English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

1:06 PM

I hope they're washing up afterwards

powder room probably has no powder if ever

Feb 3 '12 at 16:11, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

I care.

@Jez what did they coin it from? those 'moist toilettes' that you use to clean off your hands after barbeque?

@Jez pee is a euphemism for piss.(the first letter)

terdon

@Mitch From toile, towel. Literally, it means "small towel". I assume it was this meaning that gave rise to the toilet usage. Presumably since such towelettes were used there.

littre.org/definition/toilette

Mitch

@terdon That supports my 'moist towelette' hypothesis

the time differential is somewhat of a small detail to be resolved.

probably by ignoring it.

terdon

@Mitch True. After all most towelettes are moist.

Mitch

exactly

terdon

Or they are by the time I'm through with them.

Mitch

1:13 PM

you know what I am thinking

@terdon ewww

terdon

Yes but how will we get the hamsters out of the swimming pool, Brain?

Mitch

@terdon OK now we're not thinking the same things. what is that a reference to? Shallow Hal?

terdon

Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering

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Mitch

"I think so brain but how o we get the spice girls into the paella?"

Cannibalism jokes are funny because eating people is wrong.

skill patrol

"I think so brain..." <------SHUT UP ALREADY!!!

terdon

1:23 PM

@Mitch On the other hand, spice girls are spicy. Mexican food is spicy. Therefore, the Spice Girls are Mexican food.

skill patrol

tacos?

:-)

Robusto

@terdon Eeeuuuwww, you eat Spice Girls. Do you even know where they've been?

skill patrol

the only spice without any taste

terdon

@skillpatrol I object to that! The SGs have a lot of taste. It just happens to be very bad taste is all.

Jez

Pinky and the Brain, Tongue Twister

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skill patrol

1:31 PM

@terdon I apologize for my lack of clarity :P

Robusto

The Spice Girls are the Disney version of Pussy Riot.

terdon

@Robusto Yes. All pussy and no balls.

Mitch

I think it's pretty obvious that Spice Girls are not spicy. That's what you call a category error.

terdon

I wouldn't mind seeing them on a spice rack though. Trying to sing while being slowly torn asunder.

Mitch

@Robusto Disney is the Disney version of lukewarm water. neither cold nor hot, spit it out.

@terdon while being shaken over a steaming pot of stew?

Robusto

1:35 PM

@terdon To be fair, though, I prefer women with no balls, and I mean that literally.

RegDwigнt

Mitch

@Robusto you're no figurative kleptomaniac

RegDwigнt

Here's some women with only one ball. Will that do?

Mitch

ooh ooh there I am behind the guy with the beard, near the mirror!

RegDwigнt

One is technically not plural.

Robusto

1:38 PM

@RegDwigнt Yes, yes, I know your brain is idling out of control. Can't you find a bottle of vodka or something?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt clap clap clap

golf clap

jinx

golf jinx

or rather, jinx

1:38 PM

@Robusto it is worse than that. My Linux is shit again, so every other letter gets swallowed. And I have to go back and retype.

BRB REBOTNG

terdon

@Robusto You're such a reactionary.

Robusto

I'm just old-fashioned. YMMV.

terdon

@Mitch Damn, I spent five minutes looking for you before realizing there is no mirror!

Robusto

Actually, that painting is the "BEFORE" picture in the Soviet diptych. The "AFTER" is a moonscape.

tchrist

@Robusto Takes chutzpah.

RegDwigнt

1:41 PM

I've had it with this Linux crap. It's 2015 and they still haven't figured out how to allow for typing.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt They figured it out if you know how to write everything in Assembly language.

RegDwigнt

And now all my tabs are gone and I have to painstakingly reinstall them all.

And restart my VMWare.

Mitch

@terdon What? the surface is the mirror.

Robusto

y u use linix lol nerd

tchrist

@RegDwigнt What do you mean?

RegDwigнt

1:43 PM

See above.

tchrist

"allow for typing"

terdon

@RegDwigнt May we assume you're using something like Ubuntu?

tchrist

It’s discarding keyboard events willy nilly?

Robusto

@terdon *u cunt u

RegDwigнt

@tchrist precisely that

tchrist

1:44 PM

Smells like Windows to me.

