Niteowl: i can see why CSI thinks we talk in leet
JDHarper: i vote TF2. i miss that game
Niteowl: we played last night
Niteowl: about 16 peeps, good times
JDHarper: Aw, I missed it.
stressmib: TQ?!
stressmib: what's that!?
ralph: it's generally considered kinda dumb to make improvements to a rental
ralph: I mean, I only just finished ripping out the pipes and putting in a new kitchen
Niteowl: don't kid, my coworker does that
Niteowl: improves the FUCK outta the rental, all the time
Niteowl: always sticking it to the man, i tells him
Niteowl: ralph: didja see my tweet about crackhouse vs mansion?
Niteowl: http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
stressmib: why do I get the feeling that flash plug in is completely unnecessary
stressmib: oh hey madballs is free this weekend
stressmib: that game sounds familiar
stressmib: having trouble placing it.
Niteowl: naw
Niteowl: it's new
Niteowl: sounds like fun
Niteowl: let's all buy it!
stressmib: what could go wrong?
stressmib: SCREEN TO BLACK
stressmib: FIVE YEARS LATER DISPLAYS
***stressmib is bound in chains, being lashed in a sandy ditch
Niteowl: that wouldn't take five yars
Niteowl: or five years
Niteowl: a viking and a half, max
***stressmib looks towards a giant stone monolith of NITEOWL, wearing multiple crowns
stressmib: HOW COULD WE HAVE LET YOU CONVINCE USE TO BUY THAT GAME?
Niteowl: I DIDN"T
Niteowl: i swear, it wasn' tme!
***Niteowl actually isn't sure if it was or wasn't
stressmib: the work chief stomps out stresstwig's knees
***stressmib lies on the ground, sobbing
stressmib: CAMERA TILTS UP TOWARDS SKY
Niteowl: a moose.
stressmib: LAST THING WE SEE IS NITEOWL STATUE, SUN GLEAMING OFF OF THE EYE
stressmib: I'm thinking of linking every single ra3 thread stav starts to each other
stressmib: "dunno if anybody else saw this other RA3 thread over here, thought I'd point to it"
Niteowl: ahhahaHAHA
stressmib: or maybe just "also"
Niteowl: it was nice knowing you on the forums, stressmib
Niteowl: See also
Niteowl: nnono
stressmib: haha
Niteowl: start a new thread
stressmib: previously
Niteowl: that indexes all the other RA threads
stressmib: hahahahahaha
stressmib: when 2.0 hits I'll just start a million groups devoted to it
JDHarper: possibly link to the RA3 spam in the twitter feed as well
stressmib: more importantly, I'm going to keep a group running of all threads with less than 4 unique posters
stressmib: not to mention all of the groups devoted to threads devoted to the twitter account that is WHAT_DAIRY_STRESS_CONSUMED_TODAY
chrisd: later killers
chrisd left the room (quit: Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client).
Niteowl: you are a RA genius
Niteowl: i can'te believe th eluck
Niteowl: that stav is obsessed with a game that draws the most cancerous, annoying players away
Niteowl: it's like he's the chaff in a jet fighter
stressmib: kind of amazing
stressmib: speaking of, BC2 was fun last night until none of us knew how to change the server over
Niteowl: haha
Niteowl: i was still having fun
Niteowl: needed to get the motion mines to get you bastards out of your overhanging ridge
Niteowl: that shit was killing us
Niteowl: snipers sniping from a SNIPING POSITIONG?! EGADS
Niteowl: use a saiga and motion mines like the rest of us schlubbs
stressmib: i fucking hate shotguns
Niteowl: WHY!?
stressmib: it brings out some rage for me
stressmib: i don't know
Niteowl: because it takes no skill and just blind luck and aggression?
Niteowl: that's just my style
***Niteowl shrugs
stressmib: everytime i get killed by one 50 percent of me wants to call you all noobtubes
JDHarper: shotguns are great!
