Chat Thread 42: The Answer To Life, The Universe and Everyth

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:47 pm

I found some old heavy cream in my refrigerator after buying more today.

Still not expired. *minor victory dance*

If it was as old as all that stuff you guys found... *shivers*

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:45 pm

You would be smelling it by now.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:47 pm

Code: Select all

Continuum scan begin...
#00 - VOIDC
#01 - WVOID
#02 - DINOL
#03 - FINAL
#04 - CORRU
#05 - GRALL
#06 - TESTL
#07 - ANIML
#08 - HOUSP
...
SCANNING ERROR!
Override? Y/N
Y

Listing devices...
Timeline scanner not found!
Retry? Y/N

Drats... My multi-dimensional time machine doesn't works

Anyways, here's something I retrieved from the future:
https://youtu.be/EE_TzNmlh4E

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:09 am

I take a forum break for a few days and I come back to find it almost dead.

I can never leave you guys alone now can I?

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:35 pm

Almost dead? I'm not sure you know what an almost dead forum looks like.

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:34 am

Sleet wrote:Almost dead? I'm not sure you know what an almost dead forum looks like.

Bump.

Oh, wait. This isn't a BBS.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:43 pm

Actually I do know what an almost dead forum looks like actually but I meant that it was slower without me. :3

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:44 pm

Well, times has changed, and I'm pretty sure youngsters nowadays stick to Facebook pages or Twitter if they want to discuss about something in general. And the myriad of instant messengers if they want private conversations.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 12:05 am

This forum is far from dead though. Admittedly we're not as busy as we have been in the past but we're by no means in any danger of dying.

Housepets! is far too awesome to ever lose its fandom!

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:01 am

People who think this forum is too slow need more hobbies.

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:08 am

Well why don't keep this thread going by talking about this video which discusses one of the most confusing topics when it comes to films. What is a remake, and what is an adaptation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI1EqoJmtM

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:49 am

Hlaoroo wrote:This forum is far from dead though. Admittedly we're not as busy as we have been in the past but we're by no means in any danger of dying.

Housepets! is far too awesome to ever lose its fandom!

That's great to hear. Two of the forums that I have been visiting, one is closed so nobody can post now and the other fell out from existence. (So nothing can be recovered from that forum other than what the Wayback Machine has)

Sleet wrote:People who think this forum is too slow need more hobbies.

Very true.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:55 pm

I do have hobbies! They include stalking people on the forum when I'm not around and supposed to be on a break.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:27 pm

I don't know it doesn't seem particularly slow around here. The chat thread is just less busy than it was.

Hlaoroo wrote:
Housepets! is far too awesome to ever lose its fandom!

Watch out dude, that's what they said about the funky bunch

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:46 pm

Well if the forum does go down, at least we still have the chat!

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:47 pm

It's nice the existence of gravity waves has been confirmed, but all the headlines a lá "it took 100 years to prove Einstein right" are just painful. Deflection of light by the sun was observed within a few years after publication of his work.

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:17 am

People will write any headline they can to incorporate Einstein.

I mean technically it took this long to prove him right... about this...

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:26 am

Sleet wrote:I mean technically it took this long to prove him right... about this...

There's that!

It gets silly if the news act like heretofore there hasn't been non-theoretical, real-world evidence of Einsteinian physics. They have it right in front of them whenever their GPS places their car on the correct spot of the map.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 1:25 am

For some reason now, after posting that factoid about the Venus Flytrap, I'm interested in it now.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:05 pm

So, does anyone have any interest in hearing some stories of mine from boot camp? I have a few and I think you guys may enjoy them.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:15 pm

Sure! Love to!

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 10:18 am

Some?

Tell them ALL.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:50 pm

Liam wrote:Tell them ALL.

All in due time. In due time.

Anyway, I guess I'll start with the first story that happened. If you're looking for one that I'm directly the one being yelled at/made a fool of, sorry, but I'm not the star of this one.

It was our first weekend with our company commanders (drill sergeants). I honestly can't remember what we were actually doing at the time, but one of our company commanders caught a recruit talking to himself or something. So he takes the recruit, makes him stand at a window and look at a reflection of himself, and say, "no no, I'm not crazy, you are" to the reflection. So the recruit, in a very monotone voice, starts doing that. After saying it twice, the company commander tells him to stop and says to put some feeling into it. "NO no, I'M not crazy, YOU are!" So for something like 10 minutes, the recruit, putting as much exaggeration into it as possible, just stands there, saying that to his reflection.

