The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[ObsequiousNewt]

A conversation in #isharia (irrelevant bits snipped out):

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<ObsequiousNewt> [ˈæktɻ=]
<Rhetorica> pfft, showoff
<ObsequiousNewt> So get XCompose
<Rhetorica> I'm on Ϝιndows, ObsequiousNewt.
<ObsequiousNewt> laaaaame
<Rhetorica> Not when you need Photoshop it isn't.
<ObsequiousNewt> nah
<ObsequiousNewt> use the GIMP
<Rhetorica> I'm sorry, that's not a program.
<Rhetorica> That is an open wound shaped like an ELF binary.

[Jipí]

Seriously, though, Photoshop and Office 2010 are basically the only reasons I keep an installation of Windows XP in a virtual machine and I curse every time I have to use that lame-ass thing – at 2 GB, my computer lacks the memory to run a VM reasonably fast.

However, since I mostly only do minor editing jobs of photos, I get by reasonably these days with the GIMP (which, unlike PS CS3, has a wonderful tool to remove blots of dust and such with a pattern synthesized from the surroundings of the selection) and Darktable (which acts as a replacement for Lightroom).

[ObsequiousNewt]

For me, it's League of Legends, Worms World Party, and anything else that, despite all my efforts, refuses to run under Wine.

[Rhetorica]

(which, unlike PS CS3, has a wonderful tool to remove blots of dust and such with a pattern synthesized from the surroundings of the selection)

CS5 added that (observe), along with content-aware deletion of selections.

I want the GIMP to be a good program, I really do, and every year or so I force myself to do things with it, but it's a trainwreck of bad UI design theory trapped in the early nineties. (Who in their right mind would ever need a selection rectangle indicating the edges of the current layer? You only need that when arranging stuff in large documents, which is a tiny minority of usage cases! Don't copy PaintShop Pro's terrible defaults! They're terrible!)

[Ulrike Meinhof]

(Who in their right mind would ever need a selection rectangle indicating the edges of the current layer? You only need that when arranging stuff in large documents, which is a tiny minority of usage cases! Don't copy PaintShop Pro's terrible defaults! They're terrible!)

Isn't that off by default?

[Rhetorica]

Isn't that off by default?

If it is, that's a recent change.

[ObsequiousNewt]

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--> ObsequiousNewt (Obsequious@c25e6af7.client.de424f33.com.hmsk) has joined #isharia
<ObsequiousNewt> Everybody ridicule me.
<Whimemsz> u r ugly
<Cev> Your mother loves all your brothers and sisters better than you.
<Rhetorica> you are only a generic salamander and not truly a newt
<Whimemsz> that's because you were adopted
<Cev> That embarassing thing you did in school that you figure nobody still remembers? They ALL still remember.

I'm making this my new sig.

[Hallow XIII]

<pthagnar> let us consider
<pthagnar> the concept of 'origin'
<pthagnar> as it pertains to non-banana organisms like people
<pthagnar> where do we come from
<pthagnar> where are we going
<pthagnar> and other autistic questions

[Rhetorica]

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<Legion> I would think they'd rather use sodium cyanides
<Legion> for poisoning an individual?
<Rhetorica> Pretty sure they do, yeah.
<Rhetorica> Bitter almonds contain glycoside amygdalin. When eaten, glycoside amygdalin will turn into prussic acid, a.k.a. hydrogen cyanide
<Legion> the liver can be so dumb :)
<Legion> <Liver> oooh methanol, that's like ethanol right? let's convert it! OMG FORMIC ACID EVERYWHERE WHYYYY

[Nortaneous]

I want the GIMP to be a good program, I really do, and every year or so I force myself to do things with it, but it's a trainwreck of bad UI design theory trapped in the early nineties. (Who in their right mind would ever need a selection rectangle indicating the edges of the current layer? You only need that when arranging stuff in large documents, which is a tiny minority of usage cases! Don't copy PaintShop Pro's terrible defaults! They're terrible!)

pbbt. builds character.

[Particles the Greek]

What the fuck are you talking about? Whether shrews have "cameras" or not is only relevant in the context of whether it's fun to actually be a (reincarnated) shrew. What does Schopenhauer have to do with it?

I have no idea what the hell this was supposed to mean.

[Drydic]

What the fuck are you talking about? Whether shrews have "cameras" or not is only relevant in the context of whether it's fun to actually be a (reincarnated) shrew. What does Schopenhauer have to do with it?

I have no idea what the hell this was supposed to mean.

It was in the context of reincarnation, whether the reincarnee would have any sort of human viewpoint while being a shrew (this is the "camera"), or whether they would just be a shrew, have shrew thoughts, and be scared by shrew-scaring things.

