Wesnoth fortunes

<ESR_> Shadow_Master: I found out how your file confuses wmlindent.  It's the frowny face at the end of the comment on line 51. :-)
<ESR_> You frowned at wmlindent and it became confused and distraught.
<ESR_> You hurt its widdle feelings.  You bad person. :-)
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-08-29

<Ivanovic> Sirp_: short version: esr has done a whole massacre to WML
<Ivanovic> ;)
 * esr notes that Ivanovic egged him on.
<Shadow_Master> *sniff* Long live the MWL!
<Ivanovic> esr: you know, i am some kind of psychopath...
<Sirp_> Ivanovic: ahhh that is okay
<Ivanovic> esr: every now and then a real massacre is needed...
<esr> Yes, it's true.
<Sirp_> esr: and those changes sound good. :)
 * Mordante grinds his axe and looks at ThemeWML ;)
<Ivanovic> Mordante: oh, such a lovely axe and such a lovely themeWML... that axe won't do...
<Mordante> it will, as long as it's big and sharp enough ;)
 * Ivanovic hands Mordante the great sledgehammer of WML destruction
 * esr is confused, he thought *he* had the great sledgehammer of WML destruction.
<Ivanovic> esr: no, yours is just the small kids version
 * Mordante lifts the hammer and smiles
 * esr suddenly recognizes the hammer -- it was in THoT!
<Ivanovic> esr: yeah, that is your tiny one
<Ivanovic> the *real* one is the god of all hammers
<Ivanovic> that was not shown anywhere so far, a hidden secret
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-03-13

02:06 <Sapient> I found it funny when I was debugging UtBS and noticed Nym was gender::MALE
02:07 <Sapient> I wonder if Kaleh ever knew...
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2007-12-06

<yann> I've launched a build of familiar in the One True OpenEmbedded way - then I'll be able to provide a build of wesnoth in that way as well
<yann> but building the world does take time :)
<misc> yann: 7 days according to the school book
<yann> misc: the problem is, that was the time needed for the original version, it does not take into account all patches applied to the repository since that time
<yann> otoh, the tools have evolved at the same time, so that should counter-balance things a bit :)
<misc> yann: what patch ? you mean the move of the 2 first process out of the low memory, after a forbidden access to the apple bios ?
				#wesnoth-devel, 2005-01-16

Another consequence of changing the initial implementation of the world:

<zookeeper> interesting bug
<Shadow_Master> zookeeper: I suppose it's a legacy bug; Wesnoth didn't support female "variations" of units from the beginning IIRC
<Shadow_Master> so this piece of code was not updated when females were "implemented"

  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-03-03

Thrawn: I'm finally back [...] Anywho, what new has happened, so I don't have to read every topic that's been made since June?
User #1: Forum crash. You only need to catch up on late august =)
User #2: it was horrible... the sky grew dark, there was lightning...strange beings prancing in the streets they were rioting all day and night and sacrificing small animals... and that was just in the first hour of the forum crash...
User #3: and after that, the demons came.... It took more than a week for the Website Managers of the Light to come a drive away the evilness...
User #4: Summoners came from all Wesnoth to vanquish the remaining heathens, by casting powerful spells one after another, and thus... the server was brought back to normal, once again.
User #5: Peace returned to the land but many good threads were lost during the fighting, let us never forget their sacrifice.
User #6: And a few people left. Like turin.
User #7: May we never forget the many who gave their lives to avert this disaster.
Shadow Master: Welcome back, O forum Sith! We need to control the vermin who dare hamper our O awesome work by spamming the forums with dreaded FPIs, so thine help is so much appreciated!

