00:00 <Alice> There's a reason I want him to live, and go through the worst of it. That said, as I stated, he likely won't learn *YAY* from it. So, it's moot.
00:00 <Schism> Mm. Ah well, back to the grind.
00:02 <Alice> I'm getting tired of this illness.
00:02 <Alice> At least this time I know I'm sick.
00:02 <Alice> That said, I don't think the antibiotics are doing anything. I'm having the same symptoms I had prior to calling the doctor.
00:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Discussion: What Other Show Do You Want to See Pony Crossed Over With? [ http://tinyurl.com/yxkt4892 ]
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00:03 <Alice> Well, aside from the cough.
00:03 <Alice> Just pressure against my neck, headache. Nausea when I eat food.
00:04 <Stormspark> he's not capable of learning, I don't consider him a living being
00:17 <PrincessRainbows> In the end I too am unable to empathize with inanimate objects and other non-intelligent life, maybe that's bad
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01:13 <Lumindia> https://i.imgur.com/MWQ3rHL.jpg took us an hour, but we did it
01:13 <Lumindia> an all healer run of The Puppets' Bunker
01:29 <Alice> I want to ask what's going on in Death Stranding right now, but I know the answer is just "It's Kojima. What else?"
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02:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2300 [ http://tinyurl.com/y44oswrh ]
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02:06 <ADragonDreaming> fnar.
02:07 <ADragonDreaming> how do I tell this program to start itself automatically.
02:10 <Alice> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-winpc/autostart-a-program-in-windows-10/940682ae-8872-47ce-964d-8b1e820d9a5a
02:11 <ADragonDreaming> aye, thankee kindly.
02:11 <Alice> No problem.
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02:19 <Alice> When you're singlehandedly responsible for reconstructing a majority of the roads in a region, you sure get a lot of likes as a result..
02:21 <ADragonDreaming> aye?
02:24 <Alice> Death Stranding.
02:24 <ADragonDreaming> Ahhh, I see.
02:24 <Alice> You can reconstruct roads in each major region.
02:25 <Alice> Each game seems to be connected to a set session of a set number of players, from what I can see. Probably based on approximate region where one lives. In any case, while they cannot directly interact, they can all contribute to the overall wellness state of the game.
02:26 <Alice> That said, from what I can tell, I've pretty much been the only person rebuilding the roads in the session I'm a part of.
02:28 <ADragonDreaming> Doing your civic duty!
02:29 <ADragonDreaming> That said ... mm. I'm not sure about that type of connection.
02:37 <Alice> You can at least turn it off if you want.
02:38 <Alice> But in general, it basically provides stuff such as lost cargo to return for points, helps boost certain stats, and structures built by other players may appear.
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02:38 <Alice> The setup though limits who you can interact with in regards to all that. For example, I haven't seen any of my friends structures, because they're in different "sessions"
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02:40 <ADragonDreaming> Aye, I'm just not so much of a fan of things in my single-play session being dependent on what other people do. Good that it has a toogle.
02:40 <ADragonDreaming> *toggle
02:43 <Alice> Mmm.
02:46 * PinkieShy turns into a cat and says "Check Meowt
02:51 <Alice> I'm going to kill you, PinkieShy. Not right now, though. One day, you'll be walking along, see a shadow nearby, and it'll be too late. Your sin? Puns. So you must be punished.
02:51 <PinkieShy> lol
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03:05 <RazorSharpFang> Good morning
03:05 <ADragonDreaming> Yo
03:05 <RazorSharpFang> My sold put on AT&T expired In-The-Money, so I'm almost certain to get assigned shortly.
03:06 <ADragonDreaming> ...I have no idea what you just said.
03:07 <RazorSharpFang> Okay, so AT&T is a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange in America, traded under NYSE: T.
03:08 <ADragonDreaming> oh, stock market things?
03:09 <RazorSharpFang> Now, a Put refers to a Contract (Option) against a particular underlying (NYSE: T in this case)
03:09 <Alice> Yeah, he's a stock market individual.
