<Saladofstones> Well the tonkin incident was meant to escalate the war
<Saladofstones> what helped was the confusion
<Saladofstones> see intelligence fucked up, and thought there were two incidents at first
<Saladofstones> because in that day, it was hard to determine whether or not two or more people were talking about the same incident from different perspectives
<Saladofstones> NSA and CIA clarified that it was one, but the congress members who wanted war ignored later findings to escalate the war
<Saladofstones> which ended well for both sides
<Saladofstones> we got rid of our surplus of toxic chemicals, napalm, and poor people
<Saladofstones> and Vietnam got rid of its surplus of poor people, trees, and natives
<Saladofstones> Ho Chi Minh and Nixon were seen hi-fiving each other over how well it went and went on to drink beer in Michigan Central's Pub

<krrackknut>  Let us speak of lady's bosoms.
<GuitarBizarre>  I posit that ladies bosoms are rad.
* Dracia deathglares at krrackknut
<krrackknut>  And I concur.
<GuitarBizarre>  This calls for celebration! Bartender, a round of drinks and fancy costumes!
<Dracia>  *You all hear her knuckles cracking*
<krrackknut>  DEFEAT AWKWARDNESS
<krrackknut>  WITH MAXIMUM RIDICULOSITY
<GuitarBizarre>  AWKWARDNESS ZONE
<GuitarBizarre>  DEFEATED!
<Dracia> plays FF victory fanfare
* GuitarBizarre dressed as a victorian gentleman, cheers krrackknut 
* krrackknut adjusts his monocle

<Alicia> Fabulous moaning right here.

<Barcode> unlike TECHNAWLJEE, which invariably is plumes of smoke and gears
<Barcode> do not stand near plumes of gears

<jseblan> wait, Champions Online uses procedural generation?
<Nitya> tons of stuff does
<Nitya> it's the new sexy
<jseblan> kind of old for a new sexy
<Nitya> everything new and sexy in computer science is actually like forty years old.
<RocketDude> So, is the actually new stuff even sexier, or is it like wine where the sexiness increases with age and why am I putting so much thought into this

<Noimporta> Do androids dream of electric sheep?
<StarGirl00> No
<Noimporta> Thanks for clearing that up, I always wanted to know if you did.
<StarGirl00> ...

<LORd[donttakeitpersonally]> How many bots do we have on this channel already
<Estragon> There's Omnipresence, feepbot, Nitya, IllFlower, TropeBot, mapibot, and Spacebar.
<LORd[donttakeitpersonally]> There will come a time when just posting "lol" will trigger twenty "Command unrecognized" messages

<Nitya> "Imagine taking a call from your refrigerator without picking up your smartphone."
<Specialist290> Why would my refrigerator be calling me in the first place?
<IllFlower> to gossip about your toaster, obviously.
<Barcode> washing machine is being SO grumpy lately
<IllFlower> and Jesus Christ, could you do something about the oven? she makes my job so much harder

<Nitya> look, man. i'm not an alternate universe hitler who writes about cars. cars aren't my thing! go ask hitler if you want that kind of detail

<Arha-away> When IJBM went down, a little piece of me died inside
<Arha-away> fortunately, I think it was a tumor
<Arha-away> So, yeah