World of Manipulation

DeviouslyCursed:  I'm a total jerk on the forums, but generally pretty chill in game. You see I don't blame people for not being able to process all the things required to be good at this game, really fast so that they can actually apply it usefully. Not everyone can do that. But on the forums, you have as much time as you need to think about what is being said, and what you are going to say. When the sum total of all that careful thought deliberation is "It's rigged! I just know it to be true!" then I'm going to call the person an idiot, and justifiably so. I rarely rage at someone in game, and if I do it is at someone that is doing something like sitting 10 meters outside the cap, stationary, while the enemy has a massive lead and your only hope is to cap. The guy on the cap is screaming "Get on the cap!" Everyone else is screaming "Get on the cap!" And the clueless baddie just sits, not moving, looking around, 10 meters outside the cap. Then the guy capping gets reset with about 10 seconds left to cap it out. 

DeviouslyCursed:  I don't understand this. This is part of your problem. This is an appeal to authority, and it is completely irrelevant to the data. If WG said it was in game, but data showed it wasn't, then it isn't in the game. If WG said it isn't in the game, but the data showed that it was, then it is in the game. What WG proclaims is irrelevant. You are demonstrating a lack of understanding on the nature of evidence. I will give real example that occurred. A very long time ago there was a mission involving getting lots of xp (it may have been the WZ111 or T-34-100 month long mission, but I can't remember). During this event, WoT had a double xp weekend. Every single match was double xp, win or lose. They said on the website that the double xp would NOT count toward the mission. But when you checked in game, recorded what xp you were on, then played a match, and looked at where your mission was, the double xp WAS being applied toward the mission. I was telling people about that in the matches, to grind fast before they fixed it in a mini patch or something. Some reject started arguing with me, saying it doesn't apply. His "proof" was the WG official announcement that the double xp was not going to apply. I told him how to check it. He still refused. He called me a moron because "clearly WG would know more than I did about it." I don't understand how a person's mind can function like this. I couldn't believe someone could actually be so clueless as to think what was said by anyone carries more weight than actual reality. It's like that idiot never figured out that parents can be wrong, teachers can be wrong, and your boss/manager can be wrong. Apparently if an authority figure says something, it has to be true no matter what reality says. Yes, I know what is most likely the cause of this flawed way of thinking.  And there are places people can go to meet up with others who think like that. I just don't know how to fix a mind that is that broken. In the case above, what WG said was irrelevant. What WG wanted was irrelevant. What the coders said they did was irrelevant. What matters is how the program functions. And regardless of what anyone said, wanted, or tried to code, the double xp was applying, and that was the only relevant piece of information.