Ask a Nerd. Or Ask a Puddle of Water. I'm Not Picky.

[Brobot 1,436]

6 minutes ago, Duality said:

Our habit of blowing each other up with insanely powerful weapons (which are also on the fast track in terms of tech) doesn't really bode well for our survival of future wars, at least one major one of which I'm fairly convinced we're gonna have on our hands in under a century, judging from current world events. 

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 12/12/2017 at 6:07 PM, Duality said:

Oh, but I already do. . .

OuO Please expand upon this statement.

On 12/12/2017 at 6:07 PM, Duality said:

KAIJU

+1 geek point

On 12/12/2017 at 6:07 PM, Duality said:

I only draw with HB, I'm afraid.

On 12/12/2017 at 6:07 PM, Duality said:

Twilight Sparkle. 

Pfft.

 

Interrogatives:

1. What would happen if a hippophobe was trapped in Equestria?

2. Opinion on the Mariana Trench?

3. What would you do if one day you woke up to find you were incredibly hydrophobic?

4. If there's something strange,

   in your neighborhood,

   Who you gonna call?

5. What do you think you would be doing right now if you never gained an interest in the show?

6. How well can you multitask?

7. Thoughts on the phantom limbs phenomenon?

8. What would your reaction be if you found out one of your close friends on these here forums was actually an A.I. all along?

9. What is your opinion on disaster movies?

10. What is your opinion on stereograms?

11. Have you ever been in a sensory deprivation chamber? If not, would you like to?

12. Thoughts on spontaneous human combustion?

13. What is the scariest song you have ever heard?

14. Why is it that hot water freezes faster than cold water?

15. While out on a walk, you notice someone following you, what do you do?

16. Thoughts on the Bermuda Triangle?

17. How is it that Spike's fire breath can teleport letters but burn other objects?

18. What enables a hydra's head to grow back?

19. Is it possible that Equestrians know more about quantum physics than we do?

20. Can a robot feel love? Or is it simply replicating what it sees?

21. Imagine a world where humans and ponies exist simultaneously. Do you think there would be any laws governing the use of magic when applied to humans? For example, can a unicorn surgeon operate on a human being? If a unicorn attacks a human with magic, is it considered assault with a deadly weapon?

[Duality 10,739]

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

OuO Please expand upon this statement.

i already told you

such short-term memory eh tigs

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

+1 geek point

For the record, the maths geek was the best character, hands down.

Biology geek far too applied for my tastes. 

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Pfft.

It's the obvious choice. 

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What would happen if a hippophobe was trapped in Equestria?

Plentymuch screaming would ensue.

Probably would end up staying with Zecora.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Opinion on the Mariana Trench?

Commissioned as my imperial dungeon.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What would you do if one day you woke up to find you were incredibly hydrophobic?

Cry.

Then scream.

Then cry some more.

Then scream some more.

Then fix everything using SCIENCE.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

If there's something strange,

   in your neighborhood,

   Who you gonna call?

Someone with more exorcising talent than that lot of yahoos.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What do you think you would be doing right now if you never gained an interest in the show?

Basically this but with more money in my bank account and less weeping and gnashing of teeth about not being able to watch the latest seasons.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How well can you multitask?

I am currently doing over a trillion cellular-level tasks simultaneously.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the phantom limbs phenomenon?

Mirrors seem to help fix it pretty well.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What would your reaction be if you found out one of your close friends on these here forums was actually an A.I. all along?

*gives you side-eyes*

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is your opinion on disaster movies?

Disastrous.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is your opinion on stereograms?

It don't look like no 3-D doodad to me.

Also, I have a headache now.

How dareth thee.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Have you ever been in a sensory deprivation chamber? If not, would you like to?

Nope and sure, I guess, it should be interesting.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on spontaneous human combustion?

FWOOOSH

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is the scariest song you have ever heard?

Pick a Justin Bieber song.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Why is it that hot water freezes faster than cold water?

Well, there's this thing called 'thermal contradiscrepancy syndrome' (or TCDS for short). It is the state of existence in which a being is both cool and hot at the same time, and which, clearly, I have mastered (among others; take for example Dwayne Johnson and Arnold Schwarzenegger).

The act of heating up water only to cool it to sub-zero temperatures, under certain conditions, artificially induces observable levels of TCDS in that particular manifestation of myself and thus causes the water to freeze quicker than one would expect, being far cooler than mere physical laws would predict, despite simultaneously being incredibly hot.

