00:00 <Dappled> Which you can win using provided mons.
00:00 * Ali hates the battle tower, misses when you could get BP alternate ways like silly surfing
00:00 <Schism> Well. That is sensible. Does it break shinies?
00:00 <Dappled> So you don't need perfectly bread pokemon to win.
00:00 <Dappled> Break shinies?
00:00 <Schism> Heh, shinies used to be a specific IV set. I know that's no longer the case, but I temporarily forgot.
00:01 <Dappled> Yeah. That changed in like Gen 3, I think.
00:01 <Ali> Wasn't that a Gen 2 issue?
00:01 <Schism> Can you tell how long it's been? :< I last really played the games with Black/White.
00:01 <Cepheid> Thanks, Microsoft, for loading images in ARGB rather than RGBA.
00:01 * Cepheid has to do an image conversion.
00:02 <Schism> At least it's just a 24-byte offset.
00:02 <Schism> Er, bit.
00:05 <Cepheid> ... Oh, wait.
00:05 <Cepheid> It does support RGBA. It's called "Canonical"
00:06 <Schism> Leave it to Microsoft to deviant from canon for no particular reason.
00:06 <Cepheid> At least, it LOOKS that way.
00:06 <Schism> deviate*
00:06 <Cepheid> Only way to find out is to test.
00:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: My Little Pony Speedpaint Compilation #176 [ https://tinyurl.com/y3lgwjpg ]
00:08 <Cepheid> I wouldn't have to write all this boilerplate code if MonoGame supported loading non-MGFXO shader files.
00:09 * Schism randomly passes Cepheid a tomato and bacon omelet.
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00:11 <Schism> Bacon, Lettuce, Onion, Tomato, Cheese and Egg. A BLOTCE. o3o
00:14 <Cepheid> Let's see... add texture coordinate to shaders...
00:15 <Cepheid> Aaaand crash.
00:15 <Cepheid> Because Canonical is NOT SUPPORTED.
00:16 * Dappled builds scaffolding.
00:16 <Dappled> Support!
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00:19 <Cepheid> Hum, I don't think I'm loading the texture right.
00:19 <Cepheid> No, image is being loaded, but the texture isn't being drawn correctly because the pixel data's incorrect.
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00:22 <Cepheid> I cannot tell if it's due to my attempt to convert the image to a different format.
00:22 <Cepheid> Only one way to find out.
00:24 <Cepheid> It's my code.
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00:31 <Cepheid> Oh.
00:31 <Cepheid> Wrong data type, that's why.
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00:32 <Cepheid> I had specified byte, not unsigned byte. It was interpreting values beyond 127 as negative values, which it normalized.
00:32 <Schism> That'll do it. o3o;
00:32 <Cepheid> Fixed it, at least.
00:33 <Cepheid> Let's make sure conversion stuff works, now.
00:34 <Cepheid> Export as one-byte grayscale, make sure it's converted properly to 32-bit RGBA when loaded...
00:34 <Cepheid> It is. Loses transparency info though.
00:35 <Cepheid> Oh, no, wait, there's a bug.
00:35 <Schism> Isn't transparency info the alpha channel?
00:35 <Cepheid> ...
00:35 <Cepheid> God damnit Microsoft.
00:36 <Cepheid> It lists the format as "Format32bppArgb"
00:36 <Cepheid> Guess what it comes out as?
00:36 <Schism> ... RGBA.
00:36 <Cepheid> Yes.
00:36 <Cepheid> It comes out as RGBA.
00:37 * Schism applies HoofOn directly to her forehead.
00:37 <Cepheid> There is virtually no reason to do the swap.
00:38 <Cepheid> I'm going to triple-check.
00:38 <Schism> Testing sanity, but that's about it. For heavens' sake.
00:39 <Cepheid> Gets even better.
00:40 <Cepheid> It is BGRA instead of RGBA.
00:40 <Cepheid> I have to swap bytes 0 and 2.
00:41 <Cepheid> And it appears to be consistent. So if I start seeing reports of color issues, or start seeing them myself, I'm going to assume an image format was used that confused Microsoft's image loader.
00:42 <Schism> "Wait. There's a note here. He says you haven't been making backups. ALL prices DOUBLE if you haven't been making backups."
00:42 * Schism reads a story from some decades ago. She hasn't read it in a long while.
00:47 <Cepheid> Hum. I should add support for 1-, 2-, and 3-component textures as well. Not image loading, though. Just texture formats.
