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Welcome => Hi, I'm New => Topic started by: Nutty on 07 Sep 2013, 00:34

Title: Hi, guys!
Post by: Nutty on 07 Sep 2013, 00:34: I suppose I should post in here!

Hey, I'm new. I joined about a week ago to post some fanart, and haven't ventured outside of the create forums since. I've been reading QC since 2009, and of all the webcomics I come and go from, QC is the only one I keep up to date with.
I'm twenty one.
I'm a fine art student, and I draw a lot. I'm nowhere near where I want to be, so I practice daily (or at least, I try to) so if anyone has any requests, throw me a note, chances are I'm probably going to need an idea for something to draw sooner or later.
When I'm procrastinating, I play videogames. My current favourite is dark souls.
I recently started watching naruto.

...I think that's it. Art student, gamer, procrastinator extraordinaire. Nice to meet you!
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Masterpiece on 07 Sep 2013, 00:42: *waves* hi!

(actual welcoming message with actual cryptic Turkish messages to be deployed soon, after I got rid of my bedhead)
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Loki on 07 Sep 2013, 01:34: Quote from: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wissenschaft und Kunst gehören der Welt. Vor ihnen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalität."

Willkommen.

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Science and nature belong to the world. The limits of nation fade before them.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: pwhodges on 07 Sep 2013, 01:36: (click to show/hide)
You're getting soft, providing a translation!
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: celticgeek on 07 Sep 2013, 08:37: Mae croeso i bob myfyriwr celf a chwaraewyr gêm yma.

Welcome!
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Grognard on 07 Sep 2013, 10:59: 47 72 65 65 74 69 6e 67 73 20 61 6e 64 20 77 65 6c 63 6f 6d 65 20 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 66 6f 72 75 6d 2e 0d 0a 0d 0a 49 20 68 6f 70 65 20 79 6f 75 20 65 6e 6a 6f 79 20 79 6f 75 72 73 65 6c 66 2e
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Kugai on 07 Sep 2013, 13:45: I've sent that one to Bletchly Park Grognard.

Oh, and hello and welcome to the Forum Nutty. :)
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: SageJiraiya on 07 Sep 2013, 13:59: Don't WATCH Naruto. READ IT. <3

Bienvenido.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Redball on 07 Sep 2013, 15:39: Welcome, and best put your lug wrench where it can't set anything else on fire. Things happen to them here, sometimes.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Nutty on 08 Sep 2013, 22:33: Thanks for the welcomes, guys! _{I think}
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Grognard on 09 Sep 2013, 07:13: Quote from: Kugai on 07 Sep 2013, 13:45
I've sent that one to Bletchly Park Grognard.
Oh, and hello and welcome to the Forum Nutty. :)

to save the NSA and Bletchly Park the effort...
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It's in code hex.
"Greetings and welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy yourself."
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Barmymoo on 09 Sep 2013, 16:22: I do get the feeling that the Welcome subforum has become less about welcoming and more about filtering out non-geeks :roll:
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Kugai on 09 Sep 2013, 17:19: Heh
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Redball on 09 Sep 2013, 17:58: Well, you might be right. Some of the welcoming lines may have been overlooked lately.

So Nutty (looking down at the boilerplate), read the rules, see how they're observed (and sometimes in the breach, but not too often). Check out the wiki for a lot of background about the comic and its characters and even a little about the forum. Have you wondered why you began life here as a notorious N.U.R.R.? It's in the forum wiki. This is a pleasant group, often an extraordinarily supportive one, and I don't think we're that hard on non-geeks. In fact, I may not be a geek at all.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Nutty on 09 Sep 2013, 20:37: Aha! Cool, thank you. I've poked around the main comic site at jeph's character descriptions and faq before, but not the wiki. New place to buff up my QC knowledge. I read the rules right after my very first post (whoops) and people have already been really supportive in the make thread, so that's cool.

I don't think I'm qualified as a geek, unfortunately. I'm not entirely sure of the requirements, so there's that.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Loki on 11 Sep 2013, 00:28: I think you qualify under Appendix III, Subsection C, §4b of the Secret Geek Admittance Code. We lost that one when Joe took the only copy and jumped into the jaguar pit to your left, so we have mostly been playing it by ear and oral tradition for the last twelve years. (Although I have a suspicion that no matter what Roderick says, "I have a weird name" didn't automatically get you in).

Can't let the world know we have no idea what the acceptance guidelines are, mind you.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: SageJiraiya on 11 Sep 2013, 17:03: Eh, if you know pi to anything past 2 decimals then you are, in my eyes at the least, one of us.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Sep 2013, 18:35: 3.141592654... that's all I can always remember off the top of my head.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Schmee on 11 Sep 2013, 20:17: "The ratio C over D,
when they're pats of a circle, is three
point one four one five
nine two six five three five
eight nine seven nine three two three."
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: ankhtahr on 11 Sep 2013, 23:27: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971

I was very bored in school.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Kugai on 11 Sep 2013, 23:53
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Loki on 12 Sep 2013, 00:57: Quote from: SageJiraiya on 11 Sep 2013, 17:03
Eh, if you know pi to anything past 2 decimals then you are, in my eyes at the least, one of us.

3.14159...., which is, as far as I know, enough precision for 99% of all practical applications.

...I suck at this pinis comparison.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Sep 2013, 01:10: Now the same for e... Oh heck, just work it out knowing pi and that e^iπ=-1 :-D
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Redball on 12 Sep 2013, 05:06: OK, I guess I qualify. In study hall, I used to multiply 186,282 by 31,558,149.8. In the 1950's, that would have been with pencil and paper. And the first number might have been different, something like 186,273. I forget.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Loki on 13 Sep 2013, 06:53: Quote from: pwhodges on 12 Sep 2013, 01:10
Now the same for e... Oh heck, just work it out knowing pi and that e^iπ=-1 :-D

I prefer the version e^(pi*i)+1=0, myself. Has all the important constants.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Kugai on 13 Sep 2013, 19:00: The only Pi that means anything to me is Apple
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Barmymoo on 14 Sep 2013, 09:41: I wouldn't even have remembered that it's 3.14 :( Do I have to ban myself?
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Redball on 14 Sep 2013, 09:46: You don't suppose it might be related to dilation of the cervix -- 10 cm x pi to determine circumference? I don't suppose so either. Nor does the number of miles in a light-year.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Loki on 14 Sep 2013, 12:03: Personally, I prefer tau instead of pi.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Sep 2013, 16:54: And as an electrical engineer I'm used to writing j for i.
Title: Re: Hi, guys!
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 14 Sep 2013, 23:09: Enjoy your stay!