The Sphinx's Lair

Will

18:00

do it

Khale_Kitha

haha

HoldTheDoor.Hodor

Rubio

HAH.

Code Example 1 on the hodor site uses THE PROPER braces style :)

Khale_Kitha

It's a joke language. It's allowed to do things wrong. ;) - Right, @Deu? hahaha

Rubio

hehe

I'm reconsidering the wisdom of admitting to doing anything at all similar to people who wrote a language comprised mostly of the word 'hodor'.

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Deusovi

heh

Mithrandir

18:03

4

Q: Chat flag notification, but no flag

It appears this bug is back. Upon refreshing any chat page (even when dumping the cache and hard reloading), a chat flag notification is displayed, but there is no chat flag.

Rubio

Nevermind, nothing to see here, move along.

Khale_Kitha

That's gonna get starred to death, Rubio haha

Deusovi

nope, too late

Mithrandir

Someone ninja'd me

Rubio

Darn. Almost made it fit without truncation

Khale_Kitha

18:04

I was wondering if that was what you were doing, haha.

remove 'at all'

Rubio

Nah. the next edit would be "I find myself" to "I'm"

Khale_Kitha

works

Rubio

but it's past the window. @Deusovi will have to do it for me. (Pweease?)

Khale_Kitha

or 'the word

Mithrandir

If someone flags something the bug might go away :P

Deusovi

18:05

Alright

Khale_Kitha

So tempting, but I resisted, Mith

Mithrandir

:P

Rubio

@Mithrandir and clicking it doesn't make it go away, i assume?

Mithrandir

It goes away

But then comes back

Khale_Kitha

"Just click the button and it'll all go away..."

Mithrandir

18:06

The bug is that it's showing when there aren't any flags

Will

I love when it literally pops up with a 0 down there

Beastly Gerbil

There are a couple of suggested edits now pending for users with the tag edit privileges. Would people kindly review those?

Mithrandir

relaod

Khale_Kitha

Perhaps there was a flag that's already been responded to? No idea, though, if it auto-updates, normally, in that case.

I don't see anything, BG

Mithrandir

If you have 10k network wide, reload the page

you'll see a flag

Beastly Gerbil

18:08

Do you have the tag edit priveledges?

Khale_Kitha

Yes

Beastly Gerbil

@Mithrandir no flag for me

Sconibulus

@Mithrandir nor I

Mithrandir

huh

Rubio

Hm. I reloaded and had one. Clicked it, it said "none", and went away.

Mithrandir

18:08

every single time I reload

On here and Charcoal

Beastly Gerbil

@Khale_Kitha. Oh. Maybe it will take a while to load

Mithrandir

If you give me 1300 rep I'll review them :P

Will

I actually didn't start getting that in chat until well after hitting 10k :|

Mithrandir

I only realized that I never took off my hats now :P

Khale_Kitha

@BeastlyGerbil It's because the UI isn't properly showing the section to review edits.

Mithrandir

18:10

Khale_Kitha

I went to the page, manually, and I see them

Beastly Gerbil

oh ok

Mithrandir

Every time I reload...

Beastly Gerbil

@Khale_Kitha seems mine haven't loaded though....

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, it's odd

Beastly Gerbil

18:11

oh no there it is. You just reviewed it

Khale_Kitha

When I'm on the review edits page, I see....

Beastly Gerbil

I can see everyones edits :P

Khale_Kitha

But from the review page, it's just..

Mithrandir

Heh heh

Beastly Gerbil

Okay I just got a valid chat flag @Mithrandir

Mithrandir

18:12

I fixed the bug :P

Khale_Kitha

Having to manually go there before the number even showed, at the top of the page for the queue

Deusovi

??????

Mithrandir

o_o

Khale_Kitha

lol

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil Did you click valid? :P

Will

18:12

5 mins ago, by Will

I love when it literally pops up with a 0 down there

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah

Mithrandir

Good

I flagged it

Khale_Kitha

Mithrandir

To see if the bug would stop

Khale_Kitha

Deu needs to post that image, so it can be a hall of mirrors :P

Rubio

18:14

hehe

Khale_Kitha

Odd that there's no approve and edit button for those..

Beastly Gerbil

what the tag ones?

Khale_Kitha

Yeah

Beastly Gerbil

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Q: Allow 'improve' for Tag Wiki Edit Suggestions

I've been approving or rejecting Tag Wiki Excerpt Edit Suggestions, but some of them are close and I'd like to just tweak them. We can improve regular edit suggestions, how about giving us an Improve button for Tag Wiki Edit Suggestions. Note: If I click on the tag wiki excerpt link, then it ta...

feature-request status-bydesign suggested-edits tag-wiki improve

you need 20k rep

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil Wrong one I thinl

Khale_Kitha

18:17

Ah, okay

Beastly Gerbil

yeah forget the first link

Khale_Kitha

Those two tags are so close, I just wonder if the 2nd should reference the first, in some way.

