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u/MiffyAvon May 08 '15
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?!?!!
Oh 1 in 7?
Yeah 1 in 7.
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u/HamsterBoo May 08 '15
WRONG!
The original date in question was 2/2/2022! The chances of that being a Tuesday are 1 in 7.
HOWEVER
That isn't a Tuesday. 22/2/2022 is a Tuesday. That's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DATE!
So the chances of EITHER 22/2/2022 OR 2/2/2022 being a Tuesday are 2/7.
Someone who has taken statistics and thinks they are smart might say there's a 13/49 chance, but when was the last time a Wednesday happened 20 days after another Wednesday?
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u/kalebt123 May 08 '15
In this picture it has two different dates. In the original comment, it says February 2, 2022. In the google search, it is February 22, 2022. February 22 is a Tuesday. Which makes more sense anyway because it has an extra 2 than the original comment. Feb. 2 2022 is a Wednesday.
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u/Harperlarp May 08 '15
Fun fact:
When Sonic 2 was released on the Mega Drive in the US and Europe on November 24th 1992 the day was dubbed Sonic 2's day, because the day was a Tuesday. This began the trend of games being released on a Tuesday that still carries on today.
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u/skyman724 May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
And that game introduces Sonic's sidekick, a fox with two tails.
Twolluminati confirmed.
Edit: y'all need to learn about syllable cadence. "Illtwominati" doesn't work.
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May 08 '15
Half life 2 confirmed.
wait
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u/architect_son May 08 '15
November 16, 2004 is the 321st day of the year 2004 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of this year.
That day of the week was... Tuesday.
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u/Harperlarp May 08 '15
And there were 2 bosses in the final stage. There were 2 endings. It introduced 2 player mode to the series.
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u/SMarioMan May 08 '15
Not just to the series. No game before this had ever had split screen multiplayer.
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u/industrialwaste May 08 '15
Woah, I haven't played sonic in a really long time, but I never realized tails had two tails. wow. I was a dumb kid.
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u/AATroop May 08 '15
Games are released on Tuesday so that the sales from the entire week can be reported the next Monday. It has nothing to do with Sonic, and everything to do with reporting the largest sale numbers.
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Neither of you sourced anything but this seems like the more likely answer... The other explanation means that businesses are being sentimental with their release dates, which I don't think anyone actually cares about in business.
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u/chiliedogg May 08 '15
Well, that and the fact that videos had come out on Tuesday for decades and the stores restock/reorganize on Tuesdays, and it was largely video sections of retailers selling/renting games for most of gaming history.
Putting out a new product in alphabetically organized section of a store requires a lot of work, as everything past the new release has to be moved over. So they started restocking on the least-busy shopping day of the week, and the publishers moved the release to match.
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u/j-mar May 08 '15
Halo 2 came out on a Tuesday, and that day in math class me and my buddies made all of our 2's really large when we put up our homework problems on the chalkboard. The teacher (a nice quiet old lady) called us out on it, and we explained that some game was coming out. That night she read up on it and the next day she told us to call her Master Chief. It was fucking sick.
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May 08 '15
It took me way too long to figure out you were talking about Sonic the Hedgehog and not Sonic Drive-In. I just kept reading the first sentence over and over until I gave up and read the next one.
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u/Harperlarp May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
We get all the big releases here in the UK on Tuesdays.
Source: I booked time off to play Skyrim, GTAV, and soon MGSV ok the day of release, which was Tuesday.
Edit: My memory isn't that great.
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u/TyeWin May 08 '15
Sadly, 2/22/2222 will be on a Friday :/
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u/bravo90 May 08 '15
We will all be dead anyway
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u/JarlaxleForPresident May 08 '15
Maybe y'all will, I'm investing in a sexy robot tiger body
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u/boringdude00 May 08 '15
You, maybe. And With that attitude almost certainly.
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May 08 '15
Ali G - "So what is the chances that me will eventually die?"
Surgeon General - "That you will die? 100%. I can guarantee that, 100%, you will die."
Ali G - "Right, but you is being a bit of a pessimist though."
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u/Brobi_WanKenobi May 08 '15
I think we're talking about 2022, which is a Wednesday anyway
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u/tooterfish_popkin May 08 '15
I think we're talking about 2022, which is a Wednesday anyway
You looked at February 2nd. February 22nd is a Tuesday.
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u/NOPE_NOT_A_DINOSAUR May 08 '15
Nope, it's a Tuesday, this website is wrong. I just dug through my phone's calender and the 2nd of February 2022 is a Tuesday.
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u/Brobi_WanKenobi May 08 '15
Yeah my bad, I was looking at 2/2/22, like in the text of the OP which is wrong
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u/NOPE_NOT_A_DINOSAUR May 08 '15
I think the first line say the 2nd (which is a Wednesday) but the second line say the 22nd which makes more sense for a "two's"day.
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u/tooterfish_popkin May 08 '15
Nope, it's a Tuesday, this website is wrong.
No it isn't. You are looking up the wrong date. That's Feb 2nd 2022 which is a Wednesday.
The date we want is 2/22/22 which is clearly visible in the search box of this submission and indeed is a Tuesday.
