http://www.nawlz.com/

IS PRETTY AWESOME.

(It's a wierd semi-animated webcomic thing.)

That is awesome indeed.

That is really cool.

just wondering, seeing as you guys would know more than me about such things.

does mac make a tablet laptop? I'm looking into an art college and the one I found mentioned the need for a laptop and that they have a deal with apple to provide a discount. as you guys know I don't have a mac. in fact, I know nothing about macs, so I ask those who do. does such a thing exist?

http://www.nawlz.com/

IS PRETTY AWESOME.

(It's a wierd semi-animated webcomic thing.)
That's wicked.

just wondering, seeing as you guys would know more than me about such things.

does mac make a tablet laptop? I'm looking into an art college and the one I found mentioned the need for a laptop and that they have a deal with apple to provide a discount. as you guys know I don't have a mac. in fact, I know nothing about macs, so I ask those who do. does such a thing exist?

Nope, but Mac laptops tend to have pretty huge trackpads.

Nope, but Mac laptops tend to have pretty huge trackpads.yeah, but that's an entirely different and unrelated experience to a tablet laptop :p

I wish they'd just announce a tablet laptop already.
I mean, what with all of the patented iPhone tech, they have to be working on something like that.

I wish they'd just announce a tablet laptop already.
I mean, what with all of the patented iPhone tech, they have to be working on something like that.well, if it counts, I found this (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook) while searching for tablet macs. I guess it counts?

though it's ridiculously overpriced.

Yeah tablets that double as monitors are crazy expensive. But compared to others that one didn't seem that expensive.. it's about the same as the cintiq which is the most popular choice (at least for PC).

yeah, but that's an entirely different and unrelated experience to a tablet laptop :p
That would be because i was thinking of graphics tablets, not "iPhone-like" devices :p

well, if it counts, I found this (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook) while searching for tablet macs. I guess it counts?

though it's ridiculously overpriced.
yes, the modbook is the only offically apple-sanctioned mac tablet

Ooh, I forgot about that.

though it's ridiculously overpriced.

It's just about as expensive as a medium-quality Macbook Pro.
Macs are expensive. :p
Seeing as how the Modbook isn't actually made by Apple, I doubt that that college's discount would apply. Oh well.

Ooh, I forgot about that.



It's just about as expensive as a medium-quality Macbook Pro.
Macs are expensive. :p
Seeing as how the Modbook isn't actually made by Apple, I doubt that that college's discount would apply. Oh well.knew that already :p but I've been told the discount is negligible anyway.

and I'm confused. if mac's are so much more expensive, don't run half the programs available for computers and can't play any games. why does anyone actually use them? :p I mean, yeah, I realize that the OS is made better, but if it's that damn much more expensive what the hell's the point?

it's wicked cool :cool:

knew that already :p but I've been told the discount is negligible anyway.

and I'm confused. if mac's are so much more expensive, don't run half the programs available for computers and can't play any games. why does anyone actually use them? :p I mean, yeah, I realize that the OS is made better, but if it's that damn much more expensive what the hell's the point?
Because it does run all programs available for mac, it does play some games, and with the new intel imacs you can run windows and actually run any program and game a pc can?
I mean, I can run MacOS X, AND WinXP. Can you run MacOS X? Didn't think so. :cool:

Because it does run all programs available for mac, it does play some games, and with the new intel imacs you can run windows and actually run any program and game a pc can?
I mean, I can run MacOS X, AND WinXP. Can you run MacOS X? Didn't think so. :cool:Actually we can it's just illegal which makes us even edgier. :eek:

Actually we can it's just illegal which makes us even edgier. :eek:
But I've heard it's pretty complicated, and unstable unless you specifically build the pc with hardware that will work with MacOS. :p

knew that already :p but I've been told the discount is negligible anyway.

and I'm confused. if mac's are so much more expensive, don't run half the programs available for computers and can't play any games. why does anyone actually use them? :p I mean, yeah, I realize that the OS is made better, but if it's that damn much more expensive what the hell's the point?

We were talking about the second most expensive laptop you could get from them.
Their cheapest, factory-fresh laptop is $1100, which is still a lot, I suppose. They last through pretty much anything, though. Every Mac my family has owned still works, which was why I was so surprised when this Macbook's harddrive failed. At least I got it replaced for free.

I'm not going to spout off about how much of a godsend Apple is or how wonderful they are; I'm not a yuppie. :p
I just like them. They've earned my trust and I shall continue to support them as long as it is economically feasible. POWER OF THE CONSUMER!

knew that already :p but I've been told the discount is negligible anyway.

In the UK, if you're in Higher Education (university), then you get a 15% discount - which is more than negligable :p

and I'm confused. if mac's are so much more expensive, don't run half the programs available for computers and can't play any games. why does anyone actually use them? :p I mean, yeah, I realize that the OS is made better, but if it's that damn much more expensive what the hell's the point?

Some macs are more expensive that their PC equivalents, others aren't. The Mac Pros and I think the MacBook are on par with or even cheaper than an equivalent spec PC.


Just don't, whatever you do, buy a MacBook Air. That thing is an overpriced heap of worthless junk.

In the UK, if you're in Higher Education (university), then you get a 15% discount - which is more than negligable :pI don't know the number yet, just that a friend told me the discount there was minor.

Some macs are more expensive that their PC equivalents, others aren't. The Mac Pros and I think the MacBook are on par with or even cheaper than an equivalent spec PC.oh ok then. eh, guess I'll look around and find what's the best option for me. still leaning towards the tablet version though, if I can afford it.

Just don't, whatever you do, buy a MacBook Air. That thing is an overpriced heap of worthless junk.oh god no. I know better than to buy "the smallest and lightest ______ ever!" regardless of what it is.

