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7:00 PM

I don't think I ever played Heretic II, and I'm pretty sure I never played Quake II.

It's weird, because I can't distinguish any Doom, Hexen, or Heretic in my memory at all.

Quake has slightly finer, more gloomy graphics on account of having more color-scale and better resolution, I think.

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12 hours of youtube titles and descriptions

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Quake is a different engine than Heretic and Hexen

Is it?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен holy long intro

@KitFox yes, the Quake Engine

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I thought Heretic was the same engine as quake. or is it Doom II?

7:05 PM

Precious goes on tour.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен Doom II

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Ah

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Hexen 2 and Heretic II were quake/quake2 era

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The Doom engine is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth. It is also used by ', Heretic, Strife, Freedoom, and HacX, and other games produced by licensees. It was created by John Carmack, with auxiliary functions written by Mike Abrash, John Romero, Dave Taylor and Paul Radek. Originally developed on NeXT computers, it was ported to DOS for Doom's initial release and was later ported to several game consoles and operating systems. The source code for the Linux version of Doom was released to the public in 1997 under a license that granted right...

Is that a dependency parse or a constituency parse? :)

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7:11 PM

Mmm, beefquake.

So Doom, Doom II, Hexen, and Heretic all used the same engine.

Quake and Hexen 2, then Quake 2 and Heretic 2.

Then I switched to console games, except for Civ and Sim.

Ah, excellent.

> A few media have reported that the product is being discontinued due to the mentioned criticism. This is, however, not correct.

> As a normal process products in the LEGO Star WarsTM assortment usually have a life-cycle of one to three years after which they leave the assortment and may be renewed after some years. The LEGO Star WarsTM product Jabba's Palace 9516 was planned from the beginning to be in the assortment only until the end of 2013 as new exciting models from the Star Wars universe will follow.

From the official LEGO press release. aboutus.lego.com/en-us/news-room/2013/january/…

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

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They have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

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A: Can one use "known from" as "known for"?

No, they have different meanings. Known for means (most) famous for, so that's OK with the Empire State Building since that is something that NYC is famous for. Known from is quite different; it refers to the original source(s) of the information, as in Hittite is known from cuneiform inscript...

Lawler Index alert.

7:26 PM

That’s just I, B, and IB. Could be worse.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт They should have said something funnier about it.

@tchrist It's a slow day.

It is.

I am thinking this may not be salvageable:

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A: Why is 'to' not used before 'home'?

We can use 'to' before the home because it's not a preposition it works as a connecter which connects 'go' and 'home' eachother...

Lotta blind-leading-the-blind going on here.

There. ftfy

Thanks.

7:30 PM

I originally ignored the flag, but I don't cut unregistered users much slack.

why i can't go to home? i am wonder why

I didn’t flag it.

I just downvoted it.

It auto-flagged.

Oh.

ρ ρ ρ your boat

7:31 PM

Three men on a?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh but they did. They said, "For further information, please contact Roar Rude Trangbæk".

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Oct 11 '12 at 4:39, by Mahnax

ρ, ρ, ρ your boat, gently down the stream…

If that wasn't funny, then funny has no meaning.

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Aug 1 '12 at 14:20, by Gigili

Is that ρ, ρ, ρ your boat! a joke? I don't get it.

Jul 31 '12 at 13:52, by Robusto

ρ, ρ, ρ your boat!

Stop peeing your boat!

7:33 PM

To say nothing of the dog.

I'm tired and I hate people. Can I go home please?

Oh wait, that was π, and that was in German. You are excused.

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I'll not mention it, then

@KitFox you can't hate people while not at home?

I don't think that's allowed.

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7:33 PM

@KitFox yes

kthx

Not allowed by whom? People? Just hate them some more.

Work is a four-letter word.

@MattЭллен I was first. Suck on that, buster.

Love is a four-letter word.

Word is a four-letter word.

To say nothing of four.

7:34 PM

@RegDwighт Oh. I hadna thought of that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

four ... dammit!

