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[FractalP]

First idea I had was that the numbers referred to verses in the Bible. That was until I hit chapter 113.

[Mardeaux]

[Rich Reder]

A small point (not nearly so significant as all the good discoveries others have posted recently) - On the About Us page it now says "Former Members" (plural), although Wilfred Dawes is the still the only one shown in that category; but prior to yesterday, it was "Former Member". So, appears they're expecting/preparing for other resignations or dismissals.

Perhaps the game administrators are in fact lurking on this forum... hard to believe they wouldn't be curious anout what we're discovering! So maybe they caught our speculation about Ms. Gonzales and that changed their timing?

Personally I think it'd be majorally cool if the players could throw a wrench into their works... this whole deal seems so tightly scripted and predetermined... more like a movie or novel than a game. Of course, I'm more used to PBeM's than ARG's, so probably shouldn't expect we'd impact the plot?!

Nonetheless, our collaboration is great fun!

[Projectyl]

New Daily Inspiration is up:

[Qaqaq]

PISO also fits that pattern, but that's obscure. I came up with the same solution but am also not real confident in it.

I spent a few minutes trying to find a word generally meaning "scientific discourse" that contained a B and a Y, where if you changed those letters to an A and an X, you'd get a new word (the solution). But I'm now doubting that's the right idea.

Oh, and I believe that other page has said "Former Members" (plural) for a while now. I've been checking it fairly frequently, though, so it might be that it just seems like longer to me.

[amandel]

Erin Cole must have our postcards, inc. mine, now and Savannah has updated her FB:

[pko]

Today's DI

[tinhorn]

I had the same thought as Qaqaq, but the only words that work (according to a quick programming run) are BYE (and its derivatives, including BYEMAN) to AXE, BYON to AXON, and LIMBY to LIMAX, none of which seems useful. (CLIMBY is not a word in any of my lists.)

Perhaps it's more generally a -1 Caesar shift, with Y-X and B-A merely serving as examples. I'll experiment.


EDIT:

FWIW, here are the 1-step Caesar shifts in my wordlist (first set shifts to second set). I only included words of at least 4 letters.

{adder,adds,admi,admix,ahint,anan,anna,anns,anteed,ants,aten,atka,atle,atmid,azlons,char,chlor,chud,czar,dand,deer,dodd,duds,
ehed,gnar,idee,inks,izar,khar,khor,khud,knar,mzee,neer,odor,ohms,rods,ronne,ronts,rots,shads,shee,sheer,shes,shod,shoods,shor,
snee,sneer,snod,snog,snork,star,steed,steeds,steer}

{beefs,beet,benj,benjy,bijou,bobo,boob,boot,bouffe,bout,bufo,bulb,bumf,bunje,bampot,dibs,dimps,dive,dabs,eboe,effs,epee,evet,
fife,hobs,jeff,jolt,jabs,libs,lips,live,lobs,naff,offs,peps,pint,spet,spoof,spout,sput,tibet,tiff,tiffs,tift,tipe,tippet,tips,
toff,toffs,tope,toph,topsl,tubs,tuffe,tuffet,tuffs}

[salvokat]

Passionix

[bcjam]

Let's remember that DI 1 of this week is HOWLING MAD, the 'werewolf book by Peter David. If this is some sort of topical trend, perhaps we're looking for a book title or something along those lines. I find the correlation between the idea of a werewolf and taking passionix interesting.

[Projectyl]

"Howling Mad" is what the H.M. in the A-Team's "H.M. Murdock" stands for, as tinhorn pointed out, and "disc" is what the last letter of either CD or DVD stands for. It's a loose connection, but it might be worth it to be on the lookout for future DI answers this week that are parts of things more commonly abbreviated.

Re: the Passionix logo: it looks to me more like the graphic designer was just trying to split it into "Passion" and "nix", with the N split because it's doing double duty. It is a bit weird that it was split that way instead of down the center, though.

[ToddE]

OT:

[theboy1der]

[amandel]

UPDATE on Cov's press page and the About Us page.

[bcjam]

Another one bites the dust. It feels good to be doing some good in the world.