Contact

n_palum

00:00

Contact social chaos

Destructible Lemon

also what was passed?

boboquack

Woo! More stars!

Alt-F4

anomaly/anomalous are the only words starting with anomaly that I can remember

Gareth McCaughan

@DestructibleLemon ANOMALY was passed

Alt-F4

also I grepped /usr/share/dict/words, this is what came up:

Destructible Lemon

00:00

what was alt-f4 guessing I mean

Alt-F4

anomalies
anomalous
anomalously
anomaly
anomaly's

Rubio

don't do that

dude.

Gareth McCaughan

what he said

Alt-F4

Honestly I usually don't

Gareth McCaughan

this is not a game in what searching dictionaries is an appropriate thing to do

Sconibulus

00:01

also... you don't have nearly that many letters

Alt-F4

This is the only time I've done that.

boboquack

What kind of dictionary has anomaly's in it anyway?

Gareth McCaughan

one intended for spillchucking

Destructible Lemon

the os's

Alt-F4

It's used for spell checking on Linux systems

Destructible Lemon

00:01

@GarethMcCaughan not sure if ironic

yeah its ironic

Gareth McCaughan

spillchucking? of course ironic; what do you take me for?

Sconibulus

pass on 2

Destructible Lemon

an inferior peasant ?

Gareth McCaughan

on the contrary, I am a highly superior peasant

@n_palum over to you

n_palum

Oh just kidding I spelled the word wrong

boboquack

00:02

Then why isn't anomalies' in there?

Gareth McCaughan

oh!

@boboquack good question

n_palum

Thought it was anomosity not animosity

Rubio

whee

Destructible Lemon

@GarethMcCaughan ah, shows what a peasant you are. when I said inferior, it was in relation to myself, whereas you have refuted by saying you are a superior peasant which is independent of my statement

Alt-F4

@boboquack Probably because punctuation at the end of words gets discarded when spellchecking?

Gareth McCaughan

00:04

@Alt-F4 that would be no more obviously a sound rule than "delete everything after an apostrophe"

Destructible Lemon

any other guesses for social chaos?

Rubio

not sure anyone else contacted

Gareth McCaughan

though I guess if you do that then you start needing things like DOESN in your dictionary

Sconibulus

anomorchy? :)

Destructible Lemon

it was anomy

Rubio

00:04

though I have a feeling ...

Gareth McCaughan

me too

Alt-F4

@GarethMcCaughan but then it's would be considered the same as it'asdkfhalkdjhfakljsdfh

boboquack

So kind'''' is a word but kin''''d is not?

Gareth McCaughan

well, I might as well do it

contact @Rubio

Rubio

contact @gareth

Gareth McCaughan

00:05

tee hee

Rubio

I looked up and saw your submission and facepalmed

Sconibulus

pass on 2

err, pass on 1, rather

Rubio

yeah we all have the same word

Gareth McCaughan

so I think 1 is ANOMIE

which btw is also mine

Rubio

yah

Gareth McCaughan

00:05

and ANOMY is just another spelling of it

Rubio

^ that

Alt-F4

I've... never heard that word

Sconibulus

hmm

Rubio

3 of us clearly had ;)

Destructible Lemon

its sociology and stuff

Sconibulus

00:06

well, Sconibulus defending: A N O M I

Gareth McCaughan

It was funny enough when it was only me and Rubio, but extra-hilarious when DL came along with the same thing

lawless

Destructible Lemon

its one of those words you discover by accident

Rubio

seriously

contact

Sconibulus

@GarethMcCaughan Anomie? :)

Destructible Lemon

contact

Gareth McCaughan

00:07

nope, not this time

Destructible Lemon

uncontact

Sconibulus

I'll pass it

Rubio

anomic?

Gareth McCaughan

yeah

though actually it doesn't mean lawless

:-)

Rubio

close enough

Destructible Lemon

00:07

ah, thats what I was thinking just before you posted it

Sconibulus

Sconibulus Defending: A N O M I A

Gareth McCaughan

and of course one of its meanings is ... pertaining to anomie

Rubio

social anarchy

Destructible Lemon

after I uncontacted

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus is your word in fact ANOMIA?

