Contact

I would have guessed MOTHER by virtue of you saying "Deus should get this" and context - my uncontact was because there's plenty of NES games (e.g. METROID)

Deusovi

there's a game for the NES called Mother

Rubio

ohh.

Sp3000

12 goes, it's MILLE FEUILLE

Deusovi

(I think there are 3, but not all were translated?)

Gareth McCaughan

@Sp3000 status of your 9 and 19?

Deusovi

4:34 PM

@Sp3000 never heard of it

Sp3000

(admittedly hard at this stage)

Gareth McCaughan

10 not 19

Sp3000

9 is also gone, MEZZANINE

Deusovi

I'm sure if I had I'd've gotten it

Sp3000

10 is also gone, MINESTRONE

Deusovi

4:34 PM

...gah

Sp3000

14 is also gone, MIN+T

Deusovi

should've gotten 10

14, I kept thinking "MINUTET???"

Rubio

9. good god.

Sp3000

... yeah let's just empty the board :P

n_palum

Oh whoops, Should have been ness not nes

Deusovi

4:35 PM

I don't get 9. Does "mezza" mean half?

@n_palum I would've gotten that.

Rubio

10 I couldn't come up with that, and now I'm annoyed

n_palum

Sorry @Sp3000 I actually thought of Mint but didn't contact

Gareth McCaughan

yes mezza means half

Deusovi

Huh, never heard that

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, I cannot cancel stars on things -- clicking the menu item that should do that has no effect at all

n_palum

4:35 PM

got them

Gareth McCaughan

haven't checked whether any other things similarly fail for me at the moment

Sconibulus

5: Stellar Gangster

Sp3000

Yeah "mezza" is Italian (?) for half ("mezzacotta" is called that because it's "half-baked")

Deusovi

(oh huh! didn't know that)

Sconibulus

@GarethMcCaughan Try refreshing, it makes a Javascript confirm box popup, and many browsers allow you to tell a site not to Alert/Confirm anymore when you click a thing

n_palum

4:36 PM

2: They're not fond of heat

Sconibulus

I think it lasts until you hard refresh the page, or close the browser

Gareth McCaughan

I did try refreshing. It didn't help.

But I'll do it again just in case :-).

Deusovi

4. Boy changes political views, making his gender change too?

n_palum

If you accidentally told it to stop pop ups, I usually had to leave the room and come back

Gareth McCaughan

nope, still no effect. Will try leaving room and returning.

n_palum

4:37 PM

Contact 4?

Erm probably very wrong

Gareth McCaughan

nope, still doesn't work.

Rubio

hm

I think I had to restart a browser once when it did that

GentlePurpleRain

I was gone for over 1/2 hour, and you only got Rubio to give up one letter? :)

Gareth McCaughan

@GentlePurpleRain Well, it is Rubio defending.

n_palum

6: Italian handyman

6': Italian Historian

GentlePurpleRain

4:39 PM

contact 6

Sconibulus

7: Seige Weapon

Rubio

hm

Gareth McCaughan

brb, restarting browser

Sconibulus

contact 6'

contact 6

Gareth McCaughan

(this seems like it might be relevant: stackoverflow.com/questions/42564913/…) though I'm not using Selenium

Rubio

4:40 PM

sigh.

PASS 6

6: MARIO

wow.

Yes

I apparently have complete Mario blindness today

Deusovi

I thought that, but didn't know if "handyman" was close enough to plumber

Rubio

4:41 PM

Rubio defending: M A L

Sconibulus

7 falls, was Mangonel

Deusovi

4 dies - MALE turns into MARE (left vs right, as in the political spectrum; a mare is a female horse)

Sconibulus

5 falls, Marscapone

Sp3000

Urgh, had the R<->L but was cycling through male names rather than MALE itself

Deusovi

D:

GentlePurpleRain

4:42 PM

4: Dormant royal's nemesis

Rubio

@Sp3000 same

Gareth McCaughan

I suppose I'd regret asking why MASCARPONE = stellar gangster?

Deusovi

off to get lunch, back in a bit

Sconibulus

@GarethMcCaughan well it isn't at all if you spell it that way, which is way more likely to be right than mine

Sp3000

:( with apologies to Deus

Gareth McCaughan

4:43 PM

oh

Mars is not a star, FYI

Sconibulus

true, but it's in the stellar landscape

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, after restarting my browser it is not spectacularly buggered in other ways but I can now remove stars again

(wow, that sounds overpowered)

Sp3000

7. Alice, Bob, Eve and ...

Rubio

4: It's not MALEFICENT? is that spelled right?

