*sigh* I know that for some odd reason RPOL almost completely shuts down on Fridays. Always makes me sad, but there it is. So I figured I would give you a thought problem. This is known as the infinite hotel problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo

Quickly imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms and an infinite number of guests. Now imagine an infinite number of buses carrying an infinite number of passengers who all want a room, can the hotel hold them? Yes, just shift all the guests in even numbered rooms to unused odd numbered rooms (remember there are always more rooms) and put new guests into even numbered rooms. All that is intuitive if difficult to understand.

Now the problem is actually in the buses. Each passenger in the bus can be assigned a number represented as a fraction as bus 4, passenger 22 would be 4/22. BUT there are an infinite number of passengers, so how can you count them using fractions, which are technically less than 1. We know that there is a finite space between 0 and 1 because it ends at 1. However we know it is made up of an infinite number of countable fractions. So is the space between 0 and 1 infinite or finite?

While you ponder this, and you are going so freaking what? How does that relate to me? It relates to you because time is either infinite or finite. It is either 0 to 1 in which 1 ends time and 0 begins time, or we have time existing as a countable infinity between 0 and 1...

I get that problem on my Sundays and Mondays, which I suppose is because it's the weekend in the US. My RPoL Fridays are usually fairly active.


I don't think you can classify the passengers as fractions. You can always divide a fraction further, but you can't divide passengers (not without a gory mess), so passengers are always a countable set.

The distance between 0 and 1, or rather the interval [0,1] (all real numbers from 0 to 1), is bounded and therefore finite. That is, 0 metres to 1 metre is only 1 metre long. (On the other hand, the interval (0,1), all real numbers from 0 to 1 but not including 0 and 1 is unbounded but still finite, and just shy of 1 metre long.) But the number of real numbers between 0 and 1 is uncountably infinite, of the aleph-one kind (I might be mistaken). In other words, you can put an uncountably infinite number of dots between 0 and 1.

Similarly, if you had a square, 1 metre by 1 metre, [0,1]×[0,1], its area would be finite and bounded. Yet you can draw an infinitely squiggly line inside it that can be infinitely long, or an infinite number of dots. That gets into fractals.

Time is a continuum, so it's uncountable infinity (though in quantum mechanics units of time are limited by the Planck scale, so it could be countable). Time started at the Big Bang and is therefore bounded there, and is half-infinite. The question is whether the universe collapses into a Big Crunch at the end (bounded and finite) or whether it expands or lies static forever (unbounded and still half-infinite).


I remember in first-year mathematics asking about infinity and being advised not to think too much about it, because Georg Cantor went mad working it all out. And I'm much too far away from my maths degree to ramble too much about it.

On the other hand, there's this old maths drinking song:

Aleph-one bottles of beer on the wall!
Aleph-one bottles of beer!
Take aleph-null down
Pass them around
Aleph-one bottles of beer on the wall!

:D

I'll finish posting later today!

OK =-)

I am in court until Wednesday. Sorry.

No worries! I took Monday and Tuesday for my anniversary and ended up getting really behind on my week. The price for vacation I suppose. I'm hoping to post today or tomorrow though. Thanks for your patience!

Is this other Lily?

Yes, she's on the cusp of it. She is apparently in a bad mood ;P

Just waiting on Kate to post. Sorry you've been sick Penny! I hope you get better!
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I was thinking of the same thing! "Fezik rip his arms off" "Oh you mean this key."

Please everyone send me questions, I am terrible at interrogations, I never know what to ask.

I love that movie! I think it's one of the most perfect movies in existence.

If no one comes up with questions I can think of plenty so no worries!

I'm really just on here to wish everyone a happy St Patrick's day! I used to do a lot of fun things on this day, mostly just eating mass quantities of pie and playing hot potato. Now I'm lucky if I wear green. Sigh. Oh well, someday I will be properly festive again!

Happy St,Patty's day!

Unfortunately this week is unexpectedly crazy. I may not get a chance to post and if so I do apologize. Thanks!

This video made me think of Simon and his boxing:)

https://youtu.be/t5seyOVCLf4

So, honest post here. How is everyone? I feel like this game is slagging a bit, and I know part of that's my fault for sure. I've been pretty busy these days and now I only post about twice a week, which works really well for my schedule but I want to make sure it's not at cost to the game either.

How can we create more interest for you the players? I know a huge part of it is that the groups are so small and some people are busier than others and it makes posting scarce or quick at best. Thoughts?

I'm going to advertise for it again but the problem is I don't get a lot of interest. It's a pretty specific genre after all. We'll do some brainstorming though and see what we can come up with! Thanks guys!

I am good. I am dealing with family issues so I am just posting to keep up and not drag anyone down.

I'm fine with the game. While a faster pace is always nice, I understand the need and know I struggle to keep up on my own games. When the game is slow, I have other things to do.

As for size, I think Supernatural games work well with small groups, even just a pair, just like in the series. I like reading Colin's thread for this reason: Colin and Amelia make a great contrasting pair, they're two people on the road and on their own, running into monsters.

PS: I just saw the ad. From the Wanted - Players page, it's not clear that it's even a Supernatural game, only a d20 Modern one. Perhaps expanding the subject line with more detail would attract more attention. For example, "Supernatural: Hunters of 1890" reveals that it's based on the series and when its set. Then you're attracting Supernatural fans, western fans, and d20 Modern players.
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I like the idea of bringing on more players. Even if we have to have a revolving door of players who join, then later quit, it would at least follow the tv show's style: where the main group (usually the boys) are ALWAYS accompanied by a bunch of "npcs" who all have important personalities, end up reappearing all the time (in the nick of time!) and then its tragic when they disappear, or vanish.

If it was just Dean and Sam all the time, honestly, nobody would watch it after half a season. Their interactions are good together, but its better when you add in somebody like Castiel for laughs, Bobby for a realistic angle, or even Crowley for great interactions.

Long story short: we need more people in each thread to make it interactive, dynamic and fun I think.

Yikes! Good idea about the game advertising Penny. I was in a big hurry yesterday and just sort of whipped it out. I'll tweak it if it lets me.

In regard to the rest of it, it sounds like Jo wants more interactions and Penny is fine as is correct? I have a couple possible new players. Perhaps I'll put them with Jo for the time being and leave Penny's thread as is though at some point I may want to switch and have Simon and Lily with Penny for a bit due to some story lines. I imagine I will periodically mix up the cast in that respect but I can still keep the groups smaller for Penny and larger for Jo. Should be easy to do and everyone has their own preferences :)

That works for me. Simon can roll with Penny, and they can have a 2 person thread, while I get all of the handsome and fun new players that come along! Yay!

I am good with whatever.

I'm down for some players joining Colin around.

Sounds like a plan. I have a couple players in the middle of transitioning right now. One I will post for today the other probably next week.

Coolio

Hello Darren!