Added additional join messages

[ioletsgo]

Additional join messages are referencing the following properties:
-Black Sabbath's Iron Man
-Futurama
-Harlan Ellison's book I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
-Metal Gear Solid 1
-Team Fortress 2
-Metal Gear Solid 3
-Half Life 2.

If I can think up any additional join messages they will also be posted in this pull request.

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[ioletsgo]

Yeah those formatting changes weren't intentional

[gitnickolson]

I'd actually leave something like this out. This could be misunderstood if you don't get the reference.

[ioletsgo]

I did actually speak to Hampus regarding concerns about that. The general speech I personally consider to be iconic, but nerds can kinda overestimate the general public's familiarity with certain quotes and references. XKCD 2501 and all that

im nerds btw

[gitnickolson]

🤝

Mow that that's gone, I really like these additions :D

[TheKodeToad]

Not a maintainer but if you look at the existing messages they explicitly say things hinting towards the fact it's a join message such as "Glad you're here", "Greetings", "Hello", "Welcome" etc. I feel like these messages fit in:

Get comfy ${username}, enjoy a can of Slurm!

Well, ${username}! And about time, too!

(the latter, maybe?)

But the rest don't look like greetings to me who doesn't get most of the references, at least (love the futurama reference though :))

With something like

${username}, Try to remember some of the basics of CQC.

shouldn't you at least put Welcome before it, to be consistent with existing messages like

Welcome, ${username}! Don't forget to park your DeLorean.

(which admittedly are also rather back to the future specific and obviously not everyone would get those references either)

Also calling somebody a spy or a snake could be misinterpreted too, no?

[gitnickolson]

@TheKodeToad I would agree with you in the latter:

Also calling somebody a spy or a snake could be misinterpreted too, no?

But I think that at least the references that could be easily understood with a quick google search are nothing to be worried about.

That means that I think this one's rather bad:

Welcome ${username}, Try to remember some of the basics of CQC.

But this one is quite okay since you can easily google "DeLorean" and will understand that it's a reference pretty quickly.

Welcome, ${username}! Don't forget to park your DeLorean.

But that's just my opinion and I guess Hampus should decide what's good and what's not

[ioletsgo]

I do think a general guideline regarding community submitted join messages (or any sort of system messages) would very much be appreciated.

I will definitely have to ask Hampus for something like that, if guidelines are created and some entries don't follow them, I would gladly modify or change them to fit exactly what Hampus has in mind.