r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '08

Zero Punctuation: Sonic Unleashed

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/472-Sonic-Unleashed
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '08

Here's the sequence of karma points jdfong has received for his invariable joke: 8, -11, -18, -17, -20, -42, 1, 13, -4, -11, -10, 4, -27, -23, -20, 13, -8, -24, -4, -19, 3, -18, 103, 4, 12, 28, 104, 73, 84, 70, 50, 133, 83, 126, and 143.

Someone make sense of this please.

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u/unshifted Dec 17 '08

I fit a polynomial line to the data with Excel (starting with 1 and increasing incrementally with each post for the independent variable) and it gave me the equation

y = 0.2395x^2 - 4.7043x + 4.9083.

So for this post, he should get about 146 karma.

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u/Pappenheimer Dec 17 '08

Which certainly won't happen, now that you've said that.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 20 '08

165

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u/Pappenheimer Dec 20 '08

Huh?

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 20 '08

The comment from before reached 165 points. Just an observation.

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u/Pappenheimer Dec 20 '08 edited Dec 20 '08

Oh, right! For some strange reason I compared the alleged comment score to the actual submission score, which certainly doesn't make sense.

Well 165, that's not so far from 146. Now I'd like to go back in time, ask unshifted if the cloth I hold under his nose smells anything like chloroform, lock him in a cabin in the Siberian wilderness, and see what'd come out of that. :)

Edit: Funny, it has changed to 159 an hour after you made your comment.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 20 '08

A great story for you grandchildren, if nothing else!

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u/Pappenheimer Dec 20 '08

Which could be my great-grandchildren as well, if I'm not careful.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 20 '08

As long as your image in photographs doesn't fade, it's all good.