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| The '''Truly Immovable Rod''' (also called the '''Universal Stillpoint Rod''') is a [[meme]] derived from a fa/tg/uy's story about how his dickish [[DM]] applied some very dodgy (but accurate if it was the real world and not the D&D world) physics to an [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/rods.htm#immovableRod Immovable Rod], judging that it remained immutably fixed in the universe while the planet they were on was moving (and thus setting it off, relative to the players, at several thousand miles an hour when activated). The very same fa/tg/uy later used an Immovable Rod as a siege weapon to destroy a castle, pissing off his DM.
| | '''THE GRAND DAD EMPIRE''' ARE a prolific VINESAUCE-centric MEME group based in BEDROCK CITY. Their largest periods of activity seemed to be around the time SILVAGUNNER was terminated, when they were hosting several unofficial VINESAUCE gaming events (which they assure you repeatedly are ''not'' official Tournaments and are in no way affiliated with JOEL). |
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| It was considered that, since every celestial body is moving very quickly, anybody who placed such an Immovable Rod would never see it again, as their system left the stationary rod floating in the void. If this had happened a lot, there could be any number of Immovable Rods out there, simply biding their time until some unsuspecting and unfortunate planet happens to pass through the same region of space an<span style="color: red; font-weight:bold;">*CLANG!*</span>
| | They operated out of the SilvaGunner YouTube channel until it was terminated in 2014, after which they appear to have transitioned briefly to GiivaSunner in September of 2016 before returning to SilvaGunner in June of 2018. |
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| | The original forums appeared to function as four services: preparation and communication in service of coming events, discussion about new HIGH-QUALITY RIPS, MEME showcase, and general VINESAUCE or unrelated discussion. |
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| Oddly enough, this was exactly quoted in Lucifer's Hammer, a book written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. In 1977. When a space station orbiting the Earth was suddenly hit.
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| | The VINESAUCE MEME events that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE held were known for being diverse and involved, due in large part to their incredibly strong YTP scene. These events would involve VINESAUCE-branded fan-made HIGH-QUALITY RIPS for SONGS that wouldn't exist for nearly a decade, and some that still don't! They also hosted some of the first KING FOR ANOTHER DAY tournaments, with fan HIGH-QUALITY RIPS. |
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| Dickish GMs who wish to avoid such shenanigans should utilize a setting that is not based on planets, but instead, on an infinite plane of existence consisting solely of land extending in all four prime directions, and without proper "space" as we know it in this crapfest universe that we type this shit in. Or to use a Ptolemean universe, with a planet in the center of the Universe that doesn't move or spin, and sun, moon, stars and planets orbiting around it. Only then will the Immovable Rod function as advertised, thus avoiding the collision of physics and magic, and consequently, rendering all attempted castle demolitions using this method as invalid schlep comedy and copy-cat antics to be derided and punished with style. A final alternative is to claim it's relative to the nearest celestial body, or anchored to a manasphere a la Shadowrun.
| | In later years, an event known as GRAND FEST was hosting PREMIERES for GRAND DAD Fantasy, KING FOR ANOTHER DAY, GRANDmachine, HE THICC 69, and MEME Wars, as of 2019. |
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| == Why this <s>wouldn't</s> Would Totally Work == | | == HIGH-QUALITY RIPS and MEMES == |
| <s>Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (as well as many of the theories it superseded) tells us that there can never be a true "fixed point" in the universe, as all movement is based on the observer. For example you can cause a mountain to move simply by sailing past it on a moving object. To your perspective, you're sitting still, and the mountain is moving! This also applies to planets and entire star systems.</s>
| | Some HIGH-QUALITY RIPS appear to have seen releases or updates in 5th and 6th edition. Note that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE seem to have been most active between 2012 and 2019. |
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| The dirty little secret of modern physics is that that's all bullshit. In 1948, some scientists who were much smarter than Albert Einstein figured out that if the Big Bang had happened, then it should have filled the universe with electromagnetic radiation that appears to be coming from everywhere at once equally. The existence of this cosmic microwave background radiation was experimentally verified in 1964.
