The Sphinx's Lair

ffao

00:25

I was stuck for a huge amount of time in the hunt because I was subtracting 1666-653 = 1031

could you please suck a bit less in math, ffao?

A. Mirabeau

Alphametic puzzle for anyone who's interested (if you don't know what an alphametic is, look it up):

SCAR + ZAZU + RAFIKI = MUFASA

BTW, alphametics are also known as "cryptarithms".

ffao

00:44

Why not post it as a question?

A. Mirabeau

Because I figure it'll be solved quickly enough to not be considered one.

Puzzling Meta

00:59

0

Q: Seeking puzzle submissions for a literary magazine

Would you want to be a part of a minimalist literary review? My name's Richard Heby. I edit and publish a 100-page Beechwood Review, featuring minimalist writing and art, with poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, and a lot in between. For the third issue of Beechwood Review, I'd love to include a...

discussion

Mithrandir

08:50

I pronounce @Deusovi 's username Dyoo-soe-vee. :P

Maria Deleva

And strangely I pronounce it Desuvi.

Reminds me of the volcano Vesuvius

Beastly Gerbil

11:12

@MariaDeleva, same here

Maria Deleva

So I am not the only one :)

Lukas Rotter

And I pronounce it Doy-so-vee, because that's how it would probably be pronounced in german... Maybe a poll should be started? :P

Beastly Gerbil

@Deusovi, how do you pronounce your name?

Maria Deleva

He said earlier he pronounces it different every time

Beastly Gerbil

Oh well thats helpful :P

Lukas Rotter

11:24

12 hours ago, by Deusovi

@Randal'Thor That's... pretty much how I pronounce it. There's no "official" pronunciation or anything, and I even 'say' it different ways at different times.

Beastly Gerbil

11:36

@MariaDeleva, am I on the right track on the healthy words^TM^? Will has made a comment which has made me unsure...

Maria Deleva

You are barking under the wrong tree :)

I was just about to write a comment there

But it is a nice idea

Beastly Gerbil

aaah okay. I'll leave the answer there in case someone has the same idea without realising I've already thought of it incorrectly...

Maria Deleva

That's a good idea :)

Beastly Gerbil

I was so convinced when it had oranges! :P

Maria Deleva

That's just a coincidence :)

But as Will pointed out - Acai is also a superfood and happens to be in the unhealthy column

Beastly Gerbil

11:42

A few of the others in the unhealthy column are bound to have some superfoods as well

Maria Deleva

Possibly. :) But the pattern is different

M Oehm

12:22

I had also tried the "contains something healthy to eat" angel and really gotten nowhere. I didn't think about superfoods, though. But I liked that Astronomics contains roast.

Mithrandir

I'm still stuck at this one point on diamond 2.... (Which has nothing to do with a diamond. :P)

Beastly Gerbil

As long as I can solve it, post it! :P

Mithrandir

:P I can't post it if I can't create it...

Sci is being very unhelpful.

Beastly Gerbil

Thats probably because you'll get all the rep when you post :P

Mithrandir

Heh.

I'm not preventing him from creating puzzles of his own...

He can create his own HNQ question.

Anyway, he has enough rep on SO - he doesn't need any here :P

Scimonster

18.2k 4 31 67

javascript jquery html node.js css arrays html5

What on earth? I have access to a review queue on SO?

I have no rep there.

o_O

Areeb

13:16

@LukasRotter since I started taking German, I've been in the habit of pronouncing "eu" as "oy" where ever I see it

Mithrandir

13:37

discussion pronunciation deusovi How do you pronounce 'Deusovi'?

Whatever happened to this:

If the community needs a way to handle spoilers in comments, we'll find a solution :) — Stéphane Apr 6 at 7:40

Maria Deleva

I guess nobody was persistent enough

Puzzling — BOUNTY!

6

Q: An Inside View To One Thing Outside

You have seen me on the street I am someone you try to meet But I cut things as soon as I see them Forming things before I meet them What am I?

wordplay

Mithrandir

14:24

Aghhh @BeastlyGerbil how could you? You made it blue.

