Professional_Issue82 t1_jcnmox3 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 3:35 AM

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] Everyone knows the hero won't defuse the bomb until the are less than 10 seconds left. That's why I've set it to explode at 20 seconds. by Sh4d0w927

Wasn’t this in the evil overlord list?

YALBO t1_jcoktba wrote on March 18, 2023 at 10:51 AM

That's rule 15.

> I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.

I'm not really convinced of the wisdom here. It's important that you and your minions should receive an accurate measure of how long you have before the explosion. But there was also point 215:

> If I ever MUST put a digital timer on my doomsday device, I will buy one free from quantum mechanical anomalies. So many brands on the market keep perfectly good time while you're looking at them, but whenever you turn away for a couple minutes then turn back, you find that the countdown has progressed by only a few seconds.