On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dacav Doe wrote:

V jrne bar ba zl jevfg :)

I know, but what is the word, exactly?

(^*_>^*)
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On 2021-07-16, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dacav Doe wrote:

V jrne bar ba zl jevfg :)

I know, but what is the word, exactly?

Right, sorry.

jngpu :)
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, stern wrote:

//ryrpgevpny bhgyrg//

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, ~unbeatable101 wrote:

What is that supposed to mean?

That is ROT13-scrambled message [1], which customarily used in USENET
(and Netnews in general) to hide spoilers. Some dedicated newsreaders
like SLRN and TIN have built-in ROT13 decoder which could be toggled
by hotkey. But Thunderbird probably doesn't, so...

Ctrl-C Club might have a `rot13` command installed [2], which you
can run it, paste one line of scrambled text, then press Enter,
and you would get a descrambled version out. [3] Press Ctrl+D
or Ctrl+C to exit.

(If you would like to scramble text, you do the the same steps as above;
thank to the fact that ROT13 encoding is self-inversing)

Regarding the "//...//", it is a mark commonly used for denoting
foreign language dialogs in comics. ("<<...>>" is also used for
this too) I have started using it in this thread [4]
to explicitly denote ROT13-scrambled phrases in my post, especially
when they are parts of other sentences, just for clarity.

I saw some others started to do the same in their posts too;
but it is not a USENET convention or anything, as far as I know.
So, you would see that some other participants in the thread
posted ROT13-scrambled text without this mark as well.

Regards,
~xwindows


P.S. For what it's worth, the use of ROT13 in this game
is actually _not_ required; you are still free to participate
even if you don't have an appropriate software option.

P.P.S. The answer ~stern gave is still incorrect,
free to come up with different answer.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13


[2]
If it's not, you might bug ~calamitous to install Ubuntu package
`bsdgames` there; or you could install it on your own machine.
(But I'm not using MacOS X, so I don't have specific instruction, sorry)

If all else fails, you can use this odd-looking Unix-standard command
in place of `rot13` as well:

tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m

^ You probably want to bind this as a shell alias if you have to use it
on regular basis.


[3]
If you would like to (de)scramble multiple lines at once from command line,
you probably want to use shell's here-document construct instead,
like this:

rot13 << 'EOF'
Pna
lbh
frr
zr?
EOF

^ Note that the single-quote around the first "EOF" is intentional
to make sure that the shell don't go wreck havoc if there is
any dollar or backtick symbol in the message.


[4] "Re: ASCII Of? [Object] *correct*" [2021-07-19T03:53:52Z]
<news:cbcec085-39bf-3bc1-99c7-8ca72b7517@tilde.club>
<nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/152>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, xwindows wrote:

xwindows' gallery of freely-licensed artworks

Whoops, wrong post.

Please disregard,
~xwindows
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 711 Spooky Mart wrote:

This is good tiny art.

Thank you. (Making myself do ASCII art better is kind of my hidden agenda
when coming up with this game)

You made this one really obvious.

Touche.

Cheers,
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, The Free Thinker wrote:

Funny, I thought this had to be a Gun Chronograph, if only it could
be described with so few letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chronographa.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_chronograph

Front view, I suppose. Never have used it though.
(But are there really any design with looped antenna?)

Regards,
~xwindows


P.S. This reply is a part of my Netnews article batch-poster's test run.
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

/\
_ / \
, -/, \ / /
| | \ / /. _
| | \ \ / | | |
|, ,| /|\ #\/__|____|,,|
| \ / |/ | \v oo o

I think I recognize this as a concrete mixer truck pouring the mix
onto a conveyor that fills it to a "tank-thingy" that is to be crane-lifted
to pour concrete out from its bottom opening over the formwork.

The trouble is I either don't know the specific term of that "tank-thingy"
on the left, or I might have misinterpreted what the truck had been
carrying completely.

So, still no answer from me for this one.

Yours truly,
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

/\
_ / \
, -/, \ / /
| | \ / /. _
| | \ \ / | | |
|, ,| /|\ #\/__|____|,,|
| \ / |/ | \v oo o

I think I recognize this as a concrete mixer truck pouring the mix
onto a conveyor that fills it to a "tank-thingy" that is to be crane-lifted to pour concrete out from its bottom opening over the formwork.

The trouble is I either don't know the specific term of that "tank-thingy"
on the left, or I might have misinterpreted what the truck had been
carrying completely.

While on the right track, you've indeed got the wrong idea about
the truck's load (concrete trucks don't tip - things would probably
get quite exciting for their drivers in the cab if they did :) ).

I'll clear up some ambiguity by revealing that the object to
identify is the middle one, your "conveyor".
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