Beastly Gerbil

personalisation :P

Mithrandir

14:40

I am still pushing off part of diamond 2. I need more incentive to submit myself to creating math problems :P

I was right about I2P not making it.

Rand al'Thor

15:07

@Mithrandir Yeah, Deus as in Zeus. That was how I began to think it was probably supposed to be pronounced, after having been saying "Day-uss-oh-vee" for a while.

Beastly Gerbil

I say Du - Soo - Vi

Rand al'Thor

So ... Healthy and Veteran Words ...

Dammit, I've never been able to solve one of these ™ puzzles!

Beastly Gerbil

the tags are important for mine... only hint I'm giving

Rand al'Thor

Yeah, I thought they might be.

> A puzzle that heavily depends on linguistic features; for instance it may concern foreign languages, or only work in some particular language, or be built around a peculiarity of the English language.

But that still leaves a lot of possibilities.

"built around a peculiarity of the English language" - well, aren't they all in a way?

Beastly Gerbil

Well English is only a part of 'language' for mine...

Rand al'Thor

15:15

Oh wait, I think I might have it!

Beastly Gerbil

If you do you'll understand 'veteran'

Lukas Rotter

First I thought maybe the words on the left were mentioned more often in the good ol' times, but laser obviously instantly crushed that idea.

Beastly Gerbil

The graph says it all...

Is no one upvoting my question because I made the table blue? :P

Mithrandir

testing part of diamond 2 now. It appears that I made one minor mistake in the last part, debating whether or not I should fix it...

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil Blue is my favourite colour. Have a +1.

Beastly Gerbil

15:21

Yay, you're very close by the way but not correct

Lukas Rotter

Most of the imes I only upvote questions once they are solved, to see if the solution is ridiculous or not. But sometimes I upvote trusted userbefore.

German, maybe?

Beastly Gerbil

Bingo!

Mithrandir

Mine too. +2. Eer, +1.

Beastly Gerbil

And veteran is because... Anyone?

Mithrandir

WW2?

Rand al'Thor

15:22

@LukasRotter That's what I thought, but "sauce" seems to fail.

Beastly Gerbil

It does?

Hang on

Lukas Rotter

@Randal'Thor dict.cc/?s=sauce

Mithrandir

@Rand the 'Bingo!' seemed to counter that

Lukas Rotter

Not unbedingt :P

Beastly Gerbil

@Randal'Thor, I most have put it into translate incorrectly.

Rand al'Thor

15:25

@BeastlyGerbil No, it's OK. Google Translate gives me Soße as the main translation, but Sauce is also listed as one of the options.

Beastly Gerbil

Yes! My mistake turns out to be beneficial!

Rand al'Thor

@Beastly Is there something I'm not getting to the significance of "veteran", or is it just that Britain, France, and Germany are (to a Brit) the best-known countries involved in both World Wars?

I mean, there's Russia and Italy and a bunch of other countries with their own languages that were also involved.

Beastly Gerbil

The main 3 were Britain france and germany... some of the other countries wouldn't work as well

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil ... the "main 3"??!!

No they weren't.

Beastly Gerbil

Who was then?

Rand al'Thor

15:31

You've just offended a large proportion of the population of Europe and the world.

Beastly Gerbil

This is specifically WWI

I doubt many countries want the tag of 'main country involved in WWI' :P

Rand al'Thor

More Russians died in WWI than people from any other country.

Beastly Gerbil

That was more starvation, not due to other countries

Rand al'Thor

Ditto for WWII.

Maybe for WWI it's not quite so offensive to say it revolved around those three little western European countries.

Beastly Gerbil

Well, Russia wouldn't work for the puzzle and I don't think Hungarian would ether :P

I created the puzzle with WWI in mind

The fighting took place in France, Gerany invaded and Britain pushed them out. That was the reasoning. Russia dropped out the war due to a revolution halfway through

Rand al'Thor

15:38

Russia and Germany both had revolutions in 1917.

Beastly Gerbil

Germany stayed in the war though. Russia completely pulled out

Lukas Rotter

@Randal'Thor I think if anyone would find it offensive the question would've been downvoted quickly after the solution was posted. It's not like he posted something like a "What's a Twin Word™?" puzzle today. But I get it, it's nice to have a discussion :P

Beastly Gerbil

I did try including Russia It didn't work

Rand al'Thor

I don't know so much about WWI (although I do know that it started in central Europe and involved countries from all over the world). I was thinking more about WWII when I reacted so strongly.

