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The Challenge:
I can no longer abide your presence. This forum isn't big enough for the two of us. You have put up hollow challenges to my intelligence, decency, and all around awesomeness for the last time, and I'm calling your bluff. It's time to finally man up, or finally shut up.
I hereby challenge krellin to a formal debate. Below I have laid out some tentative parameters. If any are unacceptable to the opposition I would cheerfully negotiate modifications.
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The moderators:
I suggest we each pick a moderator. This person can be any current forum member. The two moderators we pick will between themselves agree on a third moderator, also a current forum member. All moderators may have any belief system or political alignment, and though a certain degree of bias is unavoidable, they must agree to enter their judgements fairly, and judge our arguments on their own strengths, rather than alignment with the beliefs of the moderator.
I suggest 3 separate debates, each one with a topic selected by a different moderator. The debate may be a topic something "your" moderator may think you are strong in, but neither of us may discuss topics with any moderator before the fact. Topics within our mutual areas of expertise shall be stricken before the fact. A debate on physics, MRI, or physiology confers too much advantage to me, and a debate on engineering, kittens, and bovine fellatio confers too much on you.
Each moderator will pick a single winner for each debate, so each of us will be awarded a score of 0-3 for each debate. Scores from previous debates must be acknowledged on the forum before the next debate can start. The winner will be the person with the highest score across all 3 debates (ranging from 0-9 or 9-0)
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The forum:
I suggest we create a blog spot somewhere upon which only we two may post, otherwise we risk interference from the rest of the forum. We can link it to the forum so interested parties may follow.
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The debate:
I think for three debates, we'd need 3 separate evenings on 3 separate weekends. A RNG shall determine which chosen moderator goes first. The last debate should be the topic chosen by the "neutral" moderator. The format of the debate can be chosen by the moderator choosing the topic. Perhaps they could tell us the topic on Friday evening, for example, and we could schedule a block of time to debate on Saturday.
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The stakes:
It's time to man up. You aren't wanted here. The loser of this debate shall retreat from all forum topics not pertaining to searching for games for a period of no less than one YEAR from the time he is declared loser. The loser of the debate shall agree to never again challenge the intelligence or debate skills of the winner.
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The Insult:
You are a low cur of the mangiest sort, you're a blight upon this forum: I name you lout, I name you knave, and if you refuse, I name you coward.
It's your choice krellin. You can chicken out, and take a small insult now, or you can accept, and take a cock ramming of epic proportions in the weeks to come.
You pick, you fucking toy.
An actual philosophy variant
, 50hr phases, WTA, orders must be announced. If someone can demonstrate how a proposed action goes against your philosophy, you may not take that action and must do something else. Critiques?
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