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2:09 AM
hallo
 
@Rubio TIL that's an English word
 
ohai
 
@ASCII-only (It isn't, really)
 
@Rubio Well Google says it is so I'm assuming at least one person in the world counts it as one :P
 
welp. People and dictionaries also say "irregardless" is a word. To which I have no constructive comment.
but I suppose as I use "hallo" as a word, I can't really object to people calling it one. :)
 
you mean it's not?
Anyhoo. shall we play a game?
meh. If I defend it, will they come?
Rubio defending: E
 
1: _ in the room
 
contact 1, but Rubio's gonna get it
 
It's not ELEPHANT
I often lead with that clue, so yeha
 
1 ✔
Question: Would it be too confusing to reuse a number right after it's been used
 
2:18 AM
(sorry for delay, thinking of a clue)
 
it's not always that I get to make a completely fair game clue to Rubio, so
2: DDR difficulty setting
 
contact 2 :P
 
@BusinessCat Rubio @Forklift @JohnDvorak @You @boboquack @thecoder16 @ConorO'Brien @Mithrandir @GarethMcCaughan
that's too EASY
 
2 is not EASY
 
59. Comedian's name with 6 Es and no other vowels
2'. Original SOUND VOLTEX difficulty level
 
2:20 AM
I don't know any comedians D:
 
2: You need to give me an EXPERT level clue.
 
12: S. A.
12': F. X.
 
2': It's not umm EXHAUST?
 
Contact 12' possibly
 
2 ✓
 
2:21 AM
2'. Correct
 
@ASCII-only ...but not 12?
 
@Deusovi :| I'm probably thinking of the wrong word then
 
well.
PASS 12' hehe
 
@ASCII-only >:/
 
*almost certainly
 
2:23 AM
You probably should uncontact if you are thinking you're wrong
 
yep. but now you have to give your guess
 
(Probably unfair: "546. Breezin', Sweatin', Cruisin', Hard Rock")
 
but... there's still a chance i'm right :|
 
you have to give your guess now. do that.
 
oh man. what game was that
 
2:23 AM
And I was buying lunch and missed 12/12' :(
 
Elite Beat Agents, at your service
 
yeah i know hang on
 
for future reference, "contact" means "I know the answer to this clue", not "I may potentially know the answer to this clue".
 
D: So you have to be 100% sure to contact?
 
contact might mean "I may potentially know the answer, and no one else has any better ideas"
 
2:24 AM
you don't have to be
but it's bad strategically to contact when you're not very sure of it
because this can happen.
so, stop putting it off and give your guess
2 mins ago, by Rubio
PASS 12' hehe
 
12': EFFECTS (now that I think about it, it isn't an acronym big oops)
 
specifically, someone asking "You know A but not B" is pretty much code for "I don't think you know A".
 
luckily, that is it!
@Rubio yes, especially if there are two linked clues posted in close proximity
 
oh seriously? i was going to guess that, but had no idea what S.A. would be then
Rubio defending: E C
 
12 dies - Sp, do you have a guess?
 
2:26 AM
@ffao Yeah, I considered that instead of Beatstream for the T but... I felt bad for Beatstream which is getting decommissioned Sep 1
12 would be essay
 
indeed it would
 
ew.
 
oh, I had more if nobody caught on
 
59 is ELLEN DEGENERES
 
and they only got worse from there
 
2:26 AM
7: 7... 7.... 7...
 
@Sp3000 gah, I should've gotten that
 
I hope that was for effect F.X. and not because anyone actually says that.
 
@Deusovi see ASCII, this is why you shouldn't have contacted
 
@Rubio oh, it was, don't worry
 
everyone loves when Deusovi gets silly
 
2:27 AM
that's debatable
 
@ffao okay so the moral of the story is to never contact Deus' clues :P
 
41. Ghostbusters vehicle
 
Everyone who matters? ;)
41: It's not ECTO 1 ?
 
41. Yup
 
the moral of the story is that my clues are always very deliberate, and if you have them you'll know the answer
 
2:28 AM
1: Type of candy
 
13. Friendly, in a way
 
mutter. one sec
 
Star 7 please
 
moral of the story for me is also to scroll through the entire contact transcript and pay close attention to deus' clues
 
Contact 13?
 
2:31 AM
ok back sorry
13: It's not ECO-FRIENDLY probably
 
yup (I also would've accepted just ECO)
 
7: It's not ECHO
1: It's not ECCO WAFERS ?
(i sense a theme)
 
14. Two of them are between some sayings and a redundant title
 
7: correct
 
1: ✘
 
2:32 AM
15. What a hyperbola has in common with many of us
 
4. Crosswordese shade
 
contact 4
 
4: It's not ECRU
15: It's not ECCENTRICITY perhaps
 
 
"Many" seems like an understatement to me :P
 
2:35 AM
4. Yup
 
I'm new to contact in chat, what do the numbers mean?
 
