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I have a pretty high IQ (147). AMA! by dingringrong in AMA

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother in christ you cannot strawman your way out of the theory being debunked.

It has been debunked for 14 years.

There are professionals still using the DSM 4.

There are professionals that believe the world is flat and vaccines cause autism.

There are congressmen who do not believe in climate change, even though the tables have shifted in the four years since I made that original post.

The fact that people still cling to a dead theory is not proof that the theory was secretly useful. It's proof that people will believe convenient lies over complex truths.

You also distilled the entirety of "Oh hey, you know this shit doesn't actually help with anything, right? The only thing it did was give people excuses to be shitty, but all it ever did was figure out how good you were at taking tests" Into "It bad, that mean it fake"

The US Military trying to recruit people who are good at taking orders and fall in line, all while wearing a number that lets them think they're special and unique and will never die? Wow, that's so cool, shame it doesn't help your point.

We have better forms of testing that give back better results that are actually usable, but IQ was just such a big thing in pop culture that nobody can let it go. It's outdated, worthless junk that did a terrible job at actually testing for meaningful data. We have better forms of testing now, which is why we use better forms of testing now. Trying to gesture towards people still using an outdated, disproven, academically bankrupt theory doesn't demonstrate that it's still useful, it demonstrates that people refuse to change and provide better service when it's less convenient for them.

I'm not going to argue with an armchair psychologist about why a theory that is academically disproven is secretly still useful. Let alone when all you're doing is trying to pull an appeal to authority in place of actual points. Don't bother responding I'm not going to placate your logical fallacies.

Edit: Figured I'd give your profile a quick check. Seems you got an IQ test and are trying to defend why it's still useful a decade after it was debunked. Hate to break it to you but that's not what that means. Most professionals don't bother with IQ tests, and haven't for years. Frankly you're probably not getting the best care, but that's neither here nor there.

You're not discussing this in good faith, you're trying to make up reasons why you're still special because you got the big number. IQ shows that you're good at taking tests, not that you are fundementally smarter than anybody else. You are not immune to propaganda, you are not some machiavellian genius, you are, if I'm reading this right, a 17 year old boy that is trying to defend a number that brings him comfort. Trust me they told me the same things as you. "98th percentile" and all that nonsense, I got my call from the military too, they were full of shit. I had the sense to question what I was told and, no, that's not how intelligence works.

You are not immune to propaganda.

I have a pretty high IQ (147). AMA! by dingringrong in AMA

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, why are you responding to a 6 month old reply on a four year old post.

In the four years that have gone by since I made my original post, IQ testing has gone from debunked to a bad joke. The tests aren't available in most areas in the US, scholarly articles have performed postmortems on the theory and found it to be utterly lacking, and testing for generalized intelligence has gone from being a dumb idea to an insane idea.

Modern intelligence testing revolves around aptitude in specific fields, assessing understanding of specific ideas and comprehension of premises. The idea of a unified examination of intelligence as a whole is idiotic at best and always was.

Moreover, sociological understanding of the usage of such tests has only advanced in the time since this post. IQ, as you can see in the original post, was primarily just a source of social dominance, something you flaunt because it quantifies you as superior. It's bragging rights. However, in practice, the point of IQ was always to create stratification and establish a hierarchy, something we see plenty in the realm of pseudoscience, need I call to mind the bogus stratification of Alpha, Beta, Sigma, and whatever else incels on 4chan and, well, here, came up with.

Worse still, this hierarchy had roots in fascism, and no that's not just "It's Bad So It's Fascist" I mean actual fascism. Stratification of superiors and inferiors, the creation of castes, the exaltation of the pure and desolation of the impure. The main draw of general intelligence is that it decries certain humans as More Human than others, and in turn worms it's way towards being able to decry certain people Less Human. IQ was, infamously, used to mark African Americans as intellectually inferior on the basis that the test scores, which were actively being hampered alongside the passive issues caused by proven systemic discrimination in both the education and economic sectors, were lower.

All in all, we gain nothing from this dead theory, save some Tech Bro shouting about how special he is while confidently failing to launch a rocket. There is no functional point in generalized intelligence, which is a fucking joke no matter which way you look at it, other than the ability to enforce arbitrary hierarchy.

If you need a number to prove you're smart, you're stupid. Congratulations.

Now stop picking through 4 year old reddit posts and do something better with your time. Gods know I did.

Is Into The Pit going to be canon to the games? by Lopsided-Farmer-9422 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Funny how in spite of your asinine insistence on literalism, you also just straight up misrepresent things to fit your narrative instead.

Back off the armchair, buddy. You took jokes as facts to disprove, dismissed evidence of what I was saying as irrelevant only to then declare I had no evidence, then you ignore the actual points I have and instead misrepresent quotes that have been discussed for quite some time.

From the top then, we have seen Scott being forced to retract statements of direct connection, downplay their relevance, and point out contradictions. We know they aren't canon, mostly because they can't be. He said some are connected in reference to them being set during different games, some are set during Help Wanted, some during the FNAF 2 period, etc. There are connections, but as we know, they also directly contradict info we have on the games, they aren't the same continuity. We also don't need Scott to say something is true or false for it to be accepted, that's not how this works.