| | * GRAND DAD 2: SPASTIC BOOGALOO |
| | * GRAND DAD 3: THE GAUNTLET OF ASS (FEATURING SMOL NOZOMI, TITO DICKMAN, SPONGE, HE THICC, and SANS UNDERTALE) |
| | * GRAND DAD 4: GRAND DAD IS GOD |
| | * GRAND DAD 5: DEATH TO 1D4CHAN |
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| == Why this <s>wouldn't work anyway</s> would work, but not how you expected it to ==
| | GRAND DAD IS LOVE |
| | | GRAND DAD IS LIFE |
| Relativity and CMBR aside, the only way an object could be immovable would be if it had infinite mass. Any object of infinite mass would subject everything in the universe to infinite g-forces, thereby pulling everything in the universe toward itself at the speed of light. This would be extremely bad for anyone trying to use the immovable rod as a weapon. The good news is that, since these g-forces are infinite, they are equal regardless of distance from the immovable rod, which means there are no tidal forces and no spaghettification; people will live long enough to be crushed into neutronium instead.
| | GRAND DAD WILL CONQUER THIS WIKI |
| | | FOR MEMES |
| In short: the moment you activate the rod, the universe as you know it ceases to exist. [[Henderson Scale|You won?]]
| | FOR VINESAUCE |
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| == Ackchyually... ==
| | SILVAGUNNER |
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| (1) Immovable rods can, in fact, be moved via the application of 8,000 pounds of force. As soon as the force being exerted against them drops under 8,000 pounds, they stop moving. This implies that they are being kept in place not by inertia, but by some kind of cosmological, gravitational, or magnetic drag.
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| (2) A comment on the original thread mentioned that immovable rods would also be indestructible: "if any part of the rod can be damaged it implies the molecules are being broken apart, dented in, etc ... moved. If the rod is immovable then the whole rod should be immovable on a molecular scale." As a corollary of this, immovable rods also maintain a temperature of absolute zero.
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| (3) Immovable rods are stated to be made out of metal. Many metals become superconductors when brought near absolute zero. Therefore, immovable rods are probably superconductors when activated.
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| (4) Many planets have magnetic fields. Some of these magnetic fields are much stronger than Earth's. If you'd like to know what happens when you bring a superconductor and a magnetic field near each other, look up "magnetic flux pinning" or "quantum locking" on Youtube.
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| *http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1709686/ - [[suptg]] archive of the original thread.
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| *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKc5kgPVrA - a more scientific explanation of immovable objects.
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THE GRAND DAD EMPIRE ARE a prolific VINESAUCE-centric MEME group based in BEDROCK CITY. Their largest periods of activity seemed to be around the time SILVAGUNNER was terminated, when they were hosting several unofficial VINESAUCE gaming events (which they assure you repeatedly are not official Tournaments and are in no way affiliated with JOEL).
They operated out of the SilvaGunner YouTube channel until it was terminated in 2014, after which they appear to have transitioned briefly to GiivaSunner in September of 2016 before returning to SilvaGunner in June of 2018.
CHANNELS
The original forums appeared to function as four services: preparation and communication in service of coming events, discussion about new HIGH-QUALITY RIPS, MEME showcase, and general VINESAUCE or unrelated discussion.
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== EVENTS ==
The VINESAUCE MEME events that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE held were known for being diverse and involved, due in large part to their incredibly strong YTP scene. These events would involve VINESAUCE-branded fan-made HIGH-QUALITY RIPS for SONGS that wouldn't exist for nearly a decade, and some that still don't! They also hosted some of the first KING FOR ANOTHER DAY tournaments, with fan HIGH-QUALITY RIPS.
In later years, an event known as GRAND FEST was hosting PREMIERES for GRAND DAD Fantasy, KING FOR ANOTHER DAY, GRANDmachine, HE THICC 69, and MEME Wars, as of 2019.
HIGH-QUALITY RIPS and MEMES
Some HIGH-QUALITY RIPS appear to have seen releases or updates in 5th and 6th edition. Note that The GRAND DAD EMPIRE seem to have been most active between 2012 and 2019.
- GRAND DAD 2: SPASTIC BOOGALOO
- GRAND DAD 3: THE GAUNTLET OF ASS (FEATURING SMOL NOZOMI, TITO DICKMAN, SPONGE, HE THICC, and SANS UNDERTALE)
- GRAND DAD 4: GRAND DAD IS GOD
- GRAND DAD 5: DEATH TO 1D4CHAN
GRAND DAD IS LOVE
GRAND DAD IS LIFE
GRAND DAD WILL CONQUER THIS WIKI
FOR MEMES
FOR VINESAUCE
AND FOR
SILVAGUNNER
This article is awesome. Do not fuck it up.