Images: A perfect 10

[Norgarth]

[classicdrogn]

Contronyms are literally the worst thing in language.

[robkelk]

Contronyms are literally the worst thing in language.

For people who like wordplay that goes beyond puns, contronyms are also literally the best thing in language.

[hazard]

For anyone who likes clear communication, contronyms are at best an impediment.

[aku]

This came up on HN recently as well: More contronyms

[DHBirr]

For anyone who likes clear communication, contronyms are at best an impediment.

As was revealed in (and by) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, clear communication isn't always that good a thing:

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

I mean, dig it, if you really understood what other people mean by the things they say, if you grokked everyone completely, you'd want to do to them all — to us all — what the Martians did, for the same reason, to the fifth planet that's now an asteroid belt.

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“We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”

[classicdrogn]

Now I grant you, in context this image makes perfect sense - but without it, such as to my father who glanced at the screen while walking past and produced a literal, IRL "What on earth...?" just now, it is something else again.



It was posted in the SB thread for Stewart92's original dungeon core fic, There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/61717831/

[Norgarth]

[classicdrogn]

Now I want to read an issekai where the hero got summoned because the signs and portents said that ancient evil was awakening... and/or perhaps when it sent its energy out in a wave across the world to discover the most suitable person to be its harbinger/high priest/whatver, it focuses on the summoned hero.

[Norgarth]

[hazard]

Shoplifting isn't a glitch; it's a valid game mechanic. It's just that the administrators often lock your character down for years if the town guards manage to arrest you for it.


Also, that GM doesn't have to voice toadstools. Toadstools are fungi, not plants or animals.

[robkelk]

GMs with a taste for humour (and puns) love to voice fungis.

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[classicdrogn]

CIELIN LYBERRY IS MAKIN U LITRET

I want one. Also that octopus table, because that's just awesome.

[Norgarth]

[DHBirr]

CIELIN LYBERRY IS MAKIN U LITRET

I want one. Also that octopus table, because that's just awesome.

The ceiling library is very cool-looking, but ... 
1)  You have to climb the ladder every time you feel like browsing;
2)  It has far too few books.

I love, too, that the octopus table is made of nuts and washers.

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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!

[Norgarth]

[robkelk]

It's Nobel time...



(Source)

Mouseover text: "Most chemists thought the lanthanides and actinides could be inserted in the sixth and seventh rows, but no, they're just floating down at the bottom with lots more undiscovered elements all around them."

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Bob Schroeck]

...I'm going to have to use that Sailor Venus "factoid".

[Norgarth]

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