521 - Matters Of Dimension: Other, Physical, and Vast

(Referring to a rather loud conversation over Jif vs another’s memory of Jiffy peanut butter – Mr. Silver)

[10:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"Mandela effect"

[10:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I have been having a lot more Deja Vu recently

[10:18 AM] 

Actually...

Although I was convinced long ago about the perceivable universe being not quite right since I was little...

And eventually decided on the practical inevitability of a multiverse and repeating and divergent timelines...

And ultimately started to suspect a simulation on top of all that to explain some things...

I've – as you've seen/read – become pretty sure of mutability and alterations to reality happening.

Whether reprogramming is involved, or actual instability and shifting between versions. 

And

I hit a BIG one the other day with Silver Junior.

He's become a chess fiend.

I taught him to play, and he eventually pursued online play vs bots and real people, from novices to masters.

He's becoming good at it.

He has beaten me when I'm fooling around.

The other day he pulled a move that was not legal, and I told him so.

"Yes it is.  Has a weird name.  Um."

"Well...it's pawns.  Are you saying it's some variant of en passant?  Because it doesn't work like that."

"Yes it does." 

"No, it absolutely doesn't.  I've been playing since I was about 5.  Hundreds of games.  I was in 2 chess clubs.  In 40+ years I've not seen it done like that." 

"I saw it online."

"Look it up, please."

He did

It was correct.

The odds that I did not know the rule and the play are precisely zero.

"Clever... P.O.G."

"What?"

"The universe has been changed.  It shifted or was altered.  This rule was not real before."

"Oh.  Cool."

So I showed him what it used to do and we kept playing.

(The End)

[10:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Actually, i go through periods of de ja vu

[10:36 AM] 

"I have this weird feeling of deja vu that I've had deja vu about having deja vu about this."

[10:37 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

I'm a Deja vu sensitive

What if we find out that stuff like this has changed because of normal fluctuations in dimensions

[10:51 AM] 

Like error corrections?

How do you prove it?

[10:51 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

like if it did NOT do this, everything would go out of existence

[10:51 AM] 

Well...that would prove it to anything that survived...which would be nothing.

[10:51 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I still like the theory of gravity being varying levels of static cling

It's hard to prove lots of different things

What if dark matter is actually dimensional matter

[10:55 AM] 

...other... other-dimensional matter...

I'm sitting on a chair made of dimensional matter

[10:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Right

Who got Tom started on the Mandela effect anyway?

[11:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

They were talking about peanut butter

[11:25 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

oh

Then in that case its Jiffy

Which does exist

I refuse to believe it never did

lol

[10:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_St%C3%B6rtebeker

[10:25 AM] 

Wow...that's a really complex “recreation of skull”.  I wonder what he looked like with hair and skin and all on top of that.

[10:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

"The most famous retarded pirate"

[10:26 AM] 

Haha

"Best known for his catchphrase, motto, and battle cry: 'Pi-rate!'."

[10:28 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Looks like a Muppet

Jim Henson productions presents: “The Special Pirate”

[10:28 AM] 

I like the cactus jacket.  Too bad it's not him.

"A memorial to him in statue form is in Hamburg -  pictured here - titled 'Stortebeker Hiding His Treasure in Front of the Girls'."

[10:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Nothing funnier to a king than a dip in a bristly sweater

Kings (and possibly everyone?) had really juvenile senses of humor back then

[10:35 AM] 

I'm sure their sense of what was sophisticated was different, but that sense of humor still exists now

(King) "Ye gods! Another pair of slapstick clowns? Let's have something decent! Something sophisticated and mature!  It's the 15th century in the name of Christ!  Get those fools off and bring out a proper punster!"

[9:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I watched all the “Rocky”s

I had never really sat through even the first one from beginning to end, but of course even if you've never seen it.. you've seen it

Well i only got to 4. I'm not gonna bother with Rocky 5

They're progressively cheesier and cheesier (and the first one starts out pretty cheesy too) but they're pretty good. 

The montages are the best. 

I like that he's always pretty beaten down and nothing good happens to him in the end. Loses his money. Brain damaged.  Loses his money again. Etc.

Real boxers seem like that.  There's just never a happy ending in boxing.

A happy ending in boxing is a somewhat normal life into a relatively advanced age.

But they're always trying to make a comeback either for monetary reasons and/or because they're kind of addicted to the competition and being on top

[9:29 AM] 

...and because they're brain damaged...

[9:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[9:33 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Lots of brain damage, some resulting in loss of life

Could do a medicine commercial with boxing

“You ma experience incontinence, dizzy spells , over al malaysia. Some long term effects may occur such as , speech slurring, yelling Adrian at inaproriate times.”

[9:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Well, you spelled Malaysia right, but it was the wrong word completely

[9:38 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Malaise

[9:38 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"dizzy spells sweep malaysia"

[9:38 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

[10:01 AM] 

Honestly I thought he was intentionally speaking “boxer”.

[12:56 PM] 

"Star Trek: the Motion Picture" watched and enjoyed as reported.