Four is not nothing.

It's four more than nothing.

Mar 20 at 20:12, by MετάEd

@Cerberus That's classic primate submissive behavior.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist yes but is it gay

Just hate them some more is four-letter words galore.

7:35 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Depends on which end you’re on.

And on that note. . . .

Hi, Jasper.

My project lead sent me a dat file which I "should be able to open in Excel" that is horribly formatted once I finally got Excel to open it.

@tchrist Pretty sure not.

Friend is a four-letter word.

@KitFox so you're saying it's just a regular Excel file.

All this Samoa hating. Gosh.

user19161

@KitFox Check if it is the right version of Excel, maybe.

7:36 PM

Yay Cake!

Cake is also a four-letter word.

@Robusto perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps!

@JasperLoy It's some stupid Apple program created file or something.

@KitFox What, you mean the Romans were wrong?

@tchrist you mean the Samoan Airlines?

7:37 PM

ρerhaρs

@tchrist Were they ever right?

user19161

@KitFox A .dat file can be many different things actually. Even my vcds have .dat files in them, lol.

Naw, just Jason.

@JasperLoy A .dat file ought to be something I can open in Notepad.

Romans ate domuz.

7:38 PM

Donuts.

@RegDwighт No, worse than that.

user19161

Actually, using LibreOffice to open Office files leads to some modifications as well. There is only 90 per cent compatibility.

Which is Turkish for swine.

@KitFox And here I thought you used Notepad to write in Assembly language.

@KitFox ejhehbheehhehehehehehasdglkhjehehehe

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7:39 PM

WTF?

DAT FILE!

@RegDwighт Romani ite domum. Get it right.

That Samoa.

Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (born August 1, 1979) is an American actor and model. He is known for his role as Ronon Dex (2005–09) on the military science fiction television series ' (2004–09). In 2011, he became recognized for his role as Khal Drogo in the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones and also starred as the title character in the sword and sorcery film Conan the Barbarian (2011). Early life and education An only child, Momoa was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Coni, a photographer, and Joseph Momoa, a painter. He was raised in Norwalk, Iowa...

@Robusto yes but I'm using past continuous aorist.

Somebody give Kit an editor.

7:39 PM

Oh. Another thing I don't know anything about. There's a lot of that.

@tchrist Damn, I guess that Conan movie dropped way under the radar way fast.

@RegDwighт Conjugate!

Point is, once again, he gives me crap information that will take me hours to clean up, and it is in order to do something the wrong way.

Of course you're used to that other thing ever since you wrote it down 100 times in this chat.

@Robusto ite, ate, Alma Ata, Marlene Dietrich.

I hate my job.

I hate my everything.

@KitFox I hate your job too.

7:41 PM

Well, not my family.

@Robusto Oh thanks. That feels good.

@KitFox I think you misquoted Barry White there.

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Q: Usage of 'Of' at the beginning of a sentence?

I can't figure out, please advise. Thanks! I can show you two examples: Of special interest may be the former ones, because nobody has still done researches [...] Of special interest are practices by which ecosystems and biological diversity are managed to secure a flow of natural resources [..]

Wow. Can we close this as not a real statement OF ANY KIND?

@KitFox You’re crapping information? I guess garbage-in,garbage-out is true after all.

It's the urkel of life.

@tchrist Go easy. She is dealing with GIGObytes of shit.

7:43 PM

As long as it's not GIGAwatts...

They’re coming fast and furious now, folks.

Fast and Furious in the Slaughterhouse.

Slaughtermouse!

Schlachtmaus!

Wait, do you even get the reference?

Fury in the Slaughterhouse

Fury in the Slaughterhouse was a rock band from Hannover Germany, founded in 1987 and broke up in 2008. Their hits include: "Time To Wonder", "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease", "Won't Forget These Days", "Radio Orchid", "Dancing in the Sunshine of the Dark", "Milk & Honey", and "Trapped Today, Trapped Tomorrow". History In 1993, the band had its first international success with the hits Radio Orchid and Every Generation got its own Disease from the album Mono and successfully toured several European countries and the USA. Since then Fury has released new albums approximately ev...

