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Apply with the following in your post.

Reason You Should Be Cast

Your Attitude Towards Gambling

Your Favourite Teaching of Sun Tzu

Your Opinion of RM

Your Discord Account (DM/PM me here if you want it not published publicly, doxxing of any kind is disallowed on DART so CoC will bind me and others to not expose your account if you request it).
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I want to make a debate Brave Browser vs Firefox Browser but every time I activate it, it says I have broken the website, internal error.

This happens after I already am Previewing the Debate and click Confirm.
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Let us move into the year saying things we like about the site.

I love that I can be my weird, opinionated self here.
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I just realised that out those left in this thing, I'm one of the oldest at it despite technically being retired by force of ban early on. If you took everyone left other than "Lunatic", I am one of the most ancoent of those left and who still throws himself into the arena. In fact my main rival for this title is Zaradi at this point.

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Debating is great when your faith is blatant,
When you breathe dry air on fallacious grapes 'n' make raisins,
You know what else is amazing? When someone else starts praising,
When the votes gets made and your Rating's raked in,
But when I say literally that without losers here it would not be worth participating,
I'm not lying that's why I'm in love with losing at times, staying humble is a great thing.

See, without the wrong opinions this here'd be a long lost dominion,
You'd have a Bish in the number 1 spot intellectually raping his minions,
Virtuosos bein' no shows, busy in real life not stringent,
Madmen acting rational for 5 seconds flat before a sharp-horned Ram came blam and got a gang to hand an L to the mad rat; pussy's'd be winnin',
But no what we got's better, got a back-and-forth committment to never really quit; call it an intermission that's intermittent,
Hand a loss to another debater today, make it look like you tried; let 'em feel fulfilment,
Merry Christmas to you bitches, hope reading this series of wit gave your life encrichment.
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but barely did anything since he had the opportunity to dump his workload onto Blamonkey.
Time to demote him, he is only liked by other toxic members.
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Is it because they struggle to give a valid reason for his ban or a mechanical accident post-update?
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No questions unless you want to be asked, I will give you a profile pic you will love.
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Chapter 0: Aint no big man last forever.

Lotta people think they knows what it takes to be a man. Not just a man, but a man’s man. Y’know? That guy who the other guys just gotta put an arm around when he walk in the room, that man who know when to lay down and fold just to not make another go broke. Life aint all ‘bout winnin’ when you up in the games we play… Me, I may be a man’s man, maybe not, only others can tell that truth. 

My name is Mikey, if you ask the next guy ‘round here, I runs things but ask some other and maybe I’m just lucky and really Brian or tha Virtuoso, no seriously they calls him that, be runnin’ things. I don’t know what to tell ya’, I just do my part, pay the rent and keep this town alive. The rest is up to those that inhabit it. 

I be wonderin’ myself what the commotion is all about, whens I be startin’ up here they say I was behind the coup of the old leaders, me I say nothin’ ‘cause that’s what a real man’s man would do. You gotta know when to pick a fight, not just how to fight it. These paper foldin’ oromagi boys think it’s just rackin’ wins, admiration, cranes, frogs y’know ornaments ‘n’ all that. What good’s your win when the others don’t like you round here? Piss too many of the judges off and that’s it, you’re doneso. It’s ‘bout humility, you know? It’s ‘bout’ fuckin’ respect! Somethin’ too many have no concept of anymore, or maybe it was always that way and I’m being stupidly nostalgic, who knows?

What you learn when you in my position in a place like this, well what you learn before even startin’ up in a place like these when you the type o’ guy I am, is that it aint about the stats on paper that keeps you high up in that food chain, it’s about a currency most don’t even know exists. You fuck around with the wrong guys too long, that’s it you aint shit.

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What I am going to do is link here each time I create a new episode, you are free to then post to the episode (which will be in the Art subform or whatever subform replaces it post-readjustment of Forum topics) or to discuss it here, either is totally fine. This subforum is where people look far more than on Art so that is why I will post to this thread with a link to the episode/chapter each time.
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I will like you to state opting out of consent. You are assumed to consent to being in the story (SupaDudz was allowed to do this).
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Unlike votes, there is absolutely no rule or reason for a rule to prevent us arranging collusion to gain question-based medals (they're new, check your profiles). 

