00:03 <Cepheid> Sometimes, I wonder what the different kinds of nuts out there taste like in a butter paste, like peanut butter.
00:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: My Little Pony Speedpaint Compilation #180 [ https://tinyurl.com/yz42ngj2 ]
00:15 <Lumindia> good question
00:15 <Lumindia> honestly, you could probably make a fair number of nuts into butter
00:28 <Cepheid> Mmhmm.
00:32 <Cepheid> ... This Tim Hortons cup is simply not usable for hot drinks.
00:35 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/pTg6DBT Heh.
00:41 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/hBFGjhm Gonna be honest, this is pretty impressive.
00:49 <Cepheid> https://imgur.com/gallery/6WGnF5d This is why you don't stand under a tree during a storm.
00:55 <Cepheid> https://i.imgur.com/84KGne2.mp4
00:55 <Schism> Cepheid: Almond butter is delicious. o3o
00:59 <Cepheid> So I hear.
01:02 <Schism> So, too, are these burgers. Amazingly, they're filling, and while I don't think I'll be paying $12/burger in future, it was still worthy of a try.
01:07 <Schism> "So for the sake of famous landmarks, monuments, certain nations, our continued enterprise, and quite possibly the sun or moon, we hand this over to persons more experienced and adept at locking things away from the world." //Marshall, Carter & Dark decide that some SCPs just aren't worth holding onto.
01:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Say Something Nice About Flash Sentry [ https://tinyurl.com/ygf2ha6z ]
01:11 <Cepheid> Heh.
01:12 <Cepheid> Yeah, when the objects result in your clients and/or potential clients dying, you kind of don't want them around.
01:13 <Schism> When the object is a mechanical claw which can crush any object which is within its wielder's line of vision, you especially don't want it around.
01:15 <Cepheid> Yep.
01:16 <Cepheid> But in general, if the object can be used to maim, injure or kill people in MCD, or get rid of their clients, or potential clients, they don't want it. For obvious reasons.
01:18 <Schism> True. Or at least if the object can be used in a way contrary to MCD's corporate charter, which may include the possibility of injury, maiming, or death.
01:18 <Schism> "After discussion leading to a formal request, O5-██, SCP-2558-J in general, and especially SCP-2558-J-Ex, are not to be weaponized."
01:21 <Schism> Also, Cephy: https://twitter.com/kapebeansies/status/1357545931646799872
01:23 * Schism now takes a nap.
01:24 <Cepheid> Heh.
01:36 <PinkieShy> There..
01:36 <PinkieShy> Alarm clock is sprang forward an hour ahead of time so i don't forget that
01:36 <PinkieShy> Now is the microwave and wall clocks :)
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01:49 <DerpyBot> *derp*
01:49 <PinkieShy> !plot
01:49 <DerpyBot> *wigglewiggle*
01:49 <PinkieShy> *wigglewiggle*
02:01 <Cepheid> Right. The transition from Master Rank MH:World to Low Rank MH:GensU is distinct.
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04:27 <Cepheid> Hello Razor.
04:27 <RazorSharpFang> Hey heys
04:28 <Cepheid> How goes it?
04:29 <RazorSharpFang> Fairly well. Going to make some fried rice for lunches.
04:36 <Cyan_Spark> Razor the investor
04:36 <Cyan_Spark> the indulger, today :3
04:37 <RazorSharpFang> Yee
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04:40 <uni> ooh RazorSharpFang what a coincidence~
04:40 <uni> I'm also having fried rice for lunch
04:41 <RazorSharpFang> Nice
04:41 <uni> mine is with duck, cos there's still some leftovers from yesterday
04:44 <Cepheid> Hum, looking like my old ancient samsung tablet's screen is dead. Or the driver is. Not sure which, but it looks like I'll have to salvage it.
04:44 <Cepheid> I'll try letting it sit around and charge for a bit, see if that helps at all.
04:46 <Cepheid> Yeh, it's looking like the screen's fubared.
04:46 <Cepheid> Got it booting up now, but the display is just showing what amounts to colourful noise.
04:47 <Cepheid> Oh, wait, hold on. There it goes.
04:47 <Cepheid> It liiiives!
04:48 <Cepheid> As for why I'm going to use it when I have this nice laptop for use? Laptop's not good for reading at night on. Too heavy, screen doesn't fold back far enough.
04:48 <uni> is the battery still somewhat decent?
04:49 <Cyan_Spark> unicodingunicorn
04:49 <uni> I have a 2014 tablet and the discharge curve is more a squiggle than anything really
04:49 <Cepheid> No idea. It charges really slowly though, so I suspect that alongside the screen, the charging logic is borked too.
04:49 <uni> Cyan_Spark
04:49 <Cyan_Spark> :3
04:49 <uni> how's things?
04:49 <Cepheid> It's another one of those devices where I'd be better off just salvaging parts and shoving into a custom container.
04:50 <uni> huh salvaging parts from consumer electronics?
04:50 <Cepheid> Like my old laptop, whose battery is bulging.
04:50 <Cepheid> Which I had removed, so now it's basically just a desktop.
04:50 <uni> ooh same here too~
04:50 <uni> the battery bulged so much it popped the screws off the case
04:51 <Cepheid> I could probably buy a replacement off of Amazon, but given all the damage it has to the hinges, it's not worth the cost.
04:51 <Cepheid> It'd literally just be easier to remove the guts, throw it into a cardboard box or custom-printed enclosure, and leave it at that.
