😈 The Evil Ideas thread

Tsaukpaetra

Feature Request: WTDWTF as a ~~blockchain~~git so we can clone the forum, browse the threads and make posts locally, then commit changes. Then when the server is eventually up again, we can all push our changes and let @boomzilla resolve the 10000 merge conflict.

error

Post a gif that has a common emoji as the first frame, followed by a long delay, then a jump scare.

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Tsaukpaetra

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

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Already implemented. Welcome to the forums!

heterodox

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

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Are you blocking or ignoring someone? That happens to me (rarely, since it's only one person).

error

@heterodox said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

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Are you blocking or ignoring someone? That happens to me (rarely).

I left the Garage Mechanics group.

Zecc

@heterodox said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

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Are you blocking or ignoring someone? That happens to me (rarely, since it's only one person).

This happens to me all the time, and — while I'm not entirely sure if that's the case because I didn't take notes — it occasionaly shows higher numbers when I have more tabs open.

It's gone as high as a 3 once; I've had a few rare 2s; 1s happen quite often.

error

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

error

@Zecc said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@heterodox said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

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Are you blocking or ignoring someone? That happens to me (rarely, since it's only one person).

This happens to me all the time, and — while I'm not entirely sure if that's the case because I didn't take notes — it occasionaly shows higher numbers when I have more tabs open.

It's gone as high as a 3 once; I've had a few rare 2s; 1s happen quite often.

It's probably this, I regularly have many, many tabs open.

Enough that mobile Chrome shows my tab count as ":D"

error

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

I kind of actually want to do this. At least occasionally. Maybe 5% of the times it's asshole mode.

Zecc

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

Post a gif that has a common emoji as the first frame, followed by a long delay, then a jump scare.

Something I have done elsewhere: used an animated gif as my avatar which was a generally static face which very infrequently blinked.

error

@Zecc said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

Post a gif that has a common emoji as the first frame, followed by a long delay, then a jump scare.

Something I have done elsewhere: use an animated gif as my avatar, where is a generally static face which very infrequently blinks.

I used to link to a PHP script for my signature that generated random content and rendered it to an image.

hungrier

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

You mean it's not doing that already?

PleegWat

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

Interesting game theory question: Is such a game of hangman winnable?

Well, interesting if you're interested in doing game theory research.

Mason_Wheeler

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

s such a game of hangman winnable?

Depends on how many letters there are in the word.

error

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

Interesting game theory question: Is such a game of hangman winnable?

Well, interesting if you're interested in doing game theory research.

I actually expect the tree of words that fit the possible constraints would prune down rather quickly. The question is, which opening states are winnable? (Actually, that seems trivially solvable. I could write a program to answer that question for each word in the dictionary... Except it might not finish during this universe.)

PleegWat

@Mason_Wheeler said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

s such a game of hangman winnable?

Depends on how many letters there are in the word.

Yeah, short words are way easier to get 6 strikes on. Longer words tend to have more distinct letters.

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

Interesting game theory question: Is such a game of hangman winnable?

Well, interesting if you're interested in doing game theory research.

I actually expect the tree of words that fit the possible constraints would prune down rather quickly. The question is, which opening states are winnable? (Actually, that seems trivially solvable. I could write a program to answer that question for each word in the dictionary... Except it might not finish during this universe.)

I gave it a few shots with my search program and short words, but the dictionary isn't suitable. My approach is to specify a number of letters, then keep saying the first most common letter isn't in the word. I'm consistently guessing vowels, with the end result being there are only abbreviations in the word list.

With 11 letters however:

Look for ..........., not using: 'AEIO'
Found 2 matching words
H: 1 (50%)
R: 1 (50%)
S: 1 (50%)
F: 2 (100%)
L: 2 (100%)
N: 2 (100%)
T: 2 (100%)
U: 2 (100%)
Y: 2 (100%)
UNHURTFULLY
UNLUSTFULLY

Since that has 1 bad guess left, you'd be able to fix it to a word. In the general case also, I think the question is which guess sequence should you use to force the game into a winnable path.

boomzilla

brie

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

mode for Hangman. Whenever somebody guesses a letter correctly, switch the word with another word that fits with the current board state but doesn't contain the new letter.

You say, "switch the word with another word," but what you actually mean is that the game consists of a superposition of entangled words which collapses in exactly the worst possible way each time you guess.

brie

@Mason_Wheeler said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

s such a game of hangman winnable?

Depends on how many letters there are in the word.

And which words are in the game's database. The way to win would basically be a Venn diagram, where each circle is a letter, and the goal is to have 6 or fewer circles with exactly 1 word in the intersection. That would depend heavily on how big the game's dictionary is.

brie

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

I actually expect the tree of words that fit the possible constraints would prune down rather quickly. The question is, which opening states are winnable? (Actually, that seems trivially solvable. I could write a program to answer that question for each word in the dictionary... Except it might not finish during this universe.)

The opening state of hangman is a number of blanks. The only variable that matters is the length of the word.

PleegWat

@brie said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@Mason_Wheeler said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

s such a game of hangman winnable?

Depends on how many letters there are in the word.

And which words are in the game's database. The way to win would basically be a Venn diagram, where each circle is a letter, and the goal is to have 6 or fewer circles with exactly 1 word in the intersection. That would depend heavily on how big the game's dictionary is.

