Log archive of EquestriaDaily for Thursday, 2019-03-07

00:00 <Cepheid> A while back, didn't you mention your dad was getting on your case for "theft" or something?

00:00 <Cepheid> Why aggravate that?

00:00 <Cepheid> By doing it on your dad's unknowing expense, it's just going to further his claim.

00:01 <LibrarianofHope> its not theft

00:01 <LibrarianofHope> i have an alloted amount on my cellphone tab

00:02 <LibrarianofHope> by random luck i can use it for app stuff too

00:02 <LibrarianofHope> he gets charged the same amount anyway

00:02 <Cepheid> Fine, fine.

00:02 <Cepheid> Just the way you worded it..

00:02 *** Ali|Nap is now known as Ali

00:02 <LibrarianofHope> also its not just theft, he literaly accuses me of purposely messing amazon orders

00:03 <LibrarianofHope> or bascallt anything

00:04 <LibrarianofHope> i cant really talk to him anymore, he is so inmersed in his hatefull delusions of what he thinks i am i just try my very best not to interact

00:04 <LibrarianofHope> im not by far the first or have the worse situation on this regard, i can at least claw out a fate for myself

00:05 <LibrarianofHope> lot of my ideas of hope is finding a way to help others in similar or worse problems than me

00:06 <LibrarianofHope> i heard the doctor as played by peter capaldi say it best " no one will suffer as i did

00:09 <LibrarianofHope> on a nicer note

00:09 * LibrarianofHope pokes da ali

00:10 * Ali squeaks

00:12 * Ali boops LibrarianofHope. 'HOw do you say 'the rats' in spanish?

00:12 <LibrarianofHope> in what context?

00:12 <LibrarianofHope> as in them squeaky bois?

00:12 * Ali doesn't know, its for Blood Bowl team Skaven

00:13 <Ali> So yes squeaky rats

00:13 <LibrarianofHope> literally the rats

00:13 * Ali sits on LibrarianofHope

00:13 <LibrarianofHope> las ratas

00:13 <LibrarianofHope> if you want a funny variant

00:13 <LibrarianofHope> los tlacuaches

00:13 <Ali> Huh, swore it was ratos but shows you how much i know spanish

00:13 <LibrarianofHope> which means the possums, but its related here

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00:16 <LibrarianofHope> also give los rataflanes a spin maybe

00:16 <LibrarianofHope> for a skaven team it would be silly

00:17 <Ali> I feel dirty for only starting with 2 gutter runners but those dorks are SP hogs

00:19 <LibrarianofHope> how does blood bowl work work lore wise?

00:19 <LibrarianofHope> like a silly spin off?

00:19 <Cepheid> Well you take a bowl, fill it with blood.

00:19 <Cepheid> That's it.

00:20 <Cepheid> It'll congeal eventually and become a thick, blobbish thing.

00:20 * LibrarianofHope gives cepheid a rabbid skaven plaguepriest

00:21 <Cepheid> Then you can throw the blobbish thing at someone and be all disgusting about it.

00:22 * Filly_Nightmares mewls at Cepheid

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00:25 <Cepheid> Hello Dolly.

00:25 <Cepheid> ...

00:25 <Cepheid> Autocorrect.  What the hell.

00:25 <Cepheid> Hello Filly_Nightmares.

00:26 *** Tempo is now known as Tempo-AFK

00:27 <LibrarianofHope> do you secretly want to watch a musical?

00:28 <Cepheid> No.

00:28 <LibrarianofHope> know any dolly?

00:28 <Cepheid> No.

00:28 <LibrarianofHope> your computer has gone sentient

00:28 <Ali> How did you even autocorrect to that

00:29 <LibrarianofHope> i call tecnoheresy

00:29 <Ali> IT MUST BE NOMMED

00:29 * Ali unleashes the rippers!

00:29 <LibrarianofHope> we now have a rogue ai and a rat problem

00:30 <Ali> I see no rats, just rippers nomming your ankles

00:30 <Cepheid> My tablet likes to autocorrect automatically.  I don't know how it got Dolly from Filly.

00:30 <LibrarianofHope> im a flying book, no ankles

00:30 * LibrarianofHope gets some orky bois in

00:31 <LibrarianofHope> i promised them beer, so until finwe arrives they might wreck stuff

00:39 * LibrarianofHope talks to the bois

00:45 <ADragonDreaming> Cepheid: Hello Dolly is the name of a very well-known musical.

00:45 <ADragonDreaming> So the phrase itself is potentially in the autocorrect lexicon.

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00:54 <Cepheid> Perhaps.

01:02 <Cepheid> Okay Spitfire, calm down.  I didn't abandon you.  No need to wag your tail like a dog and drool from my pettings.

01:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Discussion: Do Your Siblings, Nephews, Nieces, Daughters, or Sons Watch Pony?  [ http://tinyurl.com/yy68vd4z ]

01:09 <Ali> What are these...rel.a.tives Seth speaks of?

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01:16 * Filly_Nightmares murrs at Cepheid and clambers onto his head

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01:59 <Schism> Ali: Friends you can't choose, can hate, have to love, and utterly despise at times.

02:00 * Schism then boops Filly_Nightmares on the nose, and tries to break a quest.

