So this article explains why 42 really is actually the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything!

https://www.iflscience.com/life-the-universe-and-everything-why-42-really-is-the-ultimate-answer-72379

This is a placeholder topic because there will be a coop game train starting soon. I promised to do one a while back so this is an early holiday train so you can win some good coop games to play with friends and family over the holidays!

This will have an SGTools entry cause I am sick and tired of bots and it will be at least Level 4 cause SG is gonna die if more peeps don't start actually giving back on a regular basis. Level 4 means you are pretty serious about gifting here.

Oh and there will be an obligatory Jigidi puzzle cause I was the SG instigator of using this site and solving it will lead to another puzzle. No clue what yet but it won't be too difficult! And that will lead to yet another, harder jigidi puzzle that will finally take you to the SGTools link. But I like puzzles within puzzles within puzzles!

The prize for solving everything will be a GA train that runs until the end of the year and I have way, way too many gifts to give away before I drop dead. After all, I am not 42. And if icaio is gone, we gotta pick up the pieces and gift each other. amiright?

Puzzle will start tomorrow and begin with coop games first and foremost and then devolve into whatever else I have in the "extra games to gift" category. The first batch will end on icaio's cakeday, December 16th, and continue for as long as I have the energy, time, spare keys and end by the New Year. This means I likely wont be doing any other holiday trains, except contributing to the icaio memorial train until the end of the year in honor of our lost friend.

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Im nearly lvl 7 never really tried those sg tools giveaway how do they work? Thank you for helping

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The tool let you insert your steamgift giveaway link to generate a new link with customizable requirements of your choices.

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its not part of steamgifts and has nothing todo with our leader cg
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EDIT: i think icaio did not use sgtools

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Just a quick look and I see you gift in groups and your whitelist - This is pretty similar to using SGTools, right? It essentially eliminates and winnows down the possible pool of entrants/winners.

As to icaio, I think my gifting ratio is testament enough that I don't have to follow everything he did going forward. Did he only gift to whitelist and groups like you do?

I am not trying to start an argument but if you're going to demand we all start acting like someone, then perhaps you might start first before calling out other people.... because all you did was try and make me feel bad with your comment. And icaio didn't do that if all the people who knew him are to be believed - he worked to make people feel better about life.

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dont wanna make u feel bad. sry. i just dont like GAs through sgtoolWALL
was checking your ratio now - respect. i see you have been on my whitelist already.

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Thank you for the kind response ;-)

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Because!

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You need to wait 3 years

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Why?

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I'll in the age to be your answer.to everything.

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The SGTools thing rarely works for me but I'll enjoy the jigsaws, they are usually fun :)

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Why does it rarely work for you? Just curious...

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I won two games within an hour of each other back when I first joined. They way the same game and somehow caused a snag in the winning the same game twice rule.

It's no biggie, people giving away free games is a good enough gesture and more important than being able to enter every GA. I still play the jigsaws and take part in the community. I just leave the SGTools elements alone (And happily).

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Ah, got it. I guess it's way to late to ask support to fix it for you, huh? That was likely before gc implemented the fix that would delete any dupe entries and give you back your points...

And since it's technically not possible for that to happen anymore, maybe I can add a specific work-around in SGTools. Maybe - haven't futzed with it in a long time.

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It's all good Momo, I just like to take part in the community and be thankful that we all get to share games we don't want with others who will hopefully get to play them :)

The bots are hoarders are all a part of that though, so SGTools is a good way to help protect against them.

This place just existing gives me so much insight into what's going on in the games community that the whole experience is worth it for that alone :)

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The article have good guesses, but are any of those it? All of them?

I think the biggest computer ever made was more clever.
You see theres an astronically large possibility that theres no such answer.
Its a silly question.
More so the pretentious programers tought they could batch 3 questions into one, and that the messy chaotic universe that may be by sheer happenstance not only have a purpose, but a singular thing that fills their criteria and pertains to all 3 things? Because life could have one purpose, the universe another... or nothing

What you do? You give a cryptic answer and some cryptic lesson- no matter what it said it knew they would spend millions of years guessing questions... and doing things like that article. Because when theres interest(and bias) we can do the reverse of logic- thats how horoscopes work, conspiracy theories etc. If you really believe, is certain that x and y are related you can guess, re-interpret things and some mental gymnastics later find various dots connecting

First Deep Tought asked for like 7 million years to think...
...maybe it was just an wager- on the likelyhood they wouldnt be around 7 million later.
As they did, he came up with another(longer) ludicrous timeline and a even more ludicrous project- a new computer, planet sized, specific life forms, 10 million years

Deep Tought probably spent 7 million years thinking and experiencing everything it could until it realized what it could really enjoy through the boredom- and turned out to be dumb tv programme, probably because it allowed it to 'turn off the brain'. So it came up with a project, a super computer, an entire planet made to specification... probably not to find the question but the perfect plannet and people that could generate endless slop brainded telly for it to pass the time.

And i probably just gave this more tought then Deep Tought or Douglas Adams ever did.
I think i will just watch some telly now.

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<3

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DA was likely aware of some of the items mentioned in this article - thus 42. The problem with the question, or any question for that matter, is that most answers are subjective to the person receiving them. Even science finds that previously "known facts" are wrong when new data arrives.

Me? I just enjoy the look on a person's face when they ask me a question and I answer, "42" ;-)

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Same here. My other universally true answer is "blue", simply because it's my favourite colour. 😋

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I prefer black but if I'm going to use a color, then it has to be, "I want to paint it black", in response!

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Aaaaaaand now the song is stuck in my head on what I expect to be an endless loop for the next few days. 🤪🤣

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mwahahaha!

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Is that a sneer or a snarl?? snickers

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Yes.

And this is, by the way, my go-to answer to multiple choice questions (apart from yes/no questions :P). 🤪

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Co-op games? Jigi? a Train? I can't wait!
It's going to take a lot of us to fill Icaio's immense shoes but you are really stepping up there

Now I have to go grab my copy of the Hitchiker's and my towel.

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How were you not already on my whitelist?!? <shakes head>

Problem solved: 💙

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Hi, umm, I had this tab open because it says that it will end on Dec 16 ... but I don't see any puzzle or train here now. Did this thing happen or did you just do the advent calendar (which ends on Dec 31)?

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I got busy and then I got sick so,
It hasn't happened.... yet.... keep your eyes peeled!
I am contributing to icaio's original memorial train though...

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I hope you're feeling better now :)
I was asking just out of curiosity, of course.
And many thanks for contributing to icaio's memorial train!

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