Cariyaga
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While cool, it was pointed out recently in-story how rare and valuable techniques that would let you survive that would be.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
Emstar
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Meh.
Sword made out of forcewall magic is already Save or Die and would be really good at blocking things coming at you head on.
Lightsaber sound effects would be a plus....
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[X] The XOR Initiative:
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'yes' is still a valid answer if one but not both of the options are correct.
"Is this mushroom edible, xor do we need to go forage some more?"
"Yes."
In fact, this structure only makes 'yes' an even more definitively correct answer. After all, if exactly one side of the logical operator is true (as is the case in these structures), then xor will output true no matter which one it is.
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I'm not a logician, mathematician, or computer scientist, Spock, I'm a chemist damnit!
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The problem here is structural on a different level. By presenting an option and its logical inverse, you have already given faflec the tools that he needs. Or, xor, separate questions in two sentences, none of that will stop a blanket 'yes' from being technically correct.
Instead, the secret to halting the machinations of the faflec is to not ask the logical inverse of a question right after asking the question. Behold!
Instead of:
"Is this mushroom edible, or do we need to go forage some more?", or:
"Is this mushroom edible, xor do we need to go forage some more?", or:
"Is this mushroom edible? Do we need to go forage some more?", use:
"Is this mushroom edible? If not, we'll need to go forage some more."
Only the last structure holds within itself immunity from the tautological yes, the power to surpass pedantry!
Cariyaga
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Yeah, but it can't surpass Maybe.
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I mean, you could also still say yes. Or no. But the level of the information in the answer is now easy to see instead of hidden under the 'or' tautology trap.
Emstar
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There are times when folks do in fact invoke Fafec's Injunction without it being appropriate to answer "Yes." to the question at hand. I vaguely recall instances where I've asked "A or B?" where very clearly A!= ~B, but it was still dropped anyways. Tsk tsk.
Raxner
The most dangerous man in an empty room
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Why? I genuinely have no idea what part of this update induces sadness.
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The part where the interrupt and sudden plot events mean we're further held back from our immediate next plans of discussing our next trip to Mountain on the way home from Mist. Oneiros has been pushing for the mountain talk for a long time and has been itching to be done with this arc so that we can get started on it, so a big plotty interrupt is disappointing for her.
Raxner
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Ah. Thanks for the explanation.
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They eat villages?!
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They shouldn't, but I didn't know that at the time so they did.
I should probably fix it. What should they be calling themselves, or did they just happen to choose the same thing that Hashirama chose later?
"Predate" is the opposite of "postdate" and it means "comes previous to". It's pronounced "pree-date" as opposed to "preh-date", which is to prey on.
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Yes, but I couldn't resist. They're spelled the same way and the sentence was grammatically correct with either reading, and this one was a lot more fun.
Emstar
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I've no idea why you find so much joy in the terms of your sentence being spelled out in a grammatically correct fashion, but maybe you should resist temptation next time.
The Omnikage's office is very forgiving... but one can go too far. Watch yourself, citizen.
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I've always been confused about this image. Why is that sword brown, who is putting it in the kid's mouth and why, and why is there a rainbow coming out of it?
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It's Rukia from Bleach doing a very emphatic spittake, IIRC at the suggestion that she is dating the series protagonist. You can see her holding the carton of chocolate milk.
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Interlude: Yet Another Shift
Kagome's Reality Journal, Supplemental
Stinking reality has changed itself again. The whole time we were living with those stinking inbred regressive stinkers in Tea they always referred to their little mudhole as 'Isan', instead of calling it 'The Village Hidden in the Mountain' the way they did in original reality.
*sigh*
I'm going to have to practice saying it this way or everyone is going to think I'm a freak. Can't have that. And I know it's going to come up, since Hazō wants to find more scrolls for the family, and also wants a political base to help Jiraiya-stinker and whatever.
Isan.
Isan.
It's always been called 'Isan'. There was never a 'Village Hidden in the Mountain'. Remember that, Kagome.
In fairness, it does make more sense. They were established three hundred years before Senju invented the village system, so why would they have been called 'the Village Hidden in the..."? Although, honestly, those are really stupid names. I mean, the biggest road in the Land of Fire is the one that leads up to the south gate of Leaf. How is that Hidden? They should call it 'The Village Not-Hidden in Plain Sight, You Morons'.
EDIT: Holy hopping hollyberries! ANOTHER ONE? It's only been a few minutes! A hundred years of history just disappeared -- now the stinking "Yes, This One Actually Was Hidden" village was founded two hundred years before Senju, not three hundred! All of Honda's work on mechanical automatons, gone! All the sealing theory from the time, gone! Akabane's Interconnector seal doesn't even work now -- when I tried to scribe it, it just fizzled. Reality is disintegrating!
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This ninja'd in:
??? You can see the spine of the blade -- the center, which is the thickest part and then slopes down to the edges. (In a blade without a fuller, that is.) Vertically, the blade is perfectly symmetric around the spine, and linearly it's rounded from forte to foible instead of linear. Plus, there's no diffusion like you'd expect from fluid spread. That's a perfectly laminar spittake that spreads out as it travels -- how is that possible under realistic fluid dynamics???
...Well, whatever. Your version is much nicer than mine.
??? You can see the spine of the blade -- the center, which is the thickest part and then slopes down to the edges. (In a blade without a fuller, that is.) Vertically, the blade is perfectly symmetric around the spine, and linearly it's rounded from forte to foible instead of linear. Plus, there's no diffusion like you'd expect from fluid spread. That's a perfectly laminar spittake that spreads out as it travels -- how is that possible under realistic fluid dynamics???
...Well, whatever. Your version is much nicer than mine.
Emstar
The Shining One
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