got dat wmd posted:

morelike see how they behave outside of work in general

i almost was down for promoting this one guy but he couldn't handle his liquor and almost started a fight, not the kind of person i want responsible at this time for other people's finances

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkspore#Alternate_Reality_Game

Plot

Establishing a connection with an unknown source, a contact begins receiving data and messages from a mysterious person who claims to have been isolated in space for more than two million years, and is in danger of being tracked down by another malignant source. After receiving some garbled information, the contact is prompted to ask questions of the person. The person is soon revealed to in fact be a social computer AI known as the HELIX, in a galaxy almost completely conquered by the Darkspore, a strain of aggressive, swarming mutants. Because of these mutants' attempts to track it down, the HELIX was forced to disconnect from the mass network that connected it to all other computer AIs. After completing several puzzles, receiving new information, and processing corrupted text feeds activated by entering select keywords into the HELIX's localized network, the contact is charged with the task of purifying 10, 000 eDNA genes before they mutate into Darkspore strains. The resulting genes were to form the basis for the abilities of the powerful heroes selected to fight the Darkspore. The contact gets to work, assisting the HELIX with processing ten thousand genes. After processing Meditron, Magnos, Blitz, Arakna and Jinx, a virus suddenly causes the HELIX to go into security shutdown mode, rendering the contact unable to finish processing the genomes. But soon the HELIX reactivates, plagued with data corruption but bearing the sequences for two heroes, Goliath and Tork. The contact soon resumes work on the genes, completing the sequences for a hero known as Titan as well as an unknown hero. As the contact processes the final genes, with the gene count down to 55, the contact logs onto the network only to have the message degrade into a stream of unintelligible, corrupted data. The Darkspore's computer virus had finally cracked the HELIX's link to the contact. Three cold, chilling words stand out: "WE HAVE YOU - One life, one purpose - Darkspore expands". The mutants had conquered again...

The website now eventually displays the message:

"WE HAVE YOU
one life, one purpose

DARKSPORE EXPANDS"

while the background is filled with white corrupted coding that scrolls down continuously.

It was then revealed on the Darkspore forum that the ARG was designed by some of the Maxis team members to give away small bits of information regarding the game, announce new heroes and plot details, and advertise the game.

got dat wmd posted:

wikipedia in a phrase

Maybe not, but at the time I was angry and it expressed my opinion quite ably. Bearing in mind that due to my autism I have next to no impulse control, nor was I gifted with that little filter that usually exists between brain and output device. Accordingly I use the word I find most appropriate, the level of profanity doesn't come into it. My measure is one of relevance, not one of societal appropriateness. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 21:01, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

quote:

I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your
continued status as "Founder flagged"-- you have not been asked to cut
back on your privileges, you are being ordered to relinquish your
founder flag.

I'm happy that you're beginning to question your earlier actions, but
your founder status is not for you to decide. Currently it's 3-to-1
against you continuing in this role. If that doesn't change, you
need to abide by it.

Davethulhu posted:

The Kurt Cobain of our generation.

Deuterieux posted:

No, a hapax legomenon occurs only once in a corpus; embiggen is used repeatedly in the Simpsons, including several inflections ("embiggens", "enbiggened"). And look at this formal paper on superstring theory (see bottom of page 27), would be fairly simple to cite independent use. (WP has another reference to the use in D-brane theory. Robert Ullmann 12:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Sniep posted:

http://unu.ke/

Jonny 290 posted:

5 hours without a snype. shameful yos, shameful. % 40 or raus

Deuterieux posted:

oh no, my authenticity!

