Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.
One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.
My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.
Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".
Well, it's not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.
I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.
I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it
Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.
Holy shit I was not prepared to see a dude fall to his death. I thought for sure it was just a glitz reel filmed the day before his failed attempt at flying
I can't tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he's trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
To be the devil's advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don't ask me, I'm a gamer
Acrobatics buffs your horizontal and vertical speeds. The scroll lets you leap across a huge portion of the entire island in under ten seconds. I'm not sure how big Vvardenfell is canonically, but the caster is definitely going far faster than terminal velocity.
Playing Morrowind really spoiled me for the rest of the Elder Scrolls series. Many gameplay elements of it were trash, but the ability to circumvent so many of them with magic/alchemy more than made up for it. Oblivion and Skyrim somewhat improved the gameplay, but they removed the option to become a god through exploiting magic.
I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We'll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.
A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.
RIght! What kid didn't jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape..., then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that...
When I was a kid my older sister fooled me into believing that if I made daily sacrifice of a specific flower in a valley near my home at exactly 6am I'd get to fly and even eat the clouds. I did that for almost a month before my mom told me the truth.
There's lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn't move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn't test what he said it did.
I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn't test what he's trying to test. Or at least, doesn't test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there's a lot of grey area in between "This one guy's beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality" and "naive realism is true".
What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I'm really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.
Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn't believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I'm not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.
I don't actually believe in airplanes, I think they're just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
Couldn't you test this by having someone attempt to use a fake radio believing it's real?
I mean if that were true, wouldn't ANY air plane work? Wouldn't it be impossible to improve on the design of airplanes if it's all belief?
It's not all belief, and I'm not saying it's all belief. I'm saying the laws of physics that appear to us through our senses are actually laws of psychology. But they are still laws. I believe we have a better chance of understanding them and building technology to overcome them if we use both physics and psychology at once on the problem. But deception and self-delusion are not especially powerful psychological techniques, so I would not expect them to work very well in this situation.
One of the kids at my college did an art thesis to the effect of mapping out, in giant greys anatomy meets da Vinci like drawings, what it would take for the human body to evolve to support wings. Mad scientist level and cool work.
I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There's a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.
This kind of a note is also one of the very first things you see in Divinity: Original Sin. I just started playing the game for the first time last night and got a chuckle out of that.
EDIT: It appears that another party has published the contents of my journal before me, currently with a resounding 15 upvotes. I believe this previous poster is a farce. A Telvanni spy sent to ridicule my work.
"I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We'll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success."
The most useless talismen in the game. At least the Trick Mirror talismans might actually trick a bad red man into fighting the wrong guy. Knowing when a fall will simply hurt you, kill you, or already be completely safe is impossible.
When there's a smile in your heart
There's no better time to start
Think of all the joy you'll find
When you leave the world behind
And bid your cares goodbye
You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
There's this group that pokes it's head around here from time to time that call themselves that, or "anarcho-antirealists." They claim that objective reality, including physical laws like gravity, are "oppressive" and only exist because people believe in them.
nods I'm friends with some, but wanted an outsiders' perspective. To be honest I only joined their discord group because I was desperate to believe. Now I'm there simply because they're nice people.
I really wish I could believe in magic, but, that ship sailed when it turned out Uri Geller can't really bend spoons with his mind.
I used to be New Age. Watched Spirit Science religiously.
Oh the fact that people believe you can do anything by willing it hard enough.
Comes crashing down when you notice that only the higher ups in the cult seem to be able to will themselves rich. Especially when none of them are willing to demonstrate their "powers" under controlled conditions.
All this "You can literally do anything, death is an illusion" talk and yet they never actually show any time a crystal has actually cured cancer.
I never wanted to be a materialist realist. But the problem with reality is that it is true even if you are doing your damndest not to believe it.
122 Comments
PDFuego@lemmy.world · 138 pts · 209d
Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 209d
One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.
My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.
Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".
IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 209d
Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that's when they gain the teleportation skill.
cynar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d
It's not true teleportation, it's just incredible acceleration. It's easy to mistake one for the other, if you make the mistake of blinking.
I can also note that their top speed is still limited. They can't run on water, for example. (Guess how we found THAT one out!)
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 209d
Well, it's not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
liek if u cry evrytime :'(
Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 209d
And from that point you can just fly all the way to the restaurant at the end of the universe.
urandom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 209d
I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 22 pts · 209d
I do remember thinking something along the lines of: "... that.... sounds weirdly do-able.....?? .... Shut up, brain.... Unless......"
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 209d
I've spent more time than I care to admit to trying to shoot ki blasts and kamehamehas out of my hands
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d
Dbz is the first thing I thought of. Powering up and screaming while all the other kids laugh at you. Idk how I ever got a girlfriend
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 209d
I did it after seeing Hook in the theater
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 208d
Correct
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 209d
The secret is that you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 209d
I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 209d
It's basically how orbiting works in a roundabout way. You just needed to go faster!
foofiepie@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 209d
Very good.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 207d
According to catholics, that's how sex works too. Too bad they're all sharpshooters...
derry@midwest.social · 20 pts · 209d
Tell that to a whale or bowl of petunias that suddenly materialized in the atmosphere of a planet with gravity
DetachablePianist@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 209d
Not again
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 209d
I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it
FjordDan@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 209d
I almost upvoted you, then I realized you had 42 upvotes.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
Now they're over, it might be time to downvote
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 209d
If only Andrew Tate had the balls to recreate it irl
undeffeined@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 208d
Just Aim for the bushes
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 59 pts · 209d
You go first Andrew!
jqubed@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 209d
I only just noticed who the OOP was
beetus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 209d
Got whiplash seeing it was him.
nyankas@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 209d
Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.
banause@feddit.org · 25 pts · 209d
It looks exactly as stupid as I thought.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 11 pts · 209d
I had a similar genius idea involving a bunk bed when I was 5.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 209d
It looks like he just wrapped himself up in a camping blanket like it's a cape, but with a vampire-style oversized collar
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 208d
Holy shit I was not prepared to see a dude fall to his death. I thought for sure it was just a glitz reel filmed the day before his failed attempt at flying
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d
How Thomas Wayne actually died
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 207d
Some crazy person eventually got their fancy wing suit to actually work eventually.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 209d
I can't tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he's trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 6 pts · 209d
I don't seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he's said, it's usually some vacuous nonsense like this.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 209d
To be the devil's advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don't ask me, I'm a gamer
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d
You're most likely right, but didn't he also say that it's gay for a man to sleep with a woman for enjoyment?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 208d
literal basic straightness is gay???
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 209d
But I get a
stupid-lookingsweet hat off that body, plus scrolls containing a new and hilarious way to commit suicide!aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 209d
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 209d
I'm aware. Too bad the author didn't have the player's amazing ability to read a sheet of paper while flying at Mach speeds!
Hawke@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d
Human terminal velocity is no where near Mach speeds. Only about 120-200 mph.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 209d
Acrobatics buffs your horizontal and vertical speeds. The scroll lets you leap across a huge portion of the entire island in under ten seconds. I'm not sure how big Vvardenfell is canonically, but the caster is definitely going far faster than terminal velocity.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 209d
Great game design. Bethesda is telling the player "You can break our game with custom magic. Go do stupid shit."
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 11 pts · 209d
Playing Morrowind really spoiled me for the rest of the Elder Scrolls series. Many gameplay elements of it were trash, but the ability to circumvent so many of them with magic/alchemy more than made up for it. Oblivion and Skyrim somewhat improved the gameplay, but they removed the option to become a god through exploiting magic.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 209d
And Morrowind removed mechanics from Daggerfall, like climbing walls and giving yourself perks and flaws at character creation.
And Arena before that had a spell to pass through walls. That broke things infinitely worse than levitation ever did!