RegDwigнt

And it does that sporadically every couple weeks just to piss me off.

Robusto

Sounds like a hardware problem. As in, you have the wrong software on the hardware.

terdon

Heh, it's a valid question actually. Some composite display managers seem to cause typing issues. It's usually only in the display though, the typed characters are actually there but not shown.

tchrist

I've never seen that happen on Linux.

Robusto

@terdon Yeah. Showing the characters is an optional extra.

tchrist

1:44 PM

Mind you, I’m hardly a Linux fan.

terdon

@Robusto True geeks don't need them.

Robusto

That's the Linux Enterprise edition that shows characters.

RegDwigнt

You do not understand. I am using the same three and a half programs. I have the exact same windows open in the exact same position, since like January 2008.

tchrist

@terdon putty does that with pasting

Robusto

Maybe reboot?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:45 PM

@RegDwigнt So maybe it's your hardware that's failing.

RegDwigнt

And yet sometimes Linux says, oh jolly gosh, now this is an ALL NEW SITUATION. Alert alert, I know not what to do!

terdon

6 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

BRB REBOTNG

tchrist

@terdon Remember: vi’s GUI was designed during a time when humans typed faster than computers.

Robusto

That was the fastest REBO I have ever seed.

terdon

@tchrist Excuses, excuses.

RegDwigнt

1:46 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I've thought of that. In fact that's the first sign of a RAM burning through. But no. I had admins check.

Robusto

0

Q: is vs. are question... which is correct?

I'm confused, perhaps unnecessarily by which term to use: What programs 'is' company X involved in? vs. what programs 'are' company X involved in? thanks for your help.

word-usage

Oh dear. Not another one of those.

RegDwigнt

Also, I get a new machine every other year.

Also, we get a new Linux every year.

tchrist

@terdon No, no, no: it means it's optimized for touch-typing blind. :)

terdon

@RegDwigнt and the problem persists?

RegDwigнt

All of them equally suck in equal ways.

terdon

1:47 PM

@tchrist I chose my side on the editor wars years ago and it has more than 2 letters.

RegDwigнt

And by new I mean new new. Like Redhat then SuSE then Debian then gee who's gonna remember all the shitty names.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt "admins" don't know how to check if the hardware is failing, except by replacing the hardware and seeing if the problem goes away.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt I see you’ve attended the recent Linux Suckathons.

RegDwigнt

@terdon Hello fellow GEdit user.

tchrist

BDSM

terdon

1:47 PM

@RegDwigнt So you're keeping the same $HOME for all of them?

@RegDwigнt Grrr. I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

Robusto

HELLO MY NAME IS NERDRAGE

terdon

Well, I didn't. I'll pretend I didn't read it either.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@terdon pico? nano?

Oh! notepad.exe

RegDwigнt

I am not keeping anything for anything. We have sysadmins. I just want to type "fuck" and have it come out as "fuck" and not "fck" or "Roger Federer". That is the entire complete list of my demands in its entirety.

tchrist

Pikovandropov.

Robusto

1:48 PM

@RegDwigнt Problem solved, apparently.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt perfectly reasonable. I've never seen a Linux system swallow keystrokes though, and I've used Linux since 1997.

Robusto

Unless you typed "fuck" just now where "Roger Federer" appears.

terdon

@Robusto Well, roger does mean fuck. Maybe this is a feature not a bug.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Unless you are accidentally using the wrong keyboard, and you are somehow activating "dead keys", which are meant for typing accented characters.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah yeah you've never seen Putin or Crimea in person, either. What you've seen does not matter.

tchrist

1:49 PM

@terdon Four-letter commands take twice as long to start up as two-letter commands.

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 My Linux promises she'll swallow but I think she's lying.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt But I've seen lots of computers with hardware failures, especially keyboard failures, doing just what you described.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I actually typed "hunter1".

Jez

there should be nô dèad kéys

Robusto

Speaking of Roger Federer, looks like another Swiss miss this year, huh?

Jez

1:51 PM

i have a cool keyboard layout where there are only dead key combinations

RegDwigнt

Alles Roger in Kambodscha.

Mitch

@terdon vim? pico?

terdon

Ah, but do the dead keys scroll?

@Mitch I'll holler if you find it.

