o/

o/

well. that was uneventful.

who here is able to play now?

still me

@Rubio @JohnDvorak

I have a word ready, ping me if/when enough players

i mean, 4 people is technically enough to play

so you are able to play?

I'll just start

defending: U

1: Online for like 20+ years

contact 1

2: ...

pass 1

1 USENET

oh dear.

1 is not USENET, which has been around for closer to 30 by now

oh

rip

It was Ultima Online

2 USENET?

2 is not USENET

and I thought I was so clever

good lord. usenet is 40.

my sense of time is apparently distorted

@JohnDvorak ping. game's on. ;)

3: Springsteen's birthplace

4: Drago's birthplace

that's Drago and not Draco, right?

because I only know about the latter

it's definitely Drago

so, how this game works is, other people besides me are allowed to set clues. ;)

I know

and I'm supposed to be able to make guesses on them

D:

5: Steve Harrington has one with a hat

okay then.

3 UTAH?

3 is not UTAH

3 UNIVERSITY

nor is it UNIVERSITY

6: Someone who fills in for someone else's role

7: Someone who fills in for Dumbledore's role

no? well. this isn't supposed to be a single player game.

9: ^Z

contact 9

10: the beginning of recorded Wikipedia (3)

pretty sure we've lost our defender.

yes, I am too

@micsthepick

if @micsthepick reappears soon, then contact 3, 6, 7, 9 -- but I'm going to bed soon :-).

"seen 5m ago" does not look good

sorry, lost all service

well, ...

9 UNDo

yes on 9

pass 3

7 UMBRIDGE

3 is the USA.

(because of the song)

(though I assume he was in fact born in the USA)

@Rubio

@Rubio ?

I'm going to just reveal the next letter

I think we may no longer be quorate.

defending: U N

I'm pretty confident that your guess for 7 was correct, so that dies. I'm pretty confident that 6 lives.

I'm pretty confident that 9 lives.

@GarethMcCaughan I assume you mean to say no longer in quota, I've never heard of quorate

oh, pppery is here so that last one is needless

quorate = having a quorum. quorum = enough people for a given activity.

ok, TIL

usually used in more formal contexts where e.g. a session of some legislative body is only permitted to do its work when at least N people are present.

10 dies

likewise for board meetings, committee meetings, etc.

9 was guessed already too

oh yes, so it was

and I validated the guess

2 could be any number of things; no idea whether it lives

but I have little interest in playing this nearly defunct game

yeah, I think there aren't enough players here for it to be much fun

(and there will soon be one fewer, because I really need to go to bed)

I'll still be around for the next hour or so, but this isn't interesting to play

half defended: UNPREDICTABLE

hi

Damn I missed the game :/

That's OK -- the participants in the game kinda mostly missed the game too.

... although perhaps the game would have functioned if you hadn't missed it.

I wouldn't have missed the game if it had started sooner