Need answer fast.
Idle?
Hey, Idle?
Idle!
Idle Thoughts!
Idle Thoughts, I thought that was you!
I will post in this thread today at 4:59 PM local time. What will I write?
Post some news event or a winning lottery number before they occur.
What will my next move be in my game v Chessic Sense? (See the Game Room.)
You’d have to post a youtube video of a skill you mastered but didn’t have yesterday. Bill Murray became a virtuoso pianist!
Why is it important for me to believe you?
I’ll forget all about it by tomorrow, anyway.
You could buy a lot of insurance from me. I’ll get the forms.
Ned? Ned Ryerson?
Bing!
In yesterday’s version of the thread (for you) I proposed the experiment that I’d reveal a secret about myself to you. Today (for you) is the same day (for me) so I obviously don’t remember revealing that secret. You’ll convince me you’re in a repeating day if you tell it to me. Bonus points if we’ve done this multiple times, and you’ve collected multiple secrets about me from me.
I don’t remember any of that.
For this to work, you’ll have to reveal a secret about yourself, since on the first day of the thread (which this may be), he’ll need to learn it.
Ideally, you’ll post the secret immediately after posting the experiment proposal–that way, Idle Thoughts’s other actions in between the proposal and the reveal can’t do anything to modify your day in such a way as to change the secret you reveal.
That said, I think the best way to convince me that the day is repeating is to do the following three things:
- Create a video of yourself walking down the street, predicting everything that’s about to happen (“A green car is about to run that stop light up ahead. Now a squirrel will run across the telephone wire. You see that old guy up ahead? He’s going to stop, look back, look at his watch, and cross the street. That woman with a kid in tow is going to go into that restaurant, but her son will hang back, and she’ll step back out of the restaurant to get him.”)
- Ask me to recount my day in great detail, including mostly things that happen in my periphery. (For example, ask me to write things such as, “At 2:55, a woman walked by my window as her son pushed a stroller.”) When the day repeats, you’ll narrate it for me.
- Find as many winning lottery numbers and the like as you can from around the world, from big-time events to smaller ones. Post the winning numbers at the beginning of the day.
Good catch/point.
There are a lot of good answers in this thread.
Good to be prepared, just in case.
So Idle Thoughts, you’ve finally made it through to the next day. Congratulations!
How many times did May 24th repeat for you? Was there some sort of epiphany on the final iteration that allowed you to break the cycle?
Why is it important for me to believe you?
I’ll forget all about it by tomorrow, anyway.