Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 "slartifer! slartifer! slartifer!" I called out that triad in an attempt to banish the 331, now 332, soon to be 333 names of slartifer back to their many different lands of origin: but standing between me and the haven of my nomenparts was a mirror: a standing reflection that trapped them, and made me stare. I asked for a prism, not a mirror -- but here they all are, trapped before our eyes. 333 would be too much for one sitting, so we will attack this project in phases. Below, you will find a list of 59 PDNs (chronological) and 59 crossword-style clues (alphabetical). These are the first 59 PDN changes, covering the first major period of name-changing, which lasted a little over a year. Your task is to correctly identify which PDN is described by each clue. You will receive 1 point per reference correctly identified. Points will accumulate until all 333 names have been banished; and yes, there will be a prize at the end for the highest point totals. When referencing a PDN, please include its number so it is easier for others (myself included) to find it on the list. What is a reflection? A chance to see two? When there are chances for reflections, there can always be two--or more. Only when we are everywhere will there be just one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 1. Dame Annals — Murasaki nickname 2. Good-Looks the Playboy — Servant of Enki 3. The Beautiful Green Serpent — Goethe heroine 4. 2600 Hertzballons — Hacker Nena 5. Mathman v. Qwerty — Your mission is to eat only spinning SunSoft mascots 6. $ v. # — Basic variable conflict 7. i v. I — Case conflict 8. Djuran Orb v. Arancaytog — Sacrifice an artifact: gain 2 insults 9. Ornkithopter v. Thurkyl's Recall — Return all flying meat you control 10. Argg v. Ed-Hajjaj — You must gain 1 spam if able 11. His and Her Meaty Appendage — Church official 12. Slartreuse — My color, liqueur, and mountain range 13. The Ingebritsens' Car — Gaarder distraction device 14. 84,000 Stupas — Ashoka legacy 15. Vlishnu — Tentacle preserver 16. Sss-Vlish — Telepathic warlord 17. Anti-Fairy — Magic Powder target 18. Come On Pilgrim: Track 4 — Ed is Dead 19. John Paul v. Jean-Paul — Pontificator versus pontiff. FIGHT! 20. Auroraloraelis — Your Lightliness 21. Slack Pumpkinhead — Tip's lazy son 22. Cake Glaahk — Musical chairs with a stunning prize 23. Rotghroth Challoth — Undead bread 24. Rotdhizon Calzone — Stuffed with acid 25. Frosted Cryodrayks — They're brrrrrrrr-eat! 26. Thahd Lemonade — Shady drink for a hot day 27. Artequila — The aftertaste will kill you 28. Charged Slartile — Volatile servile 29. SlartSoYa — Lunarian alter ego? 30. --Slarty — Mimetic alter ego? 31. Slartel Runeaxe — Legendary alter ego? 32. Everything Remains To Be Done — To devastate the ideas of family, famine and religion 33. Facepalming Hecatonchire — Judgement of Tartarus 34. Rhymes with Slarty — Not much 35. Deprecaticon — Criticism catalogue 36. @ — The player 37. Hashi the Drug-Sniffing Canine — Music for an imaginary film 38. Slartanalycyst — When analysis goes too far 39. Slartyphobia — Cousin to the monster of the Cleft of Dimension 40. 227 Chitrachballons — Adventurer Nena 41. Imban — That's us 42. Hawkwind — Britannian seer 43. Slarty 2.0 — I probably forgot to install this 44. Slartematographer — S:TMP Director 45. Slartypants — Anaximander alter ego? 46. Speaker for the Ed — Orson Scott Canned 47. Polydegmon — Who receives many 48. Degei — Fiji judge 49. Yama — Vedic judge 50. Yama Toman? — Mega judge with a spear 51. Prick Against the Kicks — Saul doppleganger 52. Fernication — Often autogamous 53. Pompopsych — Leads the underworld to you 54. Unhasty — Ents, for one 55. Love Parallelogram — Ménage à quatre 56. Disappearer — Sonic Youth single 57. GVDT — Front 242 hasn't found _____ yet 58. Discontinued — No longer in continuity 59. Indicative v. Performative — The state of letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 tl;dr- These quizzes should be kept to a maximum of like 20 items. Nobody wants to cross-reference 60 PDN's and clues to figure out who's who. Also, use more linebreaks. And number the second list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Fair enough. If 59 is too many for you, just wait until other people have taken out the obvious ones. The list will shrink substantially. (I could also put all 333 in one post, if you'd prefer that. