The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(caption: This guy had to ask the audience.)
Implied by the graph.
If you're familiar with the rules of the game, then yes. Someone who's completely unfamiliar with it might not realize that he used the game's "ask the audience" option and he was shown the audience's responses to help him choose his own answer.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(caption: This guy had to ask the audience.)
So not only did he now know.
29% of the audience didn't know either. Or they were trolling him.
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@PleegWat
I've never been convinced that the Poll The Audience lifeline actually polled a live audience. My theory is that it was computer generated with weightings so that it's more "certain" the less valuable the question is.The "audience provided" answers usually weren't stupid enough to match real human beings.
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@izzion I would assume that the audience answers would consist of some baseline (respondents who couldn't be bothered to really read the question/answer so they just hit any of the answers at random), plus some weighting that actually favors the incorrect answers (respondents who knew the correct answer but picked a wrong one to troll the contestant). And that's before you even get to the audience members who legitimately tried to answer the question and got it right or wrong. Plus, instead of guessing, some of the audience who don't know probably just don't give any answer at all, and I'd assume the poll simply excludes them from the percentages.
As the game progresses, the questions get more difficult, and there is more at stake, I'd guess that the number of troll answers and/or the number of people who just sit the question out and don't vote probably increase, which all makes it more difficult for the contestant to rely on the results of the audience poll.
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@anotherusername
There's nothing Funny about squashing conspiracy theories with boring facts
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or they were trolling him.
More likely.
Almost certainly, if it was the British version.
Fake edit: Doesn't appear to be the British one.
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@anotherusername
Can't decide if donkey strength or llamathrust is funnier
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@Luhmann Not a fan of zebraforce?
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@PleegWat
Zebra's are just horses in jail
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@Luhmann And donkeys are just horses who made an ass of themselves.
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@dkf I don't think they changed the rating system in the last couple days
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@stillwater Yeah, it's a good time to have a couple competing offers handy. Are you the Judas Goat? If so, squeeze that stone, it will bleed.
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername Worst is that "watts" and "rate at which work is done" give the answer away, even if you'd never heard of "horsepower" before.
What??
(INB4 Watt?)
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername Worst is that "watts" and "rate at which work is done" give the answer away, even if you'd never heard of "horsepower" before.
No. "Llamathrust" is also wholly appropriate by that consideration.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Luhmann And donkeys are just horses who made an ass of themselves.
I was going to say that mules were just horses whose daddy fucked an ass, but apparently that's called a hinny. TIL.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or they were trolling him.
My son, who is a Physics major and definitely knows the right answer, said, "I would have answered 'zebraforce' for the lols."
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername Worst is that "watts" and "rate at which work is done" give the answer away, even if you'd never heard of "horsepower" before.
You assume that any of those people paid attention in Physics class.
I mean, I regularly have to deal with the magical mystery phenomenon called "Currentvoltage". And, no, they don't mean "power".
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@Rhywden Of course not. Everybody knows to get power, you have to multiply by the cosine of the phase angle between the current and voltage. Sheesh!
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@HardwareGeek You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities. I solve all my physics problems by just figuring out which way multiplying the inputs gives the correct dimension.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities. I solve all my physics problems by just figuring out which way multiplying the inputs gives the correct dimension.
Ah, the
everything is
stoich
approach.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities. I solve all my physics problems by just figuring out which way multiplying the inputs gives the correct dimension.
Ah, the
everything is
stoich
approach.Works really well, except for those pesky negative signs and powers of 2...
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From a tweet posted by @ender:
Note that basically no browsers pass the Acid Tests anymore.
For example, Chrome 70:
Reference:
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Well, I thought it was funny....
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Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test
FWIW, I get 97/100 with the orange and yellow displayed grey in firefox too. Acid2 seems to work fine.
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Winamp - it really thrusts the llama's ass.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Winamp - it really thrusts the llama's ass.
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Oh god! Read the thread.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Oh god! Read the thread.
from the thread
I nearly wet myself and asphyxiated. All at the same time. You win the Internet. Forever.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Oh god! Read the thread.
Wow, they should really put a warning label "place box in freezer 15 minutes before opening"...
Also crickets can chew through cardboard without much difficulty so you should probably take care of it as soon as the box shows up. I'd assume they were refrigerated just before boxing day, but they'll warm up once the box is in transit and then it's a matter of time before they escape.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Oh god! Read the thread.
This is a serious matter though:
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Arthur Clarke got it all backwards (giggity).
(click to embiggen)
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Bonus: Stargate Physics 101
The diary of one of the Ancients responsible for designing the original Stargates is discovered. Some things that were previously thought to be fundamental features of wormhole physics turn out not to be. A comedy about the importance of software testing and mass-extinction.
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So apparently the author turned it into an article.
People kept saying that there were no pictures:
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Wife: THERE'S A CRICKET IN MY PUMPKIN PIE
Me: This is tremendous content, where's my phone"And that, your honour, is why we found the killing to be a justifiable homicide."
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@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So apparently the author turned it into an article.
People kept saything that there were no pictures:
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@DCoder said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Arthur Clarke got it all backwards (giggity).
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(<!-- goddammit nodebb stop fucking up my markup -->)
Bonus: Stargate Physics 101
The diary of one of the Ancients responsible for designing the original Stargates is discovered. Some things that were previously thought to be fundamental features of wormhole physics turn out not to be. A comedy about the importance of software testing and mass-extinction.
We could probably turn this into a thread.
"I have created a spell to clean my teeth. I tested it on my apprentice and it worked flawlessly. He has perfectly white teeth. However it turns everything that touches them into an inedible paste and he has being unable to eat and drink for three days. Marketing is now selling it as a weight loss cure."
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@DogsB So it turns out Voldemort wasn’t that great a wizard after all? He was just a hipster using all the latest webscale node crypto kubernetes buzz, but didn’t listen when Slughorn warned him not to dabble in PHP.
Filed under: from __past__ import
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
an edible paste and he has being unable to eat and drink for three days.
Does he not able to eat the edible paste?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
an edible paste and he has being unable to eat and drink for three days.
Does he not able to eat the edible paste?
Fixed in version 1.01
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@pie_flavor Thanks for the reminder to see what's up with the original.
At first it wasn't atrocious, but then I got to four minutes in and yeah, it got really cringy. I can see what the complaints are about.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities.
If that doesn't work, multiply by pi. Or divide by it.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities.
If that doesn't work, multiply by pi. Or divide by it.
Just do something until we get the value I want!
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