Random Banter #239 - Now 50% more tangible!

[Peelee]

I'll do whatever it takes not to make a deal.

What if I open door number three, and offer you another hundred?

[Anonymouswizard]

What if I open door number three, and offer you another hundred?

Look I tried to switch after you opened door number one, but you wouldn't let me have the goat.

[Peelee]

Look I tried to switch after you opened door number one, but you wouldn't let me have the goat.

That's because you're stopped to switch to the other closed door! That's how the math works!

[LaZodiac]

Random idea.

building with public restrooms with the standard "Man/Woman" stick figures ont the door, but the "man" one is labeled "regular people" and the "woman" one is labeled "people wearing capes."

They're both gender-neutral restrooms, one's just reserved for people wearing capes.

Not to be a debbie downer but historically speaking funny joke bathroom signs just cause issues. I've seen people more often than not just roll their eyes at it, and the issue of "okay but which one has facilities for female body needs and vice versa?" becomes a question. Obviously in the ideal world they'd both have both, but a funny jokey thing like this wouldn't really... present, that.

[Form]

I'm not a researcher. I'm an IT helpdesk worker who has days of feeling like she's barely competent at doing that, let alone being the one to find a cure for diabetes.

I don't know how old you are or how long you've worked in IT, but for what it's worth I often felt riddled with self-doubt during my earlier days as a programmer, though I tried to hide it. Having acquired more experience and confidence now I can say I did well enough back then and am now reasonably certain I'm one of the best programmers my company has (it's a small company, but still).

Also, I remember you devoted considerable time and effort to improving your skills/knowledge by pursuing certification and I'm guessing a lot of that came out of your spare time. That's already a lot more than any company can reasonable expect of any employee. Those are the signs of someone who knows what they're doing. And that still holds true even if it was company time.

Look I tried to switch after you opened door number one, but you wouldn't let me have the goat.

No prize for you!

That's because you're stopped to switch to the other closed door! That's how the math works!

No prize for you either!

[Mystic Muse]

I don't know how old you are or how long you've worked in IT, but for what it's worth I often felt riddled with self-doubt during my earlier days as a programmer, though I tried to hide it. Having acquired more experience and confidence now I can say I did well enough back then and am now reasonably certain I'm one of the best programmers my company has (it's a small company, but still).

Also, I remember you devoted considerable time and effort to improving your skills/knowledge by pursuing certification and I'm guessing a lot of that came out of your spare time. That's already a lot more than any company can reasonable expect of any employee. Those are the signs of someone who knows what they're doing. And that still holds true even if it was company time.

All of this is true, but Impostor syndrome and worry about eventually losing the nob and not being able yo find another are very much things.

Plus just a general inability to force myself to study for more certifications right now.

Just in a bit of a lull I need to get past.

[Peelee]

No prize for you either!

I'm Monty Hall in this scenario, I'm the one who's got all the prizes!

[Form]

I'm Monty Hall in this scenario, I'm the one who's got all the prizes!

Yes, but you're supposed to give away the prizes. You don't get to keep any.

Still no prize for you!

[Anonymouswizard]

I'm Monty Hall in this scenario, I'm the one who's got all the prizes!

The advert said Monty Haul! We didn't want a problem, we wanted you to give the prizes away!

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a prosthetic limb. I'm not going to cut off any to check, but we have really cool ones now.

[Peelee]

Yes, but you're supposed to give away the prizes. You don't get to keep any.

Still no prize for you!

Excuse me, I do believe more than a few people give me the cash back to open a door.

The advert said Monty Haul! We didn't want a problem, we wanted you to give the prizes away!.

I do! To those who get lucky! I'm the one who knows where the prizes are, I can game the system all I want. Whether the wins are up or down is all about the ratings and how much is being given away, baby!

At least it's not as rough as The Price Is Right.

[Form]

Excuse me, I do believe more than a few people give me the cash back to open a door.

You can't keep that! You're supposed to put it back behind one of the doors! How many empty doors are there right now!?

[Jasdoif]

The advert said Monty Haul! We didn't want a problem, we wanted you to give the prizes away!

Minimally related: Got to Olympus Heights in Bioshock Remastered this morning (took the day off, my mandatory-before-eye-surgery-will-be-scheduled counseling appointment is in a few hours); I'm reasonably certain I've never seen distilled water as loot off any enemies that generate there (ie any enemy in the game that isn't a spider splicer), and definitely certain I've never had anything but distilled water be the limiting factor in crafting electric gel before. I can only assume drop tables have been adjusted (corrected?) in the remaster; and making previously rare stuff much more readily available is the gist of Monty Haul (as opposed to Monty Hall, which is about opening doors and/or bringing hard-boiled eggs into a studio).

[Peelee]

You can't keep that! You're supposed to put it back behind one of the doors! How many empty doors are there right now!?

The cash stays in my pocket, the doors have cars and goats. Jeez, it's like you're not even in a whacky costume for this!

Also, there are one billion doors, the prize is behind one. I like to make the math easily understandable on it.

[Form]

The cash stays in my pocket, the doors have cars and goats. Jeez, it's like you're not even in a whacky costume for this!

Also, there are one billion doors, the prize is behind one. I like to make the math easily understandable on it.

.....

Can I have a prize?

