{"id":21178,"date":"2013-09-24T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2013-09-24T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T21:22:28","slug":"experienced-points-dont-blame-games-blame-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21178","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Don&#8217;t Blame Games, Blame Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do if someone makes a childish, lazy, inept strawman argument? If you answered, &#8220;Provide facts and logic to illuminate the issue&#8221;, then you are a wonderfully intelligent person. But also a chump.  That&#8217;s not how you do things here on the internet.  When someone shows up with a strawman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10617-Dont-Blame-Games-Blame-Pants\">you counter it with an even bigger strawman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I doubt it will change the debate at all, but it felt good to write.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I made this to go with the article, but it just didn&#8217;t turn out good enough to use:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/walter_white.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='I tried.' title='I tried.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t look enough like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbmg-media.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/breaking-bad-walterwallpaper-3.jpg\">the original iconic image<\/a> to sell the joke. I&#8217;m just sharing it here to give you a glimpse into the sausage factory of my weekly column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do if someone makes a childish, lazy, inept strawman argument? If you answered, &#8220;Provide facts and logic to illuminate the issue&#8221;, then you are a wonderfully intelligent person. But also a chump. That&#8217;s not how you do things here on the internet. When someone shows up with a strawman, you counter it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}