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00:01 * Cepheid checks next quest in line.
00:01 <Cepheid> ... Oh no.
00:01 <ADragonDreaming> oh no?
00:03 <Cepheid> It unlocks the Guiding Lands, first of all. Secondly, new monsters!
00:03 <ADragonDreaming> but why oh no?
00:05 <Cepheid> Just, the monster introduced. It's... both one of my favourites, and one of the ones I hate to fight.
00:05 <ADragonDreaming> ah, I see
00:05 <ADragonDreaming> Zinogre zin?
00:06 <Cepheid> Good ole' Shock Doggie, yeah.
00:07 <Cepheid> Also, unlocks our Master Rank.
00:07 <Cepheid> I'm MR49.
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00:08 <Cepheid> Knowing you, you're probably higher.
00:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Fanfiction Updates - November 11th [ https://tinyurl.com/y49fyrdj ]
00:08 <ADragonDreaming> Maybe.
00:08 <ADragonDreaming> My hunter rank is lower, but I suppose I may have done more master rank stuff.
00:09 <Cepheid> You mentioned doing such during weekdays when I'm not awake late enough, so yeah.
00:10 <Cepheid> Okay, so the Guiding Lands have some mechanics associated with 'em.
00:11 <Cepheid> It's split into regions, each of which has a level, for both resources and other things, presumably monsters. Meanwhile...
00:12 <Cepheid> Since it's purely expedition-only, there's a new option to join expeditions to the Guiding Lands.
00:14 <Cepheid> Looks like it also unlocks a steamworks expediting system.
00:14 <Cepheid> ... Not expediting.
00:15 <Cepheid> It multiplies the rewards in return for using 10 times the fuel per input.
00:17 <Cepheid> Good way to get a lot of armorspheres.
00:17 <ADragonDreaming> aye
01:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Filly Funtasia Is Apparently Not Dead, Season 2 Trailer Released [ https://tinyurl.com/y3vduefe ]
01:20 <Schism> Still HR14. Just popping in to poke the Gold Saucer for this week while I'm on break...
01:22 <Schism> Hrmf. Update to GShade. Going to have to do that so that I can keep playing the game without it looking like I'm viewing it through a dusty lens.
01:24 <Schism> I should probably install it for Monhan, too.
01:27 <Schism> Oh, it's not available for Monster Hunter. Oh well.
01:27 <Schism> PSO2, ESO, FFXIV, and WoW, but not Monhan. Fiiine. Anyway, for now, back to work.
01:28 <Cepheid> If you need help, you can just ask us ye know. :P
01:57 <ADragonDreaming> what's gshade?
02:04 <Cepheid> External tool which applies shader effects to games.
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02:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2336 [ https://tinyurl.com/y2n7lff5 ]
02:15 <ADragonDreaming> ah
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03:25 * Finwe noms on Ali.
03:25 * Ali squeaks at Finwe
03:29 * Finwe hides under Ali, should not be awake this early.
03:29 <Ali> But its 10pm :P
03:30 <Finwe> 5:30 a.m. :/
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03:35 <Finwe> I vaguely remember taking a nap after lunch.
03:36 <Finwe> Then I wake up at 5 a.m.
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04:04 <Cepheid> Bit o' last minute research on Guiding Lands, just to see what we're dealing with, before I sleep.
04:06 <Cepheid> So, MR49, MR69, and MR99 are the big three numbers associated with it. Increases the maximum region levels.
04:07 <Cepheid> Basically, raising a region's level results in stronger monsters, up to and including tempered, leading to drops of spiritvein gems of varying quality, used for the augmentation of weapons and armor.
04:07 <ADragonDreaming> aha
04:07 <Cepheid> There are areas we have not yet found.
04:07 <Cepheid> There's supposed to be a volcanic and cold region as well.
04:08 <ADragonDreaming> Interesting!
04:08 <ADragonDreaming> they must unlock after quests like Sleep Now in the Fire
04:08 <Cepheid> Probably.
04:09 <Cepheid> So track analysis is started by either finding signs of a turf war, or carving/capturing a large monster.
04:10 <Cepheid> Analysis increases by killing/capture, examining signs of turf wars, destroying monster parts, and a special case for tempered monsters.
04:10 <Cepheid> And once analysis is complete, we can use the results to lure the specified monster onto the field.
04:11 <Cepheid> There's some special rules though, regarding elder dragons specifically.
04:12 <Cepheid> It seems there's a lot of funky rules regarding the place.
04:14 <ADragonDreaming> should be interesting to explore!
04:15 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
04:15 <Cepheid> Especially as we will NEED to, for the sake of upgrading our gear to the highest tiers before we take on the likes of Alatreon and Fatalis.
04:17 <ADragonDreaming> Aye
04:18 <Cepheid> Huh.
04:18 <Cepheid> I didn't notice this, but according to the Fandom wiki, Shara Ishvalda's eyes/face follows the camera, not the hunters. That is, it's staring at the player, rather than the hunters.
