00:11 * ADragonDreaming pokes a mini capra demon twice, it dies
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00:16 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #2714 [ http://tinyurl.com/y8pfh8cm ]
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00:29 <Cepheid> Morning.
00:29 <ADragonDreaming> Morning
00:30 <Cepheid> How is everyone?
00:31 <ADragonDreaming> I am doing well
00:31 <ADragonDreaming> I believe I've just saved Solaire.
00:32 <Cepheid> I'm doing so-so. My cough is getting better. Slept an incredible amount of time.
00:32 <ADragonDreaming> You probably needed it then
00:32 <Cepheid> Yeah.
00:33 <Cepheid> As for saving Solaire, if I recall, it involves killing a certain parasitic monster in a shortcut between two areas before reaching a certain point.
00:33 <ADragonDreaming> Yes.
00:34 <ADragonDreaming> I picked up the Sunlight Maggot, specifically.
00:35 <Cepheid> Then yeah, you saved him.
00:35 <ADragonDreaming> I am... quite strong.
00:35 <ADragonDreaming> Mini-capras die in two pokes, mini-taurus in 3.
00:36 <Cepheid> Yeah, that happens eventually.
00:37 <Cepheid> Makes the mini-capras a great source of souls.
00:40 <ADragonDreaming> Hmm.... what's through this fog door...
00:42 <ADragonDreaming> Ah, Demon Firesage
00:43 <Cepheid> I think I shall spend the evening either monster hunting, or doing what I was doing prior to sleep: Reading the SCP foundation.
00:44 <ADragonDreaming> I picked up the demo
00:44 <Cepheid> Cool.
00:44 <ADragonDreaming> I am out of practice.
00:45 <ADragonDreaming> I did not cart, but that is because of the clearly easy mode the demo is in
00:45 <Cepheid> Yeah.
00:45 <Cepheid> Great Maccao, you're overgeared.
00:45 <Cepheid> Barioth, it's about on par, really.
00:46 <ADragonDreaming> Barioth I felt a touch overgeared, too.
00:46 <Cepheid> Valstrax? That'll hurt.
00:46 <ADragonDreaming> the hip-check should have been doing more damage
00:46 <Cepheid> True.
00:47 <Cepheid> Should I have a coffee, or should I just make myself a watered down tomato soup?
00:47 <Cepheid> Benefit of the former is I'd wake up. Benefit of the latter is more fluids, and a chance that I'll just fall back to sleep.
00:51 <Cepheid> Coffee it is.
00:51 <Cepheid> Either way I still stand to risk falling asleep anyways.
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01:04 <Cepheid> Just remember, ADragonDreaming. You don't have to start over in MH Generations Ultimate. Unless you like, want to or something.
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01:24 * Cepheid sits atop Schism and reads.
01:37 <RazorSharpFang> You can call anything organised, if you mark the universal set as "Miscellaneous"
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01:39 <Cepheid> Heh.
01:40 <Cepheid> I have to admit, the way the antibiotics are making me feel is weirder than the usual antibiotics I take.
01:40 <Cepheid> It's like I'm stuck in a state between "alert" and "in a daze"
01:40 <Cepheid> No dizziness or anything else, just this constant sensation that I am both "here" and "not here" at the same time.
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01:50 <ADragonDreaming> Cepheid: I assume there's going to be a transfer option from the 3DS Generations to Gen U?
01:51 <Cepheid> Yes.
01:51 <ADragonDreaming> The thing about that is, I never really got very far in that.
01:51 <Cepheid> Same.
01:51 <ADragonDreaming> Like, might as well just start over.
01:51 <Cepheid> I'm in 4* offline.
01:52 <Cepheid> Fair enough.
01:52 <ADragonDreaming> yeah, I ... did not get that far even
01:52 <Cepheid> I'm playing right now to prepare, but either way, I'll be around for multiplayer if you're up for it. And I'll be able to stream it.
01:52 <ADragonDreaming> playing the 3DS?
01:55 <Cepheid> Yeah.
01:56 <Cepheid> My 3DS charger is sort of non-functional. I say sort of, because if I move it in the right position it works, so I have to stop playing every now and then to let it charge, then continue.
01:56 <Cepheid> I'm just doing offline stuff. Want to finish up the story.
02:00 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/Monochromemutt/status/1030851813921054720 Oh gods.
02:02 <Cepheid> ...
02:02 <Cepheid> You'd think the people who just had city and police come by a few weeks ago over a drugs issue would stop, you know, ordering drugs.
02:05 <ADragonDreaming> I am apparently better with a gunlance than a charge blade. Odd.
02:06 <Cepheid> Heh.
02:07 <Cepheid> You used gunlance a lot in MH4U.
02:07 <Cepheid> You eventually switched to Charge Blade.
02:07 <ADragonDreaming> I'm not sure I did use it much in MH4U
02:07 <ADragonDreaming> Tri Ultimate, yes.
02:07 <Cepheid> Ah, right.
02:07 <Cepheid> Yeah, it was MH3U, not 4U.
02:08 * Cepheid goes to try Valstrax with Dual Blades.
02:08 <ADragonDreaming> Well, if you're on the demo anyway
02:08 <ADragonDreaming> why not zoidberg? I mean multiplayer?
02:08 <Cepheid> Sure.
02:08 <Cepheid> Not entirely certain how it works in the demo though.
02:09 <ADragonDreaming> who's joining who?
02:09 <Cepheid> Up to you, why don't you give it a shot?
