5,794 Forum Posts by "IllustriousPotentate"
At 6/24/07 04:08 PM, CryogenChaos wrote:At 6/24/07 04:06 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote:Harden actually does something. It fucking increases Defense.At 6/24/07 02:56 PM, joeyjoe1 wrote: They find humor in depicting the most useless pokemon ever.I thought it was Metapod?
METAPOD used HARDEN! But, it failed!
You ever battled a Metapod vs. a Metapod? Yeah, it's not very exciting.
At 6/24/07 02:56 PM, joeyjoe1 wrote: They find humor in depicting the most useless pokemon ever.
I thought it was Metapod?
METAPOD used HARDEN! But, it failed!
At 6/23/07 05:44 PM, Lord-Bob wrote: Bubble gum flavored skittles sounds delicious.
Conversely, what about skittle-flavored gum?
I've got $25 dollars* that says you guys can't figure out what is encoded in the image below.
It's either a mailing address, phone number, or a URL.
Don't bother with Google image search. It will do you no good. All you need is a keyboard, mouse, and MSPaint. (The rest of the computer may come in handy, too.)
Two hints:
1: The mailing address, phone number, or URL encoded in the image belongs to a well known corporation or government agency.
2: ¥þ.
Deadline is 8:00 pm Monday night (NG time). I'll post the answer then.
*Must have Paypal to claim award.
Blue Raspberry, even though it doesn't exist naturally. I like raspberry flavor, and I like blue candy.
I'm surprised.
Most answers were of the predetermination or defeatist view points. Here's why.
The people that answered "Just A" are either defeatist, or don't/don't want to understand the situation. There is nothing to be lost here by choosing box B. The worst case scenario is that box B would be empty, and you would end up getting nothing but the $1 in box A.
The people that answered "Just B" answered along the lines of those that believe in predetermination, or fate. If B has the $100, then their fate will have been fulfilled. Likewise, if they choose B, and find it's empty, then take the $1 in A, then their fate will be fulfilled, too. Either way, the results were as the being had said--they chose B, they got $100, they chose both, they got the $1.
People that choose both boxes right off the bat are more inclined to believe in free will. Since the being is no longer there, they reason, they should just go ahead and take both boxes and get all that's there--after all, he has no way of changing what's in the boxes. If they take both boxes, and there's nothing in B, it will because the being accurately what decision they took under their own free will.
Seems that a lot of people are going with just B. Interesting.
How would your approach differ if, say instead of $1 and $100, they were $1,000,000 in Box A and $2,000,000 in Box B?
At 6/23/07 04:16 PM, raglfragl wrote:At 6/23/07 04:01 PM, Joshbad wrote: going forward in time is already possibleconfusing to most at first,but i say u maid a excellent point there,lad.
Going backward is IMPOSSIBLE because of "Parodoxis"
Like if you went back in time and killed yourself, you would of never went back in time, but if you never went back in time you didnt kill yourself.
So its impossible for going backward, but the technology for forward already exists.
Actually, he didn't, because it's a non sequitur conclusion. There's numerous ways around the time traveler paradox, such as branched parallel universes.
An omniscient, rich being meets you one day. He knows all about you, past, present and future.
He poses you a challenge.
He sets two boxes in front of you. Box "A" is transparent, and you can see a $1 bill inside. Box "B" is opaque.
"There are two boxes in front of you," he says. "The clear Box 'A' holds $1, as you can see. However, the opaque Box 'B' either holds $100 or nothing."
"I have already seen what you will do. If you take just Box 'B', then it will have $100 inside. If you take both boxes, however, Box 'B' will be empty."
The being then strides off. There is no way he can change what's in the boxes now. Do you take box B, or do you take both boxes? Explain your reasoning.
Theoretically, if you create a continuum loop, you would be able to use time machines that don't exist.
Get stuck somewhere inescapable. Your future self could then appear out of nowhere from the future with a time machine and newfangled escape route. You would then take the time machine, fast forward in time to procure the escape route, then travel back to where you were. Now you are your future self from earlier, you would give your past self that was stuck the time machine, and after they left to go procure the escape route, you could use the escape route you brought with you to escape.
No messy time traveler paradoxes. No need for a time machine, you would just need to be caught in a continuum loop.
At 6/23/07 03:37 PM, HighlyIllogical wrote: Then, generally speaking, the Veep would be a member of the executive branch, and unless he's involved in actions that relate to his power as President of the Senate, he is subject to the rules of the executive branch, I would think.
Why would that be then? What duties does he discharge under the executive branch? He doesn't serve at the pleasure of the President, he is not required to do anything a President says beyond what the President could tell anybody to do.
