Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Even fully blind I shall prevail! Except for the first few days when I'm stuck in the hospital/recovering. Then I shall be listening to Stephen Colbert and eating ice cream.
Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Even fully blind I shall prevail! Except for the first few days when I'm stuck in the hospital/recovering. Then I shall be listening to Stephen Colbert and eating ice cream.
Well, the best of luck to you. From my position as a socialist hump on Alcore's back (in what is surely the strangest ship anywhere, ever) I sincerely wish you an expedited recovery. All the best to you!
Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Even fully blind I shall prevail! Except for the first few days when I'm stuck in the hospital/recovering. Then I shall be listening to Stephen Colbert and eating ice cream.
Ohhhhh exciting times!!
Let us all know before you go in so we can wish you well!
A conversation I had yesterday night, from my point of view:
Sean: Did you know my pirate name [in a game] was "Black Ball Seamus"?
Me: Er...
Sean: Named after cannibals, you pervert!
Me: Cannibals?
Sean: Well, yeah, you know, they're black and they're balls.
Me: Wait, what? They're BALLS?
Sean: Why did you think they're called canniBALLS?
Me:... (He sounds serious. What the... Does he mean the word comes from some kind of monster, like a Beholder, which was round? How the hell could I not know that?)
Sean: What did you think they were?
Me: Well, people...
Sean: People?! This isn't the circus!
Me: People who eat other people, yeah...
Sean: People who... Woman! I'm talking about CANNON BALLS, not CANNIBALS!
Me: Well, that makes more sense.
Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Even fully blind I shall prevail! Except for the first few days when I'm stuck in the hospital/recovering. Then I shall be listening to Stephen Colbert and eating ice cream.
Good luck with your surgery! I hope everything turns out alright.
As for the text-to-speech...uh... you may want to avoid doodo!'s noise posts if possible for the duration. Just some advice.
Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Good luck! Will be thinking of you.
Text-to-speech is an amazingly useful tool. Yesterday was rainy, so me and my bros spent an hour or so on our laptops typing childish insults into Google Translate and having the "Listen" feature read them out loud. Good times, good times.
Looks like me and my family are going to the beach tomorrow.
It will be nice to explore the beach, swim the sea, eat ice cream and fish and chips, build a sandcastle....
OKAY! OKAY! I'm going because of the Arcades!!
The seasides are the only place left in the UK where there are arcades!
(But with recent trends, arcades could already be doomed!)
I love arcades. I really do.
Big one floor areas, full of a variety of individually contained machines.
Or should I say experiences?
Lets be honest here, home consoles and PCs lose something in the equation when it comes to games.
That box just doesn't have the character.
I mean look at the design of a Sega Rally 2 machine
The chairs look like the real thing. The controls are all together in a solid unit, (something consoles can't seem to really match).
The Banner is brilliantly designed, the headlights and front bumper make it stick out.
And its just smothered in colorful decals.
All that for 50p (probably £1 (maybe £2 nowadays sadly... )) a go!
I personally want an Arcade machine in my house as well.
Capture some of that experience (though it will never be quite the same).
Shame its so damn expensive to make a Arcade cabinet...
Its not ever
I only want a French accent.
And there is a way to give different voices to different people, I think, although I was told about it for chatrooms, not forums. Sounds like it might work for forums too though.
It was for Linux, I think. And I thought I had bookmarked it but it seems I haven't.
Found it. It's not just for Linux, but it's for XChat... So not forums. Sadface.
Why does everything on this forum degrade into a chat about who would play/voice us?
I also wouldn't be surprised if I came back from the hospital on the 18th or 19th to discover no less than five threads with animal noises/things written in 1337/gibberish for my speech program to sort through.
Why does everything on this forum degrade into a chat about who would play/voice us?
I also wouldn't be surprised if I came back from the hospital on the 18th or 19th to discover no less than five threads with animal noises/things written in 1337/gibberish for my speech program to sort through.
I mooo would quack never ahhhhhhh do 4 that sdfahjsklfsadkfhsdkjlfjahsdflasdfhsadlfjshdflksadhfds
I swear, this has to be like the tenth time that Comrade Pants has caused a thread to derail into who all the forum members would be played by in a movie/video game/cartoon/theatrical production/infomercial/audio book/etc.
I still say we need to be a Rogers and Hammerstein musical! That being said, call me Threadkiller.
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Sure. I'll break the law just for you. No porblem.
You've only told us once, Fawfy. Get to work.
My hat is already off and it would hurt to take off any more things off my head
Yay! I'll even throw in an extra limo. No idea what you'll do with two limos, but whatever.
No. Tell me again!
The extra limo will be for the weapons. They have a taste for the finer things.