@LukasRotter I'm sure plenty of people in Russia or Japan who lost their families and friends in the war would be offended by the suggestion that it was all about Britain, France, and Germany. I can't see why they'd downvote the question though - flag the comment, if anything (which I didn't, btw).

~~Also, Twin Word??~~ oh, nvm, got it

Beastly Gerbil

I doubt many people can remember relatives who died in WWI tbh

Russia and Italy did play a big part, but Russia dropped out, and Italy switched sides.

Rand al'Thor

15:47

Yeah, so again it's not so bad since you were thinking of WWI. I think the last surviving WWI veteran died a couple of years ago?

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah he died at 110

The main reason I didn't include them was simply its hard to find words the same in German, French, English, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese and Italian which are the same

Lukas Rotter

@Randal'Thor Sorry, I don't see how the puzzle (or the comment under your answer) implies that it only revolved around these three countries. The three languages he found to have similar words just seem to fit into the WWI theme.

Beastly Gerbil

Oops meant she above, missed the s

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil Of course. There's nothing wrong with the puzzle - on the contrary, it's a good puzzle :-)

Beastly Gerbil

I just like a debate :P

Rand al'Thor

15:52

And the fact that "veteran" is the same word in all three languages is certainly convenient.

41 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor

Dammit, I've never been able to solve one of these ™ puzzles!

Flagged as obsolete :-D

Beastly Gerbil

I've never solved one. I'd swear I had it for this one but unfortunately not

Rand al'Thor

I'm looking at that one too.

You may be on the right lines. When there are some X Words and some Extra X Words, it usually seems to mean that "X Word" = "contains the letters of a something-or-other word" and it's Extra X if there are two something-or-other words hiding in there.

Lukas Rotter

Apparently I missed out on 180 rep by being dumb enough to post a comment instead of an answer because I thought -- is an invalid operation... apparently it isn't.

Beastly Gerbil

There are a few Extra Healthy Words which might help

I thought they may contain two superfoods but no

I'd focus on Generous as its the shortest which narrows down possibilities

5 hours ago, by Maria Deleva

You are barking under the wrong tree :)

Seems I wasn't on the right track though...

Rand al'Thor

16:13

@BeastlyGerbil That was my thought too. I see GREENS in there, and also SORE.

Beastly Gerbil

It would have been a good answer that...

Rand al'Thor

Monarchist contains CHROMA ... Macaroons contains MAROON ...

Aerodynamics contains CYAN and RED, and it's Extra Healthy.

manshu

manshu contains HUMANS

Sid

Generous contains Green...

Rand al'Thor

@manshu And humn is missing an A.

Lost my 'a' in a bet to a user named 'rdvark', who's still looking for a nother sucker. Word to the wise, @Mithrandir, you have an 'a' too, watch it closely! — humn Sep 4 at 10:39

Beastly Gerbil

16:18

Brilliant

manshu

Just realised @RAND is in @mithRANDir

Rand is everywhere

Beastly Gerbil

Not in Beastly Gerbil heh heh heh

Rand al'Thor

@manshu There was a running joke on SFF for a while that we were actually the same person, after a couple of times when he joined chat just as I left.

People used to call him Mythical Rand.

manshu

hehe..

It happens in this room too sometimes...

Mithrandir

@manshu Only because I brought it up...

manshu

16:23

@Mithrandir oh ...so that joke is not really a joke..

Beastly Gerbil

Thats just gRAND, sorry I just have to go off to do a RANDom erRAND for gRANDma. I have to fix the veRANDa after it was left in stRANDs. Then I'll read a book about a stRANDed sailor which has been bRANDed and has only bRANDy to drink. Then I'll talk to @mithRANDir or @RANDal'thor. Then i'll write a memoRANDa to my mother to buy a giRANDole.

