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[Caz]

I found a name tag here at work that says shoes, so I put it on my shoes. Simple moment of silliness that made me giggle intensely.

Madlads

[EnigmaticHat]

In MGS-verse, simple cardboard boxes are regarded as invaluable equipment, like towels in the hitchhiker's guide.

The bizarre thing?

There are delivery points for cardboard boxes.

The enemy (I assume, since no civilians are present) uses them with no questions. Even if they have seen the (various) cardboard box trick(s) before.

Also, you can't kick the clumps of mini-cardboard boxes to break them the way you can with wooden crates. This proves that the box is, and always will be, superior.

Its questionable why the military uses cardboard boxes at all.  Its a form of storage that resists neither fire nor weather.  That's even a gameplay point.

The being said the enemy has never seen cardboard box tricks before no matter how many times you do it.  Remember the first rule of soviet radio discipline: the cardboard box guy is ALWAYS pulling you leg.  It never actually moved, and anyone who admits otherwise will be sent to gulag.

[AzyWng]

Its questionable why the military uses cardboard boxes at all.  Its a form of storage that resists neither fire nor weather.  That's even a gameplay point.

It's cheap.

And this is the military we're talking about.

Does the military really need any other reason? I mean, they have all the guns while civilians like us have a few guns at the best of times.

Also, the questionable radio SOP doesn't explain the African PFs. Then again, at least one African Warlord was willing to ask the Diamond Dogs to kill kids, so maybe not believing cardboard box tricks is a thing.

It also doesn't explain the alternate Diamond Dogs (the ones you visit for FOBs). Then again, it's never explained how you visit them (wormholes, sure, but how do those even get set up in enemy territory in the first place?)

[EnigmaticHat]

Sorry, fictional military.  I doubt a real occupation force would transport anything in cardboard

[Egan_BW]

It also doesn't explain the alternate Diamond Dogs (the ones you visit for FOBs). Then again, it's never explained how you visit them (wormholes, sure, but how do those even get set up in enemy territory in the first place?)

Because the flow of time is convoluted in this land.

[Akura]

The other "Diamond Dogs" whose FOBs you attack are actually supposed to be other Private Forces(PFs) that have modeled themselves after Big Boss' organization. This includes building massive off-shore platforms as bases.

[Reelya]

Had to share this one again, the weirdness of repeated Japanese characters in Google Translate:


"ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ ぐえ" = Please make sure to pick up yourself from the airport by e - mail.

... Ok I will do that ...

[Felissan]

And that times two is "Please contact your nearest Sony dealer for assistance." Sounds more like an easter egg than anything else.

[Reelya]

It's not an easter egg, every possible permutation of these characters gives different weird shit. It's the result of them pointing deep learning algorithms at the data, which was texts and their translations, and it obviously got a large amount of hotel directions etc, because this specific sequence is full of fragments of that. We're giving the NN data outside the training set, so it's matching it to parts of the training set as best it can. Think textual version of Deep Dreams. e.g. the phrase you gave changes slightly the more characters you add or subtract.

you'll see what I mean if you enter the string ぐえ or えぐ into translate then keep pasting it again (with or without a space between each repeat give different sequences)

Basically every permutation of the characters give different shit. If it was "easter eggs" then they would have to have coded a table of trillions of combinations.

[EnigmaticHat]

One of the disappointments of tech for me has been realizing that we aren't quite at babel fish yet.  I'd like to know what the Chinese person on the street thinks but any info there is going to be limited and filtered, by language barriers if nothing else.

Edit: shit this is the funny thread, um DECEAR EGG

[Felissan]

Edit: shit this is the funny thread, um DECEAR EGG

GOOD GOOD LARGE

[EnigmaticHat]

This eggnog is eggcelenntttttttt

EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG EGGNOG

[Felissan]

There's only one remedy to that eggnog spam!

Spoiler: えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ えぐ (click to show/hide)

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[Rolan7]

It is, in a roundabout way, the true death of Dark Side Phil. that notable vampire
http://imgur.com/a/CQraJ

[Eric Blank]

Playing stellaris, i found a mountain range sized skeleton in one system and a giant turd-asteroid in another nearby system. My scientists tell me there was evidence of a dimensional gateway at the rear of the dead organism, they think it came from another dimension and died. I suspect it shit itself hard enough to launch a turd out of one system into another.