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Post by AngelBaby » 25 Aug 2006 22:45

smash wrote:Typical. Angelbaby blocks me from this game CONSTANTLY. Here it is Friday day, I have time to devote and play this game (for a change) and she has not posted a location up. She will, and I'm working this evening, all day tomorrow and spending Sunday madly trying to pack for going out of town.

She has a magical talent to prevent me from every playing this game. Even the first time I won with Area 51, it was my duty to give Dex his rightful turn.

>_< Goddamn gook. -_-
It's not my turn to post a location, dummy...

Steampunk'd again... :lol:
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Post by Steampunk » 26 Aug 2006 05:22

smash wrote:Angelbaby blocks me ...

... give Dex his rightful turn.

You gave Dex a turn with AB? Damn, you guys are good friends. :blink:




Hint: Eastern hemisphere

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Post by Hortnon » 26 Aug 2006 07:24

With that hint for that picture, I'm not even gonna bother trying
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Post by Steampunk » 26 Aug 2006 08:25

Incorrect guess prompts a clue...
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Post by Hortnon » 28 Aug 2006 01:03

Steampunk wrote:Incorrect guess prompts a clue...
Looks like no one else is going to guess...

Uhmmmm, Hong Kong.
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Post by Steampunk » 28 Aug 2006 04:52

I'm looking for the name of the ship, so, no, Hong Kong is incorrect.

2nd hint: one-armed, but not a bandit.
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Post by exelis » 28 Aug 2006 08:07

Seems to me that a ship isn't a geographic feature... I mean, cathedrals and nuclear reactors don't move around, at least.

I also haven't managed to even find a place with satellite images from "The GeoInformation Group".
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by Steampunk » 28 Aug 2006 08:40

AngelBaby wrote:How it works is someone uses GE to snap a pic of a spot on this big blue globe we call home. They post the pic up in this thread, along with a clue if they think that might be needed, and the first person to guess correctly gets to post a GE-derived pic of their own and the game continues in this fashion.


I guess we can argue over the use of the word "spot". I can assure you, though, that this ship hasn't moved substantially within years.
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Post by smash » 28 Aug 2006 11:16

Steampunk wrote:
AngelBaby wrote:How it works is someone uses GE to snap a pic of a spot on this big blue globe we call home. They post the pic up in this thread, along with a clue if they think that might be needed, and the first person to guess correctly gets to post a GE-derived pic of their own and the game continues in this fashion.


I guess we can argue over the use of the word "spot". I can assure you, though, that this ship hasn't moved substantially within years.
Queen Mary?
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by Dex » 28 Aug 2006 11:43

smash wrote:
Steampunk wrote:
AngelBaby wrote:How it works is someone uses GE to snap a pic of a spot on this big blue globe we call home. They post the pic up in this thread, along with a clue if they think that might be needed, and the first person to guess correctly gets to post a GE-derived pic of their own and the game continues in this fashion.


I guess we can argue over the use of the word "spot". I can assure you, though, that this ship hasn't moved substantially within years.
Queen Mary?
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Post by AngelBaby » 28 Aug 2006 12:42

HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England.



ps. technically, in the WESTERN Hemisphere. <_<
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Post by smash » 28 Aug 2006 12:44

AngelBaby wrote:HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England.



ps. technically, in the WESTERN Hemisphere. <_<

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Post by exelis » 28 Aug 2006 19:46

AngelBaby wrote:HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England.



ps. technically, in the WESTERN Hemisphere. <_<
Ahh crap. No wonder I didn't find it.
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Post by smash » 29 Aug 2006 01:47

exelis wrote:
AngelBaby wrote:HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England.



ps. technically, in the WESTERN Hemisphere. <_<
Ahh crap. No wonder I didn't find it.
For real...I found out that the HMS Victory resided permanently in Portsmouth and asked AngelBaby what the definition of 'east' was. We both were pretty confident that the Prime Meridian (Greenwich, England) was the definition. Somehow we were wrong. It's apparently anything that isn't america is 'east'.
Needless to say, I went on to looking for Australian vessels while Angelbaby plugged along with HMS Victory.

Couple of things, btw.

This is a stupid puzzle Steampunk did, for several reasons. The puzzles shouldn't be EXCLUSIVE, necessarily. In this one, only a navy man, Brit, or a pirate nut would likely know Punk's clues referred to HMS Victory. But I'll concede on it, because it was POSSIBLE to google. However, that said, try googling 'famous ship' and 'one arm' and tell me how many thousands of results you return.

The fact that two puzzles in a row contain 'errors' on Steampunk's behalf annoy me like you wouldn't believe. Add to the fact that I'm super fucking cranky right now...
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Post by Steampunk » 29 Aug 2006 03:17

Yeah, you're both right -- I was wrong re: Eastern Hemisphere. I thought it was east of London, but didn't bother to look at the lat/long.

AB is up.

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