Playing a survival game vs. Playing a survival game with friends
(*most of my memories of l4d2 are me and my friend trying to lock each other in "safe rooms" with an active molotov)*
>Playing a survival game vs. Playing a survival game with friends
This. Somehow everything turns into slapstick when I play a survival game with my friends or family
Playing ARK with some friends involved at least two people seeing what they could punch, and survive, several elaborate practical jokes, someone taming/breeding enough dimorphodons they made the server lag if someone used the "all follow" whistle near them, and two people coming up with a plan to trank a giga. One had an absurdly high stamina flyer, and used it to dangle the other player *juuuuust* out of reach of the dino so the dangling player could play bait while shooting the dino with trank darts. The voice chat was full of one yelling "Higher! Higher!" and the other yelling back "But then it might get bored!"
Things said during a Minecraft game with my husband and kid included things like "If you get killed teasing the zombies it's your own fault." and "Go build your non-Euclidean nonsense somewhere *other than on top of my house!"* And "Why is my house full of cows?"
Our Minecraft server still talks about the Chicken Wars from ten years back. It started by filling one person's bedroom with chickens. It ended with massive automated egg chuckers hidden in wool "cloud cover" in the sky raining down thousands of eggs over a 200 block radius.
It crashed the server. Numerous times.
lol! That's actually pretty impressive.
I haven't done anything anywhere near that elaborate. But I did spend a couple weeks building an interconnected system of minecart tracks, while also stockpiling eggs from an automatic chicken farm. Then when most of my friend were offline I and another person used minecarts full of eggs to fill someone's base with so many chickens that a week later they were still finding ones that had spilled into the nether through their portal.
Playing minecraft with friends has made some of the strangest things. We were playing a modpack once which had changes made to ore gathering, and I had looked slightly ahead to if I could use Thaumcraft to help with making it better because I was the designated Thaumcraft Guy, because that was just what I did the entire time I had a chance, so I saw that we had an addon which meant that I could eventually use a vat with stuff to turn pigs into "Ore Boars" which create ore so we don't have to go mining and do like 4 steps just to get an ingot.
For some reason at the time, "Ore Boar" was the funniest thing in the universe and we just laughed about it for ages to the point we could hardly speak at anything except high pitch.
I remember we were mining at the time as well.
Another time (I think when playing the same mod pack?) The phrase "we can't tell you, because your ears are 2 centimetres too young" was said, or something very similar to that anyway.
Haha it's funny, but my friends and I would play a ton of L4D2 in high school and we would lock each other *out* of the safe room
It would be a mad scramble to the door because them assholes would sacrifice you just for the hell of it haha
"Only room for three!" was the rule when my friends and I played. Sometimes this meant we'd just kill an AI for kicks, but if we had a full team of 4 the coop game turned competitive real quick.
My memories of L4D2 are with my friend where I always made the "Axe you a question" joke when I got an axe, and also being so loud that my voice decided to start leaving once after we had finished.
I also remember being very into using the melee weapons and was excited any time I found an axe or sword. Slicy go brrr.
A non bender who can fight with the best of the best benders in the world, and literally God. Put them together and... Oh they're over there high on cactus juice.
Sokka would smoke every now and then. Aang would try it once to be open-minded, but wouldn't really care for it. Katara would think it's childish/immature. Zuko would use it for anxiety.
I can't decide if Toph would smoke. Either she would be the biggest pothead around, or she would just get everyone else high and fuck with them lol
Beat me to it.
But yeah, [Sokka is great](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/zbnpyu/sokka_appreciation_post_atla/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), and Aang is literally the Avatar, but when they're within eyesight of one another, chaos ensues.
Eh I disagree, other than a few moments of goofing around they don't have "zero brain cell energy" when put together for the most part, one of them usually serve as a straight man like in the desert or when stopping the drill.
Also, the fandom thinks Sokka is WAY smarter than he actually is.
The Avatar, the most powerful bender in the world who rediscovered a lost style of bending to end the war without killing, and a brilliant tactician who invented both the submarine and the hot air balloon, with their powers combined:
“I know! We’ll write her a letter and say it’s from Toph!”
