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True Fact: The Lack Of Pirates Is Causing Mechwarrior Online To Lose Its Player Base
Started by MechPorn, Feb 09 2016 03:36 PM
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Posted 12 February 2016 - 02:24 PM
MechPorn, on 09 February 2016 - 03:36 PM, said:
It’s true. This extremely scientific graph proves it:
You can see that as the number of pirates in the world has decreased over the past 130 days, active MechWarrior’s have gotten steadily less. In fact, this makes it entirely clear that if you truly want to stop PGI from losing MechWarrior's, the most impactful thing to do is — become a pirate.
Hope you’re laughing. I couldn’t resist sharing it with you, for a very specific reason. I’m fascinated by why it’s so funny. I believe it’s because it’s an only slightly more extreme version of the fake logic we hear every day — the conclusions that pass for critical thinking in these days of completely unleashed 24-7 communication. For example:
• Someone who has cancer drinks gallons of lemon water and their cancer goes into remission: they create a website to talk about how lemon water cures cancer.
• A business is doing badly and they move to a new building and things start to pick up: the CEO writes a book about how changing your environment is the key to success.
• Statistics show that people who leave their jobs after less than a year are more likely to smoke: someone starts a campaign to reduce smoking by encouraging people to stay at their jobs longer.
Because anyone can say anything anywhere these days (pretty much), there’s a lot of fuzzy thinking floating around that seems more legitimate than it would have in former times because it’s in print. Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge proponent of free speech. I just feel we all have to be more discriminating than ever before about what we believe. Not cynical or negative: discriminating.
So, when someone proposes a cause and effect relationship between two things – reduction in pirates causing loss of MechWarrior’s for PGI; Obama creating the global economic crisis; young people ruining American business – ask for the data that shows they’re related, rather than simply that they’re happening at the same time.
But if you’re dead set on becoming a pirate, I’m not going to stop you.
You can see that as the number of pirates in the world has decreased over the past 130 days, active MechWarrior’s have gotten steadily less. In fact, this makes it entirely clear that if you truly want to stop PGI from losing MechWarrior's, the most impactful thing to do is — become a pirate.
Hope you’re laughing. I couldn’t resist sharing it with you, for a very specific reason. I’m fascinated by why it’s so funny. I believe it’s because it’s an only slightly more extreme version of the fake logic we hear every day — the conclusions that pass for critical thinking in these days of completely unleashed 24-7 communication. For example:
• Someone who has cancer drinks gallons of lemon water and their cancer goes into remission: they create a website to talk about how lemon water cures cancer.
• A business is doing badly and they move to a new building and things start to pick up: the CEO writes a book about how changing your environment is the key to success.
• Statistics show that people who leave their jobs after less than a year are more likely to smoke: someone starts a campaign to reduce smoking by encouraging people to stay at their jobs longer.
Because anyone can say anything anywhere these days (pretty much), there’s a lot of fuzzy thinking floating around that seems more legitimate than it would have in former times because it’s in print. Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge proponent of free speech. I just feel we all have to be more discriminating than ever before about what we believe. Not cynical or negative: discriminating.
So, when someone proposes a cause and effect relationship between two things – reduction in pirates causing loss of MechWarrior’s for PGI; Obama creating the global economic crisis; young people ruining American business – ask for the data that shows they’re related, rather than simply that they’re happening at the same time.
But if you’re dead set on becoming a pirate, I’m not going to stop you.
True Fact: Kids, do not smoke crack, you may end up like this guy...
Edited by Gyrok, 12 February 2016 - 02:24 PM.
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Posted 12 February 2016 - 06:19 PM
They do not have crack in the 31st Century, they sniff coolant.
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