@Magician I'd be a lot more interested if the meaty bits weren't in Hate Red.

@BESW If you're on a computer, just select the text, I guess?

Guys are you familiar with the gospel of Mr Blobby?

...Chrome doesn't do that, everything is white on blue.

That might be a CSS thing

Hahaha

Hmm, does Safari's reader mode strip colour?

Iiinteresting. I get white on blue in Chromopera.

Must be a mac thing, then, I dunno.

Point being, my system is clearly superior to your system, so there.

what on earth are you guys talking about?

@Polyducks This article.

Guys. Go here bbclothing.co.uk/en-gb and view the source. CTRL+f for 'blobby'.

@Pixie [reads this as chro - mop - era]

@Polyducks marvelous.

haha :)

Drew it in 20 minutes freehand over lunch

When a website we were working on had its front-end rewritten from scratch, it was strongly suggested I add an easter egg somewhere.

I didn't do so. Maybe I will before I leave...

@doppelgreener I was thinking "Chromope-Ra must be from one of the rarer Godzilla movies."

@doppelgreener ....add 3 easter eggs, clearly numbered 1, 2 and 4.

@Magician i love it.

@Magician You're now my favourite person on the internet.

i will annotate each one suggesting there's an easter egg hunt.

(it's an old joke/legend, of pigs being run through a university with numbers 1, 2 and 4 on their sides).

Now I'm thinking about the Riven easter eggs.

What were those?

@Magician Fantastic.

Back when Riven was first released, folks noticed that there were parts of the game interface where, if you clicked, the cursor behaved as if you'd clicked an interactable node, but nothing happened.

So they cracked open the code and saw that something happened in the background processes, but it was unclear what.

Soon an anonymous website with hinted ties to one of the developers appeared, with a set of riddles that seemed to correspond to some of the mystery click points.

@doppelgreener I really want to add a new one. Maybe a minigame

@doppelgreener This is basically how I pronounce it also. :P

The riddles revealed which points to click in which order, but still nothing happened....

@magician that numbering idea is cruel. I love it!

...except that now if you clicked some of the other mystery nodes, the temple would be decked out in Christmas lights, or the villain would sing a few verses of opera, or the like.

How cute.

@BESW That's beautiful.

@BESW that's amazing. I've got to look these up now

There are still nodes which don't seem to actually do anything.

Modern warfare/battlefront have some amazing eastereggs. I'm a mod over at /r/eastereggs. Would really appreciate some more posts if you guys want to contribute (shameless plug)

I just love eastereggs so much

I like easter eggs but I hate hunting for them.

@eimyr just buy them from the store afterwards, they'll be on special, that's what i do

Noticing the dead Assassin in The Witcher 2 was the height of my ability.

@eimyr what was that one?

@doppelgreener man, you're on form with the jokes today

@Polyducks thank

Right in the prologue you could have found a body dressed in white, with a hood, killed by ground impact, just right next to a hay cart. Geralt uttered "They're never gonna learn" and gained a bonus to backstab when you stared at it.

hahaha

I get that reference

@eimyr ha, nice one

There's more, and MANY more related to Polish pop-culture in it. Some are just shameless shout-outs.

I still don't know how to display 🐘. I have installed a dozen more fonts, and now I have Byzantine musical symbols (𝀹) Runes (ᚠ) Latin ui (ꭐ) Postal Mark Faces (〠), Cows (🐮) and a variety of Cats (😺😿), but still no elephant.

I don't get the Byzantine musical symbols or runes, but I do have the elephant (and the rest of that).

I have searched Myfonts and found an amazing set of various “Glyph Missing” symbols, but still no elephant.

What browser are you using?

Mozilla Firefox 45.0.1 on Arch Linux with standard X server and my biggest fonts are DejaVu Sans, Junicode, Free Sans and Unifont, they are regularly appearing as fallback-fonts

Chromium-based and Firefox have differing emoji for me, and I never actually installed any special fonts. There may be some accompanying fonts you can find to download.

Just installed Chromium. Same problem, different display of missing glyphs.

@Anaphory Have you tried installing Symbola font?

Wohoo, that preview looks good.

