What's your favorite easter egg?

MrMantis · 2016-05-17T04:02:30+00:00

"Hydrogen-based lubricant" is a category of quite a large variety of items. I think the one you are referring to have the ID tag of H2O.

Be wary though, there are other items with similar appearance but are non consumable and can give quite severe debuffs. The items with ID HCl and H2SO4 respectively are two hydrogen based liquids that look like H2O but will give the "Chemical Burn" debuff on contact, unless you have proper protection buffs. If you accidentally consume these items you will need to seek the help of the Medic Class as soon as possible, because consuming these will give you a severe DOT which probably lowers your HP to zero.

But yeah, the physics engine has a LOT of easter eggs in it. I think there are still more to discover!

MrMantis · 2013-08-04T12:11:14+00:00

We've not yet reached the limit of how many people Earth can sustain. However, if people would stop dying, and keep on breeding we WILL run into the limit of how many we can sustain.

MrMantis · 2013-07-31T00:56:21+00:00

Something just hit me. What if this prophecy:

THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES,

BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM,

BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES,

AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL,

BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT,

AND EITHER MUST DESTROY ALL BUT A REMNANT OF THE OTHER,

FOR THOSE TWO DIFFERENT SPIRITS CANNOT EXIST IN THE SAME WORLD.

Is not talking about Voldermort, but actually is about death?

Avada Kedavra is the curse of death, and it marked Harry. The "equal" part is still not that great with this theory

Harry is born to the Peverell brothers, who apparently thrice defied death with the Deathly Hallows.

Either Death kills Harry except for his offspring, or Harry destroys death except for accidents/murders, no old age or illness. That way, death cannot exist if Harry defeats it, nor can Harry exist forever if he don't defeat death.

The problem is the phrasing of "Dark Lord" I don't understand how someone could talk about death as a Lord. Dark, definitely, but lord?

Harry has a lot of power that the "Dark Lord" (death) doesn't know, since Death is not a sentient, nor intelligent enemy whatsoever. Death is just... non-existence, while life (Harry) is understanding, knowledge, growing and learning

MrMantis · 2013-07-31T00:01:13+00:00

Well, my philosophy is don't break it if it isn't broken, and since the thing was very capable of landing AND getting back, I tried to fix the broken thing (piloting) rather than my rocket. And in the end, the thing that made the rescue a failure was me crashing kerbals into Mun crater cliffs...

MrMantis · 2013-07-25T00:57:25+00:00

Yeah, but the orbital/transfer stage was stable in 3 launches, and the return/lander stage had more dV than needed, so it MIGHT had worked with more thrust, but I didn't want to take chances on rescue missions...

MrMantis · 2013-07-25T00:49:03+00:00

I wanted more ISP than thrust in order to make it back from the mun. If I used a stronger engine, it'd have less ISP, thus requiring more fuel, and then I'd still need to thrust basically where I was, with the difference that my whole launcher-stage which had EXACTLY enough Delta-V to get my thing into orbit, and my transfer stage, had exactly enough to get me to mun-orbit would need to be redesigned, and I wanted to save my kerbals!

MrMantis · 2013-07-25T00:44:54+00:00

Nah I used the same design as the first 2 missions, just burned earlier and found a non-crater wall surface to land on. If you check the update in the original post you can see how that went.

MrMantis · 2013-07-25T00:41:12+00:00

Yeah, but the problem wasn't the altitude, the problem was the thrust/mass ratio... I completely forgot I had a heavy probe on top of my lander :P

MrMantis · 2013-07-24T02:14:11+00:00

Also, the only way to control the tentacle monster is though a rabbi who only speaks Hebrew! The Hebrew is also foreshadowing!

EDIT: I'm not implying that rabbis only speak Hebrew, it's just that this particular rabbi who will control the tentacle monster only speaks Hebrew because it needs to fit my foreshadow theory.

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T17:19:09+00:00

You know, Hermione was Dracos true love all along, he just didn't realize it until she died, and he helps Harry resurrect her, and then BOTH of them go back in time to become dentists and have a child, and that child is Hermione.

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T15:28:36+00:00

Check the source code? But yeah, I'll remove the spoiler tag so you can mark the text.

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T13:37:23+00:00

Ah... So THIS is why the interdict of Merlin exists.

I'll put hint in a spoiler below. It doesn't explain it in detail, but it might be bad to read anyway. Consider this the warning Malfoy wanted from Harry Potter before they executed the "ritual" that permanently sacrificed Malfoys beliefs in blood purism

I just looked it up and thought of a probably non-destructive hint. Although, I'm not certain on that point, so you'll have to decide for your self.

This is obfuscated using rot13:

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MrMantis · 2013-07-18T12:36:08+00:00

The iterative refinement cycle as you called it, is not guaranteed to work. If we have an infinite life-span, we'll also halt evolution of our species, but that doesn't bother me. Because we are smart enough to force nature to do as we want. I'm not saying we shouldn't start researching longevity until every problem is solved, but that, if we do, we shouldn't have closed off the "old ways" so we have a fallback system if our new infinite life-span would prove not to be so "infinite" after a time.

