Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.
One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.
My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.
Although, in Andrew’s case, it might be less “getting older” and more “getting repeatedly concussed”.
Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that’s when they gain the teleportation skill.
It’s not true teleportation, it’s just incredible acceleration. It’s easy to mistake one for the other, if you make the mistake of blinking.
I can also note that their top speed is still limited. They can’t run on water, for example. (Guess how we found THAT one out!)
Well, it’s not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.
liek if u cry evrytime :'(
And from that point you can just fly all the way to the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard
I do remember thinking something along the lines of: “… that… sounds weirdly do-able…?? … Shut up, brain… Unless…”
I’ve spent more time than I care to admit to trying to shoot ki blasts and kamehamehas out of my hands
Dbz is the first thing I thought of. Powering up and screaming while all the other kids laugh at you. Idk how I ever got a girlfriend
I did it after seeing Hook in the theater
Correct
The secret is that you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.
It’s basically how orbiting works in a roundabout way. You just needed to go faster!
in a roundabout way
Very good.
According to catholics, that’s how sex works too. Too bad they’re all sharpshooters…
Tell that to a whale or bowl of petunias that suddenly materialized in the atmosphere of a planet with gravity
Not again
I almost upvoted you, then I realized you had 42 upvotes.
Now they’re over, it might be time to downvote
I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it
If only Andrew Tate had the balls to recreate it irl
Just Aim for the bushes
You go first Andrew!
I only just noticed who the OOP was
Got whiplash seeing it was him.
Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.
I had a similar genius idea involving a bunk bed when I was 5.
It looks like he just wrapped himself up in a camping blanket like it’s a cape, but with a vampire-style oversized collar
Holy shit I was not prepared to see a dude fall to his death. I thought for sure it was just a glitz reel filmed the day before his failed attempt at flying
Some crazy person eventually got their fancy wing suit to actually work eventually.
I can’t tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he’s trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
I don’t seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he’s said, it’s usually some vacuous nonsense like this.
But I get a
stupid-lookingsweet hat off that body, plus scrolls containing a new and hilarious way to commit suicide!deleted by creator
I’m aware. Too bad the author didn’t have the player’s amazing ability to read a sheet of paper while flying at Mach speeds!
Human terminal velocity is no where near Mach speeds. Only about 120-200 mph.
Acrobatics buffs your horizontal and vertical speeds. The scroll lets you leap across a huge portion of the entire island in under ten seconds. I’m not sure how big Vvardenfell is canonically, but the caster is definitely going far faster than terminal velocity.
Great game design. Bethesda is telling the player “You can break our game with custom magic. Go do stupid shit.”
Playing Morrowind really spoiled me for the rest of the Elder Scrolls series. Many gameplay elements of it were trash, but the ability to circumvent so many of them with magic/alchemy more than made up for it. Oblivion and Skyrim somewhat improved the gameplay, but they removed the option to become a god through exploiting magic.
And Morrowind removed mechanics from Daggerfall, like climbing walls and giving yourself perks and flaws at character creation.
And Arena before that had a spell to pass through walls. That broke things infinitely worse than levitation ever did!
With the Scrolls of Icarian Flight, flying is not the problem, but the landing.
When I was a kid my older sister fooled me into believing that if I made daily sacrifice of a specific flower in a valley near my home at exactly 6am I’d get to fly and even eat the clouds. I did that for almost a month before my mom told me the truth.
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single pilot in the world
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single
pilotprecipice in the world
I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.
I’m pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.
I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.
RIght! What kid didn’t jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape…, then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that…
Just flying with a paraglider is fucking amazing. I bet this moron never even tried that. Twenty hours + theory exam and you’re good to go.
there’s a special word for people trying to make someone else fly; defenestration
I do believe that requires an open window in the vicinity as well.
Doesn’t strictly have to be open, though that will make it easier.
Can’t you just throw someone off a cliff, and then throw a window after them?
Oh shit, I thought that was a LinkedIn Lunatic post and was searching for the next part.
🤌
I remember when New Age sold me on Idealism.
Here’s the thing. It’s bullshit.
History has many examples of men who fell to their deaths believing God would stop the fall.
One of them was actually a guy who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Claimed he’d miraculously fly on a donkey.
Fell right off the cliff and debunked his whole religion he did.
Darwin Awards in action.
I bet he knew, but at that point he’d talked himself into a corner with his followers and had no choice but to jump or face the shame.
Wish Trump had the balls to feel shame
Actually, I’m going to offer a counterargument.
There’s lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn’t move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn’t test what he said it did.
I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn’t test what he’s trying to test. Or at least, doesn’t test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there’s a lot of grey area in between “This one guy’s beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality” and “naive realism is true”.
What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I’m really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.
Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn’t believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I’m not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
Couldn’t you test this by having someone attempt to use a fake radio believing it’s real?
I mean if that were true, wouldn’t ANY air plane work? Wouldn’t it be impossible to improve on the design of airplanes if it’s all belief?
It’s not all belief, and I’m not saying it’s all belief. I’m saying the laws of physics that appear to us through our senses are actually laws of psychology. But they are still laws. I believe we have a better chance of understanding them and building technology to overcome them if we use both physics and psychology at once on the problem. But deception and self-delusion are not especially powerful psychological techniques, so I would not expect them to work very well in this situation.
Nah, you just need enough faith to see that he actually flew.
