To: frink

CC: dom

Hiding from your wife. Pity.

doubleofive said:

yhwx said:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458

Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!

I’m glad an intern had fun this morning when they woke up.

Like, did Trump fall asleep while writing a tweet?

My guess: Jared snatched his phone out of his hand mid-posting tweet about how successful his foreign trip was.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458

Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458

Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!

Go home, Trump, you’re drunk.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869766994899468288

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170531040626/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869766994899468288

Once again, the Americans have beat the British.

Aye, war is pointless.

The state of war that was declared to exist between yhwx and dahmage at 9:20 PM hereby no longer exists.

That simplifies down to 50/50. You are undone.

I’ll issue an ultimatum: We both get 50% of the thread. You must reply by midnight EDT tonight, or else it’s full war.

No, I’m waiting for you to declare war so that we can make war.

Don’t get all postmodernist on me. Thinking about declaring war on myself makes my head hurt.

Look, this isn’t going to work if you don’t declare war on me. I’m not ready for negotiation yet. First, the glory of War must come.

I must take action. Bigger army diplomacy!

Whoever is able to amass the most supporters wins the thread. Therefore, I create a Grand Army of Me for which any Trusted Member of OT.com can enlist in.

And also, therefore, I declare war on the OT.com user dahmage and his allies.

I already have the support of suspiciouscoffee and darth_ender. Begun, this Mini War has.

THE XXXVIII RESPONSES

BY YHWX, ™®© YHWX MMXVII | DON’T STEAL IT!

It’s 2017. The embargo on 2016 posts has ended. Therefore, I am the first legal poster since the the 2016 embargo was instated. Victory is mine.

Response the First (I)

Probably, we just haven’t found it yet. See Fermi paradox.

Response the Second (II)

It depends on what you call a ‘proper word’ and who you listen to. Dictionaries will list the word, but with the caveat that the usage is informal and nonstandard. See this Usage Note:

Irregardless is a word that many people mistakenly believe to be correct in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. The word was coined in the United States in the early 1900s, presumably from a blend of irrespective and regardless. Many critics have complained that it is a redundancy, the negative prefix ir- duplicating the negativity of the -less suffix. Perhaps its reputation as a blend of ill-fitting parts has caused some to insist that it is a “nonword,” a charge they would not think of leveling at a nonstandard word with a longer history, such as ain’t. Since people use irregardles, it is undoubtedly a word in the broader sense of the language, but it has never been accepted in Standard English and is virtually always changed by copyeditors to regardless. The Usage Panel has roundly disapproved of its use since polling began; in 2012, 90 percent found the sentence A scientist investigating a social issue should seek to find out the truth, irregardless of its political implications to be unacceptable.

To sum up: In the very broadest sense, irregardles is a word in the English language. However, it should be avoided in formal contexts.

Response the Third (III)

Nope, sorry. The Star Wars galaxy already collapsed billions of years ago.

Response the Fourth (IV)

Early nomadic tribes that inhabited Great Britain.

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stonehenge/stonehenge.php

Response the Fifth (V)

Not my department. Sorry.

Response the Sixth (VI)

The first post.

Response the Seventh (VII)

They probably already have.

Response the Eighth (VII)

You.

Response the Ninth (IX)

¯\ (ツ)/¯

I haven’t seen LOST.

Response the Tenth (X)

Yep.

Response the Eleventh (XI)

Look down there.

Response the Twelfth (XII)

He’s a Republic starpilot from Naboo.

Response the Thirteenth (XIII)

Next Thursday.

Response the Fourteenth (XIV)

Nope.

Response the Fifteenth (XV)

Maybe.

Response the Sixteenth (XVI)

Never.

Response the Seventeenth (XVII)

July 22nd.

Response the Eighteenth (XVIII)

Me.

Response the Nineteenth (XIX)

February 2nd, 2020.

Response the Twentieth (XX)

Four weeks ago.

Response the Twenty-first (XXI)

Consult a doctor.

Response the Twenty-second (XXII)

There’s no profit in facepalms, Frink.

Response the Twenty-third (XXIII)

idk.

Response the Twenty-fourth (XXIV)

You’re a person, and your name is Steve?

Response the Twenty-fifth (XXV)

You are here because a small organism resembling life decided to split into two billions of years ago. There’s no real reason why you’re here. It’s all a big accident.

Don’t worry, Frink, you weren’t an accident. We, collectively, all of life, are an accident.

