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I know nothing of Battlestar
(FRACK)
@boboquack's was FORTY (alphabetical order)
(notably not FOURTY, which has U before R)
I did say forty to be fair
@GarethMcCaughan Yes
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:36559034 Cat on your keyboard?
@n_palum no, you precisely didn't
oh I guess I did say fourty
no, you said FOURTY, which is not alphabetical
(Sorry, cleaning the keys on my keyboard)
:36559034 did a cat attack?
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fair enough
Sooo clues?
1: Interchangeable
contact 1 @Rubio
2: without mutable state
@MistahFiggins It got his tongue.
00:01
3: Fast & ?
@Rubio not FUNGIBLE
@boboquack not FURIOUS
contact @boboquack 3
@n_palum Yes
1: (Fungible, correct)
contact @MistahFiggins 4
00:02
oops
but it has the wrong letters
1: Sneaky
Well, you knew more about the word than I did
@GarethMcCaughan that's why it got deleted
3: Organ bottom
@boboquack Contact (?)
00:02
@boboquack not FURTIVE
I had that word in mind for F and didn't get around to it
@n_palum Yes (1)
contact @Rubio 3
but hesitantly
@Rubio Funnel?
Not funnel
00:03
Go for it Gareth
4: Non-binary logic
on Organ
1: ten chains
I think it's FUNDAMENTAL, with apologies if it turns out to be FUNDAMENT or something else
6: no chance of success
00:03
Contact 4 (boboquack)
@MistahFiggins not FUTILE
contact @MistahFiggins 4
contact 1
@GarethMcCaughan changed the #
Is Gareth correct on his contact? or does the clue die
00:04
3: was neither; it was FUNDUS
@n_palum correct
@Rubio damn, sorry
got it
(I was thinking a different sort of organ)
I'll pass on Non-binary
00:04
(mumble acoustics mumble)
3: Unctuous
FUZZY
@Deusovi Yes
Not a fan but okay new letter
00:05
Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the truth values of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1. By contrast, in Boolean logic, the truth values of variables may only be the integer values 0 or 1. Fuzzy logic has been employed to handle the concept of partial truth, where the truth value may range between completely true and completely false. Furthermore, when linguistic variables are used, these degrees may be managed by specific (membership) functions. The term fuzzy logic was introduced with the 1965 proposal of fuzzy set theory by Lotfi Zadeh. Fuzzy logic had however...
actual term
Perfectly legit
Defending: F U T
3 is busted, was FULSOME
Oh fair then - didn't know about that
my 2 is dead (was FUNCTIONAL)
00:05
Mine is dead (but nobody bothered to star it anyway)
3: Animated comedy
1: back to
@GarethMcCaughan Ahh only thing that came to mind was fixed
@Rubio Contact
@MistahFiggins Contact
btw 6 is dead
00:06
12: no chance of success
contact deus
@Deusovi contact
4: poem by Wilfred Owen
oops, will edit in metanonsense
2: not quite an alphabet
@Deusovi Number please!
00:06
5: Tomorrow's tomorrow
contact 2 @Randal'Thor
contact 2
@Rubio not FUTURE?
@Deusovi Contact 12
5: Future ✔
00:07
@Deusovi still not FUTILE?
that's it
@Deusovi Twelve? :-P
@Deusovi I literally had the same clue :P
if everyone just picks the next number we get collisions
@Randal'Thor Didn't want to bother with finding the next number, only to collide with someone
@MistahFiggins That was intentional.
00:08
@Deusovi Is that allowed?
we should all have our own number
Yes, dups are allowed
@Randal'Thor Yes
Why not?
@Deusovi You wanted to collide with someone?
00:08
@MistahFiggins You are Number Six.
(They should be minimized or the game gets annohing)
Any contacts on comedy?
yay, lowest pefect number!
contact 3 @Rubio animated comedy
@Randal'Thor Nice lit ref.
00:08
Pass
Same
(Nobody got that reference?)
FUTURAMA
(I got it)
Oh! Contact @Rubio.
3: Futurama ✔
00:08
Yep.
anyone else for #1
I contacted 1
we already have contact
we need a letter first
00:09
also FUTHARC for alphabet?
@n_palum FUTHARK, but yes.
@GarethMcCaughan from which clue?
from Futurama
@MistahFiggins Rubio's.
Defending: F U T U
00:09
ah
1 stands
22: Flying cars are...
2: Sci-fi-like
er
@boboquack contact
4 iz ded (was FUTILITY)
@MistahFiggins it's not FUTURE?
