The Sphinx's Lair

Rand al'Thor

19:09

Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" animated

►

^ weird but awesome

Will

I have a book of his sheet music

Matt

another CC question: can the definition be wordplay?

Deusovi

No.

Rand al'Thor

If @Rubio gets a sockpuppet, he should call it Rubidium.

Deusovi

The definition has to be one you could find in a standard gimmickless crossword.

Matt

19:13

right, but I have seen definitions that are pretty general

Deusovi

What do you mean, exactly?

Matt

like "car" with the solution "ford"

Rubio

Question topics on Arqade are... hilarious sometimes. "How do I land my plane without crashing?" .... "How can I catch fish consistently?" ... "How many miles can I drive before running out of gas?"

Chris Cudmore

How do I shot web?

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio It's a meme.

98

A: The Memes of Arqade and its Chat

Meme: Questions that are absurd without context Originator: Various Cultural Height: As Often as Possible Background: How can I get my wife to stop nagging about a few murders? fable-3 Can I pass out from excessive drinking? bioshock How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat? nethack How c...

Rubio

19:16

Lol. No wonder.

Rand al'Thor

@Matt It's fine for the word used as definition to be more general than the actual solution.

As in, the solution can be a type of X, where X is the word used as the definition in the clue.

Deusovi

We need a Many Memes of Puzzling meta post sometime.

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Not sure if we have enough memes for it at the moment though.

Matt

okay. I think I can divide up this clue I have in mind

Rand al'Thor

The site's had a ... kind of disjointed history, with lots of people coming and going.

Deusovi

19:17

Yeah, we're pretty small and... different. (Maybe a "Few Memes of Puzzling"? :P )

user61230

@Randal'Thor Yeah, lateral-thinking answer to a logic problem.

Rand al'Thor

It's only relatively recently that we've started to have a reasonably well-defined and stable group of core users.

An active chatroom helps a lot with that, IMO.

Khale_Kitha

@Rubio I've thought the same thing, on many many occasions.

Matt

@Randal'Thor so if the solution is pretty general, the clue has to be even more general

user61230

It's time to break out the meme generator.

Rand al'Thor

19:18

@Emrakul Forgive me for being slow ... where was the lateral thinking?

user61230

Problem asks, "sort out who weighs more using three weighings." Answer asks, "use the fact that it's a seesaw instead."

Rubio

@Deusovi The (Not So) Many Memes of Puzzling. The Puzzling Times, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 2.

user61230

I guess it's kind of borderline, the problem is worded in a vague way.

Rand al'Thor

Mm, yeah, I see your point. I guess whether or not that answer should be allowed depends on how obvious you take it to be that "see-saw" means an ideal mathematical weighing device rather than an actual see-saw.

user61230

Yeah. I'll undelete it to be on the safe side. I see what you're saying.

user61230

19:26

It's not as clear-cut as I'd like it to be.

Mithrandir

I'm not Rand al'Thor. :P

dcfyj

@Mithrandir Sure. mithRANDir :P

user61230

@Randal'Thor I've gotta ask... how on earth did you find that ten minutes after I deleted it?

user61230

Me: delete an answer on a two-year-old question that hasn't seen any activity since then. Rand: "I've got a question about this answer." Me: ???

Rand al'Thor

@Emrakul I found it less than a minute after you deleted it :-)

38 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi I have SEkrit skillz ;-)

user61230

19:32

@Randal'Thor If you're using some internal means to detect moderator activity, you should report that to SE Security.

Mithrandir

@dcfyj That contributed to the meme.

Rand al'Thor

@Emrakul Well, if you're going to get all Serious on me ... I happened to be on the "recently deleted posts" page in the 10k tools at just the right moment.

user61230

@Randal'Thor OH. I'M AN IIIIDIOT.

11

Rand al'Thor

rofl

Deusovi

...Oh. :P

I didn't even realize that was a thing.

user61230

19:34

I am a fool in a diamond disguise.

dcfyj

That's an expensive disguise

Sphinx

1

Q: Wumpus-hunting Masyu

You are an explorer looking to capitalize on a cave you've discovered. The goal is to construct a pathway that visitors can take safely. The problem is that the cave is full of dangers, including a Wumpus, but that's what is going to get people to come. On your last trip through, you made a gr...

