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5:02 PM
aah, work internet died
connected to a nearby store
can't do actual work
and the bus home wont come around till 3
guess it's puzzlin time
 
@Matt Happy puzzling!
 
@incesterror21 There's so many of them on youtube, I'm not sure that's a possibility in this case.
 
@dcfyj Actually there's someone who listed all the possible URLs. not that many imo
 
That's rather unusual of you @Deusovi
 
5:14 PM
What, the cursing or being incredibly gullible?
 
I don't know about the latter
 
The latter is definitely not unusual of me.
 
Either way, I'm not sure why Rickrolling is a thing, I actually like that song.
 
Did you ever see the thing with Rickroll at youpron?
 
No idea what you're talking about.
 
5:17 PM
I think that's where it all came from. Someone uploaded a video there with a title like "Redhead gives awesome solo"
It was very viral!
 
heh
 
@dcfyj I love the song, I memorized it, but it's a meme
 
it's a karaoke staple
 
@incesterror21 @Deusovi According to this wewbsite it spawned on 4chan as a mutated version of a duckroll
 
Actually it seems to be a 4chan thing, yes
 
5:21 PM
Lol, according to wikipedia The original bait was a GTA 4 trailer.
 
Three memes for the Grumpy cat under the sky
Seven for the meme lords in their halls of stone
Nine for the bad memes destined to die
One for rick lord on his rick throne
In the land of the Internet where the memes lie
One meme to rule them all, one meme to find them
One meme to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of the Internet where the memes lie
3
 
@incesterror21 Unlike that link you provided, i found the actual list of rickroll videos posted on youtube it's a pretty good length.
 
Sound interesting!
 
@dcfyj lol
 
lol?
 
5:24 PM
yes.
 
@dcfyj Okay, I know that URL.
 
How is the rickroll list funny?
 
@Deusovi You found it on my list from earlier?
 
Some guys made some interesting connections between the beaver (tm) and rick (available here)
 
5:25 PM
A ten minute video of scrolling youtube video IDs, takes a bit to watch...
@TrojanByAccident I think I remember seeing that one on the list I found :P
 
@dcfyj It's not, though?
I mean, it plays the song for all of 5 seconds
but that's not what it's about
 
sort of
 
You should read the comments on youtube! "Wait this is not a man losing his arm to a lion"
And some other guy "Oh yes, sorry. Here's the real video"
 
lol
 
(We all know where that went...)
 
5:28 PM
@incesterror21 That needs to become a meme here
 
I thought about that already. Hiding the video behind one of the images in a puzzle.
That would be a nice red hairing.
 
>.<
 
oooor
a cipher text that is the youtube id
but there has to be a case sensitive cipher
 
@TrojanByAccident That's pretty clever, I'll need to watch that again with sound :P
 
@dcfyj :P
 
5:32 PM
I wonder what all of us have on their clipboard at the moment...
 
crickets
that was mine
typed it in the wrong chat, cut it before I sent it
 
I remember that one. So you either a) don't use the clipboard very often or b) use the word "crickets" very often
 
well that was friday, and this is monday, and my work computer
so it makes sense
now, my home pc ... no idea
 
@incesterror21 I have the comprehensive list of rickroll videos in my clipboard
 
5:35 PM
there's more than one?
(wait i juist asked that)
 
Rickroll videos? Yes.
Clipboards? Also yes, I think.
 
@Matt The one that was found earlier was flawed, this one is far more complete
 
I know there's one where Rick's voice gradually goes up in pitch while the accompaniment stays the same
it's cringe-worthy
XcQ is the classic
 
@TrojanByAccident not going to say "I told you so"; well done for checking. Did you actually end up losing any money? (I know you withdrew some, but did that actually turn it into BTC in your wallet or just transfer a number from what they call your "deposit" to what they call your "account".) In any case, you didn't lose much and therefore got off lightly :-).
 
@GarethMcCaughan Indeed
regardless, no use crying over spilt milk
 
5:45 PM
Split milk!
 
