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00:05 * Cepheid wanders off to get changed into pajamas and get ready for bed. Exhausted.
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00:14 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/size11chaos/status/1201007923452731395?s=19
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01:18 <PinkieShy> ....
01:18 <PinkieShy> Why does this ice cream in game look like a torch
01:19 * Schism flops.
01:19 <Schism> Finally. Hell week is halfway done.
01:20 <Schism> Tomorrow through Thursday: the aftermath.
01:21 <Hajnal> Torch ice cream?
01:21 * Schism offers pones some lemon chicken, fried rice, plum sauce, and beef with broccoli.
01:23 <Hajnal> That sounds pretty good, Schism, but should ponies be eating beef and chicken?
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01:24 <Schism> Sure. Haven't you ever heard of Bucephalus?
01:25 <Hajnal> I haven't.
01:26 <Schism> Hmm. I might be thinking of something else.
01:27 <Schism> But I could've sworn that horse was said to subsist at least partially on a diet of flesh.
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01:29 <Hajnal> Hmm.
01:30 <Schism> Plus, pegasi eat fish. True story. o3o
01:30 <PinkieShy> Church announced plans for a christmas party soon :3
01:31 <PinkieShy> I'm thinking of baking a cake for it :3
01:31 <Schism> Gingerbread sheet cake with cream cheese icing?
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01:37 <PinkieShy> I'm thinking red velvet with vanilla icing :)
01:37 <Schism> Also a possibility.
01:37 <PinkieShy> I dunno why.. Red Velvet just founds very christmasy
01:37 * Schism considers lemon cranberry vanilla cake.
01:37 <Hajnal> That sounds like my kind of cake.
01:38 <Schism> PinkieShy, I dunno. Red Velvet -is- kinda Christmassy, but I always found gingerbread to really evoke the season.
01:39 <Schism> Or cranberries.
01:40 * Schism makes sure to give Ali some of this lemon chicken, making sure that it is completely bereft of spices.
01:40 * Ali snugs into the Schism
01:40 <Schism> Well, of spice. o3o
01:40 * Schism also offers the Ali some steamed broccoli.
01:41 <PinkieShy> I love my Church family :3
01:41 * PinkieShy hugs Ali and hands her a slice of pie
01:42 <PinkieShy> .. oh wow
01:42 <PinkieShy> Just learned something new thanks to google
01:43 <PinkieShy> Cheesecake isn't a pie or a cake its a tart.
01:43 <Schism> Yup. o3o
01:44 <Schism> I should see if I can find some good cream cheese at a halfway reasonable price. That and a jar of maraschino cherries, which is about as straightforward as you can get.
01:44 <PinkieShy> I'm thinking of buying the stuff needed to make me homemade cheesecake
01:44 <Schism> Problem is, cream cheese is -expensive- up here.
01:45 <PinkieShy> The one I'm planning to use to make it is the box no bake thing to try
01:46 <PinkieShy> Its instructions are a little be out there though
01:46 <Schism> Mnenmmm... I -gueeeesss...-
01:46 <PinkieShy> Says like after mixing it together you gotta turn the mixer to medium speed and mix it a little more while the stuff is very thick
01:46 <Schism> Really, if I make cheesecake, I want to make -cheesecake-. Though on reflection, I could get some nice ramekins and make single-serving cheesecake to take in for lunch.
01:46 <Schism> Well. Possibly two-serving.
01:47 <PinkieShy> and after all that.. put it in the graham crust and i think.. freeze for an hour or fridge it for an hour.
01:50 <PinkieShy> Walmart is either out of cheesecake in the frozen aisles or they stopped selling them here lol
01:51 <PinkieShy> All i see now is the slices labelled like 'Orginal cream cheesecake' its not like the cheesecake you see when you google cheesecake its like one made of whipped cream..
01:52 <PinkieShy> at least its what the box art of it makes it out to be..
02:00 * Ali drops blocks of philly on Schism
02:01 <Ali> Waiter, there's a bug in my cheese
02:02 * Schism whips it in with some sour cream, pours the result into a pie plate coated with a mixture of graham crackers and sugar, tempers some chocolate with a little bit of the mixture, then swirls that in, adding in some regular low-viscosity cranberry sauce every now and then so that it's a nice dark and red swirl.
