Peebles' Perfectly Pointless Popular Prattle - Random Banter #211

[Thufir]

So let's iust remember a really old phenomena that maybe half of you, at best, would recognise. If that. Or am I iust ioking when it comes feeling old and out of place.

Ooh, that makes me nostalgic. I am figuratively iumping with ioy at it.

I'll be in a corner thinking about how I've become an old maid before my time, wistfully staring into the past and remarking about things like the Pirates III game down in Structured Games, or AMEN, or the RB where everyone started becoming deified.

Hey, I remember two of those things! Actually, no wait, I don't remember Pirates III from the time I read it after the fact. I may well have been around for all three of those things though, just not necessarily hanging out in the right bits of the forum for Pirates III and AMEN.

...
Can't quiiite make up my mind on whether that i-for-j substitution was intentional or only a really well-placed typo...

Of course it was intentional. Were you not around when that happened before? I'm sure some of the current regulars were around when that happened, it wasn't that long ago, right?

But yeah, melancholy over times long gone, I know that feeling. Especially since I'm not very good at keeping in touch with old friends, meaning any nostalgia is ripe for such feelings. And even though I still don't consider myself an old one, almost everyone in this thread joined in after me, and realising that can have a strong impact on me. It's not that I don't treasure those who are here now (I really do), but it's easier to remember that which is granted no longer, especially when one is in an unstable mood...

Why do you think I hadn't posted here in ages? The people from my era of RB were mostly gone.

I don't suppose that would make this a bad time to stop in and say hi, would it?

You're back as well! I don't even know when you left, I wasn't paying attention, but you're back!

Oh, here's another one: remember when RB's weren't alliterative?

I don't remember when they were regularly not alliterative. I remember specific non-alliterative instances amid the generality of alliteration.

Oh Lord . . .
Care to join me in the Old Fogey Corner? We have blankets, rocking chairs and an eternally comfortable temperature. Also tea. And chocolate. And biscuits. And chocolate biscuits. And knitting.
We can reminisce together until we fade away, like shadows in the encroaching night. Forgotten and unnoticed.

Ooh, blankets and rocking chairs sound nice. I kind of want to be wary about the chocolate, I've had dental issues.

Oh shush, you. The movie was fine.

Did it follow the book? Technically. Were there absolutely ridiculous, bordering on immersion-breaking parts? Most definitely (I'm looking at you, slo-mo Legolas). Was it a bad movie? Absolutely not.

It was cinematic in a way the book wasn't, which, I think, is important for a movie. I certainly would've preferred it followed the book (being the purist that I am), but it was by no means bad for straying from that path for artistic purposes.

It's not like Tolkien's around to complain about it, anyway.

\endrant

There were some very good bits in that film. Thorin's dragon-sickness. And Bilbo being Bilbo amidst all the middle-earth-shaking events. So, you know, mostly the stuff that wasn't the battle. Of course, the battle is what the film was named for and took up most of it...
I could go into more detail, suffice to say the good bits were probably outnumbered by the stupid bits and there was a fair amount of OK but nothing special in between.

ION: Blackberry gin is hazardous stuff. It tastes like fruit rather than alcohol, so you can drink it neat and not realise how drunk you're getting. Nice though.

[enderlord99]

ALCOHOL!Between two and three years until I get to actually try that stuff.

[MoonCat]

Hey, I remember two of those things! Actually, no wait, I don't remember Pirates III from the time I read it after the fact. I may well have been around for all three of those things though, just not necessarily hanging out in the right bits of the forum for Pirates III and AMEN.

Why do you think I hadn't posted here in ages? The people from my era of RB were mostly gone.

You're back as well! I don't even know when you left, I wasn't paying attention, but you're back!

There were some very good bits in that film. Thorin's dragon-sickness. And Bilbo being Bilbo amidst all the middle-earth-shaking events. So, you know, mostly the stuff that wasn't the battle. Of course, the battle is what the film was named for and took up most of it...
I could go into more detail, suffice to say the good bits were probably outnumbered by the stupid bits and there was a fair amount of OK but nothing special in between.

ION: Blackberry gin is hazardous stuff. It tastes like fruit rather than alcohol, so you can drink it neat and not realise how drunk you're getting. Nice though.

All I remember is being deified. Although I remember that quite well.