I suppose I should offer a def

actually I am not certain what the def is, but how about:

inability to remember names

Sconibulus

00:08

yeah, it seemed fitting for this game, but apaprently it's way obscurer than I thought

Rubio

i would have just constructed it hehe

contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio I think Sconibulus just admitted that that's the answer

Destructible Lemon

game over

yay

Alt-F4

gg

Rubio

just making it formal. ;)

Gareth McCaughan

00:09

have we people enough & time to play another?

Destructible Lemon

can I defend?

Sconibulus

I've got around half an hour or so more

Rubio

that's up to gareth

Alt-F4

I think I can play

Gareth McCaughan

I'm perfectly content for others to defend

I think it's mostly more fun attacking than defending

Destructible Lemon

00:10

I'm gonna defend Q

boboquack

I think I'm alright to go

Destructible Lemon

ninja'd?

Gareth McCaughan

ha. Next letter is either going to be very useful or very not-useful.

Rubio

1: Stimulant shrub

get this out of the way

Destructible Lemon

um

Gareth McCaughan

00:11

contact 1 @Rubio shrub (though I'm not 100% certain I have the right word)

Destructible Lemon

this is embarrasing

Gareth McCaughan

antimalarial

ha! did we get it?

quickest game ever

Rubio

contact antimalaria;l

haha

Destructible Lemon

no it just seems like it should be easy

Rubio

now that's funny

Destructible Lemon

00:11

not my word

Gareth McCaughan

ah, ok, phew

Rubio

ok good

Destructible Lemon

pass 1

Gareth McCaughan

(just as well, it would have been a strategically poor choice of word)

I think 1 is QAT

Rubio

very poor

Destructible Lemon

00:12

pass antimalarial

Rubio

it is.

Gareth McCaughan

wait

Destructible Lemon

defending Q U

Gareth McCaughan

don't pass this until you've given us a letter

Rubio

welp. he passed. contact holds.

Gareth McCaughan

00:12

ok, NOW you can pass antimalarial (which stands) if you like

Wesley Situ

2: A line, but in the UK

Gareth McCaughan

contact 2 @WesleySitu line

Rubio

Still want to pass?

Destructible Lemon

is it still valid?

Sconibulus

contact 2, and antimalarial

Rubio

00:13

yes

Destructible Lemon

pass no number

Sconibulus

quinine?

Gareth McCaughan

meaning antimalarial?

yes

Rubio

quinine, yeah

Destructible Lemon

Q U I

Alt-F4

00:14

@WesleySitu contact

Wesley Situ

2 is gone

Gareth McCaughan

Wesley's is dead

Rubio

1: Like Don

Destructible Lemon

what was

Sconibulus

contact 1

Rubio

00:14

his was queue

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1 @Rubio Don

Destructible Lemon

@Rubio quixotic

Rubio

1:✔

Gareth McCaughan

traitor

Destructible Lemon

Quitter

Gareth McCaughan

00:14

nope, not quitter

Rubio

1: Air, earth, fire, water .... and?

Sconibulus

contact #gareth

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1 @Rubio air ...

Wesley Situ

3: It's hard for a mother to take care of these

Rubio

contact 3

Gareth McCaughan

00:15

contact 3 @WesleySitu mother

Destructible Lemon

puzzle blindness?

Gareth McCaughan

btw I can pin my own but not star them

Destructible Lemon

pass 1

Rubio

oh sorry, i forget i have stars again lol

Sconibulus

4: Trembling Bag

Gareth McCaughan

00:16

1 is QUINTESSENCE I think

Rubio

it is.

Gareth McCaughan

letter #4 please then

Destructible Lemon

Q U I X

Wesley Situ

3 is dead

Rubio

the hell

Sconibulus

00:16

4 is dead

hmm... we already did the only word that's coming to me

Rubio

^

Gareth McCaughan

unsurprisingly my traitor is dead (it was QUISLING; just out of curiosity would anyone have contacted it if I'd said "like Vidkun" instead?)