02:09 <Cepheid> I assume you'll have to tell me your Hub ID, as it seems that's how it functions right now.
02:09 <Cepheid> Yeah, Hunters Hub ID and a passcode for private games.
02:10 <Cepheid> Anyone else have a switch and the MH Generations Demo, I'd say you're free to join us. :P
02:10 <ADragonDreaming> 33-4149-0998-8389 | passcode: 2332
02:11 <Cepheid> There we go.
02:11 <Cepheid> It's up to you to start the game, far as I know.
02:12 <ADragonDreaming> Aye, just got an inquiry from a friend on discord about a different game
02:12 <Cepheid> Ah, okie.
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02:16 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #1534 [ http://tinyurl.com/yc8233zt ]
02:18 <ADragonDreaming> wowie wow
02:19 <Cepheid> Yeah, he's kind of fast.
02:21 <ADragonDreaming> ...wat
02:22 <Cepheid> Remember the intro text?
02:22 <Cepheid> "When in the air, watch out for the comet"
02:22 <Cepheid> He dropped a literal rock on your head.
02:22 <Cepheid> And then smacked me up.
02:39 <Cepheid> Ow.
02:43 <Cepheid> Absurdly durable.
02:48 <Cepheid> Dangit.
02:48 <ADragonDreaming> Welp.
02:48 <Cepheid> Well, we had less than a minute anyways.
02:48 <ADragonDreaming> We need more damage.
02:48 <Cepheid> That thing is absurdly durable.
02:48 <ADragonDreaming> Like, two players worth more.
02:48 <Cepheid> Yeah.
02:48 <Cepheid> It's definitely made for 3 or 4 players.
02:48 <Cepheid> Barioth for now?
02:49 <ADragonDreaming> sure
02:49 <Cepheid> Gotta say though, don't normally get an adrenaline rush like that.
02:49 <Cepheid> That thing is absurdly fast, keeps me on edge.
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03:02 <Cepheid> Not sure if it's intentional, but I can actually jump off of some enemy attacks.
03:04 <filly`Coco> Cool
03:14 <Cepheid> Geezus.
03:14 <Cepheid> Finally.
03:14 <Cepheid> Multiplayer mode really jacks up the HP.
03:14 <ADragonDreaming> bah
03:14 <ADragonDreaming> yes
03:14 <ADragonDreaming> for a while there I was wondering if we were actually doing damage
03:15 <Cepheid> Heh.
03:15 <ADragonDreaming> because it hit the 10 minute mark and nothing was broken
03:15 <ADragonDreaming> anyway
03:15 <Cepheid> Yeah, it seems they designed multiplayer in the demo to assume four players.
03:15 <ADragonDreaming> I should end
03:15 <Cepheid> Same.
03:15 <Cepheid> Aerial Style is a tad OP, I find.
03:16 <ADragonDreaming> Yeah, I suspect I'll just keep sticking with guild style
03:16 <Cepheid> Allows you to roll and jump around like a ninny. And if you hit an entity(Player or monster), you jump off of them, allowing jump attacks.
03:16 <Cepheid> Great for high-mobility setups, though.
03:16 <ADragonDreaming> I might fiddle about with some of the others but
03:17 <Cepheid> You prefer old-fashioned approach?
03:17 <ADragonDreaming> I am a creature of habit.
03:17 <Cepheid> And admittedly, Guild does have benefits in regards to the number of arts.
03:17 <Cepheid> I only get one art in Aerial style. Made up for by the jumping, though. Combined with SnS, and it's a pretty mobile setup.
03:18 <Cepheid> That said, as you may have noticed, mounting got a nerf, somewhat.
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03:18 <Cepheid> You can't mount monsters every 1-2 minutes or so.
03:19 <ADragonDreaming> yeh
03:19 <Sombra> And here, we are.
03:19 <Sombra> Look, the gangs all here.
03:22 <Cepheid> I like how some videos on Youtube doing comparisons of MHGens on the 3DS and MHGens Ultimate on the Switch are reminding people that the game has a stable framerate compared to MHWorld on the PS4 and PS4 Pro, and on top of that, doesn't sacrifice visual fidelity regardless of Switch mode.
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03:22 <Cepheid> And some articles around the Internet are also commenting on how Old-World MH is weird in comparison to New-World MH.
03:23 <Cepheid> Biggest complaint about MHWorld being that a lot of the monsters feel 'samey' and aren't all that interesting in terms of designs and behaviours. Meanwhile, we got a rocket-propelled quadrapedal bird-like thing in MHXX.
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03:24 <Cepheid> Who just outright does a body slam into an area, doing what *APPEARS* to be area-wide damage. And lots of it. o3o
03:27 <Cepheid> Actually, one more hunt. I need to figure something out. Livingroom TV for whatever reason is not working right with the audio from the game.
03:27 <Cepheid> I suspect the surround sound system is on the wrong setting.
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03:29 <Cepheid> ..
03:29 <Cepheid> Oh.
03:29 <Cepheid> The Switch was set to Surround sound for some reason.
03:29 <Sombra> But where's the giant...
03:29 <Sombra> Mansley?
03:39 * Surreal_Nightmares nestles on Sombra
03:39 <Sombra> I don't know you.
03:39 <Sombra> But... I might, a long time ago. Like a dream that you can't remember, just moments after you've awoken.
03:40 <Cepheid> I have no idea who you are, what you are talking about, and most importantly, WHY.
03:40 <Sombra> You must be new here.
03:44 <Cepheid> I've been here for a long time.