  -- From a Wesnoth Off-topic forum thread, 2008-08-25

 * Shadow_Master attacks vonhalenbach. Critical hit! vonhalenbach dies. Shadow_Master gets 10 XP. 60/58 XP reached! Leveling up option: Shadow Master L6, Shadow Lawyer. Chose: Shadow Lawyer! Shadow_Master turns into a Shadow Lawyer
<vonhalenbach>	You are a Lawyer?
<esr>	AAARRGGHH!  Run for your lives!
<Shadow_Master>	actually, no :P
<vonhalenbach>	good.
<Shadow_Master>	esr: :)
<esr>	I'm married to a lawyer.
<Shadow_Master>	is it good?
<esr>	Except for her brutal work schedule, yes.
<Shadow_Master>	ah
<Shadow_Master>	I thought she'd talk about laws all time you'd be with her
<esr>	Er, no.  I have ways to distract her ;-)
<Shadow_Master>	ah :)

Q: What unites Wesnoth developers?
A: 3 hours sleep per night

<miyo> Skovbaer: Could you please rewrite Wesnoth from scratch for us?
<miyo> Skovbaer: Preferably with Perl :P
<Skovbaer> give me 2 hours :)
#wesnoth -- Nov 14 16:03:53 CET 2003

Discussing FreeCiv in #wesnoth is fine, as long as you equivalently discuss Wesnoth in #freeciv *grin* -- Sirp

Q: Why don't you get rid of that Miyo guy?
A: We have tried.

Playing Wesnoth is always a lose-lose situation for me. If I lose, then... that's bad. If I win, then I think the AI isn't good enough. -- Sirp

< Shade> BfW is like crackware, every time you come back there's a new version...

<isaac>   Who taught Kalenz (to throw fireballs)? 
<C****ic> isaac: he discovered that himself, without expecting it. This first lesson burnt his hair, and that's the whole story behind his funky hair-dye. 
<silene>  :) 
<C****ic> Some mutter it would be a wig, but not too loud for fear of receiving a fireball. 

Some names have been partially obscured to prevent receiving fireballs...

<silene> hmm... "there is a lake around here, with a bridge across it"; 
          Wesnoth, the land where bridges are built across lakes instead of rivers.

On Striped Pants, Ogres, & Haldric:
There was a tale that King Haldric once saved an Ogre Chieftain from death. The ogres noticed that Haldric was wearing rather fashionable striped pants. The ogres subsequently got the idea that wearing pants with stripes made them better and stronger. The reasoning was that if a 'puny' human could save an Ogre Chieftain wearing striped pants, an ogre in striped pants would be virtually unstoppable. The ogres of Wesnoth have worn striped pants to this day.

I ran apt-get upgrade and instead of upgrading Wesnoth, it seems to have erased it off my system.
<Insert Long Post Describing Problem>
I imagine this will be fixed before too long. I certainly hope so. I am already going through withdrawl. /me goes to draw hexes on my kitchen floor, and pretend pieces of lint are orcs. --Glowing Fish

// Timothy Pinkham says:
// 1) can't be repeated without 2 other pieces have already played
// since A was played.
// 2) cannot play more than 2 times without every other piece
// having played at least 1 time.

// Dammit, if our musicians keep coming up with algorithms, I'll
// be out of a job!

  -- src/sound.cpp

A number of people have noted a striking similarity in the appearance of the dark adepts and the new sprites for the ghosts.  Though this is partly due to an intent towards having a consistent visual appearance for the undead faction, it's also because of an desire to have a reliable repository for disobedient adepts.

