Posts made by Tinuviel

@griatch Most software have codenames that they go by, for various reasons, and it's easier to advertise Android Kitkat than Android 6.01.20199.

@thenomain said in Life... in outer space!:

This would be wrong

Oh yes, I know. But that leads into my point. The definition of civilisation isn't etched in stone, and we don't really have a thing to point at and say "no, this is what civilisation is" and so perceptions - even 'obviously' incorrect ones are pervasive. I mean originally it meant 'people what live in cities and speak Greek' (in an incredibly paraphrased way).

It's not as bad as when I was on 56k! 32 down, 3 up. On a good day. Packets going up hill both ways, in the snow! I got lag connecting to MU*s.

@coin Gooooood luck with that.

@ganymede True, but generally we (general we, not us we) consider 'Egypt' to be one behemoth that lasted from X to Y. China broke up, reformed, broke up, reformed, had a few revolutions... there are periods more easy to point at and say "that's a different civilisation."

@thenomain said in Life... in outer space!:

any civilization can survive for thousands of years

Things get... weird depending on how you determine one civilisation from another. Egypt lasted that long, but the line where one would draw civilisation distinctions is fuzzy-wuzzy.

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

just trying to make them look bad

That's literally my IT career in a nutshell. Always trying to make people look bad.

@packrat In my defense, when I fled there were more pressing issues than internet connectivity.

ETA: I am reminded of a joke. Why wouldn't anyone want to get an internet connection with Virgin? Because they want their packet to go all the way.

Hullo, this is @Tinuviel reporting from the colonies. What is this internet you speak of, over. We're still using RFC 1149.

@lisse24 There's a... ten or so year gap from around 25-35 (±5 years) right now. Everyone in that gap understands the jist of most standard technology, there are a few niche things we don't get but given a few minutes tinkering we can figure out the basics. Because we had to. Before us, there wasn't anything the average person needed to know about tech, it was all niche stuff. After us, everything already worked so people didn't need to really learn about it.

We had to build kits and test shit.

@ixokai said in Welcome to Lovecraft Looking for Directors and Stage Hands:

Staff have not shown any sign of current insanity

Just quoting this for when it happens.

@insomnia There's a problem with that link, for me at least. But ambergris is at least a thing I know about.

@insomnia How dare you make me read that with my own eyes?!?!

@royal

For ten to twenty minutes before the game goes down again.

@kay Man, t'hell with that guy. Always weaving his webb.

@tnp Mmmmn I'm a little luke-warm on that one.

Watch this. You'll thank me.

@arkandel Go play Pokemon, then come back.

@arkandel And then some guy keeps yelling at you whenever you try and use your bike inside or in arbitrary locations...