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12:33 AM
@Wen1now That's very regional-pronunciation dependent.
 
Yeah. For Americans they're not the same at all.
 
Hmmm... that's cool
 
google.com/search?q=define+awe and click the pronunciation icon :)
awe, or, ore, and oar all share IPA of /ɔː/ for UK, apparently. interestingly enough, all four words have a unique pronunciation audio clip at google.co.uk, despite the same IPA
"UK is weird".
 
 
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2:57 AM
Oh. I thought there was another one (OAR). It just felt like there was another one, but I couldn't remember it
 
3:08 AM
Is anyone here?
 
We're playing Codenames.
 
Yeah, I'm here
 
@Deusovi We are? I just looked at the site rooms and didn't see it active recently
 

 Codenames

For playing the game Codenames. New players, see puzzling.meta...
 
@Deusovi ._. I swear is said last message 8 hours ago
 
3:11 AM
Okay, I guess codenames is dying out
Meanwhile we're in the middle of contact season

 Contact

For playing the game Contact, where one person tries to "defend"...
 
 
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7:42 PM
Let's see if I can rustle up a game so that I don't fall asleep in the middle this time ;P
o/
 
Oh goody, I was just silently lamenting the downturn in chat activity
o/
 
8:04 PM
:/
It's after eleven now and I need to concentrate tomorrow, so if we're playing I'd like to start now.
(like, getting-paid-to-work-and-it's-taking-too-long need to concentrate)
 
hi
if @deus is here we'd have enough to kick a game off
if we start, who would want to defend?
 
8:20 PM
In class for the next 40 minutes. Will be happy to play after that.
 
8:37 PM
o/
we should probably pay a visit to Codenames eventually
 
back from lunch
 
I can play for the next 15 minutes
 
here I am
 
Someone needs to start defending
I nominate @ffao
 
I nominate not @ffao
 
8:45 PM
crud
 
I nominate not @Mr.Xcoder
 
Ok
Here is plan
I have 10 minutes, so I will do something really easy.
Pavel defending T
 
40: What Pavel doesn't have much of
 
40 is time
 
40 ✔️
41: restaurant chain that sounds too much like the author of canon in D (4 4)
 
8:48 PM
81: Euler's ______ function
 
81: Totient?
 
81: ✔️
 
contact 41
 
Pass 41
I have no idea who wrote canon in D
 
41: taco bell?
 
8:49 PM
41 ✔️
 
I'm gonna need a quick explanation on that one
Pavel defending T E
 
Pachelbel wrote it, iirc
 
@ffao Ah
 
65: Noting sticks to ______
 
8:49 PM
It's a great and semi-famous rant, well worth watching
contact 65
 
@JohnDvorak Did you switch from Jan to John?
 
Pass 65
 
teflon
 
65 ✔️
 
@Mr.Xcoder yes
 
8:50 PM
Dammit
The word is TEA.
 
Wow
 
o/
 
I gtg
 
I also want to defend quickly
 
8:51 PM
Now you know who's supposed to actually defend
 
You could have held on for a little bit more :P (one clue specifically)
 
^
 
^^
@JohnDvorak Do you want to defend?
 
just as fast? :P
 
If you give up the last letter there's no need to indicate you've given up the whole word, btw.
 
8:51 PM
i'd like to clue rather than defend, yeah
 
@Rubio Ye but I have to go
 
@Rubio Then, how do we guess on?
Like, clue the word?
 
The game would proceed until someone actually attacked with TEA
or until you passed again and had no new letter to give.
In practice the latter never happens.
 
Yep thanks
 
I think the latter has happened before
 
8:53 PM
I've seen it happen once
 
I changed my mind, I don't want to defend
 
it usually follows with "is that actually a word?", I'd guess
 
ok "almost never", happy? :)
 
Defending C
 
1: ...
 
8:54 PM
1 carbon?
 
Contact 1
carbon, really?
 
1 is not CARBON
6: ...
 
contact 1,6
 
1': ...
 
6 carbon
 
8:56 PM
these aren't supposed to take this long ;)
6: ✔
 
pass 1
 
1: CONTACT
 
1: contact
 
1 ✔
 
ok...
 
8:56 PM
hey, contact actually gave us a letter for once
 
Defending CE
 
1' dies, it was of course CONTRACT
 
5: Floor and _____
 
Feel free to consider me a roulette for the next defender :P
5 ceiling
 
@ffao whoa
 
8:57 PM
5 ✔
100: 100
 
contact 100
 
100 cent-
 
Ugh?
 
century?
 
100 ✔
 
8:58 PM
oh you actually started
 
cent- as a prefix means 100. Anything with that prefix would fit.
 
