Failure is not an option
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When the stakes are this high, failure is simply not an option. Anything else... is.
Challenge: find the most amusing scenario in which those words would actually work.
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A team of vampires are jumping across gaps over pits of stake traps where the stakes are so high that their naturally fast reflexes can't even give them enough time to react to the fall.
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Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
--Maxim 70, 70 maxims of maximally effective mercenaries, schlock mercenaryYes, I know it's not responsive, but it's what I thought of when I read the title. I've actually used that with my students.
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@benjamin-hall Yeah, that's actually where I got the idea from. I thought, "what if you take this idea in the opposite direction?"
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@dcon Was the maker of that trying to imply two locomotives were about to collide? Because they look like they're at a dead stop. And it's not like there's any requirement that locomotives travel "forward" while pushing trains.
1/10 meme.
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@masonwheeler In a certain boss fight in a certain game I've been playing recently, both losing and winning are not allowed.
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Also, in Dwarf Fortress, losing is the only way to finish the game.
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@ben_lubar said in Failure is not an option:
@masonwheeler In a certain boss fight in a certain game I've been playing recently, both losing and winning are not allowed.
Then how do you continue to progress?
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@masonwheeler said in Failure is not an option:
@ben_lubar said in Failure is not an option:
@masonwheeler In a certain boss fight in a certain game I've been playing recently, both losing and winning are not allowed.
Then how do you continue to progress?
I can't explain it adequately using words, so:
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Someone is smuggling drugs in the stomachs of a herd of cattle, but the containers may dissolve.
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@blakeyrat said in Failure is not an option:
1/10 meme.
Yeah. The image selection on googling "failure is not an option" was rather lame. Mostly T-shirts.
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@ben_lubar said in Failure is not an option:
Also, in Dwarf Fortress, losing is the only way to finish the game.
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Naah, too easy. Besides, it would be hypocritical of me.
I expect that neither of those things will stop anyone else here, though.
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Last man on earth, coupled by sole-surviving possibly compatible non-human female.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Failure is not an option:
Last man on earth, coupled by sole-surviving possibly compatible non-human female.
Genetic diversity is already too low, the species is no longer viable. Stop with the teenage drama about "should they sleep together" and let them do whatever they like, the future of the human race is already out of their hands.
(alternatively: we're back to the Adam & Eve situation, God will magically ensure everything will play out correctly. The future of the human race is still out of their hands)
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@blakeyrat said in Failure is not an option:
@dcon Was the maker of that trying to imply two locomotives were about to collide? Because they look like they're at a dead stop.
Zooming in on the photo, it looks like it’s a double track, with the train on the left being on the track nearest the camera and the train on the right on the other track.
1/10 meme.
Yep.
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@gurth Even if it weren't a double track, anybody who knows anything about trains knows that when they're piecing them together, they don't give a shit which direction the unpiloted engines face. They work equally well in reverse as they do in forward.
Being a double track makes it even worse though.
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@blakeyrat said in Failure is not an option:
@gurth Even if it weren't a double track, anybody who knows anything about trains knows that when they're piecing them together, they don't give a shit which direction the unpiloted engines face. They work equally well in reverse as they do in forward.
Being a double track makes it even worse though.
And you wonder why people don't get your "jokes."
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@magus said in Failure is not an option:
Someone is smuggling drugs in the stomachs of a herd of cattle, but the containers may dissolve.
In that case the steaks would be very high
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@boomzilla said in Failure is not an option:
And you wonder why people don't get your "jokes."
Of course he does because everything he says on the forums is 100% true for always
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@hungrier That was the general idea, yes.
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@ben_lubar said in Failure is not an option:
Also, in Dwarf Fortress, losing is the only way to finish the game.
Generally the only thing you do in the game, in fact.
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@blakeyrat said in Failure is not an option:
@gurth Even if it weren't a double track, anybody who knows anything about trains knows that when they're piecing them together, they don't give a shit which direction the unpiloted engines face. They work equally well in reverse as they do in forward.
Depends very much on the engine. There are a reasonable number [such as the SD-50, which was designed to replace the SD-40-2] where the directional gearing played an interesting role [the 3->2 intended reduction in the case above] in intended motive power....
