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7:28 PM

Defending: I

@Mithrandir @quartata @JohnDvorak @EricTressler @phenomist @ffao @Deusovi @GarethMcCaughan @ASCII-only @Rubio It's game time!

John Dvorak

70 I keep an _ you

GentlePurpleRain

70 ION

John Dvorak

70 ✔️

Mithrandir

1: someone who can't play now

Rubio

2,3: Printing need

ManyPinkHats

7:31 PM

4. I don't think that word means what you think it means

1: I

contact 4

4: INCONCEIVABLE

1: I is correct.

71 (4) of man

7:32 PM

4 ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

71: ISLE

John Dvorak

71✔️

GentlePurpleRain

2 or 3: INK

2,3: INDIA INK

Rubio

2,3 ✔ ✔

John Dvorak

72, 73 I in INRI

Rubio

7:34 PM

8: Lazy

John Dvorak

74 Tesla, perhaps

74: INVENTOR

74 ✔️

72 or 73: IESUS?

72 ✔️

7:35 PM

73: INVICTUS?

John Dvorak

73 x

GentlePurpleRain

8: INDOLENT

Rubio

5: Picard lives another life and learns to play an instrument

8 ✔

Sid

16. Neither deduction nor conduction

GentlePurpleRain

16: INDUCTION

Sid

7:37 PM

16. Yup

John Dvorak

75 What God isn't in Fortran

Rubio

9: Recently misspelled with an -RA- instead of an -RI-

Sid

12. I fled the country

contact 9

GentlePurpleRain

75: INFALLIBLE?

quartata

c75

John Dvorak

7:38 PM

75 x

quartata

good thing Rain pinged me

John Dvorak

ManyPinkHats

c12

Deusovi

contact 9

contact 75

John Dvorak

76 The bullet to shoot yourself with in CSS

GentlePurpleRain

7:39 PM

pass 75

INTEGER

75: INTEGER

75 ✔️

fortran memeeeees

...okay

7:40 PM

"God is real, unless declared integer" - a joke about FORTRAN variable typing

GentlePurpleRain

Defending: I N

probably everything lives.

Deusovi

(IIRC. I've never used FORTRAN)

John Dvorak

76 dies

quartata

In old Fortran variables usually default to reals, but ones that start with I or J are integer

ManyPinkHats

I think 12 dies, if I have it right

John Dvorak

7:40 PM

I haven't touched Fortran either

ManyPinkHats

But wait for confirmation from Sid

GentlePurpleRain

76 INHERITANCE

Sid

12 dies, Yes. It was IRAN.

John Dvorak

73 dies

76 isn't inheritance. It died.

Sid

I am pretty sure 9 dies too.

Rubio

7:42 PM

9 dies. 5 lives.

John Dvorak

77 Lesser form of mute??

Cows quack

10: Hopkins's poetry

quartata

100: basis + step

GentlePurpleRain

77: INAUDIBLE

Gareth McCaughan

It's IJKLMN or possinly IJKLMNO that are integer in (old-fashioned) Fortran.

contact 10

John Dvorak

7:42 PM

77 x

GentlePurpleRain

100: INDUCTION

Gareth McCaughan

contact 100 probably

quartata

@GarethMcCaughan ah yes I knew there were a couple others

100 yes

it's just the ones for loop variables basically

GentlePurpleRain

No idea about 10

pass 10

Gareth McCaughan

not just loop variables. E.g., if you have something called NPOINTS or NUMCUSTOMERS then it will default to integer

I think 10 is INSCAPE

Cows quack

7:43 PM

yes

GentlePurpleRain

Defending: I N E

John Dvorak

77 dies

Cows quack

more like inscape/instress, but both work

quartata

200: does not need to eat

ManyPinkHats

1. Noble

John Dvorak

7:44 PM

c200

Sid

15. Newton talked about it

contact 1

Rubio

5 dies, was (The) INNER LIGHT

ManyPinkHats

c15

John Dvorak

200' Cannot be eaten

Gareth McCaughan

contact 15

Cows quack

7:44 PM

c15

contact 200'

200' INEDIBLE

c200'

200' ✔️

9, for those who didn't realize it, was IRRITABLE

Gareth McCaughan

7:45 PM

contact 1

Rubio

contact 1

Gareth McCaughan

2. Like the creator of the rolling spheres

contact 15

1: INERT

1 ✔️

7:45 PM

1 nice!

