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  • Unfortunately no, also I haven’t really watched much anime (I only know who three of the people on the chart are).

    However, in the non-anime category, the tv show “Hannibal” has two very intelligent characters play this same kind of game of cat and mouse.

    You know who the antagonist is, but the other characters… not so much. So you get the same kind of dynamic where people are talking with Light like he’s a normal person when you know he’s Kira.

    You also get some seriously fucked up mind games between the antagonist and protagonist and get those same moments of “well how is he going to get out of this?” For both of them.

    It’s also like a normal-ish crime TV show. Anyway, good stuff, idk if it’s what you’re looking for but you might like it regardless


  • Disclaimer because I’m about to start defending his intelligence: Light is a horrible person regardless.

    Light’s first slip up is his temper, causing him to act without thinking to kill Lind L Taylor on live TV. In all fairness, until that point he had killed hundreds of people already with zero resistance and if you want people to “know of my existence” what better way to do so than to kill someone on live TV and get away with it.

    The next “mistakes” he makes are in focusing on killing L instead of hiding from him. But really he would rather play a deadly game with L than anything else, and he does play that game intelligently and win despite many unforeseen obstacles.

    Point is, light doesn’t get caught because he isn’t intelligent, he gets caught because he’s more obsessed with power and domination than not getting caught or actually saving the world.

    I mean that’s literally why he’s evil: he’s not trying to fix the world.

    He himself mentions that society just tends to decay and—knowing that he won’t live forever—he must know that killing evil people and trying to keep people in line with fear will not work and will not last. However, he does it anyway because fixing the world is just the excuse he uses to justify his god complex.

    He’s not stupid, he’s just more entertained playing with death than he is doing anything else.


  • “I ate sigma pie and it was delicious!” Sounds like something that’d show up on my university’s YikYak, alluding to eating out a sorority chick from Sigma Pi lol

    Idk if that’s a legitimate sorority, but I know that regardless of the sorority mentioned someone would reply something like “wait till you try a pi phi 😜” and/or someone would say you’re going to get an STD from that particular sorority



  • True, You can only induce natural numbers from this.

    However, you could extend it to the positive reals by saying [0,1) is a small number. And building induction on all of those.

    You could cover negative and even complex numbers if “small” is a reference to magnitude of a vector, but that is a slippery slope…

    In a very not rigorous way, you can cover combinations of ordinal numbers and even non-numbers if you treat them as orthogonal “unit vectors” and the composite “number” as a vector in an infinite vector space which again allows you to specify smallness as a reference to magnitude like we did for the complex numbers.

    If you multiply two not really numbers, just count the product as a new dimension for the vector. Same with exponentiation. Same with non math shit like a cow or the color orange. Count all unique things as a unique dimension to a vector then by our little vector magnitude hack, everything is a small number, even things that aren’t numbers. QED.


    This proof is a joke, broken in many ways, but the most interesting is the question of if you can actually have a vector with an uncountably infinite (or higher ordinals) of dimensions and what the hell that even means.





  • First time using the internet was probably playing poptropica with my siblings.

    First time really using the internet was trying to get the ancient windows XP computer in our basement to be less slow and connect to the internet secretly. Ended up going down rabbit holes leading me to learn to write simple viruses, learn what Linux was, and learn to hop on tor for anonymous chat rooms with random strangers across the world.

    Sure I was super afraid of viruses and pedos, but it was a nice escape from the small religious town I was being raised in at the time. It was nice being able to talk about philosophy and my own opinions without an adult hitting me for “defying god” or saying “homeopathic medicine is pseudoscience” etc.

    It’s kind of odd how nostalgic I am for basic html websites and old looking IRC clients. I’m pretty young for someone who misses “the old internet” but that was the only kind of internet interaction I could really access (without parental supervision) for a long time.