Mos Eisley Cantina

The Doc

12:00 AM

I hate it that you @Can lose so much rep to the cap

CandiedMango

@TheDoc It's exactly @The kind of thing I'd be doing!

@The cap makes very little sense

The Doc

This is fun that we @Can ping each other just by using regular sentences!

Although it may be questionable whether we @Can say these are 'regular' sentences

The cap @Can annoy me greatly

The logic of the cap @Can make sense if you consider it's purpose is to avoid people from getting addicted, which @Can happen I believe

CandiedMango

@ryan Loads! they are adding new areas to adventure mode and making ancient weapons and armour way more powerful (so you don't have to use sets), they are also revamping all the sets, this can include powers and or looks :)

The Doc

I'm not sure how many more sentences I @Can write like this!

CandiedMango

@The hell are you talking about?

ryan

12:02 AM

@CandiedMango huh I'll have to take a look

CandiedMango

What @the ~~duck~~ Doc

The Doc

I think I @Can, I think I @Can, I think I @Can

CandiedMango

Hey @lor ... he who must not be named

That's @the right frame of mind!

@the wheels on @the bus go round and round

@ryan It seems to be pretty comprehensive! I've not seen any of the specific char changes

The Doc

I see that you're trying to write I sentence which I @Can not respond to using @Can in it; I am sure I @Can still do it though

CandiedMango

The ancient stuff sounds awesome though.

The Doc

12:04 AM

You have it easier though; I @Can include @The in so many more sentences than @Can

CandiedMango

@TheDoc We should do this but start only doing it with questions (they must relate to each other loosely)

The Doc

I think that you and I @Can annoy @ThePopMachine with this!

CandiedMango

I know @the is such a common word it's probably @the most used word

The Doc

@CandiedMango I think we @Can!

CandiedMango

who @the heck are you?

The Doc

12:06 AM

I @Can agree with you on that; @the is a very regularly used word

CandiedMango

REP TIME!

The Doc

I am the EMH and @Can take command of the USS Voyager if required

CandiedMango

1 upvote off 7k

The Doc

I @Can remedy that problem

CandiedMango

7001 woo

You really have push @the rep limits!

The Doc

12:11 AM

I @Can top that; I have 27.5k!

I am sure I @Can get to 30k by the end of the year!

CandiedMango

@The goal for me is just to stay active! I often fall off @the wagon.

The Doc

@CandiedMango You missed a '@the'; I @can not fix it for you :(

CandiedMango

@the @the @the @the @the @the

Does is dong once or six times?

The Doc

It @Can only ping me once!

CandiedMango

@the system is not sophisticated enough!

Thaddeus

12:18 AM

I think we need better questions, personally.

The go-to books have been mined out.

Shamshiel

Man it is getting tough not answering questions lol

Thaddeus

People will either have to start reading new books or finding new things to talk about.

Shamshiel

Thaddeus: I've always wondered why there aren't more DF questions. :)

Thaddeus

DF?

The Doc

@Shamshiel I agree with @Thaddeus; I @Can not understand what you refer to by 'DF'

Shamshiel

12:20 AM

Dresden File, like our most recent q.

The Doc

@CandiedMango I @can and have added a subtle reference to this conversation in my below question:

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Q: Where is Hill Valley?

We all know that Marty, Doc and Jennifer arrive in Hill Valley on October 21st 2015, many BTTF fans are eagerly awaiting that date. As outlined in this question, they arrive at 4:29PM. However, as we as citizens of the Earth know, the Earth is divided into timezones. So, in order to figure o...

CandiedMango

On @the whole I also agree, I can not believe some of @the HP questions that arise anymore. I'm reading Mistborn currently, but I'm surprised we don't have more Discworld questions It's so huge!

Shamshiel

And there will always be new LotR questions

The Doc

I @Can also forsee no shortage of new star-trek questions as well

@Can you see the reference in my above question?