Niteowl: from SUPER CLSOE FIRES 10 million bullets a second KILLING MASHEEN to Longer Range SHOTTIES OF DEAETH it's like, saiga, usas12, m14
Niteowl: i'm going to change my name to noob tubes
JDHarper: at least I have a chance with an enemy with a shotgun
JDHarper: a decent sniper will kill me before I even know where he is
stressmib: it just feels like shotgun escalates the entire game to having people use the shotgun
stressmib: in the same way a tank makes people switch to engineers, shotguns make people switch to shotguns
Niteowl: IT"S THE ONLY WAY I KILL THINGS mr. I can Aim and use tactics
Niteowl: douchewaggle
Niteowl: trick to killing shotgunners is to stay in areas where they have cross open ground
JDHarper: it's the pyro argument all over again
stressmib: haha
JDHarper: W+M1!
Niteowl: antyhign closer thatn FUCKING CLOSE is useless
Niteowl: i'm useless
stressmib: that's not at all what I'm saying JD
stressmib: I think, with the exception of a sniper rifle, the shotgun makes other guns practically useless in almost all quarters
stressmib: we were playing squad death match and arcolz was killing everybody with a saiga from assault range
Niteowl: wtf!
Niteowl: really?
Niteowl: that's nuts
stressmib: yes
stressmib: i'm not saying they take no skill
Niteowl: nono, it doesn't
stressmib: I'm saying they render other guns useless in their necessary areas
Niteowl: believe me, i know
Niteowl: are you going for the headshot? of coruse you are, youngun
Niteowl: i think the shotties have such a massive spread, it's easy to get a HS
betaray: man this game always sounds so fun when you guys talk about it
stressmib: maybe that's it
JDHarper: betaray: it actually is a ton of fun
Niteowl: i thought you played it, betaray?
Niteowl: i coudla swore i've played with you
stressmib: we're not going to argue about how fun it is betaray
betaray: I do not own it
stressmib: what's the point in that, we all agree
Niteowl: i'm still in the hallowed time when i'm not shit
Niteowl: soon everyone will ctach up and it'll be just like me and spying and tf2 now
Niteowl: BANG BANG YER DEAD WELCOME TO STHE SPAWN QUEUE
Niteowl: i dunno if i'll ever get sick of demolishing cover/buildings or crashign copters
mib_sbxgyf [Mibbit@cloak-935FEB6E.austin.res.rr.com] entered the room.
stressmib: i'll never get tired of sniping an itchy who is trying to snipe me
JDHarper: ! an encroacher!
mib_sbxgyf: is jabber down?
Niteowl: it is
Niteowl: WHO IS THIST?!
Niteowl: OMFG!
stressmib: it's faux
Niteowl: FAXY
mib_sbxgyf: is steam down?
Niteowl: FOXY FAUXY!
mib_sbxgyf: my steam can't find the internet
stressmib: try it agian
mib_sbxgyf: it took you telling me to try again
stressmib: yes
mib_sbxgyf: i had tried 3 times earliet
stressmib: i know
stressmib: i worked in a computer lab
stressmib: this is how these things work
stressmib: It won't print. *clicks print, it prints*
Gemmy [Mibbit@cloak-DA885183.hsd1.va.comcast.net] entered the room.
stressmib: embarrassed shuffling of papers
stressmib: gemmy enters the computer lab
stressmib: the room goes silent
Gemmy: Hey, you guys are here!
Gemmy: sorry, I can leave?
stressmib: no no
stressmib: you are part of the tableau
Gemmy: lol
stressmib: the computer lab tableau
stressmib: oh there's no log here is there
Gemmy: The blonde in the corner, writing furiously
stressmib: so this probably makes little to no sense
Gemmy: no
Gemmy: eh, just like life ;)
stressmib: ces't la vie!
Niteowl: i was pretty chafed that you took to BC2 so quickly Gemmy
Niteowl: took me many hours of cursing and being angry to even get the GIST of it
Niteowl: 'BUT I CAN"T EVEN FIND THE BAD GU-BOOOM'
mib_sbxgyf: pretty straight forward shooter