04:52 <Cepheid> In fact, I kinda wonder how much it'd cost to have a custom enclosure made.
04:53 <Cepheid> As for use cases... Server, mostly.
04:53 <Cepheid> Just another in the collection of old computers I use as servers.
04:53 <uni> a sad one, but it tries its best
04:53 <uni> ooh you have an entire cluster of them~
04:53 <Cepheid> Well, it'd be sufficient for running at least one game server, or a fileserver, or a repository erver.
04:53 <Cepheid> Yeah, basically I have a small collection of computers from over the years.
04:54 <Cepheid> And with my current machines, I can further extend the cluster a bit.
04:54 <Cepheid> So I'd have access to hmm..
04:54 <Cepheid> 8 + 8 + 16 + 12 + 2 = 46 threads of execution across the whole thing.
04:55 <Cepheid> 50 if I include the tablet. 51 if I include my Lego EV3 brick. Probably a few more if I include modded consoles.
04:56 <uni> have you tried running one of those fancy new distributed containerisation things on them?
04:56 <uni> like kubernetes
04:56 <Cepheid> I have not.
04:56 <uni> it sounds like it'll be cool
04:56 <Cepheid> However...
04:56 <Cepheid> My next assignment in parallel computing requires a cluster.
04:56 <uni> assignment?
04:56 <Cepheid> Officially, the prof wants us to use the school OpenStack to run 20 VMs and test with that.
04:57 <uni> oh uni assignment
04:57 <Cepheid> Aye.
04:57 <uni> for whatever reason my mind went to secret-agent-assignment
04:57 <Cepheid> University assignment. Implement Conway's Game of Life using OpenMPI.
04:57 <Cepheid> Basically, spread the simulation out across as many threads of execution as possible.
04:58 <Cepheid> I'll likely just utilize my PC and my laptop, giving me 28 threads of execution on two machines, but it'll suffice.
04:58 <Cepheid> Speaking of, I need to install Linux on my PC. I don't have much energy at the moment, but I got enough to install an OS.
05:02 <Cepheid> First though, need an ISO, and a flash drive..
05:04 <Cepheid> Then reboot, and start SSHD...
05:08 <Cepheid> Partitions set up..
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05:20 <Cepheid> That should suffice for a basic setup.
05:25 <Cepheid> Easy peasy lemon squeezie.
05:26 <Cepheid> I don't understand why people insist Arch is so hard to install.
05:27 * Cepheid decides to randomly just build OpenCilk to see how long it takes on that powerhouse machine.
05:27 <Cepheid> It's not a Ryzen 5000 series, but it's still a 16-core system.
05:28 <Cepheid> Er, 8-core.
05:29 <Cepheid> You know, I find it interesting. I can't do the math of CS scientific work, but I can do the programming and problem solving for coding effortlessly.
05:29 <Cepheid> I have spinning in my head, a method of implementing the requisite communications required for my assignment. We haven't even covered anything regarding how we'll do it yet.
05:31 <Cepheid> ... Geezus forking cripes. In the period of 30 seconds it hit 16% build complete. It took my laptop nearly two minutes for that.
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05:38 <Cepheid> Full build across 16 threads, and I'm seeing a CPU temp of... 66C.
05:38 <Cepheid> Compared to my laptop which, at 12 cores, jumps to freakin' 100.
05:40 <Cepheid> Can also handle full CPU load no problem. 3.9GHz steady. Meanwhile my laptop drops from 4.2GHz to 3GHz.
05:52 <Cepheid> Right, so I got OpenMPI installed on both machines, so why can I not start parallel processes across both..?
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05:55 <ConfusionRift> Hello everypony.
06:03 <Finwe> Lt Cdr ConfusionRift.
06:03 <Finwe> o7
06:04 <ConfusionRift> RAdm. Finwe. (salutes)
06:05 <Finwe> Messrs Cepheid, uni, Dappled, Lumindia, PinkieShy, Cyan_Spark and RazorSharpFang; Mlles Ali, Filly_Nightmares and Schism.
06:05 * Finwe doffs his hat.
06:05 <Cyan_Spark> horsey
06:05 * Ali doffs over ConfusionRift and Finwe
06:05 <Cepheid> Oh, that's why it's not working. Okay.
06:07 * ConfusionRift huggles Ali.
06:08 * Ali sits on ConfusionRift as though the unicorn got the spider armor and is ok for hardmode, all the hardmode bosses just mince her up.
06:09 <Cepheid> Well, that's better.
06:09 * ConfusionRift is not even near that. Just about to deal with Skeletron. ._.
06:10 <Cepheid> That said, the result is not what was desired, so..
06:11 <ConfusionRift> My luck has been absolute garbage.
06:11 <Cepheid> Hum, okay...
06:11 <Cepheid> So how do I copy the executable to the destination so that it'll run, then..?
06:12 <ConfusionRift> It should be just copy and paste. Unless said executable was set to run dependencies on a specific folder. Dunno.
06:12 <Cepheid> Not talking about game, working on something else.
06:12 <Cepheid> It's called OpenMPI. I need it for an assignment.
06:13 <ConfusionRift> I was referring to that.
06:13 <Cepheid> Ah.
06:13 <Cepheid> Yeah, it's not automatic unfortunately.
06:13 <Cepheid> According to the manpages, it expects the executable to exist on the remote system in the same directory structure.
