770: All the Girls
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| All the Girls |
![]() Title text: You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone. |
Explanation
A young couple (Cueball and Megan) is in love. In the first panel, Cueball says he's lucky to have Megan, a perfectly fine thing to say to someone when you're in love. In the second panel, Cueball tells Megan he loves her most out of all the girls in the world, which is again a perfectly fine thing to say when you're in love. Trouble sets in, however, in the third panel, where Cueball offers his qualifying statement, that he loves Megan the most of the subset of girls who also love Cueball back.
Now, on it's surface it would appear that Cueball is making a hollow statement, in that the subset of girls who love him back must be smaller than the set of all the girls in the world, and we assume, because we are nerds, that that subset is probably only a few girls in size. To be optimistic, though, presume that Cueball, due to his smooth head and sentimental heart, is loved by nearly all the girls in the world, and so his sentiment is still very sweet.
The title text, however, crushes any optimism one might have in the situation. Written in Cueball's voice, we have another compliment/qualifier pair. Cueball assures Megan that he'll never leave her—so long as she's with someone. Cueball clearly has an unrequited love for another, and so really is being as shitty as we all thought he was originally. The world can be a cruel place.
Transcript
- [Cueball and Megan are standing together.]
- Cueball: I'm so lucky to have you.
- Cueball: I love you most out of all the girls in all the world
- [They embrace.]
- Cueball: who love me back.
Discussion
- the people preferences may change (especially if they know someone better)
- people may prefer not having marriage at all (when rejected by some of their choices)
Still, it's not like there is better algorithm. -- Hkmaly (talk) 10:02, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
sub BetterThanNothing { my (@everyone,@m,@f,@o,@r,@Ps) = @_; while (my $person = shift @everyone) { push(@m, $person)&&next if _isMale($person); push(@f, $person)&&next if _isFemale($person); push @o, $person } my $priority =(@m>=@f)?[\@f,\@m]:[\@m,\@f]; while (@{$priority[0]}) { push @Ps, [splice(@{$priority[0]},rnd(@{$priority[0]}),1), splice(@{$priority[1]},rnd(@{$priority[1]}),1)] } } @r = (@m,@f,@o); while (@r>1) { push @Ps, [splice(@r,rnd(@r),1), splice(@r,rnd(@r),1)] } } @r && push @Ps, [(shift @r) x 2]; return @Ps } # Totally untested Perl for when you /really/ don't care too much... ;) 31.110.88.49 04:34, 4 May 2013 (UTC)