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Post by Daedalus on Oct 26, 2015 7:01:11 GMT
Women in STEM!  I just can't deal with how cute Bunny-Boy is being in this chapter. Both in his actions (bringing a game to make his friend happy and show something about his new life) and physically (he kept his rabbit teeth, haha!).
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Post by radia on Oct 26, 2015 7:03:47 GMT
And Annie can just sit and catch her breath. Try to get her head sorted while no one is paying attention to her.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 26, 2015 7:12:49 GMT
So let's talk speculation for a second. As one of my friends IRL noted (goes by azraeon on the forum), Pairing this with the fact that their very physical forms have been created to fit the whims of the Court, it seems like the Court is very actively recruiting them. Could they be needed for their combination of etheric and scientific skills to work on the "Omega Project", or some other secretive Court endeavor? And, when the Court and Forest were more actively at war, was there an equivalent to Operation Paperclip in the Gunner-Verse? Secondary question – is the Forest okay with this, and if so, why? Does the reverse happen, like when Ally's parents emigrated there? (Also, where in the world is everyone?) |
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Post by KMar on Oct 26, 2015 7:13:08 GMT
Welp they really don't need their brains for that stuff.
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Post by Trillium on Oct 26, 2015 7:21:32 GMT
This page is too cute to go off on speculations about but then there is Annie with her back to us. We won't be sitting in on the cube discussion for long.
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 26, 2015 7:22:23 GMT
Just sitting on a stump... Thinking about burning everything down... So let's talk speculation for a second. Pairing this with the fact that their very physical forms have been created to fit the whims of the Court, it seems like the Court is actively recruiting them. Could they be needed for their combination of etheric and scientific skills to work on the "Omega Project", or some other secretive Court endeavor? (Also, where in the world is everyone?) I don't know about the Omega Project, but I bet the faeries are awesome at Jenga. I imagine they have great analog gaming nights. I wonder, what is the faeries' best boardgamme? |
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Post by The Anarch on Oct 26, 2015 7:39:49 GMT
That's as many as three tens! And that's terrible.
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Post by Señor Goose on Oct 26, 2015 8:02:33 GMT
Is everyone just going to pretend like that cube doesn't have an impossible piece?
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 26, 2015 8:11:34 GMT
Is everyone just going to pretend like that cube doesn't have an impossible piece? Where? I am no scholar of the veracity of Rubik's Cubes. |
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Post by justcurious on Oct 26, 2015 8:21:05 GMT
Rabbit-boy is good. It has been proven that Rubik's cube can always be solved in twenty moves and there are configurations that require twenty moves to solve.
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Post by noone3 on Oct 26, 2015 8:39:31 GMT
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Post by speedwell on Oct 26, 2015 9:02:34 GMT
I don't know about the Omega Project, but I bet the faeries are awesome at Jenga. I imagine they have great analog gaming nights. I wonder, what is the faeries' best boardgamme? Go. Definitely Go. Being Hungarian means being glad that a Hungarian invented the Cube so that Tom could make the rabbit boy and fairy renew their friendship using it. (Being Hungarian-American-Irish means realizing how silly that is, heh.) |
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Post by arf on Oct 26, 2015 9:08:03 GMT
Rabbit-boy is good. It has been proven that Rubik's cube can always be solved in twenty moves and there are configurations that require twenty moves to solve. I thought it was twenty three, but I haven't pondered Rubik's Cube for many years. I do recall that there are 'impossible' configurations that can't be reached by standard moves*. eg a single corner/edge rotation. *There are, however, non-standard moves that involve a screwdriver. |
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Post by leo on Oct 26, 2015 13:02:41 GMT
Pfft. Smits over there can solve it blindfolded in two moves: Oiling it up and throwing it up, letting the tree branches do the rest
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Post by QuotePilgrim on Oct 26, 2015 13:40:58 GMT
Is everyone just going to pretend like that cube doesn't have an impossible piece? I may be wrong, but I don’t think you can determine that by seeing only three faces of a Rubik’s cube. Unless you mean there is a piece that actually doesn’t exist, like one single piece with two reds, but I don’t see any. In either case, it would be nice if you showed us exactly what piece you’re talking about. EDIT: Wait, I see that the red in the bottom left corner of the face that we see in the 2nd panel turns into yellow in the 3rd one. Is that what you’re talking about? (It could be that the rabbit rotated the bottom face in the space between those panels, though.) --- What the rabbit can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves? The fastest I ever solved it was in 4 minutes and something, which may or may not have required a few hundred moves. |
