Inspired by this Jon Bois video where body builders argue about the number of days in a week.

PLEASE be sure to include a link or screen cap.

Edit: thanks to 18107 for a li k to the original

    • @DrQuint@lemm.ee
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      I’m quite sure the artist is winning that one. He’s riling up so many people by just repeating a single phrase.

      Like, anyone who thinks he’s serious is really not yet fit for the Internet.

      • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s my favorite argumentative tactic. I’ve been in a months long debate with youtube losers about whether one of every Pokemon would beat 1,000,000,000 (one billion) lions

          • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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            I am, because for all the effort people put into copying and pasting pokedex entries, I can simply reply with “but a billion lions is a lot of lions, it’s too many lions” and get another dozen replies

            • @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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              19 months ago

              Whatever floats your boat man, I guess I just don’t get how being an internet troll brings joy

              • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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                It’s just funny seeing people work themselves up over someone thinking a wrong thing about a video game. It’s not like I’m harassing people or anything

          • @DrQuint@lemm.ee
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            Which ones are you thinking? I had 6.

            I thought of Arceus, a fully powered up Necrozma, Yveltal, Dialga and Palkia. All of them could obliterate (or just reap life out of) the lions using nothing but their known innate abilities.

            Sixth one is either form of Hoopa, who can just make interdimentional holes of any size even at a range and without being present, and thus can both move themselves and the lions anywhere they want at will (so, lions into the sun, themselves into a real life resort in Miami with self-serve mojitos)

            But those are just the “quick” ones. Literally any pokemon who is conceivably immune to the lions wins by default. Just takes a long time. Like, Registeel and Regice are both known to endure absurd pressures and temperatures, so it’s only a question of how long it takes for them to punch through the pile.

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                Yveltal is more a direct win than Xerneas because Yveltal, canonically, can cause a self-feeding Anihilation Event on all life when it itself dies. It’s even brought up on the latest dex entry as game-canon confirmation.

                So imagine it is fighting and somehow loses, gets crushed by a billion lions - the lions will all then immediately start fading away into a sphere of doom that expands to consume all of then, and then retracts back down to generate an egg. It’s a tie. At least, it’s one until a short while later when Yveltal births again.

                Yes, the ultimate weapon in Gen 6 is basically just a way of using both Xerneas’ and Yveltal’s powers as one. But for the purposes of beating a billion lions, really, Yveltal is the important component. That was why I only put it up.

                Ghost types

                Hadn’t even considered that. Good call. Ghosts on the whole could also easily be stall wins.

        • @blujan
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          I may be missing your joke but I think he was joking as well.

          • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            It’s really hard to tell on the internet. I saw no indication it wasn’t just a guy that wasn’t sure and did no further research after being firmly told they are smooth, actually.

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    Years ago, on IMDb, a poster called rabbitmoon kept a thread going for years on the Rambo board that is still the best I’ve ever seen.

    The whole thing started with him posting that he was shocked when, about a third of the way through the movie, there was a scene in which a character was shot with a bullet from a gun. Then he countered, completely earnestly and deadpan, every response he got.

    The original thread is long gone, and the only thing I could find of it is an excerpt that was posted on Reddit - LINK

    • Vode AnOP
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      The IMDB forums should have been protected by UNESCO. I will not elaborate.

    • Vode AnOP
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      219 months ago

      It gets better every time

      During this film, there is a scene where for a few frames, a person is depicted as having been shot, by a bullet from a gun to the chest.

    • The sheer amount of people replying to the guy, completely oblivious to sarcasm.
      It’s a shame it’s gone because it went on for much longer than what’s in the reddit post.

      • Rottcodd
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        Yeah - I used to check in on it from time to time, and there were always new responses, and new people trying to argue with him, and he’d just run them in circles with hilariously overly literal (mis)interpretations of whatever they said. It went on for years.

        I’m pretty sure I remember the admin deleting part of it while it was still active, and eventually deleting it entirely. It’s a shame - it should’ve been saved for posterity.

  • @N00b22@lemmy.ml
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    209 months ago

    Any argument from /r/BanVideoGames is fun lol. People don’t realize it’s satire and it becomes the funniest part of that subreddit 😂

    • Vode AnOP
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      That sounds promising. What are the odds it’s been taken over by “true believers”? That seems to be the fate of any long-running satire on Reddit. TheDonald, most infamously.

      • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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        I refuse to believe TD was ever insincere. I think sane people are just unfamiliar with how willfully stupid fascists sound as a form of cover.

        The leader of the KKK refers to themselves as wizards and dragons.

      • @N00b22@lemmy.ml
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        49 months ago

        I think some people could think it’s not satire but that’s because there is a rule saying “we are not satire”. Guess what? That rule is satire too

        • Vode AnOP
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          How do you know it is satire in that case?

          • @N00b22@lemmy.ml
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            Because:

            1. They pretend words like Karen or Boomer are slurs

            2. They censor the words g#me, g#mer and videog#me

            3. They say Hitler invented videogames in 1939

            4. Most of their proof is photoshopped images (example)

            5. Most of the users active in that sub are actually also active in gaming subreddits

            6. They call their subreddit a “facebook group”

      • @wombatula@lemm.ee
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        129 months ago

        What website are you on lmao? Reddit is constantly mentioned, nearly every instance is majority Reddit refugees, there are Reddit repost bots on multiple instances.

          • @wombatula@lemm.ee
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            69 months ago

            I really don’t think you understood me there.

            I am mocking your claim that “nobody mentions reddit”, those repost bots are definitely not one of the main complaints maybe one of the top 5 or 10 tops, and nobody cares about mentioning reddit stop being a baby.

            More clear?

      • deadh34d
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        They’re arguing about the Wizard of Oz. I’m pretty sure this video is older than Frozen.

        • Anony Moose
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          Yeah, but I thought he was drawing a parallel between Wizard of Oz and something else, i.e. Elsa is the wicked witch of the East. If it’s older than Frozen, then it’s probably not that!

  • stephywephy88
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    I started reading your post 14 minutes ago and read 30 seconds every other minute then watched the video (but I didn’t count those minutes) and now I’ve grown chest hair. That was some good reppin

    • Vode AnOP
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      49 months ago

      I hope you take a rest day,so you can two more in before the week ends 🙃

    • MxM111
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      I hope you are not a woman, chest hair is … difficult for a woman.

  • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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    Years ago (early 2000s), Dilbert.com used to have a “Lazy Inventor” section of the website. “All Talk, No Funding.” This was fine for a while, then someone suggested “child free days [at restaurants and stores]”.

    You would have thought he’d suggested clubbing baby seals. The shitstorm it generated was legendary. I’m pretty sure that was a direct contribution to them disabling that feature a few months later.

    I found it in the Wayback machine! Unfortunately, it only grabbed the first few pages of comments, and the spice was only starting at that point.