Reality is subjective. As an existentialist, believing that variety is indeed the spice of life, I decide that the manhole covers are any polygonal shape I want them to be. Today, I choose half of them to be nonagons and the other half to be rhombi. So, manhole covers are round when I decide they're round.
Creativity test
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Oops, I was supposed to be creative. 
 
Reality is subjective. As an existentialist, believing that variety is indeed the spice of life, I decide that the manhole covers are any polygonal shape I want them to be. Today, I choose half of them to be nonagons and the other half to be rhombi. So, manhole covers are round when I decide they're round.

			
			
									
						
										
						Reality is subjective. As an existentialist, believing that variety is indeed the spice of life, I decide that the manhole covers are any polygonal shape I want them to be. Today, I choose half of them to be nonagons and the other half to be rhombi. So, manhole covers are round when I decide they're round.
Are they round?  Really?  Well, if they are, it's because the guy who invented them was having a rather silly day and instead of making them triangular like toblerone, he made then round like....................erm......................like......................i dunno what he was thinking of stupid man!
			
			
									
						
										
						- Kamerolifant
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Why are manhole covers round?
That's a lie! Since our whole society is a computer generated program (as is proven in the Matrix) no figure could be round, only to be build out of polygons (which form triangles together).
Therefor, a manhole isn't round, but it appears to be round due to the high res model, 16xAA and 12xAF w/ bump mapping, alpha layers and HDR shading... =)
Can't wait on the Matrix 2.0 engine - it's rumoured that it covers exact round shapes! =)
Creative enough?
			
			
									
						
										
						That's a lie! Since our whole society is a computer generated program (as is proven in the Matrix) no figure could be round, only to be build out of polygons (which form triangles together).
Therefor, a manhole isn't round, but it appears to be round due to the high res model, 16xAA and 12xAF w/ bump mapping, alpha layers and HDR shading... =)
Can't wait on the Matrix 2.0 engine - it's rumoured that it covers exact round shapes! =)
Creative enough?
- veryhardgame
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