noma reflects on the consequences of average species lifespans:
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×noma[00:22]: We love our pets, but every pet is heartache waiting to happen
Banjooie reads the most cathartic of feature requests:
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×Banjooie[01:24]: okay I am so bad at this game
Banjooie[01:24]: what even
Banjooie[01:26]: Weak blade: thrice west
Banjooie[01:26]: Just WHAT.
Banjooie[01:29]: oh never mind this hold has awkward serpent manipulation
Jatopian[01:57]: we need trigger warnings on holds
Jatopian[01:57]: tw: serpent manipulation
Jatopian[01:58]: think of the banjooies
Maurog[04:43]: there should be a serpent manipulation token
Maurog[04:43]: you stand on it, and control all the serpents
Maurog[04:43]: with Q and W
Jatopian[04:44]: a curious idea
Jatopian[04:44]: I would support it, if only because it gives vent to my natural urges to stand atop a plinth and shout I AM THE SNAKELORD
There is whining in the vicinity of Pearls:
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×Jatopian[14:10]: oh god I can hear Pearls's computer fan whine in this LP
Schik[14:10]: oh I thought that was just Pearls
12th Archivist produces a hold:
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×12th Archivist[22:05]: Hey Pearls, how would you enjoy doing an LP of my newest hold, Widget Factory?
Jatopian[22:08]: what's special about it?
12th Archivist[22:14]: Jatopian> First architecture of mine. Pearls has expressed an interest in trying out a variety of architects, and I might as well submit my name to the queue.
Dischorran[22:16]: ...besides Drod Tester One and Doctor Beethro.
Schik[22:22]: I must award one "oh snap" to Dischorran
Typsnows:
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×skell[15:01]: Not sure about Scotland, but I hear in England they close schools when there is a centimeter or two of snow
Elfstone[15:01]: yes that tends to be the way of it nowadays
Elfstone[15:02]: certainly in the central belt, a hint of white and it grinds to a halt
Elfstone[15:02]: we're a wee bit more resilient up here
skell[15:02]: That might explain why no English folks visit Poland in winter
skell[15:03]: It's pretty normal for us to have lots o snow
Jatopian[15:04]: wait, England is like that?
Elfstone[15:04]: how much is lots?
navithmastero[15:04]: Elf - just a dusting, but in other, higher areas there was more, no problems though, I don't think.
Jatopian[15:05]: I mean I understand why it would be like that in warm climates - no one knows how to drive in the snow and it would be cruel to deny the kiddies their biannual chance to make a snowball
Jatopian[15:05]: but England?
Elfstone[15:05]: oh well - we can't complain - it has been a very easy winter so far
Elfstone[15:05]: Jat - the problem is that our winters are erratic in terms of how much snow/icve we have
skell[15:06]: Lots is, I'd say, half a meter
Elfstone[15:06]: so we don't spend money on the kind of equipment that Scandinavian countires, for instance, have
skell[15:06]: Luckily we are not Syberia
skell[15:07]: England is an island, so the surrounding waters warm it during winter
Elfstone[15:07]: we don't, for the most part, have winter tyres on our cars; we don't have enough road clearing equipment
skell[15:07]: Which is why it is warmer and less snowy
navithmastero[15:07]: Jatopian: People in this country don't know how to drive in the snow either!
Elfstone[15:07]: so when it *does* snow - the place comes to a halt
Elfstone[15:07]: half a meter is more than enough! - difficult to walk through
Jatopian[15:08]: ah, right, forgot about England's odd warmth for the latitude
Elfstone[15:08]: the Gulf Stream
skell[15:08]: Maybe half a meter is a bit too much, but 1/3 of a meter is pretty standard
Elfstone[15:08]: (I think is called the North Atlantic Drift nowadays)
skell[15:08]: or rather it used to be standard, the last couple of years was cold but not very snowy
Jatopian[15:10]:
http://www.meanwhilepics.com/images/50360e0d1d41c876cf000009.jpg
Elfstone[15:10]: how long does your snow season normally last?
skell[15:10]: Mid February or so
skell[15:11]: Sometime the winter can hold until April, or attack again in that month
Elfstone[15:11]: golly Jat - that's a lot of snow!
Jatopian[15:11]: no elfstone
Elfstone[15:11]: yes winter can linger here too
Jatopian[15:11]: THIS is a lot of snow:
http://www.meanwhilepics.com/images/50360e0f1d41c876cf000060.jpg
skell[15:11]: Notice how clean the road is
Elfstone[15:12]: we have had frost thorugh May fairly oftemn and I remember it snowing in June one year
Elfstone[15:12]: you can imagine the pupils reaction to that!