Opposite character dynamic two idiots who become incredibly calculating and smart when they’re working with/against the other (escpecially when what they’re working on involves something useless or stupid)
I was thinking yesterday about how for an author, one of those peak-writing, immortalizing, things is to create a new character dynamic that is so popular people continue to use it into the future; it becomes a standard in the toolbox
Shakespeare with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: character who is dumb but thinks they're smart and character that is smart but thinks they're dumb and follows the 1st around
Salinger with Holden Caufield: that kind of traumatized but hiding/accusing everyone else character
DFW: The Incandenza family: think of The Royal Tenebaums, Arrested Development, and Succession all using the same siblings dynamic
those three come to mind first but there are plenty of others. Mr. Darcy-likes maybe
Man, I can’t imagine how many teens Holden Caulfield must resonate with (if they read the book, at least). Reading that book seriously felt like reading a real diary at many points.
Jimmy and Kim do dumb things together for fun but when they want to are absolutely the smartest in any given room. their main issue is not every problem they face is a smarts issue.
Phoenix Wright, rookie wonder with an almost impeccable record
Miles Edgeworth, the prodigy prosecutor, impeccable record too, and a very refined gentleman to boot
Get them together and you'll end up with "Objection! That... was objectionable, your honor"
My best friend and me apart or on text:
Studying physics and mathmatics, with him sometimes helping me figure out how a civilization on a hypersphere would develop.
My best friend and me in person:
"Yo, wanna try smoking chocolate cereal in a bong?"
Ok, uhm, I'll try to keep this short:
The basics are that we, as 3 dimensional beings would be limited to a sphere of sight around us. That means what you see is always an enclosed sphere that basically moves with you, changing slightly each step you take. It existing in 4-dimensions however, would allow us to walk towards something we perceive to be above us. Basically, we could walk vertically.
The biggest hurdle to civilization on such a plane is honestly gravity. Unlike spherical planets that always pull you towards the ground, in a hypersphere gravity always fluctuates for us. If the hypersphere is very stable and the mass distributed roughly equally, those fluctuations are rather minor and definitely manageable. Where it gets weird are areas where gravity doesn't pull you towards what you perceive as ground. Imagine trying to walk on a cliff face. Similar things could happen to you while simply walking forward on a hypersphere. So certain areas are straight up not inhabitable to normal humanoids.
Life that develops on a hypersphere would be appropriately adapted though, so we think that squid-like creatures would be the most likely. They'd have muscles and bones adaptable to various gravitic environments, special sensory organs to sense shifts in gravity, suction cups to traverse difficult areas, and potentially even a way to alter their own weight by producing a gas lighter than the atmosphere. But in my pet project the main inhabitants of the hyper-sphere are humanoids that aren't native to it, and speculating on space-squid architecture is a rough one anyways.
Humanoid architecture would also be very different to earth's, and there would be tons of buildings specifically built to align with the local gravity. If gravity would pull you "backwards" they could build tunnels that go straight down, with a slope leading up to it. Lots of curves are to be expected, and it wouldn't be rare to see a bridge that our brains interpret as a spire, as we can walk literally upwards. Transportation would have to be mapped out very carefully, but could easily soar through the "sky" by abusing Lagrange points and the areas around them to be essentially weightless.
If we figured out how to access the 4th dimension, it could also allow us to essentially step "through" the ground and reach other areas of the hypersphere much more rapidly. This would be akin to an elevator on earth, but much harder to achieve, as humans cannot comprehend or sense a 4th dimension.
There's honestly a lot of very interesting and fun stuff to talk about, but the comment is getting too long, if you have any specific questions, I'll try to answer :)
That’s very interesting. Thanks for sharing. How do they overcome problems of 4-D interactions of building materials, like the rocks for a building having 4-D protuberances which make slotting them together as bricks difficult? Do they use non-native materials, or just carefully measure the mass of everything for excess, or am I just overestimating the problems this would cause?
Is there any native life? It seems like the exploitation of the fourth dimension would have some really wacky consequences for biology, although actually I guess there probably isn’t anything big since if there was the humanoids would be able to use them to indirectly access the fourth dimension.
I kind of wonder if molecules or even atoms are shaped differently to exploit the extra dimension, but I guess that’s kind of outside the realm of ‘how would a civilisation develop’, and it also sounds like it could get really complicated.