02:02 * Schism then bakes. o3o
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02:06 * Ali tries to turn Schism into a reformed changling, so he can be cute like Occelus
02:07 * Schism would rather not look like Jackson Pollock tried to draw a deer.
02:08 <Schism> Besides. *sniff* Those changelings are of the hive of love. I am of the hive of curiosity.
02:08 <Ali> But....but...Occellus
02:08 <Schism> Cute as they are... no.
02:08 <Schism> ( https://i.pinimg.com/236x/75/80/5a/75805ad47df9deb8e123fc4584f558d6.jpg )
02:08 <Ali> But she's cute...
02:09 <Ali> Pft
02:09 <Ali> That's not the real Occellus, that's some fan drawing
02:09 <Schism> Look. I shall be remaining as navy blue and silver, and that's final.
02:09 * Ali pat pats Schism, she's just teasing
02:09 * Schism grumpyflails at Ali. Gently.
02:11 <PinkieShy> You know last month after drinking so much soda in a month probably about 38 cans.. I'm starting to drink better stuff this month like more water, tea, and kool-aid
02:11 <Schism> I've been mainlining coffee. In my defense, today was insane.
02:12 <PinkieShy> Still 38 cans of soda in a month is extreme.
02:12 * Schism carefully does not tell PinkieShy how much he drinks when given funds to drink diet soda.
02:12 <PinkieShy> 456oz of soda and that's not even counting the ones i had at restaurants.
02:13 <PinkieShy> So in reality the ammount of soda i have probably drank last month might be 570oz lol
02:13 <PinkieShy> oh speaking of diet soda.. I had diet coke other day.. Enjoyed it actually.
02:13 <Schism> To be quite honest, one way to stop yourself from drinking so much is to actually look into artisinal sodas.
02:14 <Schism> artisanal*
02:14 <Schism> For example, a really good soda I picked up was a 12 ounce bottle of habanero peach. I had a few sips at a time and the bottle lasted me a few days.
02:14 <PinkieShy> Is that like soda stream?
02:14 <Schism> No, I mean the -really good- stuff.
02:15 <PinkieShy> Schism to make matters worse.. most of the soda was mountain dew.
02:15 <Schism> This stuff is REALLY good. https://www.amazon.ca/Just-Craft-Soda-Habanero-Flavoured/dp/B07LBMD6Z1
02:15 <Schism> Though the brand is... no longer there. Huh. Damn.
02:15 <Schism> Now I am le sad.
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02:25 <PinkieShy> >_>
02:25 <PinkieShy> Just found out
02:25 <PinkieShy> The sheets i bought not to long ago is already ripping lol
02:25 <PinkieShy> But what can I expect from sheet set for a full size bed that only costed $5.99
02:26 <PinkieShy> Most stuff like that would be at least $15.99
02:26 <PinkieShy> and for one with a comforter like $30
02:28 <PinkieShy> pff.. Now that is brilliant... Just looking at new ones online and saw one with a pocket on it for a small book and a phone.
02:34 <Hajnal> But what if the sheet shifts during the night?
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02:39 <PinkieShy> idk.
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04:15 * Filly_Nightmares curls up on Schism
04:15 * Filly_Nightmares is more sick floof
04:16 * Schism snuggles the sick floof, and provides with lotsa chikkin soop and rice, wif extra duck sauce.
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05:29 * PinkieShy nibbles at Schism hooves
05:33 <Schism> PinkieShy: You could make a Krampus cake. German Black Forest chocolate, with a hooved demon on top, small children screaming atop its back.
05:33 <Schism> It's as Christmasy as many other things. o3o
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05:35 <ConfusionRift> Hello... everypony.
05:35 <Schism> Meanwhile, I need to get some sleep so that I can work in the morning. And hiya, ConfusionRift.
05:35 * Schism flops on CR. "Cyber Monday was... exceptional."
05:36 <ConfusionRift> I was at work, and they don't do Cyber Monday, sooooo... it was still a mess. :P
05:36 * ConfusionRift patpats Schism. "Have a good one!"
05:36 <Schism> I especially liked when our site got DDOS'd and wound up stopping orders altogether instead of malforming them.
