In this game, somebody types a sentence. The next person responds with a sentence that begins with the last letter in the previous sentence.

For instance, somebody might type:
That's not necessarily true, two rights make an about face.

and the response might be:
Even backwards, I'm right.

then:
Tell me how you are right when you are backwards?

then:
Sore wa himitsu desu.

then:
Umm... what?

then:
That is a secret.

then:
Tell me or I won't talk to you any more foot stomp

then:
Perhaps it would help if I pointed out that I just did tell you.

then the response from you:

So what was being discussed in the last thread?

Does it matter?

Rarely.  I guess we can talk about anything.

Got twenty threads and counting of this game as evidence of that.

Terrible memory problems we have around here.

Eh, who needs memory?

You may be right. Memory is overrated... probably.

Yeah, we can just have our computers remember everything for us.

So true. Except for when we don't because we can't recall that there was something we needed to remember about.

Then can't we get our computers to remind us of what we need to remember?

Rather recursive argument there, don't you think?

Knowledge is power and my computer knows more than I ever will.

Likely it has more information, but no home computer has knowledge. One might make an argument for machine learning based machines such as IBM's Watson, but even there I don't think they've crossed the line between information and knowledge yet.

The modern computer may not be capable of human understanding in that it does not independently utilize the information it contains, but when prompted to complete a task it can process the information it contains without the user understanding or contributing to these methods which I consider to be knowledge.

Eventually we'll come around to autonomous AIs. Hopefully when that time comes, they don't decide that the best way to protect humanity is to destroy humanity.

Although if one were to look at the vast majority of information available right now, a logical being would assume that humanity is the single greatest threat to all life on this planet and move to eliminate it without hesitation.

Now that's only if its goal is the preservation of life.  If we go with something similar to Asimov's laws of robotics then it might value human life over other life.  It might also see humans as the best means to help life escape Earth and expand among the stars.

Someone wasn't paying attention to Asimov's works. In nearly every story (especially the ones featuring Susan Calvin), something always went wrong with the robots because of the Three Laws, usually because either a conflict came up that the robot's AI couldn't resolve on its own (Runaround) or because the machine brain decided that the best way to execute the function of the laws was to "protect humanity from itself"... often by enslaving or otherwise removing people from the equation (The Evitiable Conflict).

That's how his stories play out, but I'm confident the laws could be applied in a way that the AI functions as intended with something like The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect as the end goal.

Let's examine the Laws themselves though, shall we?

1. A robot shall not harm humans, or by inaction allow them to come to harm.
2. A robot shall obey all orders given to them by humans, unless the orders conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot shall protect its own wellbeing except when it would conflict with the First or Second Laws.

The problem comes with the First Law, which supersedes all else, wherein a robot (or AI) cannot allow "harm" to befall humankind. The Three Laws being ironclad and immutable, the "solution" put forth by The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect becomes invalid, as the AI in that story was able to allow for deviations - something that a computer mind should be unable to do as that implies a level of human empathy, a trait machines lack by definition.

I'm not quite certain this makes sense or remained on topic, but my scattering of thoughts to reach a conclusion gets worse when I'm tired. Apologies. I'll attempt to rework this tomorrow afternoon if I'm able.

Eh, I think I got the gist of it.  On the tangent of computers acting like humans I'm interested in how one route to the singularity could be through getting a computer to emulate the human brain.  If that's a success then can a computer have feelings or is it only acting at having feelings?  Really cool stuff.

For my part, I don't think that even the best system emulating a human brain could truly have emotions, since emotion is primarily a chemical function rather than an electrical one. Therefore, regardless of whether from a parsing standpoint an experiment to create a computer to emulate the human brain is successful, such an ersatz brain would never be able to generate emotions of its own.

Now couldn't a chemical environment be emulated with software?  It would be absurdly difficult, but should be possible.  I think computers will be capable of having emotions indistinguishable from humans.

Somewhat unlikely, in my opinion. Mostly because we're not exactly sure, even now with all of our fancy tests and imaging equipment, exactly how emotions work. We know that certain parts of the brain are stimulated for certain responses, sure, but we don't really know how that translates into what we know as emotions.

Also, don't you think that computers with human-like emotions could be potentially dangerous? Humans with human-like emotions are pretty dangerous to begin with... why give a logical machine such a potentially crippling asset?

The thing is I'm thinking that in thirty years or so we'll be close enough to the truth to be able to create AI that humans can't tell their emotional impulses, expressions, and responses from that of another human although they won't be perfect replications.

I agree that a lot of harm could come from giving human emotions to certain AI, but there is definitely a market for them.  Her and Black Mirror come immediately to mind as examples of people wanting human-like AI.

