00:15 * Lumindia gently boops Nitro
00:16 * Lumindia flees, giggling
00:17 * NitroTheFurry stands there dumbfounded and suprsied
00:17 * LunaOfTheMoonLight also boops Nitro
00:18 * NitroTheFurry boops Luna back
00:18 * LunaOfTheMoonLight boops Nitro then runs away
00:21 * Schism rolls back in, provides NitroTheFurry with a boop, then rolls back out.
00:21 <NitroTheFurry> Wha
00:21 <NitroTheFurry> Why
00:22 <NitroTheFurry> Whays with all the boops
00:30 <LunaOfTheMoonLight> because why not?
00:32 <NitroTheFurry> Because not nornal
00:36 <Schism> Boops are perfectly normal.
00:43 <NitroTheFurry> Not me getting booped
00:44 * ADragonDreaming boops Nitro as well.
00:45 * NitroTheFurry flails and screams
00:45 <Schism> Seems perfectly reasonable.
00:45 * Schism invites Ali to boop the Nitro.
00:47 * Ali beeps Schism nosie instead
00:55 * Finwe hats on Ali.
00:55 * Ali is an upset pono at games.
00:57 * Finwe has done almost all side quests in Baldur's Gate. Time to infiltrate the Iron Throne headquarters.
00:57 <Finwe> Or maybe time to sleep. 'Tis almost 3AM.
01:01 <ADragonDreaming> alright. Time to try to get that cuga mantle again.
01:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Say Something Nice About Starlight Glimmer [ https://tinyurl.com/yx972c7j ]
01:10 <Ali> Something nice about glim glam? But she's not even here now
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02:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2358 [ https://tinyurl.com/y5va62mc ]
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04:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: More Pony Music! Pony Life, Twilight, Fluttershy Themes! [ https://tinyurl.com/yyw9924v ]
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06:04 * Cepheid flops awake.
06:07 * NitroTheFurry flops in return
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06:11 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/znGkEi7
06:12 <Cepheid> All jokes aside, I'm hoping the driver survived that crash without too many injuries.
06:16 <Cepheid> ... Okay, this is interesting.
06:16 <Cepheid> I started watching a Takanashi Kiara stream. My cat really, *REALLY* does not like her voice.
06:20 <Cepheid> No, seriously, he does not like her voice. He's reacting to it as if I were watching cat videos with loud, meowing cats.
06:20 <Cepheid> Which means he's attacking my arm and going ballistic.
06:26 <LunaOfTheMoonLight> oof
06:28 <Cepheid> This is really weird.
06:28 <Cepheid> I've never seen someone's voice trigger this behaviour before.
06:28 <LunaOfTheMoonLight> maybe it is something only cats can hear...
06:31 <Cepheid> Probably.
06:31 <Cepheid> His behaviour with other cats meowing from my laptop or tablet or phone is to do his usual balancing act thing, but much more aggressively and with lots of meowing and biting.
06:31 <Cepheid> He gets extremely upset about hearing other cats
06:34 <Cepheid> And now he's off sulking nearby.
06:35 * Cepheid is bleeding from the right arm now.
06:35 <Cepheid> I should probably do something about that.
06:35 <NitroTheFurry> Yes
06:37 * Cepheid double checks. "... Eh, it took care of itself. Clotting."
06:38 * Dappled takes a break from all the bloodborne. Too hard.
06:38 <Dappled> What's going on in here?
06:38 <Dappled> Cats are important.
06:38 <NitroTheFurry> Bloodborne is more important
06:39 <Cepheid> I was watching a stream of a Hololive member, Takanashi Kiara, and my cat started freaking out and clawed/chewed up my right arm for it.
06:39 <Dappled> Yeah, but I have to fight the Keeper of the Old Lords and he's being a but.
06:39 <Dappled> butt
06:39 <Cepheid> He did not like her voice for some reason. The behaviour is akin to me watching cat videos on a device.
06:39 <Dappled> That sounds like strong criticism from the kitty.
06:39 <NitroTheFurry> Really? I never had a problem with that boss
06:40 <Dappled> Pthethrumbra Defilement Chalice.
06:40 <NitroTheFurry> Ahh
06:40 <Cepheid> Keeper of the Old Lords... which one was that again..? *Checks*
06:40 <NitroTheFurry> Okay
06:40 <Dappled> That was the one that thinks it's a dark souls pyromancer.
06:41 <Cepheid> Oh, him.
06:42 * Dappled just needs to get his timing down and go parry happy. Just problem of death on a misstep.
06:43 <Dappled> So I go back to the Pokemans.
06:44 <Cepheid> Hum...
06:45 * NitroTheFurry asks Dappled what device he uses to play bloodborne
06:45 <Cepheid> "Oh no, don't worry we'll pick up your prescriptions before you wake up." *Wakes up. Prescriptions aren't there.* "..."
06:45 <Dappled> Ouch.
06:46 <Cepheid> One of the prescriptions is an antibiotic.
06:46 <Dappled> Even worse!
06:46 * Dappled bites people who break promises with medicine.
06:47 <Cepheid> I can't go out and get it myself, 'cause 'rona concerns, so yeah.
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07:20 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/oEbP1lQ
07:21 <Dappled> Brave pupper.
07:22 <Cepheid> ... Also, I hate baitclicking articles. Apparently, the culled minks who had COVID-19 over in Denmark are "rising from the grave." according to the headline.
07:22 <Dappled> Sounds exciting? Are we going to get zombies to round out 2020?
07:22 <Cepheid> If one researches a bit more, you learn that what's actually happening is that, due to decomposition, the corpses are swelling, and because they were buried in shallow graves, their bodies are popping up out of said shallow graves due to the swelling.
07:22 <Ali> And Kansas has oceanfront property
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07:24 <Cepheid> So it's not zombies. It's just "decomposition is causing the corpses to bloat and pop out of their shallow graves."
07:25 * Dappled pout horse.
07:25 * Ali flops over the Dappled horse
07:25 * Dappled snuggles.
07:26 <Cepheid> https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/BC/317766/Man-survives-collision-with-a-snowplow-east-of-Prince-George#317766 Oh good, they did survive the accident.
07:31 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/9QNve8W
07:32 <Dappled> But why would they need to purge anything. Maybe they could try... Diplomacy?
07:32 <Cepheid> Because purging is easier and appeals to human desire to DESTROY EVERYTHING AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
07:33 * Cepheid glances left and right unsuspiciously.
07:33 <Dappled> Points out that Guiliman would still be on lifesupport without Eldar help.
07:34 * Ali hisses at Dappled, screw the blueberries!!
07:34 <Dappled> Still a Primarch.
07:34 <Dappled> And they did bring Magnus back to the Emperor.
07:35 <Ali> Ever since they added Papa Smurf 2.0 to the stupid game, its gone so far downhill.
07:35 * Ali baps Dappled, that's not canon.
07:35 * Dappled falls over.
07:35 <Cepheid> Couldn't you just choose to play an earlier version of the game?
07:35 <Ali> Tyranids haven't played well since third edition
07:36 <Dappled> Yeah. From what little I know of 40k through actual fans and TTS they seem to be making dumb decisions: See Primaris.
07:36 <Ali> And they were busted OP in 2nd
07:36 <Ali> Dappled, they gave basic marines TWO wounds instead of one
07:36 <Ali> This took the value of a basic gaunt from what little good it was, to completely worthless
07:36 * Dappled knows almost nothing of the actual gameplay.
