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[alway]

Today, I fixed code by turning my machine off and back on again. After trying to debug/fix it for 11 hours.

[Chaoswizkid]

Today, I fixed code by turning my machine off and back on again. After trying to debug/fix it for 11 hours.

Chaoswizkid sincerely thanks the fickle Programming Gods that he has not been subjected to such a terrible experience.

Seriously, that really sucks.

[Guardian G.I.]

The English phoneme /ð/ (which can be found in words such as "the" and "this") is the worst English thing ever.
It's barely pronouncable on its own. It's completely unpronouncable in words such as "brother".
How the fuck do you guys pronounce this shit? Slightly sticking the tongue between the teeth and pronouncing something similar to "z" doesn't fucking work.

[Vector]

It's not "slightly."  The tip of the tongue should protrude just beyond the upper teeth and curl upwards, with a lot of tension in it.  If you try to make a "z" noise you'll end up with the tip curling down and behind the lower teeth.  Try saying "d" with your tongue sticking out a little instead.  If you say "ddddddd," you'll get the sound you want.

[Mech#4]

The English phoneme /ð/ (which can be found in words such as "the" and "this") is the worst English thing ever.
It's barely pronouncable on its own. It's completely unpronouncable in words such as "brother".
How the fuck do you guys pronounce this shit? Slightly sticking the tongue between the teeth and pronouncing something similar to "z" doesn't fucking work.

If I can decipher the obtuse phoneme alphabet (which I never see used outside of articles explaining it. Really, it seems kind of difficult for the average person to understand) it's the TH sound yes?

I'd say it's like F. If you can go fffff (lips together and blow air through the hole, TH is the same but with your tongue slightly between the teeth. There is a bit of buzzing in the throat, like in V.

I do hope there's not too much spittle.

[Blargityblarg]

The English phoneme /ð/ (which can be found in words such as "the" and "this") is the worst English thing ever.
It's barely pronouncable on its own. It's completely unpronouncable in words such as "brother".
How the fuck do you guys pronounce this shit? Slightly sticking the tongue between the teeth and pronouncing something similar to "z" doesn't fucking work.

If I can decipher the obtuse phoneme alphabet (which I never see used outside of articles explaining it. Really, it seems kind of difficult for the average person to understand) it's the TH sound yes?

I'd say it's like F. If you can go fffff (lips together and blow air through the hole, TH is the same but with your tongue slightly between the teeth. There is a bit of buzzing in the throat, like in V.

I do hope there's not too much spittle.

I think you've got the wrong TH sound; there's the hard one, the greek thita(think, thought, thorough) and the soft one, the greek delta (then, there, thus). The delta (the one we're looking for) has much more to do with v than with f; take a vvvvvvv noise, touch your upper teeth with your tongue and hold it; you'll get a kind of purr in the back of your throat, but it won't really be recognisable as  a th noise until you retract your tongue; that is, at least for me, what makes the major part of the sound happen.

[Mech#4]

The English phoneme /ð/ (which can be found in words such as "the" and "this") is the worst English thing ever.
It's barely pronouncable on its own. It's completely unpronouncable in words such as "brother".
How the fuck do you guys pronounce this shit? Slightly sticking the tongue between the teeth and pronouncing something similar to "z" doesn't fucking work.

If I can decipher the obtuse phoneme alphabet (which I never see used outside of articles explaining it. Really, it seems kind of difficult for the average person to understand) it's the TH sound yes?

I'd say it's like F. If you can go fffff (lips together and blow air through the hole, TH is the same but with your tongue slightly between the teeth. There is a bit of buzzing in the throat, like in V.

I do hope there's not too much spittle.

I think you've got the wrong TH sound; there's the hard one, the greek thita(think, thought, thorough) and the soft one, the greek delta (then, there, thus). The delta (the one we're looking for) has much more to do with v than with f; take a vvvvvvv noise, touch your upper teeth with your tongue and hold it; you'll get a kind of purr in the back of your throat, but it won't really be recognisable as  a th noise until you retract your tongue; that is, at least for me, what makes the major part of the sound happen.

