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This thread has been superseded by the new ticket system. I'll migrate old variant ideas to the ticket system in the next few days.

Charlie Reams

This thread has been superseded by the new ticket system. I'll migrate old feature requests to the ticket system in the next few days.

Charlie Reams

This thread has been superseded by the new ticket system. I'll migrate old bugs to the ticket system in the next few days.

Charlie Reams

Thomas Carey wrote:How come UNADVERTISED is in and UNADVERTIZED isn't?

If I remember rightly, advertise is a back-formation from advertisement, so there's no advertize etc.

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Request for more self-injury and fewer fat people.

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I call the rules CoGood and CoJeff. lol. The problem with the Bristol format IMO is that, while you theoretically get to play more games, the whole thing gets bogged down with the overheads of looking up 30 different phonies every round etc and ends up being slower. And giving everyone the same con...

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http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/211602_1222690142_1521120_n.jpg "Charlie Moron you realy need to have a word with yourself, do you honestly think anyone on here or anywhere eles for that matter, actually give two monkeys what comes out of your silly mouth? Maybe 1 day you will be ...

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Julie T wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Shit, who's gonna do the numbers targets now?
Explanation for more recent fans:

Carol used to refer to the numbers target generator as 'Cecil'.

lol

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This brings me back to the athletics discussion - why are people so obsessed with the idea that people have to "represent their country" in individual competitions? It makes some broad sense in this case I think. You need to have some way to decide who gets in and there isn't enough inter...

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Brian Moore wrote:Paul Zenon jumps several points in my estimation for his sticking the boot in.

Excellent. This is quite painful to watch.

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I've noticed that people here are less concerned about things like this. People will routinely stand right in front of you while you're waiting for a train, for example, or angle their shopping trolley just in front of you at the last moment before a queue. You're expected to hustle a bit. Also peop...

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:I find the hole concept disgusting.
That's why you're still a virgin.

Disgusting literally means "bad-tasting", so...

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Jon Corby wrote:Could she possibly win any kind of libel case?

Nah. These frauds never take it to court because they don't want to be asked about their "powers" while under oath. Reminds me of the Dawkins astrology interview (good bit starts at about 8 mins).

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I find the whole concept disgusting.

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Not necessarily a bug, and I'm not sure whether similar things have been mentioned before, but I find it very strange that someone can jump to 65th in the weekly Pro Ranks [/b] by only playing three games against his mate who is also a trial member. You're right, it's not exactly a bug but it is an...

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If for some reason I had to eat cake, I would eat it with a cake fork.

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I get awoken at 6.45 sharp every morning by a morbidly obese Ecuadorian woman screaming at her son, and next door's dog who barks incessantly for around 8 hours a day. So I am permanently tired.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: 141 Jail places left. Think. That's my whole village. One hundred and forty one. That's more than many people think.

lol

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Children who illegally smoke/do drugs should be heavily punished. Why and how? It's unlikely they'll have the money to pay a fine (you'd have to fine the parents and, although you may argue that parents should keep tabs on what their children are doing, you can't monitor everything they do), the pr...

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I would like to see more responses to this poll, it's really quite interesting.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Economic Left/Right: 4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.69

I always find this combination particularly baffling. You want the government to be small and stay out of business but also micromanage the lives of every citizen? What does that even mean?

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Cool. So if it is updating they *are* still clicking on pages. THat's useful to know, thanks! Or they may have left the page open in some tab and forgotten about it (do normal people do this?). Oh right. So it isn't just a page load that is monitored but a constant update that they are still viewin...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Cool. So if it is updating they *are* still clicking on pages. THat's useful to know, thanks!

Or they may have left the page open in some tab and forgotten about it (do normal people do this?).

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Charlie, how does "last seen" work on the website? I'm really well behaved when it comes to trying to play tourney games to the point where I monitor people's profiles for periods, but several times when I've got excited about constantly-updating "last seen" dates nothing happen...

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Just posting some things that have been emailed to me so I can have them all in the same place. Not necessarily implying that I advocate these. I was wondering whether you could do something about the bronze, silver and normal pencils, because on the Items page all three of these link to the same UR...

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YESSSSSSSSS!

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Nick Deller wrote:The variants help page is a bit behind the times and quite a few of the newer variants aren't described. Is an update planned at some point?

MATTHEW! *shakes fist*

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Also, replace Jeff with Idris Elba and Rachel with Angelina Jolie, then change it from a game show into an action movie set in the mean streets of Boston in the 1980s. Danny Elfman to remix the theme tune. Tag line: "Countdown... to destruction!!"

Viewing figures would skyrocket.

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Request for an addition to the already jam-packed Statland: I'd be curious to see a leaderboard of the top 30 players who've declared the most valid 9s in Normal variant, ODE play, listing how many 9s they've declared. I have a feeling Innis will be top, but behind him, I'm not sure. Possible exten...

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Hey guys, this thread is pretty... POINTLESS!!!

