00:00 <RichardMist> NitroTheFurry, Finwe is a serious pone
00:00 <NitroTheFurry> Okay... and?
00:02 <RichardMist> In short he will not answer, maybe because gone sleeping already
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00:11 <Cepheid> He's got a point.
00:11 <Cepheid> Finwe is a surprisingly serious person, and thus, if he says he's going to sleep, he's going to sleep.
00:15 <RichardMist> yes
00:19 <Cepheid> Anyone here with a history in biology? I know alcohol impairs motor function, and it's also commonly depicted to blur vision among other things. Any idea why, when I drink, I have the opposite effect with my vision? Motor skills and such are still impaired, but my vision ends up sharpening instead.
00:23 <RichardMist> You're special, you have something that no one have, but in biology point, your brain and nervous system work differently
00:23 <Cepheid> I actually wonder how much my mental illnesses change the effects of various things like medication, alcohol and the like.
00:28 <ADragonDreaming> This is all I found:
00:28 <ADragonDreaming> https://www.quora.com/Why-does-my-vision-get-sharper-when-I-drink-alcohol
00:28 <Cepheid> Ah.
00:28 <ADragonDreaming> I imagine it happens rarely, and has not been studied.
00:28 <ADragonDreaming> Tell the parents I am recovering, but still fatigued
00:29 <ADragonDreaming> to the degree of taking time off work for it despite working from home. Took half-day yesterday, all day today, probably another half-day tomorrow.
00:30 <Cepheid> They're also concerned about your results. It's unlikely you have C19, as you don't strike me as the type to go out willy nilly, but yeah.
00:30 <ADragonDreaming> won't know until tomorrow at the earliest.
00:30 <ADragonDreaming> possibly not until Christmas Eve
00:30 <ADragonDreaming> it was not the rapid test
00:30 <Cepheid> Ah. Yeah. Well, you seem to be recovering, and it might just be a cold.
00:30 <ADragonDreaming> it probably is. We suspect it was the wee bairn in the household what brought it in, as she's had a runny nose for about a week now.
00:31 <Cepheid> Mm.
00:31 <Cepheid> I only get tested regularly because I'm the one at greatest risk.
00:31 <RichardMist> ADragonDreaming, thanks, that information was much better that mine
00:31 <Cepheid> Plus, if I have it, it's guaranteed my parents have it anyways.
00:31 <Cepheid> Better to test one person than three.
00:33 <ADragonDreaming> aye
00:35 <ADragonDreaming> For me the symptoms are basically identical to other colds I've had. Mild headache, runny nose (but not real *congestion*, just periodically runny nose), an intermittent cough triggered by a tickle in the throat that feels asthmatic, and, of course, the sheer physical fatigue.
00:35 <ADragonDreaming> a little light-headedness if I move too quickly or strenuously, too.
00:36 <ADragonDreaming> No fever though. And the cough is not productive.
00:38 <ADragonDreaming> I won't be hunting tonight. Too fatigued to handle Monhan; and I'm watching a production by an actor's group of the whole Christmas tale with my own parents
00:40 <Cepheid> ... Well son of a b-
00:40 <Cepheid> I got a call from a psychiatrist but missed it because of my phone being on silence.
00:40 <Cepheid> I'll have to call tomorrow morning.
00:40 <ADragonDreaming> woof
00:40 <Cepheid> It happens.
00:41 <Cepheid> Still, wasn't expecting a response that quickly.
00:43 <Cepheid> I'll call first thing in the morning. Got an alarm set, and my ringer is set for maximum volume, and to ensure I get up, I'll be leaving the danged phone on top of my bookshelf.
00:44 * Cepheid returns to the hunt.
00:45 * Cepheid is working on making the Teostra weapon.
00:46 <RichardMist> Cepheid, good luck with the hunt
00:50 <Cepheid> Crux of the problem is the horns. I keep getting exactly one horn per quest, and I need a total of 5
00:53 <ADragonDreaming> doing MR version or...?
00:53 <RichardMist> How long 1 quest takes?
00:54 <Cepheid> HR version for now.
00:54 <Cepheid> But I still need MR horns as well.
00:58 <ADragonDreaming> that's goint to be even more of a pain.
00:58 <ADragonDreaming> meanwhile, in Stellaris, I'm weilding a heck of a lot of galactic clout in this new Galactic Council thing.
01:00 <Cepheid> Heh.
01:01 <Cepheid> There. Last Horn+.
01:01 <Cepheid> As for dealing with MR, I'll call in support.
01:01 <Cepheid> ... 'Specially since I'm drunk.
01:03 <Cepheid> Anyhoo, parents are going upstairs to bed, so I'm gonna move back to the TV and PC downstairs.
01:03 <Cepheid> Be back in a couple of minutes.
01:10 <Cepheid> Upside... I only need 2 MR horns.
01:10 <Cepheid> Downside. It's Master Rank Teostra.
01:10 <RichardMist> wow
01:11 <Cepheid> And, as stated: Drunk. Which is likely going to affect things a tad.
01:13 <RichardMist> okay
01:14 <RichardMist> The main thing is not to overdo it
01:18 <RichardMist> Time to take a break, good luck
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01:31 <Cepheid> Hoof. It was that investigation from the other night, the 20 minute one I had, ADra. We managed.
01:31 <Cepheid> 1:21 left.
01:32 <Cepheid> Break the horn, no break rewards. Got 2 horns in investigations, and 1 in carves. I only needed 2.
01:32 <Cepheid> ... But I need more MR Teostra parts.
01:35 <Cepheid> ... Capcom, no.
01:35 <Cepheid> There's an optional quest for Raging Brachy.
01:35 <Cepheid> "Achy Brachy Heart"
01:38 <ADragonDreaming> haha
01:38 <Cepheid> I do not look forward to making his weapons and armor.
01:38 <Cepheid> Especially with that funky mechanic.
01:41 <ADragonDreaming> The last stand?
01:41 <ADragonDreaming> It's of note: he's not an Elder Dragon. But he's apparently not capturable.
01:42 <Cepheid> Yeah, the last stand. I was less perturbed by the enraging and such, and more bothered by the fact that it locked you out without any sort of warning that might happen.
01:42 <Cepheid> Though, I assume the mechanic is limited to the areas it can occur in.
01:42 <Cepheid> Primarily, the area where all large monsters rest.
01:43 <Cepheid> Er, all large volcanic monsters*
01:43 * Cepheid wanders off to fight one last MR Teostra.
01:59 * PinkieShy goes back in time to revisit times square december 31st 2019
01:59 <PinkieShy> In VR***
01:59 <PinkieShy> VRC seems to do that world every year to celebrate new years :)
02:05 <Cepheid> We beat up that Teostra.
02:05 <Cepheid> And all of us were tipsy/drunk. We busted it up good, too. Every part broken.
02:06 <Cepheid> ... RNGod, you are kidding me with this.
02:07 <Cepheid> I needed a SINGLE Mane+. A SINGLE ONE. And I didn't even get it.
02:07 <ADragonDreaming> all were tipsy? How'd you know?
02:07 <Cepheid> Because I mentioned it as a warning to the others that I might be garbage.
02:07 <Cepheid> And the rest commented they were soused.
02:08 <Cepheid> Huh. A single Alatreon shard I got from my palico is enough to unlock the Palico armor, but not the hunter armor.
02:10 * Ali flops over the PinkieShy
02:11 <Cepheid> Ah well. Maxed out Teostra research at least.
02:12 <ADragonDreaming> aha
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02:30 <Cepheid> Right. 8 bombs going off, point-blank in your view, is hard on the eyes.
02:31 * Cepheid looks at rewards.
02:31 <Cepheid> .... Screw this, I'm going to fight Safi in anger.
02:31 <Cepheid> Rage and anger.
02:32 <Cepheid> And I'm going to break SO MUCH on Safi.
