I'unno! It just does it.

Edit: Oh, apparently it's program-specific, not Vista. GoogleTalk, for example, lets me select all available sound devices while Vista... er... doesn't. My mistake.LIAR! HEATHEN! BURN THE WITCH! :mad::mad:

After a lot of dicussion, me and Paul have decided that this image is comedy gold

Where in the name of all that is unholy did you guys dig up that monstrosity from? :eek:

This is officially the greatest facebook gift ever. (I'm aware I'm a few days late with this but hey)

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6836/turtlepileonar4.png

Those aren't turtles! Fraud!

Turtle orgy!

INTERWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBS!!!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGIIibJ3TI)

Not that again!

Anybody happen to catch Around the World in 80 Gardens?
Really interesting. Anybody remember the name of that really surreal garden in the heart of Rainforest mentioned in it? :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif6cGSZAPs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif6cGSZAPs
that was weird and awkward

Yes, I've obviously seen that. :) Michelle (a friend from San Diego, and the Co-creator, Co-writer, Co-director and Editor of ./shutdown (http://www.shutdowntv.com/)) was taking photos all evening, and then suddenly she's recording me. Grr. I expect to get my own back at some point - I should be going down to San Diego to appear in ./shutdown later this year.

Oddly, I stumbled into that yesterday while searching for Jump-Leads on youtube.

Whoah it's like my friend Ben Paddon on YouTube! How famous is he?! Surreal.

Oddly, I stumbled into that yesterday while searching for Jump-Leads on youtube.

I wanted to put JjAR's art vids up on YouTube, incidentally, but the first vid is about two minutes too long.

Whoah it's like my friend Ben Paddon on YouTube! How famous is he?! Surreal.

I iz on Yewtubs 2! Though luckily it's my own fault. :p

I wanted to put JjAR's art vids up on YouTube, incidentally, but the first vid is about two minutes too long.

why not cut it in half?

Yes, I've obviously seen that. :) Michelle (a friend from San Diego, and the Co-creator, Co-writer, Co-director and Editor of ./shutdown (http://www.shutdowntv.com/)) was taking photos all evening, and then suddenly she's recording me. Grr. I expect to get my own back at some point - I should be going down to San Diego to appear in ./shutdown later this year.

What the hell is going on?

I wouldn't know where to begin.

What the hell is going on?

You want, what, a Cast Commentary? We were eating in a burger place in Hollywood.

My Jinxlet adoption kit arrived.

http://www.benpaddon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/jinxlet.jpg

Where in the name of all that is unholy did you guys dig up that monstrosity from? :eek:The fiery pits of hell (http://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/)

My Jinxlet adoption kit arrived.

http://www.benpaddon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/jinxlet.jpg
:cool: .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif6cGSZAPs
Nice double chin!

Thanks. That's... that's nice. Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fif6cGSZAPs

Ben Is Gay And Its Great lol ha ha ha

Ben Is Gay And Its Great lol ha ha ha
Haha, way to go Michelle

Haha, way to go Michelle

Actually, it's my friend Westy who first coined the phrase "Ben Is Gay And Its Great". SupSuper ha subsequently usurped it for his own. It now appears you guys are going to do much the same. Ooh er.

You should know better than introducing me to people.

I gots a question for yous guys!

any of you play Devil May Cry? for the FAoTM I'm doing a little something that involves Dante from the game. I was wondering if he has a signature move that he does that everyone knows. I've never actually played any of the games so I really don't know what to look for anywhere, so if any of you guys can help out it'd be greatly appreciated.

Err, what makes you think people will recognise it? I've never played the games.

Swinging the sword or holding two guns out straight ahead and blasting away? The point of those games is that it looks stylish.

I gots a question for yous guys!

any of you play Devil May Cry? for the FAoTM I'm doing a little something that involves Dante from the game. I was wondering if he has a signature move that he does that everyone knows. I've never actually played any of the games so I really don't know what to look for anywhere, so if any of you guys can help out it'd be greatly appreciated.

Ebony and Ivory, the two handguns he wields, are the most signature thing about him that I can think of.

You thought you were finally safe, but no, it's... THE EVIL DEMON GOLFBALL FROM HELL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKo8hj40dPg)

Swinging the sword or holding two guns out straight ahead and blasting away? The point of those games is that it looks stylish.yeah, I was familiar enough to catch that he mostly uses the guns and that the game is rather flashy and such, so I was planning to include those 2 things anyway. that's just the extent of my knowledge.

I assume then that he doesn't really have a distinguishing move and that it'll look fine so long as he's doing something flashy then?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/423640
This flash is EPIC. :p

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/423640
This flash is EPIC. :pthat is TRULY greatness! :D

*FLIES INSIDE*

Quick! There's very little time!
I must show you these links!

http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=20
Mario being used to examine the MWI theory of quantum physics.

And when you're done with that, here is one of the most awesome videos ever. No kidding.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/racing/the-best-video-on-kotaku-ever-is-this-trackmania-one-198301.php

*FLIES BACK TO HIS SECRET BASE*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc

Nature is WACK.

And when you're done with that, here is one of the most awesome videos ever. No kidding.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/racing/the-...one-198301.phpI've seen this before, on YouTube, but... I still can't stop staring.

The Beeb has the best smilies ever:

31165

31165311653116531165

*FLIES INSIDE*

Quick! There's very little time!
I must show you these links!

http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=20
Mario being used to examine the MWI theory of quantum physics.

