00:00 <Alice> So I'll be alone in the house.
00:00 <Schism> A fine time to relax, practice, and recover.
00:01 <Alice> Mmhmm.
00:01 <Alice> Though on Wednesday, my mother wants to go crazy with house cleaning.
00:01 <Alice> Mainly, an intensive cleaning to get rid of the dog smell.
00:01 <Schism> What th--!
00:02 * Alice also needs to do a search around the house for that basket her sister left behind.
00:02 <Alice> That basket holds some important items. >3>
00:03 <Schism> Concealer, for example.
00:04 <Alice> Mmmhmm.
00:04 <Alice> In general though just girly stuff. o3o
00:04 <Schism> I'm definitely holding off on buying a lot of facepaint. The stuff is wildly expensive.
00:05 <Alice> Indeed.
00:06 <Schism> Plus, I have no clue how to work my complexion.
00:07 <Alice> Such is the reason for that thing we call "practice"
00:07 <Schism> What, no, surely not.
00:08 <Alice> :P
00:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Community Soapbox - Losing Cutie Marks, Dashie's Story, Evils, and More! [ http://tinyurl.com/y696jv9x ]
00:11 <Schism> "Take it slow," say all who know these things, "or else you're going to cause yourself damage." Darnit. I don't want to wait and yet I know I must.
00:14 <Alice> Sore throat again?
00:20 <Schism> Not as such, no, but ostensibly I should keep it relaxed. And that overworking the muscle -- and it is a muscle -- can lead to issues.
00:22 * Schism takes a sip of marmite broth. "This is helpful."
00:22 * Alice also applies mouthwash that makes everything taste bad for the rest of the day.
00:23 <Alice> Seriously, that's what's happening with the mouthwash I'm using, which interestingly, is also keeping my lungs clear enough to breathe well.
00:23 <Schism> I think I've used that exact brand before.
00:24 <Alice> It's the Crest Pro-Health
00:24 <Alice> I suspect the antibacterial ingredients in the non-alcohol based mouthwash is likely what's helping me.
00:25 <Alice> Because the alcohol-based versions did nothing for my lungs.
00:25 <Schism> That sounds like it could possibly help...!
00:26 <Alice> From the research I did, it appears a bacteria in my mouth may be what's causing my breathing issues. I don't normally use mouthwash, as brushing and flossing seemed to be sufficient, but decided to do so again anyways.
00:27 <Alice> All I know is that my breathing hasn't been this clear in months. Though it does eff-all for the sinus infection
00:28 * Alice doesn't want to try applying the mouthwash to her nose either.
00:28 <Schism> Yes, let's avoid the Ginger Beer Trick.
00:28 <Schism> Efficacious as it might be.
00:29 <Alice> Fortunately, the headache from today is mostly gone. Can still feel the side effects from it, but those are lessened thanks to the new migraine meds I take.
00:29 <Alice> Primarily, no more visual warping, nausea, and dizziness. Just pressure and pain.
00:30 <Alice> And looking like I'm the victim of domestic abse.
00:30 <Alice> "Hey you wanna play some video games?" "No way man, you always beat me!" *Gets beat by a stick figure.* "TELL NO ONE!"
00:31 <Schism> asdfmovie remains a glittering gemstone upon the internet.
00:31 <Schism> If somewhat disturbing at times.
00:31 <Alice> I'm on my way, I'm on my way, I'm on my way to eat your skin!
00:32 <Schism> Stay away from my baby!
00:32 <Alice> But mother, I love him!
00:33 <Alice> Hhmmmmm.... This is not my arm.
00:33 * Schism sips a bit more marmite, then messes about with her throat. [obtains a swiss army knife, a chainsaw, and a Bagger 288]
00:36 <Alice> https://twitter.com/az1_halno/status/1286298571122253824 Interesting nail polish design.
00:37 <Schism> Not too hard to pull off.
00:37 <Alice> Mmhmm.
00:38 <Schism> Especially if you remember that paint works in layers. :S
00:41 <Alice> Aaaaaaaand my stomach is throwing a fit all of a sudden.
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00:46 <Schism> Damnit. I'm going to have to figure out how to swap readily between voice modes.
00:46 <Schism> After I finally manage my voice.
00:52 <Alice> It'll be interesting to see if I can pull off a feminine voice at all.
00:53 <Schism> You've heard my bass voice. I'm quite certain that if I can, you can too.
00:53 <Alice> Though, given that I alternate between two voices as is, I would not put it past myself to be able to add a third or fourth voice.
00:54 <Schism> I did the same. Phone voice vs. social voice.
00:54 <Alice> In my case, it's more dependent on social situation and the conversation.
00:54 <Schism> This is going to be tricky to work around. Then again... I have those characters. ...
00:55 <Alice> It's hard to determine the exact ratio I use, but I often tend to keep to the deep, low voice when conversing with one or two people.
00:56 <Alice> When the number of people increases, or I get excited, I tend to switch to the higher voice.
00:56 <Alice> And I know they're distinct voices because of how it feels in my throat when I speak.
00:56 <Schism> I am an old hand at roleplaying. This might be easier than expected...
00:56 <Alice> Heh
00:57 <Alice> Deep voice tends to well, feel deeper in my throat. It also makes use of the back of my throat more than the front.
00:57 <Schism> And the lungs, but that's hardly endemic to deep voices.
00:57 <Alice> Meanwhile, the higher voice feels like it comes from higher up in my throat, and more within the middle or front of my throat.
00:58 <Schism> Alice: Tempted to give you a call on Discord and see if I can pull this off again. Evidently I hit that odd 'switch' to which many refer.
00:58 <Alice> I suspect my lower voice is my natural voice, though, because when I use the higher voice, I find over time my throat starts to get strained.
00:58 <Schism> That's normal.
00:59 <Alice> Yeah, but I don't have that problem with my lower voice.
00:59 <Schism> That's because it is, well, your natural register.
00:59 <Alice> I can keep talking with it forever, without issue. The only limiting factor is dryness of my mouth over time.
00:59 <Schism> No muscle strain, you've been talking with it for however many years.
00:59 <Alice> "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen~" *Sits in a jail cell on a spaceship, singing*
01:00 <Schism> "She's a bass!"
01:00 <Alice> Heh. Nicely done. :P
01:00 <Schism> I could probably quote that movie line by line. Same with The Princess Bride.
01:01 <Alice> Just like my dad could quote every episode of M*A*S*H.
01:02 <Schism> "This isn't a warzone, it's a murder."
01:03 <Alice> But yeah, that would be my natural voice. Meanwhile, the higher pitched one... I've been using it only since like, college? So early 2007 or so?
01:03 <Alice> And it's only ever used in situations with lots of people.
01:03 <Alice> So cafeterias, gathering rooms for CS students, meetings, classroom conversations, etc.
01:03 <Schism> That makes sense. A slightly higher, tense voice is better for making out across a crowd.
01:04 <Schism> That's not necessarily a female voice, just a resonating one.
01:04 <Alice> Basically.
01:04 <Alice> Sounds more like a child's voice than anything else.
01:05 <Schism> Hmmmmm.
01:06 <Alice> Man, I'm actively playing with my throat to see what kinds of effects I can pull off now. o3o
01:06 <Schism> Hehe.
01:08 <Schism> Just be careful, and don't force your voicebox around, as that can cause some concerns.
01:10 <Alice> Guh..
01:10 <Alice> I need to ask my ENT to do something specific the next time I see him.
01:10 * Schism feels the 'crack'. Also, headtilts.
01:12 <Alice> It involves those fiberoptic scopes they use to explore the nose.
01:12 <Alice> Basically, I want him to use the longest one he has to explore a certain region of my head.
