Chat Thread 33

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:23 am

Aye, a wily one, indeed! It's no easy task to convince oneself of something as srs bsns as randomizing one's avatars, surely.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:46 am

KJOokami wrote:Aye, a wily one, indeed! It's no easy task to convince oneself of something as srs bsns as randomizing one's avatars, surely.

the "wily one" comment was in reference to Pea's post.

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:42 am

Psykeout wrote:That Psyke is a willy one.
Psykeout wrote:
Psykeout wrote:In other news: I'm thinking about throwing the randomizer back up there. Can I get a yay/nay?
Sounds good to me
Alright I'll change it.

Um... Yay?

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:11 am

Tattorack wrote:Um... Yay?

It's 2 laet u can't change my mind nao. ⊤
That's a down tack, not a T.

yehoshua · Post by **yehoshua** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:31 am

What's with the whole down tack vs T thing?

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:27 am

We have a fake tree because Australia.

Durp.

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:40 am

One of my friends lives in Australia! He's really weird, but that's why we're friends, 'cause I'm weird, too! :3

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:40 am

Ebly wrote:We have a fake tree because Australia.

Durp.

Ebly's kidding, of course. The rolling snow covered hills of chilly Australian Decembers are teeming with crisp, frosted pines that make perfect Christmas trees⊥

Psykeout wrote:
Tattorack wrote:Um... Yay?
It's 2 laet u can't change my mind nao. ⊤
That's a down tack, not a T.

Confusingly enough, Wikipedia would tell me that's called a tee.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:14 pm

Tau? τ

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:25 pm

CaptainPea wrote:
Ebly wrote:We have a fake tree because Australia.

Durp.
Ebly's kidding, of course. The rolling snow covered hills of chilly Australian Decembers are teeming with crisp, frosted pines that make perfect Christmas trees⊥

I have no idea what's up with you guys and this up tack / down tack thing but yes, in our December summers we are usually snowed in. Right now we're actually in the middle of a white out and I can't even see the trees from the balcony.

Clearly.

By the way, up tacks and down tacks relate to phonetics and have use in transcribing the sounds of a language. Initially this post had me explaining how but then I realised anyone who's not into phonetics wouldn't give a crap. So yeah, that's the difference between a down tack and a T or a τ.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:41 pm

The whole "seasonal inversion" thing always make me feel kinda funny, like the whole "on the opposite side of the world it's nighttime thing" except stranger. Cause like woah.

yehoshua wrote:What's with the whole down tack vs T thing?

I think I was using ⊤ to denote a different type of similar idea as an ⊥ because I like the ⊥ and making plays on an idea works because the ideas are accepted and it's sort of like if I keep acting like the up tack is a thing it will be a thing and honestly I think it's mostly working but I forget sometimes and there's no key for it.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:42 pm

Up tacks fill a very necessary role in indicating facetiousness or sarcasm⊥

(In reality, it's just one of those things that I think is funny and thus throw around everywhere.)

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:46 pm

CaptainTee wrote:Up tacks fill a very necessary role in indicating facetiousness or sarcasm⊥

(In reality, it's just one of those things that I think is funny and thus throw around everywhere.)

And I'm just sort of leaching of of Pea's cleverness/humor/bluh and throwing them around as well. Personally I like the irony mark but it's so much more conspicuous and not as humorous.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:52 pm

I don't find self-referential irony amusing◌

That's my self-referential irony mark◌

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:09 pm

Ebly wrote:I don't find self-referential irony amusing◌

That's my self-referential irony mark◌

Everyone gets their own. ╩
After this, I started playing with my keyboard and seeing what symbols I have at my disposal. Did you know they have an ellipsis? See? … I wonder if that means that we're doing it wrong. You shouldn't have more than one period in a row. is "..." different from "…"? These are intense punctuation questions. These questions are so intense they need an interobang.
But seriously this kind of puzzles me.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:24 pm

Psykeout wrote:
Ebly wrote:I don't find self-referential irony amusing◌

That's my self-referential irony mark◌
Everyone gets their own. ╩
After this, I started playing with my keyboard and seeing what symbols I have at my disposal. Did you know they have an ellipsis? See? … I wonder if that means that we're doing it wrong. You shouldn't have more than one period in a row. is "..." different from "…"? These are intense punctuation questions. These questions are so intense they need an interobang.
But seriously this kind of puzzles me.

Have you ever put three periods in a word document? It automatically changes it from ... to … for me.

and apparently there are lots of uses for that

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:16 pm

Ellipse and ellipsis have their plurals spelled the same. It's madness!

Mettlebird wrote:One of my friends lives in Australia! He's really weird, but that's why we're friends, 'cause I'm weird, too! :3

Ditto.

Ebly wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:
Ebly wrote:We have a fake tree because Australia.