I still recognize plenty of people, but yeah, me too.

I dunno if I'm back. I actually didn't even mean to stumble into such a fitting conversation about people who've been gone! I still reflex-click to the Playground when I don't have anything else to do, and I noticed a change in the RB. Which, like, shocked me, since it's been so long (Not that I've been reading any of it, but reflex-clicks again. Do I still count as recovering from a forum addiction?), and I just had to go and see what was in the thread. And then I saw Koorly! Who, last I heard, had not been heard frpm in months, so then I just had to wibble over and post for the first time in an age. Not that I don't love the rest of you too.

I enjoyed plenty of the battle, and I think, actually, it didn't take up a lot of the movie. The prelude to it, with the arrival of the armies took quite some time, and before then there was the whole issue with the dragon, but then after it there was still other stuff about the aftermath and all...

[LaZodiac]

Well, no, not really. I mean, it doesn't harm, unless the costs of application, score-sending, CSS, and IDOC sending aren't something your family can take, but applying to this many means I have no idea where I want to go or what I'm planning. That's not a sign of knowing what I'm doing, that's a sign of having no definite plan.

Well you'll have a lot of options to choose from, which is good for when you DO decide what you want to do.

Though it's not like I'd know, I'm probably never gonna end up going to college anyway

[MoonCat]

Well you'll have a lot of options to choose from, which is good for when you DO decide what you want to do.

Though it's not like I'd know, I'm probably never gonna end up going to college anyway

Well, first let's see how many accept me.

Didn't you tell me last time I was here you were working on going to college in the next semester?

[LaZodiac]

Well, first let's see how many accept me.

Didn't you tell me last time I was here you were working on going to college in the next semester?

I'm sure they'll accept you, you're kind of awesome from what I recall.

Eeh I know. I'm still a little iffy on where my life's even going right now. I have a really good job right now, it pays a lot of money and if I get permanent employment I'll get even more and a health plan and all sorts of neat stuff. But...I don't know, I really want to do something that uses my head instead of my other bits.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

On the topic of nobody buying music anymore* I got schwag!

Spoiler

Show

1. The Max Roach Quintet - Parisian Sketches
2. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
3. Lewis - L'Amour
4. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
5. Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

Admit it, you're jealous.

*and yes, I know that was pages ago. Calm down, have a glass of water

[enderlord99]

I like referring to analog things as "too medium" and suggesting people turn their binary settings "ONFF."

...

A quantum computer can basically do the second.

[Amidus Drexel]

I think the book as it was would have been quite hard to make into a good movie, and given that the Hobbit did have to stand alongside the LotR series despite even Tolkien stating that making the Hobbit work with the series made it "no longer the Hobbit," I do think it should get more credit than it does for having made those changes in a reasonably good way. I'm honestly one of the least conservative fans of the books, and I'll even defend the Hobbit having been more than one movie to include information from the Silmarillion and appendices in order to properly set up the LotR movies. (Though I will say that given the extent of filler and painfully long fight scenes we endured in the first two films, three was definitely not necessary.)

I think it would have been doable. It wouldn't have sold tickets as well as this one did, but they could've done it and it would've been a good movie.

Including extra information from the world's history (most of it not from the Silmarillion, but tie-ins to LoTR or parts that were never fully explained in The Hobbit \grumble) was an excellent choice, and I liked how they did it. Adding bits that were never part of the story to begin with or changing major points really annoyed me. (this happened a lot in the first movie).

And yeah, they definitely milked it for cash with the three movies. I think two would've been appropriate, given the amount of material there to cover, but three was seriously pushing it.

There were some very good bits in that film. Thorin's dragon-sickness. And Bilbo being Bilbo amidst all the middle-earth-shaking events. So, you know, mostly the stuff that wasn't the battle. Of course, the battle is what the film was named for and took up most of it...
I could go into more detail, suffice to say the good bits were probably outnumbered by the stupid bits and there was a fair amount of OK but nothing special in between.

ION: Blackberry gin is hazardous stuff. It tastes like fruit rather than alcohol, so you can drink it neat and not realise how drunk you're getting. Nice though.

It was alright, but way trippier than it needed to be, I think (this applies to Galadriel's bit with Sauron at Dol Goldur too).

