Grex General Conference

Item 22: Twenty Questions

Entered by papa on Sat May 20 01:38:21 2017:

29 new of 222 responses total.

#194 of 222 by mijk on Wed Nov 15 20:13:59 2017:

Well done papa! See if you can do it again.

#195 of 222 by papa on Thu Nov 16 10:29:23 2017:

Would there be a problem if we started a new conference item for each game
round? I think it would make reviewing questions in the crrent round a lot
easier.

#196 of 222 by tfurrows on Thu Nov 16 19:45:46 2017:

What if 20Q had it's own conference?

#197 of 222 by papa on Thu Nov 16 22:52:29 2017:

That wold be ideal if we are going to continue the game indefinately.

#198 of 222 by tod on Fri Nov 17 13:13:22 2017:

Mmmm
Pie

#199 of 222 by mijk on Fri Nov 17 23:15:05 2017:

#200 of 222 by tfurrows on Wed Dec 6 17:33:39 2017:

Is creating a new conference something cross would have to do?

#201 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 7 15:28:31 2017:

tfurrows, congratulations on response #200!

I think it is correct that only cross or another admin can create a new
conference. I'm not sure whether he wants to bother with changes to Backtalk.

I was thinking of starting the next 20 Questions round as a new item in the
Agora conference. 

Anyone think it would be good to have a copy of the games on Gopher?

#202 of 222 by tfurrows on Thu Dec 7 15:34:17 2017:

I think gopher would be a lot of fun... what about script-based, interactive,
so the gopher audience could take part in the fun? Not a copy I guess, but
move the thing over to gopher and try it out there?

#203 of 222 by papa on Fri Dec 8 02:46:57 2017:

Giving people an alternative to Backtalk for accessing the game is what 
gave me the Gopher idea. I was thinking of mirroring the BT posts by 
hand to my gopherhole and accepting questions on either BT or by e-mail.

A Gopher-based app might be an interesting challenge. I wonder if the 
BT API would allow Gopher to generate BT posts rather than the other 
way around.

#204 of 222 by mijk on Mon Dec 11 20:35:35 2017:

I vote for papa, and tfurrows to be granted some admin privilages for running
thier own conferences, and maintaining the gopher server, in line with
Grex.org policy.

#205 of 222 by cross on Tue Dec 12 20:15:20 2017:

Sure; that seems reasonable. Conferences can be created for folks, and
I certainly don't mind handing over gopher admin rights to some folks.

#206 of 222 by tfurrows on Wed Dec 13 03:15:53 2017:

mijk, I appreciate your confidence :) I think cross has it under control
though... I don't know that I could add much. Papa might be a great match for
helping with backtalk/bbs though, I think he knows more about it than I do.

#207 of 222 by papa on Wed Dec 13 15:59:08 2017:

I wouldn't mind being fairwitness if cross wants to create a conference for
Twenty Questions. I might need some pointers since it seems Backtalk
fairwitnesses are a vanishing breed.

#208 of 222 by cross on Wed Dec 13 21:33:48 2017:

I've got to figure out how to create a conference and I'm a bit swamped
at the moment, but I'll give it a go. :-)

#209 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 02:35:45 2017:

Thanks. No rush.

#210 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 03:43:50 2017:

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#211 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 03:46:02 2017:

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#212 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 03:48:35 2017:

resp:204
resp:205

Or would it be better used the Iq conference ("The place for puzzles, 
riddles, and other trivia")? Since no one has posted there since 2006, 
I don't think anyone will be bothered if we create an new item for each 
game round (it looks like several games, like the "n-Letter Word Game" 
serieses were run that way back in the day).

#213 of 222 by kentn on Thu Dec 14 04:00:43 2017:

We used to do multiple items for the letter match game, so I don't think
it would be a problem to do a new item for each round of 20 questions.
If it should get to be overwhelming we could always create a new IQ
conference, but I kind of doubt that will be a problem.

#214 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 07:04:53 2017:

Next round starting in the IQ conference!

#215 of 222 by papa on Thu Dec 14 12:22:34 2017:

Twenty Questions gopher page: gopher://grex.org/1/~papa/20q

#216 of 222 by cross on Thu Dec 21 19:11:30 2017:

There's an `Iq` conference? Seems perfect for this sort of thing!!

#217 of 222 by tod on Sat Jul 17 03:29:16 2021:

Is there a "mediocre nihilist" cf I can join?

#218 of 222 by papa on Tue Jul 20 02:11:34 2021:

resp:217 All of them fit that description. Have a ball!

#219 of 222 by walkman on Thu Jul 22 16:37:22 2021:

#217
http://humourhub.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/i-cant-breathe.jpg

#218
YES and now it's a brisk walk through a graveyard. 

Side note: No one ever plants a tree for Fentanyl Floyd. There are no 
prayer circles or positive community cleanups. It's only looting and 
arson. One could say that God is a nihilist b/c the Fentanyl Floyd was 
struck down by lightning. What are the actual statistical 
probabilities? In a lifetime, there's a 1 in 15,300 chance according to 
the National Weather Service. BUT another variable is the angle in 
which the lightning struck.

#220 of 222 by walkman on Thu Jul 22 16:38:06 2021:

(Fentanyl Floyd *MURAL*)

#221 of 222 by tod on Mon Jul 26 06:42:46 2021:

Ooh...tacky

#222 of 222 by walkman on Mon Jul 26 22:34:59 2021:

Some times breathing is as easy as...
https://www.mysavings.com/img/link/large/71309.jpg

Which makes more sense, defunding police or defunding public schools?
Was Max Headroom really Gerald Ford?
Was the June 25 Pentagon UFO Report complete disinfo? 
Is a market bubble ever "different this time"?
How many licks to the center of a tootsie pop drop?
Enquiring minds want to KNOW!!!

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