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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby BurningLed » Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:08 am UTC

You could always make it a simple EBWOP - Edit By Way Of Post. Popular in Mafia, where you can't edit your posts because then you could cover up clus you acidentally left beind.

I was doing so damn well until the end of that sentince. Godfuckingdfamingtiyab.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Nat » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:31 pm UTC

Pre I think that's part of the point of this thread, though I see your point. still I think someone said specifically you should do that somewhere.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Mishrak » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:15 pm UTC

Well that's interesting.. I use backspace somuch when I type that i'll find it hard to believe ffs i didn't want to type believe, well whatever. I'll find it hard to imagine be - ffs! I've had to resist using backspace so much beaucse I change what I type and m y typing stile is a bit erratic and now even more so because i'm actually paying attentiuon to it and not realizing how many mistakes i actually make when I type. Bloody barg! Why did I post in this thread?
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Kromix » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:20 pm UTC

i will lol at you and your futile attempts at c posting something coherent, . i normally backsta- backspace one or two words because my word filter is nearly nil and my thought changes happen while i'm typing the prevoir word,. in a way, type whil-- think one word ahead from what you type. :( somewhat . yet still need to backst- backspace a bit.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby BurningLed » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:01 pm UTC

Yes, I have that probelm when I'm typing ocunted--counters sometimes I type cotuners or coutners, but that's seem to have alleviated a bit, because I didn't type coutners when I was trying to type counters; pretty cool stroy bro. Cool story bro*.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Kromix » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:13 pm UTC

itsy bitsy spider, crawled up the water spout! :D om nom nom nomnom om chomp chomp nom nom....


you are an ewe and backspace ate my yew
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby bantler » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:42 pm UTC

I can't imagine why this could be difficult. I also touch type so I'm just assuming everythiing up there where my eyes aren't is correctly spelled.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby WarDaft » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:47 pm UTC

Play, Let's the see/

Waff;e duck it;s an.

Now don't use it.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Lazar » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:52 pm UTC

And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themslelves accursed they were not here, and hold their manohoods cheap whiles any speaks who typed with us upon No Bakspace day.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby cjdrum » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:57 am UTC

BurningLed wrote:You could always make it a simple EBWOP - Edit By Way Of Post. Popular in Mafia, where you can't edit your posts because then you could cover up clus you acidentally left beind.

I was doing so damn well until the end of that sentince. Godfuckingdfamingtiyab.

You totally should play Mafia. Everyone kinda should, but tha fact that you know this...

I don't really know. I do like this game, and then I go a and accidentally press an 'a' instead of an 'e', then accidentally press a spacew!!! (and than a 'w', dammit)

(and then the wrong 'then
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby KrazyerKate » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:28 am UTC

The problem with these sorts of games is that nobody ever holds a real discussion: everyone lways talks about the fact that they aren't using the backspace key, meaning that in a few pages, after everyone has said "gee, thi s sure is hard. haha, look at the typos!", it'll die. My ideal forum game would involve a n i elite few players who post consistenly and make conversation and we can see their typing get progressively better and better.

And for a person that hates threads that devolve into metadiscussion and then die, this post had a lot of metadiscussion.

The quick brown fox jumped uover the lazy dog wait did I type that sentence right?

yes I did (just checked google) I could have sworn it was longer. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy god. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox ljumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. SUCCESS.
The quick brown fox jumps over the leazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. SUCCESSx3.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby cjdrum » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:35 am UTC

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (success!)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (success again!)
The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox. (semi-success!)

Like this, KK>?

(dammit bkiidy question mark was higing)
Wow. I might type "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" a bit, if I can do it so well :lol:
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby phlip » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:48 am UTC

[eyes closed][codr]#includr <stdio.h>

int main(coid)
{
int n = 10;
while (n --> 0)
printf("%d\n", n);
return 0;
}[/codr]
[/eyes closed]

Well... hmm... it was close? I think I need to move my 'e' and 'r' keys around...
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby mr_pathetic » Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:45 am UTC

I find the direction of this thread amusing. :wink:
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby John Citizen » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:06 am UTC

KrazyerKate wrote:The problem with these sorts of games is that nobody ever holds a real discussion: everyone lways talks about the fact that they aren't using the backspace key, meaning that in a few pages, after everyone has said "gee, thi s sure is hard. haha, look at the typos!", it'll die. My ideal forum game would involve a n i elite few players who post consistenly and make conversation and we can see their typing get progressively better and better.