[MoonCat]

I think it would have been doable. It wouldn't have sold tickets as well as this one did, but they could've done it and it would've been a good movie.

Including extra information from the world's history (most of it not from the Silmarillion, but tie-ins to LoTR or parts that were never fully explained in The Hobbit \grumble) was an excellent choice, and I liked how they did it. Adding bits that were never part of the story to begin with or changing major points really annoyed me. (this happened a lot in the first movie).

And yeah, they definitely milked it for cash with the three movies. I think two would've been appropriate, given the amount of material there to cover, but three was seriously pushing it.

Quite possibly.

I know, I know, but it was easier to say "Silmarillion and appendices." I generally liked how they made those changes too, although I do feel that the way the Hobbit trilogy was ultimately made makes it unwatchable unless one has already seen LotR. As for adding bits... I dunno, I feel like some things did have to change in the story, even major points or extra characters, and what usually bothered me most was the small things that felt like they were either pandering or just didn't fit in. One thing I really was dreading, that awful Tauriel love triangle which bothered me so much, and kind of demeaned an actually quite interesting character, actually pretty much went away in the third film, which I did appreciate. However, having set her up as a brilliant-and-incredibly-rare-redhead-elf-only-girl-who-Legolas-crushes-on-and-also-is-beloved-by-the-most-conventionally-attractive-dwarf, I totally get why so many people objected to her initial shoehorning in.

You are the first person I've ever met who has agreed with me about that. <hugsforever>

[enderlord99]

This post is ONFF-topic, because people are talking about Tolkein in Random Banter, and this has very little to do with Tolkein, but is still random.

[Mutant Sheep]

Quite possibly.

I know, I know, but it was easier to say "Silmarillion and appendices." I generally liked how they made those changes too, although I do feel that the way the Hobbit trilogy was ultimately made makes it unwatchable unless one has already seen LotR. As for adding bits... I dunno, I feel like some things did have to change in the story, even major points or extra characters, and what usually bothered me most was the small things that felt like they were either pandering or just didn't fit in. One thing I really was dreading, that awful Tauriel love triangle which bothered me so much, and kind of demeaned an actually quite interesting character, actually pretty much went away in the third film, which I did appreciate. However, having set her up as a brilliant-and-incredibly-rare-redhead-elf-only-girl-who-Legolas-crushes-on-and-also-is-beloved-by-the-most-conventionally-attractive-dwarf, I totally get why so many people objected to her initial shoehorning in.

You are the first person I've ever met who has agreed with me about that. <hugsforever>

It was unwatchable having watched lotr, but for different reasons. I have a whole list of stuff that varies from annoyances to immersion breaking to Legolas to that idiotic ice Azog crap to Galadriel, but blah.

Tauriel was fine for me, mostly because I skipped the second Hobbit movie. All i wanted from that was the Spiders and the Smaug scene, didn't feel that 2 and a half hours of waiting would be worth it. Her asking why love hurts was stupid, and I didn't even like most of the action in the movie, so...

On the post-Smaug lakemen scene, that I admit i enjoyed and it was a nice change from usual glossing over mass tragedy. Except for whatever the hell Alfred was. Why was he there, was he in the second one? How much screentime did his unfunny antics GET? He keeps showing up to say things nobody laughs at, I do not understand his purpose.

[Dragonrider]

Having been stricken with an insufferable cold, replete with a hideously runny nose

me too

So let's iust remember a really old phenomena that maybe half of you, at best, would recognise. If that. Or am I iust ioking when it comes feeling old and out of place.

hehehehe

I joined in 2007. That'll be eight years in April. How d'you think I feel? Scared, that's for sure; wondering where the Hell the time went? Yes.

2006!!!!1! (The very end of it, but even so.

I just looked through this thread and I am the oldest to post so far. Yikles.

I did... 4-7? I think 6, can't remember. Still have some to do. Did one just today.

17 is wider than most I know. Not all, I know some folks who went up past 20, but still. That is alot of forms and essays, even assuming Common app on half of em.

I applied to one college. Early decision. Got in. Went there. Yay. In retrospect it was dumb because it is Le Prestige School in my part of the country and I should have had a backup, but hey. It worked.

[LaZodiac]

Quite possibly.

