Morbane's coal

[coalcube]

In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

Madness Opens: Tuesday 26 December
Author Reveals: Monday 1 January


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Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

[(Anonymous)]

I was lowballing the number because the higher the number, the bigger a PITA for exchange mods, which supports my argument but feels dishonest given the rejection rate (for their own gifts over the years) nonny reported.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

[(Anonymous)]

Rejected gifts don't matter at all to the mods though. I mod things, I literally could not tell you if or how many gifts are rejected after the fact because it doesn't matter.

Every single person in one of my exchanges could reject their gift and as long as none of them were eligible for an EPH I might not even notice until FFA started wanking about it.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

[(Anonymous)]

I would laugh so hard.