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Does... does MissEchelon live on a farm or does she just have a chicken for a pet like people have pigs?
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Apr 30, 2013 15:53
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She lives "Down Under" IIRC. People down there are weird.  No offence, MissEchelon but you have spiders the size of dinner plates and everything seems to want you dead. I don't understand why anyone would want to live there and yet people still do. Maybe the chicken eats the spiders?
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Apr 30, 2013 16:01
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Cernunnos posted:Maybe the chicken eats the spiders? Strike that, reverse it.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:05
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Screw you guys, chickens make awesome pets. They mostly take care of themselves, and turn stupid bugs into delicious eggs. Let's see your dumb ol' cat do that. 
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Apr 30, 2013 16:36
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So on a subject other than the awesome netbattling chicken, I'm a little... confused, by Dex's dilemma. Does he mean that he's not able to do the homework without the info on the disk? Or if it actually contains all his work, doesn't that mean its done and all he'd have to do is hand it in the next day? Sorry, maybe I'm just missing something here.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:42
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Maybe it contains details on the assignment itself. The real question is why none of his friends just emails him the relevant information that they presumably would have on their own disks. But that would make too much sense.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:45
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My guess is that he's writing an essay or something and he only had it saved to that disk and didn't email it to himself like a sensible person and can't get the details from someone else because he already started and didn't wanna redo his work.
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Apr 30, 2013 16:55
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Maybe it was an assignment for history class which is why they're using disks in the first place~
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Apr 30, 2013 17:06
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Epee Em posted:I'm not giving MissEchelon a heckuva lot to say. Given that pictures are worth a thousand words, I think MissEchelon may actually be in the lead thanks to the fan art. Maybe the disks are a security/cheating precaution? Each student is given a procedurally generated set of questions, different from everyone else, so they can't share answers. To prevent some rear end in a top hat hacking a student's homework and changing the numbers, the homework is handled in the most secure way possible: offline.
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Apr 30, 2013 17:07
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NullBlack posted:Maybe the disks are a security/cheating precaution? Each student is given a procedurally generated set of questions, different from everyone else, so they can't share answers. To prevent some rear end in a top hat hacking a student's homework and changing the numbers, the homework is handled in the most secure way possible: offline. That explanation is far too sensible for this universe.
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Apr 30, 2013 17:13
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Didn't they do something like that in BN2, though?
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Apr 30, 2013 17:19
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Your Polish looks so regal MissEchelon. Also neckless.
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Apr 30, 2013 18:10
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I forgot how gung-ho the gang was when it came to breaking into their school. Especially Yai. I can sort of see the appeal though. I bet that chicken rocks the netbattle scene. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 18:17
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Epee Em posted:
I woke up my roommate's dog with my laughter. I wasn't expecting this.
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Apr 30, 2013 18:17
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Epee Em posted:
Hold, I think I've stopped laughing---wait, not yet. Okay. Phew. Anyway, as far as Disk-talk goes, I am a computer science major and this is the exact reason why I have a complicated system of Dropbox, Logmein, and my school's own student storage server so no matter what I can access anything I need from basically anywhere with an internet connection including my drat phone. Don't even need to use a flash-drive to carry things around anymore. Then again, Battle Network seems to exist in a pre-wi-fi universe, so it seems like Megaman can't just scurry on over to Lan's computer or the school and back to grab forgotten homework. That's probably because the school's servers seem to be like an isolated dungeon of some kind that you can't access from the internet, you have to physically use their computers.  The more I think about this, it simultaneously makes more sense and less sense.
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Apr 30, 2013 18:25
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In a world where cyber gods are things that actually exist and viruses show up to attack you every six feet, I don't really blame them for not connecting everything to everything else. Plus those emails have a strict character limit so using those to submit homework wouldn't b vry effcnt.
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Apr 30, 2013 19:30
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That chicken has a magnificent hairdo.  And maybe they just don't have very good e-mail systems yet like we do?
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Apr 30, 2013 20:19
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Does this game still take place in 200X or have they moved to 20XX? Because that's an important thing to keep in mind when comparing their tech to our own, as we are in 201X.