And when you're done with that, here is one of the most awesome videos ever. No kidding.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/racing/the-best-video-on-kotaku-ever-is-this-trackmania-one-198301.php

*FLIES BACK TO HIS SECRET BASE*Awesome and Awesome^2.

Japan tests paper aeroplanes in space: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7230949.stm

Japan tests paper aeroplanes in space: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7230949.stmthat, is the best science experiment EVER!

also, that trackmania video was the very definition of win.

That experiment is made of win and awesome! Though the chance of somebody finding a plane and sending it back seems awefully low.

I'd also like to learn how to fold that plane. :cool:

I am utterly in love with [this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OytHzZ72Y)].

Ahahahaha, the latest xkcd: http://xkcd.org/381/

I just ran into the best damn lolcat ever made:

http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?avatar=1528_1198716589.jpg

My drink carton says "Dietary information: Suitable or vegetarians"

Walked past a sign yesterday outside a house which said "Sod the dog. Beware witch"

My drink carton says "Dietary information: Suitable or vegetarians"are you serious?! I demand pictures! :p

Walked past a sign yesterday outside a house which said "Sod the dog. Beware witch"that is just plain great!

speaking of signs, I'm seriously tempted to take a picture of an office building in the area that has nothing on it except large letters labelling it as "Wise Building" :D

My drink carton says "Dietary information: Suitable or vegetarians"

Walked past a sign yesterday outside a house which said "Sod the dog. Beware witch"
Check out Sainsbury's ultra-economy pot noodles, the Beef "flavour" variety - they're suitable for vegans :D

And Tesco's packets of nuts (any variety) warn the purchaser that they "Contain Nuts" and "are packaged in an environment where nuts are present" or something like that.

I just ran into the best damn lolcat ever made:

there is no such thing as a good lolcat

there is no such thing as a good lolcat
Seconded. :p

A rather neat synthesizer that generates sound from rgb information. Drawing and music app all in one!

http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula.htm

SO... AWESOME (http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm)

EDIT: I should point out that Dan found it.

there is no such thing as a good lolcateh, well I thought that one was amusing :p

SO... AWESOME (http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm)

EDIT: I should point out that Dan found it.
Hmm.
Previously I wanted an Optimus Maximus keyboard, now I want an Optimus Tactus (http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/).
Now you can pretend to be Data steering the Enterprise. :)

Well I finished HL2 Episode 2 and it was pretty damn Great. I played it all with everything on high at 1024*768 with a really smooth framerate.
So I decided to see how it would run at a maximum resolution...
Well I can run HL2 Episode 2 at 1920*1200 with everything on High, Textures on Very High, Reflections set to reflect all, no AA, and it's actually quite playable. And it looks Pretty Damn Awesome. :p
I'm playing it with commentary on, and I'm slightly dissapointed because there's not as much commentary as in Episode 1 so far. :P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7236073.stm

She doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Well I can run HL2 Episode 2 at 1920*1200 with everything on High, Textures on Very High, Reflections set to reflect all, no AA, and it's actually quite playable. And it looks Pretty Damn Awesome. :p

that's cool, what kind of video card do those imacs have?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7236073.stm

She doesn't have a leg to stand on.

*BDM-TSH!*

Do you write your own material?

that's cool, what kind of video card do those imacs have?
Ati Radeon HD 2600 Pro.

that's cool, what kind of video card do those imacs have?

Is it wrong that without the capital M I think of the leg wax before the computer?

Is it wrong that without the capital M I think of the leg wax before the computer?

No, just a little odd.

Man I found my copy of SimCopter, but I can't run it under WinXP D:

Is it wrong that without the capital M I think of the leg wax before the computer?I think of those really large cinema screens.

Yeah me too. =P

[rant]

I'm getting ****ed off by people riding their bikes no handed to uni. Yeah, it's cool when you're 10, but when you're pushing 20, you just look like a cock. I am tempted to "accidently" bump into them, making them fall into the big puddles/cow crap at the side of the path.

[rant]

I'm getting ****ed off by people riding their bikes no handed to uni. Yeah, it's cool when you're 10, but when you're pushing 20, you just look like a cock. I am tempted to "accidently" bump into them, making them fall into the big puddles/cow crap at the side of the path.
How many of them are talking on mobiles while doing that?

[rant]

I'm getting ****ed off by people riding their bikes no handed to uni. Yeah, it's cool when you're 10, but when you're pushing 20, you just look like a cock. I am tempted to "accidently" bump into them, making them fall into the big puddles/cow crap at the side of the path.
How many of them are smoking cigarettes while doing that?

None that I've seen for either of those. They're just doing it to try and show off. All that says was that it's taken them 20 years to learn how to do it instead of the usual 10.

One of the people doing it I recognise from my course, and he's one of those irritating people who ask questions in the middle of lectures, thinks he's the best at everything and loves himself.

I CAN HAS BIONIC EYES?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/27/scilens127.xml

:eek:

It should be noted that my educational achievement nosedived when I stopped asking questions in the middle of lectures.

Although admittedly other factors were probably involved.

But still, it's great. Especially if you notice a mistake.

It should be noted that my educational achievement nosedived when I stopped asking questions in the middle of lectures.

Although admittedly other factors were probably involved.

But still, it's great. Especially if you notice a mistake.Asking questions is all good, it's just there's always those people that either ask those really obvious questions and basically make the teacher repeat himself over and over because they weren't paying attention, or those smartasses that ask questions vaguely related to the matter just to make sure they look oh so smart and mighty with their intricate knowledge and understanding of being arrogant.