Sid
Yeah, be careful in the future. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
 
@dcfyj Two new memes here: "Wait, this is not a man losing his arm to a lion" and "Split milk"
 
I never really trusted virtual currency too much, it's completely relative.
@TrojanByAccident Only if they go viral
 
Sid
@dcfyj You mean, you don't like cashless transactions?
 
Anyway, I bought lifetime mining from another source, so I get 0.002 btc every ~2 months
 
Sid
5:47 PM
@TrojanByAccident What's the catch in that?
 
@Sid Nothing.
 
I bought lifetime memberries from another source.
 
I earn a certain amount each day, but they only pay out at 0.0002 or something, so I get a direct deposit of between 0.0002 and 0.0003 btc every 5-6 days, depending (on what, I'm not sure)
 
6:07 PM
@Sid No, I mean I don't like virtual currency
I don't mind transaction with no physical money transfer going on, I use a debit card all the time.
 
I don't like currency
But it's required for life, unfortunately
 
6:54 PM
0
Q: A riddle about. Unusual terms and history

Br0therBrigham Forty five before it was. Now a tribe but once did buzz. I'm mostly desert with a little e. Was proposed but never would be. Though quite religious I'm historic too. And followed by industry, book, and news. what am I? p.s. A similar riddle is used in another of my puzzles (where ...

 
7:06 PM
0
Q: The Rapper's Crown?

MelkorYou are running through a mysterious dungeon, when you see a large room, which you enter. Inside there is a man and a woman, one is a truth teller, and one a liar. However when they write they always tell the truth. Behind them are two chests, one contains the crown of rappers (good), and the ot...

 
 
1 hour later…
8:21 PM
yawn
 
Well that's a fine reception... Good morning to you too... ;)
 
@Alconja It's actually 10:30 PM :P
Did anybody actually solve the puzzle in my info <<--- there?
 
... I did?
 
10:30pm? Your clock must be wrong... I can clearly see the sun has only just risen. :P
 
...Like, without cheating? Someone cheated and saw part before they were supposed to...
 
8:33 PM
@Mithrandir ? Which puzzle?
 
Guys. this is what UGT is for.
 
@Alconja looks out window Your eyes need to be checked...
 
I didn't cheat...
 
Ah right
That was Lukas Rotter
@Alconja There's a puzzle in my chat user info.
 
Ahh. On mobile... But tricky to investigate.
Speaking of unsolved puzzles though... You guys are making me worry there's something wrong with my CC...
 
8:37 PM
Ban Alconja from CCCC with Will, Gareth, and myself.
 
Did people see the two hints I have? Should I give more? (eg. a starting letter?)
 
@Alconja a starting word? :)
 
...hmm, maybe I could give a cryptic hint at the first word. ;)
 
WORDPLAY for the fortnightly challenge? My time has come...
 
8:55 PM
Awesome! Meaning of life, part 2?
 
first I have to appease overlord @Deusovi and his request for a puzzle that won't take a year and a half to solve, I'm afraid
 
Damn him and his iron fisted rule!
*finds his account mysteriously deleted*
 
Wait, when did I request that? I mean, arbitrary demands on what you can post purely to demonstrate power sounds like something I would do, but I don't remember that specific occurrence.
 
I'm trying to figure out a way to give a plaintext version of these symbols
without accidentally nuking the puzzle
 
Oh, that's what you were referring to.
Just picking an arbitrary letter for each symbol (say, ordering by your hint image) and replacing that way isn't going to work?
 
9:06 PM
the problem with that is then it becomes really trivial to put it into an online cryptogram solver and just skip the whole first step
 
True, but I was going to do that after transcribing the first part anyway.
(I'd use if you want to disallow online cryptogram solvers.)
Speaking of transcriptions... Hey @Mithrandir, can we have a transcription of i.stack.imgur.com/EG7Rx.png?
 
so here's how I feel about it - I'm okay with you transcribing it by hand and then bypassing a step, because you still did some work, but it feels really not awesome to do the tedious work for you so that you can go ahead and skip the step anyways, know what I'm saying?
 
