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In the first MMO games, collision was a big problem. A player could block a doorway, and nobody else could go through. It was even worse if the player had "follower" characters or pets. | In the first MMO games, collision was a big problem. A player could block a doorway, and nobody else could go through. It was even worse if the player had "follower" characters or pets. | ||
One solution was to have characters automatically "push" stationary characters out of the way, but that caused other problems. Modern MMO's such as World of Warcraft simply allow characters to pass through each other, as depicted in this xkcd comic. Our eyes fool us into "seeing" that two characters somehow slid past each other. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.228.132|172.68.228.132]] 07:29, 3 May 2025 (UTC) | One solution was to have characters automatically "push" stationary characters out of the way, but that caused other problems. Modern MMO's such as World of Warcraft simply allow characters to pass through each other, as depicted in this xkcd comic. Our eyes fool us into "seeing" that two characters somehow slid past each other. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.228.132|172.68.228.132]] 07:29, 3 May 2025 (UTC) | ||
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lol, i remember this explanation from a minutephysics video. however, the version of the problem i heard, which is actually paradoxical, is "what happens when an immovable object meets an irresistible force?" Not without text (talk) 00:03, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- That was also literally my first thought. 169, anyone? --Coconut Galaxy (talk) 05:37, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Come on, it's just an arrow made of W- bosons, right? TheTrainsKid (talk) 03:22, 3 May 2025 (UTC) Is there no joke here? Is it just the solution? Broseph (talk) 06:52, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
I remember an explanation by Isaac Asimov in one of his books which was like "by definition, an immovable object will not move at all under any force in the universe, and an unstoppable force will move all of the objects in this way" and then explained how the definitions conflicted each other and as such prevented both from being able to register for the hypothetical at the same time 172.64.236.161 06:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
In the first MMO games, collision was a big problem. A player could block a doorway, and nobody else could go through. It was even worse if the player had "follower" characters or pets. One solution was to have characters automatically "push" stationary characters out of the way, but that caused other problems. Modern MMO's such as World of Warcraft simply allow characters to pass through each other, as depicted in this xkcd comic. Our eyes fool us into "seeing" that two characters somehow slid past each other. 172.68.228.132 07:29, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
When the two things pass through each other, at the instant where they both occupy exactly the same space, is there one object or two? 162.158.216.159 08:02, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