I know, I know, but it was easier to say "Silmarillion and appendices." I generally liked how they made those changes too, although I do feel that the way the Hobbit trilogy was ultimately made makes it unwatchable unless one has already seen LotR. As for adding bits... I dunno, I feel like some things did have to change in the story, even major points or extra characters, and what usually bothered me most was the small things that felt like they were either pandering or just didn't fit in. One thing I really was dreading, that awful Tauriel love triangle which bothered me so much, and kind of demeaned an actually quite interesting character, actually pretty much went away in the third film, which I did appreciate. However, having set her up as a brilliant-and-incredibly-rare-redhead-elf-only-girl-who-Legolas-crushes-on-and-also-is-beloved-by-the-most-conventionally-attractive-dwarf, I totally get why so many people objected to her initial shoehorning in.

You are the first person I've ever met who has agreed with me about that. <hugsforever>

For what it's worth I also agree that the Hobbit movies are increeedibly mishandled

[factotum]

For what it's worth I also agree that the Hobbit movies are increeedibly mishandled

As opposed to the LOTR trilogy, which were only *mostly* mishandled?

[AtlanteanTroll]

This had been one Hell of a night.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Listening to K-Pop. And J-Pop.\

Keep going...

[Teddy]

Yeah, a few times of having to explain large concepts while trying to explain some minutiae that's giving me trouble back home has really made me appreciate having techy roommates. (Physics/CS, and two former engineering students).

Story of our lives.

Yeah, C's really lightweight - there's very little overhead to the language, and I like that. Especially coming from C++.

True, but at the same time, it's not a language which it's easy to write optimised code in. Many languages have a much higher overall overhead, but has a gimmick to them which makes it simple to write powerful algorithms for certain problems and also simple for the compiler to optimise those solutions for speed. The gimmick of C is "regular code", so you can write fast regular code, but if you want fast specialised algorithms, you'll have a Fun time.

I laughed way harder at this than I probably should have. I remember getting some really difficult to identify errors when I was learning how to manage all that stuff. Turned out I had left out a line or two out of my copy constructor (I want to say I forgot to allocate new memory somewhere). That took a long time to track down.

Yeah. And when you can't even trust = with just putting the same thing that's on the right side into the left side, things are complicated.

Well, more like accounting for the fact that physical connections aren't perfect. Edge-sensitive code for button or switch inputs that needs to take bounce into account, for example.

Ahh, I see.

Digital input, digital output?

ADC, DAC. With voltage shifting to make the input all positive and reversing it again to make it center on the 0 voltage. But, well, the sampling wasn't the hard part, and mostly provided with the assignment anyway.

Although I've looked through the parts they're lending us for this class and found an accelerometer, so I'm confident we'll be needing floating point operations at least by the time we get around to using those.

Copy protection puzzles? What do you mean by that?

Most DRM before the dawn of Internet solutions used the instruction booklet as a key to prove that you got your game through legitimate means. You probably remember the long product keys printed on the back of the booklet, but before that, some games (especially plot-driven ones such as RPGs) would include regular multiple-choice events where the only way to find the correct answer was to look it up in the instruction booklet.

And you think I can pronounce jeorb? Besides je-orb, I mean.

Try "jorb", or "jeeeooeeoouuurb". Or ask Coid, he should know.

I would like to point out that I edited only to reply to Miss Moon. You iust missed the i/'j's

Ahh. Must've failed to notice it instead...

Do you want a fleecey blanket, a woolly blanket or a crocheted one? There's hot chocolate as well if that takes your fancy.
And we're all just feeling poetically wistful today aren't we? Literally.

Hmm, fleecey sounds the comfiest, so I'd go for that, I think.

And, well, I was in a fairly unstable mood yesterday. I'd slept way too little after many days of sleeping "just" too little, and had been a bit too exposed to the woes of others during the entire evening, hence my melancholy. I'm better today, though, but I think I've caught a cold and am generally overworked anyway, so today I've decided to do nothing at all.

Except perhaps change out of my pyjamas. One should maintain at least a modicum of grown-up decency...
(No, I don't ascribe to that philosophy, what are you talking about? )

Of course it was intentional. Were you not around when that happened before? I'm sure some of the current regulars were around when that happened, it wasn't that long ago, right?

