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nine-gear crow posted:I wonder if there ever was a goon who regged Bball24 as their user name and if they did, what became of them? amusinginquiry posted:I have occasionally used bball24 as a username for things Looks like they haven't posted since June 
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Fuschia tude posted:Looks like they haven't posted since June June is when LowtaxBeatsWomenGate blew wide open, so maybe they were one of the folks who bailed on SA after that.
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I hate dropbox's ui too
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A part of me misses this era of the internet, before it was just a handful of big corporate social media sites and a billion clickbait adhells.
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This book actually taught me what cookies were, fwiw
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:This book actually taught me what cookies were, fwiw Cookies, thermals, and the soul-shredding horrors of war. We all learnt a lot from this series!
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How did the website guy figure out the same spelling of "Yeerk" -- maybe there are other pages with different variants.
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Animorphs-Book 16:The Warning-Chapter 3quote:If you’ve never seen a computer chat room before, it’s kind of confusing. It’s like a conversation between people who aren’t really listening to each other. Sounds like certain message boards too.... quote:Plus everyone can only type about ten words at a time, so it gets pretty confusing. But you get used to making sense of it after a while. Ouch. quote:“It would be nice to know if these guys are for real,” Cassie said. “We may have allies out there. And there may be people like Gump who we could help.” So what do you think about the chat? Who's real, who's clueless, and who's a Yeerk? And would you get a Web Access America Visa card? What if we threw in points if you charged your WAA subscription on it? Would that help convince you? Chapter 4 quote:The Animorphs are like the world’s greatest burglars. I mean, we don’t steal stuff, of course. But when you can become any kind of animal, it’s usually fairly easy to get into places. Remember when you could just pick people up at the gate? quote:Then there was the mother and father with their baby. The baby was squalling and squirming in its mother’s arms. They're off on their plane/poop adventure.
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I just want to congratulate Yrkh8er on their spycraft. Absolutely magnificent work.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just want to congratulate Yrkh8er on their spycraft. Absolutely magnificent work. They said "Kill all Yeerks!" like five times, no way a Yeerk would say that Piell fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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KILL ALL YEERKS KILL ALL YEERKS the sharing is totally legit ignore the sharing KILL ALL YEERKS you should talk to your dad about your suspicions
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How many Twitter followers do you think Visser Three would have if he 1) had a Twitter account, and 2) made no effort to hide that he was all caps VISSER THREE?
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Donald J Trump is Visser 3 but without the andalite body or killiness
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I don't remember chat rooms having a text limit per message but that might just be because I didn't get into them until after the tech had improved. I agree with their assessment that Chazz, Meg, and Carlito seem like they know what's up. Poor gump  I don't remember if they actually mention whether this is all fabricated by Fenestre or if it's an actual chatroom and Chazz Meg and Carlito are all real people who have found some stuff out. I remember that Fenestre is the guy that comes in at the end there though. Which I guess would point to it being a bunch of bots to lure people in. This book is a total blast.
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"Forget Caps Lock" is sound advice, thanks Jake.Epicurius posted:Next book is "The Warning". It's a Jake book. It's....a book that I don't think could be written today. I assumed this was because it had some kind of particularly harrowing scene, or references to terrorism or something. (This late 90's pro-haxx stuff is far, far worse.)
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Ash trays at the gate. Man, remember when smoking was still common in public areas in the US? Or smoking areas in restaurants? Also, I'm pretty sure the AOL chat rooms allowed more than 10 words. At least the ones I used did.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Taking a 1 hour 40 minute flight in a morph is probably the most dangerous thing they have done so far. Yeah, even on this side you need to fly in there juuuuust before they close the gate, then you have to pray they don't get held up on the tarmac in Silicon Valley, then you've still got a very risky window of time to find a bathroom stall in an unfamiliar airport, while in fly morph, and hope nobody walks in - and think about how trafficked airport bathrooms are! - and try to morph your hands out as quick as possible to click that stall lock shut. Epicurius posted:Remember when you could just pick people up at the gate? You can still do this on a domestic, can't you? You can in Australia, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, I had a thought about the ending of the last book where Rachel tells Marco she heard the sub so his mum might still be alive, and why Applegate specifically chose her. Because from memory it's also Rachel telling him about a similar maybe she's dead/maybe she's not scenario at the end of another Marco book about or 15 or 20 down the line, and then they hang out and watch Xena, which I think is the only time the two of them ever hang out one-on-one in the entire series. It's partly because they're the ones who are normally combative with each other and it's a way of Applegate demonstrating that, hey, deep down they all do actually care about each other, even Rachel and Marco. But it's also because Rachel, whose parents got divorced and whose dad moved away, is the only other one who really understands remotely what it's like to "lose" a parent. Tobias never knew his in the first place, Ax misses his but they're alive and well, and Jake and Cassie still have both their parents and a good relationship with them. But Rachel, to some extent, understands what Marco's going through in a way the others simply can't.
