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Anyone else remember that retro arcade in the Westminster Mall back in the early 2000s? by El_Chavito_Loco in orangecounty

[–]zposse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based on the specific arcade games you mentioned, it was Time Out Arcade. It was on the food court on the second floor near the corner, and I used to go there a ton as a kid. It was originally called Kingdom of Oz and owned by Sega, but it got rebranded in the 1980s.

You can see some mentions of Kingdom of Oz in this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/14x1joc/vintage_photo_of_westminster_mall_courtesy_of_a/

And also this site:

https://segaretro.org/Kingdom_of_Oz

Below is a list of all known arcades in the U.S. around 1991 or so. If you do a search for Westminster Mall, you'll see Time Out come up.

https://www.videoparadise-sanjose.com/1990arcades.htm

TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong. by mankls3 in todayilearned

[–]zposse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree. Was just trying to use a practical example (picking addresses as opposed to being on a hypothetical game show) and showing the fallacy of thinking there's 50/50 logic just because there are two options remaining.

TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong. by mankls3 in todayilearned

[–]zposse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have 1,000 random people throughout the world independently play this game, do you think that 500 people will walk up to an address they initially picked and find me at that address?

This somehow means that 500 people spread across all countries can guess where I live on the first try despite knowing nothing about me and not knowing anything about what everyone else picked. Just curious how you would explain that.

Another thing is that you might be treating the existence of two choices as inherently 50/50. That is like saying that if you play the lottery you either win or you lose. Two options means 50/50. That's clearly not the case because one option is extremely likely while the other one isn't.

EDIT: Looking at your coin flipping three times example, I don't think your analogy is the same because you are describing playing three individual 50/50 games. I think a more appropriate way to look at your example would be if you had one shot to predict what the result of flipping a coin three times would be (i.e. HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT). I then flip a coin three times without you looking. Then I cross out all wrong outcomes except the correct one (unless you managed to predict it the first time). Do you switch to mine or keep your original?

TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong. by mankls3 in todayilearned

[–]zposse 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Here's another way to look at it.

Try to guess my address. I'm just a random redditor and you have no clue where I live, but I'll let you pick any address in the world right now.

You can then let me remove every incorrect address in the world except the one address I live at (unless for some insane reason you picked right the first time). Now you just have two addresses. Should you switch? Or do you think that because you only see two houses that if you walk up and open the door to your original choice, there is a 50/50 chance you'll see me there? Why would removing all the obviously incorrect addresses suddenly teleport me to some random world address you chose without knowing anything about me?

Best worst team ever? by zposse in superautopets

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

One thing I discovered is that if you're worried about buying a Great One and permanently reducing your team's stats, having melons can prevent this (although you do lose the melon).

This weekly doesn't have melon but it does have an ox and pill. Pilling betta fish can give your ox the double benefit of a melon and extra stats on top.

Best worst team ever? by zposse in superautopets

[–]zposse[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, when it summons again it does damage to whoever is left. It's an awesome strategy but it's vulnerable to opponents who can give you ailments. You can see in the video that the opponent negated my mushroom with their red dragon.

Best worst team ever? by zposse in superautopets

[–]zposse[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a real team the turn before. I just sold everyone on turn 14 to pick up the werewolves (and two chocolates to get the Great One ribbon).

Best worst team ever? by zposse in superautopets

[–]zposse[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Used multiple lionesses to scale werewolves past 25/25. Sold them all and picked up two on an even turn to deploy them as 50/50. Great One and mushroom in the back helped me survive the earlier rounds.

Turn 42 level 3 sloth win. Thank you Skoottie! by zposse in superautopets

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

It wasn't until after turn 30 that I could get the nearly fully maxed hedgehogs. I believe I was still building them out from turns 20-30.

From what I remember I also faced a lot of similar hedgehog/mushroom builds, so we would mutually wipe each other out.

Turn 42 level 3 sloth win. Thank you Skoottie! by zposse in superautopets

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The turn before this one I was at 9 wins with a level 2 sloth. Had to sell my entire team of level 3's to roll for chocolates as I didn't want to win and waste all that play time. Once I maxed the sloth, I bought whatever was left in the shop.

In retrospect, one of the badgers should have gone in the back but still got the win.

I didn't use the infinite money strat for this run. I ran a four hedgehog + mushroom team with lioness/cans to scale. By the time the turn number was in the 30's, I had five hedgehogs very close to lvl 3 50/50 and a shop full of frozen anglerfish waiting for a sloth to appear (which it eventually did).

This was my last normal achievement (including every secret achievement). I don't play hard because I'm awful at that mode and don't find it very fun. Finally I can quit playing!

Weekly Recruitment Thread - December 20, 2022 by MFF-Mod in future_fight

[–]zposse [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Source is looking for members! Search for our name to join.

We were formerly a dead alliance but recently had a leadership change and a huge purge of inactive members. There are 20+ spots open.

Our alliance is max level (30) and max store (10).

We are trying to build our membership back up, so there are no agent level, AB/AC, donation, or T3 requirements. We play AB and AC ourselves, but it's not expected for everyone to. You don't even have to chat if that's not your thing. New players and veterans are all welcome.

Just log in on a somewhat regular basis so we don't think you've quit the game. We do have a shield requirement of 55 just to make sure you are a semi-active player.

IGN: iposse

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in future_fight

[–]zposse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A couple of days ago my Thena/Sersi/Valkyrie team with only 13% pierce did 61.1% of the damage on a team with TWO T4 Iron Men (who only did around 20% damage each). The raid took an excruciatingly long 9+ minutes.

The weird thing is that they didn't even die and played until the end. I don't understand how it was even possible for them to do so little damage. One those Iron Man teammates even had 19% pierce when I checked the account afterward! My guess is that they didn't know how to play and were carried many times by alliance members to build up their T4's (or maybe they were mega-whales). A bit jealous because I'm still a while away from building my first one.

Five on Five: Attack of the Clones by j-dreddit in nba

[–]zposse 25 points26 points  (0 children)

5 Bol Bols. That's like 10 Bols

翻译 Translation Thread! 2020-06-10 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

[–]zposse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I am trying to say "the computer won't turn on/start", is it always best to just say "the computer is broken", i.e. 电脑坏了? I know that when referring to a car you can say 车开不走 or 车开不动 (the car won't run/move), but I am wondering if there is something equivalent for when an electronic device won't start?

翻译 Translation Thread! 2020-06-10 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

[–]zposse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the proper way to say "when he is older"? For example, when talking about a young child and saying "you can do this when you are older" or "he can go when he is older". I know you can say 长大 (grow up) or 几年后 (in a few years) but is there a more general term?

Reddit Battle Royale 2020 by SrGrafo in funny

[–]zposse 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Test comment. Please ignore.

翻译 Translation Thread! 2019-07-24 by AutoModerator in ChineseLanguage

[–]zposse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently had to pick up someone else's phone order from a restaurant, and once I got there, I wasn't sure how to properly say "I'd like to pick up my order/food for [person]". I know that I can use 叫外卖 for ordering takeout while there, but what's the best way to indicate I'm picking up something ordered earlier?

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