Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 "My names," Slartibus said to the Demon, "are like the child corporations of Kraft Foods. Please help me." The Demon replied: "SLARTIFER!!! SLARTIFER!!! SLARTIFER!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!" It's time to banish some more PDNs! In the post below, you will find a list of 44 PDNs (chronological) and 44 crossword-style clues (alphabetical). Your task is to correctly identify which PDN is described by each clue. You will receive 2 OR MORE points per reference correctly identified. The standard value is 2, but clever explanations will increase it. Points will accumulate going forward; and yes, there will be another prize at the end for the highest point totals. I will update the list periodically to remove PDNs and clues that have been successfully guessed. You are welcome to use Google (or any other resource) to try and figure things out. Some will be easier than others. Good luck! And watch out for Great Justice and Great Vengeance points, which may make a return appearance. Note: When making a guess, please make everyone's life easier by pasting the entire PDN (with number), as well as the clue. Please do not retype it from memory as this tends to introduce errors which confuse people. For example: 1. Dame Annals -- Murasaki nickname Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 378. Characters not permitted 380. Public Display of Anomia 382. Panopticodpiece 387. Spilt Ilk 390. Septic Paladin 394. <><><><> 396. Beards 397. Rake Low Urn 398. Long Cons and Massive Clocks 402. Intelligence Toes A reference to long-departed cartoonists Amille Aglia looks for easy money in an RPG BDSM implement, presumably It's Cains all the way down Make PDNs Great Again Operator overload Painful to remove Showing off my plastic identity TM cousin, perhaps from Silvar or Shayder Your nostalgia for the sub rosa culture you were never a part of is showing, dear 367. Piety Nor Wit -- Moving finger immunities, according to Omar Khayyam 368. Castle in the Air - Location of the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason 369. Vindictive Raccoon - Minion of the Mad Hermit 370. Palimpcaestus of Finnegolfans Name - Recyclable elf consciousness streams from my hands 371. Finitude et recommencement -- What everything is, according to Stereolab 372. Phantom of the Thraxx - Hidden Coleoptera 373. Open Oaken Oblong Coffin - Yeah, but is it art? 374. Grammar Glamor Grimoire - Self-descriptive spelling repository 375. Left Unjustified - Neoliberal text formatting 376. Hoodwinked with a scarf - Cupid, or Justice, maybe 377. The Bubble bubble - In which Jane Horrocks briefly receives the appreciation she deserves 379. Solipsissimus -- The loneliest philosopher 381. Ethical Chain Mail - Magically grows or shrinks to fit the dilemma at hand 383. Lwar (Lizard Lord of Formello) - Nazgul cousin, or Black Shade or Dragon styling 384. Sylak's Ineluctable Geneforge - Spawns plot holes every 300 turns 385. Micropope - Research tool for theological questions 386. Clash of Crayons -- MMO aimed at an untouched demographic 388. Opiñata - A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom 389. Resistance is Septile - Sleep, StopSpell, and Surround will be assimilated 391. Ablaut Bloat - Too many vowel alternations spoil the base 392. Umlaut Boat - It sneaks up from the back of your mouth 393. Twisty little PDNs (all alike) - A colossal undertaking 395. Sign Out - Sign that becomes reduplicated when you become it 399. DLRO REDR WEHT AHSI -- Grave puzzle fit for a hardtype 400. Finger of Avadon -- Another attempt to live up to that first "psychosexual" proclamation, maybe 401. Conditional Daisy Chain of Ugliness -- LDA, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ… 403. Technically I'm free and I can find the key - What Obi-Wan Kenobi explained in the lobby 404. Landlord of the Pit - Sacrifices those they contract with for short-term gain 405. H.W.F.M.C.O.T.I. - Not my sparky personality, but definitely the most memorably named 406. Tooth Fairy Faith Healer - Laying hands in latex 407. Hearse First! - How a meme fit for a queen enters the graveyard 408. Tempus Fruitbat - Incarnation of a timely adage 409. Recursive Bow {inscribed} -- Artifact from Godelescherband 410. Polymorphous - Protean epithet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 389. Resistance is Septile - Sleep, StopSpell, and Surround will be assimilated Clearly a reference to the famous Borg motto and their penchant for assimilating things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 393. Twisty little PDNs (all alike) - A colossal undertaking Riffs on the phrase from the game Colossal Cave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 TRIUMPH 389 - YES +3 - also a reference to the seven-tiered resistance system of Dragon Warrior II. 393 - YES +3 - and was inspired by the two preceding PDNs; I had briefly considered to keep using variations of those... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 384. Sylak's Ineluctable Geneforge - Spawns plot holes every 300 turns Reference to the silly Sylak items, most notably the one that over time could fill your inventory with bricks. Maybe combined with Geneforge because that's the series with some of Jeff's most famous plot holes (i.e. the lost continent)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 404. Landlord of the Pit - Sacrifices those they contract with for short-term gain Refers to a Magic: the Gathering card named Lord of the Pit made you sacrifice your creatures or it would hurt you; the Landlord sacrifices them for gain instead of the avoid pain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 375. Left Unjustified - Neoliberal text formatting Mixes "left" and "liberal" as synonyms for political views with the idea of typed text being aligned (justified) along the right or left side of a page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 TRIUMPH 384 - YES +3 - the plot holes also reference the inevitable consequences of this further extension of Vahnatai Creationism 404 - YES +3 - specifically, the landlord sacrifices their tenants; this definitely in no way refers to my current life situation 375 - YES +3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 370. Palimpcaestus of Finnegolfans Name - Recyclable elf consciousness streams from my hands Okay, my first thought was that this might be some kind of reference to Fingolfin, high king of the Noldor - there's your elf. A palimpsest is, basically, a thing that gets recycled to use for a different purpose. And the book Finnegan's Wake, which seems to get a nod in the odd spelling of the name, is noted for its stream of consciousness writing. Did I get it? 368. Castle in the Air - Location of the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason These princesses were at this castle in The Phantom Tollbooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 399. DLRO REDR WEHT AHSI -- Grave puzzle fit for a hardtype okay so in popular 90s video game Final Fantasy VI there's a puzzle involving gravestones with inscriptions that spell out ERAU QSSI DLRO WEHT: "THE WORLD IS SQUARE" backwards. this is like that only it spells out THE WORLD IS HARDER and also the order is mixed up a little, making it harder to decipher, hence hardtype. "hardtype" itself is also a final fantasy reference: Final Fantasy IV had an "Easytype" version that simplified the game, leading the original release to be nicknamed "hardtype" by comparison, and some other unofficial difficulty hacks of games to be named "hardtype" by analogy. incidentally, the version of ff4 originally released outside of Japan is widely believed to be the same as the Japanese Easytype version, but that's a misconception: there are some similarities between the two, but also some ways in which the English-language release is closer to the original (notably, the final boss's sprite, which was changed for Easytype, is still the same as in the original version). i got off on a tangent there a little bit i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 396. Beards -- Another attempt to live up to that first "psychosexual" proclamation, maybe when avadon was still in the planning stages jeff made a blog post about it where he mentioned it was (loosely (very loosely)) inspired by seeing an opera about noted bad husband bluebeard, which was apparently described in a review he read as having psychosexual elements. a beard can mean one of two things: the thing you can grow on your face, or a spouse married for the purpose of concealing homosexuality. avadon character redbeard, in addition to having the first kind of beard, has three "wives" but doesn't appear to be in an actual romantic relationship with any of them. now i'm not saying redbeard's gay, but it would explain some things, wouldn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 386. Clash of Crayons -- MMO aimed at an untouched demographic Clash of Clans is a massively multiplayer online game (an MMO) available for mobile platforms. the joke here, which i will proceed to ruin by explaining it, is the idea of an MMO marketed to toddlers, who draw with crayons. possibly this is a jab at the perceived deleterious effects of the rise of freemium mobile gaming on the games industry or possibly it's just an amusing mental image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 379. Solipsissimus -- The loneliest philosopher solipsism is the philosophical position that holds that only oneself exists or can be known to exist. the worst thing about being a solipsist is that if you're right, nobody will ever agree with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 367. Piety Nor Wit -- Moving finger immunities, according to Omar Khayyam ok so this one is a reference to poet Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, or more specifically, to Edward Fitzgerald's translation thereof: "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, / Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 409. Recursive Bow {inscribed} -- Artifact from Godelescherband inscribing is a game mechanic from popular roguelike angband that allows you to inscribe notes on an item in your inventory for various convenient purposes. many variants of angband have been made and most bear titles with the suffix "-band". Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a book that discusses, among other things, the role of recursion in logic, computer science, psychology and various other fields of human knowledge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 400. Finger of Avadon-BDSM implement, presumably authority fetish? 371. Finitude et recommencement-Recyclable elf consciousness streams from my hands End and i cant translate that better than rebegining probably an analogy to how tolkien explains that elves dont die(at least in sirmarilion) simply go to sleep when they are tired of life and come back when they rest enough. Feanor's mother being one apparent exception. 374. Grammar Glamor Grimoire-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom On how people might use bad gramar as a counter argument. And grimoire being associented with wisdom but i cant connect. Side note i was not ready for this so soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 394. <><><><> -Hidden Coleoptera Im sure there is a beetle somewhere here. Now that i think about it this hint would go great with an altered piece of lyrics of any beatles song. Which might be here but im not knowleadgeable enough to know all their lyrics. Hell i dont even know yellow submarine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 385. Micropope-Research tool for theological questions Pun on microscopes(a research tool in biology) and theology/religion (Popes lead one of the most popular religions so... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 388. Opiñata-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom Im voting for this over the above one. Pinhatas are garish and shoddilly constructed things with usually candies inside. Opinions are likewise not very strong as opposed to facts but they dont lack wisdom some times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 381. Ethical Chain Mail-Magically grows or shrinks to fit the dilemma at hand Reminds me of something my sister said on political double standarts on morality/ethics how media inflates some dilemas and makes little of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 377. The Bubble bubble - In which Jane Horrocks briefly receives the appreciation she deserves One of British actress Jane Horrocks most famous roles was a character named Bubble. The second "bubble" connects to "briefly" in the clue - bubbles are known for existing temporarily and then - POP - being gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 406. Tooth Fairy Faith Healer-Amille Aglia looks for easy money in an RPG Camille Paglia is a famous crictic of a crapload of sensible things and often manages to correlate the most absurd things and making them seem conspiratory and exploitant. Im not sure where rpg is in here, but i wholeheartedly believe she could make money over some critique of modern culture with those words at the head Edit: fun fact she actually has some liberal views on a lot(i use it lightly i have no idea how many liberal views she has) of stuff. Such as sexual and reproductory freedom. As such she is a great example on how ad hominem is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 373. Open Oaken Oblong Coffin - Yeah, but is it art? Elements of dialogue exchange from a famous scene in the TV show Absolutely Fabulous (series in which the aforementioned Jane Horrocks played Bubble). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 405. H.W.F.M.C.O.T.I. - Not my sparky personality, but definitely the most memorably named The letters stand for "Helper who finds missing children over the internet," which apparently is a joke personality type that originated on a website called The Spark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 372. Phantom of the Thraxx - Hidden Coleoptera Thrax is bug-monster boss in the SNES game Secret of Evermore. Coleoptera is a palette-swap counterpart bug-monster boss fought in the same location later in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 Complaint: MultiQuote had no problem allowing me to quote 17 posts at once, but now it tells me I can't have that many quote blocks in one post. Sigh. 370. Palimpcaestus of Finnegolfans Name - Recyclable elf consciousness streams from my hands Okay, my first thought was that this might be some kind of reference to Fingolfin, high king of the Noldor - there's your elf. A palimpsest is, basically, a thing that gets recycled to use for a different purpose. And the book Finnegan's Wake, which seems to get a nod in the odd spelling of the name, is noted for its stream of consciousness writing. Did I get it? 368. Castle in the Air - Location of the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason These princesses were at this castle in The Phantom Tollbooth. 