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theweaselking"Conspiracy theorists" are a classic example of the flip side of religion: an overactive *and creative* imagination; the inability to tell reality apart from a SOMEWHAT ORIGINAL work of fiction, as opposed to the religious inability to tell reality apart from a traditional work of fiction.
As such, they're usually a hilarious read. And then sometimes they take Mage: The Ascension as historical fact AND THEN, when called on it, integrate the existence of the game into the delusions.
COMEDY GOLD.
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slacktivist: When you've realised that the map doesn't match the territory, has never matched the territory, requires constant adjustments to make it come close to looking something like the territory, and even then you really have to get in there with scissors, tape, correcting fluid, and a sharpie to get something even *slightly* close to matching where you've been, let alone where you're going? That's a sign that *your map is garbage*. That's a sign that your map has never been, at all, an even slightly accurate depiction of the territory and rather than CONSTANTLY readjust it and blame yourself for the failure, the only sane response is to throw it out and start from scratch. And you yourself *have already come to* the conclusion that the map doesn't match, has never matched, and will never match without editing.)
As such, they're usually a hilarious read. And then sometimes they take Mage: The Ascension as historical fact AND THEN, when called on it, integrate the existence of the game into the delusions.
COMEDY GOLD.
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athelind(Also, memo to
slacktivist: When you've realised that the map doesn't match the territory, has never matched the territory, requires constant adjustments to make it come close to looking something like the territory, and even then you really have to get in there with scissors, tape, correcting fluid, and a sharpie to get something even *slightly* close to matching where you've been, let alone where you're going? That's a sign that *your map is garbage*. That's a sign that your map has never been, at all, an even slightly accurate depiction of the territory and rather than CONSTANTLY readjust it and blame yourself for the failure, the only sane response is to throw it out and start from scratch. And you yourself *have already come to* the conclusion that the map doesn't match, has never matched, and will never match without editing.)
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Date: 2010-06-12 05:10 pm (UTC)Also, Clark's unending argument with people over which of them has the right idea about their imaginary friend is so dull.
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Date: 2010-06-12 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 05:53 pm (UTC)It's idiots like these who make outsiders think that sane gamers like me are crazy fucks.
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Date: 2010-06-12 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 06:54 pm (UTC)These guys are the ones that make even the daftest gamer look sane.
Gamers know that the source material is source material, that they're playing in a fictional world. Some of them may believe it's based on our reality, or some actually existing alternate reality, but they do know it's a game.
This is comedy gold. Even when linking to a Wiki page clearly marking it as part of the Mage background, he's treating it as fully real. The Technocracy created the EU as part of their desire to take over the world.
Genius.
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Date: 2010-06-12 06:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 11:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-12 11:24 pm (UTC)Can't sleep, book will infect my other books, can't sleep, book will infect my other books...
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Date: 2010-06-12 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 06:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 06:35 am (UTC)on maps
Date: 2010-06-13 12:01 am (UTC)Re: on maps
Date: 2010-06-13 12:06 am (UTC)Re: on maps
Date: 2010-06-13 12:08 am (UTC)Re: on maps
Date: 2010-06-13 12:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-13 12:41 am (UTC)Your aside to slacktivist reads like attack on science. Are beliefs only meaningful if they are immutable, unchangeable, and immune to rational reconsideration?
It seems very odd to me how often both sides of the debate over religion seem committed to the view that Christianity can only be a meaningful belief system when followed in the strictest, most fundamentalist manner.
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Date: 2010-06-13 12:50 am (UTC)Exactly the opposite - which is why his complete failure to re-examine his assumptions when they fail him, over and over, in every respect, annoys me.
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Date: 2010-06-13 08:15 am (UTC)http://gawker.com/5556281/was-obama-in-the-1993-music-video-for-whoomp-there-it-is
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Date: 2010-06-13 01:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-13 08:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-13 01:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-13 05:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-13 02:41 pm (UTC)*paranoid glances*