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Sa'ar Chasm 06-26-2012 05:00 PM

Fiver quote game
 
Since Zeke suggested this game in the other quote thread...

The rules are the same as <a href="showthread.php?t=1615">the other quote game</a>, with the following additions:
1. You can't post your own fiver
2. You can't guess your own fiver.

"Oh what chaos Mandel brought."

Go.

Zeke 06-27-2012 08:34 AM

Awesome. Hope you don't mind my moving this to 5M.net Talk and adding a link.

Since I have a fairly blatant advantage, I'll always wait 24 hours or so and let others go before me... although I must confess I don't remember this one anyway. Pretty sure I have the author pegged, though.

NAHTMMM 06-27-2012 01:18 PM

Oh this is one of my all-time favorites. It's Derek Dean's TNG one with the bit of sand that everyone assumes is alive because they've taken too many trips to the sand bar, right?

"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to help you."
"Well, I wish you'd stop."

Zeke 06-27-2012 01:52 PM

That's not a win yet, Nah. You're right, but you have to name the episode.

NAHTMMM 06-27-2012 07:36 PM

Couldn't tell you -- I only know TOS episode names by heart. :) Someone else can come up with it.




. . . Oh, it's "Home Soil", right?

Zeke 06-27-2012 09:01 PM

Yep. NOW your quote is in play.

Zeke 06-28-2012 10:19 PM

No takers? Shot in the dark, then... "The Jem'Hadar".

NAHTMMM 06-29-2012 01:00 PM

Nope, wrong Trek series.

Zeke 06-29-2012 08:57 PM

"The Icarus Factor" or "Yesterday's Enterprise"? If not, I think it's time for a good solid hint.

NAHTMMM 06-30-2012 12:30 AM

Wrong Trek series again.

This exchange happens just before someone finds shuttle debris. Legible shuttle debris.



P.S.: Whoooa. When did fivers start carrying that "five" favicon in the URL bar? Funky. :)

Zeke 07-01-2012 06:00 AM

"Galileo Seven" is the only one that comes to mind. If that's not it, probably time to reveal it and post a new one.

(You're just noticing the favicon now? It's been there since '03. Unless you're seeing something <i>other</i> than a clock logo, that is.)

NAHTMMM 07-01-2012 10:22 PM

All those destroyed VOY shuttles and you went with a TOS episode? ;)

No, it's from "Initiations", with Kahr annoyed by Chakotay. I like that exchange so much.* I've been on either side of it many a time.

New one:

"That's it! I've had it with you people mocking my uselessness! I quit!"
"You already resigned."
"No making fun of my intelligence either."


The favicon I'm seeing on the subsites and individual fivers is a white 5 against a black-and-gray background. Maybe it's been there all along too, but I just don't remember it being there.



* (And of course the author isn't half-bad either.)

Zeke 07-02-2012 01:24 AM

That's very weird. I don't remember making one like that. What browser are you using?

Normally I would let someone else try first, but since activity's been low so far, I'm gonna guess. And an episode where someone useless resigns... that's gotta be "The Loss".

Nate the Great 07-02-2012 03:17 AM

Yeah, I'm sorry activity is so low in this thread. I can remember lines from episodes much better than fivers. Thus I can't really play this game, as simply googling a phrase within a certain website seems rather petty, even if it wasn't cheating.

Sa'ar Chasm 07-02-2012 03:29 AM

Well, there's always going back and rereading the entire archive.

And I was totally going to guess Troi, dammit. *hmph*.

Hmm...given that Zeke seems to be both the keenest player and best guesser, *and* the most prodigious fiverer, maybe the "can't guess your own" rule should be modified to "can't guess your own for x hours or until everyone else has whiffed on it."

Zeke 07-02-2012 04:04 AM

Yeah, maybe I was wrong that this thread would be a good idea. I have definitely read everything on this site at least once, so if even <i>I'm</i> having trouble, the game probably won't work.

Maybe some other kind of participatory thread would lend itself better to this site's content. (We certainly have enough to keep one going.) Any suggestions?

evay 07-02-2012 10:39 AM

Round-robins are fun. Sort of "fanfic by committee" -- you start with a premise (the Enterprise sends a landing party down to a planet) and each poster contributes as much to the story as s/he wishes. One sentence, a paragraph, two paragraphs, whatever. Stop mid-sentence if you like.

If you needed it to be relevant to this site, it could be "fiver an episode round-robin," but I think the chaos of a group fanfic story keeps momentum going.

NAHTMMM 07-02-2012 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 78661)
That's very weird. I don't remember making one like that. What browser are you using?

An old Firefox. The favicon seems back to normal now. I wish I'd taken a screenshot, but it was simple enough that I can produce a decent facsimile.

I think I must have briefly crossed over into a universe where this started out as a Farscape parody site. The 5 looked like the S in Farscape at a glance.

[edit]Kinda like this, but with the 5 centered and a bit skinnier.


Quote:

Normally I would let someone else try first, but since activity's been low so far, I'm gonna guess. And an episode where someone useless resigns... that's gotta be "The Loss".
Yup. Troi mockery is always fun. :)


Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 78670)
Yeah, maybe I was wrong that this thread would be a good idea.

I like it, but I'm kinda approaching it as an excuse to talk about favorite fivers and humor and such-not. And the board could use a few experimental threads.

Zeke 07-02-2012 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NAHTMMM (Post 78676)
[edit]Kinda like this, but with the 5 centered and a bit skinnier.

Oh! I can tell you right away what that is. It's the "previous" or "next" arrow, reduced to the size of a favicon. Like this:

<img src="../images/prev.png" width=16 height=16>

Sometimes browsers mess up favicons, using cached versions and such. Apparently yours just grabbed an image from the page, like Facebook does when you post a link.

Wowbagger 07-05-2012 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evay (Post 78673)
Round-robins are fun. Sort of "fanfic by committee" -- you start with a premise (the Enterprise sends a landing party down to a planet) and each poster contributes as much to the story as s/he wishes. One sentence, a paragraph, two paragraphs, whatever. Stop mid-sentence if you like.

Whoa. You know, I think we could build that into a slightly more formal process, apply some basic rules of order, and end up producing some really high-quality fivers.

We could call it "Fiver by Committee."


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