What's That? You Want More Filler?
Irradiated by Stingray
Ask and ye shall receive! Or since you probably didn’t ask, have some anyway. It’s good for you. Keeps you from developing all sorts of expectations that we’re smart or interesting on a regular basis, and really, do you want to put that kind of pressure on us? I didn’t think so.
Anyway, today was the next to last session on the back of LabRat’s leg (no word on how many are expected to finish the front), so she’s a bit knackered at the moment. The leg may not have the most sensitive portions of the human body, but three hours spent working over maybe a total of eleven or so square inches over and over and over and over and over while he gets the shading right (and so far it does look excellent) will take it out of anybody. Since I was dispatched to run errands in an attempt to rebuild some good will for calling on the services of my folks as dogsitters as often as we have been lately, and Albuquerque drivers- already not the greatest wheelmen and wheelwomen in the world- panic easily when it rains, as it was today, I’m pretty well worn myself. So to tide you over, here’s a couple of grabs from my XKCD Bank Account. Clicking will lead to embiggening. For the second one, it’s necessary to get the animation started, but be warned, it has naughty words.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I guess it speaks volumes about me…
I know that guy is an actor-person but I have NO IDEA who he is.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 am
Oh, my god.
Okay, I’m just enough of a comic geek to know someone did their research on that one.
And matched it beautifully with his expressions and the persona Bale has on-screen. Beautiful.
John
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
Yeah. That. You missed “yore”, as in “days of yore”, except I think I am the only living person who still uses it intentionally, and in proper context.
The txt cht bbs with th feilure to spall or punkshu ate n who expec us too u no decif..unnerstan wat they is sayin jes killz me tho
The tweenie texters use yore all the time. They just have no effing clue what it means. It really makes me worry about the future of this nation.
Pax,
Newbius
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
Teenie texters use “ur” these days, Newbius.
Play WoW, and listen to Barrens or Trade chat on a PvP server. You will see where the language is going to go.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I have one character on a normal server and one on a RP server, and some nights, no matter which I’m on, all I can think is, “Well, what do you expect? It’s Barrens chat, not a high IQ society.” And trade chat in Ogrimmar is no better. I want to cry when I see a player insult someone else’s spelling errors by saying, “You have grammer issues.” And people wonder why I don’t talk to anyone other than my Children’s Week turtle and the NPCs.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Eh. Lowest-common-denominator channels get the lowest common denominator, spelling-wise, just as any other forum and format you cast your eyes to.
I do notice a lot of guilds want their members to type like a literate adult…
May 24th, 2009 at 3:17 am
What is it with the Barrens chat? On my server (Twisting Nether), it’s infamous for Chuck Norris jokes…
As for trade chat…Obi-Wan’s comment about Mos Eisely comes to mind. I’ve only seen it quiet once, and I think it was because the GM’s got sick of people spamming “Anal [insert spell, item, etc here]” jokes and started taking a ban-hammer to some of the worst offenders.
May 24th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I noticed the ban hammer come out as well.
It looks like the two top spam-blocker add-ons started auto-reporting “anal”, “murloc”, and “Chuck Norris” ( as well as the normal gold spam ) on their 3.1 compliant versions, and then bad things started happening to idiots.
Good.
Unfortunately, idiocy is still not ban-able.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
“anal”, “murloc”, and “Chuck Norris”
This is why I love punctuation. That could have been really scary without it.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:27 am
*points at the “You’re” definition*. This. This is truth. Why oh why does no one understand?
May 26th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Scarab: Your such a nitpicker!
May 31st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Would you please next take on the morons who do not know the difference between “its” and “it’s”?
It would be appreciated by more people than just me.