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7:29 PM
I'm available now, matt, if you're still lonely
 
heh :)
thanks I guess
thinking about more crazy ideas for my website that will probably never happen, but I'm thinking about them anyway
 
You could make a hangman game, but instead of regular letters, the words were given as sequences of IPA thingies
 
nice idea! unfortunately I lack the javascript skills to pull that off :/
 
Fun fact: The hardest word (that everyone knows) to guess in hangman is "jazz".
 
indeed, since <j> and <z> are the least common letters in english (depending on who you ask)
 
7:41 PM
I like using "yak"
 
i'd use the full name of titin if i knew how to spell it from memory
 
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Q: Question involving filling numbers in a grid

AayushHere's the problem and the diagram that goes with it Fill in each empty space of the grid in the image below with a number from 1 to 8 so that every row & column contains each of these digits only once. Some diagonally adjacent spaces have been joined together. For these pairs of joined spaces th...

 
hello voldemort :)
 
bobblied voldy!
 
y'know bobble ... you should really bobblify yourself ... it would be META BOBBLE
 
7:50 PM
no.
 
why not.
 
because.
(note the all-important periods)
 
indeed.
 
you see.
 
(should that be a question? I can't tell)
was thinking about making an ipa keyboard, actually
 
7:54 PM
ooh tell me more
 
it's like the ipa chart but they're buttons and when you click one it goes in the text box so you can copy and paste it
 
sounds like it would be useful to you
 
and potentially other peeps who lack an ipa keyboard
("peeps" as in people, not the yellow candy things which my phone mistakenly identified as cheese)
 
I know that from watching The Good Place. You should watch The Good Place. It will send your mind to a Good Place. Make sure you watch it in a Good Place. Are more puns/propaganda required?
 
an explanation of what it is might be nice
 
7:59 PM
well, the premise of the first season is a bad person accidentally got into heaven and has to pretend to be a good person, so she learns ethics
there are many plot twists and different premises past that
 
the gerbil is back!
 
that they are
 
much formal
 
@BeastlyGerbil, you got any more sudoku mashups cooking?
 
so I'm working on an assignment for my health class, and one of the images says "Image of a female hands"
 
8:03 PM
@bobble ...or an imgur maze or something
@matt ?_?
 
@Mithical terrible english
a hands
 
no, why would you need such a picture in any case
 
@Mithical i have no idea
 
like... a hand is a hand
 
Health classes are never good
 
8:05 PM
my bones stick out weirdly in my fingers but still, a hand is a hand
 
 
:P
 
@Mithical how weirdly exactly?
 
my knuckles are like extra-wide
 
hm
 
8:06 PM
so it visibly bulges out around the knuckle on every finger
 
mm
^ image
 
?
 
of a female hands
@bobble we are criticising my homework's attempt at english
and discussing fingers
hey avi!
 
my health homework was watching stupid videos about how Drugs Are Bad and Smoking Is Bad and so forth, and then answering questions. All the answers were available online, so I just cheated my way through every single quiz and test.
 
didn't think you'd be the cheat-on-the-test type
another weird image "of five students"
doing nothing at all
 
8:10 PM
Hey, the questions were like "how many carcinogens are there in cigarette smoke" or "which of these bad choices is the worst one by our subjective standards" and uselessness like that
 
now i agree with you
that is very useless to the average person
 
Mostly I got the message the Drugs Are Bad and Smoking Is Bad and Alcohol Is Bad.
Funnily enough, they ran out of time to get to the Sex Is Bad part of the class, so freshmen health had no sex ed in it.
 
you must've learned very much in that class, lol.
 
@bobble mine's skipped over the sex ed for now, we've gone from Unit 5 to Unit 11.
and then there is a Cyberbullying Is Bad video with the SHITTIEST ANIMATIONS IN THE UNIVERSE
 
@LukasRotter Yes, I learned important things like it is possible to talk for 4 hours about why cigarettes are bad, and then get schools to pay to force students to watch that.
 