04:20 <ADragonDreaming> ...huh.
04:20 <ADragonDreaming> That'll be interesting to test out.
04:21 <Cepheid> Indeed.
04:21 <Cepheid> I was too busy trying not to get crushed by sound.
04:25 <Cepheid> Right, sleep time for me. See you tomorrow.
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06:10 * Dappled horse.
06:17 * Ali curls around Dappled horse
06:18 * Dappled brushies the Ali.
06:30 * Ali leans into Dappled brushies and pony purrs.
06:31 <Dappled> This is a friend pone.
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06:43 * Filly_Nightmares meow
06:43 * Filly_Nightmares chew on Ali
06:43 * Ali brushies Filly_Nightmares
06:49 <Finwe> Good morning, everypony!
06:49 <Finwe> Now I deem it morning enough to be awake.
06:50 <Finwe> Mlles Ali and Filly_Nightmares; Mr Dappled.
06:50 * Finwe doffs his hat.
06:51 * Filly_Nightmares chews on Finwe happily and meow
06:52 * Dappled waves.
06:53 * Filly_Nightmares wigglewaggles and nomfs Dappled
06:53 * Dappled is defeated!
06:56 * Finwe ruffles Ali and Filly_Nightmares.
06:56 * Ali squeaks
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07:04 * Filly_Nightmares purrs and melts on Dappled
07:05 * Ali nibbles on Dappled tail.
07:06 * Dappled wiggles.
07:06 <Finwe> !plot
07:06 <DerpyBot> *scratchscratch*
07:06 <Finwe> o3o?
07:06 <Finwe> Oh, DerpyBot still in All Hallows mode.
07:07 <Ali> Eh, not like I'm able to do anything about that~
07:08 * Dappled breeds pokemon. Needs a shiny Amaura
07:09 * Finwe plays The Dragonborn Comes on his flute.
07:12 * Ali ponders getting sword with the dlc, but isn't sure
07:15 <Dappled> There are so many pokemon, Ali. So many. But not enough.
07:15 * Ali sits on Dappled. "Vees are the best though."
07:16 <Dappled> While Eevees are good, look at Amaura.
07:47 <Dappled> I'll say this for the prevalance of hacked pokemon on the wondertrades, at least they feed me masterballs.
07:48 <Ali> Gotta love how effective Home and Bank are huh?
07:49 <Dappled> Well home and bank aren't able to deal with held items, for some reason.
07:49 <Dappled> I'm in shield wondertrading.
07:50 <Ali> Still you'd think they'd figure out how to deal with hacked mons
07:50 <Dappled> Eh, they'd have to redo the programming. That back end doesn't seem to have changed since RBY.
07:51 <Dappled> Like with the games and cords, you can pull pokemon forward through so many generations.
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07:52 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
07:52 <Dappled> Hello.\
07:52 <Ali> Dappled, everything is compatable since Gen 3
07:52 <Ali> The problem is around gen 6 they started charing you for this
07:53 <Ali> And then double charge you to get to gen 8
07:54 <Dappled> The amount they are charing is miniscule, even combined, compared to what most would charge.
07:55 <Dappled> Especially for cross platform online services.
07:55 <Ali> It used to be just an up front cost
07:55 <Ali> I don't like subscription fees, and they'll delete your bank mons if you slip
07:58 <Ali> I know you never had Pokemon Box, but that was how they should've handled these storage like services
07:59 <Dappled> On a different console, with no support for moving between generations or consoles?
08:00 <Ali> Dappeled, Pokemon Box was made for Gen 3, there was no other generations compatable
08:01 <Dappled> And with bank they added support going backwards and forwards across generations as they released stuff on the 3ds.
08:01 <Ali> The games that worked on it were the five gen 3 games. Ruby, Saphhire, Emerald, Fire Red, and Leaf Green.
08:02 <Dappled> And with the most absurdly limited release.
08:03 <Ali> Yes yes I know it was only on pokemon's NYC place
08:05 <Dappled> Now, I get it, this was the era before online gaming really existed, but still.
08:07 * Ali shakes cane at. "Now get me my link cable, we need to trade mons."
08:08 * ConfusionRift takes out his 150 mile link cable. "Okadaaaay."
08:08 * Dappled also can't think of a game service subscripiton that started out at 5 dollars a year and hasn't increased in 7 years.
08:08 <Dappled> So even if you got it at launch in japan, it's still only 3500 yen.
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08:11 <Dappled> They've charged more for a single game than they've charged an individual for the entire lifetime of service for bank. For the obvious reason that such a cheap price almost insures that anyone paying for that subscription is almost certainly going to keep buying new generations of the game.
08:11 <ConfusionRift> Not fund of something that used to be integral to the core game is now a subscription service. I know it's now cloud saved, but still.