That's actuallt an interesting point. I think that whe should begin with a simple question, such as "How was toue dat today?" This couldd eventually evolve into an interesting discussion on the nature of the inicerse, and a siscussion od the mond and what defines snetience. A paarallel would then be drawon with the improvement n typinf acility.

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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby KrazyerKate » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:42 am UTC

The attempted seriousness of that post combined with the amount of typos made your post hilarious to me.

My day hasn't been fine yet (it's 5am), bt it will bed onec it gets started. I'm doing a bit of volunteer work with a friend and it's going to be 90 degrees F outside. This would be miserable for most people, but I love it.

for)int x = 0; x < thread.length(); x++){
String name = user dammit ignore that line
String name = thread[x].usernamel;
System.ou.t.println(name + ", you are awesome for posting in this thread"_)';

}
Wow, coding is hard. goddamn brackets and parentheses are next to so many other keys that I don't press normally.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby John Citizen » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:12 pm UTC

Yeaj, well I've never been nuch of a technical expert. As for degrees Farenheit,90 is hot, isn'r it? I'm used to celsios. [sixe[=1=-0[][size][size-p[a[size-so[size=1[sizw[size=1Sillt imperial units are useless.

Wow, it took me ages to get the size tag right. I see the word so mugh that it is veginning to loon not at all like a word. Antwat, this mat be an ovvious question from the avove, but what ut woue preferred system of units: Imperial, metric or planck?

I never knew that I typed so badly.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Phrozt » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:36 pm UTC

Wow. This thread really gtook off. I think you could also lump me in the group that would most likely delete things due to wanting to word it better.

Aslo, I wonder if anyone is working on their speed?

I m actually kinda surprised I'm doing so well, given the fact that my typeing has gone WAAAY down hill from all of my League of Legends playing.

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The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Felstaff » Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:52 pm UTC

I ahve decided to us e this thread as my rant thread so I can spew vitriol yet keep to my promise of not using the backspace key, however I have alccidte ... ahem... accidentally cheated serveral times. See back there where it says "us e", well, I accdiently backspaced there, and one --I mean once more-- around the part where I wrote "rant".

Now, for a clean break.

The quick brown fox joumps over the lazy dog. At some point in my life it was always "lazy, sleeping dog", but I think whoever added that used "hjumped" instead of "jump". HOW INEFFICIENT. I'm worndering ...fuck it I give up. To me "incapable of using backspace" also means "incapable of breaking the flow and multitasking such as tabbing to another site as I had a fleeting thought (which has now passed). OH YES, that was it, I was attempting to recall words I commonly misspell. (I forfot to complete the quotation marks there, so here's a special " for you, so you aren't left with an uneasy feeling for the rest of the day.

Hey, perhaps I should read the OP. I'll just go do that now. Huh. Seems the rules were eself-explanatory in the title of the thread, so I'm doing right. I'm usually scared of the forum games people, as they often shout at me for breaking rules, and I bite my tongue and hold back my tears (hey I'm getting better at this accuracte-typing thing...) (I said "better", not "perfect"). Now, I'm going to rant about the shithead I work with; he offers to make everyone a cup of tea except me. Like, extremely overtly and blantantly in asking everyone on the table about makeing tea EXCEPT me. What an asshole! It's not like he's . It's not like I'd say yes anyway, as his tea is shit, and we live in a hard water area so if you reboil the water, you get an unpleasant scum ring of minerals around the rim/surface of teh tea. And when he has made tea in the past, there's like a layer of calcified pondscum floating on top. Ewww. I use the filtered water in the kettle, and I let it brew for at least 3 minutes (but no longer than four), and I take the kettle off the boil before it, you know, fully boils. Long story short, my trea is the shit, and his tea is WANK, and I'm *still* annoyed that ne never offers to make it.