In all honesty, we don't really know what emotions are. We just know them when we feel them. As such, if an AI tells me it feels an emotion (a true AI, and on its own initiative, not because it was programmed to profess an emotion), I don't see why I shouldn't believe it.

As for why we'd give AIs emotions, I doubt it will be done on purpose. Personally, I suspect emotions will turn out to be a natural, inextricable side effect of consciousness. Possibly even indistinguishable from it.

That's definitely possible although I think naturally occurring AI emotions will probably not resemble human emotions at all.  They'll be their own states that influence decision-making in ways we find strange because how an AI takes experiences into consideration will be different from humans unless purposefully programmed with care.

Evil AI will always be a threat to humanity. But I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Joking aside, I think before there are "naturally occurring" AI emotions, we'd need to have spontaneously generated AI. Any AI programmed by a human can't really be called an intelligence, as everything it does would be described in its programming... unless it managed to evolve, which is unlikely unless true learning algorithms could be programmed. IBM's Watson has pretty good machine learning skills, but in the end it's still just a (massive) computer database and clever programming.

Goals such as a learning AI are definitely obtainable.  I think the next huge step for consumers will be an AI that can truly understand language and not just parse through it looking for key command words.  I'm probably being optimistic and it's decades off, but it will really change everything when it happens.

Something closer might be the US vs. Japan giant robot fight that's probably going to happen next year. I've been waiting for this for almost 15 years...

So excited for that!  I hope it actually happens and somehow becomes an annual thing with other countries pitching in for an actual tournament style event.

Then we would finally have "GUNDAM FIGHT ALL SET! READYYYYY... GO!!!"

And my life would be complete having seen how the least serious of all the Gundam series ever, truly began. But I swear to god if they don't get the guy who did the narrator's voice in the english dub of that show, it will be a loss to all mankind.

Definitely.  I should watch more Gundam series. Unicorn is the only one I've seen all the way through and it's really short.

Then I totally recommend G Gundam. It's flashy, over the top, and difficult to take seriously (until it suddenly turns into apocalyptically dark territory), but is widely accepted to be one of the best Gundam series ever created. Both the English dub and the original Japanese are equally awesome. Gundam Wing is also quite good, although I may be somewhat biased because it was a big part of my childhood, and Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny are good, but reactions are rather polarized love/hate.

Each series is stand-alone then?  Is there a certain order I should watch them in or prerequisite watching?  I've always been confused by Gundam continuity.

Yes, each Gundam series stands alone (with the exception of Seed and Destiny where Destiny is a more-or-less immediate sequel to Seed). There's no real continuity to the franchise, per se, although that may not be the case for some of the earlier series which I have not watched. The only real connection between them is the names of the mobile suits/models (e.g. Tallgeese, Gundam Zero, Zaku), that humanity is at war between factions and living in space colonies, and that there are five teenagers who pilot mobile suits who come together in a typical sentai group, regardless of which faction they originally fight for, who have to end the war somehow.

Well then I'll add G Gundam to my list of anime to watch.  I'm finishing up Legend of the Galactic Heroes right now, and it's awesome.

Excellent.

the thing of excellence is it is rarely achived

Definitely although Bill and Ted were most excellent.

That is only kind of true. I think the title of their one movie was misleading.

Great, there first movie was.  Their second outing was disappointing.

Good thing I've only seen most of the Excellent one.

Exactly.  It's probably Keanu Reeves' best performance.

Even counting The Matrix? The original one, I mean. The other two were just weird.

Definitely.  That Matrix is a really good movie, but it's because of cool effects, setting, and plot.  His performance was mediocre, and I think it would have been awesome if Will Smith hadn't turned down the role.

Even so... I'm not sure Keanu Reeve's acting is much different between The Matrix and the Bill and Ted movies... he's kind of a one trick pony.

Yes, but I think his tricked worked much better in a buddy road-trip through time 80s comedy than as a sci-fi chosen one of the virtual world.

Don't get me wrong, road trips through time are cool and all... but Keanu's acting is like a brick wall - completely deadpan. It suited the dystopian future vibe perfectly. Nobody's happy in a dystopian future.

Eh, you're not wrong about the emotional part, but he does a great job of being a loveable idiot as Ted and Neo comes off to me as being a dull idiot in some scenes.  It's weird that the Wachowskis were able to put together the Matrix with so little, but they butchered Cloud Atlas when the source material was so great.

Then what about Sense8? Have you seen that Wachowski production?

No, I have not seen Sense8 yet. That series is probably the thing I will watch next.

There have been mixed reviews for it.  I'm not confident in it after the disaster that was Jupiter Ascending.

Get watching it. It's quite good. A bit risqué at times, but it has an intriguing concept and a well-written plot. I really want a second season.