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07:36 <Ali> Let me explain it in dice mechanics
07:37 <Ali> Gaunts hit on 4's, wound on 5's, and blueberries save on 3's
07:37 <Ali> Marines hit on 3's, wound on 2's, and gaunts save on 6's
07:37 <Dappled> Those are words and numbers.
07:37 <Ali> But you know how dice work though
07:37 <Dappled> They use D6s.
07:37 <Cepheid> I'm kind of surprised given the amount of problems that the series seems to be having with dice and such, that people haven't started designing and adopting a common balanced homebrew yet.
07:38 <Dappled> Or maybe they should all move to D20 like normal rpgs.
07:38 <Ali> Its basically a 50% chance for a gaunt to hit, a 33% chance to wound, and marines save 66% of the time
07:38 <Cepheid> 66% of the time? What kind of dice are you using? D6?
07:38 <Ali> Yes d6
07:38 <Ali> Hard for that to round evenly to 100%
07:39 <Cepheid> Oh, wait, 3 or higher. Inclusive.
07:39 <Ali> Right
07:39 <Cepheid> So 3, 4, 5, or 6.
07:39 <Ali> Eeyup
07:39 <Ali> So they hit 66% of the time
07:39 <Cepheid> Yeah, that's a bit much.
07:39 <Ali> Wound almost 87%
07:39 <Ali> And a gaunt will save 13% of the time
07:39 <Ali> And that's if the weapon they have has no armor penetration
07:39 <Cepheid> And one would assume that's before any modifiers that increase the chance of save/hit.
07:39 <Ali> Eeyup
07:39 <Cepheid> Which could make it even more lopsided.
07:40 <Ali> See now they gave them an AP-1 sword for free
07:40 * Dappled would run nothing but Ratling Marines.
07:40 <Ali> So gaunts get no save at all, cause this would make it a 7+, which is impossible
07:40 <Ali> Now sure you're saying gaunts gotta be cheap right?
07:40 <Dappled> Nope, 50+ points each.
07:40 <Ali> Well they're six points a model or seven for the melee
07:40 <Cepheid> Yeah, the points system is a bit weird in that regard.
07:40 <Ali> While marines got bumped to about 17-19
07:41 <Ali> Cepheid, to tell you how busted bad gaunts are
07:41 <Cepheid> For a swarming species, the point cost should be really low, with low damage to balance it out.
07:41 <Ali> I sent 60 of them at one squad of 20
07:41 <Ali> They didn't kill a single one
07:41 <Cepheid> High number of units, low damage, versus medium number of units, medium damage, or low number of units, high damage.
07:41 <Ali> Well there's other issues as well
07:41 <Ali> Marines have a stupid rule
07:41 <Dappled> Honestly though, Cepheid probably has the right of it, just homebrew it, and continue paying for overpriced minis from a company that hates it's fans and people trying to get into the game.
07:41 <Cepheid> I'm actually kind of surprised they tried to implement a swarming species in a tabletop game.
07:41 <Ali> That if attacked, attacking or counterattacking
07:42 <Ali> They get extra attacks
07:42 <Ali> Cepheid, there are two or three 'swarm' armies out there
07:42 <Ali> With Orks being the other
07:42 <Ali> And they're faring tons better than Tyranids
07:42 <Cepheid> The problem with a tabletop army game, with a swarming species, is that swarming species typically outnumber a standard army of any other sentient species that's not a swarming type.
07:42 <Ali> Cepheid, tis a lie
07:42 <Ali> In more modern 40k
07:42 <Cepheid> I know, I know.
07:43 <Ali> I've never been able to outnumber like I did in 3rd
07:43 <Ali> Back then, I could EASILY outnumber the other army 5-1
07:43 <Cepheid> I'm just pointing out that there's a problem with trying to implement a swarming army-type race.
07:43 <Ali> Yeah I understand
07:43 <Cepheid> Which is simply: The more units, the longer a turn would take.
07:43 <Ali> Its why they've kinda turn shooty, but they don't do that well either
07:43 <Cepheid> And tabletop games? That could mean a LOOOOONG turn.
07:43 <Cepheid> Which is why Tyranids typically work better in RTS games.
07:44 <Cepheid> Large numbers, low damage, easier to manage and done in real-time where a basic AI takes control of what each unit does.
07:44 <Cepheid> Of course, in real-time, there are other problems.
07:45 <Cepheid> Human beings are not designed to have their focus spread across a large region.
07:45 <Cepheid> Thus, officially, the only thing that can properly handle a swarm species quickly is artificial intelligence.
07:46 <Cepheid> Or, you know, an actual hive mind.
07:47 * Cepheid flops onto the floor, burning up.
07:47 <Ali> Cepheid, here's the rules for a tactical marine squad vs a Hormagaunt squad
07:48 <Ali> http://wahapedia.ru/wh40k9ed/factions/space-marines/Tactical-Squad
07:48 <Ali> http://wahapedia.ru/wh40k9ed/factions/tyranids/Hormagaunts
07:48 <Ali> Though a word of warning, the Nids are still using a weak ass codex vs marines brand spanking new one
07:48 <Ali> Their book was from early 8th edition, and suffered bad from power creep
07:49 <Ali> And now we have new power creep that literally gave them nothing
07:49 <Cepheid> I don't really need to know the rules, I know it's broken based on your commentary. And besides, without understanding of other mechanics, that information may well be meaningless to me anyways.
07:49 <Ali> Well points and statlines and such
07:49 <Cepheid> I just got a bit into my "analysis and thinking" state there is all.
07:49 <Ali> Sorry..
07:49 <Cepheid> I didn't mean to sound rude there.
07:50 * Cepheid needs antibiotics, painkillers, and tequila.
07:51 <Cepheid> I need some tequila to tequila mocking bird. *Gets shot*
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07:52 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
07:53 * Dappled waves.
07:53 <Cepheid> Hey.
07:53 * ConfusionRift waves.
07:54 <Cepheid> ... I just noticed my feet are covered in dried blood. Apparently I cut one of my toes quite badly, somehow.
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07:57 <NitroTheFurry> Hiya
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08:01 * Cepheid consumes painkillers. o3o
08:02 * ConfusionRift huggles Ali.
08:02 * Ali curls up under ConfusionRift
08:03 <Finwe> Morning, everypony.
08:03 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)
08:03 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift, Capt Koopz, Cpl uni.
08:03 <Finwe> o7
08:04 <Finwe> Miss Ali, Messrs Cepheid and Dappled.
08:04 * Finwe doffs his hat.
08:04 * Dappled wavies.
08:06 <Cepheid> Man, that headache really came on fast.
08:06 <Cepheid> Started feeling the minor pangs of it 10 minutes ago. It's already at the "fork in my eye" stage.
08:09 <ConfusionRift> Blarg.
08:13 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/zbFhKu2 For you, Rifty.
08:14 <ConfusionRift> Ah, the Tediore reload. :P
08:14 <Cepheid> Though I'd have just thrown the magazine(?) instead of the gun.
08:15 <Cepheid> But then, if your aim with the gun is that bad, or the gun just isn't very good, I imagine throwing it away would be an improvement.