[Peelee]

.....

Can I have a prize?

YES! Here's a television. Now, you can keep that, or you can change it for two hundred quatloos and pick one of the boxes on stage to open.

[Form]

YES! Here's a television. Now, you can keep that, or you can change it for two hundred quatloos and pick one of the boxes on stage to open.

I was expecting the bit to get finished with a simple 'no'.....

I have no use for a television, so I'd pick the fictional currency and one of the boxes.

[Jasdoif]

YES! Here's a television. Now, you can keep that, or you can change it for two hundred quatloos and pick one of the boxes on stage to open.

Hmm....I feel like a red snapper would be more appropriate.

[Keltest]

Hmm....I feel like a red snapper would be more appropriate.

Is this Monty hall or Monty python?

[Metastachydium]

Hmm....I feel like a red snapper would be more appropriate.

Is this Monty hall or Monty python?

American Psycho, actually.

[Mystic Muse]

Hmm....I feel like a red snapper would be more appropriate.

Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-san is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?

[Anonymouswizard]

Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-san is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?

Do I get the Banker's offer before or after I make my decision?

[Peelee]

I was expecting the bit to get finished with a simple 'no'.....

I have no use for a television, so I'd pick the fictional currency and one of the boxes.

Goat.

Hmm....I feel like a red snapper would be more appropriate.

You didn't even spin the Wheel Of Fish!

Is this Monty hall or Monty python?

There's a difference?

Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-san is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?

Let it ride!

[Jasdoif]

Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-san is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?

Exactly! That's how I know the risks of choosing the box....

You didn't even spin the Wheel Of Fish!

I decided to assume you were changing things up a little, and one of your billion doors was labelled "Supplies".

[Rater202]

Little Debbie is now my arch-nemesis.

31 ****ing grams of added sugar in my favorite snack cakes, ensuring that unless my diabetes goes into remission or I have one Holy Hell of a crash I can never have one again.

[TaiLiu]

No, but again, I like how you think.

The dragons came first, the symbiotes are offshoots of the dragons.

Okay, I think I get it now. So dragons exist and then there's an evolutionary split that results in true dragons and symbiote dragons.

[Rater202]

Okay, I think I get it now. So dragons exist and then there's an evolutionary split that results in true dragons and symbiote dragons.

Okay, I was trying to avoid a huge detailed explanation but...

In this setting, "dragon" isn't a taxonomic category. There are countless beings that all meet the in-universe definition of "dragon" without being related to each other.

Symbiote-Dragons are dragons that were created by Knull, Primordial Elder God of the Void, out of Living Abyss, which is a form of Anti-Life, a sort of matter/energy/thingy that is created as sort of an equal and opposite of life and creation that infects and either kills or corrupts anything that it makes contact with. They are not related to say, Asgardian Dragons, or Lockheed's race.

Knull's experiments with it, via his power over it, created a living substance that could safely infect and bond with anything, be used to create weapons that could kill and steal power from Gods, and be shaped into any form and take on any physical, material property(not unlike Reed Richard's unstable molecules, a comparison tha'ts been made a few times.)

In addition to a Sword(All-Black) and Armor for himself, Knull created an army of Wyvernlike beings that existed as a Hivemind in which he was the central unit, to use as an army. These dragons could shed living Abyss to infect and control other beings(a process called Knullifcation) to both gain more minions and steal knowledge and power for Knull.

While some examples of these creatures possessing free-will of some form date back to at least ten-thousand years ago—the "Slithering Djinn" who was a companion of a previous Sorcerer Supreme and eventually bonded to Conan of Cimmeria in Savage Avengers vol 1, for example—it was only a few hundred years ago when Thor was fighting a Symbiote-Dragon that Knull was using as an Avatar and a full-powered Mjolnir upside the head fried the damn thing's brain that the creatures of Living Abyss, as a category of organisms, universally possessed their own sentience. Thor's blow temporarily brought down the hive mind, the individual members suddenly formed their own minds for themselves backed on memories they'd absorbed from hosts or shared acoss the hive mind, they all decided "hey, **** this guy" and they all turned on Knull, beat him into a coma, and then a few million of them merged together into a living planet with Knulls's comatose body at its core.

They named the planet "Klyntar," which means cage in their native language, and modern symbiotes like Venom and Carnage are the result of the now free offshoots undergoing natural evolution over the course of a few centuries.

[factotum]

Little Debbie is now my arch-nemesis.

31 ****ing grams of added sugar in my favorite snack cakes, ensuring that unless my diabetes goes into remission or I have one Holy Hell of a crash I can never have one again.

Is your diabetes insulin dependent? Because if it is, you could theoretically have the snack and then take extra insulin to compensate. Alternatively, see if Miss Debbie does sugar-free versions, although you'll need to be sparing of eating those because the sweeteners they usually use mean you will become very well acquainted with your toilet.

[enderlord99]

Does "Thac0" rhyme with "Jack-O"

[LaZodiac]

Does "Thac0" rhyme with "Jack-O"

Absolutely. Without a question. Not sure how one would pronounce it otherwise, honestly.

[Mystic Muse]

Absolutely. Without a question. Not sure how one would pronounce it otherwise, honestly.

Thuh-ay-cko is how I've always pronounced it personally.