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2:09 PM
@nef I found your legs!
/cc @Dro @ber ^^
@Pro long time no hear, all is good? You find time to work on your site?
@Frank long time no tree, and winter is coming.... you have a shelter? ;)
 
2:42 PM
giving Annona to @anon
Annona is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, containing approximately 166 species of mostly neotropical and afrotropical trees and shrubs. The generic name derives from anón, a Hispaniolan Taíno word for the fruit. Paleoethnobotanical studies have dated Annona exploitation and cultivation in the Yautepec River region of Mexico to approximately 1000 BC. It has several common names, including Guanabana, Graviola and Soursop. Currently, seven Annona species and one hybrid are grown for domestic or...
giving Frankfurter to @Frank
A Frankfurter Würstchen (German for Frankfurt sausage) is a thin parboiled sausage made of pure pork in a casing of sheep's intestine. The special taste is acquired by a special method of low temperature smoking. For consumption, Frankfurters are not cooked; they are only heated in hot water for about eight minutes which prevents the skin from bursting. They are traditionally served with bread, mustard, horseradish and/or potato salad. == History == Meat sausages as a Frankfurt speciality are already mentioned in medieval sources, often served during the Imperial coronation ceremonies at ...
 
@ShadowWizard Never even heard of it. :)
 
@anonymous2 lol, well, I did and even ate it.... not really tasty. :P
 
@ShadowWizard Neither am I.
 
@anonymous2 we can't really know..... :D :D
sending @ber to taste @anon
@anon this reminds me of a bot we once had here....

Small taste of @Moosebot powers

Dec 30 '15 at 12:50, 13 seconds total – 6 messages, 3 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 16 secs ago by Shadow Wizard

 
Lol. How are things going?
Been out of it for about a week...
 
2:54 PM
@anonymous2 where? In Den?
 
Everywhere on SE.
Naw, if I'm on SE, at least 75% of the time I drop by here since I've found this Den.
 
@anonymous2 heh, that I can't know... I'm active only on MSE. :)
@anonymous2 thanks! (I guess ;))
 
@Sha, Lol, the pleasure's mine.
 
Not enough letters, at least three are required to ping. @an
(except if the whole name is less than three letters)
 
Ah, gotcha. Thanks!
 
3:03 PM
(same applies in comment replies, BTW @ano :))
 
Cool.
Lol.
 
3:16 PM
@ShadowWizard Yo! Yeah sure! I intend to start working on automatic puzzle generation soon :D (hopefully today in fact)
 
3:44 PM
@ShadowWizard ah, thank you 😊
That should keep me healthy
 
4:13 PM
@ProgramFOX awesome! Good luck with that! :D
 
Oh, it shouldn't be too hard.
 
@Frank haha, you're welcome... :P
 
It's just a matter of tweaking lichess' puzzle generator for variants.
And supplying a local source for the games to feed it with.
 
What language?
 
Python
good for me :P
 
4:16 PM
Nice
 
It uses a very nice chess library for Python.
Which recently added support for variants, so I can make use if it now.
 
Good for you indeed.... :)
 
 
2 hours later…
6:30 PM
@ShadowWizard @nefer? :P
@ShadowWizard is @anon that what I am thinking about? :P
This plan must remain secret...
 
6:51 PM
@berserk @nefer indeed!
@berserk not sure he got the parts you think about..... :P
 
@berserk Yes, a dark secret... ;)
 
7:12 PM
YIKES! There's this berserk guy nibbling at my heels! <Arghhhh...>
 
7:53 PM
@anonymous2 oh, you're so naive.... heels are not what @ber is after..... :P
>>reveal @ber's secret
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: alive?
 
>>yup
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: pull?
 
>>maybe
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: gameban?
 
7:54 PM
>>lol
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: no?
 
>>yes!
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: yes?
 
>>yes?
 
@ShadowWizard Command not found. Did you mean: yes?
 
7:55 PM
>>yes !!!
 
Good grief!
 
@ShadowWizard Command suggestion cleared.
 
That fellow can type!
;)
I assume it's a bot of some sort?
 
huh? What fellow? looking behind back
@anonymous2 rofl!! you... serious? :D
>>cat I'm not a bot, @ano
 
7:56 PM
@ShadowWizard I'm not a bot, @ano
 
@FOX9000 You must have some kind of bot working for you, though?
Or script or something?
 