In the last week of boot camp, we actually have a chance to sit down with our company commanders (as a group) and talk with them like normal people and ask pretty much whatever we want. Well, our lead company commander ended up admitting that he had to leave the room when that happened and just stood in the ladder well laughing his butt off over it. After regaining his composure, he went back in the room, and after hearing "NO no, I'M not crazy, YOU are!" just once, had to leave the room again and laugh some more. He ended up sending one of the other company commanders into the room and had the recruit stop just so he could talk to us.

Don't worry, I have some stories about me if you want them, but I felt like that one was appropriate because it was the first one.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:06 pm

That's kind of hilarious. *giggles*

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:04 pm

It's snowing where I'm at right now. That means groundhogs day is a lie.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:25 am

It's 7:25 in the morning, I'm prepared to go to school.

Unusuallynamedperson · Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:35 am

and it's 8:34 now, and I'm headed out of first period.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 11:16 am

My first and only class today is at 1.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:40 pm

I woke up at 5:30 today to get ready for work.

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:21 pm

Dang you guys are being kind of specific.

It's 3:21 PM and I'm straightening up my room during my relaxing day off work!

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:32 pm

Sleet wrote:Dang you guys are being kind of specific.

Today the head of my department told me I included too much detail in a technical drawing of my ship's compressed air system. Basically, I only needed about 25 or 30% of what I drew.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:01 pm

Douglas Collier wrote:My first and only class today is at 1.

Your avatar matches your post

Unusuallynamedperson · Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:44 pm

Well I played goalie in hockey today, and did rather well. Until they all gained up on me, but still I was a pretty decent player, not that it matters, but just throwing it out there. YES, EXPLOIT MY NARCISSISM!

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:38 am

I'm working on a series of custom tracks for Lost Pause and Ninety 9 Lives.

Unusuallynamedperson · Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:57 am

I haven't heard of either one of those bands, but good luck Kitsune!

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:02 pm

Unusuallynamedperson wrote:I haven't heard of either one of those bands, but good luck Kitsune!

That's because they aren't bands.

Lost Pause is a major YouTube gamer that was recently the center of a large legal dispute with Google.

Ninety 9 Lives is a major EDM-exclusive record label owned by Ian Stapleton (a.k.a. Ssundee).

Unusuallynamedperson · Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:34 pm

Oh...

'Lost Pause is a major YouTube gamer that was recently the center of a large legal dispute with Google.'

Wait how'd this play out?

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:40 am

Google bought YouTube last year and decided just last month to finally implement their own Community Guideline policy changes. The result was a two week or so transition phase during which Google's Content ID bots were going rampant, putting strikes on hundreds of big channels, even on videos that had already been hit with strikes and had been resolved. One such case was Lost Pause. His channel received a strike for a 2 year old video that had already been reviewed by YouTube admins twice, and on another fan-made video of a dancing Gmod model of his channel mascot. Because he had then received three strikes, his channel was completely deleted without warning, forcing him to move to his second channel and resulting in a loss of over 500,000 subscribers. After a week of massive amounts of hate-mail and angry Twitter comments from his fans as well as dozens of video rants from his fellow YouTubers (TheAnimeMan, Misty Chronexia, Aki Dearest, Einshine, The Nostalgia Critic, and Drama News Alert to name a few), the CEO of YouTube herself announced that his channel would be reinstated after a two-week upload ban. A few days later, such strikes on several other such channels (Markiplier, I Hate Everything, Channel Awesome, Defi Brilator, and many more) were dropped as well. For most of the last week, #WTFU (where's the fair use?), #BringBackLostPause, and #BringBackNobleSenpai were all trending tags on both YouTube and Twitter.

Unusuallynamedperson · Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:48 pm

How did I miss all of that?!!

Wait why would they complain to those people and not Google, I realize Google doesn't have any easy contact methods but still. Plus why on earth would they want YouTube, that makes no sense! There's hardly any money in it for them plus the guys who ran it originally(I wouldn't expect them to give that up>

I knew I was in the twilight Zone!

Post by **Obbl** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:35 pm

No money in it for Google to buy one of the largest ad revenue sites in existence?!?