370 - YES +3 - nicely done, although you missed one element: the funny spelling of Palimpsest is due to its merger with caestus, as in "the Set of Caestus of Fingolfin." Which, incidentally, you can activate to shoot some kind of magic missile from your hands. Yes, it's another Angband reference. I was pretty proud of the amount I packed into this one PDN. 368 - YES +3 399. DLRO REDR WEHT AHSI -- Grave puzzle fit for a hardtype okay so in popular 90s video game Final Fantasy VI there's a puzzle involving gravestones with inscriptions that spell out ERAU QSSI DLRO WEHT: "THE WORLD IS SQUARE" backwards. this is like that only it spells out THE WORLD IS HARDER and also the order is mixed up a little, making it harder to decipher, hence hardtype. "hardtype" itself is also a final fantasy reference: Final Fantasy IV had an "Easytype" version that simplified the game, leading the original release to be nicknamed "hardtype" by comparison, and some other unofficial difficulty hacks of games to be named "hardtype" by analogy. incidentally, the version of ff4 originally released outside of Japan is widely believed to be the same as the Japanese Easytype version, but that's a misconception: there are some similarities between the two, but also some ways in which the English-language release is closer to the original (notably, the final boss's sprite, which was changed for Easytype, is still the same as in the original version). i got off on a tangent there a little bit i think YES +5 396. Beards -- Another attempt to live up to that first "psychosexual" proclamation, maybe when avadon was still in the planning stages jeff made a blog post about it where he mentioned it was (loosely (very loosely)) inspired by seeing an opera about noted bad husband bluebeard, which was apparently described in a review he read as having psychosexual elements. a beard can mean one of two things: the thing you can grow on your face, or a spouse married for the purpose of concealing homosexuality. avadon character redbeard, in addition to having the first kind of beard, has three "wives" but doesn't appear to be in an actual romantic relationship with any of them. now i'm not saying redbeard's gay, but it would explain some things, wouldn't it NO -- although it is an excellent connection that did not occur to me & I support the gay Redbeard theory. Expect Great Justice. 386. Clash of Crayons -- MMO aimed at an untouched demographic Clash of Clans is a massively multiplayer online game (an MMO) available for mobile platforms. the joke here, which i will proceed to ruin by explaining it, is the idea of an MMO marketed to toddlers, who draw with crayons. possibly this is a jab at the perceived deleterious effects of the rise of freemium mobile gaming on the games industry or possibly it's just an amusing mental image YES +4 379. Solipsissimus -- The loneliest philosopher solipsism is the philosophical position that holds that only oneself exists or can be known to exist. the worst thing about being a solipsist is that if you're right, nobody will ever agree with you YES +3 - also Ipsissimus, which is Latin for "the most himself" -- of the same etymology as solipsism. Notable largely as a highly ranked title in one of Aleister Crowley's secret magickal organizations, though I forgot to reference that in the hint this time. 367. Piety Nor Wit -- Moving finger immunities, according to Omar Khayyam ok so this one is a reference to poet Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, or more specifically, to Edward Fitzgerald's translation thereof: "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, / Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." YES +3 409. Recursive Bow {inscribed} -- Artifact from Godelescherband inscribing is a game mechanic from popular roguelike angband that allows you to inscribe notes on an item in your inventory for various convenient purposes. many variants of angband have been made and most bear titles with the suffix "-band". Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a book that discusses, among other things, the role of recursion in logic, computer science, psychology and various other fields of human knowledge YES +3 - also a play on the recurve bow (which is not actually an item in Angband but is a type of bow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 400. Finger of Avadon-BDSM implement, presumably authority fetish? 371. Finitude et recommencement-Recyclable elf consciousness streams from my hands End and i cant translate that better than rebegining probably an analogy to how tolkien explains that elves dont die(at least in sirmarilion) simply go to sleep when they are tired of life and come back when they rest enough. Feanor's mother being one apparent exception. 