Comic time.

Lou's Unsafe Fried Chicken Place

Who doesn't love some internet drama? Sure, we like watching things go down, but not when it involves the best comedy channel of all time ever® as well as the best writer/Billy Mays look-alike Lou. No, no - I'm sorry but, we must draw the line somewhere. This far, no further. We can not withstand such a war, for it will destroy us all.

I made a video about Lou once: Click me to watch video. And, try as they might, We The Internet TV (WTIT from now on) could not make my video go viral. :(

Oh well. I guess fame can wait. Anyway. Today I was just minding my own business when I saw that horrible tweet of doom and gloom that will kill us all. I knew then.... I had to act.

I'm pretty good with logic, my whole channel is me pointing out logical fallacies (mostly) so I think I've got a pretty good grasp upon it. What I see from this post is several logical fallacies, and my hope is, by pointing them out here in this blog post, Lou and WTIT will give each other a hug and forget this nonsense before it blows up the multiverse as we know it.

First Lou says: 

Fried chicken is overrated.

This is a subjective statement. We can know this by the word "overrated" - Lou has offered us no data on how many people have rated fried chicken, nor if they are rating it higher then they should. There is not any method suggested anywhere of what the rating of said fried chicken "should" be set at. Even if Lou had a large sample size of people rating Fried Chicken, he could not hope to resolve where the rating "should" be as a standard to match it against any other food or type of food.

Therefor, although this seems at first glance to be a statement of fact, it can not be, because of the subjective word "overrated". However, if one wanted to push the point that this IS a statment of fact,  then WTIT should respond, "prove it" since the burden of proof would be upon Lou in full, as whoever makes the claim has the burden of proof.

Lou then says:

Don’t ”fight me.”

Fighting in this context could mean any number of things, but given that this a statement of subjective value, we can infer that Lou is referring to an argument - that is, a debate on the matter. He is telling us that his mind is made up on this view point, and that adds upon the idea that this is purely subjective, rather then objective. This is not an argument, Lou doesn't want to argue, he wants to put out this view, and that is that. He does not want your view, he does not need your view, one could speculate that he does not care about your view as well. However with the quotes around fight me we might speculate upon what Lou's intent here is. Does he mean to imply that fight me in this context is not in fact, a fight at all - it is the mere illusion of fight? Placing things in quotes adds to confusion here, and is further indication that this is a point of view, written perhaps late at night in the dark, alone and drunk, after failing to masturbate to futanari hentai for the tenth time. (NTTIAWWT)
Anyway, this is not a statement of fact. However, Lou then says this:

Just accept this truth.

Oh dear. This is a problem Lou, as we can not accept the statements you have made as being true - OTHER then to accept them being a taste selection that is true - TO YOU, and yes, that view is your view, and that is your true view - we have no reason to suspect that you are not being honest with this view point. But to suggest that this is "the truth" "this truth" and/or anything else reflecting the idea that this statement is MORE then subjective, is to fly off the rails into the purely illogical. Simply put, you've commented a Formal Fallacy: failure to give an argument. You've offered no proof to show it is true, thus we must assume that your saying that it is true for your view point, in your subjective tastes, and not true in reality. For we have no argument, no evidence, no data to look at. Lou's post shows therefor, a subjective view that is one he wants to keep, and for us to think is his subjective truth on the matter. We have no problem doing that. If, however, you wanted to assume that Lou was putting out a statement about reality, then your objection should be simply to prove it - nothing more or less, as Lou has not proven anything and offered no argument.

Now I must turn my attention to WTIT as they, sadly performed a logical fallacy.

The words in question are here:

bout of insanity.

Ah WTIT, you have committed the Ad Hominem fallacy. Rather then addressing Lou's lack of proof, formal fallacy &/or his argument (that he didn't have) you have attacked him the person. This also adds a second fallacy to the mix: Poisoning of the Well, as your making everything Lou says suspect because, after all - if he is not sane, then we can not trust anything he has said. Further, you also fail YOUR burden of proof, and also do not give any evidence to show that Lou is in fact, insane.

There is also this bit:

we will fight him.

You've now performed equivocation as well, the word fight as posted by Lou had quotes around it, suggesting some other fight that is non-real to some extent, although whatever the intent Lou had in putting quotes is something we can not know, what we do know is that without the quotes, the word fight is no longer the word "fight" that Lou posted, thus is a different meaning of that word, thus is equivocation, and also I would suggest a strawman argument as well. Your only response should have been "Prove it Lou" as that would be the acceptable and logical rebuttal to Lou's statement, if, and only if WTIT thought Lou was posting a statement of fact, rather then a statement of feeling/personal subjective view.