> founded in 1987 and broke up in 2008

Oww my parallelism.

I had sex with a guy whose sister dated their drummer.

7:44 PM

It's not important to "get" references. Cf. "Jasper" and "whoosh" ...

@KitFox yeah yeah, the question is: did he also have sex with you?

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@Robusto Thank you for citing me.

@KitFox You really don't have to try so hard at the Six Degrees of Copulation game.

Huhuh, he said hard.

Yes. Well, he had sex with me. It wasn't very good, but I've got that hang up about Germans. I was focused on getting back at my boyfriend at the time, so I figured whatever.

@Robusto I only mention it because that's how I have heard of the band.

7:46 PM

@KitFox Wow, you debased yourself with a German?

What's a good synonym for disband? I have to fix that awful sentence.

user19161

@KitFox I only had it with myself, lol.

Misband.

Unband.

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@RegDwighт separate. end.

@Robusto It's true.

7:46 PM

Deband.

user19161

@RegDwighт How about unband or inband.

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split up

Split up.

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retire

Headband.

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7:46 PM

go on hiatus

Yeah but I need transitive.

user19161

Which head? On top or below? LOL.

They were founded and [were] X.

Disperse.

Atomize.

Nuke.

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spread

7:47 PM

disbanded

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share

eat

user19161

Is this a game?

Matt Эллен

count

@KitFox gee thank you, I'd never guessed that disbanded was a synonym for disbanded.

:P

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it is now

7:48 PM

share => hears => hares => shear => Asher

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@JasperLoy I'm thinking up transitive verbs

user19161

Ashton Kutcher

I didn't want to use disbanded because of the word band in the same sentence. But I think I don't care anymore.

@RegDwighт Well, not the synonym part. For the [were] part. That's what goes there.

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verb

7:48 PM

It's founded-disbanded. Or split up, maybe.

But I already said that.

Liquidated.

Dissolved.

I kind of like dissolved.

Icky.

Fury in the Slaughterhouse

Fury in the Slaughterhouse was a rock band from Hannover, Germany, founded in 1987 and disbanded in 2008. Their hits include: "Time To Wonder", "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease", "Won't Forget These Days", "Radio Orchid", "Dancing in the Sunshine of the Dark", "Milk & Honey", and "Trapped Today, Trapped Tomorrow". History In 1993, the band had its first international success with the hits Radio Orchid and Every Generation got its own Disease from the album Mono and successfully toured several European countries and the USA. Since then Fury has released new albums approximately ...

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Nuked.

No UR.

7:49 PM

There.

imagines dissolving people

@RegDwighт See? Not so bad.

@KitFox well it's better than what they had.

This is what I'm saying.

That alone doesn't make it perfect for me.

Actually perhaps I should change it into "band that banded and disbanded". That would drive the point home.

So because I think it sounds OK, that makes it imperfect in your mind?

feelings hurt

7:51 PM

I mean, at that point it's clear that it's on purpose. The stupid author is aware of his flaws. Self-mocking.

@KitFox I was continuing my thought. You tweened.

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Come together. Seems right for bands. Right now.

They commingled in 1987 and unbracketed in 2008.

@RegDwighт is unreasonable, and persists in feeling hurt

@KitFox I will make a little statue of persistance out of LEGO, and put your name on the pedestal.

Will it be a melting clock?

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7:53 PM

@RegDwighт Persistence.

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How could it not be a melting clock?

feels better

@JasperLoy you keep saying that.

@JasperLoy no, I will never build a statue of that.

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7:54 PM

@RegDwighт Also, mattress.

Also, Frence.

@RegDwighт I read that as melting chocolate. sounds so much more appetizing.

@Mitch Kit had LEGO chocolate yesterday.

