4161

Help me, Qt3! I’ve been racking my brain about this for weeks. A while ago I saw (maybe on Boing Boing) the most incredible Eastern European/Russian kids TV animation. It was astonishingly surreal and trippy and hallucinogenic and I’ve completely lost any links to it. I want to watch it again, just to make sure it wasn’t a fever dream.

It had… a sort of fairground in it, and a creeeepy monster guy with crazy legs. Did any of you guys see this? Do you have a youtube link?

4162

I would like to see them do a Fallout cake on that Food TV cake comeptition show.

4163

Yes, we do. Since 1984.

On a related note, w00t, front row for Herbie Hancock! Granted, it’s on the wing, but still…

4164

Hooray, we got rid of the extra pages!

Is that what the downtime earlier was?

This was probably announced in some thread I don’t actually read.

4165

Oh lord, aspie self-diagnosis to the rescue? I’ve been reading up on Aspergers over the weekend and while i have none of the more asocial Autistic-like idiosyncrasies do i ever have them otherwise. On reading about the common symptoms exhibited by kids with Aspergers, 3/4 of them seemed like pages ripped directly out of my childhood. Great. I can see from where the internet stereotype comes.

I’m honestly not certain what to do with this information, if there is any validity to it at all. It looms off on the horizon like an existential threat, like Global Warming or overpopulation, a plausibly accurate description of a kind of problem that offers no clear solution by it’s identification. There doesn’t appear to be any pattern of “treatment”, just CBT, and i’m utterly uninterested in claiming aspie-ism as some kind of personal identifier. It’s like reading a description of someone that has freckles; and yep, sure enough, i have freckles as well. Now what?

4166

Aspergers is like the whole WMDs in Iraq. Used as an excuse for asshole behavior, and turns out it never really existed anyway.

Don’t self-diagnose. You don’t have Asperger’s any more than you have lycanthropy.

4167

Next he’ll say he’s INTP.

4168

Actually, now my money’s on lycanthropy.

4169

Silly fools, werewolves don’t sparkle!

4170

I’ve known a few people with “Assburgers” and one person with Aspergers. All of them tabletop gamers.

The genuine case of Aspergers, a casual gaming aquaintance, is one of the nicest people I have the pleasure of knowing. After he talks to you a few times, and once he knows he’ll probably run into you occasionally, he’ll quietly tell you he has Aspergers. He tells you in laymans terms what it is, a barrier to him for social communication, and asks you to let him know if his behaviour ever gets out of hand. It never does. There’s only a few ways the Aspergers is really apparent, if he doesn’t understand a certain social construct, he’ll shake his head while wearing a weird smile. If he’s playing a game he’s new to or with vague rules, he can get really struck by analysis paralysis. And he runs a D&D campaign, where the characters have to be on the good axis, and he will not let them deviate from that simply because he doesn’t have ability to handle people talking about or implying they’re doing bad or evil things. The players in his game all rave about it, saying how it’s such epic do-goodery that their characters seem like they shine and glow. They occasionaly complain that they won’t let them do evil things.

4171

Every time my dad calls me to give me an update on my mom, he tells me the good news first (“She’s cured! Hooray!”) and then follows it up with news that really cancels the good out and makes things worse (“But then Mi Go absconded to Yuggoth with her brain!”) It’s like getting my news from Eeyore.

4172

Uhh, I’m seeing an extra page in this thread right now . . .

4173

I wasn’t seeing one when I posted that, but there it is. A ghostly 138.

4174

You mean 104. On the superior count!

4175

Bahimiron is apparently using the “tiny page” mode to display QT3. ;-)

I have to go to work in about 7 hours, which is 3AM local time. My plan is to just stay up and sleep tomorrow afternoon after I get off work. But unless I nap at some point that will mean about 24 hours between sleeping (I slept in as late as I could today). Not sure how this is going to work out. Luckily it’s a one-time thing.

4176

You’ll be fine. The walls start to bleed tapioca around hour 30 though, so watch out for that.

4177

I would suggest a powernap, but a 3am start sucks. Yeah, just skip the sleep. Been there, done that myself plenty of times.

4178

It’s not going to be fun. But it’ll do the trick.

4179

I don’t know why I’m thinking of this now, but suddenly I’m recalling a young family I met once at a gas station in Moncton. It was some years back, and I was washing windshields for a muscular dystrophy charity drive. A young, yet haggard-looking woman drove up in an ancient station wagon that appeared to be held together by string and good intentions, with two tykes in the back. The car had BC plates.

She declined a wash, having no money to donate, and went inside with the kids to the A&W on site. When they came out, they didn’t have takeout, as one would expect. Rather, the kids were sipping cream from those individual containers, using coffee stirs for straws.

It was one of the most heartbreaking scenes I’ve ever witnessed.

4180

I suppose this could go in the nerd rage thread, but blah, I hate people who overthink the differences between programming languages. Yes, you have to change the syntax, but objective-C isn’t THAT different from C++, they are both C based languages. Unless a piece of code is utilizing a feature super specific to the language, it’s not going to be that difficult to port something. Math is math, logic is logic. Hell going up to a higher level language tends to just make things easier.

/end rant.