Is it because of Byrd's age, or is Reid just that soul-crushingly boring?
...says Cheney.
WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney, who has wielded extraordinary executive power as he transformed the image of the vice presidency, is asserting that his office is not actually part of the executive branch.
In a simmering dispute with the National Archives that heated up Thursday, Cheney has long maintained that he does not have to comply with an executive order on safeguarding classified information because, in fact, his office is part of the legislature.
from the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Your thoughts?
Horoscope writer. How hard could it be to churn out a few paragraphs of vague hypotheses every day?
Virgo: You will meet a person of considerable influence today, that can have an effect on your life. Be cautious, yet firm with them.
WE'RE RAISING A NATION OF WUSSES!!
Gah! Between this and Massachusetts taking competition out of sports, to eradicating valedictorians in Florida, we're raising a generation full of people that are going to be shocked when they get into the world and find that it doesn't cater to every one of their whims.
Rape can be considered more severe a crime than assault for several reasons.
First, just touching someone in their genitals without out their permission can be charged as a crime. Less so if you just touch someone in the face, arm, etc. People want their privates to be, well, private.
Second, rape has several detrimental effects that an assault doesn't. It can cause unwanted pregnancy, deadly STD's such as AIDS, and if injury to the area is significant, sterilization.
Third, assault is often provoked, whereas rape is usually less so, and in cases where it is provoked, is not by the fault of the victim. Juries will have more sympathy with someone who beat the snot out of some guy making smart remarks about him than with someone who rapes someone because they thought the victim was attractive.
"9/11 was an inside job!"
"Bush wanted to invade Iraq before he even became President! American troops deserve to get killed for what they're doing!"
"George Bush doesn't care about black people!"
All tin foil hat wearing nut jobs, right? Maybe so. But there's something you should know.
Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the entire GOP machine are behind quite possibly the largest conspiracy in history, one that shadows 9/11, Iraq, and Katrina.
The conspiracy is that the GOP machine does not actively refute, possibly even welcomes conspiracy theories, so as to provide cover for their actual screw-ups and unethical plans and actions.
Why? It's easy to dismiss the few wackos that think 9-11 was caused by government missles made to look like aircraft that were holograms planted by Zionists.
It's easy to dismiss the few wackos that want as many troops killed as possible, so that we "lose" the war in Iraq, ostensibly making the U.S. less gung-ho about invading other countries.
It's easy to dismiss the few wackos that think Bush prayed to God to have Katrina flood New Orleans because he hated black people.
It's not so easy to dismiss the people that want to know why airline security wasn't stepped up before 9/11, why threats weren't listened to, why Osama bin Laden still hasn't been captured.
It's not so easy to dismiss the people that question the intelligence leading up to the war, the misplanning of the war, the failure to provide our troops with enough armor, etc., and the inability to quell the insurgency.
It's not so easy to explain why evacuation plans were not put into place for the people in the Superdome, why federal aid was slow in coming, and why so many funds were misused.
However, the wackjobs give the administration something to stick things to. By sticking and associating people's valid concerns to absurd hypotheses, the administration is allowed to skirt around atrocious mismanagement and stupidity with only minimal accountability.
That's how we end up with someone with a serious, pertinent question about changes that could have been done before 9/11 being labeled as "someone trying to politicize the tragedy of 9/11", how someone with reservations about the Iraq War as "wanting to surrender to the terrorists", and how someone questioning the administration's failure to act during Katrina as "someone seeking political gain from a natural tragedy."
What this means, and what's so ironic about this, laughably ironic, is that the conspiracy theorists are actually co-conspirators themselves! They may not know it, but their insistence on proving the screw-ups that didn't and could never happen, has allowed the administration to get away with the screw-ups that can and do happen! They're helping the administration they so vehemently want to take down.
Your thoughts?
At 6/18/07 08:26 PM, TheVulcan wrote: You have a picture? I have no clue what she'd look like, you're describing a mutant.
I believe I've located a picture.
At 6/18/07 06:54 PM, thedog06 wrote: There's this woman called "giraffe face" at the skating area where she works at the cafe and instructs skating lessons to younger children. She is an odd woman who's been in jail numerous times before for attempted murder yet maintains a job being the hall of fame worker at this skating place and still works here.
Thoughts of the long nose, large faced giraffe woman called Judy?
I would have to question the safety of publicly humiliating an attempted murderer.
At 6/18/07 08:12 PM, FATExkarma wrote: haha, if only more people in this thread had a better sense of humor and didn't get offended all the time.
What's so funny about a 17 year old picking on and arguing with an 8 year old? There isn't anything funny. It's just childish and immature.