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08:12 <Dappled> Except it was never a part of the core game, nor did they remove functionallity from the games to deliver this service. It's more like, "I don't have to buy two consoles to keep moving my pokemon up the generations. Much cheaper.
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08:14 * ConfusionRift shrugs. "If you skipped generations or are just starting, it's kinda out the windows."
08:14 * Dappled desperately needs a copy of a gen 4 game.
08:15 * Ali holds up three copies of Platinum at Dappled
08:16 <Dappled> But the main service of pokemon bank/home is to store pokemon externally and move them between your own copies of the game. To do that before required multiple consoles. And since until the games on the switch you could only have one save per game, that means that you had to weigh the idea of giving
08:16 <Dappled> up all the pokemon you caught previously if you w
08:16 <Dappled> anted to do a challenge run or the like.
08:17 * Dappled would throw money at the Ali for one of those.
08:17 <Dappled> Like, I've got the roms, but I want at least one game for each generation starting with the DS games on up.
08:17 <Ali> This is why I tend to have all the games Dappled
08:18 <Ali> Up until Sun/Moon
08:18 <Ali> I own every copy of every main series pokemon game
08:18 * Dappled would like to point out the stupid amounts of money you spent doing that.
08:18 <Ali> I didn't buy all those myself
08:19 <Ali> Some were birthday/xmas gifts
08:19 * Dappled shall follow Ali's example and go rob people of their copies.
08:19 <Ali> Hey, my copies are all legit thank you :P
08:19 <Dappled> :p
08:20 <Ali> The main reason I have three copies of platinum is because that was the best game of gen 4
08:20 <Ali> And when one got too full of mons, I got another copy as the reset version
08:20 <Ali> And then that one got too full
08:20 <Ali> So I got the 3rd copy
08:20 <Ali> Always one version of the two per gen becomes a reset copy
08:21 <Ali> But after awhile
08:21 <Ali> Trying to move 20+ mons is such a pain
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08:24 <Dappled> Now if you want a way to store pokemon that's done right, the answer is clearly My Pokemon Ranch. Able to hold more than a single poekmon game and let you interact with your pokemon stored in it? That's cool even if it was a wii title.
08:25 <Dappled> Oh, never mind,
08:25 <Dappled> doesn't allow you to move pokemon between different games/save files.
08:25 <Dappled> That's lame.
08:25 <Ali> And the Wii shop has long been shut down
08:25 <Dappled> Not wrong.
08:26 <Ali> And when Gen 4/5 was going on, I didn't have much storage problems
08:26 <Ali> what with 7 gen 4 games
08:26 <Ali> And 4 gen 5 cause they did B2/W2 instead of one game
08:27 <Dappled> Yeah, I wish that for USUM that handled it the way that did B2W2
08:29 <Ali> Well they did, being four games instead of three
08:29 <Dappled> Story wise.
08:29 <Ali> But USUM was a bleh take on the game
08:29 <Ali> and Nebby being a constant bother every ten steps
08:29 <Dappled> USUM was a rerelease, B2W2 were sequels.
08:29 <Ali> Too many legends if you ask me
08:29 <Dappled> Never!
08:30 <Ali> But it took me forever to finally beat Gen 7
08:30 <Ali> Story was meh, the gameplay was meh cause too many old mons and the new ones were underwhelming
08:31 * Finwe noms on Ali's Pokémon games.
08:31 <Ali> Just never liked Gen 7
08:31 * Ali charges Finwe lots of money for the damages caused
08:32 <Dappled> As a lazy gamer with commitment issues, the addition of the Rotom Pokedex that tells you what to do next is a godsend.
08:33 <Ali> All the mon games did that, just not some random person saying YOU CAN'T GO THIS WAY YET
08:33 <Dappled> No, I mean, that I can put the game down for 3 months, boot it back up, and get an instant "Go that way"
08:34 <RazorSharpFang> "Last time you played this... "
08:34 <Dappled> That only place I've seen that is on my roms of FRLG.
08:34 * Dappled didn't see it in White 2 and I beat that one.
08:35 <Dappled> Certainly didn't notice in X
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08:37 <Dappled> As for random people saying you can't go this way yet, is a common way in the games of making sure you don't skip gyms.
08:37 * Dappled would like to point to as early as Pewter City in RBY.
08:39 <Ali> After that, there's very little blocking your way
08:39 <Ali> And most are visable cues of what you need to do
08:39 <Ali> From the Snorlax to the east of Vermillion
08:39 <Ali> To the small tree that needs cut east of Cerulean
08:40 <Ali> And the thirsty guards around Saphron
08:40 <Ali> Not some Team Yell stooges blocking a road just cause you didn't clear the gym
08:41 <Dappled> Don't diss on my homies of Team Skull and Yell. These are the best.
08:41 <Ali> Skull yes
08:41 <Ali> Yell was lame
08:43 <Dappled> They just wanted to cheer on Marnle.
08:43 <Ali> And stop anyone getting in her way
08:45 <Dappled> Just like real sports fans.