03:44 <Cepheid> Since mid 2012.
03:44 <PinkieShy> heh
03:44 <Sombra> Then you don't remember me?
03:44 <Sombra> Perhaps you didn't pay attention
03:44 <PinkieShy> free meal from sonic tomorrow..
03:45 <PinkieShy> They messed up our order tonight by giving us a burgers with everything on it.. when we asked for plain
03:45 <Cepheid> Can't say I'm familiar with the Sonic fast food chain.
03:47 <PinkieShy> Most don't have a inside where you can dine in
03:47 <PinkieShy> Its a drive in Restaurant :P
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03:52 <Thelema5> Hello everypony
03:52 <Sombra> It's been a long time, Thelema
03:52 <Cepheid> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrMXtZfaBiM ADragonDreaming.
03:52 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Dark Souls: Average day in Anor Londo
03:52 <Thelema5> Our sonic closed about 2 years ago
03:52 <Thelema5> Hey there, Sombra
03:52 <Thelema5> How've you been?
03:53 <Sombra> I've had some time to think.
03:53 * Thelema5 nods
03:53 <RazorSharpFang> Mind you, in DS1 you could farm Humanity infinitely, which would heal for more than your max estus.
03:53 <RazorSharpFang> So usually running out of estus isn't as bad as it seems, unless you never bothered to farm
03:54 * Surreal_Nightmares kneads and grooms Sombra
03:54 <RazorSharpFang> Unfortunately, using humanity in combat is riskier, because the animation takes longer, and locks you out of rolling for longer too
03:54 <Sombra> Do you remember me?"
03:54 <RazorSharpFang> So I don't consider the infinitely farmable humanity to be broken, because there's a price to be paid for it, both prior and during its use.
03:54 <Cepheid> More or less.
03:55 * Surreal_Nightmares floofs up excitedly at Sombra!
03:58 <Cepheid> Today's dinner shall be Extreme Tomato Soup.
03:59 * DashedRainbows licks Thelema5
03:59 <Sombra> Well, do you?
03:59 <Cepheid> I don't remember you, unfortunately. At least, I don't remember you being so random. The username I at least remember.
04:00 * Surreal_Nightmares remembers Sombra!
04:00 * Surreal_Nightmares purrs
04:00 <Sombra> What do you remember.
04:00 * Surreal_Nightmares is hunger floofy
04:04 <RazorSharpFang> As far as I know, Sombra's been pretty random. Not volatile, but random.
04:04 <Surreal_Nightmares> Yus!
04:05 <Cepheid> That's probably why I don't remember them, then.
04:05 * Surreal_Nightmares gives Cepheid's Spitfire a chicken!
04:05 <Surreal_Nightmares> o3o
04:05 <Sombra> Me? No, I'm not entirely random. I know exactly what I'm doing.
04:05 <RazorSharpFang> That's what everyone wants you to think.
04:05 <Surreal_Nightmares> I am eating at Chik Fil A
04:05 <Surreal_Nightmares> o3o
04:05 <Cepheid> Randomness of that sort is not something I pay attention to.
04:05 <Cepheid> Funny thing is, Spitfire would probably eat the chicken. Same with Tizzy. Tizzy more than Spitfire.
04:05 <Surreal_Nightmares> o5o
04:05 <Surreal_Nightmares> Ooh!
04:05 * Surreal_Nightmares feeds spicy chicken!
04:06 <Thelema5> Sombra, I remember chatting with you but I don't recall any personal details
04:06 <Surreal_Nightmares> My doggo likes potatoes
04:06 <Sombra> That's too bad.
04:06 <Cepheid> That cat has a nose for food. You take any unusual(for a house cat) meat out, she'll track it down with her nose and bother you endlessly.
04:06 <Surreal_Nightmares> I want a cat for smoll snugglies
04:06 <Cepheid> She can smell cat treats from across the house, too. My mother left some sitting on a table one night, and promptly forgot about the treats.
04:06 <Thelema5> Cepheid, how does one make /extreme/ tomato soup?
04:06 <Surreal_Nightmares> I have my doggo for big snugglies and playing wif!
04:07 <Cepheid> Me and my dad are sitting in the living room, when Tizzy perks up and her nose goes into the air.
04:07 <Surreal_Nightmares> o4o
04:07 <Cepheid> We watch her slowly make her way about the living room, dining room, nose sniffing into the air. She approaches cat food bowls, sniffs them, turns around and jumps onto the kitchen table. She eventually finds the treats and eats them.
04:07 <DashedRainbows> How's the Thelema5?
04:08 <Cepheid> Thelema5: Campbells tomato soup, to the thickness desired. Usually, watering it down is best to make it more fluid and drinkable. Add however much tabasco sauce, worchestershire sauce, white pepper, and, to make it /extreme/, add in sriracha sauce.
04:08 <Thelema5> Okay, DashedRainbows. You?
04:09 <Cepheid> Careful, if you're not used to hot stuff, it'll burn. Possibly even going down.
04:09 <Thelema5> Sounds good, Cepheid
04:09 * Cepheid goes to take medicine, and turn the oven on for lunch.
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04:09 <Surreal_Nightmares> I like the mushroom soup, Cepheid!
04:10 <Sombra> My neck is about to snap clean off of my body
04:10 * Surreal_Nightmares grooms Sombra neck
04:10 * DashedRainbows pokes Thelema5. I'm good just questioning life
04:11 <DashedRainbows> Like what is life
04:11 * Surreal_Nightmares puts a chicken into DashedRainbows mouf!
