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19:00
(but I don't know that there are any limos in VW's range...)
I like line much more than limo
you say that as if you expect it to be treated as reason for guessing LINE
Sid
Sid
percentage time?
OK. Team blue, votes please, from 0 (meaning ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN the word isn't one we should guess) to 1 (meaning ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN it's blue) for LINE, LIMO, BOOT, PLANE and any write-ins you fancy.
oh, and WATCH, sorry
19:01
I can think of other car lines over VW for limo
e.g Hummer
Chrysler, Bentley
Sid
Sid
LINE- 0.46, LIMO-0.52, BOOT- 0.3, PLANE- 0.5, WATCH=0.7
I vote 0.1 line, 0.2 limo, 0.3 boot, 0.1 plane, 0.2 watch, and I don't like any of them at all. I'll write in 0.2 each for charge and battery, with the proviso that I'm taking n_palum's word that VW do electric vehicles.
I really only like Line. The rest are generic and could have been automobile or some other car manufacturer.
line 0.8, limo 0.6, boot 0.6, plane 0.3, watch 0.1, battery 0.7
VW has the e-Golf, only one I know of off the top of my head. But again, why them over others
19:04
.75 .75 .25 .25
watch 0.1 battery .75
@n_palum your numeric votes please
Less than 0.2 for everything but Line, 0.4 for line.
Sid
Sid
Ehh
LINE
You've just been n_palumed; LINE is red.
oh it's finally our turn
!board
Hey, I was less than .5 on Line. That is not all my fault.
Sid
Sid
@Gentle @ffao your turn now
19:08
yeah, it's all your fault @n_palum, you were plugging it hard :-)
Thanks. Just dropped in to check, and here it was.
Red: Throne (3)
@Reinier, @ffao - things are actually happening!
CHAIR
I think blue team got "key limed" again. (A clue was too US-centric.)
CHAIR is red.
19:08
But VW is German
and n_p is American, though he is n_p
Maybe LONDON, where the queen is? (tenuous)
egypt and/or london sound semi-plausible?
Maybe CHARGE, because the person in a throne is in charge usually
those three are the only ones I see fitting
LONDON and CHARGE seem most promising to me
19:10
I agree
Sounds good to me. I don't see any other good options.
Are there even any thrones in London?
I don't see anything better tbh
a figurative throne, at least.
you can kick (boot) a throne in nethack for some special outcomes
19:10
Old Lisa prefers bean bags, I believe.
I guess it could be WATCH, for Game of Thrones...
But then the clue would probably be "Game of Thrones"...
as an SM, I would have clued that as Thrones, not Throne
That would be tenuous.
I say LONDON and then either EGYPT or CHARGE. I'm not really feeling CHARGE, but I could go either way.
LONDON
19:13
LONDON is red.
egypt or charge?
I prefer charge
yes
let me rephrase that question
which do you prefer among egypt and charge?
19:15
yes
I would lean toward EGYPT, but I'm fine with either.
EGYPT
EGYPT is red.
[pass]
19:15
yay, we're ahead 7 to 4
that's how it works, right?
Blue: CHOCOLATE (3)
mint, I guess?
alps because switzerland, toblerone, etc.
19:16
mint good I guess
dogs can't eat chocolate
any objections to guessing (1) mint and/or (2) alps?
chocolate rabbits?
oh, rabbit is kinda plausible too, yes
rabbit > mint
mumble easter mumble
Sid
Sid
19:17
no objections to any of this from me
Chocolate limousines are a big hit in some places.
KL? NP?
thank you, GPR, helpful as always
because celebrating the birthday of our lord saviour by eating chocolate figurines of pagan goddesses makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
I assume KL is short for "Cows quack"? :P
@John because celebrating spring with rabbits makes perfect sense
19:18
alps and rabbits seem good
@GentlePurpleRain Sort of, yes.
Oh is it us again
(Look at his avatar.)
order of preference among {alps, mint, rabbit, [others]}?
Mint/Rabbit for chocolate work for me
@GarethMcCaughan Yes, I know. I just thought it odd that you'd still refer to him by that name.