05:37 <Schism> Which ... is how you fail negative.
05:37 <ConfusionRift> Heh, what a mess that must had been.
05:37 <Schism> Oh no! That's the good part!
05:38 <Schism> Frankly, seeing a ton of malformed orders going through would have been hideous.
05:38 <Schism> The problem is that the site didn't tell anyone -why.-
05:39 <ConfusionRift> Actually, I think it happened to us during Black Friday. People were complaining that their orders would just disappear.
05:40 <ConfusionRift> And most of the offer items were still locked on Thursday.
05:40 <Schism> Yeah, same here. No poke at the finance, orders just vanished.
05:40 <Schism> Which is a LOT better than most of the alternatives.
05:41 * ConfusionRift slowly nods.
05:41 <Schism> If I ever find the ad copy team for our project, though, I'm going to throw them out the nearest window.
05:41 <Schism> Site-wide my magnificent tail.
05:42 <PinkieShy> :(
05:42 <PinkieShy> Still not happy that half my avatars in VRChat will be broken soon
05:42 <Schism> You don't tell customers after the fact. You tell them right then and there, "THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, VIEW EXCEPTIONS HERE."
05:42 <PinkieShy> The update is making them invisible.. So i will have to like probalby reupload them all
05:43 <PinkieShy> They are going from unity 2017 to unity 2018.. So major update part 1
05:43 <PinkieShy> Part 2 will be what they are calling udon which is like secure scripting for worlds and more that is suppose to make everything run smoother
05:44 <ConfusionRift> Networking and optimization.
05:44 * MaredoggieRainbows licks ConfusionRift and wiggles her rump playfully
05:45 <Schism> ConfusionRift: "There will be a brief network outage while we fix things. Please don't call us. We know the network is down. No, stop calling us. STOP CALLING. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GHU!"
05:46 <ConfusionRift> That's what always happens.
05:46 <ConfusionRift> It's like that guy who cried wolf for the sake of proving a point, and everything just fell right through. I think it was a network company or some such.
05:47 <PinkieShy> oh gosh..
05:47 <Schism> Yesterday ... I told like 50 people to stop trying. We know it's happening. Fifty thousand people trying to do the same thing at once isn't helping. Try every couple of minutes. Please. Stop talking to me, you're ramping up my AHT.
05:47 <PinkieShy> "People far away or that aren’t visible use less bandwidth so people closer and visible can use more" was added to the new build of the game lol
05:47 <Ali> Schism, I remember when I had a power company
05:47 <Ali> Normal call volume for it was usually low
05:47 <PinkieShy> I don't see that backfiring at first.. /sarcasm
05:47 <Ali> But my lord if the power went out
05:47 <Ali> FLOOD
05:47 <Schism> Ali: We are a single point of failure.
05:48 <ConfusionRift> PinkieShy: Rendering draw distance. I would have thought them do the such from the get-go.
05:48 <Ali> Is my power out? Did you flip a light switch and it not work?
05:48 <Ali> If so, then yes, your power is out
05:48 <Schism> No, I mean, we're THE bottleneck.
05:48 <Ali> And there goes the ears, owww, volume level two is too loud T.T
05:49 <PinkieShy> ConfusionRift they never have lol
05:49 <PinkieShy> If you are on a world that takes like 40 minutes to get to the end of the map and say 25 people are there..
05:49 <Schism> Strangely, the one customer who chatted in with all caps was the most reasonable person in my day.
05:49 <PinkieShy> You guessed it.. That map part is drawn, rendered and everybody there as well.
05:49 <ConfusionRift> That is a problem for performance.
05:49 * MaredoggieRainbows also boops the ConfusionRift with her food bowl
05:50 <ConfusionRift> Oh, so sorry. (pets MaredoggieRainbows lots, then fills the food bowl) :P
05:51 <PinkieShy> Probably why when avatars is on in game i get like 15fps
05:51 <PinkieShy> but disabled avatars so everybody is just a robot i get 60
05:51 * MaredoggieRainbows yays and noms
05:52 * PinkieShy boops maredoggieRainbows and gives her a bowl of goodies and treats.
