Now I’m curious if everything orbiting in space would “burn up” from the sudden friction like when an orbiting object comes into contact with an atmosphere.

Oh I believe you. Like you said, once you pick up on the sideways thinking of how the game is structured, it becomes much easier.

Lol, yup!

Even the way they order the clues is designed to inflict maximum pain. Sometimes the first two will have something in common and act as a red herring. When the third clue is revealed, it shatters that line of thought, and you have to start all over.

Nice!

a homebrew powerpoint Only Connect game

Funny story. I found and used a Power Point version of the game as the template for this.

And sometimes the answers are so oddly specific it’s as hilarious as it is frustrating. The team will debate and finally answer something like “They were all 18th century poets” and Victoria won’t accept it because it should have been “They were 18th century poets who only wore hats on Tuesdays.”

I forget which client but there’s one that has wonky/non existent support for spoilers.

I tested in Tesseract and Lemmy UI (0.19.3) and they both rendered correctly

Well done!

TBH, I’m hanging out with Bev this evening and was mostly just struggling getting the templates put together, lol. With that out of the way, I can actually focus on some better trivia.

That’s how the game works 🤷‍♂️. It’s deliberately difficult and sometimes unfair in several ways, but that’s part of its charm.

It’s also why you get an extra point for the first one. It’s very, very rare for anyone to ever get it on the first, but I have seen it happen.

Brutal. I actually felt like I was getting further away with each clue

That’s pretty much what it’s like trying to play along at home when watching the real show, lol.

BBC used to have the Word Wall as a playable game on their website, but that’s been gone for years. Closest thing to that that I know of is NY Times’s Connections.

The whole game show, I don’t think, has an online playable version anywhere :(

Thanks. I’m still tweaking the template, but hope to do a few more if people don’t hate it. Will try to share that template once I get it cleaned up a bit.

Yeah, I needed to fit it into the 4-item format

But that’s also the kind of mean-spirited pedantry the real show uses, so I’m okay with it 😆

I mean, nothing wrong with that. OC is probably one of the most difficult game shows I’ve ever watched. If I get even one right per episode, I feel like a genius. lol

Good question. I updated the instructions. Relevant bit is: You get one guess, and the goal is to use as few clues as possible.

Huh. Sable and Tiffany were both in Trek. TIL.

O’Brien, bored: [Watches The Philadelphia Experiment from the cultural database] I have an idea.

TMobile is pretty open, but AT&T a lot less so (though still more permissive than Verizon).

Basically any capable phone will be accepted on TMob, but AT&T will refuse to allow “unsupported” devices even if they are compatible. They shut out my OnePlus 3 which was working perfectly fine with VoLTE and VoWiFi for being too old despite being on a recent Lineage build. So instead of getting a new device, I switched to T-Mobile lol.

They are also, apparently, banning users that have never been to their instance.

That’s literally impossible; every action taken has to be against an entity known to the instance. However, I can ban people from communities that have never posted there (which is what you’re seeing). That is to close a loophole where someone is instance banned here but can still interact with the local copies of communities on their home instance.

In such a case, those local interactions would not be moddable on that instance except by the admins. Any reports for that user would not be seen by the mods on my instance, and no mod actions could be taken by them. I think 0.19.4 or 5 addresses that, but that’s’ not the version we’re on right now, so this is how we’re handling that.

TIL HTC still makes phones.

Used to love their devices then they just kind of…disappeared.