<Myrmidon> "HP Lovecraft's greatest achievement is making sure every idiot says/posts "Cthulhu!" whenever an exotic sea creature picture gets posted."
<Nitya> thus destroying mankind's knowledge of sea life - and he detested sea life
<Nitya> well played mister craft
<Saladofstones> My problem is that everyone only says Cthulu
<Saladofstones> there were other cosmic horrors, such as the librarians who transcended space and time and abducted people and made them write in books
<Saladofstones> proving Lovecraft hated books
<Saladofstones> which is why he only wrote in magazines

<Solstace> Nitya: My ride flaked on me, and then I missed my bus, and ultimately spent about an hour and a half standing in the cold, underdressed. So blow me :/
<Nitya> aw.
<Nitya> but yeah, if you have a phone, you can call me and stuff if that happens.
<Solstace> Oh, cool.
<Solstace> I'll keep that in mind.
<IllFlower> Solstace: You should just call Nitya more often as a matter of course. That way, you won't have to ask him to blow you on IRC. /ducks

<Barchomework> not really, the third game just highlighted how much scary games try to keep you isolated from characters
<Glowsquid> but dude, it was written by a... NOVELIST!
<Tacklmacain> Also written by a novelist: Twilight

<Wallabu> Can you possibly point me in the direction of a stats book that doesn't use fucking lobotomized hamsters in every example problem
<Wallabu> God, I hated that book.
<Barcode[PATV]> lobotomized...hamsters
<HederaHelix> Seriously, lobotomized hamsters?
<Nitya> one of my calc books had an exercise about yams in pretty much every section
<blamspam> Yams aren't enough to get a person through calculus.
<HederaHelix> Yams are more socially acceptable a topic than lobotomized hamsters, though...
<HederaHelix> The only way it could be topped is if the examples were of lobotomized hamsters eating yams.
<ColorPrinter> In an economic textbook
<ColorPrinter> The economic impact of lobotomized hamsters eating yams

<Tenri> How are you guys doing?
<IllFlower> I'm saying something in order to provide the illusion of activity, but nothing's really happening.
<IllFlower> Mostly I am busy killing my computer by making it do too many things at once.
<Tenri> Which things?
<IllFlower> Making it run Windows in a virtual machine alongside a bunch of other stuff that I don't feel like closing.
<IllFlower> The sound of my hard drive paging stuff back and forth from swap almost sounds like the scream of an innocent maiden about to be violated.

<Nitya> wittengenstein is the belief that wittgenstein is throughout all of nature
<ponicalica> wittgengengenstein
<RocketDude> Wolfenstein.
<Nitya> return to castle wittgenstein sounds like quite the game
<ponicalica> Wittgenstein 3D

<IllFlower> would it be laughable to attempt to play a modern racing game using nothing but a keyboard, because I am sorely tempted to.
<zeroplusalpha> That's ok, I play visual novels with a wheel.
<blackberryPanther> Imagine Zero twirling the steering wheel furiously to choose the right option.
<blackberryPanther> And for the sex minigames, he's furiously pounding on the pedals. 
<IllFlower> that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "driving the plot forward".
<zeroplusalpha> As it does to "driving stick", presumably.

<Alicia> Touché.
<Picea> Truthché, Alicia.
<ponicalica> @topic dropping truthbombs left and right
<HederaHelix> What do truthbombs contain, truth? Or explosives?
<ponicalica> yes

* Solstace cockpunches Charlatan
* Charlatan punchcocks Solstace
<Charlatan> BEHOLD, FOR I HAVE A BOXING GLOVE ATTACHED TO MY SCHPONG.

<Barcode[out]> Fiora: you should try red alert.~
<Nitya> Hey, that's a real tilde, not "tilde", or "tee eye ell dee ee" or "tee ee ee ee aye ee ee ell ell dee ee ee ee ee" or something.
<Barcode[out]> Yes, but I included punctuation before the tilde, disrupting its power.