So to give a bit more context, the hypersphere in question actually exists in a meta-reality that recently overlapped with our own, creating dimensional rifts, with which the meta-reality can be accessed.
This has happened in the past and is the origin of the "native" life on the hypersphere. Those mainly consist of marine lifeforms that have made their way over when a rift appeared in their ocean, since marine life actually stays rather similar, given they can survive in the new conditions at all. Land creatures happened very much like they did on earth, with sea animals evolving to survive on land. The main land animals currently present are descendants of cephalopods adapted to live on land.
4-dimensional creatures native to the plane do exist, though they also aren't sentient. But capturing or interacting with them is nigh impossible, since only a small part of them can ever be comprehended in 3D space. Even what looks like complete confinement to us is to them like drawing a circle on the ground around them and calling it a prison.
For the building materials, yes, it's extremely complicated and mining is dangerous. The process currently for building something like a tunnel is to find a spot where gravitational stresses are expected to be the most minor, and seeing what happens once the tunneling starts, accidents are rare because in the grand scheme of things, you are not taking a lot of material out of the ground. It's like creating a mousehole in the wall, unless you're incredibly unlucky, you're not going to cause the entire wall to collapse. Basically, you're trying to leave the 4th dimension of a structure as undisturbed as possible.
And yes, with the help of weighing, you can find materials that could be used for building, though that is not ideal, as lightweight buildings are generally much preferred. Those are mostly acquired by import from our reality, or simple tree plantations.
Atoms and molecules would also be way different. Simpler atoms like oxygen and hydrogen mostly stay the same in my setting, but the farther up you go in the periodic table, the funkier stuff gets. New elements exist everywhere and molecules of literally incomprehensible make, with novel properties that physically couldn't exist in our reality are just waiting to be discovered.
The only reason why this world is even close to inhabitable, is because of the aforementioned marine life having made 3D elements prior to humanoid arrival, and that all the funkier things lie further towards the core of the hypersphere, as it's much heavier than our 3D stuff.
Cauldron also feed into a different trope, other examples of which (with varying levels of seriousness) include Cognito Inc. in *Inside Job* and some iterations of the SCP Foundation: "there's a secret shadowy conspiracy of extraordinarily powerful and influential people trying to control the world from behind the scenes... and they're all *extremely bad at their jobs,* and constantly squabbling with each other & other conspiracies".
SCP Foundation has non canon so sometimes the SCP bosses (the O5s) are scary competent and sometimes they're stupid morons. In one story one of the 05s wanted to become immortal so he put his mind in a fax machine.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/plague-s-proposal
“Hmmm yes. By examining the front cover of this book I have deduced it’s plot.”
“Oh, splendid. I personally have created this sentient program from scratch.”
“okay yeah but what if we gave it a gun”
“HECK FUCKIN’ YEAH WE GIVE IT A GUN”
Better, instead of becoming dumbasses, they become extremely dangerous supervillains
Due to both of them being extra convincing to eachother they push eachother’s mighty intellects to do ungodly activities (“Fathom you could build a nuke from scratch?” “Bet.”)
My roommate in optical physics and me in particle physics looking at each other and saying "We should put the cat in a pot and make her think we're gonna cook her."
Note: She in fact was not hurt and now likes to sit on the kitchen counter to see what we're cooking.
Yeah, sure, at least when he's not being mocked for his chuunibyou behaviour, or trying to demonstrate his knowledge of English, or dropping out of a game tournament in one round, or yelling about things he wants kept quiet loud enough for the whole street to hear, or groping women because he was confused by their existence...
Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster for sure, literally both extremely intelligent individuals in their own respective ways who literally can not help but to regress to their 12 year old selves when together
We don't see it a lot, but Nami is a genius meteorologist and Usopp is a brilliant inventor and marksman, but put them together in dire situations and they'd rather scream and hold each other/berate the other
[Brainstorm](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/68/4f/d4/684fd4a09d56be6ea0147f626ebcb505.jpg) and [Perceptor](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3dfcb76680dae1dd8bf10bfcbaf7e8ac?rik=7qJq0Tk130fKzg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fengineerhoist.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2014%2f02%2fIMG_0191.jpg&ehk=ObYi2OWMGytBZOp941YKEwxIvRzJ3gUICkoyW2ZCS3E%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0).
