Contact

Rubio

00:03

A single binary digit? That's not very long

Gareth McCaughan

Depends how big you write it.

Sconibulus

I'm about for a few hours

Gareth McCaughan

it seems like we have @BaldBantha, @Rubio, me, @Deusovi and @Sconibulus. That seems like a pretty solid quorum.

Bald Bantha

all righty.

Gareth McCaughan

so who wants to defend?

Bald Bantha

00:08

I'm writing a challenge for CodeGolf, but I have time to attack

Rubio

I can attack but not defend for the next while

Bald Bantha

can anyone else defend? I can if no-one else can, but it might not be to impressive >_>

Gareth McCaughan

OK, I'll defend. Hang on a moment while I think of a word.

Bald Bantha

Allrighty

Gareth McCaughan

Gareth defending: I

Rubio

00:11

bah, who starred that ;)

1: Dolt

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio 1 not IDIOT

Sconibulus

3. Obsidian, for one

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus 3 not IGNEOUS (rock)

Sconibulus

right

Rubio

1: ✔

Glorfindel

00:12

Very fast

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel Ooh, another player! Welcome.

Bald Bantha

miss more than three and your an ____

@GarethMcCaughan is it OK that he is my brother? we are not communicating irl

Sconibulus

3. Fire Elemental Language

Gareth McCaughan

@BaldBantha Perfectly OK so far as I can see except it's unfair if you use family inside knowledge in your attacks.

Glorfindel

very fast

Rubio

00:13

1: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad way to rub someone

Bald Bantha

@GarethMcCaughan I'll try not to.

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel perhaps your word is INSTANT or INSTANTANEOUS?

Glorfindel

Yep

Bald Bantha

_____ is a property of matter- Bill Nye the Science Guy(BILL BILL BILL BILL)

Sconibulus

very tentative contact on 1

Glorfindel

00:15

not bias

Sconibulus

@BaldBantha contact

@Glorfindel contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel "not bias" might be IMPARTIALITY

Rubio

@BaldBantha contact

Glorfindel

@GarethMcCaughan yep

Rubio

2: Being unfaithful

Glorfindel

00:17

@GarethMcCaughan my brother and I won't contact on each other

Gareth McCaughan

I can think of plenty of properties of matter and doubtless some of them begin with I, but nothing strikes me as especially likely and I am not sufficiently familiar with Bill Nye's oeuvre to know what he used. So I'm going to pass on BB's Bill Nye one.

@Rubio 2 INFIDELITY, I take it

Rubio

2: ✔

Sconibulus

Bill Nye: Inertia

Rubio

Bill Nye: inertia

heh

Gareth McCaughan

Okeydoke. Then I owe you another letter.

Gareth defending: I N

Sconibulus

00:18

3 is dead, Fire Elemental Tongue is Ignan

Rubio

1 busts; was IRRITATE

Gareth McCaughan

re 3 I'm glad; I have no idea what it's even about.

Rubio

2: Being unfaith

Gareth McCaughan

re 1, also glad; I haven't read the book it's alluding to.

Sconibulus

ahh, my guess for 1 was Ingrate

Gareth McCaughan

00:19

@Rubio perhaps INFIDEL. Or even INFIDELITY again.

Bald Bantha

4 busts, ignoramous (from the peg game at Cracker Barrel)

Rubio

INFIDEL of course. ✔

Gareth McCaughan

> from the peg game at Cracker Barrel

I know what those words mean individually...

Rubio

good god. that game.

I forgot entirely about their scoring heh

Glorfindel

9/0

Rubio

00:20

contact

Sconibulus

3. Most of Westley's Acts

Gareth McCaughan

I'd wondered whether it would turn out to be INMATE in reference to the "Three strikes and you're out" laws in the US. (Though that would be three or more, not more than three.)

Rubio

1: You hear that? That is the sound of _____

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus 3 presumably INCONCEIVABLE, but I am not sure that that word means what you think it means.

@Rubio 1 That would be INEVITABILITY, Mr Anderson.

Rubio

1: ✔

Sconibulus

00:20

@GarethMcCaughan ✔

Deusovi

4: It could be gross

Rubio

contact 4

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel Perhaps you mean INFINITY, though if there's a reason why 9 in particular I don't know it.

Glorfindel

@Rubio who'd you contact?

Rubio

clue 4? Deusovi

Glorfindel

00:21

@GarethMcCaughan yes, 9 was a random pick

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi 4 gross INCOMPETENCE perhaps?

Deusovi

nope!

Bald Bantha

The _____ address (start)

Gareth McCaughan

I have a feeling there are a few other varieties of malefaction commonly preceded by "gross"; I'll think a minute longer before passing.

@Deusovi probably not INEPTITUDE but I'll offer it anyway.

Deusovi

You're correct that it's not INEPTITUDE.

Gareth McCaughan

00:23

@Deusovi ah, how about INDECENCY, which makes an actual criminal offence in some jurisdictions?

Deusovi

Also not it.