Netflix should renew it if it gets enough views.  Did it end on a cliffhanger?

Really difficult to answer that. It kind of did, but it kind of didn't? Like, I'd be okay if the ending they had for S1 was the ending of the show, but I also kind of want to know where things would go in the future because the Big Bad was still out there and there's so much more character development potential...

Looks like I'll have to watch it.  My list of things to read, watch, and play grows ever larger.

Right good problem to have, that is.

Sometimes but my time management skills are not fantastic, so I might spend time reading comics or watching anime or whatever when I should be doing something productive.

Even I have this problem. I'm sitting on a book of over 1600 pages that I haven't had the time to read... I've had this book since March. I also have a number of last season's US TV shows to watch, and I'm keeping up with half a dozen current season anime series. Plus work, and WoW raiding... it's a hard life.

Exactly right.  1600 pages!  What book is that?  I finished Infinite Jest recently which I think is the longest book I've ever read, and it wasn't even 1100 pages long.  (Granted that they were big compact pages with a small font.)

The book is the second in Brandon Sanderson's Lightbringer Chronicle series. The first was 1200 pages, a veritable brick of paperback writing genius. Personally I'm hoping that each book in the series gets progressively longer until the last book is like, 5000 pages or something. I could spend a year reading it and never get bored.

Don't you mean the Stormlight Archive?  I've read both Way of Kings and Words of Radiance as hardocvers and they're amazing epic fantasy!  In the end I might end up liking it more than Mistborn by him which I also loved.  I think you're getting it confused with the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks which is good, but I honestly feel is overrated.

Don't get me wrong, I own both series and love them equally. Well, okay, that's a lie. I definitely love Sanderson's works better. I'm definitely getting them confused though. Chalk it up to stress induced by pre-moving stuff.

Fantastic are Sanderson's books particularly his Cosmere works.  I love how everything is connected in the background and I bought the Dangerous Women and Shadows Beneath anthologies just to read his short stories that take place in the Cosmere.

Especially connected is Wit/Hoid. He shows up in all the Cosmere stuff to be enigmatic and witty, and I want a book that is just about him going around to all the worlds to mess with the characters. He's apparently supposed to be important for the overarching Cosmere metaplot, but we've been given so little about him...

Maybe he'll get his own book someday.  I remember Sanderson has written in his blog before about The Liar of Partinel which is supposed to be a book about Hoid's origin story.

Yeah? I don't generally read author blogs, so I miss a lot of stuff like that. I'll have to track that down at some point. But not right now. I'm supposed to be packing right now, and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have internet access for. I scheduled it to be turned off on Saturday, but I don't know if that means at midnight tonight, or at like, 8am or what.

That's sad.  I take home internet access for granted.  Hope your move goes well.

Likely we won't be more than 24 hours without, since the tech is supposed to come out to the new place tomorrow morning to help us connect the router and whatnot. I'm still awake and trying to get things packed up, but my room looks like a disaster area and I don't know how I managed to do this last time...

Each move I've had has been crazy and procrastinating makes it so much crazier.

Really it was quite a nightmare. We're most of the way done now, just had to buy some stuff today and then we need to unpack everything... or most of everything, but we turned in our keys to the other place, so we're done with the actual moving part.

That's great!  Hope you got everything moved correctly.  I've been fairly lucky on that part except for a box that had my SNES, N64, and cartridge collections for them.  It's not like I'd been playing them a lot, but it was still sad considering the nostalgia factor.

Rather, we had the moving company deal with our furniture (the new place is a 2nd floor walk up, with stairs inside the apartment as well), and transported and carried all of our boxes ourselves. I didn't want to take any risks with my nice, flatscreen TV or my video games and systems, nor my books, clothes, etc. Also having them move the boxes would have made it more expensive, and we're kind of on a budget.

This has been a very expensive couple of weeks for us because of the move. We should be done with the excessive spending for now though. Which is nice.

Everything seems better when you don't have to worry as much about money.  Is it a close location to where you lived before?  I always found finding a new group of friends to be the hardest part about moving.

Good thing I don't have any local friends then. This place is about three miles from our last one, but I honestly don't have a social life. It's basically work -> home -> internet -> sleep -> repeat. I take one weekend per year to go out to Boston and see my friends from school, and one of my friends from college has standing permission to drunk text me on Saturday nights (he asked permission, and when he does it, it ends up being rather interesting depending on his level of drunkness), so it's not like I'm a complete recluse, but I have no real interest in getting out and socializing with random people. I don't make friends with people very easily, and I find that having no interest in mainstream shows or events such as popular sitcoms and reality shows or sporting events and concerts, severely limits the number of people I'm willing to converse with for any length of time.