Rokin@leminal.space · 19 pts · 209d
With the Scrolls of Icarian Flight, flying is not the problem, but the landing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 209d
Tarhiel's dumbass just needed to cast another scroll before landing. 🤦♂️
Hupf@feddit.org · 16 pts · 208d
I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We'll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.
Etterra@discuss.online · 15 pts · 209d
A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 209d
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single pilot in the world
bampop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single
pilotprecipice in the worldtroglodytis@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 209d
I'm pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.
I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
RIght! What kid didn't jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape..., then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that...
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 208d
Just flying with a paraglider is fucking amazing. I bet this moron never even tried that. Twenty hours + theory exam and you're good to go.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 209d
When I was a kid my older sister fooled me into believing that if I made daily sacrifice of a specific flower in a valley near my home at exactly 6am I'd get to fly and even eat the clouds. I did that for almost a month before my mom told me the truth.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 208d
there's a special word for people trying to make someone else fly; defenestration
Scuzzm0nkey@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 208d
I do believe that requires an open window in the vicinity as well.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 207d
Doesn't strictly have to be open, though that will make it easier.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 207d
Can't you just throw someone off a cliff, and then throw a window after them?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 208d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 208d
🤌
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 208d
I remember when New Age sold me on Idealism.
Here's the thing. It's bullshit.
History has many examples of men who fell to their deaths believing God would stop the fall.
One of them was actually a guy who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Claimed he'd miraculously fly on a donkey.
Fell right off the cliff and debunked his whole religion he did.
bytesonbike@discuss.online · 3 pts · 207d
Darwin Awards in action.
Grail@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
Actually, I'm going to offer a counterargument.
There's lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn't move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn't test what he said it did.
I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn't test what he's trying to test. Or at least, doesn't test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there's a lot of grey area in between "This one guy's beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality" and "naive realism is true".
What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I'm really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.
Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn't believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I'm not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.
I don't actually believe in airplanes, I think they're just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d
Couldn't you test this by having someone attempt to use a fake radio believing it's real?
I mean if that were true, wouldn't ANY air plane work? Wouldn't it be impossible to improve on the design of airplanes if it's all belief?
Grail@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
It's not all belief, and I'm not saying it's all belief. I'm saying the laws of physics that appear to us through our senses are actually laws of psychology. But they are still laws. I believe we have a better chance of understanding them and building technology to overcome them if we use both physics and psychology at once on the problem. But deception and self-delusion are not especially powerful psychological techniques, so I would not expect them to work very well in this situation.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 207d
I bet he knew, but at that point he'd talked himself into a corner with his followers and had no choice but to jump or face the shame.
Wish Trump had the balls to feel shame
CXORA@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 207d
Nah, you just need enough faith to see that he actually flew.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 208d
Oh shit, I thought that was a LinkedIn Lunatic post and was searching for the next part.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 208d
Wingsuits and gliders are the ways people fly.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 209d
I heard that it’s easier if you start from the top of a high building so you have time to get a feel for the air.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 208d
"All those guys at the bottom are losers. Let me show you!"
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 209d
Uh, yeah I tried. I jumped off my roof with cardboard attached to my arms and flapped. It didn't work. 😔
webadict@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 209d
90% of people quit RIGHT before they learn to fly.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 209d
When I was really young I was very confused as to why my plastic shopping bag always seemed to fail as a parachute. Reckoned I needed more height.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
Bet it made you a legend tho, right?
Zephorah@discuss.online · 9 pts · 209d
Bethesda needs to make more games.
One of the kids at my college did an art thesis to the effect of mapping out, in giant greys anatomy meets da Vinci like drawings, what it would take for the human body to evolve to support wings. Mad scientist level and cool work.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 209d
My parents made me wings from scraps of wood and fabric and I'd run along the sidewalk trying to take off.
It never worked though.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 208d
My elementary school classmate Seth did this, he wound up with a broken leg. Although he did hedge his bets with an umbrella, maybe that ruined it.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 207d
Shockingly common story.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 208d
My paraglider says otherwise
bonenode@piefed.social · 8 pts · 209d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 209d
Specifically calling out Bethesda is both very accurate and question raising.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 209d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
I seem to also remember a similar encounter in the first Mass Effect.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
Garrus: “Don’t you miss our little conversations?”