02:33 <ADragonDreaming> haha
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02:53 <Cepheid> Aaaaand I have to do healing duty.
02:58 <ADragonDreaming> don't have a Rose in this group, eh?
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03:12 <Cepheid> Nope.
03:13 <Cepheid> Aaaand slayed.
03:13 <ADragonDreaming> congrats!
05:14 <Cepheid> Hum, time to lay down in bed, methinks.
05:14 <Cepheid> How's your space empire faring?
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05:51 <ADragonDreaming> I am currently engaging in a war of punishment against Fanatical Purifiers. It's going swimmingly on my end, but the federation member that also shares a border with them is getting punked.
05:51 <ADragonDreaming> There's a Marauder nation occupying the fastest way over to those locations, which makes things difficult in terms of reinforcing them. Oh well.
05:58 <Cepheid> Out of curiousity, are the fanatical purifiers catgirls?
06:00 <ADragonDreaming> They are not.
06:00 <Cepheid> Okay.
06:01 <Cepheid> So it's not the fanatical purifier [REDACTED] catgirls from the patch notes. That's good.
06:03 * Ali stopped playing stellaris once they made every planet undefended
06:27 <Cepheid> Hum. Won't have a hangover tomorrow, at least.
06:28 <Cepheid> Sobered up, and I'm suffering the hangover *NOW* instead, but because of the amount of water I drank alongside the cider, it's no worse than a tension headache.
06:30 <Cepheid> Anyhoo, yeah. Alatreon should be fun, ADra. During my short stint to check out his cutscene and to see what we were up against I saw ice, fire and thunder attacks. I suffered dragonblight, but I don't recall seeing dragon element attacks. In any case, it hurt.
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08:22 <PinkieShy> heh
08:22 <PinkieShy> Christmas Eve Eve is trending on twitter
08:24 <Ali> Only two days left
08:29 <PinkieShy> yeee :D
08:29 * PinkieShy hugs Ali and then hands her a santa hat
08:30 * Ali blinks at the hat and headtilts
08:44 <Golden> Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas
08:58 * Starlight_Glimmer is packing things because they are visiting family over Christmas
08:58 * Ali glomps Starlight_Glimmer
09:01 * Starlight_Glimmer stuffs Ali ina a duffle bag together with a Sunset plush. "Taking those with me of course"
09:01 * Ali eeps. "Too bad sunset doesn't come by here anymore."
09:02 <Starlight_Glimmer> Well that's what you get for liking mudering horses
09:03 <Starlight_Glimmer> At least she's a locked up now on her little island
09:05 * Ali whines at Starlight_Glimmer
09:05 * Starlight_Glimmer hugs Ali tightly
09:06 * Ali has been basically locked up for nine months and she is suffering
09:07 <Starlight_Glimmer> Not going to visit anyone?
09:07 <Starlight_Glimmer> And no one visiting you?
09:07 <Ali> I have next to no close family
09:07 <PinkieShy> I'm going to go watch Anime :P
09:07 <PinkieShy> Bye everyone :3
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09:46 * Dappled horse.
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10:43 <Lumindia_> horse indeed
10:43 * Lumindia_ horses as well
10:44 * Dappled go bed though. Cause today is wed nes day.
10:45 * Dappled also glares at Pokemon. Gimme Shinies.
10:46 <Golden> Hm
10:51 * Lumindia_ snugs the dappled horse
10:51 <Lumindia_> horse
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12:26 <Finwe> Good afternoon, everypony!
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13:02 <Cyan_Spark> Sgt. Finwe
13:02 * Cyan_Spark nods
13:03 <Finwe> Mr Cyan_Spark.
13:03 * Finwe doffs his hat.
13:03 <Cyan_Spark> X3
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14:22 <RazorSharpFang> Evening.
14:24 <Cyan_Spark> Razor the investor
14:24 <RazorSharpFang> Yeah. It's about that time of night.
14:24 <Cyan_Spark> Santa Claus Rally or Christmas Crash?
14:24 <Cyan_Spark> Did you know Trump is pushing for $2000 Trumpbucks instead of $600 Bidenbucks
14:24 <RazorSharpFang> Both perhaps.
14:25 <RazorSharpFang> Hmm. Interesting.
14:30 <Cyan_Spark> On one hoof, delayed checks
14:30 <Cyan_Spark> On the other, bigger checks
14:31 <RazorSharpFang> Do you prefer bigger delayed gratification or quick and small gratification?
14:36 <Cyan_Spark> That depends on whether there are bills to be paid
14:53 <Lumindia_> I don't mind either way
14:53 <Lumindia_> I wasn't affected by the shutdowns
14:54 <Lumindia_> in fact I'm BETTER OFF because I got to keep my job AND I'm getting $180 a month in EBT for food
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15:10 * Finwe controversially noms on Lumindia_'s tail.
15:10 * Lumindia_ explodes
15:15 <Jackie> If you bite my tail
15:16 <Jackie> You'll trigger something you don't want
15:16 <Jackie> *I'll
15:16 * Finwe noms on Jackie's tail.
15:16 * Jackie feels funny
15:18 * Jackie pulls tail from Finwe before anything worse happens
15:19 * Finwe tail-wiggles!
15:19 <Finwe> !plot
15:19 <Cyan_Spark> *wigglewiggle*
15:19 <Finwe> *wigglewiggle*
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15:20 <Jackie> Hi Ingi
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15:20 <Jackie> !plot
15:21 <Jackie> RIP bot
15:23 <Finwe> DerpyBot succumbed to some yet unknown menace yesterday at 21:40 EET.
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15:24 <LibrarianofHope> not bot
15:24 <LibrarianofHope> was me
15:24 <Finwe> Mr LibrarianofHope.
15:24 <LibrarianofHope> sup
15:24 * Finwe doffs his hat.
15:24 <Finwe> Not yet.
15:25 <LibrarianofHope> i mean, the ingi thing was me, just took a look
15:25 <Finwe> I'm going to sup after I've cooked some supper.
15:25 <LibrarianofHope> ahh
15:26 <LibrarianofHope> i left last time on the general idea that i was being driven insane, but i recently came to the conclusion that the world does not make a lick of sense, might as well enjoy and be a countermeasure to madness
15:26 <Jackie> Christmas is going to be quite boring
15:27 <LibrarianofHope> meh, i paint
15:28 <LibrarianofHope> i normally travel during chrsitmas, i stay home this time
15:28 <LibrarianofHope> i stay with ma doggos, fun times
15:30 <Jackie> Tbh I thought LibrarianofHope was Surry
15:30 <LibrarianofHope> no, im jose
15:30 <LibrarianofHope> hi
15:30 <Jackie> Surry sometimes uses Twilight or something as the nickname
15:32 <LibrarianofHope> only ever used 3 myself really
15:33 <LibrarianofHope> i have to go leave some packages, but i dont feel like walking
15:33 <Jackie> I sometimes confuse you with being Heartbreak
15:33 <LibrarianofHope> not that either
15:35 <LibrarianofHope> !plot
15:36 <LibrarianofHope> i forgot the orders
15:36 <LibrarianofHope> wiggle wiggle
15:36 <Jackie> DerpyBot is just unstable
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15:49 <Schism|Alt> argh.
15:50 *** Schism|Alt is now known as Schism
16:06 <LibrarianofHope> schism!
16:06 <LibrarianofHope> hi
16:07 * Schism waves, and flops.
16:10 <Starlight_Glimmer> !mail Ali An ugly christmas sweater enchanted to automagically put itself on the recipient
16:11 <Starlight_Glimmer> Wait. Where is that silly mail pony?
16:11 <LibrarianofHope> took the holidays off
16:11 <Starlight_Glimmer> What as disappointment!
