Log archive of EquestriaDaily for Wednesday, 2019-12-04

00:00 * Finwe noms on Filly_Nightmares's tail.

00:00 * Jackie nuzzles Filly_Nightmares

00:00 * Filly_Nightmares curls up and mewls

00:00 * Jackie pats

00:03 * PrincessRainbows returns to boop Finwe with her chew toy

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00:24 * Cepheid stares at data. Goes all Psyduck.

00:25 <Cepheid> I think I need a break.

00:25 * Cepheid goes back to grinding Ali to crazy levels in EO3.

00:25 <Cepheid> You're the first to surpass level 81. o3o

00:32 <Cepheid> And that's why I don't do Pasaran farming.  *Tries to kill one, it runs after taking only 1/3rd it's health in damage despite the over-powered character.*  *Second attempt, it self-destructs and never appears again for 14 more days.*

00:35 <Cepheid> Let's see if I can do something about that VIT stat, make Ali into a front-line mageling.

00:36 <Cepheid> Or, at least, make it so she can survive a physical hit.

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00:47 <Finwe> !lullaby

00:47 * DerpyBot carries Finwe off to bed

00:47 * DerpyBot tucks Finwe in and hums a lullaby

00:47 <Finwe> !shoo

00:47 * DerpyBot sways from side to side, quietly humming "shoo be doo shoo shoo be doo"

01:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Discussion: Have You Ever Had a Negative Reaction To Your Pony Interest?  [ http://tinyurl.com/qot4v4x ]

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02:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #1998 [ http://tinyurl.com/vc3ayl8 ]

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02:11 <Cepheid> I, to some degree, figured out what those 3 bytes are that follows offset/size pair in the Target.idx file.  They somehow identify the parent folder.

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02:18 <Cepheid> ... Or not.

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02:41 * PrincessRainbows is in so much pain X_X

03:05 *** Filly_Nightmares is now known as Surreal_Nightmares

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03:08 <PinkieShy> pff

03:08 <PinkieShy> Me the Jailer in werewolf jailed the detective to question and find out who they were :P

03:09 <PinkieShy> I had no idea it was the detective until they came inside the jail room and told me ^_^

03:21 * Schism flops in from another day of hell. Provides pones with some sea salt and lime mini rice cakes.

03:22 <Schism> PinkieShy: When the werewolf kills the other one off because fiat, and then they win the game alone.  o3o

03:22 <Schism> fait*

03:23 *** Changeling_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

03:23 * Filly_Nightmares shiver

03:24 * Schism provides Filly_Nightmares wif rice cakes.

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03:25 * Schism also nomfs corned beef & cabbage.

03:26 * PinkieShy hands Filly_Nightmares some Chicken McNuggets with a side of honey for a dipping sauce

04:02 <PinkieShy> I don't know if any of you ever had this happen before but.. A few times lately when i wake up the clock says like one time, but then i look again it is like 10 minutes later then what is aw a minute ago lol

04:03 <PinkieShy> Eyes playing tricks on me i guess.

04:05 <Schism> "I listen to Bach often, but never the Beatles."

04:07 <PinkieShy> I've been listening to Johnny Cash alot more lately.

04:07 <PinkieShy> Good Music.

04:07 <PinkieShy> I wonder if they got any of his songs for play on osu!

04:12 * Ali licks PinkieShy nose

04:19 * PrincessRainbows boops Ali with her tennis ball in her mouth

04:20 * Ali tosses the ball with magic for PrincessRainbows

04:20 <PrincessRainbows> Yay, magic horsey

04:27 * PrincessRainbows gallops off into the distance

05:06 <PinkieShy> ....

05:06 <PinkieShy> Why did that image need to say that..

05:06 <PinkieShy> I sure hope its common sense for people to know not to carry fireworks in their pockets..

05:07 <PrincessRainbows> Nah you're not going to spontaneously combust

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05:51 * Golden flops, and rolls about.

05:54 * PrincessRainbows does the flop too

06:02 <PrincessRainbows> The data Twitter has on me is both terrifyingly accurate and hilariously wrong.

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06:19 * Schism puffs up his hair, and waves his hands. "Algorithms."

