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11:34 PM

Rand al'Thor has made a change to the feeds posted into this room‌

Rubio

oh boy.

Rand al'Thor

In light of consensus on PSE meta and main meta, with seemingly everyone either in favour of the onebox feed or feeling "meh" about both, I've changed the feed back to onebox instead of ticker. If you don't want to see these oneboxes, you can ignore Sphinx just like any other chat user.

Rubio

Welcome back, Obie

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Wait, how do you know about Obie? I thought that was just an SFF thing?

Rubio

I read? :)

I also know you've never watched the Star Wars films, and have a lovely donkey picture commemmorating this.

For shame, really

Rand al'Thor

11:39 PM

Ah, I see you've perused the "many memes of SFF" thread :-)

Rubio

I, um, may have spent some time reading it, yes :)

Rand al'Thor

Woo, just posted my contribution to the current topic challenge!

I've been slacking lately on the topic challenges - on posting puzzles in general, actually - due to too much going on IRL.

Sphinx

Q: Is humanity truly doomed?

The aliens have landed! You wake up one morning and find yourself in a room with familiar furniture but featureless white walls, strapped firmly to your own bed and hooked up to an array of dials and monitors that are clearly not of human origin. It seems as though your entire bedroom has been s...

Rubio

Oh. Right. Lol

I thought it was now double-posting everything :)

Rand al'Thor

@Sphinx Yay!

Rubio

11:48 PM

So yeah - this puzzle? seems to require effort. Forget that noise. Hehee

Rand al'Thor

pats Sphinx happily

gets eaten

@Rubio You're clearly no stranger to effort :-)

Rubio

I've been slacking

compare november to december. I'm way off my pace :) got busy, and a week-long business trip in there didn't help

Deusovi

I've identified the countries:

1 Dominican Republic
2 Norway
3 Turkey
4 Spain
5 Iceland
6 (American Samoa? Niue? Cook Islands? French Polynesia?)
7 Serbia
8 Turkey
9 Uganda
10 Greenland
11 Estonia
12 Argentina
13 Thailand
14 Iceland
15 Norway
16 Hong Kong
17 Reunion / Mauritius

Rubio

I posted a pretty simple riddle though. The answer is easy enough, but the only person who's tried it so far (even on attempt 2) is still missing a few of the clues

Deusovi

It... almost looks like a phrase if you read the first letters.

Rand al'Thor

11:54 PM

@Deusovi The numbers go up to 17 ...

Deusovi

Welp.

I'm blind apparently.

Rubio

I think we both proved that last night

I hear if you PSE too much you go blind.

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio I'm torn with that riddle, tbh: should I downvote it for being too easy, or upvote it for being nicely made and put together?

Rubio

Well - something like that anyway

It was supposed to be easy. (Check the title.)

You get to downvote it for being too easy when you've fully solved it - not beforehand ;)

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio As I was reading it, I was literally thinking "this sounds as if it's something like LOVE or KISS ... nah, too obvious, that must be a red herring and there's some deeper meaning here".

Then the answer popped up and I felt disappointed.

I'm wondering whether or not to post a link to the pilot puzzle in the Aviation.SE chatroom. They might appreciate it.