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Why couldn’t the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
Batman forever: Something like “It was left by a Mr E… Mystery! And another word for mystery? Enigma!.. Mr E. Nigma…Edward Nigma!”
xkcd #2869: Puzzles
Submitted 10 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/puzzles_2x.png
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Kage520@lemmy.world 10 months ago
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Nigma balls! Ha! Goteem!
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The clues were a series of riddles that had 13, 1, 8, and 5 somewhere in their text. Try letters of the alphabet, you wind up with MAHE. What if 1 and 8 was 18? 13, 18, 5 is MRE. “Mister E.” “Mystery!” “And what’s another word for mystery?” “Enigma!” Mister E. Nygma. Edward Nygma."
Which manages to be extremely basic yet such a stretch at the same time.
vox@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
nigma balls
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It helped me understand what the hell was going on with Batman Forever when I realized that the whole thing was riddled with tributes to the Adam West Batman.
Once Jim Carrey gets up a head of steam, he is doing a full on impersonation of Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. Look at Gorshin in this scene. Carrey is doing an incredible Gorshin act.
Now I don’t want that and I don’t appreciate it, but once I understood where all of the camp in Forever came from it make me quite so angry.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My favorite riddle solving by Batman:
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“It was left by a Mr E… Mystery!
Yea, but im pretty sure this is intentionally bad, instead of bad writing
Nelots@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes, of course!
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now, I don’t want to be the asshole that shits on a nearly 40 year old classic movie… but why would the Goonie’s map, written in Spanish, rhyme when translated to English? And why would it translate into “Olde English” with a bunch of “ye” this and “ye” that?
Glyphord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My head cannon is that it’s being interpreted by Mouth who is adding his own artistic flair to the text. So the “ye” this and that are just him playing around with the words.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Him playing around makes sense the first time he’s translating the Spanish in the attic. It makes less sense when he keeps doing it after they’re running for their lives from the Fratelli’s, dodging booby traps and are facing yet another trap that is a full pipe organ made of human bones. And he’s clearly scared when he translates it. But, maybe he just has weird defense mechanisms, I don’t know.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is your head cannon a front-loader?
Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Also “ye” in olde English is just pronounced the. It’s wasn’t a y it was used for the letter thorn which made the th sound. They never said ye. So there’s no way the Spanish would translate to fake old english
Pipoca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ish.
There’s ye as in “hear ye, hear ye”. That’s a y. It’s an inflected form of you, much as they had both thee and thou.
Then there’s writing þe as ye.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s called “thorn”
athos77@kbin.social 10 months ago
Eh, technically, if the word following 'the' starts with a vowel sound, you're supposed to say tge-with-a-long-e - the apple, the orange, the event, etc.
palordrolap@kbin.social 10 months ago
The dead pirate captain's name is literally a penis joke. I don't think anything in that movie is supposed to be legit.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Futurama did a great take on this with their Da Vinci Code parody episode.
mattd@programming.dev 10 months ago
Animatronio mentioned a fountain. That’s a statue of Neptune, god of water. The number of points on him trident is three, or trey. The “u” in his name is written like “v”. Trey, “v”. Trevi! It’s the Trevi Fountain. There can be no question!
Alue42@kbin.social 10 months ago
"but what about--?"
"There can be no question!!"Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Gotta love it
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This except instead of going directly through that thought process, one character will say, “I’ve got it! Follow me!” And the chapter ends, followed by a chapter from the pov of every other character who isn’t involved in that discovery.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I watched all of Futurama, but I don’t remember that episode. Which one was it?
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This reminds me of national treasure so much. Literally just random jumps until you fall into the obvious answer.
roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I remember a book I read in elementary school (in the Cam Jansen series, IIRC) where the main conflict was a mean older brother put a password on the new family computer (a huge deal in the early 90s), and the younger hires the kid detective to find the password. The password is “hot dog”, ultimately determined because the desktop BG was a picture of ketchup and mustard.
I recall being not super satisfied with that ending.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can imagine you going *"Why didn’t they just hit [Esc] to bypass the password prompt, open a DOS prompt and delete the password files in C:\Windows.pwl?"
(Yes, that was actually a thing you could do on early 90’s Windows 3.0)
tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Same with Windows 95 and Windows 98. Those operating systems were not really designed with a proper concept of ‘user accounts’
The password box wasn’t supposed to prevent system access, it was to capture user credentials for networking, like remote file share access.
Tippon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You didn’t even need to do that. You could hold down the shift key to bypass some passwords, and just click cancel on others.