Hey who likes Pina Coladas? The shitty secretary here does all her work in one big chunk (and she's a bit of a bug chunk herself) and because I rely on her to send me stuff once she's admin'd it all up on the system, I end up waiting around playing Infinity Blade, and then BAM!" everything gets sent to me in one block of shit. Bah. I have to wade thorough it now, and there's only 40 minutes of work to be getting on with.

What's your favourite forum game? I want to nuke that fucking Necromancy game to the great boneyard of wasted carcass and scurry death. It keeps appearing in my 'view your posts' egosearch, and I want rid of it already. Where's that screenshot therad gone? I liked that one. Kudos to the IP. I mean "OP".

Well I can't stand around here all day; I have to get the Smeg-Hammer and loosen Mr. Lister's underwear.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Gypped » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:22 pm UTC

A brilliant and smarthy post, Felstaff. It kept me enraptured all the way throughout its procession. I'm ty - trying not to look at my fingers or the screen and just type this from feel alone. I wonder wh- how I'm doing. I know I've transposed some letters here and there and I've tried to make ammends to fix them with little interjecting hyphens, but for the most part I'm completed- completely clueless as to how well I'm typing this. I just realize that that last sentence was xe- extremely long. Possibly it wou- could be placed into the run-on category of the great gm- grammaticists' vault. I cheated and peaked at hte screen there. I see a little red squiggly underneath the word 'smarthy'. I could have a- sword that was a word. This is why I need the built-in dictionary function while I'm typing anything.

I peaked again. I find it amusing that I typed sword instead of sworn. Anyways, enough ran- rambling about my mistakes as a typist. Today I get to see my teammembers for the first time. We've been assigned together as a group of 'experienced' people to pool our talents together in order to learn a- how to create cell phone applications. I signed up as both a coder and designer, but I honestly have no idea what a designer does on a team such as this. Am I in charge of creating the graphics? Determining the flow the o- ehem, flow of the game? I suppose I shall find out today. I also hope I actually have time for this project while still making significant progress on my research that's geared towards my master's thesis. I would hate toe- to disappoint my mentor. I just got a chuckle thinking of how I might look typing in this manner. Just staring off towards a wall, blindly tapping away at the keys. Hoping above all else that what I'm typing is ch- coherent. Anyways, that's enough exposition for now. This is starting to sound like a diary or journal in my head. I think I messed up journal just then. It felt like I hit too many keys at once there.

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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Gypped » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:23 pm UTC

I just realized I had spelled peeked wrong. I meant the brief look, rather than the mountain top.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Mishrak » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:39 pm UTC

Lol Felstaff. A personal rant thread in the backspace thread is really funny. It kinda reminds me of the FaiD forum, where you can't delete your posts. I find myself often re-reading whatever i've written and since I can't edit it, I'm always more cautious of what I post there. Plus FaiD is nuts and se I just hit backspace there when I was going to say self moderated but I wanted to change it to community moderated. DANGIT! I was doing so good too and not making any mistakes. Bloo AGAGAHGHGHAGHAG. Bloo was supposed to be Bollocks to you mr. No Backps space thread! Mr. No Backspace thread. Blo...........BOLLOCKS B O L L O C K S! ARG. No idea hwo I continue to type bollocks by starting out with b L o..no that shouldn't ah have been capitalized either. Okay fine this has really deteroriated into- i spelled that wrong, a pretty fail post. Fine, whatever. Back to looking for cookies.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Felstaff » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:52 pm UTC

What's fir dinner, eh? "Gin and Tonic!"

It turned out to be true. I spent so long marinading these tiny pathetic slices , well, cubes of chicken, that the only thing to have passed myl lips since 12.30pm this afternon (some9 hours ago) has been this gin 'n' tocin. Uhhh... tonic I've been nursing. Tiem to bring out the stir fry beg! And by beg, I mean veg!

