Chat Thread 41: Mod Maker

Kateleo007 · Post by **Kateleo007** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:02 pm

Some of these project wonderful ads that are showing up are startling. I just got one about 'Dying Cat Euthanasia'. What the heck?!

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:09 pm

That's why I keep having Adblock turned on.

No regrets.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:09 am

I turn AdBlock off for Housepets! The ads are more relevant than usual and I like supporting the comic anyway.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:26 pm

There was a time when my computer was crawling with ads, some going to the low, low level of pretending to be download buttons for whatever I wanted to download or anti-virus alerts to make me click on them and download whatever they wanted to sell me. Pop-ups interrupting me everywhere I went.
This disease on my computer has fortunately ended, though I may need to find an effective adblock in case of future eventualities.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:35 pm

I leave my adblock on for Housepets unfortunately. They're just too annoying when I get the same three ads for weeks on end.

But I do access the site by my phone a bit, and that doesn't have any kind of ad blocking stuff. (I'm not sure if that even exists for phones.) So I don't feel as bad about it because of that.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:15 pm

JeffCvt wrote:But I do access the site by my phone a bit, and that doesn't have any kind of ad blocking stuff. (I'm not sure if that even exists for phones.) So I don't feel as bad about it because of that.

I'm sure that......

"There is an app for that."

I really hate this whole "let's use acronyms and abbreviations for everything" trend that the english native-speakers have. Do you know how long it took me to find out "app" meant "application"?

Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:22 pm

and other languages don't shorten things like that? They don't have words that are so commonly used that they don't want to spend the time saying the whole thing when most people will know what they're talking about?

Post by **Obbl** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:51 pm

Do not attempt Japanese if you want to keep your sanity

EVERYTHING can be abbreviated! EVERYTHING!!!

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:45 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:and other languages don't shorten things like that? They don't have words that are so commonly used that they don't want to spend the time saying the whole thing when most people will know what they're talking about?

Not by turning three-word phrases such as "By the way", "For your information", and "laughing out loud" into acronyms, they don't!

Obbl wrote:Do not attempt Japanese if you want to keep your sanity
EVERYTHING can be abbreviated! EVERYTHING!!!

My knowledge of Japanese is nigh non-existant, but isn't every kanji a syllable?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:56 am

A kanji can be a syllable or a whole word, depending on the character and its usage. Japanese has three scripts, hiragana, katakana and kanji. I took one year of it, got too confused and changed to French.

We Aussies have a reputation for shortening things. Heck, we even all ourselves Aussie instead of Australian.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:23 am

Sure every word gets a Kanji but have you ever tried to memorize or write a Kanji? I gave up on the first try.

Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:27 am

Silly Zealot wrote:
RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:and other languages don't shorten things like that? They don't have words that are so commonly used that they don't want to spend the time saying the whole thing when most people will know what they're talking about?
Not by turning three-word phrases such as "By the way", "For your information", and "laughing out loud" into acronyms, they don't!

pretty sure there's an asian language where laughter is written as "555" because 5 is pronounced as "ha"

Hlaoroo wrote:We Aussies have a reputation for shortening things. Heck, we even all ourselves Aussie instead of Australian.

that's not a different language, it's still English

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:42 am

I know, I know. But it's Australian English. Each country seems to have their own dialect of English although the main structure of the language stays the same. I didn't mean that Australian was a language anyway - I was just pointing out that we're terrible for abbreviating things.

I think I have heard of that Asian language too but I can't or the life of me remember what it is...

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:43 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:We Aussies have a reputation for shortening things. Heck, we even all ourselves Aussie instead of Australian.
that's not a different language, it's still English

Sure its not their own language, but it's lazy English! Everyone's favorite kind! (Unless your not lazy)

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:51 am

Oh. I'm as lazy as they come!

I'm so lazy that I can't even be bothered procrastinating!

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:52 am

"Why don't you just procrastinate?"
"Ehhhhh I will do that later..."

Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:03 am

Hlaoroo wrote:I think I have heard of that Asian language too but I can't or the life of me remember what it is...