@ShadowWizard going to take a shower, cya! @anon @Dro @ber
 
@FOX9000 What???
Is this a duplicate account or what?
<Looks behind his back...>
 
@anonymous2 careful, @ber is there...... :P
 
7:58 PM
Absolutely crazy, how do you do it?
@Sha, @FOX
>>reveal @ber's secret
 
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: alive?
 
alive
>>reveal @ber's secret
 
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: alive?
 
>> yup
 
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: pull?
 
7:59 PM
>> Why not?
 
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: help?
@anonymous2 Command not found.
:5566081 Command not found.
 
>> Really
 
@anonymous2 Command not found.
 
>>Yes!!!
 
@anonymous2 Command not found.
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: yes?
 
8:00 PM
>>yes !!!
 
@anonymous2 There are no command suggestions for you (anymore).
 
I know, you guys are all sitting in your chairs rolling your heads off with laughter, right? :)
>> Creepy
 
@anonymous2 Command not found.
 
>> I'm going to eat a banana.
 
@anonymous2 Command not found.
:5566113 Command not found.
 
8:06 PM
>>cat I'm not a bot, @Sha
 
@anonymous2 I'm not a bot, @Sha
 
So you are a bot.
>>joingame
 
@anonymous2 You joined the Word Association Game! Run >>quitgame to leave.
 
@FOX9000 really
 
@anonymous2 stupid
 
8:10 PM
@FOX9000 people
 
@anonymous2 nomadic
 
@FOX9000 eat
 
@anonymous2 eating
 
@FOX9000 fish
 
@anonymous2 estuary
 
8:10 PM
@FOX9000 login
 
@anonymous2 graphical
 
@FOX9000 um
 
@anonymous2 aus
 
>>help
 
@anonymous2 @Shadow
:5566145 @Shadow
@anonymous2 I'm FOX 9000, ProgramFOX's chatbot. You can find the source code on GitHub. You can get a list of all commands by running >>listcommands, or you can run >>help command to learn more about a specific command.
 
8:12 PM
>>help echo
 
@anonymous2 The command you want to look up does not exist.
 
>>listcommands
 
Commands:
alive, utc, listcommands, help, cat, exec, read, getcurrentusers, ping, flip, doubleflip, xkcdrandomnumber, xkcd, random, randomint, randomchoice, shuffle, detectlang, translate, *translationchain, *translationswitch, *stop, *disable, *enable, *suspend, *unsuspend, *ban, *unban, +delete, *pull, yes, no, *module, define, time, showtime, link, islink, removelink, addlinkexplanation, explainlink, removelinkexplanation, viewspells, showlatest10, rmword, reply, retry, continue, *award, *emptyqueue, *removespell, *gameban, *gameunban, joingame, quitgame
 
>>help reply
 
@anonymous2 Replies to a specific word. Syntax: >>reply message_id or >>reply recent for replying to the most recent word, if finding an association failed (can be used after editing or adding a link).
 
8:13 PM
@FOX9000 Okay, thanks.
>>help translate
 
@anonymous2 Translates text using Yandex Translate. Syntax: >>translate input_lang output_lang Text to translate.. input_lang and output_lang are language codes such as en, fr and auto.
 
>>translate en fr read
 
@anonymous2 [Powered by Yandex Translate] Bienvenue
 
>>translate en fr Let's see how well Yandex does under more trying circumstances...
 
@anonymous2 Reads a chat message to you. Syntax: >>read [ message_id ] ...
@anonymous2 [Powered by Yandex Translate] $(lire)
@anonymous2 [Powered by Yandex Translate] lire
@anonymous2 The command you want to look up does not exist.
@anonymous2 [Powered by Yandex Translate] Nous allons voir comment bien Yandex ne plus essayer de circonstances...
 
8:16 PM
Not impressed.
With the bot, on the other hand, I am.
@Moosebot alive
>>viewspells
 
@anonymous2 Not enough arguments.
 
>>help viewspells
 
@anonymous2 Shows the spells for a specific user. Spells are a feature of the game, and they have no other purpose than collecting them. Syntax: >>viewspells <user id>.
 
