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You are on your last life. What do you prefer your life counter displaying: x1 or x0?
- Thread starter chaobreaker
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But the cat is currently USING it's first life, therefore it only has x8 additional lives at the start.
9) So at the start a cat has Lives x8 (as he currently using one)
8) If he loses a life, the cat has Lives x7
7) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x6
6) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x5
5) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x4
4) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x3
3) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x2
2) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x1
1)) If he loses another life, the cat has Lives x0 as he has no more additional lives left.
Now when he dies, he's dead.
I'm sure someone could think of something clever about Schrodinger, but I'm not that clever...
Minister of the Dog
Member
Hi buddies! Today I'm going to show you how to math. If you take 1 life and multiply it by 1, you have: life x 1 = 1 life! If you take 1 life and multiply it by 0, you have: life x 0 = 0 lives.
Now it's your time to practice!
x1
Betta Lines
Member
It should be x0 or x00 and preferably strobing or flashing like crazy.
Oppo
Member
Hi buddies! Today I'm going to show you how to math. If you take 1 life and multiply it by 1, you have: life x 1 = 1 life! If you take 1 life and multiply it by 0, you have: life x 0 = 0 lifes.
Now it's your time to practice!
x1
Great. Now tell me how many extra lives I have, beyond the one I'm playing?
I'll wait
Minister of the Dog
Member
The question is about "the last life", not the last retry. Your current life counts as one (lives = x1 means last life. You can't try again without lives), if you're on your last retry then you have none left (# of retries = x0).
Ok, let me ask you how many lives you have right meow. One or None?
I don't know about you, but my life count is 1, otherwise I'd be dead.
By extension, a cat has 9 lives at the start, not 8 as you've doggedly tried to allege.
No point arguing meow, I'm far too cunning.
Kaisersalsek
Member
x0 cause then I know I'm dead forever
if I mess up
until next restart
Oppo
Member
As pointed out, if you put this in icon format it suddenly doesn't make sense. There's no room for ambiguity in x0 so that's the best answer.
Jimnymebob
Member
At x0 I know for sure I'll get a Game Over next time I lose a life.
With x1 it's like an exciting gamble.
With x1 it's like an exciting gamble.
nkarafo
Member
When you are playing its obvious that your character is alive, thus he is using 1 life. You don't really need the game to tell you on screen that you are using 1 life as you play because, like i said, its obvious, you already have that information. So the x1 is the same information twice (if its game over after that). x0 makes more sense because that means you have no reserves and the life you are using to play is your last one.
I'm currently USING my life right now. I don't have any extras sitting up in my life inventory. Now if you were to hand me a 1UP, I'd hold onto it and I would have x1 life in my inventory. But for now, my extra lives inventory is, sadly sitting at x0.
Minister of the Dog
Member
As someone said before, lives = x1 and extra lives = x0 makes the most sense.
This is just for the sake of the debate, anyway. In any game you play, after the first Game Over screen you get used to whatever method they use. Anyway, yeah, if they're showing it as icons I'd think it's showing extra lives rather than total lives.
Eleventy_Million
Banned
x0 - If the machines count zero then so should we dammit!
commanderpepper
Member
x0, I have zero extra lives. This is my last.
If x1 is your last life and one more hit = Game Over then it is pretty important to know. My character being on the screen just tells me I'm alive not how many lives I have.
nkarafo
Member
But you know that since he is alive (otherwise you couldn't play) he is using 1 life. You really need that information twice?
Well theres your problem, it's not an extra lives counter, it's a lives counter. If it explicitly says extra, or retries then sure, different argument. But if it just says *symbol* x1, then you have one life. Lose it and you're dead. Not rocket surgery!
:Motorbass
Member
x0
No extra lives left
No extra lives left
But I could have x50 lives. My character being on the screen tells me nothing about my life quantity.
infinit777
Member
I'm going with X0, it makes more sense to me.
Hey, I didn't mean to belittle the thread or anything, I thought about the question and realised I was going to die anyway, so I'll know how many I have when I do. It's not really an issue for me. I guess it is when you're playing certain games, but not in any that I play.
So, I don't really mind whether the counter says zero or one.
Well theres your problem, it's not an extra lives counter, it's a lives counter. If it explicitly says extra, or retries then sure, different argument. But if it just says *symbol* x1, then you have one life. Lose it and you're dead. Not rocket surgery!
Well, the OP did ask what our preference was. I have clearly stated mine, and you yours. I guess we shall have to respectfully disagree on the proper way to display the remaining life.
Ranger Taffles
Member
x0
Clears it up conveniently.
Clears it up conveniently.
I think the logical thing is x1, because x0 would mean you don't have any lives, which is not true: you still have the one you're currently using.
But personally I prefer x0, because it's clear that there are no lives beyond this one (at least for first-time players; otherwise they would already know) and seeing a "0" drives the point better than a "1" (in my opinion, of course). So I'd go with x0, despite making less sense (unless you consider the life counter as a pool of remaining lives, without counting the one you're using).
But personally I prefer x0, because it's clear that there are no lives beyond this one (at least for first-time players; otherwise they would already know) and seeing a "0" drives the point better than a "1" (in my opinion, of course). So I'd go with x0, despite making less sense (unless you consider the life counter as a pool of remaining lives, without counting the one you're using).
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Depends on how you're used to saying it.
Do you have no lives left, or are you on your last life?
If you're used to saying it the first way then x0 makes more sense, otherwise x1.
Do you have no lives left, or are you on your last life?
If you're used to saying it the first way then x0 makes more sense, otherwise x1.
I prefer x0 because there isn't any question then that it's your last life.
I think x0 is more logical. Those are all EXTRA lives that you have in storage, so the life you're currently using shouldn't count.
I think x0 is more logical. Those are all EXTRA lives that you have in storage, so the life you're currently using shouldn't count.
molnizzle
Member
Yep.
Which is why I said "unless you consider the life counter as a pool of remaining lives, without counting the one you're using". If you believe them to be remaining lives, then x0 is the only valid option.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
x0 is more factually correct.