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by **Trotterdam** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:35 pm

It's not the "smart" quote. That was the closing quote, after "twaddle,". The stray 0x0F is immediately between the opening quote (which is a normal ") and the "Well,".

My browser displays it as a small rectangle. I'm not seeing it in your screenshot, so I'm concluding your browser doesn't display it (believable enough, since as I said, it's an ASCII control code rather than a printable character, which, in the absence of something to be controlling, means pretty much nothing), but it's definitely there. You can see it if you download the page and open it with a hex editor.

I don't know what might have caused it. It's almost certainly not related to anything Unicode, since UTF-8's non-ASCII characters always have the high bit set on every byte, while this stray byte doesn't.

by **Luna Amore** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:47 pm

It should be gone now.

by **Aibohphobia** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:22 am

Luna Amore wrote:It should be gone now.

Thank you. Sorry if I was being nondescript.

by **Mewlandia** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:06 am

Mewlandia wrote:
Issue #415, what I believe was option 1, gives the following result:

"Following new legislation in Mewlandia, students athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Kittenball fields."

I reckon that should read "student athletes"?

Not to spam, but given that other things have been fixed in between and that I've given it 48h, I'm guessing this got lost in the wall of text

by **Luna Amore** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:10 am

Mewlandia wrote:
Mewlandia wrote:
Issue #415, what I believe was option 1, gives the following result:

"Following new legislation in Mewlandia, students athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Kittenball fields."

I reckon that should read "student athletes"?

Not to spam, but given that other things have been fixed in between and that I've given it 48h, I'm guessing this got lost in the wall of text

Fixed.

by **Tyeodora Snez Montresor** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:33 pm

Issue #90: Organic Outburst

2. "I've heard enough of this treehugging, lefty nonsense," argues corporate spokesman @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The agricultural industry needs to use the most advanced technology available, it's the only way to keep @@NAME@@ competitive in food production. Besides, the studies we have commissioned prove that only a very small number of child deaths are due to our products, and surely that's an acceptable rate in the name of progress?"

Should be "proof".

by **Nurkama** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:24 pm

Tyeodora Snez Montresor wrote:
Issue #90: Organic Outburst

2. "I've heard enough of this treehugging, lefty nonsense," argues corporate spokesman @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The agricultural industry needs to use the most advanced technology available, it's the only way to keep @@NAME@@ competitive in food production. Besides, the studies we have commissioned prove that only a very small number of child deaths are due to our products, and surely that's an acceptable rate in the name of progress?"

Should be "proof".

Nope. It's correct.

by **Tyeodora Snez Montresor** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:14 pm

Nurkama wrote:
Tyeodora Snez Montresor wrote:
Issue #90: Organic Outburst

2. "I've heard enough of this treehugging, lefty nonsense," argues corporate spokesman @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The agricultural industry needs to use the most advanced technology available, it's the only way to keep @@NAME@@ competitive in food production. Besides, the studies we have commissioned prove that only a very small number of child deaths are due to our products, and surely that's an acceptable rate in the name of progress?"

Should be "proof".

Nope. It's correct.

Ah shit! I feel so silly now... :oops:

Thank you so much for pointing that out --- I just realised that when I checked this thread just now... Early mornings just don't do it for me...

by **Redentro** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:54 pm

In issue 420, Caught Green Handed, there is a line reading:

Some are calling this a fragrantdisregard of the law

Unless a pun is intended, the correct word is flagrant.

by **Wilvania** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:36 pm

As Wilvania has no Internet, Issue 99 (or at least the fourth Option on it) shouldn't be reaching me.

by **Golgothastan** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:50 pm

Redentro wrote:In issue 420, Caught Green Handed, there is a line reading:
Some are calling this a fragrantdisregard of the law

Unless a pun is intended, the correct word is flagrant.

It is a pun: the flagrant smoking of cannabis produces a haze of fragrant smoke.

Wilvania wrote:As Wilvania has no Internet, Issue 99 (or at least the fourth Option on it) shouldn't be reaching me.

