I've been [chat]in on the railroad

Mojo_Jojo

Echo wrote: »

How do you neurotypicals ever get any thinking done with all that noise in your heads?

Neurotypical? Noise? Make sense, woman.

nexuscrawler

I do as little thinking as posible

Mojo_Jojo

I think I'll go and eat some biscuits.

Not Sarastro

gundam470 wrote: »

evilbob wrote: »

gundam470 wrote: »

evilbob wrote: »

You guys do know that the most important rule of the game is that when you know it you're supposed to be a huge douche about it and not help people figure it out yeah?

What's your point?

Stop helping people. The majority of the enjoyment gained from the puzzle is in watching other people fail to figure it out after you have.

Wow, you're quite the ass.

Oh come on...

Enjoyment of those puzzles is largely in finishing it and going "whee, I'm clever!". 'Clever' denotes 'stupid'. If everyone got it, or did so in exactly the same time, there would be no clever or stupid. I bet you wouldn't enjoy the puzzle if everyone could do it equally. Do you particularly enjoy the ability to breathe while resting? Do you enjoy blinking?

Difference is pleasurable, live with it.

Nerissa

gundam470 wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

Spoiler:

I'd even consider saying that the name of the game is important to be a spoiler. That's what made me look at it visually on my first try ever.

Nah, the name of the game being important is one of the only things you're supposed to say about it.

spoilered just in case... although I suspect it's a pretty benign comment

Spoiler:

The thing that turned the tables for me was browsing the forums on that site and someone was suggesting alternative names that would be less of a spoiler. Comparing his suggestions to the actual name pointed me toward which part(s) of the name were important.

Mojo_Jojo

Wait, biscuit time is an hour away. Blast.

Oboro

re: Nerissa's last post

Spoiler:

But wouldn't changing the name get rid of the one clue given and reduce it entirely to a matter of brute via observation? I guess there's one particular word in the title as-is that you could say is a larger clue than necessary ...

Nerissa

Echo wrote: »

How do you neurotypicals ever get any thinking done with all that noise in your heads?

We learn to filter out the things that don't seem important... thus the issues many people have with this puzzle.

Nerissa

Oboro wrote: »

re: Nerissa's last post

Spoiler:

But wouldn't changing the name get rid of the one clue given and reduce it entirely to a matter of brute via observation? I guess there's one particular word in the title as-is that you could say is a larger clue than necessary ...

yeah...

Spoiler:

He suggested "petals of the rose" or "rose petals"

Haphazard

Wanna hear something funny?
After figuring out the riddle, I remembered playing it before. :?

ViolentChemistry

Haphazard wrote: »

Wanna hear something funny?
After figuring out the riddle, I remembered playing it before. :?

I've done that. Also if I wait long enough before re-playing a puzzle-game I often have to re-figure out the puzzles. That's how I'm still able to play old Zeldas.

Gooey

I don't get it. I'm woefully left-brained.

Dynagrip

Sometimes I think I'm not as smart as I used to be. I guess it's possible I now have a more accurate grasp of my intellect.

Echo

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Also if I wait long enough before re-playing a puzzle-game I often have to re-figure out the puzzles. That's how I'm still able to play old Zeldas.

I wish I could un-play some games so I can be amazed at them once again without breezing through everything.

Nerissa

Heh, the munchkin has decided that she wants to learn to write. I now have a piece of paper with several relatively straight and even rows of markings in red crayon. Nothing resembling letters or really anything more than tally-marks, but straight even rows of marks about the same size. I guess it's a start.

Mojo_Jojo

Dynagrip wrote: »

Sometimes I think I'm not as smart as I used to be. I guess it's possible I know have a more accurate grasp of my intellect.

It's a common compliant you hear at uni, that students think they've got dumber or peaked too early. It's just that their surroundings have changed.

LaOs

Nerissa wrote: »

Heh, the munchkin has decided that she wants to learn to write. I now have a piece of paper with several relatively straight and even rows of markings in red crayon. Nothing resembling letters or really anything more than tally-marks, but straight even rows of marks about the same size. I guess it's a start.

That's cute.

Drez

So I start a new job on Monday, in midtown.

Nexus, I think I'll be near you.

gundam470

Not Sarastro wrote: »

Oh come on...

Enjoyment of those puzzles is largely in finishing it and going "whee, I'm clever!". 'Clever' denotes 'stupid'. If everyone got it, or did so in exactly the same time, there would be no clever or stupid. I bet you wouldn't enjoy the puzzle if everyone could do it equally. Do you particularly enjoy the ability to breathe while resting? Do you enjoy blinking?

Difference is pleasurable, live with it.

You're right about one thing, I do feel good about finishing the puzzle. But, I'm not so ridiculous that I think that good feeling is somehow only reserved for myself or that helping someone along somehow detracts from my own accomplishment. Maybe that's just me though.

The way you make it sound is that if I see someone on the street gasping for air I should leave them alone and take greater pleasure in my own ability to properly inhale oxygen.

Gooey

Petals:

Spoiler:

I don't know what all this shit about patterns and the name of the game is. When I look at this crap I see numbers, and I cant figure out an algorithm that comes to the answer. I try omitting different die, trying to find the "petals" around the "rose" but I can't. I try everything. And I know it's something simple because this is one of those "you see it or you don't" things. Like a fucking magic eye. I could never see that magic eye bullshit. I'm like the dude looking for the fucking sailboat in mallrats. God, fuck this fucking game and fuck all of you for making me fucking play it. You sailboat motherfuckers.

nexuscrawler

Drez wrote: »

So I start a new job on Monday, in midtown.

Nexus, I think I'll be near you.

first you follow me home now you follow me to work!


If you bring over smash this is acceptable.

nexuscrawler

Gooey Dyna me and Tarr had a blast of a sins game last night.

You should join up next time

Elki

# 1151

Mojo_Jojo

These are bad grapes. Bad grapes!

gundam470

Elki wrote: »

# 1151

That's too many, I have to get to class!

Gooey

I want this one

so bad.

Drez

I haven't played Sins in a while.

I should play Sins later.

Gooey

Petals around my ass is more like it.

Dynagrip

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Gooey Dyna me and Tarr had a blast of a sins game last night.

You should join up next time

We were planning on playing tonight. Are y'all playing on ICO or what?

Drez

Seriously.

edit: Wait does that mean I get to make the new chat thread?

ViolentChemistry

I go shopping today.

gundam470

Whoo?

Gooey

You guys played sins without me? What the fuck. Dyna said we'd play today!

Dynagrip

Gooey wrote: »

I want this one

so bad.

good luck

Elki

Drez wrote: »

Seriously.

edit: Wait does that mean I get to make the new chat thread?

Yes.