Glossary of Terms

Quick translation guide for those wondering what the various terms you see in support chat logs mean.

my brother – person’s brother who is really said person but is too embarrassed to admit it
my roommate – person’s roommate who is really said person but is too embarrassed to admit it
my boy/girlfriend – person’s boy/girlfriend who is really said person but is too embarrassed to admit it
problem with account – problem with seeding and ratio management
tracker error screwed up my stats – hacked client changed my stats
I don’t know how this might have happened – If I pretend to be stupid and ignorant hopefully you’ll be just as stupid and ignorant
how do I seed if I can’t download? – I didn’t read the wiki.

Anyway, those of you with technical concerns not related to ratio, feel free to drop by with your questions 🙂

K-On no Naku Koro Ni

Ok, so, inspired by this image, I was supposed to have written said fic (though I’m sure many other have tried before me). But due to a lack of effort and not having seen K-On yet (Kristen promised me BruReis so I’ll wait~), this fic could not be written yet. Faced with the prospect of delaying this fic until it is no longer effective, I decided to just post this snippet:

*Potential Spoilers*

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Hi

Caught on IRC today:

-!- #bakabt + user [user@hostmask]
< user> ciao
< user> !list
-!- #bakabt : user kicked by MarchHare ([NO !list])
-!- #bakabt + user [user@hostmask]
< user> hi
< user> !list
-!- #bakabt : user kicked by MarchHare ([NO !list])
-!- #bakabt + user [user@hostmask]
< user> hello
< user> !list
-!- #bakabt : user kicked by MarchHare ([NO !list])

Yes, that happened consecutively, from the same user. Learn fast, user.

Trap-formers

So… what’s the takeaway from Transformers 2?

Even if you’ve conquered nanotechnology, the-art-of-making-giant-mecha, underwater as well as space operation, system hacking and subterfuge, and even mastered the art of making traps-with-tails… you will still lose to kung-fu.

And also, the movie’s internal project name was actually Megan Fox and some fleshbags (and a bunch of Transformers). But it was quite a mouthful so they shortened it to just Transformers instead. True story.

The Loli of Troy

How do you make a Trojan that nobody can remove? By making them not want to remove it, of course!

Random Idea #34
1. Write a Trojan
2. Incorporate it into a desktop loli app that puts a loli character on your desktop
3. Give it voice capability with speech bubbles
4. Idea from Libresse: “damn it kureshii what if it moaned each time you’d try to kill the process?”

Enjoy your information network, courtesy of your loli-controlled users 😀

See Also: Random Idea #23

Ughh, downtown

I hate going downtown. There’s nothing to see there, the pedestrian walkways stink of automotive exhaust and fucking cigarette smoke, and people walk so slow they’re like chibis with fucking stumps for legs. Each time I go for a few hours and come home with a sore throat from all that air pollution >.< And let’s not even get started on noise pollution.

Maybe that’s why city people are so cranky – cities are just horrible places to live in.

How not to PM Staff: Part 2

Received in one our our PMs:

are you competent
From ________ on _____ on ______

apparently [moderator 1] and [moderator 2] aren’t :unsure.gif:
[… rest of message …]

It might not have occurred to some users yet, but we staff members do talk to each other. The last thing you want to do is try to bypass a mod/admin’s decision and get things done your way by asking another mod/admin.

We may get on each other’s nerves once in awhile, or crack jokes at each others’ expense, but that’s not the ticket for you to try to pit us against each other. In fact, doing so is likely to produce the opposite effect, i.e. putting your request on lower priority, or on an unwritten blacklist.

Here, I’ll ignore the obvious foolishness of questioning a mod/admin’s competence and writing off the competence of other staff members. If you’re asked by a staff member to do something, do it and don’t try to ask another staff member to approve/grant it without resolving the issue. We don’t bypass each others’ decisions (except occasionally, by accident), so just don’t even think about it.

How not to PM staff

Subject: (no subject)

i no longer have any of these what am i to do now?

I can’t say I have absolutely no idea what he’s asking, but I can’t give a helpful, clear response until I’m sure of his situation (assuming too much isn’t a good thing). So learn from this and don’t do it to other staff members (on Boxtorrents or other sites) as well 😉

Heck, don’t even do it to anyone, staff member or not.