Man I found my copy of SimCopter, but I can't run it under WinXP D:I use a VM.

those smartasses that ask questions vaguely related to the matter just to make sure they look oh so smart and mighty with their intricate knowledge and understanding of being arrogant.I asked questions vaguely related to the matter because I'd thought of them and wanted an answer. And because I love tangents.

(I'm not sure why, but I always seemed to be the one in language classes who wanted to say something that wasn't provided by the vocabulary box).

I think people who ride bikes with no hands are cocks, too, unless they are in a display team. I thought something similar the other night on the way home from work. The stick through the spokes should be good.

Unless they fall and die, of course.

I think people who ride bikes with no hands are cocks, too, unless they are in a display team.

Thanks for bashing my single athletic talent.

Mind you, I've never been able to ride a bike.

Not without stabilisers, anyway.

I think people who ride bikes with no hands are cocks, too, unless they are in a display team. I thought something similar the other night on the way home from work. The stick through the spokes should be good.
Hey I enjoy riding a bike with no hands. It has nothing to do with showing off, it's just fun to do. :mad:

Mind you, I've never been able to ride a bike.

Not without stabilisers, anyway.
lol noob

Do you do it ALL THE TIME, though?


HOW TO DESTROY A SONG (http://thesimsonstage.ea.com/playPerformance.html?performanceId=Xkm9jDGW7MU%3D&play=Y)

Hey! That site gives me an idea. Cheesy Crap OD Karaoke sessions?

Do you do it ALL THE TIME, though?

Well I avoid doing it on bumpy roads, but otherwise, yeah most of the time. :p
Well not currently as I don't have a bike, haven't had one in a while, but I would still do it if I had one. :p

Mind you, I've never been able to ride a bike.

Not without stabilisers, anyway.sweet! I'm not the only loser on the planet :p

couldn't get the hang of it as a kid, and quickly lost interest :p

I didn't really learn until I was 12. I'm kind of slow in weird ways like that.

I'm kind of anticipating the coming of actual springtime so I can get back on my pretty nice bike this year, actually.

I learnt to ride a bike when I was 8. However, I didn't learn to swim until I was 13.

I need to buy a bike, actually - start cycling to work. That'll keep me fit.

I learnt to ride a bike when I was 8. However, I didn't learn to swim until I was 13.

I need to buy a bike, actually - start cycling to work. That'll keep me fit.I would probably do the same if not for the fact that I live 35 miles from my work place :p

instead, I got an excercise bike for inside the house.

I learnt to ride a bike when I was 8. However, I didn't learn to swim until I was 13.

I need to buy a bike, actually - start cycling to work. That'll keep me fit.

I couldn't swim until 14...

Well I took swimming lessons when I was really young - young enough that I don't even remember anymore. All I remember was a sort of competition where we would jump from a really tall platform into the pool and retrieve some toys that were at the bottom. The platform probably wasn't that tall actually. I also learned to bike around 8 years old I think...

Y'know, I can still barely swim. :-/

I think I've just had the weirdest dream ever. I don't usually remember everything, and know that I haven't, but here are the bits that do:

Firstly it turned out my house was actually an old castle and somehow I could see from a point miles into the sky so that I could see my house and Oxford, which would have to be very high. I could also zoom in. Anyway, then I zoomed into my hometown and it morphed into a TrackMania map.

Then onto the weirder second part, which involved Team17. Not exactly sure what was going on beforehand, but me, Paul and AK ended up in some sort of game... seemed like an FPS. We ended up shooting people and the ultimate goal was to kill some bacteria on a slide (as in glass slide used in experiments), while killing the enemies along the way. Anyway I think I was running low on bullets and the enemies for some reason held up the slide and I shot it. The bacteria sprayed off it, oddly not shattering the slide with my bullet and killing the person behind it. Then Paul went and cleaned the toilets and left post-it notes on them saying "Team17 cleaned the toilets". Then we went out side and everyone was sitting around on the grass... that's about all I can remember.

There is a dream thread you know..
But that's not too bad of a dream, last Sunday I was subdeviding polygons in my head all night. Worst dream in a long time.

I think I've just had the weirdest dream ever. I don't usually remember everything, and know that I haven't, but here are the bits that do:

Firstly it turned out my house was actually an old castle and somehow I could see from a point miles into the sky so that I could see my house and Oxford, which would have to be very high. I could also zoom in. Anyway, then I zoomed into my hometown and it morphed into a TrackMania map.

Then onto the weirder second part, which involved Team17. Not exactly sure what was going on beforehand, but me, Paul and AK ended up in some sort of game... seemed like an FPS. We ended up shooting people and the ultimate goal was to kill some bacteria on a slide (as in glass slide used in experiments), while killing the enemies along the way. Anyway I think I was running low on bullets and the enemies for some reason held up the slide and I shot it. The bacteria sprayed off it, oddly not shattering the slide with my bullet and killing the person behind it. Then Paul went and cleaned the toilets and left post-it notes on them saying "Team17 cleaned the toilets". Then we went out side and everyone was sitting around on the grass... that's about all I can remember.

*Cough* (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34125) :D

Toilet cleaning is an activity which is really under-represented in video games.

I'm not going to wait for a better time to post this image, because that could take a very long time, as I think people are tired of talking about OD. :p

I asked questions vaguely related to the matter because I'd thought of them and wanted an answer. And because I love tangents.Trust me, you got nothing on the arrogant-coder-in-the-making that lurk around my classes. :mad:

And while we're sharing our loserdom, I only learned how to swim a few years ago and never got the balance for biking. They're not really skills I make use of so

And while we're sharing our loserdom, I only learned how to swim a few years ago and never got the balance for biking. They're not really skills I make use of so

y'all are nerds

We're all Nerds and Its Great?

