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8:00 PM
Unreal engine is fun to mess with. Even though I'm a total noob to it.
 
@dorothy Would you accept code that takes input as command line arguments?
 
This = duplicate of this?
What sayeth ye?
 
@AlexA. I replieth to thy inqury with a "Yes, hallowed be thy question".
 
Aye
 
(the hallowed bit just sounded cool. :P
 
8:08 PM
Plus, the base 36 part is a little weird.
I get what they were thinking, (0-9, a-z) but it's a little weird.
 
Yes, definitely.
 
Well, if you think it's a dupe then go ahead and cast your vote as such and if there are sufficient votes then I'll cast the final closing vote.
 
I can't cast close votes. :⊂
 
Oh.
 
Oh hey, I just realized I have VTC abilities! I never realized that before!
 
8:10 PM
Nice :)
 
I'm more used to that on ELL.
 
Are you not a native English speaker?
(ELL is English Language Learners, right?)
 
Thanks
 
BTW @El'endiaStarman, what is the origin of your name?
 
8:14 PM
Sorry, my internet pooped out on me all the sudden.
I am a native English speaker, I just like writing answers on ELL.
 
That's nice :)
I suppose the best way to get rep on ELL is to explain how English, which is a bananas language, works.
 
"works"
 
Yeah, it's probably the only site that I have joined that I have 0 questions on.
 
s/works/is used/
 
@RikerW I created a character for a story I was writing, maybe a decade ago now, that was an author insert. That is, myself. But I didn't want to use my real name, so I took the first three letters, shuffled them around, and added some more letters. Thus, "Elendia". People were saying it with a silent E at the beginning, though, so I added the apostrophe - "El'endia". The full name is "El'endia Pi Starman" because I like pi and stars. :P
 
8:18 PM
@AlexA. According to this I'm the only native English speaker in here...
Oh wait...
 
I was just going to say :P
 
There are dozens of us! Dozens I tell you!
 
3 yes/0 no
 
@El'endiaStarman That's a really cool story. Way cooler than where my name comes from.
 
Where does your name come from?
Your story is probably cooler than mine.
 
8:19 PM
Mine comes from trying random words until I found one that wasn't taken
 
haha
But SE names aren't unique
 
@AlexA. Let me see if I can guess your story: You were born?
 
@AlexA. I know, but I like to be...
 
I was Alex for a long time before I switched to Alex A. when I noticed another user named Alex.
Some day maybe I'll pull a Martin Büttner and reveal the secrets of the A.
 
@AlexA. from the starboard it appears one of your relatives has dropped in...
 
8:21 PM
@trichoplax You're up to 6 stars now. Are you proud?
 
@trichoplax My relatives?
 
@AlexA. Several of your chat messages popped onto the starboard and then vanished again...
Things like "OK"
 
I cleared the stars on them.
 
hello all!
 
Hi TanMath!
 
8:22 PM
Hi
 
@DJMcMayhem I've seen worse :)
 
hi?
 
hello
 
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A: What song is playing?

TanMathPython 453 440 406 380 bytes EDIT: Thanks to Cyoce for reducing 13 bytes! EDIT: Thanks again to Cyoce! EDIT: Thanks to RainerP. for helping me imrpove the algorithm on certain invalid cases. This is a rough draft of a Python program. I believe it can be definitely golfed, maybe to 300-400 byt...

 
I don't think I've ever been starred.
Then again, I'm not on chat very often.
 
8:23 PM
@trichoplax hey friend!
 
people are friendly
 
^
 
how nice
 
@TanMath How are you?
 
Hey, that's my challenge!
 
8:24 PM
Somebody is star trolling. ಠ_ಠ
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@AlexA. You better leave that one.
 
If only there was some way to set a star trap
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It's quite easy you know. Just build a cage
 
@AlexA. Did you just cancel only one of the 3 stars on this one??
 
@trichoplax Mods can only cancel all stars at once or none. Someone must have reversed their star.
 
8:25 PM
@AlexA. I know :)
 
Oh. :P
 
It appears I've been turtle trolled.
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Wait mods can cancel no stars on a question? Why would they add that?
 
What?
 
8:26 PM
@AlexA. And you thought my deliberate misunderstanding was annoying...
 
Some chatrooms don't like fun as much as we do. Stars are only for important things there.
 
@AlexA. Hello friend, you called summoned me?
 