Just don't, whatever you do, buy a MacBook Air. That thing is an overpriced heap of worthless junk.

That seems harsh. I'd say it's an overpriced slither of worthless junk.

That seems harsh. I'd say it's an overpriced slither of worthless junk.
I dislike it that much :p

Okay, I went and made a .php script that would rotate my avatar on every reload, but then I noticed that it won't work because all of the avatars are actually uploaded onto Team17's server and used from there.

That seems like a waste of bandwidth. We should be able to load up the avatars from imageshack to give the forum a load off. The IMG tag was implemented because of that, right? Why not avatars? Meh. I just want to be special with my rotating pictures. :p

My script works with IMG tags, at least:
http://j.homes.mcad.edu/~jsutter/Scripts/dem/bones.php/HOWDY.gif

I still wouldn't mind something like that for the Soldat Forums.

Okay, I went and made a .php script that would rotate my avatar on every reload, but then I noticed that it won't work because all of the avatars are actually uploaded onto Team17's server and used from there.

That seems like a waste of bandwidth. We should be able to load up the avatars from imageshack to give the forum a load off. The IMG tag was implemented because of that, right? Why not avatars? Meh. I just want to be special with my rotating pictures. :p

My script works with IMG tags, at least:
http://j.homes.mcad.edu/~jsutter/Scripts/dem/bones.php/HOWDY.gif
I think the reason why they do that is to stop people uploading 2Mb avatars, and thus stalling the page everytime it loads for people on slower connections.

Okay, I went and made a .php script that would rotate my avatar on every reload, but then I noticed that it won't work because all of the avatars are actually uploaded onto Team17's server and used from there.

That seems like a waste of bandwidth. We should be able to load up the avatars from imageshack to give the forum a load off. The IMG tag was implemented because of that, right? Why not avatars? Meh. I just want to be special with my rotating pictures. :p

My script works with IMG tags, at least:
http://j.homes.mcad.edu/~jsutter/Scripts/dem/bones.php/HOWDY.gifhehe, yeah, this forum sucks for rotating stuff. I attempted a rotating sig not too long ago and it didn't work either. this place blows :p

http://www.lukewallin.co.uk/newav/av.gif

Hurrah for rotating avs, I'd like to be able to use this here too :p

I figure if people could use rotating avatars, they could also do more fiendish things with their scripts. :p

Rotating avatars remove the whole point of having avatars. How am I supposed to recognise people if their face changes every time I see them?

A small change here and there is fine, but that's not what would happen -- it's not what your script does, for example.

I think the reason why they do that is to stop people uploading 2Mb avatars, and thus stalling the page everytime it loads for people on slower connections.

The forum doesn't allow any avatar over 9.8kb, though. A 2mb one just wouldn't load.
At least, that's the way it should work...

I figure if people could use rotating avatars, they could also do more fiendish things with their scripts. :p

I suppose that makes sense.

Rotating avatars remove the whole point of having avatars. How am I supposed to recognise people if their face changes every time I see them?

A small change here and there is fine, but that's not what would happen -- it's not what your script does, for example.

I was just using that as a test. I'd choose a more unified set of images if it worked.

The forum doesn't allow any avatar over 9.8kb, though. A 2mb one just wouldn't load.
At least, that's the way it should work...


But if they're not uploaded onto the forum server, how would the forum know how big each avatar is? It'd have to pre-load them itself before delivering them to you, thus essentially resulting in each avatar being loaded twice, ever time a page is viewed.

Oh hey, we passed 14000 and noone noticed.

And hey, it's related to worms.

IRONY. :p

http://www.sugarboukas.com/X/DCFM/wDCFM00

http://www.sugarboukas.com/X/DCFM/wDCFM00Am I supposed to laugh? I don't know what to say about that comic.

http://www.sugarboukas.com/X/DCFM/wDCFM00wow.....that is possibly the LEAST humorous comic ever made by human hand. not only was it not funny it wasn't even entertaining.

why the hell did you link that?!

Jeez guys, Just because it's a comic doesn't mean it's meant to be funny.

I just wanted to share a short comic that made me feel sad by quoting The Simpsons.

wow.....that is possibly the LEAST humorous comic ever made by human hand. not only was it not funny it wasn't even entertaining.

why the hell did you link that?!

why are you getting mad?

the artwork is wonderful and i thought the comic itself was magical, it conveyed how absurdly and intensely popular culture affects our lives but in a very poignant and and humorous manner

you could probably legit write an essay on it without looking like a douche

maybe i'm just looking at everything in terms of "can i write an essay about it" right now because of what this camp has done to me but i see nothing about that comic that would actually anger you to read it

I liked it. :-/

It is an interesting comic, but the art style creeps me out.

Rotating avatars remove the whole point of having avatars. How am I supposed to recognise people if their face changes every time I see them?

A small change here and there is fine, but that's not what would happen -- it's not what your script does, for example.
well i mean there are screennames
wow.....that is possibly the LEAST humorous comic ever made by human hand. not only was it not funny it wasn't even entertaining.

why the hell did you link that?!

sheesh dude

why are you getting mad?perhaps I sounded a bit harsher than i realized? oops :o

http://www.sugarboukas.com/X/DCFM/wDCFM00

Geez, that's something else.
I mean that in the good way of being "something else".

For some reason Opera is having problems viewing the forum. It's happened before..

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2343/issuest9.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=issuest9.jpg)

For some reason Opera is having problems viewing the forum. It's happened before..

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2343/issuest9.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=issuest9.jpg)
solution: stop using opera

For some reason Opera is having problems viewing the forum. It's happened before..

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2343/issuest9.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=issuest9.jpg)
Could it be that the font size has changed to very, very small?

Works for me. Maybe you're using some custom JS?

