I think it's the fact that it's done slowly that does it for me. Like the person in the video thinks they're helping me understand how it works, but no. My brain refuses to see anything other than noodle magic, and I refuse to accept responsibility for that.
If it was done fast, I think I would just be impressed.
Honestly just watching it, I get so mad that I just think it's like a spectrum thing. Like he has some fucking defect that makes it so he just sees it like a simple math equation, when I'm the idiot that can't understand it even with slow mo
I think the power cord is the easiest one to get the concept. You have a loop, over which the end of the cable passes through. You make the end big, and add some additional constraint so that it can’t be untangled in an obvious way.
But from the perspective of the cable, the only thing that matters is the knot. If you undo the knot at any point, that will unknot the whole - so you just move a loop-like stuff up where you can move the end through.
It's kinda bollocks anyway, like the 2nd one, you would never come across this problem IRL, they had to do the reverse of what they showed you to get it in that position in the first place.
All you need to know is that this is a trick not, not a tiktocker who's studied mathmatical topology so that they're the knot whisperer.
Look at the first knot with the person's hands tied to another rope. This is the most honest take as it is exactly a stage illusionist trick using a stage illusionist knot that appears to be firmly tied but it is actually a trick.
It's the exact same knot in every scene, they just tie it around different items so it looks like 3 different knots.
"Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R'amen"
These make me mad as well, but only because they are stupid, deliberately set up "problems" that no one will ever encounter unless they specifically set it up first
I would just make a double column tie, not two single column ones wide enough apart to untie the knots. And i would also not tie it arround a seperate peace of rope.
Maybe if a person doesn't know how knots work and uses zip ties instead, it could come in handy. But only if the thing that person ties you to is a rope.
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u/sekhenet Jun 21 '24
This enrages me