I used to have a watch with Persistence of Memory on the face of it.

We don't want to overfeed.

7:55 PM

The persistence of Melting Fudge

Wink wink, fudge fudge.

The Persistence of Vision

The Persistence of Vision is an award-winning 1978 anthology of science fiction stories by John Varley. The anthology was also published in the U.K. under the title In the Hall of the Martian Kings. Contents The anthology includes nine stories: * "The Phantom of Kansas," originally published in Galaxy, February 1976. * "Air Raid," originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977. * "Retrograde Summer," originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1975. * "The Black Hole Passes," originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & S...

Bah.

@RegDwighт oooooh...that's a dilemma. build or eat, build or eat.

Not for her, no it wasn't.

No picky.

7:56 PM

@KitFox so...what time was it?

Who gave John Varley the title Ace anyway?

> The title story won the 1978 Nebula Award,[4] the 1979 Hugo Award,[5] and the 1979 Locus Award[3] in the novella categories.

I had a dream once that I was exploring ruins on Mars.

@tchrist Locus is German for loo.

À la Recherche du Temps Perdue is A Remembrance of Lost Chicken Time.

7:57 PM

Ja chure.

Perdue is Russian for fart.

@KitFox pulls out dream dictinary

Pain perdu is breakfast.

user19161

@Mitch I am glad your rep did not drop after my departure.

@JasperLoy me too!

7:58 PM

/kixter

but that was thanks to @RegDwighт I think.

/keester

@Mitch please do not pull out your dicktionary in this room.

user19161

@Mitch I think maybe they will keep my votes too when I delete my math account soon.

Some people will undo anything for attention.

7:59 PM

@RegDwighт I know, right?

People from Undoromeda undo everything.

user19161

@Robusto Such as their buttons, lol.

It's terrible, you know. I used to dream about seeing the world, and now I dream about seeing other worlds. That will never happen and it makes me sad.

@KitFox reads dictionary entries for Mars oooohhhh... Shocking!

user19161

@KitFox The world is already in front of your eyes.

8:01 PM

@RegDwighт Sounds more like an Italian underwear company. Well, or Portuguese; there seem to be a lot of underwear billboards in Portugal.

read dictionary entry for 'ruins' oooohhhh... more shocking!

@KitFox dream about not seeing anything ever. Then you'll be happy about seeing your cubicle. Sez Confusius.

Good plan. makes notes

reads dictionary entry for exploring...

@RegDwighт Thanks for not noticing my splendid play on words.

8:02 PM

WT...

Perls before swein.

@Robusto thanks accepted. A++, will ignore again.

I knew I could count on you.

I just misspelled Count van Count as Cunt van Cunt. Seriously.

user19161

You can count on me not to backstab you.

user19161

8:04 PM

@RegDwighт You mean Confucius?

@RegDwighт Count if you must, but I will not permit you to cunt on me.

I texted "I hate parties" to my husband last night and it auto-corrected to "I hate panties"

> Was there a gay culture on the down-low in farming communities, one that staged mock games of what amounts to bean-bag tossing to cover up homosexual orgies?

@KitFox Hawt.

Heh.

8:05 PM

@JasperLoy No. Am I talking about Confucius? Am I talking about Confucius? Well, I didn't say Confucius. So who the hell do you think I am talking about?

Yeah, sure. It’s your own quote, you know.

@RegDwighт You mean coitus?

Mar 12 '11 at 1:30, by RegDwight

Coito ergo sum.

Sum people.

user19161

@KitFox That is why I never use autocorrect or spellcheck anywhere.

8:06 PM

Confucius sounds like some pussy-fusion thing.

@Robusto Peoples.

@JasperLoy Because you like panties?

@tchrist some? You mean there are several different?

user19161

@KitFox I like panties, yes. But I have not touched any before.

@KitFox peuples.

I wouldn't want to be in a pussy when it fused.

8:07 PM

@Robusto That’s what the daemon-possessed man replied when he said his name was Legion.