Also, i can't ride, but I can swim. For those of you keeping score.

I can do both at the same time.

I can ride a bike and swim because I am a normal human being.

Though I haven't ridden a bike in probably a decade, I assume I still can. It is the trivial case of "like riding a bike".

Auggghh, people who can't ride bikes! Burn them!

I've had many a swimming lesson but I'm still rather bad at it and try to avoid it.

So do I, to be fair.

Except at beaches and swimming pools.

I can ride a bike, but I can't indicate, because as soon as I let go of one of the handlebars, I fall over. I think I need to work on my balance.

I can also swim, but only if you count "flailing around hopelessy for a width of the pool until I drown" as swimming.

I think I've perfected the art of slipstreaming and then flying past BMX bikes on the steep hills around Loughborough campus. 27-speed mountain bike versus single-speed BMX - no match :D (my bike will happily cruise at around 20mph with a top speed on the flat of around 25 - I find BMX bikes struggle to reach 15mph downhill.)

People who use BMX bikes to cycle between lectures (Lufbra is a heck of a big campus for a single-campus university) are truly the worst kinds of cyclists. Their gear doesn't give them enough speed to cycle properly on the flat, so they look like idiots standing up to pedal (since BMX bikes have pathetically short seatposts), and then look even worse when they get tired so sit back down on the saddle and have their knees up under their chins. Then, it's even worse when they reach one of the many hills as their gear is the other end of useless and isn't good enough to get them up the hill without a lot of tiring pedalling.

BEHOLD (http://news.woolworths.co.uk/newsletter/2008/cadbury/voucher/)

______________

Nice. Shame that Woolworths in York closed down about a month ago though :(

I'll likely get lynched for this, but I can't stand cadburry eggs :p

...

Kill him! Kill the traitor!

I'll likely get lynched for this, but I can't stand cadburry eggs :pWHO IS THIS GUY AND WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING IN OD

Mostly I can't ride a bike because my sense of balance is ropey. Same basic problem with heights.

The most I can swim is 25 metres, and that was when I was about 11 and had regular experience of swimming. If I try to do breaststroke I basically end up swimming on the spot. Backstroke is nice and leisurely, but I inevitably end up going in circles and running into other people - or cracking my head on the side of the pool. Front crawl I'm OK at, but I drink too much pool water and tend to succumb to exhaustion. Don't ask about butterfly.

I can also swim, but only if you count "flailing around hopelessy for a width of the pool until I drown" as swimming.That sounds more like me. I think last time I tried, I was able to perform some sort of improvised imitation breaststroke thing, which did actually help me move forward slightly.

I'll likely get lynched for this, but I can't stand cadburry eggs :pI'll assume you import some other kind of European chocolate then.

Can't remember when I started to swim. I wasn't great at it, but it's just something that everyone does at some point.

As for cycling, I learnt to ride quite young. Even though my brother is 2 years older, I've always seen us as equals. So when he got his first bike, I insisted it was unfair that I didn't get one, and got to ride it. I think I would've been about 4.

I can backstroke fairly well, though I've never tried it outside a pool. It's the only form of swimming that doesn't involve me gulping water.

I can backstroke fairly well, though I've never tried it outside a pool. It's the only form of swimming that doesn't involve me gulping water.
i used to have a really good backstroke but i haven't swum competitively since 8th grade

some sort of improvised imitation breaststroke thing

Doggy paddle? :D

Up the pace already (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35570), I don't wanna write half of the story myself!

I'd also like to add that over the last year I have seen people going to uni in strange ways. During the autumn term I saw someone who was dancing his way along the path to uni. A week or two ago, I saw someone unicycling to uni (they have the right to show off though, because it's actually skilful).

Anyone that looks even remotely happy about the concept of going to uni is clearly out of their minds.

Anyone that looks even remotely happy about the concept of going to uni is clearly out of their minds.
Maybe there was cake awaiting at uni?

There's a guy here who goes to all his classes rocking out with a boombox.

Today there was a guy walking to class in a gingerbread man costume singing "L, is for the way you look at me, O is for the only one I see" etc.

A while back I saw some people dressed as Star Wars characters...


Oh UCLA, how I love thee...

WHY?!

http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hello-kitty-darth-vader.jpg

About swimming:
I can swim fairly good. Started at a very young age of about 3 or 4. That was even before I could ride a bike.
I even was in a swimming club for about a year, when I was 14. I won 3rd place in that year's internal championship - against the only two other boys that is. :)
I can also do a lane of butterfly.

I hate swimming in salt water because swallowing to much of it can get me nauseous. Also because I have swallowed unidentified, solid particles on more than one occasion in the ocean.

About bikes:
I wish I had my old BMX bike back that I had when I was 7 years old.
It was awesome with it's black foam-padded protectors on the handlebar and the frame bar with "BMX" printed on them.
That was well before the mountain bike craze that started in the late 1980s and early 1990s. :-/

About swimming and biking:
One summer we tied a rope to an old bike and jumped over a small pier into a pond.

WHY?!

http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hello-kitty-darth-vader.jpg
You missed an opportunity for a Big No there. Open goal, man. Open goal.

You missed an opportunity for a Big No there. Open goal, man. Open goal.as per usual, I have no idea what you're talking about :p

NOOOOOOoooooOooooOOOooooooo...

Do not want.

I can swim but I get tired rather quickly and my toes cramp.

NOOOOOOoooooOooooOOOooooooo...oh, big no. you meant that literally :p just ignore me as usual....