00:10
@Rubio contact
jeez guys
contact 22
@n_palum correct
contact 2 @Rubio
I said that.....
00:10
also contact 22 @boboquack
@Rubio not FUTURISTIC
2: ✔
I assume bobo was the same word
π: Trading
00:11
@n_palum Yep (22)
1: Safeguarded against obsolescence
contact π @Deusovi
contact 1 @Rubio
contact Deus
It's funny: 22 is a duplicate of 2 but is also literally 2, duplicated.
^ nice
00:12
@Rubio FUTURELESS?
is that a pi? @deus?
7: artistic movement
Contact 1 Rubio
contact 1
Not FUTURELESS
00:12
@MistahFiggins yep :P
nope, no mathjax here
(Nope. no MJ here)
heh, same response
00:12
@Deusovi log(e^i,-1): Contact
PAss on deus
bingo!
𝜋 : FUTURES
00:13
Hm..
Futures for pi
Defending: F U T U R
my artistic movement stands
1 stands
oh, contact both 1 and 7
00:13
not FUTURISM?
@n_palum yes, FUTURISM
A1: font
Contact 7 (already did 1)
do I need to make an explicit clue to make sure it wasn't FUTURIST?
Contact A1 (that's not a number, it's steak sauce!)
00:14
contact A1 @Alconja cont
font I mean
I will pass on Rubio since he may have it
Rubio's is FUTUREPROOF
FUTUREPROOF
Ahhh nope
00:15
Futureproof
(Always late :P)
Defending: F U T U R O
do we need an explicit clue to check it's not FUTUREPROOFED? :-)
Nope it's not that Gareth
apparently not!
... apparently no
00:15
@boboquack Better Nate than lever.
font is ded I assume
stop reading my screen DEUS
yeah
A1 is dead ==> FUTURA
:)
00:15
9: prediction
Hm.. not sure if you have it
and
10: predictor
10 may be it
Pass on either if anyone can contact
someone want to contact so we can check?
(if not I can say of course)
@GarethMcCaughan Futurologist?
00:16
dunno
NEXT SCHEDULED EVENT: UTC April 14 at 0000. Come if you can!
(and futurology)
I was going for FUTUROLOGY
@n_palum, was it FUTUROLOGIST?
00:17
are we doing another?
I just posted some things that vanished in to the ether
but never mind
Oh good. That means @Deusovi and not me gets to do the next one :-)
@MistahFiggins Why not?
so yeah, let's have another. My turn, I guess
00:17
Or should it be Gareth?
Nice work Gareth
I forget this part of the rules.
I'll be a bit away for a few
I think the usual convention would make it be me
00:18
yup Gareth is next
ok
Gareth defending: M
Ah. Sorry for the confusion.
(the clue setter, not the guesser, goes)
(unless anyone else particularly wants to or Gareth particularly doesn't want to)
(but apparently that's not an issue)
1: A monarch of subjects
(easy but obligatory)
00:18
2: Cloudy with a chance of...
Contact 2
@Rubio Contact
Contact 2
@Randal'Thor 1 is MATHEMATICS
but I think 2 is a cultural reference I am failing to get
9: Around (F_(i+1)/F_i) kilometres, for some i
00:19
3: One of Irene's two partners
so I'll stare into space for a minute and then pass
@boboquack MILE of course
8: Rotated Cs may be difficult for...
4: ... and the other one
6: red + yellow
Correct (9)
@MistahFiggins Contact, perhaps?
00:20
@MistahFiggins Sorry, I can't read that. :P
lol
@MistahFiggins Deusovi is colour-blind.
@Deusovi Tee hee (to borrow Gareth's laugh)
00:21
@boboquack It should be tea hee. More British.
:-P
oh, did you pass on 2?
Get out ;)
@Deusovi not yet but probably will very soon
yeah, it's a cultural reference
contact on 2
00:22
Yeah I went all culturally on you all
I'll guess, with very little hope of success, METEORS and METEORITES and MONSOONS but I suspect it's actually something extremely different
@Rubio Good plan: make sci-fi / fantasy references when I'm around and hope the defender doesn't get them :-P
11: Month with insect sound, perhaps
No, no, and no.
if none of those, pass on 2
00:22
yeah, it's MEATBALLS
meatballs
MEATBALLS
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film loosely based on the children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett. It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and released by Columbia Pictures on September 18, 2009. The film features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Andy Samberg, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte. It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It was a critical and commercial success, earning $243...
that does actually sound slightly familiar but I've no idea from where
fairy nuff
00:22
(it was also a children's book)
Film ... bah
It's a book first
@Deusovi beat me to it :/
Gareth defending: M E
Meatballs
(Oops, late again)
6 is done - was mandarin
00:23
3 survives. 4 is busted.