Ixrec

I know there've been a few times when I had questions about a less popular work and didn't ask it because, unlike HP or SW or ST or LotR, I was fairly sure there wasn't a multi-decade multi-billion-dollar franchise of canon material for people to answer questions from

CandiedMango

12:26 AM

@The hell are you talking about I @can not recall a reference

;)

@Ixrec Post a question doesn't matter someone somewhere will come across it eventually

Lord Voldemort

Why is there a 200 reputation limit per day?

Ixrec

I might try next time and see what happens

136

Q: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?

There has been a lot of talk about the daily reputation cap and what counts and what doesn't count and so on. But why is there a cap at all? I've seen lots of questions about whether the cap number should be changed, or whether certain things should or should not apply to the cap, but I've never ...

discussion reputation daily-reputation-limit

rand al'thor

What @the hell is going @on in here?

CandiedMango

@on doesn't work, you'll never know because you @ran away

The Doc

@rand you @Can participate if you want! @Can and I discovered yesterday that by using the first three characters of one's handle, one can be pinged!

@Can! You @Can not stop saying '@the' now!

CandiedMango

12:31 AM

You discovered, I knew ;)

rand al'thor

@Thaddeus Preferably the former. The good @Major and I have been saying for a while that we should have more questions on less well-known SFF works.

Ixrec

@LordVoldemort more generally, everything in SE has some limits on it, which I think is usually a combination of ensuring any form of gaming the system is contained, and encouraging people not to spend every waking moment on these sites

The Doc

Okay, you @Can say you knew it and I discovered, for that is the truth

rand al'thor

Perhaps we should start asking questions on the books of @Thaddeus Howze and get real Word of God answers :-)

@TheDoc A bunch of us worked that out in Mos ages ago :-)

Thaddeus

Let me postulate: One of the reasons certain books get the attention they do is they are both good enough to be widely read, but still have enough issues that may require "interpretation".

rand al'thor

12:32 AM

@TheDoc You're taking the @mik!

The Doc

I @Can honestly say that I had never @Ran into this feature before

Thaddeus

Thus Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter are all multigenre, multimedia properties with decades of references.

CandiedMango

I can do whatever @the poop I want! It's quite a @ran dom one!

Thaddeus

As a result they are all highly questioned due to the complexity of their genres and materials produced.

Comics are also part of this complexity profile which promotes questions.

Ixrec

to the point that I thought someone might know the story behind that random lizard on the wall

Thaddeus

12:34 AM

Works that are produced by single authors generally don't have such high degrees of complexity.

CandiedMango

We don't get nearly as many comic questions as we used to

rand al'thor

@Thaddeus Also "good" doesn't necessarily correlate with "widely read". I can think of several trashy bestsellers (presumably written by people with good agents?)

Thaddeus

Because individual authors have to make an effort to try and be relatively tidy in their stories.

CandiedMango

@randal'thor coughcoughdivergentcoughcough

Thaddeus

Good is relative, I admit.

Popular may have been a more operative term.

Ixrec

12:34 AM

@randal'thor hm, have we had any twilight questions?

nvm, 39 tagged

Thaddeus

If this site is to continue to exist, the number and quality of questions need to improve, become more interesting both in terms of what is written and what is read.

rand al'thor

@Ixrec Personally I enjoyed Twilight more than most of the people in this chatroom seem to. Still probably not worth all the hype it gets though (as with HP and SW).

CandiedMango

I still think we should start a book per month thing

rand al'thor

@CandiedMango Topic challenges would be an excellent idea.

Ixrec

@randal'thor I "enjoyed" it in an academic kind of way

rand al'thor

12:36 AM

Movies, Worldbuilding, and Puzzling all do them.

The Doc

@randal'thor I @Can recall that we did that once, but it didn't get off the ground

rand al'thor

(Well, I started it on Puzzling, and I think it's in the process of dying out now.)

Ixrec

a book club sort of thing would be tempting for me

Thaddeus

Book a month, trivia challenges and the like are all good ways to build readership and create potential new questions.