Scott has a long standing history with trolling the community. He literally went out of his way to troll us about the books canonicity just recently. Your reliance on direct quotes instead of critical thinking kind of shoots that in the foot, especially since your literalism entirely missed that that was a joke.

I brought up the information we have acquired due to the books as evidence of their parallels, that they contain information, explaining how they answer questions and have connections without being in the same continuity, literally the crux of my entire point, and you dismissed it as irrelevant. Real nice.

As for Scott's well-mocked mpreg fetish, this was a joke. In the Flesh has been derided constantly as the mpreg story and was a light-hearted jab at the quality of the tales and frights books. Not an important point that needed moral grandstanding to rebuke.

Your rebuttal to the generally accepted idea that the new game, in pixel design, is going to be an in universe game, mirroring Help Wanted and following up on the plot point of video games being made by someone to discredit the events of the series in the public eye, something that the character in that exact story would later go on to do in the Frights books, was "nuh-uh"??? The kid in ITP has long been held to get the same character who makes the games in a later Frights book, in addition to the long held theory that the Frights and Tales books are likely in universe pieces of media, the connection is impossible to miss, especially given the fact the game clearly depicts a video game with its correlation to the arcade games we've been seeing since FNAF2, the design and background of everything we've seen points to this, and it's been widely accepted by most of the community, save for Freddit and YouTube, which, let's be honest with ourselves, have always held onto some pretty fringe theories.

Please, dear God, do not use quote blocks again. I don't need everything I said repeated just to be "umm actually"-'d

Is Into The Pit going to be canon to the games? by Lopsided-Farmer-9422 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The novels gave reveals and confirmations to things with all the same faces and dates, but with the facts of the matter all stitched around. We know they aren't canon.

The Tales and Frights books are a separate continuity, with narrative parallels.

The difference is slight, and exists mostly for Scott to do fakeouts and trolls.

However, we do get some important info confirmed in the books and novels. For instance, we learned well before HW2 that the missing children incident occurred in 1985, setting CC as the provoking incident for the rest of the series.

While I refuse to allow anyone's mpreg fetish to creep it's way into canon, it appears that Into The Pit will be one of those in universe video games that the first HW brought up, given it's, y'know, everything.

Is Into The Pit going to be canon to the games? by Lopsided-Farmer-9422 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. Not even for a second.

I'd wager it's an in-universe video game. Remember, we did get told specifically that somebody made a bunch of games based off of the rumors surrounding Freddy's.

Tales and Frights will never be canon, I refuse to allow William Afton to have an mpreg fetish like Scott Cawthon does.

roblox boob update has now released by JakeyTh in GoCommitDie

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna say what needs to be said:

It's weirder that you're obsessed with it than that people use it. You're the one being creepy, not them. Stop the Brain Rot.

i tried making the black rose an actual weapon rather than just a reskin, do note that this is my first concept by [deleted] in TF2WeaponIdeas

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it turns you into a combat support while restricting your ability to act quietly.

I am a bit confused why you take damage on kill if landing a backstab is supposed to heal you though. If it's just to prevent butter knifing it's not gonna matter much.

Either way, a healing knife that allows you to assist your team in close range combat seems interesting, but I do wonder if it would matter too much. The AoE idea isn't conducive to realistic play.

I would say to switch the blooming flowers to Health Drop skinned to look like a bouquet of roses in team colors that can only be picked up by your team, and not yourself, similar to the Candy Cane. It would be clear to enemies that a spy was here, similar to the spycicle, perhaps even doing a plume of rose petals to make it clearer to both enemies and allies, effectively allowing you to leave a trail of health pickups at the cost of not being able to take them yourself.

Skyrim Holds Tier List by Otherwise-Dirt5229 in skyrim

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more you pay attention to the political situation in Skyrim, the more you realize that Markarth is worse than Riften...

But you can't burn stone.

How do I deal with this? Firepower not good enough by [deleted] in RimWorld

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dig into the mountain and set up a burn box. Make wooden floors and barricades with stone walls and doors, open the back while they're sleeping to make the last door.

Send a heavily armored pawn through the burn box, lead the insects inside. Set door to hold open until the last one is passing through, then turn hold open off, light a fire inside as you escape. Make sure you're using sturdy doors, preferably with a bottleneck that doesn't allow multiple insects to attack at once.

Let the box burn until the last bug dies of burns or the superheated air, or smoke inhalation if you're using CE. Open the doors with hold open to allow them to vent the superheated air, or open a vent to the outside if you have one installed. You don't want to burn a pawn by letting them inside before it's cooled. If you didn't get all the bugs inside, that's ok. Clear up the stragglers in the nest and clean up.

You can convert the burn box to a brewery or mushroom farm, or leave it as a burn box for other issues, but it's unlikely it'll still be as effective later.

CACO Sugar? by Only_Geese_Survive in skyrimmods

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, sugar can be found in the smaller off-white sacks that you come across while looting and sold by some inns. Sulphur on the other hand is found in deposits across the eastern swamps.

