trolletgunnar
4th Level Troll
A Swedish player who holds the Tunnels and trolls banner high.
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Post by trolletgunnar on Jan 31, 2024 7:40:15 GMT -5
Whoopee! it's time to make the official call for articles for TrollsZine 15! If you have a submission send it to me at my email address found in the Official TrollsZine! Submission and Style guide. (Those red words above are actually a link, try clicking it, it's really cool!) It tried it, and it was cool!
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Post by houndle on Jan 31, 2024 10:02:44 GMT -5
Got a solo nearly ready which I will submit in about a week. Mostly done but need to do the boring administrative bits. May need to discuss - it is slightly long but there is a section which could be spun out into a separate article if needs be.
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darrght
4th Level Troll
Wow, I'm a 4th Level Troll!
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Post by darrght on Jan 31, 2024 10:48:25 GMT -5
The link to submission guidelines is kinda cool alkazar
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Post by alkazar on Jan 31, 2024 15:08:25 GMT -5
YAY! I'm glad everyone loved the link!
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Post by alkazar on Jan 31, 2024 15:13:04 GMT -5
Got a solo nearly ready which I will submit in about a week. Mostly done but need to do the boring administrative bits. May need to discuss - it is slightly long but there is a section which could be spun out into a separate article if needs be. We'll take a look when you get it done. I don't mind long solos. We're just starting so we haven't gotten anywhere near the 50-60 pages we need and once it's formatted and arted out, it may be a little shorter, weirder things have happened.
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Post by alkazar on Feb 9, 2024 0:41:53 GMT -5
Anybody got a monster or two they'd like to submit?
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Post by branderwydd /|\ on Feb 9, 2024 17:14:11 GMT -5
Anybody got a monster or two they'd like to submit? I've got a couple I could submit if you want.
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Post by alkazar on Feb 10, 2024 2:19:25 GMT -5
Excellent! submit those monsters! Just make sure they get a good description so our artists will know how to draw them.
Thank You!
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Post by mahrundl on Feb 10, 2024 7:52:39 GMT -5
Sorry, the monsters that I create never submit. They fight to the death!
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Post by ProfGremlin on Feb 10, 2024 9:01:19 GMT -5
Hah! Reminds me of The Klingon Programmer's Code of Honour- Specifications are for the weak and timid.
- State-of-the-art hardware is a prerequisite to do battle with code.
- One cannot truly appreciate "Dilbert" without reading it in the original Klingon.
- Indentation is for enemy skulls, not code.
- Klingons do not "release" software. Klingon software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of design engineers and quality assurance people in its path.
- Klingon function calls have no parameters. They have arguments! And they always win them.
- Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
- Quality Assurance issues are best solved with a Batleth.
- A true Klingon warrior does not comment his code.
- Our users shall know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
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Post by alkazar on Feb 19, 2024 17:56:52 GMT -5
Hah! Reminds me of The Klingon Programmer's Code of Honour- Specifications are for the weak and timid.
- State-of-the-art hardware is a prerequisite to do battle with code.
- One cannot truly appreciate "Dilbert" without reading it in the original Klingon.
- Indentation is for enemy skulls, not code.
- Klingons do not "release" software. Klingon software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of design engineers and quality assurance people in its path.
- Klingon function calls have no parameters. They have arguments! And they always win them.
- Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
- Quality Assurance issues are best solved with a Batleth.
- A true Klingon warrior does not comment his code.
- Our users shall know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
You know, I always found it funny when I watched episodes of StarTrek and they would mention Klingon scientists... like really? Those exist? Somewhere on the Klingon home world there is a computer lab filled with young Klingons in lab coats, complete with pocket protectors and horn rimmed glasses. A large buck toothed lad with an oily comb over is making low growling sounds while loudly tapping on a keyboard with a single finger. The words "qo' vIvan!" appear on his screen and he jumps to his feet yelling Kaplah! and everyone in the room joins in. I guess I always figured that most of their tech was stolen and maintained through slave labour.
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mosker
5th Level Troll
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Post by mosker on Feb 19, 2024 19:18:49 GMT -5
You know, I always found it funny when I watched episodes of StarTrek and they would mention Klingon scientists... like really? Those exist? Somewhere on the Klingon home world there is a computer lab filled with young Klingons in lab coats, complete with pocket protectors and horn rimmed glasses. A large buck toothed lad with an oily comb over is making low growling sounds while loudly tapping on a keyboard with a single finger. The words "qo' vIvan!" appear on his screen and he jumps to his feet yelling Kaplah! and everyone in the room joins in. I guess I always figured that most of their tech was stolen and maintained through slave labour. But then, considering the rivalries (Watson & Crick v Pauling, Leibniz v Pascal...and then there's Feynman heckling the string theory people among others while they were presenting to an audience of their peers) and the history of medicine, a bunch of Klingons handling "peer review" with bat'leths feels more civilized than anything in our experience and infinitely more credible than logic and kumbaya version of the Vulcan Science Academy they present in the brochures, but then... (Total kismet, mind you considering the metric ton of Star Trek episodes, books, games etc. I've never spent time with)
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Post by ProfGremlin on Feb 19, 2024 20:29:43 GMT -5
<snip> ...complete with pocket protectors and horn rimmed glasses.</snip> What I want to know is just what creature a Klingon would hunt for its horns to make those glasses.
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Post by alkazar on Feb 19, 2024 21:10:45 GMT -5
But then, when you think about the rivalries (Watson & Crick v Pauling, Leibniz v Pascal...and then there's Feynman heckling the string theory people among others while they were presenting to an audience of their peers) and the history of medicine, a bunch of Klingons handling "peer review" with bat'leths feels more civilized than our history and infinitely more credible than logic/kumbaya version of the Vulcan Science Academy they present in the brochures, but then... Well, a bat'leth would help ensure transparency and provide a more satisfying forum to express opinions or air grievances.
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Post by alkazar on Feb 19, 2024 21:13:27 GMT -5
What I want to know is just what creature a Klingon would hunt for its horns to make those glasses. I'm sure there is something on that planet they can use. That is, provided they haven't already eaten it into extinction.
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