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Real Life / Re: What I learned today!
« on: January 19, 2014, 12:07:55 PM »
Oh yeah, I've owned a copy of the album for years, and have the actual script in one of my book boxes somewhere. They also put out an album of Lovecraft Christmas Carols, and had a hand in the black and white Call of Cthulhu.

Trailer - The call of Cthulhu movie

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 18, 2014, 04:12:01 AM »
Apparently we can't have nice things simply because there aren't nice things to be had.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:56:18 AM »
Apparently there is no separation of the username from a display name. Lame.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:43:57 AM »
That's confusing. There's no special characters in my username, but there is in my display name. Is the URL going to use username or display name? Or are they the same vanilla? If not, is there a separate display name plugin?

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Media / Re: Sherlock
« on: January 17, 2014, 03:03:26 AM »
Now I'm imagining a story where a spambot starts bringing down defense systems not because it became sentient, but because its owner just kept bolting new and more ridiculous attempts to bypass filters that it started doing insane complex shit.

Actually, that starts to sound like Stuxnet, which was complicated and yet dumb, and just kept jumping around looking for holes in every system it could find so it started spreading past the nuclear facilities in Iran it was intended for.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 17, 2014, 03:00:11 AM »
I mean, this sounds like something we could plugin even if we had to do it ourselves. They make it difficult because, well, unlike us most web forums limit your avatar to small sizes. Which is harder to do when you don't process the file before it goes up.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Schadenfreude
« on: January 17, 2014, 02:56:45 AM »
Ratings on Duck Dynasty premiere drop by 28%

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Don't you know there's a war on?
« on: January 16, 2014, 02:57:33 AM »
I think "Can't trust any of 'em" is the wrong lesson, and it should be pushed that "Their interest do not relate to our interests," and to continually push for political action in more than just electoral politics.

The greatest advantage I can see to having Democrats in power is that people are actually talking about economic issues. When Republicans are in power, all energy is focused on defeating Republicans.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 15, 2014, 12:12:55 PM »
TL;DR it's a policy issue not a technical one.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 15, 2014, 12:09:29 PM »
Ehh, I'm unsure of the exact reasoning he's putting that thread. He doesn't explain why people would have to be PMing him for name changes. That doesn't make sense, and if he thinks that's the only way to allow name changes that's stupid. If the field is on the user's profile, they can edit it there and the admin's don't have to do shit. You know, like how our forums work. Either he's incompetent or disingenuous.

Either way, the short answer is that yes, you'll be able to edit your name. Hell, we could probably add logging so you could check what name any user has previously used. And probably even show a more hardwired username somewhere for ease.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 15, 2014, 10:21:59 AM »
Nah, I'm of the opinion that just coming out and saying "It's our policy not to allow that" is a better tactic than trying to come up with a dumb technical reason.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 15, 2014, 08:39:04 AM »
The only reason that would be impossible (not really impossible) is if the displayed name was the same as your username. Which nobody does anymore. Sounds like he's just making excuses, and providing a sort of technically sounding excuse hoping nobody will be smart enough to call him on it.

I mean, I say that without actually *reading* what his excuse is. But if you're on target about it, then yeah, he's probably spewing bullshit.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Links
« on: January 15, 2014, 08:00:53 AM »
Somehow I think the end result of that will be divorce.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Don't you know there's a war on?
« on: January 14, 2014, 11:38:35 PM »
"I'm really good at killing,", says President who keeps a kill list.

For what it's worth, saying "doesn't consider the war to be his" is pretty facetious. Obama is the president and expanded the US forces in Afghanistan in 2009. He maintains the drone program and has expanded it into other countries. And the NSA has been growing under leaps and bounds under his command. It sounds less like "Maybe Obama isn't the war mongering he looks like" and more "Robert Gates is a high-level toady"

Of course, either interpretation of Obama puts him in the classical Bush analysis of "Is he evil or just incompetent" and the true answer of "Both are awful with the same results"

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 14, 2014, 03:34:23 PM »
Vanilla looks pretty good. Any way we could start a repo on bitbucket to host plugins?

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 14, 2014, 03:21:30 PM »
Because I deleted it. I told him this.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Aborpopulation
« on: January 14, 2014, 02:38:56 PM »
Surprise, man who's previous comments lined up perfectly with Catholic doctrine shows that the rest of his comments will, as well. Shock. Gasp.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: This hole
« on: January 14, 2014, 02:34:35 PM »
Yes, yes, the hole

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 14, 2014, 12:41:02 PM »
First against the wall

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Simple Machines Forum
« on: January 14, 2014, 10:58:31 AM »
You can change the theme in your profile, but it's all a bunch of baked-in SMF themes. But, honestly, "user-selected" theme has never been something we on the forums have cared too much about. Note that you didn't even seem to notice that the multiple color selection options vanished.

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