General Chat/Time-Waster Thread

[Vallium]

3 minutes ago, Saxon said:

I picked up US dollars today. Got my grubby paws on your currency.

They can't lurk the porn threads without having a minimum of 69 posts and staff approval.

lol is the 69 post minimum actually a thing?

I mean I know about thr staff approval but the blackhole is still fair game

[DrGravitas]

5 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

lol is the 69 post minimum actually a thing?

I mean I know about thr staff approval but the blackhole is still fair game

Black hole is minimum 10 posts, too. Though, that doesn't require staff approval.

[Toboe]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

Can't view because of the UK's porn filter. :\

UK, stop being such an US/conservative!

59 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Thanks.

The filters are also completely ineffective. If I google 'shitty anal fisting' I'm still going to find a whole bunch of incredibly graphic pornography.

All the filters do is prevent me from using websites like Tumblr or Urban dictionary, because those are classified as 'porn sites'. :\

Do the filters know about "mononatriumglutamate"?

[Fossa]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

Can't view because of the UK's porn filter. :\

Ouch, this is hard to believe, of a western nation.  There's no way to turn it off? Damn, I always knew the UK had some weird censorship laws, but that's just crazy. Doesn't the public ever rise up against such outmoded restrictions, en masse? I mean, even here, in a place founded by Puritans and still plagued by things as ugly as Republicans and the religious right, we have the right to view such things. (at least so far)

It's weird...the UK seems more ahead of the times in many ways, and yet, about sex, both more prudish on one hand, and more kinky on the other. It confuses me!

Can you get the Queen to issue a proclamation? :V

[Hux]

2 hours ago, Osrik said:

@Hux Is this you?

Yeah, but I'm chillin' with my bros now.

[Saxon]

23 minutes ago, Fossa-Boy said:

Ouch, this is hard to believe, of a western nation.  There's no way to turn it off? Damn, I always knew the UK had some weird censorship laws, but that's just crazy. Doesn't the public ever rise up against such outmoded restrictions, en masse? I mean, even here, in a place founded by Puritans and still plagued by things as ugly as Republicans and the religious right, we have the right to view such things. (at least so far)

It's weird...the UK seems more ahead of the times in many ways, and yet, about sex, both more prudish on one hand, and more kinky on the other. It confuses me!

Can you get the Queen to issue a proclamation? :V

You can turn it off, but the owner of the household I'm currently in has not opted to deactivate it.

The way it works is that, when you buy an internet connection, the connection automatically blocks content related to sex, drugs, gambling, dating and alcohol unless you decide you want the filter disabled.

[Onnes]

Just now, Saxon said:

You can turn it off, but the owner of the household I'm currently in has not opted to deactivate it.

The way it works is that, when you buy an internet connection, the connection automatically blocks content related to sex, drugs, gambling, dating and alcohol unless you decide you want the filter disabled.

You should be using an out of country VPN like everyone else in the UK.

[Fossa]

1 minute ago, Saxon said:

...the connection automatically blocks content related to sex, drugs, gambling, dating and alcohol....

Good God, what's left?!

Hopefully you'll find a more urbane housemate soon, this one sounds rather prudish! Can you just pretend to be him/her, and opt in?

[Victor-933]

I was out back last night messing with Dammit and Stoppit and @Proper noun 's brother decided to pay a visit -- and he was an asshole. I think it was a White Lined Sphinx Moth -- didn't get a picture though.

I'm not normally bothered by insects, and especially not moths, but one that's big enough to momentarily be mistaken for a hummingbird and that insists on dive-bombing your head can be rather intimidating...

[Saxon]

5 minutes ago, Onnes said:

You should be using an out of country VPN like everyone else in the UK.

I only live here for half the year. When I have graduated I will move out permanently.

[Toboe]

17 hours ago, Glowing Glass said:

I think I'm fucked if everyone finds out since they all hate furries.

How long will you have to deal with them?

16 hours ago, Glowing Glass said:

How the fuck do I respond to this?

Tell him to paw of! :V

[Mapa]

1 minute ago, Toboe said:

Tell him to paw of! :V

In public?

[Toboe]

1 minute ago, pothocket said:

In public?

Ofcourse!

You wait until he is with his friends, go up to him and yell at him:

"Paw off your sick furfag!"

[Glowing Glass]

My emotions are broken right now.

Everyone discovered I was a furry and instead of hearing other students say "dog fucker!" I heard "That's actually kinda cool."

Somehow everyone went from furry hater to just accepting it. Maybe since most students liked me it suddenly gave a good impression. I should be happy and I am but I'm still panicking inside and I don't know why. I feel like laughing and crying at the same time since everything went ok.

It just feels wrong to not get hate.

Ughh i have issues

[Saxon]

2 minutes ago, Glowing Glass said:

My emotions are broken right now.

Everyone discovered I was a furry and instead of hearing other students say "dog fucker!" I heard "That's actually kinda cool."

Somehow everyone went from furry hater to just accepting it. Maybe since most students liked me it suddenly gave a good impression. I should be happy and I am but I'm still panicking inside and I don't know why. I feel like laughing and crying at the same time since everything went ok.