9: Boston _____
 
99, 100: th birthday party
 
I hope 9 isn't cea party
 
contact 9
 
9:00 PM
10: Salad stabbed to death
 
100 is taken
 
contact 10
 
contact 10
 
9 is NOT "cea party"
 
10 c[a]esar salad?
 
9:00 PM
10: y
 
(And yeah, it's spelled Caesar, not Ceasar)
 
I was going to complain
 
pass 9
 
9 CELTICS
 
9 celtics it is ✔
 
9:01 PM
Who's that?
 
Basketball
 
right?
 
Defending CEL
 
99 dies, 100 lives.
 
9:02 PM
contact 100
 
star pls
 
5: They have powerhouses
 
contact 5
 
contact 5?
 
on mobile
 
9:02 PM
contact 5
 
2: Ringmaster
 
5 cell[ular network] towers?
 
nope
 
heh
 
*snerk*
 
9:03 PM
2 cellphone?
 
12: Excel
 
contact 12?
 
12 cell editor???
 
nah, Xcontact 12
 
Please pin C E L. Thanks
@JohnDvorak Nearly there
Well, to close. CELL.
 
9:05 PM
in the mean time, pass 5
 
5 CELLS
 
yup ("the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" is an absurdly specific common phrase in high school biology)
 
Oh. I should have realized that.
Defending C E L L
 
dammit I was on another tab, I wanted to just shout MITOCHONDRIA
 
I'm so tired of hearing it misquoted as "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
 
9:06 PM
100 dies. (These were Centennial Celebration)
 
45: regenerated cellulose
 
1: Automata, kind of
 
contact 45
 
1 cellular
 
1: ✔
 
9:07 PM
45 cell wall?
 
45 No
 
celluloid?
 
45 no
 
2: Flab
 
contact 2
 
9:08 PM
contact 2
 
uncontact 45
 
9: ...I win!
 
9 cellebration?
(sic)
 
bah
 
no :P
 
9:08 PM
pass 2
 
cellulite
 
2: CELLULITE ✔
 
Defending C E L L A
 
45 dies - Cellophane
 
@as4s4hetic I MEANT THAT
 
9:09 PM
2: Down under
 
pass 2
 
2: cellar
 
2 ✔
 
Gah, reading the other word above twisted my brain words D:
 
FFAO wins
 
9:09 PM
rubio wins
 
eh. I win. :)
 
oh, right
Rubio wins
 
guesses on 9?
no? alright
it was CELL+U LOSE
 
oh. dear.
 
Wha......
 
9:12 PM
pity. the word I wanted to use isn't valid.
 
not scrabble?
 
it's hyphenated apparently, which I suspected might be the case
Rubio defending: L
 
40: The sinister are gone
 
9: _____ news
 
40 It's not LEFT
 
9:16 PM
40 ✔️
 
That moment when you discover your clipboard doesn't have what you expect.
 
i.e the
 
happens to me too often
 
I've gotta go, 9 is latest
Bye o/
 
41 LED
 
9:18 PM
41 It's not LIGHT
 
contact 41
 
41 ✔️
 
contact 41
 
42: Life often gives that
 
contact 42
 
9:19 PM
42 It's not LEMON
 
42 ✔️
 
30. The ASL sign involves "picking something up" from the hand and moving it toward the head
 
uh
30 It's not LOSER ?
 
30 nope
 
43: reptile of biblical proportions
 
9:21 PM
5: 80% of this acronym is shared with another one, but none of the full words are the same
 
contact 43?
5': 100% of this acronym is shared with another one, but none of the full words are the same
 
5: It's not LASER (cf TASER) ?
oh good lord.
43 I doubt it's LIZARD
 
5: correct
 
What's the expansion of TASER?
not lizard indeed
 
Tom's .... Electric Rifle?
 
9:23 PM
Thomas A Swift's Electric Rifle
 
thomas a swift's electric rifle
 
Someone's had a lucky name here :P
thanks
 
31. !get Shiro to boot you
 
31 It's not LEAVE
 
31 ✔ It is
 
9:26 PM
PASS 43, drawing total blank
 
LEVIATHAN?
 
43 ✔️
 
though I thought that was a sea monster
 
ah derp
it's reptilian
 
If I understood correctly, it was a crocodile/alligator
 
9:27 PM
Rubio defending: L A
 
44: Drawing attention from something by pointing it out
 
le·vi·a·than
ləˈvīəTHən/Submit
noun
noun: leviathan; plural noun: leviathans
(in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g., Job 41, Ps. 74:14), and with the Devil (after Isa. 27:1).
a very large aquatic creature, especially a whale.
"the great leviathans of the deep"
a thing that is very large or powerful, especially a ship.
an autocratic monarch or state.
 
