The History of Wesnoth Forums

[atomicbomb]

And Dave said, "There shall be Light-" When Fmunoz butted in and said "Your Lighting Sucks, Let me do this."

Nice!! I'll put that on the campaign story.

Thank you for your informations guys!
And yeah, every funny quotes from forum users also accepted here!
And feel free to PM me if you have some secret informations, I'm glad to see more high-class infos

[Mountain_King]

Shadowmaster had a few posts on his blog about Wesnoth prehistory (versions 0.0-0.3). Some good stuff in there.

[Elvish_Hunter]

And yeah, every funny quotes from forum users also accepted here!

You may want to take a look at this forum user and its posts.
It was a wonderful April Fool's joke.

[8680]

Hey! I just got an idea! you know that Don't feed the troll picture that Gambit has? Someone should make a sprite of that troll for the campaign.

This? Someone did.

You may want to take a look at this forum user and its posts.
It was a wonderful April Fool's joke.

I read that April Fools' thread, and found this... interesting sequence of posts:

Spoiler:

HA!! SEE? I TOLD YOU ALL IT WAS A JOKE!!
That was definitely the best April Fool's joke I've seen in a few years though, well done Dev Team!

It was NOT a good joke, I almost cried...I was really upset, NOT FUNNY...I hate you guys ESPECIALLY U DEREKGambit!
can't believe I actually fell for this

Derek?

No. That was a typo. The guy's name is Uderek.

I'd be willing to make that thread into a scenario, perhaps as a humorous cutscene between battles. Edit: I tried, but converting posts into dialog is too difficult, mainly because of quoting.

[atomicbomb]

Derek?

This Captain_Wrathbow even don't know who's Derek.

Shadowm says : "Derek ******** in RL is a huge fat guy who adores animals and plays with toy lego robots."

And... 8680.. You joined this forums only to post something in my thread?
I suspect you are one of veteran forum member's alternative account.
Welcome to The Jungle Forums!

[Kalajel]

Just in cas this thread wasn't already linked, well here it is…

Read and have fun!

[8680]

And... 8680.. You joined this forums only to post something in my thread?

No, it's just the first thread I bothered posting in.

Just in cas this thread wasn't already linked, well here it is…

Since that thread's locked, here's something I think belongs in it.

edit : some things to consider:

• Gambit's location is "Dynamica." Perhaps he could be in (or in command of) a fortress or city called Dynamica?
• Maeglin Dubh should wield a .22 Caliber Lock.

[Dunno]

No one likes my idea with Sarlacc-like autopruner

[8680]

I like it, but I think it should be mobile.

[Gambit]

Gambit's location is "Dynamica." Perhaps he could be in (or in command of) a fortress or city called Dynamica?

That's a campaign that's in limbo.

[atomicbomb]

No one likes my idea with Sarlacc-like autopruner

Who said that? of course I like and appreciate every Ideas here!

Gambit's location is "Dynamica." Perhaps he could be in (or in command of) a fortress or city called Dynamica?

Good Idea!
You reminded me something creepy about Gambit and his location. I won't explain what's that because Gambit'll surely kill me for that.

[Insinuator]

of course I like and appreciate every Ideas here!

Excellent. Time for a shameless plug for enabling Plague on villages.

My work here is done.

[atomicbomb]

Excellent. Time for a shameless plug for enabling Plague on villages.

Evil.

And...Oh yeah.. Guys, this thread is intended to collect forum's history as many as possible from user's posts, IRC logs... etc and to use them to make parodies/jokes. (Creative parodies will highly appreciated).
Please do not post something that would insult someone or violate forum's rule. I don't want to see this thread died because of that. Thanks!

[Kalajel]

Well, the old forums auto-censors had quite the sense of humor as can be seen with my first encounter with them here. Sadly, the censors got changed, which ended up changing my original message, but the guy below me who quoted me caught the original, unaltered censor…

[8680]

Another point for investigation...

You know what happened on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 9:04 pm.