I hate swimming in salt water because swallowing to much of it can get me nauseous. Also because I have swallowed unidentified, solid particles on more than one occasion in the ocean.

You're not supposed to drink the damn stuff!

You're not supposed to drink the damn stuff!you don't always have a choice :p

You're not supposed to drink the damn stuff!
True.
A few of those occasions happened because I misjudged the length of my snorkel.

You're not supposed to drink the damn stuff!
"You're not supposed to drop vases!"
"You're not supposed to hit the ball in the air!"
"You're not supposed to kill stuff while driving!"

And yet...

About swimming and biking:
One summer we tied a rope to an old bike and jumped over a small pier into a pond.

that sounds really fun

that sounds really funWhat, when the bike lands on your head?

What's the rope for? So the bike stops mid-air and sends you flying?

What, when the bike lands on your head?
when you jump off the bike and land in the water? geez do any of you guys ever go outside

I assumed it was so you could pull the bike out of the water...

when you jump off the bike and land in the water? geez do any of you guys ever go outside
OH, so you'd be riding it?

geez do any of you guys ever go outsideYes, but to walk. It's considerably easier.

Yes, we tied the rope to the bike so we could pull it out easily.
After the first attempt we realized that the bike was considerably heavier when the frame was filled with water, which made it more difficult to pull out while swimming/diving.

We didn't jump of the bike. We landed in the water sitting on it.

Another problem we had was that the small pier didn't reach to the shore and we had to use a plank to cover the approximately 1 meter gap.
IIRC, one of use hurt his shins when the plank slipped away he smashed into the edge of the pier. :p

This week's forecast is looking good:rolleyes:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1465/fogif6.gif

This week's forecast is looking good:rolleyes:
In Swansea it's been sunny for 9 out of the last 10 days (the other one was overcast but didn't actually rain).

We don't normally get that kind of sequence in summer.

Have we've been reduced to discussing the weather? This is definitely a new low pressure for the community.

Have we've been reduced to discussing the weather? This is definitely a new low pressure for the community.

It's different for you. You don't live in the UK :P

And I'm sure we've discussed weather before.

Have we've been reduced to discussing the weather?
It's different for you. You don't live in the UK
Do you want another discussion about the pronunciation of "scones"? :p

skuh-owns. :mad:

Anyone else use the word scone to mean throwing something at someone? In PE at high school, we had to come up with our own games at one point, and one group came up with a game called Sconeball. They set up an obstacle course in the gym, and people would have to pass the obstacle course while avoiding balls being thrown by people up on the mezzanine. :D

skuh-owns. :mad:

Impressive. I've certainly never heard it stretched to a second syllable before.

Do you want another discussion about the pronunciation of "scones"? :pNo point. Anyone sane knows it rhymes with 'gone' :p

Trouble is, people these days (especially people who are young and from the south) take spelling and pronunciation too literally, often thinking the pronunciation stems from the spelling of a word. In fact, the pronunciation determines the spelling, because historically people spoke words before they could write, and many never learnt. I find a lot of people saying "It's like 'cone' with an 's' in front so it has to be pronounced to rhyme with it", which is false logic. English doesn't work like that. I don't make 'monkey' and 'donkey' rhyme. I also don't say 'mouses' or 'hice'.

The only thing faster than a s-gone is past-your-eyes milk.

Hm. This discussion is doing to be a lot shorter this time around.

On an unrelated note, an ad on Facebook just offered to "turn [me] 3D". I'm at a loss.

People are one-dimensional, everyone knows that.

Paul, we've got a new runner up for your "Unintentional Comedy Gold" awards.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35633

I hope you're keeping note of these threads.

I once planned to try a "post of the year" competition going, but I never remember to save the awesome posts, and forget about them.

They weren't kidding when they said it was going to be foggy. I can barely see the other side of the road.

They weren't kidding when they said it was going to be foggy. I can barely see the other side of the road.hey, that sounds like the entire month of december around here :p

I also don't say 'mouses'
Well, the plural of a mouse (pointing device) is indeed "mouses" though.
Paul, we've got a new runner up for your "Unintentional Comedy Gold" awards.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35633
Hehe!
We're lucky that thomasp does not yet obey to everything I say, or he would have deleted that thread too after closing it.

Here we're having the big varied weather of rain, heavy rain, light rain, drizzle, showers, sunny rain, cloudy rain, foggy rain, fat rain, floody rain, thin rain, ...

They weren't kidding when they said it was going to be foggy. I can barely see the other side of the road.

10 from 11 days sunny here now.

Paul, we've got a new runner up for your "Unintentional Comedy Gold" awards.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35633

I hope you're keeping note of these threads.

I once planned to try a "post of the year" competition going, but I never remember to save the awesome posts, and forget about them.Can't really say I am keeping note of them. "Unintentional Comedy Gold" was an expression of my feeling at the time (as the TC suggested), rather than the deliberate creation of a new award.

I'm fairly sure every award is created on the spot around here.

I'm fairly sure every award is created on the spot around here.

Finally, someone does it, congratulations!! I am proud to acknowledge you as the first recipient of Bloopy's Award for Excellence in Identifying That Every Award Is Created On The Spot Around Here.

Well, the plural of a mouse (pointing device) is indeed "mouses" though.I believe either's acceptable.

Pretty much:
mouse

(mous) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. mice (mīs)
1a. Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse (Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
b. Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
2. A cowardly or timid person.
3. Informal A discolored swelling under the eye caused by a blow; a black eye.
4. pl. mice or mous·es (mous'ĭz) Computer Science A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs an indicator to move correspondingly about a computer screen, allowing the operator to move the indicator freely, as to select operations or manipulate text or graphics.
I have yet to see even developers use Mouses.