03:10 <RazorSharpFang> Am now. I started trading options about a month ago. Prior to that I was just buying and sitting on shares.
03:10 <RazorSharpFang> Which works until it doesn't.
03:12 <Alice> So, how's handling the quarantining going for you, ADra?
03:12 <RazorSharpFang> Now, a Put refers to a contract that gives the buyer of that contract the Option (hence why they're called Options) to sell the underlying AT EXACTLY the agreed upon price (Strike-Price) at (OR BEFORE) the Expiration-date.
03:14 <RazorSharpFang> Currently, I am selling option-contracts. This means I have an obligation, but the buyer of the contract has the option.
03:14 <ADragonDreaming> While I appreciate the attempt to explain, Razor, I'm not going to be able to process all of this at the moment.
03:14 <RazorSharpFang> And for selling these contracts, I am awarded money for doing that.
03:15 <RazorSharpFang> Yeah, it is a bit much to explain all at once.
03:15 <ADragonDreaming> Alice: I have nothing to complain about in terms of personal situation.
03:16 <ADragonDreaming> I'm in that fortunate position of remaining gainfully employed in a position that does not ask me to put either myself or others at risk.
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03:19 <Alice> Hum. I've been tested 3 times in the last four or so months. About to be tested again. I've only gone outside for either testing, or for hospital reasons. I'm slowly starting to go a tad crazy.
03:20 <Alice> It's slower than most though, due to being an introvert.
03:20 <ADragonDreaming> ...oh, you're Cepheid.
03:20 <ADragonDreaming> I just now looked at the name list.
03:20 <Alice> Mmm.
03:20 <Alice> Long story.
03:21 <ADragonDreaming> Understandable.
03:26 <Schism> Hi hi, Adra!
03:26 * Schism waves, collapsing in from her job.
03:26 <ADragonDreaming> y'ello
03:28 <Schism> Oh, chickens are coming home to roost...
03:28 * Schism smiles at the news spreading like, oh, something that spreads quickly from person to person. "Kellyanne Conway, now."
03:29 <ADragonDreaming> It is what it is.
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03:35 <Schism> 'tis.
03:37 <Alice> Well that was extremely stupid of me.
03:37 <Alice> I decided to take a shortcut to get to South Knot City. My advice? Don't take shortcuts.
03:38 <ADragonDreaming> Did you run into a grue?
03:38 <Alice> Something like that, yes.
03:38 <Schism> Is there now another crater on that shortcut?
03:39 <Alice> In Death Stranding, the enemies tend to be either humans, or BTs. BTs are basically these things that are, for the most part, invisible. You can use the scanner, or just be slow and get near them to spot them.
03:39 <Alice> If you get spotted by one, and then grabbed, you can get dragged down into an oily mud, and if that happens you face a much bigger BT.
03:39 <Alice> Long story short, driving in a region with known BT presence is a BAD IDEA.
03:39 <Alice> I'm lucky it turned out as it did.
03:41 <Schism> Didn't quite get voided out. o3o
03:41 <Alice> Also, the reason it's such a big deal is you need a special type of weapon to hurt them, and if the big one kills ye, you kind of... cause permanent damage to the landscape.
03:41 <Alice> https://i.imgur.com/Gonz2uX.png This is the result of the last time I got beat up.
03:42 <ADragonDreaming> woof
03:44 <Alice> Long story short, don't die to BTs.
03:55 <Alice> Right, I should wander off and get some sleep.
03:55 * Schism tries not to cough overmuch as a little bit of ramen goes down the wrong pipe.
03:55 <Schism> Rest well, Alice. *hork*
03:55 <Alice> Will do.
03:56 <ADragonDreaming> g'night!
04:10 <Stormspark> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_9rWH0p43A
04:10 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.
