Poe's law is an internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism.

Poe's Law implies that parody will often be mistaken for sincere belief, and.. sincere beliefs for parody.

You're a parody of yourself.. Bob-ception.

Firstly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cases_of_police_brutality_in_the_United_States

Would you like to also explain how Racism is a modern liberal invention that didn't "truly" exist before 1950.

Second - LMAO. Really.. blame the media for YOUR racism?

You and Lantern are the ones portraying blacks as lazy stupid thugs & savages.

You can deny that.. But all your comments are archived so..

Yeah, the only reason FoxNews does it is because YOU watch it.

Lastly -

When all the dimwitted unapologetic willfully ignorant old racist folks like you finally kick the bucket.. then we can move on.

Your ignorance and denialism of White Privilege & White Fragility aka Aggrieved White Man Syndrome is the problem.

As soon as there's a generation where the majority of white people go..

"Wow, yeah.. our ancestors totally fucked everyone else over and we still directly benefit from that.. sorry guys.

We're gonna make up for that."

THEN we can finally move on.

That should probably only take another.. 300 - 500 years.

I took her video to be more skeptical of his historical claims, his assertions that he rediscovered them, and that modern techniques isn't valid, than if the trick shots work or not. She goes to show many of his techniques are still in use in some cultures.

Like others said, even from a fairly small knowledge window, it looked like trick shots. Back in the day you would have had to film on expensive film making hundreds of shots to get one that worked, it would have been more complicated to do this. Now with video, it is easier than ever to record it as many times as you need to get the shot that worked.

Would his technique work while hunting or on the battlefield is the main question. Take an arrow through the armor joints in the knee or whatever from his technique won't kill, but probably will hurt enough to take you out of the battle, which would be the point. Would it put a deer down though? Doesn't seem there's enough draw strength to really kill the deer or large game, rather it would torture the animal for an overly long period of time before it might finally die. My understanding of modern archery is to put the game down as quick as possible to minimize suffering.

We need to see him doing his things live. Don't let the myth busters do it, have him do it, in situations that would represent a battlefield. Have armored mannequins moving, some still, have him use his techniques, see how many of his shots would have taken that soldier out of the battle. Unfortunately, you can't safely test having him under fire at the same time since that puts a level of stress on top of everything. Have a deer mannequin and see if his technique would be effective at the sort of range you need to be at to avoid startling the deer, again at a stand still and in motion (generally you are going to wait for it to be still enough to fire anyhow in that case since it is rarely a matter of life and death to kill the deer or other game).

That all said she keeps saying archery is about what works, and it does seem to work for the situation he's in. The question is as I noted above would it work in hunting or the battlefield and even if not, would it work on regular archery targets live without many repeated filming attempts. Would it work at an Olympic style event better than modern techniques? If it could do better, or even near as good, as modern ones at competitions, then, even if it fails at hunting and battlefield situations, it could still be valid.

As an aside, the videos I saw of him weren't trying to sell anything specific beyond him perhaps. I haven't bothered to Google him up to see if he's selling stuff, or just demonstrating things for now. If he's not selling people on teaching in person or via video or whatever, then all the more reason to suspect he's just showing off trick shots the same way basketball trick shot videos do. In which case the historical research could have been lazy just because it was more in jest than anything meant to be taken serious. He could have been pulling a poe in that regards.

Your video, Stephen King vs Edgar Allen Poe: Epic Rap Battles of History, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

And - Poe wins by a mile.

It's not a parody, it's a true-to-the-original-material telling. It just happens that the original material (a Chick Tract, I believe) is deep into Poe's law territory.

Poe's Law...

Thanks Captain Pedantry!
I was pointing out that he seems so ridiculous that it's hard to believe it's *not* parody.

This is a well known corollary to poes law:

“”It is impossible for an act of Fundamentalism to be made that someone won't mistake for a parody."

Everyone seems to have got this but you

Had to google Poes Law to see what it means.
Now I have to call you out tho fo,r what it seems to me, be miss-using the term.

Wikipedia: "Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism"

Now, this guy is clearly serious. Stephen is interviewing a guy who is anti-gay clearly has an intent. See: "without a clear indication of the author's intent," So this isn't Poe's Law at all, just plain ignorance!

Neither it's "broader" meaning has any usage here.
It's not about comedy, parody or sarcasm in this clip. No-one is trying to be funny, so there's nothing to be mistaken for seriousness when in fact it's comedy.

OnT: Gonna try watch the whole series, unsure I can stand the human stupidity tho

Wow, Poe's Law in full effect.

Glad to see Stephen call him out for exactly what he is; a "semi educated idiot"

"Reverend Aubrey, we need a new episode of Thomas the Tank Engine straight away."

"Just a few more days. I'm just reading The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe."

"NOW, Reverend!"

...

not true and you know it.

even the RNC chair admitted and apologized for using the Southern Strategy, appealing to racists to boost their vote.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-GOP-racial-politics_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Every time you keep trying to spew your racist lies, I'll shut you down

Poe's law applicable here.

I wish he was a Poe, it would be so awesome if he came out and said he's been trolling all this time... sadly this isn't going to be the case, I think he's just a genuine nut job.

Po!
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If this concerned any country other than America I'd call parody immediately. As is, I'll settle for Poe.

If this concerned any country other than America I'd call parody immediately. As is, I'll settle for Poe.