Ixrec

I think I have way too many books I'm failing to read already but it'd tempt me

CandiedMango

12:37 AM

@the idea definitely interests me!

rand al'thor

As well as movie night events in chat, we could also have book-related events.

Thaddeus

Perhaps we could even start with older books such as the White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, and the Pool of Fire, for example.

Ixrec

now that you mention it, I did ask a question due to a movie night once

Thaddeus

Good books, with a degree of complexity, but with a few interesting questions that have not been effectively addressed.

rand al'thor

Perhaps a time when a bunch of us agree to get together and discuss a particular less well-known work?

Ixrec

12:38 AM

I've never heard of any of those, which means they're probably good candidates

Thaddeus

There are plenty of works of a similar quality and density of information.

CandiedMango

Heard of White Mountains, but not read it.

Thaddeus

If a work has transmedia properties, there are also interpretations which may be considered as well.

rand al'thor

Most of the books I'm currently reading are SFF but haven't had any questions asked about them on here.

Thaddeus

It was a very good young adult book series, far superior to much of the dystopian crap being printed today.

They would be the sound, such movies are attempting to echo.

I am also surprised I don't see questions for popular anime SF series such as Psycho-Pass, Knights of Sedonia, or God Eater, just for examples.

Or my most recent completed series, Parasyte.

CandiedMango

12:41 AM

We do have an Anime SE now though

@the majority of questions probably go over there

Thaddeus

Why?

CandiedMango

Why what?

Thaddeus

If they are science fiction themes, why can't they come here?

Perhaps I value the perspective of the science fiction community over the manga, anime community...

Is One Punch Man's 'Saitama' an homage or a parody of super-strong heroes such as Superman or Son Goku?

Ixrec

I haven't had any questions so far about Parasyte, and it doesn't feel like the sort of thing that'll make me come up with any by the end of it (what a weird way to evaluate a work of fiction)

Thaddeus

I am likely to get two different answers to this question.

"Where are the Parasytes from?" We are never told where they come from, though it is implied they have always been here. But is that technically true? If so, why didn't we notice them until now?

Ixrec

12:44 AM

odd, I thought it was implied they were a new thing because of all the sudden news about gruesome murders

maybe I just proved your point

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus Not saying they can't just saying that people will see an Anime stack and possibly go for that instead.

Thaddeus

I might not.

I have not been as impressed with the quality of analysis on the anime stack personally.

CandiedMango

I answer any and all DB/DBZ questions that come our way :)

Thaddeus

At any rate, we need to kick our game up a bit.

CandiedMango

Totally agree!

The Doc

12:46 AM

@CandiedMango Same with me and star-trek-data

@Thaddeus I would, but this is way outside my area of expertise I'm afraid

CandiedMango

I would be good to find another fantasy universe I like

@TheDoc That's why we leave all @the work to Thad

The Doc

@CandiedMango One tale I don't think I've seen on this site is the Icemark series; that's absolutely excellent!

The Cry of the Icemark

The Cry Of The Icemark is the first book in the Icemark Chronicles by English author Stuart Hill. The plot revolves around thirteen-year-old princess Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, as she must fight to save her small home, the Icemark, from the invading Polypontian Empire. The novel won the inaugural Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2005. It also won the 2006 Highlands Children's Book award for Long Novels in 2006. Fox has bought the rights to the movie. However, no release dates or production information exist. == Plot summary == The Polypontian Empire has conquered much of...

ryan

@Thaddeus One punch is a parody

Thaddeus

For the TV film based on the novel, see A Wrinkle in Time (film).
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1963.[1] The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.[2][a] It is the first in L'Engle's series of books about the Murry and O'Keefe families.

ryan

And it's hilarious.

Thaddeus

12:48 AM

Yes, I know this.

ryan

oh, then why did you ask?

