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RegDwight Ѭſ道

4:00 PM

Does that count as a meld?

aedia λ

This is the version I remember. There are apparently lots of others.

Matt Эллен

peanuckle

aedia λ

Oh wait I remember the line "me without a spoon!"

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The only version I am familiar with is this:

aedia λ

Is that... a superhero worm?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

4:03 PM

It's Earth Worm Jim!

Or EWJ if you want it to sound longer

RegDwight Ѭſ道

A most excellent game that came out of nowhere.

A revelation, in its time and place.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I still quote the game from time to time.

Cerberus

@Vit: Hmm interesting, but the video didn't provide much detail...

Matt Эллен

And then it was a cartoon, which was quite good

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Mainly the cow that you have to launch in the first level. It makes cow noises, but every so often says "moo!" really softly.

Robusto

4:04 PM

supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242

Cerberus

@Matt: The thing is, I wouldn't know what I'd want Python to do!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

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Robusto

@Cerberus Just make sure it doesn't choke my dog. At least not in front of FumbleFingers.

Cerberus

Except possibly manipulate Firefox directly; but I think that is highly advanced, if at all possible.

Robusto

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Better.

Cerberus

4:06 PM

@Robusto Don't worry, I am using to working with other snakes, like the ones on my neck. And FF has nothing but my best interest at heart.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto I actually downloaded and tried it.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 It's an OK game, but I really like the soundtrack.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

bbl, lunch

Cerberus

By the way, it's spring!!!

aedia λ

Is it warm there too?

Cerberus

4:07 PM

Yes!

19 C and not a single cloud.

aedia λ

It's ridiculously nice here. Like summer already.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto yeah I liked the visuals you mentioned had been made by a single lady, and the soundtrack was really original. But in the end I only played it once, for an hour or so, and then never again.

Cerberus

Same here!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus It's up to you! I'm sure we could figure something out, regardless what the project is. I was just checking my mail hadn't fallen into your spam trap

Cerberus

How is that possible?

I mean, the weather should not be linked between continents.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

4:09 PM

Jet stream.

Also, magic.

Robusto

It's basically Super Mario Bros. with good music.

Matt Эллен

I hear that the internet transports weather from one place to another.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Helo, mei Nehm is Siegfried, endisiz Roay.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Oh haha, no, but that being my secondary address, I only read it later. In any case, do you think it is possible to have Python do things like locating the boundaries of a text-input box in FF?

aedia λ

@Cerberus It's been as warm as 25 C some days - I had to get out a fan to cool off my apartment when I get home (high rise with windows on only one side gets warm and I am not turning on the a/c in March).

Cerberus

4:10 PM

I believe Windows cannot see anything within FF.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto did you know Square Enix once made an RPG with Mario and Peach all those shrooms and all?

Cerberus

@aediaλ Wowie! Then you win.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And it was actually excellent.

Robusto

Hmm.

Cerberus

I suppose that is because your climate is more landy.

Matt Эллен

4:11 PM

for example, I'm in the UK and I've got the weather for Marrakech

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I think Yoshi was in it, too.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Huh, you have 30 C??

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus online!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And it was in pseudo-3D.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ahh cheater!

I have the moon here.

Robusto

4:12 PM

@Cerberus A "landy" climate?

Cerberus

Oh I have to run, later!

@Robusto Yes, landy.

As opposed to seay.

Bye!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus run far!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Wow, and some guy on Youtube has a video of the entire game, in 50+ 10-minute long clips.

Cerberus

So I will! Bye!

Robusto

@Cerberus always has to run when you catch him saying "landy" ...

aedia λ

4:13 PM

Oh noes! I am going up to see my family in the northeast and it's warm now but it's supposed to get cold and yucky again over the weekend.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus there is always a way, but I don't think it would be easy. It would be a hardcore way to learn Python though :)

aedia λ

@Cerberus Hasta pronto!

Haha.

4:59 PM

@Vitaly Hmm. Well, I suppose. Maybe. I'll give it one more chapter.

Robusto

5:24 PM

KitFox

All hail the FSM!

aedia λ

5:47 PM

@Robusto waves to noodly appendages

Robusto

That Chthulu sure can cook.

aedia λ

Crafted with love, indeed.

KitFox

I had spaghetti for lunch.

My husband is napping while I earn $100.

Yay, me!

aedia λ

@KitFox I had macaroni tuna salad (I don't know what to call it... it's macaroni salad made a bit more healthy and meal-like)

@KitFox Yay!

KitFox

@aediaλ Tuna looks so lovely. Too bad it makes me barf.

aedia λ

5:54 PM

Aww.

KitFox

It gives me the notion that chicken in macaroni salad would be yummy though.

aedia λ

It's such an easy addition to stuff though.

KitFox

Also, bacon.

aedia λ

Yeah!

Whenever I buy bacon I add it to almost everything.

thinks about summer BLTs and almost drools

JSBᾶngs

you people are making me hungry

KitFox

6:00 PM

You person should go eat, then. :P

Robusto

@KitFox I was reading the transcript and my first thought when you said chicken was exactly "bacon" ...

Bacon is the answer to so many of the world's problems.

KitFox

Chicken and bacon go together naturally.

Robusto

Go ahead, give me a world problem.

JSBᾶngs

@Robusto greek debt crisis

aedia λ

Exploding powdered coffee creamer. Lung cancer. Poverty. Being out of the right size post-its.

Robusto

6:02 PM

@JSBᾶngs Moar bacon!

See, it works!