They're just for easy reference.
(The version we play here is slightly different from the real-life version. Several different clues are "live" at a time usually, for instance.)
 
ah I see
 
By which Deus means they're "just" for easy reference. (Except when they're not.)
 
Yes, the format makes clues a lot more interesting.
7. ⚞(⬤)⚟
 
2:38 AM
Contact 1??
 
I'm beginning to wonder if I'm at all familiar with this candy.
 
When they're not = a zero-length clue is possible, not sure if it's been done before
 
oh so this isn't time-based at all then?
 
PASS 1
 
interesting
 
2:39 AM
1. Eclipse (mints)?
 
1 ✘
 
@notjagan Not exactly. The defender shouldn't leave a clue open too long before passing if it's clear they aren't going to get it, but nothing is explicitly time based here.
 
Hm damn, sorry :/
 
no other contacts, so - clue's dead. (What was that?)
 
:| wait nvm sorry I should really stop doing clues I'm not 100% sure about
 
2:40 AM
(If you mean Eclipse it's a mint brand, here at least)
 
nah I meant ASCII's word
 
turns out it's actually a type of pastry >_>
 
...oh.
 
hah
 
oh man
 
2:41 AM
eclair?
 
I was about to clue that word
 
well now I know what it is :P
 
eclaire
 
1 ✔ (sorry)
 
hehe no wonder
 
2:42 AM
Well if you'd clued it correctly Rubio would get it
So not much lost
 
9. People pop this at parties
 
7 has been updated
gah, it's not showing up right
 
hey it looks like a [REDACTED] now
 
@ASCII-only no.
 
9: It's not ECSTASY, perhaps - in which case remind me not to try your kind of party hehe
 
2:43 AM
9 ✔
although that would definitely not be my kind of party
 
well, I can't get 7 to display right
the characters on the ends are Unicode THREE LINES CONVERGING RIGHT and ...LEFT respectively
 
it displays correctly for me
 
that is, I think, what I see
 
Is this better? ⪫⪪
 
what browser are you using?
 
2:45 AM
really? huh.
 
It's displaying right to me
 
@ASCII-only that's weird, I can see those
 
@Deusovi They're different haha (from here)
 
^ the first thing I thought of when I saw those
 
anyway, someone contact one of my two clues and put me out of my misery :P
 
2:47 AM
I'd love to just guess either of them but I'm at a loss :)
 
btw shouldn't wheat wizard's post be not pinged
 
7 has been updated again
 
huh
ok then
 
-1 mod abuse eleven
 
Deusovi, has your word appeared in this chat in the last 15 minutes?
 
2:48 AM
also these "words" don't have to necessarily be real words, right?
 
@Rubio I think you know the answer to that question.
 
@notjagan No, but it has to be possible for other people to guess
 
well in that case
 
then PASS on 7
 
6. JonTron
 
2:49 AM
Unless you're the defender in which case it has to be a real word
 
but I don't know if anyone will know this, hopefully someone does
 
contact 6
 
heh. I vaguely know JonTron is a youtuber.
 
ayy cool
 
PASS 6
 
2:50 AM
(I used to watch him before the extreme racism incident)
 
Did anyone contact 7?
 
No, nobody did.
And Rubio was fully aware of that.
 
I'm guessing eclipse then
 
that's correct
(it's bad Unicode art. I tried.)
 
And that is of course my word.
 
2:50 AM
Obviously.
 
Deus, I take it you knew 6?
 
I suspected, but not enough to guess at it, until your last version
 
As soon as I thought of it, I knew that was it
 
@Deusovi :| looked like Q*bert
 
It looked more like something out of Hello Kitty hehe
 
2:51 AM
@notjagan ECH? He says that a lot, AFAICR.
 
6 ✔
 
@Rubio Sh. It's hard to make Unicode art, especially if you're trying to not make it too obvious.
 
I suspected it but the ⚞⚟ made it look too much like candy
 
I thought it was a cat
 
14 was ECCLESIASTES (there are 2 books of the Bible with that name, between Proverbs and Song of Songs)
 
2:52 AM
huh. Depends on what Bible you're using.
 
Why 14?
 
Because my previous clue numbers were 12 and 13. No particular reason other than that.
Rubio knows a lot of my clue numbering conventions, so I have to not use them sometimes :P
 
hehe
 
Deusovi uses clue numbers to mean something so often it's weird when they don't
 
Let's face it - we both play waaayy too much of this game :)
 
2:54 AM
true
 
... by which I mean, not nearly enough
and you're up. (for those keeping score at home)
 
Sid
Anyone planning to write that previous C4 into the meta post?
 
Fermat's Last Cryptic?
@Deusovi btw, get out of my head. hehe
 
(if anyone else thinks up a good word to defend with and wants to go, go ahead. I'd be happy to, but I don't have a stockpile of interesting words to use or anything, so I might take a minute finding one)
 

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