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@TWS1405_2
Well, post 89 was when you responded "no" towards "You are correct". Still confused.
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@Skipper_Sr
I wish for the Power of Friendship to become tangible and be weaponized in the military
Granted. Sadly, the US military is corrupt rendering the power of friendship negligible because the soldiers aren't united within nor are they united against their enemy factions, they just want to get their pay by shooting some middle eastern people and leave. Same goes for the Russian and Ukrainian armies.
However, the power of the brotherhood quickly becomes prominent for the North Korean army and they would take South Korea by force. The force becomes greater as an active oppression of sources of information tends to unite the soldiers as they have less distractions in the military. Eventually, the US would be forcefully taken by authoritarian regimes such as North Korea via a landing in California in the long term, that is forseeable.
More than that, gangs and drug rings could actually attack or manipulate people to join them or to die solely because bonding is prominent as well in those leadership groups. the US is quickly ridden by these underground criminals and the ass in the pain is collectively shared as a problem for all countries in the world.
Geniuses are being repressed because the power of friendship of three people each less than 1/3 of his collective abilities are able to get a massive boost due to their "friendship". Scientific progress halts because... well, those who win are almost guaranteed to not be lonely geniuses or at that level except for fields where no one cares about, like geology. Nepotism springs upward as well as their interpersonal bond with the wealthy and the powerful and the related can manifest tangibly instead of figuratively. Opportunities are given towards those who wouldn't deserve it fully and rightfully, and in all fields a tyranny of the many would quickly become the status quo as those who side with the initiator on anything could possibly win just by the bond, even if the initiator calls batshit crazy stuff such as increasing the educational spending & funding up to $500B.
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@TWS1405_2
Then what is it? I asked you whether you even believe you are yourself right, to which you responded no.
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@TWS1405_2
You are?
Well, the boosting of forum counts, that I can think of.
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@TWS1405_2
Oh, so you are saying that you are not correct.
What do you believe, then?
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@TWS1405_2
Minus the slightly questionable attitude, you are actually correct. Thank you.
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@TWS1405_2
-->@oromagiWhy are you here at DART? Seriously. Why!It’s clear you’re neither interested in legit debates/discussions, nor are you equipped to do so.
Why are you qualified to question his existence on a site where free expression ought to be encouraged, or anyone at all?
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@badger
Well, the way we tolerated BrotherD.Thomas.
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Usually I just assume it is due to better lighting / worse lighting / change of artist drawing unless public statement on why the skin color shifts are being made.
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@Skipper_Sr
To be the best Tricker in the world.
Granted, as every other person who can do these tricks is being killed and unpersoned for as tricking like this is outlawed and punishable by death imposed by the governments. Even if you possess such abilities, which you do, you can’t perform it because then you would be dead.
I wish that my accumulation of wealth becomes 1.5 standard deviations above the average human.
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@Greyparrot
Gosh. I am afraid to go outside even before COVID. There isn’t a necessary correlation.
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@Skipper_Sr
I wish that as I walked around outside barefoot, my feet would magically be clean as I re-enter the house.
Granted, however, the means we use to do achieve so is by adding a constantly-operating large machine with saws at the door of your house that can dismember you. So although your feet is clean, they are in fact cut from your rest of the body. More than that, the machine operates constantly so you have to be severed again if you want to go outside and touch grass, and back in also. Eventually, you lose walking functions for the long crawl before a wheelchair.
My wish: I wish that I will get a girlfriend (of unspecified identity, preferably human) and she will slap me in the face.
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You need people like your mother's new boyfriend.
What? How is that related to the topic? What is my mother's new boyfriend like? How does that prove anything?
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@Best.Korea
No. You are wrong. Fix yourself before God destroys you. Then you will run around crying how you were a victim.
No U (mic drop !!!!1!!111!1!!!!1!!!!!)
But seriously, anyone would know that God wouldn't like such condemnation of other people in the present society if there is one at all.
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@Best.Korea
Horrible things?
Teach others?
That is one way of saying "I don't know what LGBTQ actually represents but I want to look like someone who does".
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@TWS1405_2
Maybe I will. I respond because people are responding to me. Thanks for the ~10 forum post count boost anyways, massively appreciate that.
Good day sir.