01:14 <Schism> Fiberglass camera explores the innermost region of Alice's head, finds a cat there.
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01:15 <Alice> Heh.
01:15 <Alice> I wouldn't be surprised to find a parasite-infected brain.
01:15 <Schism> Toxoplasmosis, in any event. Alice, would you mind a momentary Discord call?
01:16 <Alice> Gimme a moment first. Need to find my headset and dongle.
01:16 <Schism> Sure thing. This probably won't be more than a few minutes anyway. Just an illustration of voice.
01:18 <Alice> Turn the fan off to the side a bit...
01:19 <Alice> Or not.
01:19 <Schism> Not a bad idea.
01:19 <Alice> Doesn't sound like Discord's picking it up.
01:19 <Schism> It'll pick up mine. Fan now at 30 degrees.
01:19 <Alice> I can hear it being picked up ever so slightly, but Discord's not picking it up for voice-activation.
01:31 <Alice> Sexy voice.
01:32 <Alice> Schism has both a cute and sexy voice. :P
01:32 <Schism> Sh-shut up, baka.
01:32 <Schism> I joke, of course. And you'll have a great one too once you start.
01:32 <Alice> Oh no. She's gone tsundere.
01:33 <Alice> Oh well, I don't have any other friends for her to worry about, so no need to worry about spontaneous, not-at-all-mysterious-or-suspicious murders.
01:33 * Schism attempts momentarily to sing a tone above her vocal range. All that comes out is (o).
01:33 <Alice> Oh, wait, that's yandere.
01:33 <Alice> That's different.
01:34 <Schism> Very, very different.
01:34 <Alice> Plus, you're not axe-crazy, last I checked.
01:34 <Schism> The tsundere class uses bats and maces, the yandere class uses swords and guns.
01:34 <Schism> And axen.
01:34 <Alice> You sound like it at times, but that's just your stream of consciousness speaking.
01:35 <Alice> And also caused by your work.
01:35 <Schism> Sometimes I feel that way... but then so do you.
01:35 <Alice> Mmhmm.
01:36 <Alice> Let's just say that it's probably a good thing that my nails are durable and flexible, rather than durable and hard. Because while I say I wouldn't hurt people, that only applies to fisticuffs, weapons, etc.
01:36 <Alice> Cutting people with sharpened nails is not subject to that.
01:37 <Alice> And how do I know this? Tell me, do you *REALLY* want to know?
01:37 <Schism> Not especially. I'd do the same under some circumstances.
01:37 <Alice> Ironically I've only ever done it to my dad.
01:38 <Alice> He sometimes likes to do stupid *YAY* to annoy me.
01:38 * Schism hehs...
01:38 <Alice> So in return I usually either give him a punch to the shoulder(Though not anymore since his surgery), a really hard flick with one finger, or I scratch the [REDACTED] out of him with my nails.
01:39 <Alice> I'm a terrible child.
01:39 <Alice> Meanwhile, Spitfire just spooked me.
01:40 <Schism> Eh, he keeps provoking you. :P
01:40 <Alice> Got up to put away my headset, and I walk over to my desk. It's dark in my room, no lights on.
01:40 <Alice> I put them down, my eyes adjust a moment later, after having been staring at a laptop screen.
01:40 <Alice> And all I see is a black outline with the faintest reflection of light from somewhere in two spots.
01:40 <Alice> "Mrow!"
01:42 * Alice goes off to get a freezie and some ice water. She's getting a little warm up here.
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01:43 <Alice> Strange how that works given throughout the day it was much cooler, and now that it's night time..
01:48 <Alice> Then again I got a laptop on me.
02:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2238 [ http://tinyurl.com/y6d3ywl4 ]
02:22 * Alice roams around the Mega Man Fandom wiki.
02:25 * Alice sighs. Her ears are getting more sensitive to noises. Both in a good and bad way.