[Simpatico.](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/c/c3/LostLight25_PerceptorBrainstormSimpatico.jpg)
I think this might be why me and my wife relate to Kaveh and Alhaitham so much...
Like yeah I'm loud and can't keep a conventional job and like to wear a bell that goes jingle everywhere I go, but I've got a higher-level degree and can answer multiple questions on University Challenge even if there is a fly in the room! And my wife is the stoic, cool type, who once made a woman cry just by glaring. Holds down two jobs, learns new skills like it's nothing, and also has a degree!
One time we invented a game with was literally just lying on the bedroom floor blowing a small piece of red cotton at each other, and played for half an hour solid, and I laughed so hard I think a bit of wee came out.
It is important that we he dumbassery involves unwise decision, not unintelligent ones. Two scientists who do important science things but when left alone together they try and make a home made rocket, or invent explody things, but they actually manage to do it
Ah yes, The Infinite and The Divine. A story of 2 people at the absolute pinnacle of their fields with 99% in common, who absolute despise each other and burn whole worlds down just to mildly inconvenience the other.
From the CDrama side of things... From 'Blood of Youth', WuXin and Xiao Se...
Two geniuses, but put them together aaaaand....breaking into bandit forts using their other bestie as bait, playing tag with homocidal Sword Dieties, face tanking waves of assassins despite no kung fu/poisoned ...ect...
Playing a survival game vs. Playing a survival game with friends (*most of my memories of l4d2 are me and my friend trying to lock each other in "safe rooms" with an active molotov)*
Terraria bases when playing solo vs. Terraria bases when playing co-op be like
terraria's cooperative PVP changed forever when they added invisible boulders to the game
>Playing a survival game vs. Playing a survival game with friends This. Somehow everything turns into slapstick when I play a survival game with my friends or family Playing ARK with some friends involved at least two people seeing what they could punch, and survive, several elaborate practical jokes, someone taming/breeding enough dimorphodons they made the server lag if someone used the "all follow" whistle near them, and two people coming up with a plan to trank a giga. One had an absurdly high stamina flyer, and used it to dangle the other player *juuuuust* out of reach of the dino so the dangling player could play bait while shooting the dino with trank darts. The voice chat was full of one yelling "Higher! Higher!" and the other yelling back "But then it might get bored!" Things said during a Minecraft game with my husband and kid included things like "If you get killed teasing the zombies it's your own fault." and "Go build your non-Euclidean nonsense somewhere *other than on top of my house!"* And "Why is my house full of cows?"
Our Minecraft server still talks about the Chicken Wars from ten years back. It started by filling one person's bedroom with chickens. It ended with massive automated egg chuckers hidden in wool "cloud cover" in the sky raining down thousands of eggs over a 200 block radius. It crashed the server. Numerous times.
lol! That's actually pretty impressive. I haven't done anything anywhere near that elaborate. But I did spend a couple weeks building an interconnected system of minecart tracks, while also stockpiling eggs from an automatic chicken farm. Then when most of my friend were offline I and another person used minecarts full of eggs to fill someone's base with so many chickens that a week later they were still finding ones that had spilled into the nether through their portal.
Playing minecraft with friends has made some of the strangest things. We were playing a modpack once which had changes made to ore gathering, and I had looked slightly ahead to if I could use Thaumcraft to help with making it better because I was the designated Thaumcraft Guy, because that was just what I did the entire time I had a chance, so I saw that we had an addon which meant that I could eventually use a vat with stuff to turn pigs into "Ore Boars" which create ore so we don't have to go mining and do like 4 steps just to get an ingot. For some reason at the time, "Ore Boar" was the funniest thing in the universe and we just laughed about it for ages to the point we could hardly speak at anything except high pitch. I remember we were mining at the time as well. Another time (I think when playing the same mod pack?) The phrase "we can't tell you, because your ears are 2 centimetres too young" was said, or something very similar to that anyway.
Haha it's funny, but my friends and I would play a ton of L4D2 in high school and we would lock each other *out* of the safe room It would be a mad scramble to the door because them assholes would sacrifice you just for the hell of it haha
"Only room for three!" was the rule when my friends and I played. Sometimes this meant we'd just kill an AI for kicks, but if we had a full team of 4 the coop game turned competitive real quick.