'pomsre. l'a vwtphgfoh. rkog geq
gwspmaxzg, bmekh? ukvb dg n biexznb
tscnyo sl wvr wegq gvdi. phoqi jmu mbev
lhlg mlyozrxkc? dv, oex rkseo mq qcao...
rmz wf dlc hbq. nslh wf issu ehowr.
l vnfi nxh lyyp iwakp yqgjov fhfr.
biyozl, sx'q hofi xm iwan. m'k zovdmlj.
grbmmxgyi, cmx'fr cxgoz yysilbt?
kqycwaq. amz, mbe'vc vhhlfmub.
rbq... kdmoo hm vczoxflbt opqh?
grbmmxgyi, pcdjr! yqe, jc ngew dzeoebb...
anx. ithflyrc, jwio xflg tec phd.
(cex jlbrlvcdy uovc)
bch'fi dlbvclcg. phd afdh'f dlc dbfgip?
 
Thanks! :D
@BaileyM Yeah, I guess. But tedious work isn't fun.
 
hello
 
9:11 PM
'allo
 
I just done my homework, watch a 50 minute clip and gladiators and answer questions on it. Painful
 
no it's not! I'm currently doing my best to find a way around it that suits both me and the solver
hello sir Gerbil
 
Hello Bailey
Oh nice wrap-up from MOehm, even though he didn't post the puzzle
:P
@Mithrandir I feel sorry for you. All that effort to make this chat puzzle, and no rep! :P
 
:P
It was easy, actually.
 
Oh formula 1 has been taken over... Liberty Media... Never heard of them
Sorry I'm talking rubbish... :P
 
9:18 PM
Don't worry
@BeastlyGerbil If you really want to give me rep, award me a bounty :P
 
Google translate!
 
@BeastlyGerbil Won't help.
 
Hebrew keyboard?
Yeah google translated that as '
About lies Rkscct, that if Anhk hee hee Cyclamen S'srg that Nmomat'
So... yeah
 
Just put it directly into google, it'll give a 'did you mean'
 
oh yeah. pesky google
 
9:22 PM
Mhm.
Did anyone find the image that tells you what to search for in chat.se?
 
recursion is my favorite as well
 
YES!
Thanks for reminding me. I will now go AFK to play Atari breakout :P
(JK)
 
9:25 PM
@BeastlyGerbil I prefer the pacman
 
Or, better, google voice search 'Make me a sandwich' from your phone
 
@BeastlyGerbil <blink> also works
 
@Mithrandir It'll tell you "Okay. Poof! You're a sandwich."
(Source: I tested it.)
goes to go get more downvotes on literature
...At 43 received now.
 
43 downvotes?
A master of the craft, if I do say so myself
 
9:30 PM
Heh
My problem is that I tend to write short answers, that I think are okay, but others don't, and then I expand on them, but sometimes people don't reverse.
 
@Alconja would you be offended if I used your likeness in a puzzle inspired by a puzzle of yours?
 
@BaileyM what now?
 
are... are you Alconja too
 
Sometimes I think Puzzling has a total user count of 27.
 
@BaileyM :) not at all. Knock yourself out.
 
9:38 PM
@Alconja thanks! I was floored when I found your Wordberg machine and I love it to death.
 
@BaileyM no I was just confused by the question :P
 
:) thanks. Glad you liked it.
 
@BeastlyGerbil got it! Though come to think of it, I've never seen you and Alconja in the same room...
 
And yeah the Wordberg machine is next on the 100 upvote hitlist @Alconja will be pleased to know
 
@LukasRotter Nope. You left, so 26.
 
9:40 PM
@BaileyM different timezones :P
 
But I stayed.
 
@Mithrandir I'm still Rotter's Slave, Will and potentially MOehm
 
Anyone knows why the Atari Breakout shows "Vienna" after I finish the game?
 
