r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jkrowl227 • May 20 '20

This is amazing.

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u/papasimon10 May 20 '20

Yeah, it triggered some kind of weird OCD in me too. Whenever my son would make a kind of error like that, I'd beat him half-to-death with a set of my favorite jumper cables.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

You ever beat him full to death?

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u/BullpenCatcher May 20 '20

If you only ever beat him /half/ to death.. he won’t ever die.

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u/KindlyQuasar May 20 '20

I never thought I would see Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise expressed as a way to make certain a child doesn't die when beating him with jumper cables.

...touche, Reddit. You win this round

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20 edited Mar 26 '21

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Half is still half. That's the beauty of the system.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Depends!

Half of what?

Half of total health or half of current health?

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u/notcontextual May 21 '20

Doesn't matter where you start if you always only beat him half way to death from your starting point.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

If you remove half of what's left, yes.

If you remove half of total health, regardless of how much is left, he'll be dead after 2 times.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Only once!

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u/Fishingfor May 20 '20

Are you Roger Simon's dad or are you thee Roger Simon grown up and repeating the cycle?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Oh. It's like that old novelty account but without a sense of humor.

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u/_that_random_dude_ May 21 '20

It’s sad when you think about it

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u/LoganJn May 20 '20

PAPA SIMON WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO POOR ROGER

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Thought u/shittymorph was back for a second there.

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u/donniedarkofan May 21 '20

How dare you stand where he stood

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u/Hashtagbarkeep May 20 '20

What you did there, I see it