/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9094463]

Am I supposed to just accept that Andross was a giant brain floating around an endless void?

[Anonymous No.9094468]

and what exactly do you think that you are?

[Anonymous No.9094470]

It's philosophy, Pullo.

[Anonymous No.9094473]

>>9094468
Damn..

[Anonymous No.9094476]

>>9094463
yes

[Anonymous No.9095138]

>>9094463
Anon, did you know that there's a brain inside your head RIGHT NOW?!?

[Anonymous No.9095176]

>>9095138
Impossible

[Anonymous No.9095180]

>>9094463
as opposed to being a floating head with arms?
or a cube?

[Anonymous No.9095198]

>>9095138
He's a Nintendo fan so I find that extremely unlikely

[Anonymous No.9095207]

>>9095198
Thank you. That's the funniest post I've read in ages.

[Anonymous No.9095280]

>>9094463
>tfw too smart for /vr/

[Anonymous No.9095285]

>>9095198
>playing starfox means you're a nintendo fan
and this is autism

[Anonymous No.9095305]

>>9095198
Nintendies on suicide watch.

[Anonymous No.9095331]

disembodied brains always make me uncomfortable as fuck. I don't like thinking about the fact that I'm just a wad of neurons piloting a meat suit.

[Anonymous No.9095337]

>>9094463
Did you accept the giant face or giant monkey face, or a talking fox flying a space fighter jet, or a toad pilot, a bird pilot, a rabbit pilot, pig pilot, or a general dog, or space talking dinosaurs?

[Anonymous No.9095338]

>>9095331
Not as disturbing as being a wad of neurons which only thinks that it is piloting a meat suit.

[Anonymous No.9095347]

The real question is why did he think this of all times was the appropriate moment for a cringeworthy pun?

[Anonymous No.9095364]

>>9095347
He's horrendously deformed and having a laugh.
That Andross is a real card!

[Anonymous No.9095592]

It was obvious that he experimented on himself from his madness.

[Anonymous No.9095716]

John Carmack actually had the idea of using binary space partitioning to optimize Doom's rendering engine after watching the office's cat peaking on a fly from the corner of a room. As soon as he witnessed the amazing increase in frame rate of this tech, it became clear to Carmack that the cat was secretly a mad genius that would stop at nothing to be on top of the food chain, much smarter than him even! And that's why Carmack gave the cat away to a refuge where it was promptly disposed of. When Tom Hall asked what happened to the cat, Carmack instantly knew they were in cahoot and kicked him out of the team. Following those mysterious disappearances around Carmack, a psychologist was hired by Romero to figure out if Carmack was a murderous paranoid freak (you probably never hear of him, and now you know why). The rest is history.

[Anonymous No.9095765]

>>9094463
Watch The Lawnmower Man. It will all make sense to you then.

[Anonymous No.9096113]

>>9094468
fpbp

[Anonymous No.9096119]

>>9095285
anti-Nintendo people think about Nintendo way more often than actual Nintendo fanboys.

[Anonymous No.9096127]

Of course he's a gi[g]ant[ic] brain. Didn't you see the prequel where he declared that he was the greetest and that he was leaving Corneria for no raisin?

[Anonymous No.9096145]

>>9094468
God damn got him

[Anonymous No.9096146]

>>9095337
Yes, right after I accepting Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour.

[Anonymous No.9096202]

Andross is a Bolzmann brain

[Anonymous No.9096250]

>>9096146
Based

[Anonymous No.9096581]

>>9095331
Well then I have good news!
You're not even that. You're the traffic pattern of electrons (not the electrons themselves) in the brain.

[Anonymous No.9096595]

>>9095347

Cause he knows it hurts

>Only I have the BRAINS to rule Lylat!
>OUCH! Damn Andross you ARE evil!!

[Anonymous No.9096865]

>>9094468

[Anonymous No.9096917]

>>9096581
Well, not even that. Like a subsystem of that.

[Anonymous No.9096929]

>>9094463
his brain became so powerful he can stay fully conscious just with it and his eyes, fox just blasted everything else off. it's the same with how you tear off the outer layer of his robot form in the easy path.

[Anonymous No.9097206]

>>9094463
Boltzmann did.

[Anonymous No.9097342]

>>9094463
I mean is it any more strange than fighting a disembodied floating head of a gigantic geriatric monkey wizard/mad scientist?

[Anonymous No.9097368]

>>9097342
It is all too common for it to happen to the best of us.

[Anonymous No.9097372]

>>9094463
Well yeah, who else would have the brains to rule the galaxy?

[Anonymous No.9097613]

>>9094468
just a normal brain kickin it in a bone castle till it all falls apart.

[Anonymous No.9097683]

>>9096581
I have even better news: particles such as electrons are not in a defined state until they're measured, meaning measuring particles makes them "pop" into existence. They do not exist as a defined classical point in space prior to that. Which means nothing exists until it's detected and reality is subjective.

[Anonymous No.9098335]

>>9097683
>It's this retarded interpretation of the Heisenberg principle

All the Heisenberg principle says is that in order to measure any quantum state, you have to interact with the state in some way, which changes the accuracy of you measurement. Thus there's a fundamental limit to the accuracy of certain pairs of measurements, like momentum and position or energy and time. It analogous to knowing the pitch of a string on a guitar and the time duration it vibrates when you play it. It doesn't mean reality is subjective, it means there's a fundamental limit to how much information we can get about a quantum system regarding important quantities. It doesn't mean reality is subjective or electrons or other particles "pop" into existence via measurements. It means that as systems, particles can have their states measured statistically.

[Anonymous No.9098483]

>>9098335
What about superposition of states? It tells us all states are true and display a wave like behavior until you try to measure the system, and at that point you get a particle. The wave function colapses and this colapsing is just a mathematical update. Thanks for your time, you seem to understand more than I do.

[Anonymous No.9098558]

>>9098483
The superposition of states is best described all quantum states can be described as linear combinations of quantum states, just like how if you add two waves together in the classical world (assuming there's no energy lost due to thermodynamics), the resulting wave is the linear combination of the resulting waves. Likewise, the linear combination of quantum states is a valid quantum state. That's the essence of what superposition means. I think that's why quantum mechanics can be expressed very well in terms of linear algebra and differential equations, since they both deal with superposition (if you have two solutions to a differential equation, then the resulting sum is also a solution to the diff eq. There's a similar result in linear algebra if you consider the span of the solution of an equation).

Wave function collapse is exactly what happens when the wave function interacts with any measuring device or object. Instead of ranging over a wide range of potential momenta and positions, wave function collapse forces the observation to take on a smaller range of values due to the interaction.

Quantum mechanics is a very strange field. I'm not 100% on it and I'm pretty sure that even the most talented physicists aren't 100% sure what it means. It has a lo of classical analogues that help make it clear, but fundamentally it is drastically different than the classical mechanics we experience in everyday life. If you want to dig deeper into quantum mechanics, I can recommend the book Quantum Mechanics by David Griffiths. It's the textbook I used to learn QM in undergrad. It's the standard for the field. I think it's a pretty good introduction to the concepts and math behind the field and if it doesn't get too ahead of itself since he explains himself well.

[Anonymous No.9098721]

>>9098558
I forgot to add that the book is on libgen.is, so you can download it and not buy it if you don't want to.

[Anonymous No.9098781]

>>9095138
>Anon, did you know that there's a brain inside your head RIGHT NOW?!?

Did you forget where you are right now?

[Anonymous No.9099379]

SO ANDROSS, YOU SHOW YOUR TRUE FORM.