Response the Twenty-sixth (XXVI)

Listen to some other piece of sound melodically and rhythmically arranged to sound pleasurable to your ears and brain.

Response the Twenty-seventh (XXVII)

Your side itches because it wants to be scratched.

Give your side what it wants, or else it’ll get real grumpy. You don’t want a grumpy side. Nobody wants a grumpy side.

Response the Twenty-eigth (XXVIII)

You’ve gotta adjust the antenna, dummy. Chicken pot pie ain’t going to microwave itself.

Response the Twenty-ninth (XXIX)

He shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Response the Thirtieth (XXX)

No.

Response the Thirty-first (XXXI)

However high you want to. Reach for the stars, Frink.

Response the Thirty-second (XXXII)

Nope and nope.

Response the Thrity-third (XXXIII)

Mother.

Response the Thirty-fourth (XXXIV)

That’s bad for the cable company.

Response the Thirty-fifth (XXXV)

It’s an anachronism. Like smartphone when most people don’t use the phone functionality.

Response the Thirty-sixth (XXXVI)

Maybe it’s a hard feature to implement or Jay doesn’t want to implement it.

Response the Thirty-Seventh (XXXVII)

I’m a person and my name is [REDACTED].

Response the Thirty-eighth (XXXVIII)

Now.

Bump

P-XXXIV, B-VI

TV’s Frink said:

TavorX said:

Valheru_84 said:

TavorX said:

It’s dead, Jim.

Was it ever alive?

Most Online Ever: 139 (March 21, 2016, 06:05:27 AM)

134 of which were Russian spambots.

Fake news.

Also: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/A-new-forum-for-a-new-era/id/49708/page/1

Update, Monday, May 29, 2017 at 4:30 PM: Intro amended, new threads incorporated, ‘Complaining, Praising, Mourning, etc…’ section added, ‘Forum Goofiness’ section now includes humor, ‘Franchises and Fictional Universes’ section moved up, new MySpleen sidenote.

I’m so sorry. Condolences, Solo.

Sorry about the mess.

I dare you to read this until the end.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/marc-newson-hourglass-limited-edition-for-hodinkee

As of today, my account at OT.com is one year old.

There was a lot of stuff from June to mid-July which I regret.

Also…

A selection of quotes about me:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

I think this thread is not going the way it should. Let’s keep this thread nice. I acknowledge I didn’t help so I share the blame.

1. dahmage did a nice thing in making us all remember why yhwx is so annoying.
2. yhwx is probably not stupid.

Possessed said:

Yhwx puts the uck in fuck

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

I’m sorry for any inconvenience this is giving you, but I really would like to understand the problem at hand.

You’re making me wish I was never born.

Neglify said:

Jay said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jay said:

Tyrphanax said:

yhwx said:

Why?

Because Apple sucks.

Quite a few developers and IT people would disagree with your assessment 😃 Most of the best software you see these days — not just the best native apps, but web sites — is built using Apple hardware. There are reasons why Microsoft has been racing to make its core products, like .NET and SQL Server, cross-platform, while adding bash and other Unix-y things to their own stack. If you’d suggested MS would be porting SQL Server to run on Linux even 5 years ago, you would’ve been laughed out of the room.

At my company, you only get Windows hardware if you request it, and then all your team members hate you because getting everything up and running on your machine is a chore.

Don’t get me wrong. Windows 10 is a good OS and I use it on my gaming rig, because as great as Macs are, they’re still pointless for real gaming. But I still think the best Windows laptop is a MacBook Pro running Bootcamp 😉

My new favorite editor is VS Code, btw.

I might be wrong but I believe Tyr’s comment was more anti-yhwx than anti-Apple.

Pretty much.

I couldn’t let it go unchallenged, even if it meant defending yhwx.

Possessed said:

I don’t hate you or wish you ill, but I wish you posted about half as much. You post too many stupid, meaningless, bandwagony posts. Every thing that comes up you have to have a response to, whether you actually have anything meaningful to add or not. Somebody could say anything on any topic and be guaranteed to get a response from you whether you actually have anything to add or not.

This is a complaint raised against you multiple times a day by multiple members and you just refuse to see it.

No one whose been on the forum for barely two months should have almost 2500 posts.

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t think you’re unintelligent. Frankly, I don’t know if you are or aren’t. I don’t know you.

All I know is on this forum, you’re annoying as fuck. See: posting history.

