#internet oracle

[lofijazz]

What if boopsy429 after she met elliezuck, from tiktok when she thought she was Megan Fox ,started stalking her

[lofijazz]

When do you think the next boopsy429 will happen

[linatharsing]

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Is there a drug that... makes you dream

Is there a drug that... makes you appear dead

Is there a drug that... makes u smarter

Is there a drug that... smells sweet

Is there a drug that... smells like burning plastic

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when I look in the mirror I see...

when I look in the mirror I see...a unicorn a badass unicorn

when I look in the mirror I see...a unicorn

when I look in the mirror I see...quotes

when I look in the mirror I see...a different person

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what is the difference between... a chromatid and a chromosome

what is the difference between... intensive and extensive properties

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what is the difference between... rna and dna

what is the difference between... a pure substance and a mixture

#google search #internetoracle #searchsuggestions

[gurubuckaroo]

Feline Butterology Theory of Antigravity

This question was posed to the Usenet Oracle:

"If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter-side down. If a cat is dropped from a window or other high and towering place, it will land on its feet. But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on its feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?"

And in response, thus spoke the Oracle:

"Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat can not smash its furry back. If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore it simply does not fall.

"That's right, you clever mortal (well, as clever as a mortal can get), you have discovered the secret of antigravity! A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height where the forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by scraping off some of the butter, providing lift, or removing some of the cat's limbs, allowing descent.

"Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system. The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFOs is, in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies.

"The one obvious danger is, of course, if the cats manage to eat the bread off their backs they will instantly plummet. Of course the cats will land on their feet, but this usually doesn't do them much good, since right after they make their graceful landing several tons of red-hot starship and pissed-off aliens crash on top of them."

[quirgeek]

(While doing some clean-up on my hard drive, I stumbled across a bit of fiction I wrote back in 2006(!) when I was active on Sony's PlayStation Underground forums. While the Internet Oracle is a real entity on the Internet, the text below was not actually generated through it; I wrote it simply to look like the Internet Oracle. I've been incarnated a few times through it, and it's great fun to write for.)

In trying to come up with a blog entry for Elsa43's Best Blog Contest on the theme of What does gaming hold for you in the future, beyond next generation?, I was stymied. Then it hit me! Why try to guess about the future, when I could simply ask the one who would actually know what the future brings: The Internet Oracle. With that in mind, I sent off my question to him, and waited with baited breath for his answer. I now present my question and his answer to you:

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

Oh, most splendiferous Oracle, the depths of whose thoughts I can only ever hope to get an inkling of, please cast your illumination on my murky thoughts.

A friend of mine has asked people to speculate about the future of console gaming, beyond the currently known next generation systems (Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Nintendo's Revolution). Being omnipotent and omniscient, I am sure that you hold a true vision of what is yet to come, say 30 years down the road, and I humbly implore you to share some of it with me and those I pass it along to.

Obviously, I don't expect you to give me full details, as that would corrupt the space/time continuum and likely cause the destruction of the universe. That, and you probably don't want me to muscle in on whatever shares you hold in the company that makes the next blockbuster console...

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

Well, supplicant, with the improvements you're already seeing in the new batch of consoles, I'm sure you're figuring that things are only going to get better. And you're right... sort of.

For the next 10 years, consoles will leapfrog each other in video quality, taking advantage of HDTV and its higher resolutions. As more people invest in home theatre systems, audio quality will improve too, helping to make the games more and more immersive. Increasing speeds of the internet will bring about more MMORPGs, allowing better real-time interaction than is currently possible.

During that time, holographic displays will enjoy a brief surge of popularity mostly due to the coming influx of 3D movies. A few niche games and systems will appear, though within a year they'll all fade away. Why? Because of the next big technological advances.

In 2021, the first practical quantum-based processors will finally make it out of the labs and into corporate and consumer computers, quickly followed by the development of console systems. The speed increases in these new processors will shatter Moore's Law, allowing processing speeds several orders of magnitude beyond anything that came before them. Affecting every aspect of what a computer can do and how fast it can do it, lifelike, photo-realistic virtual reality systems will become a reality.

These processor speed improvements will also allow the development of full bio-feedback systems, letting you literally get "into" the games you play. Square-Enix's (no, I'm not going to tell you what they'll have changed their name to) Final Fantasy XX will be the first full-immersion experience. You'll be able to feel the virtual wind on your face, the slipperiness of the virtual ice under your feet, and the warmth of the virtual sun on your skin.

Other games that take advantage of this kind of immersion will bring more and more people into gaming, allowing people who normally wouldn't game to live out dreams and experience sights and sounds they never thought they'd ever consider.

A dark side of these systems would evidence itself, through the discovery of systems that allow people to live out truly disturbing scenarios. With these discoveries would come the emergence of those that would hack the systems, allowing the targeted overloading of the bio-feedback systems which would cause real-life injury and death. The term "player killer" will take on a whole new meaning. The gaming communities and the government would hunt out the sociopaths committing these crimes.

Finally, after the release of a bio-feedback virus into Final Fantasy XXI during prime-time hours, which subsequently causes the deaths of over 10,000 people who were hooked into the system at the time, the government shuts it down. They also shut down all other games employing the technology in order to prevent the potential spread of the virus. Upon investigation, it is revealed that the virus was released by terrorists, and that had the government not stepped in when they did, the terrorists would have succeeded in releasing it into other networks.

Between the lawsuits and the loss of revenue, several major game producers are bankrupted. As well, the "Final Fantasy Tragedy" scares millions of gamers away from the newer game consoles.

All is not lost, though, as people dust off their pre-quantum processor systems and dig out their old games. Retro gaming makes a bigger comeback than we're experiencing now, causing a boom of production of old-school titles.

So, what will the gaming landscape be like in 30 years? Pretty much what it will look like in about a year. Dark, I know, but who could have guessed (beyond me)?

You owe the Oracle a classic Asteroids arcade machine.

[linatharsing]

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