02:00 * Filly_Nightmares eees at Schism and nomfs his hoof

02:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #1731 [ http://tinyurl.com/yy2hkvgq ]

02:09 <Cepheid> That cat of mine.  Got locked in my mother's closet.  He gets locked in anywhere, he doesn't appear to make an effort to escape or notify us of his presence in the room.

02:11 <Schism> Why would he?  He knows you'll go looking for him.

02:12 <Cepheid> He either curls up and sleeps, or just sits there with a dopey look on his face.

02:13 <Cepheid> Even weirder is that he is known for trapping himself rarely.  He has been seen closing doors.

02:14 <Cepheid> One night I was in my bedroom.  He wandered in, went behind the door and just propped himself up against it until the door closed completely and tightly.

02:17 <Divide|Adagio> Well, I mean... sounds like he wanted a safe place?

02:17 *** Divide|Adagio is now known as Schism|Adagio

02:18 <Cepheid> Nah.  He was just playing around.

02:18 <Cepheid> He knows if he puts his weight against something, it might move.

02:20 * Schism|Adagio tries helping some folks around Markarth. After, of course, clearing his name and escaping Cidna Mine... (and stabbing those Forsworn in the back.)

02:24 <PinkieShy> oh shoot..

02:25 <PinkieShy> First time a jump scare really got me good in a long time.

02:25 <PinkieShy> in a old hl2 mod  as well..

02:25 <PinkieShy> I screamed to the point my dog looking at me like he is concerned

02:32 <Schism|Adagio> Hah.  "Oh, so... so sorry that the guards imprisoned you."  Spoken in a deadpan tone, as though he's daring me to put a sword through his chest.

02:40 <Schism|Adagio> Lessee what I can get away with.  Things like... oh... stealing a giant statue.

02:44 * Schism|Adagio mwehehes.

02:45 <Schism|Adagio> "The sisters of Dibella are in seclusion." Yup.  That they are.

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02:47 <Schism|Adagio> Somehow, I suspect that the goddess of beauty would approve of me taking this finely-worked statue out of a temple and into the hands of someone who can appreciate it.

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03:32 <Schism|Adagio> Ah, pfff.  Here I was sneaking around in Jarl Balgruuf's private quarters, and then a guard catches me, and... I'm allowed in here.  Oh well, sneak point gained.

03:36 <ADragonDreaming> heh, yep

03:37 <Schism|Adagio> I was all clever-like, too, waiting for the guards to move past the light.  Grmp.

03:39 <Tirek> Your friendship and thanedom foiled you again.

03:40 <Schism|Adagio> And then I ran across a dragon attacking a giant.  Well, fine, if neither wants to eat my face, that's just /fine/, I'll go around.  And I did.

03:46 <Schism|Adagio> I swear that giant gave me a salute on my way by.

03:48 <Schism|Adagio> Fort Sungard.  Tower full of vampire-related gear.  Well, I wonder whatever shall I find myself fighting.

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03:54 <Schism|Adagio> (Turns out, it's Forsworn.)

04:02 <DashedRainbows> Home sweet home

04:02 <Schism|Adagio> Aw, criminy.  Sungard is going to take /ages/ to clean up.  Also, grats on escaping the Hospital prison... again.

04:02 <DashedRainbows> Also I got a surface pro

04:03 <DashedRainbows> Good day

04:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: EileMonty and Black Gryphon Added as Guests for EFNW  [ http://tinyurl.com/yyyuaaaj ]

04:08 * DashedRainbows wags her tail happily today

04:08 * Schism|Adagio finds the villains' larder. He takes all the tomatoes, purloins the potatoes, and, yes, steals all the sweetrolls. o3o

04:11 <Schism|Adagio> Glad to hear you're back on familiar ground, DashedRainbows!

04:14 * Schism|Adagio facepalms, as he gets turned around and winds up in an area of the chunk he's already explored.

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04:18 <ADragonDreaming> Chrome users, be advised: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/06/serious-chrome-zero-day-google-says-update-right-this-minute/

04:19 <Ali> whut

04:20 <ADragonDreaming> Yep.

04:21 * PinkieShy hugs the Ali and gives her a Gator

04:21 * Ali doesn't see a way to force chrome to update so no luck there.

04:22 <ADragonDreaming> "To check that you’re up-to-date, go to the About Google Chrome… window, accessible from the address bar by typing in the special URL chrome://settings/help."

04:23 <Ali> I've already looked

04:23 <ADragonDreaming> ah.

04:23 <Ali> It doesn't have a update chrome tab

04:23 <Ali> So I can't do sheet

04:23 * Ali flumps into ADragonDreaming

04:23 <ADragonDreaming> what version does it show?

04:24 <Ali> elifikno

04:24 <ADragonDreaming> because if it's .121 you're fine

04:24 <PinkieShy> Did you try the about page

04:24 <Ali> oh look its .121

04:25 * Ali ish good then

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04:28 <Schism|Adagio> Wonder if this'll be enough good deeds to be Thaned?  Nah.

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04:33 *** Changeling_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

04:33 * Filly_Nightmares eees up at Ali! She floofs up!

04:33 * Schism|Adagio has no floof for Filly_Nightmares, but provides a biiig bowl of mac 'n' cheeses!