Char posted:

get out

Wit_sponge posted:

can you just cut the poo poo and gargle my ballsack already mate

qirex posted:

actually, yes

Shaggar posted:

theres probably a wikipedia article for each disease that cant be deleted b/c the spergs defending it think they have all of them.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

thats what the cdc wants u to believe

Sagebrush posted:

i will admit to using a bottle of fancy organic caesar dressing cause i was too lazy last night to make that myself, but you better believe i used romaine lettuce and some curls of parmesan cheese shaved from a block and freshly cooked bacon and hardboiled eggs and pounded peppercorns

it was a really good salad

Trig Discipline posted:

sesame street:fight club :: o brother where art thou:the odyssey

Pakled posted:

when i was a childe, my cat would sometimes find a rabbit nest in the woods. when it did, it would bring back the babies one at a time over the course of several days and spend hours playing with each one, tossing it in the air, clawing it, ripping it apart, etc, all while they would make this baleful "eeeh- eeeh- eeeh" sound.

prefect posted:

No, my diagnosis is from Doctor Yospos, apparently.

GNU Order posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

I think my favorite on the list is the Bible Student Movement/Jehovah's Witnesses, you'd think after failing to predict the end of the world a dozen times they'd give up

Sagebrush posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gravity_elevator.gif

duTrieux. posted:

Don't worry about it fellas, the real MGTOW is now about 19 out of 20 Google results. People will simply turn away from controlled (read: censored) sites like this one. - 165.228.7.101 06:19, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Ras Shamra posted:

I AM RETARDED, IGNORE THIS.

Nutmeg posted:

hahahah sick own. i bet they post on reddit too.

LP97S posted:

mcnealys baby posted:

best part:


at what point in life are you not embarrassed to call yourself "dj derpy hooves"

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

Hasbro is our enemy. They do nothing but evil towards us, their benefactors. We create far superior content to them. We must do anything within our power to remove them of their unnatural position of power over us. Many among us, including me and my people, are beyond sick of this.

How can we effect change?

One plan: Bankrupt Hasbro. Spread smear campaigns against them, get into their system as employees and do as much as we can to disrupt their stranglehold on us. Make Hasbro afraid of us. Find a way to turn 4chan against them.

Another plan: Start a new country. This is a dream of mine. We, as bronies and other excellent individuals who share our righteous views, start a country free of copyright abuse. One where copyrights can only be held by individuals for 10 years, and by corporations for 1. No exceptions. It will not be infringement for an individual who does not have the power of a corporation to use a corporation's content. Any corporation found trying to bully smaller parties in the manner Hasbro is so accustomed to will be fined half of their net worth every infraction. Anyone who is part of a glorious pony content-creating team such as that of Fighting is Magic will be paid by the government to do their work. Clop will be on billboards, research into robotic pony AIs will be effected, and the national anthem will be a collage of all great pony songs. Any previous members of the staff of the show (NOT Hasbro) will be welcome to come to our great country to continue their work. Direct employees of Hasbro or their legal team will be persona non grata. Anyone involved with Hasbro's wanton abuse of its previous beneficiaries, us generous and extraordinary bronies, if found in our borders will be in prison for at least 5 years before being sent back to their home country with a robotic tail attached to them. Our space program will etch Luna's visage into the moon.

If anyone knows any good ways we can get back at Hasbro that would be lovely.

[...]

Should we have sent a letter politely to Japan to ask them to please stop bombing our territory? How in the world would that work? They clearly see us as their enemy and they want us gone. The only solution is the eradication of Hasbro's power over us. Whether by elimination or restriction of copyright laws, their bankruptcy from us convincing the world not to buy anything related to them, whatever means necessary. Negotiating with terrorists does not work.

Cantorsdust posted:

when I took my driving test I guess one part of the test that you're not told about is that a guy starts to cross the road as you pass by. well my idiot self didn't realize until much later that it was part of the test, so I slammed on the horn and started ranting about this loving idiot trying to cross the street right in front of a car

Sagebrush posted:

if you can't maneuver a car at low speeds and accurately put it where you want it to be you really shouldn't be in charge of a vehicle that is impossible to move any other way

basically dis is u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMvhUjsliE

Sagebrush posted:

i have super-hearing, do not oppress me