9:40 PM
@LukasRotter ...I was just about to say that @Will was you.
 
@BeastlyGerbil still hoping for "This is Important" to hit the elusive 100 favorites
 
Yeah its getting close :P
Closest to 100 as well
18 away
 
oh I'll go favorite that
someone link me to it
 
96
Q: The Rube Wordberg Machine

AlconjaGah! I used to be the brilliant one at Verba Retorta University, but ever since that damned Professor Wordberg showed up, there's been nothing but trouble. And it's all his confounded machine's fault! He's a fraud – he has to be – I just needed enough evidence to prove it. So, last night, I... L...

 
244
Q: This is important. I need you to listen…

AlconjaLook, you don't know me. We've never met. But, like I said, I need you to listen... I had the most disturbing dream the other night... Woke up in a cold sweat and couldn't get back to sleep. It wasn't a nightmare as such, just ... eerie, I guess? I don't even remember the details, but it left me...

@Mithrandir wrong one :P
 
9:43 PM
Whatever
 
I favorited both anyways lol
 
It's almost midnight :P
Everyone meant this one:
10
Q: The Word Web of horror - Clue Twenty Two

Mithrandir<<---First clue <---Previous clue As you say the word, the floor starts rising. You are now able to reach the trapdoor. You push it open and climb out. You blink in surprise. You appear to be in the same place you were for Clue Sixteen. When you take another glance, however, you notice that it...

 
Ccant tippe.,.., ennymoore. twooo tyredd..
4
 
^starbait
2
 
9:44 PM
clickbait!
 
...Hmmph. Didn't work.
Didn't get any votes. Oh well. Maybe here...
 
The xcq again!
 
xcq?
 
Nice puzzle @Mithrandir
 
9:47 PM
I'm downvoting that
vote to close
 
You all... just got rickrolled!
 
Not if you know the URL!
 
incest terror?
incest error?
whaaat
 
Night all!
@BaileyM don't question his name, he doesn't know why it sounds rude :P
 
@BaileyM It's a pun. A bit hard to explain though. You can read about it here if you're actually interested.
 
9:53 PM
I'm really not happy about what just happened
2
 
@incesterror21 I saw that one coming
 
@BaileyM It's okay, they've gotten me twice before.
 
I see in the year and a half I was gone the chat has become a bunch of trolls :^)
 
@BaileyM what are your referring to?
 
The rickroll has become really famous I must say.
 
10:03 PM
@BaileyM Yeah, someone made a post about it. You can see it here puzzling.stackexchange.com/...
 
@Deusovi save me please
 
Deusovi already got a list of possible youtube links leading to Rick. He'll soon put the links on the ban list!
 
I'm sorry, I don't think there's anything I can do
 
@incesterror21 you mean [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Astley#Rickr...](https://www.youtube.com/wa‌​tch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs)
 
I was trying something but that doesn't work obviously
The [text] musn't be a link itself
 
10:05 PM
... Yes it does...
I think it can
 
So then I just failed.
 
@incesterror21 It can be. https://www.google.com
 
I see!
 
anyone but me remember Das Blinkenlights?
 
10:14 PM
 
@Rubio I was expecting that to be an elaborate rickroll
 
So has anyone besides for Lukas and his puppets solved my puzzle?
 
@TrojanByAccident I got bored with it quickly. :)
 
@Rubio :)
 
@Mithrandir The chat puzzle? I basically skipped to the end.
 
11:10 PM
@BaileyM is this one missing a symbol at the beginning?
wait.. never mind
 
actually, yeah, it is
let me fix that lol
 
oh ok, the next one too then
 
which one is the next one?
 
yes it is too
there's a third as well
not sure how those happened. thanks for the catch
I'll fix those asap
 
11:20 PM
is the third one [i.stack.imgur.com/ApvKG.jpg](this one)?
 
it certainly is
 
ok, well just finished transcribing everything (boy that was a slog!)
partial answer coming shortly
 
you're a champion
 
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