For every person who asks me a question (that isn't too personally doxxing or something) I will ask them the same question back and then one on top, which will be something tailored to them.
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Your next door neighbour, who you have a somewhat mutually beneficial peace with in the neighbourhood but isn't your best friend ever, is domestically abusing their family, housemates etc.

What do you want to do?
What do you do?

It has gone on for an extensive period of time, there is no question that they are abusing.

Options:

(some are illegal to admit you want to do, just think it silently)

  1. Give them a taste of their own medicine, or at least vigilante their ass in some shape or form. Then walk away, the pain'll fix 'em.
  2. As above, but you ensure the children are moved to safety, whether or not you are technically kidnapping them in the meantime.
  3. Join in and film it for a bit, ensuring you're not on the tape, then blackmail them later on gambling on them never being willing to take you down with them and you'd be getting a lesser sentence to them anyway, or equal at worst.
  4. Ignore it, that aint your issue, in fact you have enough shit to deal with at home. That fucking rebellious brat is playing Justin Bieber too loud, you can hear it through their $4 earphones. It's time to do what's right, handle your own household.
  5. Get the cops involved, simple as. Do everything you can to help the case, even if blackmail starts to happen or the family deny it in fear, you will take the rascal down and you know it!
  6. Eliminate the threat and replace them with a puppet neighbour you have strong influence over.
  7. Offer kindly, silently as possible, to help the family if they want you to. If they insist on not, you back off. If they beg you to help, YOU MAKE A FULL CASE, documenting evidence and everything. After the case begins to ensue, you refuse to turn up to court, how dare Sally have snitched on her neighbour Dominic? That's so shady. You get the neighbourhood to shun Sally but before she runs off or commits suicide, you come to Sally and offer her assistance, in private. Say you're so sorry, things just got out of hand you know how the gossip is it turned things so bitter and twisted, you can't believe that Mark would frame Sally for snitching like that. Mark is a sly one. You have sex with Sally, you enjoy it. You go back to your house. You tell your spouse that Sally is so rude that when you went to help her she reached for your groin and threatened to sue you for sexual harassment.
  8. You join in, genuinely, helping each other tame the victims and dominate the neighbourhood.
I would like you to do the following.


Stage 1

Take the number which is what you want to do. Add it to the number of what you think you really would do.

If the result is 2 digits, add those digits together. 

If both were option 8, for instance your result will be a 7 because 16 becomes 1+6=7

Stage 2
Now, I want you to take the number you would loathe doing most.
Now, I want you to take the number that was so stupid or immoral that it crossed your mind the least before reading the questions. If this is nonexistent, the number is 0.

With these 2 numbers I want you to minus the latter from the former.

Stage 3
Now, minus the result of Stage 2 from the result of Stage 1.

Okay. Now go and read the number that is the difference.

If the answer is what you wanted to do, you are overall a libertarian Left-winger.
If the answer is what you thought you'd do, you are overall an authoritarian Left-Winger
If the answer is either 0 or something very 'grey area' in your morality, you are a chameleon and have no real agenda other than survival.
If the answer is what you really didn't want to do, you are overall an authoritarian Right-Winger
If the answer is what never really crossed your mind before reading it, you are a Right-Wing Libertarian.
If the answer is larger than 8, you are a ruthless dictator without wing orientation, you may identify as an anarchic rebel.

This is a very complicated algorithm. You cannot fool it, you cannot decode it unless you are as much of a genius as I am and you probably will think this is bullshit. Feel free to criticise it or admit its accuracy in the comments below.
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Destroy the evidence, shut the trolls down. Tell in the CoC that to bring up a deleted thread in conversation on the website is considered the same as PM doxxing and violates the Mod's discretion and privacy, undermining the fabric of the website.

If they keep at it, say they are harassing the moderators and upsetting the userbase. Ban them, halas.
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Liaison is the open communication between the Discord mods and DART mods, it's literally not possible for a person to be it. They are Discord Moderators who happen to be in liaison with the DART Moderators. You could even argue calling them Discord Liaison Agents is acceptable.
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If this is last update of the website, post a song you want to be remembered by:

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I never understood that nuance... The Left-Wing consistently based their policy on stats and reasoning. The Right-Wing usually revolve around 'absolute morals' that they assign to a religious authority to then call everyone who opposes it 'evil', no matter how good the opposition's reasoning is.
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To add to their similarity, Taoism's original name was Daoism. 