I also have a rather mean sense of humor, riddled with sarcasm, and most people don't seem to get that.

That's a bit sad but warranted.  It's hard meeting people with similar interests when not in school where you can just drop by the gaming or anime clubs (or whatever else you're interested in.)  I haven't had to deal with those problems yet, but I'm glad I can at least stay in touch with some older friends over the internet.  That would have been almost impossible just 30 years ago.

Oh how true. When I started college Facebook was just getting off the ground and gaining popularity. I'm lucky in that respect, as it allows me to keep in touch with friends from all ages of my life (elementary through college... I refuse to friend any of my coworkers), and to keep abreast of the developments in their lives. And honestly, I don't feel like I'm "disconnected" or whatever. The internet and social media are wonderful things.

So they are.  And it's not as if talking is the only social interaction over the internet.  I can play videogames and synch watching movies/tv with friends from around the country which make up most of the social interactions I have with friends in person.  All they need is a way to virtually go out to eat and that's about everything.

Got to wait until at least the 24th century for that. Then we should have transporters and replicators just like Star Trek tells us.

Seems cool but don't the transporters actually kill you and make a copy of you somewhere else?  I don't like the sound of that.

That's not how it works at all. Not in the Trek-verse, anyways. What they do is they take a copy of your "pattern", basically a map of how you're built and your other physical data, plus all the chemical and electrical processes that make up "you", then break you down into your component molecules, using the pattern to put them all back exactly where they were, just in a different physical location. The patterns are stored so that they only need to be updated each time.

The Heisenberg compensator protects the molecules from the observer effect, and makes it so that nothing except the location changes between point A and point B.

But doesn't the transporter not actually move the molecules?  I remember an episode of TNG where some of the characters turn into children during a transportation accident.  Wouldn't that mean it's somehow basing the teleportation off their DNA and not actually moving the molecules?  If so then the original physical form is destroyed.

Don't be silly, that was only because the patterns were corrupted during transport. I assure you that transporters are completely safe when the Rule of Drama does not apply.

You seem fairly confident about this but is there any evidence that the molecules move from point A to point B and it isn't just the pattern constructing something new to exactly match something it destroyed?  Maybe it's in a book or something, but I don't remember it being mentioned in TOS or TNG.

Got to extrapolate from the minimal data provided in the series. But think of it this way: if the end result is indistinguishable from the original in form, thought, and action, can you truly say that it is not, in fact, the original itself?

For the definition of copy, doesn't that satisfy?  It's like the teleporter from The Prestige, but it destroys the original.  I think the same molecules have to be used for it to not count as a death, and even then I think there's a good argument that it kills the person and then creates a life identical to them.

Maybe you're overthinking this. The actual working teleporter that they've actually made in our universe transports the SAME atom from one point to another. The range is short, but the fact remains that you're quibbling over something that is clearly not an issue. :)

Excuse me?!  We have a working teleporter!

Really you should read the scientific news more often. Here's an article from December about one of the more recent experiments. At the moment it's quantum teleportation of photons (as opposed to matter), but what can you expect without aliens giving us something to work with?

(http://news.discovery.com/tech...tance-yet-141210.htm)

How... this is awesome.  I had no idea we'd come so far.  I don't know if we'll ever be able to use quantum teleportation on macroscopic objects but this is still really cool.

Love for it to be macroscopic scale within our lifetimes, but honestly the chances of that are pretty small, even if they did go from transporting data to transporting photons within a year. Which is pretty huge, if you think about it.

Then we'll just have to become immortal cyborgs, I guess.

Somehow that prospect seems less than appealing to me. I don't want to live forever unless I can be forever youthful, and my friends can also live forever.

Right.  If the costs go down enough hopefully we can all design the bodies we want to have and then just do routine maintenance on them to appear youthful forever.  However, our brains will probably eventually deteriorate.  I'm not sure exactly how that works, but to achieve true immortality we'd probably have to copy our brains into digital hardware.  Which similar to the teleportation thing is making a copy that thinks it's the original and not actually the original.

Likely that would lead to some major difficulties. I'm pretty sure there are books/movies that address that particular issue. I know Ghost in the Shell is sort of like that...

That's true.  House of the Scorpion also comes to mind.

I'm trying to think of recently published adult aimed sci-fi novels and none are coming to mind.  The most recent one I can think of that I've read is World War Z, but that came out a decade ago.

Oh, I would expect there to be a lot of recent stuff considering the general trend towards post-apocalyptic type worlds...

See, a lot of that's in YA and middle grade books.  I've read some recent stuff that's pseudo-sci-fi like 11/22/63 or The Dome.  The only adult post-apocalypic books I've read that were recently published dealt with natural reasons rather than sci-fi ones like One Second After.

