8th August 2005, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th August 2005, 11:17 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Perhaps...
In other news, it's like EVERY gaming comic strip in the US of Earth is pointing out the exact SAME logical flaws. Don't get me wrong here, you only really need one logical flaw at the root of an argument to show it's wrong. Um... I got nothing else...
So anyway, yeah http://www.nuklearpower.com is currently pointing out the same old flaw again.
That is to say, the obvious fact that LOTS of kids play video games. The percentage is very high. More than above half at this point. The odds of any single individual who goes on a murder spree owning a console by sheer chance are pretty good. The corrolation is nonexistant until you have evidence! You see, just because A occured before B (A = playing video games, B = murdered people), does not mean A caused B! Now, humans have a nice quick and dirty method (well okay, all creatures with a brain) of hashing out cause and effect, and that's it right there. It DOES do the trick as far as not having ANY method means you will die for not realizing that bear = pain and not noticing the corrolation there. However, it is logically flawed, and as humans we can overcome the instinct (useful at times) with something that takes longer (and thus isn't really a possibility in an emergency, to an extent) but yields a much greater probability of getting a correct corrolation.
So, if a rooster crows and the sun soon rises, we know that the rooster doesn't really actually CAUSE the sun to rise. The sun itself may not cause the rooster to crow, it may just be it's biological clock (which, well indirectly was set by the sun via evolution... but you get what I'm saying). A coincidence like that, knowing that the odds are pretty high of it happening without a corrolation, needs other evidence before it is reasonable to believe it. I think this guy must know that, but might be blinded. Some sites say it's greed. It may be something else, I don't know. In the end, it doesn't matter. Fact is, there are things this guy needs to provide some evidence for and he's not going the rounds to gather it. From what I've seen at randi.org, that's generally a sign that he either knows or is afraid of finding out what the truth may be, and is thus afraid of actually seeking evidence (evidence by definition is SELF evident, and thus interpretation is irrelevent, that's the thing that these people fear about it). This guy hasn't climbed under a rock yet, but he certainly seems safe in his tower.
So, I'll say it now. Show me your evidence! And, don't point me to IGN! That place isn't a respectable journal of opinion! It's barely a respectable journal of news!
Oh yeah, I just remembered the most famous case of dummied out content before the Hot Coffee stuff came up. Remember Final Fantasy 4, or as it was first called in the US, Final Fantasy 2 on the SNES? They dummied out a LOT of stuff there, but the main thing was a porno magazine. Now it really wasn't anything, but the fact that NOA said it had to go said Nintendo thought that even refering to porn was too lewd. It was "removed" but not deleted in all forms. Using the right Game Genie code or just hacking the hex, one could easily gain access to the porn book, as well as a room full of programmers. No one even heard about this outside dork kingdom, so not a single lawyer said a word. Guess what? Not a single kid became "the 16 bit rapist" as a result of finding out that secret.
In other news, it's like EVERY gaming comic strip in the US of Earth is pointing out the exact SAME logical flaws. Don't get me wrong here, you only really need one logical flaw at the root of an argument to show it's wrong. Um... I got nothing else...
So anyway, yeah http://www.nuklearpower.com is currently pointing out the same old flaw again.
That is to say, the obvious fact that LOTS of kids play video games. The percentage is very high. More than above half at this point. The odds of any single individual who goes on a murder spree owning a console by sheer chance are pretty good. The corrolation is nonexistant until you have evidence! You see, just because A occured before B (A = playing video games, B = murdered people), does not mean A caused B! Now, humans have a nice quick and dirty method (well okay, all creatures with a brain) of hashing out cause and effect, and that's it right there. It DOES do the trick as far as not having ANY method means you will die for not realizing that bear = pain and not noticing the corrolation there. However, it is logically flawed, and as humans we can overcome the instinct (useful at times) with something that takes longer (and thus isn't really a possibility in an emergency, to an extent) but yields a much greater probability of getting a correct corrolation.
So, if a rooster crows and the sun soon rises, we know that the rooster doesn't really actually CAUSE the sun to rise. The sun itself may not cause the rooster to crow, it may just be it's biological clock (which, well indirectly was set by the sun via evolution... but you get what I'm saying). A coincidence like that, knowing that the odds are pretty high of it happening without a corrolation, needs other evidence before it is reasonable to believe it. I think this guy must know that, but might be blinded. Some sites say it's greed. It may be something else, I don't know. In the end, it doesn't matter. Fact is, there are things this guy needs to provide some evidence for and he's not going the rounds to gather it. From what I've seen at randi.org, that's generally a sign that he either knows or is afraid of finding out what the truth may be, and is thus afraid of actually seeking evidence (evidence by definition is SELF evident, and thus interpretation is irrelevent, that's the thing that these people fear about it). This guy hasn't climbed under a rock yet, but he certainly seems safe in his tower.
So, I'll say it now. Show me your evidence! And, don't point me to IGN! That place isn't a respectable journal of opinion! It's barely a respectable journal of news!
Oh yeah, I just remembered the most famous case of dummied out content before the Hot Coffee stuff came up. Remember Final Fantasy 4, or as it was first called in the US, Final Fantasy 2 on the SNES? They dummied out a LOT of stuff there, but the main thing was a porno magazine. Now it really wasn't anything, but the fact that NOA said it had to go said Nintendo thought that even refering to porn was too lewd. It was "removed" but not deleted in all forms. Using the right Game Genie code or just hacking the hex, one could easily gain access to the porn book, as well as a room full of programmers. No one even heard about this outside dork kingdom, so not a single lawyer said a word. Guess what? Not a single kid became "the 16 bit rapist" as a result of finding out that secret.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)