Alt-F4

quixotic?

Destructible Lemon

already done

Rubio

oh. I should have known that. the name wouldn' thave helped tho

Sconibulus

00:17

I was typing Vidkun when I saw yours :)

made it easy to contact

Alt-F4

@DestructibleLemon yeah, I meant that as a question about which word was done

Rubio

okay then.

Gareth McCaughan

so right now the only QUIX things I can think of are QUIXOTIC (already gone), the closely related QUIXOTRY, and QUIXOTE itself which is a proper noun and therefore (I think) disallowed...

Rubio

And this is a Scrabble-legal word right?

(yes, Quixote would be disallowed)

Gareth McCaughan

well, just in case:

being like Don

Rubio

00:19

contact

Destructible Lemon

scrabble legal

@GarethMcCaughan its not quixotry

Rubio

then I retract my contact

I got nothin'

Gareth McCaughan

no need; I retract my attack first :-)

Destructible Lemon

am I going to be the first defender to win?

Rubio

This is interesting. Contact doesn't have a win condition for Defender, until now

Gareth McCaughan

00:21

possibly, but I at least am still thinking

Sconibulus

are there worshipers of quixote?

Destructible Lemon

@Sconibulus don't think so

Sconibulus

Worship of Don, probably

Gareth McCaughan

contact @Sconibulus worship

actually this might be DL's word but with a different def

I think it might be a psychiatric term or something of the sort

Rubio

we can spend a while fishing for different endings here, but really I don't think it is sensible to do so if the root is quixotic

Destructible Lemon

00:22

@Sconibulus you're trying for quixotry or quixotist?

Gareth McCaughan

I think not exactly either of those

Sconibulus

nope

Rubio

we don't have a good way to easily cover quixotic, -ist, -icism, -istry, ... etc

and honestly don't think we should have to

Destructible Lemon

fine

its quixotical

Gareth McCaughan

personally I would have conceded that when QUIXOTIC came up

Destructible Lemon

00:23

that was me when you guessed quixotic

Rubio

^^^ x100

Sconibulus

My word was Quixotism/Quixoticism

Gareth McCaughan

I was going to guess the first of those

incidentally, quixotical is actually older than quixotic, at least according to the OED

well, Rubio's defending next it seems

Rubio

oh. true.

heh. hang on

oh good. i had my next word picked.

Rubio defending: O

n_palum

Eye Doc

Destructible Lemon

00:26

that character from one of those old cartoons for advertising products

Rubio

It's not OPTOMETRIST

n_palum

yup

Rubio

nor OPTICIAN

boboquack

Yellow-green for Deus

Rubio

oh, i hate you. :)

Destructible Lemon

00:27

is that the word?

Rubio

I know there's a word for that but don't know what it is

Gareth McCaughan

donkey

carthorse

Destructible Lemon

have any of you read "Don Quixote"?

Rubio

donkey hotay. wrong round.

Gareth McCaughan

ho ho

@DestructibleLemon I'm embarrassed to say I never have.

Destructible Lemon

00:28

it is very good

Rubio

I had to read part of it in the original Spanish for school

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio cool!

Rubio

it's good, yes

Destructible Lemon

I got it free on my kindle reader too

boboquack

@Rubio Do you hate me?

Destructible Lemon

00:29

you can probably get it free if you download the kindle app too

Gareth McCaughan

@boboquack doesn't seem like he has to hate you, since no one is contacting that clue

Rubio

@boboquack Yes. Yes, I do.

But it's that good kind of hate.

Gareth McCaughan

"odi et amo ..."

Rubio

No, that's not it.

Gareth McCaughan

(probably not quite that good kind of hate)

Rubio

00:29

;)

Gareth McCaughan

it wasn't, in case there should be any doubt, a guess or a clue

Rubio

@DL character - olive oyl?

boboquack

I don't understand why it's so hard?