8 mins ago, by boboquack
(Always late :P)
6: a dark swine meant
Mine (11) is gone - it's a CC - anyone want to guess?
may(fly) perhaps?
oh, no, a cryptic so not that
00:24
111: Techidiot's 1
@MistahFiggins I assume that's not meant to be meat
17: South of a wall
@boboquack it is not a typo
@GarethMcCaughan Correct
00:25
(sorry, "maybe" was the answer to @boboquack's thing)
I should edit mine, but it may be too late
77: Puzzlingly ____... what the heck can it be?
1: Grownup playdate, of sorts
@Rubio Contact, perhaps
@Rubio not just MEETUP?
00:26
yup
1: Liar
@Rubio 1 must be something like MENDACIOUS or even MENDAX. I hope it isn't MENDICANT which means beggar not liar.
man, you swiped my next word
@boboquack MYSTERIOUS maybe?
Mendacious ✔
@bobo Contact
00:27
@GarethMcCaughan No
It's ME
@boboquack oh wait ME, sorry
@Deusovi Yes, we recognise you.
00:28
@GarethMcCaughan No
ho ho again ("ME" was not meant to be an answer but an acknowledgement that I had the wrong starting letters, just in case you weren't joking)
ho ho to bo bo?
shouldn't Rubio's 1 be unstarred now?
@GarethMcCaughan Didn't realise :P
@Randal'Thor bo bo ho ho no no
ho ho to bo bo "no"
00:29
1: Some people practice it most of their lives
Contact 1
@Rubio well, it could be METHODISM but I suspect it isn't
44: +Sugar=↓
It is not
Someone solve mine so I can go to bed :-P
00:31
Oh. contact 17
No-one solve it so we can play with Rand all UK night :O
pass on 17 (I have a guess how it works and if it's right I have no chance of getting it)
I believe it is MEXICO
00:32
if not I'm going to be disappointed :)
@Randal'Thor did Rubio get it right?
@Rubio +1
Huzzah
Gareth defending: M E N
3 is busted
00:33
so who is Irene and who are her partners?
#6 is done - it was melanin
(Me, Myself & Irene, btw)
Anyone want to guess what 44 and 77 are (both busted)
for dark pigment
@boboquack 77 = META
00:33
or dark swine meant
@Randal'Thor Yep
is it men? /s
2: Darn
14
Q: Puzzlingly meta... what the heck can it be?

AlconjaA wave of the hand is all it takes to dismiss, But when it gets started, it's greater than this! A bringer of gifts. A destroyer of food. It helps win the race. It ruins the mood. See it, then not... or the other way 'round? Answer this wrong and it's still most likely found. Puzzlingly meta, ...

was 44 METH maybe?
00:34
No
@Rubio 2 is DARN I assume
1 is dead, it was MEDICINE
er, I mean MEND
@Rubio So was 44 :P
6: @Alt-F4's name at one point
00:34
Mend ✔
@GarethMcCaughan A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
@boboquack yes, I get it
1: Aside
Double 6 from @MistahFiggins!
that other #6 is done
the older one
00:35
You're interfering with yourself :-P
what Do you think the swine one was?
I thought we already had the answer to the swine one
it was melanin
2: Father of an elemental table
@Rubio contact
00:36
@Rubio contact
(too easy)
@Rubio your 1 (ASIDE) could just be MEN (e.g., a 7-aside game is a game with 7 men on each side, if you don't mind the sexism)
i know, i know
contact 2
1: not MEN
00:36
@Rubio 2 is of course Dmitri MENDELEEV
2: ✔
#6 shouldn't be hard to figure out
@boboquack oddly enough I have not memorized all the FTCs and I am not allowed to go and look it up
2: the Fresh maker
Just realised it's MEN :P
00:38
@boboquack ah. I was wondering whether 30 was the latest but that's METAPUZZLES :-)
@GarethMcCaughan FTC #30 is the next one
99: Teacher
@boboquack 99 must be MENTOR
@boboquack contact
(too easy)
@GarethMcCaughan Yep
66: done by ulation but not the pop
00:39
1: Aside (n)
(one acquaintance of mine recently remarked that everyone thinks the converse of MENTOR is MENTEE but of course it's really TELEMACHUS. Look it up if that makes no sense)
someone update that please
@GarethMcCaughan Fun fact: the etymology of "mentor" is not from an archaic word "ment" meaning "teach", but from an actual person called Mentor.