08:17 <ConfusionRift> Yeah, one handed side shooting like that is very difficult to get correct, or at times even accurate. If it's the case of a torn barrel or just bad gun in general, it's safe to say that not even the other party will get any shots in anyways. :P
08:17 <ConfusionRift> Or maybe it'll explode after a bit, and he just spawns a new one.
08:18 <Cepheid> Heh.
08:18 <ConfusionRift> Actually, kinda getting the urge to get back to BL3, even if I already beat it.
08:20 * ConfusionRift should have made a Hi-Point joke, but that's too easy.
08:21 * Cepheid needs to finish BL3.
08:21 <Cepheid> But, right now, with school crunching, I can't play games, so..
08:21 <Cepheid> Or rather, I shouldn't.
08:22 <ConfusionRift> Understandable. This other guy is also on that rush, or actually doing some school work. It sucks because we're now leaving by 11pm-ish.
08:22 <Koopz> RAdm. Finwe o7
08:25 * Cepheid wanders off to take a shower, see if that helps with the headache at all.
08:26 <ConfusionRift> It might, actually.
08:40 <Cepheid> Nope. No improvement.
08:41 <ConfusionRift> That sucks.
08:41 * Dappled suggest water.
08:41 <Cepheid> Helped clear out my nose a bit, but that's about it.
08:47 <Cepheid> I am not at all ready for my oral test today.
08:47 <Cepheid> I was supposed to study over the weekend, but instead I ended up having to drug myself up multiple times due to losing my temper.
08:55 <Cepheid> Whelp, best use the time to recite and poke vocabulary repeatedly.
08:55 <Cepheid> Hum, okay. That word hasn't been taught explicitly, but at least I now know what it means. o3o
08:56 <Cepheid> 降る, furu. "to precipitate; to fall"
08:56 <ConfusionRift> Huh.
08:57 <Cepheid> They sometimes teach compounds instead of individual words.
08:57 <Cepheid> For example, 雨が降る, ame ga furu. ame is the noun for "rain", ga is a particle, and "furu" is "to precipitate; to fall", but furu is not listed as a verb in the vocabulary of any of the chapters up to this point.
09:00 <Cepheid> As for what it translates to, "rain" "to precipitate", combine the two, and you get "it rains."
09:01 <Cepheid> Thus, for snowing, you got 雪が降る, yuki ga furu, yuki being the word for "snow".
09:01 <Cepheid> 猫と犬が降る, neko to inu ga furu. "precipitating cats and dogs." :P
09:02 <Cepheid> Pretty sure that phrase doesn't exist in Japanese, "it's raining cats and dogs" that is, but that'd be a good approximation of it.
09:02 <Cepheid> Ah, it does exist. Just written entirely differently.
09:04 <Cepheid> Oh, that's why. Because what I wrote was a literal translation of the phrase. The phrase listed by the dictionary does not use that. It's literally just "It's a heavy downpour of rain." which it translated to an approximate English expression for comparitive purposes.
09:04 <ConfusionRift> Yep.
09:06 <ConfusionRift> It was likely that they have the expression in a more literal way than we do.
09:06 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
09:06 <ConfusionRift> It's the case with a lot of foreign expressions.
09:06 <Cepheid> Truth told, it's probably FOR the reason of translating what that phrase means.
09:06 <Golden> Hm.
09:06 <Cepheid> Because translating it directly to what I did wouldn't really help a person reading the phrase.
09:07 <Cepheid> It would be better to show that the phrase in question means "It's raining quite heavily." or something of the sort.
09:08 <Cepheid> 男の人がふる. otoko no hito ga furu. "It's raining men."
09:11 * ConfusionRift snirks before finishing that.
09:13 <Cepheid> Hum. I see Japanese likes to use compound words akin to German, though not to the same degree.
09:15 <Cepheid> 持っていく motteiku, is a combination of 持つ motsu, 'to carry; to take' and 行く iku, 'to go'. 持つ is in te-form, meaning it's describing an action that's occurring, this 'carrying; taking'. Combined, the two words describe the action of "to take something away" or "to carry something away".
09:17 <Cepheid> And of course, onomatopoeia. じろじろ見る. "to stare at", じろじろ = onomatopoeia for staring. 見る = "to watch; to look at; etc"
09:20 <Cepheid> Hey Rifty. Does Spanish have a case of verb wherein one uses a noun, followed by some verb meaning "to do", that results in describing an action with that noun? For example, in Japanese, でんわ is the word for "telephone" or just "phone", and する is the verb for "to do", and they combine the two into でんわする to describe "to make a phone call" or "to call".
09:22 <ConfusionRift> Hmmm.
09:24 <ConfusionRift> Not really. It's very similar to English in structure. So it would normally be a verb before a noun.
09:24 <Cepheid> Mmm.
09:25 <ConfusionRift> "Voy a hacer una llamada." \ "Going to make a phone call."
09:25 <Cepheid> I wonder if I'd ever be able to pronounce Spanish properly, if I were to learn it. I can't do Japanese right, which is part of why I'm not as interested in the verbal aspect of it, other than comprehension.
09:25 <Cepheid> But even that is hard for me, because my ears aren't the best with spoken word.
09:27 <Cepheid> I suspect a large part of my speech troubles simply has to do with the structure/layout of my teeth. If you saw a picture of me smiling with the teeth showing, you'd understand part of the problem.
09:28 <ConfusionRift> Chances are you might fight with the "Spanglish" accent. As in, swerving or curving words. Just like Japanese, pronunciations have pauses than English doesn't.
09:28 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
09:28 <Cepheid> The pauses in Japanese actually cause me to stutter, so yeah, I'd likely have problems with anything like that in Spanish.
09:28 <ConfusionRift> But that's common with English native speakers. It takes time to learn that.
09:30 <Cepheid> Basically, the gist of my problem is that a majority of the side teeth are all tilting inwards, In the front, they're all impacted and rotated around, etc. Fortunately, no pain. But it does mean my tongue does not properly fit in between my teeth.
09:31 <Cepheid> This is especially noticeable when my tongue tries to go up to the roof of my mouth. the sides of my tongue are stopped by my teeth, I have to squish my tongue in between the teeth, which requires muscular effort to do, thus changing the shape of my tongue overall.
09:33 <Cepheid> And if I decide to clench my teeth for whatever reason, I have to be careful or I just end up biting my tongue really badly. o3o
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09:35 <ConfusionRift> That's pretty bad. And yeah, that does affect with this situation.
09:35 <ConfusionRift> Okay, my other monitor just moved... and I didn't touch it.
09:35 <Cepheid> o.O
09:35 <Cepheid> Ghost! Spectre! Poltergeist!
09:36 <ConfusionRift> Es el pollo diablo!
09:37 <Cepheid> Some words confuse me as to how they came about, I'll say that much about Japanese.
09:37 <ConfusionRift> I find it odd as to how easy it is to pivot this thing to the sides.
09:38 <Cepheid> サークル, saakuru, "circle", is used for "club activity." Or, more commonly on the Internet, it's used for groups of artists or musicians with a common goal, etc.
09:38 <ConfusionRift> Just gonna ignore that. Maybe I had it too close to the side of the desk cube, and it just repositioned with my typing vibrations.
09:38 <Cepheid> https://reallifecomics.com/index.php Heh.
09:39 <ConfusionRift> Hahahaaaa!
09:40 <ConfusionRift> "Nooo! Why is there just a wall here?! Why can't I go back?! What AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!!!"