Both views on reality revolve around the idea that questioning God's motive is a zero-sum game since we're not God but are inside the simulation/creation. Both hold morality to be nothing more than a natural processed that we evolved over time. What exactly differentiates one from the other, except that one originated in China and the other has ambiguous origin?

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Impersonating a real life personality that is famous can damage their reputation and make their manager/publicist sue this website:


This is not okay.
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What you gonna do when a thought's become a stew and the only real solution is to puke it up for view?
I say, who you gonna sue when the thought police abuse every icky sticky stance on a subject you hold true?
There's a place where everyone can rat-a-tat and bang their chest OOH! OOH!
It's the arty farty DARTy forums; place run like a zoo:
First we were all wild, whipped to tameness oh so mild
But then the keeper was unpleasant to an adolescent, just a child!
And the chimps and lions alike went OOGA BOOGA ROAR and from the sky rained hippopotami, burying him deep beneath the pile,
And the deputy zookeeper had a sleaker leader-style, he got the biggest baddest bullies to keep the others reconciled!


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Do not misunderstand us, we want not to hurt you but simply to own you. Obey and we will let you be happy.

Good boy Ratman, deliver our message for us.

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Are you an atheist fighting against authority in your own occult group?

The Illuminati began as freemasons, thinking they were the ones fighting religious authority. The sheer irony of an orthodox Jew having the image shows only how corrupt and far from their original mission they came.

This is not racism, I am speaking of the religion of Orthodox Judaism, not the race of Hebrew. I do not understand why he is so openly having that image. The image for 'religion' in the Debates section of this website is also very curious indeed.
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Ramshutu, a now officially 'orange crown on profile' moderator, continually chooses images to trigger me and only me. He has explicitly admitted to doing it on 7 different occasions. His current image is meant to depict me as a retard who thinks he is a genius. I would like to know how this is acceptable, professional mod behaviour.
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You simply need to @ me or ask if I have blocked you. I will improve your avatar, I guarantee it.
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I honestly believe that if you are an anarchist you need mental health assistance. This is not at all mocking them, I promise you this because at some point in my life I was one.

If you honestly want to abolish all government, have unfettered freedom and absolutely no money or capitalist means of strategising society, you have reached a stage of severe delusion and depression. You are so utterly furious and on top of that ignorant of what's going on around you, that you think it will ever be viable to have that. 

If you believe in anarchy as an end-goal (not just a polarity that you lean towards) you need to seek mental assistance from a professional before it's too late. I will like anyone, anarchist or not, to defend against this.
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I am curious.
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Men want to be admired, women want to be desired but there is more to it.

I understand I was mistaking a result of a fundamental difference as instead a fundamental thing they seek.

I believe the truer, or at least other, fundamental difference that explains nearly every single difference between the genders is that when men feel something, they want you to feel it too. When men think something, they want you to think it too. When women feel something, they either want to feel it or don't, they stop there and handle it from that point on as internally as possible (though usually use external stimuli more so than men, even though they internalise the coping far more). When women think something, they only want to share it if it will help shift their feelings to be what they want.

You can go ahead and discredit this as uneducated, sexist bullshit. It took many years of careful observation, piecing together people like puzzles and finding 0 (yes, 0) exceptions to this fundamental law of the genders and their brains. However, this DOES agree with transgenderism. People who truly have feminine behaviour and brains despite being born XY, do actually fit my description of the fundamentals of women and the opposite is also true for XX with very masculine mind and behaviour.

This at first seems to run completely opposite even to what people think about the genders. When women cry, they just want you to cry with them too right? Wrong. This is something I learned that helped me handle them very effectively in life. Women want someone to make them feel welcome, desired and that whatever the woman feels is fine to feel and respected by the other, it's that simple. People wonder why women dig the badboys over the nice guys, it's because the nice guys break to pieces when they cry, and though they may find that therapeutic at first; they want someone who is reliably happy and stable emotionally for them to continually cry to and get cheered up by, they want you to also help them know when they're too optimistic and happy... Yet, they want you to do that at the right time in the right way so you don't kill their high dead in its tracks.