06:20 * Ali flops over Schism and noms cheeselegs

06:22 <PrincessRainbows> It's funny how they guessed my income and home value but they forgot I'm a male... Capitalism!

06:37 <PinkieShy> Welp December 5th is not far away

06:37 <PinkieShy> My YouTube channel as my subscribers and even I know it.. Will cease to exist.

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06:38 <PinkieShy> I'm removing all the videos to make way for videos that will definity meet the new rules for 'not for kids'

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07:12 * Ali sits on PinkieShy

07:17 * PinkieShy is driving a very very fast car in need for speed

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08:14 <Finwe> Good morning, everypony.

08:15 <Finwe> Mlles Ali, Surreal_Nightmares, Changeling_Nightmares and PrincessRainbows; Messrs Cepheid, Schism and Starlight_Glimmer.

08:15 * Finwe doffs his hat.

08:15 <Finwe> Capt Koopz.

08:15 <Finwe> o7

08:17 * Ali flops over Finwe

08:18 * Finwe hats on Ali.

08:22 *** Changeling_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

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08:25 *** ChanServ sets mode: +o ConfusionRift

08:25 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.

08:26 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift.

08:26 <Finwe> o7

08:27 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)

08:28 <Koopz> RAdm. Finwe o7

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08:38 * Jackie skrees at Filly_Nightmares

08:43 * Jackie realizes Filly_Nightmares is an endangered species

08:43 * Filly_Nightmares sneezies

08:45 * Finwe offers a handkerchief to Filly_Nightmares.

08:45 * Filly_Nightmares nomfs Finwe

08:46 * Jackie pets Filly_Nightmares

08:46 *** Crimson_Ta1l is now known as Crimson_Tail

08:47 <Finwe> Hmm, kerchief means "covers the head". o3o

08:47 <Finwe> Hand covers the head?

08:47 * Finwe puts his hoof on Ali's head.

08:50 <Jackie> you're suffocating the bat

08:53 * Filly_Nightmares murrs at Finwe

08:53 * Jackie vaccums Filly_Nightmares' fur

08:53 <Finwe> From Old French cuevrechef, a scarf that covers the head, meaning that a handkerchief is basically a small hand-held variant of the scarf that covers the head.

08:55 * Filly_Nightmares mewls as she becomes moar floof

08:56 * Finwe ruffles Filly_Nightmares.

08:56 * Filly_Nightmares hunger tummy

08:58 * Finwe offers some yoghurt with cranberries to Filly_Nightmares.

08:58 <Jackie> aw

08:58 * Jackie walks awat

08:58 <Jackie> *away

08:59 * Filly_Nightmares licks yoghurt and uses Jackie as a nest

09:01 * Jackie warms up Filly_Nightmares

09:08 * Filly_Nightmares sticks her cold floofy hoovesies into Jackie warms

09:14 * Jackie purrs

09:26 * Jackie gives Filly_Nightmares french fries

09:29 * Filly_Nightmares nibbles on french fries

09:31 * Jackie watches

09:34 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: <unspecified> [ http://tinyurl.com/v5rzrmk ]

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10:19 <Lumindia_> Scree!

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10:20 * Filly_Nightmares uses Lumindia_ as a nest

10:21 <Lumindia_> o wo

10:21 * Lumindia_ softs at Surry

10:21 <Finwe> Mr Lumindia_.

10:21 * Finwe doffs his hat and noms on Lumindia_'s tail.

10:21 * Lumindia_ squeaks

11:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #1771 [ http://tinyurl.com/rwotubt ]

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12:24 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Comics: Cake / Arrival #180 / Ponies Must be Crazy #08 / Moon landing #10  [ http://tinyurl.com/wqo3gmr ]

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12:25 * PrincessRainbows licks ConfusionRift. How is the rift?

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12:39 * ConfusionRift boops PrincessRainbows. :P

12:39 <ConfusionRift> Doing okay. Was just playing for a bit, and now just eating a snack.

12:53 <Schism> http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/comic/1930-whiskers/ - Well, the description is accurate.

12:54 <ConfusionRift> Hahaha!

12:54 <ConfusionRift> Wait... that's my cat!

