• @nxfsi
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    531 year ago

    Nethack, a game from 1984, will parse these wishes as wishing for nothing.

    • @ArbiterXero
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      121 year ago

      I mean that makes sense…. On the second iteration, you skip the first wish, the second wish is to ignore the third wish and that gets granted and the third wish is nullified, so the only wish is to ignore the third wish. “Nothing”

      You don’t need to loop again as everything is satisfied?

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Moria: “your prayer angers the god of destruction and your equipment turns to dust. you hear a growing voice in your head: “THOU ART A PEST”

  • @qtw
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    521 year ago

    The geenie works through one wish at a time so when he gets to the third wish the first one has already been granted and ignoring it doesn’t retroactively change anything.

  • @paddirn
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    351 year ago

    He didn’t actually wish for anything though. He needed to specifically say, “I wish for…”, but since that didn’t happen, none of those should count as wishes. Genie law is very strict when it comes to protocol.

    • @ooterness
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      101 year ago

      RFC0003 Wish granting protocol

  • @HeapOfDogs
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    271 year ago

    This just feels like a bad idea. The fourth panel is actually the person stuck in a pocket dimension as time moves forward and they are unable to move due to the loop.

  • Norgur
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    81 year ago

    Does not compute… does not compute… does not compute…

  • @Michael717
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    81 year ago

    After the last wish the genie in the bottle said: “Look, there are 3 rules…”

  • darcy
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    41 year ago

    stack overflow (too much recursion)