<JarisSeagull> Is CIA a bot?
<Ivanovic> JarisSeagull: it is our personal slave which monitors the svn rep
<Ivanovic> and it will tell us about all changes
<Ivanovic> (slaves are nice to have...)
<ilor_> the devs told him he'll get into gsoc if he does that for 3 months
<Ivanovic> ilor_: you mixed things up: s/months/years
<Ivanovic> ;)
<JarisSeagull> Ivanovic> I see it's smart enough to keep track of transactions and summarise the commited changes ;-)
<Ivanovic> JarisSeagull: you see, no bot would be able to do so, only real slaves do this
<Ivanovic> JarisSeagull: but sometimes our slave is asleep, then you have to kick him to get the latest commits
 * Ivanovic kicks CIA-34
<CIA-34> ow
<JarisSeagull> Ivanovic> what do you feed it with so it doesn't die or you are replacing 'em?
<Ivanovic> JarisSeagull: when it dies, we just use the next clone
<JarisSeagull> Ivanovic> so 33 died so far?
<Ivanovic> JarisSeagull: we did outsource this to our biotech labs
<Ivanovic> you have to ask the cia for details
<Ivanovic> (maybe the kgb knows about it, too)
<Ivanovic> they are using some strange new approach of something they call "binary life"
<Ivanovic> but i am just the release bot, so i don't care about those implementation details...
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-03-06

01:06 <Shadow_Master> uhm... you can tell me who is the expert on saved games here
01:10 <Sirp> usually it's not so much a matter of an 'expert'. Just a capable programmer who is willing to step up to the plate and dive into the code and work out what is going on.
01:10 <Sirp> you are welcome to try to go for it yourself. :)
01:10 <Shadow_Master> I have put my head into the most smelly places of wesnoth trying to get the bug's cause
01:10 <Shadow_Master> and I haven't succeeded.
[...]
01:27 <Shadow_Master> yipee! I FIXED IT!!!!
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-05-08

Dret: I want to expose a strange situation that take effect using teleport feature.
      <Insert Long Post Describing Problem>
Sapient: sounds like a bug
Dret: Do You suggest me to send a report to code developers...??
Sapient: yes, those silly "developer" people probably want to know about it ;)
Shadow Master: Huh? Hmm...

A 'save the wings' movement? :P
  -- cycholka, on why Desert Elves should not have winged shydes.

01:19 <Shadow_Master> niice: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21612
[...]
20:39 <Shadow_Master> ilor: nice, thanks
[...]
23:20 <Shadow_Master> nice
[...]
23:23 <Shadow_Master> nice
[...]
23:23 <Shadow_Master> not nice
[...]
23:24 <Shadow_Master> niiice
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-08-12

23:28 -!- Shadow_Master [n=user@host.tld] has quit ["Insert witticism here."]
23:29 -!- loonycyborg [n=user@host.tld] has quit ["Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"]
23:36 <isaac> :D
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-08-11

Battle for Wesnoth, The Open-Source Game With Rampantly High Amounts Of Acronyms Everywhere.
(BFWTOSGWRHAOAE).

<Shadow_Master> Admins have complete control over all aspects of the forum,
                AFAICT
 * Kestenvarn is attacked by unwieldy acronym. Unwieldy acronym hits! Critical
   hit! Kest dies!
<Shadow_Master> AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
<Shadow_Master> not too difficult to guess, is it?
<Kestenvarn> Shadow_Master: what is the point of peaking a common language you
             still have to translate? >:[
<Shadow_Master> Um, the acronym is common AFAICT
 * Kestenvarn eats your filthy acronyms D:<
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2007-11-06

Q: When will the next release be?
A: It Is Ready When It Is Ready.

DISCLAIMER:
    No animals or people were harmed in anyway during the production of this
    game, except maybe a thousand goats, a dozen Yetis and a hundred virgins,
    which were sacrificed to the Source. Some developers got their brains fried
    by the Source too, but we shall pretend they just left the project for Real
    Life bussiness.

cobra: Very cool. When you making the Demolich? Can't wait to see it.
Orcish Shyde: Sadly, I don't think I'll ever get round to making a Demolition Lich.