Calling it a "really well-placed typo" if I hadn't been around would be even more of an unlikely coincidence now, wouldn't it.

All I remember is being deified. Although I remember that quite well.

I'm pretty sure the deification Curly speaks about was before my time. I think you just deified yourself at some vague point down the line to now.

On the topic of nobody buying music anymore* I got schwag!

Spoiler

Show

1. The Max Roach Quintet - Parisian Sketches
2. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
3. Lewis - L'Amour
4. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
5. Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

Admit it, you're jealous.

*and yes, I know that was pages ago. Calm down, have a glass of water

While I'm not much of a music connoisseur, I do admit that there's something appealing about albums and album covers. I can't put my fingers on it, but perhaps it's the patchwork of different art and styles you get when splashing out a large number of albums over a table...

This had been one Hell of a night.

Now I can't figure out if "one Hell of a night" is bad, and you just typoed on the "has", or if "one Hell of a night" is good, and you just missed it due to circumstances. Either way, are you okay? Want to vent about it?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

While I'm not much of a music connoisseur, I do admit that there's something appealing about albums and album covers. I can't put my fingers on it, but perhaps it's the patchwork of different art and styles you get when splashing out a large number of albums over a table...

Oh. Absolutely. The great thing about owning 2500+ CDs is that I have my own private little art gallery.

[LaZodiac]

As opposed to the LOTR trilogy, which were only *mostly* mishandled?

I can't really say because I have a difficult time enjoying the LOTR movies.

This had been one Hell of a night.

Oof, what happened?

[Solse]

Sadly nowhere (unless shenanigans), because I'm not allowed to share it...

ION:
We're starting with GPU programming now in one of my parallel programming courses. I'm pretty excited, since GPU programming allows for massive scaling given the right problem layout, and also because graphics cards are cool.

Oh, why's that? Working on it with somebody else? Either way, I wish you luck in your comic-making endeavors.

I've never been much of a hardware programmer, but that sounds pretty cool. The extent of my hardware programming skill was a stint in assembly and libraryless-C back when I thought I could make an operating system. Hell, I was ecstatic back then when I was able to just get GRUB to boot to a black screen that said "HELLO WORLD". It was still a fun project though. What are you going to use your newfound knowledge to make?

ION: The talent show last night turned out to be something more along the lines of what AT was wishing would happen -- lots of people went up with their artworks and stories. My friend and I sorta got desynched halfway through our song and I ended up having to improvise most of it (which was somewhat my plan from the beginning) but at least I got to scream "ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!?!" Lots of people also liked my electric ukulele. Everybody should have one of those things, they're awesome.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Now I can't figure out if "one Hell of a night" is bad, and you just typoed on the "has", or if "one Hell of a night" is good, and you just missed it due to circumstances. Either way, are you okay? Want to vent about it?

Oof, what happened?

*not quite audible mumbling*

[CurlyKitGirl]

STOP PRESS

My milkman is made of awesome. He just gave me (well, technically the family, but really it's for me and Dad - mostly me) basically every single Classic Who story from One to Six due to a combination of moving (and needing to downsize) and having converted all of his Who into digital/computer format.
I have yet to take a full tally, but it's a big box and I think the pile of DVDs is going to be as tall as me.

ION:
And I did say I would post pics of things. Like me. And my hair. I did.
*scurries away*
Now to go actually reply to people as I intended to before being given A GIFT FROM RONNIE SOAK!

@Sibling thing, I think Curly meant making there be a sibling relationship. Doesn't really get mentioned with Charleton Heston (THE GREATEST ACTOR), or as far as I know the source.

Haaaai Kurlica. I SAY HI AT U. On the blanket, I'm going to preempt the Shear Mutant joke. Bam. Pre empted.

Pretty much that, they either changed the relationship to siblings or intensified it.
HAI SHEEP. But, but, you pre-empt my puns. No wooly blanket for you!
*sticks tongue out at*

Yes, your obfucscatingey powers of not knowing what film CHARLETON HESTON, THE GREATEST ACTOR was in is confusing.

(Calling it the live action version broke my brain. It is a good couple decades older, Prince is the animated version and even that is inaccurate, since theyre both film adaptations of something else blur blur Sheep is wrong about this too.)