JSBᾶngs

i have total faith in your ability to solve these problems with bacon, @Robusto

Robusto

Chinese slave labor factories? Moar bacon! Nuclear proliferation? Moar bacon! Mexican drug-cartel violence? Moar bacon!

JSBᾶngs

i suppose of greek bond holders will accept payment in the form of bacon (and why wouldn't they?)

Robusto

They'd be fools not to.

Wait. What if they are fools?

But even fools like bacon ... right?

KitFox

Later, bye!

Robusto

6:04 PM

CU

aedia λ

Bai!

Robusto

If I woke up as bacon, I'd eat myself. I wouldn't be able to help it.

@aediaλ Bacon, bacon, bacon, and ... moar bacon. nailed it!

aedia λ

6:21 PM

Mmm, can you imagine how wonderful the air would be if you had bacon lungs?

Robusto

@aediaλ Now you're trying to get me to eat my lungs. Shame on you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Wait: I thought "not eating bacon" was supposed to be the answer?

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Robusto

@MrShinyandNew安宇 OK, let's take a poll. Everyone who would give up bacon to bring peace to the Middle East, raise your hands.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

whistles tunelessly, looks around

Robusto

shoots cuffs

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:31 PM

wow so that video has a way longer intro than I recall. Anyone who hasn't done so should skip to 2:10-ish.

Robusto

Thirty seconds, people.

Fifteen.

Uh-huh. That's what I thought. Bacon wins. Again.

aedia λ

innocently chewing on post-it notes

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Will watch later. You guys are on mute right now so I can buckle down for some tetris-loop listening time :)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ It's not new... it just relates to bacon, in some way.

JSBᾶngs

doesn't everything relate to bacon in some way?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:53 PM

yes, depending on the context.

Cerb would argue that means bacon causes everything.

Matt Эллен

7:11 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 well, just look as the so called "big bang", it was just someone frying bacon

Mahnax

Nyeeeeeur.

I didn't feel like being at the very end of the line anymore.

Matt Эллен

what line were you at the end of?

oh, the people in this room line

Mahnax

Yeah.

A correctly executed nyeeeeeur is spelled nyeeeeeur.

Matt Эллен

that's good to know. I wouldn't want to mistakenly spell it bacon

Mahnax

No, that would be awful.

You would be charged with misuse of bacon.

Your bacon privileges would be revoked.

Matt Эллен

7:22 PM

I would be out of the frying pan and into the fire

Mahnax

You aren't in a bad spot now though.

You'd be thrown out of the window of a comfy apartment.

Six stories up.

Matt Эллен

probable death, certain pain

Mahnax

Definitely.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Baaaaaaacccccccccccccoooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn!

@Matt you misspelled "Big bacon".

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 is that an echo from the microwave background baconation?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:29 PM

When the whole universe was just a bacon singularity

@MattЭллен Yes, and the doppler effect gives it that stippled bacon look

Matt Эллен

:D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Doppler bacon: it smells better as it approaches you, then more regretful as it gets farther away (regret: because you didn't eat the bacon)

Baconfinity: the infinite distance at which two parallel strips of bacon meet. That's also the best place to start eating those strips of bacon.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scienti...

@Robusto So that's why this guy is dead now.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

polybacgon: when multiple pieces of bacon fuse together in the microwave to form delicious shapes.

Not to be confused with bacgone which is what happens after the bacon is eaten

Mahnax

Schrödinger's Bacon: Tastes good and bad at the same time. Just kidding, bacon can't taste bad.

user19161

7:37 PM

I have just overtaken Colin, but we usually alternate.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

True story: at work our application has an embedded programming language called "bacon script". When stored in an individual file the extension is ".bs"

Mahnax

That is awesome.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Also stands for "bull shit" file.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Actually it's a pretty crappy language.

Mahnax

Still, cool.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:38 PM

@WillHunting yeah, that's kinda why I mentioned the extension :)

Mahnax

It has bacon in the name, it must be cool.

user19161

@Mahnax Like Thursagen.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mahnax We named it after bacon because the inventor of this language, Tony, was a big fan of bacon, and we got tired of calling it "Tony's language"

Matt Эллен

@Mahnax lol

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Haha.

@WillHunting Veto.

Thursagen.bacon = null;

making stuff up since '96

user19161

7:41 PM

Now Bruno is the only user on the first page under 10k, let's give him a hand...

Mahnax

IT'S ALMOST OVER 9000!

user19161

@Mahnax OMG! That is the perfect example of "almost over"!

Mahnax

@WillHunting Uh, thanks?

Gotta run, English time!

user19161

I predict Barrie will overtake Reg next month.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 The smoking gun. Or smoked gun. Or whatever. But yes.

@WillHunting What is your obsession with all this?

Matt Эллен

7:47 PM

finger's crossed there'll be another lowball for me, so I hit my target for this month :)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен What's your target?

Matt Эллен

800

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I used to try to stay on the front page of users. Now I no longer care.

Matt Эллен

I think I can get to 10K by June if I keep doing that

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I see my rep creeping upward as new people find my answers

Matt Эллен

7:48 PM

it did some maths in my head a while ago

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You brits and your countable math.

My math is mass.

It just gets bigger

or smaller

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 mathematics, say it with me

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah it has an s but it ain't plural

Robusto

I am so bored with rep. I don't even bother to protest when I answer a question and some soulless rep hound comes trotting along later and posts virtually the exact same answer I gave.

Matt Эллен

hah!

user19161

7:50 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I just gave you a hand...

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 thus, so does maths

user19161

@Robusto Yeah, they see your "dream" and that makes them click "upvote".

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@WillHunting No need for that. I mean, thanks, but it's not necessary.

Matt Эллен