Author Topic: Coincidence of Version 21  (Read 3187 times)

Dear Blockland Forums,

Stop misusing the word "irony."

-Jetz
irony is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. There is presently no accepted method for textually indicating irony,

...basically it just means something surprising.


irony is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. There is presently no accepted method for textually indicating irony,

...basically it just means something surprising.

Good job quoting Wikipedia word for word, however you have totally misunderstood what they're saying. There is no symbol to indicate irony such as a question mark denotes a question and an exclamation mark denotes yelling or importance, etc. Irony is conveyed through story and not through punctuation.
Let me write you an ironic sentence:

I put a new car alarm in my car so that it wouldn't get stolen. However, when someone tried to pull the handle, the alarm shorted out and unlocked the car. My security system helped the criminal steal my car.

That's irony, and there's dramatic irony where you know about something negative that the other person (or character) doesn't. A perfect example is we know Oedpius is a self-fulfilling prophecy, however he does not; be believes he is doing everything perfectly to avoid his fate. Only we, the readers, know.

Let me write you a non-ironic sentence:

Me and my brother went out to buy new shoes. We ended up buying the same shoes.

That is called a coincidence, so as the point of this topic is it's a coincidence that v21 is coming out the year the world apparently ends on the 21st.
It would be ironic if Kompressor and Badspot released v21 on the 21st to stop the world from ending, but they actually blew up the world with it.
The two things containing the same number is a coincidence.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2012, 09:21:20 PM by VerticalHorizon »

I put a new car alarm in my car so that it wouldn't get stolen. However, when someone tried to pull the handle, the alarm shorted out and unlocked the car. My security system helped the criminal steal my car.
even though how much that sucks, i can't stop laughing

Can we stop arguing over a misunderstanding of words? Thanks.

Can we stop arguing over a misunderstanding of words? Thanks.

Ignorance is unacceptable.

Wait. If 2012 is like v21


and 2012 is a myth

and 2012 is a myth

then what year are we in, genius?!

I loving know what he means stfu

Since the Mayans never adopted leap years, the world should've ended about 7 months ago.

By the logic of the doomsayers, the world ends every year on December 31st.

You wouldn't expect us to make a calendar to the year 281, 474, 976, 712, 644 AD, would you?
Bonus points if you get the reference without Googling it.

The Mayan calendar just happens to theoretically run out on that date. However, as several people have pointed out, their calendar has actually run out already, due to leap years.

Me and my brother went out to buy new shoes. We ended up buying the same shoes.

Except they bought them on the oddly specific "no one must buy identical shoes day" simply because they needed to rebel against the system; effectively making the "don't buy identical shoes day" make them want to buy identical shoes.

BOOM IT'S IRONIC.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2012, 10:35:01 PM by Swholli »

By the logic of the doomsayers, the world ends every year on December 31st.

You wouldn't expect us to make a calendar to the year 281, 474, 976, 712, 644 AD, would you?
Bonus points if you get the reference without Googling it.

The Mayan calendar just happens to theoretically run out on that date. However, as several people have pointed out, their calendar has actually run out already, due to leap years.

Oh and not to mention that supposed "dark ages making stuff up" problem. AKA The Phantom Time theory.

It's speculated that we're actually adding potentially 290 years of our history that is absolute bullstuff because during the middle ages they either on accident or through misinterpretation added a lot of stuff that didn't actually happen.

So in reality, on our Gregorian calender, it should actually be about the year 1722. Now whether or not this means that 2012 simply hasn't happened yet or not, I think it's obviously clear that if it is true then obviously we can't trust humans with recording or predicting stuff as they added 290 years of nonsense already. Why trust the Mayans? They could just have easily forgeted it all up.

Why trust the Mayans? They could just have easily forgeted it all up.
The Mayans never said the world would end on December 21, 2012, they merely said that their calendar ended on that date, like how our calendar ends on the 31st.

I hope this will all end when v21 is out.

The Mayans never said the world would end on December 21, 2012, they merely said that their calendar ended on that date, like how our calendar ends on the 31st.

No, I know that.

What I meant was: why even bother trusting them to be right with the time they've supposedly given us. If you're really hellbent on believing they somehow knew the world was going to end, how can you even be sure they were accurate?