It just feels wrong to not get hate.

Ughh i have issues

Well, it sounds like this is good and you don't have to worry about hiding your 'secret' as if it is dark and undesirable.

[Glowing Glass]

1 minute ago, Saxon said:

Well, it sounds like this is good and you don't have to worry about hiding your 'secret' as if it is dark and undesirable.

I've panicked so much last night it followed me today even after it should have stopped.

Maybe I'm going insane 

Hopefully I didn't hit my head enough times to do so.

I'll probably go and test myself soon

[Proper noun]

2 hours ago, Victor-933 said:

I was out back last night messing with Dammit and Stoppit and @Proper noun 's brother decided to pay a visit -- and he was an asshole. I think it was a White Lined Sphinx Moth -- didn't get a picture though.

I'm not normally bothered by insects, and especially not moths, but one that's big enough to momentarily be mistaken for a hummingbird and that insists on dive-bombing your head can be rather intimidating...

Sorry, that was Chris, he gets really into his costumes. He just wanted to show you all his hard-work!

[DrDingo]

I ate exactly the same thing for each of breakfast, lunch and dinner today

A croissant with a poached egg in it

I have no regrets. It's good food

[Feelwell]

19 hours ago, Glowing Glass said:

This is the king of furry haters.

How the fuck do I respond to this?

https://gyazo.com/f405e51cc569ae73f478efa38367d176 Judging by these conversations...

The bar is already on the floor. Don't worry.

[Feelwell]

1 hour ago, Glowing Glass said:

Everyone discovered I was a furry and instead of hearing other students say "dog fucker!" I heard "That's actually kinda cool."

I mean the most I ever get is when someone notices my phone background or something and they're like 

"Are you a furry?"

"Yea."

"Oh, nice picture."

There was that one guy who kept asking questions about porn, but usually people are really chill.

Furry hate is, most of the time, exaggerated.

Most of the time.

And I can't get the two posts to merge or edit this into the other so ITS A DOUBLE POST. DON'T JUDGE ME.

Edited September 22, 2016 by Feelwell the Rabbit

[Glowing Glass]

20 minutes ago, Feelwell the Rabbit said:

https://gyazo.com/f405e51cc569ae73f478efa38367d176 Judging by these conversations...

The bar is already on the floor. Don't worry.

Those were completely separate unrelated conversations.

That looked like it really fit in with the topic though didn't it?

That's kinda funny actually

Edited September 22, 2016 by Glowing Glass

[ArielMT]

15 minutes ago, Feelwell the Rabbit said:

And I can't get the two posts to merge or edit this into the other so ITS A DOUBLE POST. DON'T JUDGE ME.

The auto-merge window is five minutes.  After that, it isn't worth worrying about.

[Alexxx-Returns]

The auto complete on my phone is quite disturbing. I haven't even had it that long.

I think I've more or less taught my phone to swear though.

[Feelwell]

28 minutes ago, ArielMT said:

The auto-merge window is five minutes.  After that, it isn't worth worrying about.

I was one, minute, away.

[Pignog]

19 hours ago, evan said:

i'm almost at a 1:1 likes:post ratio. i can't make bad jokes about being a shitty poster anymore...

if it's any consolation i don't think like:post ratio has any relationship with quality of posting. Probably half my likes are from my posting triumvirate days when JC, Rev, and I liked each others posts to prove exactly this point.

[MuttButt]

10 minutes ago, Pignog said:

if it's any consolation i don't think like:post ratio has any relationship with quality of posting. Probably half my likes are from my posting triumvirate days when JC, Rev, and I liked each others posts to prove exactly this point.

I miss JC and all of his weird lists and charts categorizing the forum in various trivial ways :<

[Endless/Nameless]

51 minutes ago, ArielMT said:

The auto-merge window is five minutes.  After that, it isn't worth worrying about.

This'd be good to have in the FAQ.

 

[evan]

55 minutes ago, Pignog said:

if it's any consolation i don't think like:post ratio has any relationship with quality of posting. Probably half my likes are from my posting triumvirate days when JC, Rev, and I liked each others posts to prove exactly this point.

u mean my posts can still be horrible?

 

s k o r e

[#00Buck]

26 minutes ago, evan said:

u mean my posts can still be horrible?

 

s k o r e

I like your posts. 

1 hour ago, Pignog said:

if it's any consolation i don't think like:post ratio has any relationship with quality of posting. Probably half my likes are from my posting triumvirate days when JC, Rev, and I liked each others posts to prove exactly this point.

Ratios are trash. 

Volume is the only measure of greatness. 

[Tsuujou]

Man... I used to love that one show Deadliest Catch. Shit was some intense stuff. Those men had some serious balls.

[Toboe]

1 hour ago, Pignog said:

if it's any consolation i don't think like:post ratio has any relationship with quality of posting. Probably half my likes are from my posting triumvirate days when JC, Rev, and I liked each others posts to prove exactly this point.

PAh, you are just jealous of my glorious

527:197=2.6751269035532994:1 ratio.

High-like-pleb!

[Guest]

 No, its Like per post, not Post per like. , so Likes/Posts. So your like ratio is 0.373. 