Alt-F4

@DestructibleLemon Project Gutenberg probably has it

Destructible Lemon

@Rubio nope

maybe I should make it slightly easier

boboquack

00:31

Rocket item that fails in cold

Rubio

wow.

Gareth McCaughan

contact @boboquack

Rubio

too soon.

ok not really.

It's not O Rings

Destructible Lemon

that character from one of those old cartoons for advertising products. main character is double masculine. they aren't a one time character either

boboquack

+1

Destructible Lemon

00:32

updated version of my clue there

unstar the old one probably

Wesley Situ

i know the show, but not the character

Rubio

Otto?

Destructible Lemon

@Rubio nope

boboquack

Yellow-[green for Deus]

Destructible Lemon

(the last part is just to make sure I don't open multiple answers)

Gareth McCaughan

00:33

apply Nelder-Mead, perhaps

Rubio

i'm going to try Ox for carthorse, because why not

Gareth McCaughan

nope, not ox

Destructible Lemon

t-rex, greece, rome, etc.

Gareth McCaughan

new computer storage technology

Destructible Lemon

green frog screams "ITS NOT A COOKIE"

Wesley Situ

00:36

BOSHFPNGRQ

Rubio

wow.

Destructible Lemon

get rid of the puzzle blindness is fun thing for more space on star board?

Gareth McCaughan

I think we have enough up that we would do better to concentrate on attempting to solve

Rubio

yeah, agreed

you know, enterprise computing technology is my profession, and I'm drawing a complete blank on anything relevant that starts with an O.

Gareth McCaughan

heh

n_palum

00:40

I have an idea for what that might be and if I am right then it's mean

Gareth McCaughan

FWIW I don't think it's particularly mean. But my notion of what's mean may be miscalibrated.

Rubio

well. let's move this along, if you have a halfway good guess just contact it

n_palum

Sure I'll contact it

Rubio

pass

n_palum

ONLINE

Gareth McCaughan

00:41

nope

n_palum

As in the cloud

Hm

Rubio

good, cuz that would have been a crap answer. :)

optical anything?

n_palum

Thats what I meant

Gareth McCaughan

I was thinking of Intel's new Optane line -- it's their marketing name for the technology whose more formal name is "3D Xpoint".

Rubio

oh, heh.

Silenus

00:42

@DestructibleLemon contact on green frog

Rubio

hang on

ok back sry

pass on green frog, that's gotta be some meme I'm not in the know about

Silenus

@DestructibleLemon ORANGE, from Sesame Street.

Gareth McCaughan

wat?

Destructible Lemon

> the first clue is that it is round

> No, it not a cookie

> the second clue, is that it is something to eat

Rubio

okaayyy then. :)

Destructible Lemon

00:45

> NO IT'S NOT A COOKIE

Rubio

Rubio defending: O R

Destructible Lemon

my cartoon one is living

Gareth McCaughan

Nelder-Mead is dead (it was OPTIMIZE, possibly an unfair clue since either you know about that algorithm or you don't)

Wesley Situ

my clue is dead, was OBFUSCATED

Gareth McCaughan

the donkey is also dead (it was ONAGER, straightforward definition)

Rubio

00:46

heh. didn't know that word.

Gareth McCaughan

I don't understand Wesley's (there's a difference between obfuscated and simply random)

Silenus

(Silenus) Wagon route computer game

Wesley Situ

it was rot13d

Gareth McCaughan

contact @Silenus

Rubio

@WesleySitu agreed

Gareth McCaughan

00:46

@WesleySitu d'oh

Helka Homba

@Silenus contact

Rubio

It's not OREGON TRAIL

Gareth McCaughan

carthorse is still valid

@boboquack is your yellow-green clue still valid?

@DestructibleLemon is your t-rex clue still valid?

Destructible Lemon

nope

Gareth McCaughan

killer whale

Destructible Lemon

00:47

it was old

@GarethMcCaughan contact

Rubio

It is not Orca

Helka Homba

speaker

Gareth McCaughan

yup, orca was right

contact @HelkaHomba

Rubio

It is not ORATOR

Helka Homba

correct

Wesley Situ

00:48

Loud strings, like lots of them

Gareth McCaughan

prayer

Helka Homba

contact

Rubio

it is not ORCHESTRA

It is not ORISON

Wesley Situ

yep

Gareth McCaughan

yup, orison was right

@boboquack do you still exist?