Oh, you.

edit : Who knows when the Forum Sith left and became Moderators Emeriti? Also, how long after that did it take for Shadowmaster to come to power?

edit2 : I just noticed that Silene is no longer a developer. What happened? Or should I not ask that?

edit3 : Someone's password was "password". Four people hacked his/her/its/their account and posted stuff in his/her/its/their name.

edit4 : Added BBCode to edit3 after I accidentally clicked Submit too early.

edit5 : I've been, and will be, collecting quotes that could be used as dialog in the campaign.

Quotes:

Maeglin Dubh

I'll be ... in the woods teaching young, impressionable Baptists how to use bows, knives, hatchets, and fire. And getting paid for it.

I came. I saw. I locked. Veni, Vidi, eh.... Lockedus.

We don't need a filter to suppress ideas we don't agree with. That's what Noy and I are for.

You think you're being persecuted, or that we're being unfair. But look around. That's how things are done here. No one but you seems to have a problem with it. Locked. Do not tempt the Sith.

... just shut up and swallow it.

Your ego may need two threads, but your problem does not. Locked.

I haven't had my recommended daily intake of bad topics. So I chomp one.

The answers are no, no, go away, and don't drink and drive, in that order.

We will, we will, Lock you.

Dubh-Day. Has a nice ring to it. Like Ar-Maeg-Geddon.

For an event as amazing as the return of your avatar, dear Cuyo, only wine will do.

Think it's time for a Dubh Special.

A .22 caliber Lock to the head.

I always knew you were against me, Cuyo. An avatar of Chaos such as yourself could never bear to abide under my rule of total law! A foul traitor and conspirator I call you! Avast!

Let the universe howl in despair, for I have returned.

And Shepherds we shall be, for thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomeni Patri, et Fili, *click* et Spiritus Sancti. *Executes thread*

Also, this.

Turuk

It's all about having goals and a well-laid out plan.

Could you please say what the units do please.

I would imagine they are equipped with either melee or ranged attacks, maybe even a combination of both, and are actively trying to kill each other.

Sorry, I don't remember the way to escape from jail. How to do that? Thanks.

... Locked.

In majestic fashion the noble, upright, and righteous brigade of Wesnoth chat room admins have with just cause, pure conscience, and timeless wisdom banned this one; blasphemer, defiler, and corrupter of all that is pure to an unspecified and indefinite exile from the world of Wesnoth's multiplayer server. Its shrieks of blasphemy against the established order, the ancient tradition, and the prescriptive code will fall upon nothing and no one. It is in this, a representative from the outlands, the wasted void, the darkness eternal, comes forth pleading, expounding of the law, and admonishing the Templars and Magistrates to open negotiation of a peace, a lift of the ban, or a timeline upon which this one's punishment having been served may return to the light and bask once again in the splendor that is the Wesnoth multiplayer server.

In coziest regards, poetically yours,
The Advocate

Right.

You were not banned for thought crimes or any of the other babble you were throwing out in the lobby. You were banned for the fact that you and others were debating pointless nonsense in a lobby made for players to find games with each other, and, when asked to stop and take it to a game, you were the only one who continued to go on doing as you pleased.

The timeline of your punishment before you may return to the light and bask in the splendor was only three hours.


... Locked.

User looked through FPI. +10

User outlined their idea clearly. +4

User posted idea that would drastically alter gameplay. -10

Compute roll. Roll=5

5+10+4-10=9

We are sorry. This forum has a difficulty of 17 today. Your roll is insufficient.


Locked.

To specify: I was speaking into the air (internet, empty space, to whom it may concern, potential flamers) not at you.

False, as you referenced my mother, as I am fairly certain the internet and open space do not have mothers.

Sure. Ban me. f*** the forums, and f*** Soliton.

Happy to oblige since you seem to want to continue your flaming. Done and Locked.

Shadowmaster

Ye are to be missed. Farewell, Lord of the Sith.

Therefore, I take total control of the forums....

Addfriend? The only commands I know that use usernames are kick and ban.

...feed them to my Juice-O-Matic.

It is ready when it's ready. It's ready when it's READY!

RL? What's that 'Real Life' thingy people keep talking about?