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Rand al'Thor

For the price of my advice to entice lice to the nice rice device and dice mice twice in a trice, thrice a slice of ice with spice in a vice will suffice.

manshu

@BeastlyGerbil Don't make RANDom sentences

Beastly Gerbil

Its all too punny :P

manshu

Maybe I should go and search some Eminem rap in this competition..

Sid

16:30

Okay, @Randal'Thor Seems like you got the Healthy Words thing... Gramophone contains ORANGE and Labyrinthdonot contains Blond....

Beastly Gerbil

@Sid, I already tried that answer...

Rand al'Thor

@Sid Yep, I'd found ORANGE. Does BLOND count as a colour though?

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor I'M BACK!

1

Q: Why does the BFG look so old compared to the rest of the giants?

I went to see the movie adaption of The BFG by Roald Dahl. One thing I noticed was that the Big Friendly Giant (or, as they called him in the dubbed version, the EEG,) looked like an old man. All of the rest of the giants were big, strong, bald, and young-looking. Not our BFG - he has gray hair, ...

roald-dahl

Rand al'Thor

I'm just trying to complete the list before posting my answer.

Sid

It's related to hair, maybe it's a color

Beastly Gerbil

16:33

Why would it be Healthy though?

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Woohoo! :-D

Sid

Apparently, colors can be soothing to someone and relieve them of worries or something like that

manshu

ohk...now Rand is using two browsers to run two user profiles..

Mithrandir

No....

i am my own person.

:P

GTG now - supper.

See ya.

manshu

see ya

:D

Beastly Gerbil

16:35

(closes the open browser and moves to the other one)

manshu

@Rand hungry ?

Sid

@Randal'Thor Aerodynamics also contains Crimson

manshu

@Sid Aerodynamics also contains sid

Beastly Gerbil

Thats the answer!

Sid

@manshu Now, how did I not notice that..

manshu

16:38

how sid you not notice that?

did*

Rand al'Thor

@Sid Yep, already got that one. The only one I'm still stuck on is Labyrinthodont.

Sid

@Randal'Thor Perhaps you should post the answer.

Rand al'Thor

0

A: What is a Healthy Word™?

OK, let's give this a go. A Healthy Word™ is a word which This fits because And the Extra Healthy Words™:

Beastly Gerbil

But why would it be healthy?

Sid

Glamoured also contains Gold.. But Are we allowed to use the same letter twice??

@BeastlyGerbil Perhaps that would be best answered by the OP...

manshu

16:46

anagram-solver.org/?letters=LABYRINTHODONT

Rand al'Thor

There we go, done.

manshu

Labyrinthodont contains bloody too

Rand al'Thor

@manshu Oh hey, nice tool!

@manshu Labyrinthodont contains too bloody many words.

manshu

yeah...if you look closely in that link. You will find 'tool' under 'tint'

(atleast on my browser)

idk how that link sorts different words.

Rosie F

How now brown cow.

@Randal'Thor I'd say so. If it's good enough for hair... And there's blonde beer and blonde ale.

Puzzling — BOUNTY!

17:07

8

Q: Weird messages from a friend

I'm really worried about my friend Friedrich, until today I haven't heard anything from him for the last few weeks. I decided to message him and ask if anything is wrong, and he responded with some weird messages. Now I'm even more concerned! I screenshotted the messages for you to see (I also in...

cipher story

Maria Deleva

OK ,you are officially making me laugh. I love you. :)

@Randal'Thor Astronomics and Macaroons are the only correct ones.

And the definition of Healthy is not accurate.

Rand al'Thor

17:30

@MariaDeleva So I am on the right track then? Or what do you mean by 'correct'?

If the inclusion of MAROON and CRIMSON is important, then ... maybe it's just words for red, and not words for any colour, which are needed.

Gareth McCaughan

so MAROON is the reason for ASTRONOMIC and MACAROONS being Healthy even though Rand's proposed answer is wrong? That's ... surprising. MAROON means (1) a reddish-brownish colour, (2) to abandon in an isolated place, (3) a chestnut (=MARRON), and (4) a member of a particular group of former slaves and their descendants. (Plus a few obscure variations on those themes.) Presumably #1 isn't it. Maybe #3, something to do with fruits and nuts?

or indeed maybe it's just reds, but there were some words containing RED that Maria didn't approve of your answers for.