YAY I HAS ELEPHANT.

Yaaay!

I'm using cake emoji for bullet points on my website right now. I really should turn them into images, but... [lazy]

@Pixie In theory, all the unicode symbols are very cool. In practice, people like me not being able to view them, or even then things not fitting with other things in fallback fonts, ruins a good layout.

@Anaphory Yes. That is why I need to convert them to images (or get an installed font working with them, but I ran into issues with that when I tried that before).

Emoji are not very reliable at conveying meaning.

@Pixie Web font?

@Anaphory That's what I tried. Couldn't get them to actually display in the font for reasons beyond me.

@Magician Oh, no, they are not. I tend to use :) and ;) when typing, but including images in not a thing I do then. The 🐘 was purely because it seemed very r🐘 in this chat.

@Pixie I just use images for bullet points on my site. I have tiny polyducks for bullet points

lol I really like that relelphant thing

I was going to make a fa[moose] joke for @eimyr, but alas there is no emooseji.

I searched forever and ever to find a cute bullet point, but I couldn't find any that I liked. Emoji wound up looking better -- though as @Magician's link demonstrates, that is very relative. Cakes are pretty safe, though. Always cakes.

I suppose he could be fa🐭, but that's just not the same.

But once my site is ready for a more public release, they're still gonna have to become images.

@Magician this is part of why I greatly dislike services that reinterpret :D and :O and :) and :P. there are services where :D or :) are smiling faces. :P on some services looks like someone having a fit, I'd rather just have :P ty.

@BESW is that emoji "llus", because that's the only reading I can think of.

@eimyr fa[mouse].

OH

It looks uncannily fallic.

I read it as fa[bee]

@doppelgreener :P

Not even sorry.

@BESW I was thinking of 🖰

@doppelgreener yeah, I don't want :P to look like someone having a fit,... that is not how I use it

@Anaphory ...that is a symbol I can't see.

.... when i first read r🐘 on my phone, it was some dark blue smudge. I thought I had a drop of something on my screen. Then I thought it was a glitch or something. Then I tried to figure out what it was and it looked like a gorilla... an ape. >_>; I am glad that didn't make any sense at all in context, because it forced me to re-evaluate what the emoji was.

I don't mind reinterpreted emoticons, but having no control over what they look like is a pain. I usually wind up turning them off. Skype also has decided to turn all kinds of strange things into emoticons.

Oh, computer mouse.

And then there are legitimate uses of things like 8) and then some system replaces it by a glasses smiley, and the number is read wrong.

Often those things involve parentheses, so if I try to RP in Skype without turning them off, I get weird emoticons popping up as we try to communicate out of character.

Skype has also reinterpreted some emoticons that I like to use,... so they mean something different on it

T.T

That, too.

Yahoo's fall into the ugly-as-sin category, but I have a slight fondness for them. AIM was kinda neat with its giving you emoticon themes. But MSN let you have custom ones, which was the most fun.

As someone who uses parentheticals but not emoticons, I rail against the Man.

Emoticons are almost a vital part of my casual online grammar.

@BESW 👮

@Magician Why is your smiley face balancing a pat of butter on a plate on his head?

What, unamused pancake balancer isn't a clear sentiment?

@Pixie same

@Pixie Oooh, it's a blue pancake. That makes everything clear.

@BESW In this metaphor, the blue pancake is the Man, and you're being kept down by it through your own compliance.

it even increased as I visited this site more

BTW, @Magician, I think Call of Catthulhu may be Laughcraftian.

Whatever gave you that idea??

One of the PCs roles is Catcrobat.

This album is beautiful. Wow. Also free/name-your-price.

...there will be a Colbert emoji. I may use that one.

@Pixie oh man, that first one reminds me a bit of some stuff from BoF 3

@Magician Dogs worship Mutt'thra, the fish god is Doggone, the Toad Spirit is Phatphroggua, and many wild animals venerate Snarlathotep.

just a bit though

I'm trying not to groan, because groaning will only make them more powerful.

.... [face/palm] It gets worse.