@muddyfish Moderators can't cancel votes on posts. They can cancel chat stars.
@ಠ_ಠ Hello my love. I've missed you.
 
@trichoplax apparently so?
 
@AlexA. Thanks to you bringing up that prime number dupe, I just earned the thor hat. =D
 
8:27 PM
:)
 
I think for the fairness one should be able to moon and to planet messages.
 
@trichoplax good! you?
 
Or to black hole messages.
 
star wars message
 
8:28 PM
@DJMcMayhem how is my answer then? you like it, being a python guy?
 
@ಠ_ಠ I'd like to dwarf planet this suggestion
 
@El'endiaStarman star canal
 
@TanMath good too thanks
 
A long time ago, in a chatroom, far far away...
 
StealthPing?!?!
 
8:29 PM
@AlexA. Sounds like something that would be awesome to draw, but I have nowhere near the skill needed.
 
@trichoplax pluto'ed
 
What do you guys think about a search engine challenge?
 
And when I draw, I draw more geometric shapes...
 
@El'endiaStarman I can only draw cartoons. :/
 
@AlexA. Show us!
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8:30 PM
That would require way more effort on my part than I'm willing to expend for you people. :P
 
I need to a proper word: "I didn't be good in my exam, I {destroy} it"
 
You mean the 2 of us who starred?
 
is a good alternative instead of "destroy"
 
How many stars would it take?
obliterate
 
@Shafizadeh "I didn't do well on my exam; I bombed it."
"Bombed" is often used as a slang term when talking about failing exams
 
8:32 PM
I see
tnx
 
is the question asking about you did well or badly?
 
No problem :)
 
If anyone's curious, some of my doodles/drawings‌​.
 
@AlexA. Will you feature a cartoon in your next challenge?
 
@trichoplax Not likely. :P
 
8:33 PM
@El'endiaStarman I love the impossible triangle stars
 
xkcd?
 
@El'endiaStarman Damn son, them's some geometries
 
@AlexA. That was a rhetorical question and the rhetorical answer is yes.
 
hahaha
 
@AlexA. actually in reality I'm not talking about exams, I asked a riddle from someone and he didn't give me a good answer and constantly asked something about my riddle. Now I want to say him, "you {destroy} my riddle"
still are you believe "bombed" is fine?
 
8:34 PM
@El'endiaStarman Your website sure got that GeoCities look.
 
killed
 
@Shafizadeh Oh! In that case I would probably say "killed," as muddyfish suggests.
 
I see
 
@El'endiaStarman Now I want to order the full version so I can see that image near the end.
 
"screw" is not fine?
 
8:36 PM
I probably wouldn't use it in this situation
 
"nail"?
 
@flawr That could mean solved well
 
@trichoplax Lemme see if I have a rotated copy of that one...
 
@El'endiaStarman That's really awesome. You should check out vi-hart on youtube, a lot of your stuff reminds me of her.
 
I just thought it is interesting how "screwing" and "nailing" are quite similar but still opposites.
 
8:39 PM
Except in certain contexts
 
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
certain, but we surely do not talk about those here, do we?
 
@DJMcMayhem The 2011-2013 stuff is after I started watching her videos. Awesome channel. (Though, I haven't been liking her recent videos.)
 
@flawr Such topics have come up but they're generally discouraged. :P
 
@El'endiaStarman Did I already shouw you this guy's channel? youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
 
8:43 PM
who wants to see my affectionate parody of vihart that i made to procrastinate studying for an exam a while ago
 
@trichoplax I didn't find it immediately, but if you right-click and open in a new tab, you can see that there isn't very much in that corner.
 
"I fucked the laptop up " or "I fucked laptop up" ?
 
@undergroundmonorail Me!
 
@Shafizadeh I would probably say "I fucked up the laptop."
 
8:44 PM
I see, thanks buddy
 
But if you want to put "up" at the end then I would go with the first option
No problem :)
 
ah :-)
 
@flawr Looks like you shared the Music and Measure Theory video before because I've seen that one, but I haven't seen the others. I'll check them out. Thanks!
 
I think @flawr posted Music and Measure Theory in here once. :)
 
Oh right=)
 
8:48 PM
@DJMcMayhem don't mind me i'm just testing something
okay cool i wasn't sure if that would work
sorry to bug you, you're just the only one with part of their name cut off on my screen
 
+1 for rocket league at the end.
 
@El'endiaStarman I've spent a ton of time randomly doodling over the course of my education.
 
