Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 DANTIUS 290 - YES (+5) HAMLET How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! 330 - YES (+4) - In fact Bellerophon's name can be translated in two ways: as "Bellerus the Killer" or as "The Killer of Bellerus." There is also some confusion about his actual parentage, what happened to his brother Deliades, and so on. Following SLARTOphrenia, there are two heads and it's not clear which one tells the truth and which one lies... Am I the real Slartaret or did I kill Slartifer and take his place? TRIUMPH 310 - YES (+4) - although it's simpler than all that: mal, bad, if a seed or a beginning grows into something that does not follow, you could say the text was bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 286. Oldbin.bin - One-dimensional package of troublemakers. The bin file might be a package. While a one-dimensional package is difficult comprehend, some computer programs seem pretty limited in their dimensions. And computer programs can also be full of trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 318 - YES (+3) - You have all been very quick to forget your friend the Quylthulg, native of the Pits of Angband, from the previous rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 286 - YES (+3) - .bin is a binary file, hence, old-dimensional information. A bin is indeed a package and who is better described as troublemakers, than oldbies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS - Black hole Howl? The extra 'o's certainly look like a howl. Can I speculate that someone named nymen found a black hole somewhere and had it named after him/her? 288. So full of truth & yet so unwise - One explanation for Project Slartificus Slarty has so much truth to impart but he was unwise in starting things that he didn't have the motivation to finish. Project Slartificus is his attempt to rectify his unwise use of his truth. 328. SLARTY TASTY!!!1!! - Lacking in tact The writing lacks much tact and is not tasteful at all though the PND would have you believe otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 300. Vngrs Ssmbl Ll T F Rdr - Scarlet Man and Hawksilver Well if the PDN refers to Marvel comics, then the superheros might go with it, though I do not recognize either Scarlet Man or Hawksilver. Silverhawk... I thought there was a Silverhawk so maybe their names are mixed up and go together with the mixup of the missing vowels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 325. IMPLANTS VERSUS TITANIC TODDLER - Hidden compensatory Japanese fem Implants are hidden under the skin and are usually gotten by people who are trying to compensate for something they think is too small and titanic toddler could refer to a sumo wrestler from Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 321. SPACE RACISM (XE'S NO PARAPHOBE) - King demon? If a demon is a king of a land, he or she may not want competition from aliens... yeah, it's a stretch, but who else could be considered genderless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 313 - no 288 - no - but plausible 328 - no - but again, plausible 300 - YES (+3) - AvEngErs AssEmblE All OUt Of OrdEr. Scarlet Man and Hawksilver are Avengers out of order: ordered properly you have the Scarlet Witch, Ant Man, Hawkeye, and Quicksilver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 LIST UPDATED JEWELS 325 - no 321 - no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 324. MIRROR MIRRANDA CHIBIORUS - Preaching to the tiny about New York transflections. The key to matching these, for me, is chibi, which indicates something small, and tiny in the clue. In the PDN, we've also got allusions to "mirror, mirror," Miranda, and something else (-orus). Hmm, Miranda in the Tempest isn't much of a preacher, from what I recall, but there are other Mirandas out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 292. Suspended Anima - Hidden compensatory Japanese fem Anima refers to Japanese cartoons and a suspended film would be hidden from the public. Suspended animation could be the world's way of compensating for lack of a cure for something. 299. Bidirectional Reflection Whale - Really not going anywhere Bidirectional means going both ways and reflection could be like a mirror. Mirror images don't really go anywhere even though they look like they're in different places. 288. So full of truth & yet so unwise - Lacking in tact Usually those who lack tact say things truthfully but in a way that gets themselves in trouble making it unwise. 328. SLARTY TASTY!!!1!! - One explanation for Project Slartificus Obviously, the only reason for Project Slartificus to exist is because we all love Slarty so much and find him and his conglomerations so interesting. (and delicious) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 298. Intension - One explanation for Project Slartificus. You had an intention to do the project. However, the project is in tension because it is not complete. Thus, PDN explains the state of the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 324 - YES (+4) - Mirror Miranda, meet Victor Victoria, which gives you trans and New York. Mirror gets reflections, Chibi gets tiny, preaching to the gets chorus, and I think this had something to do with one of the many Spiderweb Mirandas. JEWELS 292 - YES (+3) - Anime, with an E, refers to Japanese cartoons. Normally Anima is pronounced differently, but if you start to pronounce Animation, as in Suspended Animation, but stop after the A, it sounds like Anime. Anime is Japanese; the Anima, in Jungian psychology, is a hidden, ultimate-compensatory part of the psyche, therefore pictured as female for men (the female counterpart being the Animus); and of course, fem(ale) is suspended just as anima(tion) was. 299 - no 288 - YES (+5) - this one really was that simple 328 - YES (+2) - lol on the flattery - but this is, as has been suggested earlier, a reference to the Demon of Good Taste. Surely Project Slartificus is tasteless enough to protect me from ever having my soul consumed by the demon.