Just Chatting - Take 3
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Posted on April 24, 2015, 4:02 p.m. by Didgeridooda
Third time's a charm.
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elpokitolama says... #2
I'm going to kill the culprit, I swear it
[edit] so many cards are affected in a great diversity of lists, it's probably YeaGO trying to fix the mess x)
March 22, 2016 7:48 p.m. Edited.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #3
Yeah, I think so too. He probably tried to fix the initial issue and his prototype went completely wrong.
March 22, 2016 7:52 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #4
oookkaaaayyy uuumm
does anyone actually know why the dingus egg thing is going on?
what happened?
March 22, 2016 8:03 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #5
WotC pls ban Dingus Egg, this shit is so OP 30 copies are played in each deck on T/O (even in EDH ueheuheheheuheh)!
March 22, 2016 8:04 p.m. Edited.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #6
like, fuckin seriously, how does something like this even happen?
how could this even be possible?
I mean, this bug is making me look bad.
March 22, 2016 8:06 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #7
At start, it was a new function that was meant to allow users to "nickname" their cards, but it appeared to change the very name of the cards in question in the database... And then for an obscure reason Dingus Egg took over T/O even faster than than Eldrazis ate Modern.
March 22, 2016 8:08 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #8
Reminds me of the time everything linked to pokemon cards as an april fools joke.
March 22, 2016 8:27 p.m.
Coinman1863 says... #9
VA, this april, it needs to be hearthstone cards. @yeaGO Get on it.
March 22, 2016 9:15 p.m.
Coinman1863 says... #10
Also what a day to be alive, False Cure won a legacy IQ.
March 22, 2016 9:18 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #12
@Femme_Fatale was that from Lrr or something else? I can't exactly remember which...
March 22, 2016 11:41 p.m.
I take it none of you are following the bombing incident that happened in Brussels, Belgium this morning? Just got back from a nine hour drive, was listening to it basically the entire drive. Depressing stuff.
March 22, 2016 11:58 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #14
As fucked up as this is going to sound and i apologize if this comes off a bit intolerant but I'm not surprised that it did and I'm certain it'll keep happening.
March 23, 2016 12:03 a.m.
What concerns me is that Belgium was already in a state of high alert and had a bunch of extra cops around everywhere, and it just didn't matter.
The news people are theorizing that this was an accelerated attack because the guy they captured from the Paris bombing was one of the guys in the cell planning the attacks. They think the terrorists wanted to get their attacks in before the guy leaked the information; he's been publicly reported as willingly cooperating. ISIS also implied that there would be more, bigger, attacks shortly.
March 23, 2016 12:08 a.m.
VampireArmy says... #16
Well of course. You literally can't know which of the refugees (or even if in some cases) are part of this.
March 23, 2016 12:13 a.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #17
@Femme_Fatale how do you feel about Romeo and Juliet?
March 23, 2016 12:25 a.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #18
Nahiri and Sorin? Girl needs to look for better options.
Also, there's a bat on Heir of Falkenrath. Find it. It blew me away when it was mentioned on LRR.
March 23, 2016 1:11 a.m.
I'm sure there are more attacks to come, but lots of people are already showcasing a backlash to sensationalizing these attacks. Imgur's crowd is mostly poking fun of the 1 like = 1 prayer mentality that you'll run into from time to time. As terrorism becomes felt more often, it begins to lose its impact.
March 23, 2016 1:18 a.m.
You know... once a terrorist finally blows up the Dallas Cowboys stadium (no I don't want this to happen, it would be horrible) the U.S.A. will finally lose it's goddam mind and have interment camps (no I don't want this to happen either). If the U.S.A. didn't immediately go to war then Texas would finally actually secede from the rest of the states and then the U.S. Navy would have to block off the Gulf of Mexico....
So yeah. Depressing stuff. I've been trying hard to find positive things to think about these last few days because if I didn't do so my mind would have broken by now.
So here's some good news!
I was watching SciFi channel, some documentary about the internet ruining peoples lives. (Wait come back, there's a silver lining!) The lady at the center of all the gamergate rage was on there and said that finally, finally, one of the people who threatened rape and death to her and any children if she had any is going to be prosecuted!
This is a joyous thing to me. Seeing this gave me a sliver of hope which I am holding onto tightly.
Also supposdly there is going to be a crossover between "It's always sunny in philadelphia" and "Workaholics". I can't wait!
