Author Topic: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"  (Read 27002 times)

Offline Jason Thompson

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2012, 09:35:40 AM »
in Hoaxland, imaging technology is so great that there are no such things as compression artifacts or limits of resolution, and therefore everything recorded in an image is exactly as it was in reality, and any image may be zoomed in to any level and still faithfully show what was present in the scene.

Either that, or Hoaxland itself is actually pixellated and blurry...
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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2012, 02:46:50 PM »
In Hoaxland Apollo astronauts confess all.
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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2012, 04:25:53 PM »
In Hoaxland, people who are "just asking questions" are just asking questions.

Offline Echnaton

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2012, 05:50:58 PM »
In Hoaxland, childish and disparaging comments about science and its practitioners are received with agreeing nods. 
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2012, 07:27:03 PM »
In Hoaxland, homeschoolers tell that teachin' lady the only three letters they need to learn are U, S and A!
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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2012, 10:31:41 AM »
In Haoxland, both the USA and the USSR can be either reviled or beloved, depending on various random and unseen forces.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett

Offline BazBear

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #21 on: November 15, 2012, 01:32:02 PM »
In hoaxland, the only credible evidence to be found is in YouTube videos.
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Offline Andromeda

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #22 on: November 15, 2012, 01:47:25 PM »
In hoaxland, the only credible evidence to be found is in YouTube videos.

Or any random website.
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #23 on: November 15, 2012, 02:00:54 PM »
In Hoaxland, long playing videos are suspected of being propaganda while arbitrary snippets of those very same videos show the truth. 
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett

Offline Noldi400

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2012, 06:34:10 PM »
In Hoaxland, the recollections of all witnesses to any event agree completely in every detail.
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Offline BazBear

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2012, 07:59:12 PM »
In hoaxland second and third hand sources trump primary documentation, and hearsay and decades old recollections supersede contemporaneous statements by participants and eyewitnesses. 
« Last Edit: November 20, 2012, 08:02:07 PM by BazBear »
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Offline Kiwi

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2012, 02:27:37 AM »
In hoaxland second and third hand sources trump primary documentation, and hearsay and decades old recollections supersede contemporaneous statements by participants and eyewitnesses.

In Hoaxland they don't even know what "primary source", "hearsay" and "contemporaneous" mean, and have never heard of logical fallacies.

In Hoaxland nobody ever spends more than 15 minutes reading at Clavius.

...because...

In Hoaxland JayUtah hacks all the 'puters.

In Hoaxland it is well-known that JayUtah, Phil Plait and LunarOrbit are paid handsomely by NASA.

However...

In Hoaxland some people think JayUtah, Phil Plait and LunarOrbit are actually the same person who deceitfully receives three handsome incomes from NASA, but other Hoaxlanders are quite confident that they are indeed three different people, and some of them think that Phil Plait is far more handsome than either JayUtah or LunarOrbit.

In Hoaxland, astronauts and capcoms are never allowed to crack jokes.

« Last Edit: November 21, 2012, 04:31:18 AM by Kiwi »
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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2012, 08:01:46 AM »
In Hoaxland they simultaneously faked the Moon landing because we couldn't get there at all and faked it because they couldn't show us the aliens they found there.
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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2012, 12:16:35 PM »
in Hoaxland the moon doesn´t exist at all

Offline Echnaton

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Re: NEW GAME! "Hoaxland"
« Reply #29 on: November 21, 2012, 01:17:38 PM »
In Hoaxland, the moon is a hollow spacecraft filled with Nazis.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett