Log archive of EquestriaDaily for Saturday, 2017-12-30

00:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: PMV Collab: Stick Together [ http://tinyurl.com/yase99mb ]

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00:50 * Filly_Nightmares noms Cepheid and hats on Butter Uni

00:51 * uni sighs, is sick

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00:53 <Schism> Everybody seems to be sickly.

00:55 * Ali ish not sick

00:57 <uni> bleh

00:59 <Schism> I have decided that, to remain firmly on the curl of the anime wave, I shall watch the new and much-lauded anime, A Certain Magical Index.

00:59 * Schism coughs.

01:00 <Schism> And shall also watch Log Horizon.  Because tis good.

01:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: New My Little Pony Movie Poster and Card Sets Released by Enterplay [ http://tinyurl.com/yc7qdale ]

01:02 * Ali makes Schism watch DBS

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01:03 <Schism> Only 4 more minutes until planet Namek explodes.

01:03 * Schism fast forwards through the next 13 episodes.

01:03 <Schism> (Yes, I know that the series was like that for Reasons - specifically a demand to keep pace with serialized manga releases.)

01:06 <Ali> Have you seen Dragonball Super Schism?

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01:09 <Schism> Nah, I haven't yet.

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01:12 <Ali> The pacing is better, and not as much screaming

01:12 <Ali> Though the first season is basically a retelling of Reserection F and Battle of the Gods

01:13 <Cepheid> Oh.  New factorio version.

01:14 <Ali> How come Factorio never goes on sale?

01:15 <Cepheid> Likely because it's in development.

01:16 <Ali> FOREVER

01:16 * Filly_Nightmares chews on Ali

01:16 <Cepheid> Less development time than Dwarf Fortress.

01:17 <Ali> DF is free though :P

01:17 <Cepheid> Hell, if I start my current project and work on it, my project will likely take forever, too. >.>

01:26 * Schism peers at A Certain Magical Index. "Ah. The unluckiest person in the world."

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01:30 <Cepheid> Heh.

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01:34 * Cepheid should probably take a break and do something else.

01:36 <Cepheid> Truth told I kind of want to lay down.  o3o

01:36 <Schism> You could watch anime or something.  XD;

01:38 * Ali flops over Cepheid

01:39 * Cepheid boots up Grim Dawn.

01:39 * Cepheid pets Ali.

01:40 <Schism> I need to finish the main story of Grim Dawn sometime.  That and Path of Exile.

01:40 <Schism> (We can throw out all those Leaguestones from aaaages ago, by the way.)

01:43 <Cepheid> Myself, I need to go through Grim Dawn's expansion.  And yes, I still need to do Path of Exile.

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01:46 <Schism> If you intend to do anything with Path of Exile, I suggest starting the patcher now, as it'll take like a half an hour to do its thing.

01:46 <PinkieShy> hihi

01:46 <PinkieShy> Schism guess what..

01:46 * Schism provides PinkieShy with a boop. "Scootaloo Butt?"

01:46 <PinkieShy> I had to extract my windows 8 key from my laptop

01:46 <PinkieShy> Windows 10 messed up on this machine again so.. I had to do phone activation and i'm on windows 8.1 XD

01:46 <PinkieShy> at least now i can tell if its a issue with just windows itself. :P

01:47 <Schism> Ah... well... at least you're back on 8?  XD;

01:47 <PinkieShy> yes :)

01:47 <PinkieShy> Hopefully it stays working and i don't have to worry about a thing anymore

01:48 <Schism> Fingers crossed!  Also, there are a few cats in A Certain Magical Index, aren't there.

01:48 <Finwe> o3o

01:48 * PinkieShy hugs Schism

01:48 <Finwe> Greetings, everypony.

01:49 <Finwe> Messrs PinkieShy and Schism.

01:49 * Finwe doffs his hat.

01:49 <Cepheid> Not sure what kind of build I'll go for this character.  Last time I punched a god to death, with reasonably high DPS for just a fist alone.  This time?  Dual-weilding nightblade.

01:49 <Cepheid> I'm thinking, hmm...

01:50 <Cepheid> Try to see how high I can get my attack speed.

01:50 <Finwe> AB Cepheid.

01:50 <Finwe> o7

01:50 <Cepheid> Hoi.

01:51 <Cepheid> I solved my problem with overflowing calculations last night.  'Twas a simple solution.  Loses a bit of accuracy, but not enough to matter as it was just for a UI readout and for some basic "Do I do X or Y based on Z?" calculations for AI.

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01:54 <Cepheid> Turns out, you can divide the delta of X and Y between two points, then square the divided deltas, add them together, square root, and then multiply the square root by the divisor used early on to get a rough result.  Works for the excessively large distances I'm dealing with and limited range of data types.

01:57 <Cepheid> Hum.

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02:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #1304 [ http://tinyurl.com/y87xmpsd ]

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02:13 * Filly_Nightmares licks Cepheid

02:14 * Filly_Nightmares stores Schism in her floof

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02:18 <Cepheid> Huh, a UI bug in Grim Dawn.

02:18 <Cepheid> The codex log entries don't like the UI scale being set to max.

02:22 <Schism> Hmm.  And that's not in relation to any mods you have installed?

02:22 <Cepheid> Nope.

02:22 <Cepheid> Clean install.

02:22 <Cepheid> It's just for whatever reason, the UI scale causes the codex screen to break.  I'm also running at 4k, so that MIGHT have something to do with it.

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02:42 * Cepheid noms leftover lasagna.

02:44 * Cepheid repairs the bridge, but goes to the Flood Passage anyways to murder everything there.

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02:46 <Cepheid> Princess-Luna:  Solution to drama:  Thermonuclear Wedgie.

02:46 <Cepheid> So painful everyone just shuts up and starts screaming about how much pain they're in.

02:48 <Saerydoth> thermonuclear wedgie

02:48 <Saerydoth> that sounds like an awesome name for a band

02:51 <Cepheid> Looked outside.  If that cat's coming around, there's no indications in the patio.  Snow hasn't been disturbed.  So I'm gonna assume it's inside.

02:51 <Fn> My fever reached 38.8°C (101,84F) time to take meds before my proteins will be cooked

02:52 <Saerydoth> for me even 37C is a fever

02:52 <Saerydoth> my normal is like 36

02:55 <Cepheid> I think I've developed a problem.  I just consumed some Gravol, and then some melatonin.

02:56 <Schism> Cepheid: Hmm?  Not too bad that?

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02:56 <Schism> Also, Cepheid: I hope so...

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02:57 <Cepheid> Mixing sleep medications is generally not a good idea.  But, as of late I've been having trouble sleeping, and I'd like to be up at a reasonable time tomorrow.  So I'll take this now, take a quick shower, then game for a bit until it all hits me like a brick box filled with bricks.

02:58 <Cepheid> Oooh, an epic item.  Mutiny.

02:58 <Schism> Nice.  o3o

02:58 <Schism> Also, I insist upon now thinking of that orange cat as Naranja.

02:59 <Schism> Cepheid: Hmm... yup, Mutiny is the lowest-level Epic Pistol.  Still!

03:00 <Cepheid> Useless to me, though.

03:00 <Cepheid> I'm dual-weilding one-handed swords.

03:00 <Schism> Ah yes.

03:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Crafts and Custom Compilation #8 [ http://tinyurl.com/y9rrhazr ]

03:02 <Cepheid> Axel the Punchinator is still alive and well, still waiting on that "disable auto-equip weapon" feature though.

03:03 <Cepheid> Last I checked his stats, he was fisting things so hard that even innuendo didn't know how to respond.

03:05 * Schism peers at A Certain Magical Index. "It'd better not take 20 more episodes to reach midnight."

03:06 <Cepheid> Heh.

03:06 <Cepheid> Speaking of Axel, the devs of Grim Dawn are mildly perturbed by his existence.

03:06 <Cepheid> The game was never balanced with punching everything in sight in mind.

03:06 <Schism> I'm sure they consider it kind of hilarious, too, though.  XD;

03:07 <Cepheid> They did, yeah.

03:07 <Cepheid> I mentioned it during one of their streams and they went "What?  Seriously?  This game isn't even balanced for that, there isn't even a fisticuffs class!"

03:08 <Cepheid> I mean technically, yeah, he's not exactly pure melee damage via punching.  He relies on a bunch of passive and aura skills to increase his damage, but I've not used any direct-damage, active skills or weapons.  Though I do have a weapon LunaticHell gave me.

03:08 <Cepheid> It's a giant stone fist on a stick.

03:09 <Schism> Still a punchin' weapon.

03:09 <Schism> But yeah.  XD;

03:09 <Cepheid> http://grimdawn.wikia.com/wiki/Stonefist_Rebuke

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03:12 <Finwe> Lt The_Nostalgia_Mare.

03:12 <Finwe> o7

03:12 <The_Nostalgia_Mare> Radm. Finwe. (Salutes)

03:20 * Schism peers at Index. "Oh, great job, Kouma. What're you gonna do next, drop Academy City straight into the ocean?"

03:23 * Cepheid finds Willie's Razor. Another Epic.

03:23 <Cepheid> http://grimdawn.wikia.com/wiki/Willie%27s_Razor

03:28 <Schism> Touma*  And hah, that's a bit more useable, eh?

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03:37 <Schism> "She's going to bite him to death, isn't she?" Yup.

03:40 * PinkieShy licks Schism

03:43 <Cepheid> Ow.  Killed a boss monster 6 levels above me.

03:44 <Schism> Sounds like it took a few potions out of you.

03:44 <Schism> Also, hum.  First six episodes of A Certain Magical Index done.  Sweet arc, sad ending.

03:45 <Saerydoth> melatonin occurs naturally in the body, it's not a bad thing.  The other stuff I don't know about

03:45 <Schism> Gravol is an anti-nausea medication which also has a relaxing effect, and is often used for transporting pets.

03:46 * Saerydoth nods

03:46 <Saerydoth> oh!

03:46 <Cepheid> A few potions, yes.

03:46 <Saerydoth> it's benadryl mixed with a stimulant

03:46 <Saerydoth> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimenhydrinate

03:46 <Cepheid> That said, I'm not sure if the drug in question can easily be overtaken.

03:46 <Cepheid> Because once, I was injected with pure, liquid dimenhydrinate.

03:46 <Saerydoth> it's actually less effective at anti nausea than benadryl is

03:46 <Saerydoth> it just makes you less drowsy due to having a stimulant mixed in

03:47 <Cepheid> I was suffering nausea the likes I'd never wish upon even my own enemies.

03:47 <Saerydoth> is benadryl mixed with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Chlorotheophylline

03:47 <Cepheid> Severe dehydration, somewhere between heat exhaustion and moderate to severe heat stroke.

03:47 <Schism> Evidently you really have to be trying to overdo it in order to get high off dimenhydrinate.

03:48 <Schism> Cepheid: Yeah.  @_@  I've had that before.

03:49 <Cepheid> The dimenhydrinate they gave me wasn't enough to stop the nausea.

03:50 <Saerydoth> try diphenhydramine then

03:51 <Saerydoth> it's stronger, just makes you drowsy

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03:52 <Cepheid> In a weird, twisted way, I use this stuff as a way of problem solving.  Know how people solve problems in the shower?  I solve mine while laying in bed, half-asleep and about to pass out.

03:52 <RazorSharpFang> Urgh, there's a tiny spinder on the inside of my monitor.

03:53 <RazorSharpFang> What if you tried psilocybin?

03:53 <Cepheid> No idea what that's like.

03:53 <Cepheid> Also, in regards to your monitor issue..

03:53 <RazorSharpFang> It's colloquially known as "shrooms"

03:53 <Cepheid> I have a cat hair on the underside of the glass of my screen.

03:53 <RazorSharpFang> So it's a hallucinogen.

03:54 <Cepheid> Ah.  Shrooms.  No idea, but I've heard stories from a Swedish girl about 'em.

03:55 <RazorSharpFang> For instance, apparently if you take enough of them to induce what's called "a religious experience" people become less afraid of death, even on their deathbed.

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03:55 * Cepheid puts on a new medal he just found. Spontaneously he reflects 30% more light.

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03:56 <Cepheid> RazorSharpFang:  Truth told, I get recommended to try a lot of different drugs, typically the non-addictive ones.  Many argue that it'd help me with some of my mental health issues.

03:57 <RazorSharpFang> Oh, well, who knows.

03:57 <Cepheid> Dutch people, Swedish people, my own sister, German people, you name it, I've encountered someone.

03:58 <Cepheid> Schism:  I just got 3 epics from two bosses.

03:59 <Schism> And you're such a low level that they'll be completely outclassed before long.

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04:00 <Finwe> Miss DashedRainbows.

04:00 * Finwe doffs his hat.

04:00 <DashedRainbows> Hey Finwe

04:00 <Finwe> Good morning.

04:00 <DashedRainbows> Evening

04:01 <Finwe> I'm quite confident that 6 a.m. counts as morning.

04:02 <DashedRainbows> Timezones, what a bummer

04:02 <Finwe> Whereas your local time probably differs from mine by sufficiently large amount in order for it to count as evening.

04:03 * Finwe hats on DashedRainbows.

04:03 * DashedRainbows takes off her hat

04:03 <Finwe> D:

04:09 <DashedRainbows> I finally recorded myself

04:09 <DashedRainbows> It's so cringey but hey

04:09 * PinkieShy hugs DashedRainbows

04:10 <DashedRainbows> Well, it wouldn't had I not tried to sing

04:10 <DashedRainbows> Or gotten nervous and messed up

04:15 * DashedRainbows hugs PinkieShy

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04:29 <DashedRainbows> !link https://youtu.be/lhyKifh6ynw so cringe

04:29 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.

04:29 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Me playing and singing

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04:30 <Thelema5> Hello everypony

04:30 <DashedRainbows> Strangely I still enjoy singing

04:31 <DashedRainbows> Hey Thelema5

04:34 <Sleepai> o3o

04:34 *** Sleepai is now known as Snapai

04:35 <Snapai> I made shameless self-promotion! :D Shameless self promotion! https://twitter.com/Snapai/status/946960730515038208 :D

04:35 <Snapai> ...dammit clipboard

04:35 <DashedRainbows> Hey Snapai

04:35 <Snapai> Pretend I said everything in that line once

04:35 <Snapai> Coz I forgot I didn't just have the link copied, and rewrote all the extra stuff on the outside and hit paste/enter before I realized XD

04:36 <Cepheid> For a 5% activation rate, that skill keeps activating a lot.

04:38 <Snapai> o3o What skill?

04:38 <Thelema5> Shamelessly promoting your shameless promotion?  I like it.

04:39 <Snapai> Shameful promotion! orz

04:39 <Thelema5> This apartment complex has a road pool XD https://i.imgur.com/JtM0bKR.gifv

04:40 <Thelema5> Or would that be a pool road?

04:41 <Snapai> See thumbnails tho, Thelema5 ? Or....you've probably seen the secret links, at least some, sometimes I post them here anyway >.>

04:42 <Cepheid> Stalwart Guardian.  5% Chance on being hit to trigger.  Summons an eldritch abomination to protect me for 22 seconds.

04:46 <Thelema5> I haven't been around much lately, Snapai

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04:53 * Cepheid pet pets spitfire.

04:54 * Ali has Tia and Luna on her

04:54 <Thelema5> I had no heat today.  Apparently it was so cold out that my heating oil lines froze

04:54 * Ali drops blankets on Thelema5

04:55 <Thelema5> A technician was here and just left a little while ago.  It's fixed now

04:55 <Tempest-Shadow> it's somewhat warmer today at least

04:56 * Schism pats the Cepheid, and goes to sleep himself.

04:56 * Ali sits on Tempest-Shadow

04:56 * Tempest-Shadow horsenoises

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04:58 * Ali wants to play a space game, but isn't sure if there's one good for her.

04:59 <Tempest-Shadow> space invaders?

04:59 * Ali smacks Tempest-Shadow with every Atari ever made

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05:09 <Thelema5> Defender was more fun than space invaders

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05:13 <Schism> Galaga, that's where it's at.

05:13 <Schism> Ali: How do you like 4x games and the like?

05:14 <Ali> Schism, I'm not really wanting to play a 4x

05:14 <Schism> Hm.  Real-time strategy?

05:18 * Schism headshakes, looks up, blinks. "Oh. Snapai mentioned the Orz. Have you played Star Control 2 yet?"

05:19 <Snapai> It's a kneeling emote

05:19 <Schism> Ah, this I did not know.

05:19 * Schism thinks Ali should play Star Control 2 anyway.

05:20 <Snapai> I believe it originated in Japan, I'm not sure? OTZ is the capital version.

05:20 <Snapai> It's the total-bow-forehead-to-ground thing.

05:20 <Schism> Ah, I see.  Sorta.

05:20 <Schism> The kowtow.

05:21 <Snapai> yuh

05:21 * Snapai pesters Schism to sign up for his patreon because he didn't realize the leave buyback wouldn't be on this check oops :x

05:21 * Schism is skint. :<

05:22 <Snapai> so am i exdee

05:22 <Snapai> is that few enough capitals for you, chatrules? :P

05:22 * Cepheid wanders off to shower.

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05:22 <Snapai> It was longer than five letters so "So am I XD" did not contain enough lowercase letters to be allowed on its own.

05:22 <Thelema5> as df g XD

05:23 <Thelema5> Oh, I didn't capitalize the first letter > /// <

05:25 <Snapai> Yeah, you'd capitalize A and G to do the same capital structure

05:31 <RazorSharpFang> capital letters are overrated anyway theres no need for anything other than letters in our text

05:36 <Thelema5> toki pona only uses lower case letters, I think

05:37 <RazorSharpFang> After not using capitals or any grammar signifiers other than letters, I gotta use at least a few of them now.

05:38 <RazorSharpFang> I'd't've thought that I'd've such a reaction, but no.

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05:40 <DashedRainbows> It's a pony! https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/JLkq0iCO/Another%20Pony.png

05:40 <DashedRainbows> meh, darn layering issue

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05:50 * Cepheid returns.

05:54 <RazorSharpFang> Cepheid, I hope it's not -1

06:01 <Cepheid> Nah, it's 1.

06:04 <Thelema5> Man, mechanical keyboards are so, so superior to membrane keyboards... how did we let this technology slip away for so long?

06:06 <Cepheid> An enemy worse than "Lightning Enchanted" enemies from Diablo 2:  Enemies that, upon being struck, explode painfully.

06:08 * PinkieShy screams

06:08 <PinkieShy> I just had to open the curtain in the game!!

06:09 <PinkieShy> http://prntscr.com/hu3jln That's what was behind it [blood warning]

06:10 <Thelema5> O.o

06:11 <PinkieShy> Thelema5 its a very spooky game o.o

06:11 <PinkieShy> the murderer they are calling her a medusa

06:13 <Thelema5> 2 spoopy 4 me

06:13 <PinkieShy> Thelema5 i got to a new part now that makes me want to puke..

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06:17 <Thelema5> Oh no!

06:17 <PinkieShy> ikr

06:20 <Thelema5> Gah!  My heat is not working again... going to be a very cold night

06:21 <PinkieShy> omg

06:21 * PinkieShy hands Thelema5 25 blankets

06:21 <PinkieShy> stay warm buddy!

06:21 <PinkieShy> Those are wool blankets ;)

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06:24 <Thelema5> Thanksie!

06:24 <Thelema5> I don't know how to fix this though, going to be a hard winter I gues

06:24 <Thelema5> *guess

06:25 <DataByte> I'm in the middle of a winter storm right now - in the worst of the storm cell

06:25 <RazorSharpFang> That looks like a visual-novel

06:25 <DataByte> we're expecting 4-6 inches, and -15 wind chill

06:25 <DataByte> -15F

06:27 <DataByte> What sort of heating system does your house have, Thelema5?

06:29 <PinkieShy> RazorSharpFang the grammar in the story isn't good at all xD

06:29 <PinkieShy> it just called a girl a he then in the next line it said "Eyeless girl"

06:29 <RazorSharpFang> Oh

06:30 * PinkieShy screams they went in the basement now where the monster was

06:31 * Cepheid melts as a giant spider spews acid onto him.

06:31 <Cepheid> Let's see.. -30 windchill right now.  Celsius.

06:31 <Cepheid> If I went outside, I would start dying from suffocation.

06:32 <Thelema5> DataByte, its an oil burning furnace

06:32 <Thelema5> Burning #2 heating oil

06:32 <PinkieShy> wool blankets are the best :3

06:32 <PinkieShy> they are usually the warmest

06:33 <Thelema5> Electric heated blankets are warmer, PinkieShy XD

06:33 <PinkieShy> I don't trust those xD

06:34 <PinkieShy> Its just the idea of having an eletric powered blanket on you.. :P

06:34 <Thelema5> heh... I use one every night- it so amazing

06:34 <Cepheid> Ours is a gas furnace.  Though, it's not entirely effective because the ductwork goes over the garage, and is poorly insulated.

06:34 <Thelema5> Er, every night in the winter

06:36 <Thelema5> Cepheid, funny how the fuels we need to keep us warm have to be kept warm themselves

06:37 <Cepheid> I find it more ironic that the original builders of this house knew what kind of environment it was in, and thus installed proper heating for it.  But then someone else comes along, takes over the neighbourhood, and installs something that makes a tad less sense for the reason you just stated.

06:37 <Cepheid> Initially this place had electric heating everywhere.  It was ripped out and a natural gas(I think?) furnace put in place.

06:37 <Thelema5> Heh

06:38 <Thelema5> Sounds du,b

06:38 <Thelema5> *dumb

06:44 <Thelema5> Wow.  Pistachios are super, suprer addicting

06:46 <Ali> Have you gone....

06:46 * Ali sunglasses

06:46 <Ali> Nuts for them

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06:46 <Thelema5> Heh!

06:47 <DashedRainbows> I'm going to sleep now. Good night, ponies

06:47 <Cepheid> Ali, you're grounded.

06:47 <Ali> Can't ground the bossmare!

06:47 <Thelema5> G'night, DashedRainbows

06:47 <Cepheid> Also kinda hard to ground someone who, like me, probably never leaves their room much anyway.

06:48 <Thelema5> Cepheid, I've been that way since I started working from home.  It's strange.  I feel cut off from society and other people

06:49 <Cepheid> I've lived my life this way for about 20+ years now.

06:49 <Thelema5> I pretty much never leave the walls of my home now, and the outside world is like an abstract concept

06:50 <Thelema5> It's strange; I think you and I should make a point of getting out more

06:51 <Thelema5> Experiencing new things.

06:51 <Thelema5> Places with heat

06:51 <Thelema5> > /// <

06:52 <DataByte> You could come over to my place for new year's!

06:52 <Thelema5> Having a party?

06:52 <DataByte> yep!

06:52 <DataByte> Once you make it past the 2-foot-tall snow drifts, It's not that bad!

06:52 <Thelema5> Heh

06:52 * Cepheid shrugs.

06:52 <Thelema5> What are your plans?

06:53 <Cepheid> I'm fine with this.  Most people aren't, but meh.

06:53 <Cepheid> I do happen to go out on occasion, so it's not like I'm in here 24/7.

06:54 <DataByte> I don't have a party plan outside of food and a few games

06:55 <DataByte> card games, board games, pc/phone party game, pool, ping pong, whatever people are up for

06:55 <Thelema5> Since I started working from home I've been here pretty much 24/7, it's weird

06:55 <Thelema5> Sounds like fun, DataByte!

06:56 <DataByte> Same, Thelema - it's weird at first, but you get used to it - the hard part is keeping work and play separate when it's the same house xD

06:56 <DataByte> I have my office in a dedicated room, so that helps a little

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06:57 <Librarian> Cepheid

06:57 <Librarian> owo

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06:57 <Cepheid> Hey Librarian.

06:57 <Thelema5> DataByte, I could use some advice with that, I thought working from home would be great but now I'm not so sure... I hardly ever go out and my work stuff is interfering with my personal stuff

06:58 <Librarian> i have a problem, i forgot my flouxetine and ritalin ahh

06:58 <Thelema5> Mostly I'm bothered by the lack of interaction with others

06:58 <Librarian> its only for 3 days

06:58 <Cepheid> Oh, right, you're nowhere near home.

06:58 <Thelema5> It's like one day just merges with the next, and the next

06:58 <Librarian> how lobg till withdrawal hits?

06:58 * Golden flops exhausted.

06:59 <DataByte> Well, try to keep a schedule, for one.. idk about social, though, since I'm an introvert and I have family a 5-minute walk down the street

06:59 <Thelema5> I

06:59 <Librarian> Is 3 days before next dose an issue?

07:00 <Cepheid> If it hasn't hit yet, Librarian, it likely won't because your body probably isn't too dependent on it yet.  The more extreme drugs tend to show symptoms within 24 hours.  The rest, 48 to 72 hours.

07:00 <Librarian> I just took em

07:00 <Thelema5> I'm also an intovert, and thought working from home would be awesome... yet I now find myself looking for any interaction- I bought a donut the other  day just so the clerk would have to talk with me ( . _ .)

07:00 <Cepheid> Then you'll be fine.

07:01 <Thelema5> *intro

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07:08 <Golden> I just got a not guilty verdict in a case that had 4 guiltys on Ace Attorney Online.

07:12 <Thelema5> Gah, brrr!  It's -14 degrees here and my heat cut out again

07:13 <Thelema5> (-14 C)

07:14 <Thelema5> No cool, nature!

07:14 <Thelema5> *not

07:18 <Cepheid> Always with the exploding enemies, eh game?

07:18 <Cepheid> Thought after I cleared Burrwitch, I'd be done with the exploding zombies.  I was.

07:19 <Cepheid> They were replaced with exploding gunslingers.

07:25 * Cepheid equips fire-resistance gear. He can stand up to the explosions now. Not 30 feet away are some golems, goes up to them. They throw explosive magma boulders. Two hit their mark and he's dead. Cepeid's eye begins to twitch.

07:26 * Filly_Nightmares curls up on Cepheid and goes sleepies

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07:33 <DataByte> *survives fire and explosions*

07:33 <DataByte> *dies to large firey boulders*

07:33 <DataByte> yep

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08:04 <Cepheid> 68% vitality resistance, 48% chaos resistance.  Best I can do.

08:04 <Cepheid> It'll have to suffice.

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08:08 <Cepheid> There we are.  Strange key.  Let's go do this fun painful dungeon.

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08:17 <Golden> Good night everyone

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08:26 <Librarian> Im boredddd

08:28 <Librarian> im waiting to get on the london flight

08:30 <Librarian> Its an hour flight at least owo

08:30 <Librarian> pretty fast

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08:55 <Cepheid> ... I could have sworn that clock read midnight just a few minutes ago.

08:55 <Cepheid> It's apparently 4 AM now?

08:58 <Cepheid> I'm gonna go to sleep now.

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09:47 *** CleverDerpy changes topic to 'Welcome to #EquestriaDaily! This channel is rated All Ages | Guide and rules: http://derpy.me/EqDRules | All S7 episodes are open for Discussion| Season is over. Hiatus time strikes again. [Do not discuss season 8 spoilers until airdates!]'

09:48 <CleverDerpy> !S8

09:48 <DerpyBot> I need 1.21 gigamuffins to find that out for you.

09:50 * Ali glomps CleverDerpy

09:50 * CleverDerpy purrs and falls over

09:51 <CleverDerpy> derpy is playing master mode for a little while

09:51 <CleverDerpy> ees hard... made it to Zora's domain

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11:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #1083 [ http://tinyurl.com/y9hb55k4 ]

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13:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Crayons / Holiday Special / Laptop / Intro 3 / TCoMR 32 / Love 3 / Day Dream 1 / AoS 1:45 [ http://tinyurl.com/yczcs8dc ]

13:21 <RazorSharpFang> CleverDerpy, first time I climbed to zora's domain, I fell off the bridge and had to almost start again

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13:41 * Schism yawwns, and boops FreezeFrame with a dry cider.

13:41 * Finwe sticks his hoof into Schism's gaping maw.

13:42 * Schism blahs, and boops Finwe with a slice of cold pizza.

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13:43 * Finwe offers Caesar salad in return.

13:47 * Schism crumbles a bit of bacon onto, and noms.

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14:03 * Schism giggles as Hard Boiled Jr. runs, and runs, and runs away from one of the biggest threats in all his career - the parents of the young pegasus he was forced to take as his rookie partner.

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14:24 <Thelema5> Hello everypony

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14:26 <Thelema5> My heat is out again... it's down to 7 degrees C in here

14:27 <Schism> Augh...!

14:27 <Thelema5> Waiting on a technician, placed the call at 6:00 AM

14:27 * Thelema5 shivers

14:29 <Snapai> <.<

14:29 * Snapai pokes Schism

14:29 <Snapai> You should sign up for my patreon :p

14:29 * Snapai shakes tipjar ;p

14:29 <Snapai> oh wait

14:29 <Snapai> Nevermind, you were the only person I asked last night I'm an idiot.

14:30 <Snapai> I will chalk that up to "woke up at 5:30 with a splitting headache then tried to sleep on a stomach full of nothing but excedrin and soda" x_x

14:30 <Snapai> My headache's gone, but my stomach hurts now :P

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14:43 * Thelema5 brrrrs

14:44 <Nuclear> "The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope."--Karl Marx

14:46 <Snapai> "Communism is impossible until there are no sh*t jobs left" - also Marx, sort of.

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14:50 <Thelema5> "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

14:50 <Thelema5> Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/groucho_marx

14:51 <Thelema5> Groucho > Karl

14:51 <Schism> I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. --Groucho

14:52 <Schism> And indeed, the Marx brothers were the best.

14:52 <Thelema5> "No man goes before his time... unless the boss leaves early" XD

14:53 <Schism> "I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

14:53 <Thelema5> Heh

14:54 <Thelema5> I'm now trying to heat my house with the LP burning oven.  I hope the oxygen mix is right so I don't die from CO

14:54 <Snapai> Marx is pretty cool tho'.

14:54 <Snapai> I mean, Karlmarx.

14:54 <Verandure> But why socialism?

14:54 <Snapai> Suggesting people get compensated for their work and all that.

14:56 <Snapai> "from each according to his means, to each according to his contribution" - do what work you're capable of, and get paid for generating value. :v

14:57 <Verandure> It's an awful system.

14:57 <Schism> Thelema5: I hope so as well... @_@

14:57 <Nuclear> USSR killed Nazis so I support them 200%, Verandure.

14:58 <Nuclear> They saved the whole world from fascism.

14:58 <Verandure> And now they're autocrats...

14:58 <Nuclear> Curbstomped them to death and they've never recovered thanks to the military might of the USSR.

14:58 <Snapai> As opposed to our current system "get paid based on how much of others' profits you can afford to own. The workers get as little as we can get away with."

14:59 <Verandure> The second you stop looking at the abstract, socialism breaks down.

14:59 <Snapai> Nope.

14:59 <Nuclear> Socialism works fine, there is nothing abstract about it.

14:59 <Snapai> Centralism breaks down.

14:59 <Snapai> The idea that "we voted this way, now everyone has to think along with the majority"

14:59 <Nuclear> Centrally-planned command economies are superior to market economies..

14:59 <Verandure> Uh huh... Name 1.

15:00 <Nuclear> All of them.

15:00 <Verandure> The EU is the largest economic block on the planet: Market based commercial economy.

15:00 <Nuclear> Everyone that has ever existed from the USSR to the last ones that came in the 1980s.

15:00 <Verandure> The US is the largest single country economy on the planet: Market based commercial economy.

15:00 <Nuclear> Cuba and North Korea work fine.

15:00 <Snapai> The US is not a good example of an economy that works for its people XD

15:01 <Verandure> Not working for 100% of the people isn't the same as not working for the people.

15:01 <Snapai> Working worse for its people on average than many other countries?

15:01 <Snapai> It's a small county-sized area, but I love what the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation has done in Basque...

15:02 <Nuclear> The USSR would be the third or fourth largest economy if it still existed, with a GDP PPP of more than 8 trillion to as much as $17 trillion. (The USA is 19 trillion and Russia is 4 trillion).

15:02 <Snapai> Verandure - of course, when you get to economic systems, then we're not talking about your ability to go to the store and buy something, but rather the havoc that speculating and profiteering on Wall Street is wreaking on the US economy.

15:03 <Verandure> Of course. The USSR would be no different than Russia, today, considering it's a military conquest based economy.

15:03 <Snapai> Dem Socialism typically likes small businesses that have no employees or treat their employees well (which is common when you are working with your employees every day)

15:04 <Nuclear> In the 1980s, before socialism was dismantled by the evil capitalists, the USSR and all the Warsaw Pact countries comprised 9.4% of the world's population, yet produced 28% of all world economic output.

15:04 <Snapai> It's when you get to the scale of business where wealthy buy in, and then sit on their butts while large sections of the population work hard to earn *them* money.

15:04 <Nuclear> Verandure, saying socialism doesn't work in the face of these facts is to be ignorant of reality.

15:04 <Verandure> Saying that socialism works despite every single failed experiment is to be ignorant of reality.

15:05 <Nuclear> It works and the only people who say it doesn't work are people who don't understand it.

15:05 <Verandure> How convenient.

15:05 <Nuclear> LOL, it didn't fail.

15:05 <Nuclear> It was intentionally dismantled.

15:05 <Nuclear> You are ignorant.

15:05 <Verandure> K.

15:05 <Snapai> Verandure, there are plenty of examples where socialistic principles work just fine. You don't have pure capitalism anywhere and you don't have pure socialism anywhere.

15:05 <Verandure> That's correct, Snapai.

15:05 <Snapai> And to insist that the functioning examples of the *principles* working are "not pure enough" is a "no true scotsman" fallacy.

15:07 <Verandure> You're moving the goalposts. The public library system working does not mean that the workers should own the factories.

15:07 <Verandure> They're unrelated.

15:07 <Snapai> ....I believe I pointed to an example of workers owning the factories that has worked for 83000 people.

15:07 <Nuclear> Mondragon is not doing very much to spread, so while I like the way they run things, they should focus more on expansion.

15:08 <Nuclear> It hasn't just worked for 83000 people, it has worked for well over a billion souls in the past century.

15:08 <Snapai> (I mean it got hurt badly by adjacent capitalist systems causing a financial crash, but it survived better than most equivalent companies and industries in the market)

15:09 <Snapai> I was disappointed to find my new Fagor electric pressure cooker purchase didn't support Mondragon. :/ It's still the highest rated one tho, because they built an amazing subcompany before they were forced to sell off the brand.

15:10 <Snapai> Anyways, the most popular form of socialism rising today actually deliberately opposes what could be most criticized of previous forms: the tendency towards centralism; and suggests largely just the grassroots or governmental dismantling of *capital*, while maintaining the consumer market economy.

15:11 <Nuclear> You will not survive without centralism. Do you think the USSR could have won WWII without a centralized economy planned by experts?

15:11 <Nuclear> This quest for decentralization doesn't work in practice.

15:11 <Nuclear> They tried that in Catalonia and they couldn't even fight Franco.

15:12 <Verandure> I would say the UBI is the most promising socialistic idea that has come forth. And it can easily be argued to not be socialism (or capitalism) at all.

15:12 <Nuclear> They got their asses handed to them.

15:12 <Snapai> If someone wants to go into business for themselves, that's *great*. If they want to hire people to work with them, okay. The more people are working with their org and the less they contribute the more their compensation needs to be under scrutiny. At the Fortune 500 level, we need to make sure that it's not a wealthy class living off the efforts of a working class.

15:12 <Nuclear> Snapai, good luck trying to accomplish that with the ever looming threat of big bourgeois capitalists permitting that to happen.

15:13 <Nuclear> You don't seem to realize how violent they get when it comes to maintaining the status quo...

15:13 <Verandure> You can limit it without an actual paradigm shift. A quick peek at Irelands tax structure can show that.

15:13 <Nuclear> You can choose to ignore this, but it's just the dialectical materialist reality.

15:14 <Snapai> Nuclear, it's necessary to establish a culture of participatory democracy, which is why I support small format democracy. It's amazing (a) how hard it is to convince people that democracy is good, and (b) how bad people are at it in a purportedly "democratic" country, tho'

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15:15 <Snapai> Part of the problems of the past is that to the average person, working for a large bureaucratic corporation where they have virtually no say in the decisions that affect them, feels no different from working for a large bureaucratic government where they have virtually no say in the decisions that affect them

15:15 <Nuclear> You do realize big business interests are anti-democracy, right? If they weren't, they wouldn't lobby the government to effectively make any form of "democracy" practically nonfunctional.

15:15 <Snapai> Each tends to funnel power to the few and disenfranchise the many.

15:16 <Verandure> It's weird considering, in the US, the people still do have a voice. They've just convinced themselves that it doesn't matter -- 'cause they don't vote on the local level which allows for corruption all the way up.

15:16 <Nuclear> Democracy only exists when you have control over your labor, and that only has existed successfully in primitive societies that predate feudalism, and in modernity with the Marxist-Leninist countries.