02:26 <Alice> Good ole' tonal noises. o3o
03:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: Bad Mares Music Remix: StableTwoStallion - Böse Stuten (Koron Korak Remix) [DarkSynth] [ http://tinyurl.com/y5marafn ]
03:12 <Alice> Tomorrow, I don't care how warm it is, I am getting chores done.
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03:30 <Alice> Just dawned on me. What I'm smelling isn't the environment around me. I have a bloody sinus infection, I'm smelling the infection.
03:41 <Nedemai> ... that can't be a good time
04:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Silver Quill: Comic: Pinkie Pie Says Goodnight – Missing in Action [ http://tinyurl.com/y2p7vx78 ]
04:13 <Alice> Nedemai: It's not. Especially since a sinus infection can also affect other things. Sense of taste, sense of smell, and can also cause bad breath
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05:03 <Alice> Spitfire must like getting the ears rubbed more than anything else in the world. His eyes close when I rub the ears. Both of them, regardless of the ear I am rubbing.
05:06 <Alice> You gonna do this every time I have both hands on the laptop, buddy?
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05:11 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
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05:14 <Alice> Hoi. o3o
05:14 * ConfusionRift wavies.
05:17 <Alice> How goes it?
05:17 <ConfusionRift> Tired. Went over my hours and it hooiiits.
05:18 <Alice> Yeah, I'm kinda running past my energy limits too along with seroquel in my system. I took the stuff too early I think.
05:27 <Schism> <.< >.>
05:27 <PinkieShy> !lullaby
05:27 * DerpyBot carries PinkieShy off to bed
05:27 * DerpyBot tucks PinkieShy in and hums a lullaby
05:27 <Schism> Hey Alice. Are you on the Sanctuary Crew Discord?
05:27 <PinkieShy> ok Good night <3
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05:27 <Alice> I am not, no.
05:28 <Schism> You may wish to. Though Firehawke might not remember you outright.
05:29 <Alice> I'd need an invite.
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05:56 <Pony_5555> ...
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06:08 * Alice plans to go to sleep. Promptly drops her OLD LAPTOP on HER DANGED FACE.
06:09 * Schism yerps! and hugs Alice.
06:09 <Alice> Ever since I replaced this thing, I've been trying to get use out of it in the manner of previous laptops.
06:10 <Alice> So when I lay in bed now, I hold it upright on my chest or rest it on my propped up legs.
06:10 <Alice> In any case, I accidentally tipped it forward a bit much and slammed the lid into my face.
06:11 * ConfusionRift chuckles. "You okay?"
06:11 <Alice> Yeah. Just shocked awake more than anything else really.
06:12 <Alice> I no longer wish to sleep.
06:21 <ConfusionRift> Heh, it happens. Sucks when it does.
06:31 * PrincessRainbows flops on ConfusionRift and sighs
06:32 * ConfusionRift lightly pats PrincessRainbows.
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06:34 <PrincessRainbows> I think I'll just have to do it the hard way... I have been trying to unbrick my drawing tablet
06:35 <PrincessRainbows> Finally got the firmware now just to flash it
06:45 * Alice walks up to the tablet in a trenchcoat. She opens the trenchcoat.
06:45 * Alice is actually fully-clothed. Inside the coat is a bunch of photographs of cute kittens.
06:46 <ConfusionRift> "Heheheee, what're ya buyin'?"
06:48 <Alice> All I got are photos of kittens. Each 1,000,000,000 pesos.
06:49 <Alice> They won't help you kill humans, mutated humans, possessed humans, blinded and clawed humans, chainsaw weilding humans, horrible monstrosities, gods, or Tim.
06:52 <Alice> "Which Tim?" "Doesn't matter. As long as they are named Tim. Doesn't matter if they're a lich, a witch, or a bi- .. You get the idea."
07:20 * ConfusionRift watches a few more highlight of old Top Gear.