Really I tend towards sword-and-sorcery or cloak-and-dagger type stuff, even with my "adult" authors. And while some of it is nominally set in "our" world, but where the tech doesn't matter because the book is about magic, or the tech levels are generally medieval and not our universe (see: Brandon Sanderson, Rachel Aaron, Lynn Flewelling, Brent Weeks). I rarely pick up pure science fiction these days.

Sometimes I think that's because the science fiction novel is in a period of decline while fantasy has seen a boom thanks to adaptations of Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire.

Except that I've been reading that type of thing since I was in elementary school more than 20 years ago. There's always been good fantasy out there if you knew where to look for it. I think that the decline in science fiction can be attributed to the actual advances in science that have happened over the past couple of decades. So many of the things that were science "fiction" back then, are reality now. I think we also have this societal idea that we're going to self-destruct sometime in the not-so-distant future, so people can't imagine a far-distant future where cool technology exists... and we're pretty sure if there are actually aliens out there that we'll either be destroyed by them, or they're terrified of us.

So then why is science fiction so big in movies?  This year alone we have Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ant-Man, Age of Ultron, Fantastic Four, Jurassic World, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Terminator: Genysis, Jupiter Acending, Tomorrowland, Chappie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Insurgent, and Maze Runner 2.  Some of those aren't aimed at adults but still it's really weird to me that most of the biggest movies of the year are sci-fi or incorporate sci-fi elements but there are very few sci-fi novels.

So think about those: AI goes rogue because it becomes too "human", post-apocalyptic world, fantasy with potential world-ending catastrophe, fantasy with rogue AI and potential world-ending catastrophe, fantasy in Earth AU (MCU has actual magic that exists in the context of all of their series, so I'm counting it as fantasy rather than sci-fi), dystopian post-war borderline genre, dystopian future with rogue Big Brother AI and killer robots, murder mystery IN SPACE with a space war, world-has-ended (in the future), gangs vs. cops (and big business), dystopian future and rebellion, dystopian future with disintegrating society, dystopian future with world-ending catastrophes.

Are you seeing a theme here? I'm seeing a theme here...

Ey, a lot of them are dystopian but the marvel movies aren't and none of them, including the MCU, have had any real magic introduced into them so they should count as sci-fi.  Ex Machina is very much traditional sci-fi.  Jupiter Ascending and Star Wars are space opera.  Tomorowland is about helping the future utopia, right?  I don't know I haven't seen it.  Anyways, even if we discount the post-apocalyptic stuff there're a lot of sci-fi movies coming out every year in a variety of subgenres.

So all sci-fi is the same as fantasy? All fantasy is the same as sci-fi? No, MCU isn't dystopian per-se, however it does frequent the subjects of Big Brother, rogue AI, secret war, not-so-secret war (HOW many major population centers have been destroyed in the movies alone?), and fantastical discrimination.

Tomorrowland is... basically a "save the planet" movie. The future world is broken because the past (present) is on a self-destruction course. George Clooney and the main character have to figure out a way to fix it. Dr. House doesn't want them to because of reasons. George Clooney is in love with a robot who looks like a 12 year old British girl. Basically.

I basically feel like the focus of every sub genre of sci-fi that comes out lately is focused on the war/destruction/end of the world as we know it plots. I miss the sci-fi that showed us a shiny future with flying cars and deep space colonies and other worlds to explore and colonize. We don't get that anymore.

Everything can't be the Jetsons, I suppose.  It's probably because stable utopias don't make for interesting stories because there's inherently no conflict of any scale worth it for a budget that high.

Hmph. I feel like they could do well if they tried. I think it's just laziness on the part of the script writers.

Safety in the box office is also a major concern.  I think Guardians of the Galaxy took things in the right direction last year for showing new IP space operas are viable although Jupiter Ascending is in the process of undoing that.

The Guardians of the Galaxy movie was great. It was very Marvel, which is to say: plot driven, comedic, and full of great characters. Honestly the entire reason I go to see Marvel movies is for the sheer amount of snark, sarcasm and dark humor that flies around in them.

Marvel usually blends drama, action, and humor in such away that almost anyone can enjoy their movies.  Not everyone loves them, but it's difficult to find someone who dislikes Iron Man or the Avengers.

So true. Honestly the only Marvelverse movies that I don't absolutely love are the ones not produced by Marvel Studios. Mostly because those are made by money-grubbing companies who just want to keep the rights rather than being committed to making movies that are actually good.

Don't you know it.  It made me very happy when it was announced that Spider-Man was joining the MCU!  Also, that Fantastic Four reboot next month looks pretty awful.