15:17 <Nuclear> There is no other option, aside from limited temporary solutions like communes, trade unions, worker cooperatives, and the like.

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15:17 <Nuclear> But just because you have those doesn't mean they can't be bourgeois.

15:17 <Snapai> My dream is where people participate in local democracy frequently - not just elections, but input for local government, and more importantly working in worker cooperatives and buying from consumer cooperatives and participating in the operations of those.

15:17 <Snapai> Because then "I have a say" becomes part of the culture.

15:18 <Nuclear> It's a nice dream to have, but the reaction of capital will always loom over anyone who attempts to shift the status quo.

15:18 <Snapai> In the US, the average *engaged* person exercises their vote maybe 24 hours out of every two years.

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15:18 <Verandure> That's being generous.

15:19 <Nuclear> Voter apathy exists in large part in the US, because most people realize voting doesn't work.

15:19 <Nuclear> And they're right.

15:19 <Snapai> That's why I said engaged. I spend a day researching my entire ballot before I go to the voting booth whenever there's an election.

15:19 <Nuclear> Voting doesn't work in bourgeois democracy like what the USA has...

15:19 <Snapai> We're raised in authoritarian schools, and go to authoritarian jobs, we barely see democracy.

15:19 <Nuclear> I knew this from day one.

15:20 <Snapai> I was lucky, I was raised in a democratic church, the concept of committees and meetings is not boring or frightening to me.

15:21 <Nuclear> The closest thing to democracy that the USA had is the ability to recall elected officials at the local and state levels of government, even before their terms are up.

15:21 <Nuclear> That's literally it.

15:21 <Nuclear> Nothing else has any real potential.

15:21 <Thelema5> I'm pretty sure discussion of politics is forbidden in this channel

15:21 <Verandure> It is.

15:21 <Snapai> Sorry, Thelema5, didn't know we were bothering anyone :)

15:22 <Thelema5> Not a bother, it's just a thing

15:22 <Snapai> It's soft-forbidden, because it tends to be disruptive and agitating.

15:22 <Thelema5> I've been avoiding the channel for half an hour because I don't want to get into any arguments

15:23 <Snapai> That's why I said sorry and stopped! D:

15:23 <Thelema5> XD

15:23 <Thelema5> No worries, the channel is mostly dead anyway.  No one talks about ponies or animation any more.

15:23 <Thelema5> What's that prooject you've been working on, Snapai?

15:23 <Verandure> So, how's the pony animations going, Snapai? =P

15:24 <Snapai> I been around here long enough to know the rule is coz conversations are supposed to be civil, and they tend to become uncivil when people argue politics. As well as steamrolling other conversations people are trying to have.

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15:24 <Snapai> Thelema5, did you see my tweet about it? :D

15:24 <Thelema5> I did, but I was out of work for a month and can't afford to contribute

15:25 <Verandure> How did your first week go, Thelema5?

15:25 <Snapai> https://twitter.com/Snapai/status/946960730515038208 - no I mean the one with the screenshots

15:25 <Snapai> Look closely, you should recognize the board I'm working from, it's well known and I didn't make it :D

15:25 <Thelema5> I'm two weeks in now, Verandure.  I can't really say how it's going.  My boss hasn't given me a bit of feedback, but I'm still working

15:26 <Thelema5> Snapai, ooh, nice!

15:26 <Verandure> I suppose the usual feedback time is the first 3 months. A lack of bad news is good news, to me. =P

15:27 <Snapai> Thelema5, but I'm working in OpenToonz, which is actually superior to Flash for cutout animation. Close to Harmony, will be much closer with a few bugfixes.

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15:27 <Snapai> Verandure, that tweet also answers your question about how the pony animations are going.

15:27 <Verandure> It sure does.

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15:28 <Snapai> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzMnFr-8Tc

15:29 <Verandure> Have you been doing the exercises, Thelema5? I know you were worried about being stuck at home.

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15:29 <Snapai> I am working on shot 3 - from 0:06 to 0:25.

15:31 <Verandure> Jeeze this stuff has been around for a while >.>

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15:31 <Verandure> The early fandom really was just an explosion of content.

15:37 <Snapai> yeah before a lot of the creators got driven off or bored.

15:38 <Verandure> I think a lot of 'em just moved on to other things. The music people all shuffled off to FNAF and whatever the thing of the day was as economics dictated.

15:38 <Verandure> The animation people... I didn't really follow. There's still a couple, but their projects are so intensive that it takes years (Like Duo Cartoonist).

15:39 <Snapai> Zedrin got into robots. Tiarawhy is learning Harmony and did some of the highest-profile fan work for Rick and Morty.

15:39 <Verandure> Right, that's another one that a bunch of 'em went to.

15:39 <Snapai> A number of folks went to work with Zach Rich's new studio which afaik has yet to make a single successful thing because they figured out people can't work for free forever.

15:40 * Verandure isn't familiar with Zach Rich, but it sounds like pretty much all of these internet-based studios.

15:40 <Thelema5> Thanks to youtube my heat is working again, not sure how long it will last though

15:40 <Snapai> Guy who led the Double Rainboom project.

15:41 <Verandure> Ah, right. I thought he just kinda disappeared after that.

15:41 <Snapai> Was great, you could get the experience of working for a friendly but passive-aggressive boss, but without being able to say "Well at least I'm getting paid!"

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15:41 <Verandure> That -does- sound great =P

15:42 <Snapai> He told everyone on Double Rainboom to just hold off and he'd let everyone know if he wanted to work with them on his new venture, then only brought in the people that ignored that and hounded him about it anyway...

15:42 <Verandure> Of course.

15:43 <Snapai> Then he took down Double Rainboom with a message "watch our new venture, True Tail, from Skynamic Studios!" which pissed a LOT of the community group off because only about half of them were in the new studio and therefore it definitely wasn't "OUR" new project.

15:43 <Verandure> Yeah, I knew he took Rainboom down, but I thought it was for a different reason. Something about not crediting people or something.

15:43 <Snapai> That was taken down thanks to a firmly worded but not quite cease and desist letter from Hasbro, because he wanted to pursue a business relationship with them on his new show which they promptly ignored because it was a brand new studio.

15:44 <Snapai> The new show, for that matter - the idea was that the entire group was going to come up with a new show, and then one day he said "okay this is what me and three other people decided you're all going to do"

15:45 <Verandure> To an extent, that's understandable. You really can't have too many hands in the pot with these things or they become chaotic.

15:45 <Snapai> ....if it hadn't looked like such a cute idea you would have heard a LOT more complaining, but most folks thought it was worth working on.

15:45 <Finwe> o3o

15:45 <Finwe> Messrs Snapai and Verandure.

15:45 <Verandure> Yolah, Finwe.

15:45 * Finwe doffs his hat.

15:45 * Snapai doffs Finwe

15:46 <Snapai> Verandure - I don't care how understandable it was, it was a bait and switch and a broken expectation.

15:46 <Verandure> Of course.

15:46 <Snapai> If you're going to do that FIRST you say "I don't think the community development thing is going to work, but I've got an idea I'm going to develop and show you guys if you wanna work on it" THEN you do what he did.

15:47 <Snapai> But you know it's funny how many people say "oh we couldn't have a group come together and develop a show" despite the fact that that's how many successful shows are developed.

15:48 <Finwe> Developers gonna develop.

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15:48 <Snapai> There's still a project hierarchy, and there's a lot of drama nailing down how it's going to work, but most shows are even initially developed with a multitude of talented people.

15:48 <Librarian> Le owo

15:48 <Librarian> im in london yay

15:48 <Verandure> I hear it's cold and snowy, there =P

15:48 <Snapai> (and intense negotiations with a producing company that has final authority to nitpick because they're putting up the money)

15:49 <Finwe> Mr Librarian.

15:49 * Finwe doffs his aht.

15:49 <Librarian> my bro and my dad feel asleep as soon as we hit da room

15:49 <Librarian> i wanna go to waterstones, but i might make them mad if i leave

15:49 <Librarian> its relativly close to where i am

15:49 <Snapai> I wanna rant about that honestly. Because everytime I suggest it people think I'm going to get everyone in a circle, and everyone's going to make terrible suggestions and to avoid stepping on toes we're all going to nod and say "yes, of course, we'll use all of these ideas"

15:49 * Librarian doffs snapai

15:50 <Snapai> That's. Not. How. This. Works.

15:50 * Snapai eeps, topples

15:50 <Finwe> Librarian: Where are you staying?

15:50 <Librarian> St ermines hotel

15:50 <Snapai> You get a bunch of people together to communally decide how to develop a show, and all of those people think you need a director, guess what - your show WILL have a director.

15:51 <Finwe> Doesn't sound familiar.

15:51 <Librarian> has a cool history to it, they even have a book about thr place

15:51 <Librarian> its the birthplace of mi6 it seems

15:51 <Snapai> Librarian, how'd your weasel your way into that one? :p

15:51 <Librarian> my name is brarian, Librarian

15:52 <Librarian> i paid , insurance is good biznezz

15:52 <Snapai> ....do they have a bar? Can you get a Guinness or other tall glass of stoat there? :p

15:52 <Finwe> Librarian: Near St. James's Park station?

15:52 <Librarian> i think so to both things

15:52 <Librarian> they have a bar yes

15:52 <Verandure> Guinness is like drinking bread. I don't recommend it =P

15:52 <Finwe> Snapai: The beer is called "stout".

15:53 <Librarian> good point, reccomend me a good beer to get

15:53 <Snapai> You all are missing or deliberately ignoring my puns, so I mustel you a nother one. p

15:53 <Snapai> :p

15:53 <Snapai> ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine )

15:53 * Verandure doesn't like beer and so is not the one to ask for recommendations.

15:54 <Librarian> i wanna goooo to waterstones owo, they have nice pratchett editions and a dalek book

15:54 <Snapai> ermine, weasel, stoat, mustela....

15:54 <Librarian> im wearing a tardis necklace as well iwo

15:54 <Librarian> im making the doctor proud

15:55 * Librarian is geeking out hard

15:55 <Finwe> Librarian: I have one of those Time Lord necklaces. o3o

15:56 <Librarian> we just need the headpieces

15:56 <Verandure> Who? =P

15:56 <Librarian> Im doing touristy stuff later, gotta wait for them to wake up

15:57 <Librarian> waste of time napping, but at least my dad wont be grumpy

15:57 <Librarian> owo

15:57 <Snapai> Librarian, any idea where I put my displayport adapter? D:

15:58 <Librarian> wut?

15:58 <Snapai> I've lost it ._.

15:58 <Librarian> ohh

15:58 <Verandure> Did you check the top drawer? =P

15:58 <Librarian> look at the last place you saw it

15:58 <Librarian> they have a good consulting detective here, he might help

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16:00 <Librarian> Its already four ahh

16:00 <Librarian> i wanna go already

16:00 <Finwe> Six o'clock here.

16:00 <Finwe> o3o

16:00 <Librarian> owo

16:01 <Librarian> where is sunset shimmer

16:01 <Finwe> Not in central London, I guess.

16:01 <Librarian> i wanna go to her house and boop her

16:01 <Verandure> Pfft >.>

16:02 <Librarian> like a surprise boop, i ring , boop her and run away

16:02 <Verandure> It's not a surprise when you'd need their address =P

16:03 <Librarian> i could ask holmes, he could do wonders with google

16:04 <Verandure> Eh, Sherlock only works in a pre-evidence world. Deductive reasoning isn't really good enough, anymore. >.>

16:04 <Librarian> Owo

16:04 <Librarian> nuuuu

16:04 <Librarian> there goes my plan

16:04 <Librarian> imma go try and get to the bookshop

16:05 <Librarian> see ya laters

16:05 <Verandure> have fun.

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16:53 <FruitNibbler> pekillnes i m at the height of flu progresion

16:53 <FruitNibbler> peak*

16:53 <FruitNibbler> greetin nu years with a heavy flu

16:54 <FruitNibbler> that' a first

16:55 <Verandure> I believe the rate for flu, this year, was significantly higher in a lot of places.

16:55 <Verandure> What was it, 300%?, in Arkansas.

16:55 * Finwe noms on Verandure's tail.

16:55 <FruitNibbler> crazy

16:56 * Verandure braids Finwe's mane.

16:56 * Finwe mane-wiggles.

16:56 <Finwe> !plot

16:56 <DerpyBot> *wigglewiggle*

16:56 <Finwe> *wigglewiggle*

16:56 <Verandure> *wigglewiggle*

16:56 <Verandure> It's looking more and more likely that the age of modern medicine (antibiotics) is coming to a close =\

17:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Parody: Little Show (Real World ponified) [ http://tinyurl.com/ybopozo9 ]

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17:03 <Finwe> Mr Tempest-Shadow.

17:03 * Finwe doffs his hat.

17:04 <Finwe> Tempest-Shadow: In case you live in central London, look out for unexpected boops.

17:05 <Finwe> Librarian is in the area and has chosen you as a possible target for boops.

17:08 *** Sleeping_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

17:09 <Filly_Nightmares> It is snowing!

17:09 <Filly_Nightmares> o4o

17:09 * Filly_Nightmares floofs and rolls around on Finwe

17:09 <Finwe> Miss Filly_Nightmares.

17:09 * Finwe throws a snowball at Filly_Nightmares.

17:09 <Finwe> o3o

17:09 * Filly_Nightmares eats the snowball!

17:15 <FruitNibbler> sond of silence is very appealing and appropriate in my case

17:16 <FruitNibbler> learning the lyrics now

17:17 <FruitNibbler> had to go an octave lower since my flu robbed my voice oh high tones

17:17 <OctaveSymphony> What wut

17:17 <OctaveSymphony> Gah.

17:18 <FruitNibbler> singine witht the flu seeems tu distract me in a positive way, and i don't even care if I am hitting the notes properly

17:18 <FruitNibbler> -ing*

17:25 * Finwe ruffles Filly_Nightmares.

17:28 <roflin> Flu is a sort of extreme auto tremelo

17:29 * roflin also is flu-ish

17:56 * Filly_Nightmares nips at Finwe's nosie

17:57 * Finwe scrunchymuzzles at Filly_Nightmares.

17:57 <Finwe> o3o

17:57 * Filly_Nightmares places a snowball on Finwe's nosie!

17:57 * Filly_Nightmares nomfs it!

18:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: What Do You Think of the Mane 6 Stats in the MLP RPG?  [ http://tinyurl.com/ybj96ugc ]

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18:19 <PinkieShy> hihi

18:19 <Verandure> Hiya

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18:20 <DashedRainbows> Good afternoon, horseys

18:21 <Verandure> Afternoon, pone =P

18:21 * PinkieShy hugs DashedRainbows and mentions we both showed up at the same time it seems

18:22 <DashedRainbows> I almost didn't but meh

18:22 <DashedRainbows> I don't feel too well

18:23 <DashedRainbows> I was going to go get my blog generator up again and write a new post

18:25 * DashedRainbows boops PinkieShy

18:26 <FruitNibbler> Yes buzzkill police confirms the documented arrival time delta of 00:02:08 between PinkieShy and DashedRainbows

18:26 <DashedRainbows> Eh it's under 5

18:30 <DashedRainbows> Verandure: how goes it?

18:30 <FruitNibbler> Section 143 Rule 12: events that happen from each other more than 1s apart are not recognised as simultaneus within the psychometric error limits

18:31 <Verandure> It goes as it always does: onward. =P How'd 'bout you, DashedRainbows? =3

18:32 <DashedRainbows> Pain and just want to sleep, but not that bad

18:35 <Verandure> That's no good.

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18:48 * DashedRainbows whinnies

18:50 <Sombra> It's been a while, hasn't it.

18:50 <DashedRainbows> Yeah...

18:51 <Sombra> I don't even remember the last time I was here.

18:51 <Verandure> yesterday? =P

18:52 <Sombra> Well, yeah but I only came on to re-register my nick.

18:52 <Sombra> Since it had expire.

18:52 <Sombra> d

18:52 <Verandure> This is fair.

18:53 <Sombra> But before then? I don't know.  I figured this place would be dead by now.

18:53 * Schism flops in, and offers some chicken strips to Filly_Nightmares. Also Finwe.

18:53 <DashedRainbows> IRC shall never die

18:53 <Verandure> It's about as dead as when you were last here a year ago.

18:54 <Sombra> Pretty dead.

18:54 <Verandure> yup

18:54 <Sombra> It will never die, because the ilders are on auto-rejoin.

18:55 * Filly_Nightmares gnaws on Sombra and noms her food!

18:56 <Sombra> is this real?

18:56 <DashedRainbows> I sometimes miss the past here

18:56 <DashedRainbows> But not usually

18:56 <Sombra> I remember it back in the old days of 2013

18:57 * Filly_Nightmares nests on Sombra and floofs

18:57 <Sombra> It was a bustling place.  But alas, we had a good run.

18:58 <DashedRainbows> Sigh

18:59 <Sombra> It's not over yet man, we got like, until 2019 until it's all over.

19:00 <Verandure> No talkin' 'bout that stuff, here. =P

19:00 <Sombra> I don't think they care anymore.

19:01 <Sombra> I haven't seen any leaks, so it's not like I can spoil anything.

19:01 <DashedRainbows> I'm just remembering how I was too shy to talk much here for a few years

19:02 <Sombra> We're all the way, at some point or another.

19:02 <DashedRainbows> Still sad though

19:03 <Sombra> We're gonna have to move on to something worse, like anime

19:03 <Sombra> Or furries

19:04 <DashedRainbows> Who knows, maybe g5 will not be bad

19:05 * Tempest-Shadow ahems

19:06 <Tempest-Shadow> can we not have too much discussion of the leak event generally pls?

19:06 <Sombra> I wonder when disney is gonna buy hasbro

19:06 * Tempest-Shadow rolls eyes

19:06 <Tempest-Shadow> they won't

19:06 <DashedRainbows> Note that I'm not talking about that stuff. G4 has to end

19:06 <DashedRainbows> But ok

19:07 <DashedRainbows> Sorry, Tempest-Shadow

19:07 * Tempest-Shadow nods gently

19:07 <Sombra> My bet is two years.

19:08 * DashedRainbows neighs

19:09 * Filly_Nightmares gnaws on DashedRainbows

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19:10 * DashedRainbows tastes of death

19:36 * Cepheid awakens.

19:36 <Cepheid> ... The hell was THAT, Tizzy?

19:36 * Schism slides a plate of honey-mustard chicken strips over to Cepheid.

19:37 <Cepheid> Tizzy just spontaneously jumped half a foot into the air, made a noise, and started looking around.  She was asleep prior to this.  I'm going to assume something pounced her, or she pounced something in her dream.

