Quote from: nullius on March 12, 2021, 08:11:09 AM

Odd timing, this. I was preparing to post something Lauda-related; but it is not yet ready, and probably won’t be for awhile.

Done: A puzzle tx worth 0.001 BTC. Solve it if you can!

Quote from: eddie13 on March 12, 2021, 05:32:11 PM

Laura was more likely to be a QS alt than theymos..

eddie wins this thread.

Quote from: Russlenat on March 12, 2021, 12:12:37 PM

No one knows who really Lauda is in real life, and she is not 40 years old because cat does not live that long, according to my research, cat life span is only 2 – 16 years.

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on March 12, 2021, 01:08:13 PM

Yes, but did you forget that the cat has 7 lives?

Kitty had nine lives. I was already working that into the puzzle before this thread was started. Indeed, that is the part which took so long! Proof of 2³⁶ work, all done on my poor old CPU:

Quote from: nullius on Today at 07:58:23 PM

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Cult of Lauda
Sacred Sacrificial txid:
000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51

One zero nibble for each of Kitty’s nine lives!

Quote from: Lauda on October 19, 2020, 05:29:24 AM

It has been a wild forum life, - or perhaps, nine forum lives involving everything from the dark arts of moderation, to being burnt at the stake several times. (I got better.) Thanks to my forum friends, fans, and cult votaries.

Quote from: Lauda on October 19, 2020, 05:30:24 AM

Thank you everyone in advance, quite the 9 lives that some Kitty had here. Cool

Quote from: Rikafip on March 12, 2021, 06:57:54 PM

Maybe Lauda wanted to hide his gender right from the beginning,

I know that if I were a woman, I would consider either pretending to be a man on this forum, or leaving my identity wholly ambiguous; and I myself am sufficiently careful to alter my linguistic usage in every detail, in any language.

I wouldn’t want fat and thirsty nerds hitting on me—and I wouldn’t want for braindead feminists as Timelord to pretend to speak for me, based on their narrow stereotypes of how all women must think.

Quote from: Rikafip on March 12, 2021, 06:57:54 PM

but somehow I think that he had just a bit of fun with people guessing it because of his name ends with an "a"

“Lauda” is an actual given name—a feminine name, derived from Latin. You may confirm this in any competent reference on onomastics. It means “praise”; and it is etymologically related to a number of English words, such as “laudatory”.

In Latin, first-declension feminine nouns end in an -a, in the nominative case. However, to my understanding, the name “Lauda” is actually descended from the Latin third-declension feminine noun laus, ‘praise, merit, high reputation’, whence also the Latin verb laudo, ‘to praise’; “lauda” is not itself a Latin noun. “Lauda” is an archaic Italian feminine noun, meaning ‘praise’.

Note that the earliest archives of LaudaM’s profile page state a “gender” of “male”. I have various theories about that, such as (0) it is well-known that women on tech forums often masquerade as male, to avoid unwanted sexual attention; and (1) other theories I don’t want to state because it is just pointless speculation. None of this is inconsistent with the Croatian posts to which you refer (a point previously raised by marlboroza in English Reputation).

Quote from: sheenshane on March 13, 2021, 02:01:40 PM

I doubted that it has but the big question in my mind when the resurrection will happen, is there a way to boost her resurrection process. Cheesy

Her cult urgently needs a queen.

The Cult of Lauda has been officially dissolved, by order of its Grand Prophet, i.e. me.

Quote from: nullius on October 23, 2020, 08:37:30 AM

And by my authority as Grand Prophet, I hereby declare that insofar as DT is concerned, the Cult of Lauda is dissolved.

Lauda is gone. And upon her apotheosis from a mere witch to a deity, the Catbat Goddess Herself decreed her own wishes as to her name and reputation:

Quote from: Lauda on October 19, 2020, 05:29:24 AM

I have one of the highest name-recognition accounts on the forum. This places on me a responsibility. It is not to feed my strong ego that I say, it is a valuable account with a high reputation - a trust that people place in my unseen body, through the name of "Lauda". If I cease to be "Lauda" then according to my well-known principles, I must affirmatively prevent anybody else from using this name and forum account ever again.