04:10 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about THE CAN OPENER BRIDGE - 11foot8.com Bridge
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05:24 <Schism> Alice: Behold, kittypurse. https://twitter.com/Ruefers/status/1311726884271673344
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08:06 * Starlight_Glimmer yawns and sits on Ali
08:06 * Ali squeaks under Starlight_Glimmer
08:07 <Starlight_Glimmer> For the first time during this pandemic I was in the cinema yesterday
08:07 * Golden flops.
08:33 * Ali nuzzles into Starlight_Glimmer's belly.
08:34 * Starlight_Glimmer snuzzles Ali
08:45 <Starlight_Glimmer> So to-do list for day: Groceries, cleaning up my bed room, some cooking.
08:47 <Ali> Snuggling a lonely mare
08:47 <Starlight_Glimmer> the day*
08:47 * Ali grabbyhooves at Starlight_Glimmer
09:07 * Starlight_Glimmer kisses Ali on the cheek before taking a shower
09:53 * Dappled exists. Sup?
09:57 <Dappled> Oh good, the next Democracy is happening in 3 days, who decided to put it out now?
09:58 * Dappled ponders giving Democracy 3 another go. But then again, that's a game for smart people.
10:16 * Lumindia awakens
10:16 * Lumindia snugs all the ponies~!
10:17 * Dappled waves to Lumindia. Also snugs.
10:17 <Lumindia> o 3o
10:37 * Dappled currently exists in that post "busted my butt to get through a game and now don't know what to play."
10:37 * Dappled glares at Pokemon White 2.
10:39 <Lumindia> hmmst
10:39 * Lumindia ponishrug, then flop on the dappled one
10:40 * Dappled hugs Lumindia again. This is friend pony.
10:45 <Lumindia> ♥
10:50 <Lumindia> Dappled is freind pony as well
10:50 <Lumindia> friend*
10:50 * Dappled pony purrs.
10:54 * Lumindia glares at the XIV marketboard
10:54 <Lumindia> Stop undercutting me you hecks, I have things to sell!
11:00 * Ali grabbies Dappled..
11:00 * Dappled snuggles Ali.
11:01 * Ali tells Dappled she beat Ruby with only two mons.
11:01 * Dappled ooohs and ahhhhs. Which two?
11:02 <Ali> Swampert and Crobat
11:02 <Ali> Only reason for Crobat was Shiny.
11:03 * Dappled thinks that's a good reason.
11:04 <Ali> ALso bleh, reseting Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is not fun
11:04 <Ali> Shinys and Mythical Legends
11:06 <Dappled> Yeah. I'm not even going to try for shiny legendaries. They either happen or they don't. If I was going to, I'd get like a kit to externally push those buttons over and over for me till it popped up shiny. Just leave it to it for a few weeks.
11:08 <Ali> Well its not the wild shinies
11:08 * Dappled headtilts.
11:08 <Ali> It looks like an event Beldum, cause its in that red ball
11:08 * Lumindia boops Ali's snoot
11:09 * Ali squeaks
11:09 <Lumindia> Ali is friend pony as well!
11:09 * Lumindia hug muchly
11:13 * Ali curls into Lumindia and Dappled
11:20 * Dappled snuggles more. Ponders... Bed... Games later.
11:22 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #2073 [ http://tinyurl.com/y28w82so ]
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11:26 <RazorSharpFang> I have finally decommissioned the nuclear facility, we're not running of 100% solar energy.
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12:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Animatic: Three Little Ponies [ http://tinyurl.com/y3rlu2yk ]
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14:07 <Finwe> Good afternoon, everypony.
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15:39 <Finwe> Lt Pony|50375.
15:39 <Finwe> o7
15:39 * Pony|50375 wavewave.
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16:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: Charity Compilation Album: Helpie's Corner - Shelter of Hope [ http://tinyurl.com/y3dvz5t5 ]
16:10 * Alice awakens.
16:23 * Schism passes Alice a pumpkin.
16:23 <Schism> Is it truly doomscrolling when I'm eagerly awaiting that next bit of schadenfreude?
16:25 <ADragonDreaming> What is doomscrolling?