08:47 <Finwe> Like this? https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pMktGGyRL._AC_SX466_.jpg
08:47 <Finwe> It's quite streamlined, so I assume it to be a sports fan.
08:47 <Dappled> You understand.
08:47 <Dappled> Also Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle continues to be wonderful
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09:07 * Dappled sits down to watch the 3 seasons of RvB to get ready for monday.
09:07 <Schism> Poor girl. What will it take for her to be allowed a good night's rest?
09:07 <Dappled> Right?
09:07 <Dappled> She tries so hard.
09:09 * Schism takes out some garbage. It's been too long since she's cleaned out the fridge, for one thing...
09:30 <Schism> Ah, of course. In order to obtain a better pillow, why not murder one of the teddy imps who've been bringing you food?
09:31 <ConfusionRift> Muh-haaaah!
09:32 <Dappled> Like I said, it's great.
09:47 * Schism gruhs. Tries to eat enough that she can go back to sleep.
09:48 <Dappled> Sounds like a recipe for stomach ache.
10:00 <Schism> I'm not going to overeat, but I still have some meat and vegetable pies.
10:00 * Dappled rolls around.
10:01 * ConfusionRift isn't sure what to do.
10:02 * Dappled suggests videogames, but he is a simple creature.
10:04 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift, Capt Koopz.
10:04 <Finwe> o7
10:13 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)
10:17 <Dappled> Okay, I'm finally going to ask, what is RAdm.? Cause my mind jumps to Rear Admiral and I feel like that's unlikely.
10:20 * Ali quacks
10:20 <Finwe> o3o
10:20 <Ali> You just said the secret word, say the secret word and the ducks come down
10:20 <Finwe> Dappled: It does stand for Rear Admiral. o3o
10:20 * Dappled is secretly Psychic. Is glad for this knowledge.
10:21 <Finwe> There are also Adm Mash and VAdm NoPony-Special, but they haven't been around in ages.
10:21 <Finwe> !seen Mash
10:21 <DerpyBot> Finwe: The last time I saw Mash alive was Thu 22 May 2014 01:17:35 PM CEST
10:21 <Finwe> !seen NoPony-Special
10:21 <DerpyBot> Finwe: The last time I saw NoPony-Special alive was Thu 07 Jun 2018 11:21:37 PM CEST
10:22 <Finwe> And Cdre Kizi, Lt Cdr ConfusionRift and Lt ThatAnonPony.
10:22 <Finwe> !seen Kizi
10:22 <DerpyBot> Finwe: The last time I saw Kizi alive was Thu 30 Jan 2014 08:54:30 PM CET
10:22 <Finwe> !seen ThatAnonPony
10:22 <DerpyBot> Finwe: The last time I saw ThatAnonPony alive was Mon 21 Sep 2020 09:34:57 AM CEST
10:22 <Finwe> !seen ConfusionRift
10:22 * DerpyBot 's eyes begin to glow in a strange light..
10:23 <ConfusionRift> o_0
10:27 <Dappled> Oooh. Another hacked mon, gimme a nother master ball please~
10:37 <Schism> !seen DerpyBot
10:37 * DerpyBot puts her front hooves on Schism's shoulders.
10:37 <DerpyBot> Look into my eyes.. 6_9
10:37 * DerpyBot disembowels Schism
10:37 <Schism> Ow. ...my bowels.
10:37 <Ali> !seen straight
10:37 <DerpyBot> Ali: The last time I saw....
10:37 * DerpyBot walks over to Ali and eats their soul
10:37 <Ali> Ah, those silly things still on~
10:37 <Schism> Still Derpyween!
10:37 * Dappled goes into hiding.
10:38 <Schism> Dappled: the Princess cutting off all the demons' capes is adorable.
10:39 <Dappled> Yes. She knows what she wants and she gets it.
10:39 <Schism> The quest for a perfect night's sleep...
10:40 * Lumindia gives everyone big hugs~!
10:40 <Lumindia> :D
10:41 * Dappled hugs Lumindia.
10:41 * Lumindia brushes Dappled muchly
10:41 <Lumindia> <3
10:41 * Dappled pony purrs.
10:41 <Lumindia> brushy brushy brushy
10:43 * Dappled sees that Lumindia has learned how to escape cells in the Demon Castle.
10:43 <Schism> They didn't lock the doors...
10:44 <Dappled> Yeah, but in order to get out the cells she has to call the teddy bear demons to get the keys. That's why she bangs the hair brush on the cell bars before leaving her cell.
10:45 * Schism yawwwns. "Silly princess. Silly demons."
10:47 <Lumindia> what?
10:48 <Lumindia> I'm confused
10:48 <Dappled> Anime: Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle.
10:48 <Lumindia> ah
10:54 * Lumindia boops Schism
10:54 <Lumindia> https://i.imgur.com/ky3JuAK.png I made one of my retainers into a lalafell
10:58 <Schism> You can tell she's screaming inside.