Rat

ralph
I turned away, it disappeared
the next morning, dog and/or gf had taken care of it
it was a roof rat, not the sewer rats we get in the garbage out front
actually kinda cute

Katya    
so a... higher.. class of rat?

ralph
looked down on the black rats

Frohman    
i bet his rat family is wondering when he's coming home
little hungry rat children
weeping rat wife
brave teenage boy rat, having to shoulder the responsibility of leading the family from now on. a burden he always knew he'd someday have, but... this soon? this soon? he's barely had a childhood.

ralph
he'll marry early in a desperate bid for the stability he never had

Frohman    
squaring his rat shoulders, his eyes shining. no tears now. no tears, ever, anymore. it was time to grow up, time to oh wait he just got run over by a UPS van

In America, This Is Called Cultural Sensitivity

spruce	You know what the great thing about Russians is? They look like Russians. There's a very distinctive look to them.
	sallowness mixed with dead, sunken eyes
	mouths that look both smirking and disapproving at once
ralph	some kind of color wheel might help diagram this out
	Poles - work ethic =russians
	germans - good posture + pessimism
ralph	spruce that look you identified--always struck me as "this person doesn't care what you think. And doesn't even need you to know that"

Saints Row 3

stresstwig: did you get all that sweet SR3 dlc or just the base game owly
[OldF] Niteowl: just base
[OldF] Niteowl: base looks plenty nuts
stresstwig: indeed
stresstwig: indeed.
[OldF] Niteowl: wow, of the 21 best selling titles on steam at the moment, i only have 8
stresstwig: for shaaaaaaaaaaaame
[OldF] Niteowl: i like what i like
[OldF] Niteowl: if War of the Roses and Age of Chivalry were on there, i'd get it in a heartbeat
stresstwig: why are you bringing donkey/yam fanfic into this
[OldF] Niteowl: because it fits into every situation
[OldF] Niteowl: it's like the ketchup of conversation topics
stresstwig: hahaha
stresstwig: next time you use that line! make sure you say catsup

Baseline

Cyrano	I'm dealing with, "I want to tell you how I thought about you this weekend when I saw another woman's shoes, but I don't want to sound too much like a serial killer."
	Don't even try to win this one.
	How do you think that would look on a shirt?
Niteowl	pretty good as 'How do you think you'd look as a shirt?'
Niteowl	(don't say that)
	(pro tip)
	(also don't ask me how to NOT sound like a serial killer)
cheesoning	I was thinking of "Do you lotion your back?"
Cyrano	It's like when I saw that a woman in an elevator at work had a really great pedicure--but she wasn't someone I knew--So I spent the rest of the day thinking, "It's a damn shame there's not a good way to complement a complete stranger's toes..."
CPA-ONE	Just how stretchy is your skin?
Cyrano	"Without sounding like you want to put them in seperate jars."
cheesoning	we have pretty extensive training on sexual harassment for new employees here.
	(tips on the best way to harass newbs. Yep.)
	but it's crazy - you can't tell someone that their hair looks nice according to the rules.
CPA-ONE	it's funny how sexual harassment takes a sharp upwards spike after sexual harassment training
Cyrano	All I wanted to say was, "Hey, nice work... Good call..."
cheesoning	there's the possibility that they might take it as "I want to fuck your hair"
Cyrano	Couldn't find the words that would work.
	(And not possibly get me sued into oblivion.)
cheesoning	"If I was some lecherous foot fetish person, I would probably have a huge boner right now. Thank goodness for both of us I'm not!"
	"but seriously, who does your toes?"
Cyrano	I'm not a foot fetish person! Really nice shoes need to have a woman in them!
	A woman who's still attached to the feet!
	And not being held somewhere against her will!
cheesoning	see? totally normal.
Cyrano	I think I'm clearing the baseline.

Rat

metamonk    
I turned away, it disappeared
the next morning, hicks and/or sam had taken care of it
it was a roof rat, not the sewer rats we get in the garbage out front
actually kinda cute
Katya    
so a... higher.. class of rat?
metamonk    
looked down on the black rats
Frohman    
i bet his rat family is wondering when he's coming home
little hungry rat children
weeping rat wife
brave teenage boy rat, having to shoulder the responsibility of leading the family from now on. a burden he always knew he'd someday have, but... this soon? this soon? he's barely had a childhood.
metamonk    
he'll marry early in a desperate bid for the stability he never had
Frohman    
squaring his rat shoulders, his eyes shining. no tears now. no tears, ever, anymore. it was time to grow up, time to oh wait he just got run over by a UPS van

There You Go, Talking Like You've Never Heard of a Ford Nova

GXG just poking around about it
looks like you have to show up to vote, but with secret ballots they can't prove that you actually voted
one phrase I saw was "compulsory turnout"
spruce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_el…
$20 fine if you don't vote
of course you're not exactly getting people more informed as voters, just because you're making them vote
liquidindian No, but it's a start.
liquidindian I don't drive, so I know nothing about cars. But if I had to start driving tomorrow or else, I might do a bit of research on which one the brake is.