8:15 PM
VeRy ImPoRtAnT
 
@matt better than when my school had a mandatory presentation where some drama kids playacted bullying
 
that's just stupid right there
@bobble and Your Facebook Posts Could Get You Arrested
at least in my state
 
one time they brought in a guy who hacked people's social media accounts beforehand and then yelled at us about how we were a bunch of idiots who failed to secure our accounts
or well, that but more politely
whereas I had no social media accounts
so the entire thing was meaningless
 
@bobble sadly not at the moment, I've been incredibly busy recently with school, driving tests, university applications etc, but hopefully next week during my half term I'll have a bit of time to whip something up
I've been rather inactive lately as a whole so haven't even had time to start thinking of something :/
 
looking forward to it!
and how many universities are you applying to?
 
8:27 PM
We can apply to a maximum of 5 so I'll apply to 5 different ones, but all the same course
 
@bobble also "Watch this EnTeRtAiNiNg AnImAtEd ViDeO on CoNfLiCt ReSoLuTiOn"
 
why do you have a maximum?
 
Not sure, but I presume so we can't apply to all universities so we can guarantee ourselves an offer. The Uni also probably wants to know we genuinely want to go there too so they have interested students etc.
 
Ah, you're the UK. Here in 'Murica, I'm applying to 9 in the hopes that at least one will give me nice scholarships so I can afford to go.
 
Good luck! I have almost no understanding of the american education system but hopefully you get one of your main choices!
 
8:34 PM
To be fair, I also have little understanding of the American education system.
 
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Q: What happened today? Asked the magician

melfntYesterday I went to a magic show and I was part of a clever trick. Firs of all, the magician arranged $36$ cards in a $4 \times 9$ grid as follows: Then they called me on the stage. I felt a little bit uncomfortable, after all I didn't want to be sawn into two pieces! As the magician explained w...

 
This is stupid. I need to pay $200 to take a test that's 14 miles away bc our district doesn't offer AP Music theory ANYWHERe like WHY
 
Avi
D:
AP Music Theory is like the hardest AP test
no joke
 
You took it?
 
Avi
no
but I know someone who did
 
8:43 PM
It looks pretty intimidating ngl
 
My SAT was really far away, I just signed up too late.
 
Avi
sight singing is super hard
 
I'm in choir, so I'm not too worried about that
I'm worried about the aural (listening) portion
 
@bobble Looking at grid-filling puzzle you edited. Poster had info regarding source (a substitute teacher), but you edited it out. Not accusing, just curious on your thoughts.
 
Avi
@PrinceNorthLæraðr ya rhythm is easy but notes are hard
 
8:44 PM
@Avi Ugh actually
I'm like meh with rhythms too rn
 
@JeremyDover I felt it was entirely unnecessary, but you can edit back in if you think otherwise.
 
Avi
Is it probably better posted in a comment?
 
@Avi At least I have a solid background in fundamental music theory, so me self-studying I'm about I think 2 weeks ahead? I breezed right past the chords
 
Oh, I think I might have edited out too much - I was only thinking of getting rid of the talk about extra credit and such. Didn't mean to remove the source
 
Ah, no worries. Would you like me to clean it up? I've got some spare time.
 
8:46 PM
sure :) I've got stuff soon
 
@Avi Also, there are SO MANY rules for voice-leading
 
Avi
@PrinceNorthLæraðr no kidding
I'd been doing music theory for years as a kid
took one look at the music theory requirements
noped the flip out
 
PSE is offline for maintenance, apparently
 
now back
 
8:49 PM
Oh lol
 
weird, it caught me twice and then came back the third time
 
@Avi I'm trying to major in music composition though D:
 
Avi
@PrinceNorthLæraðr :(
keep trying I guess
 
I like it, but it's just SO MANY RULES
 
have you made any music-composition puzzles?
 
Avi
8:51 PM
I finally got good at sight-reading after stopping piano lessons
 
One. It's hard to make one
@bobble It was okay. It was a cipher
 
Avi
then got half good at relative pitch
still super jealous of the people with absolute pitch though
 
Bruhhhh I want absolute pitch
NOT FAIR
 
<will be busy for a while>
 
Avi
like, I figured out "Yankee Doodle Dandy" by ear
but there are no sharps/flats so it was way easier
sighs in the wrong tune
 
8:57 PM
@Avi Yeah it's rough us relative pitch gang :(....
 
