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  • DeebaserDeebaser Way out in the water See it swimmin'?Registered User regular
    Aldo wrote:
    Haha, do you know what the french title for Hobo with a shotgun is?

    "Homeless, Merciless."

    The French often give movies a new English title, because the original one is tough to pronounce for Frenchies. Any Frenchman would have trouble pronouncing "shotgun".

    is there no french translation for shotgun?

    Something something surrender joke

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    Aldo wrote:
    Haha, do you know what the french title for Hobo with a shotgun is?

    "Homeless, Merciless."

    The French often give movies a new English title, because the original one is tough to pronounce for Frenchies. Any Frenchman would have trouble pronouncing "shotgun".

    is there no french translation for shotgun?

    I... don't think there is one.

    The french word is "Fusil de chasse" or "Hunting gun", which includes rifles, shotguns, etc.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    I miss my holiday avatar/sig :(

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Man, there has to be a French word for shotgun, or something similar. Maybe it is just archaic now, given the fact that I am sure that at some point the French loaded shot in their muskets instead of a musket ball, or a hybrid load of both, as that was pretty common.

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  • thehumandignitythehumandignity Registered User
    Sarksus wrote:
    No I got the base and tile management stuff because it's kind of like Civ V anyway. My problem is the tech development and unit creation. Like I go in the library or data link thing and what the fuck look at all this shit there's like twelve dozen tabs to go through and what does this tech do and what is my base building, there's nothing in the queue but more shit keeps popping out god damn governor.

    Oh, oh god. Yeah, that's a bit overwhelming at first.

    Firstly, if you don't change the rules when you start the game, you can't decide what tech to research. By default, "blind research" is on, which means you can direct research at Build, Explore, Discover, or Conquer. Turning blind research off makes it like Civ where you pick specific techs to research and work your way up the tech tree the way you want.

    When you go to production selection, you have all your buildings and secret projects at the bottom, and above that all units you have planned. Units are planned in the workshop: you select a chassis (EG infantry, rover, helicopter), a weapon, reactor, and armor. In general, weapons, reactors, and armor have no special properties and are just successive strength, movement, and defense values. I think there might be some exceptions but I can't remember. For the most part, getting a new weapon, armor, or reactor is just +1 to that category. You also have special abilities, like anti-air missiles, or nerve gas pods, that give your unit bonuses or special abilities. Nerve gas, for example, gives you the option of using them in each battle, which will give you +50% strength, but is an atrocity that will piss people off and be bad for politics. Clean reactor makes it more expensive, but costs no upkeep once it's made, etc., etc.

    After you've put together a unit in the workshop, hitting "apply" or "done" adds it to the production selection screen. If you no longer use a certain unit and don't want it cluttering the list up, select it from the bar at the bottom of the workshop, and then hit "obsolete".

    Also, if you don't have a queue, the base will just continually spit out whatever it last made.

  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    I miss my holiday avatar/sig :(

    You can make it a holiday every day!

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    I should make a Chinese New Year av.

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote:
    Pony wrote:
    this was the apology I wrote to the person in question:
    Spoiler:

    you will notice i never actually apologize for anything i did personally or admit to having done anything myself

    i wasn't having this thing used as a backdoor confession to get me in shit

    i know better

    Wow, Im surprised Tube didn't perma-ban you. Not that you deserved a perma-banning, but if someone ever got the FBI all up in my shit, right or wrong, they would be purged with fire.

    he yelled at me pretty hard over it but whatevers

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote:
    I miss my holiday avatar/sig :(

    You can make it a holiday every day!

    Eh I could but it would then I would lose that special OH BOY HOLIDAY AV/SIG TIME

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck Registered User regular
    as in vocally or in text

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  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    Aldo wrote:
    Haha, do you know what the french title for Hobo with a shotgun is?

    "Homeless, Merciless."

    The French often give movies a new English title, because the original one is tough to pronounce for Frenchies. Any Frenchman would have trouble pronouncing "shotgun".

    dude, what?

