The Race to Insanity and Beyond!

[bearclaw]

Will said:
What, no comments on the parody? I thought it was hilarious. Oh well.

I thought it was hilarious. Jar Jar getting hit with dozens of darts. Brilliant.

[Will]

TerranC said:
If you must know, I thought it was severely stupid, but that's just me.

Of course it's severely stupid. That's why it's so funny!

The death of Jar Jar. The extremely whiny/annoying Anakin. Palpatine, "I'm announcing you all... are... morons!". The muppets. EPT-1138 (in reference to THX-1138). The fake drawing causing Anakin to turn. Mace Windu being closer to Shaft than a Jedi. Obi-wan's drinking. The names for the "Death Star". "I am your baby's daddy!".

Pure genius. It's hard to imagine Episode III being any worse, and because it is the embodiment of fans' worst nightmares, it automatically becomes funny.

[David E. Gervais]

I liked the parody very much, I especially liked the broken lightsaber 'blooper' at the end. Now that was funny.

Cheers!

[David E. Gervais]

I found this Eerie Psychic Thingy It's kind of neat. Try it you'll see what I mean.

Cheers!

[Jack Simth]

David E. Gervais said:
I found this Eerie Psychic Thingy It's kind of neat. Try it you'll see what I mean.

Cheers!

It's a math trick; every multiple of 9 (except 0, but it specifies a two digit number, so that won't happen, will it?) is the same randomly assigned symbol. It has you take a number in range, and subtract the sum of it's digits from it - the result? A multiple of 9 (unless you pick something under 10, anyway; and even then, 0 is technically a multiple of 9 - but it's not one the program flags - it would be too obvious). Consider: 99: 9+9 = 18; 99-18 = 81 = 9x9. 98: 9+8 = 17; 98-17 = 81 = 9x9. Dropping the original number by 1 will result in the same 81 until you drop below 90 - at which point, it goes to the next multiple of 9 down - 89: 8+9 = 17; 89 - 17 = 72 = 9x8. The pattern continues; from 79 to 70 you get 63 (9x7); from 69 to 60 you get 54 (9x6); from 59 to 50 you get 45 (9x5), et cetera, et cetera.

[Daynarr]

Ok, this is creepy.

How does it know what symbol is correct one if there is NO input from me? Regardless of the fact that I choose digits in range, I still get different symbol each try and it guesses it correctly without any input. Creepy I tell you.

[geoschmo]

Oh wow, that is really clever. Even with the explanation Jack gave it kind of freaked me out at first like it did Daynar.

The real reason this works so well is that it changes the symbols for the mutiples of nine. Every final number is a multiple of nine, and the symbols for the multiples of nine are all the same each turn, so it can't be wrong no matter what number you pick, unless you subtract incorrectly (Which I did a couple times. ). But the "multiples of nine" symbol changes from turn to turn, so it's not so obvious that it's always a multiple of nine you are getting.

If it didn't change teh symbols you'd catch on when you kept getting the same sybol from turn to turn. And if you tried this trick just using the numbers your subconcious would pick up the pattern pretty quick that the answer is always a multiple of nine. There are so many symbols you have to pay attention to realize they are changing from turn to turn.

Very clever.

[Alneyan]

TerranC said:
Alright! Promotion! I'm a brigadier general, whatever that is!

As a fellow brigadier general, let me congratulate you. There are so few of us on active duty, I am glad you are here. You are merely a general in charge of a brigade, composed of at least two regiments. In other words, your task will be to boss around everybody of a lower rank than yourself: such is the pleasure of having "general" in your title.

A shame we cannot pull authority on someone on the boards though. What good are promotions for if you do not get privileges in the process? *Goes away grumbling to the officers mess* Or to the relocated mess, as proximity with the Cantina was found to have... unfortunate side effects.

[Daynarr]

geoschmo said:
Oh wow, that is really clever. Even with the explanation Jack gave it kind of freaked me out at first like it did Daynar.

The real reason this works so well is that it changes the symbols for the mutiples of nine. Every final number is a multiple of nine, and the symbols for the multiples of nine are all the same each turn, so it can't be wrong no matter what number you pick, unless you subtract incorrectly (Which I did a couple times. ). But the "multiples of nine" symbol changes from turn to turn, so it's not so obvious that it's always a multiple of nine you are getting.

If it didn't change teh symbols you'd catch on when you kept getting the same sybol from turn to turn. And if you tried this trick just using the numbers your subconcious would pick up the pattern pretty quick that the answer is always a multiple of nine. There are so many symbols you have to pay attention to realize they are changing from turn to turn.

Very clever.

Ok, now I get it.
Man, I was really freaked for a moment there.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I can read your miiiinnnnnd...All I need is electrodes, a supercomputer, about 10-20 years and unlimited funding.