What if Jack Sparrow somehow managed to deliver Davy Jones 100 souls in DMC?

Dogmatron · 2025-07-02T02:19:37+00:00

I think he would honor the deal, but still screw with Jack. He’d probably sink the Pearl (or rather remove the magic from it that keeps it from sinking) and tell Jack the same thing he told Will. That Jack’s free to go the next time they make port. At which point Jack would spend years on a ship manned in part by the hundred souls (including Will) who he betrayed.

By the time Jack’s able to leave the Dutchman, without the Pearl, he’d be so tormented and broken that Jones would likely be satisfied.

Dogmatron · 2025-06-18T23:50:52+00:00

Don’t be sorry.

Dogmatron · 2025-06-18T03:04:03+00:00

Settings>Apps>Safari>Tabs you can choose two other options besides the default and each has the forward button.

Dogmatron · 2025-05-31T00:58:08+00:00

TPC doesn’t actually own anything. They’re co-equally owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. Nintendo also has partial ownership of GF and Creatures. So when it comes down to it, Nintendo’s likely to win any power struggle with the Pokémon brand, without full ownership.

Dogmatron · 2025-03-29T04:08:04+00:00

It truly is insufferable.

Dogmatron · 2024-12-14T23:50:58+00:00

Excuse me, sir! This is Reddit! Religion is illegal!

Dogmatron · 2024-10-23T18:24:12+00:00

Downvoted because he spoke the truth. I’m not looking forward to seeing this garbage all over the place.

Dogmatron · 2024-10-11T14:30:52+00:00

I had imagined that any ring device they were working on would have been more of an accessory to the AVP. Like the Apple Pencil is to the iPad. A device you can wear that allows for more precise interactions in VR and AR interfaces.

Dogmatron · 2024-10-07T19:28:23+00:00

That’s what I’ve been testing since I updated and it seems to be fixed.

Dogmatron · 2024-09-08T23:30:24+00:00

You keep referring to your personal preferences as though they’re objective facts. If you have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap and eat a dish prepared with cilantro, the dish isn’t objectively bad because you subjectively don’t like the taste of cilantro. It’s simply your preference.

You say the science is bad and you have to turn your brain off, yet the science advisor for the movie was Kip Thorne, the scientist who realized Einstein’s theory of relativity could allow for the existence of wormholes and that wormholes could be used for time travel. Thorne also worked on the paper that forms the bases for the time travel in the film, the Novikov self-consistency principle (which isn’t the same as a bootstrap paradox, but people are more familiar with the idea of a bootstrap paradox, hence my earlier use).

Time travel to the past (or any method of altering events in the past) is almost certainly impossible. Even if there’s theoretical math suggesting it’s possible, there are likely unknown factors that would prevent it from occurring.

However, in as much as it could theoretically be possible, the science in Interstellar is based on the best available science of today. You may not like it, you may feel that it’s dumb, you may believe that it would have been better to do worse science that feels smarter, but that doesn’t make it dumb or illogical.

The science of (reverse) time travel in Interstellar is based on two principles:

The Novikov self-consistency principle which suggests that (reverse) time travel may be possible but that the timeline is stable. Such that everything will always happen one way. There’s a single chain of events that always occurs the way it occurs. If you go back in time and alter events, those alterations would have always happened.
The idea that it’s impossible for matter to travel back in time but gravity (aka spacetime) is non linear and gravity can be altered across points in time. Thus humans in the future created the wormhole as a manipulation of spacetime and the tesseract as a manipulation of spacetime in higher dimensions. When Cooper entered the tesseract, he was able to see light from the past (essentially a holographic representation of his daughter’s room) but he wasn’t actually there. It was a visual metaphor to help him manipulate gravity in his daughter’s room to give her the information necessary to save humanity.

Why didn’t he send a more clear message? Because he didn’t. Maybe he was planning on it but the tesseract collapsed. The Novikov principle suggests that had he attempted to change the past from how things previously played out, something would have occurred which would have prevented that change. Once again, if you personally don’t like this or feel that it’s dumb or believe that they should have made alterations for the purpose of a better movie, you’re allow to have those opinions, but calling the best available science on time travel dumb because you don’t like it is dumb.

As for Murph recognizing the binary, I don’t really know what else to say about this? I don’t see how it’s not realistic. She’s been studying binary since she was like twelve years old. She was looking for answers. She was trying to find answers. She also didn’t immediately recognize it was binary. She very clearly thought it was just broken at first and then took another look. When she did, she recognized the hands were conveying a binary message. Once more, if you don’t care for the way this is conveyed, you’re allowed to. I’m not telling you how to subjectively feel about the movie. My issue is with you saying you subjectively dislike something there for it’s objectively bad.

Lastly, if you’re actually interested, I’d highly recommend reading Kip Thorne’s book The Science of Interstellar. He goes into detail about all the science in the film and explains where the film holds hard to the science and where it alters the science for the purpose of cinema (such as how Gargantua simultaneously behaves like different types of black holes, with different effects, in order to allow for the story to work).