I doubt it, it just suddenly happened. And posts are miles wide with several screens worth of those lines. All images work fine. But the page also loads incredibly slowly with Opera.

I believe I have the lastest version and I have no such issue.

did you recently change any settings, perhaps?

Did you change the font size of the browser? You change that by moving the mouse scroll wheel while holding Control - I accidentally change it all the time.

Did you change the font size of the browser? You change that by moving the mouse scroll wheel while holding Control - I accidentally change it all the time.

No, that's zoom, which is different to font size.
Zoom affects images too.

Besides, no matter how far I zoom out, I can't make text become a line.

Well I use Firefox and it mostly works for me...:p I've never used Opera so I didn't assume the feature would be any different. Alas...

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6526/backgroundbf8.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6526/backgroundbf8.jpg)

It magically fixed itself when I went to a friends house. Maybe it had to do with my connection. O_o

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

Hamster trapped in a 2D sidescroller.

Haha, brilliant.

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

Hamster trapped in a 2D sidescroller.
Reminds me a lot of this old German TV show: http://www.gameshowkult.de/willi.htm

The last game was a hamster in a labyrinth (bottom picture), determinig the prize that the contestants would win.

I don't get why my dwarfs arn't working. My Carpenters Workshop has three build orders; Make Wooden Animal Trap, Construct Wooden Floodgate, Contruct Wooden Armor.

Now I have tons of wood, and I have several dwarfs with carpentry activated in their job list.. (but still it says No Job and Peasant). I don't get it. WORK DAMMIT!

Edit: Ok, the trap got made finally. Not sure if it had anything to do with me removing general orders like "catch 20 fish" from another list. In any case, It took a few months of waiting.

They only move out of being Peasants once they actually gain some skill in something.

Well, everything seems to be in order. And unless i accidently flood my fortress (this is more likely than you'd think!) then this looks to be my best run yet.

Edit: My dwarf Likot is an idiot. He keeps bringing in dead animals and dumping them in his bedroom. Atleast it's HIS bedroom, but nobody every uses thoose carcasses for anything and they just turn into miasma. So I had to build a door to keep it from spreading to the other rooms, and a "chimeny" to ventilate most of it outside.

If you posted these in the general DF thread in OO you'd probably get more responses. But uh, do you have any butchers or whatever stockpile holds corpses... refuse? Does Likot have refuse hauling on?

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssss sssssssss (http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/countycricket2008/content/story/362669.html)

out of curiosity, is middlesex the name of the town they're from or the team or what?

secondly: who the hell named it middlesex and why? :p

Middlesex is the county.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex

The name comes from something to do with the Saxons.

Yeah, English "top level" teams are named after traditional counties. Middlesex the county doesn't actually exist now - a lot of it's become part of Greater London. I support them because, well, I was born in London, even though I only lived there for eight months. Just one of those things.

Middlesex is the county.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex

The name comes from something to do with the Saxons.ah, so just an unfortunate evolution of terminology then. ok.

ah, so just an unfortunate evolution of terminology then. ok.
Cricket is all about unfortunate evolutions of terminology. Or, as a friend of mine once put it, "Slip + Leg Break = Backward Square Leg?"

Cricket is all about unfortunate evolutions of terminology. Or, as a friend of mine once put it, "Slip + Leg Break = Backward Square Leg?"
i bet that joke is really funny

i bet that joke is really funny
If you were into such an obscure, rarely-played sport. ;)

If you were into such an obscure, rarely-played sport. ;)Second most popular team sport in the world, thank you very much :p.

(Granted, it helps that India has more than a billion people, and Pakistan and Bangladesh another 300,000 between them...)

Second most popular team sport in the world, thank you very much :p.

(Granted, it helps that India has more than a billion people, and Pakistan and Bangladesh another 300,000 between them...)
Hmm.
I think that the British Empire only started expanding their empire in the colonial times to spread the popularity of their obscure sports. :D

Oh, so that's where all these Mario Paint Composer YouTubes are coming from. (http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/)

Wheeee

There was an earthquake an hour or two ago. Fun times.

Kotaku's coment sections aren't quite up ther with youtube, but they do crap out gems like this once in a while.
Too bad Lego isn't what it used to be. Now it's just another manga.

Kotaku's coment sections aren't quite up ther with youtube, but they do crap out gems like this once in a while.is there context for that quote or is he just stupid? :p

I don't think I'm quite ready to come back from my hiatus yet, but I just had to share this with youse:

Mario On Ice! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4Bca8DbAQ)
You've never played video games until you've played video games with the video prince.

Oh no.

OH NO.

Huuhhh?????

I don't think I'm quite ready to come back from my hiatus yet, but I just had to share this with youse:

Mario On Ice! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4Bca8DbAQ)
You've never played video games until you've played video games with the video prince.

That's horrible! O_O"

http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/61fps/archive/2008/08/05/periphery.aspx

A device that lets you control a video game with your thoughts.
Not kidding.

:eek:

not ONLY does it actually seem to work, it comes out THIS year and is only $300?! WTF?!

seriously, damn it! Wii 2 was supposed to just be a really cool motion control console, now it might be a MIND control console?! :confused:

MIND CONTROL

http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/61fps/archive/2008/08/05/periphery.aspx

A device that lets you control a video game with your thoughts.
Not kidding.

Keep it.

http://www.realvg.org/display.php?type=articles&id=212

MIND CONTROL

Only if you reverse the polarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JboQmDIdKWs
...
I can't make up my mind. I mean, it looks awesome as hell, it reminds me a lot of the game. But then you see some bizarre winged thing... and on the official site it says that "Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world"...
Could they possibly have ruined the movie so badly? :(

eh, doesn't look bad.

I can probably enjoy it, having not played hardly anything of the games.

i just realized that i've been registered at this board for more than five years

uguhgugghgughgughgghgughggh

...it looks awesome as hell, it reminds me a lot of the game.

