5 new comments since you last read, out of 102 total comments?

correct :>

well, it's supposed to mean 'five unread replies' but it doesn't know if they've actually been read or not, obviously.

Well specifically it's the number of new comments posted to that thread since the last known date you were reading the thread. Of course you're right in that the site can't know which comments you've read or not and I don't discriminate based on which page of comments you look at, it just assumes you read every comment when you look at a thread.

actually, I thought you'd changed it now so that it marks comments read based on an individual page and not the entire thread. when I open a new thread whose comments don't spill, the unread count is null (as it is erased immediately when I load the thread). however, when I open a thread whose comments spill onto a different page, it does not render the count null until I venture to that page.
isn't this right?

Oh ok, thanks.

1876 posts, three years and never figured that out? :)

Same thoughts.. :-)

At least I have vowels in my nick.

Of course I asked for all the users that are new here. so they don't have to ask. Just a service to the gaming community.

its quite a new thing on the site im sure.

no

hnnnns...hunnnn-ssssss.....hinnnnnnssssss-uh.... your name really is impossible to articulate without giving the impression of stuttering.

A for effort, but keep trying!

it's a variant of my real name, which you couldn't pronounce either anyway :)

Yeah Hannes is a real hard word. Especially for a German since it is a freaking German name!

stop acting stupid, stupid.

Stop being silly, silly.

are you vegetarian?

Why?

curious, i imagine you might be. i am, so im not going to rant off if you are :p

Good, good. I have been a vegetarian for a couple of years but due to the weakness of my flesh I eat meat from time to time now. Mostly fish, because fish look stupid which makes it a little easier.

well, cows aren't that bright either, tbh.

They are cute.

Agree, they have such nifty eyelashes.

Fish isn't meat.

Then what is it? A plant? That's an arbitrary definition you're using.

It's fish.

Brillant reasoning. And pork isn't pork?

Pork is meat.

Deep. You should teach philosophy and logic.

DeMorgan has nothing on me.

:)

Fish is fish, but Shark is a fish yet its 'Shark Meat'.

that has always bothered me

i didnt know either but i cba to ask :p