Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?



  • @Eternal Density said:

    @HannahRochelle said:

    raping of the English language without a legit reason bugs the hell out of me.
    It doesn't sit right with me, and I usually respond by cryptically poking fun at it, which just confuses people.  IRL, I mean.  I hope I'm not becoming a Swampy.

     O NOES, TEH INHOOMANITEH!

    (entirely sarcastic, I assure you.)



  • @HannahRochelle said:

    @Eternal Density said:

    @HannahRochelle said:

    If they're LOCAL aliens, they're not aliens at all.
    Beat me to it :(  I was just gonna say that 'local alien' is an oxymoron, but you did a much better job.

    Now I'm trying to figure out if Spectate is intended as a noun, a verb, or as an adjective. 

    It was 5.30am when I posted, and I'd just woken up. I am amazed I was coherent.

    ...But then again, raping of the English language without a legit reason bugs the hell out of me. And I couldnt figure out which he meant it as.

    Concerning the origin of "Spectate Swamp", Swampy has mentioned it came to him in a dream:

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7593/144779.aspx#144779 

    In the dream. Somebody said "The Guys down at Spectate Swamp really know what is going on" So I wanted to be part of that group. Why not
     

    So I guess he is either using "spectate" as a noun ("noun-as-adjective" or proper name) or an adjective.  Of course, "spectate" is neither of those things, naturally.



  • @CodeSimian said:

    Swampy has mentioned it came to him in a dream
    Yes, I read that.  I'm trying to understnad what it actually means though.  Perhaps it's a swamp that watches people?  Maybe that's where the aliens come from?  Like, it's an interdimensional portal.



  • @CodeSimian said:

    So I guess he is either using "spectate" as a noun (<FONT color=#698d73>"noun-as-adjective"</FONT> or proper name) or an adjective.  Of course, "spectate" is neither of those things, naturally.

    **head explodes**



  • @Eternal Density said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    Swampy has mentioned it came to him in a dream
    Yes, I read that.  I'm trying to understnad what it actually means though.  Perhaps it's a swamp that watches people?  Maybe that's where the aliens come from?  Like, it's an interdimensional portal.

    It actually be interpreted both ways. "For millennia, the Humankind had been watching the Swamp; now, the Swamp was watching the Humankind"?

    I'm not really the right person to criticise Swampy's choice of nickname, as everyone pokes fun at my choice of one (and my real name too). I think Swampy's choice was... well, at least it was an interesting way of choosing the name. Taking fascinating-sounding names from dreams has long and glorious traditions, unlike my method of "what the hell, let's just use this one". =)



  • 3 fastest keys

     

    That last great 175mb alien video just doesn't want to work properly on archive.org. Maybe there was a tattle tail or two warning them about the misuse?  I'll have to find another place to put the original videos. Anyway the 92 jpg pictures of the tiny flyer hooking up with the Cloaked object are at:

     Play them at high speed using SSDS and you'll see the sneaky sneaks.

    A greater alien videoer I never knew. What a camera guy. Who has more Aliens. Just think if everybody started hunting aliens. We would probably wipe them out. Then again forget the hunt stuff.

    On repeat keys. The 3 fastest keys in data entry are "j" "k" "l" use them. People will appreciate it.

     

     

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    On repeat keys. The 3 fastest keys in data entry are "j" "k" "l" use them. People will appreciate it.
     

    JKJK LLLL?  LLLJKJJJ KJJK JJJJJJ. KKKKKKKKKJJJ K. KKK JJL! LLL L LLLLL LLLL LLLLL!!!!

    You are so right, Spectate!  How could I have doubted you? 


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    The 3 fastest keys in data entry are "j" "k" "l" use them. People will appreciate it.
     

    But the L is nowhere near the J and K keys

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    That last great 175mb alien video just doesn't want to work properly on archive.org.
    I would blame you rather than the video.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Maybe there was a tattle tail or two warning them about the misuse?
    They are probably astute enough to spot the misuse themselves.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Play them at high speed using SSDS and you'll see the sneaky sneaks.
    If they are meant to be played at high speed why notuse a video? If they are meant to be seen as a series of individual frames use photos. You seem to love doing everything the wrong way round and causing extra work and effort.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    On repeat keys. The 3 fastest keys in data entry are "j" "k" "l" use them. People will appreciate it.
    You are the only person who uses repeat keys like this. Most of us just use sensible keystrokes or type at an acceptable rate anyway.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    That last great 175mb alien video just doesn't want to work properly on archive.org. Maybe there was a tattle tail or two warning them about the misuse?

    I can't make up my mind on whether or not Spectate is the best or worst conspiracy theorist ever, but he certainly can spin everything into Potentially Someone Else's Problem, And If Not, Controversy Must Be Preached.

    However, take heed, Swampy... the ordinary people will probably remember the Golden Rule of Posting Video Online: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by bugs in ffmpeg.