16:11 <Starlight_Glimmer> a*
16:11 <LibrarianofHope> take it up with management
16:12 <LibrarianofHope> also management is a llama
16:13 <Jackie> Just send her thru MemoServ in the meantime Schism
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16:16 <Finwe> !starlight time
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16:16 <Finwe> Starlight time! Starlight time!
16:16 * Finwe bounces around in front of Starlight_Glimmer.
16:18 <LibrarianofHope> ill come and go as i feel bored
16:18 <LibrarianofHope> byeeeee
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16:27 <Cepheid> Morning.
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16:33 <LibrarianofHope> sup
16:33 <Finwe> Still haven't made me any supper. :/
16:33 <Finwe> Actually, I could sup now.
16:34 <Schism> Hiyas.
16:35 * Schism is back from the hospital. Hale and healthy: she bounced back rapidly. All for the better, because she is not a fan of the place.
16:35 <Cepheid> Glad to see you're okay.
16:35 <LibrarianofHope> feed me finwee
16:36 <Cepheid> Caught me off guard to see you were in the hospital.
16:36 <LibrarianofHope> who was?
16:36 <Schism> I did leave a note up saying I'd be okay, and that was certainly no lie. Minor, -minor- case oF DKA.
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16:37 <Cepheid> I figured it was either ketoacidosis or a mental breakdown from all the work you've been doing.
16:37 <Finwe> Mlles Angeline, Cepheid and Schism.
16:37 * Finwe doffs his hat.
16:38 * LibrarianofHope poks finwe for great justice
16:38 <Schism> No, no. The workload hasn't been that overwhelming, to be honest.
16:38 <ArchPegasusMichael> I discovered chubbyemu YT channel recently. My healthbar dropped a bit from watching.
16:38 <Cepheid> Your commentary had suggested otherwise, Schism. :P
16:39 <LibrarianofHope> i had schism on ignoew
16:39 <ArchPegasusMichael> Ceph: winking in Morse "HELP"?
16:39 <LibrarianofHope> hi again schis
16:39 <Schism> Hiya. And heh. :p While I was slightly overwhelmed by some things, it honestly isn't as bad as last year.
16:40 <Cepheid> No. Just random bits of venting from work here and there on a regular basis.
16:40 <LibrarianofHope> it helps if you figure out the world doesnt make sense and work form tht
16:40 <LibrarianofHope> deny dissonace, everything is mad
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16:45 * Cepheid needs a coffee.
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16:49 * Schism offers Cepheid some of that maple coffee, with two creams.
16:52 * Cepheid noms.
16:52 <Cepheid> *Munch Munch Munch*
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16:56 * Finwe noms on goat's cheese salad with kale, red onion, tomato, bell pepper and mushrooms.
16:56 <Cepheid> Well that's not good. A report suggests that, while yes, it is a good idea to use masks and they definitely help, masks alone are not enough to stop the spread of COVID-19, and social distancing along with a mask is necessary.
16:57 <Cepheid> This is not good because the covidiots will use this as an argument that masks don't work.
16:59 <Finwe> Those surgical masks aren't very good for self-protection, the main benefit is that they capture any droplets proceeding from your own respiratory duct or mouth.
17:04 <Cepheid> Yeah, but the report apparently suggests that droplets still get through the mask, which is why the distancing is still needed.
17:04 <Finwe> Smaller ones do, yes.
17:04 <Finwe> Depends on the density of the material.
17:05 <Finwe> Keeping away from others is still sensible even if everyone is wearing a mask.
17:06 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
17:07 <Cepheid> My concern isn't so much the validity of the content, but rather, the way the report was expressed in headlines. Don't forget, over here in North America, COVID-19 is a political hoax.
17:07 <Finwe> The fundamendal advice is still that eating some random tropical bats is, in general, a rather bad idea.
17:07 <Cepheid> And the way the headline is expressed will just contribute to the idiots who argue that masks are useless, etc.
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17:09 <Finwe> Lt Pony|80464.
17:09 <Finwe> o7
17:10 * Pony|80464 wave.
17:11 <Cepheid> Right now, as is, I'm not happy that the Ford government decided to push the lockdown start date to Boxing Day(The day after Christmas here in Canada), as anyone with even a shred of intelligence knows what people will be doing on the 24th and 25th as a result.
17:14 <Cepheid> Oh yeah, apparently KFC has made a console, Schism.
17:15 <Finwe> Boxing Day, or the 26th of December, comes after Christmas Day even everywhere else, not just in Canada.
17:15 <Finwe> It's a British thing, actually.
17:15 <Schism> Thaaaat... seems like it will be a fun thing to clean, Cepheid.
17:16 <Cepheid> https://www.gamespot.com/articles/yes-kfcs-game-console-is-real-and-it-has-a-chicken-warmer/1100-6485760/#comments-block-33515252
17:16 <Finwe> I think named after the custom of delivering Christmas presents in boxes to people who weren't part of the family that day.
17:17 <Cepheid> Ah.
17:17 <Finwe> Here the 26th is called St. Stephensmas.
17:19 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/bearyphan/status/1341717531925602309 Raging Brachydios in a nutshell.
17:20 <Finwe> The time around the solstice celebration was loaded with Catholic feasts in order to prevent people from clinging to the old Germanic customs.
17:21 <Cepheid> So, the other day in MHW, I fought Raging Brachydios for the first time. This pretty much details what happened halfway through with my friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wX2xBOuzRg He got locked out, and basically went like this.
17:21 <Finwe> Or Celtic.
17:21 <Cepheid> Er, ADra, that is.
17:22 <Cepheid> I was the one living in the house. ADra was the FBI, Raging Brachy was the target they were trying to extract.
17:22 <Cepheid> He wasn't as inept, though.
17:22 * Finwe noms on his free copy of Tropico 5.
17:23 <Finwe> The latter leak seems to have been genuine.
17:23 <Finwe> I don't even know whence the first one came.
17:27 <Cepheid> https://clips.twitch.tv/SpineyUgliestMoosePartyTime
17:28 <Cepheid> I couldn't even TYPE properly.
17:30 <Finwe> Who is the hunter and who hunted?
17:30 <Cepheid> It caught me off guard as I had not looked up videos on Raging Brachydios.
17:30 <Cepheid> So yeah, I became the hunted.
17:31 <Cepheid> Of note, ADra even tried to find other ways in. It appears to block off entry for at least a minute or two.
17:35 <Finwe> So you're forced to fight it.
17:37 <Cepheid> More or less.
17:37 <Cepheid> If you go in alone, you're probably in danger.
17:37 <Cepheid> That said, I did not know it'd do that. I was expecting more of the same from before that point.
17:38 <Cepheid> Interestingly, I wish more monsters had mechanics like that. It changes things up a bit.
17:58 <Schism> Hum, it's a nice 4C today, and getting up to 7 tomorrow?
17:59 <Cepheid> I hear it's supposed to rain on Christmas day.
17:59 <Schism> Aye, though transitioning to snow midway.
17:59 <Cepheid> Schism. Random question for you.
17:59 <Cepheid> Ketoacidosis. What does it feel like when it happens to you?
18:01 <Schism> In this particular case, ongoing nausea and excessive tiredness, the inability to keep down even a glass of water, and the feeling that every time I move I'm going to throw up again. Vertigo, et al.
18:01 <Cepheid> Does it come on suddenly?
18:03 <Schism> Sometimes. It varies depending on the situation, but this time, it definitely did.
18:03 <Cepheid> Because every now and then, I get this situation wherein I suffer sudden and intense nausea, cold chills, shaking, weakness in the legs, and the feeling as though if I were to eat or drink anything, it wouldn't stay down. It lasts anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes, then it subsides.
18:03 <Cepheid> In fact, those situations are why I stopped the semaglutide injections. Said injections were making them far more frequent.
18:03 <Schism> I don't think that's ketoacidosis there, but you might want to pick up some ketostix.