05:52 <PinkieShy> I read your name as Mare Dowell Rainbows at first :P
05:52 <ConfusionRift> Schism: Had that issue happen a few days back. A customer was a bit loud and all over the place, but after calming down for a bit, she was the nicest customer I had all day.
05:53 <ConfusionRift> She got wronged by another store, and was having a panic attack.
05:53 <Schism> Oh, this one was all caps all the time, but while I initially expected her to be problematic, I imagine it was just how she best read the chat, and I should have gone in all caps in return.
05:54 <Schism> I also got one of those panicking customers late in my shift yesterday... but I can't share the details, except that she had a really REALLY good reason to be panicky.
05:54 <ConfusionRift> Perso might have thought it would be better to read in caps than in lowercase, which is not wrong.
05:54 <Schism> Quite so, and I should have checked if she preferred the chat to be in caps.
05:55 <Schism> That'd probably garner me bonus points the next time that happens.
05:59 <Schism> Somehow, typing in complete sentences with proper punctuation tends to calm people down. Who'd have thunk it?
06:00 * MaredoggieRainbows noms and licks PinkieShy
06:01 <Schism> Okay, I'm done for the night. Take care, folks.
06:04 <ConfusionRift> See ya laters!
06:06 * MaredoggieRainbows boops ConfusionRift with a chewed tennis ball
06:06 <ConfusionRift> Hmm, want me to throw?
06:07 * MaredoggieRainbows wags her tail hard. BTW how is the rift?
06:08 <ConfusionRift> Doing alright, just taking it easy after a long day of annoyance at work. Also... (throws the ball) ...catch! :P
06:09 * MaredoggieRainbows gallops into the distance
06:17 <ConfusionRift> ...hope they found it.
06:23 * MaredoggieRainbows drops the ball at the pone's hooves
06:23 * ConfusionRift pets MaredoggieRainbows. :P
06:24 <ConfusionRift> That went pretty far, huh.
06:26 <MaredoggieRainbows> Strong horse
06:35 * MaredoggieRainbows scratches at the horsey
06:35 * ConfusionRift boops MaredoggieRainbows. :P
06:38 * MaredoggieRainbows returns to chewing on the ball
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06:49 * MaredoggieRainbows curls up under ConfusionRift
06:50 * ConfusionRift lightly pats MaredoggieRainbows.
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07:21 * MaredoggieRainbows does tricks for ConfusionRift
07:23 * ConfusionRift claps, and leaves a treat.
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07:48 <Finwe> Good morning, my little ponies.
07:49 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift, Capt Koopz; Mlles Ali, MaredoggieRainbows, Filly_Nightmares; Messrs Cepheid, Schism and Starlight_Glimmer.
07:49 <Finwe> o7
07:49 * Ali leans into Filly_Nightmares
07:49 <Ali> and Finwe
07:49 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)
07:56 <Koopz> RAdm. Finwe o7
07:58 * Finwe hugs an Ali.
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08:06 * MaredoggieRainbows reminds all y'all to take care of your pet ponies and curls up to sleep
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09:05 * MaredoggieRainbows looks up at ConfusionRift with wide eyes and drops the ball
09:07 * ConfusionRift plays around with MaredoggieRainbows.
09:10 * MaredoggieRainbows kicks at her collar and curls up under the horsey
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10:33 * Cepheid awakens.
10:40 <Cepheid> Morning.
10:43 <ConfusionRift> Hallo.
10:46 <Cepheid> So I figured out how the text is encoded. And it's lead to me finding some... interesting strings.
10:46 <Cepheid> "A fearsome howl pierces the air as the black shadow comes forth!"
10:46 <Cepheid> "The indescribable god has awakened!"
10:46 <Cepheid> "The boundary to another dimension is coming undone..."
10:46 <Cepheid> "Tentacles came out of <monster>'s wound!"
10:47 <Cepheid> These are all battle messages.
10:52 <ConfusionRift> Unused I'm guessing?
10:54 <Cepheid> First one, yeah.
10:54 <Cepheid> I'm pretty sure it's not used anywhere.
10:54 <Cepheid> The last 3 though, those are the Abyssal God, I think.
10:55 <Cepheid> It's basically an eldritch god.
10:55 <Finwe> Hmm, we're going to have a new cabinet. The current one has just resigned.
