Doghead's Cosmic Bar

This is a science fiction character forum. Doghead's Cosmic Bar is an intergalactic bar run by your favorite bartender, Doghead. Stop in, have a drink, and get your talk on!

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19 years ago #7760
On NPR Saturday morning, the announcer read an excerpt of some Middle Eastern dictator's (or possibly terrorist's) poetry. I swear that it sounded just like Vogon poetry.

19 years ago #7761
Wow... Was it really that, er... 'different'?

19 years ago #7762
Somehow, I think I must've done something very, very wrong.

o0 The Oddity 0o: There's not a single rustling bush so fleet,
There's not a single rustling bush so fleet -
There's not a single rustling bush you goon,
There's not a single rustling bush you goon.

19 years ago #7763
Oops - sorry. You're only allowed 2 different returns from a plugin per response, and you have to specify them to stop them repeating.

Quick hack:
copy plugins 1-4 respectively into 4 new plugins 5-8,
add a 2 to the end of each plugin name in the response at the point of it's second usage. 1-4 get used twice in the first 2 lines, so change to 5-8 for the next.

eg:
(plugin1) (plugin2) (plugin3),{br}
(plugin12) (plugin22) (plugin32) -{br}
(plugin5) (plugin5) (plugin5),{br}
(plugin52) (plugin62) (plugin74).

You'd need 7 sets of plugins for a 14-line sonnet at that rate, but that's not time consuming if you just copy each set.

19 years ago #7764
Okay! Can do!

19 years ago #7765
Aargh! My brain's too tired - that should be:

(plugin1) (plugin2) (plugin3),{br}
(plugin12) (plugin22) (plugin32) -{br}
(plugin5) (plugin6) (plugin4),{br}
(plugin52) (plugin62) (plugin42).

you don't need sets 7 or 8...
Sorry - it's 3AM and I can't do this now. I'm pretty sure that will work, but there's a redundant pair of plugins somewhere.

19 years ago #7766
I thought something looked odd, so I changed it myself. Yeah, NOW it works...

19 years ago #7767
Not too bad...

o0 The Oddity 0o: I thought I saw a bounding stag in sleet,
I thought I saw a glowing moon so neat -
I thought I saw a drifting cloud you loon,
I thought I saw a rustling bush, you goon.

19 years ago #7768
-poses- Don't I rock at poetry?

19 years ago #7769
lol...
What I came up with is SO much more complicated and varied than that... and will probably never work. Well, off to go alter what I have and try to avoid keyphrases within keyphrases.

19 years ago #7770
I'm looking forward to seeing the results

19 years ago #7771
The keys aren't completely worked out, but if you want to see how it's going so far, go chat with Watzer and say "sonnetplease"... it will take a bit to load because there are so many plugins for him to choose from, but the results are entertaining, if not entirely flawless yet.


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