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In post 147, Fluminator wrote:Meme is not an evil sorcerer so I'm ruling him out.

Question for Haschel and Pabs:
Tell me about your repertoire of magic tricks and how often you do them!

One of my good friends taught himself some illusions through YouTube because he wanted some ways to flirt better with girls. He tested one on me and I wasn't impressed. It was a card trick with a stripped deck but I had one as a kid so I knew what was going on. Anyway that inspired him to actually go seek a magic club in town and since I brought his confidence down he guilted me into doing a class with him he got through Groupon. So I literally only learned an act with 3 illusions and haven't learned more but he went to their advanced class on his own and his confidence is building but he still fails at flirting. As for me I never do them.

Ahh yes, magic is a good go to technique for flirting.

I have a few card tricks that I'm pretty good at, and I know a couple different ways to reveal "your card" so it looks like I know more tricks than I do. I also can do the magic trick where I make it look like one of my fingers is jumping off of my hand onto the other hand. I do the latter trick all the goddamn time and the card tricks occasionally but only when I have a new audience.

I assume you're asking how I do the orange one, and that actually isn't my trick. A magician came to my college and a friend was chosen to come on-stage. The magician asked him for a dollar but he didn't have one, so I ran up to the stage and gave him one. He signed the dollar, the dollar got destroyed, and the pieces of the dollar were revealed to be in an orange. Afterwards the magicians gave me another orange and told me there was a replacement dollar inside, which there was.

Hmmmmm
This is tough.

That isn't usually how that orange trick is done, but it sounds like it could be a nifty technique. Magician doing essentially the same trick twice though, I'm going stick with my original gut for this and guess


if that's wrong guess

pablito did not cut the dollar bill from the orange. That would be your Mistaken Identity.
Haschel Cedricson did, though!

Strangers	Identities
Iprobablysuck	Dunked a poor cat in the toilet as a kid
Korina	Owns 5 Calvin and Hobbes compendiums
VashtaNeurotic	Was expelled from elementary school (Fifth grade to be exact)

Strangers	Identities
CaptainMeme	As a teenager, developed new spades/hearts variants for their online daily card game tournaments
Equinox	Bought Christmas presents from Amazon this year thinking they had paid to have them pre-wrapped when in fact they had not
pablito	Forded a river because the bridge was closed
StrangerCoug	Is listed in the credits of a video game, but not with their given name
Vi	Their university flatmate kickstarted the Shrek Super Slam competitive scene

Double Dip | 4 questions

Dang! Bold move by the magician to let you cut it!

Next one took some detective work but: https://wiki.modulous.net/wiki/History_ ... tive_scene
BOOM
The scene was started in Warwick! And there's only one Brit here!

Good effort Meme but your identity will never be able to hide from me

Meme's former flatmate did the thing. Fun fact, the game features an original character that is a unicorn.

Strangers	Identities
Iprobablysuck	Dunked a poor cat in the toilet as a kid
Korina	Owns 5 Calvin and Hobbes compendiums
VashtaNeurotic	Was expelled from elementary school (Fifth grade to be exact)

Strangers	Identities
Equinox	As a teenager, developed new spades/hearts variants for their online daily card game tournaments
pablito	Bought Christmas presents from Amazon this year thinking they had paid to have them pre-wrapped when in fact they had not
StrangerCoug	Forded a river because the bridge was closed
Vi	Is listed in the credits of a video game, but not with their given name

Double Dip | 5 questions

When I read the broken bridge one, I immediately thought of Vi for some reason. I was probably going to guess that one had I not lost my mistaken identity.

Hmmm

Edit: oh shoot cancel this

Just looked at the prev identity game.
Coug says he never played in tournaments there haha

How could the hearts and spades not be Coug though lol.
I'll have to sleep on this.

In post 157, Fluminator wrote:Dang! Bold move by the magician to let you cut it!

If memory serves, by the time the mark has the fruit in question it's already completely safe for the magician. (This was a trick I saw as a kid and wanted to try for myself, but :effort: )

I think Penn Jillette said that 90% of magic is learning how to do stupid things really well.

Yeah, most tricks are shockingly simple. I might have mixed up the orange trick with the lemon trick which is always the magician cutting it.
Lowkey, it's so annoying how every trick is just googlable now and really damaged the art.

Also, I might be putting way too much effort into this, but analyzing previous identities, linguistically I don't see a lot of cohesion between the the way the river crossing identity is written, and Equinox and Vi's previous identities. I think they'd give a bit more detail, or phrase it like "Once forded a river because the bridge was closed."
Pablito's identities are a bit more abrubpt.

Anyway, lets put out some more questions while waiting. Both of these questions are for Vi and Equinox

In post 165, Fluminator wrote:

How did your name (but not given name) end up on the credits of a videogame?

What are you getting people for Christmas this year?

In re: the first question - I was one of the playtesters.

In re: the second question - Shiny dice, courtesy of Chessex.

In post 162, Fluminator wrote:How could the hearts and spades not be Coug though lol.
I'll have to sleep on this.

Coug, where'd you play online?

I don't remember what it was called (bear in mind I turn 30 in two weeks), but it was a site an older friend of mine that was learning HTML and Javascript made, and he was looking for ideas for silly games to have on it. Me being into card games, I suggested two-player versions of hearts and spades, played with a stripped deck of cards. The site didn't get a lot of people, sadly, and within a year or two it was gone It had so much promise...

Hmmm, that leaves me with more questions.

I think I'm out of them though so lets go!
I'm tunneling too hard and won't escape

pablito did not partake in river fording.

Strangers	Identities
Iprobablysuck	Dunked a poor cat in the toilet as a kid
Korina	Owns 5 Calvin and Hobbes compendiums
VashtaNeurotic	Was expelled from elementary school (Fifth grade to be exact)

Strangers	Identities
Equinox	As a teenager, developed new spades/hearts variants for their online daily card game tournaments
pablito	Bought Christmas presents from Amazon this year thinking they had paid to have them pre-wrapped when in fact they had not
StrangerCoug	Forded a river because the bridge was closed
Vi	Is listed in the credits of a video game, but not with their given name

pablito -> Forded a river because the bridge was closed


Double Dip | 1 question

Rippppp I'm just going to guess Pabs for everything

The spades and hearts games I helped develop variants for as well as a rummy tournament and a euchre tournament.

Last identity game Coug said:

That, and I really do play hearts and spades. (My sister also really plays spades; I've just never been in a card tournament.)

I'm so confuzed because like, this ID suits you so well. Were you only recently in a card tournament? Has your definition of a tournament loosened? Hmmmmmmmmm

Ok, I'm going back to the split I know better.

IPS is literally the only person who would put an identity about drowning a kitty.

I didn’t drown it, I picked it up and put it in the tub to dry :p

Sure...

I guess that leaves Vash and Korina. I think I know Korina's still, but I have no idea about this Vash fellow.

I think I have to use the double dip though. I look forward to Equinox's answers and hope they leave me less confused than all the rest.