Anyway, I'm off to desert my dessert in the desert.

You rock, Ben: (http://www.soulgeek.com/guru_detail.php?id=17)
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welcome to 1999

Welcome to 2003, in fact.

Also, [this is why you should switch from a Mac to a PC (http://www.besttechie.net/2008/02/21/50-reasons-to-switch-from-mac-to-pc/)]

Also, [this is why you should switch from a Mac to a PC (http://www.besttechie.net/2008/02/21/50-reasons-to-switch-from-mac-to-pc/)]
oh great it's the same terrible talking points i've heard from every pc user ever

good god he even included the ONE BUTAN thing

You say that like they aren't valid points. And it definitely beats the catch-all reason Mac users give to switch to their platform of choice - "It just works." Windows just works, too. Only just, but it works all the same.

no, they aren't valid points; the vast majority of them are just "operation x works differently on a mac than a pc, therefore pc > mac" and some of them are just downright incorrect

the whole pc vs. mac debate is really dumb (i use both every day) but stuff like this just propagates ignorance

So far as I can see, rather a lot of them are "operation x works better on a PC." Which is true.

good god he even included the ONE BUTAN thing

Guess what? Saying something in a moronic way doesn't actually make the thing you're saying moronic.

As far as I can see the moronic ones are things like "36. You have an iPod or an iPhone, guess what no problem. They work on Windows too!" which, like #40, is not a reason to switch; it's simply not a reason not to, and "8. Microsoft Office." -- MS Office is ****. It's slow, crashes a lot, insecure, bloated, makes huge files, has crap HTML support, and uses dodgy non-standard file formats (albeit ones adopted as de-facto standards). Excel has its (limited) uses, and Powerpoint is pretty good, but Word is just awful.

Well, okay. Maybe Office is basically pretty good, but compare its pricetag to that of OpenOffice.org and then compare what the two actually do, and there's no competition. The only people who need the extra features of Word over Writer should be using LaTeX anyway.

And point 27 is just stupid.

But a second button on a mouse is useful, or at least preferable, for many users -- not least for lightning fast mouse gestures in Opera.

But a second button on a mouse is useful, or at least preferable, for many users

But it's also pretty much standard on Macs now isn't it?

How should I know?

My mouse has a right click. Well it's actually a top-right corner click that can easily be missed and interpreted as a left click... But it's there, that's the point. :p
And you can just get another mouse that has right click, can't you?

Guess what? Saying something in a moronic way doesn't actually make the thing you're saying moronic.

macs have had right-click support since os 8.6 i believe, and every desktop mac since 2005 has come with a mighty mouse which also has right-click support (hence mtlangelus' posts)

Gays cause earthquakes: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23257317-13762,00.html

Speaking of the Mighty Mouse, mine has some really bizarre quirk.
My sister has a treadmill machine, or however you call those walking machines, and whenever she turns it on, my Mouse starts clicking the side button like crazy, which when on MacOSX keeps bringing up Exposé... and I just can't really think of a reason as to WHY THE HELL THIS HAPPENS.

I mean if it was because of the power consumption, then surely other electrical devices would show some sign of it too, but nothing happens at all. Just my Mightymouse goes crazy...

I think it just wants a run on the treadmill.

I think it just wants a run on the treadmill.I was thinking that as soon as I read the second sentence of Angelus' post. Damn you for getting there first :p.

That Trackmania video may yet be the best thing ever, but this has to be in the top 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ

OK, you're probably not going to believe this... but there was an Earthquake in Hull about 15 minutes ago. Seriously. It wasn't a tiddly little thing either, the entire building shook... scared me to death. :eek:

OK, you're probably not going to believe this... but there was an Earthquake in Hull about 15 minutes ago. Seriously. It wasn't a tiddly little thing either, the entire building shook... scared me to death. :eek:
Woah. Is everything ok?

OK, you're probably not going to believe this... but there was an Earthquake in Hull about 15 minutes ago. Seriously. It wasn't a tiddly little thing either, the entire building shook... scared me to death. :eek:
Damn. Good to hear you're alright.

It's all those gay guys I tell you!

Aw, Xinos got there before me :(

There was one in York too, about 00.55am (no I am not implying there were two earthquakes)

Kind of annoying because I never made the post about this topic (in the other forum I found it on), asking why very few occurred in places like the UK.

Also, I like how everyone goes on facebook to change their status following an earthquake. That's spirit for you.

Yes, I love the many millions of earthquake-related Facebook statuses :p

I felt it in Lufbra too - ironically I was reading a book called "Pompeii" at the time...

I didn't feel anything in Swansea, but a) it's on the other side of the country from Hull, York and Loughborough and b) I sleep like a rock anyway (although it's debatable as to whether I was asleep at that point. I think I was in bed, at least.

Anyway, I hope everyone's okay over there.

EDIT: Looks like it was centred on The Wash (or at least "on the coast 125 miles north of London" (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/26/uk.earthquake/?iref=hpmostpop), which is where The Wash is. Certainly that would explain why you guys felt it and I didn't.

I'm told we felt it here, but I think I was asleep. Second one I've had in Manchester -- the other was in the middle of the day and I was at work. That one was rubbish, though. Just a big jolt, really. No shaking or anything.

How amusing - the news here in the US is reporting the earthquake has having happened "just north of London". Well, yes, it was north of London, but it's a little further than they're implying.

