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  • Snakes.

  • Lots and lots of snakes.

  • These snakes are just writhing with potential, similar parts

  • linked together.

  • They move in a specific and limited way.

  • Part of the potential of things is how they break.

  • These snakes break fantastically into these snake modules.

  • You can put them back together too,

  • allowing the existence of the super snake.

  • Super snakes are obviously desirable for many reasons,

  • besides being inherently awesome.

  • You can wear them, and put them on things,

  • and drop them, which I find amusing for some reason.

  • You can arrange them into a space-filling, fractal curve,

  • if that's what you like, which I do.

  • You can even jump snake.

  • But let's not forget.

  • You can make mini-snakes too, which enables the snake stash,

  • and starting from mini-snake gives you room to grow.

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  • They like to bend into this angle.

  • Who cares what it actually is, besides about 90 degrees?

  • But it begs the question, how many ways can I

  • fold this snake if it has 10 segments?

  • I can notate the way it slithers back and forth from tail

  • to head, left, right, right, left, left, right, left.

  • I'm going to call this string of letters a slither.

  • This is a valid slither.

  • This is an invalid one, since anyone who's played snake

  • knows that a snake isn't allowed to run into itself.

  • Given a slither, how can I tell whether it's-- of course,

  • snake lets you go straight too.

  • So you can do another version of this that allows going straight

  • and notate it like this, and wonder

  • whether this snake is a loser snake or not.

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  • Don't forget to try putting the snake modules together in ways

  • they were never meant to go.

  • You can mix colors.

  • So in theory, I could be hiding a secret message

  • in the color pattern of this snake.

  • But I'm not, because I'm lazy.

  • So it's just the digits of the binary expansion of pi.

  • Even better, you can attach more than one segment at a point.

  • I can have a two-headed serpent.

  • I can play the game where I cut off the heads of a Hydra,

  • adding two more in the old head's place

  • and see how far that gets me.

  • I can put the snake modules on my fingertips

  • and have snaky fingers.

  • That's cool too.

  • I can even do super snaky fingers.

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