09:43 <Cepheid> Truth told, Nintendo was right about it possibly being too hard for Westerners. My experiences with the Lost Levels/SMB2 was that it is a considerable spike in difficulty compared to the first game.
09:43 <Cepheid> AKA: How not to make a game.
09:44 <ConfusionRift> It plays and feels like a Kaizo hack... licensed by Nintendo.
09:45 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
09:45 <Cepheid> It started off at a difficulty comparable to the final levels of the first game.
09:45 <Cepheid> Thus, rather than an actual game, it was more of an expansion.
09:46 * Cepheid goes to take one other medication that might help with this headache.
09:48 <Cepheid> Buh..
09:48 <Cepheid> Running out of that stuff.
09:48 <Cepheid> They only give me 12 pills for three months. Got it refilled about two weeks ago, and in the last 3 days I've gone through half of it already.
09:48 <ConfusionRift> Well, according to them, the Lost Levels (AKA the real SMB2) was supposed to be made for veterans of the first game. So technically, it was more like an expansions. The spike was because you were expected to know about all the tricks done in the original game. So they added a few things here and there to make it more of a challenge... and to troll those who took it too easy.
09:49 <ConfusionRift> You know, La Mulana logic. :P
09:49 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
09:51 <Cepheid> Why is this stuff prescribed in such small amounts anyways..?
09:51 <Cepheid> Wikipedia doesn't say much.
10:03 <Cepheid> I'm gonna close this laptop, stretch out in this chair, and sit in the dark for a bit.
10:04 <Cepheid> Or rather, put the brightness of the laptop at the lowest it can go, to occasionally peek at it without agitating my headache.
10:08 <Cepheid> Okay, question. Has anyone here ever suffered from microseizures?
10:11 <ConfusionRift> Can't say I have.
10:14 <Cepheid> Because as I was sitting here in the dark with my eyes closed, I had a few instances wherein the pain in my face throbbed, and my body jolted/twitched, feeling like I lost complete control of my body for a moment, with my thinking, awareness and everything just "scrambling" into noise and random colors.
10:15 <Cepheid> But it was so momentary, that it had no negative impact on me, other than just feeling like I lost control of everything in my body, including my brain, for a short moment.
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10:17 <Cepheid> Back to sitting in darkness.
10:33 <Cepheid> There... headache's going away.
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10:44 <Cepheid> The biggest issue with me doing anything like streaming a game, programming, etc..
10:44 <Cepheid> Is the scheduling.
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10:44 <Cepheid> I cannot maintain a proper sleep cycle, so maintaining a schedule is next to impossible.
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10:53 <Cepheid> Next up on the "what's wrong now brain?" is "I'm smelling something burning."
10:59 <Cepheid> On the other hand, I still have a sense of smell, so that's something.
11:05 <ConfusionRift> Sounds like someone cooking breakfast. :P Or not... which would be baaaad.
11:07 <Cepheid> No one was cooking, so bad.
11:08 <Cepheid> Least it's not burnt toast! </Obscure Reference>
11:08 <ConfusionRift> 0_0;
11:08 <Cepheid> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUOG2g4hj8s What I am referencing.
11:08 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield
11:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #2130 [ https://tinyurl.com/yxd8p5ne ]
11:10 <ConfusionRift> Huh.
11:11 <Cepheid> That commercial has achieved meme status in Canada.
11:11 <Cepheid> It used to be played almost every other commercial period on every Canadian TV channel.
11:11 <Cepheid> That one specifically.
11:11 <ConfusionRift> It does have that sort of quality.
11:11 <Cepheid> It's less "having that quality" and more "we saw it so danged much we have it memorized."
11:15 <Cepheid> Right. My headache has gone away completely, all that remains is the occasional jolting, but that's not painful, so...
11:15 <Cepheid> Back to studying.
11:15 <ConfusionRift> In P.R., there was this ad that ran on both TV and cinema for Harris Paints. It became such a big thing, almost part of cinematic culture. Every time it showed up in theaters, it was like the national hymn.
11:16 <Cepheid> Heh.
11:17 <Cepheid> Hum, okay, that's an interesting observation with this word.
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11:17 <Cepheid> 兄弟. kyoudai. Translates to "siblings; brothers and sisters" So, seems simple enough.
11:17 <ConfusionRift> It started some time in the 90's and I think it's still around.
11:17 <Cepheid> But the kanji...
11:17 <Cepheid> The first kanji is the kanji for "older brother". The second kanji is the kanji for "younger brother".
11:18 <Cepheid> Yeah, here, the Heritage Moment videos have stopped airing, but they've been archived on various video services and such.
11:19 <ConfusionRift> I think it's still been added to new movies. Truth be told, I think it might be one of the best paint commercials I have seen.
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11:25 <LunaticHell> gooooooooooood morning, equestria
11:26 <ConfusionRift> Heeeeeeyyyy, what's up?
11:27 <Cepheid> Hey LunaticHell.
11:27 <LunaticHell> a bit of everything
11:28 <LunaticHell> So remember the two kidney stones from last week?
11:28 <Cepheid> If by "up" you mean relative to the Earth, then up is a vector pointing away from the center of the Earth. But I don't think that's what you meant, and Finwe is likely to give me *YAY* over that description, so...
11:28 <LunaticHell> I got the feeling that this is followed by inflammation of the same.
11:29 <ConfusionRift> Oh, had no idea.
11:29 <Cepheid> Oof.
11:29 <LunaticHell> At least I managed to file my taxes today and got a stamp with today's date to prove it.
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11:29 <LunaticHell> Yes today, the 39th of november.
11:30 <Cepheid> I hope you have a doctor's appointment set up LunaticHell, just in case it might be something else?
11:30 <LunaticHell> Good to know the people at the ministry of finance know how to work a stamp.
11:30 <Cepheid> ...
11:30 <Cepheid> Wait, they actually printed a stamp dated November 39th?
11:31 <LunaticHell> Yes.
11:31 <LunaticHell> Well it's a stamp you can change the thingies on.
11:32 <LunaticHell> one of those
11:32 <LunaticHell> https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Hg+u8vKJL._AC_.jpg
11:34 <Cepheid> Ah.
11:34 <Cepheid> Oh, that kind of stamp. I was thinking postage stamp.
11:34 <LunaticHell> Yeah, anyhow I found out the doctor is still reachable, today, so I'll just go do the thing.
11:34 <LunaticHell> Since tomorrow I'll be at the dentest.
11:35 <LunaticHell> By the way, I just now started reading Undead Unluck. It's worth checking it out.
11:35 <LunaticHell> See ya till later.
11:36 <Cepheid> Heh. Take care.
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11:37 <Cepheid> ConfusionRift, I have to ask. When you were learning English, did you often find yourself having to make use of a dictionary quite frequently, even for words that at that point, you formally "learned"?
11:38 <Cepheid> 'Cause I feel like I should have memorized a lot of these words by now. And for the most part, I have, but when I try to recall them during speech or writing, I often have to look them up again. It's not until I actually use them five or six times in speech and/or writing that I actually seem to remember them.
11:40 <Cepheid> Like, I can't remember お風呂に入る because I don't really know of a situation where I'd use it, except in writing, because, I don't take baths. :P
11:44 <ConfusionRift> I watched a lot of movies with subtitles. Kinda associated both Spanish and English wording, and slowly put the structures together. there were words that did escape me, or confused with others and did use a dictionary or some other literature form to see if I was right. I still sorta kinda perhaps do, but that's because writing online has been so terrible, that I sometimes typo it as well.
