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nitsua60

12:16 AM

@BESW They shook lefty? Is that how everyone knew they were a lich?

BESW

It was rather sinister.

Joshua

Since sinister originally meant left handed ...

nitsua60

12:57 AM

@BESW I often extend... well, in the before-time... would extend my left hand in greeting if a person's right hand were obviously occupied/detained. It always surprised me how disconcerting many found it.

GcL

1:13 AM

@nitsua60 Another entertaining thing to do is go for a fist bump, then open your hand at the last moment, grab the other person's fist like a ball and socket, and give it a quick hand-shake like shake.

Similar to this

nitsua60

@GcL I, rather, start the same way (lull them into a fist bump) then do a squelchy-squeezy thing to their fist with my open hand while saying "mashed potato."

GcL

I like that. Going to try that.

nitsua60

@GcL Are you old enough for sniglets?

@GcL It works best--like making real mashed potatoes--if you take your time. In this case, you've got to say "potato" each time you fist bump for weeks or months, so that the person gets used to it. Then "mashed potato" comes on line =)

GcL

Sufficiently old, but HBO wasn't something I watched.

Or was that a book?

I feel like coming up with definitions of words that aren't words is something I've read, but don't know them as sniglets

nitsua60

@GcL a couple of books, maybe based off of a newspaper column?

The one that I still use frequently is "pepsunami." It's the overflowing wave of mostly-bubble that comes out of the top of a glass where warm soda's poured onto ice.

GcL

1:26 AM

Journicle: An article in a journal

Adeptus

1:40 AM

@nitsua60 A workmate had a couple of variations on this... 1. put your hand below their fist, palm down, wiggle your fingers, say "octopus". 2. put your hand below their fist, palm down, put 2 fingers up behind their fist, say "snail".

(I didn't describe it super well... think like a shadow puppet)

Hot RPG Questions

2:51 AM

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Bardic Wizard

3:54 AM

I introduced my younger brother to goblin court today. Somehow, when I asked him where he got a lock he used on the door to the kitchen, he said his goblin had gotten it off a safe of apple cutter tools they had. Six years old, and already learning how to fast talk the GM.

BESW

4:33 AM

Oh cool!

How'd it go?

Bardic Wizard

@BESW meh, he seemed to like it. He did decide that there were phones and cameras and machines and (apparently most importantly) cars, but other than that he seemed to like it. Although he did say “I like rolling dice and there aren’t enough of the funny ones” and “I think the dragon shouldn’t eat humans but it can eat salami sandwiches”.

BESW

I like that!

And he's right, it doesn't have enough of the funny dice.

I love that he felt so free to take charge of the worldbuilding.

Bardic Wizard

He’s super imaginative, although it’s kind of directed toward Cars (the movie), tormenting his siblings (all the time), and making things with cardboard and my fabric stash (without asking). Honestly, anything gaming related he gets into is probably good for him rn

BESW

5:25 AM

@AncientSwordRage Current working title, Walkies with Grim.

The Oracle

6:59 AM

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Q: Establishing robust guidelines for protection/unprotection

The current policies are inadequate After previously working through the protected questions backlog, clearing out any questions that remain protected despite no longer needing to (as per site and stack policy), I discovered that the current policy is quite controversial. SE protection policy: ...

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Ben

I think I've found something worse than getting a song stuck in your head. Getting a song stuck in your head, but only remembering the lyrics and not the tune.

BESW

@Ben I've had songs stuck in my head that weren't songs to begin with, so...

Ben

@BESW Well, with your creativity I'm sure you'd be able to turn them into songs :P

BESW

(There's a lot to be said about Eliot's fashy royalist misogyny, but the guy knew how to write a hook.)

The Oracle

7:23 AM

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Q: Unprotected locked questions

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gszavae

@TheOracle nevermind this, fixed already ^^

Adeptus

@Ben Even worse, getting the tune but no lyrics... you can at least google with the lyrics

Ben

@Adeptus true

Adeptus

I had a tune stuck in my head one time. I complained about it online. Someone said, "is it Seven Nation Army?" I said "... now it is"

Miniman

I had a song stuck in my head for about 3 months, couldn't figure out what it was.

Finally mentioned it to a friend, and they were like "Oh yeah, it's that song."

The feeling of relief I experienced in that moment was incredible.

Ben

7:33 AM

@Miniman Omg yes

Miniman

Of course, now that I'm talking about it, the song is back in my head, and I've forgotten what song it is again.

Adeptus

Is it Seven Nation Army? :P

Ben

Lol

I have the "Abracadabra" lyrics in my head, but I keep trying to match it up to the "It's Magic" tune

Miniman

@Adeptus Sorry, was tracking it down from the bits I remembered - turns out it's "Love Generation".

Given that the top comment on the youtube video is "5 minutes of silence for those who can't find this song !", with 2.6k likes, I'm clearly not the first person to have this problem.

Adeptus

@Ben Makes perfect logical sense

Miniman

7:42 AM

Oof, the comments are full of people who couldn't find it for multiple years.

Ben

Ikr

@Miniman You've found your people XD

Miniman

@Ben Oh, I have no particular attachment to the song. But I kept hearing snatches of whistling that reminded me of it and not being able to place it drove me nuts.

I guess it's a lot like randomly finding out in my 20s that a tune I had known my whole life was from the song Kodachrome.

AncientSwordRage

8:16 AM

Do people not always have at least one song stuck in their head?