March 23, 2016 1:36 a.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #21
@kengiczar that sounds fun.
I mean, death is bad and all, and terrorism sucks, but on the bright side maybe some texan bigots will finally get what's coming to them. hopefully the internet wouldn't start saying that terrorism is "gay"...
whatever, fuck the USA, we suck.
oh god, I think I just said that selective terrorism would be a good way to prevent bigotry
March 23, 2016 1:42 a.m. Edited.
elpokitolama says... #22
VampireArmy the terrorists are natives most if the time... Salah Abdeslam was Belgian for instance, and most of the people involved in the Paris attacks were French and Belgian. :/
I've got family in Brussels, but they are fine fortunately, so it's not wrecking my mood (which is not so high tho). I just find it unfair for Belgium :/
March 23, 2016 5:09 a.m.
VampireArmy says... #23
kengiczar they won't attempt an attack on an armed populace. At that point they're not asking for terror, they're asking to get shot back.
elpokitolama hence the parentheses. I'm still on the non trusting side though. It would be naive to believe that a few haven't slipped in through the cracks. Not that much can done about that other than thier original countries stop being ruled by religion first and reason later.
March 23, 2016 5:34 a.m.
elpokitolama says... #24
Of course immigrants aren't angels. We aren't either so why would they be different than us, we are all humans...
March 23, 2016 7:05 a.m.
VampireArmy says... #25
I'm unsure where i claimed they were any different than us. I'm not saying immigrants are terrorists. I'm saying terrorist are using the mass immigration to seed people in here and there
March 23, 2016 8:05 a.m.
Its very well likely they are but the border patrols are super strict at the moment and the EU has revoked their free movement across the continent rule for a while now so at least at the moment the whole refugee thing is under investigation. Most of the attacks that have happened have been done by native people.
March 23, 2016 8:18 a.m.
VampireArmy says... #27
In any case, i hold that it'll keep happening because they can. Can't be for sure why they feel the need to do what they do. General hatred of your country, people, or religion. I dunno. It just kind of encourages me to get trained and licenced to carry. I'm not going down as just another victim.
March 23, 2016 8:25 a.m.
One of the things I think people need to start realising is that mass surveillance is just not at all a valid strategy in tackling this. It's been said over and over again by the employees of the security services - there is too much data to feasibly handle and you just can't analyze it all. It's not working and it just unnecessarily restricts civil liberties.
March 23, 2016 8:28 a.m.
Ohthenoises says... #29
It's anything perceived as "western culture" that they target.
Women not being subservient, voting, industrialization, schools, etc
Hooray for radical Islam, isn't it wonderful?
/sarcasm from the guy who's seen it in person.
March 23, 2016 8:51 a.m. Edited.
I guess they just hate anything that's different, and they want the world to go their way, not someone else's.
March 23, 2016 8:56 a.m.
My dog is driving me nuts. I've got some cards lying out on a table, four feet off the ground, in a room the dog isn't supposed to be in. The stuff isn't in my binder because it's stuff i'm currently brewing with, or have it set aside to trade or sell.
This is the third time he's gotten into the room and into my cards. I don't even know why he's so interested in them. And it's always something valuable. I've got a mix of stuff lying around, and he never grabs a forest or a token. Last week he shredded a Inquisition of Kozilek, and today he's completed ruined a Lake of the Dead and a Yawgmoth's Will. Really starting to get annoyed.
March 23, 2016 12:42 p.m.
that sucks. my dogs never do stuff like that. they just scratch on my door at 3 am and pee on my backpack.
March 23, 2016 12:58 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #33
Any radical religion is a living hell. I mean, the charia is exactly what the Inquisition was back in the days. And this "Holy wars" really smells like some serious dj-vu (crusades). I guess be it now or seven hundred years ago, crazy stupid people are still crazy and stupid...
Their motives are clear, but unfortunately I don't think I handle English well enough to explain it in a clear way.
The best you could do to understand the whole thing would be to read a 30 years old book written by Bruno Etienne (who was the best Occidental specialist of the Middle and Far East) called "L'Islamisme radical"... But I don't think it has been translated in any language. Maybe one day I'll try to translate it completly, but that would take at least a year of continuous efforts. x')
March 23, 2016 1:02 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #34
kyuuri117 maybe they smell like other people? Idk
March 23, 2016 1:13 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #35
Ideology, no matter how hateful or oppressive, isn't the problem. The problem begins when you rule over a people with laws that are created through that ideology.