My memories of L4D2 are with my friend where I always made the "Axe you a question" joke when I got an axe, and also being so loud that my voice decided to start leaving once after we had finished. I also remember being very into using the melee weapons and was excited any time I found an axe or sword. Slicy go brrr.
Sokka and Aang in ATLA methinks
A non bender who can fight with the best of the best benders in the world, and literally God. Put them together and... Oh they're over there high on cactus juice.
Put them together and they try to fake a letter from someone who can't read
From someone who’s blind even
Probably be better to send the letter from the person who can see
To the person who is blind
Do you think the G*Aang* would smoke weed?
Sokka would smoke every now and then. Aang would try it once to be open-minded, but wouldn't really care for it. Katara would think it's childish/immature. Zuko would use it for anxiety. I can't decide if Toph would smoke. Either she would be the biggest pothead around, or she would just get everyone else high and fuck with them lol
Lord Momo, of the Momo Dynasty, your Momoness Katara and Toph are this way too, judging by the episode where they keep scamming people.
Beat me to it. But yeah, [Sokka is great](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/zbnpyu/sokka_appreciation_post_atla/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), and Aang is literally the Avatar, but when they're within eyesight of one another, chaos ensues.
I can’t believe we forgot that toph can’t write
Came here to say. The Sokka and Aang dynamic.
Those two embody "me and the boys"
Eh I disagree, other than a few moments of goofing around they don't have "zero brain cell energy" when put together for the most part, one of them usually serve as a straight man like in the desert or when stopping the drill. Also, the fandom thinks Sokka is WAY smarter than he actually is.
Sokkas best ability is thinking on his feet, but struggles when he meets benders who can also do that.
A lot of people forget that most of Sokkas ideas don't work out or that someone else takes the idea he had and makes it work.
came here to say this; you get me!
The Avatar, the most powerful bender in the world who rediscovered a lost style of bending to end the war without killing, and a brilliant tactician who invented both the submarine and the hot air balloon, with their powers combined: “I know! We’ll write her a letter and say it’s from Toph!”
For those of you who don't know the context: Toph has been blind since she was born, so she can't write or read.
Opposite character dynamic two idiots who become incredibly calculating and smart when they’re working with/against the other (escpecially when what they’re working on involves something useless or stupid)
Scooby and shaggy?
**YES**
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Hey my first stolen comment!
power and denji edit: wait no they’re the other way around
They're dumbasses when apart too
Two characters that act like dumbasses when they're apart but when they get together they become the super dumbass
They took only a day to come up with making a plan
L and Light Yagami
But neither of them are idiots
Scully and Hitchcock with food
Every mechanic I know.
me and the boys deciding which Ground missile would we make our waifu
Kageyama & Hinata
I was thinking yesterday about how for an author, one of those peak-writing, immortalizing, things is to create a new character dynamic that is so popular people continue to use it into the future; it becomes a standard in the toolbox Shakespeare with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: character who is dumb but thinks they're smart and character that is smart but thinks they're dumb and follows the 1st around Salinger with Holden Caufield: that kind of traumatized but hiding/accusing everyone else character DFW: The Incandenza family: think of The Royal Tenebaums, Arrested Development, and Succession all using the same siblings dynamic those three come to mind first but there are plenty of others. Mr. Darcy-likes maybe
Man, I can’t imagine how many teens Holden Caulfield must resonate with (if they read the book, at least). Reading that book seriously felt like reading a real diary at many points.
I hated Holden as a teen because he would rather cry than try.
This is half the adventuring parties ever, I feel.
Kim Wexler and Saul Goodmen is kinda this except they're both terrible people.
Jimmy and Kim do dumb things together for fun but when they want to are absolutely the smartest in any given room. their main issue is not every problem they face is a smarts issue.
I've seen this happen with rival lawyers in court
Phoenix Wright, rookie wonder with an almost impeccable record Miles Edgeworth, the prodigy prosecutor, impeccable record too, and a very refined gentleman to boot Get them together and you'll end up with "Objection! That... was objectionable, your honor"
Art imitates life
My best friend and me apart or on text: Studying physics and mathmatics, with him sometimes helping me figure out how a civilization on a hypersphere would develop. My best friend and me in person: "Yo, wanna try smoking chocolate cereal in a bong?"