Early Windows had awful security.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even now if someone has physical access to your Windows computer and it has a USB port, they will get through.
Evotech@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Password guessing is always like that in popular media too. Oh he loved houses so his pw is obviously “Stallion”
Uhm no, it was probably zkl+7+:$(89?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well. Cyber security professionals wish it were that way. Instead it’s usually 1234 or their kid’s birthday or some shit. Having a connection in your mind between houses and horses and then using that to remember something like Green4Stallion8 would actually be more secure than most people’s passwords. It’s even more better if you can remember a nonsense word that phonetically matches and change up the capital like, kreeN4stauLion8.
Of course most people don’t need to worry about social hacking. Black hats aren’t going through random social media profiles when they have millions of password and email combinations they ripped from a few websites. So unless you’re the CEO of LifeLock or dealing with abusive family the above password would totally work even if everyone around one you loved Horse Cottages.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even if the password was “stallion” they probably would have made it Stallion1, Stallion!, $tallion, etc. The password always ends up being a single word, all lowercase, no numbers, no special characters.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think you meant horses, houses to Stallion seems like a rather tenuous link.
felbane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do your thing, piped bot
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
This is what it’s like to watch Detective Conan in America. They will even have commercial segways where they say “hey, remember this important clue!” And then not even use that clue in the English dub’s edit. They still present it as a mystery the viewer can solve, but then the solution is always some convoluted BS using clues the audience was never shown lol
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 10 months ago
commercial segways
I’m amused at the linguistic backport that just occurred here.
Starbuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m sure they meant segue here
segue 1 of 3 imperative verb se·gue ˈse-(ˌ)gwā ˈsā- 1: proceed to what follows without pause —used as a direction in music 2: perform the music that follows like that which has preceded —used as a direction in music
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
subtitles are slightly more annoying, but i at least partially know what’s going on.
plus english dubs often times suck balls.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Alright kids. Who wants to dig up grandma?”
Cowbee@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“G? As in, Gussy?!”
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
NO, NO, we are not violating the dead.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“G? As in Good Gody please don’t!”
uis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why couldn’t the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
Did she want for only to Biker Bob to find it, but Cop Charlie found it first?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
For the second amulet she tried quantum encryption, but Engineer Eve kept interfering with the particles.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
And she kept dropping them! Eve’s a dropper.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I had one friend who was obsessed with these idiotic “lateral thinking” puzzle books, because she’d read them to us and then pretend like she had figured out the completely ridiculous scenarios from the start.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had an elementary school teacher who would do these puzzles with our small class.
It was much better than your situation though: he would already know the solution and basically we took turns asking him yes or no questions until we figured it out.
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 10 months ago
morriscox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are ExplainXKCD links like xkcd.com/2869 okay here?
athos77@kbin.social 10 months ago
I've posted them myself and never got anything but upvotes. I say go for it!
Trabic@lemm.ee [bot] 10 months ago
I’m glad it is since I just spent the last 20 minutes clicking"random comic"
Maybe it needs a warning like tvtropes.com
morriscox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
And a XKCD page image for the win.
0ops@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Similar situation: youtu.be/LKTGPz0n0cM?si=-r8JrPWilL0h0tGs
Terrapinjoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the attack happened at sea… ‘C’ for Catwoman!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Encyclopedia Brown had some decent ones, but a lot were pretty shit in retrospect
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The next clue is in the White House!
(This was a reference for like 10 people. 10 awesome people.)
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
See also: experts solving problems in Roland Emmerich movies
TheMongoose@kbin.social 10 months ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Easy mistake to make. The Neutrinos fought alongside mutants against the forces of Dimension X on more than one occasion, but they weren’t mutants themselves.
stom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Moonfall is a masterpiece and I won’t hear a bad word said against it!
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I enjoyed moonfall.
Having said that, I’d lose fewer brain cells huffing glue then watching that movie again.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Read the Redwall books if that’s what you’re looking for.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Sounds like Reacher Season 2
teejay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah. So far they’ve gone way overboard in dumbing down the detective work this season.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And the writing is pure shite, and Ritchson is completely phoning in his performance, probably because he knows the writing is shite.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I haven’t seen it so I’m not sure if that actual critique of the show or if you’re makinge a pun that Reacher is “reaching” for clues
yemmly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
QAnon: “Looks like sound reasoning to us.”
lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Now you know what kind of books these people read as kids
ech@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You think these people read as kids?
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
People who know how to read don’t end up in Qanon
lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
but other people read them too and didn’t go absolutely nuts