<<display 'Start debate!'>>
\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
<<set $side = "side2">><<display 'Pick Topic'>>
<<set $side = "side1">><<display 'Pick Topic'>>
<<print $response>>\n\n"I think you owe it to yourself to say what you’re really trying to say here. I dare you."\n\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
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<<print $response>>\n\n"I don't have time to pick apart what you just said, I have other things to do and need to move on from this conversation before long."\n\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
<<print $response>>\n\n"That there is just intellectually dishonest of you, I expect better."\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
Debate Team!
"I think it's unacceptable that you don't want to actually speak to the topic at hand."\n\n"I don't think you're actually listening to what I say."\n\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
"That is flatly untrue as a simple matter of fact."\n\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>
<<set $thing1 = prompt("What's side 1 arguing for (e.g. vim, significant white space, static typing)?")>><<set $thing2 = prompt("What's side 2 arguing for?")>>Pick a side:\n[[Proponent|side1]]\n[[Opponent|side2]]
<<if $side eq "side1">>\n<<print ($thing1 +" is objectively better than "+ $thing2 +".")>>\n[[next|Start debate!]]\n<<else>>\n(Wait for debate partner to almost finish their sentence, then)\n\n<<display 'Start debate!'>>\n<<endif>>
Rob Simmons\nChris Martens\n
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[[WHY DON'T YOU SAY WHAT YOU'RE REALLY THINKING]]\n[[TOO BUSY TO RESPOND]]\n[[ACCUSATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY]]\n[[I REJECT YOUR REALITY]]\n[[TRUE BUT IRRELEVANT]]\n[[APPEAL TO THE AUDIENCE]]\n[[LET ME SPEAK]]\n[[POST-HOC ERGO PROPTOR HOC]]\n[[AD-HOMOYNM, LA-LA LAND]]\n[[AD-HOMONYM, INFANTILE]]\n[[AD-HOMONYM, INTELLECTUALLY BELITTLING]]\n[[AD-HOMONYM, SPECIAL INTERESTS]]\n[[REDIRECTION]]\n[[DISRESPECTS THE TROOPS]]\n[[YOUR IDEA IS DISCREDITED]]\n[[YOUR SPEECH IS TOO UNORIGINAL]]\n[[OUT-OF BOUNDS SPEECH ACT]]
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<<display 'RealStart'>>
<<silently>>\n<<set $array =\n[\n"WHY DON'T YOU SAY WHAT YOU'RE REALLY THINKING",\n"TOO BUSY TO RESPOND",\n"ACCUSATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY",\n"I REJECT YOUR REALITY",\n"TRUE BUT IRRELEVANT",\n"TRUE BUT IRRELEVANT",\n"I REJECT YOUR REALITY ENTIRELY",\n"YOU ARE MISLEADING",\n"APPEAL TO THE AUDIENCE",\n"LET ME SPEAK",\n"POST-HOC ERGO PROPTOR HOC",\n"AD-HOMOYNM, LA-LA LAND",\n"AD-HOMONYM, INFANTILE",\n"AD-HOMYNYM, POLITICAL",\n"AD-HOMONYM, INTELLECTUALLY BELITTLING",\n"AD-HOMONYM, SPECIAL INTERESTS",\n"REDIRECTION",\n"DISRESPECTS THE TROOPS",\n"YOUR IDEA IS DISCREDITED",\n"YOUR SPEECH IS TOO UNORIGINAL",\n"OUT-OF BOUNDS SPEECH ACT"\n]\n>>\n<<set $txtarray =\n[\n"'I think you owe it to yourself to say what you’re really trying to say here. I dare you.'",\n"'I don't have time to pick apart what you just said, I have other things to do, I need to move on from this conversation before long.'",\n"'That there is just intellectually dishonest of you, I expect better.'",\n"'That is flatly untrue as a simple matter of fact.'",\n"'I think it's unacceptable that you don't want to actually speak to the topic at hand.'",\n"'I don't think you're actually listening to what I say.'",\n"'You have failed to tell the truth once when you’ve talked about this.'",\n"'On just about every level that is misleading, unfair, untrue.'",\n"'Luckily, I am certain that anyone listening to this discussion won't fall for that completely ridiculous tactic.'",\n"'You won’t let me speak on the topic at hand. Are you going to let me answer the question? (repeat question as long as necessary)'",\n"'I mean, of course we're stuck in this sorry state, what did you expect would happen when Bell Labs broke up?'",\n"'If you just want to go on living in your little fantasy land where all your arguments make sense, I really can't stop you.'",\n"'Well, your face is BLANK.' (suggestions: stupid, unamerican, unhygenic, unsound, inefficient)",\n"'Only someone more interested in scoring political points in some stupid game than the truth would ever say anything like that.'",\n"'I can't believe you're are so unintelligent you fail to see the glaring problem with the argument you just made.'",\n"'You're only saying that because you're in the pocket of big BLANK.' (suggestion: type theory, data)'",\n"'It seems like you're talking about BLANK (suggestion: feelings), but what you really should be talking about is how this affects BLANK (suggestion: the bottom line).'",\n"'I am amazed you would say that while the heroic members of our military of this country are dying overseas for our freedom.'",\n"'FAMOUS RESEARCHER (suggestion: Noam Chomsky, Bob Harper) wrote a devastating critique of this in the 1970s that I feel no need to repeat now.'",\n"'You're saying this like it's a new idea, but FAMOUS RESEARCHER (suggestions: John Reynolds, Leslie Lamport) already came up with this decades ago.'",\n"'Wow. I don't believe you just said that. Are you sure you don't want to walk that back?'"\n]\n>>\n<<endsilently>>[[Welcome to Debate Team!|Choices]]
<<silently>>\n<<set $idx = Math.floor(Math.random()*($array.length -1))>>\n<<set $response = $array[$idx]>>\n<<set $text = ""+$txtarray[$idx]+"">>\n<<endsilently>><<print $response>>\n<<print $text>>\n\n[[next|Start debate!]]