Funny picture thread

[Ironwood]

Now that made me laugh.  Nothing like realising you're throwing your life away.

(though probably the real story is his chemo is making him ill as he marries his one true love for the remaining six months he has left.)


Also, Lant, you made me laugh HARD with your comment.  I also have to ask, what kind of D&D session lasts half an hour ?  Are they just going to be tugging it under the table rather than rolling characters ?

[Polysorbate80]

Well, if they're like most guys, they'll fail their grapple checks, blow everything in the first encounter, and then want to make camp for the night.

[Murgos]

Eh, I am not overstating anthing. That's why I was carefull to use the term web rather than internet. Berners-Lee authored HTML and wrote both the first server software and the first browser. And then got the actual first server running. So there definitely was no web as we know it before him.

Citation:

Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990.

Your first quote should read Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first HTTP Server and Client software.  The physical network of servers and clients existed long before he started running his software on it.  Thus the 'web' is not the property of CERN, that specific piece of server hardware is/was the property of CERN.

[01101010]

Eh, I am not overstating anthing. That's why I was carefull to use the term web rather than internet. Berners-Lee authored HTML and wrote both the first server software and the first browser. And then got the actual first server running. So there definitely was no web as we know it before him.

Citation:

Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990.

Your first quote should read Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first HTTP Server and Client software.  The physical network of servers and clients existed long before he started running his software on it.  Thus the 'web' is not the property of CERN, that specific piece of server hardware is/was the property of CERN.

And here is where we fully realize we are in the rabbit hole. 

[calapine]

Eh, I am not overstating anthing. That's why I was carefull to use the term web rather than internet. Berners-Lee authored HTML and wrote both the first server software and the first browser. And then got the actual first server running. So there definitely was no web as we know it before him.

Citation:

Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990.

Your first quote should read Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first HTTP Server and Client software.  The physical network of servers and clients existed long before he started running his software on it.  Thus the 'web' is not the property of CERN, that specific piece of server hardware is/was the property of CERN.

1) That was a direct, unaltered quote from the Wiki article about the WWW. I specified TWICE that I was talking about the web/hypertext protocol not internet per se. This being a somewhat tech-savy site I am pretty sure that everyone is at least vaguely aware the history of the Internet dates as far back as 1969, so from the context it was clear that I meant web-server.

Which was THE major ground-breaking invention.  Ask a random person to describe the internet and they are almost guaranteed to talk about browsing and websites and not IRC, telnet, newsgroup and the other services that existed before the invention of the web.

2) “Also, the web is 'propriete CERN'! *chauvinistic grin*” That statement was obviously sarcasm. I apologise for not formatting it in green text.

3) Obligatory picture:

[Nebu]

[rk47]

[Fabricated]

[Ironwood]

That amuses me more than it should.  I suspect someone's getting a punch in the dick for that one though.

[Yegolev]

I... why?

Yes, that's dumb.  Provide her own books?  Sheesh.

[Rishathra]

While that is amusing in its own right, is there some context that I may be missing here?

[Stormwaltz]

While that is amusing in its own right, is there some context that I may be missing here?

Looks like backstage security cam footage of AKB48 (a Japanese idol band).

[01101010]

While that is amusing in its own right, is there some context that I may be missing here?

Looks like backstage security cam footage of AKB48 (a Japanese idol band).

I don't really care what it is... just wondering why I am not there. 

[IainC]

[Ruvaldt]

Maybe it thought the paramedic was a quack.   

[Paelos]

Nah, he had AFLAC.

[Trippy]

That reminds me of this story of a llama accidentally killing her owner:

The report says Lanahan called for help Tuesday after a llama named Baby Doll slipped on wet grass while running to greet her and knocked her down, causing her to hit her head on concrete. It says there's no evidence the llama was acting maliciously.

[Bunk]

Spoilered for length.

[TheWalrus]

Made better by your "Welcome to the internet pussy" quote. 

[rk47]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA OMFG   

[Signe]

[Minvaren]

[rk47]

[KallDrexx]

If I hadn't been reading the X-Com thread that wouldn't be nearly as funny 

[Teleku]

So, are we just laughing at the fact he only just seems to be grasping that reloading saves wont work with XCOM, or something else?

[Nightblade]

What a shame...

[Azuredream]

So, are we just laughing at the fact he only just seems to be grasping that reloading saves wont work with XCOM, or something else?

I was thinking of the last sentence, that decries all games that make use of random numbers in any fashion. Or basically, almost every game.

[Mrbloodworth]

So, are we just laughing at the fact he only just seems to be grasping that reloading saves wont work with XCOM, or something else?

They do work, you just can perform the same action right after reloading.

[Morat20]

So, are we just laughing at the fact he only just seems to be grasping that reloading saves wont work with XCOM, or something else?

They do work, you just can perform the same action right after reloading.

Hmm. I can see it two ways -- depends on whether reloading creates a new seed or not.

Eh, most people don't get how RNG's and computers work anyways. (Although reading about how the online poker games supposedly create their random noises is interesting. A friend of mine, back in the 90s, hacked something similar together using a salaved supermarket scanner laser and a lava-lamp. It was amusing as hell. I can't recall what he wanted the random numbers for....)

[rk47]

So, are we just laughing at the fact he only just seems to be grasping that reloading saves wont work with XCOM, or something else?

Just his 'I want to go through the game without losing a soldier' mentality is facepalm worthy.

[calapine]

Just his 'I want to go through the game without losing a soldier' mentality is facepalm worthy.

Why? A good 68%^[1] of players of the original X-COM used the 'reload on death' method.

^[1]Source

[Teleku]

Yeah, I'm fairly similar.  If anything other than a random new recruit died, I'd reload on original XCOM.  Trying to break myself of that habit on this new version, since its a bit easier to replace people, but I can still sympathize with the mentality.  I'm attempting Iron man games to get myself in the groove, but at the rate things are going, I'm probably going back to my standard game where I just reloaded if anybody important was killed on a mission.

[Trippy]

Just his 'I want to go through the game without losing a soldier' mentality is facepalm worthy.

Why? A good 68%^[1] of players of the original X-COM used the 'reload on death' method.

^[1]Source

Yeah that's how I played the originals, plus I would stun as many aliens as I could (pretty much everybody carried stun rods on my squads) which led to even more reloads

[Ratman_tf]

I've had two missions where I lost the whole team. I really loathe reloading because I'd be forever fucking up the same mission and never finish the game. 

[rk47]

I can accept that some wants to preserve a veteran, or some other reason. But 'finishing the game without losing anyone?'
Why not just play Mass Effect 2?
Or maybe.. Easy Difficulty?