Talk:Manuscripts and Stories/@comment-28549248-20170221182455/@comment-28549248-20170309162218

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Here's a random WIP from my tinkering with Talmid's Geidrich's fortress, so that I can take part in this caption war that is about to be initiated. It seems that maybe we can have caption wars instead of title wars. But please, no caption length wars. That would be too arduous for my soul. Why did you have to antagonise me, James? Now, I have to antagonise you back! And while it is my opinion that writing much sharing substantial information is not very impressive, as opposed to writing much without saying much and if there was an actual caption length competition, your description of the image -especially since it includes so many minifigures- would be considered cheating, I am forced to reply to some of the things you said. Firstly, I will point out the fact that the image you uploaded is a very interesting, though I am more interested in the secretive caped people in the back. Secondly, with all due respect to covers, I anticipate stories more than them. Speaking of stories, I should be getting down to write something myself. Thirdly, don't trust Google. It's colour. Simplistic American English is not taken into account! :P Fourthly, I am not sure I have anything more to say. But fifthly, that is not going to stop me. Sixthly, I am not quite sure why I keep saying numberly. Did you take a moment to ponder what I meant with numberly? I could have said [number]ly to make it clearer, but I opted against it. So, now I'm going to be trying to go beyond James due to my competitive spirit. If we have a repeat of the Janitor Events, I am not to blame. James should not have begun this war. I am not doing this with pleasure. Last time it was original, fresh and most importantly spontaneous. Now, I'm just trying to win a competition that only exists in my head. Though does it? I think it exists in James's head, too. Which makes it real, doesn't it? I don't know. What else to talk about? It seems to me this caption random rambling has too much information up until now. I need to begin saying things of no substance. Off the top of my head, the following subject arises: Did you know that I have a declared a hatred against the thing that's cream-like, but not cheese? Besides the fact I really dislike its taste, I hate the fact that everybody calls it cheese, even though it doesn't taste like cheese, doesn't have texture like cheese, does not look like cheese and is not eaten like cheese. Funny story is that we make a kind of cheesecake that doesn't have any dairy products in it for fasting, so I used to joke about the fact that we call it cheesecake even though it doesn't have any cheese. But then later I found out that even the normal cheesecake doesn't have cheese, because it is the aforementioned creamy thing it has in it. Of course it makes sense now, because can you imagine putting actual cheese in a cake? :P So, I have been forced to admit that in reality there's no such thing as cheesecake. Unless someone actually put cheese to their cake. And this talk reminds me of the list of things I'd abolish if ever I became a world-ruling tyrant. An actual material list doesn't exist, which is the reason that every time I try to remember them all, I always seem to be forgetting one or more of them. One of them is of course the aforementioned creamy thing. But not only that. My rage would also hit Skype and Frozen Yoghurt. I'm pretty sure there's something more, but like I said I keep forgetting some. You might be wondering what those did to cause my rage? Well, Skype is evil. I think we can all agree in that. Let's make something clear, though. I have no problem whatsoever with teleconferences. My problem is with Skype itself. As we all know, it is evil, because it doesn't allow you to close it. You press the X button and it just goes down in the window bar. It also automatically opens when you switch on the computer. Now, I find that very audaccious of it, even if you don't think it's evil. And I may have found ways to close it and how to stop it from automatically opening -task management is a saviour when it comes to Skype-, but my real problem lies in the intentions of the Skype people, who want to leave Skype open forever, so that we never cease to use it. And now you see why I'm so much against Skype. As for Frozen Yoghurt, I think it is obvious why one should hate it. Because it is a failed attempt to copy ice cream. It lacks ice cream's flavour and needs toppings to become interesting. Why eat something if it's not tasty on its own? Though I have to admit I've never really eaten frozen yoghurt and I do not intend to, still I think I can imagine that it tastes just like yoghurt... that's been frozen. The other reason that made me negative towards it was the fact that it was so much in fashion a couple years back -at least where I leave. I generally do not like becoming part of the masses, but if I find no reason why the masses would like something, it's even worse. The mass thing reminds me of another thing I dislike, though I don't remember if I've officially added it to the list, is tichu. Being very popular among my peers where I live, I began to snub it very quickly. However, what sets it apart from other things of the trend is the fact that when teachers would come in class and tell my classmates to stop playing cards or somethine along these lines, my classmates would give the ridiculous reply, "It's not cards. It's Tichu". Now, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Card's origin is from the ancient greek word χάρτης, which means paper -and may it be noted that the word for card that we use over here is χαρτί, which also means paper, so the meaning of the word is even more obvious to us-, so while the "cards" may often be used for the classic playing cards exclusively, it could actually be used for any kind of card -and any kind of paper, in its translation. So, I ask of you how is it that they're not playing cards when Tichu is a card game? Very annoying. In any case, I realise that I just virtually shouted out my nationality to everyone who didn't know already. Still, for some reason I avoided mentioning it directly. I wonder how much I've gotten. I sure have written much, but is it enough? I avoid to enlarge the caption box, because it's more to fun to write it in the small box, not knowing how big the text has gotten. But I suppose I'll have to learn how big it is, at some point. Should I look now. I'm probably going to use a word counter. Otherwise, comparing would be pretty hard. Incoming queschon: do you gues ever use the licensing option when uploading images? I use it when I've made the images. You didn't even know there was such an option, did you? Well, some of you sure do, but I wonder if there are any of you who have not wandered in those areas of the wiki called More options. Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'll begin the comparison. Hang in there till I copy James's text first. It's interesting how I treat this monologue as if we are talking in the present, don't you think. But writing this sentence made a liar out of me. I said I was going to compare and I'm still here writing. What am I doing? Yeah, that's how I like it. This is the way to make good caption texts. Well, not it's not. I don't mean to encourage people into making this a trend. Maybe, I should go do the comparison now. Funny how I now treat the comparing of the texts like I treated finishing the text last time. Thought: another reason to use colour instead of color is that it helps make your text bigger. Yeah, remember that conversation we had ages of thoughts ago. The train has stopped in many stations since then, but here I am bringing it up again. Okay, I'm doing it. Wish me luck in my endeavours of comparing texts. Ha! You thought I was not gonna do it, did you? But actually I did. Well, sort of. I'm still halfway there. I just came back to report my findings. I also ate an oreo. James's caption is 996 words long or 5,505 characters long. Good number. Now, let's put this text into the counter and see what's going to come out, shall we? With all the respect I can muster, I'm gonna have to say that you James have been obliterated out of competion. With 1,517 words and 8,077 characters this caption is the ruling one. And that's without adding the text that begins with "With all the respect I can muster". It's really amazing how this is in fact 4 LMB posts long. Actually, 5 posts, since we're over 8,000 characters now. Now, out of curiosity I'm going to measure the original monstrous caption as well. Yeah, that's only approximately one post long, with 387 words and 2,007 characters. Being on the Featured Article and Story Discussion topic reminds me I should make a new Featured Article. The suggestion of Sharpie has been waiting there for too long. Now, you may be thinking that just because I have already made a longer text than James, I'm going to stop writing. If you did think that you are woefully wrong. Once you unleash such monstrous and disatrous forces, there's no limiting them again. Draco dormiens nunquam titilandus, James. I am very sorry that you'll probably not get the reference -at least not without help-, but I wonder which ones of you will. Now, for me to continue speaking, I have to find things to say, whether substantial or not -I am quite aware that this caption was not as successful in being insubstantial as the first one, but at least it's half-random rambling, half raging rant and it's good counter-offensive to James's caption anyway. Where was I? Ah, yes. Finding something to say. In that regard, I will inform you that lately I have been thinking of making a thedude speech emulator. I don't know how good it would turn out to be, but I think my programming skills are good enough for something basic. I was gonna surprise you, but here we are sacrifing the spirit of surprise to the altar of making long captions. Even though I've been forced to be an alien, it seems I'm still an Aztec Warrior at heart. I could end things here, but it's still too soon, it seems to me. How longer do you think the caption has become now? We shall see. Seeing the image's name "Geidrich'sTowerWIP6.2" makes me think that if you see it, you're going to wonder whether there are more WIP pictures of this. If you are wondering that, the answer is yes. I have in fact made 10 WIP pictures so far. That reminds me of the fact I should work more on Geidrich's fortress as well. Find something to say. You need to find something to say. Excuse me, was I talking to myself. Wait, how is it weird to talk to oneself in a monologue. Please, play the mysterious alien music for extra mystery feels. There's a video on YouTube I wanna watch and you'd be very glad if I watched it, because it'd mean you'd finally see me stop writing and writing and writing -yes this repetition was on purpose for further use of characters. But I know that inside of you, you're glad to see me continue; you want me to keep writing and writing and writing -see what I did there-, because it amazes you even if it annoys you. This reminds me of caterpillars. Because there are some things in the world you find disgusting, yet at the same time engaging of your attention. And one of them, I have recently discovered, is caterpillars. Of coure, I mean that personally. I can't say that the all people in the world see caterpillars this way. That would be an extreme overgeneralisation. Yeah, we're full of caterpillars these days. Well, only in areas with plantlife. But considering that my university's grounds include a considerable amount of trees, I get to see them often enough. They're really weird with that walking in lines. Don't they know that this is the easiest way to get a whole unit killed in no time? Oh, I said the k-word. The LMBs have really affected me as some times when I use or read the k-word and the d-word and b-word out of them, I still get a tinge of doing something wrong in one case or suprise in the other. Incoming queschon: Will the ruling council of the KotOS wiki -which consists of Harold and... that's all, because he's the only administraror- condemn me for my terrible acts of naming the k-word? Nah, he won't, because he feels oppressed by the LMB guidelines as well. Yeah, we can't even have romance. I never really understood what the moderators saw in non-graphic romance that was so bad. Anyway, let's not get into that conversation. Besides, now that we are leaving the Boards we get a chance to have a little bit of more freedom. Hmm. Do you think the mods could be ninja, watching us all even beyond the realm of the Boards, ready to abduct me for saying all of that. Or maybe they could be pirates, just for the sake of beginning a Pirates vs Ninja war again. It must have really gotten long now. Do you think I've doubled the previous counting? Probably not, but maybe I'm close to that. It's certainly double James's caption by now. It must have been for a long time now. Let's see how long this has gotten. To the word counter! 2,416 words and 13,023 characters. You think this is getting out of hand, with six and a half posts' worth of length? Maybe. Or it could be getting out of foot! And having included a pun in this, this caption is truly complete. Not over, though! :P Hmm. This is about the time when Ninjago_Builders often logs in Steam before going to school, right? I could give him this caption as a morning gift like I did with the first one. Let's log in to Steam to see if he's there. While Steam is still opening, let's continue our chat. Oh. It's ready. Excuse me for a moment. Two unread messages. I wonder what it is. Maybe something urgent that I never read and thus James was forced to make decisions on stories on his own or Harold is still waiting for my counsel on something about Foes and Heirs. Or of course it could be Harold telling me that the wild Sharpie is still on. By the way, Ninjago_Builders is indeed on. It would be a nice surprise for him to show him this. So, you're in luck. I'm going to stop writing (soon), so that I can show him the caption. Before I go, though, a couple things more. Firstly, James for the final piece of guilt, be informed that the time spent in making this could have been spent in archiving LMB topics instead. Secondly, I am going to do a final counting: 2,668 words and 14,357 characters. Bye!