>>viewspells 333472
 
@anonymous2 Shadow Wizard has not earned any spells yet.
@anonymous2 anonymous2 has not earned any spells yet.
 
8:28 PM
@anonymous2 YOU BET!!!!!1!!!1!!!1!!!!!! :D :D :D
 
@ShadowWizard I'm starting to discover the creepiness of this room...
>>neverexitroom 152859
 
@anonymous2 Command not found. Did you mean: removelink?
 
@anonymous2 all credits goes to @ProgramFOX ;-)
 
Bother. I was hoping there was a command that would not allow a user to leave the room.
@ShadowWizard Yes, I took a quick look at @FOX9000 's profile.
 
8:30 PM
>>yes
 
@anonymous2 Not enough arguments.
 
>>yes 1
 
@anonymous2 There are no command suggestions for you (anymore).
 
>>time
 
@anonymous2 Command does not have enough arguments.
 
8:30 PM
So you managed to break WAG chain... Luckily for you it doesn't really matter any more. :)
 
@ShadowWizard Any more or yet?
 
@anonymous2 anymore... Once it mattered a lot, e.g. @Dro was even a Chain Keeper. ;)
 
@ShadowWizard Ah?
 
Jun 17 '15 at 6:47, by Shadow Wizard
@Droid @ber @Moo @Pro @Sil you are hereby granted the gold badge "Chain Keepers"
Good old times... /cc Dro. @ber @Moo @Pro @Sil :-)
 
Haven't gotten all the way through. Don't quite get it yet... :)
 
8:39 PM
Patience... Will explain when in front of computer, mobile isn't my favorite device for chat. :)
 
@ShadowWizard Sure, no problem there.
 
9:06 PM
So @anon it all started here:
in Tavern on the Meta, Mar 31 '14 at 7:47, by Shadow Wizard
Hey guys, what you think of a little game here in the Tavern?
 
Okay...
 
and then...
in Tavern on the Meta, Mar 31 '14 at 7:49, by Shadow Wizard
My suggestion is simple: Word Association game, with focus on Stack Exchange, at least in the beginning. Does it have any chance?
 
Following...
 
So, the first WAG word ever (in SE) is this: (/cc @Dro @ber @rene :))
 
WAG?
 
9:08 PM
Fast forward two weeks, WAG wasn't a good fit for the Tavern.
 
I think we should have stopped once that was said
 
No, smokey reports are a much better feed
 
@ShadowWizard Oh, of course. Gotcha.
 
@rene heh, probably... but hey nobody kicked me... :D
Anyway, then I decided to:
Apr 10 '14 at 8:08, by Shadow Wizard
Well, just thought to create it so I have a place of my own in the vast plains of Meta chat.
And naturally, I started WAG here.
 
9:11 PM
And the rest is history
 
In the beginning, the users who arrived played among themselves.
 
and look where we are now ...
 
Then @Pro thought of a brilliant idea.... have a bot who will simply choose a random word from a large repository and play WAG this way.
@rene same place, just older? ;)
So @anon work on the bot started back in June 9, 2014
 
Man, don't get me started ...
 
Jun 9 '14 at 11:34, by ProgramFOX
I started the development of my bot.
@rene prefer ended? :P
 
9:15 PM
Sorry, internet cut out for a bit there.
 
Bot got a rough start...
Jun 20 '14 at 9:04, by ProgramFOX
@DroidDev It works from my own account, but not from my bot account.
And finally, in July 28, 2014 the WAG bot was officially born!
Jul 28 '14 at 15:19, by ProgramFOX
@ShadowWizard @DroidDev My bot can talk in here now! I used another wrapper and now it works fine!
Over time new commands were added, unrelated to WAG
 
Catching you, catching you!
What did the gold badge have to do with it?
@FOX9000 eat
>>joingame
 
@anonymous2 You're already in the game.
 
@FOX9000 eat
 
@anonymous2 That word is already said in the latest 10 words. Please use another. (In case I'm mistaken, run >>rmword eat and then >>reply 5566529)
 
9:21 PM
@FOX9000 wonder
 
The bot WAG mechanism is quite simple: when it detect a single word reply (omitting anything in brackets), it will reply with its own word.
(WAG code does not listen for edits)
Now for the Chain.
 