On the other hand, you will find that when you try this with males it makes them unhappy without fail. When you try and soothe and cheer up a guy, it doesn't matter how 'nice' he is unless he's very, very feminine for his biological sex. He will want you to be as angry as him or leave him the fuck alone. He will want you to be as happy as he is or fuck off, because you're killing his vibe. This explains nearly everything about why males and masculine-minded women are those who both have the most destructive and creative minds. They can make the funniest comedies, the saddest tragedies, they can be an Einstein, Tesla, Mozart and/or Mandela, or a Hitler, Caesar, Stalin and/or Genghis Khan.

You can look at me and say 'but the world was rigged, you are talking about what men did while things were always rigged against the women who wanted to do it.' and you'd be right in one way; they had an easier time making their ambition have a payoff for it in an external manner but that's also because societies in all races, even matriarchal tribes, followed a core, fundamental concept:

Men (especially very masculine ones) want you to feel what they feel and will stop at nothing until you are in as much awe to their own idea as they are, as angry about what they loathe as they are or as happy about what they enjoy and love as they are... This then creates the dilemma of if every man loved the same woman equally, then what? Exactly. Men waged war more than women and invented more than women not just out of unfair headstart; it is their urge to make everyone feel what they feel that backfires when other men actually begin to feel what they feel... It snowballs back and they get the same lust for the same title, reward etc. as the other guy and want everyone to feel it.

Women (especially very feminine ones) run entirely on what they want to feel and do not want to feel. They do not give the slightest damn if you feel it too or think it too, so long as your behaviour is grounding to them emotionally and leaves them calmer or happier than when they came to be in your presence in the first place. It's that simple.
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I will like all users who care to post between Virtuoso and Bsh1 who is better fitted to run this website's moderation.

I vote Virtuoso.
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Hammer got a 30 day full ban when he's been a passive-aggressive tender type of abuser to me. Meanwhile Wylted who has verbally abused all black people, gay people and a plethora of other users on the site in multiple ways, both threatening, rule-slip-sliding skirting the edges of what's even plain illegal to type and shit gets 3 days first then only 7.

This is plain bs straight up and I want an explanation. I was the person that bsh1 says was trolled by hammer, but hammer was a decent troll. He didn't fuck with me truly other than once on the comments of a debate I had with Thett3.
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There is no sensible way to believe the mainstream storyline of Adam being the biological father of Cain. I believe that the idea is that Cain was made from God's alter ego Satan (I don't believe that Lucifer is Satan or that he ever becomes it, I believe that Lucifer is Jesus in the NT and that God of the OT is, or directly controls, Satan throughout). The Serpent was to produce the most evil, masculine being in the entire storyline; Cain, who would reflect everything sinister and brutal in humanity, whereas Abel would represent a more feminist type of guy, who respectd women and people in general holding an honest reputation about himself.

There is absolutely no explanation of what the 'swallowing of the apple' is metaphor for, are you literally telling me that an apple was that tempting? I think the apple was having sex with the serpent of the sexy badboy Satan.
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An assistant mod on discord has been abusing me verbally during this election campaign, as well as breaking rules, garnering votes etc. This is utter fucking bullshit, not a single of the mods there did anything about it. I will like an explanation from all three mods/admins because they all proved they were active.
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All your post are belong to me.
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I will like this to be the theme tune for this (more dedicated to my haters than lover but both should appreciate it), but you are free to not listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVzWVinJ5wQ

I have had a lot happen to me emotionally and even mentally since I began debating online to now. I've had rivalries that were brutal, some that were passive-aggressive and some that were based on misunderstanding and later have had me and the other be reconciled (SupaDudz is testament to that). I always strived to be the kind of asshole who everyone could find something to admire in and I will always aim to be that for the rest of my life. I am not the hero of anyone's story, I am the villain who is admirable in some shape or form to everyone and I embrace it.

If you have something to say or think about the move I pulled on Ramshutu, then go ahead and say or think it. I am what I am, he's said horrific things to me on and off site and other users that I'm not allowed to mention due to Restraining Orders, piled on me with him. I always wondered how the hell no one stuck up for me or why he was so universally liked over me and this finally proves what I always suspected... They don't stick up for me because they know I'm strong enough to stick up for myself. I love my fans, I hate my haters and I am thoroughly happy to be awarded this, I really thought I'd be stomped by some users, one of which is bsh1, but it seems there's a quiet voice of resistance and admiration in the userbase for me that I didn't know was there (genuinely).