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u/NOPE_NOT_A_DINOSAUR May 08 '15
Wow, now I'm the one that goofed and didn't read everything, I googled the 22nd, must of found a result for the 2nd.
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u/basilarchia May 08 '15
2/2/2202 is a tuesday. It's pretty close. Maybe it's the closest. If so, we could make that 2's day.
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u/TyeWin May 08 '15
Yes... I'm speaking of the Feb 22nd 200 years past that. When the year is made up of all 2's. Hence 2222.
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May 08 '15
This is going to be a big deal in seven years.
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u/DevinKills May 08 '15
That's what I thought about 12.13.14 but nope I was the only one excited :l
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u/hhunterhh May 08 '15
Well that kind of combination did happen every year from 2003-2014.
11/12/13 10/11/12 09/10/11 etc
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u/PotatoFruitcake May 09 '15
I remember when it was 11:11 11/11/11, that was the most intense minute of my life.
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u/Zimaquibi May 08 '15
Finally a day to celebrate all the second bests and sidekicks. I can see it now: a Nordstrom parade with massive balloons of Luigi, Tails, Robin, and more. Sponsored by Pepsi of course.
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u/Xok234 May 08 '15
RemindMe! 22 Feb 2022 "tuesday 2's day"
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u/HypnoticPeaches May 08 '15
I love all this faith that Reddit will still be a thing then. However, in case it is...
RemindMe! 22 Feb 2022 "Tuesday 2's Day"
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u/GaussWanker May 08 '15
Reddit's already just under 10 years old, it'd have to make it to ~16.5 years old.
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u/_beast__ May 08 '15
No, you'd have to make it on here another 6.5 years. Not just the web site, but your user account.
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u/SUCKLE_MY_BUTTHOLE May 08 '15
RemindMe! 21 Feb 2022 "Tuesday 2's Day. This reminder was set in 2015. Take a second to reflect back on the life you've lived there. The username you picked for instance. I mean really?"
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May 08 '15
I wonder what the next content sharing 'thing' will be...
Reddit is just a few years away from basically turning into the Youtube comments, and I imagine most of us will have to find somewhere else to post our shitty puns and memes but still be picky about our grammar.
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u/dwmfives May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
RemindMe! How the bot doesn't work anymore.
EDIT: I'M WRONG
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u/SuperWolf May 08 '15
It doesn't? like it doesn't remember any new requests? or it doesn't work at all and all the remindme's in the past are now lost?
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u/DukeCounter May 08 '15
RemindMe! 22 Feb 2022 "tuesday 2's day"
RemindMe! 22 Feb 2022 "tuesday 2's day"
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u/killerwarpig22 May 08 '15
2/22 is my birthday. So this is fucking awesome.
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u/mac_got_fat May 08 '15
Will you be 2?
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u/_Mclovin_ May 08 '15
Hey me too! So is George Washington!
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u/sewsnap May 08 '15
It's also mine. 2/22s unite!
They don't say its George Washington's observed birthday where I live anymore. They can go to hell, I grew up with his birthday, and it will be the same as mine until I die.
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u/xerberos May 08 '15
As a backup to RemindMe, I added it to Google Calendar with a link to this thread. On 2's day, let's all come back here and talk about the good ol' times.
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u/CrokeBollegeKid May 08 '15
You wanna fight about this?
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u/Bristonian May 08 '15
I just tell people it's like ordering at a restaurant. People say "burger with a side of fries for lunch"... Nobody says "side of fries with a burger for lunch"
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u/murtimuz May 08 '15
In a restaurant you say "burger with a side of fries for lunch" because burger is the main dish (thing that will make you full) and fries are side dish (will enhance taste). But in calendars you should say in a specific to general order or vice versa. Year is the biggest one, month is the middle one and day is the smallest one. No need to place month first unless you want to create confusion.
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u/shiftymate May 08 '15
Well, the fact that we do that means we get to celebrate pi day every year. I'll take pie over logic.
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u/Hermosa06-09 May 08 '15
Europe/other places celebrate it on July 22nd instead, because it's 22/7 for them.
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u/Finaltidus May 08 '15
months = 12
days = 365
years = shit load
makes sense to me.
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u/BestGhost May 08 '15
seconds < minutes < hours < days < months < years < mayan longcounts
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u/mick4state May 08 '15
The international standard is YYYY/MM/DD, which is the one that makes the most sense. I fail to see how moving the year to the end makes less sense that doing the exact opposite order.
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u/tggt00 May 08 '15
TIL Tuesday is the second day, I am a jew for the protocol but still I didn't know christians were counting days with monday as the first day.
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u/etherag May 08 '15
I remember in 2009 having this conversation:
Him: Something cool should happen at 11:11 on 11/11/11.
Me: I wonder what day you'd have to be born to be 11,111 days old on 11/11/11.
Him: yeah, that would be neat.
... 10 minutes later...
Him: Hey, isn't your birthday 6/10/81?
Me: yeah, why?
Him: Its you. You will be 11,111 days old on 11/11/11.
Me: !!!! Holy shit!!
I threw a huge party. It was awesome.
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u/keirbrow May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
I remember when 2022 seemed like the distant future--but it's closer than 2007 now.