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 209d
Bruh last time I tried to fly…it went fine? I got on a plane and flew. Eat shit sex pest.
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 209d
I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There's a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.
lauha@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d
Landing safely is just survivor bias. No dead parachutist ever reported a failed parachute.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 209d
Wait... you guys can't fly ?
Kodiack@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 209d
This kind of a note is also one of the very first things you see in Divinity: Original Sin. I just started playing the game for the first time last night and got a chuckle out of that.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 3 pts · 208d
Great game btw
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 207d
Go on Andrew you can do it we all believe in you, try it right now and show the haters!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 209d
You never know how far you can walk until you try to fly.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 207d
EDIT: It appears that another party has published the contents of my journal before me, currently with a resounding 15 upvotes. I believe this previous poster is a farce. A Telvanni spy sent to ridicule my work.
"I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We'll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success."
athatet@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 209d
Oh gross. Don’t post tates shit.
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d
Key and Peele
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 208d
And so he plans to try reallw hard now? I wouldn't want to stop him...
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 5 pts · 209d
Distasteful Tate repost aside, this is extremely similar to the first note you encounter as a player in Divinity: Original Sin.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d
You just need to push your ki downwards like in dragon ball and you can fly
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 209d
Longtail Cat Talisman | Elden Ring Wiki
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 209d
The most useless talismen in the game. At least the Trick Mirror talismans might actually trick a bad red man into fighting the wrong guy. Knowing when a fall will simply hurt you, kill you, or already be completely safe is impossible.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 209d
I have researched it and come to the conclusion I don't have enough money. Take to the seas instead like Neptune intended!
sockinggood@piefed.social · 4 pts · 209d
Franz Reichelt would like a word.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d
I tried as a kid when a hurricane hit (it had run out of water by then so it was safe)
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d
Maybe he meant an airplane when he asked how many have tried to fly?
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 208d
Well, did he write this before or after having his head kicked in?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 207d
When there's a smile in your heart There's no better time to start Think of all the joy you'll find When you leave the world behind And bid your cares goodbye You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
Objection@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 209d
Andrew Tate confirmed "Soulist?"
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 208d
Soulist?
Objection@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 207d
There's this group that pokes it's head around here from time to time that call themselves that, or "anarcho-antirealists." They claim that objective reality, including physical laws like gravity, are "oppressive" and only exist because people believe in them.
They're a bizarre, annoying cult but seem mostly harmless, they're just roleplayers who forgot their dice.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d
nods I'm friends with some, but wanted an outsiders' perspective. To be honest I only joined their discord group because I was desperate to believe. Now I'm there simply because they're nice people.
I really wish I could believe in magic, but, that ship sailed when it turned out Uri Geller can't really bend spoons with his mind.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
I've never gotten to the training phase because of the research phase.
pseudo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 208d
Many people did. Now there are living in Toulouse.
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 209d
Key and peele are prophets.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 207d
Everyone can fly. Not everyone can land.
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
Epistemic nihilist at it again.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 208d
I used to be New Age. Watched Spirit Science religiously.
Oh the fact that people believe you can do anything by willing it hard enough.
Comes crashing down when you notice that only the higher ups in the cult seem to be able to will themselves rich. Especially when none of them are willing to demonstrate their "powers" under controlled conditions.
All this "You can literally do anything, death is an illusion" talk and yet they never actually show any time a crystal has actually cured cancer.
I never wanted to be a materialist realist. But the problem with reality is that it is true even if you are doing your damndest not to believe it.
me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d
Birds are not real. They are government spy drones. Lockdown was to recharge their batteries! (sarcasm obviously dont ban me please)
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 114d
Ive flown like a hundred times in my life as an average schmuck, what is this idiot talking about?
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 204d
Does Andrew not know about Airplanes or has he being trying to fly like Goku?