18:04 <Cepheid> The only common factor is that they seem to happen when there's a drastic change in my blood-glucose. Going up or down.
18:04 <Cepheid> And by drastic change, I mean a 3-5 point chain in a short time frame.
18:04 <Cepheid> change*
18:05 <Schism> Might just be the result of that rapid change, then. That can sometimes cause the feeling of a sudden high or a sudden low: the low is oftentimes likely to cause shakiness and a bit of wooziness.
18:05 <Cepheid> Yeah, except this happens in both directions.
18:05 <Cepheid> Sometimes it's bad enough I start having a sneezing fit.
18:06 <Cepheid> Some research indicates that may be due to vagus nerve agitation from the nausea.
18:09 <Schism> That seems possible...? I'm afraid I haven't really noticed any particlarly violent swings myself based on my own BG, save for incidences like these. Perhaps you're more sensitive to them, is all.
18:10 <Cepheid> Possibly.
18:10 <Cepheid> There's no lasting side effects to it, so I'm not concerned about it.
18:10 <Cepheid> Aside from when the frequency went way up due to those injections.
18:10 <Cepheid> I normally get one or two cases a week maximum. Those injections ramped it up to three or four times a DAY.
18:11 <Cepheid> The injections may be good for my A1C, but taking that into consideration, they're not worth it.
18:11 <Cepheid> Anyhoo..
18:12 <Cepheid> The more I see of MH:Rise, the more I wonder.
18:12 <Cepheid> What's the level of intelligence the Palamutes have?
18:12 <Finwe> Hmm, the Christmas ham is going to require some attention soon.
18:12 <Cepheid> Are they simply no more intelligent than dogs? Or can they speak? There's been no indication of them being able to speak.
18:13 <Cepheid> Presumably they MUST be more intelligent than your average dog, as they can use tools.
18:14 <Schism> For some reason I'm imagining Shiba Inu meme levels of intelligence.
18:15 <Cepheid> You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they go with for translation purposes.
18:15 <Cepheid> You look at the Felynes, and their speech is mixed with the word "Meow" in many ways.
18:16 <Cepheid> Whether that exists in the original Japanese, I don't know.
18:16 <Cepheid> I don'- ... Wait, actually, I could technically switch World over to Japanese language, couldn't I?
18:18 <Finwe> はい、
18:18 <Cepheid> The issue though is reading the text.
18:18 <Cepheid> It'd likely be in kanji and kana.
18:18 <Cepheid> Using many kanji I am not familiar with.
18:19 <Cepheid> But, if the cat speech is modified, it may be mostly in hiragana and katakana to express the difference.
18:19 <Cepheid> Otherwise, the only way it could be made to sound more cat-like is to use the age-old approach of appending "nyan" to the end of every sentence.
18:19 <Finwe> 猫はニャーと鳴きます。
18:21 <Cepheid> Are you using Google Translate for that? Or do you happen to also know Japanese?
18:22 <Cepheid> Hey. Finwe, random question for you.
18:23 <Cepheid> How would you pronounce my last name, "Dionne", assuming that no phonetic or identifying information has been provided?
18:23 <Cepheid> Got one class mark back. Japanese. B+.
18:23 <Cepheid> I feel like that's higher than it should be.
18:27 <Schism> Congrats!
18:28 * Cepheid switches MH:World to Japanese text.
18:29 <Cepheid> Ye know, I wonder how Japanese linguistics majors feel about that. A lot of the text on the main menu and session stuff is surprisingly, in katakana.
18:30 <Cepheid> Meaning mostly loanwords or foreign words.
18:31 <Cepheid> Quest board for example is クエストボード. Which is a transliteration of "Quest Board" to katakana.
18:32 <Cepheid> In romaji, it reads as kuesutoboodo. English "r" in loanwords seems to be expressed by extending the vowel sound. Only for certain vowels though, looks like.
18:32 <Cepheid> Aaaand for the felynes...
18:32 <Cepheid> They use nya at the end of sentences.
18:37 <Cepheid> Huh.
18:37 <Cepheid> The Handler has an entirely different name assigned to her in Japanese.
18:37 <Cepheid> In English, she's called just "The Handler"
18:37 <Cepheid> Thus, more a title than a name, but yeah.
18:37 <Schism> And Serious Handler. o3o
18:38 <Cepheid> The title assigned to her in Japanese is 受付嬢, uketsukejyou, "receptionist; reception woman"
18:38 <Schism> Well, that works too.
18:39 <Cepheid> Optional quests are called Free Quests.
18:40 <Cepheid> Oh, right. I can also get all the names of the monsters in Japanese as a result.
18:41 <Cepheid> Great Jagras: dosujyagurasu
18:41 <Cepheid> Kulu Yaku, kururuyakku
18:42 <Cepheid> Hum.
18:42 <Cepheid> Dodogama is interesting. Missing syllable in English.
18:42 <Cepheid> Dodogama's name is dodogamaru.
18:43 <Cepheid> Hum... Safi'jiiva is...
18:44 <Cepheid> Bah, I always have trouble with those two katakana..
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18:46 <Cepheid> Mufeto Jiiva
18:46 <Cepheid> That's the Japanese name of Safi'jiiva.
18:47 <Cepheid> Mufeto doesn't translate to anything according to the usual dictionary I use.
18:47 <Cepheid> But that may be because the dictionary is Japanese-English.
18:50 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, Deviljho is... ebirujyoo. Or, "Evil Joe"/"Evil Jho"
18:51 <Cepheid> Velkhana is... iverukaana. Ivelkana or Iverkana in English. The I is pronounced similarly to long e. Probably removed to make the name flow better in English.
18:53 <Cepheid> Man. The Japanese get screwed over on the names.
18:54 <Cepheid> Monster subspecies/variants are just <Base Monster Name>亜種 or "<Base Monster Name> subspecies"
18:55 <Cepheid> ... Which makes me wonder how they differentiate between Rathalos, Azure Rathalos and Silver Rathalos, or Rathian, Pink Rathian, and Gold Rathian.
18:55 <Finwe> Cepheid: Like it was French.
18:55 <Cepheid> Ah.
18:55 <Cepheid> Unfortunately, you'd be wrong in that case.
18:55 <Finwe> ['dion]
18:55 <Cepheid> We use an English pronunciation. The "ne" at the end is silent, basically.
18:56 <Cepheid> If you can say Celine Dion's last name, you got my last name no problem.
18:56 <Finwe> Dionne and Dion are pronounced differently.
18:57 <ADragonDreaming> Depends on who you ask.
18:57 <Finwe> The e in the end of Dionne causes the o not to be nasal.
18:57 <Finwe> In Dion, the o is nasal.
18:57 <ADragonDreaming> By French rules, yes.
18:58 <ADragonDreaming> Names, however, don't follow linguistic rules of pronunciation in all cases.
18:58 <Cepheid> If Dionne and Dion are different in English, then I don't know. My parents and grandparents just described it as "English pronunciation."
18:59 <Cepheid> Apparently, the history of using the "English pronunciation" is simply that we didn't want to change the last name, but we wanted to distance our family from the French.
18:59 <ADragonDreaming> Par exemple, you don't pronounce Detroit in the French manner. Nor do you pronounce Beaubien street in the French manner. While that would be "proper" by that language, it's not proper by the localization. Such is the way language changes.
18:59 <Cepheid> Apparently, something happened in the family history between us and the French population of either Canada or France.
18:59 <Finwe> Céline Dion would be [selin djɔ̃].
19:00 <Finwe> Or I guess [selin d͡zjɔ̃] in Quebec.
19:01 <Cepheid> Ah, okay. So that's how they differentiate between the three species of Rathalos and Rathian.
19:01 <Cepheid> Rathian and Rathalos are just the base name.