True story.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

While out on a walk, you notice someone following you, what do you do?

Adjust my grip on my metal-knob-tipped wooden cane and surreptitiously keep an eye on them.

That's why I bought the cane, after all.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the Bermuda Triangle?

Perfectly normal place with weird water currents, abnormal weather patterns, and a whole lot of confirmation-bias-steeped lore behind it.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How is it that Spike's fire breath can teleport letters but burn other objects?

He eats magic habanero peppers.

He only burns stuff with his breath when he hasn't had his daily dose of them.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What enables a hydra's head to grow back?

All hydras have insane hammerspace-manipulating biopuppet masters hidden inside their bodies (artificially grown from mutated komodo dragon cell cultures, incidentally), which take sadistic pleasure out of giving would-be heroes permanent psychological damage.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Is it possible that Equestrians know more about quantum physics than we do?

That equation that's always written on Cheerilee's blackboard has a buncha weird variables in it that might qualify for 'beyond our science'.

Other than that, there's no canon evidence that they know anything about quantum physics.

They definitely know a whole lot about relativity (see 'It's About Time' and Twilight's blackboard partway through), which makes sense given the obvious ease of undertaking vital scientific experiments using entire celestial bodies in Equestria, but we still don't know how to get relativity and quantum physics to play nicely with each other. Perhaps Equestria is in the process of developing a play-nice variant of quantum physics from the relativistic principles they've known since someone first convinced Celestia to mess around with the sky to figure out how gravity works.

16 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Can a robot feel love? Or is it simply replicating what it sees?

Nah and yep. I refer you to the 'Chinese Room Argument' if you want some form of justification.

17 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Imagine a world where humans and ponies exist simultaneously. Do you think there would be any laws governing the use of magic when applied to humans? For example, can a unicorn surgeon operate on a human being? If a unicorn attacks a human with magic, is it considered assault with a deadly weapon?

Ponies appear to have some advantage in terms of moral capacity over humans, so it might not even be a real issue.

[Guest]

What is your biggest fear that doesn't relate to other people?

[Duality 10,739]

9 minutes ago, Sunset Rose said:

What is your biggest fear that doesn't relate to other people?

Trichophobia, the morbid dislike of cut hair.

Especially wet cut hair. *shudders*

It might not, strictly speaking, be a conventional 'fear', but it's the only phobia I know I have. 

I don't actually have any particular fears that relate to other people, funnily enough.

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 12/16/2017 at 7:37 PM, Duality said:

Someone with more exorcising talent than that lot of yahoos.

*gasp*

Such disrespect for one of the best comedic coalitions ever.

 

On 12/16/2017 at 7:37 PM, Duality said:

*gives you side-eyes*

 

 

On 12/16/2017 at 7:37 PM, Duality said:

It don't look like no 3-D doodad to me.

Also, I have a headache now.

How dareth thee.

You're just not doing it right.

 

On 12/16/2017 at 7:37 PM, Duality said:

Nah and yep. I refer you to the 'Chinese Room Argument' if you want some form of justification.

Noice.

 

Interrogatives:

1. Of the well-known cryptids, which do you believe is the most likely to exist?

2. What, in your opinion, is the best Disney song?

3. Favorite non-Disney, non-Hasbro animated film?

4. Who is the best Disney villain?

5. Why do you say Capper is "best pony"?

6. What is your personal favorite film of all time?

7. Would you rather fight a giant centipede or a giant snake?

8. How is it that a cockatrice's stare turns its victims to stone?

9. If you were given the opportunity to meet one background pony, who would you choose?

10. How much of a technological and economical boost would we gain if we established trade with Equestria?

11. What is the most exciting scientific breakthrough you have heard about thus far?

[Duality 10,739]

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

You're just not doing it right.

no rly

tell me more

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

Of the well-known cryptids, which do you believe is the most likely to exist?

idk one of the dinosaury ones

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

What, in your opinion, is the best Disney song?

I am going to say 'Everything is Awesome' and you cannot stop me.

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

Favorite non-Disney, non-Hasbro animated film?

The Lego Movie and/or Lego Batman, just for the epic balancing act they pulled off between ludicrously offbeat humour and legitimate emotional engagement.

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

Who is the best Disney villain?