06:14 <ConfusionRift> Unless you created the executable, in which case, it's tricky depending on the language.
06:14 <ConfusionRift> Oooooh, this is different.
06:15 <Cepheid> According to the man pages, -s should do it.
06:15 <Cepheid> But it doesn't.
06:16 * ConfusionRift looks at Ali. "My kingdom for a freakin' mirror."
06:16 <Cepheid> mpirun, could you please be a bit more verbose and tell me what you're doing?
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06:19 <Cepheid> Wait, why all of a sudden is it working?
06:19 <Cepheid> Oh.
06:19 <Cepheid> Well that's ridiculous.
06:20 <Cepheid> In any case, it worked as expected.
06:22 <Cepheid> As for what MPI is, it's Message Passing Interface. It's a method of passing data between different processes. OpenMPI helps "simplify" doing this on an API level, and on a running-the-application level. Furthermore..
06:22 <Cepheid> It supports computer clusters. Which means that I could say "Run 300 instances of this application." and it'll spread them out across all the computers on the network.
06:23 <Finwe> I know that one.
06:24 <Finwe> Building MPICH gets the processor in my laptop on the verge of meltdown.
06:24 <Cepheid> As for how each instance of the application knows what to do, usually you have one central application that manages all the others. How do you set this up? When you start an MPI-enabled program, each application is assigned a number within the system, called their rank. Rank 0 typically is the core process that manages everything, while the rest are given ranks from 1 through to the maximum number of "slots" available for
06:24 <Cepheid> processing.
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06:25 <Finwe> Not really, but the temperature rises over 100°C, and the compiler takes over 30 minutes to finish.
06:25 <Cepheid> Heh.
06:25 <Cepheid> I use a cooling pad to cope with that on my laptop.
06:26 <Cepheid> I'm thinking when I do actual development, I'll limit my laptop to 1 slot, so that it gets rank 0 by default. The rest will be on my PC and server machine.
06:26 <Cepheid> Across the two, I have access to 24 threads.
06:26 <Finwe> I use another method that includes placing the laptop on windowsill and opening the window.
06:26 <Cepheid> Heh, that works too.
06:26 <Cepheid> In any case I don't expect it all to go into superheated mode, because it's just an MPI implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
06:27 <Cepheid> The grid for the game is split up amongst N processes, all which communicate through MPI.
06:28 <Cepheid> I already have a basic idea as to what needs to be done, but there's one particular case I don't know how to resolve.
06:29 <Cepheid> When the grid cannot be properly divided amongst all the CPUs/CPU cores.
06:30 <Cepheid> So for example, I have 12 cores. One is used for the control process. The rest are assigned to chunks of the grid. I'm left with 11 cores.
06:31 <Cepheid> Well, no.
06:31 <Cepheid> I can divide it into 11 segments.
06:31 <Cepheid> But I don't think horizontally or vertically dividing it by N is allowed.
06:32 <Cepheid> ... Oh, no, it's allowed.
06:32 <Finwe> With my phone excluded I have 14, none of which support hyperthreading.
06:32 <Cepheid> In total, in my house...
06:32 <Finwe> With the phone I have 22.
06:33 <Cepheid> 16 on my PC, 12 on my laptop, 8 on my server machine, 4 threads on my old laptop for 40 total. If I include ancient hardware I still have, I also have...
06:33 <Finwe> But I'm going to get 8 more cores with hyperthreading support next week.
06:34 <Cepheid> 2 on an ancient laptop. I *THINK* I have 8 on my samsung tablet, but that doesn't run a native Linux install, so whether I can use MPI with it is up in the air. My phone... I think it's another 8.
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06:34 <Cepheid> Of all the systems that are least x86, I got 42 total.
06:34 <Finwe> Cepheid: 16? Is that Ryzen 9 3950 X?
06:35 <Cepheid> No, it's an octacore Ryzen 2700X with hyperthreading.
06:35 <Finwe> I meant physical cores, but alright.
06:35 <Cepheid> I'm counting the threads available, not cores. If I count cores, then I have 18.
06:36 <Cepheid> In any case, with regards to the implementation, I don't see anything that explicitly states that the subarrays each process handles has to be a square grid segment, which simplifies things a bit.
06:37 <Cepheid> As then each process only needs to communicate with the ranks next to it.
06:37 <Cepheid> Rather than the 8 sections around it. Mind..
06:37 * Finwe nodnods.
06:37 <Cepheid> The professor drew out an example of what we needed to do, and drew it out as if we were splitting the grid into N by M subarrays.
06:39 <Cepheid> Which again raises a problem: If I have a prime number of cores, I cannot properly divide the grid into N by M subarrays to fully load all the cores.
06:39 <Cepheid> For example, I have 12 cores for an example simulation. 1 core is the main process that distributes the work and then collects the result. That leaves me with 11 cores. 11 is prime.
06:42 <Cepheid> I have, available to me, if I absolutely must use a grid of sub-arrays with dimensions equal to or greater than 2: 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, 5x2, 4x2, 3x2, 2x2, and 3x3.
06:42 <Cepheid> Logic dictates the best solution would be to maximize the number of cores being used. So 2x5.
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06:49 <Finwe> I bought a second-hand workstation that I should get on Tuesday or Wednesday.
06:51 <Cepheid> It occurs to me that there is a solution that gets past my problem.