I'm anti-organized religion but i still wouldn't directly blame the book itself. I blame those who carry it's message.
The crusade thing never sit well with me. Humanity as a whole has had hundreds upon hundreds of years to evolve intellectually from that sort of behavior and for the most part, it has. Then again, these idiots might just have the mentality of a middle ages farmer so i guess the shoe fits.
March 23, 2016 1:15 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #36
100% with you here, that was well said. :)
But unfortunately, with still have to cope with Kim Jong Un Trump, Le Pen, El Assad and Al Baghdadi...
March 23, 2016 1:50 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #37
Quoting Men in Black due to relevance; "A person is smart, people are dumb panicky animals and you know it."
March 23, 2016 1:53 p.m.
Well I'm in a cruddy mood today.
I remembered that Rise of Nations existed, and I really wanted to play it. Well I started up my laptop to play it, and found out my laptop refuses to get passed the start up loading screen, so I need to completely reassemble some parts in that.
THEN, I started up RoN on a different computer, installed it, and made sure everything was all good, and when I went to start it, it didn't do anything. Nothing happened. it just said "Play", I clicked it, and nothing. Looked through all the file folders and still couldn't come up with anything. Tried on a third computer as well, same issue.
I probably can't play a 2003 game on these new OS's, but there has to be a way to start it up... I also can't afford to buy the game on Steam, and I wouldn't want to anyways, as I already OWN THE GAME.
Sad face. 3:
March 23, 2016 7:09 p.m.
Even better, my laptop at one point gave me the error, "CRITICAL ERROR, DIED", which horrified me.
March 23, 2016 7:10 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #40
I was reading this Buzzfeed article about how Dave Grohl is lobbying for aspiring musicians to be able to play louder in their garage. I think it's great, Dave Grohl is one of my favorite musicians, but what really made me laugh is the dB levels we're talking about.
30-40 dB. That's, as the article mentions, like a pretty quiet dishwasher.
I find this so amusing because the radiators in my apartment consistently venture into the 70-80 dB range (sound meter on my phone). That's like someone decided to vacuum in the middle of the night. Next to your ear.
I've been trying to get the building manager to realize that I'm not complaining about some rattle. This is one big ass rattle that none of my friends in this building experience. And one of the most irritating parts is that the noise only happens when the radiators are off. If I turn the radiators on, my apartment gets into the 90-degree range, and I get little to no ventilation from opening the windows because I'm only on the second floor and face another tall building.
Didn't actually intend for this to end with a rant, but has anyone else experienced this? Do you have any solutions that I can do myself? I've been talking to the building manager and she keeps assuring me that it'll be fixed, but I have yet to see any action.
March 23, 2016 7:42 p.m.
Holy shit, the Dingus Egg glitch is was hilarious. I'm kinda sad it ended, but I'm also happy. I don't want all my cards to be named Dingus Egg.
In other news, Pokken is amazing.
March 23, 2016 10:42 p.m.
AngryKitten says... #42
Hey, Runlue, I've had the same issue with some older games and the only way I've been able to resolve that is by either getting on a pc with XP on it or running a virtual machine and installing it there...
VirtualBox if you're interested.
March 24, 2016 9:05 a.m.
Didgeridooda says... #43
I have looked for Star Wars Rebellion for years. I loved that game, and do not know how to find it anywhere.
March 24, 2016 12:11 p.m.
elpokitolama says... #44
6tennis sure it was... And urgh, I'll have to wait for at least two month before getting pokken, as my "concours" are comming in a matter of weeks, which means... I'll be non-stop stuDYING. x)
March 24, 2016 12:34 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #45
So, tutor sidisi now has an amazing recursion spell.
With infinite mana it reanimates EVERYTHING in your yard.
March 24, 2016 3:45 p.m.
Killed someone with their own slaughter pact in EDH tonight. Was glorious.
March 24, 2016 10:54 p.m.
Coinman1863 says... #47
kyuuri117 so you Armageddoned them after they played it?
March 25, 2016 5:58 a.m.
Stasis locked the table with my commander, Teferi temporal Archmage, in play.
March 25, 2016 10:07 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #49
Just saw Batman v Superman (in 3D, ew). Movie was entertaining, but let's just say it's up to Suicide Squad to beat Civil War.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #1
Not quite. But it's really funny to see for the time being before it gets fixed :)
March 22, 2016 7:06 p.m.