GentlePurpleRain

I was thinking about the wrong definition of noble.

Cows quack

ha nice one

GentlePurpleRain

2: INEFFABLE?

Rubio

13: Certain sound, in the Matrix?

Gareth McCaughan

yup, 2 is INEFFABLE

(kinda-quoting a fairly well known hymn)

Sid

7:46 PM

14. "it will happen"

Gareth McCaughan

contact 14

contact 13

John Dvorak

c14

quartata

c14

Deusovi

10. Like a signal that breaks =))>- ? (apologies for poor ASCII art)

GentlePurpleRain

14: INEVITABLE

Sid

7:46 PM

14. ✔

John Dvorak

78 Newton's second

Cows quack

is that a happy gandalf deusovi

contact 78

c78

contact 78

7:47 PM

hmm, contact 78

GentlePurpleRain

78: INERTIA

15: INERTIA

John Dvorak

78 ✔️

Sid

15: ✔

John Dvorak

Oops, I didn't notice 15

phenomist

20: Bad puzzle

GentlePurpleRain

7:48 PM

You gave away 15

quartata

should have known Dvorak would be the only one to get 200

c200 i think

11: xor

I'm surprised myself

I have a guess at 200 but I'm not sure the thing in question is really a word

Sid

7:49 PM

maybe contact 200

John Dvorak

c11

Gareth McCaughan

contact 200 I guess since others have too

okay, pass 200

inediate

inediate

7:50 PM

indeed

GentlePurpleRain

I don't think I've ever heard that word...

Defending: I N E P

quartata

popularized by Nethack ;)

John Dvorak

Used in Nethack

Gareth McCaughan

my guess was something else even worse (INESCULENT, which if it means anything means "not hungry")

quartata

300: no skill

Gareth McCaughan

7:50 PM

contact 300

c300

contact 300

c300

20 dies inelegant

pass 300

7:50 PM

10 dies, and @Cowsquack, I assume 11 does as well

quartata

@GarethMcCaughan way cooler though!

Gareth McCaughan

boom

John Dvorak

inept

Rubio

13 dies - whoever had it go for it

Cows quack

oh yes 11 dies

Gareth McCaughan

7:51 PM

13 was INEVITABILITY

Deusovi

(because 10 and 11 were the same, I assume)

GentlePurpleRain

Defended: INEPT !!

Rubio

✔

Gareth McCaughan

another one immediately spoiled by someone else

Cows quack

o0oh that was supposed to be an xor symbol

John Dvorak

7:52 PM

I prefer pronouncing it as one syllable

Cows quack

do you want to guess 11, dvorak?

Deusovi

my bad ASCII art was an XOR gate (as on a circuit diagram). So obviously a signal that breaks it must be INEXORABLE.

oh gawd, of course

That's terrible.

11 inequality

7:52 PM

So quartata is up.

Deusovi

@GentlePurpleRain you're welcome!

phenomist

xor could've been inequality

Cows quack

that was mine

Deusovi

oh huh, alright. well, nobody was getting mine anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GentlePurpleRain

Maybe if anyone could identify it as an XOR gate...

I thought it was some obscure emoticon.

John Dvorak

7:55 PM

I did see a XOR gate in it

Deusovi

To be fair, I didn't have many other options for cluing "XOR" without explicitly giving it away.

John Dvorak

but I didn't see the horrible pun behind :P

quartata

⊕?

@GentlePurpleRain can't defend right now sorry

just popped in for the fortran one

GentlePurpleRain

Anyone else?

Rubio

meeting in 100 seconds. sorry :)

GentlePurpleRain

7:59 PM

I nominate @ManyPinkHats

ManyPinkHats

oh hello

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