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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A fun detail is that all the franken cubes fry and die after hearing the paradox, but Wheatley is still fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? I didn't notice that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't either till someone mentioned it in a speed running video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was that Msushi? I think I heard that same fact from him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think so. I've been watching a lot of his videos recently, so that's make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I always wondered why glados is fine, just saying because she's a potatoe doesn't sit with me because she recognised the paradox herself, so she must know what a paradox is and understand why it's dangerous for ai, even in potatoe form

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think she was intelligent enough to temporarily shut down the portions of her brain that would be effected. At least that was my take.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always saw it as her just saying in her mind, "This. Statement. Is. False." thus just being some four individual one word sentences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That is plausible, but she saw the sign and read the paradoxes on the signboard - surely just seeing the paradoxes written on the sign would have caught her off guard. I guess it doesn't matter, they just wanted to do a funny moment and it was still good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the implication being that in a typical Sledgehammers-To-Crack-Nuts solution to a nonexistent problem, Aperture put full-blown, totally sentient AIs in their cubes/turrets that were at least as intelligent as Wheatley.

Also I only just noticed that Bagley from Watch Dogs is very, very similar to Wheatley.