I consider this interesting article — written by a certain Irish philosopher — a very enlightening read on the subject of RL if you can endure his overuse of rhetoric.

(Compiler's note : I found that article hilarious, what with how, among other things, they had spoilers.)

I thought I'd try to do a club with nails...

It vaguely looks like a dead, mangled fish over a squid's miniature. It doesn't remind me of a spiky club at all.

Does anybody else get the feeling shadowmaster will be in any moment with a hilarious locking-this-thread-post?

Nope.

PEOPLE
OSAMA BIN LADEN #04 IS DEAD
WE'VE GOT ONLY THREE MORE CLONES TO KILL BEFORE THE ORIGINAL FACES US IN A GREAT CLIMATIC BOSS BATTLE
YAY

Pics or it didn't happen.

Request denied.

No. Locked.

Noy

Well given your inability to understand basic probabilities and your asinine attitude, I can tell that you don't have the intellectual capacity to play this game. May I suggest that you take up a new internet hobby, like My Little Pony Coloring books. Graduate from that and maybe we can get you into some more complex games, like pong.

Oh, and Locked.

So after getting banned for insulting me, you decide to... wait for this stroke of brilliance...

...Insult me again!

I'm sure after getting banned the first time, the second time will work... right? Maybe you should have taken your own advice and left for awhile. Instead, (maybe because there wasn't the public outcry you thought there might be), you decided to continue posting and even called for there to be a rebellion. There's a word for the type of behavior you've exhibited over the past 48 hours; Narcissism.

Seriously, grow up, or you'll be visiting the my little ponies website for a very long time.


Thread locked.

How old are you guys?? I am 12, but I don't see many 10-13 people playing wesnoth.

Thank God.

For now, I'll be a bit more assertive on this forum. *cracks knuckles* The burning of noobs at the stake will commence at 15:00 GMT.

No. Locked.

Fabi

On some laptop the accelerometer, which is used to park the hard-drive in case of an accident is implemented as a 3 axes joystick device. This means you can play Wesnoth by smashing the laptop against a wall. (not recommended)

Turin

It's not my fault if I think deep and weighty thoughts and you think stupid and immature thoughts.

That doesn't change the fact that you are an ass.

I like how your basic argument against people arguing about it is calling them whiners. Very mature.

Zookeeper

So, are you saying I can't make a wiki account? That is terrible.

Actually no, that's not terrible at all.

Anonymissimus

Actually no, that's not terrible at all.

The purpose of the confirmation code is to prevent spam. Thus it's working correctly in blocking you.

Cuyo Quiz

1. Get two of Turin. 2. Put them to argue thereby setting up a perpetual motion machine. 3. ??? 4. Profit!

Diplomacy, laziness, black budget conspiracy to travel through time and space and get the genius of Turin for their own dark, evil means on a convoluted attempt to accomplish the ultimate creation of a Nazgûl army and finally bring the Ragnarök upon us by provoking his ascension to the divine plane as the Doom Master, and by Doom Master I mean master of the Doom game.

... people can fling poo until Doomsday comes. Or Dubh.

POSTCOUNTS! POOOOOSTCOUNTS!

Elvish Pillager

Like a lot of other things I've talked about, our society thinks this is really important, but can't figure out what it means!

... go find a buzzer so that you can make an annoying buzzing sound to mark your incorrect answer.

Darth Fool

For one thing, it shows a lack of imagination. Surely with all the talent in Wesnoth we can come up with a better phrase. Well, we probably can, but not without starting another holy war on the order of what to call the drake faction.

I am afraid that you are out of luck. All such knowledge was lost after the battle of Haral-Matlak when the Great Archives were burned to the ground by Orcish raiders and the ruins inhabited by a lich of great power. Alas, for there are no heros left who dare challenge his evil might and all knowledge of yore is lost.

Rhuvaen

The devs though have very little time to be on the MP server due to complicated embalming procedures they constantly have to undergo, as I understand.

Ken Oh

What a great story.

Megane

Well, they were going to yell "For the Swarm," but that was taken, so they hired a PR firm to come up with a new slogan. In fact, Black Eye rose to power with his highly effective campaign drive, "Black Eye in '08: No Child Not Fed to a Wolf."

