Argument thread

[» Magic «]

>something where discussions can be made without anybody knowing who it is, thereby preventing any hivemind sort of behavior and is open to legitimate discussion where people can say what they want without having a negative streak on their name
>bad

Yeah, nah, you're a faggot.

Yeah man

I so fgt

[Pilgrim]

Yeah man

I so fgt

Should have said, "thats your opinion."

[Frank]

Counter-argument: Anonyboard helps flush contained and hidden anger instead of going into full frontal confrontation and tear everyone's faces down. Also people won't confront anyway.

[Supertoaster]

Leave.

I was trying to contribute to the thread, it wasn't serious 

[» Magic «]

Should have said, "thats your opinion."

Why would I say that?

I am so fgt

[Rocket50]

Counter-argument: Anonyboard helps flush contained and hidden anger instead of going into full frontal confrontation and tear everyone's faces down. Also people won't confront anyway.

Aka, a pussy way of whining that you dont like x for y reasons

[Frank]

Aka, a pussy way of whining that you dont like x for y reasons

It's better to go ahead and call you a cunt and piece of shit uneducated idiot who can't hold arguments for a fucking second.

Right? Right? Violent frontal confrontation is much better.

[Rocket50]

It's better to go ahead and call you a cunt and piece of shit uneducated idiot who can't hold arguments for a fucking second.

Right? Right? Violent frontal confrontation is much better.

>Implying that all confrontations are violent

[Frank]

>Implying that all confrontations are violent

Implying most confrontations in here would even exist. Most people can't even stand being told what they're doing wrong. Probably me too, sometimes. I believe the Anonyboard is not only the lesser of two evils, but also necessary.

[Sabb]

You guys could at least attempt to not be so aggressive lol...

[Nemisous]

I'm going to try to be middle standing man here. yes it is true what Frank said,  the Anonyboard is a good way to vent out anger without saying it to their face and starting a huge flame, but its also a good way to be a two faced about things like rocket said.. me personally I dont get on the Anonyboard because, Im to lazy.

[Eion Kilant 739]

Argument: Modern Pop music sucks more often than it used to.

Reasoning: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-science-music-idUSBRE86P0R820120726

(Reuters) - Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.

Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.

A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.

"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," Serra told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations - roughly speaking chords plus melodies - has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."

They also found the so-called timbre palette has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on, say, a piano and a guitar is said to have a different timbre, so the researchers found modern pop has a more limited variety of sounds.

Intrinsic loudness is the volume baked into a song when it is recorded, which can make it sound louder than others even at the same volume setting on an amplifier.

The music industry has long been accused of ramping up the volume at which songs are recorded in a 'loudness war' but Serra says this is the first time it has been properly measured using a large database.

The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, offers a handy recipe for musicians in a creative drought.

Old tunes re-recorded with increased loudness, simpler chord progressions and different instruments could sound new and fashionable. The Rolling Stones in their 50th anniversary year should take note.

(Reporting by Chris Wickham)