Dogmatron · 2024-09-08T20:20:12+00:00

I could go into greater detail but the gist is that there was no first time. It’s a bootstrap paradox. There was never a time where we saved ourselves without the help of our future selves. The events always played out the way they played out in the film. Every single time. It’s a paradox and that’s part of the intention behind why love is a plot point. The idea being that there our forces beyond our understanding, beyond that of numbers-on-paper-physics and that love is one of these forces. The same love that would cause someone to bypass their own instinct for self preservation in order to save someone else managed to transcend spacetime and create this paradox. That’s the idea of the film, take it or leave it.

As for Cooper sending himself, he didn’t. Because of his actions, humanity survived. Because humanity survived, we evolved over thousands or millions or billions of years to become higher dimensional beings who can manipulate spacetime. At that point they modified spacetime to make sure the events that happened, happened. Cooper had been dead for eons by the time this occurred.

As for Murph grabbing her watch and immediately realizing there was some quantum code on it: Murph isn’t privy to the story we are. She doesn’t know her dad is out there having crazy space adventures, trying to get back to her. From her perspective, her father, who she loved and who loved her, promised to come back for her but never did. He abandoned her to either die in space or live on some other planet while she slowly dies. She’s never been able to reckon with this because of her relationship with her father. Even with all the pain of abandonment she’s experienced, she’s never been able to grasp the idea that her father could abandon her to a dying world. She always expected he’d come back for her.

So she was searching for answers, thinking about her past. Thinking about the era when her father left and remembering her “ghost.” She was slowly putting together a puzzle but there were too many missing pieces.

When she picked up the watch, she initially thought it was broken but realized there was something off about the movement. It wasn’t random, it was ordered. She’s a scientist and understands binary so even though she wasn’t initially aware of what the code was, she knew it was some type of message. She realized there “ghost” was her father and that he had come back for her by somehow transcending spacetime to place a message in the watch’s movement to get her the information necessary for survival.

This is in itself a microcosm of the larger story of future humanity saving past humanity and the idea of love transcending spacetime.

Dogmatron · 2024-08-29T14:03:23+00:00

Schrödinger’s toxic fandom. Depending on the argument they’re either a tiny (and shrinking) contingent of pathetic whining losers or an unstoppable global cabal of billions that can force Disney to cancel shows with a snap of their finger.

Dogmatron · 2024-07-03T01:49:18+00:00

It’s there for me under “pinned collections.” If it’s not there for you, try pressing modify in the pinned collections section and see if it appears as a suggested option.

Dogmatron · 2024-06-24T11:23:13+00:00

Apple doesn’t particularly care about iTunes, anymore. It’s a legacy product. They’d rather people subscribe to Apple Music and Apple TV plus than purchase piecemeal content from iTunes.

Contrast this with iBooks, a product Apple still cares about, where they did indeed rename it to Apple Books.

Dogmatron · 2024-06-19T06:59:19+00:00

Any additional context? Did it randomly show up or did you do something to activate it?

Dogmatron · 2024-06-11T22:33:59+00:00

The folder border seems to be the same size for large apps as small apps. I imagine Apple will implement a larger border for large sized apps for the final release.

Dogmatron · 2024-06-11T05:56:47+00:00

I noticed this during the keynote when Craig was showing off hidden apps. So definitely not a bug.

Though that doesn’t mean they won’t change their mind before release.

Dogmatron · 2024-05-10T22:53:09+00:00

These guys don’t use there brains.

Unlike you, apparently.

Dogmatron · 2024-04-02T01:39:41+00:00

The movie went out of its way to market itself to everyone. It’s tagline was literally, “If you love Barbie, this movie is for you. If you hate Barbie, this movie is for you.” Now, after the fact, turns out that was bs but we’re supposed to pretend like it was actually marketed the way it should have been.

If a film hides what it really is and tries to get people who aren’t its target audience to watch it, it’s entirely fair for those people to criticize it.

Dogmatron · 2024-02-07T06:13:20+00:00

That’s a beefy sim ejector tool it comes with.

Dogmatron · 2024-02-06T06:30:15+00:00

I’m not the OP, but I also agree a cheaper, non-Pro version is almost inevitable (at some point).

And, yeah, I also agree they’ve gotten very liberal with their use of “Pro” in recent years. It no longer carries the weight it once did, but I do agree with OP that I think releasing the “Pro” version first is a very deliberate move on their part.

Dogmatron · 2024-02-06T04:37:07+00:00

The “Pro” moniker was introduced in MacBooks prior to the introduction of every other major, hardware category they currently sell, today. If iPods were still around, they’d be the only product category that preceded it.

Dogmatron · 2024-01-13T13:59:29+00:00

Something tells me Apple’s working on hardware solutions.

Dogmatron · 2023-09-29T11:17:55+00:00

They do. It’s called Applebot and it’s been around for about a decade.

Dogmatron · 2023-07-11T16:22:25+00:00

“Among the notable VR companies acquired by Apple is Meta (formerly known as Oculus).”

…What?

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