07:29 * PrincessRainbows looks up at ConfusionRift and makes grabby hooves
07:30 * ConfusionRift grabbies PrincessRainbows and huggles.
07:31 * PrincessRainbows licks ConfusionRift's nosie and makes incoherent filly noises
07:31 <ConfusionRift> :P
07:33 * PrincessRainbows yays
07:51 <Schism> Interesting. Partway through Steins;Gate, the insects switch from butterflies to locusts.
08:23 * PrincessRainbows sits on ConfusionRift and yays. Pony ride!
08:27 * ConfusionRift runs around with PrincessRainbows on his back.
08:33 * PrincessRainbows claps and makes happy horse noises before curling up for sleepies. Nini
08:35 * PrincessRainbows grabs her pacifier and cuddles up under ConfusionRift
08:39 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: My Little Pony Pony Life - Episode 13 / 14 - Potion Mystery / Sick Day / Meet Potion Nova! / Pony Surfin' Safari [ http://tinyurl.com/yx9waljl ]
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09:27 <Alice> Right, bedtime for me before I end up staying awake for 24 hours.
09:31 <ConfusionRift> Okaday, have a good one.
09:33 <Schism> whew. Finished watching Steins;Gate. Now to try and get a few hours of sleep.
09:36 <ConfusionRift> You too, have a good one.
09:36 * ConfusionRift sighs. "It's just gonna be dead for hours. I'm out. Laters, I dunno."
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10:36 * Lumindia yawns, awakens
10:36 * Lumindia does a boop on anypony that might be active
10:42 * Ali flops over Lumindia, not sure why she's still awake.
10:43 * Lumindia pets Ali, carries off to bed
10:43 <Lumindia> go sleep you silly filly
10:43 <Lumindia> o vo
10:46 * Lumindia snugs
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15:06 * PrincessRainbows licks all the ponies
15:07 * Lumindia licks back
15:07 <Lumindia> mlem
15:14 * Schism bleps. And also heads to the store for a moment.
15:21 <PrincessRainbows> Ponish
15:53 * Lumindia sprawls on the ground,
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17:05 <Schism> "Everything I did was logical. One day I'll understand why that makes me the one who's nuts."
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19:00 <Alice> https://i.redd.it/7c0eugnfzme51.png
19:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Penny Wrights: Equestria Girls: Driving Miss Shimmer Follow Up [ http://tinyurl.com/y65eywh5 ]
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20:05 <Schism> Whew. Lunch break...
20:05 * Schism boops the Alic with some pad thai.
20:05 <Schism> Alice*
20:06 <Schism> Also, that is adorable.
20:08 * Ali flops over the Schism
20:08 * Schism offers the Alice some too. Not the spicy variety, though!
20:08 <Schism> Ali*
20:08 * Ali nibbles on the Schism tail instead for now.
20:08 <Schism> Darnit, you two and your similar names.
20:09 * Ali flailyhooves, not unicorn's fault
20:09 * Schism tailwiggles. Tastes a bit of ice cream.
20:09 * Alice noms.
20:14 * Alice watches a MM4 minus infinity run.
20:15 <Schism> Oh, that ROMhack. Superb, absolutely fantastic, one of the best Megaman romhacks out there.
20:17 <Alice> Yeah.
20:18 * Schism plays Toryanse, immediately dissolves into a hallucination.
20:18 <Alice> By the by, if I go silent over the next while for a very long time, I'm either running for my life, or in Oz.
20:19 <Alice> Tornado warning for my area. Last time we got an emergency alert for such, it was serious.
20:19 <Schism> Oh, jeez. It's raining heavily here too.
20:19 <Schism> Cepheid: You know Toryanse, or "Let Me Pass", the crosswalk song?
20:19 <Alice> No
20:19 <Schism> Ah. In Japan, it plays at zebra crossings.
20:20 <Schism> In Chaos;Head, when you hear it, bad things are about to happen.
20:24 <Alice> Heh.