19:01 <Cepheid> Pink Rathian and Azure Rathalos are "subspecies"
19:01 <Cepheid> Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos are "rare species"
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19:02 * LibrarianofHope bonks
19:02 <LibrarianofHope> i bonk
19:02 <LibrarianofHope> bonk
19:02 <Finwe> Ah, the correct IPA for Dionne is [djɔn].
19:03 <LibrarianofHope> how does that work anyway?
19:03 <ADragonDreaming> nasal n?
19:03 <LibrarianofHope> Adra!
19:03 <Finwe> That's a normal n.
19:03 * Cepheid checks to see what the SOS function is called in Japan.
19:03 * LibrarianofHope bonks adra in jolly cheer
19:03 * ADragonDreaming is bonked
19:03 <Cepheid> ... That's a lot of kanji.
19:11 <Cepheid> Rescue Signal of...
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19:12 <Finwe> Miss Ali.
19:12 * Finwe doffs his hat.
19:12 <ADragonDreaming> extreme danger
19:12 * Ali flops over Finwe
19:13 <Cepheid> Unfortunately, I cannot decompose this next kanji into radicals. Too compressed for me to make it out easily.
19:14 * LibrarianofHope bonks ali for festivity
19:14 * Ali bonks LibrarianofHope just cause she can.
19:17 <Cepheid> Solution: Look for words ending in 信.
19:17 <Cepheid> There we are.
19:17 <Cepheid> "Dispatch of Rescue Signal"
19:18 <Cepheid> That's the literal translation of what the option for "SOS Signal" is in Japanese.
19:19 <Cepheid> How are you feeling today, ADragonDreaming? Also, Schism's back, and alive.
19:20 <Finwe> Hopefully not olive, though.
19:20 <ADragonDreaming> You know how the general plan is to sleep, at night?
19:20 <Cepheid> Yes?
19:20 <Finwe> Not for everyone.
19:20 <ADragonDreaming> The plan did not survive first contact with the enemy.
19:20 <Cepheid> Ah.
19:20 <ADragonDreaming> I mean I might wake up at 9 pm or something
19:20 <Ali> So what ended up happening to Schism?
19:20 <ADragonDreaming> but I'm gonna try to wrap presents before I crash
19:21 <Cepheid> Fair enough.
19:21 <Cepheid> I'm mostly just screwing around right now anyways, not really "playing" Monster Hunter.
19:21 <Finwe> I have guard duty tomorrow.
19:21 <ADragonDreaming> also, yeah I saw Schism sign on a couple times, which I took to be a good sign.
19:21 <Cepheid> It started off as wanting to see how Felyne speech was expressed in Japanese, because in English, many of the words the Felynes use are usually include some variation of "Meow" in it.
19:22 <LibrarianofHope> guard duty
19:22 <LibrarianofHope> as in military?
19:22 <ADragonDreaming> !log
19:22 <Unixkitty> https://unixkitty.com/logs/EquestriaDaily/latest.log.html
19:22 <Finwe> LibrarianofHope: Yup.
19:22 <LibrarianofHope> preparing for santa invasion?
19:22 <Cepheid> Basic gist is that the Felynes end their sentences with "Nya" in Japanese.
19:23 <ADragonDreaming> I expected as much
19:23 <Cepheid> The whole checking stemmed from curiousity about the Palamutes for Rise.
19:24 <Finwe> LibrarianofHope: No, guard of honour in a graveyard.
19:24 <LibrarianofHope> ohh
19:24 <LibrarianofHope> sounds important
19:24 <Cepheid> Thus far, outside of seeing a single palamute open some sort of umbrella-like shield, and doing typical dog tricks, no indication of intelligence or speech has been shown yet.
19:24 <LibrarianofHope> how does the honour guard work?
19:24 <Cepheid> So, intelligent enough to follow orders, perform typical dog tricks, and use tools.
19:24 <Cepheid> But no idea if they can speak, etc.
19:24 <Finwe> At Marshall of Finland Gustav Mannerheim's grave and the offers of WW2 memorial.
19:25 <Finwe> LibrarianofHope: We just stand there in field uniforms.
19:25 <LibrarianofHope> honor the dead
19:25 <Cepheid> Hmm. 8 more R9 sets to make.
19:25 <Finwe> http://reservinsanomat.fi/wp-content/uploads/kunniavartio.jpg
19:26 <Finwe> That's the WW2 memorial.
19:26 <LibrarianofHope> neat
19:26 <LibrarianofHope> its liek the unknonw soldier kind of deal?
19:28 <Finwe> And this is the grave of the Marshall: https://docplayer.fi/docs-images/93/113390486/images/1-2.jpg
19:29 <LibrarianofHope> gustav mannerheim
19:30 <LibrarianofHope> gimme the abrodged version of his history finwe
19:33 <Schism> Ah, sorry. I was in the hospital for a few days.
19:34 <Schism> I'm fine now. And just because my connection reset a few times, that doesn't mean much -- just that Nocturne was online.
19:34 <LibrarianofHope> i got a cold
19:34 <LibrarianofHope> not covid, but i still quaratined myself a week
19:35 <LibrarianofHope> my back got so cramped
19:38 <Finwe> LibrarianofHope: He was younger son of a noble family, held the title of baron in his time, got kicked out of the Finnish military academy because of inappropriate conduct, finished his studies in St. Petersburg, served in the Imperial Russian army in Poland, was transferred to the emperor's lifeguard, made a reconnaissance journey to Middle and Eastern Asia riding all the way. Lead the white
19:38 <Cepheid> One more Viper Tobi-Kadachi down..
19:38 <Finwe> faction to victory in Finnish civil war, served as caretaker of the state, then as commander-in-chief during WW2 and finally as president of Finland.
19:38 * Ali gives Schism a soft hug and is glad they're ok.
19:39 * LibrarianofHope gives schism an extremely warm hug
19:39 <Finwe> He died in Switzerland while staying at a sanatorium, was brought back to Finland and buried there.
19:40 <LibrarianofHope> finland seems to have a very intersting history owo
19:40 <LibrarianofHope> need to read uo on it
19:41 * Cepheid looks at what she needs for the Rath Heart A+ and B+. "... I should go do some exercising and take a shower before I get started on all that."
19:41 <Starlight_Glimmer> Ali: I was going to send you an ugly Christmas sweater, but the mail pony must be stuck in a mailbox again.
19:42 <Finwe> !mail Starlight_Glimmer A Krampus sweater
19:42 * Ali would make some snarky comment but can't think of a good one
19:42 <Ali> Derp is missing still
19:42 * Ali boops the johnsey noise
19:42 <LibrarianofHope> i have the perfect gift for ali actually
19:43 * LibrarianofHope gives an ultramarine sweater
19:43 <Finwe> Krampus the Christmas devil is a German specialty.
19:43 <LibrarianofHope> its a real thing too
19:43 <LibrarianofHope> owo
19:43 * Ali hisses and tosses it into the dumpster fire
19:43 <Finwe> and Austro-Hungarian, I think
19:43 <Ali> I wunt nothing to do with those smurfs
19:44 <LibrarianofHope> ultrasmurfs please
19:44 <Finwe> Ali "Gargamel"
19:44 <Finwe> I hate Smurfs!
19:45 * Dappled chews on a stick
19:45 <Finwe> Mr Dakota.
19:45 <Finwe> And Dappled.
19:45 * Finwe doffs his hat.
19:45 * Dappled waves.
19:46 <Dakota> o/
19:46 <LibrarianofHope> hello
19:46 <LibrarianofHope> im librarian
19:46 <LibrarianofHope> im hungry
19:47 * Finwe offers some Christmas ham to LibrarianofHope.
19:48 <Cepheid> Schism: I got an appointment with a psychiatrist, looks like.
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19:48 <Finwe> Hmm, read Light Fantastic or play BG2EE?