Mmm, spearman.

Kestenvarn

Oh, god. Strike down these witless heathens and their pointless acronyms that do not belong on a bulletin board. Faram.

Blarumyrran

Ive already read it!!!! [a PM from Zookeeper]

we are all very proud of you.

training little sith from unsuspecting baptists....

oppression of free speech! have you no pity? i tell ya what we live like, the Big Brother is watching you! this aint no democracy! REAL MEN DONT LOCK NO THREADS!!!!1!!

OMGOMGOMG how can you decide to just lock threads of such high quality LOLOLOL!!!111!111! thread quality is R3LATIV3 to users opinion!

PLZ LOOK @ MY ABYSS ELVES! THEY ARE LIKE WOOD ELVES BUT HAVE COOL RECOLORED ROBES!!!!!!!! and yes skin color changed to cos i am still learning potatochop I HAVE GOT A REALLY COOL IDEA ANYWAY SOMEONE PLZPLZPLZ DO THE GRAPHICX! THX! they wud be special and intristing coz they would have ambush on cave walll terrian!

my logic is obviously so high that most people never reach it.

making sense was never my purpose.

as you might know, mage is both avestan and pre-avestan priest of persia, described in avesta as mainly being a caste of priests opposing zoroastrianism, showing that magi supporting zoroastrianism were rare at the time. this would also accord to red magi being more recruited/leveled in wesnoth, further implying them to be the pre-avestan magi, although this alone is of course not much of a proof; proof for what, you will see later. hence we may see the level 1 mage wearing a brown robe as a mage novice, (holding in his/her hand a scroll, which could be interpreted as a symbol of study and his/her current inexperience), thus a mage who has a choice. presuming a contact of wesnoth's magi with the historical persian magi, we may see a level 1 mage leveling up as a mage making his/her choice as to whether to accept zoroastrianism(which, by the way, simply had the former pantheon turned into "angels" and "demons" of Ahuramazda and Angra Mainyu), or retain former polytheism (the more conservative approach, obviously; reforms in state religion are rarely benefitial for the current priestly caste). back in wesnoth, we have white mage, and we have red mage. white mage is lawful, red mage is neutral. white mage has arcane damage, red mage has fire damage. now, we know level 1 mage had fire, not arcane damage, so obviously the more conservative approach would be to retain fire damage, similarly to the more conservative avestan magi approach being to retain their polytheism. on the same time, white mage has much less hp, implying loud and clear the fragility of the life of anyone daring to oppose the current religious system(compare to eg christian heretics like cathars, gnostics and protestants). then again, white mage has heal+8, symbolizing his/her appeal to the people, as people see in religious rebellion a solution to their anger towards all that is wrong with the current state of the country. white mage having an ankh suggest egyptian involvement; whether and how much was Zarathustra affected by egyptian religion, is unkown to me, however let us not forget that Amenhotep, an egyptian pharaoh who was most likely dead by zarathustra's time, was the first known ruler to replace polytheism with monotheism. so by now anyone should understand that red magi = conservatism = pre-avestan polytheistic magi, while white magi = liberalism/reformatory forces = avestan magi. and does it make sense that conservative is neutral, while reformatory is lawful? shouldnt it be the other way round? maybe. but let us, once again, look at later european history, as the developers of wesnoth (and thus implementors of the wesnothian magi) have probably almost all got some roots in medieval europe. especially lets concentrate on Dave, who probably was the one to create wesnothian magi. a christian (as i believe was said in an OT religion thread, now pruned), and an american (==> from europe, unless a negroid; and lets not think of the chance of Dave being from africa since it would ruin my beautiful logic here). american christians are, as we all know, almost wholly protestants. and when did protestantism rise? what was the event called? REFORMATION. once some protestants emigrated to america, the foundation of the society and _law_ was obviously affected by the religion and its history of being reformatory. meanwhile, the conservative red magi are neutral, because before Zarathustra did his reforms, the mage caste was not very organized, as polythistic systems often tend to be (due to in each city being a specific deity receiving more dedication than others). so they cant be lawful. on the same time, red magi cannot also also be chaotic, because priests were, and have been throughout most of th human history, a ruling class, justifing their power with their purported communication(not necessarily verbal) to divine beings. a chaotic ruler would mean an anarchy and generic lack of any kind of high civilization, which would conflict with the advanced state of the persian cities.

so there. proved. red magi = neutral; white magi = lawful.