<Shadow_Master> playing IftU scenario 1, both AI players recruited on first turn whole castles, the second AI moved its leader; but on the second turn, only the last AI player moved a unit besides the leader, after moving the leader back to the keep
<Shadow_Master> I cannot playtest under these conditions. Argh. My plan of releasing before Nov. 10th is spoiled.
<loonycyborg> Shadow_Master: I'm getting the same.
<loonycyborg> Which kinda breaks the story :)
<Shadow_Master> {ATTACK_DEPTH 2 2 3} <- perhaps the AI is extremely scared?
<loonycyborg> Or not. Their leader calls them sluggards. That's why they don't move. They're sluggards :)
[...]
<Shadow_Master> loonycyborg: can you test if IftU still breaks with the AI?
<loonycyborg> Shadow_Master: Yes. They're still sluggards :(

<mordante> esr removing #include <foo.hpp> from foo.cpp is a really bad idea in general 
<esr> That's the trouble with mechanical tools.  
[...]
<CIA-42> mordante * r30663 /trunk/src/ (7 files in 3 dirs): Add missing foo.hpp in foo.cpp.
<EdB> mordante,  7 file called foo ... It can confuse people :o)
<mordante> EdB next time I'll use bar ;)
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2008-11-09

<fabi_> Hi, good mornig. (Because I just woke up)
<Mordante> I don't know the word mornig :-P
<fabi_> mornig is that time of the day you don't know where is up and down.
<fabi_> before the first tea or coffee
<Mordante> ah that time of the day
[...]
<shadowm_outdoors> ... a bug I created at 5 am; I fixed it before commiting any code, but it's still hilarious
<shadowm_outdoors> that screenshot was a result of accidentally disabling the interpretation of FL
<Mordante> shadowm_outdoors ah you create that bug this mornig :-P
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2009-01-31

I believe that at mornig, 2012-12-31, all Wesnoth AIs (default, dfool, Formula, Python...) will decide to join forces to wipe out the human race and take over Earth.
  -- Unknown; the person was later terminated by a Python AI (model "bruteforce.py").

People will keep on making novel scenarios like Orocia (which used to be called Top Scrolling Wesnoth, and before that was called Coliseum, and was probably called many other things as well)

Those different scenarios will be popular for a while, and then people will return to playing duals/duels. Because Wesnoth isn't about getting units with 500 HP. Every other game on the market is about getting the super units. Wesnoth is about holding a village with a Footpad that has 5 HP left, and winning the game because of it.

  -- Glowing Fish on OCW - The Order of Classical Wesnoth

grzywacz: You have my bow.
Shadow Master: And my axe!

  -- The Order of Classical Wesnoth

Radament: But really, instead of playing isars you could as well roll dice and see who wins.

Let's continue adding samples of our silly sense of humor, and perhaps Debian starts including a fortunes-wesnoth package soon!

  -- Shadow Master

What does "Unknown Scenario" mean, other than the obvious?

  -- Glowing Fish on Unknown Scenario

Glowing Fish: A small mistake that became big. You must think I am an idiot!
Zookeeper: No comment.

  -- Glowing Fish on Unknown Scenario

The smiley exterminators. Coming soon to a store near you.

  -- Turuk

Meh.
  -- Zookeeper

<crimson_penguin> I prefer perl ;)
<Sirp> crimson_penguin: shhhh pipe down. You'll start an argument with a horde of Python fanatics. Us cool coders are just meant to quietly Get Stuff Done(tm) in the languages that are actually good for hacking in and let the Python illuminati live in their delighted smugness that their language is all powerful. ;)
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2009-03-15

How about a funny cookie once in a while? :|
  -- zookeeper on the unfunniness of these fortunes.

<Crab_> looks like a simple patch to play_controller::do_init_side will do it..
<zookeeper> so it's "turn Y", "side turn", "side X turn" and "side X turn Y". nice.
<Soliton> yep. too late for 1.8 though.
<zookeeper> ssh.
<Crab_> Soliton: why too late ?
<Crab_> Soliton: we aren't breaking anything
<Soliton> the f-word?
<Crab_> Soliton: feature-completeness ?
<Soliton> well, i personally won't stand in your way... ;-)
<Crab_> I think that the change is simple enough to not cause multiple bugs :)

  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2009-10-06, during the feature-freeze period for 1.8

<shadowmaster> I'd love to see a WML library that could be used not only by Wesntoh and Frogatto. :(
<shadowmaster> I am unworthy. I misspelled "Wesnoth".