11:01 <Lumindia> she's super heccin' cute
11:01 <Lumindia> I've kind of grown attached to her
11:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #2109 [ https://tinyurl.com/y4n2rf5c ]
11:18 <Dappled> Woo. Bred a 6IV Amaura. Still want shiny though.
11:36 <Schism> Isn't shininess a specific result of IVs, and therefore if you're breeding for highest IVs you won't get it?
11:44 <Dappled> Back in like... Gen 2.
11:44 <Schism> Hah. Yeah, that'd explain it, that's what I was thinking of.
11:45 <Dappled> Since then it's a seperate hidden stat that can be made more likely with items or breeding pokemon from games with seperate language settings.
11:59 * Schism infects Dappled's mons with the Pokerus.
12:00 * Lumindia boops Schism's snootle
12:00 * Schism squeaks. And provides Lumindia with a plush pickle.
12:00 * Lumindia hecks at the pickle
12:00 <Schism> If you pull its tail, it roars.
12:01 * Lumindia tugs on teh tail, curious
12:01 * Schism watches the pickle roar, and immediately falls flat, stunned.
12:01 * Lumindia falls over as well
12:01 <Lumindia> Awawawawawa
12:01 <Lumindia> X_X
12:01 * Dappled 's pretty sure the pickle will eat everything.
12:02 * Lumindia passes muffins around to everyone!
12:02 <Lumindia> !muffintime
12:02 * Dappled go bed.
12:02 <Schism> Actually, it's 7:02.
12:02 * Lumindia drapes a blanket over Dappled
12:05 <Schism> Sleep well, horse.
12:05 <Lumindia> It's muffin time!
12:05 * Lumindia gives a muffin to Schism as well
12:05 * Schism noms upon. It's carrot and cream cheese icing.
12:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Paper Derpy's First Movie - Chapter 3 [ https://tinyurl.com/y2cv43hj ]
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12:39 <ConfusionRift> 0_0
12:39 <ConfusionRift> Haven't had carrot cake with cream cheese in ages. At least, not that super sweet imitation stuff.
12:48 <Schism> If you ever drop by, then, I'll have to give you some carrot cake. With, or without, raisins, as you prefer.
12:48 <ConfusionRift> Hmm, never had it with raisins.
12:49 <Schism> I find it to be a nice addition, but it does depend upon whether you like raisins in the first place.
12:49 <ConfusionRift> Oh, I do like raisins.
12:50 <Schism> Then I suggest carrot cake with raisins, yes.
12:58 <ConfusionRift> Now I wanna get some. (sighs) If I could.
13:03 <Schism> 'Rifty, I still wonder if you've watched those three Pokeshots. <.<
13:03 <ConfusionRift> Did see them. :P
13:03 <Schism> Whitney's Miltank...
13:06 <ConfusionRift> Was reminded of this guy. Not a very avid Pokemon gamer, but did tackle most of the older games pretty well. His friends were teasing him about that Miltank, saying it was basically an impassable wall, just for him to destroy it, and walk away with a smile. :P
13:07 <Schism> "He just got lucky," says I, looking at Gold & Silver with a gimlet eye.
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13:14 <ConfusionRift> Aah, he destroyed it with a fighting one. And then proceeded to destroy Morty's Gengar with a Kadabra.
13:15 <Schism> Oh! Well, fighting > normal. That'd do it -- kill it before it gets to Rollout.
13:23 <RazorSharpFang> Low kick yeah
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13:43 <ConfusionRift> Well, time for sleep. And depending... I might have to go back to work.
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15:08 * Cepheid rises from her gwave.
15:11 <RazorSharpFang> Cepheid, I'm off to sleep good night
15:11 <Cepheid> G'night, sleep well.
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17:23 <Cepheid> Man... Shara Ishvalda's theme is distressing and creepy when you listen to it outside of battle.
17:24 <ADragonDreaming> aye
17:33 <Cepheid> I feel like I've forgotten to do something. ... ... .. Oh.
17:33 <Cepheid> I forgot to take the decongestant.
17:34 <Cepheid> That'd explain the pain.
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17:39 <Cepheid> I think today, I'm gonna investigate how to best set up my voicechat stuff. See if I can set up a speaker-based setup without having a feedback loop.
17:42 <Cepheid> Hum. Interesting, the setup I use these days doesn't seem to pick up audio from the TV.
17:42 <Cepheid> At least, gameplay audio. Comes close, though.
17:43 <Cepheid> And at maximum volume, it definitely picks it up. Hmm. What happens if I set up a bunch of books around it?
17:45 <Cepheid> No change. Hmm. I need something to dampen the noise.
17:48 <Cepheid> My best bet would probably be a directional microphone or sound-dampening board/foam in a box.
17:49 <Cepheid> Interestingly, it picks up less audio when on TOP of the TV, rather than below and in front of it, surrounded by a small enclosure.
