Post #3476071
2026-06-25 11:28 UTC
@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt up there with the Twilight Zone episode about the man who finds a fortune telling machine at a diner that gives generic but seemingly always true answers, and he becomes obsessed and starts asking the machine everything
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2026-06-25 13:55
@curtmack@floss.social I didn't find an explanation for this episode, and everyone involved except Shatner is dead now, but Serlng's closing monologue makes it clear the story is about the folly of supersticion. The same point has been made many times by many people. James Randi showed audiences how this works with horoscopes, by having them all read what he said were horoscopes created just for them, which they all agreed seemed apt, and then revealing that they were all identical.