00:50 <Cepheid> Hmm. No simple way to do it. Very well then.
00:50 <PinkieShy> After last night i think I am going to use only Do not disturb mode..
00:50 <PinkieShy> My phone got a random email at 4am making my notification ringtone play as loud as possible waking me up.. Scaring me and made it very hard to get back to sleep :(
00:51 <PinkieShy> Probably didn't sleep until 6am after..
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00:53 <PinkieShy> I don't want another night or morning where i wake at 4am from being scared.. :(
00:57 * Schism hugs the PinkieShy. "It sucks when those alerts go off. My phone is in airplane mode all the time -- and I'm not sure I'll have it live even after I get a new one."
01:01 <Cepheid> I just keep mine on silent.
01:06 <Cepheid> Hmm.
01:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Say Something Nice About Mage Meadowbrook [ https://tinyurl.com/yxszhrtd ]
01:08 <Cepheid> I'm just going to keep it to 32-bit RGBA textures.
01:08 <Cepheid> Keep it simple.
01:09 <Cepheid> Next up, I need a framebuffer class.
01:11 * Cepheid thinks about how this might be implemented.
01:13 <Cepheid> I need a break, I think.
01:13 <Cepheid> My brain's going blank.
01:14 <Cepheid> Though I think it's more just the TV distracting me.
01:19 <Schism> I'm a horrible person, but at least I'm in the company of equally horrible people.
01:19 <Cepheid> Oh?
01:19 <Schism> Someone just dug up the corpse of a giant tree in their backyard.
01:19 <Cepheid> Heh.
01:19 <Schism> Of course. When you're digging up something that big, the puns come in spades.
01:35 <Ali> /me uproots Schism and tosses them away
01:38 * Schism installs CurseForge. Frowns.
01:39 <Ali> Seems like you shouldn't burn your roots Schism
01:39 * Ali bleps
01:41 <Schism> Oh. CurseForge reads from Twitch and goes from there. Okay, then. That's sensible... a rarity indeed.
01:41 <Schism> Ali: Don't start. The puns have started branching out.
01:41 <Dappled> I'm not ready fir that at all.
01:41 * Dappled also hisses at CurseForge/Twitch launcher thingy.
01:42 <Ali> Don't leaf me all alone Schism
01:42 <Ali> I mean your bark is worse than the bite
01:42 * Dappled doens't think Ali has to worry about that. She's the most Poplar pony here.
01:43 <Schism> Acorning to many, puns are enough to get them gone.
01:43 <Ali> So much sappy puns
01:57 <Cepheid> Guh. Contact lenses are hard to get used to, especially when the glasses are not the right prescription.
02:05 <Cepheid> Hum. Framebuffers. Finicky little thing to encapsulate. You need to attach images to various binding points. Color images are simplest, they're just standard textures. Depth and stencil are a diferent beast, you can use a texture, but they have to be a specific format.
02:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2421 [ https://tinyurl.com/y6hjao8g ]
02:09 <Cepheid> And it'd be nice to get the info back from the depth and stencil images, so I need to implement at least three other texture formats.
02:24 <Schism> Ah... To look upon something so tiny as this, and sigh wistfully at its mere existence. https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=167&No=1046&PartNo=1
02:25 <Cepheid> Heh.
02:25 <Schism> And then to look at a $10,000 microboard and wait for one's eyebrow to come back down from orbit.
02:46 <Cepheid> Why are you looking at ASICs and FPGAs anyways?
02:52 <Schism> Random reference from a friend. She's writing things for that, and pointed me at a lower-cost variant, and I looked at its specs and went, "...that's impressive."
02:54 <Cepheid> Heh.
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03:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: TCB Remixes EP: Tw3Lv3 - SIMP EP [Drum & Bass] [ https://tinyurl.com/yxrh4scc ]
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03:15 <Schism> Cepheid: And now I have an image to pour into your brain.
03:16 <Schism> Tachikoma, doing the Crab Rave.
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03:24 <Cepheid> ... Bleh, ye know what? I can't stand this. The contacts are nice, but getting used to them...
03:30 <Cepheid> It feels like my eyes are being dried out rapidly, I have to blink a lot to stand them.
03:31 <Cepheid> Glasses it is.
03:31 <Cepheid> I'll just have to get overly large sunglasses.
03:39 <Schism> Entirely at random: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7xai5u_tnk
03:46 * Ali flops over Schism as she's going to be in big pain tomorrow...
03:56 * Dappled says that Ali isn't allowed to be.