Oxymoron ?

i just realized that i've been registered at this board for more than five years

uguhgugghgughgughgghgughggh
For me it's seven in October.

No wonder I feel tired :p

4 for me this year.

but the 10k posts make up for the lack of time being here :p

Oxymoron ?
What I mean with that is that it does keep a lot of the feeling of the game, unlike other videogame-to-movie adaptations(The worst-case example being the Mario Bros. movie. :P)

Yikes, 4 and a half years for me!

And a search reveals lots of old posts I'd rather forget :p

Hmm... apparantly I joined 26th Jan 04.
That makes it 4 and a half years.



What a waste.

oops. did mine wrong. 5 years for me as well :-/

6 years here. Which means I was 13 when I joined. I feel like I've squandered my childhood...

6 years and 6 days actually. And about 5 1/2 hours. Now if only I had posted this half an hour later...

I didn't think Dr McNinja could be any better, but Goddanm. (http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=2&issue=13)

I didn't think Dr McNinja could be any better, but Goddanm. (http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=2&issue=13)oh ho yes. I'm so damn happy to see it in color. the quality was already amazing enough but now with color?! :D

For me it's seven in October.

No wonder I feel tired :pYou sure? I'm fairly sure I just passed 7 last month, and you were here before me.

Pretty sure my join date was October 2001.

And I only started posting properly in 2002, after the whole premod thing was lifted.

Just wondering if the s****horpe filtering still happens.
.
Edit:: affirmative.

Anyone else remember the small debate that arose when someone misspelt my handle and it was printed on-screen as s****inator2k?

Something very silly:

31769

From this we conclude that K^2 is a specific case of AndrewTaylor where Andrew(a) = e^a, a = 0 and x = 2ln K

Paul dot power. Ohhhh dear :p

I'm pretty sure someone else did the Paul dot Power joke first, though.

First time I can remember seeing it though.

Calvin and Jobs (http://gizmodo.com/5033627/calvin-and-jobs-kick-steves-nuts)

Pretty funny. I imagine thomasp might like this. Then again, he'll probably hate it ;)

EDIT: For those not in the know, that's Steve Jobs, the Apple Mac dude.

Something not quite as silly but still pretty damn silly:

31771

31772

31773

that was painfully horribly drawn :p

I still laughed a bit, but I just had to comment on the drawing :p

Mmm, same. Made me laugh, but for some odd reason the drawing rather reminds me of lego.

Calvin and Jobs (http://gizmodo.com/5033627/calvin-and-jobs-kick-steves-nuts)

Pretty funny. I imagine thomasp might like this. Then again, he'll probably hate it ;)

EDIT: For those not in the know, that's Steve Jobs, the Apple Mac dude.
*Bans melon*

Actually that was pretty funny :p

that was painfully horribly drawn :pThere is a reason why this is in 100%OT and not YOA3 :p

Anyway, I think I deserve props for writing a TF2 comic where the punchline isn't "OMG he was a spy!"*

* Not to say its the first one to try this daring, avant garde approach, but I'd estimate at least 50% of TF2 comics end like this.

I've half a mind to redraw that when I get home.

Ooh, that would be fun. Go for it :)

Because I know not all of you leave OD - http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36968

I nearly put that in OD but then decided I'd tell the underlings about it too.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/cat-3.jpg
http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

so apparently one of my suitemates in college is going to be named andrew taylor

Wow. Because that's not a really, really common name at all.

Wow. Because that's not a really, really common name at all.
how did i know that the first post was going to be right along those lines

Andrew is the most common name ever. There isn't a day that goes by without me running into yet another Andrew. In fact, it is such a common name that you can translate it to any language and it is still the most common name and the end result is I know a billion Andrew's across the world with no real way of putting them apart.

If it's any consolation, I thought it was pretty amazing.

Andrew is the most common name ever. There isn't a day that goes by without me running into yet another Andrew. In fact, it is such a common name that you can translate it to any language and it is still the most common name and the end result is I know a billion Andrew's across the world with no real way of putting them apart.
he is, however, the first andrew taylor that i've met outside of this forum

Andrew is the most common name ever. There isn't a day that goes by without me running into yet another Andrew. In fact, it is such a common name that you can translate it to any language and it is still the most common name and the end result is I know a billion Andrew's across the world with no real way of putting them apart.

You know that the world is larger than the UK right?

Yet Portugal is flooded with André's.

But what are the odds of their last name being Taylor? :p

I have only been able to think of one Andrew I know in California. I don't think it's a very common name over here.:p

I work with a bunch of Andrews.

I work with a bunch of Andrews.
After all, you're living near the San Andreas fault.

* groan *

After all, you're living near the San Andreas fault.
hahahahaha

Ah, so it's San Andreas' fault.

McMaster "found" my blog and decided to leave some spam comments on there under an alias. Then he went over to Team17.tk and told the braindead morons there that he'd done it.

I have the logs from the comments but I've just blocked his IP address. Doesn't stop me from trying to scare him, though.

Threaten him with legal action, due to harrassment and all that nonsense that Americans usually sue people over :p ;)

McMaster "found" my blog and decided to leave some spam comments on there under an alias. Then he went over to Team17.tk and told the braindead morons there that he'd done it.

I have the logs from the comments but I've just blocked his IP address. Doesn't stop me from trying to scare him, though.
i still find it endlessly amusing that there's an alternate team17 forum

And it only has about 6 regular posters.

It's a fan-fan-forum.

But already several thousand posts among those 6 regulars. :p
That's worse than Akuryou13 in his heyday of spamming.

McMaster "found" my blog and decided to leave some spam comments on there under an alias. Then he went over to Team17.tk and told the braindead morons there that he'd done it.

