TIL: Today I Learned

[BenitoChavez]

TIL there is a very odd website called Civfanatics Wiki

It's like the Urban Dictionary of CFC: OT.

 

[sophie]

No, apparently it's not a story the Jedi would tell me

Oh man. The avatars they have for the pages. Solid throwback.

 

[Synobun]

Are there any people on CFC today that have matching avatars? None come to mind.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I miss antilogic

 

[Sommerswerd]

I'm merely pointing out that most of us aren't safe from the corrupting influence of American media. It tends to make a lot of us cranky.

I can empathize. To analogize in a way I know you will appreciate... you are like the downstairs neighbor of the people who blast their music so loud you can't hear yourself think, all times of day and night, who the police won't do anything about. I am like the child living in the house of those same people.

I don't mean "theory" in the scientific sense. Maybe the words "notion" or "idea" would have been better?

I'd have gone with "joke"

I miss antilogic

Me too. And I feel partly to blame for his absence

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Me too. And I feel partly to blame for his absence

I seem to remember a new job involving a move across the country leaving him without enough time for this. How is that your fault?

 

[Synobun]

Sommer is the job fairy.

 

[Traitorfish]

Are there any people on CFC today that have matching avatars? None come to mind.

I think I last changed my avatar in like 2011. I forget what I had before this one, but it was presumably garbage.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I can empathize. To analogize in a way I know you will appreciate... you are like the downstairs neighbor of the people who blast their music so loud you can't hear yourself think, all times of day and night, who the police won't do anything about. I am like the child living in the house of those same people.

That's apt.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I seem to remember a new job involving a move across the country leaving him without enough time for this. How is that your fault?

That makes me feel a little better ... about my blameworthiness anyway... not his absence.

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL Why email is insecure and will never be secure.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/email-is-dangerous/560780/

 

[Arakhor]

Are there any people on CFC today that have matching avatars? None come to mind.

I've never changed my avatar since I've been able to.

 

[Synobun]

I've never changed my avatar since I've been able to.

I don't know why you and Traitorfish thought my question was referring to people still using the same avatar as they were years ago.

I was referring to several members having avatars from the same source material. There was a time when @Dachs, @Crezth, and @Owen Glyndwr all had ATLA avatars.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I don't know why you and Traitorfish thought my question was referring to people still using the same avatar as they were years ago.

I was referring to several members having avatars from the same source material. There was a time when @Dachs, @Crezth, and @Owen Glyndwr all had ATLA avatars.

Well, you and Valka both have cats. Does that count?

 

[Synobun]

Ah, but not cats from the same material!

I think.

They could be siblings. But probably not.

 

[sophie]

Well, you and Valka both have cats. Does that count?

Also Lucky and a couple others.

It was consciously done. We also had a period where a number of us all had rap artists as our avatars.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Ah, but not cats from the same material!

I think.

They could be siblings. But probably not.

I used to have a Cat on a CAT as my avatar......
made it from this

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Ah, but not cats from the same material!

I think.

They could be siblings. But probably not.

To the best of my knowledge, all cats are made from the same material.

 

[Lexicus]

To the best of my knowledge, all cats are made from the same material.

That material of course being a non-Newtonian fluid of some kind. Cat dynamics are still poorly-understood by physics.

 

[Cutlass]

That makes me feel a little better ... about my blameworthiness anyway... not his absence.

Last I heard he was back in Boston.