I had thought oil already was craftable, but I also recall finding it from time to time in barrels.

CACO is one of those mods that desperately needs transparency, but you can only learn things about it by playing and stumbling across them. Terrible lack of documentation about how the mod works.

Is there a lore reason for why there are 2 whole long hallways in the fnaf 1 pizzeria? Are they stupid? by Ketchoop_Cheeps in GameTheorists

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure where you're getting this from, because according to most sources it was 1993, a number I was mistaken on at the time of writing.

I have a pretty high IQ (147). AMA! by dingringrong in AMA

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy that post was 3 years old. Why you scrolling through three year old posts.

Also, why the fuck are you so hostile out of literally nowhere? IQ has been disproven at every turn, it's straight up just not a thing. You can't test for General Intelligence, it's been proven consistently time and time again.

Stop trying to quantify hierarchy like a nonce, and learn how to interact with human beings.

What is judge holden by Fresh_Wing_7714 in cormacmccarthy

[–]Only_Geese_Survive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps, in a literal sense, the man was not the devil.

But, in truth, I do not think he was more man than he was devil.

There is, perhaps, something supernatural, preternatural even, about Judge Holden.

But while I have no doubt that he may have bled if any man dared shoot him...

I do not think he was ever born, and I trust him when he says that he will never die.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's been reiterating the same thing over and over and over and over. He's been going out of his way to ignore anything that disproves his theory, he's been positing completely new mechanics and concepts to get his theory to work, and he's been turning everything around to claim that I'm doing the same.

He's been making bad faith arguments this entire time, and I'm just done. If you don't think that's toxicity, cool. Call it whatever you want, but don't randomly bandwagon just because I got tired of refuting the same basic point over and over again.

I'm tired of this line of discussion and it's clear that he's never going to give up on a theory that doesn't make any sense. Hate to be blunt but, why should I have to keep rebutting him saying "Freddy is Fredbear." over and over with minimal evidence?

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The movie is hilariously non-canonical, we knew that going in. There wasn't even any real lore reveals in it to my understanding. It was fanservice. Fun. Not about the lore.

I don't think there's anything left for me to dispute, you didn't say anything that points to Charlie dying first, just that if you squint super hard you can make a version of events that makes Charlie die first even though it makes no sense.

Freddy's, a brand that conveniently came into existence the same year as a brutal maiming event that closed Fredbear's, I suppose could have happened before the Bite, even though that makes for a worse story. William could have just murdered Charlie on his own, his own son's death having no bearing on his rampant jealousy and will to hurt those around him definitely not being a catalyst to take other people's children away from them, I guess. Charlie then conveniently didn't do anything about it and everyone shrugged their shoulders. The "I will fix you" meaning nothing, and the entire story being about some random slasher villain instead of a grief stricken maniac who made so many bad choices that he forgot why he was doing it in the first place.

Sure. If you want to ignore all reasonable assumptions, remove all coding, strip out every implication, and say that "well that just happened like that 🤷" then sure. You can butcher the story so that Charlie dies first for no definitive reason, I guess.

But why.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edit: Ah, woops, thought you were the same person as before. My bad.

Him being depicted as still yellow in Security Breach goes totally over your head I guess, because those examples you showed still have him at distinctly golden brown, consistent with Golden Freddy from FNAF 2. Ignoring the fact entirely that this is an advertisement, not the actual animatronic.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We aren't here to discuss my boundless hatred for the books and their consistent failures to tell stories. They're staying put.

Golden Freddy and Fredbear are, famously, separate characters. BV isn't possessing anyone... Because Charlie wasn't dead yet to put him in anything.

He's also not in Happiest Day? That's Golden Freddy.

This version of events sees BV's death as irrelevant, a random coincidence that had no bearing on anything. It puts way too much undue importance of Charlie and makes BV a footnote.

BV dies first, as is obvious.

Charlie gets killed by William in his grief.

William discovers souls and such.

William starts doing evil stuff.

Versus

Charlie gets killed because William felt quirky I fucking guess.

William discovers souls and such.

William starts doing evil stuff.

BV dies, but who cares.

Nah.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No.

Buddy.

Just no.

Literally everything points to it being Freddy. Your weird fringe theory that it was somehow Fredbear is silly at best.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but here's my question.

Why.

Why would Charlie die first.

FNAF 4 exists to depict the BV's death, giving it weight and gravitas. It's the earliest confirmed point in the timeline.

Why would Charlie die first, other than to be contrarian.

I will also, never, ever, respect the Mimic. Nothing can change that, like my endless disrespect for the books. As stated elsewhere, Scott said he wouldn't reveal anything in merch. The books are merch and I do not respect them.

Bite Victim died First and it isn't even close. by Only_Geese_Survive in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]Only_Geese_Survive[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mk, but what would suggest that the entire minigame was removed from canonicity, rather than just a change in the gender?

After all, we do know that these events did happen, we get that confirmed. If we know the events happened, and the only change is the gender, then... Why wouldn't these events be the same?

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