Rand al'Thor

@GarethMcCaughan But not only RED. Presumably I got Glamoured and Aerodynamics only half right.

Gareth McCaughan

oh, I didn't notice that.

so yeah, maybe it's only reds. Healthy ruddy complexion and all that.

but didn't we already have Ruddy Words (tm) with essentially the same rule, quite recently?

Rosie F

@GarethMcCaughan So you're saying Healthy Word is a ruddy dup?

Gareth McCaughan

Only if that's what it means, which is by no means confirmed.

Rand al'Thor

17:34

@GarethMcCaughan No, Ruddy turned out to be something different.

Masts and rudders, remember?

Gareth McCaughan

ohhhh

I'd forgotten

anyway, I have to go and do food-related things now...

Rand al'Thor

@Maria How does it look now?

Mithrandir

Out of curiosity, @Randal'Thor , why did you capitalize your name for SFF but nowhere else?

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Mainly because I wanted it to stay the same here, so that I'd still be recognisable even while I wasn't active here.

Now I'm considering capitalising it everywhere.

Mithrandir

...It's still kinda obvious even if you capitalize it.

It looks so strange to see all 6 review queues open now :P

Rand al'Thor

17:48

@Mithrandir Probably, but I wanted to be sure. It looked weird to me for quite a while to see people saying @Randal'Thor.

in Mos Eisley, Mar 28 at 17:30, by Praxis

Who's this @Randal'Thor? What happened to @randal'thor? :-(

@Mithrandir Wait, which site?

Maria Deleva

@Randal'Thor looks much better now :)

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor SFF, or course :)

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir What, you earned over 1000 rep in drive-bys during your absence/exile/whatever?

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor No, I left when I had 3.7k. I have over 4k now :P

And I posted none at all in my absence.

Hello, you beastly gerbil.

Rand al'Thor

Oh, so you could already see all 6 review queues when you were there before.

Mithrandir

17:58

Yeah, but it's been 6 months, so...

Rand al'Thor

Sure.

Did you vote to close/reopen anything? :-)

Mithrandir

:P Not right now.

I reviewed a suggested edit and a first post.

Beastly Gerbil

I'm so close to getting the proofreader badge

Mithrandir

Wait richard changed his name?

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir No, he gave 200k rep in bounties to this Valorum guy.

:-P

Mithrandir

18:00

facepalm

I finally accepted that answer :P

Rand al'Thor

3

Q: Why did Valorum change his name from Richard?

Any canonical reason to Valorum changed his name from Richard? Or was it just a spontaneous decision that only he can answer? I am specifically looking for a scifi.stackexchange.com canonical reason to this. However, out of universe reasons will also be accepted.

discussion users

Mithrandir

As an ex-mod, Valorum (the user, not the Senator) seems to have taken this name to express his displeasure with either the way that the site is being run, or the people who removed his mod status.

- didn't he step down voluntarily?

This answer waited six months to get an accept:

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A: If there are students of other religions at Hogwarts, why are only the Christian holidays celebrated?

Out of universe J. K. Rowling is a Christian and as thus she wrote the books about Christianity. To me the religious parallels have always been obvious, but I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might show people who just wanted the story where we were going. Harr...

Beastly Gerbil

I love how people are posting questions from the scifi site in the puzzling chat room :P

Rand al'Thor

in Mos Eisley, Oct 2 '15 at 7:51, by Richard

@DrRDizzle - I received an email from @Ana this morning headed "I'm asking you to step down as a moderator on Scifi Stack Exchange"

That said, let's not gossip too much about that particular event.

Mithrandir

Ah.

Yes, this might be better in Mos.

I just want to say this: looks at @Randal'Thor 's top three sites SFF, Puzzling, and ELU. looks at mine SFF, Puzzling, and... ELU.

Beastly Gerbil

18:09

You are the same person!

I have to say the sci-fi site seems pretty dead at the moment. A question posted half an hour ago has 2 views

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil Nah, it's way more active than Puzzling :-) Which question?

Mithrandir

That story-id one.