11:44 <ConfusionRift> It's upsetting sometimes.
11:44 <Cepheid> Mmm.
11:45 <Cepheid> Yeah, I'm a little upset, because I feel like I should have had these words memorized, and, well... I keep finding myself having to go back and review them again and again and again.
11:45 <Cepheid> But no matter how many times I review them, they don't seem to stick.
11:45 <Cepheid> And it's hard to use a language when you have no one to talk to in said language, so that you find yourself using the words.
11:46 <ConfusionRift> The other issue, as you mentioned, it covers situations that you don't associate with. Which doesn't help the matter.
11:46 <ConfusionRift> That did happen a lot during lectures.
11:47 <Cepheid> I feel like no matter how much I study, I'm not gonna do well on this little oral presentation. Even had I studied over the weekend instead of drugging myself to calmness and sleeping.
11:49 <Cepheid> Damned pandemic is starting to take it's toll on me. Guess the longest I can go without my usual "go outside and wander around downtown for a couple of hours" is 12 months before I start losing my mind.
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12:02 * Cepheid sets up an appointment with doctor to discuss weird seizure-like symptoms.
12:06 <Cepheid> そのいすはすわります。 "Sit in that chair."
12:08 <Cepheid> I should create some anki decks, one of each chapter's vocabulary, and for each card, put the word in kana, the word with any kanji, and a sentence in which the word is used.
12:08 <Cepheid> Likewise, have a reverse variant. That is, the English word and an example of the word used in an English sentence.
12:09 <Cepheid> And on the flip side is the kana/kanji word.
12:10 * Cepheid sighs. "The pain is starting to come back. And it's moved to the other side of my face."
12:16 <Cepheid> I know why my head hurts, too. I ah... checked, using certain tools. The sinus openings are all swollen shut and inflamed right now.
12:17 <Cepheid> Is this what it's like to have kidney stones, except instead of in my kidneys/bladder/etc, it's inside my face and nose?
12:17 <Cepheid> ... Cat, how? Why?
12:18 <Cepheid> He just slammed himself up against the door of this room and opened it.
12:29 <Cepheid> And now he's being a pest.
12:29 <Cepheid> I really need to test something though.
12:31 <Cepheid> Yep. He really doesn't like Takanashi Kiara's voice.
12:32 <Lumindia> the lewd phoenix?
12:32 <Cepheid> Yes.
12:33 <Cepheid> I'm guessing it's the pitch of her voice. Probably matches the pitch of a cat meowing, or comes close to it.
12:33 <Cepheid> As he absolutely hates cats meowing on my laptop.
12:33 <Cepheid> Or tablet. Or phone.
12:33 <Cepheid> Or near me.
12:33 <Cepheid> He spazzes out and starts attacking me.
12:33 <Lumindia> https://i.imgur.com/yqNhBhP.png
12:33 <Lumindia> related image
12:33 <Cepheid> Heh.
12:34 <Cepheid> "Where did you get this egg from?"
12:34 <Lumindia> Kiara: ........ .///.
12:36 <Cepheid> Watching this particular crew, when something bad happens, is hilarious. They just go dead silent, and the avatars say everything via motions, expressions, etc.
12:36 <Cepheid> They want to just start cursing and swearing, but they can't.
12:37 <Lumindia> which EN member do you think is the biggest gremlin?
12:37 <Lumindia> personally, I say Gura
12:37 * ConfusionRift looks it up. "Oh..."
12:37 <Cepheid> Gura.
12:37 <Lumindia> yeah
12:37 <Lumindia> she's a massive gremlin. xD
12:38 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, Calliope has the most unexpected personality for what the character is supposed to be.
12:39 <Cepheid> Out of the lot of them, Ina seems to be the most stable and sane of the bunch.
12:39 <Lumindia> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV7lopyk6UU
12:39 <Lumindia> I love when the person goes 'off camera', the avatar just kinda dies
12:40 <Cepheid> Yep.
12:40 <Lumindia> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV7lopyk6UU
12:40 <Cepheid> Which is part of the above "The avatars say everything via motions, expressions, etc."
12:40 <Cepheid> Because you can tell when they just got up, walked away, and either started cursing and swearing out of range of the microphone, or something else.
12:41 <Lumindia> oh I JUST linked that
12:41 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, Calliope's breakdown over large donations was cute.
12:41 <Cepheid> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQgD6nu5tA
12:41 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Canadians bully Calliope with HUGE superchats! - YouTube
12:45 <Cepheid> I'll be honest, I'd throw a fit like that too if that happened to me.
12:49 <Lumindia> but if you could make loads of money being a VTuber, would you?
12:49 <Cepheid> Sure, why not?
12:49 * Cepheid has no shame, so... >.>
12:50 * ConfusionRift is a bit too shy for that.
12:50 <Lumindia> I mean, for money like that
12:50 <Cepheid> If I could, yes.
12:50 <Lumindia> if I could make a month's rent in a single day being a VTuber, hell yeah I'd probably do that
12:50 <Cepheid> But I can't, because A) I'm biologically male, and thus "not as awesome", and B) I can't maintain a schedule to save my life.
12:53 <Cepheid> The scheduling thing is key.
12:53 <Cepheid> More than A.
12:53 <Lumindia> doesn't even have to be every day
12:53 <uni> how about being interesting?
12:53 <Lumindia> as long as you're consistent
12:53 <uni> I find that's the hardest part
12:53 <Cepheid> Being interesting is another important detail, yes.
12:53 <Cepheid> But for me, the key point is the scheduling. If I tried to maintain a consistent schedule for stuff, it'd be... I'd have one or two "episodes" every two weeks.
12:53 * ConfusionRift laughs at "STONKS".
12:54 <Cepheid> Because my sleep cycle goes around and around and around.
12:54 <Cepheid> Alternatively, I work around my cycle, because I KNOW how it works.
12:54 <Schism> "Maybe today won't be so busy," she said, laughing derisively as she looked at her 13 hour shift.
12:54 <Cepheid> I know that my schedule moves ahead approximately 1-2 hours each day.
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12:55 <uni> imagine having a sleep schedule~
12:55 <Cepheid> So I could, for example, figure out what my current cycle status is, set up a time for today, and then for each successive day ahead of me, add ~1 hour, 30 minutes to the start of the day, and schedule according to that.
12:55 <Cyan_Spark> Hai uni
12:55 <Cepheid> So for example, today, I could say Noon. Tomorrow, 1:30 PM. Wednesday, 3 PM, and so on, and so on.
12:59 <Cepheid> Really do need to get around to that application idea I had for making daily schedules with my sleeping behavior in mind.
12:59 <Lumindia> so you're like my roommate in that your sleep schedule is... weird
12:59 <Cepheid> Basically, the short gist of it is that all of the tasks for a day are assigned times relative to when I wake up.
12:59 <Cepheid> Rather than absolute times.
12:59 <Cepheid> Mmhmm. Apparently this is not uncommon among people diagnosed with ADHD, as I learned recently.
12:59 <Lumindia> so it's like 'an hour after I wake up, breakfast' and 'half an hour after that, shower'
13:00 <Lumindia> that kind of deal?
13:00 <Cepheid> Yes.
13:00 <Cepheid> That's currently how I try to time things as is.