19:48 <Finwe> Mr PinkieShy.
19:48 <Dappled> Dang ninja authors. Hiding links in obvious blue text at the bottom of the page.
19:48 * Finwe doffs his hat.
19:48 * Ali noms Dappled
19:48 <ADragonDreaming> what is bg2ee?
19:48 <PinkieShy> >_>
19:48 <PinkieShy> My PC annoyed so bad a few minutes ago
19:48 <Cepheid> Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, I'm guessing.
19:49 <PinkieShy> Turned it on, at last minute it decided to start installing updates to drivers for my audio
19:49 * Dappled hugs the Ali. Shows her the 2nd shiny bulbasaur.
19:49 * Dappled just needs one more now.
19:49 <PinkieShy> So go to restart PC and the audio drivers got corrupted.. Had to reinstall
19:49 * Ali jellies hard on Dappled
19:49 <LibrarianofHope> read mistlight-Ragefire
19:49 <LibrarianofHope> excellent novel, i reccomend it
19:49 <ADragonDreaming> ooooh, I see.
19:49 <PinkieShy> So much waiting for to install.. It was more annoying than anything.
19:49 <Dappled> It did take 7 boxes of hatched eggs over 4 days.
19:50 <Finwe> Ahh, German Christmas passtime: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/KrampusWeissbach.jpg/1280px-KrampusWeissbach.jpg
19:50 <Finwe> St. Nicholas and 12 interpretations of Krampus.
19:50 <ADragonDreaming> They're only friends if they come from a certain region of france. Otherwise they're just sparkling acquaintances.
19:51 <LibrarianofHope> krampus, grimdark grinch
19:51 <Finwe> Cepheid guessed right.
19:52 * Cepheid finishes making up a set for P.Rathian. Goes off to do some exercises.
19:52 <Finwe> Waiting for BG3 to be completed.
19:52 <Finwe> You could buy it already, but paying €60 for playtesting with no salary sounds silly.
19:53 <Dappled> How dare you suggest having restraint to gamers. We must have the thing now. Give it now. It must be had.
19:54 <Starlight_Glimmer> Ali: I believe they're going to force me to wear a Christmas tie on my pullover tommorow, so I think a sweater is a good deal.
19:55 <Cepheid> I am going to be hurting tomorrow. I decided to see how many stomach crunches my body could handle in one go.
19:55 <Cepheid> Because I'm stupid.
19:55 <Cepheid> I managed 30.
19:55 <Cepheid> After about 25, it stopped hurting, so I could technically have kept going, but I felt like my muscles were starting to run out of energy and stopped.
19:55 * Dappled hisses at excerise. He's to lazy to do any of that.
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19:55 <Finwe> Yay!
19:55 <Finwe> !hug
19:56 <Cepheid> Well, being diabetic, I need to lose weight. Among other reasons.
19:56 <Starlight_Glimmer> johnsey: Merry Christmas in advance! ;)
19:56 <Ali> Finwe, wait till the derp to poke the bot
19:56 <Dappled> That's fair.
19:56 <DerpyBot> *derp*
19:56 <DerpyBot> Hugtiem? :3
19:56 * DerpyBot wraps her front hooves around Finwe in a tight embrace
19:56 <Cepheid> Interestingly, since university ended, I've felt compelled to start exercising again. Throughout the entire semester, I couldn't bring myself to exercise. Always felt like garbage.
19:56 <Cepheid> I suspect that latter bit was simply due to stress relating to the university.
19:57 <Finwe> Ali: Pffft, it all gets buffered.
19:57 <Cepheid> Next semester's my last one, for certain. I'm going to do it just so that I appease the Ontario government with respect to the CERB student stuff, and OSAP.
19:57 <PinkieShy> Ha..
19:57 <PinkieShy> Logitech G Hub is funny
19:58 <PinkieShy> It tried to connect with discord and on the last line of what it said it can do is.. It said what it can't do is connect with scooby and gang and solve mysteries.
19:58 <PinkieShy> To that.. I say.. Ruh Ruh.
19:59 <Ali> Like ZOINKS
19:59 <PinkieShy> heh
20:00 <Cepheid> Logitech G Hub. Useful tool, but could probably be replaced with something less... intensive.
20:01 <PinkieShy> Kinda need it sadly.
20:01 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
20:01 <PinkieShy> Headphones act weird without it..
20:02 <Cepheid> Probably with respect to input.
20:02 <Cepheid> GHub is primarily used for handling logitech input devices.
20:02 <PinkieShy> Like last time i tried without it, I could hear myself in my headset from the mic and listen to device was off..
20:04 <Cepheid> Biggest issues I'd have to deal with are interception and removal of input events from the global message queue of the OS, and injection of new input events, based on what the end-result of any parsing and processing of the original event is.
20:05 <Starlight_Glimmer> I have a Corsair mouse. Their software is questionable. I wish there were open standards for doi settings, macros and profiles.
20:06 <Starlight_Glimmer> DPI*
20:07 <Starlight_Glimmer> All vendor solutions are horrible to some extent. I like that Logitech saves settings on the device itself so you don't actually need their software after everything is setup.
20:08 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
20:08 <Starlight_Glimmer> Sadly quality of Logitech products has decreased to the point where I don't want to buy them anymore
20:08 <Cepheid> That however, is a proprietary protocol. So creating a non-GHub program to program devices themselves would require reverse engineering.
20:08 <Cepheid> Which, honestly wouldn't be all that difficult.
20:09 <Cepheid> It'd have to go through USB, so just do packet sniffing on USB, and figure out the details.
20:09 <Cepheid> As for handling the buttons...
20:09 <Starlight_Glimmer> No. I'd like to control all my devices though. Reverse engineering is not really a great solution
20:09 <Cepheid> You can actually synthesize inputs.
20:10 <Cepheid> So keyboard presses and mouse button presses, as well as movements, etc, are all possible in Windows.
20:10 <Cepheid> Same with Linux.
20:10 <Cepheid> I still haven't found how to intercept HID stuff in Windows, though, so until that can be figured out, synthesis is pointless.
20:11 <Starlight_Glimmer> There might actually already be a solution for logitech mice on Linux. I haven't checked. I didn't have the need to adjust anything on my work mouse.
20:12 <Cepheid> There is some tools for the mice under Linux, but it doesn't actually program the mice.
20:12 <Cepheid> The tool I saw only intercepted inputs from the mouse, and output new inputs or performed tasks based on the input received.
20:14 <Starlight_Glimmer> Well the difference is that the mouse itself emulates the keyboard iirc for Logitech products. That makes everything way more versatile and flexible.
20:15 <Cepheid> Yeah.
20:15 <Cepheid> The extra buttons on the mice are treated as a keyboard.
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20:25 <Cepheid> Thus far, the only way I've been able to find to intercept input events before they're routed to whatever window is expected to receive the events, is to use a driver.
20:27 <Cepheid> The basic API for applications only allows for adding messages to the system message queue, and retrieving messages destined specifically for the thread calling the "retrieve message" functions.
20:28 <Cepheid> Oh, I forgot about the hook API.
20:32 <Dappled> A good counter to Hook is Rufio if Pan can not be found.
20:33 <Cepheid> Mmm. Yeah, here we go. Hook procedures can do what I need.
20:35 <Cepheid> Though, the hook documentation advises working with raw input instead.
20:37 <Cepheid> But then the raw input stuff doesn't tell me how to stop the input from being pushed into the system message queue, so..
20:39 * Cepheid stops for a moment, does some more exercise. Will also take a shower, so will be back in about 30 minutes.
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20:49 <ADragonDreaming> my COVID test came back negative
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20:55 <Schism> That is excellent to hear. So did mine.
20:56 <Schism> But as I'm not in the hospital, this was known.