Sentient weapons? You do go all out on these things, don't you?
I have an Eon Ticket! TEE HEE HEE HEE HEE.
This counts as telling Chris again, as he's grown into your body as a horrendous hump.
I still don't understand. What are you trying to tell me?
No. It doesn't. You have to tell him ten times separately in order for it to count.
I'm watching you.
Just got my surgery date- May 17th. So I'll be blind until maybe June. But that doesn't mean I won't be lurking. I have a braille typepad and a text-to-speech system.
Even fully blind I shall prevail! Except for the first few days when I'm stuck in the hospital/recovering. Then I shall be listening to Stephen Colbert and eating ice cream.
Well, the best of luck to you. From my position as a socialist hump on Alcore's back (in what is surely the strangest ship anywhere, ever) I sincerely wish you an expedited recovery. All the best to you!
Ohhhhh exciting times!!
Let us all know before you go in so we can wish you well!
Sean: Did you know my pirate name [in a game] was "Black Ball Seamus"?
Me: Er...
Sean: Named after cannibals, you pervert!
Me: Cannibals?
Sean: Well, yeah, you know, they're black and they're balls.
Me: Wait, what? They're BALLS?
Sean: Why did you think they're called canniBALLS?
Me:... (He sounds serious. What the... Does he mean the word comes from some kind of monster, like a Beholder, which was round? How the hell could I not know that?)
Sean: What did you think they were?
Me: Well, people...
Sean: People?! This isn't the circus!
Me: People who eat other people, yeah...
Sean: People who... Woman! I'm talking about CANNON BALLS, not CANNIBALS!
Me: Well, that makes more sense.
We had a good laugh.
Good luck with your surgery! I hope everything turns out alright.
As for the text-to-speech...uh... you may want to avoid doodo!'s noise posts if possible for the duration. Just some advice.
I thought you were the socialist hump on Comrade Mortis! This is so confusing. I just give up trying to understand...
I'm in full agreement in the strangeness factor, though.
See, now you're just GIVING him ideas...
No... We gave him ideas when we told him it sounded like GLaDOS... um... "enriching" herself.
Good luck! Will be thinking of you.
Text-to-speech is an amazingly useful tool. Yesterday was rainy, so me and my bros spent an hour or so on our laptops typing childish insults into Google Translate and having the "Listen" feature read them out loud. Good times, good times.
I think he'd do it anyway. But now, you are warned...
Dibs on Darth Nihilus! I want to be voiced by a toilet like he was!
It will be nice to explore the beach, swim the sea, eat ice cream and fish and chips, build a sandcastle....
OKAY! OKAY! I'm going because of the Arcades!!
The seasides are the only place left in the UK where there are arcades!
(But with recent trends, arcades could already be doomed!)
I love arcades. I really do.
Big one floor areas, full of a variety of individually contained machines.
Or should I say experiences?
Lets be honest here, home consoles and PCs lose something in the equation when it comes to games.
That box just doesn't have the character.
I mean look at the design of a Sega Rally 2 machine
The chairs look like the real thing. The controls are all together in a solid unit, (something consoles can't seem to really match).
The Banner is brilliantly designed, the headlights and front bumper make it stick out.
And its just smothered in colorful decals.
All that for 50p (probably £1 (maybe £2 nowadays sadly...
I personally want an Arcade machine in my house as well.
Capture some of that experience (though it will never be quite the same).
Shame its so damn expensive to make a Arcade cabinet...
Its not ever
If you get Sean Connery, you leave me no choice but to request Tom Baker, owner of the most sumptuous tones in the universe.
Or Jon Culshaw, part owner of that voice.
And there is a way to give different voices to different people, I think, although I was told about it for chatrooms, not forums. Sounds like it might work for forums too though.
It was for Linux, I think. And I thought I had bookmarked it but it seems I haven't.
Found it. It's not just for Linux, but it's for XChat... So not forums. Sadface.
Also, can he be my voice?
Edit: I apologize for the preceding joke, It's bad, yes. But I am quite fond of it. I daren't tell it over fear it will reject me like the others.
I also wouldn't be surprised if I came back from the hospital on the 18th or 19th to discover no less than five threads with animal noises/things written in 1337/gibberish for my speech program to sort through.
I mooo would quack never ahhhhhhh do 4 that sdfahjsklfsadkfhsdkjlfjahsdflasdfhsadlfjshdflksadhfds
Usually because of Comrade Pants. Luckily, we now have the "comrade threadkiller" tag for similar situations.
You act like The Comrade shot your favorite puppy.
Don't look at me, he's the one who came up with the name. I just made it into a tag.
We put his avatar on milk cartens and posters asking if anyones seen him.