Durp.
Ebly's kidding, of course. The rolling snow covered hills of chilly Australian Decembers are teeming with crisp, frosted pines that make perfect Christmas trees⊥
I have no idea what's up with you guys and this up tack / down tack thing but yes, in our December summers we are usually snowed in. Right now we're actually in the middle of a white out and I can't even see the trees from the balcony.

Clearly.

By the way, up tacks and down tacks relate to phonetics and have use in transcribing the sounds of a language. Initially this post had me explaining how but then I realised anyone who's not into phonetics wouldn't give a crap. So yeah, that's the difference between a down tack and a T or a τ.

B-but... phonetics! I give several craps!

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:34 pm

Phonetics? What's that?

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:38 pm

Google it. Alternately, click here.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:14 pm

Rook wrote:Phonetics? What's that?

To explain it in a really simplified way, phonology is the study of how sounds encode meaning in a language (for example, how 'big' and 'pig' mean completely different things, even though only one sound is slightly different). Phonetics is concerned with the sounds themselves and how they are actually produced, among other things.

Easily confused, interrelated, but quite different.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:29 pm

Of course they mean completely different things. He's a cat, not a pig.

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:41 pm

That's interesting. Is, or rather can phonetics be associated with Physiological studies? I'm very interested in taking phycology when I go to college.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:46 pm

Well the anatomy of the mouth relates to the broad spectrum of linguistic subjects. I'm not sure if it directly relates to phonetics though.

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:48 pm

Rook wrote:I'm very interested in taking phycology when I go to college.

You... you intend to study algae? *peers*

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:52 pm

So guys I was at a Christmas party earlier and you know what I got as a gift? Three boxes of rifle ammo and candy, why the candy?

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:19 pm

Because rifle ammo on its own is not festive?

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:21 pm

It's an energy source.

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:27 pm

Dissension wrote:
Rook wrote:I'm very interested in taking phycology when I go to college.
You... you intend to study algae? *peers*

Pardon, I meant "psychology."

@Wolverine

That makes sense. After all, the crime rates are highest during Christmas...

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:48 pm

I like phonetics stuff as long as you're not going to rain lemonade on my up tack parade.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:12 pm

⊥And you know how much we all love up tacks!⊥

Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:13 pm

(not an up tack) I love the up tacks (not an up tack)

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:29 pm

what do the up tacks mean? <:3

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:16 pm

Sleet wrote:⊥And you know how much we all love up tacks!⊥

For the record, I can stop if it's really bothering people.

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:what do the up tacks mean? <:3

In reality?

Online cycyclopedia like wikiped wrote:
Bottom element in lattice theory.

The bottom type in type theory.

A logical constant denoting contradiction (falsum) in logic.

Me and a couple other blokes have adopted it as a sarcasm mark..

Psykeout wrote:I like phonetics stuff as long as you're not going to rain lemonade on my up tack parade.

It's a-rainin' lem!

onade

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:12 am

Hmm, well guys I just saw an interesting video. It was about a thing called Al1's 9 grand challenge. A man on the internet known as Al1 hid 9000 pounds somewhere in the UK, and it is also the story of a man named Fortress on youtube. Fortress ended up solving the puzzle up to the end and puts up a final video, he was heading to a field on Weals where the money was supposed to be berried, but a message was hidden in the last clue, "I have been alone for so long you will find me noW." Two days later a man was found murdered in a field near the one Fortress was heading into, stabbed once, signs of a struggle, two sets of footprints. The corpse is still unknown, the money was never found. I don't know, it could have been Al1, it could have been Fortress, who when he found a clue had to use his knife, or maybe Al1 killed Fortress. Who knows.

Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:17 am

I actually saw that a while ago. I may have even posted it in the favorite videos thread, but I'm not sure. It's a very interesting video.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:39 am

I know right?

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:48 am

CaptainPea wrote:
sonic id furreh!!! wrote:what do the up tacks mean? <:3
In reality?
Online cycyclopedia like wikiped wrote:
Bottom element in lattice theory.

The bottom type in type theory.

A logical constant denoting contradiction (falsum) in logic.
Me and a couple other blokes have adopted it as a sarcasm mark..

(also the stuff i said earlier about phonetics)

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:54 am

Ebly wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:
sonic id furreh!!! wrote:what do the up tacks mean? <:3
In reality?
Online cycyclopedia like wikiped wrote:
Bottom element in lattice theory.

The bottom type in type theory.

A logical constant denoting contradiction (falsum) in logic.
Me and a couple other blokes have adopted it as a sarcasm mark..
(also the stuff i said earlier about phonetics)

(i don't know what phonetics are)

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:01 am

Luckily, in addition to the advice "Google it," I linked to where you could get more information in an earlier post.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:10 am

Dissension wrote:Luckily, in addition to the advice "Google it," I linked to where you could get more information in an earlier post.

spiffy o.o