Naked Paul Toast’s Insights

Earlier, I wrote about Conspiracy theorists and the Downraters. Today we’re going to look at a conspiracy theorist and demonstrate that his claims are manufactured, and could not have happened as he alleged it happened.

[EDIT] Links to GMC topic and YoYogames page intentionally removed, see comment for explanation.

The topic started out as a rant about how the game has been on the top page and then because of a downrater dropped into oblivion. The thing is, it absolutely could not have happened like he said it happened. It’s not feasible mathematically, it’s not feasible time wise, and it’s not feasible that a game that has gotten absolutely zero attention, suddenly got huge negative attention, and then all of a sudden get so much positive attention.

It just doesn’t work.

But I just watched it get continually downrated from a 4.0 to a 3.7 (about 20+ votes) within a matter of seconds

The topic states that he just happened to be on YoYoGames and just happened to witness a downrater downrate his game in a matter of seconds. He said it happened 20+ times, later in the topic claimed 25 to 30 times.
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I stumbled upon an excellent set of YouTube videos.

These videos describe the science behind; how we know how far away planet’s, stars, galaxies, age of the earth, rocks, evolution, etc. What is so wonderful about these videos, is not just the evidence is presented, but the layman’s explanation of how the meaning of the evidence is important.

potholer54 is pretty critical of creationist, largely Christian dogma. I don’t disagree with his criticisms, but I think the video’s are likely to disenfranchise a lot of Christians, to the point where they will not watch the complete series. Given potholer54 is encouraging people to download and create DVD’s of the video, this could be a fatal to the video’s success.
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