Last night's film was "Funny Farm"

Also fun.

Mrs. Silver and I hadn't seen it in so long we could only remembered the vaguest bits.

[1:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The first Star Trek had a massive budget but many didn't like it... But i did

It did drag a bit.  They really went all out on the effects

[1:04 PM] 

I liked it a lot.  I explained some of the padding to Silver Junior.

"This dramatic and endless scene is them pandering to the fans, who had been waiting for this movie for 10 years." 

"Oohhhhh."

[1:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The one where they're going into the V'Ger thing, and it just never ends?

[1:08 PM] 

No. The two endless hours of flying around the Enterprise in dry dock

[1:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

oh okay

[1:09 PM] 

It also made the audience – still impressed by the huge size of a starship (zow!) – appreciate the long flyover of V'Ger and understand how incredibly tiny the Enterprise was by comparison.

You can SAY it's big... Spock can talk units of measurement all day... But if you don't SHOW how freakin' tremendous it is, it loses impact.

(Sulu) "Uh...Admiral?  We're STILL flying over the front part of it."

(Kirk) "What?  It's been like 4 minutes."

"Aye, Admiral."

"Fuuuuuck..."

I had to pause it when Silver Junior asked "Wait, what did Sulu say just then?"

"Kirk wanted a widescreen view of the ship and asked Sulu to reduce the magnification by 4x.  Sulu replied that they were already 2 factors further zoomed out than that."

[1:12 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

[1:12 PM] 

"GEEZE!"

"Yeah.  Hehe.  I LOVE this movie."

Without the energy field included, its not as big as the Death Star...

But it could effortlessly eat both Death Stars before the Empire even figured out what was in there.

The energy field around it was changed after it came out from “82 Astronomical Units” to 2 AUs in the video...merely the span of distance from the Sun to something like halfway between Mars and Jupiter...

82 would be eating the Oort Cloud, I believe.

They didn't put an explanation on producing a "12th Power" energy field like that, but did say it would take 1000s of starships to do it for a little bit.

V'Ger just turned it off when getting close to Earth.

[1:35 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The TOS episode that was based on is one of my favorites

[1:42 PM] 

One with NOMAD?

Good one

[1:54 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

no… “The Changeling”

Oh, yeah, Nomad is the probe.

[2:02 PM] 

If it was a little less fixated on “cleaning”, NOMAD could have gone on to great things.

Inspired by this, I've been a slob since childhood.  ;)

[12:56 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

uh well yes they would

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5259125/Orang-utans-use-medicinal-plants-create-ointment.html

But how do we know it's for aching limbs ?

Also how do we know it does not have major side effects? lol

[1:01 PM] 

"It also makes your mouth numb as heck"

"The Adventures of Randy Tang - Jungle Pharmacist!"

(bell rings on tree.  Concerned woman climbs onto branch) 

"Ook?" 

"Oh it's just awful, Mr. Tang.  Just LOOK at this rash!"

"Ook!"

"I tried that."

"Ook."

520 - Surviving By Artificial Tooth, Claw, And Body

[8:50 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

so i found out there are two kinds of Lemings

Norwegian ones will fight you not run away.

[8:51 AM] 

https://gamefabrique.com/storage/screenshots/genesis/lemmings-1-07.png

And those

[8:52 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i think the whole lemmings following each other to their death was a myth

[8:52 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

well one species does run away

and tries to hide

[8:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

someone created a nature documentary and like, flung them off a cliff or something

the game was badass, i remember playing it for hours

[8:55 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lemmings fluctuate population greatly.

[9:05 AM] 

Disney

Exposed for throwing the lemmings

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yep that was it

i think they even built a special catapult for it

and then just filmed from below

[9:07 AM] 

Hadn't heard the mechanical element before

Disney's nature shows were decidedly pre- "no animals were harmed in the making of this film"

Certain scenes were either a miracle of lucky film-making...

Or beasts thrust together to see what happened.

[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

even modern day nature docs seem faked or staged

but harmless to the animals

I think a lot of it is clever editing to make certain encounters seem real when they're not

"uh oh! here comes a mongoose. Mr. snake better be on the lookout." [never see both animals in the same shot]

[9:12 AM] 

"Here's an elk minding its own business on what isn't a well-lit stage.  GOSH!  A mountain lion just kinda scrambled into the scene like escaping from a box!  We're in luck that its perfectly framed!" 

"That big cat sure looks like it hasn't eaten in a week."

[9:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Or the well-lit shots of some animal's burrow that's deep underground

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Suddenly the MGM lion shows up

[9:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

[David Attenborough voice] Along one of the tributaries of the Congo river, a male silverback gorilla surveys his territory [clearly footage of 1933 stop-motion King Kong]

[9:33 AM] 

heh

[12:08 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Tony just told me i piss him off real bad

i don't actually think its hate, but im sure i could've irked him

Have you ever talked to him Mr. Silver?

he likes to tell everyone to not get married or just prepare for divorce

[12:11 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

you mean like Mark?

pretty much any man that has had a divorce will give that advice

[12:13 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Mark just told me all about how his kid hates his guts and i had nothing to say and i just felt bad

[12:17 PM] 

Never did get the story on Mark's kid.  It was great when it all began. 