04:37 * Filly_Nightmares eees happily and nommifies the mac and cheese! She purrs and licks at Schism|Adagio tummy!

04:51 <Schism|Adagio> ... Calcelmo, don't get upset at me for exploring these ruins, please.  There are a lot of Falmer.  And Chaurus.

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04:58 * luckyspirit nuzzles Ali in greeting

04:58 * Ali squeaks loudly

04:58 <Vulpor> Howdy all

04:59 * luckyspirit curls up with Ali, “hi.”

04:59 <luckyspirit> Hi Vulpor

04:59 * DashedRainbows sniffs Vulpor and licks Ali

05:00 * Ali squeaks and hides under luckyspirit as she's sniffed

05:00 <Vulpor> Hey whats everyone up to tonight?

05:00 * Schism|Adagio also steals everything not nailed down. The Dwemer did not have much use for nails, it seems.

05:00 * luckyspirit hides Ali

05:01 <luckyspirit> I was playing Fallout, but it’s being a Butt tonigh

05:01 <Ali> Depends on which one

05:01 <Ali> They're pretty much ALL butts

05:01 <luckyspirit> Not too much

05:01 <luckyspirit> 76.  It’s the buttiest of butts

05:02 * luckyspirit wonders if it’s even tested....

05:02 <Ali> Nope

05:02 <luckyspirit> 5GB of “patches”, and it still fails to load sometimes

05:03 <Ali> You're trying 76?

05:03 <Ali> You poor poor soul

05:03 <luckyspirit> I mean, the dumb thing fails to log in all the way about 30% of the time

05:03 <Vulpor> I got Assassins Creed Oddyessy the DLC

05:03 <Ali> Every patch breaks more than it fixes

05:03 <Vulpor> Good 3 hr story

05:03 <luckyspirit> Very nice Vulpor

05:04 <Vulpor> Hey at least you didint get Anthem

05:04 <Vulpor> That thing bricks PS4'

05:04 <Vulpor> PS4'S^

05:05 <luckyspirit> Seriously?  Damn.

05:05 <luckyspirit> I thought mine was bad with crashing.

05:06 <luckyspirit> 2019, and damn game crashes to the “desktop” going “bbrrrrrerreeeree” on a weekly basis

05:07 <luckyspirit> I like the switch though.  Can play MarioKart8 for hours

05:08 <luckyspirit> Bethesda’s Xbox coding must be just a humble duck

05:08 <Vulpor> Its sad that I am getting more fun out of COD Modern Warfare 1 remastered

05:08 <luckyspirit> *jumblefuck

05:09 <luckyspirit> Whatever makes ya happy

05:09 <Vulpor> and Apex Legends which is free

05:09 <Vulpor> COD was on Playstation Plus

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05:16 *** DashedRainbows is now known as DerbyFloat

05:16 * DerbyFloat horses really hard

05:17 * Schism|Adagio steals every scrap of useful material from Calcelmo's pet dungeon.

05:18 * Filly_Nightmares noms Schism|Adagio's cheekies

05:19 * DerbyFloat chews on Filly_Nightmares' hooves

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05:22 <Schism|Adagio> Nchuand-Zel... well, all these old Dwemer cities are rather a pain.

05:29 * DerbyFloat drools on PinkieShy

05:30 * Filly_Nightmares kneads DerbyFloat tongue

05:30 * PinkieShy licks DerbyFloat and hugs

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05:37 * DashedRainbows wags her tail and pants

05:38 <Schism|Adagio> Really, can you be more obvious?  Buncha constructs, surrounding a dead body.

05:38 <Schism|Adagio> Honestly.

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05:42 <Schism|Adagio> Rather amusingly, upon triggering the trap, the statues did not awaken and try to murder me, but some spiders came out of the walls instead.  Clever.

05:44 * DashedRainbows sniffs Schism|Adagio and Quill before trotting off

05:46 * Schism|Adagio sneezes. Repeatedly. ._.

06:02 <Schism|Adagio> Mr. Calcelmo is not going to be very happy... oh well.

06:09 <PinkieShy> !muffin

06:09 <DerpyBot> Muffins!! You have any? :3

06:09 <PinkieShy> Yes :D

06:09 <DerpyBot> Thank you!!

06:09 * DerpyBot glomps PinkieShy

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06:20 * Schism|Adagio deposits... a rather profound amount of dwemer metal, into storage. Including detritus.

06:32 <Schism|Adagio> And now, to twink.

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06:36 * Filly_Nightmares rolls onto her back and wigglewaggles

06:37 * Schism|Adagio patpats the floofy belly.

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06:45 <Schism|Adagio> Hm, 25 levels in Smithing from that set of materials.  I was expecting somewhat more, but that's okay.  The real fun is about to start, after all.

06:50 <PinkieShy> >_> My feet are freezing :/ slipper time

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06:54 * Filly_Nightmares floofs up her belly at Schism|Adagio!

06:55 * PinkieShy hands Filly_Nightmares a Pokeball with a Pikachu inside.

06:55 * Filly_Nightmares gnaws on PinkieShy

07:02 * Schism|Adagio drops a diamond in a bandit camp, and watches them all fight over it.

07:12 <Schism|Adagio> It never fails to amuse me to drop 100,000 septims worth of jewelry in my bedside cabinet.

