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Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:36 pm
by exfret
Hmmm... I don't know how to reply to that... It seems like something that'd be (h)ard to reply to.

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:40 pm
by A Random Player
Today, it is 2013. Tomorrow, it will be 2014. If this rate of year passage sustains, by next year it could be the year 2379.

(https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/4 ... 9525660674)

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:58 pm
by exfret
Of course, that is obviously wrong. He should have said, "By late next month," or something like that. First of all, next year is 2014, so he contradicts himself by saying that it is going to be 2014 then that it is going to be 2379, second of all, you can't have dozens of years pass by 'next year', because only one year can ever possibly pass by 'next year'. Third of all, he didn't specify his frame of reference.

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:54 pm
by robly18
exfret wrote:Of course, that is obviously wrong. He should have said, "By late next month," or something like that. First of all, next year is 2014, so he contradicts himself by saying that it is going to be 2014 then that it is going to be 2379, second of all, you can't have dozens of years pass by 'next year', because only one year can ever possibly pass by 'next year'. Third of all, he didn't specify his frame of reference.
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Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:59 pm
by exfret
I've already seen that. (Yet another reason I decided to criticize dinnerbone's tweet.

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:00 pm
by A Random Player
robly18 wrote:
exfret wrote:Of course, that is obviously wrong. He should have said, "By late next month," or something like that. First of all, next year is 2014, so he contradicts himself by saying that it is going to be 2014 then that it is going to be 2379, second of all, you can't have dozens of years pass by 'next year', because only one year can ever possibly pass by 'next year'. Third of all, he didn't specify his frame of reference.
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Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:07 pm
by exfret
The number of people in the world is a straight line? Really?

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:08 pm
by robly18
Well, there haven't been any major wars or baby booms in the past few decades, so yes, it is a straight line.

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:09 pm
by exfret
I have 10 out of 17 posts in this thread...

Well, 11 out of 18 now.

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:36 am
by testtubegames
A Random Player wrote:...Image
Oh xkcd, how I love thee