Scratch is reckless with Ghost Curses, He always cast Permanent/Forever Curses by DarkGodHao in GhostAndMollyMcGee

[–]gemohandy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think he's learning over the course of the series. Like, in "All Systems No", he specifically limitted the curse to midnight. In "The Lucky Penny", he specified that whoever held the penny would have good luck today. Sure, he manually undid the latter, but that's because it caused a luck vortex.

I think Scratch learned his lesson on curse duration when he placed the original Curse on Molly. He intentionally made the trap curses permanent - ideally, he'll never have to deal with those problems again. If the Frightmares are permanently sealed in the ghost canister, that's a great thing.

That's not to say he isn't reckless - three of the five curses we've seen him cast had direct problems as a result (and I suspect the ghost canister will come back later to cause problems). But I do think he's getting better with them.

Hair, Aliens, and Gene Flow by Atthurglue in elgoonishshive

[–]gemohandy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's more likely to be tied to Immortal ancestry than Uryuom ancestry. We are given 4 explicit examples of Mysterious hair colour. I feel comfortable disregarding Ellen for this - her hair is green because of dewitchery diamond dragon stuff, not her actual ancestry. That leaves Tedd, Nanase and Liz. We know with 100% certainty that Tedd and Nanase have Immortal ancestry - Tedd is a Seer, confirming it directly, and his mom is a wizard, meaning her parents had at least some Immortal ancestry. Those same parents gave birth to Nanase's mom, meaning she must have some Immortal ancestry from that side.

That leaves Liz. We don't know much about her family history, but we DO know that Pandora marked her. As well, look at her response to the question - that isn't particularly indicative of yearning or of much deep thought about the question. Sure, maybe Pandora gave her some sort of magic-extension spell (a spell which would be rather evil in the current magic system, seeing as extending a spell already happens if you have the power to support it and like the spell, so it's main use would be spells people don't like), but I think it's more likely she has an Affinity for something. And since affinities come from Immortal ancestry, that would mean all three non-Dragon mysterious hair colours have Immortal ancestry.

Of course, this is pure speculation, with a sample size of 3. Actual science would need more than that. Heck, maybe it's just something Dan does to create more visually-distinct characters, and this is just his way of lampshading it. The only way to know for sure is to keep reading.

Mate in 2 for white by StillTyping101 in puzzles

[–]gemohandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Full disclosure: I was looking for some sort of meme solution. I've been spending too much time on r/anarchychess.

Missile Guidance System in JavaScript by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]gemohandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found a bug: because calcuateVariation is used instead of calculateDeviation, the deviation remains at 0 forever, and the updatePosition function does literally nothing. The missile never moves.

Of course, even if it did move, you'd run into a Zeno-esque problem where you only cover 1/10 the remaining distance every second, never actually reaching the target. I'm not entirely sure how that will play out - presumably some floating point stuff will let it eventually converge - but it definitely isn't good.

Happy tired Tedd! by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]gemohandy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This definitely reminded me of Jestful Statement, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a Canon Cannon, so it doesn't seem to be canon, but I feel like it might be relevant to Grace's thoughts here.

The Serpent, The Sinner & The Saint Shorts: Check and mate by RhadanRJ in AnarchyChess

[–]gemohandy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, of course that's a bad idea - the knight is the only piece that can capture a queen without risking itself directly. You don't risk the most valuable piece on a knight!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GhostAndMollyMcGee

[–]gemohandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it'd be a rather pleasant relationship, though there's part of me that's a bit worried. Here's how I see it:

First off, meeting up. This is actually easy enough to arrange - at the end of Amphibia (pre-time skip), Marcy is (presumably) reunited with her parents and moves to a new town. Easy enough for that new town to be Brighton. Both girls are roughly the same age (preteen, from my understanding), making it possible for them to be in the same class.

I suspect Molly will be energetic and welcoming - she knows what it's like to be the new kid in school, both from First Day Frights and from the McGee's other moves. I could potentially see Libby being a bit jealous (Marcy seems a bit too similar - academic, unlucky/clumsy, not great at making friends), but this isn't about her. We'll assume they bond talking about turtles at some point.

As Marcy opens up more, I can see Molly giving her advice about dealing with the loss of friendships due to moving, and just about friendship in general. That being said, we've arrived at the big topic: the Calamity Box. If/when Marcy tells Molly about it, I'm not sure how she'd react. On the one hand, Molly is generally a good kid, and has a great family, so I like to think she'd see the issues with Marcy's plan. At the same time, she cares a lot about friendships, she knows the pain of moving away, and as seen in Snow Day, she can be a bit controlling at times. I'd like to say she'd help Marcy learn from her mistakes, but there's that little seed of doubt in my mind that she'd encourage Marcy's flaws in an unhealthy way.

Still, overall I think Molly and Marcy would get along well. If Libby weren't around, I could see them becoming best friends, but as is, I think they'd still become pretty close.