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Apr 30, 2013 20:27
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Waffleman_ posted:Does this game still take place in 200X or have they moved to 20XX? Because that's an important thing to keep in mind when comparing their tech to our own, as we are in 201X. Apparently the series takes place in 20XX, so I guess they're still updating e-mails? e: Apparently the game itself says it takes place in 200X, so they probably just have bad e-mail service. Booky fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 20:31
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kalonZombie posted:Does... does MissEchelon live on a farm or does she just have a chicken for a pet like people have pigs? I have pet chickens, three at the moment. They were all meant to be hens, but now I have Gunther. People always ask me if it's legal to keep cockerels in the suburbs, but it totally is (up until your neighbours complain...) It is not legal to keep pigs as pets around here though, otherwise I would have a pet pig. fool_of_sound posted:Strike that, reverse it. It's true, I haven't seen 'em eat any of the spiders that come around bigger than your hands. But that's OK, those spiders are cool. Pfefferbao posted:Your Polish looks so regal MissEchelon. Also neckless. His hobbies include chasing my housemate's cats, running into walls, and getting food caught in his crest. He is the opposite of regal. But in more on-topic discussion... Yeah I think Battle Network is set 200X, and #3 here was released 2002 (2003 stateside). I think we used disks for assignments back then, but uh, that's in Australia, and home internet really wasn't that common until a few years after that IIRC. I'm sure if there was an always-accessible network we really wouldn't have used disks, because c'mon man everybody hated disks. Somebody tried to tell me the other day that disks were super reliable. What a filthy liar.
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May 1, 2013 01:10
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If you take a picture of a pig with a PET, I will... Okay, I can't think of any suitable form of incentive. But you'd be awesome for doing it.
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May 1, 2013 02:35
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MissEchelon posted:Somebody tried to tell me the other day that disks were super reliable. What a filthy liar. When really these things are just as unreliable, if not worse, than modern storage, it's just that everyone ended up losing or forgetting about these other things because they were so much less useful than modern storage. I remember the time when I was little and I lost my exported Quest for Glory characters because I didn't know that floppies just randomly went corrupt when they got too old.
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May 1, 2013 06:29
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Coolguye posted:My day job is as a computer programmer, and I get people asking me about this sort of thing all the time. "Why can't CDs and DVDs be RELIABLE like FLOPPIES were??" or "Why is it the big hard drives crash so much more than the smaller ones??" I grew up with floppies. How the hell can anyone who used those things think they were more reliable than current storage options?
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May 1, 2013 06:46
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Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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May 1, 2013 06:47
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Pureauthor posted:I grew up with floppies. How the hell can anyone who used those things think they were more reliable than current storage options? They were way more fire and forget than optical media. You used a floppy once, maybe twice, then it rolled under the desk or something and you never saw it again. Everything seems reliable when it only has to work a couple times before you throw it away. On the contrary, since CDs hold so much more data, people were way more likely to keep them around since they actually had something interesting on them. The fact that they had to be handled way more carefully than your average floppy didn't help matters either, I guess.
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May 1, 2013 06:53
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While I go work on the next update, I nominate Gunther the NetBattling Chicken for thread mascot. Motion approved?
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May 1, 2013 11:51
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Motion seconded. I need to check the subforum more often if surprises like this thread happen when I check it. 
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May 1, 2013 12:59
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Epee Em posted:While I go work on the next update, I nominate Gunther the NetBattling Chicken for thread mascot. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 1, 2013 |
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May 1, 2013 13:09
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Epee Em posted:While I go work on the next update, I nominate Gunther the NetBattling Chicken for thread mascot. Add Beardman's Beard and you'll have a deal. 
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May 1, 2013 13:35
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That chicken shall represent all our hopes, dreams, and possibly fears.
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May 1, 2013 16:46
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Epee Em posted:While I go work on the next update, I nominate Gunther the NetBattling Chicken for thread mascot. That chicken is the most metal chicken. There can be no better thread mascot.
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May 1, 2013 17:21
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Epee Em posted:While I go work on the next update, I nominate Gunther the NetBattling Chicken for thread mascot. Oh my, yes
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May 1, 2013 22:56
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edit: nevermind
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May 2, 2013 01:24
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Third Murderer posted:edit: nevermind So Gunther could have a Navi. Dammit put that back up.
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May 2, 2013 01:55
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Third Murderer posted:edit: nevermind You put that back up right now.
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May 2, 2013 01:59
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But it's so stupid
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May 2, 2013 02:01
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Well I think it's great. How hard of a boss does everyone think Gunther'd be? Mid-boss kind or one of those superbosses? It'd be pretty funny to have a chicken Navi wipe the floor with people. 
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May 2, 2013 02:03
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Booky posted:How hard of a boss does everyone think Gunther'd be? Mid-boss kind or one of those superbosses? It'd be pretty funny to have a chicken Navi wipe the floor with people. Secret postgame joke character. Could go either way on difficulty, really. Add me to the list who have picked MMBN3 back up because of this LP. The next Navi is being a royal pain, though...
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May 2, 2013 02:07
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Third Murderer posted:But it's so stupid We shall call him Cockman.EXE.
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May 2, 2013 02:22
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I'd been slightly worried there wouldn't be as much awesome thread fanart this time around. My worries are gone! 
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