16:26 <Schism> Continually scrolling down on your Twitter feed or similar media, knowing that you're just going to keep seeing bad news.
16:27 <Schism> There's for Chris Christie and Ron Johnson, for example.
16:29 <ADragonDreaming> Ah.
16:29 <ADragonDreaming> Pretty much the only social media I visit at all is Imgur.
16:30 <Alice> I avoid looking into the controversial parts of Twitter, myself. And moderate my feed by removing people who work to make sure I am aware of X, Y or Z.
16:30 <Alice> I use social media purely for entertainment purposes. Keep the depressing crap out of my sight, please.
16:32 * Alice walks around in an orange space suit. o3o
16:32 <ADragonDreaming> Yeah... I don't ignore the stuff but on the other hand I would rather not immerse myself in all of it all the time.
16:32 <ADragonDreaming> orange is sus
16:34 <ADragonDreaming> I have certainly fallen down the rabbit hole of watching the same Among Us game from five or more different perspectives this past week or so.
16:35 <Schism> Would that be the Markiplier/Wade/Jack/whoeverelse streams?
16:35 <Alice> I don't necessarily ignore the news.
16:35 <ADragonDreaming> Yep.
16:35 <Alice> I just choose to use sources more... dedicated to it, for purposes of learning what's going on.
16:35 <ADragonDreaming> AYe.
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16:35 <Schism> "Okay, guys, I killed him! ...wait, I mean... no I didn't? Probably? No, I didn't."
16:35 <Alice> Twitter's text limit just... makes it impossible to get an idea as to what's really going on. And the responses in threads can be...
16:35 <Schism> [Markiplier goes on to win the game.]
16:36 <ADragonDreaming> Indicative of a lack of critical thinking, to be charitable.
16:36 <Alice> That's a light way of putting it, yes.
16:36 <ADragonDreaming> ("Mark, where were you?" "I went to do the thing with Wade." "Wade's dead." "Yeah, and?")
16:36 <Stormspark> talking about lack of critical thinking...I keep seeing people parrot Microsoft and Sony marketing that the new consoles will be able to do "8k"
16:36 <Stormspark> lol
16:36 <Stormspark> not even the 3090 can do 8k
16:37 <Stormspark> I mean hey it managed 37fps in a 12 year old game, and a whopping 11fps in Quake 2 RTX
16:37 <ADragonDreaming> "Did you kill him?" "No! No no no. Maybe. Yes? He might have deserved it ... but I'm gonna go with no."
16:37 <Stormspark> and the new consoles won't be anywhere even close to a 3090
16:37 <Stormspark> or even a 3080
16:37 <ADragonDreaming> And then manages to flip the script on Sean later.
16:37 <Schism> Adra: I loved that bit. How he didn't immediately get voted off... maybe because being suspicious is Mark's normal behaviour.
16:38 <Alice> I'd argue that 8k is more viable when utilizing DLSS 2.1. But in that case, you're sacrificing quality for performance.
16:38 <Alice> I've done tests with DLSS2.1
16:38 <Alice> Death Stranding, I got ~30 FPS at 4k, full graphics settings, with DLSS disabled.
16:38 <Alice> It jumped to over 80 FPS with Ultra Performance mode, which is what's meant to be used for 8k.
16:38 <ADragonDreaming> Schism: Plus he and Wade have that sort of relationship. Also he did the 'normal voice' statement later about where he was that Ze confirmed, casting the earlier confession as a joke.
16:38 <ADragonDreaming> He's crafty.
16:39 <Schism> Aye. :>
16:39 <Alice> But I saw a considerable impact on the quality of the final image, using Ultra Performance.
16:39 <Alice> So, it's a tradeoff.
16:39 <Alice> Higher resolution, yes, but lower quality.
16:40 <ADragonDreaming> And later: "This is Baby's meeting! Clang clang! I, dead body, RYANN!"
16:40 <ADragonDreaming> (Ze's video intro for that one is highly amusing)
16:41 <Alice> Hum, do I have MHWorld on that old platter drive of mine? I'd be faster to transfer it over to the new drive rather than just re-download the game.
