Out of Pod Experience

People cared in the first place

Great Apes shall conquer us all with their superior strength and resilience!

Apart from providing the Eve Online MMO, what has CCP ever done for us?

That's why we have our human slaves do it

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All of these work, I'm embarrassed to say.

Sometimes, there is too much pleasure to be had from knotting up someones mind in false logic and then watching them finally cave in and submit.

Too much.

I normally start with something emotive, move swiftly towards garbled cause and effect, take a detour straight through appeal to the mind, go for a short stop and lunch at faulty deduction whilst musing the benefits of manipulating content, before re-treading something emotive and finally going on the attack, but disguising it as appealing to the mind.

But never on these forums...EVE players are too smart to be tripped up, or just too busy to 'play'.

AK

I like to fly fish too... bait fishing is good for those times you just want to sleep for 3 hours in a boat

Dynamite/grenade fishing takes the most skill... if you don't get rid of it fast enough it kills you

Code monkeys can create a forum but cannot run a forum? It's ignorant, racist, gun-crazy, militia, paranoid rednecks like yourself that are bringing this country down.

Hahaha, yes, these ages old tactics are sometimes a surefire way to win pointless arguments.

But honestly, I still fail to understand the value of "winning" said arguments. Ignorant uneducated people will usually, more or less remain the same ignorant uneducated people over the years. Winning a pointless argument will do squat for you or them in the long run and benefit no one but ... your ego, which is as pointless as watching paint dry, unless you enjoy the fumes.

But then again, to each their own. I´m more interested in sapping away life experiences from people, rather than confront them, even the most uneducated ignorant person has viewpoints that sometimes make my mind blow away on specific topics such as life, forms of living, dealing with pain and grief and general humanity.

Good post, a good refreshment for a slow Monday full of boredom amid stacks of papers.

A true tl;dr dynamite fishing tale....

I used to be a Peace Corps volunteer on a little island in the western Pacific, and an old guy there told me this story. I'll call him Ignatius here.

Ignatius's island had Japanese troops on it during World War II. So U.S. Navy carrier planes dropped quite a few bombs on it. After the war, Ignatius found an unexploded bomb stuck in the ground. So he unscrewed the timer cap thing and ran some some dynamite down into the guts of the bomb. Then he put it on his bamboo fishing raft, and poled far out into the bay, to a place with thick coral and plenty of fish. He planted the bomb among the coral, maybe 10 ft. underwater. Then he poled away, trailing the dynamite fuse behind him. It must have been a pretty long fuse-- maybe 60 ft. or so.

So, Ignatius is away from the bomb, sitting on his raft, and he lights the fuse. It burns slowly, so he has some time to wait. He gets a betel nut out of his basket, puts on the lime powder and other stuff, and makes himself a mildly narcotic chew. Just as he's starting to enjoy it, he notices that-- HOLY CRAP-- the current has drifted him right back over the bomb. He grabs his pole and starts poling as fast as he can, but-- KABLOOIE. Bomb explodes, raft, basket and Ignatius go 30 ft? 40 ft? 50 ft? straight up, in a tower of sea water. It was a 500 lb. HE bomb, your estimate on high they went is as good as mine.

When ignatius comes down, he's OK, but kind of dazed. Fish are floating everywhere, hundreds of them, maybe thousands of them, all over a huge area of the sea. But his bamboo raft has been blasted apart into separate pieces. With no raft, he has no way to harvest all the fish. So he put a bamboo pole under the other, a big fish under the other one, and paddled back to shore. That's the end of Ignatius's bomb fishing tale.

I cant stop reading it....