The Sphinx's Lair

Rubio

7:00 PM

@dcfyj Heh, I forgot that was still outstanding :)

Sconibulus

It's so into Schwarzenegger (please say I spelled that right)

M Oehm

"You spelled that right."

dcfyj

Looks right to me

(just googled as a double confirmation)

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*Arnold Braunschweiger

Sconibulus

for some reason my brain keeps going to Terminus (Foundation) but I think that's just because of all the termination in the first halfd

Rand al'Thor

7:12 PM

@IAmInPLS Wait, are you serious?

M Oehm

7:24 PM

The Alpine Taco could be an Alpine Goat, except that we'd need a G instead of a C.

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Is it fine to have a sockpuppet if 1) it doesn't vote on anything and 2) obviously follows site rules, e.g. it doesn't spam etc.?

dcfyj

You know, my (I believe) second desert wanderings would've fit nicely in this fortnight

@Displayname Then what's the point of having it?

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@dcfyj You'll understand :P

Rand al'Thor

@Displayname Yes.

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A: How should sockpuppets be handled on Stack Exchange?

How can I be sure I'm looking at a sockpuppet? You can't ever be 100% sure. What you think is a sockpuppet could in fact be my good friend Nog Shine, who loves everything I write, copies my writing style, and uses my computer to vote and post stuff when I step away for coffee. But in practice, ...

I've got one myself.

IAmInPLS

:3409270 What do you mean?

@Randal'Thor

Lews Therin Telamon

7:34 PM

@Randal'Thor No you haven't. You are my sockpuppet.

Rand al'Thor

So far the main thing I've used it for is the occasional light entertainment in chat.

As just demonstrated ^^

@IAmInPLS You said "monkey" should be "ape" - was that just a joke like "alpine taco", or were you serious?

IAmInPLS

Haha nooo that is not it! But it is ape indeed. Now it is easy

Rand al'Thor

Huh. How are we supposed to know to get from "monkey" to "ape"?

I mean, what's cluing that?

dcfyj

A monkey is not an ape though...

IAmInPLS

The sentence where I say that I thought it was a monkey

Rand al'Thor

7:38 PM

"lion ape cat" = "ani polecat"? "poetic anal"? "captain ole"?

"capital one"? "into palace"?

dcfyj

It's clearly a card company :P

Sconibulus

Ok, so a sockpuppet of mine wouldn't be allowed to benefit me...

M Oehm

That should certainly be "¡Capitán, Olé!"

IAmInPLS

Three words? Remember, the theme is ANIMALS

dcfyj

You're losing letters though, where's the k and y?

Rand al'Thor

7:39 PM

to a pelican?

in a polecat?

IAmInPLS

God, and I thought the end will be good haha

dcfyj

FISH! :P

Sconibulus

but could I, for instance, have a second account that I answer on when my main is rep-capped, that, say, throws bounties on things that aren't related to me?

Rand al'Thor

@dcfyj Oops, I meant ape and not monkey. Fixed.

dcfyj

ah right, forgot about that already lol

M Oehm

7:40 PM

@dcfyj The MONKEY is gone, it's APE now.

dcfyj

fish doesn't work so well anymore

pretty sure there's no apefish :P

Rand al'Thor

@Sconibulus I dunno, circumventing the repcap might count as "doing something you couldn't do with just one account", which isn't allowed.

IAmInPLS

Come on, except passengers, who do you find on a plane?

Rand al'Thor

On the other hand, both 6-figure rep users on Security SE are actually the same person (I kid you not), so if it works for them, I guess you could do that?

dcfyj

@Randal'Thor I don't see it as a problem if the second account is just trying to raise it's own rep while not going anywhere near the first

Rand al'Thor

7:42 PM

@IAmInPLS A cane pilot?

An ace pilot!

dcfyj

@IAmInPLS Not very many others, passengers are a very high percentage of the plane's populace

Sconibulus

I, Plat Canoe!

dcfyj

I, Duddits?

Rand al'Thor

OK, solution is complete.

IAmInPLS

Nice, it was fun to see you trying hard though

Good job

Rubio

7:47 PM

I was sure it was TOENAIL CAP.

Sconibulus

8:05 PM

In theory, could an on-topic puzzle link to a JSFiddle or something that provides a game, the solution to which is necessary to proceed?

user61230

@ArbitraryKangaroo users.skynet.be/moz071262/Applets/Magic%20Polyhedra

user61230

Used to have an online applet, but apparently disabled for security reasons.

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@Sconibulus I don't think so, it would heavily ignore the "self-contained" principle.

Except it's solvable without the JS game, of course

Then it's OK

Sconibulus

Too bad we don't have code snippets then

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Q: Enabling Code Snippets

Note: This was already discussed here, but with this question I want to reopen the discussion in hope of more attention and stronger agreement. Currently JavaScript/HTML/CSS code snippets are disabled for Puzzling. This, in my opinion, should change, and these are the arguments I bring forward...

feature-request

I thought inbuilt snippets had at least some security checks, but apparently they don't.

Sphinx

8:30 PM

0

Q: What is an Aerious Word™?

This is in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Aerious Word™. Use the examples below to find the rule. $$\begin{array}{|c|c|}\hline \bbox[yellow]{\textbf{Aerious...

word-property

Mithrandir

8:49 PM

@Sphinx bug? You're showing the code instead of what it's supposed to show...

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Is that an I or l ? :/

I assume l

GentlePurpleRain

@Mithrandir MathJax doesn't render in chat, so it won't render in the oneboxed question, either. e.g. $2 \times 4 = 8$

Sphinx

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Q: The strange notebook - Clue Seventeen

<<---First clue <---Previous clue The door swings open. You step through, and it closes - thud - behind you. You look around. You are in what appears to be a normal living room, with some chairs, couches, and a coffee table. On the coffee table is a red notebook, marked simply Clue. You op...

enigmatic-puzzle story

Rand al'Thor

Too many imgur mazes around here these days.

I made an imgur-code-based riddle before it was cool. Now everyone's doing it.

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I'm currently making one too, lol. Will be posted in about 1.5 months :)

Sconibulus

9:01 PM

imgur maze should be a tag

GentlePurpleRain

The thing I don't like about them is that they're not transferable. Most of the puzzles on this site, I could print out and solve on paper, but something like that is entirely dependent on being not only on the internet, but specifically on StackExchange.

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*3 months

Sconibulus

I don't like that they make the 'answer' to a bunch of parts be complete nonsense

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