07:12 <Schism|Adagio> (And possibly the soul or two of a Thalmor.)

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07:20 <Golden> Hate it when the Ircc app that I use updates and it forces me to the default settings

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07:35 <Koopz> oh crap, the new design for DeviantArt is finally available

07:36 <Schism> This should be amusing.

07:37 * Ali headtilts

07:37 * Schism opens the front page, and is immediately treated to cheesecake. "Doesn't look that different."

07:37 <Koopz> open the dev tools

07:38 <Schism> Huh.  That's, ... that's different.

07:38 <Koopz> <div class="_3CR01 g_-VA">

07:38 <Koopz> great... like... how am i supposed to make my userscript work with this?

07:39 <Koopz> i don't feel like diving into whatever mess this is

07:39 <Schism> Yeah... media designers, when you need an actual course to grok what the classes are, maybe you've done something wrong.

07:40 <Koopz> i want my hotkeys for managing my messages back...

07:41 <Schism> Why have I the strangest feeling that I've seen this before?

07:42 * Ali flops across Schism and Koopz

07:43 * Schism offers a tonic to Ali from the town of Morthal, which is most assuredly not blood or blood-related in any way.

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07:43 <Koopz> you may have used the mobile app?

07:44 <Schism> Oh, no, I was just going back a decade or so and thinking of Myspace.

07:44 <Ali> Nope, what is mobile?

07:44 <Koopz> or seen screenshots of this several months ago when it was announced but only available to a certain amount of people

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08:28 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: <unspecified> [ http://tinyurl.com/y3nb7sw9 ]

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09:18 *** ChanServ sets mode: +o ConfusionRift

09:18 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.

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10:06 * Filly_Nightmares eees at ConfusionRift

10:09 * ConfusionRift patpats Filly_Nightmares.

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10:40 * ConfusionRift shrugs at the Twitter account. "Well, here we goooooooo."

10:52 <Cepheid> Morning.

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11:05 <ConfusionRift> Hallo.

11:06 <ConfusionRift> Yeah, just getting that running... because... I dunno. I just want somewhere to mess around, outside facebook.

11:07 *** Surreal_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

11:07 * Filly_Nightmares clambers onto ConfusionRift

11:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #1505 [ http://tinyurl.com/yxk5kef7 ]

11:10 <Cepheid> It is very cold today.

11:14 <ConfusionRift> Weather here is just having mood swings. It was supposed to get warmer, which did. But everything plummeted real fast back to stupid cold.

11:16 <Cepheid> Heh.

11:16 <Cepheid> Hey...  Do black gnomes call their homies "gnomi- *Gets shot for terrible and bad joke.*

11:20 <ConfusionRift> Hah! :P

11:22 <Cepheid> Right then, I gotta run off to shower.  Back in a bit.

11:29 * Filly_Nightmares snugglies into ConfusionRift

11:29 * ConfusionRift huggles Filly_Nightmares. :P

11:30 * Filly_Nightmares purrs at ConfusionRift

11:41 <Finwe> o3o

11:41 <Finwe> Good afternoon, my perissodactyls of minute stature.

11:42 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift, Miss Filly_Nightmares, Mr Cepheid.

11:42 <Finwe> o7

11:42 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)

11:44 * Filly_Nightmares yawnskrees and uses Finwe as a blankie and snugglies into ConfusionRift and goes sleepies

11:44 *** Filly_Nightmares is now known as Sleeping_Nightmares

11:44 <Sleeping_Nightmares> Nini!

11:44 <Sleeping_Nightmares> I wuv you!

11:45 <ConfusionRift> Have a good one! :P

11:53 <Cepheid> Back from shower and cag pettins

11:53 <Cepheid> Cat*

11:59 <Cepheid> Bah.  Still can't believe Alex Trebek has 4th stage pancreatic cancer.

12:05 <ConfusionRift> Sorry to be that guy, but I don't know.

12:06 <ConfusionRift> Oooh, now I know. Hmm, that sucks.

12:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Location / Fairy Craft / Five Facts - Silverstream / Yourself 275 / A(pple)ffection 82 / Gym Partners 1 [ http://tinyurl.com/yy58ulrl ]

12:09 <Cepheid> It is freezing today.

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12:16 <ConfusionRift> It is most definitely getting there.

12:18 <Cepheid> -21°C

12:18 <ConfusionRift> Blarg...

12:24 <Finwe> 0°C o3o

12:27 <Cepheid> Hey rifty.  Interesting news regarding the Ottawa LRT.  It's been delayed again.  Til June.  Apparently panels are falling off the train and the heating syatems arent working.

12:29 <ConfusionRift> So it took a lot to get approved, AND they had to delay it due to it being an unsafe tin can on a rail?

12:30 <Cepheid> 2 billion dollars.  2 years of delays.  1 million dollar fine for every delay.

12:30 <ConfusionRift> Yep, 4.3 billion buckaroos.

12:31 <ConfusionRift> You know, just that. :P

12:34 <Cepheid> The delays are announced around every 3 to 6 months apart.

12:40 <Cepheid> So in total the have only incurred a few million in fines.  Pocket change.

12:46 <Cepheid> So, any plans today?