I remember when that petrol depo in Hemel Hempstead exploded, and the jolt woke Amy and me up. She asked what it was, but I wasn't quite conscious - I believe my response was, "It was probably just a bomb at the train station, go back to sleep."

I'm told we felt it here, but I think I was asleep. Second one I've had in Manchester -- the other was in the middle of the day and I was at work. That one was rubbish, though. Just a big jolt, really. No shaking or anything.
My room door can definitely vouch that there was shaking - and lots of it!
How amusing - the news here in the US is reporting the earthquake has having happened "just north of London". Well, yes, it was north of London, but it's a little further than they're implying.

I've noticed whenever I've holidayed in America they seem to think nothing of driving 200 or so miles (at least in Florida and the southern states), so they probably do consider North Lincolnshire "Just north of London" - plus England is so small to them :p

I remember when that petrol depo in Hemel Hempstead exploded, and the jolt woke Amy and me up. She asked what it was, but I wasn't quite conscious - I believe my response was, "It was probably just a bomb at the train station, go back to sleep."

I got woken up by that - AND I was in Loughborough at the time!

I've noticed whenever I've holidayed in America they seem to think nothing of driving 200 or so miles (at least in Florida and the southern states), so they probably do consider North Lincolnshire "Just north of London" - plus England is so small to them :p

"In Europe, 100 miles is a long way; in America, 100 years is a long time"
- some guy.

I'm told we felt it here

People around me tend to feel small or distant ones, but I usually don't feel a thing, no matter what I'm doing. :-/

I feel that in T100%OTT, one can get away with this kind of thing:

People around me tend to feel small or distant ones, but I usually don't feel a thing, no matter what I'm doing. :-/

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.

Oh, snap .

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.

Haha. Maybe she forgot to put the batteries in.

Akuryou13 is nearing the 10,000 post barrier (ignoring OD posts), curently standing at 9929 posts.

I think he needs to get an award.
What was the old, official user title for that again?
Top Waffler? :)

Heck, 10,000 posts by one single person! :eek:

I say we make OD posts count, if only to see how post counts would stand.

Akuryou13 is nearing the 10,000 post barrier (ignoring OD posts), curently standing at 9929 posts.

I think he needs to get an award.
What was the old, official user title for that again?
Top Waffler? :)

Heck, 10,000 posts by one single person! :eek:am I seriously?! jeebus I'm pathetic. I should find a hobby :p

I say we make OD posts count, if only to see how post counts would stand.I'm sure they'd stand as invisible as before.

I forget, how did you find your post count? :o

I say we make OD posts count, if only to see how post counts would stand.
Hmm.
You would need to keep those counts (including the OD posts) inside OD though, otherwise outsiders might notice the discrepancy when they check the counts themselves.

Besides, I'd guess that Paul.Power and Andrew Taylor would lead easily then anyway.
I forget, how did you find your post count? :o
Advanced Member Search.
Use the greater-than-or-equal variable.

Same goes for the joining date.

Hmm.
You would need to keep those counts (including the OD posts) inside OD though, otherwise outsiders might notice the discrepancy when they check the counts themselves.

Besides, I'd guess that Paul.Power and Andrew Taylor would lead easily then anyway.

Advanced Member Search.
Use the greater-than-or-equal variable.

Same goes for the joining date.

I meant just switch the posts in OD to count so we can see what change it makes, then switch it back. I'd like to know just how many posts I have made on this forum. I barely make any posts now outside OD. I occasionally post in OO and that's about it.

And before anyone mentions, yes I do know we don't have a full time webmaster :p

I have made 500 posts outside OD since August 2006. In just OD I have made 500 posts since October 2006.

Advanced Member Search.
Use the greater-than-or-equal variable.

Same goes for the joining date.

I don't trust it, it says I havn't made more than 2000 posts..

I don't trust it, it says I havn't made more than 2000 posts..it's accurate. it's the same count as before we lost the public version, just harder to access.

I cant believe I forgot to mention this.

Behold: Off-road Velociraptor Safari.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2215039654_80c8c8f93f.jpg?v=0

http://raptorsafari.com/

hehe, just ran into a great worm-related shirt, and I figured I'd share it:

http://www.splitreason.com/designdetail.php?design_id=b7bc6ad679dcc595f17164c a7eb7fbe4&offset=13

I cant believe I forgot to mention this.

Behold: Off-road Velociraptor Safari.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2215039654_80c8c8f93f.jpg?v=0

http://raptorsafari.com/
That game is AWESOME.

Why does the verlociraptor have feathers?

There's a theory (not sure about evidence) that suggests that they (and other raptors and such) did have feathers.

Why does the verlociraptor have feathers?
Because the Velociraptor was more like a snappy chicken rather than a human-sized killing machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor

I cant believe I forgot to mention this.

Behold: Off-road Velociraptor Safari.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2215039654_80c8c8f93f.jpg?v=0

http://raptorsafari.com/

That game is so amazing. I showed it to my roommate and we played it quite a bit

Here's a great little flash game, quite innovative.
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/spin_the_black_circle

Here's a great little flash game, quite innovative.
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/spin_the_black_circle
God that's almost as addictive as Squares 2.

Here's a great little flash game, quite innovative.
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/spin_the_black_circleI hate you, xinos. that game is EVIL! *tries level 20 again and again and again and again and.....*

All discussion about the deletion of a certain thread here please: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35744

All discussion about the deletion of a certain thread here please: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35744

I adore that that thread starts with "Why does the velociraptor have feathers?"