I am seriously happy as fuck about this, I am grateful and most of all because I never once let the mods fully tame me (only partially) and will always be a wild motherfucker in part and am so glad that gets some to dig me, because if it's ugly to everyone that's kind of too much hate to handle in my opinion. I will stay raw and passionate, this has been brilliant feedback to me.

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This is actually the correct way of wording one of the major themes in the poem that has offended many here, I'd like an answer.
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Beat to Loop (right-click, click Loop, probably won't work on phone unless you got upgraded YT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Pk9zRiti4

Lots of people talk about the 'Pagans being way too vague',
Like Pagans talk diseases, meaning the rat-ridden black juju plague,
Like us fake sons of guns had better make our ways blatant or take our vagrance to the grave and learn in the afterlife how to behave,
But I'm here to tell you that you're oh so holy Satan-hating, Krishna worshipping, Niqab-wearing phase is nothing but a masquaraded Pagan system; foolish slave...

See back when the world was an anarchic battle for who could garner cattle,
There were many beliefs and many ways we rattled up in the cage, pondering civilisations' patterns,
Like if reality began at random then why not rape and batter?
Why not take the vilest way to seize the day, blood-spatter?
So while the Nihilists violently tried to invade, the chatter among the saner of us basically found ways to matter,
Apple-eating deepthroater, vicious snake; you actually think that it's anything other than an analogy of giving into the brutal dominators wrath? Wrong.
It was a story about Eve having the tender Adam, who himself had met a vicious slut Lilith; who had him around her finger, deceiving, 
So he got believing in a higher sense of justice; called his wilderness Eden, and he said to Eve that she shouldn't keep receiving bouts of semen from this evil demon,
But Eve was horny and Adam scrawny, so the real moral of the story is that God hates boring people.
For Adam choked on his apple at first, Eve was coaxed but could battle the pressure to be good but the problem was a hoe's not a saddle,
Can't just ride her when you want, whip her and then scatter, there were babies in her belly, do you do you honestly think Cain was actually the son of Adam? 
You don't quite get the story if you think the hunky dory moral of it all was that we deserve to sit and worry,
To be eternally sorry to an idiot who designed us to be flawed, with all the inner struggles and puzzles to discover Yah'weh in all his glory,
There was a more sinister moral; it was that the reason to be good is to maintain society, and that's all we really need to take from it; no God, no cross, you think that Eve giving into the dominant man is my problem? Yawn, don't bore me.

The whole idea of religion in its original form to give an intuitive reason for the masses to get passive, leave less victims,
But the issue with Hindu Vedas and the likes of Judaism is that believing in such bullshit sets your mind into a prison,
For to truly think that heaven or a next life's selfish reward's the only real thing keeping you from being evil; means you're running from a beacon,
And eventually the beacon tells you hurt the gays; they're heathens, burn the women at a stake for appearing hideous and preaching weird things,
Invade a nation, pillage the women; brainwash the children or if that all fails at least make an example to help you get the ones you invade later on to give in,
"But what about their rights?" The afterlife will give them more than enough in repayment, so take these Pagans, rape, exploit or kill them,
'Cause after all if you actually read the Bible backwards and think about the most selfless kind of Christian; it's the one willing to suffer in hell by sinning; so their victims didn't.

You think that's stupid right? Wanna come through and fight? You interpret your religion and think that you can write the truth in a way better than the 'flawless word of God'? Get hyped!
Think for yourself, you already cherry pick your Bible, Qur'an, Torah, Vedas and many other 'vital' teachings of things that really fall victim to the errors present in any rigid system of thinking,
The Muslims who are not radical, the Christians who stopped the pillaging; every single one of them's a Pagan, rebel citizen of a one world nation of free-thinking without militant idiots who will kill in the name of a deity so brutal and vigilant that they had better fear it more than using their own brain to configure what's already within any human with empathy; a struggle deeper than sinning.
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I want you to draw, on your forehead with your finger, the capital letter Q.

Do it as fast or as slow as feels natural, close your eyes if you wish. Do what is natural to you.

This test has been revealed before in official books, the main one is Quirkology (fantastic read). I noticed that the dichotomy had ignored more elements and have strong reasoning for the additional elements to my results.


















Do it. Do not skip for results.






































If you drew the Q such that its tail pointing to the left eyebrow, you are a good liar but bad at sticking to routine. You excel at tactical planning, more so than strategic planning.