I have the logs from the comments but I've just blocked his IP address. Doesn't stop me from trying to scare him, though.

heh.... i knew you'd fall into my trap... mwahaha....

i hacked the mcmaster account on team17tk ages ago. all his modern posts are me posing as mcmaster. but i could not stop hacking there. i had to keep hacking. and with mcmaster being played with in the palm of my hand... squirminator2k was next. i hacked your blog. i hold in my hand the script that will blow up your blog.

i have it set to execute in 24 hours.

if you do not react to my demands in 24 hours, i will blow up your blog. choose you're footsteps wisely.

heh.... i knew you'd fall into my trap... mwahaha....

i hacked the mcmaster account on team17tk ages ago. all his modern posts are me posing as mcmaster. but i could not stop hacking there. i had to keep hacking. and with mcmaster being played with in the palm of my hand... squirminator2k was next. i hacked your blog. i hold in my hand the script that will blow up your blog.

i have it set to execute in 24 hours.

if you do not react to my demands in 24 hours, i will blow up your blog. choose you're footsteps wisely.
I disbelieve your purported hacking skills.

I bet you couldn't... say... ehrm... hack the t17.tk forum, delete all posts and ban all members.

I bet you couldn't... say... ehrm... hack the t17.tk forum, delete all posts and ban all members.

And if you could do that:
What the hell are you wasting your talents on that crap for!?

But already several thousand posts among those 6 regulars. :p
That's worse than Akuryou13 in his heyday of spamming.*looks at the 14 threads in his usercp* yep.....glad those days are over.

heh.... i knew you'd fall into my trap... mwahaha....

i hacked the mcmaster account on team17tk ages ago. all his modern posts are me posing as mcmaster. but i could not stop hacking there. i had to keep hacking. and with mcmaster being played with in the palm of my hand... squirminator2k was next. i hacked your blog. i hold in my hand the script that will blow up your blog.

i have it set to execute in 24 hours.

if you do not react to my demands in 24 hours, i will blow up your blog. choose you're footsteps wisely.
oh snappu~

heh.... i knew you'd fall into my trap... mwahaha....

i hacked the mcmaster account on team17tk ages ago. all his modern posts are me posing as mcmaster. but i could not stop hacking there. i had to keep hacking. and with mcmaster being played with in the palm of my hand... squirminator2k was next. i hacked your blog. i hold in my hand the script that will blow up your blog.

i have it set to execute in 24 hours.

if you do not react to my demands in 24 hours, i will blow up your blog. choose you're footsteps wisely.
I wonder how many of the members on that forum have their passwords set to the same as their username - like those PM spammers :p

I reckon quite a high number.

Something not quite as silly but still pretty damn silly:I did the poses, Munkee did the captions:

http://g.photos.cx/PaulComicRedux1-b3.jpg

http://g.photos.cx/PaulComicRedux2d-1a.jpg

http://g.photos.cx/PaulComicRedux3d-2d.jpg

Hehe, nice one :D

Also, full-sized original screenshot from which my new Steam avatar was derived:

http://g.photos.cx/rp_hometown19990006-b5.jpg

I did the poses, Munkee did the captions:
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you're so random!!!!!!!!!!!

hahahhahsadkofhaskdhflxkcvzldsfkhasdfl

you're so random!!!!!!!!!!!

you're kinda dumb sometimes dude

hahahhahsadkofhaskdhflxkcvzldsfkhasdfl

you're so random!!!!!!!!!!!

what are you on

?em ot gnineppah siht si yhw

draobyek telbat a no yllaicepse meoserit ytterp s'taht tub krow arrow keys seht .gnihtyna thgilhgih ron ,esuom eht htiw noitisop s'ti egnahc t'nac I .nosaer suoivbo on rof epyt I reve tahw fo tfel eht no syafs enil gnihsalf eht ,esoprup no siht gniod ton m'I

?kcuf eht tahw ylsuoires

wow, philby. that sucks.

Is your whatever set on arabic mode or something?

?em ot gnineppah siht si yhw

.rosruc eht gnivom ybereht dna ,t'ndluohs ti nehw sesserp yek worra tfel gnidnes si draobyek ruoy taht si sseug yM

:p .etouq eht erofeb raeppa dluow sepyt eh txet eht gnitouq nehw neht tub ,spahreP.rosruc eht gnivom ybereht dna ,t'ndluohs ti nehw sesserp yek worra tfel gnidnes si draobyek ruoy taht si sseug yM

And you can see in the Other Art and stuff thread that he quoted Pikkul witouth that issue.

looks like it's fixed itself now.:p

how peculiar.

i'm pretty sure it wasn't a stuck key as I could move it with the arrow keys without it sliding back.

:p .etouq eht erofeb raeppa dluow sepyt eh txet eht gnitouq nehw neht tub ,spahreP

Not if it was only sending one left arrow key press with each other key he typed.

what are you on
if there's one thing that i'm fed up with on the internet it's tf2 comics

as for what i'm on, 420 smoke weed every day

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5715/46648370nz2.png

lololololol

Asda story?

So, you go shopping or something?

Trickster's ads are worse.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9595/xfiretricksterft5.png

:3

Trickster's ads are worse.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9595/xfiretricksterft5.png

:3
http://g.photos.cx/emot-nyoron-24.gif

if there's one thing that i'm fed up with on the internet it's tf2 comicsi am sorry for bringing my remake of a comic posted elsewhere in this thread to this thread because it was trying so unbelievably hard to be so wacky and random and i know you hate that on your internet, mr. goon

thats okay your cool tho

if there's one thing that i'm fed up with on the internet it's tf2 comics

as for what i'm on, 420 smoke weed every day

Get back into BYOB or FYAD or YCS or whatever fakeposting circlejerk you've gravitated to and stay there.