King Candy aka Turbo from Wreck-it Ralph, because wow that plot twist. 

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

Why do you say Capper is "best pony"?

Because I'm simultaneously flagrantly racist and utterly race-blind.

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is your personal favorite film of all time?

Wreck-it Ralph.

And I just learnt they're making a sequel. 

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

Would you rather fight a giant centipede or a giant snake?

Centipedes don't have bullet-fast strike times.

And I doubt their chitin would be quite as thick as snakeskin, even scaled up.

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

How is it that a cockatrice's stare turns its victims to stone?

Clearly someone spliced Scootaloo's DNA with Medusa's at some point in the distant past.

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

f you were given the opportunity to meet one background pony, who would you choose?

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

How much of a technological and economical boost would we gain if we established trade with Equestria?

In the short-term, we'd probably have a massive 'situation' on our hands as the ramifications of other-worldly life and magic and time travel and mythological beasts and talking horses and friendship magic etc. etc. did a number on society (n > 1,000,000, by my estimation) and thus made the economy do a triple-backflip skydive off the Eiffel Tower.

Long-term, everything would be utterly revolutionised and the resultant tech would be off-the-charts amazing. What that does to the economy would depend on how the tech was actually used. (WWIII time-truncating nukes, anyone?)

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:32 PM, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is the most exciting scientific breakthrough you have heard about thus far?

Graphene is a very shiny innovation. Many promising applications.

But I also heard recently that scientists experimented with VR simulations on a bunch of random civilians and found out that regular humans can comprehend the geometry of (and accurately navigate through) four-dimensional mazes without any actual training, which is frankly gobsmacking. 

[Frostgage 7,975]

Have you ever played a Professor Layton game? It just seems like the kind of thing you might like (and glorious british accents)

[Duality 10,739]

4 minutes ago, Frostlicious said:

Have you ever played a Professor Layton game? It just seems like the kind of thing you might like (and glorious british accents)

I don't own a Nintendo DS and I've never heard of the franchise before today, but I need these games in my life now. 

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 12/24/2017 at 10:28 PM, Duality said:

King Candy aka Turbo from Wreck-it Ralph, because wow that plot twist. 

IKR, it was great.

 

On 12/24/2017 at 10:28 PM, Duality said:

And I just learnt they're making a sequel. 

Indeed. 

 

On 12/24/2017 at 10:28 PM, Duality said:

Clearly someone spliced Scootaloo's DNA with Medusa's at some point in the distant past.

That is the best explanation ever.

 

Interrogatives:

1. Thoughts on Aokigahara?

2. Of the films you have seen, which one had a scene that stuck with you the most, whether negatively or positively? What was the scene? What was it about the scene that caused this?

3. How does Fluttershy "speak" to animals?

4. Is simplicity the ultimate sophistication?

5. Thoughts on Leonardo da Vinci?

[Duality 10,739]

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Indeed. 

And if Disney did so well with just the anthropomorphisation of basic arcade tech, think how great it's gonna be with networking. 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

That is the best explanation ever.

Added to my personal headcanon portfolio the instant I thought of it. 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on Aokigahara?

Not enough water.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Of the films you have seen, which one had a scene that stuck with you the most, whether negatively or positively? What was the scene? What was it about the scene that caused this?

I actually couldn't give you a single movie scene that stayed in my mind for more than a few days immediately following my first watch of it.

I mean, I can remember a bunch of movie scenes from random movies, but they're not particularly striking; they're just the ones that my memory didn't discard efficiently enough.

Insofar as I can tell, I can't truly remember anything that doesn't inherently make logical sense for any significant length of time without actively trying to, even when it comes to my early life, so most of my long-term memories are merely scraps of concept, blown around my head like tumbleweeds by the mental breeze generated by my mind's moving parts. 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How does Fluttershy "speak" to animals?

Remote mind-melds.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Is simplicity the ultimate sophistication?

I have never heard that quote before today, I agree utterly on a near-fundamental level with that quote, and that quote is now my adopted firstborn child.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on Leonardo da Vinci?

A genius on so many different levels.

Effectively the definition of 'Renaissance man'.

[Frostgage 7,975]

Time for a test of thou puzzle-solving skills:

Here we have eight small weights that all look the same. However, one of the weights in the group is slightly lighter than the rest. Using the scale just two times, you can definitively find out which weight is the light one. How is it done?

