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Why couldn’t the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
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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!”
Nigma balls! Ha! Goteem!
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.
nigma balls
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.
My favorite riddle solving by Batman:
“It was left by a Mr E… Mystery!
Yea, but im pretty sure this is intentionally bad, instead of bad writing
Yes, of course!
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?
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.
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.
Is your head cannon a front-loader?
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
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.
It’s called “thorn”
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.
The dead pirate captain's name is literally a penis joke. I don't think anything in that movie is supposed to be legit.
Futurama did a great take on this with their Da Vinci Code parody episode.
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!
"but what about--?"
"There can be no question!!"
Gotta love it
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.
I watched all of Futurama, but I don’t remember that episode. Which one was it?
This reminds me of national treasure so much. Literally just random jumps until you fall into the obvious answer.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Even now if someone has physical access to your Windows computer and it has a USB port, they will get through.
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?
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.
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.
I think you meant horses, houses to Stallion seems like a rather tenuous link.
Do your thing, piped bot
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
commercial segways
I’m amused at the linguistic backport that just occurred here.
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
subtitles are slightly more annoying, but i at least partially know what’s going on.
plus english dubs often times suck balls.
“Alright kids. Who wants to dig up grandma?”
“G? As in, Gussy?!”
NO, NO, we are not violating the dead.
“G? As in Good Gody please don’t!”
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?
For the second amulet she tried quantum encryption, but Engineer Eve kept interfering with the particles.
And she kept dropping them! Eve’s a dropper.
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.
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.
Are ExplainXKCD links like xkcd.com/2869 okay here?
I've posted them myself and never got anything but upvotes. I say go for it!
I’m glad it is since I just spent the last 20 minutes clicking"random comic"
Maybe it needs a warning like tvtropes.com
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
And a XKCD page image for the win.
Similar situation: youtu.be/LKTGPz0n0cM?si=-r8JrPWilL0h0tGs
And the attack happened at sea… ‘C’ for Catwoman!
Encyclopedia Brown had some decent ones, but a lot were pretty shit in retrospect
The next clue is in the White House!
(This was a reference for like 10 people. 10 awesome people.)
See also: experts solving problems in Roland Emmerich movies
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.
Moonfall is a masterpiece and I won’t hear a bad word said against it!
I enjoyed moonfall.
Having said that, I’d lose fewer brain cells huffing glue then watching that movie again.
Read the Redwall books if that’s what you’re looking for.
Sounds like Reacher Season 2
Yeah. So far they’ve gone way overboard in dumbing down the detective work this season.
And the writing is pure shite, and Ritchson is completely phoning in his performance, probably because he knows the writing is shite.
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 11 months ago
QAnon: “Looks like sound reasoning to us.”
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Now you know what kind of books these people read as kids
ech@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You think these people read as kids?
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 11 months ago
People who know how to read don’t end up in Qanon
lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
but other people read them too and didn’t go absolutely nuts