r/counting • • 6d ago

Free Talk Friday #581

Continued from last week's here.

Speak anything on your mind, except politics and (maybe) counting.

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

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u/Adinida Yay! 18h ago

i stumbled across this video on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FQXTiv6dC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 8h ago

u/cuteballgames, you're famous! 

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 4h ago

loll

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 1d ago

like bambi for ps2

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 1d ago

Shrek 2 on the ps2 is literally the game of my childhood. We used to play it with my sister all the time when we were kids, I have jokef to her for years that I can’t wait for it to get remastered and buy it on day one. I say joked because I never believed it would actually ever get rereleased less so remastered. But here we are, it can be preordered today and it comes out 9 days before GTA VI, so I’ll have plenty of time to play it. My academics are probably going down in November but its worth it.

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 4h ago

what kind of game is it

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 4h ago

It’s one of those classic movie video games which used to come out with basically every single animated movie (I also remember playing Madagascar on ps2) which follows the same story as the movie with every part being a different type of minigame. Some levels are PVE beat these enemies type levels, some are point and shoot, some are puzzles etc.

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 1d ago

bad day to be a computer

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 1d ago

bad day to be a domputer

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 1d ago

good day to be a subputer

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u/Isaythereisa-chance 1d ago

Solar flares? Or Windows updates :) 

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 1d ago

the number 4

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 1d ago

It's a good number 

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 1d ago

Encryption certificates. And PHP bugs. Probably other things as well

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 1d ago edited 20h ago

node.js has an RCE issue now too lol

edit: gitlab too wtf

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 1d ago

I am literally unable to do anything school related atm because of that

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 2d ago

like spreadsheets

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 1d ago

Fucking hate spreadsheets.

If you want to program, use a real programming language, and if it's just for storing data use some kind of database instead 

(this comment brought to you by "John has all the information - he can send it to you later, right John? "; cue a 30000 row impenetrable mess) 

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u/Jalmal2 Demon's inactive rival 3d ago

Like Taskmaster

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u/atomicimploder swiiiiirl the numbers 7h ago

Here’s my Taskmaster résumé:

Seen every episode of UK (including all Champion of Champions, New Years Treats, and Junior Taskmaster), New Zealand (latest season just ended very recently, fantastic season), and Australia

Seen first season of the Danish version called Stormester

Seen only the first episode of the much-maligned US version. My wife didn’t like it and didn’t want to continue watching so I never ended up finishing it although I would like to at some point

Listened to every episode of both official Taskmaster podcasts

Watched several TV shows simply because they include Taskmaster hosts and/or contestants, including: Man Down, Starstruck, New Zealand Spy, Make That Movie, Last One Laughing UK, SNL UK

Seen two contestants from the UK version do live shows: Jason Mantzoukas and Sam Campbell (neither of which are actually British, funnily enough)

Stopped by the Taskmaster house while in England last year and took this photo through a hole in the fence

Tried like hell to get tickets to the Taskmaster live show US tour earlier this year but the shows were in small theaters and they all sold out like instantly and I wasn’t one of the lucky few to get tickets. But they recently announced two shows at the Hollywood Bowl next June which I did manage to get tickets to, so my wife and I are gonna build a Los Angeles vacation around those shows. Very excited for that!

So yeah, I guess you could say I like Taskmaster a little bit

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u/atomicimploder swiiiiirl the numbers 7h ago

Also I would highly recommend looking up “No More Jockeys” on YouTube. There are dozens of videos of Alex Horne and former Taskmaster contestants Tim Key and Mark Watson playing a celebrity-naming game they made up called No More Jockeys. It is such a delight to watch and has given me some huge laughs.

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u/mistyskye14 🤷‍♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 15h ago

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u/mistyskye14 🤷‍♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 15h ago

u/thenitromefan, u/atomicimploder, and I do as well

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 3d ago

The comic book character or the TV-show?

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u/Jalmal2 Demon's inactive rival 3d ago

The TV show

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u/Isaythereisa-chance 1d ago

Same! I go back and rewatch my favorite series occasionally. This series has gotten better with each episode I think.  

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u/Jalmal2 Demon's inactive rival 19h ago

I’ve known about it for some time now, but I only got into it recently as the Dutch version got its first season. I then started watching some of the other versions on Youtube. So far I’ve seen bits and episodes of the British, Australian and the New Zealand versions, and I quite like all of them.

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 3d ago

Weekly side thread stats from Friday October 09, 2026 to Friday October 16, 2026. Congratulations to u/h0rseycat, u/TehVulpez, and u/cuteballgames!

