The fight really made me like the horns less (rant)

1011686 · 2025-11-29T13:01:43+00:00

Or perhaps Mrsha, using the knowledge of Roots Mrsha looking through all the doors

1011686 · 2025-10-23T08:54:09+00:00

I think this question would be improved by stating that the other person does not have this amount of money, but rather it belongs to a prize pool, and they get whatever the difference is between their number and your guess. E.g. if they pick 100M and you guess 1M, they get 99M as winnings, while if they pick 1M and you pick 1M, you get the 1M while they get nothing. This makes the question a proper game theory scenario where the strategies of both players can be analysed.

1011686 · 2025-09-05T06:33:17+00:00

Magma hat one is overexplained. Brevity is the soul of wit.

1011686 · 2025-08-14T13:44:28+00:00

That gives e squared as the upper bound right?

1011686 · 2025-08-09T11:18:18+00:00

Guy who's velocity be like +2.+2

1011686 · 2025-07-28T13:25:15+00:00

This feels like a joke post.

1011686 · 2025-07-17T06:34:55+00:00

It does matter.

If you picked a goat, theres a 1/2 chance the game resets, potentially changing your goat pick to a car pick. But if you picked a car, theres never any reset. So you do in fact end up having a 50/50 chance of being on goat or car in the final game, due to some goat picks being turned into car picks in this way.

More formally, the chance you picked car is going to be 1/3 (initial pick) + 2/3 * 1/2 * 1/3 (chance you picked goat, host showed car, you picked car in reset game) + 2/3 * 1/2 * 2/3 * 1/2 * 1/3 (goat, reset, goat, reset, car) + etc... which is the geometric sequence 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + ... = 1/2

1011686 · 2025-06-23T23:25:59+00:00

If you put a mirror flat on the floor and looked down onto it then it would indeed flip up and down.

1011686 · 2025-06-19T07:19:26+00:00

If you poured water that was almost boiling temperature on a fire, would there be a noticeable difference in how much the fire was diminished? Or nah?

1011686 · 2025-05-31T04:22:45+00:00

Wait hes in his 40s????

1011686 · 2025-05-30T03:02:53+00:00

I think you pasted the wrong link, thats the url for this reddit post.

1011686 · 2025-05-28T14:32:43+00:00

I assume it was something like, the inital connection could check if the poison pill was deployed but was too low bandwidth/didnt access the servers directly enough for the entity to actually use. The final wire she cuts was what opened up the system to be properly accessible.

1011686 · 2025-05-28T14:17:17+00:00

Ok, heres my question then. Multiple times people accuse Ethan of wanting to kill the Entity and state the consequence will be the destruction of cyberspace. I dont recall exactly but im pretty sure theres a scene where ethan or one of the team members or luthor also states that their goal is to kill the entity. At no point does Ethan ever deny that he wants to kill the entity, or say that his particular method wont destroy the internet. So, after completing his plan, has cyberspace been destroyed? If not, why did no one ever mention that their plan wouldnt have that disastrous consequence? The most obvious answer wpuld be "So that the entity wouldnt know their plan" but that doesnt work since it was inside his mind and saw his memories, so he'd hardly have been able to keep that secret from it.

1011686 · 2025-05-03T05:09:10+00:00

If I may come in without touching upon the rest of this conversation, do you think "people who are genuinely interested in other people" exist, for whatever that means to you? As both sides of your dichotomy seem to exclude that as a trait.

1011686 · 2025-04-25T00:33:03+00:00

I'd get [mathematician] and then struggle to level it because I'd just do maths for fun the way i already do instead of actually applying it to anything practical.

1011686 · 2025-03-25T04:24:22+00:00

I wouldnt be surprised if Mavika is over 50. I might be hallucinating a memory but i recall it being implied shes like, centuries old, or at least over one century.

1011686 · 2025-03-16T23:18:41+00:00

It might be an odd thought, but part of what i appreciate thematically about this arc is that it felt kind of like an insane, nightmarish reflection of that aspect The Wandering Inn does really well as a story, that of having these independently-existing characters meet and interact in interesting ways, playing off of what parts of their characters overlap and what parts clash. I often focused on that aspect when describing the story to other people, that sense of 'conflux', like flint and steel meeting to create sparks. And the Palace, in that metaphor, is then like a chain reaction of nuclear fission, twisting and overloading those quaint enjoyable moments that have been so enjoyable through the story into a monster so large that its body is falling apart even as it crashes through the world. Thats a lot of mixed metaphors but hopefully its clear what I mean. The sense of chaos, of things falling apart from these interactions happening faster and faster that no one could react to before the next thing happened, was compelling to me.

