Riddles

Dec. 6th, 2010 12:26 pm
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Hey, you know what I love? Being droned for a week and a half for absolutely no friggin' reason. No. That's just great.

Anyway, I'm bored, so lets play a game. Got a riddle for you. Well, I guess it's more like a logic puzzle then a riddle, but they're close enough to be the same thing. Whatever. So here it is:

Three duelists are standing off against one another. Technically, everything about each duelist seems similar: each has a gun and is the same distance apart from the others. Despite this, each duelist has a different possibility of hitting his opponents. Duelist A has a 90% chance of firing and hitting either oppoennt. Duelist B, however, only has a 60% chance of firing and hitting an opponent.

You are Duelist C. You have a 30% chance of firing and hitting either opponent. You can't run; running will have both of them automatically draw their guns on you. So you have to stay and do something. So, the question is who do you fire at in order to survive?

Date: 2010-12-06 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Sure do! Most of the time they have a reason, but not always. Lucky me, I got droned for god knows what.

Yep. Each gun only gets one shot.

Date: 2010-12-06 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"That's pretty terrible.

How about you shoot at neither? Miss in a big way. Make it obvious you're terrible and they don't have a reason to gun for you?"

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Date: 2010-12-06 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
That's pretty much right. You shoot to miss. This doesn't mean you won't be aimed at forsure, but it reduces it pretty heavily.

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Date: 2010-12-06 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Also, if you can't fight you probably shouldn't have gotten into that mess to begin with I guess.

I'd have probably run though long before we got the guns out to tell you the truth. There's no point to duels, they looked cool but they were kind of dumb."

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Date: 2010-12-06 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Guess not, but it's a hypothetical question, so who cares?

Duels are awesome, I don't know what you're going on about.

[Not that the kid has ever been IN one.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Ever had a gun pointed at you?"

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Date: 2010-12-06 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Fun? No.

Scary and kind of thrilling? Yes.

[And you get used to having people threaten you and point weapons at you after awhile.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Yeah, I think I will stick to thrills that are actually fun."

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Date: 2010-12-06 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
I'm not saying I go out and get into them, I'm saying they're still fun to watch.

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Date: 2010-12-06 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"I don't think so. It's kind of outdated and stupid."

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Date: 2010-12-06 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
You're stupid!

[Kneel before the crushing might of a twelve-year olds logic.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"I'm sorry kid. I'm sure they're real cool to watch on cartoons."

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Oh, good one jerkwad! That was hysterical. I don't watch cartoons.

[And he just says that with pride like you WOULD NOT believe.]

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"That was kinda uncalled for.

Why not? They're fun."

[[Guess who still does/did?]]

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
They're kids stuff. I don't need to waste my time with that junk. I got bigger stuff to work on.

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Do you always work on big things or don't you have free time?"

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
I work on the big things I want to work on. That's what I do.

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Robotics mostly.

[Is what a guy is teaching him. And he can do some of it. But like fuck he can actually do much entirely by himself yet.]

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Wow, really?

... how old are you?"

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Four hundred.

[Well, that's how long he's lived dicking around time-space. In all other regards? He's just a borderline sociopathic twelve year old prodigy.]

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com
"Aaah... that explains some things."

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Yeah, yeah, I know that you don't think I-

You believe me?!

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