• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    14 days ago

    We bought this run-down house, my boyfriend and I. While he started working on converting the kitchen into the main bedroom, I insisted on removing the old wallpaper. The previous owner papered every wall and ceiling in the house! It’s a lot of work to remove, but it feels so good to get rid of it. The best feeling is getting a long peel, like when your skin peels after a bad sunburn. I turned it into a game, on the hunt to rip the longest piece possible.

    I noticed there was a person’s name and date under a corner section of paper in every room. I couldn’t help but investigate and Googled those names. What I discovered left me speechless. The names all belonged to missing people, and the dates matched the day of their disappearance! We notified the police, who sent the crime scene team. I overheard one of them say, “Yeah, it’s human.” Wait, what’s human? “Ma’am, where is all the material you removed? This isn’t wallpaper.”

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    14 days ago

    Two courses of action.

    1. You detain and tie up the Ramirez already inside, just in case. Then you let the Ramirez outside in and do the same. You proceed trying to figure out what’s going on. Who is the real one? Problem with this scenario is now you 100% have the fake one inside with you.

    2. You detain and tie up the Ramirez already inside, just in case. You leave the one outside to die. Unethical, but now there’s only a 50/50 chance the one inside with you is the fake one.

    Alternate option if you’re feeling really unethical is you just instantly kill the one already inside and also leave the one outside to die. Technically the safest option.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      14 days ago

      Alternate option if you’re feeling really unethical is you just instantly kill the one already inside and also leave the one outside to die. Technically the safest option.

      Kick out the inside Ramirez and let them fight to the death. The winner is the fake one.

    • ChillPenguin@lemmy.world
      26·
      13 days ago

      Oh I’ve seen this one.

      You tie them both up. Set them down on a couch next to each other. Get each of their blood into a dish. Then you take a flame thrower, heat up some metal and apply it to each dish of blood. Easy.

    • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      If theres one thing I know about aliens, its that the whole ship needs to burn in orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

    • tyler@programming.dev
      6·
      13 days ago

      No you put both of them outside and then try to resolve it. Then no matter what happens the station is still ok. They both have comms, nothing is gained by letting either in.

        • tyler@programming.dev
          3·
          13 days ago

          There’s a lot more room in space than in the station. You could easily put them a quarter mile apart out there, while in the station you could be killed in seconds.

          • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            If the station’s that big, there’s definitely room to keep Ramirez confined without resorting to sending him out into space.

            • tyler@programming.dev
              1·
              11 days ago

              Huh? No I said in space you can put them that far apart. You aren’t putting them that far apart inside. And inside you either have to get in close proximity to both, increasing your chances of disaster, or you have to let them wander the space station unaccompanied.

    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Blow the inside-Ramirez out the airlock, give the outside one some company. - The good ending. :)

  • Sidhean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    13 days ago

    Lock one in the airlock, and confine the already-in one to quarters. If Outside Ramirez is bad but can’t defeat the module’s external shielding, this isn’t a good plan. This has the downside of bringing Bad Ramirez to Earth but the upside of not forcing Either Ramirezs, good or bad, to fight for their life. Anyway, fucking love this. Thanks for reminding me of the horror of a Second Ramirez.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    12·
    13 days ago

    This is referenced in Warframe in a couple of ways at different points in the game. For example: You have a kinda schizophrenic ship AI, and while you’re floating in space he says this sometimes:

    “KNOCK KNOCK! …Now who would be knocking all the way out here?! Operator, I don’t think you should answer that.” (Here’s a clip: https://youtu.be/ilHi4LeKZmM)

    I’ll not mention the others since I’d say they’re spoilers.

  • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
    8·
    14 days ago

    “Ramirezes, quick, what’s something only we would know?” I asked sobbing, sweating, with a gun pointed at indoor Ramirez’s head.