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There are five levels to choose from in DuckTales, but it doesn't matter which one you pick; you won't complete a single one. Assume for a minute that each level in DuckTales has an ending point, because it does. Before you can make it to that point, you must make it halfway there. However, before you can make it halfway to the end point, you must move half of that distance, which is a quarter of the total distance. And before you can advance a quarter of the way there, you must first move an eighth of the total distance. There is no distance that cannot be divided in half: one-sixteenth, one-thirty-second, one-sixty-fourth, and so on, ad infinitum. Since you must move an unlimited number of distances to reach the end point of any given level, you will never actually reach the end point. Perhaps, if you had infinite time, you might eventually reach the end point. Sadly, you don't; the timer is very finite, and it will run out long before you reach your goal.

To be technical this argument doesn't apply to a video game, since in video games you warp, meaning eventually you can't take half of that amount. For example imagine a picture is 32 pixels long, then you can only go half so many times, namely until you get to 1. then you can't go half of that... because the minimum you can move is a pixel.

However in continuous motion, then you can keep taking half indefinitely. This argument is used that continuous motion is actually impossible, and that in reality everyone warps. The argument would go something like this. Imagine you're trying to go across a football field, but you only move in halves.. for the first time you'll walk to the 50 yard line, the second time you'll move half of the remaining distance.... to the 75 yard lines... the 3rd time you'll move half of that remaining distance to the 82.5 yard position, and the fourth time you'll move half of that remaining distance... will you ever reach the end? If you contend no.

Then the next part of the argument goes like this, In order to make it to the 50 yard line. We have to first travel half of that to the 25 yard line.. then we have to travel half the remaining distance to the 37.5 position... then the next time we travel half of that remaining distance. So it becomes clear that just by moving in half way each time, we can't reach the 50 yard line either. By a similar argument we can't make it the 25 yard line, then by induction we realize to reach any point we have to move by halves. Therefore continuous motion is impossible, and people must warp (and in this sense reality is an illusion). This is called Zeno's paradox.

Another way to simply word the paradox. Is... For every half way point you reach there is another after it, can you go through them all then, to get to the end?

Or is it possible to run an infinite number of races? For every race you run there is one more, can you run them all? If you're answer is no, then continuous motion is impossible.

Or we can ask the question this way, can you pass an infinite number of points?

While one may draw that the world is not as it seems, and that people are actually warping as opposed to moving, one should not draw the conclusion that it would take infinite amount of time to move. Even if you are passing through an infinite number of segments each segment can take less time to pass, and thus the total travel time is finite. Imagine 1 second + .1 Second + .01second + etc... an infinite number of times, we are adding an infinite number of different times, but surely this sum is less than 2 seconds 1.111111 repeating seconds is less than 2 seconds.