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Let's see how many I still can remember. I'll have to come back later when I'm awake. I was worried that Slarty had been using Aloreal's skribbane since he was a bit green. 1. Dame Annals 2. Good-Looks the Playboy 3. The Beautiful Green Serpent 4. 2600 Hertzballons 5. Mathman v. Qwerty 6. $ v. # 7. i v. I 8. Djuran Orb v. Arancaytog 9. Ornkithopter v. Thurkyl's Recall 10. Argg v. Ed-Hajjaj 11. His and Her Meaty Appendage 12. Slartreuse 13. The Ingebritsens' Car 14. 84,000 Stupas 15. Vlishnu 16. Sss-Vlish 17. Anti-Fairy 18. Come On Pilgrim: Track 4 19. John Paul v. Jean-Paul - Pontificator versus pontiff. FIGHT! 20. Auroraloraelis 21. Slack Pumpkinhead 22. Cake Glaahk 23. Rotghroth Challoth 24. Rotdhizon Calzone - Stuffed with acid 25. Frosted Cryodrayks - They're brrrrrrrr-eat! 26. Thahd Lemonade - Shady drink for a hot day 27. Artequila 28. Charged Slartile 29. SlartSoYa 30. --Slarty 31. Slartel Runeaxe 32. Everything Remains To Be Done 33. Facepalming Hecatonchire 34. Rhymes with Slarty 35. Deprecaticon 36. @ 37. Hashi the Drug-Sniffing Canine 38. Slartanalycyst 39. Slartyphobia 40. 227 Chitrachballons 41. Imban 42. Hawkwind 43. Slarty 2.0 44. Slartematographer 45. Slartypants 46. Speaker for the Ed -Orson Scott Canned 47. Polydegmon 48. Degei 49. Yama - Vedic judge 50. Yama Toman? 51. Prick Against the Kicks 52. Fernication 53. Pompopsych 54. Unhasty 55. Love Parallelogram 56. Disappearer 57. GVDT 58. Discontinued 59. Indicative v. Performative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 So far... Ed is Dead - 46? Pontificator vs. Pontiff. Fight!!! - 19? Tentacle preserver - 11? I probably forgot to install this - 43? When analysis goes too far - 38? They're brrrrrrrr-eat! - 25? Undead bread - 23? Lunarian alter ego? - 29! Shady drink for a hot day - 26? Stuffed with acid - 24? Magic Powder target - 17! Yay Zelda! Edit: Erm...nevermind, Randomizer knew them all instantly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 RANDOMIZER Correct -- #19, 24, 25, 26, 46, 49 +6, total points: 6 Triumph: Correct -- #46, 19, 43, 38, 25, 23, 29, 26, 24, 17 +10, total points: 10 When posts are this close in time and obviously overlapping, I'll give point credit to both parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I knew I started playing Magic for a reason! Return all flying meat you control is 9. Ornkithopter v. Thurkyl's Recall Sacrifice an artifact: gain 2 insults is 8. Djuran Orb v. Arancaytog EDIT: Funny thing is, I'm a Modern-only player, so Ornithopter is the only card I've played with. These guesses should be credited to Gatherer, not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DINITARADAN Correct -- #9, 8 +2, total points: 2 See, Dantius, it's already down quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 (It still is a ridiculously large list. Could the next iteration be short enough for the clues/names to fit on one screen, please?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 52 - Often autogamous 44 - S:TMP Director 12 - My color, liqueur, and mountain range 31 - Legendary alter ego? Ahh...it's getting too late. Good night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 I'll see what I can do. I didn't want to have 12 of these things, after all. But perhaps I can shrink it a bit and also make some UI improvements. TRIUMPH Correct -- #52, 44, 12, 31 +4, total points: 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 You know, it would also help if you numbered the clues. Also, are you looking to have people just state which clue goes with which name, or to elaborate on what is meant? Some of the easy ones: 4. 2600 Hertzballons <=> Hacker Nena (99 Luftballons is a song by Nena, 2600 Hz was a frequency used by part of AT&T's phone system at one time, which was exploited by phone hackers to make free long distance calls.) 12. Slartreuse <=> My color, liqueur, and mountain range (Chartreuse is a color and a liquor.) 25. Frosted Cryodrayks <=> They're brrrrrrrr-eat! ('They're grr-r-reat' is a slogan for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, and I assume that Cryodrayks are cold.) 40. 227 Chitrachballons <=> Adventurer Nena (Refers to the same Nena song as 4, and chitrach are fought by adventurers.) 46. Speaker for the Ed <=> Orson Scott Canned ('Speaker for the Dead' is a book by Orson Scott Card. Ed was (I assume) Canned, before being Banned.) 