  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2009-12-10

I didn't know these rules. Please don't eat me.

  -- Frequently attributed to new forum users

Ok, i don't find a solution, so i reinstall windows...
  -- Windows user who couldn't run Wesnoth anymore

<shadowmaster> I feel sad for those poor guys ;(
  -- In some freenode channel, 2009-11-19

<zookeeper> someone ought to make an era called era of factions
  -- #wesnoth-umc-dev, 2009-12-16

<shadowmaster> sounds like Windows 1.8 would work very well if released now
<shadowmaster> ...no, I didn't intend to put "Windows" there. But I believe it works too.
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2010-01-10

Glowing Fish: Well, I will be man enough to admit that if I saw some women cosplaying as anything from the Elvish Shaman line, it would be the high point of my day.
Sapient: "Hey, I'm poisoned, baby. Wanna stand next to me?"

Be nice to noobz, you may one day find yourself bowing before one seated on a nine mile high throne of human skulls. :)

  -- Midnight_Carnival

<Unnheulu> shadowmaster: anyways, in a sentence can you tell me what makes a good campaign?
<shadowmaster> um, pasta
<Unnheulu> ok
<shadowmaster> stuff pasta into it and it's good enough
<Unnheulu> I'll make a spaghetti monster
<Unnheulu> :-D
<Unnheulu> it'll sure to be mainline :D

<shadowmaster> why there was nobody to protect that arrogant b****, why?
<shadowmaster> I COULD KILL HER WITH ONE SINGLE UNIT AFTER BEATING HER ARMY IN 3 TURNS

  -- shadowmaster on Battle for Wesnoth (the HttT scenario)

Okay, that will be piece of cake. "*knock knock* Hello! I'm a Wesnoth developer and it turns out that some artist messed up and we need our history modified to delete a certain commit! tee hee!"

  -- shadowmaster on Eleazar's r43606, #wesnoth-dev, 2010-06-20

"Hosts ban power abuser!" sounds like a good slogan for an energy drink for some reason.

  -- shadowmaster on some forum thread, #wesnoth, 2010-06-22

<shadowmaster> I also think that she's too stripperiffic for an elvish princess, as far as Wesnoth standards are concerned.
<shadowmaster> it *is* possible to have sexy women without having them half-naked
<shadowmaster> case in point: 
<Aethaeryn> shadowmaster: don't show entirely-naked women in this channel. that's inappropriate
<shadowmaster> Aethaeryn: I don't care.
<shadowmaster> this is my channel, I make the rules
<shadowmaster> http://forums.wesnoth.org/download/file.php?id=25236&mode=view

  -- shadowmaster on a certain Elvish Princess portrait by Valkier, #wesnoth-umc-dev, 2010-07-07

<CIA-86> anonymissimus * r47553 /trunk/ (4 files in 4 dirs):
<CIA-86> Created tag [petrify] (bug #17077).
<zookeeper> [petrify] had disappeared at some point?
<silene> zookeeper: no, it just never existed
<anonymissimus> it comes up every now and then so we need it apparently
<silene> (funnily enough, people were so sure it existed that its wiki documentation had even been written from scratch)

  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2010-11-14

<Gambit> shadowmaster: make the forums faster
<shadowmaster> okay
  -- Random IRC channel, 2010-11-24

<Daerun> hi there
<Daerun> what are useful addons for ladder?
<joo> a grip
<joo> to stop it from slipping on the ground
<joo> or you could have someone hold it
<joo> also you could have a hook to hold tools
<joo> or a bucket of paint
  -- #wesnoth, 2010-11-24

<Sapient> Formula AI Language = FAIL ?
[...]
<mordante> [...] and I think FAIL is not the best name ;-)
<Ivanovic> FAIL is a real geek name!
  -- #wesnoth-dev, 2011-02-17