It's a bit trickier than that. If there is a set of 6 letters where every possible word (of that length) contains at least one of the letters then the order in which you guess the letters matters.

brie

@PleegWat Hmm, you're right. At some point, the game would have to reveal a correct letter, because every one of the remaining possible words contains it. At that point, it would have to choose which blank(s) to reveal as that letter (constrained, of course, to the set of words that it knows), and it would need to have some logic that dictates how it decides. In fitting with the theme, that logic should somehow be the most evil possible. It could, for example, try to maximize the number of words that could still fit, but that might not always result in the most difficult game.

Also, the game might actually be harder if it lets you correctly guess a letter that takes it down a path that ultimately results in a wider field. Letting you guess the letters in order and always making your guesses wrong if it can would allow the player to guide the game into a local maximum that's easier to reach.

Of course, it may be that a large enough dictionary would mean that you couldn't reach a local maximum fast enough anyway.

PleegWat

@brie Some searching I did yesterday on hangman strategy considered 8, 10, or 13 wrong guesses. So probably our 6-part hangman is unusually hard.

Tsaukpaetra

@PleegWat said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@brie Some searching I did yesterday on hangman strategy considered 8, 10, or 13 wrong guesses. So probably our 6-part hangman is unusually hard.

I support adding more limbs to the man!

brie

@Tsaukpaetra Are they limbs, or tentacles?

PleegWat

@brie As described there (and as I recall playing it) you had to draw the gallows as well as the man.

Tsaukpaetra

@brie said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@Tsaukpaetra Are they limbs, or tentacles?

Filed under: Tentacles are limbs too!

brie

@Tsaukpaetra said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@brie said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@Tsaukpaetra Are they limbs, or tentacles?

Filed under: Tentacles are limbs too!

#AllLimbsMatter

mott555

Evil Idea: A trivia module for @error_bot that generates questions and answers using a Markov chain.

error

I should sell lockout immunity for @error_bot.

Edit: fucking @ popups

error

Instead of points, you will slowly accrue error_bot bux.

Mason_Wheeler

@error What's the exchange rate between those and Shcrute bucks?

dkf

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

error_bot bux

The cryptocurrency thread is

Vixen

@dkf said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@error said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

error_bot bux

The cryptocurrency thread is

dunno....... isn't the NASDAQ trading bitcoin futures now? error_bot Bux could be the next big thing now that bitcoin has gone mainstream.

Luhmann

@Vixen said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

gone mainstream

Right down the drain

Vixen

@Luhmann said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@Vixen said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

gone mainstream

Right down the drain

Yes, I said that.

anonymous234

This "sugar information" advertisement.
https://i.imgur.com/cwmo2to.png

This would already be a total asshole advertisement by itself. Knowing that they were actively hiding how bad sugar is for you moves it into "actually evil" territory.

Tsaukpaetra

@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

total asshole advertisement

Butt it gives you that va-va-voom!

Vixen

@Tsaukpaetra said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

total asshole advertisement

Butt it gives you that va-va-voom!

but i'm not allowed into the brothel anymore..... not after Miss Va-va-voom mistook me for her fur scarf.....

It was in all the papers, much to my disgrace. AND I WAS THE ATTACKED ONE TOO! most unfair that I get punished just because i'm not human and she is.

anonymous234

Putting messages about how blind people suck in the alt text of random images.

Mason_Wheeler

@anonymous234 So essentially the inverse of

brie

@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

Putting messages about how blind people suck in the alt text of random images.

Zecc

@brie I hope that was generated via script.

brie

@Zecc But of course.

var n = function (n) {
  var w = 'zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen'.split(' ');
  var z = [, , ...'twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety'.split(' ')];
  var h = Math.floor(n / 100), t = Math.floor(n / 10) % 10, d = n % 10;
  if (t == 1) { t = 0; d += 10; }
  return [...(h ? [w[h], 'hundred'] : []), ...(t ? [z[t]] : []), ...(d ? [w[d]] : [])].join(' ').replace(/ty /g, 'ty-');
}
var t = `If you were sighted, you'd be seeing a picture right now, which as everyone knows are worth a thousand words. Since you're blind, a thousand words will have to do instead. So far, that was thirty-three words... wait, no, forty-three. Only nine hundred, fifty seven words to go.`, w = 1000 - t.match(/\w+/g).length;
while (w > 2) {
  var s = n(w);
  t += ' ' + s[0].toUpperCase() + s.slice(1) + '.';
  w -= s.match(/\w+/g).length;
}
t += " And... done!";

Ugly, but it got the job done.

hungrier

@brie said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

var n = function (n)

brie

@hungrier yeah, like I said, it's ugly. I get lazy when I'm coding directly into the script console.

error

@Vixen said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@Tsaukpaetra said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

@anonymous234 said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

total asshole advertisement

Butt it gives you that va-va-voom!

but i'm not allowed into the brothel anymore..... not after Miss Va-va-voom mistook me for her fur scarf.....

It was in all the papers, much to my disgrace. AND I WAS THE ATTACKED ONE TOO! most unfair that I get punished just because i'm not human and she is.

Ace Ventura - The Monopoly Guy – [00:57..01:51] 01:51
— LubeMobile

Zecc

@brie said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:

But of course.

:relieved_but_disappointed:

Mason_Wheeler

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