Mitch

@terdon well duh you're intelligent so you use emacs

tchrist

Nobody would ever guess ɦvntǝʁⅨ

Mitch

1:53 PM

So I've never heard of this dead key thing. What the hell is that? I could wiki it but it would probably involve summinung these dead keys.

RegDwigнt

It allows you to typé liké yoû're an idìot.

Or a surrender cheese monkey.

terdon

@Mitch Yay!

RegDwigнt

Your pick.

Robusto

Alicia Keyes isn't dead.

RegDwigнt

It is also counter intuitive. No means yes, and yes means no.

Mitch

1:54 PM

@RegDwigнt how about just the cheese?

tchrist

à la même fois

Mitch

If it doesn't have a pisture on my keyboard it doesn't exist. they're dead because they're ghost keys.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah you know now that you mention it, I am actually not so sure.

tchrist

You have pictures on your keyboard?

RegDwigнt

I've not heard from her in a decade.

Unless she reinvented herself as Taylor Swift.

Mitch

1:56 PM

Yeah, they look like these little squiggles. like emoticons but simpler.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Wasn't that when she slapped a restraining order on you?

tchrist

That seems very unprofessional.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto she wishes. Slapping me was subject to a restraining order on my part.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

@Mitch ("")_(;..;)_("")

tchrist

1:56 PM

Better in black.

RegDwigнt

That's racist.

Is that an early version of Optimus?

tchrist

Memeticist.

RegDwigнt

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Aaaaarrrggghh!! It burns!!! It burns!1!

RegDwigнt

Here's an LGBT Optimus.

@Robusto do the goggles do something?

Robusto

1:59 PM

Apparently not.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

tchrist

@Robusto There should be a canonical dupe for that sort, but good luck finding it.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt How dare you!

RegDwigнt

These icons are so 2000.

@tchrist err. Just search the site for "company"?

tchrist

It's all fuckin’ gyptian to me. use words || die.

@RegDwigнt Oh, you think that’s it? I thought it was distraction about what the real subject is.

RegDwigнt

2:03 PM

Whoa. Whoa. And not one but two hilariously awful answers.

tchrist

There will be five more before it gets closed.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist there's a question for that one, too.

Robusto

@tchrist He just closed it to make a liar out of you.

RegDwigнt

You'll have to search for frogs or habitat for that one, though.

tchrist

@Robusto I could never have anticipated that.

RegDwigнt

2:10 PM

10

Q: How do I determine subject and subject complement in "A side-effect is the spread of commercialese to other domains."?

Consider this example: Commercialese is an instrument of art, designed to enrich and invigorate our language—surely you will all agree with this—, and we should encourage newcomers to learn it. However, a side-effect is the spread of commercialese to other domains. This we must obje...

grammar numbers subject inversion complement

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Q: In special cases, can you use "one such family are" vs. "one such family is"?

Is it correct to say "one such family are..." as opposed to "one such family is..." in some circumstances? Say, for instance, as used in this article on gene families: [...] One such family are the genes for human haemoglobin subunits; [...] The problem occurs when the family is a collecti...

grammatical-number expressions collective-nouns

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Q: [Singular] Is/Are [Plural]?

My fish's native habitat is rice fields. My fish's native habitat are rice fields. I'm pretty sure the first is correct, since 'is' modifies 'habitat,' but it still sounds weird...

verb-agreement concord

Sorry, fish not frogs.

I did get the habitat right.

You have to use mnemonics. Subject = habitat. Past-tense verb agreement = New Jersey. Metathesis = aks. Family are = Microsoft.

Robusto

We should have a hash table where we reference the canonicals.

RegDwigнt

Or you could just try the site search which is half bad these days.

Robusto

Yeah, except I need it to be half good. So you see the problem.

tchrist

slow

or at least half fast.

RegDwigнt

If you type metathesis, it actually finds you metathesis. If you type "Obama" it actually returns you Obama. Whodathunk.

@Robusto you capitalists always see the vodka glass as half good. It really is not.

Robusto

2:19 PM

@RegDwigнt The problem is to find "is+are". You get the phone book.

RegDwigнt

Dunno, looks legit to me.

Just don't sort by votes, a rookie mistake.

Robusto

Shut up.

RegDwigнt

No problem either.

Jesus WTH.