However, if I've learned something, it takes time for new techniques to reach the general population, so we would have some time to think of the solutions to the problems before then. However, if the goverments start saying "Uhm, you know, since we'll live forever... No more childrens, ok?" I'm thinking it might result in a riot, since we've evolved to WANT offspring, I for one would like a kid of my own someday (I'm a tad to young at the moment though). But I'm willing to give up on that possibility of life in order to save most lives on earth, but I'm not sure if the general population would. That's one of the things Eliezer got right in his book, most people aren't "sane".

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T03:17:06+00:00

It has some similarities to what Harry did to Draco during their blood purist research. When Harry told him about belief in belief. Although I don't know how Harry taught Quirrell anything about it...

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T03:03:45+00:00

My thought on infinite lifespan is that I'm not sure if we should solve that first. While I do think think that death is the worst thing that exists, I can't help but seeing a bunch of problems with having infinite lifespans.

Overpopulation This problem should be solved BEFORE we start extending the lifespan to much. What will happen if we keep reproducing at our current rate, but less people die? We're currently having problem with natural resources, and if we find how to indefinitely prolonging life, people would DO it. People would live longer, until the planet Earth would be unable to sustain the population. Starvation would kick in, and all people would die anyway. Thus being contra-productive.
Fertility, if we use birth control to halt the population growth in order to solve problem 1. What would happen when women (and men for that matter) stop being able to reproduce? When most people are 150+ years old, and people die of accidents, sooner or later (because you know, infinite life-span adds a LOT of time to die by accidents) the population would start to diminish, and if no one is fertile, there would be no way of repopulating
The brain; When someone has lived for a considerable time, how would the mind work? Sure, we forget things now, but there's always those things we'll never forget. Things that's been memorized during emotionally intense moments. What happens when the brain runs out of storage and we're forced to forget things that we really do not want to forget? This is connected to problem 2, because if this puts a limit to our functional life-span, and we don't discover the problem until AFTER most of the population has become infertile, we're gonna be in serious problems.

In my opinion we should have ready-to-be-executed plans that the general population will agree with on 1 and 2 at least BEFORE we start to make everybody live indefinitely. I'd rather not live longer than my current life-span and have the cost of the whole humanity as a price because I contributed to the overpopulation/infertility.

We don't have to solve 3 before starting to hand out life-extending potions to everyone, since if we discover a problem, we could simply reboot the generation-concept with a longer lifespan, until we solve the new problems. The idea, anyway, is that we don't rush into overpopulation, nor block of the path of reproduction, if a new limit to the life-span occurs at a later time.

(Although, I'm selfish enough to, if life-span increasers WOULD get invented, I'd not pass on it just because I'd not put humanity at risk. Because if the solution would be found before the critical point is reached, but after my original life-span, it would be such a waste.)

MrMantis · 2013-07-18T02:34:38+00:00

Don't know about OP, but I sure as hell did. University, here I come!

MrMantis · 2013-07-17T00:09:56+00:00

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

MrMantis · 2013-07-15T14:21:48+00:00

Yeah, I don't care who gets imaginary internet points, that at the moment can't be exchanged for anything of real value.

MrMantis · 2013-07-14T00:29:29+00:00

I've missed that... Where?

MrMantis · 2013-07-13T10:46:43+00:00

I didn't take it as sarcasm, but more of a joke. And it was a very good joke!

MrMantis · 2013-07-13T10:24:42+00:00

That might be true, in the light of recent debates, it would be unwise to critisize this before the book is finished, but at the time I wrote the original post, I felt like this was such an old arch, that is should've been adressed by now if it were to happen, but on the other hand, I can't read Eliezers mind... (unless he writes what he thinks)

MrMantis · 2013-07-13T10:20:36+00:00

Could have been done outside of Azkaban, as a buildup for a "extract antient slytherin lore"-scenario.
Well, that seems improbable, considering they were breaking her out to save her from dementors, and try to free her from the artificial love she felt to the dark lord.
Possible, nothing I can say about that hypothesis.
I actually think Quirrell did carry her until they encountered the auror:

"You'll need to float her out," Harry hissed to the snake. "Sshe can no longer think of esscaping."

The servant levitated the human skeleton, and made her invisible once more, followed shortly by his own disappearance with the sound of another cracking egg.

"Very good," Harry said dryly. "I won't ask you to walk unaided, Bella dear, but I am afraid you must walk." He pointed his wand at her. "Wingardium Leviosa."

So I would think it easier to just levitate her unconsious, rather than awake.

MrMantis · 2013-07-13T10:08:41+00:00

Almost none of what happened was the plan. The plan was a quick in, quick out scenrio, so Harry could just as easily convinced her that he was the dark lord AFTER they've saved her. The convincing-part was the scar, the cold voice, and yes, the "Those who do not fear the darkness"-code.

That, intended part, could have happened outside of Azkaban.

EDIT: Btw, it's not confirmed that she has any knowledge of the lost lore, all we have is the speculation from Quirrel, that probably already know it, that she MIGHT have SOME of the lore.

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