Log archive of EquestriaDaily for Saturday, 2019-12-14

00:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: A Flood of High Quality Horses - ShadowReindeer Artist Spolight and Interview! [ http://tinyurl.com/yx2p8ok6 ]

00:15 * Schism flops in. "Suddenly, everyone decided to make calls on Friday."

00:18 <Schism> "A good idea is fragile, while a bad one is impervious to debate."

00:18 <lunanightwind> hey

00:20 <Schism> This is a very silly fic.  Because it's Estee, of course.  X3

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00:23 <Schism> Sure, let's host a project fair for the first-year students at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns.  Surely the children at CSGU would be far, far too innocent and fresh-faced to cause an unmitigated disaster.

00:24 <Schism> Snrk.  And 'That's the expression of a pony who's looking for something, hoping it isn't there.'

00:27 <PinkieShy> Everything hurts.. :(

00:27 <lunanightwind> i got a new monitor today I am having trouble getting used to it

00:27 <PinkieShy> Pain killers did nothing..

00:27 <PinkieShy> Pain after being sick and dehydrated and more is the worse..

00:28 <PinkieShy> I might ask my dad to bring me gatorade or a Pedialyte..

00:34 <Schism> Not a bad idea.  Being so dehydrated... yea.

00:34 <Schism> Okay, this was really good.  https://www.fimfiction.net/story/456157/1/proof-of-concept/too-soon

00:39 * PrincessRainbows patpats the magic horsey

00:47 * Cepheid flops.

00:49 * Cepheid finishes two spec files. Then goes to do some more fun stuff.

00:51 * Cepheid goes to murder the first FOE he can find.

00:52 <Cepheid> Hum, first, need to find what the first FOE is.

01:00 * Cepheid draws blade of data carving. Starts cutting through the FOE tables.

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01:07 <Schism> Cepheid: FFXIV's got a 5-day 'free login campaign'.  Any five days between the 13th of December and the 14th of January.

01:07 <Schism> Five days in a row, that is.

01:10 <Cepheid> Heh.

01:16 <Cepheid> Man this table format is *WEIRD*.

01:16 <Cepheid> I can parse it, but I just don't understand the logic behind it.

01:17 <Cepheid> Each two-byte pair represents the offset, relative to the start of the string data, where the string ends.

01:17 * Cepheid writes a quick parser.

01:33 <Cepheid> 0x64 is... decimal 100.

01:34 <Cepheid> Annoying.

01:37 <Cepheid> Greedy Lizard's name is stored at... index 67 in the name table.  Hex 43.

01:38 <Cepheid> Ah, there we are.

01:39 <Cepheid> 2 bytes, floor number.  2 bytes, monster index.  1 byte, facing of monster at start.  7 bytes, unknown.  2 bytes, starting X, 2 bytes, starting Y.

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01:46 <Cepheid> In the 7 bytes that are unknown, there are 4 bits that are common among the pasarans on floors 1, 2 and 3.

01:47 <Cepheid> Time to bit flip.

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01:51 <Cepheid> Hum.  So one of those bits sets the color.

01:54 <Cepheid> Hmm.

01:55 <Cepheid> Setting that byte to 0x06 changes the FOE colour to golden.  Values 0x02, 0x04, which correspond to the two bits that make up 0x06, don't seem to do much, if anything.

01:56 <Cepheid> ... Oh.

01:56 <Cepheid> I should probably examine FOEs before assuming the byte does nothing.

01:56 <Cepheid> Value 2 turns it into a boss FOE.

01:57 <Cepheid> Or at least, changes the color to boss.

01:57 <Cepheid> ... 0x04 changes it to a color I've never seen used.  o3o;

01:58 <Cepheid> It's... green.

02:04 <Cepheid> Okay, that's weird as hell.

02:04 <Cepheid> My guess, there's a full palette of 256 colors to use.

02:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2007 [ http://tinyurl.com/yx4a52s4 ]

02:45 <Schism> Hum.  DK2 is an old favourite, but I remember it being a little more.  Maybe that's just my brain.

02:48 * Cepheid bursts into flames.

02:49 <Cepheid> Right, so I know as much as this:  That byte changes the FOE color.

02:49 <Cepheid> I'm not sure how large the palette is, but I imagine some of the entries reach into uninitialized memory.

02:49 <Cepheid> I also extracted my first texture.

02:50 <Cepheid> And lo and behold, it was something horrible.

02:50 <Cepheid> Even in data, F.O.E!

02:55 <Cepheid> Hmm, one of those bits means "Only make it visible under a certain condition."

03:03 <Schism> https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-unveils-new-40-story-tall-brutalist-xbox-seri-1840417684

03:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: MLP Organ Cover: Jonny Music & Yensid Organist - A Hearth's Warming Tail [Organ] [ http://tinyurl.com/sm6phkw ]

03:06 <Cepheid> Oh gods what have I done?

03:06 * Cepheid made the Golden FOE on the first floor into the Abyssal God.

03:09 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1205686206526349314

03:13 <Schism> *claps*

03:15 <lunanightwind> holy crap this is hilarious, this has to be fake

03:16 <Cepheid> At the moment, I unfortunately cannot add stuff.

03:16 <Cepheid> I can change stuff.  Can't add.

03:16 <Cepheid> There's one last bit of decoding of the base file formats I need to do first.  I can't pack things back together after unpacking them, as a result.

03:16 <lunanightwind> random PM on twittter basically offering me sponsorship on my twitch

03:17 <Cepheid> Heh.

