Say something totally random!

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

So I got three different skillcapes over the course of a few days, and it's looking like it's gonna be four.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Keep wondering if I should go back to Runescape or just accept I won't, and stop paying for membership

[Cwanky 17,455]

15 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Keep wondering if I should go back to Runescape or just accept I won't, and stop paying for membership

I have and always will be f2p for life. A year ago I got my 99 Smithing. It was well worth the effort.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

16 minutes ago, Cwanky said:

I have and always will be f2p for life. A year ago I got my 99 Smithing. It was well worth the effort.

Well, there are member-only skills and a much larger map. Given when I signed up it was cheap (£3-20/month) it seemed worth it for the extended game, and of course if I were F2P they would have deleted my account by now for inactivity

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

I just got 99 cooking last night. 

[Treeglow Flicker 13,015]

The only way to cure the compulsive lying of a politician is to feed it 10,000 urinal cakes.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Not sure it would be a cure, but it sure would be entertaining

[Cwanky 17,455]

Bones are for burying. 

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Wouldn't Spock raise his eyebrow at you for that?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

So how much experience is slaying an orange dragon?

[CypherHoof 26,479]

5 minutes ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

So how much experience is slaying an orange dragon?

Don't recall an orange one. I used to snipe the black ones with kebbit bolts though, and harvest the hides

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

Just now, CypherHoof said:

Don't recall an orange one. I used to snipe the black ones with kebbit bolts though, and harvest the hides

I was talking about Smolder.

Did you know there's an Ocellus in Runescape? And a Starlight?

[CypherHoof 26,479]

1 minute ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

I was talking about Smolder.

I am assuming Ocellus would get really intense if you tried to slay Smolder.

1 minute ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

Did you know there's an Ocellus in Runescape? And a Starlight?

No, I didn't, but I haven't played in years.

[Cwanky 17,455]

15 minutes ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

So how much experience is slaying an orange dragon?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

Alternate caption: you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about.

Oh yeah, and I found a way to keep this from having a delta (I call it a discrepancy) of any nonzero number. It's hella complicated.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Populations must be managed, I guess....

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

31 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Populations must be managed, I guess....

I used to have that be a part of a much more complex program; basically it generates a simulated population based on a household count using real-life census data.

I then almost had it so there were demographics for subpopulations that also had to be generated and tallied.

What if I Markov Chain'd the whole poopulation?

Also, bug.

[Samurai Equine 45,848]

This buttles my chewing gum, and now I don't want any. 

[CypherHoof 26,479]

3 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

This buttles my chewing gum, and now I don't want any. 

fair enough, nothing worse than having your gum buttled.

[Cwanky 17,455]

Animal Crossing seems to have it pretty spot on. We’re all on our own little customized islands with our menagerie of personal friends to amuse us. 
 

Also, remember to sell your turnips before they rot.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

I feel like abandoning art on the basis that it makes me feel useless as an artist. That way, I can free up time to devote towards programming instead, something that is near impossible to understand to outsiders.

Because why care about the people who make something creative when it's the end product people care most about?

[CypherHoof 26,479]

2 minutes ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

I feel like abandoning art on the basis that it makes me feel useless as an artist. That way, I can free up time to devote towards programming instead, something that is near impossible to understand to outsiders.

Because why care about the people who make something creative when it's the end product people care most about?

Given you are *literally* posting on the site with a "Art Contest Winner: Canterlot Artist" banner on each post, I suspect you may just be going though another period of self-doubt

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,680]

17 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Given you are *literally* posting on the site with a "Art Contest Winner: Canterlot Artist" banner on each post, I suspect you may just be going though another period of self-doubt

And yet it continues to be the case where I take the time to explain something close to me only to have the explanation flat-out ignored.

All it does is prove the conjecture I have that people value the art more than anything about the artist.

At least in a super technical field, explanations to the user are not mandatory because good luck making them understand.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

6 minutes ago, Ganaram Inukshuk said:

And yet it continues to be the case where I take the time to explain something close to me only to have the explanation flat-out ignored. 

All it does is prove the conjecture I have that people value the art more than anything about the artist. 

It's a common problem; people make their own interpretations, and don't listen well.

On the other hand, the true skill of an artist is to convey meaning though art; any ambiguity should be by design, not by accident, and it should say what you want it to say. If people are misinterpretting your art, maybe they are only 50% to blame for that?

[Samurai Equine 45,848]

Frittata.

 

18 hours ago, CypherHoof said:

fair enough, nothing worse than having your gum buttled.

IKR? Thank goodness the mints were re-minted.