10:57 <Cepheid> Oof.
10:57 <Cepheid> Hum. Highest EXP entity in the game gives out 300,000 EXP.
10:57 <Cepheid> Probably the God.
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11:00 <Cepheid> Yeah, whatever it is, it also has the highest HP in the game at 60,000.
11:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #1770 [ http://tinyurl.com/wfsymc8 ]
11:04 * Cepheid goes about extracting all enemy names in a nice, clean list, then associating them with their EXP values. Gonna use this info to find some grinding targets. o3o;
11:07 <Cepheid> Name table has the format...
11:10 <Cepheid> 2 bytes, number of entries. Then N by 2 bytes, unknown, but in increasing sequence, so likely offsets.
11:15 <Cepheid> Guess that's one way to do it, really.
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11:56 <Cepheid> Here we go.
12:01 <Cepheid> Elder Dragon is a superboss, but it's only worth 84,000 EXP.
12:04 <Cepheid> Hmm. Highest EXP foe is Divine Judge at 22500 EXP. Of the sea quest monsters, the "easiest" in terms of EXP-versus-difficulty is..
12:04 <Cepheid> ... Golem.
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12:04 <Cepheid> I can blast golem to rubble in a few turns thanks to Ali.
12:07 <Cepheid> Golem is considerably weak to elemental damage. It does resurrect with half HP after the first death, but it still only takes 3 etheric-charged spells to ki..
12:07 <Cepheid> kill*
12:09 <Cepheid> However, that only leaves...
12:09 <Cepheid> 4800 EXP per character.
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12:14 <Cepheid> Next up in sea quests is... Ruin Caller, at 36000. Resistant to elemental magic. Next up is King Penguin, weak to fire, 20000 HP though.
12:17 <Cepheid> Also the fact that it has a party-wide OHKO attack.
12:22 <Cepheid> A full collection of all the dragons(Excluding Elder), and all the superbosses would, with a 5-person party, get one character...
12:23 <Cepheid> 233,500 EXP
12:23 <Cepheid> Which is enough to guarantee at least two levels.
12:26 <Cepheid> Of note, that'd be enough to get a level 1 character to level 34.
12:31 <Cepheid> Also, from a lore standpoint, the dragons were created by humans.
12:40 <Cepheid> Of all the trees in the EO series, only four of them have known origins. The remaining three are unknowns because I either don't know the full story surrounding the relevant game, or can't play the relevant game due to language barriers.
12:41 * MaredoggieRainbows boops ConfusionRift2's internet with her chew toy
12:46 <MaredoggieRainbows> So, a shelf of plushies fell on me in my sleep and I vaguely recall shrieking like a small child
12:46 <Cepheid> Heh.
12:47 <MaredoggieRainbows> Glad that wasn't me, I was sleeping D;
12:49 <Cepheid> Hum, can now combat the ice dragon *AND* volt dragon.
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12:53 * ConfusionRift throws his copy out.
12:53 <Cepheid> ... Huh, I finally maxed out a character's stat naturally. No need for further equipment.
12:54 * ConfusionRift reboops MaredoggieRainbows. :P
12:56 * MaredoggieRainbows instead barks
12:58 <Cepheid> So how many more books do I need to make Confusion sturdier than a block of reinforced cement..?
12:59 <Cepheid> His VIT is... 58, right now.
12:59 * ConfusionRift bumps his chest, making an audible metal sound. "...reinforced concrete?"
12:59 <Cepheid> If I want his VIT maxed *RIGHT NOW*...
12:59 <Cepheid> I need 41 more books.
13:00 <Cepheid> I said sturdier, not that he was made out of it. :P
13:04 <Cepheid> Funny thing, maxing his VIT is a good idea. It would allow me to equip him with two swords and still have reasonable defense.
13:05 * MaredoggieRainbows licks the horsey, hmm, tastes hard
13:06 * ConfusionRift patpats MaredoggieRainbows. :P
13:06 * MaredoggieRainbows gives ConfusionRift her chewed tennis ball
13:07 <Cepheid> To give you an idea as to the current difference in VIT from the baseline shogun..
13:07 <Cepheid> At level 99, a baseline shogun has 53 TEC.
13:07 <Cepheid> Er, VIT*, not tec.
