June 2010

30Jun2010
  • bf

SMH headline: “Howard Rejected by ICC”. I guess his gearscore wasn’t high enough.

jirra
29Jun2010
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dennilan:

Does anyone have a neuraliser? I need to wipe about three minutes.

Carlfish:

File an issue with IT. Someone will be around with a mallet.

29Jun2010
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jirra:

I've turned off the ads in JIRA and now there's no way to turn them back on. :(

dennilan:

JIRA has ads?

jirra:

It will.

Carlfish:

GROW YOUR BUG COUNT!

dennilan:

JIRONY. PLAY DISCREETLY NOW!

29Jun2010
  • bf

Deadheart wrote on Moonburn’s wall: I interrupted that!

moonburn, social-networking
29Jun2010
  • bf
jirra:

I'm testing some FishEye stuff and raising bugs in SPAC. The project key is FISH, so this is probably the right place to raise bugs against Carl too.

Carlfish:

I don't follow that project so I wouldn't respond to any bugs. The best place to file bugs against me is with Donna.

jirra:

Is she able to fix them?

Carlfish:

On occasion.

23Jun2010
  • bf

Words that are only words for Americans aren’t words at all.

Jirra
21Jun2010
  • bf

Yeah, I played X-Wing. I wasn’t very good at it actually.

Jedi, proving his IRC nick is a lie.
21Jun2010

+/- 2%

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Furgin:

82% of all survey results are made up on the spot.

Swoon:

75% of people know that.

Furgin:

50% of them don't.

Swoon:

I think you're only 20% correct there, Furgin.

Furgin:

I agree with 3.4% of what you're saying

jirra:

You people are crazy.

Furgin:

Only 9% crazy.

21Jun2010
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WobWork:

I propose a ‘kill switch’ for americans

WobWork:

it’s a 50 megatonne EMP placed in the middle of America

virtualwolf:

I’d say move it closer to the south.

jedi:

wouldn’t that only work if americans were robots?

virtualwolf:

The midwest is weird but harmless, and all the normal people are on either coast.

virtualwolf:

There’s really nothing redeeming about the American South whatsoever.

dennilan:

I keep trying to come up with examples to contradict you, but I can’t

dennilan:

:/

18Jun2010
  • bf

Boobies > boobless

virtualwolf talking about calculators. We think.
17Jun2010
  • bf

Using Flash to play video is like using a curling iron as a foot warmer. It was never really meant to do it, but it kinda works.

jedi
16Jun2010
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Plz doesnt mean please. It means ‘Hurry up, noob’.

Furgin
16Jun2010
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Generally, if people justify the use of ‘plz’ because it’s shorter than 'please’, I quite happily justify 'no’ because it’s shorter than 'yes’.

<em>WobWork</em>
15Jun2010
  • bf

Panties is one of those creepy words that only creepy old guys in ice-cream vans that cruise around public parks use

Jirra
15Jun2010

It's All Pants

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Carlfish:

SMH article summary of the day: “Chatroulette, the infamous voyeuristic video chat site, is investigating ways of blocking out male genitals as the website battles a sharp decline in visitor numbers.”

jirra:

They don't get female genitals on there? Or they're not a problem?

jedi:

They're probably more of a solution than a problem.

Swoon:

Or maybe genital-recognition software is more advanced for men.

Carlfish:

The tech industry is often accused of being phallocentric.

jedi:

In order to detect them, just convert the video stream to ascii and check for any occurrences of 8===D

Carlfish:

But what if you _are_ a smiling giraffe?

jirra:

If so, what are you smiling about? Are your genitals covered?

Carlfish:

Levi's Law. On the Internet, any conversation will eventually return to the subject of pants.

jirra:

They just need a sign on the login screen - ARE YOU WEARING PANTS?

Carlfish:

ARE YOU PLANNING ON CONTINUING TO WEAR PANTS?

Carlfish:

REALLY?

Carlfish:

THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON THIS SITE?

11Jun2010
  • bf
*** denni joined the chat room.
* virtualwolf

decapitates denni.

virtualwolf:

I mean, hi.

virtualwolf:

The keys are like right next to each other.

denni:

greetings all!

* denni

decapitates virtualwolf

denni:

yeah, weird about the key locations, hey!

10Jun2010

Black Holes #2

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Swoon:

“New in Universe 1.1: massive sinks that consume all matter.”