Carol Thatcher: "My mother had a memory like a website..."

"... specifically, Time Cube."
"... prone to server crashes, leading to all sorts of errors."
"... limited bandwidth."
"... covered very specific areas."
"... 90% of it was crud."
"... anyone could edit it."
"... a forum where every brain cell was a victim of the GIFT."

I just wanted futureworm to read threads better I didn't want to tar and feather him and drive him outta t17

This is the best game ever.

BBC Iplayer is rather good.

whoo Life on Mars.

What ever happened to Everett? aKa: FatWhitey?

He's retired from the forums though you can still catch him on MSN.

There was just an advertisement on tv that basically said "tomorrow on our show, we're going to show you how you can eat the H2O you need, rather than drinking it."

Does that make sense to anybody else? Is it suddenly unhealthy to drink water?...

There was just an advertisement on tv that basically said "tomorrow on our show, we're going to show you how you can eat the H2O you need, rather than drinking it."

Does that make sense to anybody else? Is it suddenly unhealthy to drink water?...I think a lot of people are put off by the idea of having to drink 8 litres of water a day: for some reason, some people just don't like the taste.

I thought that number was nonsense anyway?

I think a lot of people are put off by the idea of having to drink 8 litres of water a day: for some reason, some people just don't like the taste.

8 Litres? Are you sure it wasn't something closer to 2?
I remember it being advertised as 8 glasses though.

8 Litres? Are you sure it wasn't something closer to 2?
I remember it being advertised as 8 glasses though.

Well, you're basically made of water and the amount you sweat, excrete and exhale (and more), I can see how two wouldn't cut it. But I would check before endorsing a figure, since most well-known dietary advice is made up by celebrity quacks.

The fact is that you eat almost all of the water your body uses anyway.

Shouldn't the amount of water you need vary by person?
I just drink when I'm thirsty. :cool:

Free stuff Red Alert! (http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62)

The video trailer on that thing has me utterly confused.
Also, it seems constant time travel has had an effect on Tanya's hair colour. Most perplexing...

I do have fond memories of the first RA game... I think it's best they remain as memories.

The video trailer on that thing has me utterly confused.
Also, it seems constant time travel has had an effect on Tanya's hair colour. Most perplexing...

I do have fond memories of the first RA game... I think it's best they remain as memories.<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (22:44):
a blond tanya, what
Paul.Power says (22:44):
See this is what happens when you kill Einstein

To simplify the new story: Soviets go back in time, kill Einstein, everything goes ape**** again. Time travel is the new "a wizard did it" :p

Is Einstein killed before or after he goes back in time to kill Hitler to prevent WWII? Thus causing the events of RA and then RA2 (or potentially the originally C&C storyline as some say).
Also, is this the same Einstein that appears in RA2? Despite the fact that he would be unusually old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#For_drinking

Is Einstein killed before or after he goes back in time to kill Hitler to prevent WWII? Thus causing the events of RA and then RA2 (or potentially the originally C&C storyline as some say).
Also, is this the same Einstein that appears in RA2? Despite the fact that he would be unusually old.Your guess is as good as mine, that video is pretty much all we got to go on, although we're told that they erased the story of RA and RA2 so EA has full creative license. :p I imagine they killed Einstein after the Hitler incident, otherwise he would still be on the lose and the Soviets would be powerless.

And according to the cutscenes (http://www.ea.com/cncmovies/) in RA1, if the Allies win, you get RA2; if the Soviets win, you get C&C.

And according to the cutscenes (http://www.ea.com/cncmovies/) in RA1, if the Allies win, you get RA2; if the Soviets win, you get C&C.
You get those? For free?
Guess I'll have to download and play RA1 again then!

You get those? For free?
Guess I'll have to download and play RA1 again then!I meant storyline-wise. :p (although C&C is already free and you get RA2 for free if you preorder RA3)

Polarized sunglasses. They cut out glare, and make LCD screens go black from certain angles. Most LCD screens, at least. Apparently the screen on my tablet PC takes acid every time you look at it with polarized lenses...:cool:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1416/img1200wq6.jpg

Woo, ripples!

On an unrelated note, I've been thinking of buying a new tablet, for two reasons. One is that I need a larger one, because with the one I have now I have to set the drawing area to a very small portion of the screen otherwise whatever I draw ends up all shaky. :P

And the other, more important reason is that when I'm under MacOS X the thing hiccups a lot when I'm making several consecutive strokes... which is incredibly annoying. The odd thing is that this does not happen at all when I switch to Windows XP, but I'm seriously tired of having to restart to XP whenever I want to draw something...

But it worries me that I'll have the same issue if I buy a new tablet...


This is the tablet I have right now: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/2478062061_0a2b837461.jpg?v=0

i always read "hadron collider" as "hardon collider" and it makes me giggle every time

8 Litres? Are you sure it wasn't something closer to 2?
I remember it being advertised as 8 glasses though.nope. scientific studies have come to the astounding conclusion that the human body can determine how much food and water it needs. it's called being thirsty. when your body is telling you to drink water. drink water......go figure.

also, google chrome is the bıtch tits

nope. scientific studies have come to the astounding conclusion that the human body can determine how much food and water it needs. it's called being thirsty. when your body is telling you to drink water. drink water......go figure.

...

Yes, but I rarely find myself wanting to drink 2 litres a day (unless I'm doing a lot of exercise). I'm not sure how much water I take in through food, but 8 litres seems a lot in total.
Just looking at the Wikipedia, it mentions something about 3.7 litres including water in food being recommended.