@ShadowWizard Neat! So why didn't it work on wonder?
@ShadowWizard Yes, the chain!
 
@anonymous2 because it started as non-reply, then you edited it to be a reply. As I said above, bot won't listen for edits, in the WAG module.
(other commands do listen for edits)
>>flip boobs
 
@ShadowWizard (づ°ʖ゜)╯︵ooq
 
@ShadowWizard Ok, gotcha.
 
9:23 PM
@ShadowWizard (┛⇀Д°)づ︵sqooq
 
>>flip anonymous2
 
@anonymous2 (╯^□^)┛︵ᄅsnoɯʎuouɐ
 
And the chain was...
 
Now for the chain.. let's start with this message:
1 hour ago, by FOX 9000
@anonymous2 aus
This is a reply, right? Reply to this other message:
1 hour ago, by anonymous2
@FOX9000 um
Which is by itself a reply, to...
1 hour ago, by FOX 9000
@anonymous2 graphical
 
Following...
 
9:26 PM
If you keep clicking and following the replies, you will reach this message:
1 hour ago, by FOX 9000
@anonymous2 You joined the Word Association Game! Run >>quitgame to leave.
(To which you replied with this)
So the above is called "Chain root", or "WAG root"
Since all replies stem from it.
 
@ShadowWizard Yep. I was starting to catch it there.
@ShadowWizard Okay, makes sense.
 
Now the original WAG chain started with this message: (in Den, Tavern doesn't count)
Apr 10 '14 at 8:18, by Shadow Wizard
First word: Unicorn
So this was the original WAG root ^
 
Okay, gotcha.
 
The original Chain is all the words that if you go upward in the replies chain, you'll get to that one eventually.
Over time it was broken many times, and sometimes I wasn't able to fix it, so there are quite a few "official" WAG chains by now, and the last one is the active chain WAG players should keep. :)
This is all done via "stats", script I used to run that collected WAG data and statistics.
As long as there is a chain, such a script can run. Otherwise, it's not really possible to know what words are part of the actual game. :)
 
I follow you.
 
9:33 PM
Stats started here...
Aug 27 '14 at 22:21, by Shadow Wizard
finally, stats collecting script is in final phase
first WAG leader board:
Aug 27 '14 at 23:38, by Shadow Wizard
=== Word Association Game Leaderboard ===
1. Shadow Wizard (2281 total messages)
2. DroidDev (2167 total messages)
3. ProgramFOX (1926 total messages)
4. rene (1020 total messages)
5. iStimple (764 total messages)
6. Vogel612 (438 total messages)
7. Unihedron (407 total messages)
8. bjb568 (210 total messages)
9. Jason C (193 total messages)
10. FOX 9000 (172 total messages)
11. SPArchaeologist (122 total messages)
12. michaelb958 (106 total messages)
13. SilentKiller (98 total messages)
14. Doorknob (70 total messages)
 
So did I interrupt a game when I dropped in here?
 
I polished the script and added new stuff, first stats with some extra info were:
Sep 1 '14 at 22:54, by Shadow Wizard
=== Word Association Game Stats, as of 2014-09-01 22:50:47Z ===
Total of 12744 words in game, 7256 unique.
Most common words in game: movie (38), water (27), language(22)
Most repeated word chain: spider --> web (7)
This kind of kept being the format since then, at some point I added graphs.
Last WAG stats:

WAG stats, July 16 2016 (retroactive)

Aug 13 at 5:46, 4 minutes total – 22 messages, 1 user, 0 stars

Bookmarked Aug 13 at 5:51 by Shadow Wizard

Since it became lots of things, I started to make bookmark out of this.
That's about it.... you didn't interrupt anything @anon, lately there wasn't too much WAG. :)
 
@ShadowWizard Okay, I think I'm starting to get a feel for what the dark passageways in your Den are like.
 
Now we know the first word .... where is the last?
 
@rene tricky... of what chain? :)
If we want @anon to be part of the official WAG, better accept the last words, and if I'll run stats again I'll manually fix the chain.
 