16:41 <Alice> Oh.
16:41 <Alice> ADragonDreaming. New Monster Hunter.
16:41 <ADragonDreaming> For Switch?
16:41 <Alice> Monster Hunter: Rise, Switch.
16:41 <ADragonDreaming> Aye.
16:41 <Alice> Also Monster Hunter Stories 2.
16:41 <ADragonDreaming> I never knew there was a Stories 1.
16:42 <ADragonDreaming> Until, like, two days ago
16:42 <Alice> Heh.
16:42 <Alice> It's basically a Pokemon-style MH game, as I understand it.
16:42 <Alice> But actually a decent game despite that design.
16:42 <Schism> Adra: "I don't know if he's a genius or a moron!"
16:42 <Alice> As for Rise itself...
16:42 <Alice> It's interesting, from what I've seen, from a visual standpoint.
16:42 <Alice> It seems to be a mix of old-world and new-world.
16:43 <ADragonDreaming> Schism: Literally everybody in the comments responding "Yes."
16:43 <ADragonDreaming> I need to look up some footage
16:43 <Alice> Looks like they intend to take the best features of the New World, such as the fluid motion, climbing, exploration aspects and such, and combining it with Old World content.
16:43 <Alice> So, Monster Hunter: Old World, basically.
16:44 <Alice> But yeah, the visual style itself... It's definitely upgraded from the Old World games, but it's more reminiscent of those games in terms of graphical style.
16:44 <Alice> So more anime-ish.
16:44 <Alice> It certainly looks brighter.
16:45 <Alice> When it comes to World's visual style, my only complaint is that it feels kind of on the dark side.
16:45 <Schism> "It was Sean! I saw him doing it right there!
16:45 <Alice> Heh.
16:45 <Alice> I've been watching 5up's videos, myself.
16:45 <Alice> He's pulled some pretty impressive tricks and powerplays.
16:45 <ADragonDreaming> Looks interesting
16:46 <Alice> Up to an including even throwing his own imposter buddies under the bus.
16:47 <ADragonDreaming> Aye, the deception plays are interesting, and that's part of why I keep watching the same thing from different perspectives.
16:47 <Alice> https://i.imgur.com/mLIWEO0.png Man, not even my old NVMe could do this.
16:47 <ADragonDreaming> nvme?
16:47 <ADragonDreaming> (I can't do the capitals because filter)
16:48 <Schism> The SSDs that are like a stick of chewing gum.
16:48 <ADragonDreaming> Ah
16:49 <Alice> Actually, that's more M.2 form factor rather than NVMe.
16:49 <Schism> Oh, so 'tis. I should still get myself an M.2 NVMe, though.
16:49 <Alice> The reason I bring this up is because there's actually two types of M.2 form factor drives that look exactly the same in terms of appearance.
16:49 <Alice> Well, almost.
16:49 <Alice> The keying is different.
16:49 <Alice> But there's SATA3 and NVMe variants of the drives. As for the difference?
16:50 <Alice> NVMe drives are connected directly to the PCIe bus, so their performance exceeds SATA3 drives by at least a factor of 2.
16:50 <ADragonDreaming> ah, okay
16:50 <Alice> The actual performance seems to be dependent on the size of the drive, presumably because reads/writes are spread out over the chips.
16:51 <Alice> That, and whether they use some form of high-performance cache to fool benchmarks.
16:51 <Alice> Samsung's drives seem to do this, but it doesn't really work because benchmark folks are aware of the feature.
16:52 <Alice> Get a decent enough drive, though, and you can get read/write performance in the 3-4 gigabytes/sec sequential range. Rather than a typical SATA3 SSD, which will be limited to around ~500-600 megabytes/sec.
16:53 <ADragonDreaming> noice
16:53 <Alice> That said, it does eff-all for overhead from the OS in opening files.
16:53 <Alice> So if a game uses a lot of small files for it's resources, instead of say, large archive formats, or uses some method of loading data that assumes platter drives..