0

Q: Is "I shut up" proper english grammar

So I saw that "shutted" isn't an English word, but "I shut up" doesn't sound proper. If you were to tell someone "I shut up", talking in past tense, would that be proper?

american-english past-tense

No. Billiards has no grammar. "I shut up" is clearly not billiards.

I don't know how you could even ask.

Robusto

Don't blame me. I was referring to a different shut up.

RegDwigнt

0

Q: What is the name of the action that rasing a hand gesture for making fun?

For example, the I Love You gesture: Or the Vulcan salute: Or the V for Victory: What is the general name of all of this actions?

single-word-requests gestures

What is the name of the writing that leaving out crucial syntactic units?

And who is "rasing".

Robusto

2:24 PM

This just never gets old.

RegDwigнt

It is not communist red enough.

Robusto

I left that tab open because it always brings a smile to my face.

RegDwigнt

Communist red doesn't get old for 70+ years. This surrogate, I dunno.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Your beef is with TFD, not me.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you are very observant sir.

I shall smith a medal just for you.

Hey cool, you can actually google for "observant medal".

This internet thing is da bomb.

Hear that, NSA? There's a bomb in the Internet.

Robusto

2:44 PM

Why you put bom in here?

RegDwigнt

Because it was a [perfect replacement] for the picture of Lenin.

Need one word.

Heck, why stop at one.

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: The only room on the planet for all your zero-word requests [[1562-61524-13]]

Matt E. Эллен

I need zero words for "you totally a word there"

skill patrol

?

Robusto

Wait, the tag is three words already.

Leave it to SE geeks to know that Leonard Nimoy was making the "priestly gesture" with his Vulcan ~~fuck you~~ salute.

RegDwigнt

:22939708

Matt E. Эллен

2:58 PM

thanks!

RegDwigнt

Jesus why no work.

Bug report bug report.

What is zero words for "bug report"?

Not even with Unicode!

I'll keep pinging Matt forever if I have to.

Matt E. Эллен

The Beach Boys enter a pub: "Get a round." "Round?" "Round." "I'll get a round."

Tweeted by Irma_Gerde on July 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM

@RegDwigнt zero times and counting!

RegDwigнt

Why does Ms Gerde have an underscore in her name?

Is that how they do things in Scandinavia?

Robusto

nøøøøøøø

RegDwigнt

Oh hello Darþ Våder.

Robusto

3:02 PM

@MattE.Эллен Beach Boys don't pub-crawl. They surf. Get it?

Also, they drive hot rods.

RegDwigнt

Høtrød med fløde.

Matt E. Эллен

I've never driven a hotrod

I can't be a Beach Boy

and they're not "boys" anymore :P

they're all on they're third or fourth midlife crisis

3:12 PM

@MattE.Эллен You missed the auditions anyway. Where were you in '62?

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto another universe, man

Robusto

@skillpatrol Neither is Bruce Jenner.

@MattE.Эллен What other universe? Be specific.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto girls just wanna have fu-uhn.

Robusto

Yeah, that's the promise. They seldom live up to that, though.

Unless "fun" for them involves nagging the shit out of you.

RegDwigнt

Like Louis CK says, men will just rip off your arm. Women will shit into your heart.

skill patrol

3:15 PM

how sweet

Robusto

That's a special Valentine sentiment.

Josh61 seems determined to answer every question on the site.

RegDwigнt

Not if I stay determined to close every question before he gets there.

Robusto

It doesn't help.

RegDwigнt

I never said I was determined to help.

Robusto

He got a Great Question badge for a closed question. You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him.

RegDwigнt

3:25 PM

Hey I know people who got Great Question for deleted questions.

Robusto

No way.

Not before the fact.

RegDwigнt

It's an illustrious club.

Robusto

link or it didn't happen

RegDwigнt

You haven't specified any time constraints, so I'll just say I'll post the link in the next 50 years.

Robusto

Figures. What a gyp.

RegDwigнt

3:27 PM

But for the record yes, on SO and I think on Proggers there were examples.

I don't think there were any on other sites because, um, how do I put it. The other sites just don't have great questions.

Robusto

So how can 1/8 be 0.12645137880986937? That's what my browser thinks window.innerWidth / (window.innerWidth * 8) equals.

