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Comment author: FiftyTwo 06 July 2012 10:02:56PM 1 point [-]

Are basilisks necessarily fatal

The post specified fatal so I followed it.

For non-fatal basilisks we'd expect to see people flipping suddenly from highly intelligent and sane, to stupid and/or crazy. Specifically after researching basilisk related topics.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 06 July 2012 10:26:16PM 2 points [-]

Yes, this can also be reversed for a good way to see what topics are practically basilisk construction related.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2012 07:59:38AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, but you would get false positives too, such as chess (scroll down to “Real Life” -- warning: TVTropes). Edited to fix link syntax -- how comes after all these months I still get it wrong this often?