Beastly Gerbil

0

Q: Looking for a story about a giant lost ecological ship, and the quirky guy who became its captain

I recall reading a book where the nondescript quirky captain of an independent starship was hired to take a group to a possible list starship. The ship was a giant ecological repository and contained tech which had since been lost. Everyone tried to board, running afoul of various creatures and d...

story-identification

Joined the community just out of interest. Suppose thats the point.

Mithrandir

A question asked one minute ago has three views..

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil Meh, story-ID questions often end up unanswered, uncommented, or even unvoted.

That would never happen with a question about Harry Potter or Star Wars or Star Trek.

Beastly Gerbil

18:15

@Randal'Thor, I hope there never is a day when that does happen

Mithrandir

I just feel like mentioning that my first question on SFF was closed as a duplicate of a question that wasn't the same...(Community deleted it. :P)

@BeastlyGerbil I improved your edit. :P

Beastly Gerbil

Yay!

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir The answer to the older question does sort of answer yours too. I have a feeling there might be a better dupe target though ...

Beastly Gerbil

First rep which isn't association bonus :P

Mithrandir

Really, @BeastlyGerbil, fix everything that's wrong with the post...

Beastly Gerbil

18:27

@Mithrandir thanks

Mithrandir

:P

Beastly Gerbil

I missed that bit. My own grammar needs brushing up :P

Yay now I can actually understand what you and randalthor talk about

Mithrandir

:P

Beastly Gerbil

Hi Deusovi

Deusovi

Hey!

Mithrandir

18:29

We can talk in Mos Eisley about SFF now, instead of cluttering up here.

Beastly Gerbil

I'll ask the naive question here so I don't look naive there, why the name?

Deusovi

Mos Eisley? It's from Star Wars.

Mithrandir

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Q: Why is the name of main chat room "Mos Eisley"?

The most active chat room of SciFi.SE is Mos Eisley which has a tagline General discussion for http://scifi.stackexchange.com. Googling the words returns that Mos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet Tatooine (Star Wars universe). Why is the chat room named after it? Any specific reason?

support chat

Beastly Gerbil

Totally knew that... :P

Lukas Rotter

18:42

Since this room seems to have turned into Mos Eisley now: In which order do you prefer to watch the star wars movies? I prefer IV, V, (I, II, III,) VI, VII. I know there's already a post regarding this on scifi, but I'd like to hear it from some people on puzzling :P

Deusovi

I'm... not actually a fan of Star Wars.

Rand al'Thor

Mithrandir and I consider it a matter of honour to not watch Star Wars.

Deusovi

Hm, really? Why?

Beastly Gerbil

I have never watched star wars

As you can probably tell

Rand al'Thor

@LukasRotter That's by far the most viewed question on SFF.

My solution: don't watch them at all. — Rand al'Thor ♦ Jan 18 at 12:28

Mithrandir

18:47

It was awful.

The first one. I broke my oath. :/

Probably not watching the others, though.

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Because it's crap :-)

Deusovi

HOLY S---

that is a big number

Beastly Gerbil

Woah

Mithrandir

Sep 8 at 18:40, by Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Because crap sells?

What question?

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Yeah!

Beastly Gerbil

18:48

And only 220 upvotes...

Mithrandir

Oh that one.

Maria Deleva

I have not watched Star Wars either. :)

Deusovi

@Randal'Thor Hm, really? I'm curious about why you think that. I've never watched it myself (well, I tried watching one for about half an hour, but couldn't get into it - that was years ago though)

Mithrandir

I was going to watch TFA, but a sick family prevented that. In fact, that's why I asked this question:

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Q: Can I watch The Force Awakens without having previously watched the earlier films or read any novelizations?

If I have not seen any of the previous Star Wars movies, would it be possible to watch The Force Awakens and fully understand it? Does it provide enough of the background for me to know what is going on?

With 19k views.

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Again, I'd forgotten you were the one who asked that.

Deusovi

18:50

Also, to whoever flagged my message as offensive - I didn't mean to offend! AFAIK there are no rules against cursing in chat, but I've edited it anyway.

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor ...And the Slughorn one, and the Hrung one, etc...

Beastly Gerbil

And you weren't cursing at anyone just generaly cursing

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Huh, I didn't even notice that got flagged. Weird.

