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I don't see how that's related to this three weeks old thread...

I just went through the (much too short) run of The Dresden Files today. I'll probably have to read the series now.

I didn't think you could get any value outside [-10,10]...

Considering both of these are actually in the array too (#149 and #17, respectively), you could actually have made a pseudorandom function that just so happened to assign both of us our special avatars. Eg. (51*$id+17)%207 would be 17 for me, and 149 for you. Adding a third ID<->avatar correspondence would have required a square term, and so on. [/mathnerdery]

You're the same Applejack, even, which means your IDs are congruent in the modulo group of 207. 4151 = 20*207+11, 10154 = 49*207+11.

As do I, apparently.

Indeed; jet fuel can't change forum themes.

This isn't an exhaustive list, but I've watched basically all of Doctor Who (new series, obviously), Buffy and Angel, Stargate (SG-1, Atlantis and Universe), Firefly and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Also the first season or two of Game of Thrones and the first 3-4 seasons of The Big Bang Theory, but I haven't kept up with either since then. Similarly, the first episode each of Breaking Bad and Supernatural. Edit: I also kept up with NCIS for quite a while, but haven't seen any episodes in years. I think the last thing I saw most of was... season seven or something, back in 2008. Also saw the first two seasons of Torchwood.

It's also one of the few things on the site I've never thrown out and rewritten (both that page and the GD-based plotting library). At this point the code is so horrible it's weirdly beautiful. As for the test: I can't list the questions from memory, but I recognize them and I'm pretty sure they were all there when I first took the test. One thing that changed was the statement "It's all right to be open about sex, but these days it's gone too far" getting amended to "These days openness about sex has gone too far" some years back, which makes sense because the original was kind of ambiguous. They might consider doing something similar to "The death penalty should be an option for the most serious crimes". The "plant genetic resources" is also one weird over-specific statement. I always did wonder why there was no question on gun control, alt med or vaccination - surely those issues were already around when the test was made, and if they were included, I (and a ton of other liberals, presumably) would score much higher on the authoritarian scale.

Oops. And yeah, that is strange. Is the filter not active for moderators?

Updated. In related news, I just found out that the guy who replaced my phone display messed up my front camera alignment.

The whole average has moved down fairly far - it's now near -7, and it used to hover around -3.

Woah, you're in second place for the largest jump in consecutive polls: [/creepy-archivist] sources: 2005: http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/topic/1/2586 2008: [data presumably lost] 2007: http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/topic/1/4515/p1 2010: http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/13708-political-compass-reborn/ 2011: http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/16037-where-do-you-fall-on-the-political-compass/ 2012: http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/17947-political-compass-round-infinity/ 2014: http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/20508-its-that-time-again/ Edit: Wait no, I was just missing like a bunch of threads between 2008 and now (2010, 2012, 2014). Edit2: I can't believe that my map also got saved by the web archive - including all combinations of groups I've tried so far, which could be up to 2^11.

Can't believe this thing still works: http://ermarian.net/...ics/compass/map (I don't even want to read the code in that page.) Eco: -6.38 Soc: -8.56 Edit: Link fixed, missing a part of the URL. Edit2: Seven years after writing the code for that ellipse thing, I finally realize what's wrong with it. By aligning it with the axis instead of rotating it, I'm treating the coordinates as independent even though they're clearly pretty correlated.

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Background Applications Desk My room (You might be able to guess who is best pony, but it's pretty subtle.)

I think I was Atrus a lot longer, actually.

It's been a while since we had one of these! Just moved to a new city, so here is the obligatory stand-in-front-of-a-landmark shot. This is me with my hair down. It's over a year old, so it's actually quite a bit longer now. (Not as long as Nalyd's, though.) This is me moments after passing through security at Newark late 2013. (The TSA lady remarked on my Evil Little Thing shirt but still let me fly. ) This is me with Best Pony:

Since Garth Nix's Clariel just came out, I took the opportunity to finish the rest of the Abhorsen series (only read Sabriel and Lirael so far; the latter in German). I really love the setting.

I'd love to get my hands in again, and this looks like I can take part without a lot of commitment. I'm thinking of a bard with a level in wizard or something; I'll try to make a character tomorrow.

Is the XP system enough to put Wesnoth in the RPG category? The other elements seem to be either common elements to RPG and Strategy (named characters, dialogue), or distinctly Strategy (territorial control / resource production, recruitment limited only by resources, rigidly defined unit types without skill trees).

Can't speak for others, but we had a computer magazine that put distributed shareware games on CD back in the nineties and a few years after. (I think nowadays they still have the CD but it's mostly various Windows admin tools.) It had the Exile 3 demo in December 2000.

1. 27 2. Born in Manhattan, grew up in Germany and have lived in various cities here all my life. 3. German, English. I can read a bit of French and Spanish, but not write or converse in it. 4. German, basically. One set of grandparents came from Silesia, which has variously been part of Bohemia, Poland, Prussia, Germany and Poland again. 5. Male, cis, heterosexual (0-1 on the scale, I guess). 6. Raised with some religion but mostly indifferent, started identifying as strongly atheist around 15-16. 7. Forever Alone 8. Middle class, I suppose. My family has mostly consisted of teachers and scientists. 9. Nope, couldn't and wouldn't. 10. Currently a grad student and a TA in Computer Science, close to finishing a Master's degree.

It doesn't mean what you think it means. This is about as frustrating and confusing as a user who consistently calls their monitor a "computer" and their computer a "monitor". It's hard to take what you say seriously, especially since I'm at least the third programmer in this topic alone to point it out. Jeff has almost certainly not deliberately made it harder to read this data. Why would he? It's a waste of time even if he wasn't opposed to DRM. Any difficulty in reverse-engineering the scenario format (that's what this is called, by the way: reverse-engineering) results solely from a lack of documentation and a lack of the source code. This isn't just terminological quibbling. Reverse-engineering depends on guessing how it was engineered in the first place. If we (reasonably) assume that it isn't deliberately obfuscated (let alone encrypted), this makes a big difference.