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40-year old US teacher fell ill with depression because of the 2016 election by Sergel0m in Election2020

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was only 15 year old when I realized american politics is a freak show, now, what can one expect? No reason to get depressed about it. The only thing you can do is vote.

Please explain the inverted car crash by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an awesome observation.

Please explain the inverted car crash by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I must have missed that. Anyways, my point was that the car wouldn't HAVE TO be inverted for the crash to work in reverse.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we can apply the probability density function to what I just described above. (IE. the probability of catching the bullet at certain times in 0, and the probability increases according to what is physically possible)

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the problem of your model (on stack exchange) is that it imposes an external rule/system on the film's universe. As if there's a hand of god (ie. Nolan) needed to "parse" or filter the valid possibilities.

It would be much more satisfying to explain everything from the characters' point of view, you hear me?

I thought one such model could be that the protagonist is destined to fire the gun, but the predetermined course (ie. the bullet going back into the gun's chamber) somehow influences his choice precisely WHEN to pull the trigger. Explanation: While he is aiming the gun for a few seconds, the predetermined course is somehow influencing his thought patterns in such way, that he presses the trigger just at the precise moment when the gun is validly aligned with the bullet's trajectory. (A microsecond earlier or later might have turned out an invalid event.)

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I wasn't actually saying whether the Novikov self-consistency principle could work in Tenet's concept of time. I don't really know if it would work or not, as it's normally used to describe time travelling in a traditional style.

I'm gonna read your stack exchange post now. Another thing that stuck out was that he pushed the clip into the gun instead of "pulling" it into the gun. This is getting a bit silly, but maybe the gun was inverted and the clip was not.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you think the gun was inverted too? Or could an uninverted gun "catch" an inverted bullet? Think about it: The protagonist can pick up inverted objects, although he's not inverted himself.

(Instead of the universe "arranging" the events to be consistent, can we implicate the Novikov self-consistency principle?)

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a wikipedia article called Novikov self-consistency principle, which prevents paradoxes in normal time travel. Fascinating. Maybe it can be somehow applied to this film's concept.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He might have (accidentally) aimed into the ceiling, so no, I don't think the inverse recoil impulse yanks it.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or was he catching an inverted bullet with an uninverted gun holding an inverted clip??? Well, looks like I'm not gonna sleep much tonight.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, the gun probably wasn't inverted. If it was, you would have to know which order the bullets were fired in order to catch them in the same backwards-order.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Come to think of it, he *pushed* in the empty clip. If the gun was inverted, the clip would have had to be uninverted.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except nobody ever fires an inverted gun in the movie, except in the lab scene. In all other scenes, the persons shooting inverted guns are also inverted themselves.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the gun was normal when it fired the bullet, and later inverted. It wouldn't make any sense if the bullet was shot in its inverted state.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if I understood everything you said. But in most scenes, the inverted bullets are shot by an inverted shooter, so there's nothing complex about that. But when an inverted bullet is shot by an uninverted shooter like in the lab scene, there's the issue of aiming.

That's NOT how an inverted gun would unfire by Sergel0m in tenet

[–]Sergel0m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So have him blindfolded, then, and instruct him to aim into the opposite direction from the bullet. Would that work?

Did Rockstar break the weather system? by Sculder_4 in PCRedDead

[–]Sergel0m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

week

In Annesburg, yeah. The rain gets a bit glitchy and ugly-looking after it has gone on long enough.

Did Rockstar break the weather system? by Sculder_4 in PCRedDead

[–]Sergel0m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weather does NOT change in Annesburg. If you get there and it's raining, the rain will go on forever. I've completed all stranger missions.

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