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TeamLiquid: The Anti-Lake Wobegone

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Peanutsc
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States307 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-19 20:33:00
October 17 2010 22:51 GMT
#1
You know Garrison Keillor's radio show Prairie Home Companion and its long-running series about a fictional small town in Minnesota called Lake Wobegone? Every mini-episode about this town ends with Keillor saying "Lake Wobegone: Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." This phrase has led to the term "Lake Wobegone Effect" for the psychological phenomenon known as illusory superiority.

I'd like to propose that TeamLiquid is the Anti-Lake Wobegone, and the slogan should go like this:

"TeamLiquid: Where all the women are attention whores, all the men are trolls, and all the children have Down Syndrome."

EDIT (for any that care): Sonuvbob actually came up with a much better version than mine, which I will take the liberty of posting here.

TeamLiquid: Where all the men are in diamond, all the women are men, and all the blogs are below average.


Note that this slogan could probably apply well to other similarly minded communities on the internet.

Thought of the day!

*
"You only get one life on this earth, Tasteless, and if you're not spending the majority of it playing StarCraft, I would argue that it might be wasted." "I couldn't agree more, Artosis."
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
October 17 2010 22:56 GMT
#2
lolll yeah I think this is a general attribute of the internet?
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leetchaos
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States395 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-17 23:08:33
October 17 2010 23:02 GMT
#3
Edit: reading comprehension fail.
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-17 23:08:19
October 17 2010 23:06 GMT
#4
Why did you just call yourself an attention whore?

I didn't understand the title but I still hoped for update about your way of getting in to diamond =/
I have to say I am disappointed =/
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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
October 17 2010 23:20 GMT
#5
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/
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Peanutsc
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States307 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-17 23:23:14
October 17 2010 23:22 GMT
#6
On October 18 2010 08:06 beetlelisk wrote:
Why did you just call yourself an attention whore?

I didn't understand the title but I still hoped for update about your way of getting in to diamond =/
I have to say I am disappointed =/


LOL I'm doing the diamond thing Mon-Fri, dude ... it's a job.

And I was hoping someone would ask me if I just called myself an attention whore, and the answer is: yes and no.

Just like not all of the women in Lake Wobegone are strong, not all of the women on TL are attention whores - similarly, not all of the men in Lake Wobegone are good looking just like not all of the men on TL are trolls. It's about perception, not about reality.

And @Carnac: nope, I was thinking about Lake Wobegone while I was cleaning the bathroom and decided to write about its relationship to TL, and then I looked it up on Wikipedia and realized it was connected to an actual concept in psychology. Nice try tho =/.
"You only get one life on this earth, Tasteless, and if you're not spending the majority of it playing StarCraft, I would argue that it might be wasted." "I couldn't agree more, Artosis."
LSB
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5171 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-17 23:28:41
October 17 2010 23:27 GMT
#7
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19178 Posts
October 17 2010 23:36 GMT
#8
On October 18 2010 08:20 Carnac wrote:
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/

Come on...if it was someone known you'd probably laugh.
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Jathin
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3505 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-17 23:56:14
October 17 2010 23:51 GMT
#9
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
October 17 2010 23:53 GMT
#10
On October 18 2010 08:20 Carnac wrote:
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/

Ya, I gotta agree with this.
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
October 18 2010 00:03 GMT
#11
On October 18 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2010 08:20 Carnac wrote:
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/

Come on...if it was someone known you'd probably laugh.


I am pretty sure that statement is completely false
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19178 Posts
October 18 2010 00:11 GMT
#12
On October 18 2010 08:51 Jathin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
On October 18 2010 08:20 Carnac wrote:
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/

Come on...if it was someone known you'd probably laugh.


We've known Peanut for some time now. The problem is there's no real wit in the parody. It's basically just saying "women are attention whores, men are trolls, and children have Down Syndrome." There's nothing unique to TL.net in it, it's not referencing any notable people from the past/present, and the Down Syndrome thing is arbitrarily and awkwardly thrown into the mix. Normally I ignore OPs like this, but I felt compelled to defend Carnac today. Not trying to be a dick, just sayin'.

On October 18 2010 09:03 Rotodyne wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
On October 18 2010 08:20 Carnac wrote:
so you just read about some cognitive bias and decided it was time for a supposedly funny blog referencing it on TL? that's more or less what it sounds like to me, pretty disappointing tbh :/

Come on...if it was someone known you'd probably laugh.


I am pretty sure that statement is completely false


I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-18 00:22:41
October 18 2010 00:20 GMT
#13
On October 18 2010 08:22 Peanutsc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2010 08:06 beetlelisk wrote:
Why did you just call yourself an attention whore?