16:53 <Alice> The performance improvement will be minimal.
16:54 <Alice> Boot times are amazing, though.
16:54 <Alice> PC spends more time in the POST than it does loading the OS and any startup apps.
16:54 <ADragonDreaming> Aye, I've seen the same on this lapto
16:54 <ADragonDreaming> *laptop
16:55 * Schism giggles at Jack's face at Mark's statement of "maybe he deserved it?"
16:55 <Alice> Ah, that's better.
16:55 <Alice> A few minutes to copy the data over.
16:55 <Alice> Then 9 minutes to download remaining updates.
16:55 <Alice> Down from ~3 hours.
16:55 <ADragonDreaming> huzzah!
16:56 <ADragonDreaming> I will say, I've watched Jack's actual episodes, and then I found a recording of the whole stream he did, and I prefer the unedited stream.
16:56 <Alice> Oh, with respect to that image, the "even my old NVMe couldn't do that" was in regards to the consistent speed. Drive has performance issues when attempting to do long read/write operations. Partly due to the fact that the drive overheated quite rapidly, and performance takes a hit.
16:57 <ADragonDreaming> aha
16:58 <Alice> Only oddity regarding NVMe drives. They run very hot, so you actually need a heatsink for them.
16:59 <Alice> But it turns out the heatsink in my PC simply wasn't good enough for that old drive. That, or the thermal pad that was on it was garbage.
16:59 <ADragonDreaming> or both.
17:00 <Alice> Probably.
17:00 <Alice> Whatever bottlenecks remain in this system, I can't identify them. I think I may be pushing this configuration to it's absolute limits, these days.
17:02 <Alice> In practice, I can replace the RAM with higher speed/capacity, up to 64GiB. But I don't think that'll improve performance much at this point, except in one specific case which is tricky to set up in the first place. I can also, in theory, replace the CPU with a 3000-series CPU, but I'm hesitant to do that, because the motherboard wasn't initially designed for them.
17:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Episode Rewatch - MLP Season 4 Episode 19 - 20 - For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils / Leap of Faith [ http://tinyurl.com/y6ns8j7d ]
17:03 <Alice> Also, I'm broke.
17:03 <ADragonDreaming> I'm very cautious about motherboard compatibility, aye.
17:04 * Schism looks at Minecraft!Kirby. "Well, that's about as cute as expected."
17:06 <Alice> Well, ASUS specifically covers which CPUs are supported with their documentation, and for legal reasons, I would assume that those CPUs in questions *HAVE* to be usable, or it's false advertising.
17:06 <Alice> But yeah.
17:07 <Alice> They were designed with an 500-series motherboard chipset in mind, as well as PCIe4 support. So...
17:08 <Schism> Hey, Alice, did you hear about the patron who was arrested for stealing hard liquor at a bar?
17:09 <Schism> He said he was just trying to lift some spirits.
17:09 * Alice stabs Schism.
17:10 <Schism> I can't take credit. >.>; https://twitter.com/jamesdnicoll/status/1312404402175606784
17:11 <Alice> Heh.
17:15 <Alice> Right, gonna go take a shower now.
17:30 <Alice> Hum, I'm gonna have to have a talk with my sister at some point. I think the pandemic, alongside her job, is finally starting to break her.
17:31 <ADragonDreaming> wuh-oh
17:32 <Alice> She ended up at her local clinic again for anaphylaxis. She's got a blood condition that causes her to break out in severe hives and other symptoms, often requiring epinephrine. We don't know what the trigger is exactly, but in general, it seems to happen whenever she's getting seriously stressed out.
17:32 <Alice> And based on her last few text messages, I'm suspecting that she had a severe panic attack.
17:32 <Schism> Stress can definitely cause that, yeah... I hope that she'll be all right.
17:33 <Alice> Physically, she's okay. But I'm not sure how she's doing mentally.
17:33 <Alice> Truth told?
