i apologize

So far as I know there isn't any rule against upvoting lots of someone's stuff because you genuinely think it's good. Or downvoting lots of someone's stuff because you genuinely think it's bad. What's definitely not allowed is upvoting or downvoting someone's stuff because of what you think of them (e.g., it's a friend, or they said something that annoyed you).

Unfortunately the two can be hard to distinguish sometimes.

...especially by the automated reversal script.

I guess some synonym of "said", resigning (deleting) the leader (start)... Only thing that comes to mind which could work is oral...

I genuinely just thought her puzzle series was neat so i went through them to upvote, forgot that it was a thing. Probably it will get reverted

It might, unfortunately.

:(

oops

@LukasRotter Why, yes.

@LukasRotter Put it all together :)

sepulchral - Sep(tember) + (-m)ulch + (-o)ral

Yup

yep! just add a bit of unhappiness for part of speech mismatch and you'll be good to go :)

Sounds like we have ourselves a solve

falls over HOLY SHIT HE SOLVED IT

keels over would be the proper term, I suppose

HOLY SHIT YOU ARE SENDING ME AGAIN

channeling you*

alright alright

now let's try to figure out what Lukas will post even before they post it

should I make a HOLY SHIT generator

should i make a holy shit CC?

yes

YES

all caps

i came here to have a good time and i feel so attacked rn

oh no

don't worry it's only a bit of glowing doo-doo

so, sunday for fortnightly thingamajig?

I never really understood how it worked in the first place

I'm just super hype

@Sciborg sowee

I still can't believe we cursed this chat with bobblecrown RP for a good two pages

@Avi I'm genuinely not sure how it works either honestly

meanwhile, in gentleperson land...

Where the wild gentlepeople are

indeed

a lot of us in here have other interests as well, not just puzzling. you?

I do software development as a career but I write a little bit and make indie games on the side :)

What kind of stuff do you do?

really amateur linguistics & html stuff

here's my website-in-progress: website.merrybot.repl.co

Oooh cool! You've got a phoneme generator

yeah, beware of glottal trills

that seems to be quite a meme in the clong community

My only experience with linguistics is making a tiny fantasy conlang for a short story, I'm definitely not a pro so most of this is Greek to me :p

anything specific you're confused on?

I mean all of it but it looks really cool!

thanks!

it's not done yet but it should be soon

@matt tutoring, genetics, cancer history, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, pygmy hippos... should I continue?

@bobble sure

@bobble, i wanted to apologize. i realized while you were gone that i was probably the one serialing you unintentionally, i had gone back through some of your old puzzle series while we were chatting and upvoted them because i thought they were neat and genuinely forgot there was a serial upvote rule. that's completely my bad

finding comfy spots to lie down on, anything by Sanderson, vaccines, polio

ah, it's fine, Sciborg!

> finding comfy spots to lie down on

heck yeah

heck yeah!!

I went though a period of time where I kept getting distracted by doing research into iron lungs

which are REALLY COOL

@Sciborg if you're interested, the source code is here

@matt Awesome, I will take a look later! <3

:)

Iron lungs are the things they'd put you in for tuberculosis and/or polio right?

@Sciborg yep

they simulate breathing by increasing/decreasing air pressure around your body, and the only way air can move in/out is through your mouth

I'm looking at Wikipedia and they seem equally terrifying and cool

"holy shit i typed 3 o's"

once better assisted-breathing devices were invented (oxygen tubes, ventilator), they dropped out of popularity

What does the rest of the list mean?

but some polio survivors still had to use them (because most other devices assume your spine is straight, and severe polio cases tend to deform the body)

@Sciborg ?? what does this mean

you listed tutoring, genetics, cancer history, etc., i was just curious what all those things had in common

things that I like

well, like researching. I don't like cancer

is that not obvious

sorry

do you like researching cancer

yes

it cool

@matt you gotta remember I am a dumb

You gotta stop thinking of yourself that way

@Sciborg it was intended as sarcasm sorry

@Sciborg you are a smart

it's ok i still love you

(:

<3

Ok heres a quick one

CCCC: Innocent actor beaten up in gathering (13)

13 letters?? dang

CONCENTRATION*?

@bobble yes

um now I have to make one

@bobble woah that was insanely frickin fast

@NorthLæraðr, you want? You gave me your last one

@bobble that was amazing

@bobble A crown?

I'm confused

you can make the next CCCC

if you want

also @north we have a new meme: "HOLY SHIT"

since you let me make the alicorn one

@bobble Oh, the CC. Sure

Don't really have one ready though :/

fair's fair. you gave one to me, I give one back.

Aw, thanks

@matt Not sure that's a great meme

I personally don't like shouting profanity

Holy shoot?

@matt We'll brainstorm alternatives

@Sciborg indeed

um

Alternatively we can use the ominous bobble noise

@Sciborg nah

I'VE BEEN BOBBLED :D

the bobblies, they're on Sciborg

Look at my little bobblie friends

I don't care if they're sucking out my puzzle abilities, i love them

I was meaning to ask you, with the fabric are all bobblies yellow or can they be different colors? This is very important

They can be any color except red. Pastels are preferred.

