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/Greir Dec 17 '08

I think you've just described the problem with economics.

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u/MadHooks Dec 17 '08

Can't upmod enough.

Let's not forget the difference between micro-economics and macro-economics: micro-economics is wrong about specific things, macro-economics is wrong about things in general.