THE other Parity Podcast

Submitted by Chris Sullivan on Sun, 2017-11-19 18:28

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and now... the Rebuttal

I Party Parity Podcast

featuring meta-fantasy, prizes, the HOF awards, listener mail, a new contest, the much awaited theme song, and hopefully a special guest appearance

 

https://drive.google.com/a/ocdsb.ca/file/d/13LTbBFDWaCefurtRaXBjnCc3UpD5...

Geofford Seaborn

Sun, 2017-11-19 19:27

Awesome. 

I do look forward to seeing the results of the meta-meta-fantasy league!

Jon Rowe

Sun, 2017-11-19 22:58

My client is pleased to congratulating you on your achievement! He is very wealthy and wish to benefactor "ALT-MEDIA" with desired $1.98.

PLease reply quickly, your banking informations for my client his best regards. 

Sincerest regards, 

Ron Jowe; on behalf Prince Geofftopher Keaborn.

 

Tom Newman

Mon, 2017-11-20 07:51

I've always been a big supporter of endeavours that bring thoughtfulness, integrity, and vision to our fair city. This is why I believe in the i party parity podcast, and will be donating $2.00 to provide the opportunity for certain sound effects that would enhance the already amazing appeal to all of it's listeners in the city and around the world. However, I was just wondering if it would be possible to get a tax receipt for this?

 

Thanks

Tom

 

Laura Chambers ...

Mon, 2017-11-20 11:54

You've set the bar unreasonably high here, J and Sul. 

Christopher Keates

Mon, 2017-11-20 12:20

0:09: "...not used unironically." is a double negative and muddies your meaning.
 
0:20: It was Diablo 3.
 
0:31: I had to look up what Ovaltine was. Fun fact, on the Wikipedia page's Popular Culture blurb on Ovaltine the most recent date is 1956. Sure sounds Hall of Fame to me.
 
0:40: Acceptable names for Kevin Barford are: Kevin Beardford; el Cicerone; King of Beers; Barfdog; K-dizzle.
 
1:00: I do enjoy the anagram of "Parity Parity", which makes the podcast a meta-exercise. However, may I suggest a rebranding to O'Pardy Parity Podcast? It would give you a certain Irish flair, and also be an anagram of Parody Parity Podcast, which would be both apt and apropos. No, I am not using those words ironically.
 
1:11: I swear I can hear the tape-deck clicking in the background. Is this from a mixtape you two love birds made for each other back in '91?
 
1:48: Are we rivals? I prefer to think of us as artistic contemporaries, driving each other to push the limits and boundaries of the form.
 
2:19: There's like a tilting cap/head nod from me to you guys here, taking shots at people not in the league and barely heard from.
 
2:24: Talk to Geofford about using sound clips to cover up awkward and abrupt edits like this. Maybe you guys want to use the bridge from "One"?
 
4:38: Our Parity league has had a VC rep sub in it before, so maybe we touch base with them and work something out?
 
5:15: I would like to think you have more confidence in your material than to have to resort to bribery. Also last year we had a podcast/Parity hat tie in, we've been cross-branding with merch for a while.
 
 
6:00: Fun fact for the techno-phobes: Stack Over Flow is yet another technology joke. I am really happy you are buying in to the league-wide aesthetic.
 
7:44: Let's be honest, Martin is very tall and pretty good at frisbee so it's not often that he's going to get scored on. Plus rumour has it he has a good sense of humour, so spike away!
 
9:02: Where do you guys get off calling us NPR styles?
 
12:30: So I have to admit, this is going next level. We have frisbee, fantasy frisbee (Parity), fantasy fantasy frisbee (PLFL), and now fantasy fantasy fantasy frisbee (I will henceforth refer to this as the Frisb-ception League). What really gets me is this: I'm playing against Mike Lee in the PLFL, and he has Lance on his team. Geofford has me on his roster, and he is playing against Laura (who is ahead of me in the standings). I want Justine to win Frisb-ception, but this is a difficult thing to manage because of the following. I want to beat Mike but also make ground on Laura, which means I have score for Geofford so he can win, but score without involving Lance to limit Mike's PLFL points. I now have too many competing pressures and priorities in the game.
 
 
14:50: It might be time for a phone upgrade so you can record more than 15 minutes of material, then you wouldn't leave guests waiting in your living room.
 
15:12: Geofford Seaborn is the Kwisatz Haderach of podcasters.

Laura Chambers ...

Mon, 2017-11-20 14:58

In ye olde Urban Dictionary, ovaltine is noun which has the following definition: "used to subdue the will of children." 

Are you suggesting that Chriseofford is NOT trying to create a tribe of glazed-over ultimate players? I'm on to you...

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Hadrian Mertins...

Mon, 2017-11-20 15:08

"Frisbception" effectively describes my growing bewilderment/fascination with all things Parity.

Christopher Keates

Mon, 2017-11-20 15:16

I took that skill on character creation.

Mehmet Karman

Mon, 2017-11-20 15:07

Is this going to be a recurring bit (a la Kimmel) where you suggest you've run out of time for a certain guest?  That other podcast at least delivers when they promise guests!  I had actually been looking forward to hearing about this crazy "indoor zone" concept, who would do such a thing?  Amos and I have certainly never discussed it, especially not during my one year involuntary absence from the league.