12:55 <Schism> Y'don't say.

12:55 <ConfusionRift> Also, maaaan. Sonic research has gone up like crazy as of recent.

12:57 <ConfusionRift> It's getting really interesting.

13:02 * Schism gets the [yay] to work.

13:02 * ConfusionRift patpats Schism. "Know that feeling."

13:03 *** Surreal_Nightmares is now known as Sleeping_Nightmares

13:03 * Sleeping_Nightmares sick floof sleepies on ConfusionRift

13:03 <Schism> Oh thank the gods.  There are no promo codes today.

13:04 * Schism also wraps the Surry in warm blankets and feeds chikkin soop.

13:04 <Cepheid> Morning.

13:04 <ConfusionRift> Oh. Sorry. I knew I forgot something. [Deplying promotional codes...]

13:04 <ConfusionRift> Hallo.

13:05 <Schism> Hi!  Bye!  Lea!  ...or something.

13:06 <ConfusionRift> I should get back to that at some point. New Game+ is starting to look really good.

13:09 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/shiroyuki111/status/1202178298467348487?s=19 The text reads "What was that just now?!"

13:12 <ConfusionRift> "I got ya! Now you're-" | (runs, Green Hill Zone plays as they pass by) | "...the heck was that?"

13:15 <Cepheid> Heh.

13:18 <ConfusionRift> And now Game Grumps has this weird NES knockoff that.. the hell is that?

13:19 <ConfusionRift> Why would an NES have a male parallel port?

13:22 <Cepheid> Good question.

13:30 <ConfusionRift> If all of this is true, which seems to be sorta, they got a Russian prototype of a game that was supposed to be an online multiplayer game. Yes, a 30 year old online game. The parallel port is for a strange adapter that would use power and an ethernet cable to connect online.

13:32 <Cepheid> Doesn't surprise me.  People like to try and use bleeding edge tech all the time.

13:35 <ConfusionRift> If this thing is for real, these couple of months have led to some interesting gaming finds.

13:38 <Cepheid> Oh, by the way...

13:39 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1201935918959091713?s=19 The game doesn't appear to checksum its data.

13:40 <ConfusionRift> ...excuse me?

13:40 <Cepheid> I modified the game and ran it through an emulator to see what happens.

13:40 <Cepheid> I replaced a bunch of text with spaces, and played with control codes for coloring the text.

13:40 <ConfusionRift> And it just ran without a hitch, huh?

13:41 <Cepheid> Yeah.

13:42 <ConfusionRift> That is strange, considering most games do have a form of checksum, which sometimes make things a pain.

13:43 <ConfusionRift> Still, this is pretty cool.

13:43 <Cepheid> The save data is the only thing that seems to be checksummed and for good reason.  It also contains a duplicate of the same data.

13:43 <Cepheid> I also took a look at the 3DS games a short bit.

13:44 <Cepheid> They use a two-file system instead.  Large archive, and an offset-size-filename table.

13:48 <Cepheid> Still haven't found those missing files.

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13:50 <ConfusionRift> Yep. One with the stored assets, and the other as a reference to call them. Right?

13:50 <Cepheid> Giant archive and a reference, yeah.

13:51 <Cepheid> Meanwhile I am slowly figuring out the code to the game itself.  Been researching the specs of the DS and the ARM instruction set.

13:52 <ConfusionRift> You know, I was gonna ask you... is this like a form of research, or do you plan to use this as a platform for the game you were working on? Kinda curious.

13:53 <Cepheid> It would help if I had a better disassembler, and a symbol table to work with.

13:53 <Cepheid> Research and boredom.

13:54 <Cepheid> Also as a way to show off my analysis and programming skills.  I intend to create an editor that can modify the DS ROM directly.

13:54 <ConfusionRift> Eeeeeexcuse me, Linus?!

13:54 <Cepheid> Hmm?

13:54 <ConfusionRift> https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1201965142184878081

13:55 <Cepheid> That's not new.

13:55 <ConfusionRift> Had no idea there were 128GB sticks out already.

13:55 <Cepheid> 128GB dims have been around for a while now.  Just limited to high-tech companies due to the cost involved.

