The Sphinx's Lair

12:18 AM

How much of a pie is pi?

How much of a pi is a pie?

And most importantly

Should you care enough to be thinking about pi and pie in the first place?

12:41 AM

Yeetus beetus you are now a fetus

Shpree kfersgee I am now a tree

Why is my profile picture not changing dang it

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Q: Find the missing number 4x4 grid

4:04 AM

I’ve tried everything I can think of that actually uses all the data

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chess seasonal construction

8:46 AM

Q: The Longest Chess Game

In honour of Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero just finishing the longest game in TCEC history at the Superfinal of the Top Chess Engines Championship Season 14, here's a simple problem related to chess rules: Assuming the players co-operate, how many moves does the longest theoretically possibl...

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Q: Cryptic cross... with words

2:00 PM

Solve the clues and fit the answers into the grid. Far north Silicon Valley's research & development leaders surround Jessica (8) Pop star loses British-American distribution rights to music organization (4) Kingdom's famous sherpa leaves greatest top, gets second award (6) C...

wordplay knowledge geography cryptic-crosswords

2:54 PM

Hello?

Hello!!!!!!!

Hi....

I am now a tree

So I see

Yee

do you have a new set of pronouns you would like us to use for you? :-)

2:58 PM

Not now

I'm thinking still

I think trey and trem works

And trey and trem are actual words wtf

trey certainly is (it means three, especially as in playing cards: ace, deuce, trey); I don't think I knew trem.

Trem is like apparently something to do with gitaurs

OED only knows it as an abbreviation for tremolo

in which case it's not actually a word

and I think that's probably the guitar thing you mention

Nope Google recogonizes it as a word

a tremolo arm on a guitar.

google.com/…

Wait imma verify it with Scrabble

hmm, does seem to be a thing, sort of, but I bet it isn't in the scrabble dictionaries

3:02 PM

scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/tools#dictionary

It is

My new pronoun is now trem, solely because it out Garethesque-d Gareth

huh, I guess I lose my bet. Shouldn't have been surprised; "ag" (-riculture), (piz-) "za" and "ed" (-ucation) are all in there too

Yeah

I could also demand my other pronoun be mbaqanga, but I wouldn't be that mean

spoiler alert: I'm not actually going to use those pronouns

Oh darn

How dare you!

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GentlePurpleRain

4:44 PM

I recently stumbled on this site, which might be of interest to those who enjoy riddles. It seems to have a competition much like our CCCCs, but involving riddles (you solve the current one, you pose the next): riddlewot.com

5:23 PM

@North so I hate to be a spoilsport, but just FYI this can be seen as rather mocking to e.g. nonbinary folks

5:41 PM

@Mithrandir Sorry if it came across that way

@Mithrandir In fairness, I (not North) was the one who introduced the topic of pronouns. No mockery of any sort, of anyone, was intended.

Didn't think it was intentional. Just taking the opportunity to educate ;)

Do I say they is? Or they are? Because "they" is being used as a singular pronoun

People do use "they is", but "they are" is more common - like we say "you are", not "you is".

yeah, almost always "they are"

5:52 PM

You is

Imma say that from now

You is a troublemaker, young'un

You is very right

I'm talking with humn and I made an unintentional pun

Mith is lit

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