Rubio

^ @Deusovi reading between the lines it sounds like (in addition to the stated rules) you're supposed to go into the red squares (but not W) at least once, since the whole object is to find a path where visitors can see but not be eaten by the Wumpus.

Deusovi

It's impossible not to do that.

Will

I love it when I forget one of my programs was using a port & then I open software that uses that port & I totally mess up my internet

Khale_Kitha

19:49

d'oh

Silenus

@Will, I think the answer to your CCCC is:

antibody = ant [the carpenter, perhaps] + i? + body? = allergic reaction

But I can't figure out the "ibody"

Will

Clever, but no. :P

Silenus

Rats!

GentlePurpleRain

@Silenus Antibody != allergic reaction

Khale_Kitha

Can someone get the rats and carpenter ants out of the channel, please?

Deusovi

19:52

Yeah, they're not really the same thing.

Will

Immunoglobulin E

Immunoglobulin E (IgE) is a kind of antibody (or immunoglobulin (Ig) "isotype") that has only been found in mammals. IgE is synthesised by plasma cells. Monomers of IgE consist of two heavy chains (ε chain) and two light chains, with the ε chain containing 4 Ig-like constant domains (Cε1-Cε4). IgE's main function is immunity to parasites such as helminths like Schistosoma mansoni, Trichinella spiralis, and Fasciola hepatica. IgE is utilized during immune defense against certain protozoan parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum. IgE also has an essential role in type I hypersensitivity, whic...

Silenus

an antibody is produced in response to an allergy

at least my armchair research suggests

Rubio

Tell your armchair to stop trying to use the web, and try doing your own research.

Khale_Kitha

It was a spider web.

Silenus

Yeah, armchair AI is not up to snuff yet I guess

I suppose the CCCC could involve "bee" since there's also a carpenter bee. Maybe "beesting", although that's not an allergic reaction.

Khale_Kitha

19:54

I think antibody was more reasonable, yeah

Beastly Gerbil

Regarding AK's puzzle, would it be ok to post it in chat? (@Deusovi?)

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil What if the solution comes out to be something like "the mods are a bunch of ****s"?

Beastly Gerbil

Its a new year greeting

I got this email from him:

Deusovi

@BeastlyGerbil I'd say no.

Beastly Gerbil

Of course, you can do anything you want, because the main thing about puzzle is not the puzzle poser ,but the idea, and ideas are of course not patented. (I seen the chat messages regarding it, and anyway, if you don't post it on main site, you can post it in chat). (And if you want, I will tell you the encryption method).

(BTW, I wonder why I am referred as they, and what is the "reason", and I also wonder how "I" (We ??) am going to "actively circumvent" (O_O) it)

Sphinx

20:03

0

Q: It names a place where many people live

What's this word? It names a place where many people live. Change a letter, it's a person no one will forgive. Lose a letter, it's a popular vacation place; Change a letter and it means "too loud" or "in your face." Change a letter, it's an action that I guarantee You have never take...

riddle word rhyme

Beastly Gerbil

@Deusovi really?

Deusovi

I think we'd be better off just not talking about AK.

5

Beastly Gerbil

True

It justs seems a waste of a good puzzle

And it actually is good this time

What if I posted a link to a google doc with the puzzle on it?

Deusovi

That wouldn't change anything.

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Yep.

Beastly Gerbil

20:05

Okay fair enough

dcfyj

@Deusovi Like fight club?

Chris Cudmore

I would read it as assisting someone in evading a ban. Which is bannable.

Deusovi

^

Chris Cudmore

Now, judgement would come into play, and this was one of those situations where it would probably be better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.

Beastly Gerbil

Okay well I definitely don't want to get banned

Chris Cudmore

20:07

Because now that you've been told, You simply can't do it.

Deusovi

@ChrisCudmore No, no it wouldn't.

Beastly Gerbil

I'd get a year ban if I did so definitely not

Deusovi

Not necessarily. There are exceptions to the week-month-year rule. But still, I'm explicitly telling you right now: do not help any user evade a ban.

2

Chris Cudmore

I like absolute clarity.

dcfyj

@Deusovi I can understand why the formatting is as such, but that sounds rather aggressive.

Deusovi

20:09

I'm fully aware that it sounds aggressive.