GentlePurpleRain

5: Bent on evil

4: ✔

Gareth McCaughan

4:44 PM

contact 5 @GentlePurpleRain

Rubio

5: It's not MALICIOUS or MALEFICENT hehe

Gareth McCaughan

contact 7 @Sp3000

n_palum

Both of mine were dead

GentlePurpleRain

5: no

Rubio

5: It's not MALEVOLENT

GentlePurpleRain

4:45 PM

5: ✔

n_palum

historian was Machiavelli and They're was Marshmallows

Gareth McCaughan

Marshmallows are very fond of heat.

n_palum

Well from your perspective yes, I imagine they don't like swelling up/bursting/burning

GentlePurpleRain

2: SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Clue != 0

Sconibulus

4: Curse

Gareth McCaughan

4:47 PM

contact 4 @Sconibulus

Sp3000

I know the punchline to 2 but that doesn't help :P

Rubio

4: It's not a MALEDICTION

GentlePurpleRain

3: Wrongdoing

Sconibulus

4: yep

Gareth McCaughan

contact 3 @GentlePurpleRain

Sconibulus

4:48 PM

contact 3?

PASS 3

3: Malfeasance

3: ✔✔

3: ✔

boom

4:48 PM

what was 2?

Sconibulus

MALUS, this word is in my brain as a thing vaguely related to smithery, what is it?

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, for 3 I was wondering about MALEFACTION, which is also a word. (But if I'd thought of MALFEASANCE I would have preferred it)

Sp3000

The punchline for 2 is "0 rows returned", but not sure what the intended answer is

Gareth McCaughan

a malleus is a hammer

@Sp3000 I assume 7 was MALLORY

Sconibulus

hmm...

Sp3000

4:49 PM

Yup (names used when demonstrating cryptography)

GentlePurpleRain

@Sp3000 Hint: != is not valid SQL syntax...

Gareth McCaughan

indeed

malus is Latin for evil

Rubio

I suspected it was MALFORMED but wasn't sure

Sp3000

!= is valid in some versions of SQL actually

Rubio

sql wants <> ?

GentlePurpleRain

4:50 PM

@Rubio Correct

Rubio

yeah. I swear I've seen !=

Gareth McCaughan

Malus is the genus in which apple trees lie

Rubio

but meh it's all good :)

Sconibulus

Hmm, guess it was probably Malleus I was thinking of

GentlePurpleRain

It may be valid somewhere, but not in any SQL I've ever written.

Sconibulus

4:51 PM

oh, no, I found it. A game tricked me :)

Malus of Forethought

Rubio

I figured this would go fast once it got to MAL, thank you all for not disappointing

GentlePurpleRain

Are people up for another?

Gareth McCaughan

docs.oracle.com/cd/A58617_01/server.804/a58225/ch3all.htm has != but not <> so far as I can see

Rubio

@Sconibulus ouch.

Sconibulus

apparently playing on Malice a'forethought and Malleus

Gareth McCaughan

4:51 PM

I have to leave, er, about 5 minutes ago

Sconibulus

kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Malus_of_Forethought

I haven't fiddled with that game in a while... should do that

Sp3000

@GentlePurpleRain MySQL has both <> and != from memory

Gareth McCaughan

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/… has <> but not != so far as I can see

jakewheat.github.io/sql-overview/… has <> but not != so far as I can see

GentlePurpleRain

I guess I've mostly worked with T-SQL and SQL Server. I've done some MySQL as well, but if it accepts both, I probably never realized != was valid.

I've never really worked with Oracle.

Gareth McCaughan

dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/… has both <> and !=

Sp3000

4:54 PM

I only realised because I thought I typoed != once and found out it worked anyway :P

Rubio

My guess is both work, but the particulars are dependent on phase of the moon and specific version number

Gareth McCaughan

It looks to me as if <> is the official standard but some implementations accept != as well. I don't know what's up with that Oracle documentation. Perhaps I misread it.

anyway, going away now

GentlePurpleRain

@GarethMcCaughan It looks like Oracle allows any of !=, ^=, <>, ¬=, but some "may be unavailable on some platforms."

Sp3000

@Deusovi Gotta go sleep now, but apologies for missing "mother" :/ In hindsight it was a good clue but alas context fades fast

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