Well there was the Bible story [books, books, books, paintings, etcetera] that was adapted into a silent film in the 1920s. THe silent movie was then adapted into The Ten COmmandments which then influenced The Prince of Egypt. Then there was a The Ten Commandments adapted for TV in 2006.
It's all incestuously confusing.

Uuugghhh. I am not ready to feel old. I am bloody well still sixteen and looked upon as tiny and young by virtually everyone in the world, HOW CAN I FEEL OLD.

Don't worry, you're as old as you feel.

Thanks. As usual in my family, hijinks ensued. A religious figure had to be bribed by my father and someone resigned due to politics surrounding where she'd be buried.

Not sure if jesting or not . . . But really? Hijinks. Wow.

I just teach Algebra 1, so it's very basic. (If you really wanna be wowed by my mathiness, I just got back my penultimate report card, and I apparently got an A- in AP Calculus. ) As for how they're treating me, it's all pretty good, the worst part is just the fact that I tutor four days out of the week and I have extracurriculars/community college on all of those days as well.
I actually just finished up tutoring this one kid (ergo my gap in responding for an hourish) who is thirteen and towers over me like a... fast-growing person thing. So unfair.

Still better than I can do, though the schedule sounds rough; and I feel you on the person-younger-than-me-is-taller-than-me front. Sometimes I wonder if my desire to go to Asia is simply out of a desire to feel slightly taller than average.

The job... I like having money! I dislike many of my employer's practices, including one that is definitely illegal that I haven't yet had the guts to confront her about. (Don't worry, it's not a food safety issue, she just has weird ideas regarding what hours constitute as ones I get paid for.) The tips aren't much, but it's more money than I've ever had before in my life, and I'm still living at home, so it should be a good head start when I do leave. As for food, I tend to eat the cafe's pastries more often than I get evening food.

Money is awesome. But you will need to stand up to her eventually or you'll keep getting short-changed. And maybe she'll take even further advantage of you. If you're worried, talk to your parents/another server and see if you can get back-up.

... I wanted to go to CAMBRIDGE!
However, because I can't get student loans for international schools and I could literally get a degree in the time it would take for me to establish residency in the UK with my Dutch citizenship, I didn't even bother applying. So I'm just applying to places I know of as being good, plus some prestigious ones because they actually are more affordable due to ginormous endowments. I've been telling everywhere I apply that I wanna do Anthropology or Linguistics. I think. Maybe. I have no idea anymore.

I don't think you need residency like that to study? And you would possibly get a bursary/loans from the university?
Well, maybe for postgrad? Or you could study abroad for a year! That's a thing that Oxbridge allows! But apply wherever you can and stuff.

The scene with the final plague or whatever it is called. So haunting! So beautiful. And yes, everything about their brotherhoodship I love/cry about. I just feel so much for Ramses II. Also, don't you mean Verboten?

The Plagues/Let my People Go, Through Heaven's Eyes, and Deliver Us. With All I ever Wanted being one I'd listen too evne more if I could find a good clip. And yes, so so so much Thor and Loki there.

Yep, I don't know what it's called either, but I know it's the Angel of Death so *shrugs*
And yes, all the feels because they loved each other and were best friends and then things happened. Those are pretty much my favourite songs too. I vacillate between 'The Plagues' and 'Through Heaven's Eyes' as being the best.

Oh hush you, I got it right.

Yes, I am all musically. Although I haven't been in anything drama-related for years now, excluding my improv troupe and a musical summer camp this past July I did put on by one of Seattle's awesome theatres. Oh, and Mock Trial. I got nominated for Best Witness statewide last year!

Soooo long.

Ooooh, fancy. Love how you say 'oh no, no drama, except these two awesome things!' Be flattered Miss Moon! Mock Trial? How on earth is that even a thing? And Best Witness? Explain these strange cultural phenomena to me.

I get guilt every time I see the emails I'm still getting from places with later or extended deadlines. Like I'm failing them by not applying.

That's why they're doing it. Stand strong against their pleas!

LEGOOOAAASSSS. Yeah, his bit was... Well, I enjoyed it just for the hilarity, but I can't say I approve.

*imagines Legorlando with a butt made out of Lego*
*snerks*

Ooh, that makes me nostalgic. I am figuratively iumping with ioy at it.

Yay!

