Aran

Originally Posted By: Earth Empires Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? My first reaction too.

Originally Posted By: Homage It made me realize even more so that we are a speck in a massive amount of nothing, and we are made of tiny specks with massive amounts of nothing around them. From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. (Listening to that speech always gives me a warm shiver.)

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith Originally Posted By: Avadon What is with this Hollywood-esque fascination with trilogies? I feel it sucks. In a trilogy, a story is cut up meaninglessly into three parts. Agamedone 1: Introducing the the scenario. Agamedone 2: Needless filler that does not really advance the scenario. Agamedone 3: Rushed ending to the trilogy that does not really tie up any loose ends because hey, it is the end of the trilogy and the suckers who will buy will buy it no matter what. Source: Mass Effect series. If the first movie/game/book creates a large following, you can cash in with lazy sequels and merchandise Not to mention a prequel trilogy...

Originally Posted By: This Charming aRan Originally Posted By: Aʀᴀɴ Off-topic: Is that David Tennant in warpaint in your avatar? =D It was David Tennant's head, covered in blue woad. on Bob Dylan's body, to be absolutely precise. Tyran gets all kinds of jokes for his pun. Oh hell... at first I didn't even recognize the twit whose face you've got now.

Off-topic: Is that David Tennant in warpaint in your avatar? =D

Particularly because you know it's only a matter of time until the squirrels find a security hole and hack into your network. Then the automated defence system takes you out, and they own your house.

Originally Posted By: RA RA RASPUTIN I've read most of the articles on TVTropes already. It's not enthralling for me anymore, either. Yep. There are probably huge swathes of pages I haven't read about series I don't watch, but I think I've covered most tropes and the recap and WMG pages for all webcomics and series I follow. (...huh. I think I just got a good idea about where my life went wrong.)

There was once a time when you bought a non-MMO computer game, installed it on your computer, and played it. It didn't even touch your internet connection. Except when it was multiplayer. Then one of your friends started a hosted game and the rest of you joined it, and you didn't give a crap about any company's server. I just thought it important to keep that memory alive for future generations. It's been a while since I've bought any game that wasn't by Spiderweb or Mojang. If more people felt like me, then companies would soon find that their anti-piracy measures actually hurt sales instead of increasing them.

Quote: Then they threw in Unity Agreed. I tore that out and switched to Gnome Shell.

Ubuntu took Ocelot last year, and Lynx in 2010. These were clearly well-calculated moves. Instead of operating system, Macbook contained bobcat. Would not buy again.

Originally Posted By: Shotgun vs. Boot Does this mean I can stop keeping track of them myself? —Alorael, who also has to ask how often PPP5 scrapes around for changes. Because some people change PDNs more often than others, you know! My algorithm scores recent posts (last 30 days) highest, then total postcount, then seconds since the last update. Its rate isn't perfect, but it still scrapes the top posters at least once a day.

Quote: I know its been said that if you can't play the game on normal, you should go to easy or casual. Im sorry, i find that to be to pathetic for me to do that. Sorry in advance for the snark, but don't you find it pathetic to refuse to adjust the difficulty level and then complain about the difficulty level?

Originally Posted By: Actaeon I'm looking forward to Aran (So Far Away). This one's actually been done (though with a far cooler Aran than I could ever be). Since around April, PPP5 has also been archiving PDNs with only a few gaps.

... if it's 65 feet deep, it's hardly bottomless, now is it. (Or maybe that's the joke.)

Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Tyranicus If I recall correctly, Ed used & as his PDN at one time. that is oddly appropriate for reasons that only imban will get was it some pun on "banned"? Originally Posted By: ĐªŔŦĦ ËRNIË did you know that if you try to replace all your letters with special characters you get a message saying invalid name length? That's because your name is actually stored in the database as the string in this quote box. Each non-ASCII character is therefore the equivalent of 6-7 ASCII characters.

Like this?

JIG reminds me of the hours I spent playing Manufactoria.

Pull the network plug. My productivity has dramatically decreased since I got wifi.

Yay, the old URL scheme still works. Piperbot is happy. (Though for some reason the signature is no longer displayed on the profile page, which makes its job a bit harder.)

Originally Posted By: Jewels in Black Ted Bundy Best or worst typo ever.

Originally Posted By: and each wore a bowler hat Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Originally Posted By: Randomizer There hasn't been a purge of accounts which have never posted and spambot accounts in years. I'm pretty sure this has only happened once, and it really only happened then because the new board software (for ubb.threads) had to be installed anyway. So I wouldn't expect it again, at least not soon. I dunno, I'd have to go to the PPP to check, but I do recall Jeff (or, more likely Mariann) saying that they were going to remove spambots and members who had registered but not posted (thereby dealing with the resident Wolf problem too), in order to try and stop the UBB from imploding. Of course, it was right around the shift, so I could be confusing one event into two. Edit: I AM WRONG. Front page of the PPP archive. Duh. In my defence, 2008 was an age ago. Apologies! This was, in fact, part of what ended the PPP in the first place. UBB renumbered the accounts so it would have been impossible to mix the old archive with new content just because the member numbers didn't match. (Neither did topic or post numbers, of course, or in some cases forum IDs)

Originally Posted By: Randomizer This is why we don't have Mac vs Windows flame wars anymore. Though I'd love to rekindle Nephils vs. Sliths just for old times' sake some day. (Spoiler alert: The Vahnatai win.)

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. WHEN IGNORANCE INTERFERES, EDUCATE THEM, BUT DO IT WITH THE SAME RESPECT YOU DESERVE. And this².

Originally Posted By: Dantius I am not so sorry this must be done, Nikki. Click to reveal.. Wow, that takes me back. It's been five years - or eight, depending on what you're referencing. Retrioanachronicity building up again; to the Spiderbus!

My meaningless approbation is hereby granted.