The Night Before Christmas - Metanet Style!

[capt_weasle]

Posting this slightly early as I don't believe that I will be around to do so tomorrow. So for the fifth time in four years, I present to you...

The Night Before Christmas - Metanet Style!

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through IRC, not a member was speaking, except of course me.

The computers were left on the desks in their rooms, and the chatting did not ever seem to resume.

Each person was nestled, all snug in their chairs, not concerned with the time or the state of affairs.

With KA in his ‘kerchief, and LV in his cap, they had just left the chat room for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the desktop there arose such a clatter, The Blizz sprang from his post to see what was the matter.

Out of the ‘net he scrolled with a flash, straight to the front screen with an incredible crash.

The icons laid out with a brilliant glow, gave the luster of objects appearing below.

When, what to his wandering eyes should be shown, but a miniature sleigh pulled by a drone.

With a thin little driver, who could be seen now and then, I knew in a moment it must be St. N.

More rapid than ninjas his coursers they came, and he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

“Now Stupid, now Seeker, now Laser and Chain Gun! On Floor Guard, on Thwumper, on Hal and on Reggie!”

“To the side of the screen, and through the glass wall! Now seek away! Seek away! Seek away all!”

As members that flee before ‘Suki tirades, when met with an obstacle, through the sky they parade.

So to the desktop his coursers they flew, with a sled full of games, carrying St. N, too.

As Sweep awoke in his bed, and was looking around, out came St. N, with a noisily bound.

He had on not that much, a mere hat on his head, he was a thin figure, all colored in red.

A pack full of games, he flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes couldn’t be seen, but I knew he was merry; his cheeks were like roses, his color bright cherry.

He stood with a posture that made him look bold, his name on his hat, etched in pure gold.

In his left hand, he carried mines for the naughty, the spoiled brats, and those who were haughty.

An fr34king 1337 ninja, he was sleek and quite thin; I stood when I saw him, a devout follower of N.

With a nod of his head, and a shift of his feet, he went straight to work, to continue his feat.

He filled the stockings, each one with a game, and then he turned back around, and called out a name.

He dashed to his sleigh, let out a sharp cry, and jumped off the screen, and away he did fly.

But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight,

“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Okay, there's something bothering me about this.
I just did a Ctrl-F for "suk" to find the reference to myself (cuz, c'mon, I ain't reading that whole thing), and I got three results. However, I can only find one of them.
Figuring I just wasn't spotting the highlighting, I tried the same in the page source, but the same thing happened: three results, two of which are invisible.

Can anyone corroborate this?

EDIT:
Turns out I'm dumb, and the references are in my own signature.

[smartalco]

Turns out I'm dumb, and the references are in my own signature.

This doesn't make any sense o_O
Since your entire post is about finding your name in that, I'm assuming you did a search before you posted, meaning that your post didn't exist and therefore your signature would not have been in this thread???

[Tanner]

I love this thing. I'm still sorry about posting it instead of you last year.

[krusch]

This is awesome. Excepting of course for the fact that KA would be having a Summer nap, rather than a Winter nap.

[capt_weasle]

I love this thing. I'm still sorry about posting it instead of you last year.

No hard feelings, really! <3

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Turns out I'm dumb, and the references are in my own signature.

This doesn't make any sense o_O
Since your entire post is about finding your name in that, I'm assuming you did a search before you posted, meaning that your post didn't exist and therefore your signature would not have been in this thread???

WAIT.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKSTICKS.

[Tanner]

Turns out I'm dumb, and the references are in my own signature.

This doesn't make any sense o_O
Since your entire post is about finding your name in that, I'm assuming you did a search before you posted, meaning that your post didn't exist and therefore your signature would not have been in this thread???

WAIT.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKSTICKS.

I can't tell if you're being serious anymore but I'm going to explain it anyway if only to stop the madness.

First one is from the top of the page. The logout hyperlink has your username next to it.
The second one is in the body of the post.
The last one is at the bottom of the page. The "users browsing this forum category".

It's a fucking Christmas miracle.

[Pheidippides]

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

[smartalco]

First one is from the top of the page. The logout hyperlink has your username next to it.
The second one is in the body of the post.
The last one is at the bottom of the page. The "users browsing this forum category".

Oh right, the logout one. I had thought of the bottom one when I posted originally but I preferred to see Suki going insane :P

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

I can't tell if you're being serious anymore but I'm going to explain it anyway if only to stop the madness.

First one is from the top of the page. The logout hyperlink has your username next to it.
The second one is in the body of the post.
The last one is at the bottom of the page. The "users browsing this forum category".

It's a fucking Christmas miracle.

But my username doesn't include the substring "suk" -- my username is a zalgo'd "Tsukatu", which means it's a collection of 20 unicode characters. Does the search function magically gloss over the markup characters between the visible characters or something?

[乳头的早餐谷物]

I can't tell if you're being serious anymore but I'm going to explain it anyway if only to stop the madness.

First one is from the top of the page. The logout hyperlink has your username next to it.
The second one is in the body of the post.
The last one is at the bottom of the page. The "users browsing this forum category".

It's a fucking Christmas miracle.

But my username doesn't include the substring "suk" -- my username is a zalgo'd "Tsukatu", which means it's a collection of 20 unicode characters. Does the search function magically gloss over the markup characters between the visible characters or something?

Apparently. In Chrome:

[smartalco]

Apparently. In Chrome:

With the giant boxy squares, I'm guessing you are on some form of Linux?

Safari seems to find it just fine as well Suki.

[SlappyMcGee]

My computer does not find his username, for the natural reason that his user name does not include "s" "u" and "k" in sequence. Ergo: I am pleased with its performance.

[squibbles]

Yep, Windows 7 w/ Firefox 3.6.13 doesn't find it either. So I guess when it comes in inane search abilities, we know which the superior browser is!

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

In Linux, Chromium will find all instances but only highlight the ones without meta-characters.
In Windows 7, Chrome will find and highlight all instances.
In ChromeOS, Chrome will crash just after typing the letter 'u'.

[squibbles]

In ChromeOS, Chrome will crash just after typing the letter 'u'.

You're probably going to be the only person who finds that. Google found the right person to send the computer to. :P

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

In ChromeOS, Chrome will crash just after typing the letter 'u'.

You're probably going to be the only person who finds that. Google found the right person to send the computer to. :P

Yeah, man. I submitted a bug report and everything. I'm so dutiful.