    Archive.org is not an easy site to comprehend, even for people with perfectly ordinary, or even extraordinary, mental faculties. If your video doesn't work, it's entirely possible that they screwed up (they have plenty of hideously complicated automated processes), or you screwed up (or failed to limit the damage by fixing up your mistakes). The video derivation can be damn slow, and it doesn't work if the files you uploaded are incorrectly identified. (And if you don't know what "derivation" means in context of arhive.org, hoo boy, aren't you in for a surprise...)

    For example, it took me hours to get my short video up there. Archive.org identified the file as Vorbis and I had to manually set it to Theora. The queued ops took hell of a long time...

    [And by the way, OS X users - the link below also now has a GarageBand project file. (For 2.x or later, also seems to work on GarageBand 1.x, but you have to set new instruments for all channels. Sorry, I haven't checked if it works on later versions, but I can't see why not.) I think I'll go fix one of my screwups now - extra dot in a filename.]

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    I'll have to find another place to put the original videos.

    MySpace?

    (I know, fate not wished upon anybody, but there's a chance even Swampy can learn to use it.)



  • @WWWWolf said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    I'll have to find another place to put the original videos.

    MySpace?

    <font size=3>NONONONONONONO. NO. We DO NOT WANT a SpectateSwamp-created MySpace page. BAD.</font>


  • @rc_pinchey said:

    NONONONONONONO. NO. We DO NOT WANT a SpectateSwamp-created MySpace page. BAD.

    Why not? It is a swamp already.



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    @rc_pinchey said:
    NONONONONONONO. NO. We DO NOT WANT a SpectateSwamp-created MySpace page. BAD.
    Why not? It is a swamp already.

    Agreed - I think that the worst Swampy could come up with would still be far better than the average MySpace page. I tend to want to gouge my eyes out if I accidentally end up on a MySpace page, and none of Swampy's pages have made me want to do that. (OK, source.txt came close...)



  • @aleph said:

    MySpace page
     

    I agree. This would be a better place for SpectateSwamp.

     

    Pollute some other site!



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    <font size="3">NONONONONONONO. NO. We DO NOT WANT a SpectateSwamp-created MySpace page. BAD.</font>
     

    Sure we do. His presence there will only serve to hammer the "This place is so uncool" nail into the skulls of the all the sub-zero IQ kids/tweens/teens who still think MySpace is cool. They'll leave in droves, MySpace will die, and the world's biggest shrine to horrible page design will die and vanish. 



  • @MarcB said:

    die and vanish. 

    Speaking of letting something die and vanish....



  •  TRWTF is judging from the sidebar page, this thread appears to be locked , but in reality, only MPS's last 2 posts are locked...




  • @CodeSimian said:

     TRWTF is judging from the sidebar page, this thread appears to be locked , but in reality, only MPS's last 2 posts are locked...


    I don't understand why anyone made MPS a moderator in the first place, but at least he hasn't figured out how to use the lock correctly yet.



  • @CodeSimian said:

     TRWTF is judging from the sidebar page, this thread appears to be locked , but in reality, only MPS's last 2 posts are locked...

    TRWTF is I didn't realize MPS obviously used the "disallow replies" option for his post....

    EDIT: Damnit, bstorer, you mocked me before I could correct myself! 



  •  TRWTF is the forum software....  (Let's just say that toggling a certain option whilst editing a post does not cause a certain thread icon to be used on the forum topic list.)



  •  Right 23 ... Left 19 ... Right 33

    ~click

     

    Hmmm ... 



  • @medialint said:

     Right 23 ... Left 19 ... Right 33

    ~click

     

    Hmmm ... 

    Could've fooled me....


  • @MarcB said:

    @rc_pinchey said:

    <font size="3">NONONONONONONO. NO. We DO NOT WANT a SpectateSwamp-created MySpace page. BAD.</font>
     

    Sure we do. His presence there will only serve to hammer the "This place is so uncool" nail into the skulls of the all the sub-zero IQ kids/tweens/teens who still think MySpace is cool. They'll leave in droves, MySpace will die, and the world's biggest shrine to horrible page design will die and vanish. 

     

    Bah. It will somehow backfire and they will make him their king. And "Tom" will start taking tips from him. 



  • <font color="#dd0000" size="7">Thread closed due to AIDS.</font>



  • Re: closed on account of AIDS

     Artificial Intelligence Denial of Service attack I guess though the intelligence is dubious



  • Ehehe. Capturing local aliens



  • @elgate said:

    Ehehe.

    [pic]

     

    Hehe, Spectate has stone boobies.



  •  What's with all the locked threads?  And this one was locked a couple of hours ago and now its unlocked.  WTF?



  • We unlocked its soul.  With Python. 



  • @Summer.Glau said:

     What's with all the locked threads?  And this one was locked a couple of hours ago and now its unlocked.  WTF?

     

    We used SSDS. Obviously.



  • @Summer.Glau said:

     What's with all the locked threads?  And this one was locked a couple of hours ago and now its unlocked.  WTF?

    Face it, some mysteries just aren't meant to be solved....


  • @elgate said:

    Ehehe.

    <awesome composite pic>

    Spectacular!



  •  If only we could somehow convince people the thread was locked; maybe Spectate would stop posting....