Hey, I remember two of those things! Actually, no wait, I don't remember Pirates III from the time I read it after the fact. I may well have been around for all three of those things though, just not necessarily hanging out in the right bits of the forum for Pirates III and AMEN.

I wasn't in the game, but I was fairly regularly posting in SG at the time, so it really was like watching/reading an ongoing thriller. Only sillier.

Why do you think I hadn't posted here in ages? The people from my era of RB were mostly gone.

Or real life happened?

Ooh, blankets and rocking chairs sound nice. I kind of want to be wary about the chocolate, I've had dental issues.

Beh. Embrace the stereotype of terrible British dentistry. You know it'll follow you wherever you go, so you (or rather, I) might as well live down to it.

There were some very good bits in that film. Thorin's dragon-sickness. And Bilbo being Bilbo amidst all the middle-earth-shaking events. So, you know, mostly the stuff that wasn't the battle. Of course, the battle is what the film was named for and took up most of it...
I could go into more detail, suffice to say the good bits were probably outnumbered by the stupid bits and there was a fair amount of OK but nothing special in between.

*still hasn't seen any of the Hobbit films*

All I remember is being deified. Although I remember that quite well.

I still recognize plenty of people, but yeah, me too.

I dunno if I'm back. I actually didn't even mean to stumble into such a fitting conversation about people who've been gone! I still reflex-click to the Playground when I don't have anything else to do, and I noticed a change in the RB. Which, like, shocked me, since it's been so long (Not that I've been reading any of it, but reflex-clicks again. Do I still count as recovering from a forum addiction?), and I just had to go and see what was in the thread. And then I saw Koorly! Who, last I heard, had not been heard frpm in months, so then I just had to wibble over and post for the first time in an age. Not that I don't love the rest of you too.

Yay, I make people come post, if only for a short while.
And there were two spates of deification that I recall. Alarra was already the Pudding Goddess before I joined.

me too

Come, we shall have ginger and honey tea together. DOn't mind if I cringe and shudder periodically, I'm not a fan it of, but it's warming.

hehehehe

Iniokes!

2006!!!!1! (The very end of it, but even so.

I just looked through this thread and I am the oldest to post so far. Yikles.

Well I'm only a few months younger than you.
*proffers homemade white chocolate cupcakes*
Cupcake?

Keep going...

V-Pop?
Don't know if that's even a thing. Just call it Vietnamese radio straight out of Ha Noi.

Hmm, fleecey sounds the comfiest, so I'd go for that, I think.

And, well, I was in a fairly unstable mood yesterday. I'd slept way too little after many days of sleeping "just" too little, and had been a bit too exposed to the woes of others during the entire evening, hence my melancholy. I'm better today, though, but I think I've caught a cold and am generally overworked anyway, so today I've decided to do nothing at all.

Except perhaps change out of my pyjamas. One should maintain at least a modicum of grown-up decency...
(No, I don't ascribe to that philosophy, what are you talking about? )

Oh sweetheart.
*gives the fleeciest, fluffiest blanket and the best rocking chair*
You don't even need to change out of your pyjamas, no one minds if you have a day off.
Come here and be spoilt.
You have white chocolate cupcakes, cherry cupcakes and lemon cupcakes to choose from. And lemon cakes with lemon drizzle icing.
All homemade.
(And down in the kitchen)

ION:
I really shouldn't do a multi-quote quotestorm when dinner's sitting right next to me. It's going to be all cold and sad.

[Qwertystop]

STOP PRESS

My milkman is made of awesome. He just gave me (well, technically the family, but really it's for me and Dad - mostly me) basically every single Classic Who story from One to Six due to a combination of moving (and needing to downsize) and having converted all of his Who into digital/computer format.
I have yet to take a full tally, but it's a big box and I think the pile of DVDs is going to be as tall as me.

ION:
And I did say I would post pics of things. Like me. And my hair. I did.
*scurries away*
Now to go actually reply to people as I intended to before being given A GIFT FROM RONNIE SOAK!

Huh. Didn't realize milkmen were still a thing.

Also, in the picture provided there, you look very similar to Finn (in the picture quoted in that post). Are you actually one person?

[LaZodiac]

Huh. Didn't realize milkmen were still a thing.

Also, in the picture provided there, you look very similar to Finn (in the picture quoted in that post). Are you actually one person?