Rand al'Thor

@Sphinx So, how's about this puzzle then?

"a popular vacation place" could be something like BEACH or SEA, but I can't see any way of adding a letter to that to get "a person no one will forgive".

Deusovi

I think the best place to start would be the "vacation place" and "too loud".

Maybe a specific location?

Rand al'Thor

The words are almost certainly quite short.

Got any popular holiday destinations with short names?

Deusovi

Yeah - I'm thinking six letters max, more likely 4 or 5.

Rand al'Thor

"a place where many people live" could be CITY, but again I can't see a way of changing a letter to get "a person no one will forgive". That one might be a specific location.

dcfyj

20:21

Sad that it's one letter and not two. Else it could be VILLAGE and VILLAIN

Chris Cudmore

If we can scramble, it opens up .

dcfyj

Like CITY to YETI? :P

Chris Cudmore

Yes. But OP just said no anagraming.

I had RAPIST to PARIS for lines 2 and 3

Beastly Gerbil

action I guarantee you have never taken - die?

Chris Cudmore

SUICIDE?

Rand al'Thor

20:24

@BeastlyGerbil My thought exactly.

dcfyj

True, That's a pretty safe bet

Beastly Gerbil

be weird if we had taken that action

Rand al'Thor

But then how to change one letter to get something meaning "too loud" or "in your face"?

Beastly Gerbil

die, suicide, any other similar possibilities?

Rand al'Thor

Could that be BOLD?

TrojanByAccident

20:26

I know this discussion is over, but I'd just like to know why other users are not allowed to see a creation of the Insignificant Pocketed Mammal

I get that he's banned/suspended

but he wouldn't be posting them

Beastly Gerbil

and because of that he is not allowed to post

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident He would be posting them by proxy.

Beastly Gerbil

by me posting it for him he is evading that ban

Rand al'Thor

He's already created at least a couple of sockpuppets, which have been summarily destroyed.

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor but he wouldn't be getting rep, and if it's a good puzzle...?

Beastly Gerbil

20:28

@Randal'Thor if it is bold then the action could be bald :P

Chris Cudmore

Then we'll see the good puzzle when the ban is up.

Deusovi

Aha! I got the riddle.

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident He's not banned from getting rep; he's banned from participating, full stop.

Deusovi

^

Beastly Gerbil

Uh. @Deusovi... Why are you so good? :P

Deusovi

20:29

Gah, h34 sniped me. D:

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor I'm still not understanding why we can't have access to his puzzle, even if he's not interacting or participating with us

Beastly Gerbil

uh he skipped some steps though

Will

Oh, so they're not sequential.

>__>

Deusovi

@TrojanByAccident Because he is participating indirectly if we post his puzzle. It's just through email.

dcfyj

@Deusovi His answer's incomplete

Rand al'Thor

20:30

@Deusovi Bleh.

I don't think GARISH is right.

Deusovi

Nah, I think it is.

TrojanByAccident

@Deusovi ehh I guess mods here have a different opinion on bans than on other sites

Beastly Gerbil

Deusovi have you got the rest?

Deusovi

Yeah, posting now.

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident Other non-SE sites, you mean?

TrojanByAccident

20:31

@Randal'Thor yeah

Deusovi

SE suspensions are often... contentious. At least, in my experience.

Chris Cudmore

Ah damn! I was working it as sequential changes

Deusovi

Yeah, I got PERISH from PARIS and realized it was nonsequential.

Will

Same.

Beastly Gerbil

I was going sequential...

GentlePurpleRain

20:32

@ChrisCudmore Same here.

Will

Worst part: I had GARISH & couldn't get it to work because of that.

Deusovi

Whoa, I got 9 upvotes and h34 is at +1/-1?

Rubio

I had parish, paris, and pariah early, but didn't realize it was all off the base word too. that's annoying. :)

GentlePurpleRain

@Deusovi Well, h34 didn't actually solve it...

Deusovi

Fair enough. Still, the votes came in pretty fast.

Beastly Gerbil

20:34

downvote seems harsh though

TrojanByAccident

@Deusovi how do you see how many up/downvotes a post has? or is that some special mod tool?

Deusovi

It's a privilege you get with enough rep.

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident It's a 1k rep privilege.