06:51 <Cepheid> Each process other than the Rank 0 process is sent a chunk of the board, and told to process it, which it then sends back when it's done. It then gets sent another chunk, repeat ad-infinitum until desired state is reached.
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06:53 <Cepheid> Except I'm not sure it's allowed.
06:54 <Cepheid> According to the spec doc, he wants each processor to receive it's chunk, and then process K steps.
06:55 <Cepheid> So, for step K, each process needs to communicate with it's adjacent processes to retrieve their edges for step K - 1, do the processing, then synchronize with the parent process. Then repeat.
06:57 <Cepheid> He wants us to test with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 processors. So, I guess that means breaking the grid up into I by J chunks isn't necessary, since you can't do that evenly with 2, 3, 5 and 7.
06:57 <Cepheid> I may be overthinking this.
06:58 <Cepheid> I think I'll send an e-mail to the prof tomorrow to verify this.
06:59 <Ali> My lord, I think my state has managed to out murder the murders in Chicago.
06:59 <Finwe> Yes, milady?
06:59 <Ali> Homicides like crazy
07:00 <Finwe> Have at 'em before the virus gets 'em!
07:00 <ConfusionRift> 0_0;
07:01 <Cepheid> I wonder how fast my octacore system builds a default-config linux kernel in.
07:02 <Finwe> "cd linux-5.12-rc2; time make"
07:05 <Cepheid> Yep.
07:06 <Cepheid> Well, it needs make defconfig as well
07:06 * Cepheid runs "time make -j 17"
07:07 <Cepheid> I think I recall it taking about 3 minutes the last time I had Linux on my PC.
07:09 <Cepheid> real time, 2 minutes 1.565 seconds.
07:10 <Cepheid> Let's see what Arch's config takes.
07:10 <Finwe> I've seen kernel 2.something built on a 486 PC. It took three days or so.
07:10 <Cepheid> Still though, I rememb- Yeah, that.
07:10 <Cepheid> I remember when older computers took hours.
07:11 <Cepheid> While we can't increase the individual speeds of the CPU cores, it certainly looks like the alternative approach of spreading out into a number of CPU cores worked out well.
07:12 <Cepheid> At least, for embarassingly parallel problems.
07:12 <Cepheid> In other cases, it's created more trouble than solved, and has resulted in a lot of research.
07:13 <Cepheid> Which is why I think quantum computing won't be the be-all-end-all solution to computing.
07:13 <Cepheid> Once it comes into play in reality, it's going to introduce all sorts of new problems that we have to research and deal with.
07:14 * Cepheid wikipedias quantum computing. Someone stop them.
07:15 <Cepheid> Finwe.
07:15 <Cepheid> What the hell is a Hilbert space?
07:19 <Cepheid> Nevermind.
07:19 * Ali flops onto ConfusionRift
07:19 <ConfusionRift> :P
07:19 <Ali> Yay hour lost
07:19 <ConfusionRift> Oh... right... that. (sighs)
07:21 <Finwe> Cepheid: It's a vector space with inner product.
07:22 * Ali licks Finwe
07:23 * Finwe tastes of tarte tatin.
07:23 <Cepheid> So any N-dimensional vector space such that it has an inner product operation?
07:24 <Finwe> It has also to be complete with respect to the metric induced by the inner product.
07:24 <Cepheid> I have no idea what that means.
07:24 <Finwe> Otherwise it's just an inner product space.
07:24 <Finwe> Cepheid: A complete metric space is one in which all Cauchy sequences converge.
07:24 <Cepheid> ...
07:24 <Cepheid> Still lost.
07:25 <Cepheid> Ah.
07:25 <Finwe> A Cauchy sequence is one where d(x_i, x_j) -> 0 as i,j -> \infty
07:25 * ConfusionRift boops Ali.
07:25 <Cepheid> In other words, there has to be limits.
07:26 <ConfusionRift> Having a mess of a time looking for dash boots. Found friggin' waterwalking boots though!
07:26 * Ali squeaks at the boopings
07:26 <Ali> ConfusionRift, as in trying to get Terraspark?
07:26 <Ali> Cause that's a *yay* and a half
07:26 <Cepheid> Okay, why is it freezing in this house all of a sudden?
07:27 <ConfusionRift> No, as in getting some mobility in here. -_-
07:27 <Cepheid> At first I thought it was just an issue of my blood sugar causing my feet to be a bit on the cold side, but I'm definitely feeling a draft, now.
07:27 <Cepheid> And the floor is most definitely cold.
07:27 <Ali> You should've found Hermies or the Frost boots by now?
07:27 <Ali> Or did you happen to find 50 aglets?
07:27 * Ali grumps, 99% of her worlds never have one.
07:29 <ConfusionRift> Found the anglets, the anklet of wind, the rocket boots, the waterwalkers, but not dash boots at all.
07:29 * Cepheid hunts monsters.
07:29 <ConfusionRift> Oh, and the lucky horseshoe. Suppose that's lucky, since now there's no fall damage.
07:29 * Cepheid goes to poke Magnamalo in the updated demo.
07:29 <Finwe> E.g. a two-dimensional vector space over the rational numbers with the usual dot product as inner product is not Hilbert because you can construct a Cauchy sequence (3,0), (3.1,0), (3.14,0), (3.141,0), (3.1415,0), (3.14159,0), … that does not converge to an element in the space.
07:30 <Cepheid> I apologize for starting this.
07:30 <ConfusionRift> I can make the spectre boots, and the lightning boots... if I ever some dash boots of some kind.