@Robusto Don't be so fussy.

@RegDwighт Pupils.

@KitFox Give away the game!

I'm not fussy. Hey, I use shotguns in all my video games.

user19161

I like panties but not manties @robusto, lol.

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8:08 PM

@KitFox students

@KitFox puke pills?

@RegDwighт Purples.

Satur ventur non studit libentur.

@KitFox Michelle Obama is concerned that in elementary schools all over America our pupils are dilated.

@KitFox purr, please.

user19161

8:09 PM

@Robusto Maybe they are diluted.

@RegDwighт Make your saving throw versus antiquity, or die.

@Robusto tch If that were true, there wouldn't be so many teen pregnancies.

@tchrist and that is an or, how?

Pregnancies cause the worst dilations.

@RegDwighт Perplexities.

8:10 PM

@RegDwighт Yeah ok, the comma is extra.

user19161

That is why we must have sex ed at a young age.

Pregnant pauses cause lexicalities.

@Robusto Time to throw more money into the truancy program then.

user19161

It is precisely the suppression of sexuality that leads to unwanted pregnancies.

@JasperLoy No, that’s so you get your workout in school. It’s to combat rising obesity.

user19161

8:11 PM

But the world is too stupid to listen and think.

@JasperLoy No, it's the suppresion of wanting pregnancies that leads to unwanted pregnancies.

Deep.

Deeper, even.

user19161

Man likes to listen to lies. For example, lies that gays should be executed.

Deep purple.

user19161

Lies that sex is bad or wrong or sinful.

8:12 PM

Who is that man who likes to listen to that?

@JasperLoy No, exercised.

It’s part of that Legion guy.

Ima AFK

I'm for home.

Laterz.

user19161

@KitFox Have a nice day.

Thanks. You too.

8:14 PM

You know, I bet Polari is just full of minced oaths.

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CU @KitFox

CU @green-orc-head

Awfully bouncy.

Why are we the “Language & Usage StackExchange”, without the “English” part?

I mean in our title bar.

Length issues, maybe?

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??

the title I see is "English Language & Usa..."

is this phrase correct anyone?

The xyz strategy to sell their thin-client technology / solution to "FRIENDS" in almost 95% of the cases follows the path/approach described below:-

i would like if someone can review it

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8:27 PM

looks fine to me.

What, salad in the afternoon? I thought we only got salad in the morning around here.

ok thanks

2 hours later…

10:50 PM

@Reg You approved some vandal screwing up my properly used single right quotation marks. :(

I’ve rolled it back.

user19161

Let's roll back the whole site, lol.

@JasperLoy Please don’t roll back the whole site: I just finally got Epic today. And I see I’m user #7 on the site. Might make #5 someday, but surely never more than that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

11:16 PM

@JasperLoy what is this, Walmart?

user19161

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What's Walmart? Sounds like a brand of bra, lol.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JasperLoy I wish I didn't know what Walmart was.

user19161

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Is it a supermarket?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

walmart.com/cp/Rollback-Savings/130306

@JasperLoy oh yes.

Not exactly.

user19161

11:18 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Ah, it really sounds like a bra brand too, hehe.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist a super market in the literal sense.

It is not primarily a big grocery store, which is what I call a supermarket.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You can buy everything but large appliances and automobiles.

Well.

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

How in the world does it sound like a bra brand?

11:19 PM

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I'm gonna make a sandwich.

The weevils are winning.

Then there is the whole Walmart Mexico bribe scandal that the New York Times blew the lid off of.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist You posted that one, or one like it.

I did.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

11:46 PM

@tchrist mmm, brush script.

@tchrist Oh. Sorry. I mean: yeah, I wanted to see if you were paying attention.

Actually I didn't even notice whose answer it was. There were two legitimate typo fixes, and the rest was padding he needed to submit it, and at least the padding was consistent. A split-second decision.

And I am actually asleep right now. So night all.

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