374. Grammar Glamor Grimoire-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom On how people might use bad gramar as a counter argument. And grimoire being associented with wisdom but i cant connect. 400 - NO 371 - NO - but very interesting - although they don't just "go to sleep", remember there is the whole thing with the Halls of Mandos and everything 374 - NO 394. <><><><> -Hidden Coleoptera Im sure there is a beetle somewhere here. NO 385. Micropope-Research tool for theological questions Pun on microscopes(a research tool in biology) and theology/religion (Popes lead one of the most popular religions so... ) YES +3 388. Opiñata-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom Im voting for this over the above one. Pinhatas are garish and shoddilly constructed things with usually candies inside. Opinions are likewise not very strong as opposed to facts but they dont lack wisdom some times After thinking this through I think I am going to have to ignore this response -- I know you said you prefer this to the other one but I think allowing one person to make multiple guesses at the same time, for the same PDN or clue, can't be an option. Now that the first one has been dealt with feel free to make this guess again and/or to make a different one. 381. Ethical Chain Mail-Magically grows or shrinks to fit the dilemma at hand Reminds me of something my sister said on political double standarts on morality/ethics how media inflates some dilemas and makes little of others. YES +2 - this was a reference to elven chain mail from AD&D -- itself modeled on Tolkien's mithril chain. Elven chain though had the special property (among others) of magically resizing itself, within reason, to fit its possessor. The ultimate reference here is to people who freely adjust their ethical judgment to the situation at hand, rather than sticking to principles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 377. The Bubble bubble - In which Jane Horrocks briefly receives the appreciation she deserves One of British actress Jane Horrocks most famous roles was a character named Bubble. The second "bubble" connects to "briefly" in the clue - bubbles are known for existing temporarily and then - POP - being gone. YES +2 - you aren't getting any more points because you didn't display an appreciation of Bubble in this post 406. Tooth Fairy Faith Healer-Amille Aglia looks for easy money in an RPG Camille Paglia is a famous crictic of a crapload of sensible things and often manages to correlate the most absurd things and making them seem conspiratory and exploitant. Im not sure where rpg is in here, but i wholeheartedly believe she could make money over some critique of modern culture with those words at the head Edit: fun fact she actually has some liberal views on a lot(i use it lightly i have no idea how many liberal views she has) of stuff. Such as sexual and reproductory freedom. As such she is a great example on how ad hominem is bad. 406 - NO - also while I don't agree with Camille Paglia about everything, not least her use of ad hominem, I agree with her about a lot of things, including some of those conspiracies and exploitations. 373. Open Oaken Oblong Coffin - Yeah, but is it art? Elements of dialogue exchange from a famous scene in the TV show Absolutely Fabulous (series in which the aforementioned Jane Horrocks played Bubble). YES +2 - although I wouldn't in any way say "famous scene," I'm fond of it: https://youtu.be/BRpjPQVwpOA?t=21m58s 405. H.W.F.M.C.O.T.I. - Not my sparky personality, but definitely the most memorably named The letters stand for "Helper who finds missing children over the internet," which apparently is a joke personality type that originated on a website called The Spark. YES +3 - this was a thing circa 2000 372. Phantom of the Thraxx - Hidden Coleoptera Thrax is bug-monster boss in the SNES game Secret of Evermore. Coleoptera is a palette-swap counterpart bug-monster boss fought in the same location later in the game. YES +2 - although Thraxx has two x's and you missed the other reference, to the Phantom of the Opera, likewise hidden in a location people thought they knew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Now you're grumbling about my answers? YES +2 - you aren't getting any more points because you didn't display an appreciation of Bubble in this post It's hard to appreciate something I had never heard of until doing google research to solve this puzzle. YES +2 - although I wouldn't in any way say "famous scene," I'm fond of it: The quote showed up on enough different google hits for me to conclude that it must somewhat well known, even if, as mentioned, above, I'd never heard of the show before. Clearly your, ah, appreciation, for British pop culture is much greater than mine (although since I know next to nothing about British pop culture, that's a low bar ). Also, I totally got that Phantom of the Thraxx was a Phantom of the Opera reference...and then totally forgot to mention it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 I guess it is British pop culture, but it's more a cult favourite that appealed to the right demographics to have a lot of screen time in the late 90's / early 00's internet. (My joke in 2002 was that you could find all the gay men on Friendster by searching for men who liked Absolutely Fabulous and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was a joke but I'm pretty sure that would have been effective at the time.