07:31 * Ali gives ConfusionRift fledgling wings, thus negating the need for the horseshoe.
07:31 <Finwe> Always wish for a blessed +2 fireproof pair of speed boots.
07:31 * Cepheid is not going to murder this Magnamalo. Had enough trouble soloing the Tamamitsune as is.
07:31 <Cepheid> One mechanic I'm not yet sold on is the petalace.
07:32 * ConfusionRift facehoofs. "I should've checked the sky chests anywaaaays..."
07:32 <Finwe> Also, a blessed +2 fireproof T-shirt, blessed +2 silver dragon scale mail, blessed rustproof pair of gauntlets of power and so on.
07:32 <ConfusionRift> The wings are there.
07:35 * Ali gives Finwe an obsidian skull, good for 7 seconds of lavabathing....no...that's the lava charm
07:35 <Ali> *Finwe tried to swim in Lava*
07:35 <ConfusionRift> That's for walking on hot blocks, silly. :P
07:35 <Ali> Thus the death thing~
07:36 <Ali> I still struggle to find a lava charm
07:36 <ConfusionRift> I haven't wandered down there. Maybe I should. Just bomb my way to it.
07:36 <Ali> heck, I'm kinda stuck as I don't want to fight a mech boss yet with my summoner, but since I can't kill Queen Slime without horridly failing, I wouldn't know what to get to help.
07:37 <Ali> ConfusionRift, its still random in gold chests
07:37 <Cepheid> ... Wait, you only get 15 minutes to fight Magnamalo?
07:37 <ConfusionRift> 0_0
07:37 <Ali> Unless you can make the fireproof bug net and fish in hell
07:37 <Ali> Odds are just as bad either way
07:38 <Ali> I mean, if you're going for the Terraspark boots, you gotta farm imps anyway.
07:38 <Ali> Good luck getting that rose
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07:40 <RazorSharpFang> Strange how changing the system time causes connections to die
07:41 <Finwe> Sounds like poor programming.
07:41 <Cepheid> More like, expected behaviour, especially if using SSH.
07:41 <Finwe> Timeouts should be measured in absolute time.
07:42 <Cepheid> ConfusionRift: So we got a new blight.
07:42 * ConfusionRift thuds. "Reaaallyyyy?"
07:43 <Cepheid> Hellfireblight. Works like blast blight, only it explodes if any attack lands.
07:43 <Cepheid> So you get inflicted with it, and you gotta remove it before getting hit again.
07:43 <Cepheid> FORTUNATELY, there's a new way to remove blights, apparently.
07:43 <Finwe> Yes, kill the Archdemon.
07:43 <Cepheid> Heh, not that blight.
07:44 <Cepheid> In this case, blights are basically just status ailments. Debuffs.
07:44 <Cepheid> In previous games, they were only removable through eating a Nulberry.
07:44 <Cepheid> Apparently now though, they can be removed by wiredashing around. At least, waterblight and hellfireblight can, anyways.
07:44 * ConfusionRift tries to dodge roll, but explodes as soon as his body touches the ground.
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07:45 <Cepheid> Oh, right.
07:45 <Cepheid> Fireblight can be removed by rolling, as can blastblight.
07:46 <Cepheid> In any case, the methods for these two blights are the ZL+A/X wire movement methods. Not the special attacks, but movement related stuff.
07:47 <Cepheid> Note to self: Practicing a weapon on a monster, that you've never used before, is a bad idea.
07:47 <Cepheid> Arzy just KOed me.
07:49 <ConfusionRift> Yeah, not a good plan to use a weapon one is not familiar with against a monster one is also not familiar with. :P
07:49 <Cepheid> Arzuros, I'm familiar with him. I didn't win on the Magnamalo battle.
07:54 * Cepheid unconsciously carves the corpse despite there being no point in the demo.
07:54 <ConfusionRift> Hey, it's a trophy!
07:54 <Cepheid> Watch players spontaneously find that all the parts they carved during the demo appear in their inventory in the released game.
07:55 <ConfusionRift> That would be awesome, but I doubt it.
07:58 <Cepheid> Hum. Hunting Horn feels interesting.
08:00 <Cepheid> Hard to make a definitive decision about it though, since I'm missing one key ingredient with it.
08:00 <Cepheid> Evade Extender Level 3. >.>
08:01 <Cepheid> Oh my gods people, I got folks on Twitter harassing me about using the Hunting Horn.
08:03 <Cepheid> Basically trying to advise me away from it for "healing." I initially said I use it for support. Geezus christ people.
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08:07 <ConfusionRift> Meh. Elitists.
08:07 <Dapper_Dappled> Is it out yet?
08:07 * Dapper_Dappled chews on Rise.
08:07 <ConfusionRift> Demo update.
08:08 * Dapper_Dappled mehs then. Will continue to wait.
08:08 <ConfusionRift> You can now fight the big kahuna of that game in the demo. :P
08:08 * Dapper_Dappled waits.
08:09 <Cepheid> Yeh, meanwhile I'm going back and forth between World and Generations Ultimate, just to keep things interesting.
08:09 <Cepheid> And the Rise demo.
08:10 * Cepheid drags ConfusionRift along to fight Shaggy.
08:11 * ConfusionRift kills Skeletron. "Nice, what did I- wait. Hold on." Checks the death spot, checks inventory, checks the spot again, then checks his inventory. "Nothing? Really game? NOTHING?! You know what? You're going on timeout."