I think Finn's cuter, and she's a blonde while Curly's a brunette.

That said you're both lovely. I wish I was pretty too! And had a camera to show off XP

[CurlyKitGirl]

Huh. Didn't realize milkmen were still a thing.

Also, in the picture provided there, you look very similar to Finn (in the picture quoted in that post). Are you actually one person?

Well how else would you get your milk (and biscuits and DVDs)?
*isn't Finnie, but was surprised by the resemblance*

I think Finn's cuter, and she's a blonde while Curly's a brunette.

That said you're both lovely. I wish I was pretty too! And had a camera to show off XP

Yus, Finnie is ver' cute. And so is LaZa, easily. As for a camera, I pinched m'dad's. Barely figured out how to work it.

EDIT:

I have now listened to 'Growl' by Exo about one hundred times in the past two days. And watched the video a lot, it was supposedly done entirely in one shot. Stupidly pretty K-Pop boys with good dance moves and very nice suits.

[LaZodiac]

Yus, Finnie is ver' cute. And so is LaZa, easily. As for a camera, I pinched m'dad's. Barely figured out how to work it.

EDIT:

I have now listened to 'Growl' by Exo about one hundred times in the past two days. And watched the video a lot, it was supposedly done entirely in one shot. Stupidly pretty K-Pop boys with good dance moves and very nice suits.

Awe, thanks. And...actually no one in our family has an actual camera right now, which is kinda spooky.

Exo seems like a good band, but I've always preferred TM Revolution for my goofy oriental pop/rock stuff.

[FinnLassie]

I'm not cute, I'm a damn grown up! says she who spent the day watching Moomins :smallsneakytongue:

[LaZodiac]

I'm not cute, I'm a damn grown up! says she who spent the day watching Moomins :smallsneakytongue:

Secret text non withstanding, adults can be cute. Cuteness is like manliness. Age, gender, it doesn't matter. It's all in the spirit *poses*

Though you're also cute looking too I think, but in a demuere(sic) and fancy way

[Teddy]

Oh, why's that? Working on it with somebody else? Either way, I wish you luck in your comic-making endeavors.

No, but it's for a secret society I'm a member of. I think you can deduce the rest from there...

I've never been much of a hardware programmer, but that sounds pretty cool. The extent of my hardware programming skill was a stint in assembly and libraryless-C back when I thought I could make an operating system. Hell, I was ecstatic back then when I was able to just get GRUB to boot to a black screen that said "HELLO WORLD". It was still a fun project though. What are you going to use your newfound knowledge to make?

That sounds pretty cool, actually! I can always appreciate some from-complete-scratch programming. I was actually pretty intrigued by Notch's idea 0x10^c before the expectations killed his ambitions...

And, well, I'm way too busy for putting any personal projects in the tube yet, so just some uni assignments, but if I get to write my own game in the future, I'll perhaps utilise its massive parallelism for AI calcuations and the like.

STOP PRESS

My milkman is made of awesome. He just gave me (well, technically the family, but really it's for me and Dad - mostly me) basically every single Classic Who story from One to Six due to a combination of moving (and needing to downsize) and having converted all of his Who into digital/computer format.
I have yet to take a full tally, but it's a big box and I think the pile of DVDs is going to be as tall as me.

Ohhh, nice!

ION:
And I did say I would post pics of things. Like me. And my hair. I did.
*scurries away*

Yay!

Oh sweetheart.
*gives the fleeciest, fluffiest blanket and the best rocking chair*
You don't even need to change out of your pyjamas, no one minds if you have a day off.
Come here and be spoilt.
You have white chocolate cupcakes, cherry cupcakes and lemon cupcakes to choose from. And lemon cakes with lemon drizzle icing.
All homemade.
(And down in the kitchen)

Mmm, thanks...

Sadly though, as delicious as those sound, I'm not a fan of neither white chocolate nor cherries or lemon in pastries. Lemon is delicious for sweets, but it really does have a tendency to become overpowering in baking. I'll still try them out, though, because they could be delicious nevertheless...

ION:
I really shouldn't do a multi-quote quotestorm when dinner's sitting right next to me. It's going to be all cold and sad.

I know this all too well. It's just way too easy to distract me from eating, especially if I've got a computer nearby...