Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat

[Phantasee]

Welcome to 2014. Continue.

[evilsoup]

FIRST

[The Spartan]

Wait a minute. We're in the future now. Why is everything the same!?

[adr]

What's up with people using const ref on EVERY struct argument?

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struct S {
    char* value;
};

void useS(const S&);

why would you do that? the worst is i've had people argue with me when i say "just pass the struct normally and it will all work better" and they say "no i always pass all structs const ref and then it doesn't work" and i'm like "just don't do that..." and they are like "IMPOSSIBLE"

ugh

[RogueIce]

So why is Malcolm Tucker a bad thing apparently when it comes to Dr. Who?

[timmy]

Fuck knows


http://youtube.com/watch?v=59GwT_Qlj0Y

[evilsoup]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc
'Fantastic'
'Allon-sy'
'Geronimo'
'wake up, pick up any fucking weapon you can find and twat the fuckery out of them'
best doctor
ever
even if he only ever exists in my head

[adr]

lol i thought malcom tucker was a character from "enterprise" and this was all very confusing to me

but i think that's actually malcom reed and trip tucker giggle

[The Spartan]

twat the fuckery out of them'

I think I got what this means from context, but what the hell does this mean?

When did twat become a verb?

That said, if the Doctor start using that as catch phrase I'd be all like

[evilsoup]

to twat someone means to punch them, preferably in the face and while you are drunk
or to hit someone in general
slang is slang, I don't know where it comes from, though I'm sure some anthropologist or linguist will have done a study on it somewhere

[The Spartan]

I translated it more or less as "beat the stupid out of them" so I got pretty close.

I'd just never heard that particular piece of slang.

[evilsoup]

it's closer to 'beat the shit out of them'
but anyway yeah you get the gist

p.s. you should all go watch The Thick of It if you haven't already. The film In the Loop is also brilliant.

[timmy]

Fuckin poms and your made up slang

Bunch of drongos

[timmy]

Hey say goodbye to the Ashes forever

[zhaktronz]

Did they ever really get to say hello

[evilsoup]

[adr]

friendship is magic!

[adr]

so i've created a 100% original science fiction story. here's the outline:

a person is in a grove when she hears the voice of god who commands her to find a magical artifact then lead her people away from destruction and to the promised land. on the journey our prophet is faced with many trials including starvation and her people murmuring against her but with the direct assistance of god all trials are overcome and she was commanded to build a ship and did build a ship and made it to the promised land where all kinds of things happen subsequently

in the future an AWAY TEAM is investigating this culture and its myths and the artifacts are still there and amazingly, publically available for some viewage. after looking at the artifacts they find the story may be true and retrace the steps

and they learn that the story is true

[RogueIce]

Coming soon to the History Channel.

[adr]

but you don't understand it wasn't ancient aliens

so they get baptized and live happily ever after


well that's how it would work in real life but this is fiction where such things are unlikely. it turns out god was actually a supercomputer! but not just any computer, it was a guy who uploaded himself. you see, as god once was, man is now.

anyway sensors had detected a likely collision with space debris which would be a serious threat to life support. with the people in ignorance due to the fall of man (they wanted to make their own decisions or something and were cut off from the presence of high technology) maintenance of robots was in the pits and the upload/computer had little choice but to just yell

turns out the grove happened to be near enough to a maintenance room with a functioning loudspeaker (kinda takes the magic away but oh well) and the prophet being special was just improvising with a flawed person who /wanted/ to be special. god just rolled with it

anywho she's led to a two way radio with a direction finder and integrated wireless charger. after being guided through some repairs on it she now has a direct link to the AI

the main journey is relatively straightforward although part the way through it seems as if got had abandoned them but it came back though some people have noticed that god seems to listen and answer on a cycle instead of constantly nowadays

then upon arrival at the promised land god commands that they build home altars out of artifacts and pray at them. these altars are, of course, save points from Chrono Cross. 'nuff said.

* * *

the crowning moment is when the away team and their native guides actually MEET GOD. (in a depressurized habitat with incorrect rotation; it was indeed hit and most organic life failed to survive. the rotation has de-aligned off the solar energy collector, forcing the AI to shut down periodically due to insufficient electric power)

anywho they did argue. "your god is a machine, dude. recant your superstitious nonsense"

"like so what? we already knew god had a physical form this changes nothing"

and it came to pass that the faith and devotion of the people did soften the hearts of the away team


but when they were alone with the computer other things came up and things get a bit heated, with the computer showing it still has a temper left over from its human days but nevertheless did what it believed was necessary with the constraints it had. the away team doesn't buy much of it.

and the computer says "it's time for you to leave" while the boss battle music starts up. oh wait that's what would happen if this was an RPG this is just a lame story so cool things like that can't happen

i guess they go their separate ways and live <your adverb here> ever after

[xon]

Please note the https instead of http for accessing testingstan.arsdnet.net

It Should Just Work!™

[evilsoup]

ooo shiny

[adr]

take that NSA

[evilsoup]

as if the nsa don't have backdoors into all that shit, lol

[Flagg]

I can't wait for nanobots that they release to infect and monitor every cell in the entire population of the planet.