I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything. (no longer answering questions)
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I am @Fox's sock puppet.
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I am @sockbot's sock puppet.
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Which one?
New Yorker? Jersey? Southern? Mid-Western?
The stereotypical one that they do on the BBC to make fun of Americans.
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Continuing on from a previous question from @DogsB: Why do you only do programming as a job now and not also as a hobby?
I never said that.
I said I don't "live and breathe code".
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Question: is there a story behind the name "blakeyrat", or did it simply pop into your mind?
There is a story behind it, but not a very good or interesting one.
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There is a story behind it, but not a very good or interesting one.
I would be interested to hear it, FWIW.
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What's your favorite music genre and/or artist?
I wouldn't say I have a favorite (I hate arbitrary rankings like that), but I most often listen to classical.
My favorite composer is Beethoven. Then Gershwin I suppose.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Q3: When did Americans lose their British accent?
Trufax: I read an article that the linguistic consensus now is that the American accent is actually much closer to Shakespeare's English, and the divergence between American English and English English is more due to English English changing much quicker over time.
Also for a long time in both countries, the name of the sport was "Association Football", shortened to "soccer". Americans kept "soccer" while the British changed to "football".
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Then why is it whenever there's a movie done set in (nebulous whenever) "the past", everyone talks with British accepts (for some raisin).
That's not true at all.
@Lorne_Kates said:
1920-late 30s - Everyone talks like a gangsta or flappa, y'see?1940s-1950s - Everyone talks in uptight warhero toughguy, or breathless heronie diva1960s-1970s - Everyone talks all mellow, you dig?1980s - Everyone is on cocaine and IS INTENSE!1990s-now - "modern"
This is the dumbest and most incorrect thing I've ever seen posted on this forum. Please go away.
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both countries
Americans
British
Why did you say "both countries" and then list two islands that contain multiple countries?
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@powerlord said:
Continuing on from a previous question from @DogsB: Why do you only do programming as a job now and not also as a hobby?
I never said that.
I said I don't "live and breathe code".
You stated that:
- games are really your only hobby
- you do coding as a Job. as opposed to a "cornerstone of your identity"
I extrapolated that you only do coding at work from those.
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This is the dumbest and most incorrect thing I've ever seen posted on this forum. Please go away.
- It is absolutely true when you watch movies. It's like directors have a brain disorder that makes them think "anything olde time == British accent". See also: Les Miz, set in France, starring Americans, with an English accent
- You said you'd insult my mother. You are a liar.
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Your mother smelt of your father, and your father smelt of elderberries!
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"You just kicked a hornet's nest"?
What's the swedish title for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"? Apparently it's "Luftslottet som Sprängdes" which translates as "The Air Castle that was Blown Up", but I don't think that really makes sense. It describes the plot better I think.
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What is your stance on erotic Star Trek fanfiction?
What's your stance on officially licensed Star Trek / X-Men fanfic?
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Do you read many technical books in your spare time?
If so how much time do you dedicate to it?
Do you vote?
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Why did you say "both countries" and then list two islands that contain multiple countries?
To spite you.
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What's the swedish title for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"?
I have no idea. And stop asking me these.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
What's your stance on officially licensed Star Trek / X-Men fanfic?
I saw a few pages of that. It was a stupid implementation of a stupid idea.
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Do you read many technical books in your spare time?
None.
If so how much time do you dedicate to it?
Zero.
Do you vote?
Not on Discourse polls.
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Wasn't in reply :P
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Which one?
New Yorker? Jersey? Southern? Mid-Western?
I think what we think of as a "normal" American accent is Midwestern. New York and southern tend to be more recognisable but all American accents are closer to each other than to any British accent
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Basically, we're still moving on and you're stuck in the past.
If the alternative is the mushmouthed thing you modern-day people call an accent, I'm OK with that.
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The only correct answer to this question is Jenkem, duh.
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But seriously, what is actually going on in your avatar?
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Steam early access. The wave to the future or a pile of steaming horseshit?
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Steam early access. The wave to the future or a pile of steaming horseshit?
The future is a pile of steaming horseshit, so I have no way of answering this question.
There's no such thing anymore as "quality", "testing", "actually finishing a product before delivering it to its users". Thanks, open source. Your extremely shitty, yet inexplicably popular, development philosophy is ruining literally everything software.
Early Access is one of those annoying concepts because while it can help some developers who are genuinely working towards and end product (think: Kerbal Space Program), for every one of them there's 5 others who have no intention of finishing shit, but just want to rake-in the dough.
Frankly, it should work more like kickstarter, where if your Early Access game goes more than 3 months with no update, the purchasers are refunded, and the refund gets billed to the developer.
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Why do you hate opensource?
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An image of what
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Internetpointzzz
Did you copy-paste the occurrences of that word with keyboard shortcuts while composing that post?
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There's no such thing anymore as "quality", "testing", "actually finishing a product before delivering it to its users". Thanks, open source. Your extremely shitty, yet inexplicably popular, development philosophy is ruining literally everything software.
Thank broadband instead.
Once everyone was on the Internet all the time, stuff like public betas, constant patches, worthless DLC-s, microtransactions and early access was bound to happen.
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New questions:
Of all the copycat AMA threads, which one is the best?
The worst?
Which one would you like to see?
Are you glad you started this avalanche?
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Most Starbucks drinks (including the one I order) are way too sweet for me.
I get vanilla cappuccino rather than latte, but get an extra shot of coffee in to offset the sweetness.
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What thing do you like most about Discourse?
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You'll be pleased to know that despite being opensource Discourse is developed using a solid methodology.
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Well yes, but I'm curious about what the deal is with his eyes, specifically. And how he got radioactive drool.
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Photoshop.
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Well yes, but I'm curious about what the deal is with his eyes, specifically. And how he got radioactive drool.
It.
Is not.
Real.
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DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
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So? Someone took the time to make it, presumably based on a description he took the time to come up with, so I'm curious what it is. Just because it isn't a photograph doesn't mean it isn't interesting.