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Conclusion

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In Logic, when one has found one or more logical fallacies, then one must be skeptical of the conclusion, it might be true - but though the use of the logical process, we can not be sure that it is true, thus we are in doubt. When there is a debate at hand, should both party's arguments contain logical fallacies, you must be in doubt of both of there conclusions. No one wins, no one loses. This can of course be modified by rules the debaters agree to prior to the debate, but that is a different subject. Nonetheless, what we have here is two groups who have both failed in any sort of logical presentation and I submit they should be skeptical of there own stances, therefor they should agree to disagree and make up and hug. 

And if they do not...

I will send the lobsters.

(that would be an ad baculum fallacy dear reader, but its okay when I do them... because... uhhhh...)

For Notch

Notch, known to many as the maker of minecraft, a fun & creative game made a post on the twitter, and I, being my jaded self responded. He liked my post. This made me happy. Yet, I do not know that man, other then a name, other then his game. I know nothing of him. As someone "famous" he has met more people then he could ever hope to keep track of, (Dunbar's number). He also is a rich man. Now, he looks for meaning in "this game." He writes:

"I''m just trying to figure out the game rules here. :)If I truly make my own rules, I'd like to go back to programming.
If I don't, I'd like to know the rules."

Life has some rules, we must eat and drink, we must avoid injury, we must do something with our mind to make life worthwhile. Lots of humans though time have tried to say what it is that gives life meaning. You can try to find it in religion, beliefs, family, friends, or that loved one. You can find it anywhere or nowhere. Its unique to each person. Thus, the answer is - in the end, up to each of us.

But that doesn't sit well does it, it would be better if there was a "goal" - yet then I'm reminded of Notch's philosophy that I recall reading somewhere - if I remember right, it was that the "end" of minecraft wasn't an end, for after you jump into the portal you go back to the normal world, where you last set your spawn point (a bed most likely) - ah, you return home. The adventure is never over. You can go out and do more. There are endless updates. The quest is never over, the game is never done. Such is life.

Of course, Notch's post also shows to me a possible false choice, that you must figure out the rules of life OR go back to programming. You can do both.

Of course, I have zillions of ideas for games and things I would try to make, and when I knew some programming I made somethings, but its like anything - it takes work to make something work. Here in is the crux: Notch doesn't need to work. Yet, he "needs" to work. As work is something we do on some level. As of now, I write this - that is work, just not as great of a work as cleaning the dish's in the sink.

However, is there really "levels" of work? Some is "harder" then others but this is very subjective. What is hard to you, might be easy to someone else. What is impossible is simple. That is just how humans are. We are all very different creatures. Items in real life, things we can get, house's, collectibles, paintings, whatever you can point to - getting "more" for some is a drive, and for others getting "less" is better. Some are in-between.

Everyone is unique, although also, people break that rule by sometimes being very much the same. The rules of living in and of itself do not change, but other rules might change. Its a complex system we came up with.

I'm far from "rich" in fact, that is the one type of "class" I've not been. I was born and raised in Middle Class with a house - then descended downwards, then back up. I've not been Upper-Middle Class, whatever that is, but whatever the universe should just give me rich somehow. Also someone who looks like Sailor Mercury and... oh sorry what was I typing? Once you begin wishing, you do not stop I suppose.

However, this idea brings me back to the start of this, what makes the "game" won? In real life I had at one time, almost every set of pokemon cards completed - I could make all sorts of decks, and I enjoyed that quite a bit. Then, that time in my life ended, I sold my cards. I still play on PC from time to time, I do not miss the "real" cards - I do think though, what it would be like to have "all" the cards in the online game - I could build any deck, but - also, there would be a somewhat of this feeling - this "now what" feeling. Like OK I won. Now what? Well, I won a type of game. Now I can play the game game... unless collecting was the game.

I wonder if Notch feels something like that - he "won" the game of life, here is money, boom you rich weeee! Okay. Awesome... now what? Well, see, that wasn't REALLY the game. You just thought it was, and it turns out, it wasn't. That is a good thing...right?