19:20
alps, rabbit, <lots of spaces> mint
alps, rabbit, mint
I'm always tempted to call John D. by his previous name too.
ALPS
ALPS is blue.
ALPS is BLUE
@GarethMcCaughan At least the initials are the same...
19:20
@GentlePurpleRain I'm planning on changing it back sometime
JD works for me
I'm worried that saying RABBIT is going to get us palumned again, but it seems the crowd is against me on this.
RABBIT
RABBIT is BLUE
phew
mint next?
Maybe charge?
19:21
yeah
and: if not, or if we guess mint and it's OK, do we want to try to recover anything from the Volkswagen debacle?
how charge?
charge for chocolate and VW?
what do charge and chocolate have to do with one another?
It has tons of sugar
19:22
other than both beginning with CH and ending E?
which charges you up
bah, that seems waaaaay too loose
Sid
Sid
Ehhh, that's worse than that line connection
Mint
I was going to say mint, but now I'm scared to
19:23
Do they even make mint chocolate?
Or do they mint chocolate?
MINT is blue.
@JohnDvorak We have chocolate coins, here.
19:23
ok, any volkswagen fallout for us?
next up, VW
I like limousine
@JohnDvorak And mint chocolate.
Sid
Sid
Next best(with the percentages) was LIMO. Go for that?
I am inclined to try limousine. KL? NP?
19:25
That's on you then
eh
I'm still afraid of limo being as generic as line
well, we're ... not necessarily winning, so I'm inclined to take the risk.
LIMOUSINE
apologies if this blows up
LIMOUSINE is blue.
There are more car lines that make limos that come to mind first
19:25
That's gross
it .. blue.
!board
anyway, gross or not, it worked
Sid
Sid
19:26
Great work in that round guys.
vomits
(and I've no idea how it can be considered grosser than LINE)
(which is not specific to VW or to cars or in fact to anything at all)
Yikes! Suddenly that board doesn't look so red.
But I'm sure Mith is going to pull out a (4) clue here and win it for us.... :P
Sid
Sid
@Mith (You are up)
I thought that Blue still has guesses from the first clue?
19:29
they've used up all their guesses
we took our full allowance of 4 from a (3)
They did 3 CHOCOLATE guesses, plus an extra VOLKSWAGEN.
so even though there is probably some volkswagenitude left we can't use it until next turn
sorry, volkswagenkeit I guess
(-heit?)
...alright then...
I like volkswagenitude better.
19:30
Red: Boll weevil (2)
COTTON.
TICK?
an astonishingly bold guess there from GPR
Boll weevil is very specific.
(referring to COTTON, not to TICK)
I don't really know what "Boll weevil" means
19:30
It's an insect
That eats cotton plants, if I remember correctly.
I know it's an animal of some sort, but that's about it.
Sid
Sid
it;s an animal similar to a DOG that eats your SOUL.
Well, then I will leave this up to you
All I know of weevils is the smaller the better
19:32
hi santa
Ok, so I'm on my own, here?
Want my help?
I can't help here
Good luck!
19:32
Assuming it is an insect that eats cotton, do you think TICK is the best option for the second guess?
COTTON
COTTON is red.
sounds plausible enough to me
in case it wasn't clear, by "an astonishingly bold guess" I meant "well, that one is obvious at least"
don't see anything better
19:33
TICK is red.
nothing outstanding?
not as far as we know
Nice
19:34
so we have up to 2 left from VW, maybe fewer if there's overlap
Sid
Sid
Ooooh, Red has a chance for Bingo
Blue: ROLLER BLADE (2)
dance?
boot?
and then something from VW I guess?
What
w h a t
does that MEAN
well, BOOT seems hard to argue with at any rate
19:35
boot
Sid
Sid
I like BOOT yeah
rollerblades are a kind of rollerskate where all the wheels are in one line
so if BOOT isn't good then Sconibulus is out of his mind and we're screwed anyway
I am aware of that, but they're not boots
Sid
Sid
why Dance, though?
I'm not 100% sold on DANCE myself, but it seems like a thing you might do with 'em. (Just like competitive ice skating is basically a form of dancing.)
