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My record right now is three 243, but not merged. Plus change. I think in points that's something like 4000. Don't remember, and the screenshots are at home.

Matt Эллен

I've only managed to get to 2 81 tiles.

RegDwigнt

I can get to 1800 points quite reliably, but above that it's really hard.

Matt Эллен

930 is my best so far

skullpatrol

9:16 AM

ain't nobody got time for that :D

RegDwigнt

Let me see. I haven't played since yesterday.

Damn it, I'm at four 81s already, but no chance to merge.

Ah, got it.

But no real chance to go anywhere from there.

Matt Эллен

nice

I keep getting my biggest tile in the middle at the bottom with pairs on each side :(

RegDwigнt

Yeah, that's where you're screwed. 2-1-2.

You really have to rethink with this one. You have to move to all directions.

The usual strategy of sticking to a corner only works for the first couple moves, if that.

Matt Эллен

RegDwigнt

Oh my goodness.

Matt Эллен

9:28 AM

:D

RegDwigнt

Lilac is the new black.

Matt Эллен

I guess I'm going to have to learn to use the up key!

Hugo

Anyone wanna give a few upvotes for this?

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Q: E-mail subscription titles and content should use proper pluralisation

Just received the following e-mail, quickly looked at the title and saw "new items in your Stack Exchange inbox" - at a closer look, it turns out there was just one new item in my inbox, so it shouldn't say "1 new items". Same thing goes for the content, where it says "The following items were ad...

Matt Эллен

-1 no FHRC

(j/k)

Hugo

What's FHRC?

Matt Эллен

9:31 AM

Free Hand Red Circles

RegDwigнt

First Holy Rurch of Christ.

Matt Эллен

237

A: The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Freehand Circles Originator: TheTXI Cultural Height: TBD See Also: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here ...and Here as answer to this post

Jasper Loy

@hugo Are you Mitch?

Hugo

@JasperLoy dunno, how can I check?

Jasper Loy

@Hugo Hmm, I suspect you are the same person with two accounts, lol.

Hugo

9:34 AM

@JasperLoy innocent until proven guilty

RutvikSutaria

hahahaha

Jasper Loy

@mitch Are you Hugo?

Freddy

I was caught doing that in Ask Ubuntu

Matt Эллен

Hugo until proven Mitch

Hugo

@JasperLoy hang on, let me open Incognito mode

Matt Эллен

9:35 AM

@Freddy pretending to not be Mitch?

I didn't realise it was such a popular pasttime

Jasper Loy

I am actually Jeff Atwood, lol.

Freddy

lol no i was using two email id with same user name

Hugo

Anyone able to peer review my edit? I added FHRC:

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Q: E-mail subscription titles and content should use proper pluralisation

Just received the following e-mail, quickly looked at the title and saw "new items in your Stack Exchange inbox" - at a closer look, it turns out there was just one new item in my inbox, so it shouldn't say "1 new items". Same thing goes for the content, where it says "The following items were ad...

bug email-notification plurals

RutvikSutaria

@Freddy I have accepted that from you.

0

Q: Fundamental principale of permutations

I have just begin to learn about Permutation and combination.(Just learned definition and factorial.). In which i have learn: $nP_r=n(n-1)(n+1)...(n-r+1); r\le n$ where $n=$distinct object that can be arranged in a line and $r=$nuber of time n object can be arranged. My question what if r$\ \g...

permutations factorial

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol The three women are very beautiful. I would like to marry all of them.

skullpatrol

9:43 AM

@JasperLoy Those are not "women," they're gold diggers.

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol Oh really? Too bad I have no gold. I am only a banana.

skullpatrol

@JasperLoy you and I both pal :-)

Freddy

anyone have ever tried drinking water from clay pot? it tastes amazing

Alraxite

First try.

But maybe I got lucky.

Also, 243's favicon is that of 2048's.

skullpatrol

First try :-O

Alraxite

9:58 AM

Is probably going to be my highest score for the unforeseeable future.

skullpatrol

You are a natural.

RegDwigнt

Yeah, you should have scored 17k instead. Now it's too late.

Now it's only 1700 forever.

Alraxite

I was shit at 2048.

But I attribute that to the game's repetitive gameplay.

I keep spamming and when I realise I should stop, I'd have already lost

Because I see the game over screen.