It almost seems that they could be consolidated.

Beastly Gerbil

They are quite different games

Khale_Kitha

As are chess and checkers, but we have the chessboard tag

Mithrandir

And a chess tag...

Which is different...

Beastly Gerbil

18:20

We only have two questions at the moment so I don't think there is any point even discussing merging

Mithrandir

And it's checkerboard :P

Khale_Kitha

puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/checkerboard

yeah

both chessboard and checkerboard are tags

they're synonyms

TrojanByAccident

maybe not

Mithrandir

I tried posting a re-run FTC idea. It's stuck at a score of 3...

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A: What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!)

steganography re-run! The first one was back in June, when I didn't really understand this or have much experience creating puzzles. I would like to re-propose this tag for all the people who didn't have a chance last time.

TrojanByAccident

checkerboards are often red and black

Khale_Kitha

18:25

The tags are synonyms.

Beastly Gerbil

Go people! Go vote wordplay for the next fortnightly topic challenge!

Mithrandir

Vote for rebus!

Khale_Kitha

Sorry, already voted stego :P

Mithrandir

(Actually, I won't mind wordplay. It's a good idea, I upvoted it.)

Beastly Gerbil

Thanks :P I upvoted rebus even though I want mine to win. I do still want to see in a couple of weeks though

Mithrandir

18:28

A little chat link and the answer jumps to 7th place :P

Khale_Kitha

lol

Mithrandir

Somebody find 17 Meta Stack Exchange questions for me to vote on, quick!

Beastly Gerbil

just go to highest voted :P

Mithrandir

Hmm...

I wonder if the same thing would happen if I linked a real site answer...

I need 30 more lifehacks points, so...

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A: How to clean mirror without leaving paper towel specks behind

Just use a regular cloth, such as a towel or even a T-shirt. Rub on the spot that needs attention (I do it in circles), and soon your spots wll disappear.

Khale_Kitha

Oops - forgot you had to do things special to add text formatting in a code block ><

Beastly Gerbil

18:34

All my rep from the last few days have been from tag edits :P

Mithrandir

Nope, didn't work...

Beastly Gerbil

I'm going for rep cap from tag edits! :P

Khale_Kitha

Many regular cloths have the same issue, though =D

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33591/…

I repcapped on suggested edits

Sep 14

Beastly Gerbil

well nearly all your rep came from it

Mithrandir

18:36

@Khale_Kitha You just have the wrong cloth :P

Khale_Kitha

True but a 'regular cloth' is nonspecific.

Mithrandir

I declared that I would repcap from edits so someone went and upvoted my stuff

Sphinx

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Q: Dream of omniscience

Dave is having a dream. In his dream he is walking happily along a street when he comes to a mysterious door. He tries to simply open the door, but it is locked. It is his dream and he can do whatever he imagines right? Wrong, this door will not open; he tries explosives, chainsaws, lockpicks,...

riddle

Khale_Kitha

Fastforward to February: "Is anyone going to solve Gareth's CCCC?"

Beastly Gerbil

That mysterious door :'P

Khale_Kitha

18:40

d'oh! Magically disappearing answer!

Beastly Gerbil

damn I thought i had a good answer there

Khale_Kitha

The other issue was that he drew something in the air, but I wasn't sure if that could be reinterpreted.

Beastly Gerbil

I just saw that I couldn't tell you

oops

Khale_Kitha

I wonder if he drew a ? in the air.

Mithrandir

Heh. I got two Necromancer badges on Meta... for the same question :P

Khale_Kitha

18:42

lol

There should be a badge for that

incesterror21

@Khale_Kitha Thanks! I thought it was better than plainly writing "use anagrams"

Khale_Kitha

I actually didn't think to image search her until AFTER I saw the answer though, sadly.

incesterror21

By the way, it's a boy...

Khale_Kitha

At least you didn't do something stupid like use the phrase "and a gram" in your puzzle. It took a month for someone to get that.

incesterror21

I'm still learning. So I hope I don't do any stupid mistakes at all!

Beastly Gerbil

18:45

@incesterror21 is MOehm really close to solving your puzzle?

incesterror21

@BeastlyGerbil Yes, they are.

Beastly Gerbil

Is it just a simple matter of anagramming the final part?

And is it a well know name? Like a famous french woman?

incesterror21

It's as simple as that, correct. Although the part where a female name is needed is already gone.

I didn't expect people to pay so much attention to the title. It was meant as a hint to confirm the translation of the hex numbers.

Beastly Gerbil

Oh ok. Is the person real or not?

Khale_Kitha

....I really should continue my Catacombs of Cryptos series, one of these days...

incesterror21

18:49

Look for a phrase/set of words that suits as an ending

Will

ohhh

incesterror21

MOehm did 9/10 to be done I think

Beastly Gerbil

Thanks! I feel like I have grilled you enough now, I shall see if I can solve it

Khale_Kitha

See, now look what you did, BG

You caused Will to go "ohhh", which means the puzzle's solved.