  • @AbbydonKrafts said:

    Spectacular!
    Spectatular, even.



  • @Eternal Density said:

    @AbbydonKrafts said:
    Spectacular!
    Spectatular, even.

    Spatula?



  • Spectate must have cursed the Community Server devs so that no-one could lock him out against his will.

    Bow down before the power of the stones. 



  • @Physics Phil said:

    Spectate must have cursed the Community Server devs so that no-one could lock him out against his will.

     

    Of course I could lock this thread and Alex could ban Swampy, but that probably wouldn't keep him from starting a new thread resp. registering with another user name.

    Anyway, since he is only active in this particular thread, which contains no useful information whatsoever, I think it's best to keep it like it is. This thread exists so people can waste their time with Swampy. Enter at your own risk. No moderation, except for extreme cases.



  • @ammoQ said:

    I could lock this thread
     

    So can I!



  • It might be time for a curse

    SpectateSwamp, I wish to draw your attention to the following:

    http://www.microsoft.com/SSDS




    This is Microsoft's newly-launched SSDS- yes, that's right, Microsoft are flagrantly breaching Swampy's copyright!




    If ANYTHING deserves a curse, it's this. Video, please!



  •  @rc_pinchey said:

    SpectateSwamp,

    It is over.... let it go.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @rc_pinchey said:
    SpectateSwamp

    It is over.... let it go.


    I'm still holding out for that curse video. I know he's lost the plot completely, and I know we're all tired and we all want this to end, but wouldn't it be better to go out with a bang rather than a whimper? Think of it: SpectateSwamp, in full ceremonial dress, dancing the Evil of Microsoft away with his medicine stones in hand, the air ripe with tension and ganja smoke. "Majestic" doesn't even begin to describe it.



  •  @rc_pinchey said:

    I'm still holding out for that curse video

    Oh well.



  • @ammoQ said:

    Anyway, since he is only active in this particular thread, which contains no useful information whatsoever, I think it's best to keep it like it is. This thread exists so people can waste their time with Swampy. Enter at your own risk. No moderation, except for extreme cases.

    No useful information whatsoever? I thought the thread has become quite educational for the errant souls who are about to wade in the swamp of unstructured VB 5, silly home video editing methods and alien-conspiracy rhetoric. Specifically, it makes a good point that people should avoid that crap. =)

    But aside of that little bit, I definitely agree - it's best to leave the weird thread as is. Then only remaining problem is that Swampy isn't being funny any more, especially not about IT. Alien screen grabs are boring - SSDS, any day...

    So - O Man of the Swamp, hashed cripted [sic] be thy name, couldst thou please stop stoning things and verily malleting thy intruders, and enlighten us mere groundlings, who avoid thy hardcoded path strings - what, we beseech thee, is the True Purpose of Line 1273?...



  • @ammoQ said:

    Anyway, since he is only active in this particular thread, which contains no useful information whatsoever, I think it's best to keep it like it is.

    You don't think the end of the world and lurking alien motherships are useful to know about?!?



  • @bstorer said:

    @ammoQ said:
    Anyway, since he is only active in this particular thread, which contains no useful information whatsoever, I think it's best to keep it like it is.

    You don't think the end of the world and lurking alien motherships are useful to know about?!?

     

    Shit! It was the basis of a whole new site!



  • Medicine stone TV video - Lots and lots

    @rc_pinchey said:

    I'm still holding out for that curse video. I know he's lost the plot completely, and I know we're all tired and we all want this to end, but wouldn't it be better to go out with a bang rather than a whimper? Think of it: SpectateSwamp, in full ceremonial dress, dancing the Evil of Microsoft away with his medicine stones in hand, the air ripe with tension and ganja smoke. "Majestic" doesn't even begin to describe it.
    There are some of those dance videos kicking about. At CFRN tv and BCTV and CBC tv Maybe I can get them to post a copy to their archive sites? Otherwise they would be cursed for sure. Don't take chances with Medicine Stones. Not worth it.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    There are some of those dance videos kicking about
     

    Thread Locked. We dont need to see you dacing asshole.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @rc_pinchey said:

    I'm still holding out for that curse video. I know he's lost the plot completely, and I know we're all tired and we all want this to end, but wouldn't it be better to go out with a bang rather than a whimper? Think of it: SpectateSwamp, in full ceremonial dress, dancing the Evil of Microsoft away with his medicine stones in hand, the air ripe with tension and ganja smoke. "Majestic" doesn't even begin to describe it.
    There are some of those dance videos kicking about. At CFRN tv and BCTV and CBC tv Maybe I can get them to post a copy to their archive sites? Otherwise they would be cursed for sure. Don't take chances with Medicine Stones. Not worth it.

    You are a goddamn moron.


  • @HannahRochelle said:

    You are a goddamn moron.

    You forgot to lock the thread. FTFY.



  • Bots We got Bots

    Just as I thought. A dead end site with a bunch of Bots to distract me. SSDS is just that important. They want to keep it quiet. 2100 replies here and 2511 on the other post. This is not human.


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