{"id":57588,"date":"2024-06-02T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57588"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:54:16","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remastered-lxxiii-schrodingers-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57588","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remastered LXXIII: Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM of the Rings Page-74.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sort of indulged myself with this one. If the joke made no sense, then you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat\">this<\/a>. The joke still won\u2019t make sense, but at least you\u2019ll be distracted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wanted to make this joke for ages. Long before DM of the Rings, I used to think this way when dice would bounce away and fall in some hidden corner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1014\">&#8211; Shamus, <span class=\"subhead-box\">Friday Mar 9, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When I was a little kid I remember my dad trying to explain Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat to me. It mostly went over my head. I took the idea of putting a cat in a box as literal (in my mind it was cardboard) and my main takeaway was that Schr\u00f6dinger was an idiot and probably shouldn&#8217;t be in charge of anyone&#8217;s cats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sort of indulged myself with this one. If the joke made no sense, then you can read this. The joke still won\u2019t make sense, but at least you\u2019ll be distracted. I\u2019ve wanted to make this joke for ages. Long before DM of the Rings, I used to think this way when dice would bounce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dm-of-the-rings-remaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57596,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57588\/revisions\/57596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}