    When dubbing a movie for a foreign country, they very frequently translate the title...

    also, i can totally pronounce shotgun, it's the "th" syllable i have trouble with.

    The title is actually "Sans abris, sans merci", which means "Homeless, Merciless".
    Oh didn't know you're from France, I think we were missing that nationality, so good job. When i was there last summer I spotted lots of English titles that were called differently in English. Guess I'm basing myself on limited data.

    And really, "shotgun" is a toughy: "sho" with a "t" behind it? And then a G? wtf man

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Man, there has to be a French word for shotgun, or something similar. Maybe it is just archaic now, given the fact that I am sure that at some point the French loaded shot in their muskets instead of a musket ball, or a hybrid load of both, as that was pretty common.

    Fusil de chasse. Translates as shotgun or scatter gun.

    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • HerrCronHerrCron Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    HerrCron wrote:
    when i had friends going through rough times i was simultaneously always trying to be there as a shoulder and fucking terrified because i'm a retard with no life experience what the fuck do i say

    I don't think anybody ever fucking knows what to say in those situations so you have try and be as supportive while saying as little as possible.

    Yeah, luckily what matters in those situations isn't what you say, it's just that you are willing to be there for them. Often saying nothing at all can be for the best.

    Yeah, that's pretty much what I was trying to get at.

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  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote:
    I miss my holiday avatar/sig :(

    You can make it a holiday every day!

    Eh I could but it would then I would lose that special OH BOY HOLIDAY AV/SIG TIME

    You could do a crappy facsimile and then save the real stuff for the real holiday

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Shotgun shouldn't be hard once you realize that you basically pronounce it as two separate words, 'shot' and 'gun' neither of which should be too tricky, really.

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  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    Aldo wrote:
    Haha, do you know what the french title for Hobo with a shotgun is?

    "Homeless, Merciless."

    The French often give movies a new English title, because the original one is tough to pronounce for Frenchies. Any Frenchman would have trouble pronouncing "shotgun".

    is there no french translation for shotgun?

    translate.google.com

    3 words: fusil de chasse

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    said Aldo hazily, before clop-clop-clopping out of the room
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    And that's why you never pretend to murder someone on the Internet.

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Honestly the thing that has helped most are people who actually, honestly ask what you need and then let that happen.

    I love my girlfriend, and this has made it even more obvious how great she is. She's very touchy-feely when she's sad and she needs people and crying and hugs and you know. I need to play games, read, and generally be quiet and calm and try to accept what's happening. She's been just sort of sitting near me while I play Sequence, talking about whatever I feel like, and giving me some hugs. No histrionics, no extravagant displays of generosity and caring, just "What do you feel like? Okay, cool."

  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    Hobo avec un fusil de chasse

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    Honestly the thing that has helped most are people who actually, honestly ask what you need and then let that happen.

    I love my girlfriend, and this has made it even more obvious how great she is. She's very touchy-feely when she's sad and she needs people and crying and hugs and you know. I need to play games, read, and generally be quiet and calm and try to accept what's happening. She's been just sort of sitting near me while I play Sequence, talking about whatever I feel like, and giving me some hugs. No histrionics, no extravagant displays of generosity and caring, just "What do you feel like? Okay, cool."

    That's pretty awesome.

    Remember to thank her for being awesome :P

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    So I applied for a new position at my job and the stuff for my distance learning course I'm taking to finish my degree arrived. I've skimmed the first couple of chapters of the first textbook and am confident I can handle the material.

    I got a diary and spent fifteen minutes putting all the important dates (like submission cutoffs, and things) in it.

    Few things are as satisfying as feeling like you're getting a bit of traction in your life.

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Having taken French New Wave classes I've seen how it goes both ways. French film titling seems to like using prepostions and articles more often than American movies. So lots of English translations kinda miss the point. like Breathless is really titled at Breath's end but that just sounds awkward as a direct translation.

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  • thehumandignitythehumandignity Registered User
    Hahahahaha oh my god Stephen Colbert has 5% of the South Carolina ballot. Which he is not on.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    Who the hell thought root beer flavored taffy was a good idea?

