Yes I did mix up the order of the words cause of poor sleep. Thanks for correcting

My favourite language joke:

What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?

One’s got claws at the end of its paws, the other’s a pause at the end of a clause

*fixed order

Truly it’s a hard game even if there were no cylons. Humans rarely win in my games. Alas, it’s out of print 😭. Its spiritual successor Unfathomable seems good as well, though I’ve only played it once

Then you discover the board game and it’s a whole new level of great

I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn’t good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain’t working.

Or the person telling the story lies some of the time in which case it’s not a riddle and you’re just talking to a normal person

Relevant clip from Hot Fuzz

Some version of the phrase has been around for a couple years at least

I am using sync, yes. It’s strange, in my inbox your spoiler format appears correctly as the colons, but in the thread it appears as greater exclamation mark. I think sync is not only using a different tag to make it work, but live changing other users’ formatting 🤔.

I checked my post in browser and it was changing the less than sign to the HTML character code do that may also be the issue.

It showed up as a spoiler on my device, really sorry ☹️. I used the same tags as you suggested though.

Bg3 just pulled this off towards the end when you >!just removing the spoiler altogether as the tags didn’t work for some people!<

In tech, for the last few decades, the goal of so many startups is not to be the next Apple/Google/Facebook but to create something that Apple/Google/Facebook want to buy.

Yeah unfortunately not taking a buy out often means one of the Big Five making their own version of whatever you’re doing / buying out your competitor, and then bullying you out of the market. A bleak possibility for start ups