What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).
Quote from: Psygnirish on March 02, 2016, 06:50:51 PMQuote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"duct tape*
Quote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"
Quote from: Sandtrap on March 02, 2016, 07:22:39 PMQuote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:19:22 PMQuote from: Psygnirish on March 02, 2016, 06:50:51 PMQuote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"duct tape*tuct tape*fuct tape*
Quote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:19:22 PMQuote from: Psygnirish on March 02, 2016, 06:50:51 PMQuote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"duct tape*tuct tape*
Quote from: Sandtrap on March 02, 2016, 07:24:06 PMQuote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:23:10 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on March 02, 2016, 07:22:39 PMQuote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:19:22 PMQuote from: Psygnirish on March 02, 2016, 06:50:51 PMQuote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"duct tape*tuct tape*fuct tape*Gorilla tape*Giraffe tape*
Quote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:23:10 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on March 02, 2016, 07:22:39 PMQuote from: challengerX on March 02, 2016, 07:19:22 PMQuote from: Psygnirish on March 02, 2016, 06:50:51 PMQuote from: eggsalad on March 02, 2016, 03:29:04 PMWhat use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it). The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"duct tape*tuct tape*fuct tape*Gorilla tape*
The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.
Let's assume for the sake of things that the watch can alter it's timer accordingly based on what you do.