03:56 <Dappled> You don't get to feel bad on my birthday.
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03:57 * Dappled gets to feel bad cause he's getting old.
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04:02 <Cepheid> Oh huzzah, my cat has damaged yet another cable.
04:02 <Cepheid> Oh, no, he just loosened it was all.
04:06 <Dappled> Welcome to cats?
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04:07 <Schism> Why the hell am I crying-- oh right. I watched Shelter again. Gods damnit all.
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04:08 <Schism> !link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 > Because if I'm going to go through an emotional experience, I'm sharing it with the rest of you poor damned jerks.
04:08 <DerpyBot> Twilight told me this video is about Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter (Official Video) (Short Film with A-1 Pictures & Crunchyroll)
04:20 <Cepheid> There is apparently a universal shortage of weapon components everywhere in my current universe of X4, and as a result, I cannot do some missions because I need weapon components to make stuff like mines, install weapons, etc.
04:21 <Cepheid> And part of the problem is that there is only one weapon components production facility in the entire universe.
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04:22 <Cepheid> No, wait. There are others.
04:22 <Cepheid> It's just they're all missing parts.
04:31 <Cepheid> ... Yeah, this one's missing hull parts. Looks like all of them are going to another station.
04:37 * Ali snugs the Dappled and whines, didn't know dey birfday pono
04:39 <Cepheid> I suspect there's a bug. There's like, 4 hull parts ships just sitting outside the wharf, doing nothing.
04:42 * Dappled 's got a couple hours left of not being 31.
04:48 * Ali still has ten mintues to see if lightning cat will show up on isle
04:51 * Ali noms on the Dappled ear
04:52 * Dappled earflaps.
04:52 * Dappled also hugs.
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05:02 <Ali> No freaking rain on the isle where I need it. So another day of nothing.
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06:20 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
06:21 * Ali flops over ConfusionRift
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06:21 * ConfusionRift huggles Ali.
06:22 * Ali semi stranded herself on another planet in Factorio's mod cause she went for Beryl, but to fully process it, she needs cyrosomething, which doesn't exist on this planet.
06:23 * Golden yawns.
06:26 * Dappled becomes old.
06:26 * ConfusionRift is also stranded in space, in some other game.
06:26 * Dappled has an airship! He goes sailing the skies!
06:30 * ConfusionRift has a spaceship, but can't take it out, because it's locked till called for. He can at least use... the other one. Boring and slow.
06:31 <Cepheid> What game?
06:32 <Cepheid> Oh, Elite Dangerous, I presume?
06:33 <ConfusionRift> Space Engineers. I had a fighter in the bay for whenever I would go out and explore, or went chasing stray ships. Otherwise, it was the mining ship, which is big, heavy, and very slow.
06:33 <ConfusionRift> Haven't played Elite Dangerous since last we did.
06:35 <ConfusionRift> I seem to be boring like that.
06:37 <ConfusionRift> It's been a while. That savefile is probably either broken or not a good idea to use, which the many updates that game had.
06:38 * Dappled headtilts at that. Doesn't remember the MMO Elite Dangerous breaking game saves.
06:40 <ConfusionRift> Space Engineers, not Elite Dangerous. ED is online, so I'm sure the savefile in the server end.
06:40 <Cepheid> Heh.
06:40 * Dappled derps.
06:40 * Cepheid looks at the looming ship ahead. "... Branch 9 Destroyer. Destroyer. Much larger than what I got."
06:42 <Cepheid> Let's see, what do I need for a destroyer?
06:42 <Cepheid> Well for starters I need a capital ship license from the local faction.
06:43 <ConfusionRift> Right... a license... and ship registration. (eye darts around)
06:43 <Cepheid> Otherwise, I have enough credits for a ship with no engines, weapons, or shields.
06:43 <ConfusionRift> A hull, basically.
06:43 <Cepheid> By the time I get the faction reputation required, I'll probably have the money for it.
06:47 <Cepheid> Hum... damage a ship, seize it, then do whatever I want with it afterwards.
06:47 <Cepheid> I have no idea how to seize a ship yet.
06:48 * ConfusionRift checks on someone buying bad medical laser stuff from eBay.
06:48 <Cepheid> Wait, what?
06:48 <ConfusionRift> Oh nooo. Product #1, and it's already bad.
06:49 <Cepheid> Ah, that's how I board.
06:49 <Cepheid> Now the problem.
06:49 <Cepheid> It's an L-sized ship, I'm flying an M-sized ship.