CandiedMango

@the Fox 2000 has bought @the rights to The Cry Of @The Icemark movie and reported that it is currently in development. Little information is available at @the current moment but what is known is that it will be produced by Courtney Pledger and @the screenplay will be by Michael Hirst

Thaddeus

It was a sample question of the type I think we should be looking more into.

The Doc

@CandiedMango Until now I didn't know there were another two books; I only knew of the first two!

CandiedMango

I'm sure it's great! I love english authors

rand al'thor

12:50 AM

@Thaddeus That's one I've read.

Many years ago, but I enjoyed it.

Thaddeus

It was a quality piece of writing, deserving of its awards.

The Doc

@Thaddeus I tried stirring some interest in the community with a few thunderbirds questions through some self Q/As, but this would be a much broader area so you may have more success in posting a few self Q/As

rand al'thor

First of a series? That I never knew.

ryan

@Thaddeus oh, I see. Wouldn't that go on Anime and Manga though?

Obie

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Q: Why couldn't Octavious (Tavi) manifest a fury sooner?

Octavian starts to be able to internalize furies about 5 years after leaving his valley. However it's 2 more years until he is actually able to manifest a fury of his own. In a conversation between Marcus and the First Lord it's said that the First Lord's son manifested a fury at 5 years old an...

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CandiedMango

12:51 AM

@ryan We can absorb it.

rand al'thor

I should try to get hold of the other books in the series.

@Thaddeus Would you say they're all worth reading, or does it go downhill?

Thaddeus

I enjoyed them all.

The did lose a little steam near the end.

But being a writer, I can understand how that happens.

ryan

@CandiedMango lol.

Thaddeus

Writing a sustained series can be VERY challenging.

Shamshiel

Thaddeus: I think the questions and answers are fine personally.

Lord Voldemort

12:53 AM

@Thaddeus Have you been published?

Thaddeus

Especially when the first books are so good.

ThePopMachine

@Can: Shut @the heck up already!

rand al'thor

@LordVoldemort Check his profile.

The Doc

@ThePopMachine I thought we might annoy you with that lol

Thaddeus

amazon.com/Haywards-Reach-Thaddeus-Howze/dp/0971994374

rand al'thor

12:54 AM

@LordVoldemort Or google Thaddeus Howze.

ryan

There I asked a question about the Codex Alera :)

Should I put that it's from the Codex Alera in the title?

rand al'thor

One problem with asking questions about lesser-known works is it's much harder to find canon answers if you don't have the actual book.

With HP for instance, you can always find a JKR interview or a Pottermore source or something online (and often find a relevant book passage to copy-paste too).

Codex Alera? I don't have the books; there's no way I'll be able to answer that question.

Lord Voldemort

@randal'thor there are whole PDF books on certain websites

The Doc

@randal'thor Very true; for stuff like Star Trek it's pretty easy, but digging into stuff like Thunderbirds and Lost in Space, it really helps having some books around

rand al'thor

@ryan Not necessary. I'm pretty sure there's a meta somewhere about tags in titles.

phantom42

12:58 AM

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Q: Is it OK for titles to have tags in them?

Inspired by a suggested edit to this post... The suggested edit was to remove the name of the work (Tron: Legacy, in this case) from the question title - because it was already tagged with the name of the work. It would cut the title from "Tron: Legacy Soundtrack Missing Part" to "Soundtrack Mi...

discussion tags title

rand al'thor

Thanks @pha

CandiedMango

@ThePopMachine No @can dosville baby doll

Thaddeus

Sorry for stepping away. I am helping my son with his homework.

CandiedMango

@Pha nks FTFY

Politank-Z

@Thaddeus Geez, priorities, man!

ryan

1:02 AM

Well, and there's another thing, only questions in the well known universes get lots of upvotes :P

Thaddeus

amazon.com/Broken-Glass-Knowledge-Series-Book-ebook/dp/…

CandiedMango

@ryan This is why we should organise something

That way we can all be interested

rand al'thor

@Thaddeus Is all your writing SFF?

phantom42

NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Sony Eyeing Matthew McConaughey to Lead ‘The Dark Tower’

Thaddeus

No. I write fantasy, science fiction, space opera, magical realism, pulp, wuxia and steampunk. I can write any genre that comes to mind.

rand al'thor

1:05 AM

A man of many talents :-)

Politank-Z

Country AND Western.