04:11 <Surreal_Nightmares> It is spicy chicken !
04:11 <Sombra> What doth life
04:11 <DashedRainbows> Yay
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04:13 <Cepheid> I prefer tomato soup for this, Surreal_Nightmares. I'm not sure Mushroom Soup is well suited for the mixture I use, since all the sauces are to some degree vinegar-based.
04:13 <Cepheid> It'd likely cause creme of * soups to curdle.
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04:14 * DashedRainbows goes nini
04:15 <Thelema5> I used a condensed creme of mushroom soup as a gravy for mashed potatos the other day
04:15 <Thelema5> Twas good
04:16 <Cepheid> Not a bad idea, that.
04:17 <Cepheid> Seriously, stuck in between a state of alertness and "what's going on?"
04:18 <Cepheid> It's weird, these drugs.
04:19 <Cepheid> Hmmm. I wonder if Kiranico will be updated for MH Generations Ultimate. Seems like the owner hasn't really been focusing on it lately for MHWorld.
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04:44 * Cepheid sets up air con to do dehumidifying, as it's already below 70F in the room.
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04:52 * Cepheid meeps.
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04:53 * Surreal_Nightmares giggles and rolls onto her back
04:53 * Surreal_Nightmares has full tummy from her spicy chicken sandwich!
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04:59 * Cepheid chops up some iceberg lettuce, makes a salad consisting of lettuce and salad dressing. That's it. That's all there is in it.
04:59 * Schism shreds some carrots and cheese into Cepheid's salad.
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05:02 * Surreal_Nightmares pur
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05:02 * Schism provides Surry wif choklit chip cooki and milq.
05:05 <Cepheid> Alas, I lack the proper types of cheeses for salads.
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05:05 <Cepheid> Carrots too.
05:05 <Cepheid> Simple green lettuce salad is all I got.
05:07 <Schism> What 'proper type'? Various cheeses could work.
05:07 <Schism> But awr.
05:10 <Cepheid> So, when my parents left..
05:10 <Cepheid> The water bottle on our water fountain was half-empty/full/shutup.
05:10 <Cepheid> That means ~9 litres of water.
05:11 <Cepheid> That was two days ago.
05:11 <Cepheid> It's almost empty now. Less than a litre, I'd say.
05:12 <Schism> Yeeesh. Well, at least there's always tap water.
05:13 <Schism> Don't worry, calcium deposits are good for you.
05:13 <Thelema5> Depends on the type of calcium
05:14 <Schism> Thelema5: Coral calc--*shot*
05:14 <Cepheid> Basically I've been drinking lots of water, or water-derived products. Lotta soda water from the sodastream, mainly.
05:16 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Roundup #1471 [ http://tinyurl.com/y8cu2m2v ]
05:16 <Thelema5> https://www.villagevitality.com/blogs/learn/calcium-doesnt-work
05:17 <Schism> Thelema5: Indeed, but I'm reminded of that idiot and his "Things THEY don't want you to know!" books, which were all about how coral calcium could cure cancer.
05:17 <Thelema5> Gotta take the right form, thats all
05:17 <Cepheid> Is that the "Calcium isn't as great for bones" thing?
05:20 <Thelema5> I think the idea is that calcium is constantly stolen from the bones by the body- and using the right form to replenish the bones
05:20 <Cepheid> Right.
05:20 <Schism> Calcium supplements, certainly. I mean, drink milk to prevent bone deterioration, and instead of relying on just calcium, visit a doctor to see which replenishing treatment is viable if any.
05:21 <Schism> Which is what the article says, more or less. o3o
05:21 <Cepheid> Admittedly, while I am not entirely certain about the calcium benefits of milk, I am under the impression that milk at least slows, or balances out the consumption of calcium by the body, in general.
05:22 * Thelema5 is also a great milk -replenishment advocate
05:22 <Schism> Plus, milk and dairy is tasty. o3o
05:22 <Thelema5> Yep!
05:23 <Cepheid> I do know I have some vitamin deficiencies, but those are mostly because I rarely, if ever, subject myself to sunlight.
05:23 <Cepheid> So I likely suffer a horrific vitamin D deficiency.
05:23 <Cepheid> Not that it seems to do anything to me, though.
05:26 <Cepheid> I mean, looking at a general random list of symptoms on the Internet, one could argue my health could probably improve if I got more vitamin D, but then..
05:26 <Cepheid> It doesn't explain the last 18 or so years.
05:27 <Cepheid> My health as of late has only been a problem since I suffered pneumonia a few years back. Since then, every summer I get lung problems out the wazoo.
05:27 <Cepheid> And it's only during the summer. Fall, Spring, Winter, I'm fine.
05:31 * Thelema5 goes to sleep instead off all this silliness
05:31 <Cepheid> G'night, Thelema5.
05:31 <Thelema5> 'gnight!
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05:34 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
05:36 <Cepheid> Morning.
05:37 <Cepheid> Schism, you see this? https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/08/16/residents-resort-growing-tomatoes-sinkhole-city-sits-hands/
05:37 <ConfusionRift> How it be?
05:37 <Schism> Bwahahaha.
05:37 * Schism is okies. Also, waves to Rift, and now desires a tomato sandwich.
05:38 <Cepheid> Not too bad. Still coughing, but it's getting better at least.
05:38 <ConfusionRift> That's good.
05:39 <Schism> Cepheid: You said you were a tad concerned about your sister's expertise in basic mathematics.