Rubio

You can click on the vote tally and it separates it for you, once you have 1k rep

Rand al'Thor

Click the number and it divides into +/-.

Deusovi

20:35

^

TrojanByAccident

Ah

dcfyj

I'm not sure he got the answer in enough different ways guys :P

TrojanByAccident

:P

Beastly Gerbil

I've got a better way off telling him: hide it in a puzzle

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil I'm guessing the downvote is more for the poor formatting rather than the incompleteness

Beastly Gerbil

20:37

well he has 5 upvotes now anyway

Rubio

I tossed him one, he was almost there and got it fast

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Congrats on becoming the #3 rep user!

puzzling.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all

Deusovi

Oh cool, I passed up f''!

Beastly Gerbil

oh he overtook f"

Shame he disappeared

Deusovi

Yeah, f'' was cool.

dcfyj

20:39

I'm still on page 3

Beastly Gerbil

not 'seen' since august...

Deusovi

Now I just need to get 13.2k more rep... :P

Beastly Gerbil

I'm 12th...

dcfyj

Then again, I don't think I've been on main in a while (posting question/answer that is)

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil It's weird. f'' disappeared, and Gamow was suspended, both on pretty much exactly the same day I came back.

Beastly Gerbil

20:39

@Randal'Thor @Deusovi is coming for you! :P

@Randal'Thor you are a bad luck charm

dcfyj

He's gunning for Gamow's rep level first

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi By which time I'll have a lot more!

@BeastlyGerbil :-(

Beastly Gerbil

Come on guys, lets face the truth: @Rubio will have overtaken us all by this time next year. :P

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil Well, he is using Saidin :P

Rubio

@BeastlyGerbil Lol.

Beastly Gerbil

20:41

Its true though, if you stay active then you probably will

Rubio

That is not my goal. I was very driven to hit 10k. Now, well, we'll see how it goes.

Beastly Gerbil

you've earnt 10k in 3 months, 3*4 = 10*4 = 40k rep during this year

dcfyj

I got the 3k I wanted, the rest is a bonus :P

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Yeah, 10k is the big one.

Oct 8 '16 at 12:09, by Rand al'Thor

Sep 17 at 17:23, by Rand al'Thor

in Mos Eisley, Oct 4 '15 at 21:21, by Praxis

@randal'thor : 10k is when you get instant healing, x-ray vision, and the ability to see 15 seconds into the future. 20k, you get improved stamina, and 25k you get a Starbucks gift card.

Rubio

I'm trying to step up my puzzle quality now, and I think my latest is a good step in the right direction.

dcfyj

20:42

@BeastlyGerbil uh, 3*4 != 10

Beastly Gerbil

:P

Rubio

@Randal'Thor Ooh. I want the Starbucks gift card.

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio That one definitely looks great!

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah it must have taken ages

Rand al'Thor

@dcfyj 3*4 isn't 10*4 either.

dcfyj

20:43

I know

Beastly Gerbil

you know what I mean :P

yearly rep

Rubio

@Randal'Thor It was fun. I may actually revisit that theme - and, perhaps, publish semi-regular editions, with new puzzles in the "Main Event" section

solicit content, like @Mithrandir has for the ## Clues

Beastly Gerbil

yeah I've got my Sheerluck series to focus on now

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil Oh, I understand your math now. 3 months * 4 = 10k rep * 4 = 40k rep

Rand al'Thor

All your rep are belong to us.

Beastly Gerbil

20:45

feedback from first Sheerluck for next time?

Rubio

@BeastlyGerbil That one looked cool. I was, well, preoccupied when you released it and didn't get to work on it at all, but it looked great, and fun to see people solving it piecemeal

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah I always wanted to do a puzzle involving idioms but never could find a way. Good old trusty first letter steganography :P

dcfyj

Yeah, I have a puzzle in the works, but it's taking forever to put together because of the way I'm building it :(

Beastly Gerbil

keep trying!

yep, got that one (bits at the bottom) :P

Mithrandir

Rubio summoned me. :P

Rand al'Thor

20:49

@Mithrandir He met a Balrog and needed your help.

Also, 197 :-O

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor I died facing a Balrog.

Who pinned my Literature message?

Rubio

(to abuse a Monty Python quote) You got better...!

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Emrak.

Mithrandir

It's now at 98% commitment.