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

Is it true that what happens in the black hole stays in the black hole?

[Duality 10,739]

On ‎7‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 4:10 PM, Frostgage said:

Here we have eight small weights that all look the same. However, one of the weights in the group is slightly lighter than the rest. Using the scale just two times, you can definitively find out which weight is the light one. How is it done?

I have an actual set of (antique) scales, so I worked it out with physical weights. 

Put three weights on each side of the scales.

If the sides weigh equal, weigh the two left-over weights to find which one is the lighter one.

If the sides weigh unequal, put aside the two left-over weights and the three that were on the heavier side and weigh two of the three weights that were on the lighter side of the scales.

If one weighs lighter than the other, the answer is obvious, and if they weigh equal then the final left-over weight is the lighter one.

Yay for logic. 

On ‎7‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 4:15 PM, Someguyinablazer said:

Is it true that what happens in the black hole stays in the black hole?

Back in the good old days that was the case, but Leonard Susskind is a snitch. 

[Frostgage 7,975]

Which is the best field of mathematics?

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 12/27/2017 at 6:35 PM, Duality said:

I have never heard that quote before today, I agree utterly on a near-fundamental level with that quote, and that quote is now my adopted firstborn child.

Thank me later. 

 

Interrogatives:

*tinfoil hat mode activate*

1. Thoughts on the Black Knight Satellite?

2. Thoughts on the Nazca Lines?

3. Thoughts on the Diary of Idilia Dubb?

4. Is Celestia always watching? '>_>

5. What is that standing behind you? 

[Duality 10,739]

15 hours ago, Frostgage said:

Which is the best field of mathematics?

Reverse mathematics.

Worth a Google.

 

 

 

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thank me later. 

*instantly forgets*

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the Black Knight Satellite?

nanananananananaBATMAN

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the Nazca Lines?

Many of the ancients were significantly smarter than we generally give them credit for.

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the Diary of Idilia Dubb?

Apparently fake.

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Is Celestia always watching? '>_>

Yes, but only your daydreams.

11 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What is that standing behind you? 

Like twenty poni figurines.

Terrifying, I know.

[Nightfall Gloam 18,258]

How does a light bulb full of water work?

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 1/10/2018 at 1:37 PM, Duality said:

*instantly forgets*

How dare ye.

 

On 1/10/2018 at 1:37 PM, Duality said:

nanananananananaBATMAN

*claps* Bravo!

+1 geek point

 

On 1/10/2018 at 1:37 PM, Duality said:

Many of the ancients were significantly smarter than we generally give them credit for.

I wholeheartedly agree.

 

Interrogatives:

1. Thoughts on “The Bloop”?

2. Are you familiar with Epic Rap Battles of History? If so, what is your favorite episode?

3. Opinion on Sir Isaac Newton?

4. How are the members of the Pie family able to eat rocks?

5. What force would the pegasi had to have generated to create the cyclone featured in Hurricane Fluttershy?

6. Favorite Greek myth?

7. Who was phone?!?!

Edited January 12, 2018 by TigerGeekGuy

[Duality 10,739]

12 hours ago, Nightfallicious Gloamiscus said:

How does a light bulb full of water work?

It's filled with bioluminescent algae that glow in the dark.

Literal green energy light source that even turns itself on at night.

 

 

 

12 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

*claps* Bravo!

+1 geek point

*mounts geek point on golden plaque*

12 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on “The Bloop”?

Uh, yeah, sorry, that was my fault.

Played chicken with an ice shelf and the ice shelf lost.

12 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Are you familiar with Epic Rap Battles of History? If so, what is your favorite episode?

No, and the one with Batman in it.

13 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Opinion on Sir Isaac Newton?

with science and maths, slightly less so with the whole alchemy philosopher's stone antiTrinitarianistic heresy dealio.

13 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How are the members of the Pie family able to eat rocks?

PINKIE AND HER FAMILY ARE MUTATED HYPERMAGICAL SILICON-BASED LIFE FORMS THAT JUST LOOK LIKE NORMAL PONIES

13 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

What force would the pegasi had to have generated to create the cyclone featured in Hurricane Fluttershy?

Meteorology is a ridiculously imprecise science when it comes to numerical results.

The idea that a butterfly's wingbeats could cause a cyclone on the other side of the world (due to how delicately the final state of a weather system relies on the original conditions) was the name inspiration for the butterfly effect, infamous in chaos theory.

