There's 512 possible rules to customize (plus the starting state and whether or not the sides loop), so most of these come at least from a starting point of randomly generating the ruleset. The large majority of them end up looking almost completely chaotic, but every once in a while there's a very interesting result.
A merchant from Rome was traveling through the woods many years ago, when he came across a weary looking old man. He asks the old man, "Why do you travel through the wilderness alone?"
The old man days "I have been wandering, looking for my son."
The merchant asks the old man to describe his son and he says "Well, he's not truly my son by blood, but was given to me by a miracle. All his life he's wrestled against the evil and temptation of the world. He has been mistreated and persecuted, betrayed by those he thought were his friends and even killed, only to come back to life."
The merchant is astounded, and finally asks "sir, is it the case that you're a carpenter?"
The old man says that he is, so the merchant says "I believe I know of your son."
The old man says "you've heard of Pinocchio?!"
You have to say why or I won't give you a power
Just curious as a general, open topic: Who here has attempted to make a version of their OC detached from the One Piece setting? Was there any unusual difficulties there, or anything you realized you needed to change, add or remove?
For those who are unfamiliar with Dorohedoro:
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All magic users in the setting have powers in the form of magical smoke, which they produce inside their bodies and (usually) shoot out from their fingertips. The effect, quantity and potency of smoke varies from individual to individual. Smoke can often be stored up to be used at other times or by other individuals.
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Magic users also all wear different masks, which can be personally made, purchased or be part of a uniform.
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Tell me what you'd want your mask to look like, and I'll tell you what kind of smoke you have.
Two people, who I'll call Aaron and Bianca, are playing a game I'll just call the "Goal Game". The rules are simple:
Each player individually selects a "Goal" before the game begins. The Goal can be any event that the player can state.
The game begins at the same time for both players.
If a player's Goal event comes to pass once the game has been, then that player wins. If it becomes impossible for the Goal event to take place, then that player loses.
The game continues until every player has either won or lost.
For this game, Aaron sets his Goal as "Bianca will lose this game", hoping that he will then be the sole winner. However, when the two are ready to begin, Bianca announces that her Goal is "Aaron will lose this game".
With those two Goals in competition, what is the outcome of the game?
For each of the pairs of abilities, select one for yourself.
Choice #1:
A - Indestructible fingernails, and the ability to control their length (up to four centimeters) and sharpness
B - Indestructible teeth and 10x regular jaw strength
Choice #2:
C - Skin as impenetrable as kevlar, and and to withstand extreme cold and heat
D - Bones as hard as steel, which can heal fractures in hours on their own
Choice #3:
E - 10x regular muscular strength and durability across your body
F - 10x regular endurance and metabolic efficiency
Choice #4:
G- Resistance to all infectious diseases and poisons
H - 60x rate of healing from non-lethal injuries, and ability to regenerate lost body parts
Choice #5:
I - Sensory sensitivity and acuity at 10x the human average, and the ability to selectively suppress any of your senses when desired
J - Ability to perceive wavelengths of light and sound far outside of the human range, as well as electromagnetic fields and chemical signals used by other plants and animals to communicate
Choice #6:
K - Perfect recall, with the ability to "seal away" memories at will if you don't want to recall them and recover them again when you choose.
L - 20x rate of acquiring skills through practice and observation
Choice #7:
M - Gradual (over the course of days) ability to change your external appearance within human limits
N - Fluent ability to understand, speak, read and write the 6000 most commonly used human languages
Choice #8:
O - Exceptional social skills and perception of social cues, including the ability to distinguish lies and deception
P - Instinctual ability to predict danger and the best way to protect yourself and others
I feel like I'm constantly having to figure out weird unintuitive steps to do relatively simple tasks, while trying not to accidentally mess things up without even realizing.
Does an official guide for this software even exist?
Who was the sick bastard that decided Dirty Work and Beast of Burden should play a dozen times a day, every day? I'm starting to think I really *am* a fool to do their dirty work, and my back and my feet *are* hurting!
