went. Romney and Obama worked together to make a terrible economic situation where an obvious muslim and a rich Scumbag could become powerful. So, no matter who won, they both won.
These kids say this completely sincerely, with no trace of sarcasm, irony, satire, or anything. They really think that Barrack Obama is a Muslim; and that Jamaica is an island off the coast of Kenya.
These kids are not kidding. They sincerely believe that such things are true.
They're smarter than me, because they say they are.
As far as I know, the only thing Eliezer Yudkowsky demonstrates a knowledge of is how to make an academic expert out of yourself through credential forgery.
I know quite a few people I consider more well-versed in the subjects he deals in than I am, and I cannot name one of them who has ever said a single positive thing about him.
Well, I know that Yudkowsky is smarter than I am. He said he was (actually, I was dreaming. In the dream, his name was Cow-Sky; and he was a cow colored like the sky. He said he was smarter than me because he could leap beyond the Moon but I was too short to see anything above a few feet. So I made a rocket out of crayon (it worked because a crayon and a rocket have the same shape. But it turned out that the rocket ran out of heat and I ended up cold in space. Then I woke up and realized my blanket had fallen off.) So, yeah, Yudkowsky told me that he was smarter than me.
Those kids at school who say that Barrack HUSSEIN Obama (he chose that middle name 'cause he's muslim) is planning a military Coup of the United States of America because he was born in Jamaica (an island off the coast of Kenya) and once he's dictator for real, nobody can kick him out for not being born in the United States Of America. Also, Mitt Romney made the economic crash happen with his thousands of trillions of dollars. He's where all the money went. Romney and Obama worked together to make a terrible economic situation where an obvious muslim and a rich Scumbag could become powerful. So, no matter who won, they both won.
These kids say this completely sincerely, with no trace of sarcasm, irony, satire, or anything. They really think that Barrack Obama is a Muslim; and that Jamaica is an island off the coast of Kenya.
These kids are not kidding. They sincerely believe that such things are true.
They're smarter than me, because they say they are.
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"Rich Burlew currently updates the comic at such a depressingly slow
speed that some have likened its appearance schedule to that of Halley’s Comet. Most agree that that is a gross understatement, however.
A new OOTS page is so rare, it makes a look ordinary gray.
Rich takes more time to draw one page of his stick figure comic
then most writers take to write a whole book, or even a whole book series.
Some say it’s a sick attempt at torturing his readers, others argue
pure incompetence. It is certain, however, that Rich updates so rarely
it is probable that you will never witness an update within your
lifetime. Long-time readers still look back fondly at the days when the
comic updated more than once a decade; now, however, it has slowed to an
anaemic five hundred squillion years for each update (when Rich is in a
good mood). And that’s when it’s not on indefinite hiatus"
It's funny because OOTS only once went 30 days without an update; and always updates at least once every thirty days.
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Could you give me some context on this, Odradek?
My knowledge of terrible people is much less than yours.
Both these scenarios end the same way. The nuke turns out to be a "true fusion" bomb, powerful enough to create a star, and the entire planet is annihilated, Winter and Cyrus barely escaping.
it's the sound of two egos clashing in a battle witnessed by a single other human being.
And, yeah, after reading that, I agree. Miai deserves a medal. And brownies. And a nice Hat.
I know quite a few people I consider more well-versed in the subjects he deals in than I am, and I cannot name one of them who has ever said a single positive thing about him.
THE IRON LADY
THE IRON LADY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
Surely Robert D. Brown and his colleagues are more interesting than whatever rapper you guys talk about.
(no this is Aliroz in a nutshell: "help how do I get out of this linguistically correct reptilian nutshell?!")
The stock rap name is like MC Elizer or something, but I think we will go with the much more obscurely referential Rappin' Yud-Kow-Skay.
Lil B is the fourth prophet.
Those kids at school who say that Barrack HUSSEIN Obama (he chose that middle name 'cause he's muslim) is planning a military Coup of the United States of America because he was born in Jamaica (an island off the coast of Kenya) and once he's dictator for real, nobody can kick him out for not being born in the United States Of America. Also, Mitt Romney made the economic crash happen with his thousands of trillions of dollars. He's where all the money went. Romney and Obama worked together to make a terrible economic situation where an obvious muslim and a rich Scumbag could become powerful. So, no matter who won, they both won.
These kids say this completely sincerely, with no trace of sarcasm, irony, satire, or anything. They really think that Barrack Obama is a Muslim; and that Jamaica is an island off the coast of Kenya.
These kids are not kidding. They sincerely believe that such things are true.
They're smarter than me, because they say they are.