For a country with no internet, that option would re-legalise the internet. So I don't believe it's a validity issue, though another editor can overrule me.

by **Sanctaria** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:34 am

Golgothastan wrote:
Wilvania wrote:As Wilvania has no Internet, Issue 99 (or at least the fourth Option on it) shouldn't be reaching me.

For a country with no internet, that option would re-legalise the internet. So I don't believe it's a validity issue, though another editor can overrule me.

Correct. I don't see an error here.

by **Torture Tower** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:57 am

I got the "request for military aid" issue #194 and I think it should have an option to help the unnamed country free itself from the tyranny of the Bigtopians.

by **Christian Democrats** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:19 pm

Issue #160: Truancy On The Rise, Option #1, Effect

highschool [high school] principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school

by **Luna Amore** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:41 pm

Christian Democrats wrote:Issue #160: Truancy On The Rise, Option #1, Effect

highschool [high school] principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school

Fixed, thanks.

by **Nurkama** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:30 am

Torture Tower wrote:I got the "request for military aid" issue #194 and I think it should have an option to help the unnamed country free itself from the tyranny of the Bigtopians.

You can't just do that.

by **Nurkama** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:54 am

In #005, Child Casino Shock, it should be spray painting not spraypainting.

by **Sanctaria** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:19 pm

Nurkama wrote:In #005, Child Casino Shock, it should be spray painting not spraypainting.

Fixed

by **Aculea** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:54 am

Issue #410 - 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men

I don't think it's clear what option 3 is proposing, I didn't figure it out until after I saw the result, and even then I had to stare for a bit wondering how the two were connected:

3. "Ooh, and what else do you expect me to do, luvvie?" clucks @@NAME@@'s most prolific juror, @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@ as she rolls up a copy of this week's Alright! magazine. "You know, I wouldn't mind deciding on parking disputes, especially if I get to chat with Rita from the Milton murder trial again. Did you hear she's had her hair done again - oh, where was I? Oh right, well this 'pyramid scheme' thing might've given me a headache, but at least it got me out the house."

If you only use public transport and don't own a car, if you live in Vermont or Virginia or some other jurisdiction where the right to a jury trial is available in all instances, or if you have simply never gotten a parking ticket and therefore assumed, like speeding tickets, that you could request a jury trial, then there is no point of reference from which to conclude that a woman excited about her chance to neglect her civic duties is proposing an expansion of the transparency of the legal system. She reads like some sort of null option, or, if you concentrate, it can look like a proposal to turn the jury system into a kind of daycare for shut ins, which was my first impression.

by **Golgothastan** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:59 am

That option is actually an addition to the issue - it wasn't a part of the draft I submitted. So I have no idea either.

by **Trotterdam** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:23 am

[effect]listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases

Now I'm just wondering why it's called "12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men" when one of the major characters is a @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@...

by **Lenyo** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:25 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)

by **Golgothastan** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:33 am

Lenyo wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)

Yeah, and all the characters in that film are men.

by **Aculea** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:34 am

Am I allowed to suggest a rewrite?

"You want to hold fraud and embezzlement to the same standard as parking tickets?" asks @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, eyes flitting towards the clock on the wall, "I got a parking ticket once while I was still putting money into the meter, and the judge blew me off when I said any decent person could see I was in the right. I don't care how much work people have to miss, there needs to be a jury at every trial, if only to -- oops, time to feed the meter!" He hurries away, rifling through his pockets for some @@CURRENCY@@ in small denominations.

Definitely tastes like a first draft.

by **Sanctaria** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 5:50 pm

Aculea wrote:Am I allowed to suggest a rewrite?
"You want to hold fraud and embezzlement to the same standard as parking tickets?" asks @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, eyes flitting towards the clock on the wall, "I got a parking ticket once while I was still putting money into the meter, and the judge blew me off when I said any decent person could see I was in the right. I don't care how much work people have to miss, there needs to be a jury at every trial, if only to -- oops, time to feed the meter!" He hurries away, rifling through his pockets for some @@CURRENCY@@ in small denominations.

Definitely tastes like a first draft.

Take it to a new thread please.

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