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Peanut Butler posted:also how do you say Øyvind? It is 'Owen'? More like Eivin. https://forvo.com/word/%C3%B8yvind/
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If my hunch about Norwegian based on my own Swedish is right, the name would mean "Eye-wind". That's not what anyone asked, I just wanted to brag about being from a nearby country.
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Tiger posted:If my hunch about Norwegian based on my own Swedish is right, the name would mean "Eye-wind". That's not what anyone asked, I just wanted to brag about being from a nearby country. Ooh la la, look at me, living in a country! I don't have to tread water forever or risk sinking to the ocean floor! I'm not beset by sharks at all times because I have access to dry land! Show-off.
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Libra posted:Ooh la la, look at me, living in a country! I don't have to tread water forever or risk sinking to the ocean floor! I'm not beset by sharks at all times because I have access to dry land! Look at this fancy-shmanzy person, living on a planet with water and gravity.
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Libra posted:Ooh la la, look at me, living in a country! I don't have to tread water forever or risk sinking to the ocean floor! I'm not beset by sharks at all times because I have access to dry land! Read this in the voice of Lyndon showing off his very comfortable human scarf 
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HebrewMagic posted:[Cannot post, as I was eradicated in one of the countless dying universes created by the scepter] I never even existed because someone didn't touch the scepter when they had a perfectly good opportunity, so check your "got to exist" privilege.
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theironjef posted:I never even existed because someone didn't touch the scepter when they had a perfectly good opportunity, so check your "got to exist" privilege.
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What if you were killed with the sceptre??  Oh right, it doesn't do anything within the scepterverse. It might give the wrong prediction if it took several hits to be fatal, but I can't imagine that corner case will get explored.
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uvar posted:What if you were killed with the sceptre?? you'd experience getting killed with the scepter every time it touches you, until you die unless theres some conceivable way for you to take a meaningful action between swings of the scepter, there wont be any false prophecies. edir: that said, i do think theres a risk involved w every use of the scepter, that the consciousness you currently inhabit will be shunted to the scepter-verse like lyndon was before. i think that's a considerable risk you take every time you use it ...by which i mean, its likely you'd only have to experience dying once Mr. Steak fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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What if you were the the scepter and someone killed you
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What if you get killed with the sceptre by a blow so violent it also destroys it?
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Cat Mattress posted:What if you get killed with the sceptre by a blow so violent it also destroys it? The magical backlash of that event will create a rift in time and space, through which the lifeforce of the world will leak out, until the entire planet becomes empty and barren.
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crack theory, every single use if the scepter we've seen resulted in something like lyndon's experience from the user's perspective, but since we're watching the prime universe, the scepter works every time despite astronomical odds against it (theoretically there are infinite universes where it didnt work for you, and 1 where it does)
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Mr. Steak posted:unless theres some conceivable way for you to take a meaningful action between swings of the scepter, there wont be any false prophecies. Now that I'm properly awake I can remember the specific scenario I was thinking of and yeah, it's not a loophole, it's just the victim getting killed in a slightly ironic way. But knowing Thorsby he thought about it more than I have, just in case, and dismissed it as both a problem and an interesting subplot. It was something like this: let's say you get hit with the sceptre by a vicious mugger. In the sceptre universe, you are hurt but manage to run away, dying of some illness years later. In the real world, you get the pain and a vision of your future illness death, which disorients you and gives the mugger time to hit you again, killing you. But it's not breaking any rules, it's just a silly edge case.
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uvar posted:Now that I'm properly awake I can remember the specific scenario I was thinking of and yeah, it's not a loophole, it's just the victim getting killed in a slightly ironic way. But knowing Thorsby he thought about it more than I have, just in case, and dismissed it as both a problem and an interesting subplot. interesting point, actually. i never thought about that critical error in the "coding" of the scepter. in fact, this is making think about how the scepter prophecies are entirely useless. after all, not a single predicted death has come to pass in reality. so the scepter can hardly be said to be accurate at all, technically. (edit: we dont know what that one dude was seeing before audrey stabbed him. but if seeing a vision makes no difference at all to the entire rest of a person's life... then that's probably the 1 situation where the scepter is accurate) (edit: actually, in the scepter's simulation, the scepter didnt work the first time he touched it so he wouldnt have continued touching it. so in fact the scepter was still quite inaccurate to reality) since the "you" in the simulation never experienced a scepter vision (as we know they dont), and the real you did, thats a gigantic discrepancy from reality in the very first moment of the simulation. therefore, the scepter was never useful as an individual prediction device. assuming the scepter is working as intended, its purpose must have been the holistic, planet-wide predictions that it ended up being used for. and was never intended to accurately predict an individual's death. Mr. Steak fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Makes me wonder if has other ways to get information out, but whoever had it before it became lost left the settings on "Show me how I die," and nobody who has acquired it since has figured out the controls.