I didn't understand the title but I still hoped for update about your way of getting in to diamond =/
I have to say I am disappointed =/


LOL I'm doing the diamond thing Mon-Fri, dude ... it's a job.


You almost sound like you are forcing yourself to do it
I hope you are not being to too serious about it.

And I was hoping someone would ask me if I just called myself an attention whore, and the answer is: yes and no.

Just like not all of the women in Lake Wobegone are strong, not all of the women on TL are attention whores - similarly, not all of the men in Lake Wobegone are good looking just like not all of the men on TL are trolls. It's about perception, not about reality.

And @Carnac: nope, I was thinking about Lake Wobegone while I was cleaning the bathroom and decided to write about its relationship to TL, and then I looked it up on Wikipedia and realized it was connected to an actual concept in psychology. Nice try tho =/.


My question is not: are you an attention whore?
You gave me strong impression you consider yourself as one and it confused me.
Not everyone who wants to get attention is an attention whore. Otherwise every thread and perhaps every post written on every forum would be done by an attention whore?
Major thing that makes one an attention whore is IMO not trying to be constructive at all.
Your plan about getting into diamond and your logic behind it sounds very constructive.
Being a girl on the internet can get you more attention but it doesn't automaticly make you an attention whore. There is rather more to it than just having vagina instead of penis.
Approach different from what you have shown in your previous blog is needed.
Do you just feel stigmatized because you are a girl or what because I don't get it >_<
There recently has been a girl blog that made TL update it's policy regarding females users. "Tits or gtfo" attitude hasn't been punished enough before it, as far as I understood it?
I hope someone will tell you the details.

And TBH I think we are browsing 2 different sites because I don't see and don't feel that being a troll or retarded kid is common trend here. Those people are being constantly warned and banned to make them not post in this way.
And that's why I can't find this slogan funny at all. I even would like to ask you to give some examples to showcase this?
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EchOne
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2906 Posts
October 18 2010 01:17 GMT
#14
The specific analogies are suspect and perhaps inflammatory, but from my reading I feel like the OP is trying to portray that members of our community look down on other members, unlike the way other communities' members have positive reactions to each other. Members' thoughts under such a hypothesis would go as so:

Normal community: "People in my community are great, therefore myself and my buddy over here are great."

TL: "I happen to post on TL. I am great. Therefore I am correct. Posters exhibiting opinions counter to mine are incorrect, and therefore must be deficient in some way."

This is completely untrue from my experience, but since I assume this is a joke, I won't go on.

I have to say, though, my first thought in discussing this portrayal of cognitive bias and how it's evidenced on TL was that every martial artist here feels he can prevail from any combat situation.

TL: Where every man is a ripped, Diamond, successful, strategic genius capable of defeating 100 5 year olds in hand to hand combat. And every woman draws dozens of terrible posters.
面白くない世の中, 面白くすればいいさ
Murderotica
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Vatican City State2594 Posts
October 18 2010 01:30 GMT
#15
I am glad you only get one thought a day.
ǝsnoɥ ssɐlƃ ɐ uı sǝuoʇs ʍoɹɥʇ ʇ,uop || sıʇɹoɟ ɹǝdɯǝs
Murderotica
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Vatican City State2594 Posts
October 18 2010 01:30 GMT
#16
I am not glad that you choose to blog 100% of your thoughts ):
ǝsnoɥ ssɐlƃ ɐ uı sǝuoʇs ʍoɹɥʇ ʇ,uop || sıʇɹoɟ ɹǝdɯǝs
Peanutsc
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States307 Posts
October 18 2010 01:39 GMT
#17
Yeah lol I don't have more than one thought a day.

Jesus, I guess I'll just write really profound shit so that you wankers won't all have your high "expectations" disrupted if I write something that isn't Pulitzer-caliber. Thank you for having such faith in my abilities, I guess.

Man, never thought I'd be taken this seriously by TL. Score one for Peanut!

Regularly scheduled programming will resume tomorrow.
"You only get one life on this earth, Tasteless, and if you're not spending the majority of it playing StarCraft, I would argue that it might be wasted." "I couldn't agree more, Artosis."
Murderotica
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Vatican City State2594 Posts
October 18 2010 02:01 GMT
#18
On October 18 2010 07:51 Peanutsc wrote:
Thought of the day!

In reference to this, I that since this is your BEST thought of the day, therefore it must be your only one.
ǝsnoɥ ssɐlƃ ɐ uı sǝuoʇs ʍoɹɥʇ ʇ,uop || sıʇɹoɟ ɹǝdɯǝs
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-18 02:06:11
October 18 2010 02:05 GMT
#19
i don't get it

micronesia pls explain
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
NevilleS
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada266 Posts
October 18 2010 02:16 GMT
#20
Don't worry peanut. All the screaming in this thread is for halo.
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