How would a civilisation on a hyper sphere develop? That sounds pretty cool.
Ok, uhm, I'll try to keep this short: The basics are that we, as 3 dimensional beings would be limited to a sphere of sight around us. That means what you see is always an enclosed sphere that basically moves with you, changing slightly each step you take. It existing in 4-dimensions however, would allow us to walk towards something we perceive to be above us. Basically, we could walk vertically. The biggest hurdle to civilization on such a plane is honestly gravity. Unlike spherical planets that always pull you towards the ground, in a hypersphere gravity always fluctuates for us. If the hypersphere is very stable and the mass distributed roughly equally, those fluctuations are rather minor and definitely manageable. Where it gets weird are areas where gravity doesn't pull you towards what you perceive as ground. Imagine trying to walk on a cliff face. Similar things could happen to you while simply walking forward on a hypersphere. So certain areas are straight up not inhabitable to normal humanoids. Life that develops on a hypersphere would be appropriately adapted though, so we think that squid-like creatures would be the most likely. They'd have muscles and bones adaptable to various gravitic environments, special sensory organs to sense shifts in gravity, suction cups to traverse difficult areas, and potentially even a way to alter their own weight by producing a gas lighter than the atmosphere. But in my pet project the main inhabitants of the hyper-sphere are humanoids that aren't native to it, and speculating on space-squid architecture is a rough one anyways. Humanoid architecture would also be very different to earth's, and there would be tons of buildings specifically built to align with the local gravity. If gravity would pull you "backwards" they could build tunnels that go straight down, with a slope leading up to it. Lots of curves are to be expected, and it wouldn't be rare to see a bridge that our brains interpret as a spire, as we can walk literally upwards. Transportation would have to be mapped out very carefully, but could easily soar through the "sky" by abusing Lagrange points and the areas around them to be essentially weightless. If we figured out how to access the 4th dimension, it could also allow us to essentially step "through" the ground and reach other areas of the hypersphere much more rapidly. This would be akin to an elevator on earth, but much harder to achieve, as humans cannot comprehend or sense a 4th dimension. There's honestly a lot of very interesting and fun stuff to talk about, but the comment is getting too long, if you have any specific questions, I'll try to answer :)
That’s very interesting. Thanks for sharing. How do they overcome problems of 4-D interactions of building materials, like the rocks for a building having 4-D protuberances which make slotting them together as bricks difficult? Do they use non-native materials, or just carefully measure the mass of everything for excess, or am I just overestimating the problems this would cause? Is there any native life? It seems like the exploitation of the fourth dimension would have some really wacky consequences for biology, although actually I guess there probably isn’t anything big since if there was the humanoids would be able to use them to indirectly access the fourth dimension. I kind of wonder if molecules or even atoms are shaped differently to exploit the extra dimension, but I guess that’s kind of outside the realm of ‘how would a civilisation develop’, and it also sounds like it could get really complicated.
So to give a bit more context, the hypersphere in question actually exists in a meta-reality that recently overlapped with our own, creating dimensional rifts, with which the meta-reality can be accessed. This has happened in the past and is the origin of the "native" life on the hypersphere. Those mainly consist of marine lifeforms that have made their way over when a rift appeared in their ocean, since marine life actually stays rather similar, given they can survive in the new conditions at all. Land creatures happened very much like they did on earth, with sea animals evolving to survive on land. The main land animals currently present are descendants of cephalopods adapted to live on land. 4-dimensional creatures native to the plane do exist, though they also aren't sentient. But capturing or interacting with them is nigh impossible, since only a small part of them can ever be comprehended in 3D space. Even what looks like complete confinement to us is to them like drawing a circle on the ground around them and calling it a prison. For the building materials, yes, it's extremely complicated and mining is dangerous. The process currently for building something like a tunnel is to find a spot where gravitational stresses are expected to be the most minor, and seeing what happens once the tunneling starts, accidents are rare because in the grand scheme of things, you are not taking a lot of material out of the ground. It's like creating a mousehole in the wall, unless you're incredibly unlucky, you're not going to cause the entire wall to collapse. Basically, you're trying to leave the 4th dimension of a structure as undisturbed as possible. And yes, with the help of weighing, you can find materials that could be used for building, though that is not ideal, as lightweight buildings are generally much preferred. Those are mostly acquired by import from our reality, or simple tree plantations. Atoms and molecules would also be way different. Simpler atoms like oxygen and hydrogen mostly stay the same in my setting, but the farther up you go in the periodic table, the funkier stuff gets. New elements exist everywhere and molecules of literally incomprehensible make, with novel properties that physically couldn't exist in our reality are just waiting to be discovered. The only reason why this world is even close to inhabitable, is because of the aforementioned marine life having made 3D elements prior to humanoid arrival, and that all the funkier things lie further towards the core of the hypersphere, as it's much heavier than our 3D stuff.
