Posts made by WTFE

Reread @Admiral's thing again, this time for comprehension, @Thenomain.

This is, in fact, the kind of thing I was looking for. And, in general, I would agree that if it was specifically the mass movement of fans that led to a show/movie/book/game/whatever existing at all then yes, the fans are entitled to a certain say in how it continues. (Not as much say, perhaps, as the more fanatical elements think, but definitely some say.)

This also exists as a fine counterpoint to the "HOW THE FUCK DARE YOU DO <X> WITH <CHARACTER Y>!? GO KILL YOURSELF YOU COCKSUCKING BASTARD" style of entitlement that is so clearly wrong that anybody trying to defend it is either an idiot or a troll.

I would be interested in hearing any credible argument in favour of fan entitlement. I cannot think of any, but this doesn't mean they don't exist.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@surreality said in RL Anger:

PA has nothing * * *.

Full stop, right there.

Any state that has to name its villages, towns, and cities with sexual terminology has nothing to truly offer.

I'll just leave this here then.

So, this is what my family is living through while I'm half a world away fighting with fucking bureaucrats.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF FUCK OUT

@silentsophia said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

Aside from scalper guy, and other jerks, I've found the absolute worst people are TEENAGERS. Especially in large groups because their parents drop them off at the theatre nearby, and then ignore them for like, 6 hours. Well, since no movie lasts that long, the teens invariably roll over to our store and do shit like destroy displays, break merchandise, skateboard/motorscooter/whatever through the store.

Acquire a set of portable speakers with decent tweeters and an integrated amplifier. You can get cheap guitar amp/speaker combos in pawn shops, for example. Sit down at your PC with a program that will generate any frequency sound. Set it to some mid-range value (1KHz for example) and turn up the volume enough to be mildly uncomfortable to you. Then ramp up the frequency until you can't hear anything any longer. At JUST the point where you stop hearing sound, turn up the volume really loud. If you can now hear it a bit, boost the frequency a bit higher. You want something that's just barely outside of your range of hearing.

Then record that sound using whatever you've got: say as a WAV file you store in a cheap MP3 player. Take the speakers and the MP3 player to work. Play that sound through the speakers at a very high volume behind the counter on an endless loop. You won't hear it. The teenagers likely will and will go away. Rather quickly. Without quite being able to explain why.

Presumably because he is:

1. A sick fuck.
2. The Devil.
3. A freak.

And presumably because he needs to find Jesus.

I mean it's pretty clear from his message, no?

We each of us grieve in our own way.

Nope. Not even slightly.

You mean contexts like a multi-ton vehicle holding your chest down so you simply cannot breathe, as CO2 builds up in your bloodstream and the overwhelming urge to just BREATHE IN overpowers you with its incredible pain? You know, that incredible burning pain that takes over every fibre of your being until finally, mercifully, your brain shuts off and you slip into unconsciousness and, finally, death?

Nah. Can't see it.

@Thenomain Personally I couldn't stand Sublime. The editor core was nice. Very nice. But it was 99.44% undocumented, had a clear hierarchy of supported platforms (with my most common one at the bottom of the stack), and a vendor who was fucking close to extreme autism in his utter disinterest in actually communicating with his paying customers.

Atom is too hipster for my tastes (and I object to having to fire up a 1GB browser to edit 24KB of text), but it can probably be easily modified to support the functionality you'd like.

That's my precise use case for vim: remoting.

Textadept is pretty much a programmer's editor; if you're editing log files it's probably not got anything you want. I use it because it's infinitely malleable without being fugly like emacs and because it has the best language syntax support system I've ever seen, bar none. This is important because I use oddball languages no other code editor properly supports. (Mercury? SNOBOL4? Logtalk?)

@Arkandel I use Textadept as my primary (on all major platforms) with vim as my backup and ed as my "holy shit am I ever in trouble!" last resort.

Yeah, no point changing editors if you like the one you've got. Don't select emacs because it's what the cool kids use. (They don't. Emacs is for kids whose moms say they're cool.) Don't select vim for that reason either. (Vim is for kids whose moms say they're sexy.) Pick an editor you like and use it; fuck anybody who judges you for your choice.

I understand perfectly why you'd want to do it.

But I think you have the reasoning wrong.

The issue isn't that most text editors only have one selection point. Every editor I've seen (or inferred) the internals of has a minimum of two selection points for a range selection: beginning and end. (Those which can do multiple selections, naturally, have more.) The issue is that nobody has bound the keystrokes to manipulating the first selection point of a pair rather than the last.

The behaviour you describe is something I could code up in a function for Textadept in about five minutes. In your situation, for example, I could move the cursor to, say, one of the "meow" instances, then use the existing key binding to match everything in parentheses (Ctrl+( twice: once for the inside, once again to get the parens as well). This is just using a key binding to a function that calls textadept.editing.select_enclosed(), an exposed API function. To complete this I'd have to call that function twice, get the beginning and end points, find the word boundary left, then set a new selection. In total it's about five lines of code, plus an extra line to bind the function to a key combination.

So perhaps the problem isn't the text editors proper but rather the lack of customization ability. Which is something that can be cured by selecting a really customizable editor.

@Thenomain said in Code Teachers?:

TextWrangler allows me to select the contents and parens/etc. just like the others, but it also puts in two insertion points: One at each end of the selection so if I use the keyboard to shift-arrow backwards, it expands the selection backwards. All the other programming text editors I've tried put only one insertion point at the end.

I'm having a hard time picturing what you're saying here. What do you mean by "two insertion points"? What happens if you type when text is selected? Do you start typing on both sides of it?

@Thenomain said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

@WTFE said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

And women, @silentsophia. I rarely feel embarrassed for my gender. Comic book shops have always made me consider just getting a straight razor and cutting off the offending bits as an apology for the contents of the shop.

You could just, you know, boycott the shop and its contents. I, myself, am optimistic about using those bits again sometime.

Shops and contents. And I have taken up that boycott. It was triggered the day I walked into a comic-and-games shop in Ottawa whose owner was intent on being "family friendly" and "normie friendly" only to be faced with a life-size cutout of Lady Death. Well, when I say "life size" I mean "approximately the height of a human being". The breasts were not life size. Each individual one was larger than my head. The waist, too, was not life size. It was smaller than one handspan. The proverbial "broom handle with beach balls stuck to it" was made manifest here.

And this grotesque parody of the female form was standing--deliberately placed!--so it was the first thing anybody entering saw. And the "normie friendly" owner of the shop was standing to one side admiring his new shop representative intently. Waaaaaaaaaay too intently.

And women, @silentsophia. I rarely feel embarrassed for my gender. Comic book shops have always made me consider just getting a straight razor and cutting off the offending bits as an apology for the contents of the shop.

Thank you, @Glitch. It is genuinely appreciated.