17:51 <Cepheid> Of course, I also don't need the game to be all that loud to begin with, so..
17:54 <Cepheid> Oh geeze. Alex Trebek has passed away.
18:00 <Cepheid> Looks like, for the setup I desire, my best bet is a cardioid type microphone.
18:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Fanfiction: Pinkie and the Mysterious Time Doughnut [ https://tinyurl.com/yy8h3nme ]
18:14 <Lumindia_> 2020 has claimed another victim
18:17 * Cepheid sighs.
18:17 <Cepheid> It's not the year, it's fucking life and death. It happens. Stop being so melodramatic about the year, please.
18:18 <Lumindia_> Honestly I posted that before realizing you'd already brought it up
18:18 <Lumindia_> wasn't going to say anything else
18:22 * Cepheid sighs. Is just gonna go beat stuff up and vent in a game instead.
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19:03 <Cepheid> Lumindia_, sorry for my outburst. I'm just... touchy today about certain things.
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19:12 * Dappled horse.
19:26 * Lumindia_ boops the horse
19:26 * Dappled falls over before the boops.
19:28 <Dappled> Why do people who make hacked pokemon send them out in wondertrade? Like do they just set up a script or something to flood the playerbase with hacked mons so that it becomes unrealistic to try banning anyone who has them?
19:31 <Cepheid> Partly that, partly to ruin it for everyone else.
19:32 <Cepheid> Some also legitimately believe they're doing something "helpful" for the playerbase.
19:32 * Dappled is greatful for the masterballs that find there way to me, but I'll just release the hacked mons.
19:32 <Cepheid> Do you actively have to submit pokemon to the wondertrade?
19:33 <Dappled> Yeah, breed rejects.
19:33 <Dappled> Personally that is.
19:33 <Dappled> But you do have to select a pokemon to wondertrade each time a trade is finished.
19:34 <Cepheid> I'm more interested in the underlying mechanics. Do you put up a pokemon to trade, with a request for a specific type of pokemon? Or..?
19:35 <Dappled> Wondertrade has you select a pokemon to throw out into a pool with everyone else who is also doing it, then it matches two players to trade pokemon.
19:36 <Cepheid> So you sit there waiting for another player to show up?
19:36 <Dappled> Kinda? Runs in the background on the current system. So you can keep playing without having to sit in one place in game.
19:37 <Cepheid> Have you encountered legitimate pokemon on it at all?
19:37 <Dappled> Oh yeah, most of the time.
19:38 <Dappled> But in something between 60-80 trades, I've got like 8 hacked.
19:39 <Dappled> And it's obvious that they are, perfect stats, shiny, with a name like machamps.com
19:39 <Cepheid> Mmm. You made it sound like it was more prolific than that. Had that been the case, I would have come to the conclusion of pooling of players via cheating detection algorithms.
19:39 <Cepheid> Which could potentially create a false positive.
19:40 <Dappled> 10% is still pretty large though allowing for them filter to anyone doing wondertrade which is a common way to remove unwanted pokemon if your breeding for shiny or competive stats.
19:42 <Cepheid> Mmm. You made it sound though like it was closer to 80% or 90%
19:42 <Dappled> Fair enough.
19:43 * Dappled is honestly hoping for them, could use a couple more masterballs so I can grab the last couple of legendaries that are in the overworld.
19:44 <Cepheid> In any case, I'm surprised. I presume there are some obvious details that present themselves, so it shouldn't be difficult to run a trade through some parsing algorithm to detect invalid configurations.
19:45 <Lumindia_> when I did GTS/Wondertrade, my thing would be breeding starters to trade for other starters
19:45 <Lumindia_> like, toss up a charmander and ask for a torchic
19:45 <Lumindia_> that kind of thing
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19:46 <Ali> Lumindia_, what kind of fair trade is that? You usually request a Mewtwo or Kyogre
19:47 <Lumindia_> because I care not for the legendaries
19:47 <Ali> You might, but it feels like 99% of the world does
19:48 <Ali> You know how hard it was to find a shiny Eevee on the GTS that didn't have some stupid insane trade request?
19:48 <Dappled> I mean, technically, it would be possible for these pokemon to spawn, but the odds are astronomical, like 1 in 454,401,884,672
19:49 * Dappled shows Ali that shiny vaporeon that just got wondertraded to him.
19:49 <Dappled> With the name of.... Machamps.com
19:49 <Ali> Badumtish
19:49 <Ali> So what is the joke behind that tradename?
19:50 <Ali> I do not follow memes hard enough to understand
19:50 <Dappled> Pokemon with that name are very obviously hacked. Shiny, perfect stats.
19:50 <Cepheid> Ah, therein lies the problem. If it is technically feasible, then there's no way to confirm the validity.
19:51 <Ali> Aww, Alex Trebek is dead
19:52 <Dappled> And with legendary pokemon they can only be caught once per game, so if your trying to get one with good stats, you have to save, capture it, check stats, reload, capture it, check stats, ad infinitum.