Being unable to go back and change your incorrect text makes you seem exceedingly drunk. This is not the case. Well, not yet anyway. I spent too long at the Portherhouse (Portherouse. Shit. P-o-r-t-e-r-h-o-u-s-e.) last night. And sugsequently woke with a ranging (raging) hangover. Curse them for their deliciou (s) concoction of soem 450+ beers. I've never tried the same brew teicw. ahem, TWICE, in there. Last night I tried some Belgian Satan and two more I can't recall the title off. Some crazy Walloon beverage, I'll wager!

Heh heh; Walloon. The badasses of the Belge.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Phrozt » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:22 pm UTC

THat does sound pretty awesome felstaff. I'd love to visit a place like that.

I most certainly enjoy tasting different pbeers, but there are also nights I just enjoy drinking a lot of whatever beer :). Actually I really just like drinking... doesn't matter if it's alcoholic or not.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Felstaff » Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:50 am UTC

All right, this belongs in the rant thread as it's another rant, but my clumsiness is beginning to grate on me. It's one of thos e retrospective annoyances ("you knew that putting it there would cause it to get spilled, so why did you put it there?") and this morning, one incidence of clumsiness has had a knock-on effect resulting in one of the foulest modds (I mean "moods", but "mods" is also apt!)

So, in a flow chart, how my clumsiness has made my day start distinctly un-right.

One celan workshirt left --> unironed --> get out iron --> place coffee on table (where I rest my mini-ironing board) --> "hmmm, if I leave this coffee here, I might spill it with the ironing board, I mean iron cord --> "naaahhhhh, it'll be fine" --> *splash* --> FFffffuuuuu! --> waste time cleanin up spilt coffee over rug --> shit, coffee on clean shirt! --> use unclean shirt --> leave home 30 seconds later than I need to (my morning ritual is perfectly balanced, you see) --> empty bus whizzes by 3 seconds before I reach stop --? FFfffffuuuu! --> waqlk down to next stop --> another empty bus whizzes past 3 seconds before I reach it --> fffffuuuuUUUU! --> walk don to next bus stop (where I get the drirect bus to work --> miss bus (empty, too) by 3 seconds --> Man this is getting fucking ridiculous! I cannot! --> next bus turns up --> completely packed --> bus ride involves having my face stuffed into sweaty woman's armpit --> empty bus overtakes us. I watch helplessly with my one eye that's not smodged up against woman's blouse.

And that, dear reader (if you had indeed read such a point-by-point diatribe), is why my own stupidity has resulted in a distinctly uncomfortable ride to work. Fortunately for you beautiful people, I am a thoroughly positive person and am laughing about my own clumsiness, and actually feel a little better about the whole debacle. What the hell Firefox? You don't recognise "debacle"?? Oh that's put me in a foul mood for the whole day!
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby KrazyerKate » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:31 am UTC

Felstaff wrote:All right, this belongs in the rant thread as it's another rant, but my clumsiness is beginning to grate on me. It's one of thos e retrospective annoyances ("you knew that putting it there would cause it to get spilled, so why did you put it there?") and this morning, one incidence of clumsiness has had a knock-on effect resulting in one of the foulest modds (I mean "moods", but "mods" is also apt!)

So, in a flow chart, how my clumsiness has made my day start distinctly un-right.

One celan workshirt left --> unironed --> get out iron --> place coffee on table (where I rest my mini-ironing board) --> "hmmm, if I leave this coffee here, I might spill it with the ironing board, I mean iron cord --> "naaahhhhh, it'll be fine" --> *splash* --> FFffffuuuuu! --> waste time cleanin up spilt coffee over rug --> shit, coffee on clean shirt! --> use unclean shirt --> leave home 30 seconds later than I need to (my morning ritual is perfectly balanced, you see) --> empty bus whizzes by 3 seconds before I reach stop --? FFfffffuuuu! --> waqlk down to next stop --> another empty bus whizzes past 3 seconds before I reach it --> fffffuuuuUUUU! --> walk don to next bus stop (where I get the drirect bus to work --> miss bus (empty, too) by 3 seconds --> Man this is getting fucking ridiculous! I cannot! --> next bus turns up --> completely packed --> bus ride involves having my face stuffed into sweaty woman's armpit --> empty bus overtakes us. I watch helplessly with my one eye that's not smodged up against woman's blouse.