05:39 <Schism> Don't worry! She's far from alone. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-fuzzy-numbers-how-math-instruction-varies-widely-for-teachers-to-be/
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05:43 <Cepheid> I never understood the point of memorizing multiplication tables. It doesn't help.
05:44 <Cepheid> If you can't figure out that 2 * 5 is 10 in your head through basic mathematics, then what good is a times table going to be? There's no upper limit to the factors.
05:44 <Cepheid> If a times table goes up to 10 * 10, is it going to help with 384 * 238?
05:46 <Schism> Because we work in base 10, after 10 there are a number of algorithms folks use.
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05:47 <Cepheid> Yeah, mostly factorization of varying forms.
05:47 <Cepheid> Problem is, in order to do that, you need to know multiplication without tables in the first place.
05:47 <Cepheid> Alternatively, do long multiplication on paper.
05:49 <Cepheid> I think a lot of the problem simply has to do with the fact that students in general do not like mathematics. It's not "simple" like geography, English, and a few other subjects are.
05:49 <Schism> Rote memorization isn't critical thinking, no.
05:49 <Cepheid> It's not about memorization and stuff like that.
05:50 <Cepheid> Mathematics requires effort.
05:50 <Cepheid> Plus, given my memories of school..
05:50 <Cepheid> Some of us are just plain lazy.
05:50 <ConfusionRift> Eeeeeeew, maaaaaath.
05:50 <Cepheid> My grades were consistently low. Passing, but low.
05:50 <Schism> Aced every test, didn't care to do the homework?
05:50 <Cepheid> Mostly because I was lazy. I also didn't like the atmosphere of school.
05:51 <Cepheid> Something like that, yeah.
05:51 <Cepheid> And then there's the whole "I didn't go to highschool" thing.
05:53 <Cepheid> Overall, I'm marginally lazy with school.
05:54 <Cepheid> You ask me to work on something, I'll work on it to the bare minimum. Then go work on something else with a lot of effort, and probably employing something related to what I was asked to work on.
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05:57 <ConfusionRift> Yep, that was me. Then again, didn't get much help with math from the start, and really didn't think much of it. Then I moved to my programming courses... so much regret.
05:58 <Cepheid> Anyhow, there's problems with teaching math that's more than just general anxiety or laziness, though.
05:58 <Cepheid> Students are skilled in different areas of math. Trying to teach all of them is a futile effort.
05:59 <Schism> Cepheid: https://twitter.com/Tirrelous/status/1030903679367491584
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05:59 <Schism> Also, mmm.
05:59 <Cepheid> It'd probably be a bit easier for students to grasp concepts if they were tested to determine which areas of math they are good at, and then focus on that. But that involves individual training, etc.
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06:00 <Cepheid> For example, I'm good with linear algebra, geometry. Matrices and vectors particularly.
06:00 <ConfusionRift> It just sorta branches out so much, all with different rules and ways to process. And then some look or are processed similarly, adding tot he confusion.
06:00 <Cepheid> But I can't grasp things like imaginary numbers, or quaternions. Fortunately what I need to know of quaternions is minimal, so..
06:01 <Cepheid> All I need for quaternions in regards to graphics, is that they're not true quaternions in the conventional sense.
06:01 <Cepheid> They're just a combination of a vector and magnitude.
06:01 <Cepheid> Well, vector and scaler.
06:01 <Cepheid> The vector being an axis of rotation, and the scaler being the angle. That's it.
06:02 <Cepheid> Conventional quaternions seem to involve imaginary numbers and all sorts of weirdness. But none of that appears to be relevant to graphics.
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06:06 <Cepheid> In the context I see them used, in graphics, it's almost as if they call them quaternions simply to differentiate them from a practically-identical-in-memory-structure 4-element vector.
06:08 <Cepheid> Since a 4-vector is simply x, y, z and w values, all of which are scalers. So you could practically stuff a quaternion into a 4-vector, and a 4-vector into a quaternion. Structurally, a quaternion would be say, a 3-vector and a scaler in a class or structure definition though. And have different methods for operating on them/creating them.
06:08 <Cepheid> Hum, this quest has the subquest of killing a Volvidon, which means the alternate path the game will force me to take probably has a Volvidon. *Goes to murder it pre-emptively.*
06:09 <Cepheid> Oh, ConfusionRift. You got a Switch, by chance?
06:09 <ConfusionRift> Yessir.
06:09 <ConfusionRift> Is it about MHGen? :P
06:09 <PinkieShy> Tooth
06:09 <Cepheid> We need to somehow get you, me and ADragonDreaming together then. MHGenU has a demo, and we tried Valstrax with just the two of us.
06:09 <PinkieShy> Toothpaste squeezers are amazingly helpful
06:09 <Cepheid> Danged thing ripped us to shreds.
06:09 <Cepheid> And then we timed out.
06:10 <PinkieShy> Gets the toothpaste bottle so flat that there is no way there is any toothpaste wasted.
06:10 <Cepheid> We can't deal enough damage with just the two of us.
06:10 <Cepheid> PinkieShy: Yeah, they're useful for that.
06:10 <PinkieShy> Cepheid I found out something cool as well.. I dunno if i said it before but i can get 2 bottles of toothpaste free very month if i want.
06:11 <PinkieShy> I'm happy about knowing that.
06:11 <RazorSharpFang> File compressions seems to parallelise really well across many cores.
06:11 <Cepheid> Yup. Though it depends on the type of compression.
