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Rat?

Weird industrial electronic device

Yes.

Fred?

Lfoor 196 is full of misprints and typing errors

ratammer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:36 am I've probably said it before on here, but the reason I don't tend to play these games, at least with this crowd, is because they get way too intense.

Heh, I actually like playing with this crowd because games are usually not as fast-paced as other sites I've played on.

it's never happened before i think his other traffic engineering comic is a) outside my area of expertise and b) written before i graduated https://xkcd.com/277/ i was thinking of this one i forgot about this one https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/253:_Highway_Engineer_Pranks What about lan...

Just finished Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It has been on my to-read list for a long time (it's just been tricky/expensive to get a copy), because I've read some of it way back in the day when it was translated to Hungarian and some of its ideas have had a lasting influence on how I think ...

Old Bruce wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 1:35 pm Snow Crash has the best name* for the lead character. Ever.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.

* Hiro Protagonist.

Might as well mention it here too that I started reading that recently and now I can't tell if this is a weird coincidence or Baader-Meinhof in action.

Floor 192 is a restaurant where patrons can enjoy a delicious meal and a spectacular view of the surrounding skyline. Rather than rotating the floor, the universe rotates around the floor once every 24 hours.

nooooo

Freeeeeed?

Ok, next round is for Sleepy Songs, whatever you think that is. Bedtime is the 28th of September, so tuck your music into bed before then

Thanks, everyone. I'll give myself until the evening to come up with something

Freddino18 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:02 am Wait, we're allowed to play in our own rounds?

uh, yeah, that's always been that way, the right to host has been passed on to second place fairly regularly becuase the host came first.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/iceberg_efficiency.png Title text: Our experimental aerogel iceberg with helium pockets manages true 100% efficiency, barely touching the water, and it can even lift off of the surface and fly to more efficiently pursue fleeing hubristic liners. But we don't have to sto...

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heury?

/in, as long as it doesn't happen concurrently with the other game How deep you go down the AI rabbithole (feel free to choose one from, from least rabbithole to most: "I am not even aware what a computer is" / "I have seen a few popular films about AI" / "I have read or wat...

Not actually a dino

Floor 188 takes the user as input and outputs them two layers (i.e. floors) away

Ugh, fine

rat?

[one of those CERN LHC simulation images with the caption "A new wedding is formed in the high speed collision of a bouquet and one of several women (marked in yellow) converging to catch it. A boyfriend running away as a joke can also be observed (blue track)"]

Ok, yes, theoretically there was a way for us to lose faster

Nah dude, I clearly carried the whole team for the entire game

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