OR

its just gameplay reasons.

Glowing Fish

A few months ago, I was playing Caves of the Basilisk (I wanted to play on Age of Heroes, but the other player said that was "too noobish") and they asked me what all the statues were doing. Since he had proclaimed himself an old-timer at Wesnoth, I replied that they came alive and attacked random units. He believed me.

Joshudson

TypeMismatchException unhandled in brain

Raemon

I'm developing a campaign called The Fall of Wesnoth which is a prequel to Under the Burning Suns. It depicts how Wesnoth became a dessert and the civilizations fell apart.

"And lo! the lands became filled with cake and icing, while whipped cream fell from the skies in a furious deluge that threatened to drown all man! And ye, the factions, the cultures, the civilisations did fight between each other and amongst themselves to reap the benefits of — and escape — this wonder as had not been seen before. But then, did the great behemoth known to us only as the Iced Creame Ball fall from the Heavens, and laid desolate all of Wesnoth. That is the story of how Wesnoth became this great Dessert."

All I could come up with on short notice.

Silence of Echo

Save a cow: eat a vegetarian.

Ebob

...Samus! *sigh*

(S)elfish Weirdo

By $DEITY!

(Actually, it should be "By $DEITY|!")

DDR

Then, the entire wesnoth computing network was destroyed in the apocalypse resulting from the fight. All the data was lost, and, as a consequence, the Wesnoth project was lost to history, remembered only in song and legend.

Five years later, the only book with a written history of Wesnoth was lost in a tragic accident involving a rabbit.

Friar Tuck

I really like this discussion about how an orc could swear in a politically correct way.

Copschompinjs

I have long considered the psychology of the mage to be one of the most intriguing enigmas within Battle for Wesnoth. Being a scholar as well as a person of good taste in entertainment, you have no doubt noticed that most units stay the same alignment no matter how they are leveled. A horseman will be lawful even as a grand knight or paladin, an elf will be neutral, and an orc will always be chaotic. The mage, however, begins life as a law-abiding greenhorn, but advances to become either a lawful white mage or a neutral red mage! Given the rarity of the alignment shift, it is natural, then, for one to wonder what might be its genesis.

In investigating the psychology of the mage, it is natural to ask what it is that separates the alignment-shifting mage from the dyed-in-the-wool units. I think the most likely explanation is that the mage is an intellectual, whereas most of the units are trained warriors. Dwarvish fighters, elvish archers, walking dead, these guys are here to rock and roll. War is what they do and they do it well. The mage? Just graduated from Hogwarts, never seen blood in his life, much less a body, and still misses his mommy. Completely mentally unprepared for the rigor and horror of combat. Imagine what this tenderfooted innocent goes through when the enemy lays the charge down and those big numbers start floating up above the heads of the guys who are supposed to keep him safe behind the lines. Just as the British wore red coats to hide the blood, the mage has brown robes for a reason.

So what effect does this enforced coming of age have on our budding magus? This, I believe, is the fork in the road that separates the lawful white from the neutral red mage. The white mage sees his comrades under attack and is struck with a desire to help them, to shore up the system that keeps him safe. In short, he wants to do his part to keep things as they should be. Hence he goes forth, heals his friends, and smites the undead. The red mage, I fear, has staked a darker territory. The sight of his fallen friends fills him with an insatiable thirst for revenge. Law and order cease to be important to him, cast aside by his all-consuming need to exact vengeance upon those who have done him wrong. He rises above (or sinks below) order and chaos, devoted only to destruction. He devotes his life to harnessing more and more destructive eldritch energies, eventually becoming an elder mage and laying waste to vast swathes of countryside.

