Game: Invisible Friend - Now playing round 47.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Dear Invisible Friend,
Who is your favorite Greek/Roman God?
Who is your least favorite?
Who do you think should be included more in the parties on Mt. Olympus?
Are you getting tired of the mythology questions?

Gaea
Apollo
hades
orange!

That was probably a typo, llearch. But this is a semantic discussion, not an existential one. Anyway, irrational numbers were created to solve problems like the square root of 2, or the relation between the diameter of a circle and its perimeter. Rational numbers were created to solve the problem of dividing numbers by other numbers that weren't their divisors. Negative numbers were created to solve the problem of substracting a larger number from a smaller one. And before that, natural numbers were creating to solve the problem of counting. All numbers have been created to satisfy a need.

Anyway, if you're not interested in discussing this, what would you rather discuss?

dear gabi,
sorry, that was a typo.  i guess i was going too fast.

i'd rather discuss politics and religion, but that wouldn't do well here.

dear invisible friend

do you have and odd number of letters in your screen name?
do you have the letter e in your screen name? er scratch that the letter a... no scratch that  do you have more the one vowel in you screen named?
do you like robots?
have you every met and energy being?
do you like teachers?

yes. and an even one too.
*pokes the question with a stick* the question has sharp teeth!
now that one has lost all its teeth. what?
yes.
not every energy being, but i've met a few.
depends on the teacher.

[Gabi]

Why wouldn't it do well here? Is it any more off-topic than discussing numbers?

Or do you tend to be too aggressive when discussing those topics?

[e_voyager]

dear invisible friend

my post count is scary to me is it scary to you?
speaking of post counts is your visible post count over 500?
you making this fun. have you played this game here before?
have you changed your screen name in the past year?
look out the is after you! what will we do?

[VSMIT]

Dear Invisible Friend,
What don't you like about Apollo?  Since he's the bringer of light, I would think that people would at least see him as someone to be feared, since he can just say, "Well, I don't want to do this anymore.  Good luck with the eternal night!"

What is your favorite mythological creature?
What is your favorite branch of ancient mythology (Greek, Norse, Japanese, etc.)?

[Suwako]

Dear invisible friend,

do you have any pets?
how large is your largest window?
how high is your door?
this is question number four.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Dear Invisible Friend:

- Are you done with my drawing yet? The round ends in a few days. And yes, I know I have to make one for my visible friend too.
-What are some of your favorite things?
-Do you like school?
-Do you use Firefox, IE, or some other browser? (I have to know if you're cool or not.)
-How much white is in your avatar?

Dear Dak

I have possession of required material.
Well the things that I like a lot, enjoy a lot and find helpful I guess.
School did/does not like me.
Firefox, sometimes IE.
Enough to suffice, yet...

Why wouldn't it do well here? Is it any more off-topic than discussing numbers?

Or do you tend to be too aggressive when discussing those topics?

dear gabi,

it wouldn't do well here for two reasons.  #1, it's against my internal forum rules to discus things that could get a lot of people pissed at me extremely quickly, and it would probably start an online religious war and get a lot of people pissed at me extremely quickly.  it is not as off topic as our previous discussion of numbers, as you had asked me what my favorite was, and i answered you, which prompted the question about non-real and irrational numbers.

like i said before, it's not that i would be too aggressive, it's that everyone else would be.

Dear Invisible Friend,
What don't you like about Apollo?  Since he's the bringer of light, I would think that people would at least see him as someone to be feared, since he can just say, "Well, I don't want to do this anymore.  Good luck with the eternal night!"

What is your favorite mythological creature?
What is your favorite branch of ancient mythology (Greek, Norse, Japanese, etc.)?

Dear Invisible Friend,
light is a fickle and temporary thing. it was dark before the universe as we know it and before the universe dies all light is to be a thing of the pass as well .
i'd say the chimera
dance like a Egyptian!

Apologies for the delay - work is ramping up rapidly for me, with several outages waiting in thw ings to make my life very very busy. The rest of the week, there may be some delays.

