But what does DNFtEC mean? Is it like a trouble with Tribbles reference?
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Noumenon - Jan 04, 2003 12:27:20 pm PST #2661 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2003 12:29:03 pm PST #2662 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I think it's from GEnie days.
Burrell - Jan 04, 2003 12:32:58 pm PST #2663 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But what does DNFtEC mean?
Do Not Feed the Energy Creature
Noumenon - Jan 04, 2003 12:43:13 pm PST #2664 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Man, we live in a world where we can trace the origin of the first smiley, it's pretty sorry that the Google search for GEnie DNFtEC is only two entries. And neither of them know anything about its origins.
Beverly - Jan 04, 2003 12:50:17 pm PST #2665 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Energy Creatures are not interested in contributing to a community or a conversation, they are only present to suck energy from. This is how they exist, by sucking the energy out of a room or a board. Thus, if you Do Not Feed the Energy Creature, it will die of malnutrition and go away. In theory.
eta: I think the original reference was to an episode of the original Outer Limits, in which a creature from the fourth dimension, pure energy, slipped into this dimension. It fed on any sort of energy, electrical, biological, etc., killing wherever it touched. Scientists discovered the only way to stop it was by suspending it in a vacuum, where it could not feed, and either died, or slipped back into its own dimension.
John H - Jan 04, 2003 1:23:45 pm PST #2666 of 10001
I just did a search for "feed 'energy creature'" on Google and got tons of useful hits.
[link] is a Star Trek comic in which the EC appears.
This guy gives the following explanation:
An Energy Creature is a person who posts messages that are stupidly provocative, who will say almost anything with the sole intention of arousing anger, sadness, or other forms of pain. It is inspired by the old Star Trek (original series) episode where an "energy creature" trapped a bunch of Klingons and Federation crewman on the Enterprise, took all their advanced weapons away, and prodded them into constantly fighting in hand-to-hand combat. The Energy Creature then fed off their anger and rage and pain. They only defeated it by laughing at it and ignoring it.
Beverly - Jan 04, 2003 1:43:06 pm PST #2667 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Aha. Similar creatures, then, but different series. Interesting.
Allyson - Jan 04, 2003 2:34:54 pm PST #2668 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
We called trolls "bezoars" at the Bronze, after the creatures in bad eggs that latched onto a host's back in order to control the host.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2003 3:09:40 pm PST #2669 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmmm, guess I'm slacking as a Trekkie here. I always assumed the "energy creatures" nomenclature derived from the id-controlled energy monster in Forbidden Planet.
amych - Jan 04, 2003 3:20:12 pm PST #2670 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We called trolls "bezoars" at the Bronze, after the creatures in bad eggs that latched onto a host's back in order to control the host.
It's an appropriate Buffy ref, but I've never been able to get over the names of the creatures in the ep since the word "bezoar" basically means "hairball".
Not that that's a bad term for trolls either, now that I think of it.