Nikola Goddamn Tesla

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

It's hard not to have a hard on for Tesla.

[East Coast Hustle]

Oh, then there's the whole thing about how closing Open Bar and your threat to do the same with any further instances of it is precisely the kind of censorship that this site rails against.  But hey, this is GOOD censorship because Open Bar isn't quality content, so it's okay right?

yeah,because pruning huge threads of a running inane conversation is censorship. Tell me, what awesomely interesting and magical thing are you afraid to post in Open Bar for fear of being shut down by the authorities?

[East Coast Hustle]

Keep in mind, EoC, that I remind you of a schoolyard bully who gets molested, and then explain to me why I should give even the slightest hint of a fuck what you think.

[Triple Zero]

Uhhh I'm fairly sure that remark was only about a visual similarity. Hair style, face, expression, I could see it too somewhat.

[East Coast Hustle]

Possibly. But after being accused of censorship for something that 1) is not censorship at all and 2) I haven't actually done, I don't see why I should give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, we tyrannical censors aren't really known for behaving reasonably.

[Eater of Clowns]

Alright, wrong word, doesn't detract from the fact that you've previously railed against intentionally steering the community and yet are doing that exact thing by threatening to continually close a thread you don't like.

Fuck Open Bar, really, but your personal feelings on the thread shouldn't be what causes it to be closed.  Inane bullshit thought it may be, if you're going to close one thread you don't like why not just start closing all the threads you don't like?

And I'm sorry I said you were visually similar to somebody else.   

[East Coast Hustle]

Could you link me to all of these times when I supposedly threatened to close the thread? because I'm pretty sure that you're way the fuck off-base here.

For that matter, can you link me to all those times I railed against intentionally steering the community? Because I'm pretty sure that I've tried to do just that and been pretty open about it on several occasions.

Please note that there is a HUGE difference between "trying to steer the community" (something anybody can do) and "using admin powers and censorship to impose my will on the site".

Then maybe think really fucking carefully before the next time you start running your mouth about some shit like this when you don't even have your facts straight.

I mean, fuck, have you ever been to any other forums, ever? Go find me a forum that's this active and this full of contentious bastards where the admins take such a laissez-faire attitude towards the place.

[East Coast Hustle]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna stay mad at you or carry a grudge or anything like that. I'll still have beers with you anytime. But what you're saying ITT is some bullshit.

[Triple Zero]

BTW, on a completely different on-topic matter,

I'm still not sure why people care so much about the Tesla vs Edison thing, but my hat's off to mr Oatmeal's brilliant trolling cause the whole fucking web seems to be talking about his comic:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  That's astonishing. People are tearing it apart and fact-checking it and criticizing its exaggerations and hyperbole as if it wasn't a comic. Have the lines between journalism and comedy blurred so far that we no longer distinguish between the two?

Perhaps next they will set their journalistic prowess on a critical analysis of this article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/pedro-martinez-credits-success-to-lucky-midget-sun,1944/

[East Coast Hustle]

The comic itself is fallacious, unfunny, and pretty retarded, but to its credit it HAS started a dialogue that will hopefully stoke peoples' interest in some of the basic science that powers their daily lives.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I thought it was hilarious. And, having already read about Tesla quite a bit, I recognized the inaccurate (well, semi-accurate but wildly exaggerated) bits. 

[East Coast Hustle]

I honestly didn't see any humor in it. They went so far overboard on the invective that it barreled past "mildly amusing" and landed squarely on "I AM NECKBEARD, HEAR ME SCREECH!" And the tone was one of complete sincerity rather than intentional hyperbole.

[East Coast Hustle]

It sounded less like what I would have expected from "Edison vs. Tesla" and more like "Churchill vs. Hitler", with Hitler as the misunderstood genius and Churchill as a total dick who only won because he was good at working with people, never mind how that inherently contradicts the part where he's a total dick.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I honestly didn't see any humor in it. They went so far overboard on the invective that it barreled past "mildly amusing" and landed squarely on "I AM NECKBEARD, HEAR ME SCREECH!" And the tone was one of complete sincerity rather than intentional hyperbole.

Humor is subjective, I guess. At first I was like "hey now, that's not quite accurate" and then it just got more and more ridiculously extremely inaccurate, until I was all "Oh, I get it, LOL".