[12:17 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

they met recently for the first time in maybe years?

she basically inherited all Mark's problems and all her mom's problems so she's screwed

[12:19 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

how old is she now?  sounds like his wife is milking her

him

[12:19 PM] 

...that was disturbing either way

[12:22 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Mark said some stuff like his wife turned her against him

[12:23 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

yea

[12:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

18ish

[12:24 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

My mother did not turn either of us against my father

she tried to help him even after divorcing him

paid off the house

did not ask for anything

[12:24 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i hate parents who brainwash their kids, thats bullshit

[12:26 PM] 

(Luke in hand-less agony in Cloud City) "Well what about my mom?!?"

(Vader...shifts uncomfortably) "...Uhhhhh."

"What!?  Tell me!"

"Uhhhh...she was a bitch and abandoned you?  Is this important?  I don't want this to interfere with the whole Rule the Galaxy thing."

"It's not true!  I can tell!  It's impossible!"

"Okay...okay!  I might have…maybe...killed her at a distance with The Force, but-"

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!"

[12:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Brosnan was the mix James Bond

like he was a lot of all of the ones before him

[1:48 PM] 

(blinks)

[1:49 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Got the ladies man side, fight ability, speed boats, cars.

[1:49 PM] 

Yes. Technically it was because he was the one that came after all the others...hehe

[1:49 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

right

i'm just saying they kinda mixed everything they had done into his films

[1:49 PM] 

Craig is actually the closest

Like everything

Attitudes, habits, a living F-up, ruthless

[1:52 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Chauvinist

In Bond world, every innocuous household device can release a spray or gas that will knock someone out

I'd like just once for there to be complications

Like every time Bond or someone clocks someone on their head with his pistol to just knock them out

I wonder how many people he gave permanent brain injuries to

[2:25 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Henchman Insurance

Villain doctor: “You have had 37 concussions this month. We can no longer cover you.”

[2:25 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

Imagine giving Jaws dental exams

[2:27 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

That claw guy

“whole arm coverage”

[2:28 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

"sorry but this claw looks like a pre-existing condition."

[2:31 PM] 

(Prosthesis consultant at hospital) "We have a variety of prosthetic styles for you to choose from...anywhere from realistic look to practical manipulations."

"Anything I can cut, smash and clip through metal with unnatural strength?"

"Errr....well...this one has a hook on it you could sharpen."

[2:37 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

"The hydraulic technology just isn't there yet"

Like with Jaws - it wouldn't make a difference what your teeth were made out of; you'd still be limited by jaw strength

[2:44 PM] 

I bite the inside of my mouth enough as it is

[2:47 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Imagine how much silverware you'd go through...or worse yet severing your tongue

[3:25 PM] 

(dentist to Jaws...holds up rope) "Been flossing?"

[3:25 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

i think he even bit through a steel cable once

[3:29 PM] 

Yes...Moonraker

Bit through a gondola line

[3:25 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I'm wondering how he stood wearing the prosthetic for the film

[3:33 PM]

“Kiel stated the props were uncomfortable for him and he could only wear them for less than one minute before gagging.[1][3 “

That movie has my favorite summation of a villain in all the Bond movies...same gondola scene

(Dr. Goodhead) "Friend of yours?"

(Bond) "His name's Jaws - he kills people."

[12:43 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

So Trystan asked to use my phone to call his mom and he couldn't find her name in the contacts "Oh yeah...I have it under 'Fire-Headed Succubus'."

[12:43 PM] 

LOL

[2:17 PM] 

Star Trek paste.  Running an original series marathon today.  Didn't recognize an episode before I had to come up from break.

--

[1:42 PM]  Edward: 

I looked it up.  It was "Metamorphosis".

[1:43 PM] 

Thanks!

Ahhh...yes

Energy companion finally gets Zephram Cockhran with an animated dead body

(shudders)

(Exterior, Starship Enterprise - Kirk voiceover) 

"Captain's Log - Addendum:  Ewwwwwwww!  What a day!  When I signed up for this 'strange new life' mission thing...well...I never dreamed of cases like this freaky shit."

[1:54 PM]  Edward: 

Ha! Yeah, that was it--a companion for somebody.

[1:57 PM] 

Love the old episodes

Not sure how Kirk kept his job.

"Your society has been stable for 10,000 years.  Everything works.  But I don't like it, so we're gonna blow it up and leave.  I assume you'll be happier."

"Lets get outta here.  Warp factor 5.  Ohura, send a message to Starfleet that I'm putting this place on a class 4 quarantine to 'protect the society' so no one will come and ask any questions about what happened today."

[2:13 PM]  Edward: 

I like how he could always talk computers into blowing themselves up.

[2:14 PM] 

Hehe! Yes!