13:56 <Cepheid> Last I checked them out, they were $4000+ CAD.

13:56 <ConfusionRift> And this guy has several. Then again, he has a large NAS of nothing but SSDs.

13:56 <Cepheid> Guy also makes a lot of money off of his show and such.

13:57 * ConfusionRift nods.

13:57 <Cepheid> Also, that price was earlier this year.  Increase the yield, get better numbers of successful runs and you can lower the price.

13:58 <Cepheid> That said, I wonder how they deal with the bit flip problem.

14:00 <Cepheid> Before you ask.  It's a problem with increasing density of memory chips.  Between electrical leakage and cosmic radiation, as chip density goes up, the likelihood of a random bit flip in one of the memory cells increases.

14:00 <Cepheid> And it is starting to become a problem.

14:01 <Cepheid> Atlus, I am upset about one detail regarding EO Nexus.

14:02 <Cepheid> According to it's OST, the Abyssal Shrine from EO3 makes an appearance.  But they changed the music drastically.

14:05 <Cepheid> Hum.  11890 exp per.  There are...  9 on floor B15.  2 on 16.  And 7 on floor 13.  18 total.

14:05 <Cepheid> ...  Geezus.

14:06 <Cepheid> There is 214020 EXP worth of easy FOEs in the Abyssal Shrine.

14:06 <Cepheid> And by easy, I mean "The mage is soloing them.  Even with taking damage."

14:09 <Cepheid> For comparison, that is a Dragon's worth of EXP.  And at a much easier challenge rating.  If you need one character high level ASAP, these are the easiest and best ways to go about it.

14:10 <Cepheid> There is admittedly a faster method, but that comes with some risk of save corruption.

14:18 <Cepheid> By the way...

14:18 <Cepheid> While I can't find some of the debug files..

14:18 <Cepheid> There *ARE* two debug files that still exist.

14:18 <ConfusionRift> Oh... huh. Okay, so, that NES thing I mentioned? Maybe I should leave it as HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE. I knew something smelled weird.

14:19 <Cepheid> One is a list of some 32 guild setups, 12 members each, with complete stats and names.  None of it was translated, as far as I can tell, as all the names remain in Japanese.

14:19 <Cepheid> The other file, meanwhile, is a help file that describes each of the guild setups.  It is, inexplicably, translated.

14:19 <ConfusionRift> Hmmm.

14:20 <Cepheid> They likely just extracted all the MSG2 files(These are the files with text) and translated them, without consideration to their purpose.

14:21 <ConfusionRift> I guess it could help with localization?

14:21 <Cepheid> All the text, meanwhile, being encoded in, annoyingly, Shift-JIS.

14:22 <Cepheid> I mean, for the initial intended audience, it's not necessarily a *BAD* thing.

14:22 <Cepheid> But it's a pain in the ass to decode.  It has a lot of problems that don't exist in other multibyte formats, like Unicode.

14:24 <Cepheid> It's a way of encoding JIS X 0208, effectively the Japanese equivalent of ASCII, into a two-byte format.

14:24 <Cepheid> The problem is, it uses some *WEIRD* math.

14:24 <ConfusionRift> Well, they weren't considering anyone decoding them again.

14:24 <Cepheid> Yeah, that's true.

14:24 <Cepheid> But it's not an Atlus-proprietary format.

14:24 <Cepheid> ... With exception to the control codes.

14:25 <Cepheid> There's pairs of bytes that start with 80, this is outside of Shift-JIS.

14:26 <Cepheid> These pairs are control codes.  End-of-line, end-of-paragraph(That is, show the next "window" of text), input X character's name here, set text color, etc, etc, etc.

14:27 <Cepheid> These are generally easy to find, though.

14:27 <Cepheid> I only need at minimum, 2 Shift-JIS tables.

14:27 <Cepheid> For English, anyways.  Any Japanese text will need more.

14:28 <Cepheid> Point is, anything that falls outside of the valid Shift-JIS range is probably a control code.

14:28 <Cepheid> The reason my earlier screenshot is at sea, is because the first file I decoded was one of the sea quest text files.

14:28 <Cepheid> And since I knew where it was in the ROM, and how it was laid out, I used it for a quick test.