If you drew the Q such that its tail is pointing to the right eyebrow, you take things at face value but cope well with situations where boredom strikes you and your enemy at the same time. you are not likely to be very impulsive at all.

If you drew the Q and let go of your forehead and almost have forgotten which way it was, you are bad at sticking to routine and also bad at lying but are likely very fast on your feet and good at sports, reaction-based situations etc. You are also likely passionate and an artist by nature.

If you drew the Q such that the tail barely went out of the O, and you just kind of said 'i'm done let's see', you are a bad liar, good at sticking to routine and very effective in situations that involve a lot of long-term thinking and planning but very little creativity.

If you are curious about me, I am the first type. This test only works once in your life, once you know the results you can and will fake them in the future.
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I get that we all got a notification about the Hall of Fame thread, but people like Mopac, Janesix and whoever else (sorry, I'm not a main around these parts) will not get votes, especially not for the threads part of the voting, if your group don't contribute en masse to the voting. You are basically at least 40% of our community and you do more posting than the 60%. You're a major factor in this site's ecosystem and we do not want you guys to become a social island like you did on DDO, you are a part of our website.

To vote, visit this thread and read the Original Post.

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It must be said that Virtuoso is rapidly losing his value as a mod on this website. Ramshutu is doing his work in the voting section (in a biased and corrupt manner but still more than what Virtuoso is doing) and Bsh1 is delegating less with regards to conflict circumstances on the forums and debate comments.

I have a solution. Virtuoso must fire Ramshutu. Then he can regain his supremacy as the voting moderator so that the 'delegating' doesn't skip over the middleman entirely.
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The questions where it's a series, do NOT allow yourself to read ahead or to go back and change your answer to the one before based on what comes next. It is very accurate in how it paces the questioning and situations it throws you into. If you want accurate results, live with what you chose no matter how things end up being. I actually tested this by forcing myself to do the entire quiz 2 days later and I got exactly the same result, meaning it truly is testing your moral alignment and not just mood. There was a 2% variance between the day before and day after so perhaps one of my answer changed, very slightly.

My result was True Neutral, and I know this could belong in the philosophy section of this website but I am very curious where specific DART members end up on it and would be interested in discussing individual questions as well. I got 'True Neutral' with my secondary being Chaotic Neutral and tertiary being Chaotic Good. I feel this is extremely accurate, more so than the classic test which kept giving me Chaotic Neutral because it would force you to be chaotic or lawful in many scenarios where the 'neutral' option is too neutral indeed.


I feel that both how they get your result, as well as how they describe the result is very accurate. It doesn't describe you as more or less than what you are due to being that alignment.

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Honestly, I have waited so fucking long to hear Americans say things like this. It's so obviously true but until Warren, they've all tiptoed or justified things very irrationally.
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You all think that you know what goes into a good vote. Whiteflame on DDO was corrupt and too lenient due to serving Max's Libertarian agenda. He himself knows how to vote extremely well.

I will tell you something that you all should know; voting on this website is corrupt. I can basically show any level of comprehension of anything in the debate, then ignore explaining how one point tears to shreds 20 others and just say 'these points were great and relevant to the resolution in my eyes while these weren't.' 

It's that easy. The reason I don't do it, not that I could admit to doing it intentionally if I did, is that the concept of revenge-voting and the amount of people out to get me (including the vote moderators) means it's optimal for me to be very passive and has been for nearly my entire time on this website. The reason passivity is optimal for me, is that the few fans I have or consistent voters who loathe me but don't entirely mind me winning some debates here and there, are all willing to be rewarded with my passivity. If you are curious how I tested if aggression in any form (forums, voting, comments etc) affects people voting against me, I probably won't tell you unless I trust you a lot. What I found out is very valuable information to someone trying to climb ranks here, some innately realised it and secretly manipulate, compliment and avoid clashing with people both in terms of stances and attitude. This is why oromagi, ramshutu and ragnar all have pretty identical enemies and allies by now despite originally having much more individualistic and nuanced stances and allegiances on the website and its userbase.