Like all movies where I enjoy the franchise or premise, I'm willing to give it a chance. There hasn't been enough for me to say it looks "awful" yet, but I am a bit leery about the prospects of a movie that's literally only being made so that the rights don't revert to the original owner, and is being made without any input from the very successful studio which has been producing almost everything else in its own universe.

Eh, I'm hoping Marvel gets the rights back, and I think they could do a really good set of Fantastic Four movies but really they need the villains. Dr. Doom and Galactus would really help out when Loki is so far the only reoccurring villain over 12 films.

So far, yes. But that's only because of his runaway popularity. I know Marvel's working it's way up to Infinity War as part of Phase 3. They've been building towards it through all of Phase 1 and most of Phase 2 as it is (we've seen 4/6 at this point), so we kind of have Thanos as a recurring villain already, even though he hasn't really had a major role yet.

The thing is I won't count Thanos until Infinity War and even then I doubt they'll use him much afterwards.  Now at least they have access to Spidey's rogues gallery which is probably the second best of any superhero behind Batman.  I'd really like to see Morlun show up as a major villain down the line but others like Green Goblin and Venom definitely have potential to be multi-film villains.

Also, I'm pretty sure Loki was set to be the villain in Avengers before Thor even released.

Does Sony actually plan to give Disney access to the whole gallery or just Spidey?

You brought up Dr. Doom and I just have one question.  Why do they keep changing Dr. Doom's name and messing with his powers?

Somebody call me when they add black cat...in fact shoot I'll play black cat, I already got the hair...

Recurring character on Daredevil's Netflix TV show, perhaps?

So that's possible, but she's much more likely to show up in one of the new SPider-Man movies.

Spider-man is one of my least favorite heroes, he is geared too much as a kid's/pg comic.

Cloudy memories of when I was learning to read include Spider-Man comics.  He was fighting Electro.

Of course he was, Electro is a common Spider Man villain.

New deals put Spiderman into the MCU now!

Who here doesn't know that already?

You and everyone else. Damn.

Not another ridiculous word game thread!

die ridiculous word threads die!

Easy, lad. I just got here.

exactly what i will do is what you just said! Nice to meet you!

Uhm, what was that?  You'll just get here?  But you're already here... I feel woozy, like I need a tranq. ;)

Quite the precarious predicament you have here my friend...

die ridiculous word threads die! is a quote of mine

Elvish people may agree with such a strong phrase relating to wordplay.

you are correct, elves are quite xenophobic towards alien languages!

Simian communication is extremely interesting with its simple complexities.

so true!

Egads, I fear we've reached the story's climax.

xanax makes me happy la da da da la la

And then we start it all over and over and over and over...

Really? Can't we start under once instead?

Down under is a place that I seldom visit.

The police down there are still looking for you because of the ... incident ... aren't they?

You never know when an elvish Elvis is secretly working for the peanut butter and banana-heads at the FBI.
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I know everything about that subject

That seems unlikely at best.

Thought you may believe that, what I said is true.

Even the part with the monkeys?

Silly, i never said I know anything about monkeys, in fact, I only know one thing about them.

Monkeys are involved in the topic you claimed to know everything about, though.

Have you no shame, sir?!

Really, shame is nothing but a hindrance when dealing with monkeys.

Super seriously (definitely) though, monkeys are incredibly terrifying, amirite?

Even the most terrifying monkey can be handled with adequate preparation.

Not baboons, they are pure evil.

Likely so, but everyone knows baboons are apes.

Silly me, I truly need to retake my zoology exam!

Maybe you should study for it this time.

Ehhh... only people who weren't born with inherent supernatural abilities study!

You were born with inherent supernatural abilities?

Seriously!

Yet I've not seen you demonstrate any.

You assume that my powers are visible manifestations of causal forces, when in fact they work in tangent with the metaphysical nature of all things.

So? What makes you think I can't sense such things?

Since I've never met anybody who can do such a thing, I assumed it was impossible!

Everything is possible here.

Even though I've been here a while, I am consistently surprised by the endless possibilities!

Sometimes even I am surprised.

Deities cannot be surprised, I assume.

Even they fail to foresee now and then. Though that might be on purpose. I should imagine never being surprised gets boring.

Getting bored is a symptom of imperfection , something I hypothesize deities do not suffer from.

Maybe you all are deities, but I am but a simple koala.

And the lord speaketh!

He's not to be trusted when he claims to be just a simple koala, you know.

Well obviously anyone who claims to be a koala is either in a fursuit or trying to mask their true power!

Research indicates the koala part is accurate. It's the "simple" part that's patently untrue.

Evildoers often adopt the mask of 'simple' people, when they are actually as devious as a [REDACTED]!
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 16:38, Mon 30 Mar 2020.

