Yoruichi-san

Of course, I won't host it, because I've only played 2 mafia games so far (and lost both ) but someone else could host it and i could help come up with the roles and rules.

You could get some more experience playing Justice League UNLEASHED [/shameless advertising]

what does Gratimerxie mean?

Bastard child of the latin, french, and chinese words for "thank you" ;P.  Yes, I refuse to lose...even when it comes to having the most ridiculous, pretentious title .

Hmm...seems interesting.  Hope I'll have time...

5-Star: Hirkala
1. Admiral Molly O'Mae
2. Gerenal MikeD
3.Captain Aaryan
4.valkyrie phillip
5. grand master overlord general tyrant supreme ruler Flamebirde
6. Cadet Brainiac100
7. [Genetic experiment created by splicing together the DNA of Julius Caesar, Cao Cao, and Napolean Bonaparte] Y-san
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Take that.  Gratimerxie .

Reading old XKCD, I came across this and it made me think of brainden ;P.  Then I thought it would cool to have a thread to post things, images, comics, quotes, news, w/e, that makes us think of our cyber-home.

His legs were like rubber;  occasionally they stretched to the kitchen, but always promptly found their way back to their original position...on the couch.

When I keep hitting 'refresh' to see if the number of views on my topic has gone up.

When I feel sad when it hasn't .

Yes, and while you two were doing that, that week I spent with your mom was totally worth it.

(And if I get in trouble...making that joke was totally worth it )

Personally I find it bizarre. I've noted that the "signal to noise ratio" (if signal means correct/true/good reasoning/answer/process, noise means bad/incorrect/false) on brainden is worse than most ad hoc forums or messages, even for the trivially easy puzzles. One of these forms is where people give answers that don't mean a thing to anyone else; the words and logic is practically gibberish in English. How does this happen? Even for most people to acknowledge a correct logical answer seems to be impossible here. If this place lacks common sense, you have to wonder what "communal" value there is given the objectives of contributing here.

In this case, the fact that we have completely different solutions means most of us are completely wrong, and yet believe we are all on the right track.
I have no problem accepting I could be wrong, but I'm the only one who has given a proof, and I have implicitly disproved all other answers. But in my experience, proofs and disproofs mean nothing to most people.

I've been following this thread kind of haphazardly, but I have to come in and say that what you're saying, whether you're trying to or not, is discouraging people from posting with their ideas/thoughts on a puzzle, which I think is a key aspect of BD being a 'community' rather than just a website.

Even if people are wrong, they may say something that inspires thoughts in others, and that in itself is valuable.  I am a scientist, and highly value collaboration.  Pretty much all great discoveries, although often credited to one person or the other, were made by a collaboration or at least one person building the past works of others.

Also as a scientist, I've noticed that in science, economics, game theory, and even math, there are still problems 'experts' disagree on the correct approach to.

And personally, as a puzzle maker who likes to make somewhat complex puzzles, I highly encourage people to work together and share their working thoughts.  It usually 'gets the thread going' and builds a kind of happy, fun atmosphere as well.

To be honest, I have not given this particular puzzle enough analysis to form an opinion on who is 'correct', my beginning line was with probabilities such as your first line, but I never took the time to finish.  I recognize that you've put a lot of work and thought into your answer, and you gave a really good and thorough explanation...but I have to point out, it does not constitute a proof...your own 'comments' in red show the parts that need to be completed for it to be a proof.

Welcome to the den ;P.

Okay, game is over.  Post is coming.  Sorry about the delay...the tubing to the fridge of a house we're kinda housesitting burst and...well...it was not pretty .

Err...desolee, mon capitaine...



Edit:  And I don't think you need the 13th test either?  You don't need to get a 'hot' to figure out which it is, you can assume the last group is 'hot' by the process of elimination.

Or beakers of acid/base we test with litmus paper...or glasses of pepsi/coke we taste test...but not beakers of acid/base that we taste test...

(sorry, couldn't resist ;P)

What happens in quantum statistical thermodynamics stays in quantum statistical thermodynamics...b/c no one else cares.

Looks like it's going back to tiger_lily.

Aha, I knew there was a reason my relatives seldom eat beef...;P

(With props to my cousin for her Euro2012 bracket - )


That would seem more impressive if ...

That would seem more impressive if...I had any idea what you were talking about .

I can image Y-san talking like GLaDOS for the intro, lol.

Who, me?  *innocent wide-eyed look*  I've never been an evil AI in my life...*whistling*

The cake was the truth, but the pi was a lie. Anyway, confirming. please don't kill me....

I like that!  But I think it should kind of be the opposite...

The cake may or may not be true, but the pi is universally constant. ;P

(Okay, all this talk of cake is making me hungry...and wanting to make a Cake Mafia...Devil's food vs. Angel food, with Potato (Latke) indie...hmm...)

Almost all have confirmed.  If you have not done so already, please send in your actions.  Thx.