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@Porsche Marxist: There used to be a joke about how the original Porsche 911 Turbo (the 930) might be a Trojan Horse for the communists/the left due to how hard it was to drive (early Porsche 911 lift off oversteer, namely braking for a corner being capable of causing oversteer coupled with massive turbo lag), and the sort of people who bought one (the rich, obviously), and the typical results of such a combination, namely crashes that resulted in severe injury or death for those involved.

It got sufficiently bad that there were several wrongful death lawsuits filed against Porsche in the US.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

Survey

Randall's going to be doing a bunch of "random correlations", such as that everyone who likes cats lives in houses with off-white walls.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I figure we've finally reached the point where Randall'll start using his powers for evil and these questions are all carefully crafted to sniff out our passwords for everything we hold dear.

I managed to accidentally submit the form without actually completing it.

At least now I know SwiftKey's tolerance for gibberish. Namely, if it's long enough, it will give up.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

I'm interested to see how people analyse this. For one, how do you even interpret the gibberish box? Also, I sincerely hope somebody actually called Catherine Person fills out this form.

You'll never know whether that person is really called Catherine Person or just lying. Or, whether a real Catherine Person would actually tick that box.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

Contrived Coincidence alert. ;P

I like to keep my audience riveted.

Well, I mean, my answer was gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys, so I suppose you can interpret whether or not some other smart aleck did the same thing?

edited 2nd Sep '15 8:25:58 AM by ShadowHog

Moon◊

Anyone else take a moment on the "One a scale of 1 to 10, how good is your spelling?" question and seriously wonder whether 1 or 10 indicated the highest level of spelling? Then, the "One a scale of 1 to 5, what's your favorite number"...

Unless otherwise noted, a scale of 1 to 10 normally has higher being better, although most surveys label such things. Weirdly, the driving skill one did label that.

edited 2nd Sep '15 10:49:20 AM by TenebrousGaze

That was probably the most fun survey I've ever filled out.

My guess is that the "random gibberish" question will really be analyzed for:

• Disobedience, like using full English words (probably a lot of questions will have nontrivial disobediance percentages)
• How long your string of gibberish was
• Did your "random" key mashings include any numbers? The letter P? Any punctuation? Spaces? Anything that requires holding shift on a standard keyboard?

Also, one question I'm sad he did not include was "What layout of keyboard are you using". But that might've had nonrandom correlation with the keyboard mashing question, so maybe he was right not to include it?

edited 2nd Sep '15 4:18:51 PM by Brickman

Your funny quote here! (Maybe)

The real purpose of that question is to know how the scale will be interpreted, since no-one would give themselves a low rating.

edited 2nd Sep '15 4:42:16 PM by Aetol

Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a chore

I filled it by remaining overall serious, i.e. not trying to find hidden meanings in questions and assuming that scales go in the usual order, so I can increase the statistics of "unimaginative person who does as they're told" (I'm pretty sure that the question asking to type the word "cat" exists precisely for that purpose, and for fishing out dyslexics). I'm now considering filling it again, this time with a more facetious mindset (or not answering in English).

Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.

For the cat question I just put in "really man?"

I wonder how many people responded to "Type five random words" by putting "five random words" in the box.

Fresh-eyed movie blog

Actually, I did give myself a low rating. I am awful at spelling.

I answered all of the questions by the 'rules' but some of my choices were a bit weird. My first animal was "ibex".

Guilty as charged!

Moon◊

"These are five random words" is better.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

I just repeated the five animals for five random words.

I made an effort to have the five random words actually be kind of random — ended up with "hey who will ex lout". The first three words forming the beginnings of a sentence was unintentional.

What happened to What Ifs? It's been a long time since I saw one.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

Cyberintellegence

I'd love to see "cyber" return. It always seemed like an inherently cool word to me.

I agree that "cyberspace" sounded way cooler than "cloud".

Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.

I used shoe fins actualize radishes greenly for the five words.

The funny thing is that it is not just 5 random words, but a random sentence which is syntactically correct. It just doesn't mean anything.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.