06:49 <Cepheid> There's no way I'm seizing that sucker.
06:49 <Cepheid> Especially with a station and another ship nearby.
06:50 <ConfusionRift> Yep, abandon for now. That's a bit much.
06:51 <Cepheid> Just for kicks I saved, and I'm gonna see out outclassed I am.
06:52 <ConfusionRift> Apparently, eBay is selling laser (yes, like IR, blue, and green laser) equipment for DIY medical use. The first product featured a blue laser that's supposed to be sued to remove all kinds of blemishes on the skin, including tattoos. Yes, of course you can remove all kinds of blemishes BY BURNING THE SKIN BEYOND REPAIR.
06:53 <Cepheid> Yerp, I'm familiar with that.
06:53 <Cepheid> As for outclassed nature...
06:53 <Cepheid> The ship itself, I could easily take.
06:53 <Cepheid> It's the station and the *OTHER* ship nearby that's a problem.
06:54 <Cepheid> But yeah, I can't do that.
06:57 <Cepheid> Looks like the highest difficulty I can manage is "Medium". Hard often entails L-class stuff, or constructing stuff I simply don't have the money to build.
07:00 <ConfusionRift> Okay, that one looks very professional. So I'm guessing it's more safer and legit, right? | "NOPE! Not even close!" (points at the camera footage that now has a permanent burn mark on the lens) | What the-?!
07:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Dare to be Awesome! - Rainbow Dash Day Begins! [ https://tinyurl.com/y2bgs4sb ]
07:08 <Cepheid> +2 more points with this faction and I'll be able to buy a destroyer from them.
07:08 <Cepheid> Which will basically become my command ship.
07:09 * Dappled forgot Rainbow Dash day happened on my birthday. Cause shared.
07:17 <Cepheid> Hum, I should probably go deliver this guy before I get into a combat situation.
07:17 <Cepheid> He probably doesn't want to get involved.
07:18 <Cepheid> "Hey, dignitary dude, mind if we make a stop by a station to destroy some laser towers?
07:20 <Cepheid> "Hey Rifty, I know you're just a passenger on my ship, but this station has requested we take out some laser towers around it. You in?"
07:21 <ConfusionRift> Ooohyeeeah. (puts goggles on)
07:22 <Cepheid> ....
07:22 <Cepheid> That...
07:23 <Cepheid> The station was a DEFENSE PLATFORM. It destroyed the laser turrets on it's own, and *I* got paid for doing nothing.
07:24 <ConfusionRift> Aaaw. (crosses arms while he sits on the turret, doing nothing) Well, at least some nice fireworks for a change.
07:24 <Cepheid> Pretty sure I can afford one of them ships now, no problem. If they'd just let me buy one.
07:32 <Cepheid> Hum, that ship is large enough that my current ship can actually dock with it.
07:35 <Cepheid> .... In fact, that's the exact ship model I was asked to seize earlier.
07:37 <ConfusionRift> ...oh.
07:37 <NitroTheFurry> Docking is fun
07:39 * ConfusionRift sees the familiar tags, and a graffiti on the side that says "Kiss My Big Assistant", without the "-istant".
07:39 <ConfusionRift> I think it was their ship, and they ain't happy.
07:40 <ConfusionRift> Petty, huh.
07:42 <Cepheid> Nah, faction within the same species.
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07:43 <ConfusionRift> I'm sorry, but that would be both upsetting and funny that, in a game, one can confiscate, salvage, or jack other ships. Some enemy faction had to leave their destroyer behind, and just took their time to vandalize it.
07:48 <Cepheid> Huzzah, Rank 19 after an escort quest.
07:49 <Cepheid> One more rank and I'm golden.
07:49 <ConfusionRift> "Got some good news and bad news." | Uh huh? | "We finally were able to capture their ship." | That's good! | "they just left the hull." | ...what? | "No engines, systems, core, seats, halls... heck, not even the windshields. It's just the hull." | ...how?!
07:49 <Golden> I'm Golden though :3
07:49 <ConfusionRift> So am I. :P (fades to gold)
07:57 * Cepheid attacks the bad faction. o3o
08:25 <Golden> Hehe
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08:37 * Starlight_Glimmer hides Ali under their desk
08:37 * Ali squeaks, why is she here.
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08:39 <DerpyBot> *derp*
08:45 * Golden flops.
08:48 <Cepheid> Huzzah!
08:48 <Cepheid> I got high enough rank!
