Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
Saxton Hale named his medigun after me...that's why mine is called Soltan's Own Medigun. 8,500 ubers is for amateurs.
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
You're making my head go crazy between this and the last comic.Alizée Fan wrote:
So...
A 3d object composed of all equilateral triangles has 4 sides (a cube)
A 3d object composed of all squares has 6 sides (a cube)
I think 3d object composed of all pentagons has 12 sides if all sides must be the same length
I also think that a 3d object composed of all hexagons has 28 sides if all sides must be the same length.
Based on this, if Saxon Hale had to compress us into cubes before he could turn us into squares, what would he have to compress us into before he could turn us into octagons? How many sides would this object have?
Or am I wrong about the pentagons and hexagons?
I wasted 45 minutes on this, but couldn't take it further than 6 sides or recognise any pattern.
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
Tetrahedron, but I assume that was a typo.black_and_blue wrote:A 3d object composed of all equilateral triangles has 4 sides (a cube)
I don't think a 3D solid can have all of its sides be octagons, because their corner angles are too obtuse. Maybe in 4D, but I'm no expert t here.black_and_blue wrote:Based on this, if Saxon Hale had to compress us into cubes before he could turn us into squares, what would he have to compress us into before he could turn us into octagons? How many sides would this object have?
You can easily make a 3D solid that has 6 octagonal faces and 8 triangular faces by lopping the corners off a cube.
But I think the shape Hale would use here would simply be an octagonal cylinder/tube - that's the simplest to crush down to an octagon with one mighty-thewed blow.
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
Unfortunately probably not. There is a small list of people with the ability to upload maps and it is a holiday weekend... We'll just have to have fun with what we've got and worry about fancy maps another time!black_and_blue wrote:If we do do an encore tomorrow night, any chance of having some dedicated vs saxton hale maps uploaded to event server by then?
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
Yes, that was a typo. What I meant to say was Pyramid, but tetrahedron works too.Gearloose wrote:Tetrahedron, but I assume that was a typo.black_and_blue wrote:A 3d object composed of all equilateral triangles has 4 sides (a cube)
Yes, I think an Octagonal Prism would be easiest to crush, although that is easy to calculate the number of sides: it's 10: one for the top, one for the bottom, and one for each side of the octagon.Gearloose wrote:I don't think a 3D solid can have all of its sides be octagons, because their corner angles are too obtuse. Maybe in 4D, but I'm no expert t here.black_and_blue wrote:Based on this, if Saxon Hale had to compress us into cubes before he could turn us into squares, what would he have to compress us into before he could turn us into octagons? How many sides would this object have?
You can easily make a 3D solid that has 6 octagonal faces and 8 triangular faces by lopping the corners off a cube.
But I think the shape Hale would use here would simply be an octagonal cylinder/tube - that's the simplest to crush down to an octagon with one mighty-thewed blow.
But I'm still just really frustrated with my inability to calculate or recognise a pattern for 2D => 3D Shapes.
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So... it's a farm.
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Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend, I think that was a lot of fun.
For those who missed it we'll try to do it again later this summer.
For those who missed it we'll try to do it again later this summer.
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Gearloose wrote:But I think the shape Hale would use here would simply be an octagonal cylinder/tube - that's the simplest to crush down to an octagon with one mighty-thewed blow.black_and_blue wrote:Based on this, if Saxon Hale had to compress us into cubes before he could turn us into squares, what would he have to compress us into before he could turn us into octagons? How many sides would this object have?
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Re: Are You MANN Enough to Take on SAXTON HALE?
I missed. Not on purpose. I hope we do it again later this summer, as you said.Flash wrote:Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend, I think that was a lot of fun.
For those who missed it we'll try to do it again later this summer.
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