Go ask Discord; he might have an idea.

13 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Favorite Greek myth?

The birth of Pegasus springs to mind, despite the incredibly unsettling shapeshift stuff.

13 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Who was phone?!?!

It was her mother.

The person on the phone never actually said that they were her dad, just her parent (at least in the most common variant of the story).

Casual sexism much.

[ZethaPonderer 2,199]

Is Dehydrated Water Real or Fake? Cause it seems like a myth to me .

[TigerGeekGuy 4,662]

On 1/12/2018 at 5:37 PM, Duality said:

Uh, yeah, sorry, that was my fault.

Played chicken with an ice shelf and the ice shelf lost.

I accept and adopt this explanation.

 

On 1/12/2018 at 5:37 PM, Duality said:

PINKIE AND HER FAMILY ARE MUTATED HYPERMAGICAL SILICON-BASED LIFE FORMS THAT JUST LOOK LIKE NORMAL PONIES

MY GOD...

 

Interrogatives:

1. Opinion on Neil deGrasse Tyson?

2. How do you feel about the fact that we have sent more people to the moon than to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

3. An estimated 95% of the ocean remains unexplored, how do you feel about this?

4. Thoughts on the sounds of Saturn?

5. Favorite of Aesop's fables?

6. Would you explore the Everfree forest without a guide?

7. Would you explore the old Castle of the Two Sisters without a guide?

8. Opinion on the Ancient Roman plumbing system?

9. Approximately how many kilograms of timber made up the large Timberwolf featured in Spike at Your Service?

10. Thoughts on water intoxication?

11. How many alternate universes is Pinkie aware of?

[Duality 10,739]

14 hours ago, ZethaPonderer said:

Is Dehydrated Water Real or Fake? Cause it seems like a myth to me .

It's very fake.

More of a running joke than a hoax. 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Opinion on Neil deGrasse Tyson?

schmart

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How do you feel about the fact that we have sent more people to the moon than to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

There's a fairly logical reason for that, of course; on the Moon, you have about 1 bar of pressure difference over the surface of your suit (1 bar on the inside, nil bars on the outside), while, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, you have about 1085 bars of pressure difference over the surface of your suit (1 bar on the inside, 1086 bars on the outside).

Water is heavy.

 

Spoiler

For the record, I have no intention of going on a diet.

 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

An estimated 95% of the ocean remains unexplored, how do you feel about this?

Glad that they're respecting my privacy. 

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on the sounds of Saturn?

Common misconception.

There's no sound at all, they're just radio-wave emissions artificially converted into sound-wave recordings so the news websites have something layman-comprehensible to headline.

The radio waves do indicate that Saturn has an aurora like Earth, though, which would be nifty to take a look at.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Favorite of Aesop's fables?

Br'er Rabbit is a witty one, although it's been a while since I read any.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Would you explore the Everfree forest without a guide?

If I had a semi-auto RPG launcher, sure.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Opinion on the Ancient Roman plumbing system?

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Approximately how many kilograms of timber made up the large Timberwolf featured in Spike at Your Service?

Ehhhh, depends how hollow they are.

Probably a tonne or two.

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

Thoughts on water intoxication?

dum people

water is like least toxic chemical compound evar

14 hours ago, TigerGeekGuy said:

How many alternate universes is Pinkie aware of?

About 27% of them.

An infinity or two, in other words.

[Will Guide 21,360]

@Duality

How do you get so many people to ask you questions on an Ask A Pony Page?

If you'll greatly beg my pardon, Mine's been dried for weeks. Even though I have a link to it in my signature

[Duality 10,739]

11 minutes ago, WiiGuy2014 said:

@Duality

How do you get so many people to ask you questions on an Ask A Pony Page?

If you'll greatly beg my pardon, Mine's been dried for weeks. Even though I have a link to it in my signature

I've been keeping an eye on the hows and whys of the situation since you asked me how I did it the first time, and I've concluded that it's like the old Biblical quip: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

If you want lots of people to ask you questions on your ask thread, ask lots of people questions on theirs.

I'm one of the most prolific askers on the forums, as far as I've seen, and there are about fifteen different ask threads on which I post another set of weird and wonderful questions the instant the previous set have been answered. Every last one of my frequent question-askers are people whose ask thread belongs to that group of fifteen.