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GalFisk wrote:Banned code leads to death? Y
Code: words? Y Symbols? N Code speech? Y Encryption? N Computer code? N Steganography (hiding a message inside another message)? N Censorship relevant? N If death: by disease? N Murder? Y Accident? N Execution? Y Old age? N Death of: a human? Y Multiple humans? N Animals? N Plants? N Bacteria? N
irishelk wrote:Does "oppose" indicate disagreement? N If so, with the xode (code?)? So N/A Is it an instruction to "oppose"? Y If so, meant for us LTPFers? Y
Is something being encoded incorrectly? N Or decrypted incorrectly? N Leading to the x's? N/FA If so, by a person? N A machine? N
GalFisk wrote:Technology relevant? N Morse? N Radio? N War? N Should we oppose the assumption that banned code leads to a murder/execution? FA Is banned code used? NoX by me Is code banned so that the desired message cannot be expressed? FoX now, yes
GalFisk wrote:Relevant that you've so far X'ed the letters C, T, H and R? YES Are there other letters that you want to X? YES... just the one. Any vowels? YES, and anticipating the invoke, it's I.
irishelk wrote:Should we try to get you to use those letters? It's kind of unnecessary for me to use them/not use them specifically, now you know what they are. Are you Xing them whenever they appear? I have been doing, but as per the update (previous post) I'll stop doing so from now on. When they appear in a certain context? No, I've been X'ing them whenever they occurred Relevant that "oppose" has none of the bad letters? No
Is the code "banned" in the sense that it bans certain letters? Yes certain letters are proscribed Is the code itself "banned"? Not 100% what you mean, but I think that's a no. Was it banned at some point? Well, there was a real life situation in which certain letters were banned. This puzzle was inspired by that, but it's mostly IRREL
Would xx xelp us xo "oppose" xf we xoo "X" out lexxexs? Lol, no it would be confusing! In fact, I thank goodness I don't have to now.
jumpingjacks wrote:C, H, R, I, T. Those are all the letters, right? Is an anagram of those letters relevant? Yesish
Is "Christ" relevant? Yes "Christmas"? Yes So that people can't say "Merry Christmas"? yes
jumpingjacks wrote:Who wants to stop people from saying "Merry Christmas" -- a government? yes a religious group? yes some sort of army? no
Does saying "Merry Christmas" lead to death? no or irrelDoes writing "Merry Christmas" lead to death? yes
Does "oppose" mean that we should oppose this ban? yes That we should say "Merry Christmas"? No, but...
Relevant that we can say "Merry Xmas" instead? Hence the X's? Yes
jumpingjacks wrote:We should... write "Merry Xmas"?
Merry Xmas!
jumpingjacks wrote:Are names relevant? Yes First names? Yes Last names? possibly but less important People named Christopher relevant? Certainly, though not the only example
jumpingjacks wrote:So they weren't allowed to write their own names? They had to be Xine or Xopher etc? Is it especially upsetting when engraving tombstones of departed Xophers, that they are not allowed to have their names on?
Yes, exactly.