I googled. It's Thai.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:02 am

Kyuubi Kitsune wrote:
RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:We Aussies have a reputation for shortening things. Heck, we even all ourselves Aussie instead of Australian.
that's not a different language, it's still English
Sure its not their own language, but it's lazy English! Everyone's favorite kind! (Unless your not lazy)

Speaking improper and/ or lazy English is the best. I can't imagine trying to speak the language well. Too much effort.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:46 pm

I remember playing Phantasy Star Online Episode III online with some Japanese people and "W" was said in places where I assumed they meant something analogous to "LOL."

Post by **Obbl** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:39 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:I know, I know. But it's Australian English. Each country seems to have their own dialect of English although the main structure of the language stays the same. I didn't mean that Australian was a language anyway - I was just pointing out that we're terrible for abbreviating things.

Well, that and you do that rhyming word replacement thing. Like I'm apparently a Seppo, and I had to get a friend who was born in Australia to figure out where it came from (he must have moved here before that word became common, but he managed to figure it out cause y'all are weird like that

)

Sleet wrote:I remember playing Phantasy Star Online Episode III online with some Japanese people and "W" was said in places where I assumed they meant something analogous to "LOL."

The w comes from 笑 which means smile/laugh and is pronounce "warai".

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:20 pm

I have got an idea for a game: Let us count every word in each given post and see which ones are NOT monosyllabic!

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:54 pm

I imagine most posts here are not monosyllabic.

Obbl wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:The w comes from 笑 which means smile/laugh and is pronounce "warai".

Oh hey! Age-old mystery solved. Guess I was right!

KalloonWhite · Post by **KalloonWhite** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:26 pm

What does monosyllabic mean?

I assume it's a smell based on context.

Kateleo007 · Post by **Kateleo007** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:34 pm

I think it means a word with only one syllable.

KalloonWhite · Post by **KalloonWhite** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:41 pm

Don't be ridiculous, that doesn't make an cent of sense!

That's like saying potato chips and jelly doughnuts are two different things!

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 3:06 am

KalloonWhite wrote:Don't be ridiculous, that doesn't make an cent of sense!

That's like saying potato chips and jelly doughnuts are two different things!

Finally someone else that gets it !

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:23 am

Silly Zealot wrote:I have got an idea for a game: Let us count every word in each given post and see which ones are NOT monosyllabic!

no

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:31 am

how now brown cow

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:28 pm

Punchy wrote:how now brown cow

With the rope in the billiards room?

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:38 pm

"Billiards" is two syllables. You lose!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:09 pm

Depends on your pronunciation, Sleet. I'd have said it's three.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:06 pm

Sleet wrote:"Billiards" is two syllables. You lose!

Wait...... so we're not playing clue?

Kateleo007 · Post by **Kateleo007** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:09 pm

Sleet wrote:"Billiards" is two syllables. You lose!

Not here it is. O'course, we say Billiyards (bill-yerds is how we Californians pronounce it) fast enough to make something sound like a one syllable word.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:49 am

Seth wrote:
Punchy wrote:how now brown cow
With the rope in the billiards room?

No, but you were close. He drowned in the pool hall.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:34 am

Punchy wrote:
Seth wrote:
Punchy wrote:how now brown cow
With the rope in the billiards room?
No, but you were close. He drowned in the pool hall.

Ohhhhhhh I should have guessed. Everyone knows any murderer worth a darn loves puns

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:51 pm

Punchy wrote:how now brown cow

The Nanny?

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:37 pm

Seth wrote:Ohhhhhhh I should have guessed. Everyone knows any murderer worth a darn loves puns

They're head-splitting hilarious!

I mean side-splitting.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:09 am

Does anyone follow LPers?

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:05 pm

Sleet wrote:
Seth wrote:Ohhhhhhh I should have guessed. Everyone knows any murderer worth a darn loves puns
They're head-splitting hilarious!

I mean side-splitting.

Get a writer you hack : p

Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:18 pm

Liam wrote:Does anyone follow LPers?

depends on which kind you mean, the serious ones all about playing the game well
or funny ones like Pewdiepi, tobygames, markiplier, cry, and nova