08:51 * NitroTheFurry reminds Starlight_Glimmer to get pop on friday
08:51 <Cepheid> Let's see how much this nightmare of a ship will set me back.
08:55 * Ali puts cat hair on NitroTheFurry cause unicorn is being silly
08:55 <Cepheid> 16 million.
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09:12 <RazorSharpFang> Hey heys. Just finished my first work-at-home day.
09:18 * Ali flops over the RazorSharpFang, unicorn had to move snow and hated it.
09:19 <RazorSharpFang> Is the snow cold?
09:20 <Starlight_Glimmer> Snow is good!
09:20 <Ali> And heavy and wet from rain
09:20 <Ali> So turns something that should be 3 pounds to like fifty
09:21 <Ali> And the driveway is not small either
09:21 * Ali grabs Starlight_Glimmer and shoves a pop into their hoof somehow.
09:23 <Starlight_Glimmer> Clearly Ali needs to downsize :3
09:24 * Ali puffycheeks at Starlight_Glimmer
09:24 * Starlight_Glimmer loves snow, just doesn't like icy walkways
09:25 <Ali> Yeah it was that too
09:25 <Ali> When I first went out, just one path push I nearly slipped four times.
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09:26 * Cepheid installs Rifty as the main computer of a new spaceship.
09:27 * Starlight_Glimmer now imagines Ali like Bambi on the ice.
09:27 * Starlight_Glimmer is highly amused by this idea
09:27 <ConfusionRift> What do you think I am? R2-D2? (doesn't mind) :P
09:29 <Cepheid> Mostly I think you'd be good for automatically attacking anything that looks suspicious.
09:30 * ConfusionRift destroys nearby asteroid. "Ooooh ohohoooo! This is awesome! Oh... and it was moving towards us, i swear."
09:30 * Cepheid sends out drones to collect the ore from the asteroid. "It's fine."
09:31 * Ali sits on Starlight_Glimmer and puffycheeks
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09:41 <Golden> Is it odd my fully new copy of LBP1 stutters when jumping onto a tutorial activation button?
09:47 <Finwe> o3o
09:48 * Finwe noms on Starlight_Glimmer.
09:48 <Finwe> Lunchtiem? :3
09:48 <Golden> Maybe it's my system??? Idk
09:48 * Finwe also noms on spinach soup.
09:48 * Starlight_Glimmer nibbles on Finwe's ears
09:48 <Starlight_Glimmer> I just had breakfast ;)
09:48 * Finwe ear-wiggles.
09:48 <Finwe> !plot
09:48 <DerpyBot> *wigglewiggle*
09:49 <Finwe> I had breakfast for almost five hours ago.
10:11 * Golden bleps.
10:12 <ConfusionRift> Golden: Tutorial activation button?
10:13 <ConfusionRift> I know the game sometimes stutters, especially in stages where there's a lot on the screen.
10:14 <Golden> You know in the first few levels where you step on a button, and on the in game screen plays a small tutorial such as with say like the player induced respawn tutorial at the very statt
10:14 <Golden> Start*
10:14 <Golden> That actually lagged my PS3 so hard it restarted
10:17 <ConfusionRift> Odd.
10:17 <Golden> I mean it's getting better, but still stutters/lag when one is played
10:19 <ConfusionRift> Oh, you mean a section with a button and a tutorial video plays?
10:20 <Golden> Yes
10:21 <ConfusionRift> Because if it's that, it does happen. Not to the point of a restart, but it happens. Not sure if it's the case of the game disc, or the game installation.
10:22 <ConfusionRift> Videos are called from storage. Hopefully, it's the case of just a bad install, and not the case of a bad disc, or a bad drive at worse.
10:22 <ConfusionRift> Is it a slim PS3 or fat?
10:22 <Golden> Slim
10:22 <ConfusionRift> Hmmmm.
10:23 <ConfusionRift> Maybe a dirty lens?
10:23 <Golden> And this was a fully sealed game of the year edition copy so the disc isn't scratched.
10:25 * ConfusionRift shrugs.
10:25 <Golden> Again the lag the system restarts only happened once. Probably bad luck
10:25 <ConfusionRift> I know LBP2 does stutter more often, and at times freezes.
10:25 <ConfusionRift> Yeah, it couldn't find the video, and just restarted.
10:26 <ConfusionRift> Still upset that the game froze after one-shotting the last stage.
10:27 <ConfusionRift> So it didn't count.
10:27 <ConfusionRift> I did that with a second player too.