Dang. that would be because I forgot to copy the first post, so one half of it could stay in this thread and the other could be put in that new one.

Oh well.

Oh no! Now T100%OTT doesn't make sense!

First time for everything :p

What happens when two regenerations of The Doctor meet?

Pair o' Docs.

Get out .

>poke thread

>poke thread
>the thread gifts you with a shiny new MorningStar. unfortunately the thread is a computer program and is therefore not well versed in human interaction. as a result the thread gifts you through the face. you die.
> You are dead. You gain -300 points.
> Continue (Y/N?)

THIS GAMES gAY

THIS GAMES gAY
your gay

de_dust pls

de_dust pls
**** u i wanna play office

n00b .

awp or else

I just assume that any acronym beginning with AW must be Advance Wars related.

Mostly because AFAIC it's a much better game, but there we go :p.

AFAICAs Far As I Carp? As Far As I Carrot? As Far As I Corporal? As Far As I Chlamydia? :confused:

As Far As I'm Concerned, I presume.

As Far As I Crap.
Namely the distance between your anus and the bottom of the toilet (where it makes plop and splashes back up :p).

As Far As I'm Concerned, I presume.

This one.

http://www.snotr.com/video/863

<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:00):
someone should make tt motivational pics
Paul.Power says (21:00):
They really should
FIREBALL
This is your silly fault for using buses
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:01):
"*train wreck*
IGNORE SIGNALS"
or even better:
"*train wreck*
IGNORE SIGNALS
Your very own Disaster button"
Paul.Power says (21:02):
STEAM IN 2000
Because it's awesome
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:03):
UFO
In ur road ***ing ur vehicals
Paul.Power says (21:04):
PASSENGERS
Don't care where they go, as long as it's away from here!
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:05):
AIRPORTS
50 years waiting to land just to crash at the runway
Paul.Power says (21:05):
CONCORDE
Now you know why they decomissioned it
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:06):
BOATS
Well it's not their fault every water tile looks the same
Paul.Power says (21:07):
MAP-SPANNING CANALS
Because you've got more money than you'll ever need
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:08):
MAP-SPANNING TUNNELS
Because everything's better with trains
Paul.Power says (21:08):
TRAINS
... line!
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:09):
Let's face it, you can't do better
or They didn't wanna infringe on Sid's territory
Paul.Power says (21:09):
LOCOMOTION
Why did you take the depots out, Sawyer? WHY???
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:11):
MAGLEV
Because 300km/h just weren't enough
Paul.Power says (21:12):
*giant junction layout*
JUNCTIONS
Oh come on, it's not *that* difficult
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (21:12):
ONE-WAY ROADS
...what

You know, normal people don't instinctively know what "TT" means.

Transport Tycoon for anyone normal out there. Good ones, Sup. Make them happen!

<snip>
Shot who in the what now?

I cant believe I forgot to mention this.

Behold: Off-road Velociraptor Safari.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2215039654_80c8c8f93f.jpg?v=0

http://raptorsafari.com/
a friend of mine just got the all-time high score in this game

How did he do it? Like, what combos do you do to get in the multi-million range? Do you focus on the exporter, stunts, just killing raptors, what? I'm just wondering how they do that, because there's so much more to it than just linearly getting a high score, y'know?

You know, normal people don't instinctively know what "TT" means.

I'd hate to be normal, I'd miss out on a lot of fun stuff.

But yeah, Transport Tycoon (specifically OpenTTD, at least in respect of the canals).

You know, a ship canal improvement would be great in Civilization - you could have a square that both land and naval units could travel on. And you could build Panama Canal-like things so that ships don't have to go all the way around big continents...

You know, a ship canal improvement would be great in Civilization - you could have a square that both land and naval units could travel on. And you could build Panama Canal-like things so that ships don't have to go all the way around big continents...

that is a fantastic idea, you should see if there's some way to suggest it to the developers

How did he do it? Like, what combos do you do to get in the multi-million range? Do you focus on the exporter, stunts, just killing raptors, what? I'm just wondering how they do that, because there's so much more to it than just linearly getting a high score, y'know?
he told me that he just did a whole bunch of really far jumps and teleported a bunch of live raptors

i've yet to actually watch him play it

You know, a ship canal improvement would be great in Civilization - you could have a square that both land and naval units could travel on. And you could build Panama Canal-like things so that ships don't have to go all the way around big continents...BTS forts can be used as canals.

Why is this (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28037) thread still a sticky?

Because you can't set an expiry date on sticky threads, and because nobody goes in that forum to see it.

Pizza is on the way. :cool:

What did you go for? Remember, if it has Pineapple on it, I hate you :p

That's a problem for me then.

Total Commander is a rather good file manager.. better than Explorer in any case. I especially like it's queve'ing function for when you copy or move files.. explorer will just start coppying files simultaniously which sucks..

Total Commander is a rather good file manager.. better than Explorer in any case. I especially like it's queve'ing function for when you copy or move files.. explorer will just start coppying files simultaniously which sucks..
It also sounds like a strange amalgam of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.

What did you go for? Remember, if it has Pineapple on it, I hate you :p

Pizza's usually salty, and pineapple balances it nicely.

*Pizza enters the stage*
*Angelus enters the stage*
*Angelus uses 'eat'*
*Pizza is reduced to a half*
*Pizza uses 'tummy ache'*
*Angelus is defeated*

Owww my tummy...

What did you go for? Remember, if it has Pineapple on it, I hate you :p
Ham and Pepperoni with Extra Cheese.
I also hate Pineapple on a Pizza, I think it's an unnatural combination. :p