Yoruichi-san

Some of my other favorites: Hunt of Rabbit Blues Brother Fabric blocking out sunlight Oh, wait...6 could also be...

Uh...sorry, no...it may help if you don't look at it as if there is one right answer for each, but two things in each interpretation...one that is also used in the part above and one that is also used in the part below...i.e.... 1) A blah blah blah B 2) B blah blah blah C 3) C blah blah blah D ...

Oh, I can't resist this one, Andromeda...my fingers moved to the "reply" button all on their own...;P Some of my other favorites: Hunt of Rabbit Blues Brother Fabric blocking out sunlight

DAWH HAS REPLACED MEKAL.

??? Mekal, what are you trying to do...? If you don't have time to play, I can get a replacement...

Clever...looks like ppl are going around in circles...maybe they should cut off some segments of those circles...;P

Good thinking, but that's not it...and, thinking about it, actually if I were to be more consistent, I should say "I am six", not five...

Lol...that's not called "getting over"...that's called "rebounding"...truly getting over someone is being at peace with having separated from them, not needing to replace them...

Err...sorry, missed one: Oh, and the goal is to name the connections and interpret the lines.

Inspired by Andromeda's Lock the Chain and Itachi-san's Disappearing Riddle... What do these mean? Each is connected to the one before and the one after. 1) My mother is thirty, I am five. 2) Without any jeans, You cannot move. 3) There is no limit, To the number of its beauty. 4) To halt has eight, To be gracious has three. 5) It truncates and divides, and is the end. 6) Once this has been handed out, that will be taken from you. (loops back around to 1)

Thanks everyone for the interest! And Bonanova demonstrates his brilliance once again! Just to add another way of thinking about it: In Bonanova's frame of reference, i.e., if I am an ant sitting on Bonanova's shoulder, what I see is Prof. Templeton approaching me directly from the front in a straight line and Prime approaching me directly from the side in a straight line, each starting from distance 20 away, so each travels a distance of 20 to get to me. Now that poses another interesting question: What does Chuck Rampart's motion look like to me?

I've thought about the free will issue a lot as well, and my opinion is that we are all biological computers, albeit very VERY complex ones, and like computers, we have different layers of relay and information storage and processing, but like computers, our actions are the result of our hardware (body), coding (genetic predispositions), and inputs(environment). I understand your point about complexity, but I do not believe complexity gives us free will. Our neural pathways may not have been fully understood by scientists yet, but I believe as science and technology progresses, we're getting farther. Neuroscience is continually making progress into identifying what the parts of our brain do. I don't know if we'll ever be able to fully figure out the brain, but I believe it is at least theoretically possible to understand it's workings. As for the "inputs", I believe that, since like AIs, we are learning beings, we take input from our experiences which our brain processes and stores for future use. Of course, we are also flawed AIs, in that sometimes the way our brains process new information is not perfectly logical, but based on efficiency of brain usage, or "heuristics" as the social psychologists call them. An extreme example of this is phobias, if we have a bad experience, say was bitten by a dog as a child, sometimes we "learn" to feel fear towards all dogs, even though this is not rational. I am a staunch advocate of the results of Quantum Physics, which say that the future is probabilistic, not deterministic. I.e. there is some probability of every possible event occurring, which applies to neurons firing in certain ways as well. But based on our ability to observe and analyze, for example, the collapse of the wavefunction after an event, I believe that if we had perfect knowledge of how the brain works, and we had perfect knowledge of what inputs there were for a particular person during the span of their lifetime, we could explain every choice, every action they took, in scientific terms. It would be very complex, there would be many factors that effected it, it might require a ridiculously powerful supercomputer to perform the simulation, but I think it's possible, and there is no "free will" factor which needs to be incorporated. Edit: Just saw the randomism things...wanted to add that I definitely don't think randomism is an indication of free will...like the function of a particle in quantum physics is based on probabilities which are effected by coulombic forces, but the particle does not have free will...probability and randomness is just part of nature.

Thanks Prof. T for keeping the effort alive! Here's what we have so far:

There's a reason I asked for the proof...a lot of ppl come under the impression that they run in circular arcs...but trace out their trajectories on those arcs...are they always running directly towards each other?

What do you mean by "again"? This is my first real math puzzle... Lol...and my opinion of you four is that it won't take that long to figure out the solution...

Since there seems to be a revived interest in math problems, here's one I got from a friend a while ago (which I couldn't resist adding my own spin on ;P): Bonanova, Prime, Chuck Rampart, and Prof. Templeton are each standing at one of the corners of a square room of length 20, puzzling over the latest probability problem. At the exact same moment, they each come up with the solution and, simultaneously, each person begins to run towards the person adjacent to them in the counterclockwise direction to share their ideas. If they all run at the same constant speed and always directly towards their respective targets, what is the total distance they travel before meeting in the center of the square? Please show your proof!

I think what Prime meant was that the 7.5 min was time it would take to burn the remainder of the fuse. Lighting the fuse at the midpoint and one end, say the right end, the right side will have all burned in 15 min. Since the burning goes both ways from the midpoint as you said, it will have burned 15 min worth of the left side as well. Then you light this last piece on both sides and it will take 15/2=7.5 minutes to burn the remaining piece.

Err...no reply from Alyanna, so we'll just assume she uses a miss card to keep the game going...please continue, Aizen ;P

Lol...well, thanks for not pointing this out three months ago and ruining my fun in solving it for myself!

-When your CTRL and R button have been worn down from BD being offline for a few hours...XP

Err...just realized the second thing might be taken the wrong way...my decision had nothing to do with ABR2 (which was a great game, and Itachi-san is a great host!)...just personal reasons...

Wow...HC...this is ridiculous... If you're talking about the Wraith...Yes, guess who wrote it? LIS! We worked on the roles together and the Wraith was his idea (and a really good one! ). And yes, I should sue for copyright infringement...I was going to sue the writers of Psych when Shawn Spencer mentioned my special smiley on TV...;P As for my "conspicuous absence"...I don't ever recall saying I would play ABR3...in fact, I had determined to take a break from playing games after ABR2... ...plus, as some of you accusers know, if I wanted to solve the "mystery", I wouldn't have done it publicly out of respect for the person, and in case I was wrong...

10.3 3.5 8.1 1.3 10.2(german) 9.1!

Alright, all players (except JS and Ben Law) who do not have Miss cards, must choose whether to use one or lose a life.