13:00 <Cepheid> I wake up, eat breakfast. Five hours later, I eat lunch. Five hours after *THAT* I eat dinner.
13:00 <Cepheid> Because if we go by a typical person waking up at 7 AM, they eat breakfast at 7 AM, then lunch at noon, 5 hours later, then dinner at around 5-6 PM, about 5-6 hours after lunch.
13:04 <Cepheid> ...
13:04 <Cepheid> So, as a last minute thing, I decided to listen to the "questions that I might be asked" during my oral presentation.
13:04 <Cepheid> Not one of the questions I had to look up a word for.
13:05 <Cepheid> I was able to figure out what the professor was asking, no problem. Though, she still speaks a tad too quickly for me.
13:06 <Cepheid> I get the impression I may do better than I am thinking, now.
13:22 * Cepheid hands Lumindia a shark.
13:22 <Lumindia> A
13:22 <Lumindia> is it left shark or right shark?
13:24 <Cepheid> It's neither!
13:26 <Lumindia> is it an "A" Shark?
13:26 <Cepheid> Yes.
13:28 <LunaOfTheMoonLight> ...
13:29 <Cepheid> What?
13:29 * Cyan_Spark neighs
13:37 * Cepheid begins a project to create an A.I., using Omega's personality as a base. Uses Lumindia as a test subject. o3o
13:38 <Lumindia> '-'
13:38 <Lumindia> uuhhhh...
13:38 <Lumindia> why me?
13:38 <Cepheid> Because you have experience with Omega? I'd use Schism, but they're already going insane from work.
13:39 <Lumindia> fair enough, I guess
13:39 <Lumindia> just make a backup first
13:39 <Lumindia> >.>
13:40 <Cepheid> Heh.
13:41 <Cepheid> I still have yet to actually fight him.
13:42 <Lumindia> it's a fun fight
13:42 * ConfusionRift flops to sleep.
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13:42 <Lumindia> music is a bop as well
13:42 <Cepheid> "PS5 owners say they are receiving bans after selling PS4 users access to the PS Plus Collection." ... Well, gee, I wonder why.
13:47 <uni> hey Cyan_Spark!
13:47 <uni> sorry I popped off for dinner
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13:57 * Cyan_Spark pats
14:00 * Cepheid flops about, waits for 9:30 to roll around.
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14:08 <uni> huh 0930?
14:10 <Cepheid> I have an oral presentation for Japanese, it's five minutes, I have to answer questions and not screw it all up.
14:17 * Schism flops. "First hour complete." She then attacks Lumindia with Larboard, then Larboard again.
14:17 <Lumindia> D:
14:17 <Lumindia> I still struggle with that to this day
14:19 <Schism> It's one of their favourite attacks, too. It got used what, 50 times in Shadowbringers?
14:19 <Schism> Not to mention Moustachio.
14:20 <Finwe> o3o
14:20 * Finwe noms on cobalt moss.
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14:21 <LunaticHell> >One eternity later
14:21 <Cepheid> If I ever fought Omega, I'd have to up the music, and make sure I utter some prayer to the deities. Otherwise, I'm likely to stress, and get too distracted by what's going on.
14:21 <Cepheid> Or just do my usual routine of trying to encourage people to push on.
14:21 <LunaticHell> So turns out instead of having kidney inflamation, I am feeling the aftermath of giving birth to two stones.
14:21 <Cyan_Spark> Razor the investor
14:22 <Cepheid> *YAY* happens. Get back up, try again.
14:22 <LunaticHell> Which can last up to 4 weeks.
14:22 <Schism> LunaticHell, ergh. At least you don't have to worry about more complications -- yet -- and can take some painkillers?
14:22 <RazorSharpFang> Hey heys.
14:23 <Schism> RazorSharpInvestor. *doffs cream cheese*
14:23 * Cepheid sits in waiting room. o3o
14:23 <LunaticHell> When they work, they work wonders.
14:23 <LunaticHell> Anyhow
14:23 <Cepheid> Better to be safe than sorry.
14:23 <LunaticHell> Wait, wrong phrase, lemme retry
14:23 <LunaticHell> Oh no.
14:23 <LunaticHell> Anyway
14:24 <LunaticHell> And talking of omega, while I was at the doc's, I downloaded that megaman zero collection.
14:24 <LunaticHell> Never played ZX advant, so that's new for me.
14:25 <LunaticHell> I've seen the characters in lewds, tho. So I know that much.
14:25 <Schism> Radioactive cat. https://twitter.com/Drain_001/status/1324517254420049920
14:27 <LunaticHell> Well, cats ARE radient.
14:27 <Cyan_Spark> As evidenced over the Black Friday sale, the opposite of Diamond Hands is apparently Paper Hands
14:28 <RazorSharpFang> Can confirm.
14:28 <LunaticHell> Sounds like a papercut in waiting.
14:28 <LunaticHell> And talking of cuts, I heard about a sequal to adventure time or something like that.
14:30 <RazorSharpFang> Tesla 600
14:30 <LunaticHell> I feel like the internet explorer for finding out just now.
14:31 <Cepheid> Oh... my gods.
14:31 * Cepheid screams.
14:31 <Cepheid> She took me early, and I did TERRIBLY.
14:31 <Cepheid> ... Though she insists otherwise.
14:31 <RazorSharpFang> Who took what early?
14:31 <LunaticHell> Talking of Tesla. If you steal one, does it turn into an Edison?
14:31 <Cepheid> I had an oral presentation where the professor would spend a few minutes asking me questions, and I had to answer them.
14:31 <Cyan_Spark> Tesla 600 indeed
14:31 <Cepheid> I screwed up conjugation repeatedly, etc.
14:32 <Cepheid> I always remembered what I needed *AFTER* I gave my answer. =.=;
14:32 <Cyan_Spark> Palantir appears to be recovering from its Black Friday Sale
14:32 <Cyan_Spark> Will it pull a Cyber Monday Sale? Is the question.
14:32 * Cepheid curls up in a corner, stressed beyond words.
14:32 <LunaticHell> Oh by the by, what's your take on the new animaniacs?
14:32 <RazorSharpFang> Today at work was the opposite of fun. Walked into work and found that the SSD of my laptop was unreadable.
14:33 <LunaticHell> Memento SSD memory.
14:33 * ADragonDreaming hugs Cepheid
14:34 <LunaticHell> Oh hi Tiamat.
14:34 <ADragonDreaming> If your actual professor says you did fine, then I'd say you did fine.
14:34 * ADragonDreaming waves to LunaticHell
14:35 <LunaticHell> How's the year 2020 AD treating you?
14:35 <Cepheid> Honestly I think part of it is that the professor tends to be... generous.
14:36 <Cepheid> As long as we show we're doing our best, and learning, it's sufficient for her.
14:36 <Cepheid> So, looks like my exam schedule for December is...
14:37 <Cepheid> 11th, in-class listening test for Japanese. 15th, Databases. 16th, Principles of Networks.
14:37 <Cepheid> So after the 16th, I'm guaranteed done of school for the semester and can slack until about January 8th or so.
14:38 <Cepheid> Or rather, after the exam on the 16th.
14:38 <Cepheid> ...
14:39 <Cepheid> Okay, this helps my mood a bit. I misread how much the oral presentation was worth.
14:39 <ADragonDreaming> Worth a lot less than you thought?
