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Topic: PuzzleCrunch
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Rogi Ocnorb
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Given how fast the bots catalog new pages on unfiction and make them available to searches, I'd say we should limit our posting (even if spoilered) of any parts of the questions and answers to the for...
 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:00 pm
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Topic: PuzzleCrunch
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 17
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Sure. We can just open a new room on Saturday.
Guess we'll be needing a team name, too.
Any suggestions? Or just the generic "Team unfiction"?
 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:37 pm
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Topic: PuzzleCrunch
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 17
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One-Day, Online Puzzle Hunt by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this Saturday Forum: Diversions » TimeWasters
For those not familiar with Puzzlecrack, it's like the annual MIT Mystery Hunt, Manbites Dog and Microsoft's Puzzle Hunt. I think I was the only on...
 Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:19 pm
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Topic: [ARG] THE RIVARD PROJECT
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 570
Views: 72840
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| Coffeebean wrote: |
| Double posting is considered bad form. |
While that's something nobody here will dispute; In this case, it's because Ciao Bella is posting as a guest.
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:24 pm
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Topic: Imploding Games
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 48
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| Agent Lex wrote: |
| Rogi Ocnorb wrote: |
| First, learn. Then, do. |
Purely to play Devil's Advocate... how do you learn PMing, without doing it? |
As opposed to the "This looks like fun. ...
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:09 pm
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Topic: Movie Guessing Game
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 8597
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Paging, CheshireCat_88.
Your turn to post a new movie.
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:47 pm
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Topic: [ARG] THE RIVARD PROJECT
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 570
Views: 72840
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Sounds like Coffeebean got French roasted.
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:33 pm
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Topic: Imploding Games
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 48
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It's sad that we've come to a point where people are oblivious to the messes they create. What ever happened to common courtesy?
Why does someone who slapped together a PC feel that they're qualifie...
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:51 pm
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Topic: Puzzle Experiment #2
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 51
Views: 7125
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That's one of the reasons I love this place so much. All the learning opportunities it affords me. Unicode is an area I need to work on as all my "day jobs" have dealt with plain old ASCII in its va...
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:09 pm
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Topic: Puzzle Experiment #2
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 51
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Another curiosity about the log, when viewed in hex:
The ASCII values for 0D-Carriage Return and 0A-Line Feed (Windows/DOS line breaks) appear throughout the file. But in each case where the pair app...
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:30 pm
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Topic: Puzzle Experiment #1
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 34
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I've often said that stegging is a great way to hide information.
I've also often said that if it happens in a game, I won't ever see the solution as "Homey don't play dat". There are an impossibly ...
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:58 am
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Topic: [Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 1670
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Delete with extreme prejudice.
This scam has been running for three or four years that I know of.
 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:29 pm
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Topic: [Chat] Ariadne 16 April (Re: Communicating with Theo)
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 146
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Decoding can go fairly fast with simple replacements in notepad.
I just do a search for "1"s and "2"s in the original text and if they don't exist, replace [Space, Space] with "2" and then [Space] ...
 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:38 pm
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Topic: [SPEC][META-ish]We're creating the opposition
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 20
Views: 2479
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So, their theories are all over the map like ours.  |
Interesting observation. While there have been instances where the TAs have made unprompted observations and don...
 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:08 pm
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Topic: [META] How do you like FTLR up to now?
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Rogi Ocnorb
Replies: 13
Views: 1746
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I agree with most of the comments that have appeared, above. Well, except that I loathe putting people into arbitrary buckets for any reason, regardless of noble intentions.
This "game" will concl...
 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:17 am
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