08:12 <ConfusionRift> I'll play something else. This luck is getting on my nerves.
08:13 <Cepheid> If you decide to play MHWorld or something, tell me. I'll tag along.
08:15 <ConfusionRift> Nah, I need to play something to cool off. Also, kinda forgot what I was doing there. :P
08:15 <ConfusionRift> Oh yeah, still delaying Tigrex and Mr. Punches-a-lot.
08:16 <Cepheid> Heh
08:17 <Cepheid> Man I really hope Shagaru Magala and Gore Magala make an appearance in Rise.
08:18 <ConfusionRift> That would imply another blight, on top of another infection, no?
08:18 <Cepheid> Well, we know Apex status is in there.
08:18 <Cepheid> Which means at the least, either Seregios, or something that takes Seregios' place is in.
08:19 <Finwe> SergiOS sounds like an operating system.
08:20 <Cepheid> Then it's nickname would be SteveOS.
08:20 <Cepheid> Because Seregios got the nickname "Steve" as a moniker created by an actual Capcom employee when referring to it.
08:20 <Finwe> *SeregiOS
08:20 <Finwe> But SteveOS is already reserved for macOS.
08:21 * Dapper_Dappled wants more bird wyverns. We didn't get enough in World and there such cool ones.
08:22 <Cepheid> Quropeco would be nice to see again.
08:22 * Dapper_Dappled wants the Hypno Owl.
08:22 <Cepheid> "Oh god why the hell did he summon a deviljho!?"
08:25 <ConfusionRift> Rathalos: "You idiot! What have you done?!" | Quropeco: "Sorry! The human got me nervous! I was trying to call you, not the big cucumber!"
08:27 <Dapper_Dappled> But can it summon Elder Dragons?
08:27 <ConfusionRift> From what I remember, no. And a good thing. That would suuuuck.
08:29 <Cepheid> No, it couldn't summon Elder Dragons.
08:29 <Cepheid> The worst it could summon was Deviljho.
08:29 <ConfusionRift> [Quropeco calls Nergigante.] Rathalos: "Ooooh, screw that I'm out PEEEAACE!" | Quropeco: "Ah jeez, I think I might be tone deaf."
08:29 <Dapper_Dappled> Not the Bagel Goose?
08:30 * Dapper_Dappled puts Bagel Goose above Deviljho.
08:30 <ConfusionRift> Beetlejuice wasn't in that one. :P
08:30 <Dapper_Dappled> Ah.
08:30 * Dapper_Dappled still maintains Bagel Goose for a name.
08:31 <ConfusionRift> But if it was added in World, I could see that happening. Guuuuuhhhhh...
08:31 <Cepheid> I could see Bazelgeuse back in Rise, especially as a lot of World monsters are appearing in Rise.
08:32 <Cepheid> I'm not sure we'll be seeing the variant, though. I'm under the impression that at the moment, Rise only goes up to High Rank, and not G or Master Rank.
08:33 <Cepheid> Okay, where the hell is this draft coming from?
08:33 <Cepheid> It's friggen freezing in here now.
08:41 <Cepheid> Truth told I know where the draft is coming from, it's just I can't do anything about it.
08:41 <Cepheid> My dad sleeps with his window open in the middle of winter.
08:49 * Finwe does that, too.
08:49 <Finwe> Except when it's too cold.
08:59 <Cepheid> Yeah, but I assume you live on your own, so you can do that if you so desire.
09:00 * Cepheid switches to MH:World. Goes off to assist lowbies with their assigned quests.
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09:14 <Cepheid> "Uh, later?" - Player learning that there's more after Xeno'jiiva.
09:26 <Cepheid> This is a rough comparison of the damage of low/high rank monsters versus end-game.
09:26 <Cepheid> Xeno'jiiva.
09:26 <Cepheid> It was dealing so miniscule amounts of damage, I didn't have to heal. At all.
09:27 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, in this same armor set, Fatalis can kill me in a split second.
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09:48 * Dapper_Dappled appears.
09:50 <Cepheid> Effing finally.
09:50 <Cepheid> I killed Alatreon again.
09:50 * Dapper_Dappled continues not hunting Fatalis.
09:52 <Cepheid> Bah, I just need one Large Elder Dragon Gem for the Alatreon switch-axe.
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10:11 <Cepheid> Ruiner Nergi, let's see if he gives me one.
10:12 <Cepheid> Heeeey lookit that, got one.
10:16 <Cepheid> Half-asleep, cold, and vision is blurring a tad due to exhaustion.
10:16 <Cepheid> Let's go fight Fatalis.
10:17 <Cepheid> There is no way this will go well.
10:17 <Dapper_Dappled> R.I.P Cepheid.
10:17 <Cepheid> Your faith in me is touching.
10:19 * Dapper_Dappled can't beat Fatalis. KNows that way lies death.
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10:20 <ConfusionRift> You can do iiiiittttt!
10:30 * Finwe noms on Dapper_Dappled.
10:30 <Cepheid> Yeeeep, it went about as expected.
10:30 <Cepheid> I need to upgrade this weapon.
10:30 * Dapper_Dappled wiggle horse.
10:31 <Cepheid> Push it to the limits.
10:32 <Cepheid> Extinction Greathorn x5. That is... tempered Ruiner Nergi.
10:32 <Cepheid> Oh, no. Just regular Nergi.