I think a lot of people are put off by the idea of having to drink 8 litres of water a day: for some reason, some people just don't like the taste.
Isn't it 8 pints a day? 8 litres is a heck of a lot of water :p

8 pints is either 3.75 litres or 4.54 litres depending whether you're American or use proper pints.

also, google chrome is the bıtch tits

Is that a good thing or not? :P

It's not quite as awesome as I'd hoped. Javascript is much faster, but that's about it. It suffers from the same layout bugs as safari, renders arcs on the canvas wrong, and ajax back-forward history doesn't work (even in their own gmail)!

Also, read the fine print (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/09/03/0247205.shtml). Plus iit secretly installs a google updater in the background.

...

Yes, but I rarely find myself wanting to drink 2 litres a day (unless I'm doing a lot of exercise). I'm not sure how much water I take in through food, but 8 litres seems a lot in total.
Just looking at the Wikipedia, it mentions something about 3.7 litres including water in food being recommended.the research I heard (on the radio for the record, so I don't actually have a link or anything) simply said that when you're thirsty you need to drink something. some people will likely have gotten into the habit of ignoring their thirst and so those are the ones who the "drink __ glasses a day" rule was made for, but if you're really looking to help yourself, just pay attention and grab some water when you're feeling thirsty.

Yeah, but I'm not sure how your post actually links to the fact that I was doubting it being 8 litres. Apart from the fact thirst is obviously linked to water.

8 Litres is a huge amount of water to be taking in.


8 pints is either 3.75 litres or 4.54 litres depending whether you're American or use proper pints.

Which ties in pretty much what I read earlier. So I'll just assume Paul got the unit wrong.

i always read "hadron collider" as "hardon collider" and it makes me giggle every timeYou're not the only one:

Large Hadron Collider
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<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:21):
ROUNDABOUTS
Paul.Power says (18:22):
ROUNDABOUTS
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:23):
WHAT ABOUT THEM?
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:23):
THEY'RE ROUND
Paul.Power says (18:23):
YOU GO ABOUT THEM
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:23):
BUT WHAT IF YOU DON'T GO ALL THE WAY ABOUT?
Paul.Power says (18:24):
I DON'T KNOW
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:24):
THEN THEY'RE CURVEABOUTS
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (18:24):
*BADUM KSCH*

Large Hardon Collider, not thoroughly safe for work: http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/8246/largehardoncolliderme5.png

lol i got probated from sa for a day because i posted without using caps

regardless of the fact that my posts are far better than many who post with full grammatical correctness

I would personally probate you for using "lol", but there we are.

I've been thinking of joining the SA forums for a while now, given how much time I spend lurking around the Let's Play! forum there.

But I'm not sure I could bear to lose all those wonderful swearfilters for nonregistered users. It wouldn't be the same without "what the gently caress".

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html :cool:

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html :cool:
Ahahaha that's awesome.

Why do so many people actually believe that the LHC is going to destroy the world? It makes me sad..

Why do so many people actually believe that the LHC is going to destroy the world? It makes me sad..
They have just watched too many bad sci-fi movies... :rolleyes:

The only reasonable thing I think could happen is that some scientist gets rendered invisible but also crazy.
He then gets out of the CERN labs and starts eating diplomats' heads at the Geneva UN compound! :eek:

Why do so many people actually believe that the LHC is going to destroy the world? It makes me sad..

I'm not sure they do. Most are just making fun of it. Others are questioning why we are taking the risk, even if it is a 1 in a million chance or less.

There's always an exception though: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4690263a12.html

So she kills herself to avoid dying? Clever. :p

So she kills herself to avoid dying? Clever. :p
Perhaps some Hindu rebirth thing?
If you're sucked into a black hole and pop out in another dimension you can't get reborn because the Gods are still in the old dimension.
Although, where does she think she'll be reborn on if the Earth gets sucked away?
Also, it's questionable if you get reborn after a suicide.

________Black hole______no black hole

Suicide____no rebirth_____rebirth??

Live______no rebirth_____life, yay! +rebirth later

If she really believed in the black hole occuring, then she'd be doomed anyway.
Logically, suicide would be useless and she should have rather hoped for no black hole to occur.

the lhc is going to be just like any other particle accelerator; it will provide physicists with useful information except on a much larger scale. i don't understand what people are freaking out about

Sut mae tawedd heddiw?

Yn y bore, mae tawedd hi'n braf :), ond yn y prynhawn, mae tawedd hi'n bwrw glaw :(.

the lhc is going to be just like any other particle accelerator; it will provide physicists with useful information except on a much larger scale. i don't understand what people are freaking out about

It's because they're gullible.

Sut mae tawedd heddiw?

Yn y bore, mae tawedd hi'n braf :), ond yn y prynhawn, mae tawedd hi'n bwrw glaw :(.

Moon language?

Welsh? .

I assumed it was, but I can't understand a thing. A translator only made things worse: "Manner he is being y used to flourish today? Crookedly the morning , he is being y used to flourish she ' heartburn fine , except crookedly the afternoon , he is being y used to flourish she ' heartburn rain "
:o

Fine.

"How's the weather today?

In the morning, the weather was fine :), but in the afternoon, the weather is raining :("

I may have spelt the Welsh word for weather wrong, I dunno. It's been a while.

In other news, my Primary School Experience Week went fine.

EDIT: Yeah, sorry, the Welsh word for weather is "tywydd", not "tawedd". Darn phonetics.

i don't understand what people are freaking out about

Because some bright spark mentioned the words: "Mini-Black Hole" to the press. That pretty much sums it up.

Are we all dead yet? I'm just wondering because I don't feel dead.

Are we all dead yet? I'm just wondering because I don't feel dead.

Answers to your question AND MORE can be found here. (http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/)

I heard that they pre-emptively destroyed the earth in an effort to prevent it from being destroyed by any sort of catastrophe. We're totally safe.