RegDwigнt

Quite easily, it just has to eat a Royale with Cheese.

Robusto

Also he has the Unsung Hero badge. No fair. I've always been sung, ever since the beginning. Kids these days.

Mitch

@Robusto close enough for jazz

RegDwigнt

I promise to unsing you at least once in the next seven years.

Make that nine.

Fifteen is better. Yes. Twenty.

Mitch

3:29 PM

how about never?

Is never good for you?

skill patrol

SSTTAAAAAAAAP!!!

Robusto

Mar 11 '11 at 17:32, by Robusto

@Cerberus — How about never? Is never good for you?

RegDwigнt

HUMMMMMERTIMA.

Robusto

Stop stealing my material, @Mitch

RegDwigнt

That's a four-year jinx, ladies & gentlemen. Four years. Who offers more?

Matt E. Эллен

3:31 PM

less is more?

RegDwigнt

No communist bullshit in this chat.

Robusto

No. Les is less.

RegDwigнt

Les is Humphries.

Robusto

Mar 11 '11 at 17:33, by Robusto

@RegDwight — Now the real party can begin. The Communist Party has left the building!

BTW, here's where I stole the line from:

From the Full Disclosure Department, Robusto edition.

RegDwigнt

@skillpatrol what about Emma Bunton?

Oh haha, that was the subject. Well in that case I doubly demand to know.

Robusto

3:36 PM

@Mitch steals only pre-stolen material.

RegDwigнt

Jul 8 at 14:18, by RegDwigнt

@Robusto kaum gestohlen, schon in Polen.

skill patrol

@RegDwigнt what about her?

RegDwigнt

Yeah no forget it.

I am about to mute commies anyway. Can't use distractions from tasteless spice girls.

skill patrol

good luck

RegDwigнt

Funny, still nobody has fixed the "what is for when rasing expression word" title.

On the Internet, nobody cares if you're an English.

They will take your willy, and they will make him nilly.

Mitch

3:43 PM

@Robusto So you stole it first. Good for you!

RegDwigнt

Only a Robusto can call another Robusto Robusto.

Robusto Robusto Robusto Robusto robusto robusto Robusto Robusto.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Preuss ist nicht so nice

RegDwigнt

Preuss is too preusstigious.

You asked a question. I answered it. This is the answer to your question. "Set (align)" is right. "Set (Align)" is wrong. What else is it that you need. — RegDwigнt ♦ 22 secs ago

FFS.

SmokeDetector

4:06 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HAVE GOT THING / HAVE THING / GOT THING by TheXDX on english.stackexchange.com

Matt E. Эллен

4:30 PM

just no helping some people

Robusto

@Mitch That's right. I stole it first. So keep your hands off my stealings.

You can have some of my other hand-me-downs, though. I'll let you know.

skill patrol

1 hour ago, by skill patrol

how sweet

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's a funny way to spell Prius. Do they speak English in Prius?

skill patrol

@Robusto Funny you would mention that, since I just saw a sports special on Bruce Jenner.

Feralthinker

greetings

skill patrol

4:41 PM

hi

Feralthinker

@Robusto speaking of stealings, I stole your idea of using a Chinese character for my avatar. Though I'm not happy with mine yet. Need to find a more calligraphic rendering.

Robusto

@Feralthinker You could find a better representation of yama. What I did was to type the character for yume in PhotoShop and then size it and color it correctly over a transparent background, then export as PNG.

That one's better than the current one you have.

That one is nicely calligraphic, but no margins.

Your current one has no margins either, but that's a bad thing, not something I would try to replicate.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

4:59 PM

> I’ve been with my now-husband for 11 years. I have a daughter from a previous marriage and we have a child, 6, together.
We recently got married. We made this celebration a “family” wedding. Everyone was so moved by how personal and different our ceremony was.
However, a nephew arrived at the reception in a hockey jersey of his favourite team, which greatly upset the Maple Leafs fans present.
It started an ugly outbreak between my three brothers, cutting the reception short. No music or dancing. It was a horrific scene. My children wept in disappointment and fear.

^^^ when weddings in Canada go wrong

> I had words with him and said that my family’s dead to me. What they did at my wedding is unforgivable.
Now, do I have to send a thank-you note for the gift?