And that, dear reader (if you had indeed read such a point-by-point diatribe), is why my own stupidity has resulted in a distinctly uncomfortable ride to work. Fortunately for you beautiful people, I am a thoroughly positive person and am laughing about my own clumsiness, and actually feel a little better about the whole debacle. What the hell Firefox? You don't recognise "debacle"?? Oh that's put me in a foul mood for the whole day!

Well crap, after I hit the "quote" button, I can't go back and backspace it, now Ican I? I only wanted to comment on that last part. Because I didn't read the point-by-poin t diatribe, but can related to your stupidity nonethieless. I believe this makes the first complaint I've ever heard about firefox online. that program is supposed to be the holy muhammad of browsers, flawless and perfect in every way.

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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby BurningLed » Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:15 am UTC

I will go find an apt image for that momentarily. If it's the wrong one, oh el.. I'll -- wait, what? Okay, I don't even remember making that typo. Anyways...

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This is meant purely in a facetious manner, don't mean to offend any muslims out there. Actually this *is* more eligious than I intended, but ohwall. Well. Walls are not wat I want.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby SmoothBlade » Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:23 am UTC

that image is more offensive to chrstians *christians than muslims. provided thats ocama *osamas head not muhammad's.

And you seruiosly tyoped the url to that image completely correctly without dopyng and pasting or using backspace or delete?
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby BurningLed » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:18 am UTC

I confess I copy+pasted that one, I really just should have typed the URL out. That was phrased horribly, but blame the backspacelessness. Also that word is very unwieldy.

Alirghty, Let's try to type out the url to my sadface...

I'll just type out the URL first - http://s3.amazonnews--

oh. that says "amazonaws.com". crap. Alrigt, screw that. It's a pitcure of sad frog. Deal with it. *slow-fall sunglasses here*.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Adacore » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:34 am UTC

I'm not even sure I can type without hitting backspace. It's just an automatica reaction to any errors I make, but I seem to be doing ok so far.

Anyway - a complement to Felstaff's ranting, I'll post something that I considered putting in the awesome thread. This last weekend (actually the last two) was awesome. I went to a bar on Friday and met a really cool Korean girl who lived in Australia for a few years and is an english teacher here, then I went to see a really good band (guitar duo from texas) on Saturday, and yesterday I went to a baseball game in Busan. If it weren't for the fact that last weekend was equally awesome, this would be the best weekend I've had for a year or more.

Wow - my typing is better than I thought (or I'm being deliberately scareful because I know I can't correct myself). I only count about 3 mistakes so far, although I would probably nromally go back through the post and edit the grammar/phrasing and add some stuff in at this point. I hadn't realised how much I tend to outline first then go back and flesh in my posts.

Final thought: I love the typo 'scareful' :D
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby BurningLed » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:35 am UTC

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one that did that to their posts. Actually, if it's an actual, constructive post then I tend to do it 3 or 4 times as I think of nw crap. New*.

Your weekend is eventful, especially compared to mine: Play Terraria, go to IHOP, play terraria, do work, Play Echo Bazaar, ply Terraria. Then post on forums, of course. I should do something worthwhile today. Like work. Or I could just dance. I think I'll dance. That'll be fun.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby KrazyerKate » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:31 pm UTC

*click submit*
*go reread what I just submitted*
*jesus, that was shit. rearrange sentence structure entirely*
*rclick submit*
*reread what I just submitted*
*jesus, look at all those typos. fix spelling and grammar*
*click submit*
*reread what I just submitted*
*oops, I pasted that paragraph in the wrong place. move it up there.*
*click submit *
*reread what I just submitted*
....etc.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Felstaff » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:44 pm UTC

