Post your random thoughts.

I never feel clingy.

From Xkcd someone linked a lot of pages back ("Extended Mind" or something, number 903), the alt text:

• Total Drama Island —> Cartoon series —> Animation —> Illusion —> Sense —> Physiologial —> Science —> Knowledge*
  ^{Someone said this led to "fact", which eventually caused a loop}
  —> Information —> Sequence —> Mathematics —> Quantity —> Property —> Modern philosophy —> Philosophy. The chain is 15 Articles long.

Trippy, man. I haven't really read the context in most of these, but if look at it, it actually makes sense.

• Fucking, Austria*
  ^{Actual city name}
  —> Austria —> Landlocked country —> Countries —> Geography —> Earth —> Planet —> Orbit —> Physics —> Natural science —> Science —> See above. Bottom line, 19 article long chain.

You know it's weird to see your name rendered without capital letters. I have always seen it that way.

It's probably changed since then, but I tried it shortly after that comic was posted and found that "Aristotle" was something of a "near-miss", in that "philosophy" was the second link, forcing you to come back through a few more pages (though you eventually get there).

Also I remember "Mathematics" came up a lot. Once you hit "Mathematics", you're pretty much there.

^^^Let me try that:

Lotus Exige > Sports car > Touring car > Car body style > Car classification > Automobile > Wheel > Mass > Physics > Natural science > Science > Knowledge > Information > Sequence > Mathematics > Quantity > Property (philosophy) > Philosophy

Holy shit, 18 articles.

Also, best city name ever.

edited 24th Jun '11 2:26:06 PM by RocketDude

Chocolate > Theobroma cacao > Evergreen > Botany > Biology > Natural science > Science > Knowledge > Information > Sequence > Mathematics > Quantity > Property (philosopy) > Philosophy

I wonder if there's a Tv Tropes equivalent?

This post was thumped by the Stick of Post Thumping

Semen -> Fluid -> Physics -> Natural Science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property -> Philosophy

12 articles to get from man chowder to philosophy.

edited 24th Jun '11 2:35:58 PM by AwesomeZombie22

@Dove: Maybe we need to take some of the more notable works (NGE, Team Fortress 2, Touhou, MLP, etc.) and then craft a similar rule to see how we can get from any page to the page for any of those chosen works.

This post was thumped by the Codfish in a Derby Hat

Dunno what rule to use, though...

Maybe for Works pages, it's the first pothole in the description. For Trope pages, maybe the same.

edited 24th Jun '11 2:43:19 PM by RocketDude

I should use this as a reaction image some time.◊

This post was thumped by the Shillelagh of Whackingness

Tokyo Mew Mew —> Japanese —> language —> communication —> information —> sequence —> mathematics —> quantity —> property —> philosophy : Ten article chain

Beowulf —> Old English —> English language —> West Germanic Languages —> Germanic languages —> Indo-European languages —> Language Family —> language —> communication —> information —> sequence —> mathematics —> quantity —> property —> philosophy : Fifteen article chain

edited 24th Jun '11 3:06:08 PM by annebeeche

I know, right!

It was because of cybering, in case you're wondering.

edited 24th Jun '11 3:04:36 PM by thespacephantom

Dog —> Gray Wolf —> Canidae —> Family (biology) —> biological classification —> Biologist —> Scientist —> System —> Element —> Mathematics —> Quantity —> Property —> Philosophy : 13 articles

Philosophy —> Reason —> Rationality —> Philosophy : IT KEEPS HAPPENING

The ultimate foundation of Wikipedia is philosophy

edited 24th Jun '11 3:12:49 PM by annebeeche

Forum Lust Game made go "eww" but it still saddens me that's it gone.

The FLG is gone.

I kind of expected it to be, honestly.

"Of course for some, YMMV." No kidding

It's weird to see FLG gone.

It's one of those things I just kinda assumed would go on forever.

...I kinda wonder why it never happened before.

I like to think the mods were oblivious to its existence.

Now I'm wondering what Fawriel would think.

I expected FLG to get shot eventually. The game has been blatant cybering for a while.

Hey, I wonder how many pages it took for FLG to derail from being flirty into blatant cybering?

edited 24th Jun '11 3:14:09 PM by annebeeche

The shutdown post said "this has turned into cybering", and that was hundreds of pages ago, so

No really?

I have been wondering for a while why the hell we had a public cybersex thread anyway.