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Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete
TsukiKage writes "A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter."
I guess that's why you're here.
...an XKCD comic in the near future.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
A use for Carnival of Souls.
Who in their right mind would play such obvious trash?
Surprisingly, lots of people.
People pull knifes on each other over Magic in my hood.
Like we /.ers are to talk about nerds or geekiness. Half of us would install a toaster in our cars just so we could have a toaster to install linux on while stuck in traffic. Yeesh.
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Now this is truly "News for Nerds"
Speaking of, what the hell happened to the motto? When did that happen?
This guy didn't just earn his nerd card, he earned a nerd obelisk in his front yard.
No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
My thoughts in order:
- Have I got the cards to do this?
- What cards could I substitute to achieve the same thing?
- Could I optimize or simplify this and reduce the number of required cards?
- Do *really* I want to sit down and figure this out?
- Could I simulate this in one of the many (open source) mtg cardgame engines?
There is a group of guys at my workplace who do it every day on their lunch hour. And not a one of them would understand this story
Or how to make a baby.
make baby
As you can see above, baby making is not hard. Even the deployment, painful as it is, is an one-off per child.
What should worry anyone is: keeping input feed at right levels and correlated with "running"/"longjump"-ing/whatever, anti-malware protection, constant patching (as in: a new iGadget to keep in sync with the other "daemons" in the scho... err... system) and all other maintenance activities.
These letting aside no possible way of hardware upgrades for the tens of years of lifetime and not manufacturer warranty from the very first day.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Do you realize what this means?
Given sufficient time and mana, we could simulate a game of Magic within a game of Magic!
Vaguely related
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
Even worse, with the baby code base, recursion is deeply frowned upon!
There *îs* a card for changing the colors in the text, and the guy's using it (and a second one to change creature type). The card modification is thus done according to the rules.
In fact, almost any magic effect in MtG is a change in the initial rules, so that's Magic for you
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Any sufficiently advanced technologyis indistinguishable from Magic.
Dwarf Fortress did it first with diabolical machinations dreamt up by fell craftsdwarves whose infernal machines are powered by the blood of kittens. No, literally, THE BLOOD OF KITTENS. I've seen perpetual motion water wheels with blood as the medium and catsplosions are a common method of pest control. The founts of blood splattering into the throne room where the dark emperor sits and laughs are merely a side benefit. Using pressure plates to trigger floodgates leads to all sorts of possibilites. Dark horrible possibilities.