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Straight to video?

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Jon Corby wrote:(see Charlie in the last CoC for an example of a really shit player suddenly coming good for one game)

I know right! You got within 40 points of me, way above your normal standard. Very well done.

BTW this thread is gold.

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Was he watching from home when he beat you?

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I quit.

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Hmm. For the record the apterous tileset has 2 Ws.

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Not liking chart music isn't that unusual. It sounds like you just haven't found your niche yet. Who says I have to have a niche? It could be that I like performing music (playing/singing) but dislike listening to music. Listening to performance music probably falls somewhere in the middle. I thoug...

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Then again, I'm thinking of 'music' here mostly in the narrow sense of the stuff that's released into the charts. People singing / playing musical instruments can be OK as long as it's not too loud. Here's the big controversial no-no though: (I think) I could live without it (sorry ABBA). Not likin...

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I don't know if it holds true for music, but on the recent QI Stephen Fry said that, during experiments of pain tolerance, people could endure more pain in rooms that had works of art on the wall, as though the works of art had pain killing properties. It wouldn't surprise me if listening to music ...

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That sounds quite plausible. I know this isn't music-related, but I had a theory about ironing today, which is to all intents and purposes, a completely fucking retarded social convention. OR IS IT? Perhaps it is the case that ironed clothes simulate young, taut, fertile skin, whilst wrinkled cloth...

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Charlie Reams wrote: My preference would be for people only to post in here if they want to clarify an idea above. New ideas or new riffs on the above belong in here still.

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It confers no genetic selection advantage on any level I can think of, unless it's just a really obtuse social construct. There is a bunch of theories about this, I don't know which one is currently popular, but my guess is that you have a pattern-recognition system in the brain, which obviously do...

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Wow, this is somewhere between really cool and totally overwhelming. Good work Matthew.

My preference would be for people only to post in here if they want to clarify an idea above. New ideas or new riffs on the above belong in here still. But I expect the boundary to get blurred a little bit.

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I mean it.

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No more new topics this month please, Jason.

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I'd rather take a flight from the UK to Switzerland.

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Actually, in Goatdown duels, I think the goatletter is picked Rex style (i.e. picked to give the longest possible max word, but if several goatletters give the same max length, a goatletter which gives as few as possible alternatives, preferably a darren, will be picked). Prune's picking is differe...

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Just realised I'm ignoring my own advice against posting casual chat in here. Maybe time this topic got a reboot too.

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Ben, PM me when the tourney games are done and I'll retrofit the ones that have already been played.

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A Numbers Interface plea. Please, for my sanity, can the Numbers Rounds be changed so that you automatically declare the exact target (and thus get a chance to enter your solution via the number-clicking) if you have otherwise made no declaration. (In other worse, you should automatically start in ...

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It would be interesting for someone to go through this topic and pick out everything which was suggested but didn't happen (except for things I explictly said no to). I might do it myself if no one else feels like it. I've thought about doing that a couple of times, half to be useful and half to de...

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Matt Morrison wrote: the max for that round (or at least one of the maxes) will invariably always (I believe) use the final, computer picked, letter.

Huh, I'd never thought about this bit of emergent behaviour. Neat!

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Same problem as Mark - my pencil-fest only shows the first 830 rounds I played, so four of my pencils have disappeared (PAPPARDELLE, AVADAVATS, UTILITIES and GOOEYNESSES). The pencils have been added to my display case, but the Lexplorer entries for them still say they're unpencilled. Is there any ...

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Oh, and incidentally, if anyone could explain to me what YAKBV means (since it appears five times in this thread, and I'm still none the wiser), that would be appreciated. Yet Another Kirk Bevins Variant? Originally it was Yet Another Kirk Bevins Vehicle, but yours works too. I coined it to denote ...

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It would be interesting for someone to go through this topic and pick out everything which was suggested but didn't happen (except for things I explictly said no to). I might do it myself if no one else feels like it.

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Innis's idea for Nasty Letters was to work in the No E's idea that I mentioned a few posts back. I think it's a good idea, as, as of right now, nasty letters are no different. The problem with that is that it would make the current high scores for any Nasty format with letters basically invincible....

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Adam Gillard wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:...in need of a good name
Would you welcome suggestions at this late stage?

Falldown?

Don't panic guys, it's not technically an American spelling.

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Will apterous ever incorporate team games into the interface (whether it be 2v2, 3v3 etc, or even an 'expert challenge' style system where several low rated players would team up to take on a single high rated player)? Probably a bitch to program, like, and there would be lots of things to consider...

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Mark Deeks wrote:Innis's idea for Nasty Letters was to work in the No E's idea that I mentioned a few posts back. I think it's a good idea, as, as of right now, nasty letters are no different.

The problem with that is that it would make the current high scores for any Nasty format with letters basically invincible.

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Do any of you nerds have a tattoo or other interesting body mod? If so, pix plz.

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