Reminds me of that "punctures" comic *high-fives Pigbuster*

William Hill gave 10,000/1 odds on the LHC destroying the world on start-up day, and have made £500,000 out of it. There's a lot of stupid people. Once you get past the fact they think LHC can destroy the world, and that they think it can do this on start-up day even though no particle collisions happen for a few weeks yet, How do they expect to collect if they do win?

William Hill gave 10,000/1 odds on the LHC destroying the world on start-up day, and have made £500,000 out of it. There's a lot of stupid people. Once you get past the fact they think LHC can destroy the world, and that they think it can do this on start-up day even though no particle collisions happen for a few weeks yet, How do they expect to collect if they do win?
haha, that's incredible

Wormatty, why do you still have my old seizure avatar?

Because it is made of the rarest element on earth - awesomonium.

Just in case we get any new photoepileptics.

Well you could at least use the better version.

http://kieranmillar.com/melonseizureava2.gif

Just in case we get any new photoepileptics.

What?
Are you trying to kill them off before they post anything?

Yeah alright, they probably won't die...

Anyone other than Paul gets the thread name and I'll be very impressed (or more probably assume you Googled it).

Anyone other than Paul gets the thread name and I'll be very impressed (or more probably assume you Googled it).
It is not hard to find in a google, so fail.

It is not hard to find in a google, so fail.

Not really sure what your point is. So, er... рwn. Yeah. I can speak Internets.

рwn :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

it's not banned anymore?!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

it's not banned anymore?!

It's filtered. I'm just clever.

(And unlikely to infract me.)

Oh right yeah, the new largest known prime.

Oh right yeah, the new largest known prime.
How much time and money was spent on working that out, and how long until they find the next highest?

I'm curious. does it really MATTER if a number is prime? is there some greater purpose for that research being done?

Jesus Christ. (http://www.badkarmaproductions.com/jc/)

It's beautiful.

Jesus Christ. (http://www.badkarmaproductions.com/jc/)

It's beautiful.what? a poop joke?

The -1 at the end of the number made me think that this is a prime number.
I have seen several of those before over the last few years and they always were Mersenne primes.

I'm curious. does it really MATTER if a number is prime? is there some greater purpose for that research being done?

Encryption, I thought.

Encryption, I thought.
No, no!
The deepest secrets of the universe.

what? a poop joke?
No the entire comic.

It's very reminiscent of Dr McNinja, except it stars Jesus and he's fighting nazis.

The latest page makes zero sense out of context.

I'm curious. does it really MATTER if a number is prime? is there some greater purpose for that research being done?Maths research.

Maths.

Research.

Pure mathematicians are ashamed when their research turns out to have practical value. Nobody asks an artist what the use of their picture is.

Pure mathematicians are ashamed when their research turns out to have practical value. Nobody asks an artist what the use of their picture is.Money. :p Why do you think there's so many math teachers?

Because he was brainwashed in to thinking that by repeated exposure during university.

That reminds me, my math teacher was bat-**** crazy. If I ever meet him again I will punch him in the face. :)

Money. :p Why do you think there's so many math teachers?

Yeah, we need to research bleeding edge mathematics so we can teach it to small children. That would be useful.

It's what Paul does. :p

I meant (making a joke off Paul's point) artists make art for the money (and some for the art, I guess), mathmos are stuck with teaching/researching.

It's what Paul does. :p

I meant (making a joke off Paul's point) artists make art for the money (and some for the art, I guess), mathmos are stuck with teaching/researching.
Or actuarial work, or computer programming, or science journalism, or finance, or...

Besides, there's a shortage of maths teachers in the UK, so your "Why do you think there's so many math teachers?" point falls flat :p

No the entire comic.

It's very reminiscent of Dr McNinja, except it stars Jesus and he's fighting nazis.

The latest page makes zero sense out of context.oh ok. I assumed you were linking a specific comic rather than the comic as a whole.

Maths research.

Maths.

Research.

Pure mathematicians are ashamed when their research turns out to have practical value. Nobody asks an artist what the use of their picture is. yes, but an artists work is just for entertainment value. it's nice to look at, and that's pretty much it. the practical use it to sell them for decorations. sure, it's a shallow use but it exists. what use does knowing a really big prime number have? :p

It's very reminiscent of Dr McNinja, except it stars Jesus and he's fighting nazis.

With a time travelling Ernest Hemingway at his side. Awesome.

Or actuarial work, or computer programming, or science journalism, or finance, or...Yes but that's applying math to something else you still have to learn. :p
My point is that math is great as a basis for everything else, but its rather silly on its own. (which I assume is what mathmos do)

My point is that math is great as a basis for everything else, but its rather silly on its own. (which I assume is what mathmos do)

What's wrong with studying and researching Maths purely for the sake of Maths.
If it wasn't done, Physicists would be buggered.
And programmers.

yes, but an artists work is just for entertainment value. it's nice to look at, and that's pretty much it. the practical use it to sell them for decorations. sure, it's a shallow use but it exists. what use does knowing a really big prime number have? :p

Find two and you can use them for data encryption.

The point is rarely as clear as it seems. Many major discoveries in maths and science -- maybe even most of them -- are made by accident. But you have to research something to find anything. As long as 'blue-sky' research is done, it will turn up useful and interesting results periodically.

Finding large primes is probably more use as a tool for other researchers than anything else.

Yes but that's applying math to something else you still have to learn. :pSo's maths teaching. This course isn't about sitting on a sofa eating crisps.

yes, but an artists work is just for entertainment value. it's nice to look at, and that's pretty much it. the practical use it to sell them for decorations. sure, it's a shallow use but it exists. what use does knowing a really big prime number have? :pWell, I think it's pretty entertaining.

(incidentally, having a new largest Mersenne Prime also means we have a new largest perfect number: (2^43,112,609 - 1)*(2^43,112,608). Perfect numbers are entirely useless, just so you know. And it's awesome).