#1045; Everyone is Obviously Right

Comic Transcripts

[[Two people are arguing. One has sideburns and the other is wearing a mortarboard hat.]]
Sideburns: LISTEN – I’ve endlessly researched this topic, and the sources I’ve found who agree with me are DEFINITELY right!
Mortarboard: Well MY data shows that YOUr information is full of obvious blind spots and logical fallacies! The information that agrees with ME just makes more SENSE! To me! By DEFINITION!

[[A third shouts at them from a rock.]]
Logician: Sounds like you two are suffering from a classic case of confirmation bias!
Logician: The arguments you hear that SUPPORT your existing position sound RIGHT. The ones that OPPOSE you sound illogical and specious.

Sideburns: Well of course
Mortarboard: That’s WHY I believe what I do, because it’s what makes SENSE
Logician: But confirmation bias blinds you to any SHRED of validity that opposing arguments may possess! You THINK you’re being reasonable but in FACT you’re being partisan.

Sideburns: Big words, smarty. What makes you so SURE that we’re in the grip of confirmation bias?
Logician: Well, I figured you probably were… and when I looked closer, it seemed obvious that I was right

{{header: already in favor of WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: But *I’M* of course considering matters OBJECTIVELY}}

#1045; Everyone is Obviously Right transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.