Wesley Situ

00:49

Plain

Gareth McCaughan

of Corti, perhaps

Rubio

It is not ORDINARY

Wesley Situ

yep

Rubio

It is not an ORGAN

Gareth McCaughan

right

Rubio

00:49

nice clue ;)

Gareth McCaughan

thanks

Wesley Situ

Lifeform

Gareth McCaughan

contact @WesleySitu

Rubio

It is not an ORGANISM

Wesley Situ

yep

Burst of pleasure

Gareth McCaughan

00:50

carboniferous

contact @WesleySitu

Rubio

oh my.

It is not an ORGASM

Wesley Situ

yep

Rubio

It is not ORGANIC

Helka Homba

no rhymes

Gareth McCaughan

@WesleySitu was it you who had CLITORIS in another game?

Wesley Situ

00:50

yes

Gareth McCaughan

I am discerning a theme

let's not let Wesley be defender

Wesley Situ

words are words :)

Gareth McCaughan

of course

contact @HelkaHomba

Rubio

huh

@HelkaHomba PASSING on this; go Gareth

Gareth McCaughan

orange

Helka Homba

00:52

yep

Rubio

oh. that's just

n_palum

Clever

Gareth McCaughan

letter '3 pls

Rubio

we just DID THAT

Gareth McCaughan

so?

Helka Homba

00:52

Sorry, I just got here

n_palum

You been fooled son

Gareth McCaughan

totally different way of clueing it

Rubio

Rubio defending: O R D

I should have thought of it, I meant ;)

Wesley Situ

Test

Gareth McCaughan

it's ok @HelkaHomba we didn't really do it, we just had a different clue with the same answer which is fine

The carthorse is dead; it was ORCHESTRA (famous anagram, and it amused me to put that right after a clue saying "donkey")

Helka Homba

00:53

a set is un-

n_palum

Decree

Gareth McCaughan

contact @HelkaHomba

Helka Homba

contact @n_p

Rubio

wow. nice

ok sorry I'm behind, gimme a sec

Gareth McCaughan

contact @n_palum

boboquack

00:54

My Yellow-green clue is gone

Rubio

set/ It is not (un) ORDERED

Helka Homba

yeah

Rubio

Decree/ It is not ORDAIN

boboquack

It was ORANGE (yellow-red)

Silenus

(Silenus) first, for example

n_palum

00:54

Nope

boboquack

I exist

Rubio

Nor ORDER

boboquack

xst

Rubio

first/ It is not ORDINAL

Helka Homba

average

Gareth McCaughan

00:55

contact @HelkaHomba

Rubio

It is (still) not ORDINARY

Helka Homba

yep

Destructible Lemon

my clue is ded

it was orko

Silenus

(Silenus) dung

Rubio

hahaha oh my

Gareth McCaughan

00:56

contact @Silenus

n_palum

Star decree if possible

Rubio

Ok I should have known that

Decree is not ORDER?

n_palum

no

not sure if those guesses removed the contacts on it

Rubio

dung/ It is not ORDURE

(i almost used that word)

Gareth McCaughan

I still have contact on the degree

Rubio

00:57

oh.

Gareth McCaughan

decree, sorry

Rubio

It is not ORDINANCE

n_palum

There ya go

Rubio

test/ It is not ORDEAL

Wesley Situ

yep

Rubio

00:58

that took too long :)

Silenus

@Rubio yes, ORDINAL

Rubio

first is not ORDIN...ok

Gareth McCaughan

survey

n_palum

Was trying to think of how to clue horderves but then spell check let me know there was an H in front and I couldn't do it :(\

Rubio

haha

Helka Homba

00:59

assistant

Rubio

hors deuvres I think

Gareth McCaughan

hors d'oeuvres

Rubio

i'm missing punctuation

yeah that

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