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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    TURN LEFT
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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  • edited 2012-05-31 00:08:02
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    you don't even know where my destination is, sign

    i swear, the sheer audacity of signs these days

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    ^that was funny
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Every time I see a wrong-way sign, I think of one of the baddies from Q*bert.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    i remember i used to have a qbert pc game, way way waaaay back in like, 04

    i wonder if i still have it somewhere

  • edited 2012-05-31 00:20:30
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    If that's the Q*bert PC game I'm thinking of, I remember watching a trailer for it a few times. It was on the CD for a Frogger PC game I had.

    I had a lot of fun with that game, even though I wasn't very good at it. Some of the music was pretty nice, like the ones used in the cloud stages.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Both of these are a little blurry, unfortunately, but...

    Old:
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    New:
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  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    this was the one

  • The sadness will last forever.
    blah
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    spacey: Yeah, that was probably it. Sadly, I can't find the trailer I was thinking of on YouTube.

    CA: For some reason, I think the sign looks better with capital letters. I'm not sure what the purpose of those stud-looking things are, though. Are they reflective, maybe?
  • Every time I see a wrong-way sign, I think of one of the baddies from Q*bert.

    What it made me think of was

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^The studs are part of "button copy". They're lights that light up at night.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    my name's ???
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yeah, they're little reflectors, basically, so you can read the sign in your headlights at night. Signs like that look pretty cool up close.

    Nowadays they just make the entire sign with retroreflective sheeting, but 20-25 years ago that wasn't really feasible.
  • edited 2012-05-31 00:36:37
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    You had gained monaters from graduate school, but you are so weak, it's a pity.

    AU and CA: Thanks! I thought they might have had something to do with visibility at night. Sorry for the dumb question.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It's not a dumb question. Button copy signs are relatively rare these days outside a handful of states (like Ohio and Arizona) that used them until 2000 or so.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    Does Wisconsin use them? I could've sworn I've seen them before.
  • The sadness will last forever.

    :D

  • The sadness will last forever.

    wisconsin reminds me of cheese

     

    yummy yummy cheese

  • Stop sinning against nature!
  • The sadness will last forever.

    I WANNA EAT ALL THE CHEESES

  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    No cheese up here. Just trees and usually snow
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I don't know about Wisconsin specifically, but most states did use button copy at some point.

    Most states ditched button copy in the 1990s, because it couldn't compete, cost-wise, with computer-cut lettering. At this point nobody even manufactures button copy lettering anymore.
  • Yahoo is telling me that Canada has some serial killer running around mailing body parts.

    .....

    D:
  • The sadness will last forever.

    MALAYSIA

     

    WITCH DOCTOR

  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    this is when you know computers are evil, when they start putting honest, hard working buttons out of business
  • Tre! Tre's pregnant! And Tre's the father!
  • The sadness will last forever.

    WTF

     

    how that's even possible

  • edited 2012-05-31 00:58:14
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    i remember that!

    now i want dystropia to be a thing again, it was cool

  • The sadness will last forever.
    yum ice cream cake
  • TreTre
    edited 2012-05-31 00:58:25
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    I dunno. Ask the guy who said it.

    I knew you'd get it, Spacey.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    oh i wasn't around that time
  • hey V

    how do you pronounce your new name
  • edited 2012-05-31 01:02:49
    The sadness will last forever.

    ^ ^ Vee Shaw or Vee Shao

     

    Yeah, it's sorta hard to pronounce my new name

  • Hmm, I seem to be both slightly tired and slightly wired right now.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    It actually lasted pretty long, for an ill-conceived self-insert fighting game that suddenly and mysteriously developed a really cool plot.

  • The sadness will last forever.
    I AM ALWAYS WIRED!!!!!!
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    That reminds me. I should probably get to bed if I want to wake up at a reasonable time tomorrow. See you tomorrow, everybody.
  • edited 2012-05-31 01:04:37
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

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    'Night, Gator.

  • I still kind of want to see it done as like a novel or a serial or something

    Not that it'll happen (unless Furiko or myself tries to write it that way), but it'd still be nice
  • edited 2012-05-31 01:07:15
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    Tre said:

    Not that it'll happen (unless Furiko or myself tries to write it that way), but it'd still be nice



    well, i've been failing to think of ideas for writing-type things, so maybe i will write that writing-type thing

    even though i'm terrible at writing writing-type things

  • TreTre
    edited 2012-05-31 01:10:12
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    Hey, I'm terrible at writing writing type things too but I still do it.

    (and if you don't believe me, Stuck at the Galleria '08 is a prime example of said terribleness)
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    I would disagree with that, you're good with the writing writing-type things
  • Well, if that's the case, you can't be terrible at it either. And it's not like you'll get worse at it as you go on, right?
  • edited 2012-05-31 01:17:06
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    yeah, you're probably right.

    maybe it's just that thing where people who create, like, artistic things always see their work as horrible, even though it probably isn't?


    i really hope there's a name for that thing,  and that it's actually a thing as well, otherwise i'll just feel silly

  • TreTre
    edited 2012-05-31 01:28:06
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    TVT calls it "creator backlash".

    Pretty big page too so it's definitely a thing. I definitely get it a lot with my older stuff (for example, Stuck at School in its old 2009 form makes me want to burn it; it is, however, only available on computers, so I cannot do so) but not with newer things, strangely enough.

    Looking at my older things, I don't like some (okay, most) of it but I usually find something redeemable in the work; I usually retool things, but keep similar plots n' characters and stuff (compare and contrast SATG '08 to the current version; it's the same story, most of the characters are the same, but the events almost completely change once Tre gets stuck).

    Weirdly, though, I seem to have been satisfied the most with my third book (which I never got fully done, mostly because I was trying to retool books 1 and 2 so that 3 would make sense; I do, however, know exactly how it will be written and I'm excited to do it) because it wasn't as... childish. Granted, the story itself is a kind of childish one but at least now I have the feeling that it's not as much "kiddy" as it makes you feel like a kid. (There is a very notable difference.)

    ...Oh, look, I wrote another novel! :D
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    whenever i write something, i always try to make it perfect on the first draft

    maybe that's why i don't finish too many writing things

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