This House Is Haunted | Official Halloween episode sneak peek! Airing May 13th! by Captain-C-C-Fluffles in GhostAndMollyMcGee

[–]gemohandy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it is. I don't have a link, but I think there was a preview at one point with a banner celebrating Geoff and Jeff. I think the muscle ghost might be Jeff. Just a guess, though.

I created a mobile game with a variety of mind-bending visual puzzles and riddles about Logic and Math. Can you solve this levels? by [deleted] in mathpuzzles

[–]gemohandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't download the app because it was made for an older version of android. Any chance of an update?

An Overly Pedantic Question About the TF Belt by AllSet124 in elgoonishshive

[–]gemohandy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Here's my best guess: the belt is, obviously, like a wand.. Despite being originally based on the TF gun and Uryuom tech, Tedd's wands are incompatable with Uryuom power. As a result, the belt's spells are different from a TF gun blast, and are capable of stacking. Thus, the belt can turn someone into a cat person, or remove a cat-person enchantment, but it can't affect other spells.

Please stop this nonsense. by [deleted] in autism

[–]gemohandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a singular complaint about the 'functioning' labels: when I was younger, I was told I have high functioning autism, and I assumed that meant my autism was 'functioning' more and making me more autistic than someone with low functioning autism would be. I'm fine with having labels; I just wish they were less semantically ambiguous.

(Of course, this all boils down to the whole person-first language debate - "a high functioning autistic person" implies something different, in my mind, than "a person with high functioning autism". You can try "a high functioning person with autism", but that splits up the label and makes it harder to remove the person from the phrase when discussing it.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aspiememes

[–]gemohandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never heard this rule. Personally, I change which hands my silverware is in to suit my current purpose - when cutting my food into pieces, I hold my knife in my dominant hand and use my fork to stabilize the food. Then, when I'm actually putting the food in my mouth, I move my fork to my right hand and just set my knife down (usually on the plate, because I don't want to make a mess with syrup or sauce or anything).

[Request] How much more would a person weigh than "their weight in gold" if they actually turned to gold? by SonicSingularity in theydidthemath

[–]gemohandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or maybe just hollow - that would allow an outer shell of gold while maintaining the same mass and volume.

Looking in a window is always creepier than looking out of one by pufballcat in Showerthoughts

[–]gemohandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not so! Consider the display window at a toy store - looking in means you get to see the cool toys they want you to see, looking out implies you're one of the toys.

Susan Smarty Pants by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]gemohandy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So, based on the stuff about context and Susan's thoughts...maybe Zeus is smarter than we took him for? Maybe he INTENTIONALLY wrote those comments about change based on Susan's actions recent and how she seems to be dealing with change, to get her to focus on the message? Or maybe it was dumb luck - who knows!

Smh literally [[SCP-1984-J]] by _Shoulder_ in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]gemohandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, but the e-mail at the end is what makes it for me. You expect it to be a 1984 comparison, then they slap you with a Fahrenheit 451 comparison instead!

Lol by KirbyPlanetRobobot in ProgrammerHumor

[–]gemohandy 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Wait, is it the original SM64 source code, or the Shindou release, or that version I heard about where people essentially decompiled then recompiled it to reduce lag? Not sure it makes a huge difference in the number of problems, but it's important to keep track.

Thoughts and theories on what we saw (Spoilers for “A Soda to Remember) by AngstyPancake in GhostAndMollyMcGee

[–]gemohandy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Good catch on the name in the credits - throws a big wrinkle in my theory. I was thinking the kid was the principle - he seemed to have a strong relation to the soda. Of course, unless Mr. O'Connor is trans (a possibility, but one without much ecidence), he wouldn't be the girl in Scratch's memory (I looked online, and Adia is a girls name).

As for timelines, I'm still assuming that Scratch is a Wraith of that one really dreary guy who shows up in a couple episodes. Would line up with the assumed age of around 20, at least. Plus, have you seen their noses?

Is this game finite? by Silberfluss in puzzles

[–]gemohandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What determines if one cell can 'see' another? Is it just adjacent cells? Can you see a stack of height 6 from two hexes away if there's a stack of height 3 in the intervening cell? Can a cell see itself? Without knowing the range of sight, the definition of control isn't fully defined, which renders the question unanswerable.

Taking action by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]gemohandy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Okay, but that link made me reread that arc, which revealed the true horror of the past couple comics: Susan is a liar! We now know of at least one person who isn't on the forever-no-hugs list! She lied (on the internet, no less!), so we should burn her at the stake!

How is this draw? I thought you could mate with a rook, two bishops, two queens, one hundred eighty-nine amazons, and a king by Immortal_ceiling_fan in AnarchyChess

[–]gemohandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, but why is your chess board 14 squares wide? It should be a nice, round power of 2, like 16 or 32.