In a cavern deep below the Earth, Nemes, Pepe, Jomo, Redempt, MisaXage, peterjiang and thelegend27 meet in the Secret Council of /\w*([aoe])\w\1\w*/i.

I know it’s long. I can explain.

/\w*([aoe])\w\1\w*/gi is a Perl Compatible Regular Expression (‘regex’ for short). In programming, regular expressions are basically search functions for strings of text. This specific regular expression finds words which contain one of the letter ‘a’, ‘o’ or ‘e’ twice, separated by a single character. For instance: “chocolate” would fit the regex, but “choccolate” wouldn’t.

I realised that a lot of admins on Redstoner have this pattern in their username (especially with the letter ‘e’), so I ran the regex on the list of users (https://redstoner.com/users) and added peterjiang and thelegend27 onto the list as well just for kicks.

This is all based on an image from the webcomic xkcd, in which the title text makes a similar joke, but with people associated with the writer Ayn Rand and who’s names are made of the letters of ‘plurandy’: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1277:_Ayn_Random

The xkcd comic is undoubtably funnier and better executed than mine, but it is less relevant to Redstoner.