20:24 <Alice> Hum, even if we don't get a tornado, we are due for high winds if one is possible. Open my window.
20:25 <Schism> Suddenly, cat flies through screen.
20:26 <Alice> Into the housr.
20:26 <Alice> But in this case, I would rather just clean the air in my room.
20:27 <Schism> Also positive.
20:28 * Ali boops Schism with a single rupee
20:29 <Schism> There's that verification chest.
20:29 * Schism boops Ali with a single arrow.
20:29 <Alice> Especially as my bedroom seems to be a positive pressures environment, with no discernable source of the pressurization. Air is always leaving it, never entering it.
20:29 <Ali> That doesn't exist in OoT
20:29 <Schism> Ali: Does in LTTP. :P
20:29 <Ali> Again, don't have the game :P
20:29 <Alice> I think the pressurization comes from the air return.
20:31 <Alice> ... Tetris Devil.
20:31 <Ali> Yellow Devil?
20:31 <Ali> I don't remember a YD in MM4
20:32 <Schism> Ali: Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is a really, really good romhack of the original.
20:32 <Ali> I've seen it
20:32 <Ali> But I'm a filthy casual when it comes to Megaman. I'm good at it, but I don't expert strat the game
20:33 <Alice> It adds new bosses.
20:33 <Ali> I mean heck, I've 100%'d MM11 twice >.>
20:33 <Alice> Basically, thus is a variant of the Yellow Devil, but the arena and it's behaviour strikes me as tetris or puyopuyo like.
20:34 <Alice> You ever abuse glitches, Ali?
20:34 <Ali> Sometimes yes
20:34 <Ali> In Megaman I use the jump to the top of the screen to reach bottom floor ladders
20:34 <Ali> But not the pause glitch
20:35 <Ali> Or the Magnet Beam shuffle, that is a hard set up to grab that without Elec or Guts
20:35 <Alice> Congratulations, you're not a speedrunner or TAS player, but you have the makings of one, putting you above 90% of players minimum.
20:36 <Ali> I've beaten Yellow Devil without pausing
20:36 <Ali> Or abusing the pause glitch
20:36 <Ali> The only thing I don't like about Megaman 1
20:36 <Ali> Is the boss rush
20:37 <Ali> Cause fire man is for a casual, really hard to not take damage from
20:37 <Ali> And Guts man can be a real pain with one hit left
20:37 <Ali> Though I have the WORST time in 1 with Copy Robot
20:41 <Alice> Interesting, this mod. Besides doing things thought to be impossible, the dev also added a compensation mechanism to account for lag caused by too many sprites.
20:43 <Alice> Also added sloped tiles, which don't normally exist in the NES games.
20:44 <Alice> ... Also wondering if he requested a new mapper be implemented in emulators. Some of the functionality here would require a mapper not seen in NES games before.
20:44 <Ali> Well they were in SMB3
20:46 <Alice> Mega Man 4 Minus Infinity is not your typical romhack though.
20:47 <Alice> It doesn't just change layouts. It changes mechanics, adds new bosses, robots, weapon, etc. It adds new types of autoscrollers and such.
20:48 <Alice> It's within the bounds of the hardware, but I suspect to get thus running on an actual NES, it may require a special mapper chip.
20:49 <Alice> Mapper chips are extension chips that handle mapping of ROM memory in different ways. They provide special effects the NES by itself cannot do.
20:50 <Alice> Honestly, it is one of the best features of those old cartridge games, and if you ask me? Nintendo missed out on figuring out a way to do it with the DS, 3DS and Switch.
20:50 <Alice> That is, allowing extension chips.
20:50 <Ali> I've seen that version of 4, its interesting
20:50 <Alice> I mean, it's what allowed the original Starfox to be possible.
20:51 <Ali> I just hope that Megaman 12 won't be another 7 year gap
20:51 <Ali> Mode 7?
