The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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Really? Let me try.
Smurf.
What the smurf.
Suck my smurf, you smurfing piece of smurf.[DOUBLEPOST=1461720001,1461719966][/DOUBLEPOST]Hey it's still censoring me.
...I thought Grape-fruite canteloupe water would be a LOT better than what it ended up tasting like, rather than horrible BLAST of fruity intensity-THEN water. I thought it'd be like Cocoa water, where it was a nice accent throughout.
New favorite subreddit: Evil Buildings.
I wanna make an animated sitcom about British zombies called "All that rot". It'd last for one season if I was lucky.
Get thee to Adult Swim, sir!
From personal experience, the code fails in insidious ways that will only be revealed on the edgiest of edge cases. Did anyone but you QA/review it?
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They will soon. I'm sure someone will manage to break it. It's amazing what weird-ass ways people find to break software.
"So let me get this straight, you managed to digitize a piece of toast and wedge it into the byte structure of the program?"
In the online text game I used to GM, I rewrote the PUT command to handle every single potential parsing situation. PUT SHOE IN SACK, PUT SHOE IN BOX, PUT BOX IN SACK, PUT SHOE IN BOX IN SACK, PUT SHOE IN BOX IN SECOND RED SACK and on and on. I was so proud of what I had done.
Not even an hour after my upgraded version was released to the public, a well-known player sent up a bug report and I went down to investigate.
Him: "So I'm concerned about this."
Me: "What'd you find?"
He then puts his pants into his backpack...while he's still wearing them. He didn't go into his backpack, just the pants. The PUT command just obediently whisked them from his legs directly into his backpack.
Him: "This is really funny and unexpected, I figured you should know about it."
Me: "OH NO THIS IS A DISASTER!"
...see, I realized what this meant was that I had forgotten to test whether the item he was PUTting was actually in one of his hands to start with. Easy enough to fix, right? Basically add one line of code: "IF NOT ((item=RH) OR (item=LH)) THEN RETURN <fail>," right? Well, I also realized that this meant that anyone could've put ANYTHING from the game into their backpack straight off the floor. "You see some mountains in the distance." <PUT> "You put the mountains into your backpack." The potential damage to the game was downright incalculable. The routines had passed QC and been reviewed by multiple peers prior to release, and yet some smart player finds this bug in less than an hour without even having access to the code. Fortunately nobody else had discovered it.
--Patrick
I'm of the opinion that once you put shit in it, it's no longer water.
Shit water?
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We just got a call from the school counselor. My 8 yr old daughter and friends got a talking to because they made a penis out the wax from the outside of a piece of cheese. The counselor would not say penis on the phone. My wife had to ask if she meant a penis, because it wasn't clear. No part of this story is not hilarious to me. A grown woman won't say penis, and a bunch of third grade girls made a penis out of cheese wax. This is comedy gold.
Ivory soap works really well after it's been sitting in the back seat of the car on a hot Summer day, too.
The camp counselors in the front seat had 10yr-old me (and the other three kids) hand it over, so fearing for my safety I mushed it before I passed it up.
Decades later, I realized they probably weren't asking for it because they wanted to chide me about it, they probably were secretly thinking, "That is cool I want a look" but of course couldn't say that.
Live and learn.
Also:
--Patrick
The camp counselors in the front seat had 10yr-old me (and the other three kids) hand it over, so fearing for my safety I mushed it before I passed it up.
Decades later, I realized they probably weren't asking for it because they wanted to chide me about it, they probably were secretly thinking, "That is cool I want a look" but of course couldn't say that.
Live and learn.
Also:
--Patrick
How narcissistic does one need to be to make and place a sticker of their Instagram handle on their car? Because damn.
I think you're supposed to still see out of the back of the car, though, and that won't work, or half the kids will feel left out.
I only have an extended length e350 15 passenger van, so there's not enough room for all those stickers. Maybe the kickstarter will throw in a rolling billboard trailer?
With a vehicle like that, you need a mural of your family painted all the way around it.
Hey man, people are corporations, too.
In other news @Emrys latest plot to have her minions conquer the LHC have been (temporarily) foiled.
I got a call from my school a few months ago, because my son won a game of scrabble during free time, using the word "necrophilia".
Don't ask me how he fit that word onto the board, since it's bigger than 7 letters. I mean, what was there before that let him play that word? The teacher was really aghast, but honestly, my first reaction was an involuntary laugh and the question "how many points was that worth?"
I had to explain to him that it wasn't a bad word, but the teacher was (and probably other kids' parents were) uncomfortable explaining what it meant to a child, so it was probably better to stay away from words (even technical or scientific ones) that had anything to do with genitals.