So, there you have it. The long-buried secret of why the red mage becomes neutral has been revealed. Hopefully now that the secret is out in the open the red magi will admit they need help and start seeking counseling for their pain.

This was Copschompinjs's first and only post. It was probably the sheer length of his/her/its/their first post that so drained him/her/it/them that he/she/it/they never posted again.

Sapient

You have been banned. Press any key to send an automatically generated complaint about Noy to the User Forum. Your hard drive will be reformatted in 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7...

All must be cleansed. Prepare yourself.

Jetrel

Ah, wherefore art thine flatfoot?

As with most other things in Wesnoth, I'm pretty sure we just pulled it out of our ass. There's no sense, story, or meaning. Cripes, Muff just sounds... cuddly, rather than scary. It sounds like a muppet, or a teddy bear or something.

... silly groups like Debian can include it in their repositories without sinning against their religion.

Thespaceinvader

Swing set.

I defend my inane non-sequiteur to the last.

@Obnoxiousman: You may have been joking. It didn't seem like it. Please, do not live up to your username anymore, or you will swiftly find yourself as Bannedman.

Good forums are sometimes popular, but more often than not, popular forums are freaking hellholes. What that says about human nature, I'll leave to your capable imaginations.

It would be a much more honest name if the S and the L were duplicated.

So, on that note, this thread has been subjected to the judgement of the moderator, and delivered unto the locknd circle of hell for its transgressions.

Gambit

Banning you would make a great April Fools' joke some year.

I feel I should point out that you have no rights. This is a private forum. That was a private multiplayer server. It all belongs to Wesnoth. You don't have a right to freedom of speech. You don't have a right to play on the server. You certainly don't have the right to continue to interrupt this good thread with your dirty laundry.

Just ignore religious fundamentalism (of any religion). It will go away. We certainly don't want to start a fight over it. Then I'd have to lock this lovely thread.

Thou ought not do stuff thou already knowest is wrong, like killing, lying, cheating, stealing, etc. Dost thou really need these carved into a rock?

Judge not, for verily it be not thine job neither most likely to be thine business.

Thou shalt be amused rather than angered by the words and deeds of idiots; for I am thy Noodly Lord and I have created idiots solely for entertainment purposes, Mine first and thine likewise.

... the good people get vacuumed up into the sky ...

Yes. When someone is asking you questions so that they can help you better, it means that the defecation has hit the oscillation and all hope is lost. Please start reading more thoroughly. I think you would have less problems.

Also...
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 60#p414861
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 27#p447685

Zerovirus

...if smiley faces were runes of arcane and mystical power the world would be in some big trouble.

How do I shot web? How do I mine for fish?

...Red Fruitbushes!

What, were you dreaming about magic knifes and, I don't know, you discovered the Universal Equation of Knife-Stabbiness Equivalence in a subconscious epiphany?

Why is the fridge splattered with blood?

Some Wesnothians believe that Saurians are asexual and reproduce by budding, although more informed scholars hold this view to be inaccurate.

WTH?

Background: Defaldor was a mage who zapped baddies. One day he found a baby and called him Konrad. Then he followed him around zapping Baddies.

I suppose it's technically true...

Shadowkiller

I seriously think my computer is getting back at me for putting the CPU in the oven.

Boru

What does this icon/button mean? I've never seen it before.

It means: "the butter has slid off your toast and almost entirely off the plate."

There's definitely some cruel moments in the Create A Hero thread (what else could telling the guy he deserves an art contributor tag be?). Having said that, I enjoy the thread because the cruelty seems to bounce off Zigg like bullets off Superman's chest. He reacts with total grace and none of the negativity can hurt him. He explains early on that he wants practice. He gets what he wants, a few people give him criticism and he listens and makes some improvements. He is the winner, and anyone who wanted to bring him down is the loser.

Captain Wrathbow

So a spearman and a cavalryman are walking along a path. Naturally, the cavalryman is faster, so he gets ahead, and he finds a river crossing the path. He yells back to the spearman, "Hey, I found a river!" The spearman asks, "What's on the other side?" The cavalryman answers, "I can't see across, it's too deep!"

