The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[dragoner]

Nothing turns one off a game like pedantry

 

[Guest 7034872]

Nothing turns one off a game like pedantry

But if we don't have all our terms exhaustively defined and quantified, how can we know when we're having fun???

 

[dragoner]

But if we don't have all our terms exhaustively defined and quantified, how can we know when we're having fun???

Its like I read stuff, and think, if that was a book, I would not read it.

 

[niklinna]

I’ve been occupied recently researching the best way to put numbers in upper case so I can better shout at people on the internet who do math wrong.

Unfortunately, numerals are by default already in the equivalent of upper case, and they're generally implemented in the typeface rather than character encoding.

Text figures - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Gammadoodler]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

 

[dragoner]

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

esp when they say they are from "troll country".

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. When I read those who elevate their own loquaciousness over perspicuousness, I desire forthwith to become a better stranger to them.

 

[Gradine]

I enjoy Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, where the section on Brevity proceeds as follows:

"Omit needless words."

 

[Guest 7034872]

So the new Glitchling race in UA got me going...

 

[Ryujin]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

I was once on a forum on which one particular poster would break a relatively short post down into individual bits, then write a paragraph or more of rebuttal to each. Seriously; sometimes this guy would break up a single sentence to argue as if there were separate points in it. It took a little while to figure out how to deal with him; smash it all back together and give a short response. It infuriated him