10:28 <Golden> Considering I have the main console entries for LBP including Karting ((got 1, 2, K for around 40$)), and got LBP3 via ps+ ((didn't install)) before I got the others I figured it was time I gave the series a try
10:34 <Golden> I did ignore the lag instances, and get through to the savannah
10:56 <ConfusionRift> The savanna, the metro, and the electric maze seem to be some of the most laggy.
11:01 <Golden> Oof...
11:03 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Morning Discussion #2193 [ https://tinyurl.com/y2o6pqxh ]
11:38 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift.
11:38 <Finwe> o7
11:38 <Finwe> Capt Koopz.
11:38 <Finwe> o7
11:40 <Koopz> RAdm. Finwe o7
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12:18 * Filly_Nightmares purrs and snugglies into Finwe and uses as bed and goes sleepies on!
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12:35 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> \owo/
12:35 * Jackie purrs loud
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12:57 <Finwe> Mlles Angeline and Jackie; Mr Yuujin_Hiiragi.
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13:13 <Finwe> *scrunch*
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14:24 <Cyan_Spark> Razor the investor
14:24 <RazorSharpFang> Hey heys
14:25 <RazorSharpFang> I am thinking of putting in a sell limit order for all-but-one of my GME stock. having just the one, locking in gains for the rest.
14:32 <RazorSharpFang> If it goes above 400 I'll sell 3 shares, and keep one for the memories.
14:32 <Cyan_Spark> Odd, my buy order for $BB shares aren't filling
14:32 <Cyan_Spark> Oh, it just did
14:34 <RazorSharpFang> Ah, I may have gotten a fill if I entered in the sell limit at market open. Oh well.
15:01 * Schism says to herself, "Hmm, why is this order not going through?" She checks the billing system, and it raises three klaxons, a dozen red flags, and a screaming mandrake. "Well, that explains that."
15:04 <RazorSharpFang> Heh
15:13 <Schism> A sell order at $400 does seem sensible, by the way. This is the very definition of bubble.
15:13 * Schism flops back to work.
15:13 <RazorSharpFang> We'll see if it executes, if not today there's always tomorrow.
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17:30 * Schism makes some gnocchi with tomatoes and bacon. This is a good lunch.
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18:51 <Finwe> Lt ThatAnonPony.
18:51 <Finwe> o7
18:52 * ThatAnonPony wave.
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19:50 <Cepheid> You know how I describe this action wherein I clench my hand, as if grabbing something? I figured out why I do it.
19:51 <Cepheid> It's because somewhere inside of me, my body wants me to grab something or someone, and either toss it overhead, or slam it into a wall or floor hard. o3o
19:51 * Cepheid swears they're not a violent person.
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20:16 <Schism> You know, I want to go back in time and punch the person responsible for the Gregorian Calendar. Give us something reasonable. 12 months, 30 days a pop, and then a 5- or 6-day Saturnalian period.
20:18 <Schism> Yes, this means that I want to go back and punch Pope Gregory XIII.
20:19 <Schism> And then go back further and beat the crap out of Julius Caesar.
20:20 <Cepheid> Heh.
20:21 <Schism> What sort of diseased mind does it take to say, "Hey, here we have 365 days, let's divide them up into seven day chunks, and then separate them based on what gods I particularly like or don't."
20:21 * Cepheid induces fever and headache.
20:22 <ThatAnonPony> Isn't it a Sun day, a Moon day, and then a day for five planets too? I thought seven day weeks show up everywhere?
20:23 * Schism sighs, "You're right. That isn't his fault. I'd have to go all the way back to Babylon."
20:24 <Schism> Take a couple of oversized sundials and beat their astronomers until they're a fine mush.
20:24 <Cepheid> It does. Even in Japan, it's seven days. Earth Day, Sun Day, Moon Day, Fire Day, Water Day, Tree Day, Gold Day.
20:25 <Schism> And if you consider that the lunar cycle is a bit over 28 days (around 29.5), it does make sense to drop that down to 7, at least in _that_ sense.
20:25 <Cepheid> The most interesting day to pronounce for me is Wednesday.
20:26 <Schism> Wodin's Day?
20:26 <Cepheid> It's written 水曜日, suiyoubi.
20:26 <Cepheid> But I swear everyone pronounces it suinyoubi.
20:26 <Schism> Funny enough, there's at least one case of Odin walking around and calling himself Mr. Wednesday.
20:28 <Schism> Interesting... so suiyoubi is derived from the planet Mercury.
