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Recondite Nineteen: Isochronism

Recondite is my article, and is supposed to be weekly (though it is never released on a schedule) and is usually a whole lot of crazy rants, stories, poll comments, and links.

This week there are some poll comments, Miasma plans, solutions for Recondite withdrawal, and of course some links.

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Poll Comments

Poll Comments will be handled a little differently than in previous Recondites. For some reason, people commented a lot more on the old Prowler Poll than they did with the new poll I made. Maybe because this new poll has better double-vote prevention and most of them were shorter than the old polls, I dunno. Something like 58/385 total votes had comments. Anywhere, here are the best ones I've found (completely unedited, btw):

Poll 1: Most desired Dink Network feature?
*) No Tal porn, please

Poll 2: Favorite Bread?
*) bread tastes like moldy babies
*) ruista ranteeseen, suomi finland perkele! (yep, it's sharp posting....)
*) Eggbread: I am on the all you can eat cholesterol diet.

Poll 3: Should people be banned? (rule breaking)?
*) You mean like a banner? Those things on the tops of the pages? I hate those... But some of 'em are pretty...

Poll 4: Dink Smallwood The Movie, who should play as Dink?
*) You didn't put in Michael Jackson? How could you leave him out! Dern you!
*) WC of course! He looks the part. I mean, who else around here could you actually imagine taking a sword a choping up people?
*) dink's obviously still young, tobey did pretty good in spiderman and I don't like Leonardo that much

Poll 5: War?
No good comments.

Poll 6: The poll should be changed:
*) I prefer hourly. But anyway, Whens a nice recondite telling the top 5 of varios poll comments coming out?
*) because i smokek pot weekly
*) whenever the full moon rises behind a cloudy sky.

Poll 7: Favorite non-Dink RPG world?
*) morewind I just feel so defiant when I say that
*) dink smalwood eh d+!!o melhor jogo do mundo!!
*) Hyrule if you mean the world. Or Donundrum. Or Koholint. Or The Oracle Of Ages World. Can't remember

Poll 8: Why are you a Dinker?
*) You know what kind of "player" I'm talkin' about, baby. Now lemme get back to my hoes...
*) Loser with nothing else to spend time doing.
*) I have no life, and this keeps me outta jail!
*) I have no idea why I keep coming back here!

Miasma v2.5

Well, the last time I did a Recondite, Miasma v2 (what I call the various perl scripts that run The Dink Network) was nearing completion. And now its been done for a while, and has had its hiccups and slow starts of various, but now it seems pretty much complete. So now its time to improve upon it. The board code is sorta messy, so me and WC are planning on re-writing almost all of it, in an effort to make it much more portable and extensible. We actually started on it like a month ago, but no work has been done since. The board design is going to undergo an overhaul as well, and some other various interface tweaks might be done too.

Eventually, I plan on writing Miasma v3 using PHP. I've started doing some little PHP projects, and it just seems like a better alternative to Perl. Perl is great and all, but PHP just seems to do things better (except regular expression syntax... Perl is GOD in that area).

Recondite Alternative

Apparently, there are some people who enjoy this odd, never on time column of various things. In previous Recondites, I touched on my personal life from time-to-time, and that seemed to be received relatively well (read: no death threats). Well, for those of you who can't get enough of the ill-timed Recondite, [PLUG ALERT] you could check out the Realm of redink1, my personal web site [/PLUG ALERT]. Its sort of like those personal snippets of previous Recondites, except expanded. There really isn't much there... but heck, if you're super-bored you might get a good chuckle out of my pathetic existence.

Wacky Links

Crab vs Pipe: I think Alli told me to post this, and so I shall. The original link was taken down, and this seems to be a dependable mirror.
Road rage prompts Osama 'sighting' - Ah, yes, Osama's been driving a yellow semi truck to pay his bills...
The Flash Mind Reader - It reads your mind, and really works! For non-believers, click here.
Make the Pie Higher!: Put food on your family!
Duck Saved After Being Shot With Arrow: Hrm, he must not have been gotten Bow Lore yet.