Does this sound familiar?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Your cheap imitations can't fool us. The Time Cube brooks no competition from the obviously flawed three-sided view of the universe.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I find it amazing and distressing the influence such a fundamentally retarded website could have gone so far.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It makes me laugh far more than it distresses me.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I find it amazing that someone can master the skills necessary to publish something on the web, yet at the same time apparently cannot master spelling and grammar.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Spelling and grammar are much more difficult than publishing on the web, IMO.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Isn't Something Awful a satire site? Or are you talking about the TIMECUBE?
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
quote: Spelling and grammar are much more difficult than publishing on the web, IMO.
I disagree. Spelling and grammar are considered tedious by most people. They are also often let slide because lazy people can resort to "you know what I mean, anyway". At any rate, they are no more difficult than anything else in life that requires attention to detail.
And yeah, this site might be satire, but there are plenty of sites just like it on the web that aren't.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I'd agree that spelling and grammar are much more complicated. One can learn enough to put up a silly web page (particularly with a WYSIWYG editor, but even with HTML) in a few hours. Spelling and grammar take years.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I'm still skeptical. To a large extent many of the same skills necessary to learn spelling and grammar (which "take years") are also necessary to create the web page so from the point where the two diverge I think they're about equal in difficulty to learn. And if you're talking HTML, I think grammar might be a little easier, at least with grammar you have spoken language to give you an enormous head start. For HTML, you have to learn all the syntax cold. No one speaks in HTML.
Posted by RRR (Member # 6601) on :
less-than sign p greater-than sign. what are you talking about? less-than sign i greater-than sign I less-than sign slash i greater-than sign talk in HTML all the time. less-than sign slash p greater-than sign.
[ October 06, 2004, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: RRR ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
*resolves to avoid copper and caves*
*backslides*
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
On the other hand, Karl, grammar rules are often left by the wayside in conversational speech, and, obviously, it's quite possible to know how to speak without knowing how to spell. Programming languages, though, usually require their rules to be followed in order for the resulting program to execute properly. HTML (a markup language) isn't even as strict as a programming language. Add to that the likelihood that most amateurs either use a WYSIWYG editor or just program by cookbook and there you go.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
*BECOMES AN EXPLODED PERSON*
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
this is all truth and science cannot prove it is not! Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Publishing on the web is not something that takes much attention to detail. A WYSIWYG editor lets you create content without understanding anything about HTML. Many ISPs have extremely easy-to-use sytems set up for their customers to upload web pages.
Posted by Defenestraitor (Member # 6907) on :
This is hands-down one of the funniest conspiracy-theory/new-wave satires I have ever seen. Actually, I think it's the only one. But it's done *SOOOO* well! What is this "Time Cube" you referred to, Dag? I would like to buy into that as well.
Does anyone want my jar of pennies? I now find them wholly evil.
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