Lord Voldemort

@Thaddeus Are your books written in Garamond? I'm briefly reading through the Amazon preview and I wasn't sure

Thaddeus

I have written some short western-esque works when the spirit moves me.

I believe so.

Westerns are hard to write.

They have been so thoroughly mined, it is challenging to put something really new on the page.

Politank-Z

I was riffing on The Blues Brothers, but good on you.

Thaddeus

Not to mention all of the tropes commonly known to Westerns are also known to their audiences, so they expect your Western to do something new, yet NOT TOO NEW...

So I tend to write a bit more of the Weird Wild West.

Strange tales of magic, mystery, martial arts, for tales of the West with a bit of a twist.

rand al'thor

1:15 AM

There was a Western episode of The Prisoner. It was weird, but its new ideas were only really in the surrounding bits at the end rather than the main story.

(anyone else here seen The Prisoner?)

Politank-Z

Jonah Hex pulled it off, with varying degrees of success. You're right, just about every aspect of that era has been done to death.

Of course I've seen The Prisoner. Be seeing you!

Thaddeus

Wou Lonbraj: A tale of the Weird Wild West - hubcityblues.com/2013/10/17/wou-lonbraj

rand al'thor

Who is Number One?
You are (,) Number Six.

Lord Voldemort

Wasn't there a Western episode of Doctor Who?

rand al'thor

@LordVoldemort Probably. Doctor Who's done just about everything.

Lord Voldemort

1:16 AM

Or am I just thinking about Matt Smith in a cowboy hat?

Politank-Z

@LordVoldemort Two of them, first and eleventh doctors.

rand al'thor

@LordVoldemort Matt Smith did like his hats...

Politank-Z

Terrible American accents all around

Thaddeus

Yes there were a couple of Doctor Who's set in the West.

Lord Voldemort

Speaking of Doctor Who, will the next episode be Clara's last?

rand al'thor

1:18 AM

@LordVoldemort Yes, but spoilers!

@Thaddeus Is 'found footage' another genre that's been done to death by now?

Thaddeus

Her end is reputed to be soon.

Found footage can be interesting but only if it reveals something really new.

rand al'thor

And did the last Doctor Who episode manage to put a new angle on it?

Thaddeus

Most of the time it is something tawdry, done to death with "shaky cam" footage.

Which I hate SO much.

Lord Voldemort

Any idea as to who will be the next companion?

Thaddeus

Stop shaking the damn camera, PLEASE.

Motion-sickness for all my friends.

rand al'thor

1:20 AM

@LordVoldemort There's been some speculation, but definitely nothing confirmed.

Lord Voldemort

@ran No, but there are trailers for next week's episode on youtube

rand al'thor

Rigsy and Ashildr could both be possibilities.

Thaddeus

The movie Cloverfield, which I enjoy immensely is damaged by the horror of "shaky-cam" footage.

Politank-Z

@randal'thor I think Ashildr's time is spoken for.

Lord Voldemort

@ran Isn't Maisie Williams too bust, though?

busy*

rand al'thor

1:21 AM

@Thaddeus At least Sleep No More had more or less decent footage.

@LordVoldemort I don't imagine she's bust; GoT must be a big earner ;-)

CandiedMango

@randal'thor He doesn't wear any hats in Terminator!

Politank-Z

Jack, 9,000,000 years old to account for John's aging!

Thaddeus

Okay gents, homework is getting more intense.

I will have to take my leave.

rand al'thor

@CandiedMango When I say Matt Smith, I mean the Eleventh Doctor.

Thaddeus

Think about what I said.

Eight and a half, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve respectively.