19:53 <Ali> Yes Dappled, I know about Legendary shiny hunting
19:54 <Ali> Its on par with shiny starter hunting, cept they can be breed
19:54 <Dappled> But shiny hunting on top of perfect IVs for these traded pokemon to be somehow legit, and then you just throw them out to anyone on wondertrade?
19:55 <Ali> Well, wonder who is going to take over Jeopardy now?
19:55 <Lumindia_> shiny starter hunting is like "Oh, this one's not shiny? Toss it on Wondertrade"
19:55 <Lumindia_> because the casual playerbase are just gonna be like ay, starters'
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19:55 <Dappled> And of course, since they are using third party programs to alter save data, they don't have to use a legit trainer ID, which makes it somewhat harder to find the original person who made it.
19:56 <Dappled> It's what I'm doing with Amauras, Lumindia_. Want a shiny, so I'm breeding up the IVs while I wait for a shiny to spawn and using wondertrade to hopefully get hacked mons to give me masterballs.
20:00 <Dappled> Okay, with the new DLC, it's technically not that high anymore for most of the legendaries, perfect IV stats are still 31^6 to spawn, but shiny rate is only 1 in 100.
20:03 <Ali> What tomfoolery is that
20:03 <Ali> 1/100 chance of a shiny? I mean I never get one at 1/8192
20:03 <Ali> I've seen one shiny in gen 8, and it was a pile of garbage, litterally
20:04 <Dappled> That's the dynamax adventure shiny rate with charm. However this does require you to use rental pokemon with a team of NPCs or players who likely don't know what they're doing.
20:04 <Ali> Oh I'm used to that
20:04 <Ali> Cause that's all my raid battles
20:04 <Ali> Want to take out that five star gigamax Butterfree? Nah, they'll use Magikarp, Solrock, and Wobuffet
20:05 <Dappled> In fairness, the pokemon choices for this are better, but without paying attention to type advantages you can wipe fairly easily. Though no shields for the dynamaxed pokemon.
20:06 <Ali> Oh thank god, those shields are the most annoying part of the raid
20:06 <Ali> Especially when soloing
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20:31 * Cepheid decides to cook some decent food. In this case, some shrimp.
20:38 <Dappled> Of course the best people on wondertrade take trade only evolutions and send them out. So if I get a pokemon that needs to trade to evolve, or hold an item to trade eolve and I have one, I'll fire it off. Make someone's day.
20:49 * Cepheid noms shrimp with ketchup and horshradish.
20:56 <Cepheid> That was yummy.
20:58 <Cepheid> Hum, horseradish is called that, as at the time, "horse" also meant "strong" or "coars" so "strong radish"
21:05 * Cepheid goes back to hunting endemic life.
21:05 <Cepheid> Gotta catch 'em all!
21:07 <Dappled> And hey, with Iceborne they added Shiny Endemic Life to hunt.
21:07 <Dappled> Good luck .
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21:09 <Cepheid> The shiny endemic life I'm not to worried about. In general, I just want to catch the ones for the bounties.
21:09 <Cepheid> Though, I wouldn't mind capturing some more Queen Wigglers.
21:17 <Schism> Cepheid: If I ever spot a set of Downy Crakes in the wild I will probably just plotz. ._.
21:18 <Schism> Thrice-accursed birds don't want to spawn.
21:18 <Cepheid> I hear they are hard to find, yes.
21:18 <ADragonDreaming> Area 1 of Wildspire and Ancient Forest, on the backs of the herbivores.
21:18 <Cepheid> Rely on cat effects to increase rare endemic spawn rates? Also, weather.
21:18 <ADragonDreaming> Pray that a large monster isn't already on its way in.
21:19 <Schism> I'll probably see them when I don't have the Ghillie Cloak on me. Also, I don't have the liquor for that cat effect at this point.
21:19 <ADragonDreaming> I saw some coming out of the camp once but then Banbaro arrived.
21:19 <Schism> "It's Banbaro time!"
21:19 <Cepheid> As it is, I just found a gold hercudrome.
21:19 * Dappled never did get all the endemic life for all the ingredients. Once I got safeguard, I stopped.
21:19 <Schism> Oh, those are nice to capture.
21:19 <Schism> "There are only seven of them in the whole forest!"
21:20 * Ali boops Dappled, doesn't mean people will put an everstone onto trade mon.
21:20 * Dappled has gotten more trade evolutions than them holding everstone.
21:23 * Dappled took an Applin holding nothing that he got in trade, gave it a sweet apple and sent it back out.
21:24 <Schism> Cepheid: the Downy Crake is also a quest capture.
21:24 <Cepheid> Meaning?
21:25 <Schism> Meaning that if I want that Wyverian Print, I'm going to have to snag them.
21:25 <Schism> That's the finale of the base-game Endemic Life Researcher quests.
21:26 <Schism> The Piscene Researcher was bad enough, ffs.
