The Doppleganger Game

Rules: Match a poster to their doppleganger.

volchok --------------------------> SIATD
Mainstream --------------------------> captaincrunk
iambiguous --------------------------> ilikenamitha
ZenKitty --------------------------> ladyjane
tentative --------------------------> anon
Smears --------------------------> Blurry
Moreno --------------------------> W.C.
Bill Wiltrack ---------------------> entirely original (except maybe ideologically he’s close to Kropotkin, maybe).

Well who is left?

You can obviously disagree with my assessments.

who were you before you changed your name? I can’t remember. I’ll add you to the list.

I don’t get it? Are these new users who were once old users who changed their names, or are they new users who just seem to be the same as old users?

Doppleganger, everyone is unique?

they’re all current users for the most part. the idea is that they’re opposites

That in itself doesn’t make sense as doppleganager is a double of someone else, someone who looks and acts like them but is not them. But ok…

doppleganger implies an evil (or opposite) twin in this context

Ok. I get it now, apologies from my ignorance. :slight_smile:

Captain crunk and mo then!

No, the idea is that they’re the same—that’s what a “doppleganger” is. And it’s nothing about an “evil twin”.

I was just playing the game of matching people who are similar either in terms of what their positions are on topics, how they go about reasoning to those positions, or else their personality in making points. That’s all.

then you’re way off base with all your matchups and that’s why I thought evil twin (which actually IS implied in many uses)

a paucity of reasons for an outlandish position----that’s just like Mainstream.

what’s so outlandish about you being wrong? If there are any two people on this site who are less alike than myself and mainstream, it’s me and Gobbo. Volchock is a scientist (to a fault and perhaps not so good at science) and SIATD is a spiritual nutter with a bad attitude. Blurry is girly and Smears is macho/bro. None of the rest stand out enough for me to remember them.

and you still haven’t said who you were before you changed your name

You still gave no reasons in your own case.

Their reasoning charts the same channels—it’s sufficiently absent, or else just rehearses what someone says who they think is a master/expert. It’s dogmatic and religious style reasoning. Usually in just a line, combined with another line of insult.

What the fuck does that matter?

:icon-rolleyes:

This sounds like you just being an asshole to people on the forums. Is that what you wanted in this thread? A chance for you to treat people like shit and call out guys you don’t like? Because if so it probably should have gone to Rant, or not at all.

Because Blurry doesn’t post much on her beliefs, so any comparison would invariably be on attitudes and posting methods. That’s the most obvious comparison between the two and they’re the opposites of the binary gender scale.

One thing that Gobbo always does is to ignore the reasons someone gives, and attempt to refute them by psychologizing about their motive. In other words, he’ll pick and choose what facts to care about based on his interpretation behind the motive of the actor. This is obviously poor reasoning, but it’s what you’re doing here.

Exactly right.

This is literally the stupidest thread I’ve seen on this forum since I returned here several months ago. Or it would be, if I actually read CC and Mo’s posts…

I have no clue what a doppleganger is, even after looking it up. Is it like Jekyl and Hyde?

Dudes, I haven’t read this thread, but this thread is dumb! I’m sure if I read it, I would think it is dumb! But I haven’t read it, so I’ll just go ahead and assume it’s dumb! Duuudddesss!

It is kind of dumb…

Also, it’s “doppelganger” not “doppleganger.”