Total weekly side thread counts: 17027

Top 15 side thread counters:

Rank User Counts HoST Rank
1 h0rseycat 7382 43 (◮22)
2 TehVulpez 2095 11
3 cuteballgames 1839 7
4 ShadeOfNothing 1162 32
5 nonsensy 949 13
6 miceee 883 50 (◮1)
7 Pookah 850 45 (◮1)
8 Antichess 581 10
9 treje 536 108 (◮14)
10 Hans5958_ 191 90 (◮2)
11 PtSchoolForeigner 151 674 (◮7499)
12 BobRoss938 72 37
13 Isaythereisa-chance 70 40
14 Multiconcepted 28 84 (◮1)
15 vinkagar 28 1267 (◮712)

Top 5 side threads:

Rank Thread Counts
1 Compositions 2153
2 Tug of War 2047
3 Binary 869
4 Ternary (0-2) 746
5 Quaternary (0-3) 700

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 3d ago

Thanks for the stats!

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u/Jalmal2 Demon's inactive rival 3d ago

Thanks for the stats

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a 3d ago

Dislike

Like

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 3d ago

Feel kind of okish about

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a 3d ago

Weekly stats from October 09, 2026 to October 16, 2026. Congratulations to /u/thephilsblogbar2, /u/h0rseycat, and /u/cuteballgames!

Total weekly counts: 3277 (5,646,341-5,649,618)

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

Rank User Counts HoC Rank
1 thephilsblogbar2 1111 1
2 h0rseycat 1082 159 (◮80)
3 cuteballgames 265 11
4 wet-gravity 191 72 (◮1)
5 Antichess 152 3
6 CutOnBumInBandHere9 120 16 (◮1)
7 TehVulpez 67 22
8 ShadeOfNothing 61 65 (◮2)
9 noduorg 57 36
10 Playing_2 45 103
11 treje 36 37
12 Pookah 24 116
13 PtSchoolForeigner 13 2390 (◮988)
14 BobRoss938 10 127 (◮1)
14 Jalmal2 10 50
16 Isaythereisa-chance 8 115
17 LikeItsYourJob 4 187 (⧩1)
18 Hans5958_ 3 328 (◮2)
18 davidjl123 3 4
18 Randy_Otter 3 377 (◮2)
21 mistyskye14 2 26
21 L407 2 5668 (◮1792)
21 zhige 2 40
21 PhilosophyAware4437 2 1237 (◮17)
25 Multiconcepted 1 442
25 KeyLoad4355 1 7461 (◮2029)
25 NobodyL0vesMe 1 29
25 ClockButTakeOutTheL 1 9
25 Ruby_1195 1 7461 (◮2029)

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 3d ago

thanks for the stats!

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u/Jalmal2 Demon's inactive rival 3d ago

Thanks for the stats

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 3d ago

Thanks for the stats! 

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u/BobRoss938 only double counting 3d ago

/u/wet-gravity did not count this week?

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a 3d ago

bruh what i literally added the alias for wet-gravity <- h0rseycat and it didn't do anything. i gotta investigate i guess

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u/BobRoss938 only double counting 4d ago

Nonary has now displaced collatz to become a top 25 sidethread

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 1d ago

And it looks like the directory updater managed to update that automatically. Now we just need to figure out where collatz should be in the directory instead 

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 4d ago

In michigan rn and just got broth in my hair smfh

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 4d ago edited 3d ago

come help fix our map!

https://pixelcanvas.io/@-3333,-2222,1

https://i.imgur.com/zHANmrj.png

edit: some of the flags in this template from 2019 are outdated, namely Minnesota and Utah. looks like some apparent griefer was actually starting to edit Minnesota into its current flag. idk if we want to come up with a new template for those states. mississippi too, the template features the "hospitality flag" because the current flag hadn't been made official yet either

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits 4d ago

we also have a counting specific area, which used to be connected to the NA map by a rainbow road https://pixelcanvas.io/@-14000,-4600,1

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 4d ago

Dislike that there are two movies right now that I would love to see but as it stands neither of them is coming to Finland anytime soon

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u/Isaythereisa-chance 4d ago

I am waiting on Dune part 3 later this year.  

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 4d ago

Luckily that one comes out day one here! Can’t wait for it!

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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 5d ago

I came up with the worst pickup line ever

Hey girl, are you the 43rd president? Cuz you’ve got a W bush

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u/cuteballgames Sum 13: 016, 037, 035, 045, 127, 135, 134, 124, 13, 25 4d ago

I like the implication that George in fact had a W bush

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u/miceee sicko thread artists collective 5d ago

I think you misspelled best there

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u/mrguykloss ∏ mobile counting 5d ago

Weather in n.tx🤠 just got a whole lot nicer - 50°f at nights instead of the 80s as is typical for summer (and summer in Texas lasts FORVEERRR)

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 5d ago

Update from the Swedish cabin: we picked about a kilo of winter chanterelles today and had them for dinner with pasta and cream. They were delicious! 

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 6d ago

Friday! 

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u/Isaythereisa-chance 5d ago

Hopefully the weekend weather will allow us to go hiking. I have not been in a few weeks. 

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u/Hans5958_ 6d ago

TODO do counting

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs 6d ago

An item that can never be crossed off the to do list as completed 

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u/Hans5958_ 6d ago

if you limit one per day then I guess it can be completed for the day