06:11 <Cepheid> Some forms are not very good for parallel workloads. Though we've mostly moved on from those.
06:12 <ConfusionRift> Cepheid: You start the demo... with an elder dragon?
06:12 <ConfusionRift> The heck is that? (sighs) I'm so rusty on this game.
06:12 <RazorSharpFang> Ehe, I'm on LZMA2 right now
06:14 <Cepheid> ConfusionRift: Beginner is Great Maccao. Intermediate is Barioth. Advanced is Valstrax.
06:14 * ConfusionRift thinks about it.
06:20 <ConfusionRift> Was getting back to the normal grind on MHW, which made it a bit harder for me to get back. Soooo I'm a bit skeptical about getting this one.
06:20 <Cepheid> Fair enough.
06:20 <ConfusionRift> Then again, MHW was a gift.
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06:20 <ConfusionRift> Might check out the demo still.
06:21 <Cepheid> The biggest issue you'll have trouble with, and I'm sure many others will, is going back from the open nature of MHWorld's locations to the split-area setup of the old-world games.
06:23 <ConfusionRift> Uuuurgh... (looks at his claw finger) Aaaaaah!
06:23 <Cepheid> Lack of that, though.
06:23 <Cepheid> As the Switch has dual-analogs.
06:26 <Cepheid> Also, you can avoid claw issue with MH Freedom Unite these days with a PSVita.
06:28 <Cepheid> Hunt-a-thon for Yian Kut-ku. Hmm.
06:28 <ConfusionRift> Oh, chicken hunt!
06:28 <Cepheid> Needs me an ice weapon, looks like.
06:30 <Cepheid> By the way, Valstrax has an interesting attack.
06:30 <Cepheid> Using it's rocket boosters, it launches into the sky, orbits a little bit..
06:31 <Cepheid> Then promptly rocket slams into the area. Appears to do area-wide damage. And a lot of it.
06:32 <ConfusionRift> Sounds about right.
06:32 <ConfusionRift> You know what? Have to see this. Not gonna jump to it raw.
06:33 <ConfusionRift> Woah! I'm sorry, but this is a major downgrade in looks and feel.
06:34 <ConfusionRift> 0_0;
06:34 <Cepheid> What video are you watching?
06:35 <Cepheid> There's a 3DS and Switch version, and yes, it's old-world, so it's closer to games before MHWorld.
06:35 <ConfusionRift> On the switch.
06:35 <Cepheid> Officially, compared to the 3DS, it's a considerable visual upgrade. COmpared to MHWorld, yeah.
06:35 <Cepheid> It's nowhere near.
06:36 <Cepheid> Officially, MHXX came out before MHWorld did in Japan, so that's why there's such a disparity and the appearance of "taking a step back" for us.
06:38 <ConfusionRift> So... it's fast, it attacks fast, does plenty or area attacks, does 1/4-1/3 health damage minimum, and gets up fast.
06:38 <Cepheid> It's basically a rocket propelled zinogre, yes.
06:38 <ConfusionRift> And has rocket shooting wings... awesome...
06:39 <ConfusionRift> At least the old Superman Jump is there.
06:40 <Cepheid> Again, it's old-world. So if you remember anything of the series prior to MHWorld rather than treating MHWorld as if it were somehow the way the series started, then yeah, everything you remember will be there.
06:42 <Cepheid> Up next, hunt-a-thon: velocidrome.
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06:44 <ConfusionRift> This guy is not gonna be fun at aaaaaall.
06:44 <Cepheid> I dunno, I enjoyed the fight.
06:45 <Cepheid> Not often a battle in the MH series can get an adrenaline rush going.
06:47 <ConfusionRift> See, this is one of those that can easily juggle you to death. Just watched someone fight him, and I immediately spotted the "you're screwed, give up" point.
06:47 <Cepheid> It has happened, I'll admit.
06:48 <Cepheid> But me and ADra adapted pretty quickly.
06:48 <Cepheid> Thing has some obvious tells.
06:48 * Schism looks at the Valstrax fight on Switch. "Rocket-propelled Zinogre, yes, this seems about right."
06:54 <Cepheid> Literally it's biggest issue is the rocket slam.
06:55 <Cepheid> You basically need to either escape the area, or superman at the right time.
06:55 <ConfusionRift> That attack is stupid.
06:55 <Cepheid> Or have a shield.
06:55 <ConfusionRift> Yep, superman jump is your better option, because he WILL target you before slamming.
06:56 <Cepheid> Next up... Blagonga, looks like.
06:57 <Cepheid> I am not a fan of the ape monsters.
07:02 <Schism> ... Valstrax's death sound is like a jet engine winding down.
07:05 <ConfusionRift> I believe that was the whole gimmick.
07:05 <Cepheid> Well, it kind of DOES have jet engines attached to it.
07:11 <Cepheid> Ahahahaha! One of my palicos got frozen in ice.
07:11 <Cepheid> It appeared as a snowman with cat ears. XD
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07:16 <Cepheid> Lagombi twins next.
07:16 <ConfusionRift> Bunnyyyyy!
07:16 * Cepheid hands ConfusionRift an Akantor plushy.
07:17 <ConfusionRift> You just like terrorizing me, huh. :P
07:17 * ConfusionRift huggles plush anyways.
07:18 <Cepheid> Actually I'm kind of curious, what is your issue with Akantor? I've fought it, and it doesn't really seem all that troublesome. Hits hard, I'll admit, but..