Carlfish:

I can imagine Steve Jobs introducing that at the developer conference.

Carlfish:

“Now this is something you're going to love. Remember last year when I introduced gravity? Well that got our brilliant engineers thinking what else you could do with it…”

Carlfish:

“Well today I am proud to introduce… iSingularity.”

WobWork:

That could equally be a Google presentation.

WobWork:

“We at Google have decided to release Gravity to the wider world. We've made it Open Source, cause we're nice like that”

jirra:

Good thing the Universe wasn't made by Blizzard, it would shut down every Tuesday.

10Jun2010

Black Holes #1

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Swoon:

The universe has bugs. You think black holes are a feature?

denni:

*I* think black holes are a feature.

Swoon:

“New in Universe 1.1: massive sinks that consume all matter.”

denni:

They're fricking awesome!

jirra:

The whole nature of light has the feeling of a piece of code that started off with one idea and then a bunch of people hacked it.

Swoon:

private const String SPEED_OF_LIGHT = "2.9 x 10^8 ms/s" // HACK: DO NOT CHANGE THIS VALUE; EVERYTHING BREAKS.

10Jun2010

Yoghsplosion

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Furgin:

ffs do they pressurise these yoghurts? i just opened it and it exploded all over my lap

Lolzcat:

i don’t think you should eat it

Furgin:

i already ate it

Furgin:

even the bits on my lap

Lolzcat:

apart from the fact that it’s all over your pants, exploding yoghurt usually means it’s gone off

Furgin:

oh there is some on my keyboard.. win!

* Lolzcat

is hoping the furgin is not licking his keyboard.

Furgin:

vdfgbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Furgin:

what ?

10Jun2010

Baaaaa

  • bf
Carlfish:

It’d be cool if you could cast [Polymorph] on yourself.

Carlfish:

“Hey, I came up here to talk to Charles…” “Where is he, and why is there a sheep at his desk?”

Carlfish:

Not to be attempted in New Zealand, for obvious reasons.

Lolzcat:

“Hey, I came up here to talk to Charles…” “Where is he, and why… hello there…”

10Jun2010
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moonburn:

How do I check what gender I am?

WobWork:

look in your pants?

moonburn:

I’m not wearing any.

WobWork:

Technically, it should be self evident then

09Jun2010
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Swoon:

Say yes, then when it all falls over into a tin of custard he’ll come back to Studio

jedi:

I hate it when things call into a tin of custard

* Swoon

picks up the tin of custard and shouts into it

Swoon:

“Hello? Hello?”

09Jun2010
  • bf
jedi:

anything is possible in IRC!

* jedi

throws a yacht around the room

* jirra

inflates a hippopotamus

* virtualwolf

ducks the airborne yacht.

* lolzcat

rolls a competent Death Knight.

jedi:

hahaha, lolzcat that’s like saying you made a square circle

lolzcat:

anything is possible

09Jun2010
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jedi:

WHO IS THE NOOB

jedi:

WHO SETS OFF THE ALARM

jedi:

EVERY MORNING

virtualwolf:

Seriously! They need a punch right in the sarcophagus.

Swoon:

A kick in the King Tuts.

09Jun2010
  • bf

I wouldn’t trust it as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

Moonburn
08Jun2010
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jedi:

dance dance ice crown citadel

lolzcat:

I want to play WoW with a dance mat

jedi:

i'd have to start off on beginner mode... smite, smite-smite-smite,

smite, smite-smite

07Jun2010
  • bf

If more WoW players used the convenience of nappies, we wouldn’t have to wait for ‘brb bio’ all the time.

Jirra, also in relation to <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/kids-lost-to-a-virtual-world/story-e6freuy9-1225876184274">this</a>.
07Jun2010
  • bf

I don’t have a WoW addiction, any more than I have a breathing addiction.

Jirra, in relation to <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/kids-lost-to-a-virtual-world/story-e6freuy9-1225876184274">this</a>.
04Jun2010
  • bf

|:( means “I am displeased with my unibrow.”

<em>Jedi, defining new emoticons</em>
04Jun2010

/cast [Random Spell]

  • bf
Carlfish:

Most interesting line so far, from the most stressful bit of the Festergut fight after lolz died:

Carlfish:

22:55:02 Rikitikitavi casts Levitate on Atlassia

Carlfish:

300ms later it was dispelled by a tick of pungent blight.

