So, let’s say that you have a mate. Both of you are robot enthusiasts, and together, you build 100 robots.

Now, let’s get on saying, that the purpose of each robot is only to hold a sign, proudly displaying one or zero, depending on which side is turned up. The robot holds the sign first in the neutral position. Now, as the geek guy, you know zero is way more leet then one, so you pick zero as your mark, and your mate picks one.

Now, each of you wants to have more robots displaying his sign, so basically, you do it the geek fashioned way. you sit down, and think.

You are handed the pick of the method. Remember, it is simple: each method you employ, your mate can also employ. so, if you decide to flip over a sign, you mate can do the same in reverse. If you decide to kick all offending robots from the area, or stomp them, then so can your mate.

Now, points are being awarded to the owner of the sign the most robots display. playtime is an undisclosed amount of time, which both of you don’t know, after which the game has to come to a stop (usually, because a female relation bursts in, and complains about the inner child of men, which brings two adults to sit in the basement for hours playing with robots). Points will be awarded based on the numbers then.

Which method do you pick?

Now, as any good geek knows, the first few rounds will be the same. each of you flips over a sign on a neutral robot, until you have a division of the robots in two half’s. Exactly 1/2 of the robots will display the number one, and 1/2 of the robots will display the number zero.

The other possibility would be redundant, because it would be the noob way of you flicking one sign over, and your mate flips it right back.

Now, let’s stick with the geek way. you arrive at a split. You have each half of the robots holding up your sign, and half of them don’t. up to that point, the win loss ratio is equal. Nobody has won.

So, from there on, the is only one method of guaranteeing that

• most robots survive (or else, it would be very uncool to have lots of robot parts flying around the place, and possibly a mad female relation forcing you to clean up the mess….)
• both of you can still play

• you have minor bumps in the win loss ratio, but still do a lot of flicking, because quite honestly, it would be quite un-geek to just glare at each other without touching anything.

Quite simply, you pick one robot, then toss a coin over it. If you get head, you can decide what to do, if you get tails, your mate can. Now, the winner of the coin toss can either decide to flip the sign, or leave it the way it is.

This method will get the highest chance of winning, combined with the lowest difference of signs since it would be really uncool if you loose by a lot, because you would be stamped a noob. The most amount of flipping done, the best gloating because of luck, and the best chance for a good outcome at the end (50/50 relation, plus you get to challenge your mate to a rematch)

Now, let’s take a look at what a single robot would feel, because at one point in a game between two geeks, it is inevitable that something gains intelligence.The robot would possibly see himself flipped in the beginning, then some more at some point during the match, and then he would wander back to the shoebox.

Both players, as geeks, have the same skills at statistics as a two year old, and would employ some method of flipping a sign surrounded by their own sign more often then one in the middle of an enemy heap, would shout , call each other names, would draw offensive material on each robot, and display all sorts of hostility between themselves. Eventually, it would become so bad that the sentient robots would form teams. Converted robots would be hailed by the new, and cursed by their old team, displaying the same traits as their respective owners.

Of course, as the days will go on, each player will improve the robot for a  bit.  Maybe add an extra sign, or maybe paint them like little people.

And at one point, it would be quite possible that one robot makes something unexpected. Something new and excited. Something which would draw attention from both of the players, and halt the game for a bit, until each player had readjusted their strategy accordingly.

Now, let’s stop there for a second. before I want to do this, I want to be perfectly clear.

I am a singular human person.

I do not feel pride for belonging to a particular group of people, as opposed by an other group of people.I am neither christian nor satanist nor agnostic not atheist nor Hinduist nor anything for that matter.

I just am. So, please, if you are easily offended, do not read on.

Now, as all geeks know, as we observe, we can form theories. and untill disprooven, the theories are correct. So, let me form my own theorie.

Lets make you god, your mate the devil, the robots people, and the signs morraly right or morraly wrong behavior. from the point of a robot, it all looks different. Some robots rarely get a 1, some rarely a 0. But because you got the traits of your creators, you rage on and on.

Maybe an other sign is intelligent design, and an other one is evolution. or gun controll versus right to arm bears. or, one sign says israeli, and one palestinian. Or, skater and boarder.

As far as I have watched it, it is always the same. You get the traits from your creator, and run with it. and, because you are surrounded by your peers, and you are very small, you often have the idea that somehow, someway, you understand what your creator is doing. You claim to be right, because it would look quite ridiculous if you would step down from your argument, and it would decrease your social standing. maybe, if you flipped your signs one way, you would be called a republican, or an other way, and it would be a democrat. Now, and this is important.

Consider the game. Consider two beings, powerful enough to switch the signs, just playing with us for the heck of it. They do not care if one of us is uncomfortable, or gay, or perhaps kind of likes pot. They do not care if we are better off, or worse.

They just want to have the possibility to call it a day, and maybe demand a rematch.

Right now, we are in the phase where both players study their opponents moves carefully, and flip a lot of signs.

What I would propose to you right now is to do exactly the same , as this idea has done to me 10 minutes ago on the toilet. Just stop. Resume all hatred against each other, untill things change. if the simple idea of the robot game got me to this point, where I now understand why things are happening as they are, maybe, if we just stop alltogether, we could do the same to the two players. if they are named god and satan, I could care less. I just suggest, stop. 

You don’t have to hug anybody. You don’t even have to change. just… stop.

Israelis and Palestinians, stop.

Black pepople and white people, stop.

Creationists and Evolutionists, stop.

Goths and emos, stop.

Science and religion people, stop.

Skaters and boarders, stop.

Blackhats and whitehats, stop.

Just… enjoy yourself. Don’t bother acting. Do’t bother changing. If you came this far, you have done it for approximately 10 minutes, so why not dfo it for 20 minutes. or an entire week. Stop.

If there is anybody out there, flipping our signs, they will notice.

They will investigate.

And perhaps then we can see what is going on. Perhaps then we can hear the true story, not what just a few people told about how their signs have been flipped. We will be able to see if I was right, and perhaps, just perhaps, we can get them to make ourselfs smarter, prettier, and with even bigger sexual organs. These are about the only three things I know everybody could agree on.

Now, if you want that, just stop with the rallying, stop with the aggressive marketing, stop. Refuse to be played by an overlord who does not care about you, and lets terrible things happen by the minute. The worst thing that could happen is that you could confuse the players, and the best thing would be you could wake up with washboard abs, a BMI of perfect levely, a heavenly date in your bed, a body of a supermodel/porn star, and a sticky note on your body saying please continue.

Stop. Think. enjoy.

God is a geek.

The devil is a geek.

Pride is just a thing you feel because the coin toss gave you a side.

Others can be nice too, if you look past the coin toss.

And for all it is worth, get your geek on.

In the hope that I will wake up with a supermodells body, hung like a horse, healthy like an ox, and with a decent PC:

Enjoy your day.

P.S. Quick question. Which robot will the player give more attention to. the one doing all of the work for him, or the one that displays out of specification?