I'm almost perpetually listening/watching you tube videos to block it out

doppelgreener

9:38 AM

@Rubiksmoose Pinging you because I raised a meta flag and I am hoping it gets looked at soon.

BESW

@doppelgreener If that flag is anything like what I think it is, I second it.

doppelgreener

@BESW it's "i'm being misrepresented and also this is a terrible way to start this discussion, please step in"

BESW

Mhm. That is not a productive frame for the discussion even if it were factually accurate.

doppelgreener

10:02 AM

@V2Blast Are the diamond moderators working on their own meta Q to start off the discussion of how we want to apply the protection guidelines?

Carcer

fwiw I think it's a genuine failure of reading comprehension that's led to the misapprehension and not deliberate misrepresentation - I can see how someone might misread that and come to that conclusion

other issues aside

BESW

One hopes.

Carcer

hanlon's razor and all that

doppelgreener

At some point hanlon's razor becomes dull.

2

Carcer

10:18 AM

(I think the problem is that they did not understand "accumulating one of our typical spam patterns" to mean "attracting one of our typical spam answers", and the subsequent mention of special keywords led to the conclusion that the "patterns" mentioned were just specific keywords in the question)

BESW

@doppelgreener Yeah, hanlon's razor can't be applied to individual actions, it has to be applied to patterns.

Carcer

place hanlon's razor under a pyramid and send $100 to this gmail account

doppelgreener

Well also at some point hanlon's razor is asking that the third time I get kicked in the shin I just assume the person is an oaf and not out to kick me in the shin.

But realistically I need to consider maybe someone's trying to kick me in the shin.

Carcer

if you have previous experience with this user being apparently malicious I don't mean to gainsay that

doppelgreener

No that's fair, but I mean to highlight that hanlon's razor is not necessarily a truism.

BESW

10:23 AM

Let's just say this is not an occurrance in a vacuum.

doppelgreener

Basically the idea it brings up is a caution against leaping to conclusions, specifically because of the perils of attacking people who were in fact just mistaken or didn't have the facts or who we've misunderstood. But it would be a mistake to apply it always or blindly. Instead it's one of many tools to bring to analyse something that's happened.

And this user's been around with us a long time. They can ask questions. I'm not, myself, interested in trying to figure out the means by which this behaviour might be well-intentioned and merely confused; they can explain on their own.

And personally they'd have to have willingly ignored every single other thing I've said on the topic as well as profoundly misinterpret one of my quotes in order to decide that's what I do

Carcer

yeah, understood. I didn't mean to suggest your response was unreasonable and you've got more context for it than I do

BESW

10:39 AM

Somehow I have Jewel's "Intuition" chorus stuck in my head and I don't really want it there.

doppelgreener

@Carcer that's just fine, i didn't take anything like that from what you said

Carcer

cool

doppelgreener

@BESW part of me went "oh! i want to know what this sounds like" but the other half of me held that half back before it could go hurt itself

@Someone_Evil o/

43 mins ago, by doppelgreener

@V2Blast Are the diamond moderators working on their own meta Q to start off the discussion of how we want to apply the protection guidelines?

Forgive me for ambushing you with a question right away, but do you know if that's happening? ^

BESW

Jewel was a lyrical folk singer who made a hard turn into dance pop in 2003 with "Intuition." It... didn't work very well, either as a song or as a career transition, but the chorus has a solid hook that can get into your head if you let it.

Someone_Evil

@doppelgreener Should be imminent (cc @Rubiksmoose)

doppelgreener

10:50 AM

Brilliant

Carcer

yeah, I had the impression rubiks seemed to be working towards that

doppelgreener

I'm sure you've considered it already, but I suspect one of the best ways the diamond team could manage the current situation would be to dupe the question that came up this morning into that one

and if you are considering or planning that then i second it

if you were not then i suggest it lol

Someone_Evil

Well I hadn't, but then I've only just seen it

doppelgreener

gotcha

Carcer

[sigh] well, I guess I better actually do some work or something.

doppelgreener

10:58 AM

alas

linksassin

11:11 AM

@doppelgreener We had been waiting for a clear consensus to be reached on the original meta. Catija's answer is now a clear leader and we are working through the next steps.

doppelgreener

@linksassin Personally I'd been thinking it was a worthwhile discussion to have regardless of the outcome of the original meta

(... I'm not sure if I've voiced that anywhere though, come to think of it)

linksassin

@doppelgreener Oh absolutely agree. But the nature of the discussion would be different depending on the immediate solution we used.

doppelgreener

That makes sense

MikeQ

11:34 AM

I wonder if bugs think humans are weird because we can't walk on the ceiling.

doppelgreener

@MikeQ also because we move, like, soooooooo slow

how do we even manage being alive if we're that slow?

imagine the Ents like Treebeard, except put them in slow motion.

Just. How do you not get eaten moving like that.

MikeQ

Humans must be ambush predators, waiting to strike at an unsuspecting sandwich

Rubiksmoose

@doppelgreener Just FYI: that is indeed the plan. I apologize for not getting the post out earlier. There were several Stack issues that came up over the weekend that drained my Stack time I had allotted to writing this. If I had known it was going to be a race...

Carcer

sometimes humans will even pull or cut the crust off a sandwich before consuming it. And we say cats are sadists...

doppelgreener

@Rubiksmoose that's great to hear

Carcer

11:42 AM

@Rubiksmoose is your time stack lifo or fifo

doppelgreener

understandable too, hindsight is 20/20

BESW

Pretty sure it's yolo.

doppelgreener