[Feelwell]

Grrrrrrrr didn't go on a walk tonight.

[Crazy Lee]

Happy beginning of fall guys.

[Glowing Glass]

11 minutes ago, Crazy Lee said:

Happy beginning of fall guys.

And it's still hot as hell at night

[Jtrekkie]

48 minutes ago, Crazy Lee said:

Happy beginning of fall guys.

Could have used it's own micro-topic, but thanks.

Here's to the days growing crisp, and the nights growing cold. To a new harvest, and to the world rushing to fall asleep.

[CETME]

2 hours ago, Crazy Lee said:

Happy beginning of fall guys.

There won't be much change in temperature until the end of October down here, sadly

[LazerMaster5]

8 hours ago, Glowing Glass said:

My emotions are broken right now.

Everyone discovered I was a furry and instead of hearing other students say "dog fucker!" I heard "That's actually kinda cool."

Somehow everyone went from furry hater to just accepting it. Maybe since most students liked me it suddenly gave a good impression. I should be happy and I am but I'm still panicking inside and I don't know why. I feel like laughing and crying at the same time since everything went ok.

It just feels wrong to not get hate.

Ughh i have issues

Why is it that when people find I'm a furry I get awkward questions about which manimals I find sexy and whatnot?

[Socketosis]

6 hours ago, MuttButt said:

I miss JC and all of his weird lists and charts categorizing the forum in various trivial ways :<

Jesus Christ? Yeah I think a lot of people miss him.

 

[FenrirDarkWolf]

10 minutes ago, Socketosis said:

Jesus Christ? Yeah I think a lot of people miss him.

 

[Pignog]

13 hours ago, #00Buck said:

I like your posts. 

Ratios are trash. 

Volume is the only measure of greatness. 

"quantity has a quality all it's own" - Neville Chamberlain

13 hours ago, evan said:

u mean my posts can still be horrible?

 

s k o r e

I like to imagine you did a little kick flip and chugged a redbull when you wrote score

11 hours ago, Crazy Lee said:

Happy beginning of fall guys.

 

[Tsuujou]

http://tsuujouloop.tumblr.com/post/146973178619/slimetony-it-took-longer-to-render-the-text-to

[DrGravitas]

The best and most useful code I ever wrote for this company is a framework for the construction of Excel report generation/sending code. ¡-¡

EDIT: Wait! I forgot about a super-complicated batch job that solved a 5 year old problem they had and has worked perfectly when I put it in and continously for the past 3 years! That may not be as helpful to me or to the team, but it is the far greater personal coding achievement on this project!

Edited September 23, 2016 by DrGravitas
Hooray for not feeling like a spreadsheet maker is my greatest achievement!

[Lopaw]

I am rather lost as to what transistors to use on this H-bridge motor driving thing I have to make for my course project, all I know at this point for certain is I am running everything from 12 volts DC and how I am going to automatically reverse the motor by controlling the H-bridge with more transistors, a flip-flop and a 555 timer IC.

So far I am going with FETs if that helps, though from what I heard these are delicate and get hot quick.

Any advice would be helpful

[Jtrekkie]

45 minutes ago, Lopaw said:

I am rather lost as to what transistors to use on this H-bridge motor driving thing I have to make for my course project, all I know at this point for certain is I am running everything from 12 volts DC and how I am going to automatically reverse the motor by controlling the H-bridge with more transistors, a flip-flop and a 555 timer IC.

So far I am going with FETs if that helps, though from what I heard these are delicate and get hot quick.

Any advice would be helpful

Might need to include current requirements for your project.

Never built one using FETs, but this is a pretty standard general purpose MOSFET.

[Hux]

I made an sullen old woman laugh today.

I am what dreams and cotton candy are made of.

[Glowing Glass]

5 minutes ago, Hux said:

I am what dreams and cotton candy are made of.

 

 

 

In that case I'm never sleeping or eating cotton candy again.

[Lopaw]

47 minutes ago, Jtrekkie said:

Might need to include current requirements for your project.

Never built one using FETs, but this is a pretty standard general purpose MOSFET.

I'll try building the circuit I am planning with this one in mind in some decent simulator (iCircuit won't cut it this time) first then come back here if everything checks out.

At least there is one other person besides me who knows electronics.

Now all I have to do is figure what motor to use and what gears I will need to get the rotating bit of the whole thing moving at a decent rate. (It's a electric brush if anyone is wondering)

I am sorry I can't give much else to go on as it has only just been planned in the past week

 

[Socketosis]

3 hours ago, DrGravitas said:

The best and most useful code I ever wrote for this company is a framework for the construction of Excel report generation/sending code. ¡-¡

EDIT: Wait! I forgot about a super-complicated batch job that solved a 5 year old problem they had and has worked perfectly when I put it in and continously for the past 3 years! That may not be as helpful to me or to the team, but it is the far greater personal coding achievement on this project!

Automation is the key to (computer) life.

[Hux]

1 hour ago, Glowing Glass said:

 

 

 

In that case I'm never sleeping or eating cotton candy again.

#notalldevildogs