Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 85 - Elementary clue for Kelandon? Could this point to some kind of advanced level of education? Maybe a B.S. (bachelor of science) degree was involved? "Elementary" could also point toward an educational meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 DANTIUS Incorrect, but I have to say I love your answer and the research that went into it. Applause. DIKIYOBA Correct -- 75, 108 It's not the sort of reduplication most commonly referred to by reduplication -- that's the kind in "haha" where a single root is repeated, often for emphasis or magnification. But think about the word reduplication for a second. If it only means you have two ha's instead of one, then... EDIT: Also, Randomizer is sort of on the right track, but veered off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 113. Existential Semicolon & Cordial - Quiet satire of Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star: Dikiyoba doesn't know enough about the band to say why it's a satire, but the names are too similar for coincidence. (The same number of syllables, for instance.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 DIKIYOBA Correct. It was just making fun of the senseless album name. Now, can anyone figure out what Kelandon has to do with the Advanced Butt Slide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Actually, Triumph already got it in his last post. Erasmus: The second DL witch hunt game was far, far worse than this. This is fast-paced. The DL game was insane. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 So can I have a pity point for careful research and surprising connections? There's no reason that one of your clues can't apply to multiple PDN's, or vice versa, and it's certainly less of a stretch than some other connections you've made... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Triumph didn't get the right connection, but I think it's worth ending it now. Admittedly that clue may have been unfairly obscure. It's known to a number of people here that Kelandon and I went to the same high school. Less well known is that we also went to the same elementary school, although at different times. Anyway, said school was in the middle of the woods and had a number of trails and roads. On one long road ("the road to Banana Slug Land" - I am not making this up) there were dirt hills you could go down called the "Butt Slide" and the "Advanced Butt Slide." I'm not quite done with the clues for the next section. I am going over them to make sure that they are less obscure than the bad ones from this section. Also, there will be fewer (about 40) in the next group. I would have done that for this one but wanted to keep the natural waypoints like the DL Witch Hunt intact. EDIT: Dantius, you can have a pity point. However, this pity point is so piteous that it doesn't actually count as a point in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 So I was correct about an elementary-education connection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 About bad clues: There's a little-known corollary to the famous principle of Arthur C. Clarke. Any sufficiently abstruse reasoning is indistinguishable from BS. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 TOTAL POINTS GAINED +2 Dintiradan +13 Dikiyoba +3 Dantius +18 Sarachim +1 Excalibur +3 Randomizer +16 Triumph +1 Ratt +1 Nikki Also, I decided I will award a few pity points after all, to people who guessed hard in this depressingly hard round but did not rake in the points: +2 Dantius +2 Dintiradan Let the cries of "SOCIALIST!" begin. SCORES AFTER PART 2 35 Triumph 24 Dikiyoba 19 Sarachim 12 Dantius 11 Randomizer 09 Dintiradan 07 Jewels 04 Niemand 03 Nikki 01 The Ratt 01 Skwish-E 01 Excalibur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Point inflation! Slarty is devaluing my points by typing more of them! I'd better go invest all my points in gold! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Oi! I recall having this hilarious e-mail conversation with Arancaytar one day, which resulted in a post quote. When I make a contest for people to guess the inspiration for my various quotes, I'm going to have "Aran will get this one" as one of the hints. ;-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Point inflation! Slarty is devaluing my points by typing more of them! I'd better go invest all my points in gold! LOL! Triumph, you have more points than everyone not in the top 5 combined. I don't really think you have to worry about point devaluation . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 This is what happens when you have to take College Algebra 2. I missed the whole second round. Last night I started on 50 math problems @ 10PM. This morning I had finished 35 of them by 4AM. Will I ever really need to calculate (f°g)(x), (f°g)(4), (g°f)(x), and (g°f)(4) when f(x)= x-2 and g(x)= x^2+3-4 outside of these classes? Don't suppose you can PM me the original unmatched lists so I can try to make guesses just for the fun of it, eh Slarty? *preemptive huggles* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 No no no, Dantius; because I have the most points, I will be hurt the most when they are devalued by inflationary handouts to moochers like you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: Jewels in Black This is what happens when you have to take College Algebra 2. I missed the whole second round. Last night I started on 50 math problems @ 10PM. This morning I had finished 35 of them by 4AM. Will I ever really need to calculate (f°g)(x), (f°g)(4), (g°f)(x), and (g°f)(4) when f(x)= x-2 and g(x)= x^2+3-4 outside of these classes? Don't suppose you can PM me the original unmatched lists so I can try to make guesses just for the fun of it, eh Slarty? *preemptive huggles* Click to reveal.. (lists) 16-bit theme song 80's take on set of 90's levels Adept recluse Agricultural alter ego? Bemelmans alter ego? Blosk in Escape from the Pit Brings in his revenges Buriki Daioh with some additions Civilization and Its Discontents? Decreed by the stars above TM or Alec Defensive double Dhalsim goes mage Divisive fashion judgement Domino's antique Don't write this explanation out Down-to-earth covenant Elementary clue for Kelandon Emblematic of itself Famously dissolves into a pool of acid Flatbush teacher, Quickness inventor Forum doppelganger doppelganger? Forum doppelganger? Full outhouse Gaia grumbles Half-stonehearted I really have no idea what I was going for with this one Invulnerable alter ego? Ironic, yet self-descriptive Line for Dantius Line from a super show Location of Aura's bondage Martyr-maker Moving antagonist Not quite an astronaut Not scathing enough PDN rejoinder Place of convocation, before the 3 helps out Portentious forbidding Preparing to spill out its contents Pseudopseudonymous Aphex Twin release Quiet satire of Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star Rebellion against the spammers? Reference to a story written by Nikki Refused calendar Scrabble in a swamp Season of crashes SPOON! Stranger Strict judgement of power cards Temporary Darkside Loyalist Witch Hunt result The gift that keeps on giving Theory of never-ending sentence construction Three Longers Later To hoard until we reach the trainer Trogdor? Where Freud discovered the petrified Faithful John? Wonderfalls maxim ZomBULLs FTW 60 . Stop in the Name 61 . Manifesto Destiny 62 . Discontentinental Drift 63 . Memeforge 5: Overload 64 . Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine 65 . Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground 66 . Regenerativity 67 . The Patrick Warburton on Terror 68 . Four-Square Where? NE of Pravoka 69 . Yo Paranoid! 70 . Pregnating Wheelbarrow 71 . Shifty Like the Mesh 72 . Th Lttr Lgsltr 73 . Massive Clock of the Archmage 74 . The Bow in the Clods 75 . Unexpected Inaccessibility 76 . Heaven Forfend 77 . Lowbrow Shadowplay for Alorael 78 . My Grandfather Poopa Le Koopa 79 . Backwords 80 . Antisocialite 81 . Lernaean Facepalm 82 . Cunning Lx = Cx 83 . Quid Pourquoi 84 . Murmilladillo 85 . The Advanced Butt Slide 86 . Census Commode 87 . Which of the Wasteland 88 . Muumuurator Deniminator 89 . Critique Critique 90 . Tupac Draconian 91 . Yoga Firebolt! Yoga Flamestrike! 92 . Mais qu'avait-il dans les mains? 93 . Slarturnalia 94 . Spiffy 95 . Calumny of Yew 96 . Slarty a une appendicite! 97 . Doornailleur 98 . Analogue Bubblebath 99 . Deliberatizer 100 . Because You Listen 101 . Ima wa mukashi no BABIRONIA 102 . Ancient Mechanical Hecatonchire 103 . Feather of Maat, Scales of Poole 104 . Slartinator Slarterator 105 . Inslartable 106 . Hier, Slarty est mort 107 . PDN; DR 108 . Reduplicated 109 . Absolutely Fragulous 110 . The Bedroom of Our Civilization 111 . Petrificational Dilettante 112 . Depressticated 113 . Existential Semicolon & Cordial 114 . The Not-So-Great Potato 115 . Thus the Slartygig 116 . Black Mark Babbage Engine 117 . The End of Slartifer I am not, however, answering all your guesses. Sorry. I have all these other folk to contend with Also, Jewels, don't let this distract you from part 3. Which I am still working on getting