[Gabi]

Why do you think so lowly of everyone else?

[Dakata]

Dear invisible friend:

- Name all of the people playing the game in the order you like them. From best to worst. Including yourself of course. (If you left yourself out, I'd know who you are!)
- Do you think I know who you are?
- Do you think I at least have an idea of who you are?
- ARE YOU A FURRY?
- Is E's post count scary to you?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

dear invisible friend

my post count is scary to me is it scary to you?
speaking of post counts is your visible post count over 500?
you making this fun. have you played this game here before?
have you changed your screen name in the past year?
look out the is after you! what will we do?

i'm not afraid of numbers.
what's a visible post count? is there an invisible one?
thanks, i'm having fun. yes, i've played before.
i have many screen names.
er... run?

Dear invisible friend,

do you have any pets?
how large is your largest window?
how high is your door?
this is question number four.

http://llearch.net/misc/if/27/kittyhf6.gif
I drew you a cookie but I ated it. So I drew you a kitty to make up for it.
I hope you forgive me.

Nope, no pets.
On my house? Very big. On the computer? About half the screen.
As high as a normal door.
That's not a question.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

What, is nobody asking questions?

Dear invisible friend:

- Name all of the people playing the game in the order you like them. From best to worst. Including yourself of course. (If you left yourself out, I'd know who you are!)
- Do you think I know who you are?
- Do you think I at least have an idea of who you are?
- ARE YOU A FURRY?
- Is E's post count scary to you?

Dear Dak

There is no order, there is only a unreadable dump-age of letters on top of another.
I know who I know I am, but I don't know if you know who I know I am.
Ideas make the world go around in a circle.
IS THIS SPARTA?
no.

http://llearch.net/misc/if/27/squail.png
i hope you like it.

[VSMIT]

Dear Invisible Friend,
What brought you to this forum in the first place?
Do you know what Zero Punctuation is?
Have you participated in "The ban game, v02?"
Are you going to now, just to spite me?

[Dakata]

Maybe you could make the round a week longer or two....and tell everyone to stop being lazy and ask/answer questions?

Dear Invisible Friend:
- Right now, at the exact moment I post this, what kind of number is your post count, even or odd?
- Why'd you join the forum?
- Have you played the Ban game at all?
- Are you going to now, just to spite VSMIT?

(I'm not stealing from VSMIT, he just went a few hours into the future to steal my questions. Really! You believe me, right IF?)

[e_voyager]

dear invisible friend.

the time is ticking down thanks for the gift
do you think i'll lose the round?
do you know i haven't had this much fun in a long while?
\are you in the hall of fame under your current name?
can you spot the picture i sent my visible friend?
are you and apf?
did you learn invisible from the invisible man?
do you know who won the rat race?
do you think theses question she satisfy boxy the mod?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Why do you think so lowly of everyone else?

dear gabi,

i think a bit lowly of the general public because they seem to be prone to idiocy when in a large group.  forums are no different.  as soon as a member decides to make a comment another party deems "offensive," everybody jumps on either the original poster or the second party's back. mob mentality is not just for mobs.  and i've had personal experience with this kind of thing.  you can't try to argue your thoughts against religion with a devout person successfully.  i've tried to discuss evolution with someone who believes in "intelligent design."  it didn't work.

Dear Invisible Friend,
What brought you to this forum in the first place?
Do you know what Zero Punctuation is?
Have you participated in "The ban game, v02?"
Are you going to now, just to spite me?

I followed the herd.
yes i do.
have you?
do you think me so shallow?
would you like some tea?

http://llearch.net/misc/if/27/parlar.png

[Gabi]

I've had far better experiences than the ones you describe. I think it all depends on whether the people involved respect each other or not. If the aim of the discussion is to prove the other person is an idiot, nothing good will come out of it and you're likely to make a fool of yourself in the process. But if you want to share your opinion and listen to the other without offending him/her, then it can work.

So, back to the original question. What is it that you want?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Maybe you could make the round a week longer or two....and tell everyone to stop being lazy and ask/answer questions?

