I'm ever annoyed by very good articles that were almost great.

ClarkHat follows exactly the strategy I endorse. He crumbles the power base of the informal faction by formally describing what it is doing. Sophism is always unstable against this attack. I nitpick because I honestly think the whole is more than the sum of the parts, and thus if you get all the parts right you should end up with better parts.

"(unproven, in my mind)"
Of course it's unproven, but as the anti-gg's like saying on /pol/, real journalism has this problem at least as bad. It's not really about the five guys per se, it's about the fact that journalism per se is corrupt. All journalism is yellow until proven otherwise. Partly this is about the curtain being less well-guarded in the gaming backwater. Partly, it's because the side with the greater resources with which to falsify should fall under default suspicion. which is obviously journalists. All journalists should be considered liars until they prove they're not.

"And thus deception slithered its way in to the garden of Eden and/or earthly delights."
Good point. I like saying Eden is mythologized memory of the pre-agricultural world. But it could also have echoes of the pre-liar world.

I know a couple words of cat. They never expect you to lie to them, they trust it implicitly. Presumably human ancestors were like that once.

"Your genes will not be present in the next generation, and Gnon will laugh."
Yes, the only point to life is base biological success. But it does raise the question of how you expect a blog post to help you have more kids. Priorities.

"I'm not a Blue, and I'm not a Red. It'd be nice if I was crisply one or the other, because then I could give myself wholeheartedly to one alliance and fight the good fight. Instead I'm forced to agree with 50% of what each team does, roll my eyes at 10%, and be damned annoyed at the remaining 40%."
Pff, Sturgeon's law. That's why I'm a Neon Hillist. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

"I think that an ideal ancap society would have polycentric law such that six lesbians could all marry each other."
It's really none of my business who you marry. Unless I'm running an insurance company, and you want me to back your marriage contract. Then it's jointly my business with the laws of economics, which absolutely have an opinion on sexigamy...though I don't know what it is.

"Power is not a means; it is an end."
Indeed. Only power is addictive, not satisfying. Those who pursue power in this way go into the habituation death spiral of the addict.

"It might be the losing side, but I'm still not convinced it's the wrong one."
Ah, so we do care about more than raw biological success... Consistency, sir. it's startlingly powerful.

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