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@TWS1405_2
Cause at no time did I use the exact quotes statement you put forth:“ If you say "it is common sense to know that it is common sense"
You didn't, I know that.
Are you daft?Clearly you are.
How am I daft?
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@TWS1405_2
HOW? Don't say "it is common sense".
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Good. Now surpassing the Americans becomes easier.
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@TWS1405_2
Then prove that whatever you have been saying is really common sense. If you say "it is common sense to know that it is common sense" then it is nothing short of circular reasoning.
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@TWS1405_2
If you need common sense explained to you, well, as I said, that’s a personal problem. Your problem. Not mine.
You are on a site where people actively attempt to prove truisms wrong.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Everything else isn't far off, but LGBTQ is not anti-science or anti-biology. Could you clarify how it IS being anti-science?
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@TWS1405_2
Why are you keep mentioning me if you know you are not even gonna try to explain it yourself? To shame me?
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@TWS1405_2
Whiner.Prez-Hilton just explained it (the obvious) to you.
So it is explained then. Thank you. Good day sir.
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@TWS1405_2
So you are not trying then. Good day sir. Of course me being confused gives you no feelings, you are free to not clarify, it is just that if I am still confused and making criticism, you keep responding with ambiguity would no longer be a valid response for me because you are the one to refuse to clarify in the first place.
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@TWS1405_2
I am sorry, I am not an expert at understanding things. If you don't know how to clarify, notify me and elaborate about the condition. If you can, do it.
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@TWS1405_2
And how exactly am I wrong???
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@TWS1405_2
Being against racism is inherently a good thing if one considers racism inherently bad. Although not able to click the link, I am fairly sure that the side effects of anti-racism as discussed and seen within the video is that they are not being solely anti-racist, not that they are being any anti-racist.
And yes, I believe using racism to counteract racism is not at all anti-racism.
Then again, when everything is muddled with money influences, they get pretty dark very quick.
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@TWS1405_2
You are confusing the activist groups who utilize a slogan with the meaning of the slogan itself. Just because they are “too woke” does not mean anti-racism is bad or anything. Just because BLM had some faults doesn’t mean Black lives don’t matter. Etc.
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@DebateArt.com
How about just make the description(not short description) mandatory with an asterisk.
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What. It is America, what do you expect? Most “American socialists” are way too progressive and “woke” to actually read Marx and Engels translated word by translated word. And the actual US Communist party is only in the thousands and is based on a single building in NY. I’d challenge any actual politician to be “socialist” for heavens sake. It just struck me that there is no “socialist” in most elections, there is just the conservatives and the less conservative, and the less conservative are labeled socialist by the more conservative just because both of them are on their left, I guess.
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I mean, I would wish that there are more people like Seldiora around. Those who propose absurd topics and actually try to prove them(and better if they can win). Battles with just Seldiora’s topics are what made my fluid style here. Today there are too many knowledge-requiring debates, which I don’t like because I am more of an AI machine learning model than a library. Topics nowadays have become less innovative than for example a year ago. The most innovative topics would be those in which semantic exploitations are possible from both sides and are balanced, IMO.
I would actually recommend a random topic generator from ChatGPT4 now and ask them to generate abstract stuff such as “On balance, potato chips are fries” and “On balance, the definition of ‘sandwich’ should be so that quesadillas and tacos are included”. Of course, these aren’t balanced because forum posts are typed out at the speed of thinking and fingertips, but it would be good if people do so, and not either cliched topics like “God does not exist” and basically obviously biased ones in ways, like “fascism is bad”.
Also I would recommend that in the description about debate descriptions, putting definitions that clarifies the topic setup is recommended by text, if descriptions on what descriptions(or even short descriptions) are exists. I don’t know because god knows how long I have been since I have created one, but a recommendation about a recommendation is a recommendation.
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@DebateArt.com
My point is that we should treat this site as a club. We should make the site friendly enough so new club members can join but not make it so that everyone can join and it turns into a small-scale DDO. Quality debating matters more than user count in my opinion.
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@DebateArt.com
No, you replied “word”. That is what I am not confident in interpreting.
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@DebateArt.com
I am not sure the message went through clearly. I would request a clarification if it is possible.
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@Best.Korea
I didn’t invent it although I did state a point or two there. You didn’t invent this point either, did you?
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Yes, it is called an accent. Being a former student in NYC, I am pretty sure that I sound different than for example a HS kid in Glascow or Melbourne.
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@Best.Korea
This site is having lots of activity now, which is the point.
What? No!
That is not the point. This is a community where quality is valued or at least desired. We aren't a soap opera centre or a text-based Facebook circlejerk group. This is like welcoming new people to join the club, have them to mix in and when experienced members interact with them, nothing happens; when initially the club is still open but people are OK to leave and those who come forth are resilient.
You realize that most of the new users just leave after 3 debatefuls of forfeits or even LESS. For old users like me who interact with the site daily, this is a lot, but to them, it is nothing and they can just go somewhere else if they aren't resilient. It made the site less competitive in the attention economy.
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Because guns are neither too stamina-consuming(such as knuckledusters, fists, knives even) nor too hard to get(such as landmines and grenades, missiles, etc). Guns are literally optimal at killing people. Dunno about the governmental revenues, but to an ethical and safety standpoint, stricter gun control is the way.
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@ebuc
Thor invented the wheel via his father Johnny Hart.
That was based on a comic, and comics are invented after wheels, with bicycles invented somewhere inbetween, etc. probably.
but the one I always remember most is this one. In those days it was common to call someone a derogatory ' dipshit ', for whatever reason compelled some one to do so.
As someone literally dipped in shit this morning(due to slipping and falling in the bathroom, for whatever drugs I am on), it is actually not as bad as what one would think it would be.
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@Mharman
To be honest, I don't see why we should have unrated debates in the first place.
I think unratedness should be for serious tournament debates, personal challenges(such as the topic of Barney not accusing Novice of following him) and rap battles, music battles, etc. The rest should be rated though because they are all the same kind of streetfight here.
Also it avoids situations when it's easy to grind rating on the new accounts that don't know what they are doing.If the noobs don't like being noobsniped, perhaps they should look for other noobs to challenge specifically.
That is literally how the noobs learn. That is how I grew up the ranks. I started up as a noob and immediately get slammed by large names such as RM and Oromagi. Then I try to imitate their styles and then I win. A system where higher rankers could debate against noobs would actually filtrate more resilient noobs to keep debating(I mean, that used to be all of us here). Forced unratedness is not good for any new accounts in the long run.
Once again, if a leaderboard is intended to be meaningful, then a new user leaving the site after posting one round, which is what we call an FF, should truncate some of his points as if he has less points than Type1. Otherwise, you can remove the leaderboard altogether and just use this as a forum, but that would be even more blasphemous if we consider what this site actually is.
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Ironically, debating seems like a good idea for an anarchy server because people vote, people are willing to debate(as long as there is a true sense of incentive). If people just go full-on attack mode with all the ad homing, they lose because they are not valid attacks. Unlike Minecraft PvP, the winners are those that actually try to argue with logic and facts.
Just to make sure that plugins can keep up with bot technology. I guess mod involvement should be focused on bots rather than banning those who dare speak different. Disabling bots is one of the only roles that I think are necessary for moderation actually at minimum.
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Ironically, debating seems like a good idea for an anarchy server because people vote, people are willing to debate(as long as there is a true sense of incentive). If people just go full-on attack mode with all the ad homing, they lose because they are not valid attacks. Unlike Minecraft PvP, the winners are those that actually try to argue with logic and facts.
Just to make sure that plugins can keep up with bot technology. I guess mod involvement should be focused on bots rather than banning those who dare speak different. Disabling bots is one of the only roles that I think are necessary for moderation actually at minimum.
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@PREZ-HILTON
League? No. This is essentially a neighborhood where streetfights take place everywhere. I am basically a person enrolled at the streets(Never received formal debating training). This update essentially made some streetfighters lose interest in fighting because they told both sides of the fight that fighting doesn't matter now.
Treating this site as a league in of itself reduces the amount of participation. It should just be a free-for-all altogether.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Oh of course, you sound like a non-worker bitching about workers going on strike. You don't even majorly debate most of the time. You don't deal with 5 debaters simultaneously, and you don't have like 10 pending debates that are nullified significance because of a feature.
The change made debating less relevant and that is bad, that is my point, yeah.
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