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arby - Feb 13, 2003 11:46:38 am PST #3058 of 10000
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)

O, IC. If we took that quote out completely, would some other quote show up as much? Maybe the randomizer is broken or something.

So there's only the one quote database, then? I guess it wasn't feasible to make separate db's for Angel and Buffy quotes, plus the code would have to be different for the B/A thread pages.

Jessica - Feb 13, 2003 11:48:00 am PST #3059 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If we took that quote out completely, would some other quote show up as much? Maybe the randomizer is broken or something.

Yes -- it's whichever quote is first in the list. (It used to be "It's all about the coat.")

Noumenon - Feb 13, 2003 11:49:03 am PST #3060 of 10000
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

We could hack it to look for a different quote if it came up with that one.

billytea - Feb 13, 2003 11:49:11 am PST #3061 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Slllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllumbernut.

...Ok, maybe a bit tacky for this thread. 0s tend to impair my judgment.

§ ita § - Feb 13, 2003 11:49:47 am PST #3062 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I guess it wasn't feasible to make separate db's for Angel and Buffy quotes, plus the code would have to be different for the B/A thread pages.

There's no need to make separate db's, since there's a column that tells which show the quote is from.

Why did you want them to be separate, again?

Noumenon - Feb 13, 2003 11:49:51 am PST #3063 of 10000
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

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arby - Feb 13, 2003 11:52:27 am PST #3064 of 10000
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)

Why did you want them to be separate, again?

'Cause there are people who watch Buffy but not Angel, and the Angel quotes just confuse and spoil them (in case they ever did want to watch in the future). I dunno, maybe it's stupid.

PaulJ - Feb 13, 2003 11:53:25 am PST #3065 of 10000

How does the quotes thing work anyway? Does it generate a random number and look up for that quote in the "quotes" table? In that case, I'm very surprised that it returns "1" so frequently.

Signed, codes PHP for a living, hasn't done a damn thing in the whole day.

esse - Feb 13, 2003 11:56:31 am PST #3066 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

The quotes are from previous seasons. I don't think there's anything later than Season Five and Season Two.

§ ita § - Feb 13, 2003 11:58:03 am PST #3067 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

'Cause there are people who watch Buffy but not Angel, and the Angel quotes just confuse and spoil them (in case they ever did want to watch in the future). I dunno, maybe it's stupid.

The quotes aren't spoilery, though -- they stop at S3 Angel and S6 Buffy, if that. For the UnAmericans among us.

Paul, it's randomised by MYSQL -- ORDER RANDOM LIMIT 1. I campaigned against moving the randomising into PHP, because I thought it would be too much of a performance hit for just a frill.

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