13:07 <Cepheid> Anyways..
13:07 <Cepheid> Confusion has 62 currently at level 60.
13:08 <Cepheid> As a result, he has reasonable defense currently for a Shogun. o3o
13:09 *** Quits: Golden (uid250033@Pony-360sli.charlton.irccloud.com) (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
13:13 * Cepheid looks at the required item for the best body armor for shoguns. "... ... ... Nope."
13:18 * Cepheid finishes off a FOE battle with 3 out of 5 characters turned to stone, and in auto-battle. o3o;
13:19 <Cepheid> <Cepheid> "Statues to the left of me, statues to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you." <Luna> "..."
13:21 <Cepheid> <Luna> "Three of our friends are statues, and you're singing and making jokes?" <Cepheid> "Once we win, Schism will revert back to unstoned and can restore the rest."
13:22 <ConfusionRift> [And he never woke up.] (credits roll)
13:22 <Cepheid> Heh.
13:22 <Cepheid> I'm not sure if it's a bug, or the nature of the skill he uses.
13:22 <Cepheid> But Bunshin, it creates a duplicate with one half of his HP and one half of his TP.
13:23 <Cepheid> It actually seems to temporarily remove the actual character from battle, and replaces them with two "clones."
13:23 <Cepheid> If one clone is alive, that clone's stats are assigned to the base character after the battle.
13:24 <Cepheid> Otherwise, if both are alive, their stats are re-combined and that's what the base character has after battle.
13:24 <Cepheid> And finally, if both are dead, the base character is dead after battle.
13:24 <Cepheid> In any case..
13:25 <Cepheid> At the end of the battle, when the clones are cleaned up, any status effects they have are *NOT* applied to the original character.
13:25 <Cepheid> So if both of them are stoned, the original character, after battle, will not be stoned.
13:25 <Cepheid> Whereas any other character, after battle will remain stoned.
13:29 <Cepheid> Basically, what this means is, if you have a healer with Bunshin, and they use it, and at least one clone remains alive at the end of the battle(Alive being HP >= 1), they will always be restored to "normal" state after the battle. No ifs, ands or buts.
13:31 <MaredoggieRainbows> How bleak ConfusionRift I like it
13:32 <ConfusionRift> Hehehe. :P
13:32 <ConfusionRift> I'm pretty good at making bad movies. :P
13:33 * Cepheid wonders which has the stronger weapon. Spears or Katanas.
13:34 <Cepheid> 180 ATK for the best katana I can acquire. 190 ATK for the best spear I can acquire. The katana though has +8 LUK, which makes it great for critical hits.
13:34 <MaredoggieRainbows> <ConfusionRift "I'm pretty good at making bad mo"> Second only to "And he was never heard from again"
13:39 * MaredoggieRainbows scratches at ConfusionRift anyway
13:40 * ConfusionRift yawns and boops MaredoggieRainbows.
13:40 <ConfusionRift> Cepheid: Sounds about right. It tends to be the case.
13:41 <Cepheid> Heh.
13:41 <Cepheid> The best katana in the game has a dubious trait about it. A trait that pretty much is replicated throughout the whole series.
13:41 <Cepheid> Long story short, the best katana in the game is always created by an item dropped by the true final boss.
13:42 <Cepheid> So it effectively serves no purpose. It's also the best weapon in the game, hands-down.
13:44 <ConfusionRift> I guess if you wanna grind for max level, since there's really nothing else to do after getting it.
13:45 <Cepheid> Yeah, pretty much. You'd be grinding to get a max-stat party.
13:53 <Cepheid> It's unfortunate Ali will never gain any more real power.
13:55 <Cepheid> Also, Ali's catching up to Schism in level, because I uh... send her off on her own to solo every now and then.
13:58 *** MaredoggieRainbows is now known as PrincessRainbows
13:59 * ConfusionRift flopples to sleep. "Lateeeeers."
13:59 *** Quits: ConfusionRift (ConfusionRi@Pony-vpn.irn.56.193.IP) (Quit: Recharging the batteries. Laters! *shutdown*)
14:08 <Cepheid> Still swear up and down that EON will become focused around EO3. Too many musical tracks from that game that were remixed for EON. First battle theme. Waterfall Woods stratum theme, Undersea Grotto stratum theme, the Abyssal Shrine appears, with a different theme(unfortunately.)