So I realise I should've stopped

RegDwigнt

Meanwhile I'm at 1.2 billion points at 9007.

Alraxite

What if you accidentally close the tab.

RegDwigнt

10:02 AM

@Alraxite it's in a VMware. I'm no noob.

Alraxite

Hmm, so?

RegDwigнt

These are months of ~~work~~ play you're looking at right there.

Alraxite

Can't you press Ctrl+W?

And have it closed.

RegDwigнt

@Alraxite I make a snapshot every couple minutes.

Alraxite

Oh.

OK. Cool.

Didn't think of that.

Only 9007198051647896 more to go.

Alraxite

10:21 AM

> 2,448

skullpatrol

Hi @DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

10:42 AM

@skullpatrol Hello!

skullpatrol

@DamkerngT. how are you?

Damkerng T.

@skullpatrol Ah, I was a bit busy. Sorry for the delay.

skullpatrol

@DamkerngT. no problem pal, life keeps all of us busy :-)

Damkerng T.

What about you? How are you today?

skullpatrol

Fine thanks.

Damkerng T.

10:49 AM

I think I can sneak in only for a short while, then off again. :)

See you soon!

skullpatrol

later pal :-)

Have a good day!

Mitch

11:10 AM

@JasperLoy How did you figure that out?

@Hugo I ask myself that all the time.

Robusto

11:36 AM

Gawd, I just spent half an hour trying to get a QA person in India to understand and agree to a simple request.

RegDwigнt

11:51 AM

Eww. You people are gross. Now I can never drink out of bottles again.

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A: What do you call the final sip of water in a bottle (with all the saliva)?

The word I am aware of is backwash (ODO). Although it doesn't specifically refer to the last sip, it is what the last sip will be made of. The liquid that flows back into a bottle, glass, etc. after someone has taken a drink, assumed to contain that person’s saliva So I would call it the "b...

Matt Эллен

I know. it's horrible. I don't think I send saliva back into a bottle, but I guess maybe?

Johan Larsson

@Robusto Did it feel like this?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Kinda.

Johan Larsson

#AnythingIsPossible

Robusto

@RegDwigнt In the US we call it blowback.

RegDwigнt

12:03 PM

That is just awful.

We don't call it anything ever.

Who are you, Indians?

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Q: Is there a term for something that is tainted with another's saliva?

From The Encyclopedia Britannica: "Food left on plates after eating is defined as garbage (jutha) because it has been polluted by the eater’s saliva. It may be handled in the family. Is there an English word for something that is not eatable or usable by others because it has someon...

vocabulary

tchrist

@Robusto backwash?

@RegDwigнt May be handled in the family????

Robusto

Matt said backwash. I've heard blowback. I don't share beverages normally.

tchrist

Effing caste-ists! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! Burn the witch!

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I did say Indians.

skullpatrol

Sorta like "Eww girl germs"

tchrist

12:09 PM

@skullpatrol I already said cootied.

@Robusto Yeah, like who would ask even?

They’re both a bunch of weirdos.

skullpatrol

infected with germs

tchrist

Mysophobic.

Mysophobia

Mysophobia (Verminophobia) (from Greek μύσος - musos, "uncleanness" and φόβος - phobos, "fear"; colloquially germophobia/germaphobia, a combination of germ and phobia to mean "fear of germs", as well as bacillophobia, and bacteriophobia) is a pathological fear of contamination and germs. The term was coined by Dr. William Alexander Hammond in 1879 when describing a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibited in repeatedly washing one's hands. Mysophobia has long been related to the OCD of constantly washing one's hands. However, Harry Stack Sullivan, an American psychologist and p...

Or Germanophobic.

Fear that it has kraut in it.

Freaks.

Look what it did for Howard Hughs.

skullpatrol

contamination

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Sloppy seconds. Sloppy sevenths. Sloppy thirty-seconds.

If a dusty plate was good enough for the Lone Ranger to give Tonto to eat off of, it should be good for any Indiean.

skullpatrol

@tchrist You missed the "e".

HughEs

and to think he lived the american dream

tchrist

12:21 PM

@skullpatrol I gave it to Tonto.

It’s out on loan.

skullpatrol

icic

Hughes said "Money is like manure, you have to spread it out, because if you keep it all in one place it will make a big sink."

@tchrist are you loan sharking Tonto now :-)

you already took his land

tchrist

Why do you think we call him Tonto?

