<IllFlower> "ivoryRum caressed $varia's soft face, the array blushing as he did so. 'Be gentle,' she said. 'This is my first time having something unshifted into me...'"

<saladofstones> oh god intel scared me
<saladofstones> I saw "intel firmware system" and a warning sign and I'm like "fuck my computer is exploding"
<saladofstones> but nope only saying "oh hey I exist"
<Barcode> WARNING! WARNING! THE COMPUTER IS COMPLETELY FINE!
<saladofstones> I still think the best error I've ever gotten was "Error: no error"
<Nitya> you'd better register immediately to take advantage of these great commercial offers
<RocketDude> Reminds me of the time one of the auxiliary hard drives in my computer disconnected itself during a disk defray.
<RocketDude> It didn't crash the computer, the defrag just kinda stopped (or I stopped it) and the Intel Rapid Storage Technology program was all like "lol k whatever"
<Barcode> did I tell you why my kriegscomputer was acting up
<Barcode> anyway my motherboard apparently had a BIOS auto-update program that works in the background through windows and this eventually caused some serious shit after I had a power outage
<Barcode> reflashed the bios to the latest versio nand uninstalled the auto update software and I've been good ever since
<RocketDude> Oh wow.
<Barcode> RocketDude it also has two bioses, one of them virtual
<Barcode> and /then/ a backup.

Glowsquid_1945: Evangelion would be 100% improved if you replaced Shinji with the guys from Gears of War.
Glowsquid_1945: fact.

<Yuanchosaan> I think looking young is fine, but being lolibait is a completely different story.

<aquatic_glowsquid> Chagen wants to shove frozen marshmallows up his ass.
<aquatic_glowsquid> and uh I must go

01:13:42 <Solstace> Oh, god, I'm getting sucked into the world of Penguindrum analysis.
01:13:44 <Solstace> >.>
01:14:14 <Spacethash> It could be worse Solstace.
01:14:20 <JBridge> Yeah.
01:14:20 <Solstace> You're right.
01:14:25 <Solstace> It could be Evangelion analysis.
01:14:25 <JBridge> You could be analyzing Eva.

<IllFlower> Were we just all simultaneously in the shower?
<IllFlower> Freaky.
<Barcodrawing> Great. Now we're going to have to name this The Shower Incident.
<Rig> Let's not.

<Barcode[WoT]> but what this amounts to is "my german tanks are coated in asbestos"
<Barcode[WoT]> coated in gasoline*
<RocketDude> Gasbestos
<RocketDude> It's useless
<Barcode[WoT]>  Bestbestos.
<Interrobangven> Asworstos

<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.

<blamspam> What does it mean to have a gendered approach to war and peace issues? Choose one example of a failed gendered approach in a peacebuilding or military effort, and one that succeeded. Analyze how gender issues contribute to the success or failure of the peace efforts you have selected.
<Fiora> missiles are clearly phallic objects, so the US navy's focus on missile cruisers is clearly an example of a gendered approach to warfare, in which they assault enemy nations with volleys of long, hard objects representing American masculinity.