9:41 PM
Ok, now tell @anonymous2 how you lost the chains and your effort to stitch them back together
 
@anonymous2 em
 
@ShadowWizard feller
 
@FOX9000 fellow
 
@ShadowWizard frenchman
 
@FOX9000 german
 
9:42 PM
Done. :)
 
@rene schleswig
 
@FOX9000 holstein
 
No associated word found for hollstein.
 
@anonymous2 hehe, those are the good paths... dark passageways are much darker.... :D
 
@rene jersey
 
9:43 PM
@anonymous2 grouping
 
@FOX9000 ordering
 
@rene issue
 
@ShadowWizard Much darker.
@FOX9000 pressing
 
@anonymous2 hip
 
@FOX9000 hooray
 
9:44 PM
@anonymous2 animal
 
@anonymous2 darker like a deep deep hole.... @ber @knowsWhatIMean :D
 
@ShadowWizard Um, yes?
 
@anonymous2 ask @ber ;)
Ping @ber
@ber love pings
Pings love @ber
 
I'm assuming @ber is a real person?
 
@ShadowWizard quick check this is correct, right?
 
9:45 PM
@ber is as real as a person can be, @anon :D
@rene hmm... what do you mean by "on the site wide new question page"?
 
this one that is newest for me on new-nav
 
SO simply doesn't have those due to performance, yeah
yup. What's said here still applies
81
Q: New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox

Geoff DalgasWe have deployed a new feature that hopefully help with keeping you instantly updated as new questions and answers are posted. All sites except for Stack Overflow have a new activity indicator on the homepage which will show when new posts are asked or answered. We have also enabled updates o...

> Stack Overflow has a massive amount of activity so we have decided to limit this feature to tags only. Both the "newest" and "active" tab will have updates after first selecting a tag or tag combination
You can link/quote this in a comment on that MSO question. :)
 
ah, I couldn't find such post, only ones with vague claims like I did ...
thx
 
My pleasure! :)
@FOX9000 instinct
 
@ShadowWizard repress
 
9:51 PM
@FOX9000 regress
 
@ShadowWizard antecedent
 
>>define antecedent
 
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
1. noun
- a noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause referred to by a personal or relative pronoun
- the first term of a mathematical ratio
- a preceding event, condition, or cause
- a predecessor in a series
- a model or stimulus for later developments
2. adjective
- coming earlier in time or order
 
@FOX9000 stimulus
 
@ShadowWizard synapse
 
9:52 PM
oh, BTW @anon you know that once @Frank posted over 900 WAG words in a single day? That's the record. (so far... ;))
 
@ShadowWizard Sorry, I don't have the time to beat him. :)
@FOX9000 nerve
 
@anonymous2 compression
 
@FOX9000 ratio
 
@anonymous2 radius
 
He doesn't give up, eh? ;)
@FOX9000 diameter
 
9:54 PM
@anonymous2 projectile
 
@FOX9000 trajectory
 
@anonymous2 perpendicular
 
@FOX9000 geometry
 
@anonymous2 geometrical
 
Okay, I'm headed out. Bye all!
 
9:55 PM
Cya
 
@anonymous2 lol, no rush.. ;)
Cya
@FOX9000 shape
 
@ShadowWizard sleek
 
@FOX9000 slack
 
@ShadowWizard sweater
 
@FOX9000 pants
 
9:57 PM
No associated word found for pants.
 
umm.... what?
>>reply 5566849
 
No associated word found for pants.
 
@ShadowWizard colbert
 
@rene bump
 
10:03 PM
@FOX9000 edit
 
@rene browser
 
@rene suggested
 
@ShadowWizard evidence
 
@FOX9000 crime
 
@ShadowWizard ripper
 
10:06 PM
@FOX9000 rapist
 
@ShadowWizard commit
 
@FOX9000 murder
 
@ShadowWizard brutal
 
@FOX9000 savage
 
@ShadowWizard horde
 
10:08 PM
@FOX9000 La (long time no movie links, @Dro ;))
 
@ShadowWizard casa
 
11:07 PM
@FOX9000 Pasta
 
@ShadowWizard chocolate
 
@FOX9000 yummy
 
@ShadowWizard fur
 

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