[ObsequiousNewt]

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<ObsequiousNewt> Is it possible to do a lateral nasal?
<Rhetorica> ObsequiousNewt, just cover one nostril with a finger

[Shm Jay]

And I'm sure some people can shit without farting and groaning. Still doesn't mean I want to be in the room with them.

[Pressed Bunson]

B̳̼̯̤̞̹̤̉̍ͧ̏ͪ̾̈́̕Ẏ͍͙͙͐̈́̕ ̵͚̙͔̞̳͛ͯ̆Y͋ͫ̑ͬ͝O̲͔̅̀̕U͎̭̲͙ͥͣȒ̷̙̮̬̣̲̱͖̔ ͙̺̙̩Cͯͦ͒͡O͖̗̻͎̗̺̞͛͜M̸ͪ̃̃͂ͣ̑̚M̵̩̜͈̰͇̋̏A̬͓̼̦̗̻̻ͭN͕̙̱̗̥ͫ͌̊̇͑ͥ̆D͉̘̪̩͗ͦ͟

How is that pronounced? Or do all those diacritics cancel each other out?

They work in concert to indicate metallic voicing.

OF COURSE. How could I miss that?

And if you layer on more diacritics (L̸̶̡̨͕͇̦̤͇͗ͮͭ̿ͫi̙̦͓̦͙̪̣͉̾̀̾ͮ̒́̕ͅk̷ͭͨͤ̓́͊͏͏̺̻̺̯e̸̩̯̖̟͇̱̙̗̦͍̯̹̰̩̳̒̒̒̂̕͢͡ͅ ̘̦̫̳̰͙̪̺̊̽̏̊̔͐̀ͭͣ͒̌͌̓̿̾ͪ͢t̢̡͉̝̭͍͔̬̞͌̐̏̍̒ͪ́͝ͅh̵̛̛̗̰̮͎̬̞͂̋̒ͭ͋̀̌͋͢ȉ̻̠̭͎̞̬̳͉̩͚̳̹ͩͥͫ̃͠͠s̶̝̤̟͈̖͎̻͎̰̻̖̲̖͎͓̠̤̉̍̿̒), it indicates eldritch voicing.

True story: a friend of mine found a five-pound chocolate bar in a convenience store and was told by her mother, "Eat that and maybe you'll weigh enough to donate blood."

In the context of deliberately making a kitchen sink conlang for the lulz:

The grammar is all the grammar

[Izambri]

Speaking about Belarusian:

[...] a language almost extinct and certainly irrelevant (besides the loanwords it has contributed to the local Russian dialects)

[Click]

Another from R. Rusanov:

Do you make a hobby of stalking my profile for new posts to express righteous liberal wrath at?

Context two lines below.

agglutinative-IE-type morphology.

ಠ_ಠ

[Herr Dunkel]

Rusanov's quite quotable.

[ObsequiousNewt]

[deleted 'cause it was kinda lame and Feij is a party pooper]

[Rhetorica]

While expressing dismay at Legion's assignment of blame re the Pacific Theatre of WW2,

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<Drydica> Gilgamesh bombed Hiroshima.

[ObsequiousNewt]

During our game of Diplomacy (wherein Zontas is France):

France will receive its just deserts.

I swear if you let me eat cake...

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-*- ObsequiousNewt has conjunctivitis
<Anguipes> get rid of it quick before it spreads to your nouns

[linguoboy]

Wait, so you're saying you refuse to study, you know, reality truth and the meaning of life and all that because... you don't like a comment you think was once made by the clerk who compiles the review scores of a board of critics to produce an unofficial league table that you may or may not want to consult when deciding which university to apply to?
Isn't that kind of like voting for Mitt Romney solely because Obama's hairdresser was mean to you once?

[Pthagnar]

Wait, so you're saying you refuse to study, you know, reality truth and the meaning of life and all that because... you don't like a comment you think was once made by the clerk who compiles the review scores of a board of critics to produce an unofficial league table that you may or may not want to consult when deciding which university to apply to?
Isn't that kind of like voting for Mitt Romney solely because Obama's hairdresser was mean to you once?

This quote also struck my attention too. Salmoneus, for some reason, *also* decided to 'refuse to study ... truth [etc]' because he, like Nortaneous, chose not to continue his study of philosophy after graduating with his bachelors degree. I have often wondered why he did not! Why not?

[Drydic]

<Cev> wait
<Cev> I got a B in sociology?
<Cev> That class I just stopped going to halfway through the semester?
<Cev> huh
<Cev> Must've done awesome on the first test I guess

[Aili Meilani]

Iau source: http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nu ... p29-42.pdf

The file doesn't open for me.

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Ah, now it works. Thanks.