10:36 <Cepheid> However, not right now. I'm feeling exhausted now.
10:38 <Cepheid> https://i.imgur.com/MkcQTkw.png Is it just me, or is it a bit chilly in here?
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11:14 <Finwe> Mr Golden.
11:14 * Finwe doffs his hat.
11:16 <Golden> Yo
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12:04 <Finwe> Miss Angeline.
12:04 * Finwe doffs his hat.
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17:14 * Ali noms on the Schism tail
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17:49 <Lumindia> tastes like pony
17:49 * Ali flops onto Lumindia back and hecks
17:49 * Lumindia hecks back
17:50 * Ali noms Lumindia ears
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17:51 * Lumindia is nommed
17:51 * Lumindia earflicks
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18:50 * Finwe noms on Ali's tail.
18:50 * Ali squeaks at the Finwe
18:50 <Finwe> Lt Pony|46020, Miss Ali, Mr Lumindia.
18:50 <Finwe> o7
18:51 * Pony|46020 wave.
19:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3634 [ https://tinyurl.com/yjza2z2f ]
19:41 * Finwe grumbles.
19:41 <Finwe> I thought I could play the fox game, but what happens? Windows decides that it is good time to start installing cumulative update 03-2021.
19:43 <Finwe> Erm, 2021-03.
20:06 * Starlight_Glimmer installs Arch on Finwe's computer.
20:07 * Finwe already has Arch installed.
20:08 * Finwe boops Starlight_Glimmer.
20:08 <Starlight_Glimmer> Oh well
20:08 <Finwe> 'Tis a dual-boot system.
20:08 * Starlight_Glimmer installs Gentoo instead
20:08 <Finwe> Close to the end of its service, though.
20:08 <Finwe> I'm getting a new one next week.
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20:58 * Finwe achieves the power of autumn.
20:58 * Finwe reassures his fox.
21:04 * Cepheid awakens.
21:06 * Schism snrks at an HP fanfic. Not quite a Peggy Sue, but an older and wiser HP finds himself in an alternate universe where the Girl-Who-Lived is precocious, incredibly good at handling people, and very likely to take over the world in her inimitable Slytherin fashion.
21:08 <Lumindia> ...?
21:08 <Lumindia> Don't you mean "Mary Sue"?
21:08 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3634 [ https://tinyurl.com/yfsw7qfp ]
21:09 <Schism> No, a Peggy Sue fic is where a character goes back in time, typically to a younger body, and uses knowledge of the future to correct all the mistakes they made the first time. Typically, it doesn't work out that well for them.
21:10 <Schism> Like if Twilight were to go back in time with all her knowledge of the friendship lessons she learned. o3o
21:10 <Schism> And immediately started trolling the [yay] out of Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, Discord, etc. etc.
21:10 <Schism> (And also trolling Celestia.)
21:11 <Finwe> Which HP?
21:11 <Schism> Harry Potter in this case. Many such authors go to steps to try and exaggerate the absolute stupidity of much of JKR's world.
21:11 <Finwe> Houses of Parliament sauce? Harry Potter? Howard Phillips?
21:12 <Finwe> Ah, Harry.
21:13 * Schism snickers. "In this one, the goblins -- and Ollivander, because he's that kind of guy -- immediately recognize that the Harry from the alternate universe is the Peverell heir, and things spiral from there."
21:19 <Schism> ... ah. Some dark parts to this.
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22:11 <Dapper_Dappled> Harry Potter should have made pots.
22:12 <Cepheid> Hooo.
22:12 <Cepheid> 30 minutes biking at a high setting.
22:13 <Cepheid> Knee feels a little sore for it, but it's expected.
22:13 <Schism> Not bad at all. o3o
22:13 <Schism> Smol apartment, or else I'd try and pick up an exercise machine of some type or another.
22:14 <Cepheid> I just need to make sure I keep doing it on a daily or bi-daily basis.
22:15 <Cepheid> Hum. So that's how certain silkbind techniques can get off. Some of them provide resistance against knockbacks/interrupting attacks.
22:15 <Cepheid> So even if you get hit, the attack still goes off completely.
22:17 * Dapper_Dappled shall no longer be a millennials. He shall be a Hobbit.
22:18 <Cepheid> What weapon do you use in MH, Dapper_Dappled? And what do you plan to use for Rise?
22:18 <Cepheid> ... Wait, I think you mentioned it in the past. SnS for healing or something like that, right?
22:18 * Dapper_Dappled is a SnS main but feels fairly competent in all things not Hunting Horn.
22:19 * Dapper_Dappled doesn't like having to figure which buffs to bring on top of what element.
22:19 <Cepheid> Heh.
22:19 <Cepheid> Fortunately the hunting horn is somewhat different now.
22:19 <Dapper_Dappled> What changed?
22:19 <Cepheid> Five melodies, three of them applied by pressing the same attack button twice in a row. So X->X, A->A, X+A->X+A. It applies the effect to the party automatically as well, no recital needed.
22:20 <Cepheid> Fourth melody is a self-improvement, applied by a recital-like attack.
22:20 <Cepheid> Then you got a special "melody" that involves using one of each attack, followed by ZR+X to perform a sort of recital that applies ALL melody effects at once.
22:21 <Cepheid> And finally, it has a meter, now. When the meter fills up, you can follow up that recital attack with a special attack that applies a fifth buff.