19:38 * Cepheid noms chicken strips.

19:38 <Schism> That, or ghosts.  Always a possibility with cats, are ghosts.

19:38 * Schism stretches, makes a 'mnrghn.' sound.

19:40 <Cepheid> Tell me about it.  I just woke up 30 minutes ago, or so.  I feel like I've been run over by a truck.

19:40 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/HBvU1 I want this.

19:42 <Cepheid> That, or some awesome cat-themed mug.

19:43 <Schism> Heh, not too pricy, either.  https://www.amazon.ca/BigMouth-Inc-Prescription-Coffee-Mug/dp/B0085MQPSG

19:45 <Cepheid> Heh.

19:47 <Saerydoth> that's likely to make me fall asleep, not wake me up

19:47 <Cepheid> What's the weather like today...?

19:47 <Cepheid> Saerydoth:  As for me, I can only drink one a day.

19:47 <Saerydoth> 17 degrees, snowing

19:47 <Cepheid> Okay, Government of Canada website, I live in friggen Ottawa, not Gatineau or Quebec, stop serving me in French.

19:48 <Cepheid> -18C, -27C with wind.

19:48 <DashedRainbows> 44F here

19:48 <DashedRainbows> Pretty chilly

19:49 <Schism> -9 here, with another drop down to -22 tonight.  Enormous wind chills over the next couple days.

19:49 <Schism> For the rest of the week, at that.  Gah, I think the last three winters got piled onto us all at once.

19:49 <Cepheid> Indeed.

19:52 * Schism muses over A Certain Magical Index. "Magic and Metascience being diametrically opposed to one another, or at least sideways to one another, that implies Imagine Breaker is a third type of power."

19:53 <Cepheid> Except, it appears that both sides appear to be right about how things work.

19:53 <Cepheid> Magic appears to be a thing that works, as shown by Index.  And the Science/Metascience appears to be correct, given Railgun.

20:00 <Schism> Of course.  But how they work is mutually exclusive, as if one's looking at the world through two different types of filter.

20:01 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Comic Dub: Drama Queen / Eye Don't Know / DJ Octavia [ http://tinyurl.com/yavqsnwh ]

20:01 * Cepheid shrugs.

20:02 <Cepheid> Alas, it is not our world, so everything sucks. :P

20:02 * Schism hasn't watched any of Railgun yet - is going to probably watch the second arc of Index tonight at some point. "True." :P

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20:05 <Cepheid> Heh. :P

20:07 <Cepheid> On the other hand, today is Caturday, so lots of cat pictures on imgur.

20:08 <Schism> So 'tis.

20:09 <Schism> Some cats are just chill.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQJDCaKLk1o

20:10 <Cepheid> Yep.

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20:11 <Cepheid> Likely the cat grew up around a lot chicks as a kitten.

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20:11 * Schism nodnods, "Indeed."

20:11 <Cepheid> That said..

20:11 <Cepheid> My mother, when she was a kid, lived on a farm.  They had a number of farm cats, etc.

20:11 <Cepheid> Every now and then, they'd look outside to see the cats pouncing around in the field.

20:12 <Cepheid> Chicks and rodents, mostly.

20:12 <Schism> Rodents make sense.  That's what farm cats are for, after all.

20:13 <Cepheid> Diiidn't always end well, though.

20:13 * Schism nods. :<

20:13 <Cepheid> It was a pig farm.  Apparently one day, an older cat attacked and killed a piglet.

20:14 <Schism> Ouch... at which point it definitely would need to be put down.  :(

20:14 <Cepheid> Basically what happened, yeah.

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20:16 <Cepheid> ... Mother, your writing is weird.

20:16 <Cepheid> Left a note telling me to order out, and that they're eating at my aunt Karen's.  No big deal.

20:17 <Cepheid> But she writes in cursive.  She wrote the word "at" in such a weird way it looks like she wrote it as "@t" with the curl of the '@' leading into the stem of the 't'.

20:18 <Schism> That... maybe she just decided she'd mix 'at' and '@'?

20:19 <Cepheid> That's what I'm thinking.

20:20 <Schism> Cepheid: You should order Ethiopean from Blue Nile.

20:21 <Schism> I suggest the beef combo platter, it sounds tasty.

20:21 <Cepheid> There's no such restaurant nearby, alas.  And my parents are hinting to me that I should order from East Side Marios, as they left a pamphlet out about reduced prices.

20:22 <Cepheid> Sister of mine, what did you put in these cookies?  I ate 5 of them, and now my chest is starting to hurt.

20:22 <Schism> Oh, well, if they're on special.  And yeah, Blue Nile's over on Gladstone, which I have no clue how far away from you they are.

20:23 * Cepheid looks.

20:23 <Cepheid> Blue Nile appears to be on the far side of Downtown Ottawa from me.

20:23 <Cepheid> Over an hour's drive away.

20:23 <Schism> Ah, definitely not then.  Alas!

20:25 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/0vbBnM1

20:25 <Schism> Welp, I'm dead of fluff overdose.

20:26 <Cepheid> A clowder of kittens.  Or a glaring.  Either one works.

20:27 <Schism> There is, in Discworld, the 'kitten punishment'.

20:27 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/LhsYZ

20:27 <Schism> Randomly: https://twitter.com/atax1a/status/946882213051645953 (Sadly, no cats here.)

20:28 <Schism> Odd cats!  Very cute, though.

20:29 <Cepheid> Oh gods.

20:29 <Cepheid> I just read about the kitten punishment.

20:29 <Cepheid> https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/The_Kitten_Torture The way this describes it is hilarious, because of a full stop after explaining what it involves.

20:30 <Cepheid> And not explaining the process until *AFTER* the full stop.

20:30 <Schism> Yeah.  XD  This is more or less how it's explained in Raising Steam, too.

20:30 <Cepheid> Heh.

20:30 <FruitNibbler> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aJw92EbsC0

20:31 <FruitNibbler> [ Taking a Propane Bubble Bath—The Fire Bath! - YouTube ]

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20:31 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, that pokemon center...  The fact that it's running out of disk space implies one of two things.  One, too many people are using it.  Two, the paging file has grown far too large.

20:31 <Cepheid> If it's the latter, that means there is a considerable memory leak in the software.

20:32 <Schism> One might also wonder how long it's been since the machine was shut down.

20:32 <Schism> And also take note that it is, of course, using Windows XP.

20:32 <FruitNibbler> uhm " Moist von Lipwig"

20:32 <Cepheid> You'd be amazed at how many computers still run XP in the workplace.

20:32 <FruitNibbler> Sunds  like a memee

20:33 <Cepheid> Some even still run 95 or 98.

20:33 <Schism> FruitNibbler, no, no, that is in fact his name.  Moist von Lipwig, previously known as Albert Spangler and other gentlemen of assorted means.

20:33 <Schism> He eventually married a rather acerbic woman named Adora Belle Dearheart.

20:34 <Schism> This being the Disc, it was more or less Narrative Causality which got the two together.

20:34 <Cepheid> FruitNibbler:  It's Discworld.

20:34 <Cepheid> It's not exactly a... normal world.

20:35 <Cepheid> It's a flat disc of land, sitting atop four elephants, riding a giant tortoise through space, if I remember the animals correctly.

20:35 <Schism> On the other hand, it could be said that it's sometimes a lot more normal than our own.

20:35 <Schism> Cepheid: Indeed.  Some have asked what the tortoise stands on.  The answer is somewhat obvious: tortoises swim.

20:36 <Cepheid> Schism, Normal, to us, is what we experience.  Therefore, our definition of normal would be the world we live upon.  Yes, it's crazy.  But Discworld is crazy in a whole different way, in the sense that physics is all messed up, Death is a friendly person who wanders around and talks to people, and luggage has legs.

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20:36 <Cepheid> DON'T.  I know what you're going to say about the luggage comment.

20:36 <Cepheid> Let me expand:  The luggage has legs, and is sentient.

20:37 <Schism> Its owner asked for 'traveling luggage', and got his money's worth.

20:39 <Cepheid> ((As for what I thought you were going to say:  "All luggage has legs.  If you count the wheels as legs."))

20:39 <Schism> And there is of course the famed Librarian of Unseen University, who was transformed into an orangutan some time ago, and has thoroughly and violently resisted all efforts to turn him back.  Life is much simpler for him that way.  Just don't call him a monkey -- ever.

20:39 <Cepheid> Or something to that effect.

20:39 <Schism> Nah.

20:41 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/YRWK5 I have noticed more and more cat watching since we've switched to 4k, 60hz/120hz TVs around this house.  I assume it's a combination of higher frequency and lighting tech.

20:42 <Cepheid> Spitfire likes watching How It's Made.

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20:45 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/r0idg1y

20:45 <Amrauz> Cats!

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20:47 <Cepheid> Yep.

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20:48 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/r3ccY This is what I like most about kittens.  Not their cute appearance, or anything.  But the expressions they make when you're around, and they discover something.  It's a "LOOK AT DIS!" or "WAT DIS?!"  "TOY!?" expression.

20:49 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/Ptb8b

20:50 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/4kSMLcT Oh gods.

20:51 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/7pD5NCp ... This cat is weird.

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20:53 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/J3Ou1 And then we have this disaster.  WHoever invented this...

20:54 <Schism> ... people are weird.