14:22 <Cepheid> Hmm. Something occurred to me. On the final floor, there are tentacles which spawn an endless stream of Vampire Trees. Like, an absolutely endless stream of them. They're... "easy" to murder, and worth 18k EXP.
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14:39 <Cepheid> ... Oh, great. They spawn regardless of tentacle presence.
14:39 <Cepheid> Which means that I need to kill them within 2 turns to actually win the battle.
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15:18 <Cepheid> Ali holds the distinction for being my first EO3 character to hit level 80.
15:29 <Schism> BML. My alarm didn't go off and I was really really ill, so I slept WAY in.
15:40 <LibrarianofHope> capitalism, bad for your health owo
15:41 <LibrarianofHope> i been spending days working on fixing an issue with a clock i tried to sell
15:42 <LibrarianofHope> im not selling anything mechanical again, its too much of a pain
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15:51 <Cepheid> Yeah That's been happening to me too Schism.
15:51 * Cepheid examines data for EO2U. 330MB worth. Most of that models and textures.
15:52 <Cepheid> Atlus really does not like using compression.
15:54 <Cepheid> They also like using file tables of their own design. In fact, the 3DS data seems easier to handle.
15:55 <Cepheid> Also, [REDACTED] Shift JIS.
15:57 <Cepheid> It's the sole reason I can't fine plaintext in the games. All of the games use Shift JIS to encode text. Including English text. And no hex editor I have supports decoding it.
16:04 *** Quits: Jackie (Jackie@Pony-vug.0ji.9.61.IP) (Ping timeout: 121 seconds)
16:19 <Cepheid> Annoyingly, while I can translate Shift JIS's first byte back to it's original JIS X 0208 format, I can't do the same with the second byte, as the second byte is dependent on the original value of the second byte of the JIS X 0208 format.
16:21 <Cepheid> ... Oh.
16:22 <Cepheid> Right, 0x23 / 0x60 = 0, if using integer mathematics.
16:22 <Cepheid> So the conversion is...
16:22 <Cepheid> Yeah.
16:24 <Cepheid> Okay then. That makes a conversion routine easy.
17:03 <Cepheid> I have a problem.
17:03 <Cepheid> I haven't typed on a wired keyboard in such a long time, that I've lost the ability to touch-type without looking.
17:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Poll Results: What Parts of Equestria Daily Do You Use most? (Multiple Answer Available) [ http://tinyurl.com/qlyd7oq ]
17:19 <Finwe> o3o
17:20 * Finwe hats on Cepheid.
17:20 * Cepheid writes with Finwe.
17:22 * Finwe is in JCUKEN layout and hence difficult to use.
17:24 <Cepheid> Here, it's Shift JIS data, but it's not true Shift JIS either.
17:24 <Cepheid> So I have to create my own table mappings.
17:35 <Cepheid> I should write a tool to translate a multi-line file of 2-byte hex codes into an array, to speed up this process a bit.
17:48 <Cepheid> There. Simple.
18:02 <Cepheid> Right, now it's parsing the strings.
18:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Clean Therapy / I Have Your Back / TWD 3:43 / ANL 3:47 / BoE 7:29 [ http://tinyurl.com/rdevaad ]
18:04 * PrincessRainbows chews on Finwe's hat
18:07 <Cepheid> Right, to figure out these fun code points I now need to play the game itself.
18:08 <Cepheid> Hourai Jewel sea quest, hmm?
18:09 <Cepheid> 8001 appears to be the newline code.
18:18 <Cepheid> 8001 - end of line. 8002 - end of paragraph, looks like.
18:18 <Cepheid> And there's a control code for color. o3o;
18:33 <Cepheid> Hum, I wonder if this game checksums it's own data. *Makes copy of ROM, modifies, emulates to test.*
18:41 <Cepheid> Emulation suggests that the data is NOT checksummed at load.
18:41 <Cepheid> Thus, modification of the data is entirely feasible.
18:47 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1201935918959091713 To show I'm not bull****ing with my editing.