This is a pretty pointless post to make, I just wanted to get some of this off my chest:
When I ask "who are you picking up a prescription for?" and they just say "me." and look at me like I'm an idiot for asking, as if I should be able to read their minds and have their name and birth date at the top of my memory.
When I try to direct them to the Drop-Off window to get something (usually a prescription hold) resolved and they ask me why I can't just "do it here". Do I have to explain that this is just a cash register which cannot pull up your insurance history, and that there are a dozen people waiting in line behind you right now, for you to take ten steps to your left?
When they wander away from the register while I'm getting their prescription. I feel like it's always men between the ages of 30 and 50 who do this, for whatever reason, and they'll do it if it takes any longer than sixty seconds.
When I get all the way through a transaction, hand them their bag and receipt, and then they ask if I can also ring them up for something (or more often, a dozen different things) from the front store. A more understandable version of this is when they wait until the very end to ask to pick up someone else's prescription, since I don't blame everyone for not knowing you can pick up for multiple patients at once, but it's still annoying at the time.
Too many things to count at the drive-thru, but the obvious ones that come to mind are them pulling up with their car five feet away from the window, talking on speaker phone with a lit cigarette. Sadly it's not usually all three of those things at once, because at least the distance would help cancel out the cigarette smoke.
For the record, at work I do my best to be as polite and helpful as possible with the customers, and I can understand how being there can be very frustrating for them at times (particularly when we're backed up and we don't have an expected prescription ready), but every day it seems like I have to deal with people who are just thoughtlessly inconsiderate.
I've been a pharmacy tech at CVS for about two months now and I'm already getting really burnt out from being short staffed every single day and having crazy hours on my schedule. I've been thinking about trying to find a job at a pharmacy somewhere like a supermarket, but I'm wondering if it's really that different. Has anyone worked in different places that can compare? At this point I don't know if I'd mind the pay being a bit lower, if that's even possible with my current wages.
There's a simple game where you start with $10 and flip a coin.
If you land on Tails, you lose one dollar.
If you land on Heads, you double whatever money you have left.
The game ends when you have no money left.
The probability of losing the game is obviously not zero, since there is an approximately 0.1% chance of getting ten Tails in a row and losing immediately, but if you play forever, is it inevitable that the game will eventually end?
Maybe this isn't strictly a paradox, but I've asked a version of this question to people a lot more educated in mathematics than myself and they weren't able to agree on an answer.
This is a slight (or maybe not slight) variant of the Newcomb Paradox that came up in a discussion with some of my friends.
As usual, there are two boxes in the room. One of which (box A) always has one thousand dollars, and the other of which (box B) may or may not have one million dollars. The contents of box B are determined by a computer before you enter.
Instead of being a perfect overall predictor, the computer is a perfect lie detector. When a human answers a yes-or-no question to it, the computer can tell with absolute certainty whether or not they are intentionally lying.
Before you enter the room with the two boxes, the computer asks you whether you will take only the contents of box B and leave box A behind, and you must answer yes. If it detects that you're telling the truth, it will put the million dollars into box B. If it detects that you're lying, it will leave box B empty. You are fully aware of the parameters of the experiment when it asks you this.
I have noticed that it was much more common for people to take the one-box stance in this version, even for those who were two-boxers with the standard form of the paradox. This is interesting to me because it really seems to me like (assuming you can accept the premise of a computer that can read your brain to determine your honesty or intentions in the first place) there is no significant difference between the two scenarios. In both cases, the computer sets the contents of the boxes before you enter and are able to actually make your choice, and it cannot change them afterward.
Full disclosure: I am a one-boxer in the original version as well, so I didn't really have the perspective to see why this might change someone's mind.
Does this version of it change anyone's stance here? Whether it does or not, is there some fundamental difference between the two versions of the thought experiment that I'm overlooking?