I believe having absolute pitch can be awkward if e.g. you are singing in a choir whose other singers sometimes drift a little flat.
 
Avi
then simply defenestrate
 
of course, you simply throw them out the window
problem solved
 
Avi
to be fair, it might be awkward in a choir, but it's absurdly handy for things like solo composition and imitation
 
oh, so you're off key today, brenda? Y E E T
 
Avi
9:06 PM
poor brenda
all she did was drink a little too much water
speaking of which, I have designed a new type of puzzle called the Bermuda Rectangle
 
@GarethMcCaughan Oh that's true. My choir teacher had to go outside to play the piano and it was HELLA flat
 
Avi
too bad I'm too lazy to share any of my newfound power with y'all
 
Is it a puzzle from which no other puzzle can escape?
 
Avi
no
it is a puzzle from which I cannot escape
AGITATORS is an anagram of GAS AT RIOT
I'd make a CC out of it but I'm afraid the NSA would come looking
see here we have a chat log history of you talking about gas bombs...
 
If the NSA was interested in me, I'm probably already flagged for telling you to throw choir students out of windows
And my really gruesome C4.
 
Avi
9:16 PM
hmmmmmmmmmm
throws NSA out the window
alrighty
 
baa-boow, baa-boow
softly menacing bobblie sounds in distance
Also, you're almost to 8k Puzzling rep! I just noticed
 
@Avi tsk tsk
if you're going to defenestrate someone, at least use proper terminology
 
Murder is okay, but bad grammar is not
 
Avi
defeNeStrAtes
 
@Sciborg precisely
PRECISION OF LANGUAGE
 
9:24 PM
That actually isn't a bad horror short idea lol. "If you're going to kill someone Marge that's fine, but please use the correct form of they're while you do it"
 
"Of with there head, to!"
(that was painful for me to write)
 
The serial killer breaks into your windows, brandishing a knife... and whispers "you spelled here wrong two years ago"
 
"you left a note saying 'bad grammer' when copyediting"
 
Taking "death of the author" to a new level.
 
"You texted me saying BRB instead of be right back... I knew then you had to die"
 
9:28 PM
remind me in ~10 hours and i'll write it
 
There's one book I have where the same number is referred to as "twenty thousand" and "200,000" on the same page... I still haven't figured out which is supposed to be correct
 
@Mithical Not if I write it first
Also hello bobble :D
 
hello toothless geezer
(your emoji has no teeth)
 
insert How To Train Your Dragon reference
 
*quickly checks to make sure my avatar has teeth*
 
9:31 PM
they GAVE TOOTHLESS TEETH IN THE MOVIE aggh
 
Mith has a lil row of teeth it looks like
Do bobblecrowns have teeth?
 
...that's your biggest issue with the adaptation?
 
Avi
I thought it was "toothless" because the teeth were retractable
 
Yeah, there's that scene where he pops them out to eat the fish and it's adorable
 
@Mithical not my biggest one, but certainly an important fault
 
9:32 PM
The movie shares absolutely nothing in common with the books except for some names.
 
In the books he is tiny and toothless AND THAT IS THE POINT
 
I mean, the movies have great music but it's a totally different story.
 
yeah, they basically threw everything out except pseudo-vikings and dragons
 
I will fight you to the death over how much I love those movies
 
the books are better
 
Avi
9:33 PM
I liked the first movie
 
So you have chosen death
 
Avi
no comment on the others
mainly because I became too lazy to watch them
 
I was forced to watch the first movie under pain of a failing grade on an essay. That certainly didn't help me like it.
 
@Avi Totally fair, sequels were not as good IMO
 
Avi
was Frozen 2 worth watching
Frozen 1 was at least somewhat original on first watch
 
9:35 PM
@Sciborg The movies are fine. But would have been better under an original name and not as a purported adaptation of a book it has nothing in common with.
 
good boy band song where the boy and the band are all just Kristoff + reindeer
 
@Avi Only the music. Plotline? Nah.
 
