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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 128 points 2 years ago (1 children)

QAnon: “Looks like sound reasoning to us.”

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now you know what kind of books these people read as kids

[–] ech@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think these people read as kids?

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 7 points 2 years ago

They self banned books

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

but other people read them too and didn't go absolutely nuts

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Now, I don't want to be the asshole that shits on a nearly 40 year old classic movie... but why would the Goonies' map, written in Spanish, rhyme when translated to English? And why would it translate into "Olde English" with a bunch of "ye" this and "ye" that?

[–] Glyphord@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My head cannon is that it’s being interpreted by Mouth who is adding his own artistic flair to the text. So the “ye” this and that are just him playing around with the words.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Him playing around makes sense the first time he's translating the Spanish in the attic. It makes less sense when he keeps doing it after they're running for their lives from the Fratelli's, dodging booby traps and are facing yet another trap that is a full pipe organ made of human bones. And he's clearly scared when he translates it. But, maybe he just has weird defense mechanisms, I don't know.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe he was just committed to the bit by that point.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We've all been guilty of carrying the bit too long before

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Well, nobody likes it when the bit finishes prematurely.

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[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also "ye" in olde English is just pronounced the. It's wasn't a y it was used for the letter thorn which made the th sound. They never said ye. So there's no way the Spanish would translate to fake old english

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Ish.

There's ye as in "hear ye, hear ye". That's a y. It's an inflected form of you, much as they had both thee and thou.

Then there's writing þe as ye.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It's called "thorn"

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[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

The dead pirate captain's name is literally a penis joke. I don't think anything in that movie is supposed to be legit.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Futurama did a great take on this with their Da Vinci Code parody episode.

[–] mattd@programming.dev 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Animatronio mentioned a fountain. That's a statue of Neptune, god of water. The number of points on him trident is three, or trey. The "u" in his name is written like "v". Trey, "v". Trevi! It's the Trevi Fountain. There can be no question!

[–] Alue42@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

"but what about--?"
"There can be no question!!"

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Gotta love it

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I watched all of Futurama, but I don't remember that episode. Which one was it?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

This reminds me of national treasure so much. Literally just random jumps until you fall into the obvious answer.

[–] roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember a book I read in elementary school (in the Cam Jansen series, IIRC) where the main conflict was a mean older brother put a password on the new family computer (a huge deal in the early 90s), and the younger hires the kid detective to find the password. The password is “hot dog”, ultimately determined because the desktop BG was a picture of ketchup and mustard.

I recall being not super satisfied with that ending.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Password guessing is always like that in popular media too. Oh he loved houses so his pw is obviously "Stallion"

Uhm no, it was probably zkl+7+:$(89?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Well. Cyber security professionals wish it were that way. Instead it's usually 1234 or their kid's birthday or some shit. Having a connection in your mind between houses and horses and then using that to remember something like Green4Stallion8 would actually be more secure than most people's passwords. It's even more better if you can remember a nonsense word that phonetically matches and change up the capital like, kreeN4stauLion8.

Of course most people don't need to worry about social hacking. Black hats aren't going through random social media profiles when they have millions of password and email combinations they ripped from a few websites. So unless you're the CEO of LifeLock or dealing with abusive family the above password would totally work even if everyone around you knew you loved Horse Cottages.

Just don't forget to change it in 30 days...

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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Even if the password was "stallion" they probably would have made it Stallion1, Stallion!, $tallion, etc. The password always ends up being a single word, all lowercase, no numbers, no special characters.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This is what it's like to watch Detective Conan in America. They will even have commercial segways where they say "hey, remember this important clue!" And then not even use that clue in the English dub's edit. They still present it as a mystery the viewer can solve, but then the solution is always some convoluted BS using clues the audience was never shown lol

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Alright kids. Who wants to dig up grandma?"

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NO, NO, we are not violating the dead.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

You don't understand, she gave us the clue. It has to be this way.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"G? As in Good God please don't!"

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

Did she want for only to Biker Bob to find it, but Cop Charlie found it first?

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had one friend who was obsessed with these idiotic "lateral thinking" puzzle books, because she'd read them to us and then pretend like she had figured out the completely ridiculous scenarios from the start.

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[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
[–] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I've posted them myself and never got anything but upvotes. I say go for it!

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Encyclopedia Brown had some decent ones, but a lot were pretty shit in retrospect

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

See also: experts solving problems in Roland Emmerich movies

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