^^^ proof that it's Canadian

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 look at those jokers / losin' that damn hockey game

—Joni Mitchell, Raised on Robbery

^^^ proof that she's Canadian

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 And not Canadien.

c'm't

Feralthinker

5:22 PM

@Robusto thanks for the mountains. Yes, they are all better than I have now, but I had settled for a temporary solution until I found something better.

Robusto

5:43 PM

@Feralthinker Looks like that works. You even dropped out the background.

Feralthinker

@Robusto yes, I didn't like the background I had, but I just didn't have time to fix it at the time. Thanks for your help. As I learn more advanced characters I'll probably change to a symbol more complex than one of the simple radicals.

Robusto

Simple can be beautiful.

Feralthinker

Indeed.

This symbol is appropriate because I use it in my signature in place of the letter W.

My signature is a pseudo-Arabic pseudo-Chinese swoop + scrawl.

I don't know why it's displaying the old avatar again. :\

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:53 PM

@Feralthinker Do you write the pseudo-Arabic parts from right to left, and the pseudo-Chinese parts from top to bottom?

Mitch

@Robusto As long as you don't give me no hand me down shoes

The Guess Who - Hand me Down World

►

They stink

Feralthinker

7:12 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yes, I do: my signature has a baseline with a double-bend in it, and I draw that line from right to left, and that is the pseudo-Arabic part. Then at the left end of this line I put a triangle for a D (or a mountain) followed by the three vertical lines for a W, then a few other quickly drawn embellishments to fill out my signature with enough Roman-letter like figures to make it look like the signature it's supposed to be.

The double bend forms an S when read from left to right, btw.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wow. I have a hard enough time making my signature look consistent from the last time I signed something last year.

Robusto

@Feralthinker A WoW player, eh? What class was your main?

Feralthinker

well, I may not be very legible, but I am consistent. The bank certainly hasn't complained, but consistency is their guideline. Not legibility.

Well I started out with a human lock when I was a total noob, and playing the spec.... forget what it's called, but not a good spec for a noob.

More lately most of my energy has gone into a human female mage. I'm male, and in the beginning it seemed odd to me to play a female toon, but not so much anymore.

I changed the Lock to destro, and the Mage is fire.

what do you play?

Robusto

I started as a balance druid before there was a balance druid, switched to resto when BC came out and totally crushed it, then when resto got nerfed in Cataclysm I switched to feral, and after a while I quit.

Too much grinding to stay in a top raiding guild.

Feralthinker

yes, it's time consuming. i've been on and off lately, so i'm debating hanging up my guns too. I went through a depression for about a year, and WoW helped me reconstruct living with responsibilities, strange as that may seem. But it helped me. But now that I'm starting to function more and more in the world, there is less time for WoW. A year of WoW also meant a hundred pound weight gain. So I'm playing lots of Ingress now to try and walk some of that off.

The disappointing thing about Ingress is that you win territory, someone takes the territory, then you take it back, and that's basically it. But then WoW at the PvE level is pretty much the same. Not until you get to PvP is there a true element of surprise. I was getting big on PvP, but since WoD I havent made time to go read all the info about the changes.... So no PvP anymore. :\

Robusto

7:23 PM

@Feralthinker Yeah, I switched to a PvP server from PvE after a couple years.

But the thing I enjoyed most about the game was raiding end-game content.

My guild was the third one on the server to take down BT in BC, for example. We almost made first but had a few defections at a critical juncture.

And, yeah, WoW is bad for your health. I didn't gain 100 lbs., but I gained a few there before I forced myself to trim down.

I had a few alts I leveled to the current max, one was a draenei shaman, another was a hunter (can't remember the class right now, believe it or not).

Feralthinker

100lbs are dangerous to my health and I exaggerate not. The level at which you played WoW sounds as though you played it fully. Relatively few get that far.

Robusto

I used to raid four or five hours a night. This was on top of working. And I even worked, got a master's degree, and played WoW during one two-year stretch.

Either can be correct or suitable. That's like asking which color is suitable, red or blue? — Robusto 8 secs ago

I still can't believe I put in all that time. I play mostly console games now, and it's nice just to put them down when I'm tired.

SarahofGaia

9:09 PM

Anyone on?

Guess not.

Feralthinker

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