CandiedMango

1:23 AM

@randal'thor I know :)

Lord Voldemort

imdb.com/title/tt4701546/?ref_=tt_ep_nx Could River be the next companion?

rand al'thor

Thank you for your time @Thaddeus :-)

Thaddeus

No worries. Rand. Glad to stop by.

I may return later in the evening OR I may decide to indulge in Destiny.

My son bought a copy for me.

He said he didn't want my reflexes to slow down.

Due to getting old.

So kind of him. I think...

rand al'thor

@LordVoldemort River and Capaldi sounds a bit ... ick?

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus How you finding destiny?

Thaddeus

1:25 AM

I am amused.

The weapons take some getting used to.

CandiedMango

@randal'thor I just want Donna Noble to return

rand al'thor

@Thaddeus "Parents are a bit strange, but for old people they're not bad I suppose" -- A son.

Thaddeus

But I am finding it enjoyable.

Politank-Z

@randal'thor River and Smith were a natural match?

Thaddeus

He said it like he could take me in a FPS.

Lord Voldemort

1:26 AM

@Can Donna Noble please come back?

CandiedMango

I really enjoyed the gameplay up until max level which at the time was 20 + however many light levels.

Thaddeus

He knows he can't. I'm OLD, not DEAD.

rand al'thor

Yay, Richard isn't here - we can all indulge in praising Donna Noble! :-)

Thaddeus

Plus I have better tactical skills than he does.

Personally, I loathed Donna Noble.

The actress may have been popular, but she annoyed me immensely.

Loud to the point of aggravating.

CandiedMango

I loved it, found it all hilarious.

Lord Voldemort

1:27 AM

@Tha Catherine and David are a comedy match made in heaven

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus I'll always remember the point in time I overtook my brother in FPS prowess.

Thaddeus

Such as it was. But I was happy to see her go.

My son thinks he has become my equal, but mostly I just take pity on his very direct approach.

I just sit somewhere and pick him off at will.

rand al'thor

To be fair, I've only seen the first four Donna episodes. But it was good to have a Doctor-Companion relationship without any sexual tension. Capaldi-Clara also scores well on this.

Lord Voldemort

Plus without Donna we wouldn't have Wilf, and Wilf was the best

Thaddeus

I like the platonic doctor relationships as well.

CandiedMango

1:28 AM

Oh man. Wilf is the one.

Lord Voldemort

@ran Clara is the Mary Suest of Mary Sues

Thaddeus

More emphasis should be put on the stories rather than the tawdry nature of a 3,000 year old man chasing a hot nubile 30 year old human.

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus One day he will better you. You will loathe it.

She is hot though.

Thaddeus

By the time he becomes better than me, I should be ready for the grave so it will be okay.

rand al'thor

@Thaddeus Exactly. I mean, is this Doctor Who or Twilight?

Thaddeus

1:30 AM

Besides even if he beats me in FPS, he can't touch me in any kind of RTS or tactical game play.

Politank-Z

@Thaddeus Capaldi pulls that off. The 13th will probably be a skirt-chasing infant, though.

Thaddeus

He just doesn't have the strategic mind.

CandiedMango

Yeah my Dad can still beat me at those, I have a mind for it but nowhere near his.

Thaddeus

I suspect 13 will have all of the attributes I hate in a Doctor. Impatient, short sighted and angry.

CandiedMango

He also plays RTSs a lot more than I do.

Thaddeus

1:31 AM

Age is a powerful asset when you deal with RTS.

Tactics are informed by experiences fighting those tactics.

CandiedMango

Unless you're korean.

Thaddeus

You could learn to beat him just by losing to him.

Lord Voldemort

What is the general consensus on the best NuWho Doctor on this site?

Thaddeus

Let each loss inform you to his techniques.

Politank-Z

I think Missy is the next companion to root for. Nothing like a companion trying to kill The Doctor every episode.

rand al'thor

1:31 AM

Anyone here play Go?

