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  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Phineas and Ferb: Why is Django?English
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    12 hours ago

    I haven’t watched Phineas and Ferb but am generally familiar with the concept. There’s probably multiple narrative things happening here

    1. Writers are people too. Writing crazy over the top stories gets boring after a while. Sometimes you want to write something more grounded to practice nuance
    2. Lower stakes content is generally more relatable and relatable is a high priority in kids media
    3. Contrast makes stories more interesting. If you’re always dealing with world destroying calamities then eventually they become route
    4. When a show goes on long enough sometimes you try breaking the format as an experiment to see what the reaction is, maybe people like it better and you can pivot
    5. Subverting expectations is the basis of comedy. You’ve been led to believe that by their antics Phineas and Ferb would legitimately try to paint an entire continent, the fact that it’s just a regular painting subverts your expectation for a joke

    Those are just my thoughts as someone who is relatively familiar with what TV and Movie writing is like

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your favorite alternate rules for a sport or game?English
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    2 days ago

    Since most people are unbeatable at tic-tac-toe I have a variant I like to play that has nested boards. Sometimes I call it tic-tic-tac-toe-toe or nested tic-tac-toe. Here’s some shitty MS Paint to explain (red numbers indicate the board, the blue the squares on the board as they correlate to bigger board):

    Rules:

    • You have a tic-tac-toe board where each square is itself another tic-tac-toe board
    • The outer board is numbered 1-9 going from top left to bottom right
    • Each sub-board is also numbered the same way, 1-9, left to right
    • When you play on board, the square you play in determines the board that your opponent must play in next
      • For example: if you play the middle left square (4), on the bottom right board (Red 9), then your opponent must play on the middle left board next (Red 4)
    • Winning a sub-game wins that square on the overall board
      • You may tie a sub-game by filling a board, those squares are dead and nobody gets them
    • Getting tic-tac-toe on the overall board gets you a win
    • You cannot play on a finished board
    • If a play would force a player to play on a finished board then that player may play anywhere instead

    It sounds confusing on paper but once you draw the board and play like 2 turns people immediately get what’s going on. It’s really funny to observers because they watch people make “obviously” bad plays on these disjointed boards and they have no idea what’s going on

    I also once nerd sniped an intro programming class because I thought making this in the command line would be a fun project for one of my intro assignments. It turns out updating and printing nested python lists can get very confusing very quickly

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you get sick when travel via plane?English
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    2 days ago

    Getting sick when traveling is absolutely more common, you’re exposed to foods, diseases, weather, and people that you aren’t used to. However if it’s happening reliably and specifically after flying as opposed to other forms of travel that does sound like it could be a specific problem. It could be an inner-ear thing since airplane compression can fuck with that

    It’s not a perfect solution but sometimes when I fly I wear a mask to reduce the odds of getting sick, though it’s pretty rare I get sick from travel myself, and I travel internationally annually