17:33 <Alice> Her text messages remind me of how I used to be about a decade ago.
17:34 <Alice> She sent me a text message, then a while later, when I didn't respond(I was asleep), she started coming up with these explanations as to why I wasn't responding, some of them being of the sort of "Are you upset with me?"
17:34 <ADragonDreaming> oh dear, that's not a good sign
17:38 <Alice> Mm.
17:39 <Alice> In any case... Hum. Stellaris devs covered an interesting problem.
17:39 <ADragonDreaming> oh?
17:40 <Alice> You know how the game takes a long time to load, right? That initial load is nearly a full minute?
17:41 <ADragonDreaming> I vaguely remember this, yes.
17:41 <Alice> Turns out the cause of the problem is the library they use for loading resources and other data files.
17:42 <ADragonDreaming> inefficient algorithms?
17:45 <Alice> Poorly threaded.
17:45 <Alice> Apparently, so poorly threaded that, the more cores a CPU had, the worse the performance.
17:47 <Alice> Ngghh... stupid hea- ... Oh, right, I need to do that.
17:49 <ADragonDreaming> headache happening?
17:57 <Alice> Yeah, it's not the usual headaches though.
17:57 <Alice> It's all over my head, rather than in the face/eyes as usual.
17:58 <Alice> I also get a weird sensation of something pressing up against the back of my neck. Been happening daily for the last week and a half now.
17:58 <Alice> It doesn't last long, fortunately.
17:58 <Alice> The bigger issue is more the random, rampant nausea.
17:58 <Alice> And the coughing.
17:58 <Alice> Which is why I'm getting yet *ANOTHER* COVID test done.
17:59 <Alice> Fourth one in 2-3 months now.
17:59 <ADragonDreaming> oof
17:59 <Alice> Waste of time and resources. I don't go out anywhere, except to see a doctor in person when requested, or for a COVID test.
17:59 <ADragonDreaming> aye
17:59 <Alice> The only way I'd be able to contract it is through my parents.
17:59 <ADragonDreaming> I read an article talking about its spread pattern, too, which tends to be in superclusters.
18:00 <Alice> I mean, yeah, the number of new cases a day is going back up here, due to the start of school at all levels, but..
18:00 <Alice> I'm not attending university in person.
18:00 <Alice> It's all distance education.
18:00 <ADragonDreaming> aye
18:02 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Renegade Game Studios Bringing New Roleplaying and Deckbuilding Games to My Little Pony [ http://tinyurl.com/y2jpctuj ]
18:11 <Alice> Man, people. Stop leaving your junk on the roads. *Drives around abandoned trikes and trucks in Death Stranding*
18:29 <Alice> ...
18:30 <Alice> You sons of b- You stole my truck! HOW DARE YOU!?
18:30 <ADragonDreaming> Can you get it back?
18:33 <Alice> Yeah.
18:33 <Alice> By knocking all of them out and taking it back.
18:33 <Alice> Which I just did.
18:33 <ADragonDreaming> noice
18:35 <Alice> https://i.imgur.com/buBqSby.png
18:36 <ADragonDreaming> that's quite the spread of items.
18:36 <Alice> Yeah, every MULE generally carries an item on them.
18:37 <Alice> And if you beat them up, they drop it. That, or you can just rip it off of them with a sticky gun.
18:38 <Alice> MULEs basically being delivery people who've quite literally gone crazy and want to deliver stuff, come hell or high water, even if it means stealing stuff from others to deliver it.
18:39 <ADragonDreaming> Ah, I see
18:39 <Alice> As for why they're still alive, the game discourages killing. You *CAN* kill, but it's heavily discouraged.
18:40 <Alice> If someone's body starts decaying in the presence of a BT, it can cause something called a voidout. That massive crater I showed you last night? That's the result of a voidout. From the lore of the game, it's basically a matter-antimatter reaction.
18:40 <ADragonDreaming> I see
18:40 <Alice> It's both an explosion, and quite literally the removal of all matter in a region.