At 6/18/07 08:02 PM, Ytangon wrote: I know he was right you idiot. Hasn't anyone even READ the post? I was trying to make him feel stupid and try to make him believe something untrue...
Holy shit people, pay attention...
We all read the post and saw what you were trying to do. In the end, though, the only person who looks stupid is you, for stealing a pool toy from an 8-year old, then getting in an argument over Pearl Harbor.
You're allegedly 17. You need to grow up, and start acting less like an elementary school kid and more like an adult.
At 6/18/07 07:50 PM, Ytangon wrote: I guess I should turn this into an ongoing topic because every time I go to the pool, something stupid happens...
Hmm...what a coincidence, that every time you go somewhere, something stupid happens. I wonder what the common element in all these stupid occasions could be?
At 6/18/07 03:18 PM, dante224 wrote:At 6/17/07 08:44 PM, TheBasics wrote: If you don't like it, just sneak snacks and drinks, I always do it. I'm not going to pay fucking 8 bucks for a cola and 10 bucks for popcorn.... I would rather buy some shit in the grocery store, put it in my pockets/sleeves, and there you go, you just saved yourself tons of cash.i agree completely, and i do, but frankly, at my theater, they started screening in bags and coats, so im kinda screwd on that option
and to the post about "private property", arent houses private property? we cant force people to only eat our food.
Umm..actually, you can. If you tell someone not to do something when they enter your property, yet insist on doing it after you warn them not to, then they're trespassing.
Theater food is no different than any other good. If you're not willing to pay the price for it, then don't buy any.
Besides, the average movie is only about 2 hours. If you can't sit through one without eating, then you have some sort of metabolic problem.
I don't know what's more laughable, this warning, or the fact that somebody actually thought it would be okay to let their child play in the oven, which prompted the warning.
I probably have around 200 books. I do know that I have in my possession 21 road atlases.
At 6/17/07 03:47 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:At 6/17/07 03:44 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:Or not. I guess it just randomly generates a new one every time you click the link, but there will always be two openings in it. I'm sure it's not a matter of difficulty if you can manage to use IllustriousPotentate's technique for figuring them out, but more of an endurance test. See if your eyes can actually tolerate looking at it for long enough to even try out his techniques.At 6/17/07 03:40 AM, He-Who-Never-Was wrote:This is probably going to sound dumb, but, i can't even find the openings on the side where one would start and finish.One at the top right, the other at the bottom right. I'm sure it will be no problem solving it now that you know where they are.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass on this one. Neither me nor my computer can handle it.
I tried resizing the image so I could draw on it, but MS Paint froze up to the point I had to restart the computer.
The spirals and closeness of the lines is just murder on my eyes, especially at 4:00 am. It gave me a headache just looking at it for a few minutes.
What I did see from looking at it, though, is that a lot of the space is dead-end spirals, which would be easy to scout out. If it was printed off, it probably would be easier, in terms of difficulty, than the other maze.
The most difficult mazes are those created by humans, not by computer generators--ones that have long, winding solutions surrounded by lengthy, multi-faceted dead ends, rather than just the little cul-de-sacs and spirals of the mazes in this thread.
At 6/17/07 03:34 AM, Grammar-Nazi wrote: I'll have sex with anyone that can figure that maze out.
No thanks.
At 6/17/07 03:19 AM, He-Who-Never-Was wrote:At 6/17/07 03:18 AM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: Oh, but I am. Find me another one, and I'll solve it, too.So, how many Asians do you have in your sweatshop to figure these kinds of things out?
Just me and Microsoft Paint to draw the solution. If I did it on paper, it might have taken me a couple more hours, just because it takes longer to shade dead ends with a pencil.
At 6/17/07 03:12 AM, PoJoX wrote:At 6/17/07 02:55 AM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: I don't know why it would take you all summer...it only took me an hour.You can't be real.
Here's the solution:
Oh, but I am. Find me another one, and I'll solve it, too.
I don't know why it would take you all summer...it only took me an hour.
Here's the solution:
These large, generated computer mazes aren't really that hard; most of the dead ends can be scouted out.
Some more tips I've learned:
--Size is not an indicator of difficulty. Small mazes can be difficult, large mazes can be easy.
--Work from both start and finish.
--Draw trees. Instead of tediously working back to certain points (and erasing), just draw lines to every major dead end. Eventually, you'll find one that goes to the finish--probably quicker than it took doing it the traditional way.
--Don't assume that the solution will take you directly from start to finish. I've done one before where the solution was a backwards "N" shape. It went down, up-right, then down again to the finish.
--Scout out dead ends. If you go down a dead end, instead of erasing, shade the dead end in. It visually eliminates that part of the maze.
