Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "9521", "posts": [ { "id": "908005", "time": "1473826967", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/blake/\">Blake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/guessillseeyouinhell/\">GuessI'llSeeYouInHell</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Will you tell us if we guess it right??</div></div><br />\nNo. You must prove it with SCIENCE.</div></div><br />\nBWHAHAHAHAHHAH Impossible.", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908007", "time": "1473827207", "html": "This should do it too.", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908008", "time": "1473827230", "html": "Still no green dot...", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908010", "time": "1473827485", "html": "These things always bugged me. In a good way, mind you, but the way they seem so random always tugged at my mind. I seriously have no clue as to how any of them work.", "user": "medlimakar001" }, { "id": "908013", "time": "1473827817", "html": "One fish two fish red fish blue dish <br />\nThree dot green.<br />\nSo I wanted to see, since meow used one, and you used two, if three would trigger it", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908014", "time": "1473828023", "html": "Try copying my post. Perhaps Meow altered <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">her</span> his post in some way.", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908016", "time": "1473828068", "html": "What about two question marks in a post? Does that get a dot?<br />\n<br />\nNOPE!<br />\npretty sure meow is a dude.", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908017", "time": "1473828112", "html": "No :/<br />\nI'm thinking it has to do with the number of posts, or maybe the time stamp? Or is somehow related to the post before it..", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908032", "time": "1473828753", "html": "I think, at Blake's suggestion this dot doesn't have to do with time. <br />\nCurse this infernal puzzle", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908034", "time": "1473828926", "html": "What of his post makes you think that?", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908035", "time": "1473829026", "html": "I messaged him actually", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908036", "time": "1473829111", "html": "Did he give any hints?", "user": "guessillseeyouinhell" }, { "id": "908039", "time": "1473829301", "html": "Nah. <br />\nSo I'm thinking it has to be something dynamic, because posting the same text as the one that got the dot doesn't cut it. <br />\nPost count maybe, or maybe a formula for characters used.", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908040", "time": "1473829454", "html": "Also, dots come and go, from what I can tell. They're not like things you collect over time. They're fickle, like romance.", "user": "medlimakar001" }, { "id": "908041", "time": "1473829522", "html": "You know, I've spent a lot of time participating in and/or watching team-building and problem-solving exercises. It never gets old.", "user": "coldfrost" }, { "id": "908042", "time": "1473829701", "html": "Right, the dots move to whoever most recently met the criteria for them. Which is why copying the post should get you any static criteria generated by the post.", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908057", "time": "1473834365", "html": "yellow, red, and purple have been released into the wild.", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "908058", "time": "1473834775", "html": "Excellent! Thus begins my quest to find them all and fuse into the megazord!", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908059", "time": "1473834833", "html": "Or Captain Planet", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "908060", "time": "1473835167", "html": "So I take it you didn't like the idea of the InsiDot XD", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908069", "time": "1473835864", "html": "I wasn't having nearly as much fun with green as I thought I would so I changed the rules for it.", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "908071", "time": "1473835986", "html": "I am caught in the Paradox of wanting to ask what it was but also not wanting too much information...", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908072", "time": "1473836873", "html": "You can ask but I won't tell :)", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "908073", "time": "1473837292", "html": "Is it in a similar vein though?", "user": "insidoubt" }, { "id": "908074", "time": "1473837375", "html": "Not one bit.<br />\n<br />\nAlthough you don't know the original rule for green, so this does not help.", "user": "blake" } ], "users": { "guessillseeyouinhell": { "name": "GuessI'llSeeYouInHell", "key": "guessillseeyouinhell", "url": "/users/guessillseeyouinhell", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/3624.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2120" }, "insidoubt": { "name": "InsiDoubt", "key": "insidoubt", "url": "/users/insidoubt", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/931.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2798" }, "medlimakar001": { "name": "medlimakar001", "key": "medlimakar001", "url": "/users/medlimakar001", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/98.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "274" }, "coldfrost": { "name": "Coldfrost", "key": "coldfrost", "url": "/users/coldfrost", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20861.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "7589" }, "blake": { "name": "Blake", "key": "blake", "url": "/users/blake", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20361.png", "rankClass": "webmaster", "rankText": "Webmaster", "posts": "2894" } }, "page_num": 2, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 88 }

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