Deusovi

It was dismissed fairly quickly.

Mithrandir

Sep 7 at 18:59, by ArtOfCode

it's because I sit in my lair all day with a flag-hammer and wait for something to get flagged

Lukas Rotter

18:52

Well, I can agree that I, II and III are a total waste of time, but I can't see the same with the original trilogy. But maybe that's just me, a guy who doesn't watch many movies at all and has no idea what makes a good one.

Deusovi

Yeah, I don't watch many movies either. I'm more into video games, and occasionally cartoons and anime.

Mithrandir

I'm into... books.

It's actually very rare for me to watch a movie. Well, not that rare. But fairly rare.

Rand al'Thor

@LukasRotter Well, I haven't watched any of them, but from what I can tell it's basically a lot of people shooting each other in space, and I hate action films. Also a screwed-up family and some really annoying characters, but I'm not sure how much of that is exaggerated for meme value.

@Mithrandir Good for you! :-D

Mithrandir

What's the first book of WoT called again?

Eye of the world?

Rand al'Thor

Yep.

Mithrandir

18:57

goes to bug grandmother

Deusovi

I've heard the Discworld books are really good.

Mithrandir

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Q: The Grand Monarch's challenge

Later on, when Alice was still wondering about in the rabbit hole, she happened upon a grand monarch butterfly. The butterfly mentioned to Alice that he had a wonderful treasure to share with her, but he would not give it to her lightly. He held it up inside a small golden box. He said, "One t...

riddle

The first letters spell out 'NO LAST FIRST'

Deusovi

yeah, saw that

tried extracting other letters (first letters of last words, last letters of first words...) but no luck

Lukas Rotter

Is there a way to really ignore tags, so that they not even show up in your feed rather than just graying them out?

Deusovi

Not that I know of.

Mithrandir

19:02

Yes

Rand al'Thor

New hint added to @jmb.mage's cipher puzzle. I now suspect it's something to do with the points of the compass (north, east, south, west).

Mithrandir

Go to your settings.

Rand al'Thor

@LukasRotter Yes. Go to your preferences tab and change to "hide" rather than "grey out".

Mithrandir

At the bottom of 'Preferences'.

Lukas Rotter

@Mithrandir @Randal'Thor Thanks, I feel like I just called an IT help desk :P I already tried to reboot, btw

Deusovi

19:03

Oh, huh! Didn't know that was there.

@LukasRotter Is it plugged in?

Lukas Rotter

@Deusovi Which cable?

Mithrandir

Wow, I knew something that a mod didn't! :D

Deusovi

@LukasRotter All of them. Make sure you plug the power strip into itself for infinite power.

Rand al'Thor

in Mos Eisley, Jul 26 at 10:43, by Rand al'Thor

@Bellerephon A physicist, a chemist, and a programmer were stuck in a car which wouldn't go. The physicist checked the spark plugs and mechanical parts of the engine. The chemist analysed the chemical makeup of the fuel and the oil. The programmer said, "let's all get out of the car and get back in again".

Mithrandir

Sep 7 at 17:57, by Rosie F

AFK (Am famished. Kitchen.)

Rosie F

19:30

BRB. (Burgers rather burnt. :( )

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Mithrandir

I just said that because i was heading to the kitchen..

jmb.mage

21:52

@Randal'Thor For the spies cipher, I am glad you got the part about the date from "Nones" and that is intended to be a clue for solving the rest of the puzzle.

Rand al'Thor

@jmb.mage Perhaps 10-7-16 is a key of some kind to the numbers ciphertext?

jmb.mage

no, but Nones is

Rand al'Thor

I'm not sure exactly what a cornerstone pillar is. I'm thinking of it like a signpost or milepost of some kind ...

... which makes me think of compass directions.

Maybe each of the four lines of the numbers ciphertext corresponds to one of N, E, S, W, or something like that.

jmb.mage

22:09

that's a minor clue... where is the city with pillars

Rand al'Thor

Athens? Rome?

It's not a Caesar cipher, but perhaps there are other ciphers named after ancient Romans.

jmb.mage

22:38

I shall say no more as to not spoil it

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