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 298 - no, although reasonable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 321. SPACE RACISM (XE'S NO PARAPHOBE) - Existing too much and too universally Do all the species of the universe have space racism? Or speciesism? It does show up in a lot of sci-fi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 315. APOCALISP SOW PLOSIVE VOW - Zombies Ate My Forums. Hints at a zombie apocalypse. Eating like a pig is a common expression, and zombies eat like pigs as they consume the forums. And...you lisp because you swore a vow that you would lisp, or else explode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 321 - no TRIUMPH 315 - no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 315. APOCALISP SOW PLOSIVE VOW - Impossible speech sounds signify final commitment lisp: speech :: vow: commitment :: Apocalypse : final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 LIST UPDATED JEWELS 315 - YES (+4) - the apocalypse is in fact not finality, but what signifies finality; meanwhile, a plosive is a type of speech sound (in English, b, d, g, p, t, k usually) that is pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum from a vowel. I suppose this all could have referred to Porky Pig, but that's an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 296. Quantifier Bloat - Existing too much and too universally A quantifier expresses how much there is of something. To be bloated is to be overfull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 296 - YES (+4) - in predicate logic the two basic types of quanifiers are existential and universal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Last run for the night. 323. ALT DOT STUPID ENSIGN - Die die die Though I am loath to say it this makes me think of ensign Wesley Crusher. Even though his acting skills were subpar, Wil Wheaton was my first celebrity crush. (so sue me, I was 8) Pairing it with the clue... well I know there are those more vocal with their opinion of his poor acting skills and simply not liking the character... the heathens! 301. The Secret of Eureka - Sealed area in Sylx Tower A secret in a sealed area? Very likely. I'm sure it's a reference to a game I have never played before. 304. Caudes Consultem - With the approval of the blockheads Consultants could give their opinions and approval for things. So... Caudes are blockheads? 291. Exersociatique - Breaking in the vernacular Just another of Slarty's great new words. Makes me think of breaking in new running shoes, eh? Socializing and critiquing are both using some kind of communication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 @Jewels: #323 is also a Usenet reference, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 323 - YES (+3) - alt.stupid.ensign.die.die.die was created, I believe, around the same time as alt.sexy.bald.captain 301 - YES (+2) - FF3j 304 - YES (+2) - take-off on a common Roman phrase, seen for example on coins: "SENATES CONSULTEM" or "with the approval of the senate" 291 - no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 321. SPACE RACISM (XE'S NO PARAPHOBE) - Future deviancy fears Renegade Soundwave. Stuff "in space" tends to be in the future, and racism is widely considered wrong or perhaps deviant behavior. The "phobe" of paraphobe may connect to the fears in the clue. Renegade Soundwave was an electronic group with a single called Space Gladiator as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 308. Tellement - So in Wallonia. So Wallonia is a French-speaking region in Belgium. So Tellement means "so" in French. So it would mean so in Wallonia where they speak French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 325. IMPLANTS VERSUS TITANIC TODDLER - Zombies Ate My Forums. Is this a reference to the game Plants Versus Zombies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 LIST UPDATED TRIUMPH 321 - YES (+5) - xe, of course, referencing more fluid gender schemata of the future; and yes, the chorus of around 1:15 308 - YES (+6) 325 - YES (+3) - and to the in Zombies Ate My Neighbors, and of course to the implants of RWG fame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 316. THE GILGAMESH IN THE GARR GARR - King demon? Gilgamesh reminds me of Gargamel in the smurfs though its likely not the reference. In The Epic of Gilgamesh he is portrayed as a king above all kings so garr garr refers to a demon or the underworld? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 317. WHOWHAT THREW SPACEDRAIN WATCHE! - 4-2 feature. This might be a nonsensical stretch...but 4-2 reminds me of the way levels are sometimes identified on older video games. Some googling suggested that in the original Super Mario Brothers, level 4-2, there was a hidden warp pipe area. Perhaps, then, you are alluding to warp pipes with the term SPACEDRAIN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 317. WHOWHAT THREW SPACEDRAIN WATCHE! - THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!! While the PDN itself is impossible to understand, it may refer to someone who has to try to decipher things like this all the time. Internet customer service, anyone? 