anyway, any objections to the obvious BOOT?
Sid
Sid
19:37
none
not really
it also fits with vw
BOOT is BLUE
yup
OK. Any better suggestions than DANCE as the second from ROLLER BLADE?
Sid
Sid
19:37
In that case, there's one VW clue remaining...
we don't know whether there's one VW clue remaining; e.g., perhaps we were meant to get ALPS from VW because they're European, or something.
Sid
Sid
if not, the remaining word would have remained unclued]
then we would have been better off with a swiss car line
PLANE because all the wheels on each shoe lie in a single plane?!
dance > plane imo
19:39
I like PLANE even less than I like DANCE
just trying to think of other possibilities
You've never seen a rollerblading UNICORN?
We fairly clearly need to guess at least one more to have a good chance of victory. Any strong objections to DANCE, or counterproposals (from members of team blue)?
Sid
Sid
Do rollerskates run on battery>
no objection
19:41
DANCE
DANCE is YELLOW
come on, assassin
aw
sorry guys
r i p Gareth
Sid
Sid
!board
19:42
!blame
It's Gareth McCaughan's fault.
shiro looks different than i remember
@Mith you're up.
Red: Harry Potter (2)
FILM, SOUL?
19:44
soul???
I was thinking about the Dementors that suck out people's souls.
I'm also doubting soul...
Could also be WATCH
horcruxes
WATCH FILM would just be THEATER or something though.
19:45
True. Souls do play a big part in the story.
yeah, watch film had much more obvious clues
Sirius Black is a DOG. Voldemort eats a UNICORN.
Definitely not ROULETTE or BATTERY
didn't harry's parents die in a plane crash?
probably not STRING or JACK or CHARGE or WATCH or PLANE.
19:46
At one point Harry gets CHARGEd with improper use of magic and hauled in front of the Wizengamot.
that leave DOG or SOUL or UNICORN
Then SOUL seems best
Is everyone good with FILM?
hagrid owns a flying unicorn
Sid
Sid
UNICORNS and DOGS are very much there in Harry Potter
19:47
Sure
@ffao? @Deusovi?
Actually, Sirius Black wasn't even a dog.
film is fine by me
FILM
FILM is RED
19:48
what about the second one?
@JohnDvorak oh right, unicorn
Soul seems best...
Just based on blue teams efforts to make us guess DOG or UNICORN, I'm more inclined toward SOUL. (But I already thought it was the best option.)
If you had UNICORN and FILM to clue, would you think of Harry Potter?
FWIW, my comments on DOG and UNICORN were not intended maliciously.
If you had DOG and FILM to clue, would you think of Harry Potter?
19:50
I have to leave for a moment now
Almost definitely not DOG.
I'm not sure I'd pick Harry Potter for FILM plus any of {DOG,UNICORN,SOUL}.
But your opinion doesn't matter right now. :P
Hark who's talking.
19:51
I'm 70% SOUL, 30% UNICORN.
6
aren't we all?
Nah, some people have much more unicorn (and very little soul).
Red-heads are 100% unicorn
Okay, if my team isn't going to discuss, I'm just going to guess...
Last chance to register an objection, @ffao, @Deusovi
Go for it.
19:53
yeah
SOUL is yellow.
Sid
Sid
Ha! Told you.
Blue: DEFINITELY (2)
19:54
(I would have been reluctant to guess SOUL because of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Grams)
(I'd never heard of that film.)
perhaps ROULETTE and BATTERY per GPR's comment above?
!board
I don't see anything that goes with DEFINITELY in a non-meta way.
Sid
Sid
19:55
@GarethMcCaughan Yup. That has to be it
any better suggestions from team blue?
battery first
maybe roulette was roller blade
I agree, because it might have been from VW (but then what about CHARGE?)
roulette / roller blade would have been pretty tenuous
anyway, if I hear no objections I'm going to guess battery...
19:57
BATTERY is BLUE
BATTERY is blue.
anyone got anything better than roulette?
Sid
Sid
ROULETTE
ROULETTE is BLUE
let's hope they hadn't
wahey
19:57
Yay! Go Team!
Sid
Sid
Yeah!
!finalboard
pheeew
It was UNICORN. :|
19:58
of course :-)
LONDON, UNICORN, FILM, TICK, COTTON, CHAIR, EGYPT, LINE.

