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Title text: The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.

Ceci n'est pas le monde.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moon_landing_mission_profiles.png Title text: If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder. I think "build a stepladder to the moon" is an actual (albeit very taxing on your framerate) c...

So, another hint before I just give the final step: the "unpredictable coffee" (Java random) gives you a sequence of numbers. Those numbers have something to do with all the dead pixels.

That means I have to raise the attachment quota. phpBB is really old so it defaults to 50 MB for the entire board.

Seems to be fixed now.

Do be on the lookout for things that might have broke in the update.

Test test

Googling the error, it sounds like NearlyFreeSpeech just updated to a new version of PHP and now I need to update the board to support it.

Phillip, you were a good opponent in chess.

We must first insert a warmup slice to bring the toaster coils up to tenperature to ensure that the difference in initial temperatures does not affect the results.

Does Pacific Rim count? I suppose that's not really about the hole.

Rat, you're our most active FG user, both here and in the old forum. It's always fun when you play in a thread.

I've been dealing with depression lately, so to get some more positivity in my life, I've made this thread.

Say something nice about the poster above you.

There is nobody above me, but that doesn't mean they're a nobody! They have friends, just like anyone else!

Randall shouldn't have leaked the secret core. Now he's going to be arrested by the Planetary Intelligence Squad.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/urban_planning_opinion_progression.png Title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars. Adam Something would...

Alright. Original plan then. Seven and Ratammer will be added as Gatekeepers.

Just to clarify, the "good middle ground" is to keep the review queue but add two extra "gatekeepers", correct? Also, I should probably include some info from the logs, since y'all can't see it: - The last disapproved post in the moderator log was in January. - The next disapprov...

That would require substantial moderator permissions, though, to remove spam after it's been posted.

Actually, now that I think about it, it's been ages since I actually saw a spambot in the review queue (probably because I changed the anti-spambot task), so maybe we don't actually need the queue at all.

Sounds like the consensus is to do both. I'll get on that.

Seven has messaged me about getting post review abilities so that they can get mafia invites onto the forum faster. Currently I'm inclined to give it to them, although I'd rather have Ratammer for this role because they are much more active. What are the people's thoughts on this request? Good/bad i...

ratammer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:29 pm You mean people don't normally sort pages by word count?

This hurt to read.

Sean Quixote wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:07 am So, you mean like stretch it?

No, the same pixels in the same order, just with different-sized scanlines.

Hint #3: the real image will appear if you swap the width and height. (although that's still not the bottom)

One more week and I'll probably just give the full solution.

Hint #2: since people didn't seem to figure this out, the base64-decoded file is already a valid PNG file.

That's a shame, they were such an icon of vowel/vowel marriages.