298. Intension - Really not going anywhere The untraveled road is paved in good intentions. Tension can be related to stretching something where, while it gets larger or tighter, it does not move. Intension is also a song by Tool with the line "moved by will alone". If the will has only good intentions, again it will not go anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 316 - YES (+2) - Gilgamesh reminds you of Gargamel? That's confusing. Gilgamesh was the King of Uruk, of course. Garr, meanwhile, was a demon in Breath of Fire III. I'm pretty sure this PDN referenced something else too, but couldn't remember what. TRIUMPH 317 - no - but you are sort of sort of on the right track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 317 - no 298 - no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 317. WHOWHAT THREW SPACEDRAIN WATCHE! - Black hole Howl? A black hole could be considered a space drain. The rest of the non-sense may be the last words of someone flying into one. Or a question "who or what went through the black hole?" Was it a watch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 317 - YES (+3) - Black hole spacedrain, yes. The rest of it is a reference to a line from Howl, by Allen Ginsberg: who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 298. Intension - THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!! The PDN convey intention in tension. The clue clarifies an intention, but does by shouting (what all-caps often represents), indicating there is tension in the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 298 - YES (+5) - the shouting also makes it intense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 299. Bidirectional Reflection Whale - 4-2 feature. More googling leads me to realize that Super Mario Bros. 2, stage 4-2, actually has whales! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 The Gargamel/Gilgamesh was just a word association thing. Like what I'm gonna do with this next clue. 294. Leadendy - Really not going anywhere Word association makes me think of Legendary which is the catch phrase for Barney in How I met your mother. The whole of the series is supposed to represent a father telling his kids how he met their mother and the story goes on and on and on without really going anywhere. With the current spelling we have end and dead and lead all of which would lend to someone being unable to go anywhere especially if filled with lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS - Bonus points if you have any clue where this one came from I really don't have any clue where this comes from but my guesses are it relates to household names, and NY men, some of which may be household names. How about House the TV series? He's getting oooooooold. 291. Exersociatique - 4-2 feature The social etiquette of exercising is a feature of the newest release of Wii fit 4.2. (Okay, not really but...) 299. Bidirectional Reflection Whale - Breaking in the vernacular It's a PDN of a new slarty-language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 TRIUMPH 299 - YES (+3) - It's the Star Trek IV of Mario Bros stages! What's more, when you go into sub-space in level 4-2, the whales flip horizontally. Of course, that's what all terrain does, but the whales are the only terrain in the game that is actually alive. JEWELS 313 - no 291 - no 299 - no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS - Breaking in the vernacular. Okay, so by googling I find that nymen is a slang term. Vernacular is common speech. Perhaps we could conflate slang and common language. So something that has become a household name is commonly know, or has broken into the the vernacular. 291. Exersociatique - Really not going anywhere. 294. Leadendy - Bonus points if you have any clue where this one came from. If my explanation for 313 is correct, then these must be the last two answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 What about my 294? Quote: 294. Leadendy - Really not going anywhere Word association makes me think of Legendary which is the catch phrase for Barney in How I met your mother. The whole of the series is supposed to represent a father telling his kids how he met their mother and the story goes on and on and on without really going anywhere. With the current spelling we have end and dead and lead all of which would lend to someone being unable to go anywhere especially if filled with lead. 291. Exersociatique - Bonus points if you have any clue where this one came from This came from an exercise video on social antiques. 313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS - Breaking in the vernacular And trying out all those household names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS - Breaking in the vernacular: The PDN is written in a vernacular form, and "breaking in" can mean to achieve success in something (especially acting). Becoming a household name would certainly mean you've achieved great success. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 (Also: a reference to broken hymen?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 eww... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 JEWELS 294 - YES (+3) - a dead end leads nowhere and lead is heavy so it doesn't go places either TRIUMPH 313 - YES (+5) - that's way more elegant than my original thought JEWELS 291 - YES (+2) - I have no idea where it came from either. Wasn't that though. 313 - OK (+2) DIKIYOBA 313 - OK (+4) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 ...aaaaaand that's everything here. When I get a second, I'll tally the current scores, offer some pity points, and then tell you a bit about what's in store for part 8. NO WORRIES!!! NO OVERIES, NO OVER YETIS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Originally Posted By: Jewels eww... I know, anatomy is gross, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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