@PhiNotPi how much of that was in math class
 
I don't know what percentage of the doodling was in math class, but I do know what percentage of math class was doodling. Most of it, even the vector calc class I just finished.
 
@PhiNotPi I doodled a lot too.
In near all of my classes...
 
8:53 PM
Great minds waste time alike?
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And often out at social gatherings too...
 
That should be the motto of this site.
 
Especially out to eat.
I literally carry a little notebook with me everywhere I go.
 
@PhiNotPi this is an "abandon all work, ye who enter here"-level quote for defining ppcg
 
Alright, I'm out of here.
See you guys later.
 
8:56 PM
@DJMcMayhem bye
i'm glad they patched out stealth pings because i only found out today that they were banned from this room
 
@undergroundmonorail How?
 
@AlexA. i was looking through old starred posts
unless you mean "how did i never notice" in which case i have no idea
 
In 7th grade, an friend and I spent a lot of time drawing impossible squares, similar to this or this. Except that we drew every possible impossible square.
 
There's still this, though:
Oct 12 at 21:12, by minxomat
 
@PhiNotPi That's impossible
 
8:58 PM
We were killing time after we finished our standardized tests early.
 
@AlexA. It's possimpible.
 
My mind has been blown to smitheroons.
 
@PhiNotPi i understand what you mean by this but my brain saw len([s for s in squares if s.possible and (not s.possible)]) and optimized it to ...if False before i figured it out
 
I hereby motion that "great minds waste time alike" be added to the room description.
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@PhiNotPi seconded
 
9:00 PM
@PhiNotPi Thirded?
 
> abandon work, all great minds who waste time alike —PhiNotAditsu
 
@undergroundmonorail i put a lot of work into this joke considering it's not even a funny joke
 
@undergroundmonorail I didn't even realize it was a joke.
 
er
i clicked the wrong reply button
actually no i see what i did
i'm used the userscript i wrote to reply to my most recent message, forgetting that i had written another message since the one i wanted to reply to
i fixed it now, it points at the right thing
 
9:16 PM
you know how there are borders between messages from different users, but if they're all by the same user they're put into a single block?
(or if they're by the same user but a sufficient amount of time has passed, evidently)
in the code, those blocks are referred to as "monologues"
i think that's pretty cool
 
That is cool.
 
room topic changed to The Nineteenth Byte: General discussion for codegolf.stackexchange.com | Great minds waste time alike —PhiNotPi (no tags)
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Why would @PhiNotPi have tags?
 
@AlexA. This is truly a historic day.
How old was aditsu's message?
 
9:21 PM
Aug 7 at 18:38, by aditsu
abandon all work, ye who enter here
August 7th I guess
 
Wow, that's much younger than I thought.
 
Me too
 
I wonder what the room description was before that. Probably something boring.
You know, like "discussion for PPCG."
 
9:25 PM
Yawn
 
@AlexA. yawn
 
I've always wondered how yawns got associated with boredom. I don't yawn when I'm bored; I yawn when I'm tired.
 
Oh no, it's contagious!
 
1
A: Cracking the Enigma?

KoreanwGlassesTuring Machine Simulator - 15660 bytes (Non-Competing) Can't have an Enigma challenge without turing machine code. 0 * * l 0 0 _ _ l , , _ , l 1 1 _ 0 r 2 2 * * r 2 2 , * r 3 3 * * r 3 3 , * r 4 4 * * r 4 4 _ * r 13 4 A a l a' ...

Enigma challenge in Turing code
 
We have to put the infected users in quarantine. I'll start by chat banning @undergroundmonorail.
 
9:26 PM
rip
 
Then I ban AlexA?
 
@orlp Why am I being pinged? Should I remember discussing this in the past? :)
 
@MartinBüttner Hi
@MartinBüttner Why are you being pinged, you ask?
 
I will change your parent user and suspend you, I swear.
 
;_;
I promise I'll be good
 
9:30 PM
lies
 
I guess my typical page of doodling isn't nearly as pretty as what's published on @El'endiaStarman's webpage.
 
@PhiNotPi Well, y'know, the stuff I put up there is some of the best...
And consider that it's stuff I bothered to scan.
 
A significant proportion of my doodles are simply triquetras.
@PhiNotPi I still see some cool stuff in there.
 
So there's this old question:
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Q: Can you connect the dots?