12:48 <ConfusionRift> Who, me? Nope. I'm just de-stressing while playing Astroneer.

12:48 <ConfusionRift> Might crash pretty soon.

12:49 <ConfusionRift> Wish I had a more ordinary sleep schedule. -_-

12:57 <ConfusionRift> Oh yeah, my cousin brought this little kid over while I was playing on the PC. He liked it and asked about it. My cousin's wife then asked me if I was interested in probably moving away from it at some point. Seems they have an interest in it? Dunno. It ain't special.

12:59 <Cepheid> Heh.

13:02 <ConfusionRift> i5-4590, MSI PC Mate Z97, Corsair 1600 DDR3 (16GB), RX 580, and a Sentey 725w PSU.

13:02 <ConfusionRift> And a buttload of drives.

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13:19 <Cepheid> A few hundred dollars worth of equipment there.

13:19 <Cepheid> But yeah, I know how you feel.

13:20 <Cepheid> I keep trying to remind my dad to bring me some boxes and stuff, because I want to send off my old system to a friend of mine, as he could make better use of it than I can.

13:22 <ConfusionRift> Thing is... I wouldn't mind... upgrading. I'm just a bit conflicted. The system is about to go through its third year. Yeah, this was a replacement build from the old ASUS that burned out (motherboard and PSU burned after a blackout).

13:23 <ConfusionRift> Now, if I plan to upgrade, it's gonna be all brand new stuff. I just don't know about these 7th and 8th gen stuff.

13:24 <Cepheid> Gods damn it, ITS.  Get your *BLEEP* piece of *YAY* wifi network in order.

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13:27 * Cepheid merges his PNG stitching application and font atlas generator program into one program.

13:53 * ConfusionRift noms Cepheid's WIFI.

13:53 <ConfusionRift> As some may call it, the WeeFee. :P

13:58 <ConfusionRift> Actually, getting kinda tired. Gonna call it a day. See ya laters.

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14:17 * Finwe hats on Koopz.

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14:31 * Cepheid codes.

14:38 <Cepheid> Right, I need to stop using Atom.

14:38 <Cepheid> It's autocomplete keeps screwing me up.

15:05 <Koopz> RAdm. Finwe o7

15:06 <Koopz> VS Code all the way

15:06 <Koopz> is what i'd like to say

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15:06 <Koopz> but it's not better in some aspects

15:07 <Koopz> still better

15:08 <Koopz> who thought it'd be a good idea to give a text editor a splash screen?

15:10 <Cepheid> Eclipse developers?

15:14 <LibrarianofHope> morning

15:22 <Koopz> Eclipse ain't a text editor

15:22 <Koopz> talking about *lightweight* Atom

15:23 <Koopz> i remember the good old times of Notepad++ that just instantly opened and didn't eat half a gigabyte of RAM for no particular reason

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15:26 <LibrarianofHope> bacon boi

15:26 <LibrarianofHope> hoi

15:26 <LibrarianofHope> they talking techie stuff

15:27 <SunsetShimmer> x3

15:30 <LibrarianofHope> out of curiosity, are you close to nottingham?

15:32 <SunsetShimmer> Ahahahahahahahahahaha...no

15:33 <SunsetShimmer> South west of the country, Miiiiiiles out from Notts

15:37 <LibrarianofHope> owo

15:37 <LibrarianofHope> i suddenly crave fish and chips

15:38 <LibrarianofHope> i could settle for fish tacos and papas

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15:41 <Cepheid> Today's just a grand old day to piss me off, it seems.

15:42 <LibrarianofHope> i can realate

15:42 <LibrarianofHope> whats the issue?

15:43 <Cepheid> Nothing you can help with.  It's just someone going on a childish rant.

15:45 <Cepheid> "People are using up computer resources nilly-willy because no one educates them against doing it, wah wah wah wah."

15:45 <LibrarianofHope> sounds lovely

15:45 <Cepheid> I just want to turn around and tell them to shut the **** up, and tell them that if they want people to stop doing that, they have to educate them.

15:45 <Cepheid> Don't want to take the time to educate them?\

15:45 <Cepheid> Then shut the **** up.

15:45 <Cepheid> Stop whining about something you're unwilling to try and fix.

15:45 <LibrarianofHope> exactly

15:45 <Cepheid> You're part of the bloody damned problem.

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15:46 <Cepheid> But no, I'm a good person.

15:46 <Cepheid> I won't say it, because I'm polite.

15:46 <Cepheid> And besides, I know I'd say it with an aggressive tone.

15:47 <LibrarianofHope> you could try to argue sarcastically and with a smile

15:47 <LibrarianofHope> but that takes prep

15:47 <LibrarianofHope> try to chill within possibilities, if only to avoid a headache

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15:56 <Cepheid> I don't want to make the situation worse.

15:58 <Cepheid> Guh.  I'm sore all over, feeling exhausted, my ass hurts, and people around me are acting in ways that irritate me

15:58 <SunsetShimmer> Yeah best to just try and leave it well alone

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16:21 <Cepheid> Holy hell you can get the original Diablo on GOG now.

16:28 <Finwe> o3o

16:28 * Finwe noms on Cepheid's GOG account.

16:29 <Cepheid> No

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16:56 <Schism> Cepheid: I still have a copy of the Hellfire expansion pack kicking around.