20:28 <Cepheid> The above case is really annoying, because it means there's a problem with how I hear certain sounds.
20:28 <Cepheid> I wonder if it's consistent. I need to find another word that has the "iyo" syllables.
20:29 <Cepheid> And ask the professor to pronounce it for me, as well as other students.
20:29 <Cepheid> See if I hear the same effect.
20:29 <Schism> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9B%9C#Japanese
20:29 * Schism flops back over to work.
20:32 <Cepheid> I wonder how long it'll take to get my glasses this time. It took the last place a bit longer than expected to make this prescription. I'm not going to that place again either, because like my dad(Who only mentioned this recently), the glasses have a fringing effect, and it's not due to the prescription.
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20:38 <Cepheid> Google Stadia is being dialed back a bit, it seems. The game studios Google set up to develop games for it exclusively have been shut down. The tech is being offered to other publishers, and some other fun stuff.
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20:54 <fluttershy> hi!!
20:55 <Cepheid> https://twitter.com/BannedDino/status/1356035211817934851 What the hell did I just witness, Schism?
20:55 <Cepheid> Same question for you ADragonDreaming.
20:55 <fluttershy> huh?
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20:56 <Cepheid> Monster Hunter Rise gameplay, player going ballistic with explosives and wirebug. Anyways, I gotta run. I need to take a shower, then I got a test in an hour.
21:03 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: EQG Song Remix: Angelic - Equestria Girls Theme Song (Tremil Remix) [House] [ https://tinyurl.com/y46lygum ]
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21:23 * Dappled old horse.
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21:47 <Cepheid> I wish I could listen to music while doing tests. Would reduce my stress considerably.
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22:03 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff - BEST Drawings of Rainbow Dash! - 2021 Edition (Part 1) [ https://tinyurl.com/yxhjvskh ]
22:07 * Schism finishes her day.
22:08 * Finwe finishes his day as well.
22:09 <Schism> As strange as it is, I like finishing my days with a bit of regular casework. No customers, just me going through the backlog and CLEANING UP ALL THE MESSES LEFT BY TIER 1.
22:09 <Finwe> 16 hours of Zoom and writing commentary on an article.
22:09 * Dappled shakes his cane at all the younguns.
22:10 * Schism looks at Dappled. "Don't make me hit you with a proper 1MB disk."
22:10 <Finwe> Schism: 3.5"?
22:10 <Finwe> Those are nasty weapons, if you know how to throw them.
22:10 <Schism> No, about 4 square feet of storage with a reel of magnetic tape.
22:10 * Dappled used floppy disks, not the giant ones, but the smaller ones.
22:11 <Schism> 5.25" floppies were a fine thing.
22:11 <NitroTheFurry> Heh.
22:12 <Finwe> A local computer magazine used to arrange athletics tournaments back in time, featuring 3.5" diskette throwing.
22:12 <Finwe> The Finnish record is over 100 metres.
22:12 <Schism> I'd not mind taking part in that. I've occasionally thrown many a playing card into drywall.
22:13 <Finwe> They also had shot put with hard drives and modem throwing.
22:13 <Finwe> The latter was pretty much like hammer throwing.
22:14 <Finwe> You would whirl the modem around by its cable and hurl it, hopefully in the right direction.
22:15 * Dappled thinks we should bring that back for the next olympics .
22:17 <Finwe> We once had a round of skeet with broken 3.5" diskettes.
22:31 * Schism isn't a sharpshooter by any means, but wouldn't mind using those in lieu of clay pigeons. o3o
22:37 <Cepheid> I need to study more.
22:38 <Cepheid> I'm gonna get my programming assignment done tonight so I can focus on studying Japanese for the next week.
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23:29 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> So to those in the Northeast US, how are ya holding up?
23:40 * Finwe noms on AppleDash.
23:40 <AppleDash> Eeeee
23:40 <Finwe> o3o
23:41 * Dappled is in the south central so he's fine.
23:41 * Yuujin_Hiiragi throws a snowball at Dappled
23:41 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> Nyeh
23:41 * Dappled hides under all the blankets.
23:41 <Finwe> What's happening in New England?
23:41 <Dappled> Snow.
23:41 <Finwe> Yay!
23:43 <Finwe> https://photos.app.goo.gl/4SbztMKEJfjNHsRi8
23:44 <Finwe> We've got snow, too.
23:44 <Finwe> And moonlight.