03:17 <lunanightwind> my twitch that has a 0 viewer average

03:17 <lunanightwind> also unverified twitter

03:18 * Cepheid goes to take a break and do some chores. Also hears cat.

03:20 <Cepheid> Honestly, the early FOE data is easy.  It's the latter stuff that'll get me.

03:21 <Cepheid> See, the "header" is straightforward.  2 bytes, floor number.  2 bytes, monster index.  1 byte, facing(0 = north, 1 = south, 2 = east, 3 - west).  1 byte, color of FOE.  1 byte, hell if I know.  4 bytes, hell if I know.  2 bytes, X coordinate on map.  2 bytes, Y coordinate.

03:22 <Cepheid> After that, 224 bytes of unknown data.

03:25 <Cepheid> I'll just have to do this the old fashioned way.  Extract every single FOE, then parse through them all, and output data that I can then compare.

03:25 <Cepheid> But that's for later.  Chores, shower.

03:32 <Schism> "I've had a new idea.  And I promised myself, once.  When I have a new idea, unless it's enormously time-sensitive, to think about it for at least 48 hours after I think of this restriction.  So I have been.  Except... I keep getting interrupted..."

03:35 <Schism> "And once you have one idea, unless it's ridiculously specific, it's hard not to think of others.  ...my checklist is Sparkle-sized."

03:42 * Cepheid goes about writing tool from earlier. o3o

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04:24 * Ali flops over Cepheid and blehs, no .18 this year.

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04:46 * PrincessRainbows licks the magic Ali horse. Looks cute

04:47 * Ali curls into PrincessRainbows, she's not cute.

04:48 * PrincessRainbows patpats the totally not adorable horse

04:50 * Cepheid tries to decode some stuff. o3o

04:54 <Cepheid> ... This is going to be hell.  *Sits atop Schism and thinks*

04:59 <Cepheid> ...

04:59 <Cepheid> Yeah, it's gonna be heck.

05:04 <Cepheid> It's like some sort of simple instruction set that says "IF X, DO Y"

05:19 <Cepheid> Code F000 - Aggro line or bos.  No sure.  Let's find out!

05:20 * Cepheid tests for box. By making it so that the coordinates cover the entire map. o3o;

05:21 <Cepheid> ... Oh gods.

05:21 <Cepheid> I just made a FOE that can walk through walls.

05:25 <Cepheid> That.. may actually be part of it's programming, though.

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05:25 <Cepheid> In any case, CODE 0F00 0000, apparently means "If the player enters this area, start seeking them out."

05:29 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, 1000 0000 is the opposite.  "Enters this area, stop aggroing."

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05:46 * PrincessRainbows also boops Ali's horn repeatedly till it sparks

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05:52 <PinkieShy> This Gatorade my dad brought me.. Is tasting like the best thing ever :)

05:53 <PinkieShy> and it should being so dehydrated and such

05:53 <Cepheid> I like Gatorade.

05:54 <Hajnal> It can be quite good.

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06:40 <Cepheid> Ow.

06:57 <Cepheid> It's not a coincidence that this sequence of bytes has the exact length 8400, which is, ironically, a product of 1050 and 8, the former of which is the product of 35 and 30, which are the width and height of the maps.

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07:00 <Cepheid> ...

07:00 <Cepheid> Okay then!

07:00 <Cepheid> It's the data I'm looking for.

07:01 <Cepheid> I just walked the team out of bounds.

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07:06 * Cepheid does the worst thing ever. Replaces all 8400 bytes with 0.

07:09 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1205746481585623041 ... Oops.

07:41 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1205754710805942273 And so it continues.

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08:49 <Cepheid> I looked into the abyss.  It looked back at me.  I punched it in the eye.

08:54 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Episode Rewatch - MLP Season 1 Episode 15-16 - Feeling Pinkie Keen / Sonic Rainboom  [ http://tinyurl.com/qqcaf6n ]

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13:19 <PrincessRainbows> So empty

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17:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: New "Freedom of the Press" Update Hits Gameloft Game, Equestria Daily Included  [ http://tinyurl.com/sd3znfz ]

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18:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Holidays Unwrapped: Part 5 'Dashing Through The Mall'  - Now on Youtube [ http://tinyurl.com/rmd8dzh ]

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19:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Comics: Can't Say Cusswords / Snickerdoodle / Storms Lullaby #60 / Jasper Comic #300 [ http://tinyurl.com/rseg9vp ]

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20:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Fanfiction: A Very Merry Commission  [ http://tinyurl.com/tb5lxh3 ]

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21:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: Community Classic Cover: Koron Korak - Constellations (Covering Aviators) [Hybrid Orchestral] [ http://tinyurl.com/sgkmd4f ]

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21:17 * PrincessRainbows sits on Ali. Go horsey go!

21:18 * Ali splats, unicorn is in no go mode. Snugs PrincessRainbows though so much.

21:18 * PrincessRainbows licks the Ali instead

21:19 * Ali squeaks in response.

21:19 * Jackie pats PrincessRainbows

21:19 * PrincessRainbows barks

21:20 * Jackie boops nose

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21:35 * Jackie puts a cookie on nose

21:36 * PrincessRainbows yays and rolls over

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21:56 * PrincessRainbows is good horse so barks and wags her tail

22:03 <Jackie> https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(2006)

22:03 <Jackie> This game has lots of complaints

22:04 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3190 [ http://tinyurl.com/qsxvg3e ]

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