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17:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Fanfiction:A Word With You, My Friend? [ http://tinyurl.com/y57p65u3 ]

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17:54 <Vulpor> Hey all I have made the plunge and bought Dragon Quest XI

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18:31 <Cepheid> Back from class for an hour.

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18:34 <LibrarianofHope> owo

18:34 <LibrarianofHope> had to rebbot ma kindle, to many trash archives was making it sluugish

18:36 <Cepheid> Heh.

18:36 <Cepheid> Meanwhile I just want to go home and hide or something.  This day is testing my patience.

18:37 <LibrarianofHope> go wrestle a moose

18:38 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Task Force Harmony - Spike's Lament [ http://tinyurl.com/y3rogbvy ]

18:38 <LibrarianofHope> i have a weird curiosity ofwhat would happen if i slap a cow in the face

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19:02 * Schism reverses the polarity of the neutron flow.

19:03 <SilentVigil> .eeeeeE

19:07 <LibrarianofHope> nooo

19:07 <LibrarianofHope> we already have an eeeee

19:07 * ADragonDreaming neutrons the flow of the polarity.

19:07 <Schism> We have numerous eees.  There's always room for more eeees.

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19:19 * Cepheid flows the polarity neutrons.

19:21 <Cepheid> I have devised a new term for a concept I am sure already has a name.  Snow glow.  The light that reflects back and forth in the sky during cloudy nights, resulting in a much brighter night than usual.

19:21 <Cepheid> And resulting in keeping me awake at night because it lights up my room so damned much I can see my black cat in it.

19:26 <Schism> Oh yeah, clouds and a high-albedo snowfall.

19:26 <Schism> Combined with city light, tis practically 5 PM all night long.

19:28 <Cepheid> Kept me up all night last night.  Or at least, I remember waking up every 15 minutes to blinding light.

19:37 <LibrarianofHope> bleh, this stress is going to get me sick sonner rather than later

19:37 <LibrarianofHope> i feel icky

19:37 <LibrarianofHope> i also have a cold , that might have somehting to do

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20:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #2913 [ http://tinyurl.com/y5l6tvab ]

20:09 <Cepheid> SunsetShimmer, leave my stupid alone!

20:14 <Schism> Ah good.  Cepheid: Rob Ford's personal friend has decided to decline the invitation to become Ontario's next police commissioner.

20:14 <Schism> Er, has declined to accept*

20:14 <Schism> So there's some nepotism averted.

20:15 <Cepheid> Saw that last night.

20:16 <Cepheid> Unfortunately, Ottawa approved a fare hike to improve OC transpo services.  Among other tax hikes.

20:18 <Schism> Euh.  Just so long as it actually gets used to improve those services.

20:23 <Schism> For the strangest reason, I'm having a hard time imagining that it would.

20:23 <Cepheid> Doubtful.  Anyhoo...

20:24 <Cepheid> I am in need of a certain type of novel or reading.  Haunted locations.  Body horror.  Paranormal.  Spooky stuff.  Not just typical slasher murders# but yeah.

20:25 <Schism> Heh.  How about a particularly nasty type of vampire?  And I mean /nasty/, like actual horror instead of the gothic stuff.

20:25 <Cepheid> What is the suggestion?  I'll take it into consideration.

20:25 <Schism> If you want that, you could do worse than Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain.

20:26 <Schism> Body horror aplenty, some paranormal.  I might also suggest House of Leaves, if you haven't read it yet.

20:27 <Cepheid> That one is mentioned on this list I'm checking out.  Sell it to me. :P

20:27 <Schism> Which one?

20:27 <Cepheid> House of Leaves.

20:29 <Schism> Can't sell it very well, I'm afraid: I've yet to get ahold of a copy.  However, it works with one of your preferences: much of the horror is the book playing with the perceptions of the reader as to what the story really is.

20:29 <Cepheid> Ah.

20:29 <Schism> The book itself may be the titular House, for example.

20:33 <Cepheid> Let's see, other stories that catch my interest... Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, The House on the Borderland..

20:34 <Cepheid> The Secret of Crickley Hall

20:37 <Cepheid> The Little Stranger.  Of them all though....  The Haunting of Hill House sounds the most promising.

20:40 <Schism> You might take a read of the original 'The Shining'.

20:41 <Cepheid> My mother in particular thinks I'll like that and The Amityville Horror.

20:41 <Schism> ("Ye've got the Shinning!" "You mean the Shining?" "Shh, ya wanna get sued?")

20:42 <Schism> Oh, for a short story you might enjoy, which is also free, I suggest Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald.

20:43 <Schism> T'can be found here.  http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf

20:45 <Cepheid> Thanks

20:48 <Cepheid> All good suggestions I'll check out.  Dunno why I've been reading or wanting such books as of late, though.

20:53 <Cepheid> For the moment, Hill House, since it is cheap an easily accessible on Kindle.

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21:24 <Finwe> Good evening, everypony!

21:25 <Finwe> Messrs Cepheid and Schism.

21:25 * Finwe doffs his hat.

21:25 <Schism> rAdm. Finwe.

21:26 * Schism doffs his pasta with cheese, tomatoes and roast chicken.

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21:44 * Cepheid stays in the blue room.