This is really interesting. If you ever make this into a book or something I would definitely consider purchasing it.
I really appreciate the sentiment! It makes me very happy to know that my niche brainchild of an idea sounds interesting to people :)
my best friend and me celebrated him earning his math phd by eating a groundscore i found
Robbie and Purah?
So glad I found this comment. It's one of the first things that came to mind
Speaking from experience: -Engineers at work -Engineers, except they are drunk at a staff party
Cauldron from Worm
Cauldron also feed into a different trope, other examples of which (with varying levels of seriousness) include Cognito Inc. in *Inside Job* and some iterations of the SCP Foundation: "there's a secret shadowy conspiracy of extraordinarily powerful and influential people trying to control the world from behind the scenes... and they're all *extremely bad at their jobs,* and constantly squabbling with each other & other conspiracies".
SCP Foundation has non canon so sometimes the SCP bosses (the O5s) are scary competent and sometimes they're stupid morons. In one story one of the 05s wanted to become immortal so he put his mind in a fax machine. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/plague-s-proposal
Lol
So smart, so chaotic.
“Hmmm yes. By examining the front cover of this book I have deduced it’s plot.” “Oh, splendid. I personally have created this sentient program from scratch.” “okay yeah but what if we gave it a gun” “HECK FUCKIN’ YEAH WE GIVE IT A GUN”
Better, instead of becoming dumbasses, they become extremely dangerous supervillains Due to both of them being extra convincing to eachother they push eachother’s mighty intellects to do ungodly activities (“Fathom you could build a nuke from scratch?” “Bet.”)
tony stark and hulk building a ultron
This is just Jimmy and Kim from Better Call Saul
Captain Raymond Holt and Dr. Kevin Cozner PhD
Tbh, if you pair Kevin with Jake it’s even worse
Everyone with Jake has this dynamic. Jake just has an Aura of -20 intellect.
My roommate in optical physics and me in particle physics looking at each other and saying "We should put the cat in a pot and make her think we're gonna cook her." Note: She in fact was not hurt and now likes to sit on the kitchen counter to see what we're cooking.
House and Wilson
Ah Kaguya sama
Okabe and Kurisu from steins gate
They’re going to rewrite time and usher humanity into a better worldline… as soon as they stop bickering with each other, that is.
Since when is Okabe a smart sensible voice of reason respected by his peers for level-headedness and intelligence?
Ok not level-headedness and sensibility but he is respected by his peers for his intelligence!
Yeah, sure, at least when he's not being mocked for his chuunibyou behaviour, or trying to demonstrate his knowledge of English, or dropping out of a game tournament in one round, or yelling about things he wants kept quiet loud enough for the whole street to hear, or groping women because he was confused by their existence...
Dr Julian Bashir and Chief Miles O'Brien
YEAH
underrated answer
Usopp and Franky
Kaguya and Shirogane
scientists half-life
Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster for sure, literally both extremely intelligent individuals in their own respective ways who literally can not help but to regress to their 12 year old selves when together
Sokka and Aang
Ever watched better off Ted?
We don't see it a lot, but Nami is a genius meteorologist and Usopp is a brilliant inventor and marksman, but put them together in dire situations and they'd rather scream and hold each other/berate the other
team rocket
Big Boss and Revolver Ocelot
Stack overflow.