20:57 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/t/cats/9CrBX Look at the picture.  Then scroll down to the comment, and check the gif they linked.

20:57 <Schism> Pffff.  X3

20:57 <Schism> Oh, Cepheid.  Wanna start League characters in PoE?

20:58 <Cepheid> Yeah, I was thinking that after I read about the current league.

20:58 <Cepheid> Rifts into he abyss.  o3o

20:59 <Schism> Thinking regular, hardcore, whatever?

21:00 <Cepheid> Regular.

21:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Tons of Choose Your Own Adventure Equestria Girls Shorts Added to the Discovery Family App  [ http://tinyurl.com/ya5v3fbs ]

21:00 * Schism nods. "Others should join us around here." He looks around.

21:01 * roflin is not a fan of POE.

21:01 <roflin> I get anxiety when looking at the skill tree.

21:02 <Schism> Hehe.  It's actually a lot less worrisome than you might think.

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21:04 <Schism> Cepheid: I might do Templar, I'm thinking.  You?

21:05 <Cepheid> Gonna try Witch again.  I want to do some magic killing.

21:05 <Schism> Tis tasty, yes.

21:05 <Cepheid> Done too many melee characters.  Gimme some range.

21:05 <Schism> Oh, roflin: https://poeplanner.com/

21:05 <Schism> Cepheid: Thinking Elementalist, or somethin' else?

21:06 <Cepheid> Elementalist.

21:07 * Schism nodnods.

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21:08 <Cepheid> Guildchat is & prefixed to text, remember that.

21:08 <Cepheid> And you *ARE* part of a guild.  I made one back in 2016.

21:08 <Schism> &Righto.  I know that $ is the Trade channel.

21:08 <Schism> And yupyup.

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21:14 <LunaticHell> goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning, equestria

21:14 <LunaticHell> and a happy second to last day of 2017

21:16 * Schism boops the LunaticHell with a Path of Exile. "Hi!"

21:16 <LunaticHell> Ooooooooooooooh so very old school

21:16 * LunaticHell hugs Schism

21:17 <LunaticHell> It's right around the corner of my favorite old school adventure game.

21:17 <LunaticHell> It melted my mind and propelled me 30 years into the future

21:17 <LunaticHell> Ya know, small stuff.

21:17 <Schism> Hmmmm, Day of the Tentacle?

21:19 <LunaticHell> Nah

21:19 <LunaticHell> but close enough

21:19 <LunaticHell> a game I only know from germany

21:19 <LunaticHell> because it was sold over a tv station here

21:19 <Schism> Oh?  o.o

21:19 <LunaticHell> (pro 7)

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21:19 <LunaticHell> It was called "Der vergessende gott" (the forgotten god)

21:20 <LunaticHell> It was ripe with conspiracy, even in its glossary

21:20 <LunaticHell> I learned about a fairy in it

21:21 <LunaticHell> Schism: here a thought: what do they call the desert mirage in french?

21:21 <LunaticHell> The Fata Morgana?

21:22 <LunaticHell> Here the answer: "Morgana Le Fey"

21:23 <FruitNibbler> oooooooh this drug ha waaaaaay tooo much alcohol in it

21:24 <FruitNibbler> my stomach is protesting

21:25 <FruitNibbler> i hope this alcohol will make a life of that mistake of evolution called flu feel like crap in my alcoholised blood

21:26 <LunaticHell> Fruity!

21:26 <LunaticHell> FruitNibbler: And here I thought I was the only one drinking tonight.

21:27 <FruitNibbler> Frigging failure could not even make a cell for itself and now mooches off the more industrious organisms

21:27 <LunaticHell> ...well that's just dir...

21:27 <LunaticHell> FruitNibbler: wait, you said organism

21:28 <LunaticHell> My bad.

21:28 <FruitNibbler> Shuuuun, shuuuun the viruses! Booo, make your owm protein factory, you freeloader

21:28 <FruitNibbler> Lazy basterds

21:30 <FruitNibbler> I have a war plan now: eat only carbs and no proteins, while letting my fever peak under the blanket evenly throughout my body

21:30 <LunaticHell> Oh

21:30 <LunaticHell> you're sick

21:31 <FruitNibbler> Eventually this mistake of evolution will use up all proteins to copy itself, and them my immune system will take its dna and shove it down its injection tube!

21:32 <FruitNibbler> My proteins may denature to, but I am willing to sacrifice them in order to slap this special needs not-even-a-bacteria!

21:32 <LunaticHell> Lemme stop you right there, FruitNibbler

21:32 <LunaticHell> You do know I got the degenerative joint desease?

21:32 <FruitNibbler> No

21:33 <LunaticHell> Now you know

21:33 <FruitNibbler> Never saw you mention it

21:33 <LunaticHell> it's a think I will carry to grave

21:33 <LunaticHell> thing*

21:33 <LunaticHell> Not to worry, because I certainly don't

21:33 <FruitNibbler> I am sorry to hear that you do.

21:33 <LunaticHell> Thanks, it means a lot.

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21:34 <FruitNibbler> I will mrderise this flu virus today!

21:34 <LunaticHell> It feels like the looming threat of a life full of pain in front of me.

21:34 <LunaticHell> Literal pain.

21:34 * FruitNibbler declares a war on viruses!

21:35 <LunaticHell> I've met someone who had it in advanced stages.

21:35 <LunaticHell> He had his hip and shoulder replaced.

21:35 <LunaticHell> He told me that he got used to pain.

21:35 <FruitNibbler> I mean the odacity of this flu! To infect me on New Year's eve!

21:35 <LunaticHell> I know right.

21:36 <LunaticHell> I hope medicine will have advanced enough in the future to spare me this.

21:36 <FruitNibbler> My sister's BF is a medic, he told me most implants bond poorly with the bone and thus move, creating more unnecessary pain

21:37 <FruitNibbler> We are truly not yet there

21:37 <LunaticHell> It's the choise between bad and worse, isn't it?

21:37 <FruitNibbler> But the 3D printed bone matrix in Germany/Austria/Israel sounds promising

21:38 <LunaticHell> We've done breathtaking advances lately.

21:38 <FruitNibbler> I do know the despair of realising that your disease is not curable

21:38 <LunaticHell> I remember Robert Downing Jr. aka Iron Man handing a prothesis to a young man.

21:38 <LunaticHell> Obviously in the stylish red and gold color.

21:39 <FruitNibbler> I have a mild narcolepsy, which may prove to be latent and develop more as I age

21:39 <FruitNibbler> No cure

21:39 * LunaticHell hugs FruitNibbler

21:39 <FruitNibbler> I know it is not comparable to deteriorating joints.

21:39 <LunaticHell> It is bad enough.

21:40 <FruitNibbler> Scary none the less

21:40 <FruitNibbler> I wish self-driving vehicles will be a thing

21:40 <LunaticHell> Indeed.

21:40 <FruitNibbler> I do not trust myself to drive tbh

21:40 <LunaticHell> You wanna know who I think about when thinking about the sickness?

21:40 <LunaticHell> Deadpool.

21:40 <FruitNibbler> I mean, I struggled to ride a bicycle on days when it hit me worse, and that was kind of eye opening

21:41 <LunaticHell> Aka the "degenerative degenerative"

21:41 <LunaticHell> errr

21:41 <LunaticHell> degenerative regenerative

21:41 <FruitNibbler> It may be mild, it may happen once in a long period for me, but all it takes is just /one/ bad accident and I am done

21:42 <LunaticHell> One bad day is what seperates us all from...well...this and the other side.

21:42 <FruitNibbler> Maybe we will have a breakthrough in neural networks and they will figure it out

21:42 <LunaticHell> Humans are so very smart, aren't they?

21:43 <FruitNibbler> I wish I was smart enough to figure out how to make an NN that could in turn teach my fleshy NN how to improve, so I could improve an artificial NN even more!

21:45 <LunaticHell> I have daydreams about being a demon overlord

21:45 <LunaticHell> teehee

21:53 <LunaticHell> FruitNibbler: Am I still connected?

21:54 <FruitNibbler> Yes

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21:55 <FruitNibbler> I have receeded to the depths of my blanky there

21:58 * Finwe hugs a LunaticHell.

21:58 <Finwe> o3o

21:58 * LunaticHell hugs a Finwe

21:58 <Finwe> Hullo.

21:59 <LunaticHell> Hell~o

22:00 <Finwe> Oh, it's New Year's Eve.

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22:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto:  GIANT Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #2488 [ http://tinyurl.com/y7fbz45b ]

22:00 <LunaticHell> It is.

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22:18 <LunaticHell> huh

22:18 <LunaticHell> everything seems to be fine

22:18 * LunaticHell hugs Ali

22:18 * Ali hugs back with a yawn

22:19 <LunaticHell> How did you sleep?

22:20 <Ali> To long

22:20 <LunaticHell> Is there a thing as too long sleep?

22:20 <Ali> When its almost 12 hours long yes

22:20 <LunaticHell> Well sometimes you need it

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22:21 <Skyshiny> Hi!

22:21 <LunaticHell> hello there

22:22 <Skyshiny> U

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22:23 <LunaticHell> Did I say something wrong

22:24 <LunaticHell> ?

22:24 <Ali> Its probably just one of those that come in, say something and leave types

22:24 <LunaticHell> I must admit that I have not seen one of those in a while.

22:25 <Saerydoth> lol

22:26 <LunaticHell> Yeah those folks are...

22:26 <LunaticHell> ...a thing.

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