... oh, ninja'd :-P
@Randal'Thor that was the point of the remark I just quoted
@GarethMcCaughan The Odyssey? :P
00:40
@boboquack *Odyssey
@GarethMcCaughan Yep, I'm just too slow :-)
55: @
@boboquack you do realise that number is already in use?
there's already a 66
or is "@" just another way of saying "contact" because this game wasn't confusing enough yet?
+-1
lol
00:42
@GarethMcCaughan Just work mod 2. You'll never make a sign error again.
55: @ +-1 ✔ 𝜋
666: sa really ne
@Rubio wtf
@Randal'Thor You mean mod 2?
@MistahFiggins MENTAL, perhaps?
00:43
wait, there's 3 mods in here
("really insane")
not 2
@GarethMcCaughan yes
nice
@boboquack Argh. Clearly it's bedtime for me.
@boboquack contact! on 55
00:44
Goodnight, all.
Have fun!
good night Rand
ninight @rand
(I am aware that @boboquack's "@" has been contacted; thinking about it)
nope, feeling very stupid. pass on 55; go on, @MistahFiggins
mention?
00:46
@MistahFiggins Yep!
oh, that's a twitterism, isn't it? I am soooo unhip
that's the symbol you use
Gareth defending: M E N T
**@**Gareth
3: Yuri Geller
00:47
@GarethMcCaughan No, it's a chat.stackexchange.com-ism
pass 3 @Rubio
1 and 2 survive
25: Mindset
I'm behind not sure if that's used
@n_palum 25 is MENTALITY
00:47
6 was mendeleev
it's done
@GarethMcCaughan great, now someone has to get it
Anyone want to contact 3
and how was anyone supposed to get 6, just out of interest?
I mean it's a bit of a "what have I got in my pocket", no? or am I missing something clever?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll contact 3
Go for it
00:48
go on then @n_palum
I'm not sure if it's who I am thinking of though...
MENTALIST?
that is in fact my word
I think that's what he does?
(hence the immediate pass)
00:48
Isn't it Uri?
figured
Oh. heh, so it is
I think it's Uri
Sorry
@Deusovi yes but it's a transliteration
lots of Russians with essentially the same name spell it Yuri
unless I'm confused in thinking it's the same name
so unsurprisingly it's @Rubio's turn to defend now
Well, considering he's Israeli...
00:50
gimme a sec please
(at least, according to Wikipedia)
Uri Geller (/ˈʊri ˈɡɛlər/; Hebrew: אורי גלר‎‎; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other illusions. Throughout the years, Geller has used conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy. Geller's career as an entertainer has spanned more than four decades, with television shows and appearances in many countries. == Early life == Geller was born on 20 December 1946 in Tel Aviv, which was then part of British-administ...
@Deusovi I know, but I thought it was a Slavic-Jewish thing
but actually I think maybe it isn't
the Slavic Yuri is an equivalent of George
and I don't think the Hebrew Uri is
is rubio going next?
so I learned something today. (In addition to "Me, Myself and Irene" and "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs".)
00:52
also, 66 was menstration (done by half of "the population", but not the other half)
yeah, Hebrew Uri = Ur-i = my light (the -i suffix is "my")
@MistahFiggins wow, that's a bit contorted
you mean menstruation btw
yeah, no clue how to spell things
heh
what was Rubio's aside?
MENTION also
00:53
I assume Fresh is some product I know nothing about?
2 was MENTOS
ah
how does "mention" mean "aside"?
anyway, never mind. Rubio's turn to defend
it doesn't really
Rubio defending: R
You!
It's not Rubio
00:54
dang
a name to guess
um
(who's actually still here, by the way?)
it's still not Rubio, i guess
no, not RUBIO
00:55
Look back on
It's not REFLECT
nope
it's not REMINISCE either
Still no
it's not REVIEW
00:56
7: AKSjnqf98123":{}{
VTC: too broad ;)
Francesca da ____
also no
da Roma?
@Rubio nope, not Roma
00:57
kinda strange to see
basic comment
7 looks to be ROT47 or 48 or something
basic/ It's not REM
looks more like cat-on-keyboard to me
(nor REMARK)
@Rubio yes, REM was it
00:57
DL/ it's not REMARKABLE
1: year since accession
oh, sorry, I haven't been numbering
ho. hum.
contact @n_palum look back on (without much confidence; my answer isn't obviously better than the ones Rubio has guessed)
PPCG oppression, even though SO
00:59
look back on / It's not RECONSIDER
if not that I pass
@DestructibleLemon darn, why don't I know this?
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