If you'd like to know about blamonkey and whiteflame, they are the only users of debate websites that I've ever met other than myself, who truly grasp how burden of proof work. They calmly sit and analyse the battle over fundamental BoP but what makes both so strong is that on top of that they grasp how the normal human being perceives information, alters bias, trusts sources etc. They manipulate voters better than me due to researching other formal debaters, seeing what worked and didn't work well with simpleton audiences and then emulating the best parts while discarding the things that didn't have a surefire audience satisfaction. 

Whiteflame is actually superior to blamonkey at debating, for now at least, because he's evolved his tactics to accumulate information in formal debating on standard topics to push through into less normal topics and such. Blamonkey has the potential to do this too, but is playing it safe. You haven't seen either of them at their full potential yet, they are playing it medium-core on this website so far.

When both of these users reads my debates, if they vote against me I am explained in full why I lost. I learn from it and improve. Every single other user on all debate websites on the Internet who in any way was prominent, votes through some blurred vision glasses that can't comprehend the BoP or whatever. They will randomly say some things were good, others were bad. Whether that be points raised, ways of explaining, sources used or whatever.

Whiteflame and Blamonkey both can see when one point annihilates 20. This is because they grasp BoP in its true form. I am yet to meet another equal or superior than them on these websites, at debating, and honestly this website is just a joke at this point with the votes that get through.
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Sixth and Seventh book spoilers later on, soft spoilers throughout.

Ron is actually definitively the most intelligent of the three in terms of IQ and creativity. In the books Ron is your typical ginger geek. He loves chess, can't stand the monotony of curriculum-restricted lessons and dislike school because he is too smart for it, often acing exams etc with ease. In fact, Ron is one of the main reasons why teams-of-2 in potions class doesn't fail Hermione, who is crap at the practical element of study (he carries her and this is a major reason they end up falling in love by the seventh book, an entire snowball of bonding that's eliminated from the movies).

In the movies, they actively change events so severely so that the first movie falsely shows Ron panicking and getting cocky afterwards while they are stuck in that plant, when in the book he is actually helping the other 2 work out the incantation(s) and method to get them out of the plant. In the movies, after that, Ron plays chess and sacrifices himself but in the movies it's after the chess match that he totally annihilates without any unnecessary sacrifice (the sacrifice was necessary in order to win, no choice about it), that Hermione ends up having to choose between taking a potion that will get her back to Ron so that the move where he gets hurt (which isn't his fault) so he can avoid the pain or take another potion that will allow Harry to pass to the next stage and meet Lord Voldemort, at the price of Ron getting hospitalised from the fall from the Knight-piece. In the movies, it is almost like Ron's bad chess strategy lands them in that scenario and that he's a burden to them, whereas in the books he tells Hermione that he knew this was how it would end form early on in the match and was very willing to take the fall.

As the books evolve, you get to see that this Einstein-esque 'scruffy looking but very clever' genius was put in Gryffindor, rather than Ravenclaw, more out of the same choice made under the hat's pressure that Harry made in order to get put there rather than in Slytherin. In other words, Ron chose to be put in Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw in the same way that Ginny, who clearly belongs in Hufflepuff, chose to be put in Gryffindor. Ron isn't brave, he isn't dumb and is so far from the goofy oaf that's portrayed on screen that it actually shocked me how badly they could fuck up the portrayal of such a major character in the series.

Ron was actually the cool-headed one of the three, in the books. In the movies he's the most volatile and emotionally driven. The only time that Ron makes an emotional decision in the books is when he leaves Hermione and Harry in the seventh book. Mostly, he's a smooth talking, level-headed suave geek. He also is the most cunning of the three, which is also not portrayed in the movies, they actually give him a sense of naivety and cuteness that is extremely anti-Ron from the books. Ron is very close to the Malfoys in his general demeanour in the books, that sort of cold, almost snobbish charisma. Like he is a general 'prick' but pulls it off well and draws people in with the confidence, the closer they get to him.

If you are curious of the reason that Ron is definitely supposed to be this way, as opposed to the way he's portrayed in the movies. it's because he was the 'serious one' out of the sibilings he grew up with. Percy was the 'serious one' but was leaving the household as Ron began to mature. His father didn't mind the 'silliness' of the others but his mother really liked him a lot, because he was a down to Earth guy she felt understood the core Weasley values (think left-wing values, that's basically what their family stands for even thought it's an elitist bloodline). While being left-wing in general, Ron was most certainly Libertarian (much like myself he saw no reason to give one up for the other) and believed authority to be almost innately corrupt, especially when it tries to tell you one way to do things (whether make a potion or solve a mystery) is correct when other ways are available.

