Mr.Silver has brought your fix: Random Banter #206

[Teddy]

The fungus spreads through the actions of the infected insects. If the insect, with it's groggy, zombie senses sees another zombie, it'll go "ooooooh, alriiiight, you're oooone of uuuuuus."

It's like the zombie movie trope of people covering themselves up in blood and shambling to resemble zombies to avoid getting swarmed

Hehehe, I love the way you put this!

ION:
Phew!
Spent most of today digging canals through the road in order to drain it of water. The frost prevents it from seeping down into the ground, so it remains on the road, making it soft and unstable. We almost got stuck there when we first arrived here, so I thought it'd be a good thing to do. Plus, digging canals is always fun!

It's very exhausting, though...
*crashes on nearest soft object, whatever that may be*

[Taet]

Hehehe, I love the way you put this!

ION:
Phew!
Spent most of today digging canals through the road in order to drain it of water. The frost prevents it from seeping down into the ground, so it remains on the road, making it soft and unstable. We almost got stuck there when we first arrived here, so I thought it'd be a good thing to do. Plus, digging canals is always fun!

It's very exhausting, though...
*crashes on nearest soft object, whatever that may be*

It was me! Mutant Sheep! Your wish came true. I got karma.

And yes LaZodiac that was a wonderful way to explain it.

[HalfTangible]

Samurai versus Cowboys

Spoiler: Winner

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The Audience
Flawless Victory

[Solse]

So, today I decided to get a new laptop: one of those fancy 2-in-1 laptops that flip around and turn into a tablet. What I thought I was getting was a top-of-the-line computer with a 4th gen Intel i5 processor. What I got instead was a laggy machine that barely works. The trackpad is horrible, the keyboard lags 2 full seconds behind what I am typing, and the machine is slow and sluggish. I will be returning it promptly.

[LaZodiac]

So, today I decided to get a new laptop: one of those fancy 2-in-1 laptops that flip around and turn into a tablet. What I thought I was getting was a top-of-the-line computer with a 4th gen Intel i5 processor. What I got instead was a laggy machine that barely works. The trackpad is horrible, the keyboard lags 2 full seconds behind what I am typing, and the machine is slow and sluggish. I will be returning it promptly.

Return it, get one that is actually good. Sounds rough, I hate it when stores just kinda do stuff like this.

[Teddy]

It was me! Mutant Sheep! Your wish came true. I got karma.

Hehehe...

Hmm, I think I get your reference, but not the context...

So, today I decided to get a new laptop: one of those fancy 2-in-1 laptops that flip around and turn into a tablet. What I thought I was getting was a top-of-the-line computer with a 4th gen Intel i5 processor. What I got instead was a laggy machine that barely works. The trackpad is horrible, the keyboard lags 2 full seconds behind what I am typing, and the machine is slow and sluggish. I will be returning it promptly.

Hmm, that sounds like a software error, computers shouldn't be that slow, even when they're over five years old. I'd suggest an improperly installed operative system, but that's only an hypothesis. Returning it sounds like the best idea, computers shouldn't come like that...

ION:
I have an easter egg! It's full of delicious, delicious sweets!

[Solse]

Return it, get one that is actually good. Sounds rough, I hate it when stores just kinda do stuff like this.

It's odd, the demo computer that they had worked perfectly.

Hmm, that sounds like a software error, computers shouldn't be that slow, even when they're over five years old. I'd suggest an improperly installed operative system, but that's only an hypothesis. Returning it sounds like the best idea, computers shouldn't come like that...

Maybe I just got a buggy unit, but either way, I'm returning it. Now, the question is whether or not I should purchase a different model or the same model, hoping that it was a problem specific to the unit that I have.

ION:
I have an easter egg! It's full of delicious, delicious sweets!

Cool! It's always good to have something sweet once in a while.

[TaiLiu]

The Random Banter Card Ceremony is going to happen today, very soon! Call your friends! Call your family! Call your fellow roleplayers and strangers!

[Solse]

Yay!

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[Cuthalion]

Yay!

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Oh that's below the belt.

[Solse]

Oh that's below the belt.

Somebody had to do it eventually.

[Cuthalion]

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[TaiLiu]

Ahem. May I have your attention, please? I am pleased to introduce special guest of honour, TechnoScrabble! Now, before we present the card to TechnoScrabble, and begin our virtual party, I have a few words to say.

I met TechnoScrabble about five months ago, in a previous rendering of this very thread. At the time, he had been going through some very rough times - namely, a diagnosis of terminal illness that mushroomed from some very unfortunate prior events. This sent down waves of shock down the entire Random Banter thread, and all the while, he was bravely expressing his emotions, which mostly consisted of fright. "I'm scared," he said, "I don't want to go like this." Indeed, who would? We consoled him, in poetic, poignant words. Empathy swelled. And it was just before the thread was smothered in love and sympathy that the Random Banter Card was devised - a card meant to grant a dying military man a final bit of happiness.

Nineteen hours ago, I was told that TechnoScrabble had cancer.

Nineteen hours ago, I was introduced to the Mythomania Controversy.