Rubio

1: Matchless, incomparable

Bald Bantha

String, Boolean, Char, Double, ______

Gareth McCaughan

@Re

oops

@Rubio perhaps INCOMPARABLE?

Deusovi

@BaldBantha Contact

Gareth McCaughan

00:23

@BaldBantha Probably Int.

Rubio

Sorry. :)

Bald Bantha

@GarethMcCaughan yeah.

Gareth McCaughan

oh, you edited it. OK then.

Glorfindel

Hans Zimmer

Rubio

@Glorfindel contact Zimmer

Bald Bantha

00:24

@Deusovi contact

oh right can't contact him

Deusovi

Me? Yes you can.

Gareth McCaughan

In the interest of moving the game along I'm going to pass on Deusovi's gross, which has been contacted by @Rubio.

Deusovi

Gareth hasn't given up yet.

And now you can't.

Rubio

My guess is INCOME

Gareth McCaughan

Aha!

Deusovi

00:25

Bingo!

Glorfindel

Nice

Gareth McCaughan

How very stupid not to have thought of that.

Gareth defending: I N T

Rubio

Defender's blindness

1 busts; was INIMITABLE

Deusovi

^

Happens to all of us.

Glorfindel

Zimmer busted

Rubio

00:26

pretty sure Zimmer is busted

Glorfindel

Inception

Deusovi

5: Acts

Gareth McCaughan

I love/hate the fact that when you go to cancel stars on something, the confirmation dialog[ue] asks whether you really want to do it and then offers you options "OK" and ... "Cancel".

Bald Bantha

opposite of (gross ______ product)

Rubio

1: Turtle?

Gareth McCaughan

00:27

@BaldBantha you are probably thinking of INTERNATIONAL

Bald Bantha

yes

Glorfindel

jesus

Rubio

contact Glor

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel perhaps INTERJECTION?

Glorfindel

Sorry

Gareth McCaughan

00:28

@Glorfindel I guess "Sorry" means "no, it is not INTERJECTION", but may I suggest that this game is confusing enough that it's best to be as explicit as one can bear?

Deusovi

Yeah, I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.

Glorfindel

No it's not interjection

Deusovi

It could also be apologizing to the other attackers for an easy clue.

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel then maybe INTERMEDIARY per Christian theology

Glorfindel

Correct

Rubio

00:29

1: HELLO, My name is: _________________

Glorfindel

play

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio huh, that really ought to be INIGO MONTOYA but that doesn't begin INT...

Bald Bantha

cut-off tail (9)

Gareth McCaughan

@BaldBantha just to check, do you really mean "cut-off" (adjective) rather than "cut off" (verb)?

of course you aren't obliged to answer

Sconibulus

3: large int sometimes representing area

Bald Bantha

00:31

@GarethMcCaughan it's word play, but likely verb...ish

Deusovi

7: Fashionable subtlety

Rubio

2: Coitu

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio perhaps INTERRUPTUS?

Rubio

2: ✔

Deusovi

Ha!

Rubio

00:32

hehe

Gareth McCaughan

(since INTERCOURS isn't a word so far as I know)

Deusovi

Someone mind starring my clue?

Sconibulus

@Deusovi contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi I think your 7 actually works a different way but let's first check that it isn't just INTRIGUE.

Deusovi

Nope, that's not it.

Rubio

00:34

2: Engraving

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio ah, at last one I can do. INTAGLIO, surely.

Rubio

Indeed ✔

Gareth McCaughan

meh, I am pretty confident of what I'm failing to get, but none the less I am failing to get @Deusovi's 7. @Sconibulus, go ahead.

Rubio

2: I can't ... quite ... seem to put my finger on it ....

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio 2 perhaps INTUITION?

Rubio

00:36

Nope on 2

Sconibulus

7: Ingenue?

Deusovi

Nope. D:

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus wrong first letters.

Deusovi

^

Rubio

That was my guess, but I didn't think it was good enough to contact with

Sconibulus

00:36

oops, I'm super dumb

Deusovi

Welp.

Gareth McCaughan

so it is obviously IN + something beginning T meaning subtlety

Rubio

oh. lol. :)

Deusovi

It was IN+TACT.

Sconibulus

my first guess was Intrigue, actually

Bald Bantha

00:36

cat goes:______ + _____ for the camera

Rubio

hah. intact, that's good

Deusovi

Would've been better had anyone else gotten it. :P

Rubio

a (6) would have probably given the game away entirely

Gareth McCaughan

I was hung up on subtlety in the sense of depth/complexity, which is why I failed to find it.

Deusovi

That was intentional.

Gareth McCaughan

00:37

yeah, I bet it was.

Rubio

Someone star 2, please?

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus is your 3 perhaps INTEGRAL?

ah, of course it definitely is

Sconibulus

@GarethMcCaughan it is

Gareth McCaughan

hadn't spotted the anagram

Rubio

wow. I missed that too

no wonder

Deusovi

00:38

Same.

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio I expect this is wrong, but maybe the question mark just indicates a poor match. Is your 1 perhaps INTEGUMENT?