20:56 <Schism> Heh. Comics like this one make me wish I were in this sort of world. Just random whimsy. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2743
20:59 <Cepheid> Good to hear, ADragonDreaming. Schism.
21:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Signing Off 63 / StarTrix 5 / Merry Time / Movie Slate: Horror and Hugs [ https://tinyurl.com/yb65muxe ]
21:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: 2021 Annual My Little Pony Comic Brings on Diamond Dogs! And They Are Cute [ https://tinyurl.com/y9h9txcc ]
21:08 <Cepheid> So, I have a random question for you all. First, how old are you? And how old are your parents? If you don't want to tell me your, or your parents ages, then what's the age gap between you and your parents?
21:09 <NitroTheFurry> 15 year gap
21:09 <NitroTheFurry> Roughly
21:09 <Schism> I'm pretty sure there's a 25-year gap there? I do know that I have an older step-brother, though.
21:10 <Cepheid> Mmm. Okay.
21:10 <Cepheid> It's just, there's a common problem me and my family encounter.
21:10 <ADragonDreaming> I'm 34, my parents are 68 and 69.
21:10 <Cepheid> People assume that, because they have children, that they are much older. Late 60s, low 70s.
21:11 <Cepheid> But my dad's 59, my mother's 58, and I'm 34. So the age gap is about 25, which is apparently weird.
21:11 <ADragonDreaming> But I'm also the youngest.
21:11 <ADragonDreaming> My oldest sister is 43. So that's... 27 year gap between her and our parents.
21:11 <ADragonDreaming> no, I math wrong
21:11 <Cepheid> I'm the youngest in my case as well, my sister's 5 years older than me.
21:11 <ADragonDreaming> 25.
21:12 <ADragonDreaming> eh, that means your parents were 20.
21:12 <ADragonDreaming> that's not abnormal.
21:13 <ADragonDreaming> Rather, the perception is that normal is to have parents at older ages due to an increase in focus on achieving financial stability before starting a family, for various reasons.
21:13 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
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21:21 <Cepheid> Based on review of marks returned, it looks like I just barely squeezed by and passed Principles of Networks.
21:30 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: My Little Pony Comic #96 Revealed for March 2021 [ https://tinyurl.com/y8827odq ]
21:33 <LibrarianofHope> why do i feel like laughing?
21:33 <LibrarianofHope> the whole acceptance of dissonance thing
21:33 <LibrarianofHope> makes me laugh
21:33 <LibrarianofHope> jajajajaja
21:33 * LibrarianofHope bonks ali
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21:37 <Cepheid> Hum.
21:38 <Cepheid> So, there's definitely a connection to God Eater 2, with respect to God Eater 3. I think, anyways. The database should fill in the gaps for you ADra, but I'll see about playing GE2 in the interim to get the gist of the story, and pass on information that might not be covered by the database.
21:39 <LibrarianofHope> lalalala
21:41 <Cepheid> Hmm?
21:41 <LibrarianofHope> i reiterate, lalala
21:41 <Cepheid> But why did you say it?
21:42 <LibrarianofHope> im bored
21:42 <LibrarianofHope> so i lalala
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22:00 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: 3 Page iTunes Preview for My Little Pony Comic #93 Revealed [ https://tinyurl.com/yczn5rel ]
22:06 <Jackie> Finwe: why is Canternet's discord.canternet.org server so unstable
22:06 * Ali puts a Colgate on Jackie instead
22:09 <Cepheid> Why are you asking Finwe, Jackie?
22:09 <Jackie> Sometimes he's on that server
22:09 <Cepheid> That... doesn't make him an expert on it's stability.
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22:11 * Lumindia_ atemp... oh jackie left
22:11 * Lumindia_ attempts to chew on Ali's ear
22:12 * Ali squeaks at Lumindia_
22:12 * Starlight_Glimmer hides Ali under their blanket.
22:12 <Starlight_Glimmer> If you dma
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22:12 <Starlight_Glimmer> Damage that ear you must replace it
22:13 * Lumindia_ is lightly chewing, no damage will be done
22:13 * Starlight_Glimmer doesn't enjoy touch typing
22:13 * Jackie remembers that Canternet used to have Cloud Chaser
22:13 * Lumindia_ does enjoy GlimGlam snuggles
22:13 * Lumindia_ snuggles the glimglam
22:13 <Lumindia_> o wo
22:15 <Jackie> https://canternet.org/stats
22:15 <Starlight_Glimmer> Jackie: There could be any number of reasons, from peering issues with certain providers to problems on the nodes host system or in the datacenter.
22:15 * Lumindia_ also snuggles the Jackie pone
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22:16 * Cepheid is irritable and moody for some reason.
22:16 <Starlight_Glimmer> You can specify a server manually which is generally not recommend. I also believe there is an IPv4 only hostname, maybe that helps.
22:16 <Cepheid> Could also be routing issues as well.
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22:17 <Jackie> What. chrysalis.canternet.org doesn't work anymore
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22:19 <Jackie> Yea it just uses cadence
22:20 <Jackie> RIP Daring and Chrysalis
22:22 <Starlight_Glimmer> /links gives you a broad overview of the network. mind you not all of them are publicly available, e.g. cloudchaser only does services iirc
22:22 <Starlight_Glimmer> I'm actually surprised to see luna in there. That's news to me.
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22:24 <Jackie> Guess the server options are limited
22:24 <Jackie> Any other server just redirects me to cadence
22:24 <Starlight_Glimmer> Plenty for the number of people.
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22:25 <Cepheid> Schism, Cheryl's in danger.
22:26 <Jackie> I want my Chrysalis back
22:26 <Jackie> lol
22:26 <ADragonDreaming> who is Cheryl
22:26 <Jackie> That's like the nearest server
22:26 <Starlight_Glimmer> I'm connected through cadence, which is unusual
22:27 <Starlight_Glimmer> Usually it's derpy. I actually "visited" her some time ago. ;)
22:27 <Cepheid> Character from the webcomic "I want to be a cute anime girl".
22:27 <Jackie> Derpy is quite common
22:27 <Jackie> Though she's very far
22:28 * Finwe noms on Starlight_Glimmer's tail.
22:28 <Jackie> Idk where Discord is located in
22:28 <ADragonDreaming> oh
22:28 * Starlight_Glimmer licks Finwe
22:28 * Finwe tastes of cherry tomatoes.
22:29 <Jackie> "The derp eyed"
22:29 * Starlight_Glimmer sprinkles salt in Finwe
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22:29 <Starlight_Glimmer> On* :(
22:29 <Finwe> *onto
22:29 <Finwe> :3
22:30 <Cepheid> Bleh. Worked up, no idea why.
22:30 <Starlight_Glimmer> Argh. I don't get how people prefer working with these touch devices!
22:30 <Cepheid> I don't.
22:30 <Finwe> There, I'm now an acolyte in the temple of the Morninglord.
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22:31 <Finwe> And looks like I'm going to bed without a lullaby. :(
22:31 <Cepheid> The lack of tactile response from a button makes it hard for me to tell if I've tapped it or not. Worse yet, I find I can manipulate touch devices without, you know, actually touching them.
22:31 * Starlight_Glimmer is too lazy to grab the notebook from their backpack
22:31 * Finwe stares at the DerpyBot-shaped patch of thin air, until recently occupied by DerpyBot.
22:32 <Starlight_Glimmer> Cepheid: that's by design
22:32 * Jackie pets DashedRainbows
22:32 <Cepheid> Really? I always thought it was a bug or some problem caused by the massive amounts of static electricity I build up just from tossing and turning.
22:32 <Cepheid> Especially during Winter.
22:32 <Cepheid> Oh my gods I can shock myself on wood.
22:33 <Starlight_Glimmer> I have vibration on key presses turned on, helps a bit.
22:33 <Finwe> It's also rather irritating.