done. I'll post it sometime tonight, hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I already know I'm going to get one in round 3. Crises indeed. Edit: Or round 4, if you're splitting them. Also, I really wanna know the reasoning for 73. PM me if you must, but I really can't think of any stories I've written... Edit 2: Unless it was in a group chat, and the Archmage is one Brody. And there was shameless, shameless flirting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Now you get it. I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Haha, yeah, I edited my post literally as you wrote that. I wanted to make that connection before, but the story bit threw me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 I remembered it as being a story. Was it a participatory story, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 That's likely, though it could also be because Brody constantly used to write little stories. They were littered with emoticons, and were about 4 sentences long, max. It's possible I parodied one, making fun of the situation. Man, that was a really funny chat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 @Slarty Why would I need to bug you when I have the entire answer key in the second post? I'll just see how many I can get right on one run through. I also hope I'll be able to stay awake for the list tonight. I'm getting too old to stay up every night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph No no no, Dantius; because I have the most points, I will be hurt the most when they are devalued by inflationary handouts to moochers like you. Actually, I'd like to point out that the points in the game are very unequally distributed, with the vast majority of the points in the hands of the elite. I worked it out using SCIENCE. Okay, MATHEMATICS, be that way. BTW, I'm an unrepentant gigantic math nerd in this post, so if that bothers you, don't read it. Anyways, the Lorenz curve is a mathematical means of estimating the distribution of some quantity- in this case, points. Basically, it's a function that returns what percent of the resource is controlled by the lowest x% of the population- so if the bottom 50% of the population control 20% of the resources, then L(.5)=.2. Now, there are some properties of the curve that are very well-defined- L(0)=0, L(1)=1, L(x)<x, L'(x)>0, and L"(x)>0 for all x on the interval of (0,1). Now, using my third-favorite program ever, Microsoft Excel, I summed up he point totals and divided the partial sums and bla bla bla, and I came up with the following discrete graph of the Lorenz curve: Well, it looks right, so I then used some not-really-complicated but very time intensive math on my calc to fit the curve y=x^n to the data, and quickly worked out that the function y=x^3.15774 fit the data quite nicely. In fact, it fit the data so nicely that the sum of the squares of the residuals was a paltry 0.00426. Here's a graph for comparison. Now that I have this, we can use this new function to calculate the Gini index, which is a measure of the relative inequality of the distribution. In layman's terms, it's two hundred times the area between y=x and the Lorenz curve. In mathematics terms, it's 200 times the integral of x-L(x) dx from 0 to 1. A Gini index of 0 would indicate a perfectly even distribution, and a Gini index of 100 would indicate a perfectly unequal distribution- i.e. one person controls ALL the resources. So, I worked out the numbers, and BAM, the Gini index of the distribution of points in the game? 51.9! That's very unequal- by comparison, the Gini index of wealth in Sudan is 51- so this game has a distribution of points comparable to the distribution of wealth in a dictatorial African nation! To summarize: Your Excellency President-for-Life Triumph, you have no need to be concerned about any of us encroaching upon your score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 you can edit it as much as you want, you will never fix that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S you can edit it as much as you want, you will never fix that Woah, did Slarty have a mind meld with Lilith or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: Micawber Woah, did Slarty have a mind meld with Lilith or something? i'm a trendsetter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 in all fairness i've probably copied alorael's style more than lilith's sometimes it's useful to evoke a particular format with its assocations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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