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[Yoink]

A system that I think would be great for a gladiator-themed campaign would be... The Riddle of Steel, or more likely its successor whose title I can't remember. Highly lethal, strategic battles with crazily indepth combat rules, whilst still being simple enough that a lazy sod like me could figure them out.

[Orange Wizard]

sod

* II approves.

[Bauglir]

>First meeting of lab for a computer class
>Our first shot at the program we were supposed to write is doing crazy nonsense
>Call over the TA
>He's never seen that particular nonsense before
>None of us know what's going on
>Ask the group if I can take a shot at rewriting the code
>"Yeah sure"
>Pull pseudocode next to keyboard and get started from scratch
>Suddenly spaghetti starts falling out of my pockets
>It's all over the screen
>Incrementing a counter that I go on never to use
>Manually write loops to print characters one at a time*
>Checking an impossible condition to see if I need to break a loop
>TA literally says, "Why would you do this?"
>New version works as intended the first time

I think it's going to be a good semester.

_{*While it made the code less easily readable, which is ultimately a bad thing, I'm still pretty sure THIS was more efficient than the expected strategy, which involved creating an extra array to hold the particular substring we wanted to print, and overwriting it every iteration. This being embedded systems, that might actually be relevant one day, although it certainly wasn't here. And I still say it was more intuitive, given the particular task at hand >__________>}

[Sirus]

...spaghetti

[Tiruin]

...spaghetti

I believe its not the spaghetti we're used to knowing.
^{I am lacking in technical knowledge :x}

Spoiler: Spaghetti (click to show/hide)

Sorry Bauglir.

[Furtuka]

It's a 4chan term. Basically means things are feeling so awkward, embarrassing, and absurd that it's as if spaghetti randomly started falling out of your pockets.

[Orange Wizard]

Spoiler: Spaghetti (click to show/hide)

That was my first thought, too. I realised my mistake after a few minutes of hysterical laughter.

[Tiruin]

It's a 4chan term. Basically means things are feeling so awkward, embarrassing, and absurd that it's as if spaghetti randomly started falling out of your pockets.

So...
Bauglir felt absurd and it was all over the screen?
Or his code was all over the screen? o_O

Because what I got was 'Total Victory Success' from that report there.

Spoiler: Because... (click to show/hide)

Sorry again Bauglir

>Pull pseudocode next to keyboard and get started from scratch
>Suddenly spaghetti starts falling out of my pockets
>It's all over the screen
>Incrementing a counter that I go on never to use
>Manually write loops to print characters one at a time*
>Checking an impossible condition to see if I need to break a loop
>TA literally says, "Why would you do this?"
>New version works as intended the first time

The orange part may get confusing for those who didn't know what spaghetti meant. xD
...And was my initial guess, before I read the rest. :x

[Sirus]

Thanks Furtuka. I just couldn't figure out what spaghetti was doing in a computer programming story without some sort of explanation X_x

[Bauglir]

It's a 4chan term. Basically means things are feeling so awkward, embarrassing, and absurd that it's as if spaghetti randomly started falling out of your pockets.

So...
Bauglir felt absurd and it was all over the screen?
Or his code was all over the screen? o_O

Because what I got was 'Total Victory Success' from that report there.

See, it's a pun, because "spaghetti code" is a term for code that's hard to follow because of its bizarre structure. So it was a spaghetti story about spaghetti code.

[TamerVirus]

Similar 4trends include:

-OPEN THE DOOR / GET ON THE FLOOR /EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR.
-Abruptly transitioning into the theme of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air
-Never Gonna Give You Up
-Then Who Was Phone?

The Moar you know

[flabort]

See also: The Programer's Unwritten Handbook, Glossary, Commonly Used Acronyms and Phrases:
Spaghetti Code (Spah-get-i Code) [Noun]: A large block of undocumented code on a single line, which could be broken into multiple easier to read lines if the original programmer were around to interpret it. See also: Dilbert.
"How come I never see you working?" "I wrote the code governing the company's finances. 3000 lines of pure spaghetti code." "The holy grail of programming" "By the way, you boys might find a couple extra hundred dollars in your accounts next week."

[TCM]

Spaghetti has specific origins in this context to the song "Lose Yourself" Eminem, a power anthem from the perspective of a young aspiring rapper named Rabbit, the protagonist of Eminem's movie 8 Mile. While the song is meant to be powerful and uplifting, one particular line comparing the nervous Rabbit's arms to limp spaghetti before he engaged in a rap battle was picked up as being unintentionally hilarious. Probably because hardcore Eminem just blurts out "ARMS SPAGHETTI" in a rap song.

[SealyStar]

Spaghetti has specific origins in this context to the song "Lose Yourself" Eminem, a power anthem from the perspective of a young aspiring rapper named Rabbit, the protagonist of Eminem's movie 8 Mile. While the song is meant to be powerful and uplifting, one particular line comparing the nervous Rabbit's arms to limp spaghetti before he engaged in a rap battle was picked up as being unintentionally hilarious. Probably because hardcore Eminem just blurts out "ARMS SPAGHETTI" in a rap song.

Ah yes, 8 Mile. The rap battle at the end is awesome.

Spoiler: But I know something about you... (click to show/hide)

You went to Cranbrook, that's a private school
What's the matter dog, you embarrassed?
This guy's a gangsta? His real name's Clarence!

[Kadzar]

Actually, a homebrew D&D setting based in mythological Greece/Mediterranean Sea sounds really fun, especially if you go the full distance with the worldbuilding and mythology. Your lands over the horizon would be expies of Egypt, Britannia, and the Persian Empire.

Yeah, that basically is what Mazes and Minotaurs is (at least I think they have some sort of Britannia/Celtic expy, though I can't recall any off hand), run on a modified D&D Basic base made as a playable parody (it tries to answer the question of what D&D would be like if Gary Gygax into Ancient Greece instead of Medieval times).

-snip-

Oh, I always thought he was saying "Mom's spaghetti". It always seemed like a decidedly unbadass thing to include in a rap song.