Rand al'Thor

1 min ago, by Rand al'Thor

Also, 197 :-O

GentlePurpleRain

20:52

@Mithrandir FTFY

Mithrandir

:P

Rand al'Thor

Thanks to a mod and an oooold SFFer.

Mithrandir

The number just changed, and I was like: 'Wait, what? How... Oh...'

GentlePurpleRain, Canada

157 6

story-identification planets short-stories

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Mod abuse. The answer is always mod abuse. Except when it's 42.

GentlePurpleRain

Your quote is directly linked to Area 51

Rand al'Thor

20:53

@Mithrandir Not that one.

I meant the latest committers to Lit.

But hey, I didn't know you were on SFF, @GentlePurpleRain :-D

GentlePurpleRain

@Mithrandir Wow, I forgot I'd actually answered any questions on Science Fiction & Fantasy...

Beastly Gerbil

@Rubio is the cipher in your puzzle vigenere?

Mithrandir

@GentlePurpleRain What quote? (That links to discuss.)

Rubio

@BeastlyGerbil You'll have to wait for the hint.

GentlePurpleRain

@Mithrandir I was just joking about the starred quote in the sidebar.

Will

20:55

I've answered two questions on SFF and edited one CW lol

Beastly Gerbil

1983-1985. Grade 2. Apple.

Mithrandir

Ah.

I'm trying to hit 10k on SFF before April.

I want to see if that's possible :P

Rand al'Thor

@Will One CW? An answer to a big "ID-this-stuff" question, by any chance?

@Mithrandir Why April?

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor Seems like a reasonable goal.

dcfyj

So he can fool everyone of course :P

Mithrandir

20:56

I'm not the fastest rep earner, and it's in a few months, so...

Rubio

@BeastlyGerbil (not those hints. hehe)

Mithrandir

(Okay, I earned 902 rep since 2017 started, but that's an anomaly.)

Rand al'Thor

Oof, @Will, you've hidden all your accounts - I had to go via Area 51 to find your SFF account!

Will

Oh, I've also left a comment on an answer about how the Doctor's TARDIS works

Beastly Gerbil

why did MOehmm delete his answer? He was right

Rand al'Thor

21:00

@BeastlyGerbil I guess he thought it wasn't complete enough (or maybe even relevant enough)?

We could undelete it, but it'd need either me, Gareth, and Gamow working together or a mod or MOehm himself.

Mithrandir

In other A51 news, my Hebrew Language proposal only needs one more follower. But another 26 +10 questions till commitment starts.

GentlePurpleRain

@Randal'Thor I would think you'd need a pretty compelling reason to undelete a self-deleted answer.

Will

@Mithrandir I've followed it :)

Mithrandir

@Will I see, on Dec 18 :P

GentlePurpleRain

@Randal'Thor Why couldn't f'' help? :P

Rand al'Thor

21:07

@GentlePurpleRain I've helped to undelete self-deleted questions before ... not sure about self-deleted answers.

@GentlePurpleRain Not around any more.

@Will I see you're also on the V&V proposal :-)

Rubio

Out of morbid curiosity, why would you ever undelete a self-deleted question?

Rand al'Thor

That's my other Area51 commitment, after Literature.

Mithrandir

@GentlePurpleRain ^

@Randal'Thor I see where that spoilertagged line in C24 came from.

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Because it was a useful/interesting question and shouldn't really have been deleted? I did it a couple of times on SFF even before becoming a mod.

@Mithrandir It wasn't a deliberate reference. (I hadn't even voted on that meta post until just now.)

Mithrandir

That's quite a coincidence... :P

Rand al'Thor

21:11

Not really ...

It's quite a common phrase.

Mithrandir

Now it's 99% :D

Rubio

Interesting that both examples were deleted within a couple minutes of being posted, and both had typos that made them nominally broken hehe

Mithrandir

(A blue name can edit my chat message.)

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio I'd already answered the first one by the time it was deleted, and I had an answer to the second one which I didn't get the chance to post before deletion.

Which is why I campaigned to get them undeleted ;-)

Rubio

hehe

I wondered at the huge time delay on the second one

Rand al'Thor

21:17

The second one was only undeleted months later.

Yep!

@Mithrandir Ooh, you made GPR's avatar go all grey.

