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Quote from: Objective on June 20, 2014, 07:54:42 pm

Quote from: greatorder on June 20, 2014, 07:16:33 pm

Fack you, Objective.

HELVETICA MASTER RACE

What's wrong with Helvetica?

... isn't that the main villain in Nox?

Think a lot of it's just carrion-equivalent association. Folks don't like eating stuff that (they notice) (regularly) eat dead stuff, and most bugs we're familiar with kinda' do. Mind you, they eat more or less anything in a lot of cases, but eh. Also filth equivalence -- bugs are seen as a sign of uncleanliness, in general, and whereas other eat-y stuff can be sanitized to a degree (meat stripped of overt identifying factors), it's kinda' more difficult to do that with bugs. We're generally trained by osmosis and whatnot to have a fairly visceral NOPE reaction to bugs in our places of residence and especially around our food, in the west. That attitude largely precludes eating them.

Of course, there is a notable exception with shrimp/lobsters/etc., but for some reason if it's big enough and underwater people stop considering it bugs :V

Beyond the technical issues with it (frontloading everything is reason enough to drag the site designer out into the road and shoot them. Maybe just in the knee or with a beanbag launcher or something, but still.), even the presentation was bloody horrible for me, Arx. I was trying to find information for someone interested in the vehicle in question, and even finding simple stuff like "How the hell much does this cost" "What's in the ruddy thing"* and so on was... not easy. Important information was hidden or obfuscated, everything was just poorly ordered, printing anything off was just an absolute pain in the ass (or, more accurately, I took one look at it and didn't even try), and the list just rolls on down hill. I mean, sure the colors and whatnot were coordinated well enough and whatever, but as a website and not an art piece it just... failed.

It's... not a good example of how you make a website.

** Iirc, specifications and various possible options were split up into like three or four different places on the site, just as an example, and none of it had, y'know, actual specific lists or information or whatnot. Stuff like that makes me want to cripple people.

To be honest, around here if someone doesn't show up with a shovel or whatever (something to scoop it all up and move it, basically) fast enough, people just run the corpse over some more until the birds come by and eat it or whatever. Fairly standard roadkill practice regardless of what species it is, if it's sufficiently in the road and small enough to fit under a tire. Sometimes if it innit, too -- I've seen dead deer on the side of the road with tire tracks going through the middle of 'em

Quote from: Samario on June 19, 2014, 03:39:13 pm

Realizing that, in a community of THIS size, noone has made a general thread and (maybe, dunno) IRC room

There is an IRC room.
I don't know how to get to it, but its there.

Isn't there actually like three of them or something? Upper boards, lower boards, and then... something else. Might be forgetting with the last one.

Not really sure what we'd need a general thread for, though. Not sure what a general thread is, really. We've got emotion threads, and anything more specific can get its own thread. Emotion threads themselves are close enough to random spam we don't need something even less focused, I'd say...

And even eugenics involves... considerably more than that, though. Closest to forced sterilization I could think of hearing about would be chemical castration, here in the states, and I have no idea what public opinion on that is.