14:30 <Cepheid> I did the math, calculated the Shift-JIS codes for a space, put a bunch in, then, as an added test, I pushed in the apparent control code for the text color, with a known color sequence in two spots.  Then I loaded up an emulator, and ran the ROM to see if it complained about the changes.

14:30 <Cepheid> Lo and behold, it didn't, and the game loaded just fine.  Though, being emulation, I can't tell if the BIOS will reject the ROM or not.

14:30 <Cepheid> But the game certainly didn't reject the changes.

14:31 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, attempts to change the save file have caused the game to spasm.

14:31 <Cepheid> If I modify one of the copies, the game loads the unmodified copy.

14:31 <Cepheid> If I modify both copies, the game just deletes the save files altogether.

14:32 <ConfusionRift> Problem about emulation is that the software will likely do what it can to run the game, even if it can't run on hardware due to a checksum issue or the such.

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14:32 <Cepheid> Funny you should say that.

14:32 <Cepheid> I was using a specialized, debug version of an emulator.  It's designed for people writing their own DS apps.

14:32 <Cepheid> Or GBA apps.

14:33 <Cepheid> The software tries to emulate the system as closely as possible, as a result.  Default settings have it performing checksums and the like, presumably as the OS/BIOS would, on load, and do something special if something was wrong.

14:35 <Cepheid> Put more simply, if the DS does a checksum on the ROM, and refuses to load ROMs that are damaged, then this emulator is malfunctioning.

14:37 <Cepheid> Okay this is terrifying.

14:38 <Cepheid> I have Ali, the resident Zodiac(Mage, squishy), walking around down in the Abyssal Shrine solo, killing the 18 or so FOEs for 214000+ EXP..

14:38 <Cepheid> She's alone, in the front line, and is squishy.  Keep this in mind.

14:38 <Cepheid> ... She's taking so little damage from the monsters, she could, in theory, just wander around down here and kill things.

14:39 <ConfusionRift> Hehehe.

14:39 <Cepheid> She has defense on par with most of the front-line of the regular party.  I mean, yeah, she's level 84, equipped with the best armor she can use, but...

14:39 <Cepheid> Also, she's been fed something like 16 vitality books.

14:39 <Cepheid> She has vitality rivaling that of Confusion.  Another round or two of books and she'll fare better than him.

14:40 <Cepheid> Alas, I'm not sure what to do with her last 18 skill points as she gains them.  I was gonna go for Double Action, but unless I retire her at level 99, or scrap the magical spells that protect the party against the elemental dragons, she won't be able to get that skill.  I'm thinking for the time being, she should probably spend them on HP Up.

14:41 <Cepheid> Make her more fitting for the front row in general, so she can survive if something happens to the front row.

14:41 <Cepheid> That, and for dealing with the tentacle exploit.

14:42 <Cepheid> That's an exploit where I go to kill a tentacle, and fight a constant, unending stream of spawning Vampire Tree FOEs.

14:42 <Cepheid> Those FOEs are worth 18,000 EXP a piece, and they spawn endlessly around the tentacle spawn points.

14:43 <Cepheid> They are also comparatively easier than most FOEs down in the depths.

14:44 <Cepheid> Which makes them a superior grinding target, once I can reliably kill them in one to two turns, or at least seal one of their skills.

14:46 <Cepheid> At the going rate, Ali's gonna be the first to hit level 99.

14:46 <Cepheid> Schism's next in line after that.

14:48 <ConfusionRift> Man, I know I'm off but it's late and feeling real tiiired. Going to sleepy sleeps. See ya laters!

14:48 <Cepheid> Take care.

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15:07 <Cepheid> https://i.imgur.com/97xLjOb.gifv Adorbs.

15:12 <Lumindia_> ;-;

15:12 <Lumindia_> We just lost Lil' Bub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsX0tvBwTc

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15:48 <Cepheid> Awe.

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16:06 <Cepheid> You know.

16:06 <Cepheid> I thought this editing was, outside of showing my programming and analysis skills, to be a waste of time.

16:06 <Cepheid> But, if the subreddit is anything to go by, it suggests that people still play the third game a lot.