44 It's not LAMPSHADING
 
44 ✔️
 
30 and 5' both die. Guesses?
 
9:28 PM
afk, walking back to dorm
 
30 lift?
 
31 was guessed
 
Sorry, meant 5'
 
yah, I had no idea on that. hehe
 
30 is LEARN, 5' is LOL
[league of legends vs. laugh out loud]
 
9:29 PM
indeed'
 
technically the former is lowercase o
but still nice
 
32. IRL gaming
 
45: selection mode in M$ paint et al.
 
32 It's not LARP
45 It's not LASSO maybe?
 
32 ✔
 
9:31 PM
45 ✔️
 
I may be a little slow for a few
 
MS Paint has lasso selection? o_O
 
Paint has evolved since the days of "put colored square here"
 
It's actually a freehand selection and doesn't cling to edges
but it's been there since the 3.11 days
 
It's wholly unrecognizable from the good ol' .bmp days
 
9:34 PM
46: White rodent
 
contact 46?
 
47: onions have that
 
33, 34. Place Group
contact 47
 
47 It's not LAYERS
 
47 ✔️
 
9:36 PM
46 It's not LAGOMORPH by chance?
 
not lagomorph. Great guess though.
 
lagomorphs aren't actually rodents
(or maybe they are, I'm terrible at biology)
 
They're not, but some people seem to get that wrong - I was half hoping :)
 
I was wondering if they were
 
PASS 46, though I may regret this
 
9:38 PM
TIL
46 LAB RAT?
 
46 ✔️
 
omg
Rubio defending: L A N
 
*pat pat*
 
I'm surprised you passed
 
Apparently I shouldn't be playing today :)
 
9:39 PM
33, 34 die. Guess?
 
if I had a guess I would be better off trying to contact :P
 
35. The go-to source for personalized backpacks
myeh, LA Lakers
 
36: On the table
 
1: Evolution
 
48: Group of elements
 
9:41 PM
contact 48
 
contact 48
 
contact 48
 
contact 48, why not
 
36 and 48: It's not LANTHANIDE(S)
 
48 ✔️
 
9:42 PM
35 It's not LANDS END
 
36 is not LANTHANIDE
 
PLZ CANCEL 35, I just remembered I'm thinking of the wrong source
 
Is it lanthanide, or lanthanoid?
 
Oh but yeah it was Lands End. I meant to do LLBean
 
I think they both work
36 It's not LANTHANUM actually
 
9:44 PM
49: a strip to place airplanes on
 
contact 49
 
36: correct
 
stars on 1 please?
contact 49
 
37. Northern state is source of butter
 
49 It's not LANDING ZONE ?
 
9:45 PM
49 ✔️
 
37 It's not LAND O' LAKES
 
37. ✔ Nice
38. Saber's fellow fighter
 
contact 38
 
78: Between the white lines
 
c78
 
9:47 PM
contact 78
 
40: Not actually a celebration (3 5)
 
78 It's not LANE
 
contact 40
 
contact 40
 
40 It's not a LAN PARTY
 
9:47 PM
correct, it is LANE
 
40 ✔️
 
PASS 38
 
7. Not exerting much effort
 
38: lancer
 
7 It's not LANGUISHING
 
9:48 PM
7 is not LANGUISHING
 
38 ✔
 
Rubio defending: L A N Y
 
1 dies, was also lancer
 
it was LANGUID though, and it does
7. Necklace
 
that would have been guess 2
PASS 7
 
9:49 PM
contact 7
dangit was writing a clue
it's LANYARD
 
thought so
 
:)
✔✔
 
that's the only word I could think of
ff, you can have it
 
Yah I wanted a quick game, figured at LANY it'd be over more or less immediately
 
I like the word
 
9:50 PM
Note to self: use anime references for ffao
 
I was having doubts about getting a letter from Fate/stay night, then I remembered even Gareth made a clue about that
 
Which I suppose should have been obvious given their user pics
 
yes, ffao is a huge weeb. so is Sp
 
Once upon a time, I was president of my university's anime club
 
Most game references I don't know, and many anime references I have no idea about. But I really only draw a line at math terms and Pokemon for fairness.
 
9:52 PM
I don't remember much, and don't do very well keeping up these days, though
 
I don't keep up all that well either, I don't like stories without endings
 
Any recent favorites?
 
not sure I can remember one I watched recently that actually ended :P
 
anyway. @feelinferrety if you would like to defend, go for it
 
konosuba is a good comedy, parasyte is a good action anime, and yamada-kun and the seven witches is a good school harem type thing
for sports the one I watched most recently was chihayafuru
which is still kinda old
 

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