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 391. Ablaut Bloat - Too many vowel alternations spoil the base An ablaut is a change in the vowel between different forms of the same word (such as sing, sang, and sung). Ablaut Bloat would involve an excess of vowel changes - just as the clue indicates. The clue also riff off the saying "Too many cooks spoil the broth," but with base (as in the base of a word?) taking the place of broth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 410. Polymorphous - Showing off my plastic identity A word for having a variety forms goes with a clue that characterizes you as changeable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 391 - YES +3 Soups have bases too, yknow Also, I note -- not so much to be picky as because it may be helpful in the future -- that ablaut is not *any* vowel change, but is a little more specific than that. 410 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 LDA, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ… If my google-fu serves me well, these are commands (or something) using the programing of Atari games. The first involves loading, the second comparing, and the third branching. (Behold with what sophisticated language I talk about computer stuff I don't really understand!) The question is what PDN this clue matches. My best guess is 401. Conditional Daisy Chain of Ugliness It's a chain. Check. And the these different commands set up and ask for conditions...so it's a "conditional" chain, right? And the fact that it's apparently repeatedly ad infinitum tells me something went wrong or wasn't done correctly, making it ugly. Check. Or maybe I'm revealing incredibly colossal amounts of ignorance about computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Soups have bases too, yknow All your base are belong to us. Therefore, no soup for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 410. Polymorphous - Protean epithet Oh duh! Surely THIS is the pairing of words you intended - many-formed is a fit epithet for something that changes frequently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 406. Tooth Fairy Faith Healer - Laying hands in latex Laying on hands is often associated with miraculous healing (or with today's fraudulent shysters who purport to heal). Dental care professionals (dentists, hygienists, and I guess even tooth fairies?) wear gloves when working, and latex is common material for such gloves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 LDA, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ, CMP, BEQ… If my google-fu serves me well, these are commands (or something) using the programing of Atari games. The first involves loading, the second comparing, and the third branching. (Behold with what sophisticated language I talk about computer stuff I don't really understand!) The question is what PDN this clue matches. My best guess is 401. Conditional Daisy Chain of Ugliness It's a chain. Check. And the these different commands set up and ask for conditions...so it's a "conditional" chain, right? And the fact that it's apparently repeatedly ad infinitum tells me something went wrong or wasn't done correctly, making it ugly. Check. YES +3 Close. This is 6502 assembly language, which was used by some Atari systems, though the actual inspiration here was an NES game -- Dragon Warrior II, again. It is, indeed, a daisy chain of (basically) IF x THEN GOTO y statements, where you then default to the next statement if you didn't GOTO. There are much better ways to handle that... it's just awful for a lot of reasons, some general and some particular to the way the game allocated its available space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 410 - YES +3 406 - YES +3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 407. Hearse First! - How a meme fit for a queen enters the graveyard Hearses are how are lot of things enter graveyards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 408. Tempus Fruitbat - Incarnation of a timely adage Tis a pun! "Tempus fugit"is a "timely" adage, commonly rendered as "time flies." Bats also fly. I think maybe you're also mixing "flies" the verb that time performs with "flies" the bug, for example, "fruit flies." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 406 - NO - also while I don't agree with Camille Paglia about everything, not least her use of ad hominem, I agree with her about a lot of things, including some of those conspiracies and exploitations. I was actually talking about ad hominem used against her. As in people discard all she believes in because of some of what she says specially on what she speaks about feminism. Myself, i was raised by two women. Honestly believe in equal rights and oportunity(i guess thats the main focus of feminism but i realise a few feminists take it too far). Also i don't mean this in the acusatory at all, just pointing out why i cant see her in a good light. Oh the hypocrisy of it all xD 388. Opiñata-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom Pinhatas are garish and shoddilly constructed things with usually candies inside. Opinions are likewise not very strong as opposed to facts but they dont lack wisdom some times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 371. Finitude et recommencement What everything is, according to Stereolab Stereolab - Hillbilly Motobike bam bam bam bam! Tout est finitude et recommencement la nature a des cycles éternel changement Everything is end and rebeginings, the nature has cycles, eternal changes. Thank you Thais (she the stereolab fan, and the person that actually gave this answer) And credits to google(for confirming the lyrics). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 387. Spilt Ilk - Self-descriptive spelling repository. I suppose ilk means something like of the same kind. It deffinitelly is self descriptive in light of the saying about crying over spilt milk. Im oblivious on spelling repository but let me make a fool out of myself: milk and ilk have similar spellings and ilk in itself is a repository of many closelly associate things. Please congratulate me on making my dumbest yet post xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 396. Beards - Painful to remove Ok i on ocasion(by this i mean thrice in my life) grow an afro. It is painfull to remove do to the amount of time and care you put into growing it. I suppose beards are the same but i am yet to unlock the ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 390. Septic Paladin - Nazgul cousin, or Black Shade or Dragon styling. Corrupted paladins. Corrupted kings, Add a little bit of punk references and dragon styling. Add a little bit of avernum and black shades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 407. Hearse First! - How a meme fit for a queen enters the graveyard Hearses are how are lot of things enter graveyards. YES +1 This is actually a reference to the "Purse First" meme, which is associated with Bob the Drag Queen. Like a bad pun, it has basically no rhyme or reason behind it and one can only hope it dies soon 408. Tempus Fruitbat - Incarnation of a timely adage Tis a pun! "Tempus fugit"is a "timely" adage, commonly rendered as "time flies." Bats also fly. I think maybe you're also mixing "flies" the verb that time performs with "flies" the bug, for example, "fruit flies." YES +2 388. Opiñata-A garish, shoddily constructed argument that conceals pearls of wisdom Pinhatas are garish and shoddilly constructed things with usually candies inside. Opinions are likewise not very strong as opposed to facts but they dont lack wisdom some times YES +3 - aaaand, sometimes it is necessary to ruthlessly beat an opinion with a bat of reasoning in order to find said pearls of wisdom. 371. Finitude et recommencement What everything is, according to Stereolab Stereolab - Hillbilly Motobike bam bam bam bam! YES +3 387. Spilt Ilk - Self-descriptive spelling repository. I suppose ilk means something like of the same kind. It deffinitelly is self descriptive in light of the saying about crying over spilt milk. Im oblivious on spelling repository but let me make a fool out of myself: milk and ilk have similar spellings and ilk in itself is a repository of many closelly associate things. NO 396. Beards - Painful to remove Ok i on ocasion(by this i mean thrice in my life) grow an afro. It is painfull to remove do to the amount of time and care you put into growing it. I suppose beards are the same but i am yet to unlock the ability. NO - but interesting interpretation, hehehe 390. Septic Paladin - Nazgul cousin, or Black Shade or Dragon styling. Corrupted paladins. Corrupted kings, Add a little bit of punk references and dragon styling. Add a little bit of avernum and black shades. NO - not a bad association, but both that PDN and that clue are more specific than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 380. Public Display of Anomia - TM cousin, perhaps from Silvar or Shayder TM was well before my time, so I everything I know of him I barely-remembered secondhand comments, but I've had this vague nagging feeling that these are connected for some reason. Also, Shayder is the home of the Anama, which is a word similar to "anomia." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 380 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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