16:16 <Cepheid> Bah, Ali's gotten too fast.

16:16 <Cepheid> She's killing the Poison Lizards before a formaldehyde can be used.  Time to resolve this with SPD boosting gear.

16:19 <Cepheid> Much better.

16:22 <Cepheid> First thing I'm doing when I manage to understand the save file format?  I'm creating a roster editor, so I can re-arrange my characters in the roster.

16:23 <Cepheid> Well, understanding it's easy.  It's the checksum that's the problem.  However, I can get around that by tweaking little details here and there.

16:29 <Cepheid> Note to self:  Ask Ali about how her name is meant to be pronounced.  I assume it rhymes with "Alley."

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16:44 <Cepheid> Right then, work time.

16:44 <Cepheid> So, I now know that the EEPROM/save RAM is accessed via SPI, and there are sets of instructions and such for writing and reading from it.

16:45 <Cepheid> All I need to do is have the game load up, get to the main title, then do a search through a disassembly for the SPI read/write calls, and voila, access to knowledge of how the save data is read and written.

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17:06 <Cepheid> First though, I kinda need to extract some extra files from the data.

17:24 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: More Pony Music! Heavenly Equestrian Skies! [ http://tinyurl.com/r2vqntc ]

18:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Pony Fan Renames Themselves "Starfire", and Slate Responded  [ http://tinyurl.com/sgtykbd ]

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19:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: New Game Trailer Released for Fallout Equestria: REMAINS, Plus English Website [ http://tinyurl.com/t2y3gu5 ]

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19:19 *** ChanServ sets mode: +qo Ali Ali

19:19 * Ali flops over LibrarianofHope

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20:11 * PrincessRainbows scratches at Ali and does tricks

20:12 * Ali squeaks and leans into PrincessRainbows

20:17 * PrincessRainbows is warm horsey

20:19 * Ali is very cold horsey so could use the warms

20:29 * PrincessRainbows licks and hugs the pretty pony

20:34 * Ali is not pretty, or cute, or anything of the like

20:37 * PrincessRainbows whimpers

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21:14 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: My Little Pony Gyro Spinners Now Available  [ http://tinyurl.com/ujut6jh ]

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21:31 <Cepheid> Hum.

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22:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Radio Plays: Don't Open the Door (HORROR) / The Pegasus Princess episode 1- Broken Trust  [ http://tinyurl.com/uhma6na ]

22:11 * Cepheid looks at this decompiled code. "Looks simple enough to recreate with meaning."

22:12 <Cepheid> *Famous Last Words amirite?*

22:14 * PrincessRainbows sits on Ali go horsey go!

22:15 * Sleeping_Nightmares mewls at Golden

22:15 *** Sleeping_Nightmares is now known as Filly_Nightmares

22:15 <Ali> Depends Cepheid, is it your classmates? *shot*

22:16 * Golden pets Sleeping_Nightmares

22:25 * PinkieShy looks at Ali with an OwO face

22:25 * Ali flops into PinkieShy

22:25 * PinkieShy allows OwO face to become a derpy face 6_9

22:27 * PrincessRainbows licks PinkieShy till he's dripping

22:31 * Filly_Nightmares lays on Golden

22:32 <Golden> Hehe cute

23:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3180 [ http://tinyurl.com/usdz5ea ]

23:15 <Starlight_Glimmer> Ali: So when did you decide you were going to murder SunsetShimmer?

23:15 <Starlight_Glimmer> I mean we all felt that way about her sometimes, but I'd like to know about the circumstances about her disappearance

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23:22 <LibrarianofHope> sunset was assasinated?

23:22 <LibrarianofHope> can i be mod now?

23:23 * LibrarianofHope offers starligh as sacrifice to ascend

23:28 <Starlight_Glimmer> In case she does turn up and doesn't have a knife in her back: I suggest a bit of caution. Her nickname expired. Not sure if it was grouped to an account I'm not aware of the top of my head, but it's an invite for imposters. We don't want to betrayed by that ~pony~ human a 2nd time.

23:28 <LibrarianofHope> easy solution, everyone that comes in here with bacon hair gets a free knife in the back!

23:29 <LibrarianofHope> fixes it bith ways

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