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Post by matoyak on Oct 26, 2015 13:49:16 GMT
What the rabbit can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves? The fastest I ever solved it was in 4 minutes and something, which may or may not have required a few hundred moves. 7 years ago or so (back when I was in high school), I used to be able to solve a Rubik's Cube in around 30 seconds. Then we all decided to try getting the 4x4 one, and lemme tell you, learning the last step on that one was really rather annoying. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 26, 2015 14:21:14 GMT
What the rabbit can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves? The fastest I ever solved it was in 4 minutes and something, which may or may not have required a few hundred moves. 7 years ago or so (back when I was in high school), I used to be able to solve a Rubik's Cube in around 30 seconds. Then we all decided to try getting the 4x4 one, and lemme tell you, learning the last step on that one was really rather annoying. I didn't do well with those. [And I'm talking about the regular Rubik's cube here.] Eventually I figured out I could look at 3 sides at once and that helped immensely; I became actually able to solve it. Then a round one came out (sphere equivalent to 4x4 3x3? maybe it was a knockoff) and someone gifted me one... Shortly thereafter I regifted them both to charity. But I was under Rabbit's age back then.  [edit] I looked for the sphere thing on ebay so I could post a pic but am not sure what terms to use... It looked like a Rubik's sphere but had "buttons" so if you weren't looking carefully you'd lose track of corners and edges. Anyone know what it was called? [/edit] |
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Post by fish on Oct 26, 2015 14:42:58 GMT
Is everyone just going to pretend like that cube doesn't have an impossible piece? If I look at the cube that I own, I can make out three impossible pieces (two corner pieces and one side piece). But only given that this one has the same colour positions as mine (yellow/white, red/orange, blue/green each on opposite sides). Oh, and I only see five different colours in this one, which is strange. |
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Post by fwip on Oct 26, 2015 15:15:40 GMT
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Post by ih8pkmn on Oct 26, 2015 18:34:46 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks the exchange program between the forest and the Court is a bit messed up, at least when it comes to animals? Keep in mind, "Bunny Boy" used to be a female rabbit, and was forced to turn male due to the Court's demand for balance. Granted, she seems to be well-adjusted to it, but still, imagine if you were forced to dress up as the opposite gender in order to go to somewhere you perceive as being a better place to live.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 26, 2015 20:30:01 GMT
Remember, kids: being good with defence wards will train you to solve the challenging adult problems like the Rubik's Cubes! That's as many as three tens! And that's terrible. Oh, right, that's supahmath. Pfft. Smits over there can solve it blindfolded in two moves: Oiling it up and throwing it up, letting the tree branches do the rest It's not that easy to move. So, three steps: 1) ask someone else to drop it; 2) collect pieces into bag; 3) shake the bag. |
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Post by freeman on Oct 26, 2015 20:52:54 GMT
Now someone who knows these cubes, do the cubes and the cube stripes Tom has drawn here really depict a position that can be solved in ten moves? (Though I bet, "Tom knows everything" (Except that desk lamps usually are double insulated).) "Ten and ten and ten times?" I don't really get it. I can tell it's not a superflip, so optimal must be less than 20. For starters, is the fairy saying just 10, or 10⋅10⋅10(=1000) or (10+10)⋅10(=200) or something with unknowns in it, like f(X,Y)=(10X+10Y)⋅10? Is she trying to work out some computational complexity estimate for the cube or just saying how many moves it should take? It's amazing what orally cited arithmetics can really amount to when formalized correctly; there are many bright people out there and they don't even know it. And Annie can just sit and catch her breath. Try to get her head sorted while no one is paying attention to her. I'm thinking, Annie's thinking of pleading for Asylum. |
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Post by Pig_catapult on Oct 26, 2015 21:14:24 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks the exchange program between the forest and the Court is a bit messed up, at least when it comes to animals? Keep in mind, "Bunny Boy" used to be a female rabbit, and was forced to turn male due to the Court's demand for balance. Granted, she seems to be well-adjusted to it, but still, imagine if you were forced to dress up as the opposite gender in order to go to somewhere you perceive as being a better place to live. We got a thread for that debate, if you're interested. |
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Post by dramastix on Oct 26, 2015 21:59:48 GMT
freeman, I think she just means 30.