23:44 <Finwe> The moon should be photographed with something else than a mobile phone camera, though.
23:45 <Finwe> It always ends up looking somewhat disappointing compared to the real thing.
23:45 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/top-snowfall-totals-could-reach-44-inches-from-monster-storm/891724
23:45 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> buittloads of snow
23:45 * Starlight_Glimmer sits on AppleDash
23:46 * Yuujin_Hiiragi throws a snowball at Starlight_Glimmer
23:46 * AppleDash hugs Starlight_Glimmer's butt
23:46 <Starlight_Glimmer> What have you done to my Ali?
23:46 <Finwe> !seen Ali
23:46 <DerpyBot> Finwe: The last time I saw Ali was 2021-02-01 09:38:50 UTC
23:46 * Starlight_Glimmer horribly murders Yuujin_Hiiragi
23:46 <Finwe> The cute pony has been away rather long.
23:46 * Schism casts Awaken on the popoto.
23:46 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> D:
23:46 * Yuujin_Hiiragi arises, and h ecks
23:46 <Starlight_Glimmer> She might be stuck in the drive way :3
23:47 <Yuujin_Hiiragi> HECC
23:47 <Schism> I'm sure Ali's fine.
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23:47 *** ChanServ sets mode: +qo Ali Ali
23:47 <Finwe> Miss Ali.
23:47 * Finwe doffs his hat.
23:47 <Schism> See? She's perfectly all right.
23:47 <Dappled> Speak of the cute one and she does appear.
23:47 * Ali headtilts, unicorn is just late on Mondays
23:47 <Finwe> o3o
23:47 <Starlight_Glimmer> Hah! Speaking of the devli :3
23:48 * Ali also baps Dappled as she's not cute
23:48 <Finwe> /summon Ali
23:48 * Dappled fall sover.
23:48 * Dappled drops a chest full of gold coins.
23:48 <Finwe> Hvorfor fallsover du?
23:48 <Starlight_Glimmer> Oh course no coincidence has taken place. All magic!
23:48 <Finwe> Vriendskaap is magie.
23:49 * Ali doesn't know what good a chest of gold coins is for
23:49 * Dappled is a pirate after all.
23:49 <Finwe> Sounds like an emergency surgery is needed to empty Dappled's chest of bullions.
23:50 <Finwe> Or pieces of eight or sovereigns or whatever coins they are.
23:50 <Cepheid> Right.
23:50 <Cepheid> I'm being asked to do tech support. By a professor.
23:51 <Finwe> $30 per hour and I'm your man.
23:51 <Schism> Welcome to my life 20 years ago...
23:51 <Finwe> or $40
23:51 * Schism grah, and just heads to the store for now. She needs to pick up some things.
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23:51 * Finwe has no exact data on the current value of CAD.
23:52 <AppleDash> Roughly one CAD
23:52 <Cepheid> Essentially, the problem is straightforward: The professor is setting up quizzes, tests, and the like, and setting their dates and time correctly, and she swears up and down, left and right, that she's doing this CORRECTLY.
23:52 <Cepheid> But then a day or two later, the tests and quizzes will change dates and/or times.
23:52 <Cepheid> Without her input.
23:52 <Finwe> 1 CAD = €0.65
23:52 <Cepheid> She thinks maybe her account's been hacked, and while that seems unlikely, it's not implausible, since the school's web systems are using outdated tech.
23:53 <Cepheid> I get warnings all over the Carleton University website about the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1
23:53 <Dappled> /me didn't know he could a computer assisted drawing program for so cheap!
23:53 * Dappled runs off to get one.
23:54 <Cepheid> Since I can't verify hacking, I've done the next best thing I can think of. Harassed the ITS department to give me a fake class to play around with, and see if maybe it's just some sort of UI issue.
23:54 <Finwe> Dappled: FreeCAD is free, true to its name.
23:55 <Finwe> One of the lecturers at our School of Electronics and Automation intentionally published a PDF file that won't print if it is Thursday.
23:57 <Cepheid> Why?
23:58 <Finwe> To make the students' lives more interesting.
23:58 <Cepheid> I don't think this is the case here.
23:58 <Cepheid> The professor genuinely seems perturbed by what's going on.
23:58 <Finwe> Indeed.
23:58 <Cepheid> And my initial gut reaction says it's just user error, but I'd rather rule that out last.
23:59 * Dappled sticks his tongue out at Finwe. He was making a joke.
23:59 * Finwe runs sudo apt install freecad, just to see how it is.
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