Ah, I do believe your right. I may speak English but to my ear those TH sound so close they may as well be the same. Position of the tongue is different though.

[kaenneth]

imagine you are scraping gunk off the back of your front teeth with your tounge while blowing out.

[LordSlowpoke]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE INDOOR VOICE IN PEOPLE TODAY

THEY ALWAYS FUCKING SCREAM AT EACH OTHER BUT TODAY IS LIKE THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF VOICE AUGMENTATION COURTESY OF FUCK YOU INC

[MaximumZero]

I've had to use my godmode voice (FUS RO DAH!) a couple of times here at the resort. The workers usually give me a big eyed look like I'm chewing them out, but really, I just want a sandwich and my normal voice can't cut through the background noise.

[IronTomato]

Spore still has patches?

The asymmetry patch is still available but it hasn't had a new patch in years. And the actual last patch, the bot parts patch, was available in every state except Maine.

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Frumple]

... why not maine?

[Iceblaster]

Evil clowns.

Among many things

[IronTomato]

It was supposed to be a promo in the US where you could download robot parts for your critters if you found a code on a marked Dr. Pepper soda (or if you ordered one at a certain restaurant, I can't remember which). However it was also the only way to download the newest update for the game.

Everyone else was disgruntled because it was only in the US. But I was mad because everywhere else in the US except for where I lived.

... why not maine?

Because EA.

[Neyvn]

SO...
At the end of last month I thought to myself, "You know what I haven't played lately... Guild Wars 2...."
SO after downloading the client ALL OVER AGAIN (Which if you have ever tried to download takes god damn long due to their download servers being fucked, whats that you download at just over 1mb/s? LOL! NOPE try downloading at less then 200kb/s OR BETTER YET 1kb/s)

So anyway, after a day or so of waiting, I finally am sitting there looking at the login laucher...... WTF WAS MY LOGIN DETAILS!!?!?!?

So. I click, "Forgot Username/Password"

What is your Email, Serial Number and a character on your account........... WTF!?!?! Ok sure they may need to ask for the Serial Number due to the fact that large MMOs like this require absolute knowledge that you are playing your account, BUT CHARACTER NAME!?!?! If you haven't been playing there is no way in hell you will remember... Go on, try and remember a name for a character you made on a REALLY OLD game....

ANYWAY, I filled it out the best I could, NOPE, Contact Support... SO I do...

"We found that the account attached to this serial number uses an Email different to the one you have supplied, though it is attached to the accounts Beta, please verify that this is still your account." (Loosely transcribed...)

Ok so, I was in the Beta, I signed up with my Normal Email which is the same as the one I am using now, but when the game came out, it kinda derped and wouldn't let me use the same one for the real game, and so I used an older one I still sort of used. Nowdays, I never use it cause its filled with spam that some "Friends" decided to prank me with by signing up to like 1000 sites newsletters with, which is a lot if you consider things like Porn and "Penis Enlargement" newsletters you can sign up to with little to no repuccusions other then an email which would take you forever to stop every single one... I abandoned that Email account straight away.... BUT, this was well after I stopped playing GW2...

Anyway, after like 3 days of them asking me question and question for me to prove that it was my account they finally exchanged the email to my true account. Oh and in doing that they reset my password.......... OK. AND what was my new password? Oh thats sent to my OLD EMAIL. FFS...

So I let them know, another day later, I get the password. I set up a new password, go back to the Launcher...

"The Username/Password is invalid. Please make sure your blah blah blah...."

WTF... So I go to log back into my Account to clear up my password again, double check all my log in details...

"The Username/Password is invalid. Please make sure your blah blah blah...."

Double WTF with a FFS on top...

And here we are. Sent them another plea for help. I really really hate these sorts of Account Protection, but seriously... WTF