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It's possible I mixed something up. I remembered a game where scores went up quadratically and connected it (perhaps erroneously) to the Thread Necromancy: Exponential edition preserved on a topiclist. The actual thread wasn't archived by the Wayback Machine sadly. Maybe chridd knows which way these...

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It's supposed to be more of a game of chicken where you see who will crack first - we're all meant to hold off for as long as possible to maximise the reward. Unfortunately, if you already know someone's likely to post hours after the last post, you've got no motivation to wait... I distinctly reme...

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I've been thinking of repurposing an old laptop with a less than reliable screen into some form of home server-like thing. Basically, I'd like to store files and backups on it and run some .NET-based Discord bots I wrote. Naturally I'd like to access the files remotely and it'd be nice if I could do...

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Let's resurrect another one while I have the satanic ritual stuff out: in this one time is gained quadratically rather than linearly, that is, your score is the number of minutes since the last post squared . Otherwise normal necromancy rules apply. Edit: renamed according to information from our Ke...

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It's time to resurrect more thread necromancy games, starting with slowmode. Paraphrased from the original: In this version, the finest-grained time unit shall be one week. In other words, your time gains when you post are rounded down to the nearest number of weeks since the last post. As usual, ev...

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I feel like moving the necro games into their own subforum renders the primary aspect of those games nonexistent, since there's no possible way for them to disappear into the depths to be dredged up from P2 of the topiclist, but then so far people don't seem to play it that way anyway, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Nice contrast and monochromatic effect.

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heuristically_alone wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:04 pm No?

Ling

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not for me, I only got the actually unread posts.

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What? Talking about some other comic on the xkcd forums? Blasphemy

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not enough points

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billing

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SuperJedi224 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:26 am Yeah I don't think we did either, but it still doesn't look like that part was brought back here

Apparently 9 was the record on Discord and I didn't even remember we had these special rules for 10+ submissions on the forum

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I'll never catch up, will I

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In the flesh!

Rose?

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The Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:11 pm I think that's what the "5G vaccine microchip factory" bit is.

Nah, that's an indie rock album.

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Wow, I think this might actually be a record number of submissions.

The Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:56 am Oh I didn't realize we could do silly songs

The OP did say "free for all"

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You get manifest destiny

I put in the Eastern Bloc

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a few points more

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Flames you say?

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You get a Peel microcar

I put in a Matchbox car

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Nah, I can't am

HeuristicallyExists?

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The FG subforum is already about 90% of the entire forum right now, so having some organisation in there would help if mafia games become a regular thing.

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nope

ratammer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:47 pm I don't tame rats, I am rats!

So what is this "amming" you do to yourself?

ratammer with the answer:

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You get a narrowband radio signal

I put in some white noise

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