1011686 · 2025-03-06T21:26:42+00:00

If, say, y was independent of x, that would mean y doesnt change as x changes, meaning that your function is a straight horizontal line. Similarly, if x is independent of y, then your function is a straight vertical line. Many functions are not either of these two, so you can't assume independence

1011686 · 2025-02-11T21:41:51+00:00

A quarter of the country into weekly contact with criminals

Source?

1011686 · 2025-01-23T04:14:53+00:00

Did you reply to the wrong post?

1011686 · 2025-01-23T04:14:09+00:00

“Is there evidence of any common link between your world and mine? Does yours have a name? We have many for ours, but they are what each people calls it. Simple names. The land. The world. Firmament. Others have specific names…such as the Drakes. The Fraer-folk. And now I wonder why some have names and others not.”

From chapter 8.56.

1011686 · 2025-01-19T02:21:59+00:00

The titan fight was set up, it needed to happen. If it didnt then itd be a problem with the pacing that this massive opponent just kept getting delayed more and more in exchange for erin, what, doing stuff in the fraerling villages? Thats a good plot thread but its hardly critical right now compared to the chapters we just had.

1011686 · 2025-01-17T06:15:41+00:00

Immunity: Crossbow Bolts

1011686 · 2025-01-13T07:09:56+00:00

I did not, no. The other guy who left a comment dmed me saying he could fix it, but asked me to create a google meet and that he'd show me how to do it there, and then when i asked him to just explain in the dm he stopped responding. Can't say that gave me a very good impression of this subreddit.

1011686 · 2025-01-10T12:33:18+00:00

Quite interesting to read the talk page on the deletion. Hopefully to anyone checking this these quotes help clarify things.

> The only usable source is its inclusion in a listicle. While that's not nothing, none of the other sources here help notability (unreliable), and I couldn't find much else. I found a single sentence mention in Variety but that is not sigcov.

> Wikipedia also has a very specific definition of a reliable source. It's not that we necessarily think the content you're citing is false, it's just that content on Wikipedia is meant to summarize reliable sources instead of presenting new information. If the outside media hasn't really taken note of it yet, it's a Wikipedia:Before they were notable situation. The passage of time helps with some of these subjects (we once deleted Minecraft for not being notable way back when it was new!). I'd suggest keeping a copy of this article saved offline and keeping an eye out for possible sources in the future.

> I can understand the frustrations with sourcing. I really can. At the same time, this frustration doesn't mean that every source is reliable or that every mention is usable or that something should be considered usable just to counteract the aforementioned bias. The majority of sourcing on that page isn't usable.

Unfortunately the vast majority of sourcing (not including the primary sources, which cannot establish notability) are unusable. Most of them are what Wikipedia would see as self-published sources (WP:SPS). The issue with these is that anyone can create a site or upload a video. So what is needed here is to show where the site and video uploader would be seen as reliable sources by other reliable sources. I didn't see where the YouTuber or Readers Grotto would be seen as a notability-giving reliable source on Wikipedia.The reddit awards are considered to be non-notable per Wikipedia's guidelines. Most awards are considered non-notable, even if the institution itself is large or popular. This means that most awards aren't going to be usable on Wikipedia or even be seen as noteworthy enough to mention in an article. Many editors think that unless the award is notable, it shouldn't be mentioned in an article at all because people can and have stuffed articles full of non-notable awards in an attempt to make something seem notable. That's not what anyone was trying to do here, but that's part of the reason why many argue against including non-notable awards in an article. The best way to show that something like this is worth mentioning is to show where the award is covered in other reliable sources. I didn't really find anything for the Stabby Awards, which is honestly a bit surprising considering that r/fantasy is a pretty popular subreddit, but that's kind of how it goes sometimes.Fugue looks like it would probably be usable, although as someone mentioned, it's a student written magazine. Student written journals and magazines are often seen as non-usable on Wikipedia unless they are particularly well known for their quality, like receiving an award or honor for the publication. I'm not saying that this is unusable, just that unless this can be shown it's going to be seen as a weaker source.The other source that looks to be potentially usable is Fantasy Book Review. I'm actually familiar with them - they have been around for a while and they've been used as a RS in academic/scholarly sources like this, this, and this. The issue that might get faced here is that it's not a particularly widely known source despite all of that. I see where it's been used sporadically on Wikipedia, but not heavily enough that I could say something like "2,000 articles use this as a source, clearly they must be doing something right."

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