Lolzcat:

fly away atlassia! save yourself!

04Jun2010

Breaking the Ice

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Lolzcat:

The ice box in the fridge behind mb is literally a box full of ice

Lolzcat:

There’s no room to put anything in it

Moonburn:

Lolzcat: not quite

Moonburn:

there is an entire tray of mint slices frozen for all eternity as well

Jedi:

i thought they were emblems of frost

04Jun2010
  • bf

My favourite dev quote for the day: “Yeah, so, I’m just going to resolve that issue as ‘No fucking clue’”.

jirra
03Jun2010
  • bf

How HR might convince me to do more interviews over Skype.

03Jun2010
  • bf
Dennilan:

Gah! We're using Maven the Maven Way and still hitting problems.

Carlfish:

Maven Way. Isn't that near the corner of Masochism Ave. and the You're Fucked Highway?

03Jun2010
  • bf

Now I’m using XChat. Which, because it’s cross-platform, is battleship-grey ugly.

Swoon
02Jun2010

Fully Voiced

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WobWork:

actually, one of the newer MMOs, I think it’s the 40K one, is going to have full voiced npcs

Furgin:

WobWork: no thats going to be swtor

WobWork:

that’s probably it

Lolzcat:

the new star wars mmo will be fully voiced

Lolzcat:

oh furgs just said that

Jirra:

I’ve heard there’s some MMO coming out soon that will be fully voiced, too.

Lolzcat:

no way!

Jirra:

Is the trailer fully voiced?

Carlfish:

I’ve heard there’s this massively multiplayer game where everyone is voiced.

Furgin:

like the mmo ?

Denni:

Wow! There’s a new Star Wars MMO coming out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzL2qUxuhns

Denni:

Apparently it’s fully voiced.

Denni:

Well, the trailer is, anyway

* Lolzcat

is ignoring you all.

02Jun2010

Afternoon nap time

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Virtualwolf:

And there’s the mid-afternoon “Blaaarrrggghhhhh” again, right on schedule.

ChrisLePetit:

having trouble reading the screen

ChrisLePetit:

turns out

ChrisLePetit:

eyes were closed

02Jun2010

Rezplz

  • bf
[21:23:09.821] Lolzcat casts Rebirth on Furgin
[21:23:13.570] Lady Deathwhisper Death and Decay Furgin 3928
[21:23:14.599] Lady Deathwhisper Death and Decay Furgin 2488 (O: 1440)
[21:23:14.801] Furgin dies
02Jun2010
  • bf

New hunter spell in Cataclysm. [Feign Interest]

<em>Carlfish</em>
02Jun2010
  • bf

for (var elephant in herd) { elephant.explode(); }

<em>Moonburn, describing JavaScript’s foreach loop syntax</em>
02Jun2010
  • bf

Dwarves don’t eatface. They eatkneecap.

Carlfish
02Jun2010
  • bf

“This permission grants the wielder the ability to …” arg WoW is affecting my customer replies

jedi
02Jun2010
  • bf

I just wish I hadn’t died to an attack called “Ferocious Butt”.

Carlfish, on fighting Icehowl in Trial of the Crusader
02Jun2010
  • bf

It looks like someone cleaned it with a cheeseburger

Moonburn, describing his laptop screen.
02Jun2010
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Furgin:

I was in a party of 5 with 4 girls (me being the only non girl if that wasnt obvious)

Furgin:

we only just did CoT timed because they kept stopping to look in the shop windows

* Jirra

resists the urge to set fire to Furgs, rain an AoE on him then steal his soul and use it to make gobstoppers.

Lolzcat:

i never realised that there were vendors in CoS

Furgin:

Lolzcat: girls can find shoe shops anywhere

* Furgin

was kicked by Jirra

02Jun2010
  • bf
ChrisLePetit:

I need a beer and a nap and a teleport home.

ChrisLePetit:

I'm pretty annoyed, my iPad does support teleporting home

WobWork:

but you need a 3G network?

ChriLePetit:

we have wifi here, that should work.

Carlfish:

Ask Donna to open a portal. You might have to tip her five gold though.

WobWork:

Just hearth. Jeez.

Carlfish:

I accidentally left my hearthstone in the bank.

jirra:

Ask Alyce for a new one

Carlfish:

But then I'll be hearthing to the office. Who wants that?