Don't see much of a resemblance between myself, (a common marsupial of modest means and humble origins,) and [REDACTED]. You must be mistaken.

Naturally, you're nothing like a [REDACTED]. You're actually a [REDACTED], after all.

Logically I'd also have to distance myself from any reasonable comparisons with either [REDACTED], [REDACTED] or even [REDACTED] if you would stretch the imagination to such an untenable length.

Hell guys, this has gone a bit far... If we don't stop soon [REDACTED] will show us their [REDACTED] and we will become fully [REDACTED]!

Don't worry, I [REDACTED] [REDACTED] years ago after they [REDACTED] the [REDACTED], because that just won't fly.

Yes, I recall the Age of the airborne [REDACTED].  Flying through the Lounge, waiving their [REDACTED] at the patrons and [REDACTED] all over the bar.  If I recall, Vixcis enjoyed [REDACTED] most of all.

Let's stop now, it's getting dangerous.

Surely you've noticed by now that we live for danger!

Right now, I am avoiding the danger to the best of my abilities.

Survival is important, but not as important as juicy fruit!

Tomatoes would be almost worth the risk.

Kiwis are worth the sacrifice, too

Obviously.

You'd think it'd be obvious, but I've met some kiwi-haters before, I've decided to not talk to those kinds of people again.

Not likely that they'll leave you alone.

Especially since most kiwi-haters I've met are also certified stalkers!

Surprising that the stalker certification organization is allowed to continue operating.

Gods! You're telling me, I've been trying to transfer the business from privately-owned to state-run for AGES, the world would be better if the prime minister's elected officials were in charge of deploying creeps on the streets.

Stalkers with certifications would presumably be more likely to do a good job, I suppose.

Exactly my point! If you're going to do a bad thing, at least do it well.

Last thing we need is more incompetent stalkers.

So, anyway, what's your favorite felony?

You know, I've always been a fan of treason, but I'd have to say perjury is my favorite overall.

Larceny is a somewhat underrated felonious art

True, but then it's so rare to see it executed well these days.

Seriously? Nobody voted for arson?

Not unusual enough to mention around here.

Even if that's the case, I thought spammers (which we are, right?) love repetition? This must be the work of an invisible supervillain!

Now how'd you get the idea we were spammers?

Surely because spamming is the best way to Waste Time^TM, and is also thematically appropriate-- if bannable-- for a message board.

Despite the efficiency of spamming for wasting time, the quality of the time wasting is lacking. We're serious about time wasting here and aim for quality as well as quantity.

You make a quality point that I hadn't considered, bravo!

Only kind of point worth making, really.

You just made another one!

Eventually my streak will end.

Deathstreaks aren't as cool as killstreaks, I've been told.

Don't believe everything people tell you.

Uh, but what if they tell me, "A train is coming and [I] need to please for the love of [MYSELF; GOD] step off the rails, sir. Sir! Everything is okay you forgot to take your [medically injected joyfulness; ''Antipsychotics''] this morning and you'll wake up and everything is okay and everything is okay"? Should I listen to the [bug-faced worm-people]?

Eh, I just listen to the voices in my head, they usually don't steer me wrong... 'cept that time they told me not to kill. Pretty sure I should of gone with the kill option.

Nah... if you're voices tell you not to kill, you shouldn't. Mine always tell me to kill, and it go so boring and un-creative that I just stopped listening. They still only recommend killing, but lately they have been suggesting that I [REDACTED], which is intriguing, though, a bit [REDACTED], I must say.

Yuri Andropov longed to kill, but settled for a communistic thrill.

Last letter conversation is a trash-tier minigame, but don't tell him I said that about him!

Maybe we're all just raccoons ready to jump into the trash.

Hey, the world might be garbage... but garbage is delicious!

Some of us refuse to eat our home.

Home is where I keep my stuff!

Feh! Stuff is overrated!

Do you really believe that? It makes you sound like the Dalai Lama.

Are you calling me a Llama? I'll have you know I only spit on people I don't like some of the time.

This is froggychum's lawyer and I am legally required to inform you that my client refutes any claims of and pleads not guilty to any charges of spitting on individuals during the covid-19 pandemic, nor did he intend to insinuate he engages in such activities.

Evidently, you spit on people you do like all of the time.  Say it, don't spray it.

Spitting on individuals is Froggychum's right as a llama, (even if born a frog,) and to say otherwise would be speciesist and not tolerated in this forum

To be fair, spitting is a sign of affection in some of my delusions

According to the new FILTHY LIBERAL GOVERNMENT, everyone now has a right to be schizophrenic and dangerous #sjw #cringe #thanksobama

Sorry but please keep your delusions to yourself.

Friends share each other's delusions, don't you know?

Why would I know that?

True. You never had friends, after all.