18:53 * Filly_Nightmares is more sick floof
18:53 <Filly_Nightmares> :<
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18:55 <LibrarianofHope> i had a good idea
18:55 <LibrarianofHope> using footnotes and a glossary on my novel
18:55 <LibrarianofHope> channel the great terry pratchett a bit
18:59 <PinkieShy> I'm thinking of seeing a doctor soon.. :/
18:59 <PinkieShy> If it doesn't clear up or stop by the 10th.. That'll be a month of whatever is it going on
19:00 <LibrarianofHope> wuts the issue?
19:03 * Cepheid pets Filly_Nightmares and PinkieShy.
19:03 <PinkieShy> I don't wanna say.. Its gross
19:03 <LibrarianofHope> thats ok
19:03 <LibrarianofHope> hope it gets better soon
19:03 <PinkieShy> But hopefully by the 10th it does go away and saves my doctor time, and me time
19:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Penny Wrights: Equestria Girls: Stressed in Show Follow Up [ http://tinyurl.com/wgad3hr ]
19:04 <Cepheid> I'm assuming coughing up mucus, or excess mucus production, which is typical of codes and/or chest infections.
19:08 <Cepheid> Hum, so there's 7 missing files in the archive, and the archive, as far as I know, is complete. That is, it is densely packed, and I'm able to extract all the files.
19:08 <Cepheid> So those 7 files are elsewhere.
19:08 * Starlight_Glimmer steals warmth from Lumindia_
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19:20 <Cepheid> Right, if Atlus encoded any data into the program ROM, it'd be in one of their proprietary formats.
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19:30 <PinkieShy> Well I'm off to go bowling : 3
19:30 <PinkieShy> Hopefully.. :P
19:31 <PinkieShy> Bye everyone -hugs-
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19:34 *** ChanServ sets mode: +qo Ali Ali
19:39 * LibrarianofHope ultima glomps ali
19:39 * Ali splats under LibrarianofHope
19:40 <LibrarianofHope> i got burnout owo
19:40 <LibrarianofHope> obligatory day off yay
19:47 * Ali puts a Colgate on LibrarianofHope. Why? She just wanted to.
19:48 <LibrarianofHope> why summon da big boss?
19:50 * Ali ponyshrugs
19:52 * LibrarianofHope dances chunky
19:52 * Ali sits on LibrarianofHope
19:53 <LibrarianofHope> well at least i know now why i feel tired
19:53 <LibrarianofHope> brain is on strike
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21:24 *** Parts: Reiko (sid98619@Pony-3j929p.highgate.irccloud.com) ("")
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21:28 <Cepheid> Hum. That complicates things a bit.
21:35 <Cepheid> Why are these strings so garbled up? Makes no sense.
21:37 <Cepheid> ...
21:39 <Cepheid> Well, hello there, address of the string "/Data/Target.idx" *Looks now for a reference to the address in the code.*
21:59 * Ali no understand anything Cepheid says.
22:02 * LibrarianofHope flops on ali, cause yay
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22:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: 4everfreebrony - I Don't Complain (cover) [ http://tinyurl.com/wsvopzo ]
22:18 * Cepheid is mostly just rooting around memory as the game executes to try and figure something out.
22:37 <Cepheid> I'll be dead honest, I barely understand this myself.
22:40 * PrincessRainbows boops Ali with her chewed tennis ball
22:41 * Ali tosses the ball for PrincessRainbows
22:43 * PrincessRainbows yays and gallops off
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23:44 *** Quits: Jackie (Jackie@Pony-vug.0ji.9.61.IP) (Connection closed)
23:45 *** Jackie2 is now known as Jackie
23:47 *** Quits: LibrarianofHope (Librarianof@Pony-nv8.19p.147.189.IP) (Quit: http://www.kiwiirc.com/ - A hand crafted IRC client)
23:48 * Jackie eats a cookie
23:57 <Finwe> o3o
23:57 <Finwe> Good evening, my perissodactyls of minute stature.
23:58 <Finwe> Mlles Ali, PrincessRainbows, Jackie and Filly_Nightmares; Messrs Cepheid, Schism, Starlight_Glimmer and LightningCrash.
23:58 * Finwe doffs his hat.
23:58 * Jackie nibbles Finwe
23:58 * Filly_Nightmares lays on Finwe
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