Arcane cow!

Hulavuta

The server has a lot of "not-good" people. I once played a match with Zerovirus on my team, and one guy left because he was really bad and his partner left because he said that his partner had already screwed the whole match for them. So I droided both sides, and the droids were better.

Moribund

Besides, if you start caring too much about gender discrimination, then racism will be a factor (uh, who says all races can't love each other equally? That's racism!) and then you will only have one big happy faction where there are no attacks and everyone just watches Oprah. Equally.

Midnight Carnival

Aaah, threads like these reveal more to me about human nature than about nature nature. Raise a topic like this and you will find people mostly divided into two groups: those who seek to explain all the magic away and those who only want to sit back and watch the show. ...find the guy who can watch the show in near religious awe and still want to understand it without diminishing the wonder, in fact understanding it makes it more wonderful, that's your Archmage. A lot of people want to pretend that's them right there, but actually they are really just either bowing and groveling to something they can't control and feel that they can't understand. Others say that they find it even more wonderful when they understand it properly, but actually they are afraid and hiding under their beds, listening to silly stories somebody told them about charged atmospheric particles so that they don't feel so scared. As for Zero, he just scares me, he finds it all ironic... but me, I'm still watching the people watching the storm, overwhelming forces that I can't hope to control just are, understanding and acceptance are not necessary thought they could be fun, but it's the people who are interesting to me.

I am disgusted with the atitude of the moderators on this forum. All I was trying to do was have a mature discussion about religion and delusion on Off-Topic, that's not a crime last time I checked! Of course I will defend points I have made, it just shows how insecure some people are in their beliefs, and the abortion issue was a natural development of the conversation. It's becasue I'm black isn't it?

Sir Koi

... you probably eat breakfast with your feet

Luckyfish

These laptops will have a label on the bottom that says "This laptop is refurbished and contains used parts," which means that the laptop is refurbished and contains used parts.

From Off-Topic > The Game

By losing the game, you lose at life. I won. I changed the rules. You can do that. Ain't no rule says you can't.

It's funny (sad) how games like these still go about without dying out. I was 14 when I first heard about it, through the Internet, told by a Canadian girl who thought it was funny and clever and whatnot. I had never heard of anything similar going on in Scandinavia/Nordic areas in general, and still haven't, which I guess I should be proud of. Which leads me to a mental image of a season of winter darkness, when the sun barely rises above the horizon for just a couple of hours, without even a hint of giving out the slightest bit of warmth. It would have been the last drop for the northern mental institutions if people would have been sadomasochistic enough back in the day to travel miles to get to each others' households, their beard and hair covered in covered in hoarfrost and announce that "they hast lost."

Excuse me, I see a problem in your sentence. You described the game as "fun." The game is not fun. The game in fact is something of a psychological antithesis to fun that is designed to interrupt your conceptions of fun. Also, the game sucks.

Personally I advise you to ignore people making up silly games which you can't win. Only thing sadder is people making up silly games that only they can win... but it's called "socializing" or something... you kind of get into trouble if you don't humor them at least once in a while.

From Forum Games > Word Association

Parasite.

Gambit.

Sexy unicorns.

So that's what you think of when you think of yourself? Lunatics.

Other threads I found at least somewhat humorous or otherwise of interest

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17515
(More to come. Maybe.)

edit6 : Where is everybody? It's been five days since anyone but me posted here. ...Is this thread dead? If so, I hope this doesn't count as necromancy....

edit7 : Gambit has replaced Shadowmaster as Forum Lord.

edit8 : I just realized what day it is. The above may be a joke.

edit9 : Presumably in relation to the above, Gambit has changed his tie. He's done this a few times before, but I don't remember the circumstances.

edit10 : So it was a joke. Better than banning Noy.

edit11 : I'll attempt to compile past April Fools' jokes here: 2010 · 2010 · 2011 · 2011

edit12 : If the AIs ever attack again and you want to know what they're saying without having to use Shadowmaster's Perl snippets, here's the translator that Zarel tried to link to during the AI Invasion of 2010.