14:39 <Cepheid> She lumped all the oral stuff into one percentage, which showed as 30% of my mark, which is why I panicked a bit more than I should have.
14:39 <RazorSharpFang> You mentioned that you're not too keen on speaking Japanese.
14:39 <Cepheid> There's three oral assignments. First is worth 10%. Second(this one) is worth 12%. Last is 8%.
14:40 <Cepheid> Had my brain actually decided to stop for a moment and read the entire paragraph, it would have realized this.
14:41 <Cepheid> I'm gonna take an hour or two to myself.
14:42 <LunaticHell> I was told a kinda trick.
14:43 <ADragonDreaming> 2020 has treated me, personally, well enough. Can't say the same for others.
14:43 <LunaticHell> When you're under lots of stress, usually it is in company with an adrenaline rush.
14:44 <LunaticHell> This thankfully only lasts up to 15 minutes.
14:44 <Cepheid> I am aware.
14:44 <LunaticHell> In other words: In a hurry, take your time.
14:44 <Cepheid> 2020 has been largely good to me. Outside of being stuck indoors for too long.
14:44 <LunaticHell> Well, I envy you for that. xD
14:45 <LunaticHell> Anyway, I'll check out that game I dl'd.
14:48 <ADragonDreaming> what game?\
14:49 <Cepheid> Looks like...
14:50 <Cepheid> Megaman Zero/ZX Legacy Collection.
14:50 * Cepheid checked Steam.
14:51 <ADragonDreaming> aha
14:56 <Cepheid> Aaaand the adrenaline rush is wearing off.
15:05 * Cepheid sees a flood of Xenoblade 2 artwork, memes, and congratulatory tweets.
15:28 * Cepheid goes to take a nap, sets alarm to wake her up for quarter after 3 for appointment.
15:40 <Cepheid> Cat knows I'm worked up. Is bein' pest.
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16:02 <RazorSharpFang> Today is a red day for me.
16:12 <RazorSharpFang> Sleep time, cyas.
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16:21 * Schism blurh. She flops in after her shower, just brushing her hair, and then runs to the store so she has at least SOMETHING to eat.
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16:50 * Schism ... "Why is it that TODAY the line-up for the queues was 15 deep?"
16:52 <Schism> With people purchasing 50 lottery tickets.
16:55 <Cepheid> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg58SllJyq0 Kurone is doomed.
16:56 <ADragonDreaming> That game's hard enough without a language barrier.
16:56 <Cepheid> Indeed.
16:57 <ADragonDreaming> Though as you play it with the same person you both develop an understanding of the function of it and settle into understood terms.
17:01 * Schism finishes a lunch filled with entirely too many carbs, and takes insulin. "This may cause a sugar crash before 9 PM. It's hard to say."
17:04 <Cepheid> As for Kurone's second description, English "map" transliterated to Japanese kana comes out as 「マップ」 or "mappu". She's trying to say "google map pin" but she voiced the "u" in "mappu". Makes it sound like she said something else, as a result.
17:04 <Schism> Back to work...!
17:04 <ADragonDreaming> ah. That explains it.
17:07 <Cepheid> As for the last one, I can't really translate what she said, as I have not yet learned about 「からの」, and that last bit has some kanji I don't recognize. Let's see...
17:08 <ADragonDreaming> Triangle, something, many legs, t
17:10 <Cepheid> That last bit is apparently "T sticking out."
17:17 <LunaticHell> Welp, whoever thought a lives system belongs in a non arcade game needs to be shot.
17:17 <Cepheid> Heh.
17:18 <LunaticHell> Anyhow, I just read the latest kobayashi manga, today.
17:18 <LunaticHell> It's a Kanna chapter. ^^
17:20 <Cepheid> As for the rest of what Kurone is saying, the best approximate translation I can come up with based on what I'm reading, is "Triangle, with... Triangle with many legs coming from it, and a T sticking out." Which is a good approximation of what the icon is. o3o
17:20 <ADragonDreaming> yes
17:22 <Cepheid> But yeah, Kurone's English is not the best. But she does try. She's attempted English-only streams. It's lead to some interesting statements.
17:22 <Cepheid> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSs9-NDP3E
17:22 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.
17:22 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about [Inugami Korone] water in the fire
17:23 <ADragonDreaming> fireball mario in a water level.
17:23 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
17:23 <LunaticHell> Ah the dog girl
17:23 <Cepheid> 8-4, to be precise. Near the end of Super Mario Brothers.
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17:26 <LunaticHell> And talking of v-tubers
17:26 <LunaticHell> https://twitter.com/DuDuLtv/status/1332016323136720896
17:27 <Cepheid> So much destruction.
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17:31 * Cepheid flops off to nap for a bit.
17:43 <LunaticHell> Well, at least on the way out she used the door.
18:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Fanfiction: Best Left Unsaid [ https://tinyurl.com/y652ledr ]
18:31 * Cepheid returns, unable to sleep. Head pain, and intense nausea. Will just have to wait for exhaustion to knock her out.
18:31 <Cepheid> Also, in the meantime...
18:31 <Cepheid> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00mEYJhPPFY Apparently, Kurone is a smartass.
18:31 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.
18:31 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about \\\"Press When There's 1\\\", Okay I'm Dead GG【Hololive | Inugami Korone x Mori Calliope】
18:32 <NitroTheFurry> How does the link command work, does it just post a random video?
18:33 <Cepheid> When you provide a youtube link, or some other websites I can't recall, it'll check the metadata for said website and print out some info on it. Only works for a select few websites, though.
18:33 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, I think just !link alone recalls a random link.
18:33 <Cepheid> !link
18:33 <Cepheid> Guess not.
18:33 <DerpyBot> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHXJQwfyzd4 - Dj Antoine feat. Pitbull - You're Ma Chérie (Dj Antoine vs Mad Mark 2k13 Radio Edit) [Album 2013]
18:33 <Cepheid> Oh, wait. There we go.
18:34 <NitroTheFurry> Hm, id be interested to see how that was done
18:35 <Cepheid> In the case of youtube, I think it's just standard HTML element parsing.
18:36 <Cepheid> There's a <title> element for HTML that lets you set the "title" for a page, which is what's shown on the tab and in the titlebar of the browser.
18:37 <Cepheid> Otherwise, you can hide information about the page for stuff like bots, crawlers and the like through non-visual HTML elements.
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18:39 <Cepheid> For example, on youtube pages, there's <meta> element usage, for specifying information about the video, such as poster, title, title image, description of the video, etc.
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18:42 <Cepheid> As for parsing it, that's relateively easy these days. Just run the HTML through any XML parsing engine, maybe validate the XML against a schema, and then traverse the tree generated by the parser.
18:42 <Cepheid> <No one knows what Cepheid just said>
18:43 <NitroTheFurry> XML, Parsing and schema?
18:45 <Cepheid> XML is a eXtensible Markup Language. I don't know how to express what it is. Parsing is the process of reading in data and making sense of it, more or less. Schemas in the context of XML are a way of describing the structure of a valid XML document for a given scenario.
18:46 * NitroTheFurry thanks Cepheid for the explanations
18:47 <NitroTheFurry> Ya know ceph, some people might find it annoying that you go and explain this much about a subject from one question, But I like that about you
18:47 <Cepheid> Trust me, I know. :P
18:49 <Cepheid> I have a tendency to go on about a subject when it's one I enjoy, often to the point of quite literally "taking over the chat" so to speak.