CandiedMango

Then you're 20 and have already played more hours than most.

SSumner

I can't decide if I like FPS or RTS better

Politank-Z

@LordVoldemort Eccleston or GTFO.

rand al'thor

That's pretty good on tactics and strategy for a board game.

CandiedMango

@randal'thor CS:GO? :P

Thaddeus

1:32 AM

I am 51. I have logged more RTS hours than most.

CandiedMango

@Politank-Z TENNANT!

Thaddeus

They are my favorite kind of game.

rand al'thor

@LordVoldemort There isn't one :-) Like any community of Whovians, we argue over best Doctor, best Companion, and whether each episode is good or bad.

SSumner

@Thaddeus - which ones do you play?

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus Playing Starcraft is a job for some Koreans 16hour days...

Thaddeus

1:32 AM

All of them at one point or another.

Politank-Z

@CandiedMango GTFO, I guess. Series 1 remains the best they've done, and 9 was "fantastic".

Thaddeus

Yes, it is. I am happy I am not Korean.

rand al'thor

@CandiedMango Agreed.

Thaddeus

It would take the love right out of gaming if I had to do it for a living.

Lord Voldemort

@Can Viva la Tennant and Donna

CandiedMango

1:33 AM

@Politank-Z You're actually a minority here, most people don't seem to like Eccleston even as second best. (Which he is in my eyes)

SSumner

@Thaddeus- total annihilation? Battle for middle earth?

CandiedMango

@Thaddeus I completely agree, the only gaming job I want and the one I would love to do is Gaming Journalism

rand al'thor

Go (game)

Go (traditional Chinese: 圍棋; simplified Chinese: 围棋; pinyin: wéiqí; Japanese: 囲碁; rōmaji: igo; Korean: 바둑; romaja: baduk; literally: "encircling game") is a board game involving two players, that originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a cultured Chinese scholar in antiquity. The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal Zuo Zhuan (c. 4th century BC). There is significant strategy involved in the game, and the number of possible games is vast (10761 compared, for example, to the estimated...

Politank-Z

@CandiedMango That's OK, the majority is usually wrong. Look at who they elect :-)

SSumner

^^

CandiedMango

1:35 AM

@Politank-Z Nah Tennant is the bees knees.

Lord Voldemort

@Politank-Z You could say GTFO, or you could go the Tennant way and say Allons-y

Thaddeus

Total Annihilation and every game it ever spawned.

Red Alert, all of them.

Starcraft, all of them.

Diablo, all of them.

SSumner

@Thaddeus I think TA might be my all time favorite

Thaddeus

TA RULES THEM ALL (except for Civilization and its predecessors, Alpha Centauri, my all time favorites, okay except for Master of Orion II...)

And occasionally Homeworld...

So many games, having moments of nostalgia.

Politank-Z

M.U.L.E.

Thaddeus

1:37 AM

Okay, you have me feeling my age.

I am outta here. Stay frosty.

SSumner

@Thaddeus - I didn't get into civ until this summer with Civ V but I love it

More turn based than RTS though

Thaddeus

PEACE!

No seriously. Be peaceful, please...

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Don't want to come back to the room with police tape everywhere...

Politank-Z

No severed limbs, no foul.

SSumner

Mos Eisley: crime scene do not enter

CandiedMango

Heh heh

Lord Voldemort

1:53 AM

May I ask what happened or do we not speak of it?

CandiedMango

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A: Why did our primary chatroom get nuked?

A problem has been festering in SFF's chatroom for some time now. And in spite of the best efforts of your moderators and room owners, it doesn't seem to be going away. I've observed the activity in SFF chat for some time now, and I've come to believe that the problem boils down to a fundamental ...

Keen

Someone named Voldemort talking about not speaking of something is a highlight of the day.

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CandiedMango

The Irony is strong in this one.

Keen

I recommend reading that post, and this one: meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7514/…

Lord Voldemort

I just wouldn't want to stick my "nose" where it didn't belong

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