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07:22 <ConfusionRift> Well, I was the cannon fodder of my old team. Which is ironic, since I was usually the gunner. I had trouble reading Akantor, and each time I thought I had it, I got OHKOed. It was so bad that at one point, no joke, during one of our last tries, Akantor just blankly decided to position itself right at the entrance and destroyed me as soon as I got back in. I stopped at that point.
07:22 <ConfusionRift> I just saw the loading screen, and then me fainting.
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07:25 <Cepheid> Heh.
07:25 <ConfusionRift> I thought they led him to the entrance as a joke or maybe them avoiding it, but their faces of absolute confusion kinda told me something else.
07:25 <Cepheid> It didn't help that you were a gunner on the PSP.
07:25 <Cepheid> So claw.
07:25 <ConfusionRift> I did stood well... till rage happened.
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07:29 <ConfusionRift> To this point, no one knows what happened.
07:29 <Cepheid> Heh.
07:30 * Cepheid jumps off of Lagombi's belly, strikes it in the head, breaks the ears.
07:36 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Newbie Artist Training Grounds VIII: Day 26 [ http://tinyurl.com/ybo7mgvs ]
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07:49 * Cepheid goes to the old volcano to mine some stuff. Kills an iodrome, gets a rust shard, somehow doesn't boil alive standing next to the caldera, returns to town just fine.
07:50 <Cepheid> Mmm. Rusted Great Sword.
07:50 * Schism sharpens all the rust off.
07:51 <ConfusionRift> Oh look... a piece of metal with a handle.
07:51 <Cepheid> Heh.
07:51 <ConfusionRift> :P
07:52 <Cepheid> It's true. It's basically a sword that's more or less had several chunks ripped out of it, and still somehow usable.
07:53 <ConfusionRift> If it's like in MHFU, yep. It would look like a very basic sword that has had a horrible time.
07:53 <Cepheid> The Ancient Blade always looks like that in every game.
07:53 <ConfusionRift> Chunks missing, parts melted, and what looks like a strand that used to be the handle.
07:53 <Cepheid> Usually it upgrades to a weird-looking blade with writing on it, the Epitaph Blade.
07:54 <Cepheid> With Daora Parts, I can turn it into the Icesteel Edge instead.
07:54 <Cepheid> http://mhgen.kiranico.com/greatsword/icesteel-edge
07:54 <ConfusionRift> Funny how two to three upgrades in and it still looks like something someone left a bit too long in a furnace.
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07:58 <ConfusionRift> This and guy is getting creative with the terrariums.
07:59 <Cepheid> Hmm?
07:59 <ConfusionRift> *ant guy
08:01 <Cepheid> Time to stop, monhantin. Gettin' tired.
08:01 <Cepheid> Can't focus my eyes again. =.=
08:01 <ConfusionRift> Don't watch AntsCanada often, but he's videos show up on my feed. Don't mind burning time watching his room full of ant biomes, and all of the messes he has trying to keep each one of them.
08:07 <Cepheid> I'ma head off to lay down.
08:07 <Cepheid> Get some reading done, then pass out, I think.
08:07 <ConfusionRift> Okaday.
08:07 <Cepheid> Take care, see you tomorrow.
08:08 <ConfusionRift> Have a good one! (waves)
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10:05 * ConfusionRift flops
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10:09 <Schism> What do you call a sentient layer of paint? http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=052518
10:11 <ConfusionRift> Okay, that's pretty funny.
10:11 <ConfusionRift> And Max Coverage is taken... and copyrighted. :P
10:12 <Schism> Oh hush. :P
10:12 <Schism> So's "Optimus Primer", of course.
10:12 <Schism> It'll be black paint, otherwise you could call it Matte Smith!
10:13 <ConfusionRift> Oilimar Basinger.
10:13 <Schism> Hank Rillik.
10:14 <ConfusionRift> Punt Rolland?
10:14 <Schism> They already used Rolland, tho.
10:15 <ConfusionRift> You're right. Darn.
10:15 <Schism> Okay, we should finish up.
10:15 <ConfusionRift> Dryan Coatter.
10:16 <ConfusionRift> Oh... sorry.
10:21 <Schism> ... Gloss Rollinger.
10:21 <Schism> Okay, now I'm done.
10:21 <ConfusionRift> Hehahaha!
10:24 <ConfusionRift> ...why have I not found this sooner?! A bolt action pen!
10:25 <Schism> Tactical pens, yes.
10:26 <ConfusionRift> This one's not even tactical. It just looks nice and have a bolt action style handle. But yeah, I now see the "tactical" ones.
10:28 <ConfusionRift> The one with an alloy tip, for breaking glass. And hard body to use as a kubotan. Oh yeah, and that tip tends to fall off because it's poorly glued, and the body bends if you use it on something harder than plywood.
10:29 <Schism> Snrk, nice.
10:29 <Schism> Still costs $60 or so, I'm sure.
10:30 <ConfusionRift> Cheapest? $6. Unless you go to sites like Wish. You could get one waaay cheaper.
10:30 <ConfusionRift> But those super ultra cheap ones are hard plastic.
10:33 * ConfusionRift is reminded of Top Gear. Richard got stopped and inspected at a border, and an officer found a .50 BMG cartridge... which was actually a lighter.
10:34 <ConfusionRift> Schism: Do you know if there are such as erasable pen ink cartridges or inklets?
10:35 <Schism> I... genuinely have no clue, I'm afraid. I'm not really a pen guy.
10:35 <ConfusionRift> Same. I only use pens at work as they're permanent. I tend to stick to pencils.
