• SSTF
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    5912 hours ago

    I have observed that “very clever” people on the internet have a tendency to disregard solutions that are only partial, even if there is little to no downside to them.

    • TheTechnician27
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      3412 hours ago

      “Oh yeah? Why should I be wearing a seatbelt in a car when it won’t even save me if we crash head-on into a semi truck at 100 kph?”

      • @[email protected]
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        67 hours ago

        I skydive and people ask why a lot of us wear helmets since it’s not saving you if you hit the ground. The plane or other people can hurt you plenty.

        • TheTechnician27
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          27 hours ago

          Correct me if I’m wrong too, but if you’re coming in on a parachute and somehow hit your head during the landing, that could hurt a lot, right?

          • @[email protected]
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            17 hours ago

            If you tumble then yes, it can help there too. It’s usually banging it on exit or turbulence or somebody coming in a little hot to a formation that I’m happy I have it. Pretty sure if you hit the rear wing even with a helmet that’s gonna cause you some issues though.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 hours ago

        These days it might actually save you. Cars have gotten stupid safe in the last decade or so. I’ve seen a car smashed between two semis and the driver only had minor injuries (after they cut them out).

        Crumpel zones ftw!

      • @[email protected]
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        1112 hours ago

        So you don’t get launched out the window and then crushed by your own car for the non-semi accidents.

    • MudMan
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      2212 hours ago

      Not even partial in this case. I mean, the “turbulence sending you into the ceiling” event is fully resolved here.

      Anyway, just here looking for the common sense pedantic clarification, found it, so now here just to say good job.

    • @[email protected]
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      1111 hours ago

      If you play the SNES version of Monopoly, you can play against CPU opponents. Mind you, this is artificial intelligence coded in 1992, on a cartridge with about 16mb of storage space for the entire game. Only a fraction of that is dedicated to the AI decision process.

      If you propose a trade, I’ll give CPU $5 in exchange for $0, the CPU will respond with NO DEAL!!!

      But if you propose "I’ll give you $100 in exchange for $0, the CPU replies “IT’S A DEAL!!!”

      The CPU was holding out for a bigger handout!

      Unrelated, but if you hold the B button, and don’t release, you’ll keep looping the shaking the dice animation. They use digital photo scans of a real hand/arm…if it were disembodied. And the animation looks like he’s just jacking off.

      • @[email protected]
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        10 hours ago

        You weren’t kidding.

        Edit: I see now you said SNES, can’t find a good animation of that one though. But I can see in the screenshots that it’s a pseudo-mocap human hand and yeah, that would be worse.

        • @[email protected]
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          37 hours ago

          Old-school Monopoly jerkoff is how I discovered we can upload gifs now w/o using third-party hosters.

          There’s something to that animation…


          SNES is worse huh?:

      • @[email protected]
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        511 hours ago

        Wow, talking about NES Monopoly on a post about airplane seatbelts.

        I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on NES Monopoly because I used to play the game and wanted to see if I held the B button. Probably did, but I’m not sure.

        Anyway, the world record speedrun of Monopoly takes advantage of the trade mechanics. Trade the CPU mortgaged properties for all of their money and they’ll lose the game because you have to pay a 10% fee on any properties traded that were mortgaged. And if you take all their money in the trade they don’t have any to pay the penalty.

    • @[email protected]
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      312 hours ago

      I often see that in political arguments. There’s much to be said about wasting political capital on a poor and partial solution, but as you said, people bitch even if there’s no real downside.