@trogdor Sometimes I feel a little out of place -- not here specifically, but in general -- as heavy emoticon use doesn't seem to be all that common anymore, so I'll try to use them less. But when I'm talking to friends, so many emoticons.

@Magician Mew-go; Hastpurr; Shed-Nappurath, Mother of a Thousand Kits; Shaggoths; the Catnip out of Space...

hee

@Pixie I feel really comfortable here, so I sort of see them as an extra way of expressing myself

@trogdor It's like the soundtrack to a game that doesn't exist. A really good one.

I do it on Skype too,... but Skype kills the fun of it a little

@Pixie the Jazz element is what does it for me

BoF 3 had a lot of Jazz mixed into it's music

not every single piece, but a few of them anyway

yeah,.. at about 26 or so it is pretty reminiscent

possibly of 2 different songs even XD

so yeah, it seems like an awesome soundtrack for a game

if it had been one instead of just awesome standalone music

@BESW at first we just had the :). and then they added the (H). and some did not like this, and volunteered to still use the <3. and the chat system designers saw that we were confused and still using <3, and in their benevolence and helpfulness, decided to turn that into the (H) emoji too. and some then used ♥ and enjoyed that, and the chat system designers again guided the lost and confused back on the right track and turned that into (H) as well.

and thus did the heart emoji consume all other related attempts to express a heart without the emoji, and so too did many other emoji consume their various attempts to not use emoji.

you must speak out too, before it is too late, before your [grins] turns into a grinning face emoji 😀.

... they even did ♥??? Wow.

@Pixie telegram interprets just about every version of a heart as a big red emoji of some form

only the mobile client's <3 is spared

I feel sorry for folks who try to do math over IM clients.

@Pixie Oh Virtues Yes. I did at some point install some latex plugin for some client, but still.

Oh, on the subject of rebelling and using parentheticals: I was devastated when Skype took my asterisks. I've since discovered how to turn the feature off, but I still wind up using brackets for casual emoting because I'm so used to it now. At least I can make *w* faces now.

math over IM clients turns into spontaneous and confusing confessions of love

@Pixie "Why isn't my pause key working!? ...oh, I'm not using iTunes."

Heh.

I already have it safely downloaded and in my regular music player. Definitely my jam.

@Bellerephon Hello!

VTC dupe.

Also, just bountied the older question for more attention.

I need to place bounties more often.

@BESW [opens, finds it's closed by Miniman 52 secs ago... so close.]

And he's edited it to be no longer a dupe, I feel.

@BESW Me too. Though I need to stop placing bounties on questions where I don't understand a lick of the subject matter. It's impossible to tell whether the answers that arrive are any good at all.

@doppelgreener Heheh.

And then I get two, both of which seem equally as good, and have equal scores...

@doppelgreener I'm voting to re-open.

@BESW it's got my vote too already :)

Good morning!

morning

Ha!

JOKE'S ON YOU THERE'S NO MORNING HERE!

lol

there is here

@eimyr more Ning.

(Ning was one of my best students. I'd like more.)

@nitsua60 So, erm, do you have like two or more kids?

@eimyr do you mean descendents, or students?

(I have three of the first, about fifty of the second.)

are your students considered kids?

I always envisioned you as a, say high school or college professor

maybe community college

Good question--they range from 13 to 19 y.o.

(Boarding high school.)

(because you drive a truck, and everyone knows you can only drive a micra to campus)

(unless you're a geologist or a vet)

(then you're excused to have a humongous car)

Some are more mature as seniors than I was graduating college, some are less mature as seniors that I was entering HS.

coll

whaddya teach?

I live in a pretty-rural town (<2000 people, and we've the only traffic light for twenty miles), so that's much of the truck-ness.

@eimyr Various maths, occasionally physics.

man, I forget how BIG USA is

@eimyr and I'm in one of the smaller states....

I have to get to drive 45 minutes each way to get to my weekly game... =)

@nitsua60 I drive 1h every day to work.

Then 1h back

luckily, my game is 5 mins away

vice-versa for me--5 min. walk to work!

...I live on a 30-mile-long island, and growing up we could drive for 12 miles before finding a traffic light.

Then they installed one only seven miles away!

lol