20:51 <Alice> That was SNES capability by default.
20:52 <Ali> I thought Mode 7 was what made Starfox work? Was there something else?
20:52 <Alice> The chip in the Starfox cartridge was the SuperFX. It was basically a math coprocessor with other special functions, to allow doing 3D math and polygon filling.
20:52 <Alice> Without it, Starfox would have been impossible.
20:54 <Ali> Oh right, the SuperFX, derp
20:54 <Alice> To explain why in simple terms.. Conventional console CPUs are slow at doing math that involves a decimal point, like 3.1, 5.2 and such. That kind of math is used extensively in 3D stuff though.
20:54 <Ali> Honestly I didn't own a SNES
20:54 <Ali> Kinda hard to when you got a free Sega Genesis
20:55 <Alice> Console and PC CPUs are best at doing integer(whole numbers) mathematics and moving data around in memory.
20:55 <Schism> If only mre corporate executives thought this way. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2800/fc02741.htm
20:55 <Schism> more*
20:56 <Alice> A simple addition of 2 + 3 for example, will be done in one cycle. In fact, multiple such operations may be done in one cycle, especially in modern CPUs.
20:56 <Alice> But 3.33 + 6.66? That may be many more cycles. Like, a lot more. Even an single extra cycle means it takes twice as long to do.
20:57 <Alice> And multiplication and division are even slower by a good magnitude.
20:58 <Alice> That's why the whole CPU FLOPS thing is ridiculous. They aren't designed for that kind of math, and anyone doing numerical work is gonna do that stuff on a GPU these days. Because those are designed to do that kind of math very fast.
20:59 <Alice> In fact, in terms of performance doing math, a GPU is the inverse of a CPU. It does math with decimal places several times faster than integer math.
20:59 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3419 [ http://tinyurl.com/y3opkfvq ]
21:00 <Alice> Because it has to do some internal binary conversion from integer to floating point numbers. Computers! Ain't they great?
21:01 <Alice> So yeah, back then, to improve performance, games would integrate special chips to perform stuff that the base hardware, either could not do, or did very slowly. In the case of the former, it was an extension. In the latter, an accelerator.
21:02 <Schism> H'okay. Back to the salt mines for this Jennifer.
21:05 <Alice> In the NES, these chips were usually called mapper chips. Because they mapped the ROM contents to system memory in different ways to achieve effects that the original NES 6502 could not achieve on it's own, such as access to larger ROM chips than it could conceivably support. I don't think anything beyond this was ever implemented on the NES cartridges.
21:05 <Alice> In the SNES, these sorts of chips still appeared, again to deal with the larger cartridge ROM sizes. But on top of that, the SNES provided enough power to the cart to drive different extension or accelerator chips.
21:07 <Alice> SuperFX being one. Others included audio chips, and chips to decrypt or decompress on the fly. MMX3 used the latter. As did Tales of Phantasia, because even with the increased cart sizes...
21:11 <Alice> Hum. Apparently minus infinity runs on hardware.
21:13 <Alice> Ah. It uses the MMC5 mapper. Which games use that...?
21:15 <Alice> Castlevania 3 used it.
21:15 <Ali> What a horrible night for a curse
21:15 <Alice> That was CV2 ya derp.
21:17 <Ali> I believe it was Castlevania 1 that did that
21:17 <Ali> err no
21:17 <Ali> Don't mind me, I'm le dum
21:17 <Alice> Deeerp!
21:18 <Alice> Looks like the MMC5 was the most powerful of the mappers, but not many games used it. Probably too costly, and too late into the life of the NES.
21:19 <Alice> Hilariously, MM4 does not use it. So the romhack makes the game use it.
21:19 <Alice> Which probably means quite a bit of recoding.
21:22 <Alice> Okay, these chips did more than just mapping of memory. They are akin to the SuperFX sort of as well.
21:26 * Lumindia hugs everyone!