Jatopian[15:12]: I went to Colorado in summer one year.
Jatopian[15:12]: There were random piles of snow about.
Jatopian[15:12]: It was strange.
Elfstone[15:12]: goof grief!!! - that must be photoshopped!
skell[15:13]: Three years ago we had a hail half the size of a pepper grain in August
Elfstone[15:13]: how could they possibly cut through that?
skell[15:13]: it rained hail for a few minues and stopped
Jatopian[15:13]: goof grief
Elfstone[15:13]: sorry - *good*
Elfstone[15:13]: you know what my typing's like! :-(((
skell[15:14]: It's goofy
Elfstone learns about the two types of people, plus the one that is secretly a robot:
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×Elfstone[15:36]: who is admin?
navithmastero[15:36]: admin is Schik in disguise
Jatopian[15:36]: admin is not a real person
Jatopian[15:36]: though sometimes Schik pulls admin's strings, so to speak
Elfstone[15:37]: but Schik isn't here
navithmastero[15:37]: Or basically what Jat said
Elfstone[15:37]: oh I see
Jatopian[15:37]: admin represents the automated aspects of the caravel server in fake account form
skell[15:37]: admin is just a name for the server messages
navithmastero[15:37]: Elf, Schik is always here.
Elfstone[15:37]: Schik - why ar you hiding?
Jatopian[15:37]: for example, notice that all holds on the Holds board are posted by admin
skell[15:37]: I am his eyes right now
skell[15:37]: He pays me in balloon tickets
Elfstone[15:38]: oh yes! I had forgoten that
Elfstone[15:38]: I hadn't noticed it until I put my first hold in and I was admin all of a sudden
Jatopian[15:38]: I thought you were his skelleton, not his eyes
admin[15:38]: Rolling 6d36 for navithmastero gives 114
Elfstone[15:39]: oh very nice Jat! :-D
navithmastero[15:39]: No jatopian, no.
Jatopian[15:39]: that was a great pun and you know it, navith
navithmastero[15:40]: No it was not.
navithmastero[15:40]: Just. no.
Elfstone[15:40]: oh I liked it nm
Elfstone[15:40]: I like clever things with words
skell[15:41]: I prefer cleaving things without words
Jatopian[15:43]: "there are two types of people"
Different viewpoints on dynamic typing:
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×skell[16:13]: I often use false, since PHP knows the difference betwee 0, false, "
"
and array()
skell[16:14]: oh and null
Maurog[16:14]: it does?
Maurog[16:14]: I plan to learn php
Maurog[16:14]: know any good sites?
skell[16:15]: Nope
skell[16:15]: I usually am self-learner
Maurog[16:15]: does it know the difference between null and 0?
skell[16:15]: internally yes
skell[16:15]: Since it is weak and dynamically typed
skell[16:15]: null == 0 will yield tru
Maurog[16:16]: ah, dynamical typing
skell[16:16]: but 0=== null yields false
Maurog[16:16]: got it
skell[16:16]: PHP is full of traps
Maurog[16:16]: What does it give you for 10+null?
Jatopian[16:16]: Pretty Hateful Programming
skell[16:16]: 10 + null = 10 + 0 = 10
Elfstone[16:17]: *whispers* "
ah, dynamical typing"
- is that what I do after a glass of sweet sherry?
The joke is a grammar book:
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×Schik[21:21]: Lynx handles all the protocol for you, that's just lazy.
Panther[21:21]: Cats are lazy by nature.
Schik[21:23]: Don't I know it.
Schik[21:23]: My oldest cat is.. 17 I think, and she spends about 23.5 hours a day sleeping.
Jatopian[21:23]: jeez
Panther[21:24]: That leave a WHOLE HALF HOUR to eat.
Panther[21:24]: *leaves
Dischorran[21:28]: *shoots
Schikorran:
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×Dischorran[22:07]: "Hey, maybe this time I'll get past floor 3 of Perfection." Not one of my better predictions.
Schik[22:16]: I think even I beat Perfection
Dischorran[22:19]: Way to rub it in, Schik.
Schik[22:20]: Hey, I don't get a chance to do that often. Gotta seize the opportunity.
Jatopian[22:24]: Way to Schik him while he's down.
Dischorran[22:44]: Oh. Well. How about that.
Schik[22:47]: See, all you needed to know was that it was Schik-possible.
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