Yoruichi-san

Assuming the world exists, I should probably actually do my taxes.

Fair enough, mon capitan, but that would be one loooonnng table ;P Nice catch tho...I wasn't sure it you were allowed to move the boxes due to language differences and translation issues, etc .

Ohhhhh so that's what you were thinking...lol...tres ingenieux .

Bon-chan brings up some good points, but thinking about them gives me a headache, so...

The first period was elongated to allow for strategy forming. Subsequent periods should be able to go fairly quickly.

Lol, well as an engineer, I do try to be as lazy *cough* efficient as possible...

Just to be clear: Voting period 2 ends at 9pm CST on Tuesday, 2/19.

Have you been to a modern art gallery? It is that just based on paintings one gets the impression that there is no 'social awkwardness' at having unexpected company whilst being sans clothes. Victorian era religious based art being possibly the worst offender in this misunderstanding. For this reason I'd rather some recent portrayal that is not from the cookie monster. Wait, whaaaaa??? First off, how is modern art related to Victorian art? And show me examples of these so called Victorian era religious art that you speak of...do you mean like the depictions of Jesus on the cross? I don't think anyone would 'misunderstand' an emaciated figure of christ dying or any sort of depiction that gives a naked figure a dark, 'punished' tone as suggestive of social freedom in clothing... I have been to art galleries, thank you very much, although I dislike modern art. I.e. the Tate Modern was not to my taste, but the British Museum, the Louvre, the Musee D'Orsay, etc I adored. And it's not 'the cookie monster' making this analysis based on the artifacts (including, but not limited to the art) from those eras, it's archeologists, anthropologists, etc. For example, in Egypt, the top hem of women's dresses could be worn below the breasts, i.e. revealing the breasts...would that have been acceptable in the Victorian era?

The results are in:

A little over an hour left...send in your positions! Thanks.

Oooh...I know this is definitely not what the OP intended, but I can't resist...

It does say in the OP that "the gods respond only to yes-no questions"...(paragraph 2, 4th sentence)

Lol well personally I'd trust an analysis of, like, the culture based on many artifacts (art, tablets, etc) over what one person testifies to...especially after they've been paid off in Oreos by phaze (yes, it is truly the food of the gods)...;P

I see... Actually the puzzle I linked had the same setup for 2. @bon-chan. A couple questions to TC: 1. Do the other two gods know what Random is going to answer before hand? 2. Are you allowed to ask questions that potentially do not have a definite answer? Can you take the totem's lack of an answer as an information source? 3. Are you allowed to ask questions that potentially create a paradox?

I'd love to...but I have go to a dentist appt so I don't have time atm... I'd like to point out that it's interesting to note that in earlier cultures, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc, there was actually less 'social awkwardness' at nakedness than in later cultures, like the Victorian era, which suggests that it didn't go from practical to embarrassing, but rather there was an evolution that went along with culture/historical movements (and religious movements).

Um...I'm getting deja vu...is it something like

Hai! That is yes..5 coins w/ 2 double diamater. Looks like a parallelogram with line in the middle. OP should say "same coin" but i guess no one use 4 half-cut coins (or bitable coins) to make 8 diameters. My angles were more...90 degrees . Sorry if I'm going on a completely different tangent than what the OP intended, to be honest, I'm not sure what the OP intends , but seeing your response to witzar made me think 'outside the box' (or plane of the box ) type solutions were acceptable.

Well why don't any other species have the internet? Humans do seem to have a higher brain capacity for like, technology (even simple ones like making thread...or fire for that matter!) The question of clothing is an interesting one, from a social evolutionary perspective. However it's inextricably intertwined with the evolution of culture/society as a whole which in turn is inextricably intertwined with history, and as much as I find evolutionary sociology/psychological fascinating, I am too lazy to tackle that question atm (although I've considered parts of it). From a practical perspective, it's much simpler. There's the whole' maintaining heat so that you can hunt/gather farther/longer' issue as has been brought up. There's also like the protective qualities of clothing. And not just, like heavy hides and whatnot. Even thinner fabrics can protect from cuts and scratches, which, although in themselves not life-threatening, can be infected, especially before the invention of, like, penicillin . And there's the whole terror of women's fashions in particular...the rib and organ malforming corsettes in Europe, those neck elongating rings in Africa, and the practice of bandaging feet to prevent them from growing in Asia...it's almost like society was saying 'the harder it is for you to run away/protect yourself from men, the more attractive you are'...*whistling*

Lol...is my terminology really that hard to understand?

The way I'm reading the problem it seems that row order is random, i.e. the last person does not need to have 8 on their back, so...

When the eyes of the world are on you, whatever you do, don't move south...I hear the world has a bad case of the flu at the moment...

Yep, that is an important aspect of the device.

Lol...there's the convenient 'Other Recipients' field...send as 'Invitation' to include multiple ppl... ...or are you trolling? ;P