22:33 <Cepheid> That's usually what tips me off to me noticing that I register touches without actually touching the devices.
22:34 <Cepheid> And it's not sufficient enough for my brain to process "I pressed the button."
22:34 <Cepheid> Especially since in cases where I intentionally try to press a button, it simply won't work some times.
22:34 <Cepheid> Even though simply running my hand about half an inch away from the screen will register a touch.
22:36 <Starlight_Glimmer> The first patent on touch buttons (not screens, same idea) even mentions you can trigger them by hovering close to the touch surface
22:36 <Cepheid> Did it say who patented it?
22:36 <Starlight_Glimmer> No?
22:37 <Cepheid> Then they're lucky,
22:37 <Cepheid> Because I would have put them on The List.
22:37 <Starlight_Glimmer> Oh sorry. Misread that: The patent of course mentioned the author
22:38 <Finwe> It should. Otherwise it's not worth anything.
22:38 <Starlight_Glimmer> Put it's just a physical effect. Not like you can avoid it.
22:38 <Starlight_Glimmer> But*
22:38 <Starlight_Glimmer> Auto-correct is worse than my typing :(
22:38 * Finwe puts an apple atop Starlight_Glimmer's muzzle.
22:39 * LibrarianofHope bonks glim glam on the apple
22:39 <LibrarianofHope> extreme applesauce
22:39 <Cepheid> I'd still like to punch the creator for creating something that would one day cause all sorts of problems.
22:39 <Finwe> Joyeux nuit, tous les poneys.
22:39 <Cepheid> It's like making it so that tapping a touchpad causes a click, on laptops.
22:40 <Cepheid> THe person who came up with that idea should be fired, or punched in the face.
22:40 <LibrarianofHope> feliz navidad prospero año y felicidaaa
22:40 <Starlight_Glimmer> Essentially modern touch screens "abuse" body capacitance.
22:40 <Starlight_Glimmer> You can disable tap to click usually
22:40 <Finwe> Merry night, everypony!
22:41 * Finwe falls asleep without help from DerpyBot.
22:41 <Starlight_Glimmer> Bad palm rejection annoys me a lot more :(
22:42 <Starlight_Glimmer> And if you ever had to use resistive touch screens you'll be glad where we're at right now.
22:42 <Starlight_Glimmer> They're horrible!
22:42 <Starlight_Glimmer> Universally! I've never used a decent one.
22:43 <Cepheid> Yeah, tap to click can be disabled, sure.
22:43 <Cepheid> But it's usually enabled by default, despite the widespread hatred of it.
22:43 <Cepheid> As for touch screens and tablets I've used...
22:44 <Cepheid> I've used capacitive, resistive, and magnetic. The magnetic ones are, by and far the best, but they require a specialized, usually proprietary stylus to work. Capacitive and resistive are broken as hell.
22:45 <Starlight_Glimmer> That being said: I'm annoyed engineers and product designers feel the need to stick touch buttons on everything. They make sense for some applications, but they make adjusting my monitor settings for example a giant pain.
22:46 <Starlight_Glimmer> Anyhoof, I'm going to sleep now. Have a good night!
22:46 <LibrarianofHope> nighttt
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22:47 * Schism makes up some proper beef pot pies with mixed relish.
22:51 <Finwe> o3o
22:51 <Finwe> IRC running on books it rather confusing.
22:51 <Finwe> The old paper ones weren't capable of this.
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22:52 <LibrarianofHope> wut?
22:56 <LibrarianofHope> i recently got into hololive owo
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23:02 * Schism opens a jar of pickle, and sighs. "I'm going to need to apologize to LifeLabs for being hospitalized, but ah well."
23:02 <Schism> Oh, my book came in.
23:03 <Cepheid> Why do you need to apologize?
23:05 <Schism> Appointment missed because after three days of hospitalization, I cannot fast any longer.
23:06 <Schism> Plus, the whole illness thing. I despise fasting appointments.
23:07 <Schism> At least I have documentation. ug.
23:08 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
23:08 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, my blood-glucose seems to be doing well.
23:08 * Schism nodnods.
23:09 <Cepheid> Wearable sensor again. Average seems to be in the low 5s.
23:09 <Schism> Not bad at all.
23:09 <Cepheid> Though, eating sugary foods causes it to spike up to 13-15 of course.
23:09 <Cepheid> That said, it seems to recover very fast.
23:09 <Schism> Right now, I need something which is comparatively sensible viz. a mixture of long-acting, mid-acting, and short-acting carbs.
23:09 <Cepheid> Had a bowl of corn pops cereal followed by a coffee with sugar. Spiked up to 14 or so.
23:09 <Cepheid> Then two hours later, was back to 5.
23:10 <Schism> Um. Y...eah...
23:10 <Schism> Corn Pops will spike you right up.
23:10 <Cepheid> Yeah, I know.
23:10 <Cepheid> But normally it takes longer than 2 hours to get down that low again.
23:10 <Schism> Which is why I'm having some meat pies with a glass of orange juice and a bit of milk and some vegetable subsidy right alongside.
23:10 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
23:10 <Cepheid> My lunch was a bit better.
23:11 <Cepheid> Glass of orange juice, and chicken parmesan.
23:11 <Schism> That's not so bad, then. Maybe a little more long-acting carb in that one.
23:11 <Cepheid> The corn pops for breakfast are my way of managing the cravings for sweetness.
23:11 <Cepheid> If I have a bowl of them, I don't crave sugary foods for the rest of the day, makes it easier for me to manage how much sugar I take in.
23:11 * Schism eyebrows at Cepheid.
23:12 <Schism> You could have some yogurt with honey or strawberry jam?
23:12 <Cepheid> Mmm, I could try that, yes.
23:13 <Cepheid> In any case, otherwise, I find myself doing things like eating cookies, popsicles, or suckers throughout the day.
23:13 <Schism> I'm not judging you, of course. I may have gone coo-coo for cocoa puffs in the past.
23:13 <Cepheid> Which is worse for me overall in the long run.
23:13 <Cepheid> Probably also helps that I stopped those injections, again. Damned stuff was causing the exact opposite effect of what it was supposed to do.
23:13 <Schism> Mmh.
23:13 <Cepheid> It was making me binge eat.
23:14 <Cepheid> I actually wonder if it was interacting with the vyvanse.
23:14 <Schism> I think I might drop a few dollars tomorrow on just picking up some good carb-neutral stuff. Cheeses, meats, vegetables.
23:14 <Cepheid> Since the vyvanse is also used to treat binge eating.
23:16 <Cepheid> Quick google search doesn't turn up any interaction results between the two though.
23:19 <Schism> There. Meat pies, vegetable pickle, cheddar, and pickle.
23:20 <Schism> Well, cucumber pickle.
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23:28 <Cepheid> Feel like I should be doing something, but the parents are insisting I lay back and relax instead.
23:29 <Cepheid> And, given recent events, I should listen to them. But it doesn't change the fact that I still feel like I should be doing something.
23:29 <LibrarianofHope> lalalala
23:29 <LibrarianofHope> still bored
23:36 <Lumindia_>
23:37 <LibrarianofHope> cube
23:38 <Lumindia_> that's a left arrow in a circle for me
23:38 <Lumindia_> also I maaaaay have become as potato
23:38 <Lumindia_> https://i.imgur.com/t3Ho55D.png
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23:47 <RichardMist> Hello everypony, nice to see you all again!
23:47 * RichardMist *wavies*
23:47 <LibrarianofHope> hi
23:48 <RichardMist> Hello, LibrarianofHope, nice to meet you
23:50 <LibrarianofHope> nice to meet you too
23:50 <RichardMist> How are you?
23:50 <LibrarianofHope> my daughter , so to speak, is also calle mist
23:50 <LibrarianofHope> owo
23:50 <LibrarianofHope> im good
23:51 <RichardMist> That's great!
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