Posts made by WTFE

A former friend of mine was a big fan of Kinsey and thus assumed that everybody was secretly bisexual at some level or another. I was not a big fan of Kinsey and disagreed. He would often needle me with questions like "how beautiful would a guy have to be for you to want to fuck him?"

One day I met Jude Law. VERY briefly, only in passing, but I met him in person nonetheless.

The next day I told him "Nik, that beautiful" pointing to the movie poster featuring Jude Law at the cinema we were attending.

There is this bizarre idea out there called "the wisdom of the crowd". It is taken very seriously. It's the ludicrous assumption that somehow, when you put a large number of people together, you get more wisdom and brains.

Of course observed reality is that the average IQ of people is divided by the number of people that are acting as a group (de facto or deliberately).

Yep. Rotten Tomatoes is far harder to game than, say, Yelp or Amazon's reviews or…

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Fanboys are destroying the rating system by making it untrustworthy.

You make it sound like Internet rating systems were ever trustworthy.

What colour is the sky on your planet?

@ThatOneDude said in RL Anger:

But for RL Anger, why the fuck don't we have a warning system like Japan?!

Fucking socialist!

Sounds way too expensive. I'll settle for Buckley's Mixture. It tastes awful but it works!

Right. Were I still in Canada I'd have been talking about the gin I bought.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@WTFE

I am jealous of your collection. I have 70+ decks of cards, but none so wild as this. I need your sources!

OK, I did some digging.

A general AliExpress search for PVC cards led me to this set of the weirder cards in under a minute. This leads me to believe you won't have too many problems finding interesting card decks there.

You may thank me for your bankruptcy later.

Dammit! And I only just got a nice bottle of Xifeng. Courtesy of this fucker the bottle is already half-empty and I just read the drivel he typed while I was asleep!

Time to go teach half-drunk. Again.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@WTFE

I am jealous of your collection. I have 70+ decks of cards, but none so wild as this. I need your sources!

http://www.taobao.com

Some of them can probably be had from http://www.aliexpress.com. (I know the PVC playing cards can. Probably the Majiang cards too. I don't know about the more culturally obscure ones.)

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@WTFE

I cannot imagine ruffle-shuffling those.

Shuffling those I've seen two variants: dump 'em on a table face-down and mix them up by stirring, and hold half of them in each hand at the bottom and interpenetrate at the tips.

The stirring shuffle works better than a riffle, but takes a lot of space and time. The interpenetration one is about the same as a riffle but takes skill to pull off. Skill I currently lack.

My collection of weird-ass playing cards has expanded.

This is radically different in character from the others (aside from being weird and trippy, I mean). These are hand-made cards finished with tung oil. This gives them a lovely feel and scent. Unfortunately the tung oil is quite fresh on these and will require some more curing before they stop sticking to each other.

Don't you guys love it when someone comes to MSB trying to garner sympathy and instead makes it really clear just how much of a dickwad he really is?

And by "love it" I mean "want to scoop out your eyeballs with a spork just to feel the pain"…

@Roz said in Arx- Gareth:

@Kireek said in Arx- Gareth:

3. Did not ask to see that players stats. If saying I'm curious about the rest of a players sheet now once I learned they had freely offered 100 xp into another bit of stats is asking.. and then they offer it, I didn't technically ask, did I, I never demanded they tell me either.

I don't know anyone involved with this, but honestly this is all I really need. "I didn't ask to see his stats, I just happened to say I was curious about them in a manner that clearly expressed I would like to know! That's not technically asking!!"

Didn't I say that Asperger's is a Hell of a drug? I'm positive I did…

@Kireek said in Arx- Gareth:

@Roz Don't see the point of your quote, I mean why would you just repeat exactly what I'm saying?

Yep. Better than mixing meth and pot.

Asperger's is one HELL of a drug.

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

Just the once.

....so far

I'll get the lye.

Lye? Man, I've been using quicklime. Did I err?

Shit. I nearly missed this one.

John Alan Robinson

A friend helps you move.
A true friend helps you move the body.

They helped you move? They're friends.

I'm just watching the boat scene over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

@Ganymede Please stop humanizing yourself in my eyes. (I like bourbon too…)

On the topic of things I hate: scotch drinkers.

I mean, yes, I hate scotch. I've never tasted a scotch in my life that didn't taste like glorified, overpriced cough syrup, only without the benefits that cough syrup brings. But hey, that's OK, there's loads of drinks (and foods) I don't like. It's not scotch's fault that the flavours it brings to the table make me stare at it with a "WTF!?" expression. It's just not to my taste.

But scotch drinkers? Yeah, their obnoxiousness is pretty much 100% their own fault. When faced with someone like me, someone who has a well-developed palate, someone who shares with scotch drinkers a taste for increasingly expensive (and obscure) hooch, and yet someone who hates their drink of choice, they seem to suffer an immediate, crippling aneurism that makes them suddenly act like gibbons on crack.

"How could you not like scotch?"

"I just don't."

"You've never tried Dhomhnuillaonghascaimbeulfhearghuis single malt, obviously!"

"Probably not.  I won't like it though."

"Well, if you're not going to keep an open mind!"

Motherfucker, I've had scotches foisted off on my by scotch-drinking former friends (yes, that is a fucking warning!) for thirty fucking years. How many more years of this shit do I have to try before I'm permitted to decide I don't like your filthy, watered-down, ineffective cough syrup?

We really need an alternative version of the it's ok that says "it's OK to like things, just don't be a dick about it". And then we need to force every motherfucking scotch drinker in the world to sit down and watch it for 17 hours straight in the (undoubtedly vain) hope that the message sinks in.