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 26, 2015 22:52:19 GMT
Go. Definitely Go. Being Hungarian means being glad that a Hungarian invented the Cube so that Tom could make the rabbit boy and fairy renew their friendship using it. (Being Hungarian-American-Irish means realizing how silly that is, heh.) I wonder if that would make the Court's game Shogi. An awesomely difficult game. I imagine Coyote's game is 52 card pickup. |
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Post by OmnipotentEntity on Oct 27, 2015 0:03:10 GMT
Is everyone just going to pretend like that cube doesn't have an impossible piece? If I look at the cube that I own, I can make out three impossible pieces (two corner pieces and one side piece). But only given that this one has the same colour positions as mine (yellow/white, red/orange, blue/green each on opposite sides). Oh, and I only see five different colours in this one, which is strange. Yes, I actually am lame enough to register just to comment on this. The cube actually seems consistent if you place the yellow on the left side across from the green, which makes the blue side on the top across from the white. In a random scramble you wouldn't expect to have all of the (presumably) orange pieces not visible. However, there's nothing that says this is a random scramble, it could be a partial solve or otherwise have all of the orange stickers on one of the three sides not facing the camera. |
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Post by goldenknots on Oct 27, 2015 0:55:33 GMT
Pretty sure Snuffle is saying the equivalent of "ten plus ten plus ten" as best she can without much arithmetic sophistication.
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Post by fish on Oct 27, 2015 1:24:57 GMT
If I look at the cube that I own, I can make out three impossible pieces (two corner pieces and one side piece). But only given that this one has the same colour positions as mine (yellow/white, red/orange, blue/green each on opposite sides). Oh, and I only see five different colours in this one, which is strange. Yes, I actually am lame enough to register just to comment on this. The cube actually seems consistent if you place the yellow on the left side across from the green, which makes the blue side on the top across from the white. In a random scramble you wouldn't expect to have all of the (presumably) orange pieces not visible. However, there's nothing that says this is a random scramble, it could be a partial solve or otherwise have all of the orange stickers on one of the three sides not facing the camera. I have been staring at this page and my rubik's cube for half an hour now, trying to replicate Tom's version with my cube by imagining the colour constellation you've suggested, and a few of my own. But, alas, either Tom's cube is not consistent or I am just to tired for this (it's 2:30 a.m.). I suspect it is the latter, and I just have to switch three colour positions, which my brain is objecting against right now. I'll try again tomorrow! Also: welcome to the forum! |
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Post by Dvandaemon on Oct 27, 2015 6:58:36 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks the exchange program between the forest and the Court is a bit messed up, at least when it comes to animals? Keep in mind, "Bunny Boy" used to be a female rabbit, and was forced to turn male due to the Court's demand for balance. Granted, she seems to be well-adjusted to it, but still, imagine if you were forced to dress up as the opposite gender in order to go to somewhere you perceive as being a better place to live. this presumes she had a gender identity like humans do along with her sexual classification as female. Gender is more than how you dress. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Oct 27, 2015 7:55:20 GMT
Rabbit-boy is good. It has been proven that Rubik's cube can always be solved in twenty moves and there are configurations that require twenty moves to solve. I thought it was twenty three, but I haven't pondered Rubik's Cube for many years. It's apparently 20 - the furthest away a cube can be from being solved is called a Superflip. Here's a cool video about it! |
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