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Based Frank Zappa

Wait… the 1950’s had music with the word fuck in it?

I thought you were joking till I clicked the link.

Real Science attracts smart people who want to learn a thing or two about the world, Fake Science attracts the kind of gullible kooks you can sell snake oil and orgonite devices to… and I say this as someone who “wants to believe”

Same reason why scam e-mails and telemarketers intentionally leave big gaping holes in their stories while using dozens of spelling errors. If you’re the kind of person who can notice things like that, you’re too smart to buy what they’re selling.

It’s amazing how intelligent and emotionally mature elephants are. It’s not wonder why people were willing to believe that “Elephants have a moon religion!” line for so long, it seems believable with how often elephants seem to act like chonky humans with a trunk instead of arms.

Yeah… There are many pitfalls to doing a Skepticism based program, sadly one of the few Mythbusters DIDN’T avoid was “Well I can’t personally do it, so it’s impossible for everyone!”

This is why most skepticism based programs don’t work, and Mythbusters did.

They didn’t try to be smug about it, they didn’t belittle people who believed in the myths, they never brought religion and politics into it, and the biggest pitfall they avoided: They never pretended that the “science was settled” and that they “already knew everything”, they simply did the research and went where the data took them.

Too many skepticism based programs seem to think the scientific method is running into a church, yelling “FAKE!”, and then running outside to hurl insults at passersby.

Mythbusters didn’t do that, they skipped the dogma and went straight to the science.

I’m honestly amazed no one’s sued google over the site telling them things like “Jump off a bridge if you’re depressed” or that products have been recalled that haven’t

…Isn’t… “Explain Like I’m Five” an Office reference first?

This shit is what made Reddit unusable, up until it literally became unusable when site-wide bans started getting handed out like candy.

Sonic was originally a collaborative effort between the West and East as SEGA wanted a mascot to appeal to Americans to better compete with Nintendo, this didn’t last because SEGA is incredibly xenophobic and had a history of doing shit like… ignoring the Western Branch’s pleas to not go ahead with the Sega Saturn (To the extent that in attempt to spite the Western Branch they inadvertently helped to create the N64 and PSX)

But I think what really takes the cake for me was the time Eternal Champions (a game made by the Western Branch) sold like hot cakes and had several toy and show offers from various companies, but the main company put a blacklist on anything to do with Eternal Champions because they were pissed that Americans liked the American Made Fighter Eternal Champions more than the Japan Made Virtua Fighter.

The collaboration of East and West saw Sonic coming from another planet called Mobius and having his villain have the name Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Eggman was deemed way too silly for a villain name), though this canon really only applied to America (Europe had their own canon, but it borrowed a lot from America)

After awhile, Sega basically said “Fuck the Western Branch”, and changed his name to Eggman in all regions, despite complaints from fans that the Eggman name was too silly… There was also a lack of communication, so you had a large amount of fans and game journalists alike that legitimately didn’t know his name was Eggman in Japan (Early 2000’s so the internet wasn’t like it was today), meaning a lot of people were angry that the villain suddenly had a joke name for seemingly no reason. The fact that Sonic went from being on this bizarre alien world with loop de loops and other furries to being on real world Earth (when he was on real world Earth to begin with, the Genesis games just didn’t communicate this well outside of the Japanese manual) also confused people.

Personally I wish they kept handling it like Sonic Adventure’s dub and Archie Sonic’s latter years handled it (with Sonic’s friends calling him Eggman as an insult, while evil characters typically called him Robotnik)

Call me what you will, but I strongly wish Sonic retained more of the Western ideas as they work better than the Japanese ones imo… Especially considering Japan is pretty lukewarm on Sonic (to the point that recent pollings in Japan showed that people believed he was a Nintendo property due to only being familiar with the character from his Nintendo-related crossovers), meanwhile he’s consistently been a phenomenon in America, so it’s pretty obvious where the money is. That and, well, Eggman probably sounds “Mysterious and cool” when English isn’t your first language, when it is… Well “Eggman” sounds like he’s from an educational PSA where he tells me the importance of a healthy breakfast with help from his wife Bacon Woman.

It’s an ancient artifact, so he was likely still called Robotnik back then.

Wait? Cool Owl Guy…

Nice try Longclaw, but I know your twitter when I see it!

How’s Dagon these days? Haven’t heard from him since that whole Innsmouth incident.

At this point I think there are more incel fanbois overhyping Tesla, still believing he really did have perpetual energy death rays invented by Ancient Egyptian aliens

Dude was brilliant, but he was also very, very crazy… and a name that comes up a lot when I’m on the “Spirit Science and Ancient Aliens are perfectly valid methods of self-education in comparison.” side of Youtube

Not that I’m defending Edison mind you, every cent he ever gained was earned by Tesla.

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This is definitely someone’s kink

I never really used Twitter, but I’d start using Mastodon, if only to get people to start using Mastodon?

I mean unless you somehow became omnipotent.

Ants have a scent?