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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A fun detail is that all the franken cubes fry and die after hearing the paradox, but Wheatley is still fine.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the implication being that in a typical Sledgehammers-To-Crack-Nuts solution to a nonexistent problem, Aperture put full-blown, totally sentient AIs in their cubes/turrets that were at least as intelligent as Wheatley.

Also I only just noticed that Bagley from Watch Dogs is very, very similar to Wheatley.

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? I didn't notice that.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't either till someone mentioned it in a speed running video

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was that Msushi? I think I heard that same fact from him.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think so. I've been watching a lot of his videos recently, so that's make sense.

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

but then it wouldn't be false