@bobble why not red

Excellent

@matt because? no one knows

They are mysterious beings, we do not make the rules

@bobble you should do that to Deus

They can all perch on the crossy parts of Deus's logo like they're sitting in hammocks

@Sciborg haha yes

and we'll force him to change his logo lol

I'll change mine whenever the bobblie infestation grows too strong

yes

perfect

my image editor is trying to make the bobblies grayscale when I edit onto Deus's picture

should I fight it or go along?

fight it

CCCC: A certain mode of mixed alicorn? (7)

@matt I believe any mod can change any user's chat avatar. I'm not saying I would abuse my mod privileges to do that to @Deusovi …

hm

heavily implied silence

LOCRIAN*

also oh no

oh yes

@Deusovi yes, the bobblies are coming

@Deusovi Yes

That was quick. I didn't expect it take very long though

CCCC: Flag art at a later time (4)

@Deusovi wilt ddef

yep

Goddang

<busy>

CCCC: An old saw ends like this: "… part of the precipitate." (5)

ha!

i'm not good at these but i hazard a guess at SOLID?

any reason why?

@Sciborg If you can explain why…

jinx

a precipitate in chemistry consists of solid matter that comes out of a chemical reaction

(generally people want guesses at the full clue explanation, not just the definition)

sorry

No worries, thinking aloud is good too.

it's 3:14 which means PIE

eats all the pie

C'mon, folks, we're on a roll. Rapid-fire C4 solutions. Let's go!

c4 is an explosive, you wanna explode some stuff?

saw ends = SW?

so like a sword/

perhaps from blacksmithing?

what about the "precipitate" part?

it could be a hidden word

oh, it's a pun

an old saying (saw) goes like this: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"

and then it's also a clue

what?

chemistry pun

well yes but... what's the word

ID is "like this" from latin?

ok...

i have no idea :(

:/

so

solid contains the letters OLD in order

yeah

.......

@Deusovi halp

you're gonna have to hand hold me through this one

<3

@Sciborg I don't know it either lol

@Avi hint (sort of): To make the surface work well, I added unnecessary words.

but i think you're close.

i'm so honestly confused by how other people got this in five seconds

is there some kind of thing where we think saw is a noun but then it's also a verb

(I+OLD)* after _S?

An for I as in 1

old literally

saw = anagram???

ends (comes after)

huh???

ends like this (reuse), end of This = S

ohh

definition = "part of the precipitate", or a SOLID

this is so stretchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy

but then An??

right but how is An I?

One old saw

Roman number (I) old saw

An old saw

how... on earth

it's a semi-common device in cryptic clues

doesn't necessarily mean it's correct in this context, though

that requires like 90 more IQ points than i have

bobble's back!

sighs in incomplete CCCC

i think you got the part with "ends like this" with the "s" though

that tracks for me

idk

@Avi indeed

please help us

can't really ask the question setter for help lol

that defeats the purpose

all we can do is buckle down and think

um

in my case that means give up and wait for Deusovi or Gareth lol

@Avi I mean, I could provide a hint, but I think it's early for that.

ya

i'll give up and wait for gareth too lol

argh

I keep making nonograms

and then the nonogram solvers can't solve them

we'll get better at this hopefully

as promised

we need an easy softball one to practice on lol

@bobble it's beautiful

@bobble the middle one looks kinda ... squished

one of the bobblies is just old enough to have grown one point

i see

And the middle one is squished because I couldn't figure out any other way to crop the other two points off

I love them

is there a maximum number of points they can have?

Deus has been the victim of a bobblecrown attack!

@matt the highest recorded number is 12.

@bobble i need proof

no you don't

i don't?

you don't. just believe.

hm

if you want a challenge, @bobble, bobblify msh210

I have homework now, sadly

oh no

chatter today has been much higher than usual - there are 4 pages in the transcript, instead of the usual 1-2!

@bobble Holy mother son of a cracking bullet!

You needed more bobblettes to extraxt more of Deusovi's extra brains?

yes

one cannot hold all of his puzzling ability

Geez, what did I start? All I wanted was some good luck on my driver's license test

Not world domination!

did you see how we fleshed out the bobblecrown world a few hours back?

Not really. A lot passed and I didn't get to digest what was going on

ah I accidentally edited over an old message

@bobble Ah, so I can't call them bobblettes

if you start there, you can get the full picture

Innocent bobblecrown accused of attacking gentlesir...

turns around and attacks innocent gentleman

Wow, matt and sciborg just instantly bonded

But let me ask you, with all that chatting, how did you even manage to pay attention in class?

three hours ago my schoolday was over

I don't have last period unless my teacher wants me to do TA stuff

@bobble wha--

you like?

Idk y'all were chatting for quite a while

@NorthLæraðr apparently