Nathan MerrillThis challenge is based off of Flow Free. An online version can be found here: http://www.moh97.us/ You will be given a puzzle, and you must return 1 if the puzzle is solvable, or 0 if it is not. To solve a puzzle, the player must create a path to connect each pair of numbers using every empty...

It has only one answer. Should I start a bounty, or write a new one and try to close the old one as a dupe?
 
9:34 PM
If any of the above: Bounty.
 
So I went through the first half of the day forgetting that it was my birthday.
 
@Doorknob冰 Wait, what?
 
My dad found it hilarious >_<
 
....
I feel like someone should have told you.
 
@Doorknob冰 Birthday!
 
9:35 PM
Happy belated earth day!
 
(I left out the first half. :P)
 
@El'endiaStarman haha
 
I'm looking for a unicode symbol to symbolize "fork(ed code)". All I found is an actual fork: 🍴
 
@mınxomaτ i like that actually
 
Happy birthday to our hoopiest frood of a moderator, @Doorknob冰!
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9:39 PM
@mınxomaτ It's a fork and knife to me
 
@MartinBüttner I thought I had discussed pdqsort with you before..
maybe I misremembered sorry
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Yes it is.
 
@SuperJedi224 grumbles bounties are so expensive
 
@AlexA. et al. Thanks! \o/
 
Unicode really needs to integrate fontawesome, but I guess all they care about is emoticons.
 
9:40 PM
@Doorknob冰 Happy hatchday!
 
@mınxomaτ i think they care about some stuff other than emoticons
 
@MartinBüttner When the knob was hatched from its door egg?
 
@orlp no worries. looks interesting though :)
 
@undergroundmonorail Well, they certainly care too much about emotes.
 
@AlexA. why would a knob hatch from a door egg? o.O he obviously was hatched from a knob egg.
 
9:41 PM
@mınxomaτ They're very emotional people, the Unicode Consortium.
@MartinBüttner Well he'll grow into a full door someday, won't he?
 
that would be weird.
 
I thought that's how doors worked
 
@DigitalTrauma We currently have the exact same reputation (29414).
 
@Doorknob冰 Better change the amount of times you've orbited the sun on your profile
 
oh yeah
 
9:47 PM
hoopy froodday!
 
@quartata Today is Wednesday, scrub.
 
I could never get the hang of Thursdays anyway
 
I would ask if you have any fun birthday plans, but based on the fact that you went half the day without realizing it was your birthday, I'm going to guess no.
 
I have a birthday party in January. :P
 
Are we invited?
 
9:50 PM
Uhhhhhh... if you fly all the way over to Houston, sure. :P
 
SWEET. brb booking plane ticket
 
@Doorknob冰 Alles gute zum Geburtstag!
 
translate: Alles gute zum Geburtstag!
(from German) Happy birthday to you!
 
@AlexA. you got a shoutout in the source of my userscript github.com/undergroundmonorail/easyreply/blob/master/…
 
お誕生日おめでとう!
 
9:52 PM
translate: お誕生日おめでとう!
(from Japanese) Happy birthday!
 
Bonne anniversaire!
 
@Doorknob冰 One of the few things I remember from studying Japanese. :P
 
here, i'll use my favourite language
print "Happy birthday!"
 
Python?
 
@quartata *Joyeux
 
9:53 PM
^
 
@quartata nailed it
 
@flawr heard it both ways
 
Python 2
 
@undergroundmonorail 10/10 its ok
 
9:53 PM
Italic 2 is regular 2 ;(
 
say "Happy birthday!"
Now what language could that be?
 
applescript
 
Wrong Perl 6
 
But it does actually work in Applescript I think
 
9:54 PM
Wow, there's a shocking paucity of sign language gifs.
 
@quartata I thought say was available in Perl 5?
 
@MartinBüttner nice, you answered one second before me
 
@El'endiaStarman I can't help but wonder if you just said that so you could show that you know what "paucity" means
@AlexA. It is but you have to do this:
use feature say;
say "Happy birthday!"
 
@quartata hahaha, actually, no :P
It's a good word!
 
Best word 2015
It's definitely got a cool ring to it
Better than scarcity or whatever
 
9:57 PM
yeah
 
So on to more important things. @Doorknob冰 what is your favorite kind of cake?
 
Or "lack".
 
@quartata edible
 
Anyway, there are videos of happy birthday in ASL, but they're all of the song, not just the phrase.
 
@Doorknob冰 those are the best.
 

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