We have preview for a reason!
A hater he came and sat by a ditch,
And he took an old cracked lute;
And he sang a song which was more of a screech
'Gainst a woman that was a brute.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Gypped » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:32 pm UTC

I do enjoy using the preview feature of the forum, but somethin- sometimes the permanence of an actual post is what's needed to jog my mind into thinking of something relevant to say or alter in a most of mine. And at this point I wreally wish I could edit that last sentence because it looks to me like it has terrible structure. Anyhoo I feel pretty bad about being so lazy lately. I haven't been working enough on my maths, and I fear that I just might not like math enough to complete my master's thesis. Maybe I was meant to do something else, or I'd have more fun with a different vocation. I really did enjoy doing the small bit of research in nonlinear systems, but right now I find myself in a position where I would rather distract myself than do maths. I felt like I cheated in this threat by stopping and thinking about what I was going to type before completing each sentence. thread*
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby KrazyerKate » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:27 am UTC

Felstaff wrote:We have preview for a reason!

I suppose I should add a "awesome. I really like what I say in this post" step before the "clck subit" step (click submit). It looks perfectly fine on the rpeview page, it's only after I realize THE ENTIRE INTERNET is reading what I just said that I'm a bit more critical.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby thorgold » Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:59 am UTC

Well, I don't really use the backspace alot. SHIT "alot" has a space between the a and lot. Why must the tests be whee I fail?!? Why can't I do as good as I do on the non-grade-altering practice sheets? GOD DAMN YOU A-!!!

Oh, and I found a way to cheat at this. If you use the insert key, you can type over any mistakes without using the backspace. I could go up and edit that last segment, but that'd be cheating. In a worse kind of way.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Adacore » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:07 am UTC

Yeah, I interpreted the rules pretty generally. As in, not just no backspace, but also no going back by using the cursor arrow key or home/end/page up/page down, or the mouse. So once you've typed something, that's it and it has to be posted. with no atlreations .

Hmm - that got a bit wonky towards the end. I tried to add something onto the last sentence (ending inn 'posted') and totally messed up 'alterations'.

In any case, I think this thread has more merit than most of the others in forum games - it actually helps with touch typing, to some extent, and is more amusing to read than 'count to six billion in base-3' or whatever the latest fad is.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby phlip » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:20 am UTC

Yeah, I definitely think that the rules cover all forms of editing... no going back and making changes of any kind. Basically, pretending you're typing with one of these. Except now I notice that those should be hyphens in the URL, not unserdcores. Which I somehow typed with an S replacing a D and then a D replacing an S... I think I was thinking "that S should be a D" when I got to the next D, and thus made it an S. Anyways, I mant wanting one of these. No wai to edit what you've typed already, just type, and everything you type is reflected in the final result.
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby phlip » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:23 am UTC

Speaking of... has anyone else gotten halfway through a sentence, or a word, realised they'd made a typo, and then rearranged the rest of the sentence to make sense even with the mistake? In that previous post, for instance, I meatn to say "I meant one of these", but for some reason I spelled "one" as "wan"... so I changed it to "I meant wanting one of these". I noticed before I hit the spacebar after typing "wan", so it dodn't involve any editing of stuff I'd already typed...
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Re: Dare: No Backspace

Postby Adacore » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:01 am UTC

I"M not sure if I've done that or not, but I've definitely got half way through a sentence and realised I didn't actually know what I was trying to say, so have had to come up with a way to finish it (where normally I'd just delete the whole thing and start over). Thinkning about it, I've definitely changed the word I was typing when I made a typo in the first few letters before.

I'm not quite crazy enough to tryp inputting URLs yet (I have no idea where that 'p' on the end of 'try' came from). My main problem with this thread isn't actually the typing of individual words, though, it's the planning of whole sentences (as I alluded to above) - I keep starting sentences with a vague idea of what I want to say but no real structure, then realising there are a hundred ways I could've phrased it that work better than they way I did. I've caught myself heading towards a setntence construction where I can't physically finish a coherent sentence as well.
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