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  Except this happened because the smilie purchasing broke. Required admin intervention to make work.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Usually, the idea comes up in a thread and overenthusiastic random goons buy them before the thread consensus has settled on a particular one and miss the obvious flaws. Right, but how even does one purchase a smiley with the same tag? code:razorfront is the best thing I've seen on these forums
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I thought for sure that we had  :yrag: but I was mistaken. But then I found out that the smilies have alt text on the smilies bbcode page and now I'm gonna lose an hour finding all of it.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Right, but how even does one purchase a smiley with the same tag? The empty quote smilies were brought within literal seconds of each other, so no downtime for the system to block one from being brought
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mandatory lesbian posted:The empty quote smilies were brought within literal seconds of each other, so no downtime for the system to block one from being brought  It looks like the tag uses emptyquote002.pnghttp://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/smilies/f/f/emptyquote.001.png http://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/smilies/f/f/emptyquote.002.png
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mandatory lesbian posted:The empty quote smilies were brought within literal seconds of each other, so no downtime for the system to block one from being brought Why does the system need downtime? A few seconds is a lot of computer time!
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Subjunctive posted:Why does the system need downtime? A few seconds is a lot of computer time! Because Radium, most likely
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Fair enough.
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Sometimes it takes as much as 30 minutes for new smilies to actually be added to the list, I don't know much about computer stuff but I'm pretty sure that's not ideal
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mandatory lesbian posted:Sometimes it takes as much as 30 minutes for new smilies to actually be added to the list, I don't know much about computer stuff but I'm pretty sure that's not ideal If the magnetic tape reels on the SA server spin too fast, the tape breaks, and then Debbie at the front desk has to stop answering the phone and go tape it again, and they don't even make the right brand of sellotape anymore for fixing magnetic reels, so she has to use the off-brand stuff, which never really fixes the problem...
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Everyone knows the forums are kept running by tiny elves who live in server racks, and they keep quitting to go back to working for Santa Claus. The conditions suck but the bonuses are great.
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Jan 26, 2018 09:44
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mandatory lesbian posted:Sometimes it takes as much as 30 minutes for new smilies to actually be added to the list, I don't know much about computer stuff but I'm pretty sure that's not ideal SomethingAwful's artisanal smilies are each handcrafted by skilled goons and lovingly coded by servers that care. It may take a little longer for the smilies to be added, but that just comes with the quality and craftsmanship that you get with a genuine SomethingAwful smilie. 
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This forum would not have anywhere near as much interesting folklore (necessitating a thread like this) if the software worked at all well. 
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To be honest, I'm not sure there's a social media website that isn't run on the programming equivalent of duct tape and string, has a near-incomprehensible interface probably by design, hasn't changed its formatting in a decade at least, or some combination of the above.
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SA is still maintained by radium, the elemental manifestation of bad programming, under a series of false identities to trick lowtax into rehiring him every time.
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wheres the like button and the REALLY like button
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Jackard posted:wheres the like button They're both the Report button
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Where's the like like button?
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Inescapable Duck posted:Where's the like like button? It ate your shield
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It's not a smilie but can someone tell me the origin of the 'Poor Y, thought of X and died'?
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Away all Goats posted:It's not a smilie but can someone tell me the origin of the 'Poor Y, thought of X and died'? I think Ruddah was talking about how lovely horses were and said "Poor old Freckles, thought about ants and died." There was a lot more to the posts and a lot more examples, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
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http://fishmech.tumblr.com/post/127359129398/horses
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What's up with the Assless chaps gang tag? I've seen it with something about the AGDQ Awful Block - I'm guessing it has something to do with the SA thread for this year's AGDQ?
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Oxyclean posted:What's up with the Assless chaps gang tag? I've seen it with something about the AGDQ Awful Block - I'm guessing it has something to do with the SA thread for this year's AGDQ? I dunno about the thread, but this year's Awful Block featured a game where the out-of-bounds glitch the runners were exploiting also caused the main character's rear end/groin region to disappear. Said main character is the little turbaned dude in the gangtag.
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Oxyclean posted:What's up with the Assless chaps gang tag? I've seen it with something about the AGDQ Awful Block - I'm guessing it has something to do with the SA thread for this year's AGDQ? Antivehicular posted:I dunno about the thread, but this year's Awful Block featured a game where the out-of-bounds glitch the runners were exploiting also caused the main character's rear end/groin region to disappear. Said main character is the little turbaned dude in the gangtag. That's pretty much the whole story. The AGDQ chat thread went bonkers during the awful block and some ideas for a gang tag were posted so we put them together and people bought it. v  v
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I just thought it was a mra response to girls who squat on tinder
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Your Computer posted:That's pretty much the whole story. The AGDQ chat thread went bonkers during the awful block and some ideas for a gang tag were posted so we put them together and people bought it. v EmmyOk posted:I just thought it was a mra response to girls who squat on tinder
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosSNHRPWZA&t=2089s It's literally just this chap, who is assless.
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Don't horses also get spooked if you walk around behind their back, because they see you with one eye, then they briefly don't see you anymore and completely forget you exist, then suddenly they see you with the other eye and freak out and likely kick you in the chest or face? so when you have to go behind their back, you have to keep a hand on their rear end the whole time so they won't think you stopped existing as soon you left their sight?
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Much like goons, really
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Much like goons, really I need a hand on my rear end at all times or else I start freaking out.
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hackbunny posted:Don't horses also get spooked if you walk around behind their back, because they see you with one eye, then they briefly don't see you anymore and completely forget you exist, then suddenly they see you with the other eye and freak out and likely kick you in the chest or face? so when you have to go behind their back, you have to keep a hand on their rear end the whole time so they won't think you stopped existing as soon you left their sight? It’s less that they forget you exist, and more a risk mitigation of “if this horse freaks out and kicks me I’m in deep poo poo, I’ll give a helpful reminder that I’m still here and I’m not a monster about to eat them.” So they’re still dumb, but they at least still have object permanence
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Horses do have object permanence but the connection between their left and right hemisphere is worse than an ancient 56k modem that's connected with a bunch of loose wires that shortcircuit half the time. So the left side of their brain doesn't really know what their right side is doing and vice versa. One half of their brain might get spooked if you go around their back. Also, it's not like their short-term memory lasts long. Apparently they did a test once with a horse on one side of an arena, and a couple of buckets on the other. They'd drop a horse snack in one bucket and use something to cover the smell, and it turned out the average horse only knew which bucket to go to to get the snack if they were released within 3 seconds.
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horses are dumb loving animals and it kind of astounds me that they haven't gone extinct
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:horses are dumb loving animals and it kind of astounds me that they haven't gone extinct i mean they couldn't if they tried (and they do) people are breeding them
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IIRC, wild horses evolved natively in places like the Mongolian plains, which are nature's sensory deprivation chamber. Plus, racehorses are a super skittish and probably overly inbred case, ponies are more belligerent little shits and work horses tend to be huge and super chill.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Horses do have object permanence but the connection between their left and right hemisphere is worse than an ancient 56k modem that's connected with a bunch of loose wires that shortcircuit half the time. That's "better" than a complete lack of object permanence because it's not even predictable!
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:horses are dumb loving animals and it kind of astounds me that they haven't gone extinct They're pretty fast.
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