18:50 <NitroTheFurry> Well I like it
19:01 <Schism> Day of Hell is about half done...
19:02 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/R5udgN9 Hey Schism, I found the perfect gift for you. *Goes and hides*
19:03 <Schism> Heehee. Thanks, I hate it.
19:09 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3536 [ https://tinyurl.com/yxws4sgc ]
19:13 <Cepheid> My favourite thing about cats is when they act like you can't do anything to stop them from whatever it is they're doing. And then you just, pick them up with one hand and hold them in the air and they're all "... Wait, what?"
19:14 <Schism> Coffee got... and now back to the day.
19:14 <NitroTheFurry> Lol
19:33 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/pRDfopg I have no words.
19:48 <ADragonDreaming> XML is basically a way to define what lines of data are.
19:49 <ADragonDreaming> It's a fairly human-readable method of labeling that multiple different programs are able to interpret and use.
19:51 <ADragonDreaming> Once you have the basic, floor-level understanding of programming logic then a look at XML is enough to get the gist of what it is.
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20:37 <Cepheid> Whoops. Nearly fell asleep before appointment.
20:40 <Cepheid> And yeah, that's one way to describe XML. Typically, these days, XML is used for storing configuration data. Can be used to store database-like data, though, or descriptions of data and other sorts of fun things.
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21:08 <Cepheid> Doc's late.
21:14 <Schism> Lunch break #2...
21:14 <Cepheid> There we go.
21:23 <Cepheid> And doc says...
21:23 <Cepheid> "No idea."
21:23 <Cepheid> Got me a referral to a specialist in neuro stuff.
21:25 * Schism facepalms.
21:26 <Cepheid> He says if it was a microseizure, I'd be losing consciousness.
21:28 <Cepheid> Ajit Pai is stepping down January 20th.
21:29 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Comics: Friendship Vs. Deathstar / Discord's New Show! / Future #44 / Hollowshades #162 / WHILP #15 [ https://tinyurl.com/y4b5qm8c ]
21:29 <PinkieShy> Brother just asked me what i want for my birthday or christmas told him clothes and a gift card to steam :P
21:29 <Dappled> I'd say he should step down earlier, but I don't think his post would stay empty till the next administration.
21:31 <Cepheid> I honestly expect to see news reports of Trump trying to fill his position ahead of time within the next week or three.
21:31 <Schism> Considering who and what Ajit Pai is, it would have been nice to see him disappear for good well before now.
21:32 <Dappled> This is true, but I'll take the devil you know for someone less terrible than someone appointed who promises to make sure to punish twitter for letting #DiaperDon start trending.
21:34 <Schism> The prank of 2020 has reappeared, it looks like. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1333484643354632198
21:34 <Cepheid> Now *THAT* is a prank.
21:34 <Cepheid> That's just someone plain up screwing around.
21:35 * Dappled bets its aliens.
21:35 <Cepheid> Don't be silly. Aliens would never visit Earth willingly.
21:36 <ADragonDreaming> ...That doesn't look identical.
21:36 <ADragonDreaming> There's circular markings on this one that I doon't remember on the pics of the first one.
21:37 * Dappled wanders back to bloodborne. Must defeat all the chalice dungeons before Gerhman this time.
21:40 <LunaticHell> What's that smell?
21:40 <LunaticHell> Is blood!
21:41 * Schism uses Steal Blood, and drains an entire room of gallons upon gallons of the bodily fluid.
21:41 <LunaticHell> Talking about aliens, Cepheid. I once heard a simple reason for aliens to not visit.
21:42 <LunaticHell> "A tiger rarely asks a deer for directions."
21:42 * Cepheid dies from blood loss.
21:53 <Schism> Cepheid: https://twitter.com/megsaidstfu/status/1332859597972004865
21:54 <Cepheid> That pattern on the left can't be real.
21:54 <Schism> Surely it can?
21:54 <Cepheid> The one on the right, I have actually seen patterns like that before.
21:54 <Cepheid> But the skull motif? Bit of a stretch.
21:55 <LunaticHell> unlikely, yes.
21:55 <Cepheid> Looking up close at that image, it does kinda look touched up.
21:55 <LunaticHell> Impossible? No.
21:55 <LunaticHell> Hotel? Trivago.
21:56 <Cepheid> It'd be more believable if it was a video.
21:56 <LunaticHell> Agreed.
21:56 <Cepheid> As that'd make the pattern much harder to fake.
21:56 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/A0Uc3RC
21:57 <LunaticHell> So I just learned about that adventure time special.
21:57 <LunaticHell> "Distant Lands"
21:58 <Cepheid> Again, Canada is not real.
21:58 * Schism finishes her cup of coffee, and groans. "Am still tired." Well, she only has four hours left of work. She'll get through this, especially as it's going to be speeding up disastrously in the next little bit.
21:58 <Cepheid> It's a government conspiracy to hide the true origins of the Canada Goose.
21:58 <LunaticHell> So that's why I keep finding pictures of Bronwyn that make me love her even more.
21:59 <Cepheid> See, the true origin of the Canada Goose is... Detroit.
21:59 <LunaticHell> Also she's more bear than dog.
21:59 <LunaticHell> Detroit: become goose
22:10 <LunaticHell> !link
22:10 <DerpyBot> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZNtc47oB3c&feature=player_detailpage - My Little Wars: Friendship is Force
22:10 <LunaticHell> Ah good thing that still works
22:10 <LunaticHell> Ceph, I got something for you
22:10 <LunaticHell> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQVubP2t7XM
22:10 <DerpyBot> I need to ask Twilight about that one.
22:10 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Man me a sand #retweetforfreenut
22:13 <Cepheid> No comment.
22:15 <NitroTheFurry> Huh
22:15 <NitroTheFurry> That's actually pretty goof
22:15 <NitroTheFurry> Good*
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22:20 <LunaticHell> ^-^
22:20 <LunaticHell> As fan of UFP I especially like the sand parts.
22:23 <LunaticHell> So a plane crashed in a cementary. 800 dead bodies were found, with more expected to be found.
22:27 <NitroTheFurry> Well that just makes it easier
22:28 <Lumindia> ... wait
22:28 <Cepheid> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3c4GYwHnDc
22:31 <ADragonDreaming> I forget. Who wins, Jho or Goose in the music override?
22:32 <Cepheid> Jho, I believe.
22:33 <Cepheid> I actually don't know, as I don't think I've ever encountered both on the field at the same time. But given Deviljho's status, I would assume his music overrides all other music except maybe the theme for the flagship monster of a given game.
22:40 <ADragonDreaming> from what I find they have equal status.
22:40 <Cepheid> I kinda hope they keep Bazel around for Rise, alongside Jho. Maybe even add another invading monster of some sort. Deviljho didn't immediately attack, but he'd change the battle around with grabbing monsters, etc. Bazel meanwhile would just straight up stealth-bomb the field, so you had to keep an eye out for B-52 bombers.
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23:34 * Ali flops over the Lumindia and sighs
23:34 <Lumindia> tired pono?
23:34 <Ali> Eh, just a bout of sads about to set in.
23:34 <Lumindia> D:
23:34 <Lumindia> Why is the ali a sads?
23:37 <Ali> Mondays are all my staff visits for the week
23:37 <Ali> So once they area all over and done with, I just feel alone and sad.
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