How to start a pointless nerd fight

glennmagusharvey

Say that Captain Picard from Episode III is better than Obi-Wan Kenobi from The Next Generation.

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Walk into the Steam forums and say that CSGO, Borderlands, GTA V, Skyrim, and the Batman games are bad

glennmagusharvey

Walk into any console war thread where people are arguing between the Xbone and the PS4, and say that both options are shit compared to the WiiU

(because they are)

glennmagusharvey

Mention Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, the NSA, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, etc.

glennmagusharvey

Refer to Bradley Manning as opposed to Chelsea Manning

glennmagusharvey

Call atheism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam "the same thing"

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Say that Israel and/or Palestine should not exist

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Praise either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, or flame Gary Johnson or Jill Stein

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Opine that Pepe is better than Dat Boi

Tachyon

some of these are liable to anger non-nerds

glennmagusharvey

Say that End of Evangelion is a load of bullshit and the TV ending is better by far

glennmagusharvey

Tell them that weed should be illegal

glennmagusharvey

Tachyon said:

some of these are liable to anger non-nerds

collateral damage

glennmagusharvey

Tell them that heavy metal and power metal and dark grind psychedelic noisecore whatnot is shit and that rap and country are far better

glennmagusharvey

Say that integrated graphics cards are the best because they're the cheapest

glennmagusharvey

Praise Mighty No. 9 and/or Keiji Inafune

glennmagusharvey

Tachyon said:

some of these are liable to anger non-nerds

note that i have not mentioned abortion

because it rarely tickles nerds

glennmagusharvey

Counter-flame anti-vegetarians by insisting on purposely eating veggie burgers every time they mention that they're going to eat meat to piss off vegetarians/vegans

glennmagusharvey

Argue that tech has advanced too fast

Tatterhood

glennmagusharvey said:

Refer to Bradley Manning as opposed to Chelsea Manning

please don't

glennmagusharvey

Flame esports and youtubers en masse

glennmagusharvey

Compare fantasy football to D&D

glennmagusharvey

Flame tech entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley and/or praise the government's investments in technological development (aside from NASA's and maybe USGS's)

glennmagusharvey

Say that digital piracy should be either always legal or punishable by amputation

Salix Babylonika

posting in a glenn thread

glennmagusharvey

glennmagusharvey said:

Say that digital piracy should be either always legal or punishable by amputation

Praise DRM and/or DMCA

also microtransactions and pay-to-win

One-Winged Eagle

Point out that the idea behind "collateral damage" is incredibly callous and cruel.

One-Winged Eagle

Defend the creation of contrarian statement threads as if they aren't part of the group they are mocking.

glennmagusharvey

Pluralize anime and manga as "animes" and "mangas"

glennmagusharvey

Institute a word filter that filters out cusswords. for extra lulz, filter out "censorship" itself

glennmagusharvey

glennmagusharvey said:

Institute a word filter that filters out cusswords. for extra lulz, filter out "censorship" itself

use the filter to turn "Snowden" into "Snowman" and "wiretapping" into "tapdancing" olololololololloloolollololololololololololol

Hexartes

glennmagusharvey said:

Refer to Bradley Manning as opposed to Chelsea Manning

Glenn you should know that this post was a bad idea, come on

Crystal

I, yeah, even as "wonderposting" I don't see the wonderpost-level joke-ness to it.

Salix Babylonika

can we just ban Glenn please

glennmagusharvey

Crystal said:

I, yeah, even as "wonderposting" I don't see the wonderpost-level joke-ness to it.

Do note that I don't actually agree with every "idea" posted here.  In fact, some of them I strongly disagree with.

This is more like, list of flamebait.

In any case, you as mod should be able to see my flagging this thread for deletion, as the moment has passed anyway.

Salix Babylonika

I disagree with your fundamental premise.

glennmagusharvey

Jane said:

I disagree with your fundamental premise.

The fundamental premise is "these are things I have seen young people on the internet get angry about/in response to".  There is no other.

Fossilmaiden

And it's a bad premise, as you have had pointed out to you repeatedly in the past.

glennmagusharvey

Fossilmaiden said:

And it's a bad premise, as you have had pointed out to you repeatedly in the past.

Every premise is pointless anyway.

glennmagusharvey

also your favorite youtuber/favorite twitter account/waifu is shit

Hexartes

Well the joke behind flamebait should be that it's a silly thing to get mad about, or at least that it's something that warrants a discussion that devolves into bitter back-and-forth for no real reason, the joke behind flamebait should not be "this is a thing people get angry about," especially when said thing (misgendering a trans person) absolutely warrants anger. And when it's grouped with trivial things, it makes it seem as if you think intentional misgendering is at worse a mild faux pas and that's pretty offensive.

glennmagusharvey

Kexruct said:

Well the joke behind flamebait should be that it's a silly thing to get mad about, or at least that it's something that warrants a discussion that devolves into bitter back-and-forth for no real reason, the joke behind flamebait should not be "this is a thing people get angry about," especially when said thing (misgendering a trans person) absolutely warrants anger. And when it's grouped with trivial things, it makes it seem as if you think intentional misgendering is at worse a mild faux pas and that's pretty offensive.

not sure if you've noticed, but that is by far not the only thing that demands moral outrage in this list

Crystal

I'm just going to lock it, as a way of forcibly ending a wonderpost thread gone awry for the same old reasons.