RegDwigнt

Because Tunte is German for fag.

skullpatrol

poor Tonto

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Tanta información por una sola preguntita.

RegDwigнt

12:35 PM

@skullpatrol yeah that's totally gay how he's crying.

Johan Larsson

> The long black cloud is coming down

Is ^ correct and if so what does it mean?

I get that it is about death.

skullpatrol

@RegDwigнt that's how men cry in the 21rst century

RegDwigнt

@JohanLarsson Could be about anything at all. It's just a cloud. Could be a metaphor for your mom.

Johan Larsson

ok a @Rob q then :)

RegDwigнt

For some reason it sounds kinda funny to call a cloud long.

skullpatrol

12:39 PM

and coming down?

Johan Larsson

Cirrus are ~long shaped~ compared to cumulus

RegDwigнt

Well if it's coming down it's coming down. Not that clouds do that, but if this one does, so be it.

@JohanLarsson cirrus is not shaped at all, compared to cumulus.

It's just some ice crystals in 12 km height.

I know all about clouds. My final exam was in geography.

skullpatrol

can you count clouds?

RegDwigнt

One, two, four, five...

Yes I can!

skullpatrol

not

RegDwigнt

12:49 PM

0

Q: the person who is big -headed always says he is superior and mistakes others

the person who is big headed says he/she knows everything.so that he/she mistakes somebody who is that much knowledge.what the knowledge person should say that he is also having knowledge

single-word-requests

i need a single word other than egoistic etc.to say him/her that he is also knowledge.or to say in some way that is apt word should he/she should deserve it — burm1 9 mins ago

At least the comment clarifies it.

Matt Эллен

"egoistic etc."

so egoistic and any other word that means it?

so how is that even possible?

skullpatrol

it is not

RegDwigнt

Are you saying it is not possible in English to say that he is also knowledge?

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwigнt

But I only just said just that! So it's possible after all.

Now I just need a single word because reasons.

Matt Эллен

12:52 PM

you can say anything you like, chances are I won't understand you

skullpatrol

:D

RegDwigнt

Good thing I'm talking at Robert de Niro and not you.

Stupid island people don't understand their own language. Bah.

Matt Эллен

yes. he's probably a better listener than me

skullpatrol

his movie is the #1 sports movie of all time

Matt Эллен

taxi driver? I didn't realise it was about sports

skullpatrol

12:55 PM

nah

Raging Bull

RegDwigнt

Meet the Jerkoffs.

Or what's it's called.

Fockers. Sorry. Fockers.

Matt Эллен

meet the Fokkers

jinx

RegDwigнt

It's not a jinx if you can't spell.

Here, have a spelling coke:

Matt Эллен

it was a film about WW1 era German planes

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен wrong again. That one's a Focke.

skullpatrol

12:57 PM

@MattЭллен De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray La Motta in his later post-boxing years.

RegDwigнt

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

Die Focke-Wulf Fw 190 „Würger“ ist ein deutsches Jagdflugzeug des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die bei Focke-Wulf in Bremen unter der Leitung von Chefkonstrukteur Kurt Tank entwickelte Maschine wurde ab 1941 von der Luftwaffe als zweiter Standardjäger neben der Messerschmitt Bf 109 verwendet. Bis zum Kriegsende wurden rund 19.500 Fw 190 verschiedener Versionen produziert. Neben der Verwendung als Jagdflugzeug wurde der Typ als Aufklärer, Jagdbomber, Nachtjäger und Schlachtflugzeug eingesetzt. Die meisten Fw 190 wurden von einem luftgekühlten Sternmotor vom Typ BMW 801 angetrieben. Zur Erreichung besserer…

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt Sorry, I meant Dutch

RegDwigнt

Dutch era German planes?

They had planes in that era?

Matt Эллен

Fokker

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into bankruptcy in 1996, and its operations were sold to competitors. == History == === Fokker in Germany === At age 20, Anthony Fokker, while studying in Germany built his initial aircraft, the Spin (Spider)—the first Dutch-built plane to fly in his home country. Taking advantage...

tchrist

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RegDwigнt

12:59 PM

> At age 20, Anthony Fokker, while studying in Germany built his initial aircraft

What, the frigg is, wrong with, you Wikipedia.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt And a gay time was had by all, flying through the firmament

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