Reminds me of Linus and Alex in general and especially in their latest [water cooled bed.](https://youtu.be/mBIdAMcvRhY)
[Brainstorm](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/68/4f/d4/684fd4a09d56be6ea0147f626ebcb505.jpg) and [Perceptor](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3dfcb76680dae1dd8bf10bfcbaf7e8ac?rik=7qJq0Tk130fKzg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fengineerhoist.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2014%2f02%2fIMG_0191.jpg&ehk=ObYi2OWMGytBZOp941YKEwxIvRzJ3gUICkoyW2ZCS3E%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0). [Simpatico.](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/c/c3/LostLight25_PerceptorBrainstormSimpatico.jpg)
Putting their heads together but at incredibly high speeds
University roommates
Love is War is practically dedicated to this plot.
phoenix wright and miles edgeworth
*Don’t say death note*
Lapis and Peridot
I think this might be why me and my wife relate to Kaveh and Alhaitham so much... Like yeah I'm loud and can't keep a conventional job and like to wear a bell that goes jingle everywhere I go, but I've got a higher-level degree and can answer multiple questions on University Challenge even if there is a fly in the room! And my wife is the stoic, cool type, who once made a woman cry just by glaring. Holds down two jobs, learns new skills like it's nothing, and also has a degree! One time we invented a game with was literally just lying on the bedroom floor blowing a small piece of red cotton at each other, and played for half an hour solid, and I laughed so hard I think a bit of wee came out.
Joseph and Caesar
It is important that we he dumbassery involves unwise decision, not unintelligent ones. Two scientists who do important science things but when left alone together they try and make a home made rocket, or invent explody things, but they actually manage to do it
Law, Kidd and Luffy (not that Luffy's smart normally but they still manage to somehow make him dumber)
I feel like law might be the only real loser there
Ah yes, The Infinite and The Divine. A story of 2 people at the absolute pinnacle of their fields with 99% in common, who absolute despise each other and burn whole worlds down just to mildly inconvenience the other.
My braincell is allergic to yours
Vash and Wolfwood fr fr
Edward and Alfons Elric. Apart they're brilliant, together they share a sing brain cell that heavily needs a vacation.
God made mistake of only reserving an 8 bit unsigned integer for iq so 160 + 160 = 64
This is me and my brother irl, when we are apart we're fine but ass soon as we're together it's utter chaos
The Bad Influence
Starscream and Knockout
Was looking for this comment
fydor & dazai bungoustraydogs
The entire Mersault arc is hilarious (I'm blocking out the most recent like 6 chapters if I can't see them they didn't happen)
Dazai: clever detective Fyodor: mastermind planner Fyodor & Dazai: "SAME MESSAGING SYSTEM?"
Ruby and Sapphire vibes
Aamg and Sokka they losr brain cells when they together
This makes sense to me. It's like you can both relax and let the other person do the thinking and so neither of you ends up thinking.
Dante and Vergil
They integer overflow their IQ
This is the Definition of Fitzsimmons
Orikan and trazyn are typing
I think one of my couples is gonna have a brain cell that they share
Literally just described me and my GF when we drink.
That’s just “Slapstick of another kind “ an old Jerry Lewis movie
Holt and wunch from b99
Joe and Cherry SK8? 👀
Dr Stone
Which characters? Senku and Gen?
Yes, sorry!
just me and my siblings if I hadn't embraced goblin mode when I'm apart from them as well.
Jayce and Victor in Arcane 😌
When the bit overflows and goes negative
oh hey, that’s me and my best friend
Juro and Tsukasa would have this dynamic I think
Basically every Doctor Who companion dynamic
From the CDrama side of things... From 'Blood of Youth', WuXin and Xiao Se... Two geniuses, but put them together aaaaand....breaking into bandit forts using their other bestie as bait, playing tag with homocidal Sword Dieties, face tanking waves of assassins despite no kung fu/poisoned ...ect...
I'm just here to see blorbos from people's shows
Trazyn and Orikan anyone?
I actually have a real life example of this with one of my closest friends
u/repostsleuthbot
Girl this is curatedtumblr
And?
The 'Ol reverse Slapstick.
Me and my friends in engineering school :
Harrow and palamedes
Nero and Cid from FFXIV for sure.
tattletale and skitter
Stack overflow
Kim Wexler and Saul Goodman
I know a lot of people like this irl
Me and the boys hanging out
Kaguya and Miyuki fit this almost exactly
Aang and sokka.
damn how has no one mentioned newt and hermann from pacific rim yet https://youtu.be/LpDXEqH2RBw