10:36 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Bedfellow / Shard 51 / Fury / Feud 1:1 / After Hearth's Warming / After University [ http://tinyurl.com/y923ssy4 ]
10:49 <ConfusionRift> Sleep time!
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10:49 * Schism yawwwns. Gah. Has more coffee.
10:50 <roflin> now that is the best idea I've stolen today.
10:55 <Schism> What, coffee?
10:55 <roflin> yus
11:04 <Schism> It is usually a good idea, yus.
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12:05 <TigerBoy2883> Hello
12:08 <TigerBoy2883> Someone?
12:09 <TigerBoy2883> Hello?
12:10 <TigerBoy2883> Is anybody here?
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12:39 <ADragonDreaming> hello, hello, hello, is anybody out there?
12:40 <Schism> Just nod if you can hear me.
12:41 <Lumindia> Is there anyone home?
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16:01 <Schism> "Arbitrary benchmark of success, you are my only friend." --a poor beleaguered dog of the bureaucracy
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17:16 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by ExplodingPonyToast: Music: Zizkil - Carnivorous Lust Queen [Electro/Drumstep] [ http://tinyurl.com/ya4a43ft ]
17:41 * Schism rolls over and boops Lumindia. "WASSHOI!"
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17:53 * ADragonDreaming completes first draft of post.
17:54 * Schism headtilts to Adra.
17:55 <ADragonDreaming> Hmm... this requires some background to explain fully.
17:55 <ADragonDreaming> Are you at all familiar with AdventureQuest?
17:56 <Schism> As I recall... it's a web-based RPG which is similar in some ways to the Legend of Red/Green Dragon games, in that you have limited turns per day et al?
17:56 <ADragonDreaming> Nah.
17:57 <ADragonDreaming> web-based RPG but there's no limited turns per day etc.
17:57 <Schism> Well, at least I got it halfway right. I remember seeing ads for it all over the place in the olden days.
17:57 <ADragonDreaming> just a set-up of mostly solo battles against various enemies, but notably it has an eight elemental system - fire opposes ice, water opposes energy (electrical), wind opposes earth, and light opposes darkness
17:58 <ADragonDreaming> It also has a forum that I joined back in 2004.
17:58 <ADragonDreaming> On this forum there is a RolePlay board.
17:58 <Schism> Ahhh.
17:58 <ADragonDreaming> In this RP Board there started an Elemental Championship.
17:58 <Schism> Now makes sense.
17:59 <ADragonDreaming> There is no system, it's just free-form collaborative writing. But the EC is a combat tournament, with two rounds - first round, you jockey for the position of Elemental Paragon of your chosen element.
17:59 <ADragonDreaming> Second round, the eight paragons duke it out to claim the spot of Champion (and the granting of a single wish by divine power)
18:00 <ADragonDreaming> It's annual, though it did take a break one year.
18:00 <Schism> You been tapped to write the event posts, then?
18:00 <ADragonDreaming> Nah, I'm participating.
18:00 <Schism> Ah. So gotta make a good first impression.
18:01 <ADragonDreaming> somewhat beyond first impressions, it's the finals round now. Got to keep my spot.
18:01 <ADragonDreaming> Every few days one of the contestants is cut until the final three or two.
18:01 * Schism noddles. "And being an RP based game, how well you fight without godmodding is a vital part."
18:01 <ADragonDreaming> Yes. Also how well you write.
18:01 <Schism> Well, that's the same thing.
18:02 <ADragonDreaming> I've picked a particularly challenging character this year.
18:02 <ADragonDreaming> Name: Oz. Short description: Bone Puppeteer. Core concept statement: "All our friends are here with us."
18:03 <ADragonDreaming> And I've locked myself into poetic prose for basically all of it. So it takes hours to write some few hundred words.
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18:16 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Australia Continues Early Episode Releases All the Way to 24 [ http://tinyurl.com/yb5zcxzb ]
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19:17 <Schism> Adra: The trick to a well-written prose is often a timely repose. So stay up too late and you'll seal your own fate -- don't write yourself stupid, just doze.
19:21 <ADragonDreaming> So noted!
19:21 <ADragonDreaming> but basically I go to sleep close to midnight every night and then wake up around 7 am.
19:21 <ADragonDreaming> because consistent work schedule.
19:26 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by We Are Borg: "The End in Friend" - Episode Followup: No Ships Here [ http://tinyurl.com/yak5n8ho ]
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20:34 <Schism> May as well show off my costume in the Gold Saucer. https://imgur.com/a/UjiMB2m
20:35 <Schism> No, this one's better. https://i.imgur.com/ijbIAqZ.jpg
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20:56 <Schism> Hey, hey Cepheid.
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21:06 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by ExplodingPonyToast: Album: Pinkamena Party - THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: RARITY'S MAD & MAGICAL MYSTERIOUSLY MELODRAMATIC MUSICAL [ http://tinyurl.com/ydhth54m ]
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21:36 <ADragonDreaming> these stone golems basically wield boulders on sticks
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22:33 <Stormspark> my internet freaking SUCKS
22:34 <Stormspark> 400 minutes to reinstall ffxiv
22:34 <Stormspark> I had to format my computer because Windows took a dump
22:35 <ADragonDreaming> my sympathies
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23:17 <SunsetShimmer> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dk_MH_pU8AAvzWo.jpg - Luigis overly spiritual situation.
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23:25 <Lumindia> oof.mp4
23:32 <ADragonDreaming> Five stries to beat Artorias.
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