Post what you're doing right now

[Twilight Sparkle]

Editing stuff.

 

Ditto.

[Chuckthe2nd]

My guess is that we're editing stuff in entirely different mediums, though.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Banning spambots and going to bed soon.

[Twilight Sparkle]

My guess is that we're editing stuff in entirely different mediums, though.

 

Yep. I'm editing Shiny and Whooves' fic.

 

So, my greatest foe...We meet again.

[J.C.]

Watching "Lost Girl".

[Mr. ShinyObject]

My guess is that we're editing stuff in entirely different mediums, though.

 

Yep. I'm editing Shiny and Whooves' fic.

 

So, my greatest foe...We meet again.

 

Jeez, it's not THAT bad...

 

Topic: Either writing, editing, or vectoring, haven't decided what I'm in the mood for. I put too much stuff on my plate.

[Twilight Sparkle]

So, I've been playing some more Victoria II for the last few hours. This is a narrative of the last couple decades of in-game time. I've spoiler'd the whole thing because it's long-ish.

 

 

After the truce with the Russian Empire, France had been left to stand alone against the united Germanic people of Europe. Their leaders panicking over the shocking change in fortune, they immediately tried to end the war with a decisive offensive through the narrow border with Germany, the only route left to them. Although the French had superiority in numbers, the North German Confederation found little difficulty in holding a single province, as it was not only heavily fortified, but the Germans had a sufficient pool of reservists that they were always able to keep fresh troops on the line. Casualties were heavy. Farmers were only able to stand against the well-trained French regulars because of sheer numbers. But their sacrifice was not in vain. The French assaults lasted for over a year, by which time the North German Confederation had rebuilt its remaining units, and raised more. Six full Korps stood, ready and eager to take revenge for the unprovoked aggression that had caused so many deaths throughout Europe. With their coasts blockaded by the French Navy, and war exhaustion climbing steadily higher, the Kaiser decided that the time to strike should be sooner, rather than later. Exactly two years after the beginning of hostilities, 162,000 elite German soldiers surged over the French border.

 

It was a bloodbath. For all the fighting ability of Germany's finest, it was still one province, and the French had the same defender's advantage that had saved the Germans before. The breakthrough attempt cost 40,000 German lives, and probably half again as many French soldiers. But once the Germans had managed to pass through the bottleneck, fresh units replaced them, and they quickly began to carve a swath through the French armies, which by then had been reduced to reservists and isolated remnants of their pre-war standing force, no match for fresh and organized units. This stage of the war cost Germany dearly - two more of her elite armies took massive casualties, and were reassigned to garrison roles in the homeland. The remaining two that were still in fighting shape engaged and crushed the surviving French armies one by one, while reservists moved in to secure territory. Soon, they marched on Paris itself, which fell after a three week battle. France began to talk peace. Seeing a chance to finally secure Germany's future, and not forgetful of the initial French demands for German territory, the Germans would accept no less than the province of Alsace-Loraine. They were delighted when the French proved accepting of these demands.

 

After the war ended, the German Empire was formed immediately by the unification of the North German Confederation and the German Minor countries that had stood at its side during the war. Since then, the new empire has become one of the most prominent powers in the world, with a military and industrial base only bested by France and Britain, countries that had already possessed great empires long before Prussia even existed. Although The German Empire had been forged from a glorious victory, it had cost her dearly. The military had already been worn down before the war in conflict with Austria over the right to be the leader of "German Hegemony", and the campaigns in France and Russia had all but shattered it. On top of that, in her quest to become a single state, Germany had made enemies of almost every major player in Europe. She was surrounded by enemies, her military was in ruins, and her position in Europe was vulnerable. Fortunately, the powers that be seemed reluctant to fight another war with Germany, apparently discouraged by the sharp defeat that had been handed to them, despite all odds. Despite the grave situation, the worst did not happen, and Germany, young but powerful, slowly began to rebuild.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the new German Empire, 14 years after the War of Unification.

 

 

[Doctor Felix Whooves]

Recovering form the finding out that swag originally came from the name of a group of men in the 60s called "secretly we are gay" they used swag as a way of identifying each other.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Playing Inversion. I'll write a review when I'm done with it.

[Mr. ShinyObject]

Rendering.

[Pinkie Pie]

Drawing and listening to music.

[Obsidian]

Laughing at this:

 

that list was absolutely disgusting.

 

i'm going to throw up now.

You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands..

I can do the same with my vagina.

[Chuckthe2nd]

Recovering form the finding out that swag originally came from the name of a group of men in the 60s called "secretly we are gay" they used swag as a way of identifying each other.

Um...no. It's an abbreviation for "swagger".

[Mr. ShinyObject]

Exporting what I just rendered. My version of Vegas doesn't have H.264, just H.363 or uncompressed, so I have to open it up in QuickTime and export it there.

[Chuckthe2nd]

See, that's where upgrading comes in handy.

[Scorpia]

Recovering form the finding out that swag originally came from the name of a group of men in the 60s called "secretly we are gay" they used swag as a way of identifying each other.

Um...no. It's an abbreviation for "swagger".

 

Which apparently is an abbreviation for lavish, Stylish, moronic, poser, and of course "I lack a vocabulary that isn't embellished in slang.".

 

On topic: I'm making me some food. specifically cheeseburgers on a griddle.

[Chuckthe2nd]

Pondering the morality of pirating a game if it's no longer in production, and unpurchaseable in boxed form except as a collector's item type thing.

[Doctor Felix Whooves]

Recovering form the finding out that swag originally came from the name of a group of men in the 60s called "secretly we are gay" they used swag as a way of identifying each other.

Um...no. It's an abbreviation for "swagger".

Yes that is where the modern term came from, but the first time swag was used as a word it ment secretly we are gay

[Mr. ShinyObject]

See, that's where upgrading comes in handy.

http://denver.mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/img/mlfw4505-D7Lbv.gif

 

OT: Exporting... again...

[Collective Foal]

Recovering form the finding out that swag originally came from the name of a group of men in the 60s called "secretly we are gay" they used swag as a way of identifying each other.

Um...no. It's an abbreviation for "swagger".

 

Yeah, the term gay wasn't used to refer to homosexuals until the 80s. Prior to that period, the term "homosexual" sufficed. Before the 20th century, the term queer was used to refer to counterfeit currency but in the 1900s, was used to refer to something odd. Again, not until the 80s was it used to refer to homosexuals. The term "butt pirate" came was a comical propoganda type term to cast poor light on any sea farer who endeavored in obtaining gold or any sort of "booty." Booty, originally meaning treasure, was corrupted into also referring to one's posterior because of its closeness in sound to butt. In order to control fear of these vicious pirates in the masses, they used the bastardization of the term to create a comical name for the pirates.

 

OT: Teaching a history lesson.

 

If I haven't gotten a half-decent point across, here's the TL;DR:

 

Whooves is wrong. SWAG used as an acronym did not come about until the 2000s, when some 14 year old kid on 4chan thought it would be funny if he got the entire world convinced of this falsity of which you have had the misfortune to be informed.

 

Chuck is correct, as swag was just a shortened term of swagger that claimed its roots in the rap and disco plagued 70s.