Maybe. I guess it depends on what sort of person Notch is. That avatar name also fits "Notch" as in a small groove one puts into wood or something, it fits just so, into that notch, that area, that bit. Maybe that will be a clue for him moving onward. Oh hey, we are both 40! ... yay? O_o;

We all must play this game of life our way, within some rules, also making up those rules. I do not know if that is of any use, or will be of any use, still I didn't mind writing this blog post, For Notch.




(also for anyone else that might read it)

The God Game.

You are God.

Welcome to nothing.

This is where you exist, and have always existed for all of forever. There is no time or space here. Just you, and nothing else. You know everything, every possible thing, and can make anything or

not make anything knowing what making or not making will do for any given thing. You have power unlimited, you can do anything, and you can be everywhere. But there is nowhere to be and no when to be, so you simply exist with power and nothing to do with it.

You've existed in this way forever but also not forever because time isn't really even a thing yet since you have not made it.

You could exist like this forever since you've been existing forever like this, or you could make something and change what was into something else, even though you already know what the result will be. You are also perfect.

Welcome to being perfect. You've been perfect and will always be perfect. You could make yourself not perfect, since you have all the power that there is to have, or you could keep being perfect. If you keep being perfect you keep being perfect since there isn't anything greater. Since there is nothing greater then there is no need to make anything, since you are perfect, everything you make would also be perfect, but you have no need to make or do anything with your power. 

You could make yourself imperfect then you could begin to use your power, or you could make something that itself would not be perfect, or start perfect but become flawed. 

There is not any reason to make anything since you are perfect. So, if you want to move on, you must become imperfect, but you wouldn't want that since you are perfect.

However, you also know what would happen if you became imperfect, you would no longer have access to everything as you now do, you would no longer be what you are, you would change, and although the you now would no longer be, the new you wouldn't know what the old you did know, the outcome of all of everything. If and only if you want to change, you must choose to become imperfect. Of course, being perfect you would not choose this, because it would lead to imperfection. However, you have all power there is to have, including it would follow, the power to stop being perfect, by mere will power of changing anything, you would stop being perfect and then things could change. However, you see this as a paradox, you can't ever do that since you are, in fact perfect and there is no need to change anything. You realize that would mean that your power is also perfect, thus it would follow that there is nothing you could do, even becoming imperfect that would not be perfect. 

~Crunch~

Welcome to imperfect.

Welcome to being imperfect. Your not so sure of anything now. You know possible things, and you see somethings, but other things you are not sure of. Once you were perfect, but now you are not. If you could just be perfect then things would be perfect. However, you no longer seem to have the power to make yourself perfect. 

If only there was a thing like you, but perfect, it could make you perfect. You should have made that thing first, but you knew something at the time you became imperfect that you no longer know. Perhaps the way to be perfect is to just assert that you are in fact, perfect, even if you are not. Anything you make will not be perfect, but whatever you make can act as if you are perfect and thus, you will be perfect by force of will of whatever it is you make. 

Or you could just make nothing and keep telling yourself that you are perfect. Since you are not perfect, you know that you must make something to tell you that you are perfect, so that you will become perfect. However, knowing that you know that would prevent you from gaining the status of being perfect, therefor, you make yourself forget that you are not in fact perfect, and keep the desire of wanting things to call you perfect.

~CRUNCH~

You now start to make things. First they are small things, then larger things. They reflect your perfection. Yet, they do not know anything as they are unlike you, they simply exist. You make the things able to make other things, in a complex web of chaos, things make more and more other things, this goes on forever and all time since you are forever and all time. You make some things vanish over time, you notice that with a rule set, you can make things that make other things change.

 You introduce an element of chance into the mix. You've made the first game.

The God Game.

 The goal of this game is to make enough things that something made will be able to see you as perfect, say you are perfect, admit you are perfect, and declare that you are perfect, and that thing must do that forever and all time, since you will always exist.

This is the God Game. You could have made some other rules,but those were the rules you made. You could change your mind and play a new God Game, and use your power to just be perfect, without anything else, but yet this desire to have something else say you are perfect is in you, and since as far as you know, it always has been in you, that desire must also be perfect. 

This is how it is forever and all time, nothing you know can ever not be perfect, nothing you do or do not do can not be perfect, and from your point of view, it is perfect to make things that will say you are perfect forever and ever. Because, that is who you are, and that is how you have always been.

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Now dear reader, you must sit back and ask yourself, is this the game you want to play? Or perhaps you want to play a new God Game, there are other ones to play after all...