Hmm. This one isn’t going to be easy. (pops food in oven)

Okay we’re screwed

Perhaps “Underground (2)” - LONDON, LINE. Or “Indiana Jones (3)” - LONDON, FILM, EGYPT. Could fun afoul of WATCH, though.

Hoping that the other team guesses LINE…

Or perhaps “Throne (3)” - CHAIR, EGYPT, LONDON.

“Harry Potter (2)” - UNICORN, FILM?

yaaaay they guessed LINE

Just gonna gave to go with “Throne”. Nothing else even remotely good coming to mind.
I'm back, and I see we have lost :(
VOLKSWAG(E)N (5): 5 might be high, but RABBIT, MODEL, VAN, LIMOUSINE, BATTERY, BOOT all seem plausible, with few likely misses? JACK, CHARGE in Yellow?
VW over CAR to clue RABBIT and exclude SOUL, also point away from the CARs film.
(Sorry I can't spell)
Nobody knows about the Rabbit, apparently. LINE would be bad, and I didn't really consider it, but not all that bad.
...Damn, GPR is right, Rabbit was old NA name for the Golf.

CHOCOLATE (3): for MINT, RABBIT, and ALPS? 3 for ALPS might be too far, but I don't see other things that are likely to hit.
The Volkswagen Rabbit is what the Golf is called in Canada/US.
Hence another Key Lime clue.
I had never heard of the VW Rabbit.
anyway, good game!
particularly nailbiting towards the end
20:01
My first clue-related thought in my dump was "Okay we’re screwed". Was much closer than I expected :P
VW wasn't an alp clue?
@Mithrandir fortunately for you we screwed a few things up
And fortunately for you, so did we.
One more?
O/
Sure.
0/
I am going to bed now
20:03
I should probably do some work. Or maybe solve that puzzle with the rooks on the chessboard.
VW was mostly a "Eh, what could go wrong" clue
the answer to that question is always "lots of things"
and the answer was "more than I thought"
this was a very fun game, but I have to finish it here
I was sure VW was an ALPS clue since they are in germany too
contrary to what everybody said
20:04
I had ALPS as a plausibility too
VW went pretty OK, all things considered
RABBIT, MODEL and VAN I thought were sure hits, with the rest being spread across several maybes
and then RABBIT wasn't at all
I remember more the beetle limousine than the rabbit
something something key lime
o/
20:06
I actually remembered it backwards when I clued, I thought it was the GOLF here, but the RABBIT in Europe
Apparently it was the Rabbit in Canada/US from 1975 to 1984, and then again from 2006 to 2009, but the Golf the rest of the time.
Sorry got side tracked with homework
my current car is a 2003 Golf
which didn't help my confusion
I need to head out, have fun guys
so many people here toda
20:25
any game goin' on? can't see any teams
Not currently. Do we have enough folks?
eh, not evidently
going to eat with my grand parents, maybe later
so, Joey has visited his grand parents, one man out
putting my salute just in case
oo/ (i.e. I won't play alone)
21:01
0/
We could SM against Erik and Erik
who's Erik
2
and no, I won't make a sock
Both of you could play from the same account
21:17
sorry, I'm not diagnosed with bipolar syndrome
also, gotta love when chat downtimes happen for no reason
What's the meaning of the double head then?
no, the left head is armless, i.e. it's waiting for a teammate
retracts 0/
22:18
I had no idea waving was so nuanced.
I've been \o ing to my steam friends for years, so I never thought more of it then just I'm here!
waving has a specific code here
Jun 11 at 21:38, by Mithrandir
BTW, quick guide to waving: O/ is "I can SM", o/ is "I can play but not SM", and 0/ is "I can play and can SM if needed, but prefer not to SM"
(pinned ------->)
That's what I was referring to.
 
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