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by Octavious
Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:49 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions 118
Replies: 35
Views: 189

Re: Twenty Questions 118

Ha! Obvious trap skillfully avoided!
by Octavious
Wed May 31, 2023 12:04 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Should there be stricter regulations on thoughts and prayers?
Replies: 2
Views: 25

Re: Should there be stricter regulations on thoughts and prayers?

What we need is an evidence based approach, so let's start with a small trial. The next time you have a thought, rather than posting it immediately on webDip wait 24 hours and reevaluate the thought, then wait a further 364 days and reevaluate again. If the thought still feels interesting, post away...
by Octavious
Tue May 30, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Rhubarb Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 184

Re: Rhubarb Pie

In Italy rhubarb is mainly used to make a relatively light liqueur, the most well-known brand being Rabarbaro Zucca. But ages ago my grandma always had rhubarb candies for me, bittersweet and so good. Or the even more bitter boldo/artichoke ones. I still remember that taste, although I still don't ...
by Octavious
Tue May 30, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Is it a moral imperative to hit someone with my car
Replies: 9
Views: 108

Re: Is it a moral imperative to hit someone with my car

So... if I understand the scenario correctly... brainbomb ran someone over in a display of hideous driving ineptitude, and is currently trying to find an elaborate excuse that gets him off the hook? Say a bee flu up your nose and made you sneeze. Works every time... unless the person you hit was imp...
by Octavious
Mon May 29, 2023 11:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Rhubarb Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 184

Re: Rhubarb Pie

Rhubarb is the devil's plant. But I guess it deserves some respect for being one of those Chinese foods that has become so common it is no longer thought of as Chinese
by Octavious
Mon May 29, 2023 6:04 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions 118
Replies: 35
Views: 189

Re: Twenty Questions 118

Fluent English speaker?
by Octavious
Mon May 29, 2023 6:02 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions 118
Replies: 35
Views: 189

Re: Twenty Questions 118

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon May 29, 2023 5:25 pm
dargorygel wrote:
Mon May 29, 2023 5:07 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon May 29, 2023 4:23 pm
Is it someone you have met in real life, or who has an account on this website?
Lol
If he said yes I was going to ask if it was someone who owned a famous well.
I used to live near a famous well... There can't be that many of them
by Octavious
Mon May 29, 2023 4:05 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions Round 117
Replies: 74
Views: 516

Re: Twenty Questions Round 117

2017? Jamie?

He was here long before me and I've been here over a decade :razz:
by Octavious
Mon May 29, 2023 1:31 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions Round 117
Replies: 74
Views: 516

Re: Twenty Questions Round 117

Old Brand has been amusingly political in recent years, as well
by Octavious
Sun May 28, 2023 7:27 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions Round 117
Replies: 74
Views: 516

Re: Twenty Questions Round 117

Not the Reverend Richard Coles, then...

Brian Cox?
by Octavious
Sun May 28, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions Round 117
Replies: 74
Views: 516

Re: Twenty Questions Round 117

Is he religious?
by Octavious
Sun May 28, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: War, what is it good for?
Replies: 315
Views: 12401

Re: War, what is it good for?

A potentially pivotal day in war with the Turkish election. Quite an interesting battle between the final two Presidential candidates. On the one hand you have the challenger, running on a campaign of a return to orthodox economic policies, abolishing Presidential superiority, pro-Western diplomacy,...
by Octavious
Sun May 28, 2023 2:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: If I have a consenting relationship with a house plant, should it be made legal
Replies: 9
Views: 116

Re: If I have a consenting relationship with a house plant, should it be made legal

This entire debate does hinge on finding a plant willing to lower itself to brainbomb's intellectual level for the sake of a relationship. I admire brainbomb's optimism in this venture, but it's asking a lot. Perhaps an older tree in her late 600s would be excited enough by brainbomb's relative yout...
by Octavious
Sat May 27, 2023 10:52 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Would human extraterrestrials still be considered Human if they were not from Earth?
Replies: 8
Views: 92

Re: Would human extraterrestrials still be considered Human if they were not from Earth?

They wouldn't be human. They'd be aliens who are remarkably similar to humans. In all honesty I don't think it would change our understanding of anything. We are quite used to remarkably similar animals having very different evolutionary histories. Rabbits and hares, for example. Besides, a lot of e...
by Octavious
Fri May 26, 2023 8:58 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Would human extraterrestrials still be considered Human if they were not from Earth?
Replies: 8
Views: 92

Re: Would human extraterrestrials still be considered Human if they were not from Earth?

What are you talking about here? Do you mean humans from Earth who have colonised other planets for a few generations and who may now genetically differ slightly from the earthbound norm, or do you mean a life form that independently evolved on another planet along near identical lines to humans on ...
by Octavious
Fri May 26, 2023 1:07 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions Round 117
Replies: 74
Views: 516

Re: Twenty Questions Round 117

Have they made a known contribution, intentionally or otherwise, to their language?

(An example of an intentional contributor being Shakespeare, and an unintentional contributor being Sweet Fanny Adams)
by Octavious
Fri May 26, 2023 8:54 am
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Bots are not submitting orders
Replies: 16
Views: 254

Re: Bots are not submitting orders

They've been listening to Brainbomb and have risen up
by Octavious
Thu May 25, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Should AI have more civil liberties than an animal
Replies: 18
Views: 194

Re: Should AI have more civil liberties than an animal

I'm not sure what a nonsense essay about a "semi-conscious AI that lacks consciousness" is supposed to prove, other than to demonstrate that ChatGPT has no real understanding of what it's writing
by Octavious
Thu May 25, 2023 6:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Should AI have more civil liberties than an animal
Replies: 18
Views: 194

Re: Should AI have more civil liberties than an animal

An AI can't do these things. An AI can search through its memory banks for human responses to questions about the right to life and self defense, throw them through a set of algorithms to merge them together in a pattern that has some kind of logical and grammatical sense, and spit out something tha...
by Octavious
Mon May 22, 2023 2:11 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Qs - #116
Replies: 95
Views: 674

Re: Twenty Qs - #116

If you were to create a reference book containing a treasure trove of snippets and concepts from their works, could you justifiably call it a Brontësaurus?

Actually, sod that question. Too few left.

Is it Emily Brontë? Famous for writing the only book from the Brontë sisters worth reading