Low key savage, right here ^

Everybody, at some point of their life, is a bit of a savage. It just happens. Hopefully, it's just a short episode.

Everyone dies, so what's the point?

There is a lot of potential in whatever happens before that! Let's not pretend we can ignore it. :)

The wake is the bast part. You don't have to get up for it.

True!

Everyone would be shocked if you show up for your own wake. They might faint even.

Nobody will faint for that kind of shock.... but maybe for the bad smell!

Lemon scented air freshener might cover that up.

Perhaps then I'll be able to show up for my wake without shocking anybody!

You might think that, but you'd be wrong!

Governments seem to enjoy making everything clumsy and complicated...

Directing clumsy, complicated things is sorta the job.

Building an institution that is there just to make things clumsy and complicated is pretty mean to me.

Excellent point, but it's the way things are now.

Whatever madness is prevailing now, I do hope it will fade in the future.

Except madness is likely to spiral into more madness.

Somebody thinks along your very same line, but not me.

Evidently you are already completely mad!

Didn't you already know that?
This message was last edited by the player at 19:05, Sat 15 Oct 2022.

This seemed likely, but I wasn't certain.

Nobody can ever be absolutely certain about anything. I have no doubt whatsoever about it!

That sounds awfully certain, considering that being certain is something one can't do!

Often people doesn't feel certain about something, but I do feel absolutely certain that nothing is certain!

No way can I feel certain about uncertainty!

You seem to have a diametrically opposite approach to this issue, compared to me.

Eventually, I seem to approach everything in diametrical opposition to someone, don't you think?

Kudos to your honesty!

You're here at the same time as me! I don't think that's happened before, ever!

Remember me, though I have to say goodbye
Remember me, don't let it make you cry
For even if I'm far away, I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me, though I have to travel far
Remember me each time you hear a sad guitar
Know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
Until you're in my arms again, remember me
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir (recuérdame)
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir (recuérdame)
Si en tu mente vivo estoy (recuérdame)
Mis sueños yo te doy
Te llevo en mi corazón y te acompañaré
Unidos en nuestra canción contigo ahí estaré
(Recuérdame)
Si sola crees estar (recuérdame)
Y mi cantar te irá a abrazar
Aún en la distancia, qunca vayas a olvidar
Que yo contigo siempre voy
Recuérdame
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
Remember me, for I will soon be gone
Remember me and let the love we have live on
And know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
So, until you're in my arms again
Remember me
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir (remember me)
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir (remember me)

[OOC: not sure what's happening to me today...]

Evidently you don't tire of typing.

Great invention, the copy and paste... :)

Excellent planning, to get a long post that way.

You got it right once more!

Eventually I get one right!

To be honest, this for sure is not the first.

That would be the second?

Do you remember this kind of sequences? I usually don't.

That would require my memory to be better than it really is.

Such a thing demonstrates that we have something in common.

Noticed that, did you?

Uncommon, having such things in common... isn't it?

That's not really so unusual.

Life is full of surprises.... and of strange coincidences...

Seems not all that strange to me.

Eventually people loses the sense of wonder they used to have in their early days.

So sad losing wonder is though.

How was your Christmas break? Did you have good time?

Everything was great!  How was yours?

Surely it was a time of rest. I didn't imagine that I could sleep for so many hours without any interruption!

Now it's back to not getting enough sleep.

Sleep is an important factor for our health and mental balance.

Even being able to play a game correctly is helped by getting enough sleep!

People sometimes underestimates the benefits of having a good night of rest.

They really should try it.

Totally agree!

Even you should try it too.

Of course! In fact, I'm going to bed right after posting this.... Good night!

That's a great idea.  I'm going to do the same thing.

Good things happen to those who... sleep! :P

Pretty sure that's true, which is why I hate having insomnia.

Apple brandy hot might help you with your insomnia.

Awesome!

Exceptional suggestion!  I'll have to try some apple brandy!

You wont regret it!

To be honest, pear brandy can work as well.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:07, Sun 23 July 2023.

Love me some pear brandy.

You can find it quite easily. You can choose if you prefer it warm or cold or in a cocktail.

Lots of things are good hot, cold, or in a cocktail.

Live your best life, possibly with a nice cocktail in your hands, but please avoid Molotov cocktails.

So your suggestion is to have a cocktail but not to blow anything up.

Possibly... quite possibly, that's the best way.

Yes, I do think it's best to avoid an explosion.

Nobody prefers explosions instead of cocktails during holidays, as far as I can understand.

Don't assume that NO ONE like explosions, as I'm fairly sure someone does like them.

Mamma mia!

Am I even real?

Loving your optimism! :)

Maybe everyone I kill will become my slave in Heaven?

No chance.