Sconibulus

4. When Enhanced, may not be legal

Rubio

Not INTEGUMENT

contact 4

Deusovi

@Sconibulus Contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus 4 is presumably INTERROGATION.

Bald Bantha

00:40

cat pictures, memes, and this

Gareth McCaughan

@BaldBantha perhaps INTERNET?

Sconibulus

@GarethMcCaughan yeo

Bald Bantha

yeah

Gareth McCaughan

(as we all know, the internet is made of cats)

Bald Bantha

got to give an easy one with two old ones still on the starboard

Rubio

00:41

Of the kitties, by the kitties, for the kitties

Sconibulus

contact 2

Deusovi

8: ∈⏳(@)⏳

Rubio

*headsplode*

Gareth McCaughan

I regret that the second and last characters there are showing up for me as boxes with hex codes inside them. I suppose I can go and look them up.

Deusovi

(You all can see those, right? There are 6 characters, none of which are rectangles.)

Hm.

They're hourglasses.

Rubio

00:43

I see them. I have no idea what any of it means. :)

Sconibulus

I have a guess, but it isn't a good one

Glorfindel

tineleligt*

Gareth McCaughan

Interesting. Perhaps INTERFACE, which at least begins with IN and includes FACE?

@Glorfindel INTELLIGENT

Deusovi

@Glorfindel Contact.

And no, that's not it.

Gareth McCaughan

or perhaps INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Deusovi

00:44

Also no.

Rubio

I think that was to Glorfindel

Gareth McCaughan

oh wait, I miscounted letters

Deusovi

...Uncontact.

Glorfindel

Intelligent

Rubio

You're missing an n

but ok :)

Gareth McCaughan

00:45

@Rubio yeah, but I had the wrong number of Ns. But it looks like Glorfindel did too.

Glorfindel

Yeah that extra star

Gareth McCaughan

oh, I thought the star was an anagram indicator

Bald Bantha

Gareth McCaughan

@BaldBantha Thanks

@Deusovi so what did you think Glorfindel's was?

Deusovi

I thought it was INTELLIGENT too.

Rubio

00:46

3: Flight of the ________

Gareth McCaughan

ah, right, I was misconstruing various earlier bits of conversation.

Glorfindel

Chip

Deusovi

Contact.

Rubio

maybe contact

Bald Bantha

Kim jung un is actually kinda a chill guy?

Glorfindel

00:48

@BaldBantha hahaha

Gareth McCaughan

@Glorfindel I don't suppose your chip is an INTERFACE? (I bet it isn't, but am currently blanking on more plausible things.)

Glorfindel

@GarethMcCaughan nope

Bald Bantha

4 mins ago, by Glorfindel

Intelligent

I thought that's what he said it was

Gareth McCaughan

@BaldBantha yes, he did. I was asking about a different one.

Bald Bantha

Oh he did another one

Sconibulus

00:50

oh, contact on Chip

Rubio

contacts on 2 and chip, any others?

Gareth McCaughan

There are probably analogue or mixed-signal chips that perform the function of an INTEGRATOR but I don't suppose thatis' it either.

*that's

oh, was there a contact on 2? I didn't notice. My apologies for not working harder on it, then. Let me think about that (as well as the chip) a bit more...

Glorfindel

Not integrator

Gareth McCaughan

(@Glorfindel I actually suspect a different meaning of "chip" is in play, but haven't yet thought of candidates for those less implausible than the above)

aargh, failing to get 2 which has been around for ages. I'll pass on that; could whoever it was contacted it make their guess?

oh waity

wait

before you do, is it perhaps just INTANGIBLE?

Bald Bantha

eeeehhhh that's perfect

it has to be

Rubio

00:55

sorry was scrolling -

INTANGIBLE ✔

Glorfindel

Nice one Rubio

Gareth McCaughan

phew

Sconibulus

damn, so close

Deusovi

Yeah, that was a great clue

Gareth McCaughan

OK, back to banging my head against Glorfindel's "chip".

Nope. I expect to feel very stupid when I see this. @Sconibulus, care to tell us what you think "Chip" is?

Deusovi

00:58

I also contacted it.

And I'm guessing INTEGRATED CIRCUIT.

Sconibulus

My thought is INTEL

Rubio

my thought was INTEL

Glorfindel

INTEL is correct

Gareth McCaughan

huh, I bet D is right

Rubio

same

Gareth McCaughan

00:58

nope, but never mind

Rubio

heh. that was a better answer than the answer :)

Gareth McCaughan

wow, even knowing that that was the intended answer it would never in a thousand years occur to me that "Chip" could mean "Intel". Oh well, you got me.

Gareth defending: I N T E

Rubio

3 dies - was INTRUDER

Gareth McCaughan

no idea at all what INTRUDER was a reference to, for what it's worth

Deusovi

8 dies - was IN+TIM(AT)E

Glorfindel

00:59

Newton

Rubio

both of my *1*s die; they were INTRODUCE and INTROVERT

(Flight of the Intruder is a book and a movie, I believe)

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