21:27 <Cepheid> It'd help a bit if I knew which researcher gave which bounties.
21:27 <Dappled> Bit of advice for the big fish, never stop hitting O. Follow the other prompts, but keep spamming O no matter what.
21:27 <ADragonDreaming> If you want to farm it, Schism, just go an expedition to the ancient forest, walk out into area 1
21:27 <Schism> Endemic Life is all about finding a certain smol animal in each zone; Piscene is about capturing fish; you already have all the cats.
21:27 <Dappled> You'll capture them all.
21:28 <ADragonDreaming> then if it's not there, fast travel to wildspire, walk into area 1
21:28 <Schism> Anyway, back to work for me.
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21:28 <ADragonDreaming> if it's not there, fast travel to ancient forest. Repeat.
21:29 <Schism> I know, and keep the Ghillie suit on at all times, but gaaah.
21:29 <Cepheid> I just murdered what appears to be a rare hare. I did not mean to kill it.
21:30 <ADragonDreaming> pilot hare?
21:33 * Cepheid captures another cactaur. "And yeah, probably."
21:34 <Cepheid> Had reddish ears instead of the typican tan.
21:35 <ADragonDreaming> Yep, that's a Pilot hare.
21:37 <Cepheid> For the record I'm just kinda taking it easy in MH today.
21:37 <Cepheid> Taking the time to, ye know, look around. Explore. Examine the wildlife. Get eaten by a Namielle.
21:42 <Cepheid> I wonder how the size is determined.
21:42 <Dappled> Random table I think.
21:43 <Dappled> Well value, you know what I mean
21:43 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
21:45 <Cepheid> I meant from more of a non-programming sense, though. Like, what object has size 1, which is then compared against?
21:47 <ADragonDreaming> Size of what, exactly?
21:47 <Cepheid> Endemic life, monsters, etc.
21:47 <Cepheid> That size rating.
21:47 <ADragonDreaming> They're given in centimeters, aren't they?
21:48 <Cepheid> No unit is specified, actually.
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21:49 <Dappled> So clearly imperial.
21:51 <PinkieShy> The Jeopardy Host guy Alex Trebek is dead..
21:52 <Cepheid> Gotcha, pilot hare.
21:53 <Cepheid> Also, what do downy crakes look like? I recall seeing a picture, but all I recall is "little puffballs with beaks that ride on herbivores"
21:53 <Dappled> Basically.
21:53 <Dappled> Although they will ride on the players head, implying that all those meals at the canteen are actually vegetarian.
21:54 <Cepheid> Or, they just know what's out to hurt them and what's not.
21:55 * Dappled likes his explanation better.
21:55 <Cepheid> Kinda hard to pass a ham hock off as a veggie.
21:56 <Cepheid> Cactaur Cutting..
21:56 <Dappled> I mean, Orks are Fungi, soooooo.
21:57 <Cepheid> Schism is going to hate me.
21:58 <ADragonDreaming> Did you find a downy crake?
21:58 <Cepheid> Yes.
21:59 <ADragonDreaming> Do you have the researcher request for it?
21:59 <Cepheid> Yes.
22:05 <ADragonDreaming> Well done.
22:05 <Cepheid> Oh, hey. Blizzard in Hoarfrost. Can use that to my advantage.
22:07 <Cepheid> Of course, wrong time of day.
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22:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Changes / Future 41 / DnD 96-97 / Shadows 72 / AoS 7:1-2 [ https://tinyurl.com/y6dmeyma ]
22:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: Gold Mine Album: Zizkil - Zizkil Digs Through His Garbage Can Cuz He Dropped His Keys In The Trash Can [ https://tinyurl.com/yyxb94bk ]
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22:14 <Cepheid> I also gotta deal with the Boa Boa.
22:16 <Cepheid> Wait. ??? tracks?
22:18 <Cepheid> Ah, Savage Deviljho.
22:22 * Cepheid cautiously follows and collects footprints and stuffs.
22:22 * Ali puts a large twig in front of Cepheid's foot
22:23 <Cepheid> *Snap* *Nom*
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22:42 <Cepheid> *Gets 110.3 duffel pengui. Gold crown is 111.31.
22:48 <Cepheid> Gooootcha at the last minute.
22:50 <Cepheid> Goldspring Macaque..
22:50 * Dappled shows off his Keldeo. His 2nd legit mythical poke.
22:53 <Cepheid> Probably needs clear weather before it'll appear.
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23:22 * Filly_Nightmares shivers at Dappled
23:22 * Dappled offers blanket?
23:23 * Filly_Nightmares eees and snugglies into blankie and then imtinda
23:23 * Filly_Nightmares snugglies into Dappled tummy next
23:34 <Cepheid> Late to wake, early to bed for me today.
23:38 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3514 [ https://tinyurl.com/y6c3vbxp ]
23:42 <Cepheid> Blah, no luck on that critter.
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