Beastly Gerbil

oops :P

incesterror21

18:51

Let's wait and see what he got!

Khale_Kitha

hehe

Beastly Gerbil

@Will have you solved it?

Or are we pointlessly speculating? :P

Will

I know what to do!

Beastly Gerbil

Go on then you hamster-pup! :P

Khale_Kitha

Oh I meant to tell you, the other day, Will.

Yes, some people do read these things.

Deusovi

18:54

Anyone else think this is too broad?

0

Q: Dream of omniscience

Dave is having a dream. In his dream he is walking happily along a street when he comes to a mysterious door. He tries to simply open the door, but it is locked. It is his dream and he can do whatever he imagines right? Wrong, this door will not open; he tries explosives, chainsaws, lockpicks,...

riddle

Will

@Khale_Kitha @Mithrandir Mentioned that a while ago. Guess it's a good thing I didn't use it to overshare. :)

Khale_Kitha

hehe

Deusovi

?

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah

Khale_Kitha

It feels like he has a specific answer in mind, but I'm unsure if the puzzle is specific enough to designate it, yet.

Beastly Gerbil

18:55

Although I can't think of a solution

incesterror21

Do we know the solution?

Khale_Kitha

It feels like the answer is going to be a pun.

Beastly Gerbil

no humour tag

incesterror21

Maybe the "key" to this is that Dave is showing his middle finger

The wizard gets angry and opens the door to attack Dave.

Khale_Kitha

@BeastlyGerbil Relatively new user

There's a similar joke, like this, from the riddler.

The answer being: "a riddle"

But the [s]joke[/s] riddle is slightly different

..I don't remember how to do that, in chat.

Deusovi

18:57

You can't.

Beastly Gerbil

You can

Khale_Kitha

I've seen rand do it.

Beastly Gerbil

Someone found out how

Deusovi

Oh, really? I must be thinking of comments.

~~Like this, maybe?~~

Beastly Gerbil

Can't remember

incesterror21

18:58

Deusovi

Nope. That's the syntax I've seen used in other places, but apparently not here.

Khale_Kitha

I figured it out in puzzles, etc - checking transcript.

Beastly Gerbil

anyways gtg, see you all later

Khale_Kitha

~~strikethrough~~ oh right

humn actually figured it out

in Puzzles Etc., May 18 '16 at 19:09, by humn

K_K: three - dashes at each end - - - without spaces - - -

I suppose I should share...

Now @Deu needs to go edit Rubio's starred message to change 'THE PROPER' to use strikeout. Heheheh

(j/k)

I'm laughing - these two puzzles were listed, in order, in the puzzle list...

What does my girlfriend want me to buy for her?
Dream of omniscience

incesterror21

Nice catch!

incesterror21

19:51

@Will Well done. You seem not happy?

Will

@incesterror21 HAHA I'm watching something & you pinged me at the exact same moment a bell dinged.

& It's just... I don't really see a riddle

incesterror21

Creepy!

Khale_Kitha

Ding! Fries are done..

incesterror21

Can't the anagram be seen as a riddle?

Deusovi

...No, how is an anagram a riddle?

incesterror21

19:53

I'm never sure. People here seem to use the terms "riddle", "puzzle" and "cryptic clues"

Deusovi

Hm? What about those terms?

A puzzle is the most general category.

incesterror21

I don't know which one to use

Deusovi

A riddle is a list of statements about an object, usually poetic and involving metaphor, where the goal is to identify the object.

A cryptic clue is a type of crossword clue common in the UK involving misleading wordplay.

incesterror21

Like CCCC ?

So a one line anagram is an anagram. Nothing more.

Deusovi

@incesterror21 CCCC stands for "chat cryptic clue chain" - it's a little game involving cryptic clues that we play in here sometimes.

Khale_Kitha

19:56

I think the point being that the puzzle asks a question - which is in line with a riddle - but the answer doesn't answer the question.

So there's a disconnect, causing it to lose the effect of being a riddle.

dcfyj

Sometimes? You must mean all the time, it just has slow moments :P

incesterror21

I see. As I said, I didn't expect people to take titles so seriously.

Deusovi

Well, I mean sometimes we don't really pay attention to it.

dcfyj

like right now?

Khale_Kitha

Titles are the hardest part, imo, ie21, because I can never decide how much emphasis solvers will put on it when attempting to use it as a clue.

incesterror21

19:59

So the title is either a real hint or not useful at all.

Khale_Kitha

Oh, and people will look to your username, your profile, and even your icon for clues, at times - so keep that in mind. (But please don't make a puzzle that 'REQUIRES' that info to solve it.)

Generally speaking, yes.

Or a general description of the puzzle's aspect.

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