It was Ron, in the books, who helps them realise who the philosopher's stone belongs to and why. Hermione identifies the 'who' as in linking it to the guy but Ron helps them realise it's an immortality gem by being very strongly involved in the conversation. In the movies Dumbledore tells Harry on the bed, whereas in the books Harry had already worked it out with Ron and Hermione and Dumbledore simply nods his head in essence.
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There is a user who calls themselves a fan of mine in their 'about me'. This user ignored me completely in both messages and being added as a friend (as well as pick and choosing what to reply to and what to ignore with my forum posts very selectively).

This user is not my fan. 

I was also curious what you can have in your 'about me' and how indirect or direct you can flame others via it.
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If you genuinely trust this website, you have no idea what has happened, they have new anonymous owners. Juggle is dead as a corporation. It is a phishing site, they are garnering data on you, DO NOT THINK FOR A SINGLE SECOND your PMs are not being read by the people behind it!

It is absolutely exposed, it has certified its own HTTPS via an account it bought on Amazon. Chrome and Firefox both noticed this.

To get this error message, insist to your browser it goes to the HTTPS (not HTTP) version and have good settings on your browser. 
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I loathe government oppression, even when it benefits the people. I abhor taxing sugar to stop people having sugary drinks (especially when it's universal, affecting all having it even if they aren't obese or whatever). I abhor the government snooping in on private Internet conversations, controlling us via the media, censoring us beyond the severely graphic and/or threatening, and thinking it has a fucking damn right in hell to TELL US WHAT OUR RIGHTS ARE?!

Yet, I do not at all agree with Ron Paul types on anything other than an innate 'chaotic gene' I call it. You're definitely born with or without it, I am certain of it. You are born a rebel, never ever raised or forced to become one. You are born a motherfucking rascal or you're not. I am a freedom lover by nature. I understand that anarchy becomes tyranny-by-the-strongest in no time at all, instead I seek a version of Progressive agenda that ties Social Democracy in with Libertarian core values.

They are not contradictory at all. Nothing at all about Social Democracy requires us to censor each other or force affirmative action. If we focused so much more on equal opportunity instead of equal output we would be making things fair. To me, it's really simple; if a race, gender, creed, whatever else group, is better at something than others but despite this a race, gender, creed etc is being hired disproportionately in the face of what the statistics would imply based on potential in the pool of who is being hired, THEN you as a people, a nation of private investigators journalists who may ask for government assistance in the investigation but isn't dictated by them, should expose it and enforce affirmative action via boycotting.

The people are the motherfucking power, NOT THE PEOPLE 'IN POWER' GIVEN TO THEM BY THE PEOPLE. That is not a right-wing Libertarian concept, it is a concept of any rebel, leftist or not.
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I demand an answer.
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  1. This is to become the official thread for all 'extras' in debates. You are absolutely free to keep using comments but this is to stop a need for one to dox themselves via Google Docs as well as avoiding the security risk of a random person getting access to editing the pastebin, or even the original person editing the Doc later for the Sources list, debate and/or vote.
  2. If you want to post a debate after it's due and justify it inside a debate, you should post it here when/if you've posted it to the Docs so as to establish that you haven't further edited it since.
  3. This thread is to be used for source lists only in debates where it is agreed by both debaters that Character Count shouldn't restrict it.

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You can post any format you like, it's your style of RFD, sources or post-deadling debate. This thread has no impact whatsoever on the validity if your RFD, source-list and/or post-deadline debate in the eyes of others on the website, especially mods. 

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Christen and a debate I am having vs PressF4Respect, as well as vs Oromagi, were the inspiration for this thread's creation. It's official in my eyes but the Mods may make it less so (I see no reason to).


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When it suits him he will lock threads for fighting words and callouts.

When it doesn't suit him, he will let people abuse each other for many pages of posts.

It is always at his disretion.

This is a callout thread, therefore he should lock it.

He won't lock it, he needs to deny he's a dictator. That is the beauty of his agenda; it actively masks itself via channelling its means.

Did you know that bsh1 has said you can call him a booty-spanked slave and that you can call Virtuoso a slave of that slave? Did you know that you can't say that about any other member on the website?

I bet you didn't know that.
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