Mithrandir

Interesting.

Now we need, what, two more people to commit?

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor I've probably asked this before, but is it acceptable to upvote old questions and answers, or would that be considered necro?

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident Huh? Of course it's acceptable!

What could possibly be wrong with upvoting old posts?

That's how the site works!

TrojanByAccident

lol

okay

GentlePurpleRain

@TrojanByAccident It's a great idea. Especially if they're my old posts.... :P

Rand al'Thor

21:28

Or how do you think the scores of old posts slowly and gradually increase over time?

TrojanByAccident

@GentlePurpleRain :P

Rand al'Thor

Even editing old posts is fine. There are even a couple of badges you can get for that.

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor Bunch of people upvote when it's new

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident That doesn't account for "slowly and gradually increase over time".

TrojanByAccident

*shrugs*

GentlePurpleRain

21:29

I tend to gain 5 or 10 rep a day even when I haven't posted in a while, just from votes on old posts.

Rand al'Thor

Plenty of e.g. Great Question/Answer badges aren't awarded within a day or two of post creation.

@GentlePurpleRain Exactly!

TrojanByAccident

hmm

Rand al'Thor

Some people live off drive-by voting.

TrojanByAccident

:/ I'm on the 28th page

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident Go earn yourself some more rep then! :-)

user61230

21:34

I think someone found that Jon Skeet would hit the rep cap every day even if they stopped posting entirely.

user61230

And something like even if SO shrunk by 10% a year, they'd still cap out for the next five years or something ridiculous like that.

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor I need to finish this puzzle I'm making :-)

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, he admitted as much

Rand al'Thor

@Emrakul "they"? Do you subscribe to the theory that Jon Skeet is actually a whole team of programmers working 24/7?

:-P

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor 'they' can refer to one person :P

Khale_Kitha

21:37

In English :P

TrojanByAccident

:P

Rand al'Thor

@TrojanByAccident I know; it just sounded funny :-) (And isn't singular 'they' only used when the person's gender is unknown or non-binary? I'm pretty sure Jon Skeet is a guy.)

user61230

@Randal'Thor (I use agender pronouns for everyone who hasn't told me which pronouns they prefer. With Jon Skeet, it's probably safe, but... still.)

Will

I'm personally in the habit of using singular they unless I've been explicitly told otherwise :)

GentlePurpleRain

He refers to himself here as a "husband and father", so I think it's probably safe to use "he".

Khale_Kitha

21:43

Ah, so linking to a puzzle causes a link-back on the target puzzle. Good to know.

Rand al'Thor

@Emrakul Speaking of which, I don't think you've ever told me which pronouns you prefer. Most people including myself have assumed 'he', but I guess I should ask (awkward though it is to ask after we've already sort of known each other for a couple of years ...)

Khale_Kitha

Emrakul ♦

8.5k 4 37 82

rubiks-cube logical-deduction strategy sudoku mechanical-puzzles minesweeper calculation-puzzle

"My pronouns are they/them."

Rand al'Thor

... Oh.

That didn't use to be there.

user61230

@Randal'Thor I actually use they/them! I don't terribly mind either male or female pronouns, though.

user61230

Yeah, it's pretty recent.

Rand al'Thor

21:44

Sorry @Emrak - I'll try to remember that in future :-)

user61230

No worries! :]

Beastly Gerbil

Night all!

Mithrandir

I want you all to refer to me as 'Your Highness'. Got it?

GentlePurpleRain

@Mithrandir Already taken:

Dec 8 '16 at 7:50, by Deusovi

"Your Highness" would be nice too.

Mithrandir

Hmm.

'The mighty wizard Mithrandir' works too.

Will

21:58

Oh. I was gonna say you'll just have to settle for "my liege."

GentlePurpleRain

Yeah, honorifics are in short supply, assuming exclusivity.

Mithrandir

That's not a waste of time at all...

GentlePurpleRain

How is it staying up on the right side?

Mithrandir

Leaning against the wall

It's at an angle in this image.

Wow, SE is telling me that everything was posted yesterday. I'm going to sleep.

Sphinx

22:43

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Q: Name that Country!

What country could the following text represent? Forward By confidence, we Union seek justice, peace and the sword.

knowledge geography

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor Check out this article on wikipedia

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