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maltesh posted:Makes me wonder if has other ways to get information out, but whoever had it before it became lost left the settings on "Show me how I die," and nobody who has acquired it since has figured out the controls. correction: "show me how i would die if i didnt touch the scepter right now"
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Mr. Steak posted:correction: "show me how i would die if i didnt touch the scepter right now" "Show me how I would die if the scepter doesn't work" Also I'm pretty sure the ambassador's last few predicted deaths have come true.
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Mr. Steak posted:since the "you" in the simulation never experienced a scepter vision (as we know they dont), and the real you did, thats a gigantic discrepancy from reality in the very first moment of the simulation. therefore, the scepter was never useful as an individual prediction device. assuming the scepter is working as intended, its purpose must have been the holistic, planet-wide predictions that it ended up being used for. and was never intended to accurately predict an individual's death. Not necessarily. Think of it like this: Once upon a time, a mighty king became obsessed with his own impending mortality. He approached his court wizard, most powerful in all the land, and said "use your magicks to fashion me a device that will let me see the moment of my death, that I might evade the reaper's chill touch!" And the loyal wizard said "aye, my sire!" And then he spent the next year yelling at his scrolls, saying "gently caress's sake, does he have any idea what he asked me to do? you can't just 'see the future', you have to simulate a whole universe, and he's not giving me nearly enough magic crystals or Potions of the Scarlet Steer for that." At long last, his work came to an end, for on that day he made a most mystical proclamation to himself: "Ahh screw it, there's still some edge cases but whatever, I'll ship it like this. If he sees himself dying at night because there wasn't any starlight to see by, I'll just mumble something about a grand cataclysm only his grace can avert." And so it was.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Not necessarily. Think of it like this: For real. I love how the Sceptre of Death isn't clearly the result of malice. It works imperfectly (and maybe causes immense amounts of non-obvious suffering) because of limitations in its practical design. The "can only simulate a 500 light year radius around the user" thing totally screams "there wasn't enough processing power to do this properly so the wizard had to cheat".
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New page is up, which has nothing to do with the sceptre http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/437
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Now all she needs to do is kill him, to finally start her socialist theocracy, where she's the god.
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Zoozo is a refreshingly honest president. "Sorry, folks. I'm not smart."
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He still needs to pass universal healthcare to prevent pestilence and war.
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Cat Mattress posted:He still needs to pass universal healthcare to prevent pestilence and war. With the Ambassador dead the war may already be off, depending on how much he already told the skymmygian ruler.
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A quick take on Zoozo's campaign poster: (Do note that based on what we've seen, I somewhat disagree with Zoozo's self-description here!!) Hempuli fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Hempuli posted:A quick take on Zoozo's campaign poster: wasnt his campaign "i saved a kid once" or something...? (also lol nice)
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I’m starting to think this political process may have some flaws.
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I hope there are no mean political cartoons about Zoozo in this universe. He is trying his best!
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Roobanguy posted:zoozo owns.
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Libra posted:I hope there are no mean political cartoons about Zoozo in this universe. he's not smart but that's ok Zoozo 2020
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Libra posted:I hope there are no mean political cartoons about Zoozo in this universe. The inuniverse Ben Garrison rendering all 8 of Zoozo's eyes just anime as all hell.
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KIND EYES SPIDER
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http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/438 lol nice advice.
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Good point. Family Gatherings are awkward enough as it is.
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davidspackage posted:Zoozo is a refreshingly honest president. "Sorry, folks. I'm not smart." I can't really agree with him. He's not educated, but when presented with information he is able to absorb it and draw conclusions from it just fine. Beats out 50% of humans at a bare minimum. Edit: also smarter than Lyndon
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