  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi Registered User
    Based on my phone activity, I believe recruiters looking for software QA have woken up from an eight month cold sleep.

    Damn it, it's fucking noon. I demand to know if Yami shit on a desk yet.
  • TomeWyrmTomeWyrm Registered User regular
    Aldo wrote:
    Aldo wrote:
    Haha, do you know what the french title for Hobo with a shotgun is?

    "Homeless, Merciless."

    The French often give movies a new English title, because the original one is tough to pronounce for Frenchies. Any Frenchman would have trouble pronouncing "shotgun".

    is there no french translation for shotgun?

    translate.google.com

    3 words: fusil de chasse

    That's a classy sounding shotgun

  • bowenbowen Registered User regular
    software QA seems boring

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Gah god damn it fighting game community, why do you call strategy and stuff technology? Like, if someone came up with a good method to beat a character named Phoenix it's like "Dude check out this anti-phoenix technology."

    Mah brain.

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  • HerrCronHerrCron Registered User regular
    Based on my phone activity, I believe recruiters looking for software QA have woken up from an eight month cold sleep.

    New year, new hiring budget...

    At least that's the impression I'm getting from a sudden increase in recruiters contacting me out of the blue.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Dear New York Times,

    Do bears shit in the woods?

    Lots of love,

    RMS Oceanic

  • ChanusChanus Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Gah god damn it fighting game community, why do you call strategy and stuff technology? Like, if someone came up with a good method to beat a character named Phoenix it's like "Dude check out this anti-phoenix technology."

    Mah brain.

    Fighting game community think with fists, not brain.

    Feck, shite, feck, shite, feck, shite, arse!
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Chanus take my quote out of your signature anyway. It's out of context and makes people think I'm afraid or hate vaginas!
  • JamesKeenanJamesKeenan Registered User regular
    I finally saw True Grit. I liked the movie, but that was one hell of a tone change in the last 3 minutes, eh?

  • SparvySparvy Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote:
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Gah god damn it fighting game community, why do you call strategy and stuff technology? Like, if someone came up with a good method to beat a character named Phoenix it's like "Dude check out this anti-phoenix technology."

    Mah brain.

    Fighting game community think with fists, not brain.

    Mixing up technique and technology maybe?

  • DeebaserDeebaser Way out in the water See it swimmin'?Registered User regular
    Dear New York Times,

    Do bears shit in the woods?

    Lots of love,

    RMS Oceanic

    Some people say that bears do not defecate at all.

    #FreeThan
    #FreeScheck
    #FreeSKFM
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote:
    Dear New York Times,

    Do bears shit in the woods?

    Lots of love,

    RMS Oceanic

    Some people say that bears do not defecate at all.

    :x

  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote:
    Dear New York Times,

    Do bears shit in the woods?

    Lots of love,

    RMS Oceanic

    Some people say that bears do not defecate at all.

    :x

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity Ask me about Super Propane and Super Propane accessoriesRegistered User regular
    Some people say RMS has a large gaping hole in his face

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  • TL DRTL DR Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Gah god damn it fighting game community, why do you call strategy and stuff technology? Like, if someone came up with a good method to beat a character named Phoenix it's like "Dude check out this anti-phoenix technology."

    Mah brain.

    "Check out this anti-phoenix technique"
    ->"Check out this anti-phoenix tech"
    -->"Check out this anti-phoenix technology"

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  • DeebaserDeebaser Way out in the water See it swimmin'?Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote:
    Dear New York Times,

    Do bears shit in the woods?

    Lots of love,

    RMS Oceanic

    Some people say that bears do not defecate at all.

    :x

    The New York Times is just covering the bear shitting controversy.

    #FreeThan
    #FreeScheck
    #FreeSKFM
  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck Registered User regular
    i like it

    its a cool use of the word

    makes me think they are mad fighting game scientists developing devices to help them win in awesome fighting game labs

    I APPROVE

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