Nineteen hours ago, I was informed, by several sources, that TechnoScrabble was a liar.

Pure hearsay, of course. They had evidence, but it was apparently behind closed bars. They had, in effect, no proof. And neither, I suppose, did TechnoScrabble.

Just mere moments before I was about to present the card, I was caught in a deadly political web. For liability reasons, I shall grant no opinion.

TechnoScrabble, if you are indeed the most unfortunate person in the world, our hearts go out to you. If everything you said was indeed untrue, we congratulate you for weaving a most excellent story. In either case, we, the Random Banter community, humbly offer you this card.

Thank you.

[LaZodiac]

Mythomania Controversy.

I think my sister has a bit of that. Pseudologia Fantastica! It means you lie about **** for no real reason, weather you believe it or not. We've genuinely see her do a thing and then swear up and down she didn't do it, how could we hate her so much to think she did.

[TechnoScrabble]

Making a quick post before I'm out for the night.

I had to Google mythomania, being as unclever as I am, and as insulting as it is, freaking out accusations is pointless. Though I have posted pictures in the nexus IRC.

The cancer hasn't been too big a deal for awhile now, and I don't remember talking about it too much but yeah receptiveness (or whatever it is called) to cancer is common in my family. It's a thing. Surprised it was brought up.

I want to thank you all for being there for me when I was scared, just like you all were back when I was younger and terrified of people. You are wonderful, cheerful, downright awesomesauce people, and I cannot express my appreciation enough. I will read the card when I get home to my computer tonight.

[TaiLiu]

Woo! Okay, the party can begin now!

[TaiLiu]

I think my sister has a bit of that. Pseudologia Fantastica! It means you lie about **** for no real reason, weather you believe it or not. We've genuinely see her do a thing and then swear up and down she didn't do it, how could we hate her so much to think she did.

Wait, your family hates her?

[Cuthalion]

Spoiler: Confetti, anyone?

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Wait, your family hates her?

She's saying her sister is accusing her family of hating her.

[LaZodiac]

Wait, your family hates her?

What Cuthalion said.

Also! A science man just told me that, taxinomically, the differences between birds and dinosaurs are so small, that the only real scientific reason "creature A" is a dinosaur and "creature B" is a bird, is because of the time period it's in.

So I am currently eating the flesh of a dinosaur. Kneenibble is a fearsomely flamboyent dinosaur.

[TaiLiu]

What Cuthalion said.

Ah.

So I am currently eating the flesh of a dinosaur.

For the Random Banter Card Ceremony, I take it?

Kneenibble is a fearsomely flamboyent dinosaur.

This is indeed an unarguable fact.

[LaZodiac]

For the Random Banter Card Ceremony, I take it?

This is indeed an unarguable fact.

No, for supper

[TaiLiu]

No, for supper

Couldn't... Couldn't it be both?

(There's no one at the Ceremony...)

[LaZodiac]

Couldn't... Couldn't it be both?

(There's no one at the Ceremony...)

Well I suppose so. I also don't know where that IS, I just sort of assumed it was here.

[TaiLiu]

Well I suppose so. I also don't know where that IS, I just sort of assumed it was here.

It is here. It's just that there's no one around.

[Skeppio]

Making a quick post before I'm out for the night.

I had to Google mythomania, being as unclever as I am, and as insulting as it is, freaking out accusations is pointless. Though I have posted pictures in the nexus IRC.

The cancer hasn't been too big a deal for awhile now, and I don't remember talking about it too much but yeah receptiveness (or whatever it is called) to cancer is common in my family. It's a thing. Surprised it was brought up.

I want to thank you all for being there for me when I was scared, just like you all were back when I was younger and terrified of people. You are wonderful, cheerful, downright awesomesauce people, and I cannot express my appreciation enough. I will read the card when I get home to my computer tonight.

You're welcome.

And it's a very nice card. *applause* for everyone who drew/wrote stuff. And *applause* for everyone else anyway. ^_^

[Kymme]

I'm... around. :smallbashful:

I know I don't show up much on this thread (or many other threads, aside from PbP), but I'd like to be around for this.

Alright. *cracks fingers* So, how is everybody this evening? I just came back from a party with the fam, and subsequently, am extremely exhausted. Ah, introversion. Such wondrous tricks our minds play with our lives. It baffles me sometimes how just being around people takes a lot out of me. Luckily there were some animals to hang around with, so I had a bit of a stress-reliever.

[TaiLiu]

Hello, hello! Welcome to our quiet party.

There's significantly less drinking than expected.

[Kymme]

Hello, hello! Welcome to our quiet party.

Glad to be here!

There's significantly less drinking than expected.

Well, I'm still about an Olympics away from drinking age where I come from. The few sips of alcohol I've had so far didn't really agree with me, though.

[TaiLiu]

Well, I'm still about an Olympics away from drinking age where I come from. The few sips of alcohol I've had so far didn't really agree with me, though.

Oh! Don't worry about that; the alcohol is virtual. Have a glass.

[HalfTangible]

Hello, hello! Welcome to our quiet party.

There's significantly less drinking than expected.

Eh, I don't like loud parties anyway.