Amos Lee

Mon, 2017-11-20 15:49

Me in their green room:

https://gph.is/1PFgfhR

Do you realize how hard it is to find your way into the Glebe, let alone park without having some Glebite berate you for a laundry list of community violations and NIMBY isms?

Next time, I'm sending Steve Chow. 

Justine Price

Wed, 2017-11-22 21:30

So the HofF Hughes Award, inspired by github bounties, and awarded to the player who posts the most pleasing binary stat line (1s and 0s) goes to.....

Third place (no hat for you): Christine Beals, with a 1 0 1 0 6 4 1 0 0. We could have put the 6 and 4 together to make 10 but no need, there were other candidates.

Second, Mr Kevin Hughes almost took his own award with 0 1 0 0 8 10 0 0 0. Two more completions and he would have nailed it. Alas, no VC hat for you either.

And the winner is......Rachel Ng with the amazingly perfect stat line. 0 0 1 0 11 10 1 0 1. Deserving of the VC hat and all the fame that goes with the award (alas,none). Congratulations!

Scott Higgins

Wed, 2017-11-22 23:36

Yes but what does 00101110101 mean?

Scott Higgins

Wed, 2017-11-22 23:38

Because of net neutrality I was able to Google 00101110101

It means 373.

What does that mean?!

Christopher Keates

Thu, 2017-11-23 11:37

It can mean many things, and it depends on how you parse it. Very briefly: binary "words" are usually broken up into octets or bytes, and something like "1" implies "00000001". You can also break thigs up into quads or "nibbles" (e.g. 0001) but they aren't very useful.
 
There are 11 digits in her statline. If we pad it out a bit we can get different ways to interpret it. 
 
Let's assume everything is being tracked to two digits of width:
 
00 00 01 00 11 10 01 00 01
 
Stretched out into bytes this becomes 00000100 11100100 01000000 (this last one is implied). This gives us: 4, 228, and 64.
 
If we pad every stat out to bytes it becomes  00000001 00000000 00000011 00000010 00000001 00000000 00000001 which gives us: 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1.
 
If we pad every stat out to bytes and combine them into 16 bits or 2 bytes, this gives us: 256, 770, 256, 256 (we treat the last byte as having a zero as a trailing byte).
 
I started to look for patterns or hidden meanings in any of these forms, and was a bit disappointed in what turned up, for the most part.
 
I thought that 256,770,256,256 might be unicode, but it just worked out to A^AA, and in fact that character in the middle is actually "Combined Circumlex/Accent" as a single character. Maybe it was grid coordinates? But what grid? I figured it might be latitude and longitude, which you can look up pretty easily with a GPS calculator. Unfortunately this proves difficult to figure out, because GPS coordinates can be both positive or negative. 25.6770/25.6256 in the four possible combinations work out to the following locations:
Possibly buried treasure in the desert, or on a farm in the Tsetse lands of Botswana? Maybe a ship wreck? The depth of the coordinates nearing Brazil is somewhere between 5 and 6km, and the location near Africa looks to be in one of the basins between a series of undersea mounts, with a depth of almost 7 km. I think it unlikely we could ever recover it, if it exists. Ultimately, I don't think they are GPS coordinates.
 
For 001032101, I thought it looked like maybe an address or a number sequence for something. Maybe one of the number sequences broadcast on a numbers radio station. I found one to listen to and put it to listen to at work this morning, but so far I haven't had this pattern come up once. I think it's unlikely this is a decryption key used for intelligence purposes, but we shouldn't rule this out.
 
4 228 64 is possibly the most promising. It's within the extended ASCII table, so maybe it's something? But when I looked that didn't make any sense because 4 is reserved for EOT or END OF TRANSMISSION. (it worked out to EOT-SIGMA-@). Maybe it's unicode? No, same problem (EOT-ä-@) which I guess you can read phoenetically as "eyotaat"? Or maybe At Eyota? Eyota is a city in Minnesota, population 2024 (est. as of 2016).
 
And this is where it gets interesting. Alex Bush lives near Eyota, so it is my contention that a.) Rachel was attempting to reference Parity's favorite shrubery, or b.) Alex Bush has a back door into the app that he is using to game the PLFL so he can win, and much like the Riddler he likes to leave clues lying around so people can find him. Given Rachel's rookie status and possibly limited exposure to Bush (is she secretly the captain of his fan club?) I deduce the latter to be most likely.
 
Devious, Bush.
 

Alessandro Cola...

Thu, 2017-11-23 12:01

Keates, this is a lot to absorb right now. Luckily, your tinfoil hat is keeping all the infectious crazy waves bouncing around on the inside of your skull, so the rest of us only have to deal with the ludicrous notions coming off of your keyboard.

 

I'll be rereading the post hourly going forward, in order to glean any clues to what's going on with what you think is going on. I'm preparing for the worst though.

Amos Lee

Thu, 2017-11-23 12:39

What archives did you have to go into to pull out a photo of Sully before "The Gray Days"?

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Kevin Hughes

Thu, 2017-11-23 16:57

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