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KILL ALL YEERKS What an absolute time capsule.
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thinking about the fact that they tried to release "modernized" books with updated pop culture references is a series that has this book in it
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Eh it would just be a discord today and the kill all yeerks message would a gif with sparkly glitter font
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We're kind of at a turning point here, where Jake isn't just the nominal leader falling into the role by default, but he's genuinely, actively taking leadership. Unfortunately, that means the decisions will generally get harder, not easier. And clinging to the fading hope that there's a "normal" life waiting after this is probably also bad for his mental health. Epicurius posted:
If you were reading this for the first time and looking for clues as to where they lived, this is another pretty strong California hint; WAA can be safely assumed to be headquartered in Silicon Valley, and an hour and thirty minutes is a pretty normal LA to SF projected flight time.
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Assuming no delays on a flight is pretty dang dangerous. I'm surprised they're not trying to demorph in the cargo area of the plane or something.
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freebooter posted:You can still do this on a domestic, can't you? You can in Australia, I'm pretty sure. Not in the US, at least. After 9/11, they put security screening into the terminals, and to get past it, you need to show a valid ticket. It actually led to some economic problems for airports, as bigger ones put a bunch of retail stores and restaurants near their gates and the restrictions into the terminals reduced their business.
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Are you ready to KILL ALL YEERKS!!!!? Animorphs-Book 16:The Warning-Chapter 5 quote:We went to a men’s room to morph. Cassie and Rachel went to a ladies’ room. I guess there are times when we Animorphs just can’t work as a team. That's very considerate. quote:But that was easier said than done. There were a lot of flights coming and going. The men’s room was busy. The best we could do was get two stalls. Tobias still, obviously, has less morphing experience than the rest of them and less ability to resist the instincts of the creature he morphs into. Chapter 6 quote:<Tobias! Where are you? The fly brain has you. Fight it!> Is it wrong that I have questions now about Andalite execratory practices? We know they have toilets.
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Something I learned recently that might be helpful for the Yeerks: if you are going to swat a fly the best way to do it is slowly. They are very rapid creatures and if your hand is moving slowly they don't actually perceive it as movement. I've yet to try this but heard the advice from an entomologist.
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MrNemo posted:Something I learned recently that might be helpful for the Yeerks: if you are going to swat a fly the best way to do it is slowly. They are very rapid creatures and if your hand is moving slowly they don't actually perceive it as movement. I've yet to try this but heard the advice from an entomologist. Are you sure you're not thinking of Tyrannosaurs?
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Tree Bucket posted:Are you sure you're not thinking of Tyrannosaurs? It's probably hard for Tyrannosaurs to swat flies with such little arms.
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Epicurius posted:Tobias still, obviously, has less morphing experience than the rest of them and less ability to resist the instincts of the creature he morphs into. Seems like a tight-margins mission where the timing is a matter of minutes would be a really good time to start practicing morphs with a dress rehearsal. And you'd think Tobias would be the most sensitive to that out of anyone. Epicurius posted:Is it wrong that I have questions now about Andalite execratory practices? We know they have toilets. If Andalites absorb nutrients through their hooves, maybe they excrete in a similarly diffuse fashion through their pores. The Andalite toilet from the earlier book is like a big steam bath to capture and clean all the output. Without such facilities Ax is constantly surrounded by a Pigpen-like cloud of microscopic filth, and never mentions it to the rest of the team out of extreme embarrassment.
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MrNemo posted:Something I learned recently that might be helpful for the Yeerks: if you are going to swat a fly the best way to do it is slowly. They are very rapid creatures and if your hand is moving slowly they don't actually perceive it as movement. I've yet to try this but heard the advice from an entomologist. This does work with mosquitos. If you slowly bring a fly-swatter up to them and just slowly press it down onto them they won't fly away, compared to trying to swat at them over and over while they wake you up constantly for 3 months straight.
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Sorry, everybody. Yeerk pool time again. Stuff got away from me today, and I'm going to have to miss tonight's post. Tomorrow, we'll seen animorphs on a plane. I promise.
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Visser 3 will hear of this... not from me though because I like living lmao
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rollick posted:How did the website guy figure out the same spelling of "Yeerk" -- maybe there are other pages with different variants. Uh. How is "Yeerk" pronounced, anyway? Like "year" with a k on the end? Or more of an "er" sound. Or ye-erk, with two separate vowel sounds...? If Animorphs was written a decade later, and/or by a teenage fanfiction author, it'd undoubtedly be Ye'erk.
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Tree Bucket posted:Uh. How is "Yeerk" pronounced, anyway? Like "year" with a k on the end? Or more of an "er" sound. Or ye-erk, with two separate vowel sounds...? I always pronounced it in my head as "yerk," like "jerk" with a y.
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