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[Paint by Numbers]

What an interesting specimen, gentlemen. This poster - Xion - can summarize my entire life in one post. Intriguing

[jwk5]

Getting beat by a much worse player on Super Street Fighter 4 when all they have is a thread of life for most of the match. Gets even worse if they send you a private message to gloat about it.

[Pineapple]

People just starting programming who think it's cool to type with &&'s and ||'s instead of and and or in everything they write...

As soon as I realized I could use symbols for logical operators I started doing so. In my mind, not only is it a bit faster to type, but it's also much easier to read.

[Noc]

A good movie ending too soon.

A crushed top hat.

A board game with missing pieces.

A highly praised Japanese game never reaching the rest of the world.

Animals dieing or being abused.

[floatstarpx]

has anyone said vacuum cleaners yet? i hope so. i'm not reading all 22 pages to find out.

[Nix]

has anyone said vacuum cleaners yet? i hope so. i'm not reading all 22 pages to find out.

More specifically, the cords on vacuum cleaners.

[ink.inc]

People just starting programming who think it's cool to type with &&'s and ||'s instead of and and or in everything they write...

(it's rare, but I've seen it a couple times and wow...  )

Actually, I'm fairly sure that 90 percent of people who type in '&&' instead of 'and' have no idea that it's a conditional operator.

For evidence, look at every myspace page in existence.

[Noc]

Also, people who judge games by their graphics. They are sad, sad creatures.

[siiseli]

The realization that I will never see Freddie Mercury live. Also vacuums.

[Riley Adams]

People just starting programming who think it's cool to type with &&'s and ||'s instead of and and or in everything they write...

(it's rare, but I've seen it a couple times and wow...  )

Actually, I'm fairly sure that 90 percent of people who type in '&&' instead of 'and' have no idea that it's a conditional operator.

For evidence, look at every myspace page in existence.

Perhaps, but I've seen it in programming-oriented forums and somesuch where it's an obvious case of "hay guiz i kno sum javascript && so im a haxor". One the comes to mind was on stackoverflow I think, and the person had a conceptual problem, but they insisted on using &&/|| instead of and/or through their entire 2 paragraph question (there was no code involved, just regular english with the logical operators thrown in...).

I'll have to admit that I used to do that because in the book I was using to learn programming it made it sound like that was the only way to do it

In actual code I'm fine with it, symbols for logical operations is, well, logical (and often the only option). I'm talking about people who are trying to look smart or something by using them in random everyday typing (like forums and social networking and such).

[Nix]

Ooohhhhh, that really clears some things up. I thought you were complaining about programming with &&/|| and I was a bit surprised. But yeah, what you said does suck. 

[Tumetsu]

I dropped chocolate candy to my computer chair and sit on it accidentally. Now it looks like I have shit on it 

[BoxedLunch]

just offer people the chance to smell it if they ask. then they'll know.

[Nix]

just offer people the chance to smell it if they ask. then they'll know.

I don't smell chocolate all too well. The only surefire way to convince people is to let them taste it.

[BoxedLunch]

or rub a deep cut against it.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

I just lost a dwarf fortress in its early stages to some heavy mismanagement. I dug down into the caves too early and got attacked by a bunch of troglodytes. Also several of my dwarves died of thirst. 

[Smithy]

Handed in my final "writing portfolio" for my comp class. It was shameful. I didn't do a great job on it. Few edits. Brief cover letter. I was swamped for energy and time.

I was hoping to stealth by, drop the binder in her mailbox and hurry off. She stopped me in the hallway, carrying an armload of binders and stopped me and wanted to walk me to her office.

On the way, she asked if I had submitted any of my papers to the school's "literary magazine," The Windy Hill Review.

I told her, "no, I didn't do that yet."

She stopped. Told me, "You are supposed to do that. Do that right away." and we continued moving. She's been trying to get me to submit forever, but I never got around to it.

"I mean, there's better places your writing could go, but I'd like to have it here." she said.

When we arrived at her office, she told me to just set my binder down by the others. The others. They were all neat. Organized. Mine had papers inside, bent out of shape. I had thrown it together so quickly. Essays I had written which ended up on my disorganized 'pile o' stuff.' Many of them had coffee stains on the front page. One of them had a muddy shoeprint.

It was all so thrown together. I wanted to get the hell out of there.

As I turned to leave she stopped me, opened up my binder, and started weeding out the papers that she didn't need. My heart jumped. I was frozen. Terrified that she'd notice the coffee stains. The crumples. The shittyness of the condition of my stuff. She didn't.

I turned to leave again. She stopped me. Told me that I have a great talent. I said, "Some people think so." I wanted to get the hell out.

"Would you knock off the humility? You have stories to tell. You should take a creative writing course."

blah blah blaaah.

"I need to take another comp course before I can take those."

"Yeah. Just get them out of the way." she said.

She wished me good luck on finals. Told me to keep in touch. And I left knowing that the quality of my final work for the course was terrible.



It sucked.
I don't really belong in the world of college.

[Tanner]

Things that suck:
Not Smithy

[saibot216]

Tron Legacy.

[Türbo Bröther]

This summer's weather.