Eight months later…

TV’s Frink said:

He’s still active!

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/yhwx/id/26550

Come on son, post some. We miss you.

DominicCobb said:

My opinion on you…

…used to be: I like you but you post waaaaay too much.

…now is: I like you but you post waaaaay too little.

So yes.

Time heals all wounds.

And finally…

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I just went through my entire post history, every single one, and exactly 12% of my posts are blatantly homoerotic. Another 4% are vaguely homoerotic. That’s 16%. I feel with enough effort and dedication I can become fully 20% homoerotic as a member here, but if I move too fast or too hard I want you guys to let me know (I only added that last part so I could include this post in the stats).

ALLOL

CatBus said:

yhwx said:

CatBus said:

yhwx said:

CatBus said:

That’s huge. But I think the gerrymandering of the House is enough to maintain a Republican majority against even a Democratic tsunami like that.

Source?

The only useful hard data point is this one, which says a 1.2% Democratic victory margin in terms of votes translates into a devastating Democratic defeat in terms of seats. Everything else is modeling and extrapolation (mine included). In general, prognosticators say that things break even at about an 8-9% Democratic advantage. If the Democrats win by 8-9% in the House, control of the House is a toss-up–could go either way. I think both RCP and 538 used this 8-9% value last time around. The problem is that this tends to be a “generic ballot” metric, rather than a per-seat metric. So if the swing seats don’t shift as much as safe seats, the whole model falls apart. Considering the Republicans effectively control the nation’s election process, and have a huge foreign intelligence apparatus willing to selectively take down individual House candidates in key races, I’d say the 8-9% margin simply isn’t big enough to get a win. I’d say we need to win by 12% to win at all. That’s my model, the source is me 😉

EDIT: This is not to say it’s hopeless. But nothing less than the complete collapse of the national Republican party (which, thankfully, still seems to be in the cards, albeit remotely) is going to give the Dems control of anything at the national level in 2018. So… focus on the states. Governorships, state legislatures (Huge pickup opportunites! Gaining 12 more governorships is quite plausible!). We do well enough there in 2018, and we’ll be much better positioned to do something interesting in the House and/or Senate in 2022 after redistricting, when the landscape isn’t tilted quite so strongly against us.

You should change your numbers then. The chance of Democrats winning either the Senate or the House is definitely not 0%, unless that was tongue-in-cheek.

No, I took the probability of total collapse of the national Republican party into consideration. I could have said <1% for this too, but at enough decimal places, it just makes more sense to round down.

I still think that placing Democrats’ chances to win the House at 0% is as ridiculous as placing Hillary Clinton’s chance to win the presidency at 99%. To each their own, though.

This post wanted a sequel.

CatBus said:

yhwx said:

CatBus said:

That’s huge. But I think the gerrymandering of the House is enough to maintain a Republican majority against even a Democratic tsunami like that.

Source?

The only useful hard data point is this one, which says a 1.2% Democratic victory margin in terms of votes translates into a devastating Democratic defeat in terms of seats. Everything else is modeling and extrapolation (mine included). In general, prognosticators say that things break even at about an 8-9% Democratic advantage. If the Democrats win by 8-9% in the House, control of the House is a toss-up–could go either way. I think both RCP and 538 used this 8-9% value last time around. The problem is that this tends to be a “generic ballot” metric, rather than a per-seat metric. So if the swing seats don’t shift as much as safe seats, the whole model falls apart. Considering the Republicans effectively control the nation’s election process, and have a huge foreign intelligence apparatus willing to selectively take down individual House candidates in key races, I’d say the 8-9% margin simply isn’t big enough to get a win. I’d say we need to win by 12% to win at all. That’s my model, the source is me 😉

EDIT: This is not to say it’s hopeless. But nothing less than the complete collapse of the national Republican party (which, thankfully, still seems to be in the cards, albeit remotely) is going to give the Dems control of anything at the national level in 2018. So… focus on the states. Governorships, state legislatures (Huge pickup opportunites! Gaining 12 more governorships is quite plausible!). We do well enough there in 2018, and we’ll be much better positioned to do something interesting in the House and/or Senate in 2022 after redistricting, when the landscape isn’t tilted quite so strongly against us.

You should change your numbers then. The chance of Democrats winning either the Senate or the House is definitely not 0%, unless that was tongue-in-cheek.

Also, what Drink Drink Frink (stop correcting me autocorrect!) said.