21:45 <Schism> In a blue world?

21:45 <Schism> Where everything is blue.

21:46 <Cepheid> Surprisingly no.

21:46 <Cepheid> Hill House. o3o

21:47 <Schism> Ah.  o3o;

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21:54 <Cepheid> You get the green room. o3o Mrs. Dudley leaves dinner out at six sharp.

21:55 <Schism> I'm reminded of my favourite Mathnet episode.

21:58 <Schism> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqq4BIGMuc

21:58 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.

22:00 <Cepheid> Heh.

22:01 <Schism> "The Mathematician General has determined that the following program contains graphic depictions of mathematics, including adult mathematicians generating random numbers, probability, correlation versus causality, and, of course, a talking llama. Viewer discretion is advised."

22:02 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Mathnet | The Case of the Mystery Weekend

22:02 <Cepheid> Heh.

22:03 <Schism> I miss Square One TV.

22:03 <Cepheid> In other news I think me and my mother have a cold.

22:03 <Cepheid> We are both exhibiting the same set of symptoms.  Sore joints, itchy eyes and nose, the feeling that our sinuses are gonna explode, exhaustion, nausea.  Math.

22:04 <Schism> I'm afraid that lattermost condition is... terminal.

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22:05 <Schism> But yeah, hope you get over it soon.  I hear it's going around with this last bit of winter.

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22:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend - Equestria Girls / Anthro MLP Art Gallery #91 [ http://tinyurl.com/y3gweo2m ]

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22:19 <Cepheid> Fun note.  But one time, when I was a child, I went house hunting with my parents.  I remember this one place relatively clearly.  Red brick foundation.  Front and side entrance.  Longer than it was wide.  Side entrance opened to the middle landing of a stairway to the basement.

22:19 <Ali> Geez Cepheid, they're already up to .17.8

22:19 <Cepheid> What I remember most though, was the feeling of wrongness.  There was something wrong.  It unnerved me to no end.  I didn't want to stay there.

22:20 <Cepheid> And yeah that is normal, Ali.

22:21 <Ali> I'm just waiting for the non beta branch

22:21 <Ali> I'd really like to see what these changes are like

22:22 <Cepheid> Anyways, yes.  There was something wrong with the place.  I couldn't pinpoint what it was.  I believe that place was, and still is, haunted.

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22:24 <Cepheid> You ever encounter anything like that, Schism?

22:25 <Schism> I can't say I have, I'm afraid.  Not in so many terms.  The most I've done is felt an indescribable sense of /age/ in certain buildings.  Whether or not that's related...

22:28 <Cepheid> This was more a sense of something seriously wrong.  It didn't feel right.  The difference between the interior of the house and exterior was extreme.  Like a solid, but permeable-to-people barrier existed in the walls.

22:29 <Schism> Hm.  There is a belief that the boundaries of a property have a certain metaphysical sense to them, that it extends to those outside bounds and no further.

22:30 <Schism> You experience this in a number of stories, where spirits cannot enter a boundary without permission.

22:30 <Cepheid> It was, as far as I can recall, the only time I ever experienced it.

22:30 <Schism> O

22:30 <Schism> Er, sorry.

22:31 <Schism> I'd very much like to know the story of that building's construction, then.

22:32 <Schism> For what it's worth, I don't entirely believe in supernatural elements, but I'm keeping an open mind there.  If that sort of thing was baked into the very stones of its foundation...

22:33 <Cepheid> The thing that bothers me the most is that I recall the structure so we'll.

22:33 <Cepheid> Well*

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22:34 <Schism> Like it's someone you've met.

22:36 <Schism> Did you ever find out where it is?

22:36 <Cepheid> Alas no.  It is so long ago I don't remember the address.

22:36 <Schism> And it was house-hunting, so the range is impossibly large.

22:36 <Cepheid> If I saw a picture of it though, I'd know it.

22:37 <Cepheid> That is how embedded the appearance is.

22:40 <Schism> I've had similar issues via deja vu or concerns, like, "Wait, was that house there before?"  That occurred to me down in Texas.  Suddenly, a house I swear I'd never seen before in my life was at the end of the block.

22:40 <Schism> I've never been completely certain if that was my mind just completely forgetting it, or something a bit more peculiar.  And that's to say nothing of situations involving deja vu in general.

22:44 <Cepheid> Interestingly, a cursory search reveals no mention of the place I visited.

22:47 <Schism> Hmm.

22:52 <Schism> Sounds rather familiar, that.  The neighborhood I used to live in, sadly, has been transformed, so I can't say anything about that -- it's been 10 years.

22:52 <Schism> Well, at least a decade.

22:54 <Schism> House looks fine at least.

22:55 <Schism> This place, in case anyone'd care to look.  http://tinyurl.com/y27a9otx  No murders inside, AFAIK.

23:05 <Cepheid> So, fun story.

23:05 <Cepheid> I mentioned it to my mother.

23:06 <Cepheid> I was indeed remembering things clearly.

23:06 <Schism> Did she have the same feeling?

23:06 <Cepheid> You want to know what was up with the place?

23:06 <Schism> Murder house?

23:06 <Cepheid> Suicide.

23:06 <Schism> ugggh.

23:06 <Schism> Even worse.

