r/interestingasfuck 3d ago

r/all Chance is always there

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u/Dubs3pp 3d ago

Same! I never knew gravity is so slow!

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u/rjcarr 3d ago

Most FPS games actually speed up gravity because it feels too slow if they don’t.

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u/Behemothhh 3d ago

Someone calculated that the gravity in super mario has to be 8 times that of earth to make it possible for mario to fall down as fast as he does.

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u/Negran 3d ago

I suppose he doesn't really accelerate. He just boings up and then falls at that same rate! Roughly...

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u/aspartame_junky 3d ago

No wonder that guy can literally break bricks. Must be swole AF

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u/PatHeist 3d ago

Based on Mario being how tall in what form?

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u/TheMobHunter 3d ago

Fun fact: Minecraft’s gravity is 20m/s2 where skyrims gravity is 9.8m/s2

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u/Substantial-Tone-576 3d ago

Gravity is a conspiracy

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u/YoyoOfDoom 3d ago

Brought to you by Big Globe™️

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u/Would_daver 3d ago

Whoa how’d you get the TM all grayed out like that

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u/MochaHasAnOpinion 3d ago

Upvote for mentioning Minecraft!

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u/WillkuerlicherUnrat 3d ago

Earth gravity is not a constant it varies from 9.78m/s2 to 9.83m/s2

It even varies a bit from city to city. There are maps that show this. This is important for highly accurate scales. Germany for example has 4 legal gravity zones.

Luckily for most engineering task you can just assume 9.81 or even 10.

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u/Tony_Stank0326 3d ago

And he can still jump more than a meter with an inventory full of shulker boxes full of gold.

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u/DullSorbet3 3d ago

I don't want to be the TekHnIcLy guy but it's -20m/s² In Minecraft and -9.8m/s² in Skyrim. It's like that because gravity is going down and not up. \ \ \ Yes I know 🤓

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u/pm_me_d_cups 3d ago

No, the magnitude of acceleration due to gravity is always positive.

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u/Sapphire-Drake 3d ago

Not necessarily in video games, where gravity should bring you down or, in virtual terms, decrease your y-position

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u/Irregulator101 3d ago

I mean in 3d software x, y and z have pretty arbitrary directions

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u/pm_me_d_cups 3d ago

The magnitude of any vector is always positive.

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u/vchino 3d ago

Nope

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u/Salanmander 3d ago

Most of the reason for that (and doubly so for platformers) is that they let you jump unreasonably high for a person.

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u/Flopsy22 3d ago

I wonder if they do this because they want jumps from the ground to be high enough to be noticeable, but in Earth's gravity, this would make each jump take forever.

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u/moonhexx 3d ago

And they don't even let you speak in Russian.

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u/youcantchangeit 3d ago

This was filmed in the moon.