55 Love Parallelogram <=> Ménage à quatre (Four vertices, rather than the three of the love triangle.) EDIT: Okay, nevermind. My slow typing clearly renders my participation irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Okay, this should be much better. Now everything fits on one page. Niemand -- I didn't number the clues because they are alphabetized, so they are easy to find by name. Also, looking up two different numbers to check your answers is way more of a hassle than just looking up one, and given the rate at which you all are answering, this is a relevant concern. NIEMAND Correct -- #4, 12, 40, 55 Too late -- #25, 46 +4 points, total score: 4 Edit 2: All that said, I like your explanations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 15. Vlishnu - Tentacle preserver 28. Charged Slartile - Volatile servile 54. Unhasty - Ents, for one Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DIKIYOBA Correct -- #15, 28, 54 +3, total score: 3 EDIT: Whoops, I accidentally gave Triumph credit for a wrong answer (#46). Triumph is actually at 13. Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 A number of these are shots in the dark... Case conflict is 7. i v. I (just a pun, right?) Front 242 hasn't found _____ yet is 57. GVDT That's us is 41. Imban (?) Mega judge with a spear is 47. Polydegmon (Polydegmon refers to Hades, and one of his symbols was a spear; other clues could work, though) EDIT: Bedtime, good luck to the rest of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 2. Good-Looks the Playboy - Anaximander alter ego? 7. i v. I - Case conflict 16. Sss-Vlish - Telepathic warlord 27. Artequila - The aftertaste will kill you 36. @ - The Player Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DINTIRADAN Correct -- #7, 57, 41 Incorrect -- #47 (not a bad interpretation, but there are better fits for both halves there) +3, total score: 5 DIKIYOBA Correct -- #7, 16, 27, 36 Incorrect -- #2 (again, reasonable guess, but no) +4, total score: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 20 - Your Lightliness? 35 - Not much? 48 - Servant of Enki? 18 - Music for an imaginary film? 45 - Mimetic alter ego? Edit: can't sleep, and this is a fun distraction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 20. Auroraloraelis - Your Lightliness 30. --Slarty - Mimetic alter ego? 48. Degei - Fiji judge 50. Yama Toman? - Servant of Enki Dikiyoba, too, is out for the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Some sure bets, some pretty sures, and some wild guesses. 32. Everything Remains To Be Done - To devastate the ideas of family, famine and religion 47. Polydegmon - Mega judge with a spear 58. Discontinued - No longer in continuity 35. Deprecaticon - Criticism catalogue 34. Rhymes with Slarty - Not much 18. Come On Pilgrim: Track 4 - Ed is Dead 10. Argg v. Ed-Hajjaj - You must gain 1 spam if able 56. Disappearer - Mimetic alter ego? 5. Mathman v. Qwerty - Basic variable conflict 6. $ v. # - The state of letters 37. Hashi the Drug-Sniffing Canine - Music for an imaginary film 45. Slartypants - Musical chairs with a stunning prize 39. Slartyphobia - Judgement of Tartarus 51. Prick Against the Kicks - Leads the underworld to you Fun fact: I have just passed my 7th Spiderweb forum member anniversary. Fun times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 TRIUMPH Correct -- #20 Incorrect -- #35, 48, 18, 45 +1 point, total score: 14 DIKIYOBA Correct -- #20, 30, 48 Incorrect -- #50 +3 points, total score: 10 JEWELS Correct -- #32, 58, 35, 34, 18, 10, 37 Incorrect -- #47, 56, 5, 6, 45 (but lol ), 39, 51 +7 points, total score: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 POINT UPDATE -- FRIDAY MORNING 14 Triumph 10 Dikiyoba 07 Jewels 06 Randomizer 05 Dintiradan 04 Niemand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 50. Yama Toman? - Leads the underworld to you Vedic god of death to man 11. His and Her Meaty Appendage - Church official from the Church of the Nine Headed Cow 6. $ v. # - Basic variable conflict not sure if this is BASIC computer language since I used FORTRAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 5 - The state of letters? 33 - Judgement of Tartarus? 14 - Who receives many? 45 - Anaximander alter ego? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 RANDOMIZER Correct -- #11, 6 Incorrect -- #50 +2, total score: 8 TRIUMPH Correct -- #33, 45 Incorrect -- #5, 14 +2, total score: 16 for 33, the hecatonchires were associated with Tartarus, and a facepalm, of course, implies a judgement has been made. I hope I don't need to explain 45. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 22 - Your mission is to eat only spinning SunSoft mascots? Cake is food, so perhaps there's a connection 3 - Britannian seer? Although green is more associated with Ireland than England, taking Britannian in a broad sense might indicate a connection. 50 - Mega judge with a spear? Yamato Man...or Yama Toman, sounds like someone grand figure wielding a spear. 21 - Musical chairs with a stunning prize? I have a very vague memory that was a band named Pumpkinhead or Pumpkin-something-or-other, hence a possible musical connection. 39 - Cousin to the monster of the Cleft of Dimension? ...I am at a total loss as what my reasoning was when I connected these two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hmm. At this point, since the list has shrunk substantially, I'd like to ask that guesses come with a reason or explanation. You don't have to be sure about it but I don't want this to become all random guessing and process of elimination. Triumph, would you care to kick this off for us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Done. Edit: done both with adding reasons to my...reasoned guesses...above, and with this list. I already answered all the ones that I had some reason to know the answer to. I look forward to the next round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 22. Cake Glaahk - Musical chairs with a stunning prize (Pun on the stun) (Triumph, quit answering. Some of us think slow, and you keep stealing Dikiyoba's answers. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 TRIUMPH Correct -- #50, 39 Incorrect -- #22, 3, 21 +2, total score: 18 50 - Yamato Man was one of the eight Robot Masters in Mega Man 6. He has a big spear. That's it. They really ran out of ideas for that game. Yama does indeed provide the judge aspect, however. 39 - Necrophobia was the monster of the Cleft of Dimension. Also, this is the last point I'm handing out without any explanation whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DIKIYOBA Correct! #22 is a Cake Walk. +1, total score: 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Pricks against the kicks is Saul's Doppelganger. Am I too late to the party? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 SKWISH-E: you are right on time. Correct! #51 +1 point, total points: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I'll take a stab at this. #1 is Murasaki nickname, since Murasaki is the author of the Tales of Genji, arguable the first novel, which records the "annals" or tales of life in the imperial court. I'll also take a WAG and say that #3 is Goethe heroine, since 1) you capitalized the letters implying it's a name, and 2) that sounds like more like a character that would be used in a Goethe allegory or story than any of the others. I'm not sure if that's good enough justification, but whatever. Yeah, that's enough for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DANTIUS: Correct! #1, 3 +2 points, total points: 2 Very close on the explanation: Dame Annals was in fact the nickname of Murasaki herself, who acquired it due to the amount of time she spent reading history and literature. 3 is indeed the heroine, of sorts, of Goethe's aptly-named ensemble-cast story "The Fairy Tale." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Oh, duh. Ashoka the Great was a Buddhist emperor of India, not a Hindu or Muslim. He's the only person on the list who would have conceivably had anything to do with stupas. No idea about that 84K, but whatever. So that makes #14 Ashoka's Legacy. #59 probably has something to do with linguistics, so I'll say that's the State of Letters. Based solely on the prefix poly-, I'll say that #47 is Who Receives Many. Gaarder was the writer of Sophie's World, which BTW is a terrible book, and Ingebritsens sounds Scandinavian as well, so let's pair #13 with Gaarder distraction device. Hmm, it's kind of like a crossword where you're provided with a word bank. Still prefer chess puzzles, though. EDIT: Wait, what if you're using Britannian Seer in reference to Code Geass? I don't recall any seers other than C.C. and V.V, though, so I'm kind of at a loss there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Hmm, it's kind of like a crossword where you're provided with a word bank. Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S crossword-style clues So, uh, yes. DANTIUS Correct -- #14, 59, 47, 13 +4 points, total score: 6 47 is indeed a name for Hades, as Triumph (I think?) pointed out. Also, what do you hate so much about Sophie's World? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hmm. I should be able to get the rest, there's so few. Is #2 Tip's Lazy Son? I mean, "playboy" is practically a synonym for "lazy", so there's that. "Enki" sounds like some sort of Norse god, and Hawkwind also sounds like some mythological figure, so is #42 Servant of Enki? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hey, so Hawkwind were a band, right? Or is that the wrong tree? Take from that what you will. Likewise, Pumpkinhead is probably referring to a pretty terrible horror film about a pumpkin-headed monster. All I remember was there is a witch, and some terrible acting. I don't know about the Slack bit though, and I have no idea which clue they relate to, so maybe somebody else will figure it out. I am sure that Disappearer (56) is a Sonic Youth song, though, so that one is easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Well, now that Nikki's banged a few more off the list, I'll just try and guess the remaining two. #5 is "Your goal is to eat spinning SunSoft mascots", based solely of the fact that QWERTY keyboards are often used to control terrible flash games. #53 is "Britannian Seer", since it's the only one left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 DANTIUS Incorrect on all counts -- #2, 42 NIKKI Nearby tree Wrong forest And Correct -- #56 +1 point, total points: 1 EDIT: Also, there are now only 5 left, so I'm going to require more direct linkages before I respond. "It's the only one left" will not count, although it is a darn good clue that you should look stuff up. That said, Dantius, since most of those answers were wrong you may want to rethink your guesses anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 5 - Your mission is to eat only spinning SunSoft mascots Mathman was a Pacman-ish game. He ate stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 No fair! I got that one first, and I even justified it too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 42 - Servant of Enki Refers to Isimud, servant of Enki in Sumarian myths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Aww, man! Too slow: Okay - Mathman v. Qwerty (5): Your mission is to eat only spinning SunSoft mascots Mathman was apparently an educational TV show, set as a parody of Pac-Man - where the character had to run about and eat polygons instead of pips. Slack Pumpkinhead (21): Leads the underworld to you. Is this a Nightmare Before Christmas thing? Jack Skellington was the Pumpkin King, and he brought Christmas-time to Halloween Town, before replacing regular Christmas with a Halloweeny-Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 #42 is wrong. (Also, where did this come from? Isimud is Enki's two-faced (literally) minister. What's the Hawkwind connection?) #5 goes to Triumph. Sorry, Dantius, I would have given it to you if you had just a piece of the actual connection, but you didn't. +1 point, total points: 19 Mathman was a fictional, Pac-man-like game on the TV show Square One; each scene began with the phrase "Mathman, your mission is to eat only numbers that are factors of 18" or something like that. Qwerty is obviously a keyboard layout; far more obscurely, it was the name of the colorful, spinning mascot in the typing tutor program that the software arm of Sun Microsystems, then called SunSoft (not to be confused with the Japanese developer Sunsoft, who does indeed make terrible games), produced for the Apple ][. Nikki: sorry, no, #21 is incorrect, although great guess. I think you guys are overthinking some of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S EDIT: Also, there are now only 5 left, so I'm going to require more direct linkages before I respond. "It's the only one left" will not count, although it is a darn good clue that you should look stuff up. Wait, we can Google on these? Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Mathman was a fictional, Pac-man-like game on the TV show Square One; Actually... it's not a fictional game anymore... Also, though I didn't recognize it as such, yay for a Square One reference. I loved Mathnet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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