23:06 <Cepheid> Previous owner killed himself by hanging in the basement.

23:06 <Cepheid> That would explain why I refused to go near the basement.

23:07 <Schism> Well.  I've never been really dismissive of psychic phenomena, but I've never really accepted it either.  I'll accept your word, though.

23:08 <Cepheid> My mother specifically states I tried to get us all to leave ASAP.

23:08 <Schism> Rightly so, I should imagine.

23:08 <Cepheid> Before the person trying to sell us the place even mentioned the suicide.

23:08 <Cepheid> In fact, they tried to hide the fact.

23:08 * Schism eyebrows. "Well."

23:08 <Schism> Seriously, that's impressive.

23:10 <Cepheid> Though I have no evidence of it, I like to believe hauntings are real.

23:10 <Schism> If nothing else, I'll accept that a certain impression can get baked into certain things, like musical instruments, weapons, and walls.

23:11 <Schism> Such an impression could result in a negative or positive influence upon certain areas.

23:12 <Schism> I don't know how, and physically speaking, we'd have a fun time actually defining it or coming up with actual explanations, and that's not helped by the idiot 'ghost hunter' crowd who use things that even Scientologists would shake their collective head at.

23:13 <Cepheid> Hell even I shake my head at them.

23:13 <Cepheid> Ghost hunters who use television and youtube are just out to spook folks and get attention.

23:13 <Schism> I've had just too many situations where I've encountered weirdness -- including some faux precognition -- to say that... well.  More things on Heaven and Earth, Horatio.

23:14 <Schism> I like to think that they troll us, too.

23:14 <Cepheid> Yep.

23:15 <Cepheid> That said, it sucks that paranormal horror, disturbing alternate realities and the like are uncommon.

23:15 <Schism> Assuming a literal, sophont spirit, of course it's going to be playing with us.  What else would it have to do?

23:15 <Schism> But yeah.  It'd be nice to have some proof, even if it's a shrieking librarian banshee.

23:16 <Schism> Not even as an illustration of the afterlife, but as an illustration of paranormal action.

23:16 <Cepheid> Heh.

23:16 <Cepheid> I meant more in terms of stories, movies, games and the like.

23:17 <Cepheid> It'd also be nice to have stories of places that are haunted *OTHER* than houses.

23:17 <Cepheid> Like office buildings, derelict places, apartment buildings.  Apartment buildings especially.  Hmm...

23:18 <Schism> Silent Hill 4, perhaps?

23:18 <Cepheid> Well, that's one example of the case, yes.

23:18 <Schism> Really, the Silent Hill series in general.

23:19 <Cepheid> Hum... Apartment Building.  At exactly the stroke of midnight, all doors find themselves slamming shut.  If there's anything in the way, it's moved out of the way such that the item is undamaged, including human limbs and such.  For the next hour, you hear the inhabitants screaming in terror, pain and so on.  Then after the hour ends, everyone stops screaming, the doors open to their original positions, everyone is found

23:19 <Cepheid> unharmed and in the middle of whatever they were doing, with no memory of that one hour.

23:19 <Schism> There's a Royal Road story which you might appreciate, if you're reading that sort.  The Daily Grind.  https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15925/the-daily-grind

23:20 <Schism> Tech support agent finds a door leading to a dungeon with some monstrous horrors.  He survives, even thrives.  And then it gets worse, a LOT worse.

23:20 * Cepheid bookmarks.

23:21 <Schism> Monstrous horrors involve things like CRT monitors which try to eat your face, electric mice, and copiers which tank their way into you.

23:21 <Schism> And flocks of faxes which swoop down and peck.  Hard.

23:21 <Cepheid> Heh.

23:23 <Cepheid> But yeah, the creepier stuff is where there are multiple things going on.

23:23 <Cepheid> Like for example, in the above case I just described.  Let's add to it.

23:24 <Schism> How about a living Powerpoint presentation which sucks everyone in -- by attaching cables to their heads?

23:24 <Cepheid> People out in the hallways or lobbies on each floor, when the appointed hour arrives, they're fine.  But they're subjected to listening to the screaming and begging for help from the inhabitants of all the apartments.  They're also the only ones who remember anything.

23:24 <Cepheid> They're completely helpless to do anything either, as any attempts to open the doors do nothing.

23:26 <Schism> Then the elevator dings.  Someone who's unsubjected to those screams walks in, and is wondering why everyone is staring at them in sheerest hunger.

23:26 <Cepheid> Heh.

23:26 <Cepheid> It's one thing to take a conventional theme and apply it.

23:27 <Cepheid> It's another to take multiple themes and combine them into something nightmarish.

23:27 <Schism> Yup.  :>

23:27 <Cepheid> Having a background in psychology helps too.

23:27 <Schism> Sociology, in my case.

23:27 <Cepheid> Or at least, psychology of why people flee or fight.

23:27 <Cepheid> Or animals do the same, etc.

23:28 <Cepheid> In other words, knowledge of those instinctual fears.

23:28 <Cepheid> And yes, sociological fears as well.

23:28 <Schism> Or knowledge of how people react in groups.  And how they put off the consequences of their actions until it's too late.

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23:52 <ADragonDreaming> oh, the sun is a ball of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace

23:53 <Ali> NO KIDDING *shot*

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