@Mithical Fair point, I did not read the book so I had nothing to compare it to.
 
Avi
@Mithical :(
that's unfortunate
 
@Sciborg Hey, I liked the ending.
 
9:36 PM
@Mithical I'm a grown-up and the ending of the third movie made me cling to partner sobbing
Fight me, I'm not ashamed
 
I also like the books because the local library only had the first couple, and then I had to piece together the rest of the series by borrowing from teachers & farther libraries. It was an adventure!
 
I'm... am I grown up? Is that how this works? D'Arvit.
 
Being a grown up is not worth it sometimes IMO
 
@Sciborg "He didn't eat your father!" (sigh of relief)
 
Gold
 
9:38 PM
Heathens. The Books Are Better.
 
I can read the books if they are better, never read them before.
 
I've actually only read the first... three?
And that was years ago
 
The plotline gets steadily stranger until the end, which I can't actually remember. But there are some epic prophecies and adventures and flying on dragons and it was REALLY COOL to 10-year-od me
 
Are they available in large print?
 
I have no idea
 
9:40 PM
It's okay if not, I can just get the eBook so I can zoom in :)
 
there are ebooks though
 
yes
I think you'll be surprised by the sheer number of setting changes the movie made
 
Perfect, Kindle edition is $2.99 :D I'll let you know what I think
Is it like a kid's book?
 
Aimed at kids, yeah
It gets wild, though
See character description for "Patience, Innocence and Arrogance" (one character)
 
9:45 PM
It's funny because so far, the illustrations are super doodly and kidlike, but then the actual text is like "*They are
crawling back into the sea from whence they came*"
 
there is quite a bit of irony and "dark" (kid level dark) humor, yes.
 
Like legit, there is all kinds of humor in here that would be completely lost on kids, and it's great. "WHERE DO YOU THINK WE ARE THE REPUBLIC OF ROME?"
 
Avi
In rome, do as the romans do
 
unless the romans are trying to kill you, then run away
 
Most kids' books: "the dog and cat play, the dog and cat are friends"
This book: "YOU WILL ALL BE BREAKFASTING WITH WODEN IN VALHALLA"
 
Avi
9:49 PM
well if they are trying to kill you then I suppose you could try to kill them
depends on who is better at stabbing in the end I guess
 
10/10 so far, I love it
 
yay!! ^_^
 
@Sciborg AND GOBBER'S GONNA SEND YOU THERE
 
Now maybe I should re-read my copy....
 
"iF YOU DISTurb the Dragons - AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE IDIOTICALLY STUPID TO DO SO -"
 
9:51 PM
I mean, not wrong
And did you notice the amount of exposition & character stuff that's hidden in the yelling? It's chef kiss wonderful
 
mwah, perfection
I'm glad we sometimes just turn into Literature SE out of nowhere
 
it's quite puzzling
 
> "out of nowhere"
hi
 
lol
 
Avi
@bobble Didn't capitalize your sentence - gg
 
9:53 PM
"yes hello it's my fault"
And nobody capitalizes their sentences, we're not English SE
Pffft
 
Avi
swoops in from the window
 
^^ not capitalized
hypocrite
 
Oh my God it's the Grammar Killer, quick, everybody punctuate.
 
Avi
That was an action performed by myself, read as "Avi swoops in from the window."
 
@Sciborg I mean
 
Avi
9:56 PM
@Sciborg Punctuate or be punctured.
 
(not that I'd make a puzzle like that nowadays)
 
Oh dang, I never saw that one. That's pretty genius.
 
No it's not :P
It just pretends it's interesting
 
I mean, sheer creativity points at least.
I think it's pretty rad :P
 
Avi
oooooh
Deusovi said :/
 
9:57 PM
?
 
Avi
At the end of his answer to the puzzle, Deusovi said ":/".
 
Ah, so he did.
I mean... gotta admit it's pretty funny.
 

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