Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-26018514-20150626143923

Christopherweeblingjr wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: Because a Goliath of that size is centuries old... it would be like quibbling over an elf's age difference of 100 years... after they are already 300. They can be expected to have come close to human settlements before, and are at least smart enough to listen to their eldest member's.. in other words, the other factors are almost insignificant in this case. 1. The heck does the elf example mean?

2. Did you just say your own thesis was bullshit? Because insignificant means 'too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.'  And Oobleck's saying they must be smart because they must be old because they're big. 1. Elves mature at around 300 years old in most fiction... note that is when they mature(grow to adult size), so if you see a full grown elf you can assume it to be at least 300 years old, because of how they age it would however be difficult to tell their age after that... give or take a century. However, at a mere 300 years old you can still assume they would be smarter than the average human... in other words... AT THAT POINT THE EXACT AGE MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, they are already as smart or smarter than you are.

2. No, I said my own thesis was more accurate than your "transitive property" bullshit... because A does not equal B, and B does not equal C, and C does not equal D, A does not equal D... However, as the above situation, the relation correlates closely enough that from A, you can assume D to be relatively high.

here is a math example; D = B+C, B = A+E

if A = 1000, and E rarely exceeds +/-100, and C cannot exceed B or go negative, then you can say D = 1000 +/-100 + up to 1000... in other words; D = A + E + C(which is limited by A + E), But as D = at least 900 because A = 1000 in this instance, quibbling over technicalities would get Oobleck no-where, and just confuse the issue for Ruby, because for sure they aren't dumb, but as to how smart they are specifically... he is looking at a broad spectrum.