18:41 <Alice> This isn't really spoilerific. It's explained early on.
18:42 <Alice> It's not a bad game. But it's... unique, in that it appeals to a very specific type of individual to play it.
18:42 <ADragonDreaming> Aye
18:42 <Alice> If you're the type that likes doing courier missions and such in say, a space faring game, that is, delivering resources to someone else so they can produce X, Y or Z, then you'd likely enjoy it.
18:43 <Alice> As there's a lot of delivery involved.
18:44 <Alice> Truth told, I wish there were more games like that, with markets and such that actually matter in some way to the game world.
18:45 <ADragonDreaming> Elite Dangerous seems to be that way. The issue I have though is that I don't do well with the games that need self-motivation
18:50 <Alice> Thing about Elite Dangerous is it doesn't really seem to have a market per se in that sense. Far as I know, delivery of materials doesn't actually do all that much, except change alignments with factions or change system status from one status to another. It doesn't affect production.
18:50 <ADragonDreaming> I've only played it a little bit.
18:51 <ADragonDreaming> Enough to realize it's not quite Wing Commander: Privateer enough for me
18:51 <ADragonDreaming> in that there's no plotline.
18:51 <Alice> Really, I should probably start playing X4.
18:54 <Alice> At least, in Death Stranding, when you do the delivery stuff, you get rewarded for it.
18:54 <Alice> Usually in the form of new equipment or vehicles to manufacture, or resources.
18:54 <ADragonDreaming> Is there some kind of end goal?
18:56 <Alice> There is, there's a story for the game overall.
18:56 <Alice> Basically, figuring out what happened, among other things.
18:56 <ADragonDreaming> aha, okay
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18:57 <Alice> And why having a baby in a bottle helps you see the monsters.
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20:19 <Alice> Apparently, I've delivered 700 pieces of cargo in Death Stranding.
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21:23 <Alice> Yo. Schism. What's your progress on MH:World?
21:30 <Alice> Righty-O, this room's getting too warm. Time to grab a fan and open some windows.
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21:41 <Alice> Hum. Another day, another asshole blocked on Twitter.
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22:10 * Dappled explains that he is a horse.
22:25 * Lumindia inspects Dappled to confirm this fact
22:25 * Lumindia snuffles them
22:26 * Lumindia gives them a sticker saying "This is a horse!"
22:37 * Alice attaches a sticky note that reads "Not a mimic."
22:37 <Dappled> How dare you.
22:38 <Dappled> Mimics are an important part of the ecosystem.
22:39 <Alice> Mimics are tricky little critters. They sometimes like to take on the appearance of other things. And people.
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22:40 <Dappled> And sometimes they form adventuring parties with a gelatinous cube and a rust monster.
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22:40 <Dappled> http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-1-title/
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22:59 <Dappled> In honor of spooktober, I shall beat Darkest Dungeon.
23:03 <Alice> Hum, dinner time. o3o
23:03 <Alice> And, I should do the same, Dappled.
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23:06 <Lumindia> Dappled: Just remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
23:12 <ADragonDreaming> I return from dinner.
23:14 <Alice> As do I.
23:18 <Alice> Shall we head back to the hunt?
23:19 <ADragonDreaming> aye
23:20 <Alice> Session's up.
23:20 * Dappled isn't over confident. He's hyper confident. He'll never lose another hero.
23:20 <Dappled> Also Alice, PC or PS4?
23:21 * Dappled is nosy.
23:22 <Alice> PC.
23:24 * Dappled doesn't have PC. Is unable to play with.
23:42 <Lumindia> https://i.imgur.com/qMS2pjG.png
23:42 <Lumindia> Rank 20 Chocobo~!
23:42 <Lumindia> :eyes:
23:46 <Schism> What, you didn't get your chocobuddy to 20 long ago? o3o;
23:46 * Schism colours Lumindia's chocobo a caramel brown.
23:47 <Schism> Alice: Haven't really *played* it at all... not really been in a gaming mood the last few weeks for some reason.
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