Riddles

[Helix935]

So, it's some kind of decision, which most avoid, and is "hidden".

Those who use the decision as power failed...

But the decision becomes clear after a while.....

ok i know i have my own list but since i just saw this i might as well use it so is it the laws of survival which is to adapt die or leave which to be more specific i am saying it is the need/will to leave?

[vexx32]

Nope

Survival instinct isn't a choice, no matter how you slice it. It's always there, in the back of your head. (Notwithstanding unusual circumstances like severe brain damage... but even then you'd have to have pretty much flattened your skull for it to affect the survival instinct.

[Helix935]

errah dang was i close ok let me try again.....

is it apprehension

[vexx32]

Sorry... nope

I am shrouded in darkness and fog,

And forever I await in shadow and smog;

I endure unnoticed and o'erlooked at

Beginning and end, but you know all that.

When at last the Sun ceases to rise beyond

Tired eyes, you'll find me as a clear cool pond;

Soothing, easing, calming, 'till no voice

Of calm assertion will alter your final choice.

Choice I may be, but yet not always a free

Decision, as mind's malleable tree

Grows according to the influence of the grove;

The choice of one may infect all but love.

My power is no more than an illusory spell;

Those that wield me as power so fell

Do not yet know that I am merely their own

Savage might, living alone in a town

Of empty buildings, reaching for the sky.

Within such a home I wait and grow

From small seed of ember and snow

To great inferno and blizzard of fire

And ice, like one sung by bard on lyre.

What am I?

Edited November 25, 2013 by vexx32

[Deadpangod3]

Light?

Darkness?

[vexx32]

I think both of those have been guessed before... And nope

[Deadpangod3]

Fear? Weapons? Aliens? Jeb? Kraken? Hate? Disease? Plague? Slenderman?

I will figure this out no matter what!!

[Starwhip]

A mirage?

I think you killed this thread.

[vexx32]

Fear? Weapons? Aliens? Jeb? Kraken? Hate? Disease? Plague? Slenderman?

I will figure this out no matter what!!

None of the above xD

A mirage?

I think you killed this thread.

Nope.

Wouldn't be the first one I've killed. xD

People are so easily broken.

One of the moderators in the private IRC got it the other day, but I guess he really wanted to make y'all suffer, so he didn't come claim it.

If you guys want to, you can give up and we can take up a simpler one for a while. I'd give ya a hint, but I'm a bit tired right now to come up with anything coherent xD

[Starwhip]

Is it you?

Let's just say it's space and go on to another one.

EDIT:

list1 = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,l,m,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z]

for Letter1 in range(list1):

for Letter2 in range(list1):

for Letter3 in range(list1):

...etc for several letters...

print(Letter1,Letter2,Letter3,Letter4,Letter5,Letter6,Letter7,Letter8,Letter9,Letter10...etc for however many letters)

That'll solve your riddle... eventually...

EDIT AGAIN:

Is it music? or song?

Edited November 26, 2013 by Starwhip

[Deadpangod3]

Is it the cloaked dude in your avatar and sig?

[KvickFlygarn87]

Um, OCD possibly?

[Helix935]

uh is it literally the choice of waiting and patience

edit: whoops forgot the list

it is essential

you can't touch it in the physical sense

sought as a cure for loneliness

sometimes encompasses fear, creativity or many other ideas

something everyone knows and avoids but not death

associated with emotions but is not a emotion

memories or imagination has said to be close but not quite

not a psychological disorder but this is only as far as vexx32 knows

not survival instinct sadly because it isn't a choice

Edited November 26, 2013 by Helix935

[MGUARN]

those martian warriors from doctor who ,but that's an alien so then could it be a mighty machine?

[vexx32]

Is it you?

Let's just say it's space and go on to another one.

EDIT:

list1 = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,l,m,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z]

for Letter1 in range(list1):

for Letter2 in range(list1):

for Letter3 in range(list1):

...etc for several letters...

print(Letter1,Letter2,Letter3,Letter4,Letter5,Letter6,Letter7,Letter8,Letter9,Letter10...etc for however many letters)

That'll solve your riddle... eventually...

EDIT AGAIN:

Is it music? or song?

None of the above. And even if that pseudo code would work, it'd take centuries. Optimize, boy!

Is it the cloaked dude in your avatar and sig?

That's me. And nope

Um, OCD possibly?

Nope

uh is it literally the choice of waiting and patience

edit: whoops forgot the list

it is essential

you can't touch it in the physical sense

sought as a cure for loneliness

sometimes encompasses fear, creativity or many other ideas

something everyone knows and avoids but not death

associated with emotions but is not a emotion

memories or imagination has said to be close but not quite

not a psychological disorder but this is only as far as vexx32 knows

not survival instinct sadly because it isn't a choice

Nope.

I think we need someone to do a list of all failed answers so far, too :s

You guys need help

those martian warriors from doctor who ,but that's an alien so then could it be a mighty machine?

Nope

[Starwhip]

The "Something everyone knows/avoids but not death" is really annoying.

Otherwise, music or writing would be a good answer, because they fit everything else...

Hmm... How about: homework

[vexx32]

Nope...

[minimuffin]

Fire? It could also be oil, I think.

[Deadpangod3]

Give us a hint!!

Is it going insane?

Loneliness?

Depression?

War?

[vexx32]

Fire? It could also be oil, I think.

Nope

Give us a hint!!

Is it going insane?

Loneliness?

Depression?

War?

Oh, I'll give hints. You just have to ask the right questions

None of the above (although some might liken it to insanity if they're particularly close-minded)

[Starwhip]

some might liken it to insanity if they're particularly close-minded

you can't touch it in the physical sense

sought as a cure for loneliness

sometimes encompasses fear, creativity or many other ideas

something everyone knows and avoids but not death

associated with emotions but is not a emotion

memories or imagination has said to be close but not quite

not a psychological disorder but this is only as far as vexx32 knows

not survival instinct sadly because it isn't a choice

So, it's some kind of decision, which most avoid, and is "hidden".

Those who use the decision as power failed...

But the decision becomes clear after a while.....

Is similar to day dreams, not normal dreams, though.

Compiled list of all hints and bits and pieces of the right track.

[Deadpangod3]

Friendship?

Betrayal?

[Starwhip]

Well, why would people avoid something that is also a cure for loneliness?

[Deadpangod3]

I have no idea...

[vexx32]

Friendship?

Betrayal?

Nope

Well, why would people avoid something that is also a cure for loneliness?

Because not everyone considers it a valid or acceptable sacrifice or even a useful solution in order to abate loneliness. People all think differently.