Everybody's gotta go to Disney World just once. Problem is, if you're like me, after you've gone once you can't not go back.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Better make it cold one, Hitchens! Where you're fated to go there's no cold anything!


Hitch is going to Disney World?

All of them?

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Isn't there a Disney movie about this?

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Xax:
Holy shit, is there a "most annoying buzzkill" award?

Buzzkill he may be, but it is true that this misunderstanding of probability is what leads people to believe in fate and miracles and various other pseudoreligious things and so forth.
Happenstance is still cool.


Oh for crying out loud. What a bizarre crusade you people are on.

>> ^Xax:

Holy shit, is there a "most annoying buzzkill" award?


Buzzkill he may be, but it is true that this misunderstanding of probability is what leads people to believe in fate and miracles and various other pseudoreligious things and so forth.

Happenstance is still cool.

That's not my point. If you knew this couple personally already, then yes the odds of them specifically being captured on film this way would be pretty damn low. However, my point is that it is likely that there are couples in this circumstance, and as humans are built to pick out things they think are unusual, eventually one instance would appear in the media, so we should not be surprised or impressed at all that this has taken place.

It's not magic or karma or anything, it's just probability. If you flip a fair coin 10 times and it's always heads, that seems weird (even though each flip is an independent event). However if you flip a coin 10^9 times, getting 10 heads in a row is to be expected many times.

As for who you are in picture with, in a place as popular and camera-clogged as Disney Land I think there are many times more photos you are in that you are not aware of, than photos you are in that you do know about, and I'm just talking about tourist snaps, not surveillance cameras. You also don't know that they didn't cross paths many times that day, as tourists often travel a similar route through such parks, but again since they didn't know each other, that would not have been noticed. They may have sat in adjacent tables for an hour at lunch for example.

Perhaps it's just me, but I simply don't see this as that remarkable. >> ^handmethekeysyou:

The reason this is remarkable is that it was captured on film.
I've probably crossed paths with millions of people, but outside of my friends and family, how many am I in a picture with? Very, very few.
If you counted each picture of you as one frame of a film, you would need 1,440 pictures to make a one minute long movie. Even though that number of photos seems high, let's assume it's a reasonable average (remembering they probably met early into digital photography). These two people crossed paths during the one minute of theirs lives that's recorded on film.

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The reason this is remarkable is that it was captured on film.

I've probably crossed paths with millions of people, but outside of my friends and family, how many am I in a picture with? Very, very few.

If you counted each picture of you as one frame of a film, you would need 1,440 pictures to make a one minute long movie. Even though that number of photos seems high, let's assume it's a reasonable average (remembering they probably met early into digital photography). These two people crossed paths during the one minute of theirs lives that's recorded on film.>> ^oileanach:

While this is cute and touching and all that, I must point out the total math fail in the media reaction here. What are the odds that two people who passed each other at Disney in childhood should be later married? Pretty damn high I'd wager. In fact there must be dozens of such couples in the world. The place has been there for decades, attracting millions from around the world - this story was inevitable. If one of them had been from North Korea I'd be a little more impressed, but geez, most Canadian kids go to Disney in Florida at least once. Of course NOW this could never happen due to post 9/11 border security...

>> ^deathcow:

photoshop


Yeah I agree, there were a few suspicious pixels, and I've seen a few photochops in my time.

only thing would be better than this is rabid mice devour babies at disney world

One of the only fantasy RPG conventions not included in Dragon Age is the thing about freedom--an open world to explore, where the main quest can get eclipsed by the much more interesting side quests. This was present in Oblivion, Morrowind, and the Baldur's Gate series, so I'm surprised no one's really commented on it. Dragon Age is incredibly focused on the main plot, which makes the few side quests totally out of place, such as helping an elf win over a girl he likes (while the horde of baddies just wiped out a neighboring town).

The physical area of the game seems tiny. There are less than 10 major areas to visit, and two of the towns I've seen so far have something like 10 buildings in them and 20 or so NPCs. It feels like I'm walking through Disney World. Within these small areas, you're always hemmed in to a single path much like the Final Fantasy series. While exploring a forest, you're stuck on the trails. What's so hard about making an open zone? Baldur's Gate 1 did it just fine.

The only way I can start to understand this game's appeal is by thinking back to Mass Effect, because I really enjoyed that game and the formula seems identical. I think the difference is originality and the script. Mass Effect was an original story (at least to me and most gamers) and the cutscenes were almost TV-worthy, whereas Dragon Age's story is familiar to just about everyone and is executed poorly.

Great Sift. I think I remember the Inner Space ride at Disney World from when I was a wee lad.

The entrance into Star Tours in Disney World (with the big AT-AT) was breathtaking the first time I went into it back in 91! I still have pictures of me and Chewbaca. I loved it.

Just recently I got to ride the one at Disneyland, and the entrance is just a boring passage in the side of a building, and Admiral Ackbar's animatronic neck was wrenching in a weird way that almost look liked it was breaking off while turning.

Yeah I haven't been to Florida since I was 9 and that was around Tampa...the only thing I remeber is fragments of Disney World and unbearable sunburn!

...oh and a big aligator

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naples?/whistles..classy classy..
when?
LOL...faaaantastic.
im just north of tampa.i was gonna suggest you could pop by if ya wanted..not for killin but visiitin,but next week im off to orlando to do a short weekend lecture and may stay for a few days there.naples is beautiful though and only an hour away from lauderdale.

I proposed to my then girlfriend at Disney World. Off on side little walk while watching the Electric Light and Magic Parade. And, without the influence of onlookers, she said yes anyway!

god damn her and her charm. i want to hate this woman because that fossil fuels dino ride at disney world she stars in with bill nye annoys the snot out of me.
but i cant hate her. because she charms me.