21:26 <Lumindia> \o/
21:26 <Lumindia> "What a horrible night" was castlevania 2
21:26 <Alice> It provided some extra RAM, extra audio channels, reset detection, floodfill algorithms to fill entire regions of the screen to a set color. It could also be used to provide more WRAM(Work RAM. Think a scratch pad. More in line with typical computer memory, but designed for a specific purpose.)
21:28 <Alice> A
21:29 <Alice> Also appears to provide an 8-bit by 8-bit multiplier with 16-bit result.
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21:38 <Lumindia> A
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21:43 <Alice> My tablet is a tad sensitive, and often reads a tap at the "send" button if I hit any keys near it.
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22:18 <Alice> Mmm. Technical specs.
22:19 <Alice> Only thing to fill me with near as much or more euphoria than certain activities as of late.
22:38 <Alice> https://i.redd.it/n3t2dtdx0oe51.jpg
22:41 <Schism> A criminally smol cat is that.
22:44 * Ali nibbles on the Schism ear as she rolls another OoTR seed
22:44 * Lumindia nibbles on Ali's ear
22:44 <Lumindia> o vo
22:44 <Lumindia> nyum nyum
22:45 <Schism> I should really roll some seeds of that sometime, but... first I should actually play the game vanilla again, to refresh my memory of where things are.
22:45 <Alice> Hum, where are my other HDMI cables .?
22:45 * Lumindia nibbles on Schism's ear as well
22:47 <Schism> For all that she's a big jerk, this mayor is a great character. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3000/fc02987.htm
22:48 <Ali> Schism, the thing is you could set the Rando to vanilla, just so you don't need to have the long cutscences
22:48 <Schism> That is a possibility.
22:48 <PinkieShy> I didn't sleep truly good last night.. :/
22:48 <PinkieShy> I woke up at 2:30am thought i saw something that looked stick like and had horns at the edge of my bed.
22:49 * Alice looks at cat. "... I need to put a towel in there for you."
22:49 <PinkieShy> I was so scared being first thing i saw awakening and I screamed out loud.. Turned on the light quickly and it disappears..
22:49 <PinkieShy> I couldn't sleep after that :(
22:51 <Alice> https://twitter.com/LuminousOcean/status/1290057546649104384?s=19
22:52 <PinkieShy> Seriously though who wouldn't scream if they saw something pitch dark with horns at the edge of their bed in the dark as soon as you wake up..
22:53 <Alice> Sounds like Jim. Nice guy.
22:56 <PinkieShy> That wasn't the first time something scared me awake to appear that wasn't there..
22:57 <Ali> Wee, Keysanity is on~
22:57 <PinkieShy> I remember last year I woke up and thought i kept seeing giant spider webs haning off the ceiling over my head or that time I thought the light fixture was hanging down..
22:57 <Alice> Those are night terrors, especially if you find yourself paralyzed.
22:58 <PinkieShy> It sucks when it happens.. :/
22:58 <Alice> Basically, you're in a state of dreaming while being able to perceive your surroundings. The shadows are just your imagination.
22:59 <PinkieShy> Alright :3
23:03 <Alice> Okay, after this coffee, I need to clean this room. Skyhigh humidity and dampness be danged.
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23:12 <Ali> Well, I have bombs, hookshot, bow, lord banana and the butterknife
23:13 <Ali> And that was only in Adult Kakariko and Deku Tree
23:13 <Ali> Also these settings suck, nothing is heavily shuffled.
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23:20 * Lumindia chews on Jackie's ear
23:20 <Lumindia> all the ponies get nommed on
23:20 * Jackie_ purrs
23:20 <Alice> Oop. Debit card expired.
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23:24 <Nedemai> ^.^
23:24 <Nedemai> hugs?
23:25 * Lumindia hugs Nedemai!
23:25 <Lumindia> o vo
23:25 <Lumindia> hugs are nice
23:29 <Alice> They are, yes.
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