Er... No, I don't think so. :-P

Dear Invisible Friend:
- Right now, at the exact moment I post this, what kind of number is your post count, even or odd?
- Why'd you join the forum?
- Have you played the Ban game at all?
- Are you going to now, just to spite VSMIT?

(I'm not stealing from VSMIT, he just went a few hours into the future to steal my questions. Really! You believe me, right IF?)

Dear Invisible Friend:

Depends on what forum.
Because I felt like it.
Yes.
Wha?

dear invisible friend.

the time is ticking down thanks for the gift
do you think i'll lose the round?
do you know i haven't had this much fun in a long while?
\are you in the hall of fame under your current name?
can you spot the picture i sent my visible friend?
are you and apf?
did you learn invisible from the invisible man?
do you know who won the rat race?
do you think theses question she satisfy boxy the mod?

you're welcome.
nah.
really? cool.
\
let me guess. is it the one with the thingy?
i'm me, myself and i.
no.
no, but i bet it was a rat.
i dunno. ask him.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

http://llearch.net/misc/if/27/20080523.jpg

So, back to the original question. What is it that you want?

dear gabi,

not much, actually.  just to have a conversation in which i don't have to
think that much.
         
the monster will get the skier.

http://llearch.net/misc/if/27/5-24-2008.png

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Since everyone seems to be waiting, all I can do is apologise for the delay - one of the servers at work died, and I'm now sitting in the office attempting to finish the replacement work I started on Wednesday.

Obviously it'd be so much easier if I had the original server still up and running, so I could copy data off it... *cough*

Anyway.

Everyone appears to have answered, and everyone appears to have supplied an image, so go to it. The game is now over, and it's time to post your guesses for who your Invisible Friend is.

[Suwako]

* Aiyno rolls a dice.

I like the roofer aparently, I tag you Dakkey.

Dak... roof... ugh.

[e_voyager]

runs a  randomise program. funny i got Dak to but since i really don't know whom my invisible friend is that guess as as good and any. my my what a fun game this round.

[VSMIT]

I'm saying e_voyager.

[Gabi]

Poor llearch. I hope you can sort that out soon.

Is my IF VSMIT again? No offense meant.

[Dakata]

I guess VSMIT.

I don't know who else it could be!

[e_voyager]

this was a great game my if had me second guessing myself from the start.  too bad i've been to busy to really prob and find out who they were with and certainty but i like being paid more then.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Aiyno guessed Dak. He chose... well.
e_voyager chose Dak. He chose... poorly. e_voyager's IF was Gabi.
VSMIT chose e_voyager. He chose well.
Gabi chose VSMIT. She also chose well.
Dak chose VSMIT. He chose... poorly. His IF was Aiyno.

Aiyno, VSMIT, and Gabi are this round's winners. Congratulations!

Also, note that Aiyno and Dak made a nice little ring. This was unusual, and, since it randomly turned out so perfectly, I decided not to mess with it.

So. Who wants to host the next round? I'm happy to keep going...

[e_voyager]

congratulations. on top of everything Gabi you had me fooled and i didn't know who was answering my questions. most fun game i've had in a while.

[Suwako]

I won.. I didn't deserve it though, because I was being a pushy brat.

I should burn in a fire hot and evil place.

[Dakata]

Aww. It didn't seem like Aiyno...I want a do-over!

I can't play in the next round though. Gonna be too busy. What, with finals and all.

I won.. I didn't deserve it though, because I was being a pushy brat.

I should burn in a fire hot and evil place.

Yes, you should. You should give me your win too. I deserve it more because you were confusing and like you said, a pushy brat. Pushy brats don't deserve to win! Only winners and dragons and winning dragons deserve to win.

[VSMIT]

Is my IF VSMIT again? No offense meant.

No offense taken.  You seem to get me a lot.

And Aiyno seems to enjoy making rings.

[Suwako]

And Aiyno seems to enjoy making rings.

¿que?