22:21 <Dapper_Dappled> I might be willing to do that. The whole, do these attacks in this order and hit the recital, but you need to wait to hit the second time to get the good version, was irritating in a fast paced fights.
22:21 <Cepheid> Yeah, that's no longer the case.
22:21 <Cepheid> The buffs are shorter-lived, but easier to re-apply now.
22:21 <Cepheid> Just vary your attacks.
22:21 <Dapper_Dappled> Right.
22:21 <Cepheid> I actually like the Rise HH. Feels different from the World one. Easier to work with.
22:22 <Cepheid> Certainly has that "hefty weapon" appeal to it.
22:22 <Cepheid> We do lose out on the "Slam the HH into the ground and spin it" attack. That seems reserved for the fifth buff only.
22:23 <Cepheid> So only usable when the meter is full.
22:23 * Dapper_Dappled really hopes we get the cool aesthetics of the earlier MH. That was one of my complaints about World.
22:23 <Cepheid> Mmm.
22:23 * Dapper_Dappled liked the Pizza Cutter Charge Blade.
22:23 <Cepheid> I'm suspecting we will.
22:23 <Cepheid> Again, as mentioned in the past, we got the producer who handled all of the previous handheld Monster Hunter games.
22:24 <Cepheid> Not the one from World. In fact, that one has left Capcom, so Rise may be the closest we get to MH:World 2 now.
22:25 <Dapper_Dappled> Why did he leave, he made one of Capcom's most successful games?
22:25 <Cepheid> I don't recall the reason.
22:25 <Cepheid> But yeah, it is a bit of a huge loss for Capcom there.
22:25 <Cepheid> But, following MH games will follow the World style in terms of appearance, combat and the like, so I expect that Rise will fare just as well.
22:26 <Cepheid> As well as future games.
22:26 * Dapper_Dappled 's glad that we aren't getting loading screens between each room in a location.
22:27 * Dapper_Dappled gets knocked back by a monster, has to do two loading screens to get back into the fight.
22:27 <Cepheid> Yeah, that's gone with permanently.
22:27 <Cepheid> It creates some difficulties for the map designers, but it seems to work well regardless.
22:28 <Cepheid> The benefit of the original approach is that you didn't have to model out the connections, so you could create diverse areas to fight in, that would in reality need to be placed quite far from their connecting areas to create proper connections.
22:28 <Cepheid> By removing that, some thought has to be put into each area, and how it connects to it's adjacent areas.
22:28 <Cepheid> On the other hand, no screen transitions.
22:29 <Cepheid> That said, they could have used the old approach, but just implemented faster loading or, indeed, no loading, and just have a quick 1-second fade in/fade out.
22:29 * Ali flops over the Dapper_Dappled
22:30 <Cepheid> I'd have done things in an interesting manner myself, albiet the style I'd go for would require a more futuristic storyline to go with it.
22:30 <Cepheid> The connections are all portals, akin to what's seen in Portal 1 & 2.
22:31 <Cepheid> They connect to diverse areas in a rough region, but the connections are instantaneous.
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22:33 * Dapper_Dappled hugs Ali.
22:33 <Dapper_Dappled> This is a good friend pony.
22:34 <Cepheid> I'm still annoyed they didn't just use the completely romanized name for Mizutsune.
22:34 <Cepheid> "Tama" is such a better nickname for it than "Mizu"
22:35 * Dapper_Dappled loves the soap fox.
22:35 <Cepheid> Funny thing. Mizutsune actually translates to something in English.
22:35 <Dapper_Dappled> It's clean.
22:35 <Cepheid> Mizu - Water. Tsune - "usual state of things"/"always"
22:35 <Dapper_Dappled> Moistyboi.
22:36 <Cepheid> Heh.
22:36 <Cepheid> Meanwhile, Tamamitsune...
22:36 <Cepheid> Tama means "ball; sphere; globe; orb"
22:39 <Cepheid> Mitsune doesn't mean anything, so let's try breaking it up. Mitsu... is "nectar; honey" Ne is "sleep" "root of a plant" "center(of a pimple, etc)" "root of all evil;origin;source;cause;basis" "one's true nature", or "sound;noise;report" or "note(music)"
22:40 <Cepheid> If we break it up into mi and tsune, then mi is "three", or "fruit; nut" "seed" "(in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc" "content; substance", or "sixth sign of chinese zodiac(The Serpent)", or "body" "one's self" "one's place; one's position;" "main part; meat; wood; blade; container"
22:41 <Cepheid> Hmm. Bubble Serpent?
22:42 <Cepheid> In this case, I don't think it's name is meant to mean anything, since it's written in katakana, which means it's just a straight-up name.
22:42 <Cepheid> It's title, however, DOES have meaning.
22:42 <Cepheid> Bubble Fox Wyvern.
22:43 <Cepheid> Well, Bubble Fox Dragon, but we use Wyvern in English for them.
22:44 <Cepheid> I wonder if Kiranico's working on Rise data already. They have access to info in the demo, at the least, to get an idea as to what the data formats are.
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22:46 <Cepheid> It also doesn't help that translation of names is dependent on knowledge of languages around the world.
22:46 <Cepheid> Magnamalo, for example, is derived from Greek and Spanish.
22:49 <Cepheid> Hum. Magnalamo is based off of a ghostly samurai armor.
22:49 <Cepheid> Along with onibi, ghost lights/will 'o wisps.
22:56 * Cepheid goes about getting server machine downstairs set up for OpenMPI.
22:59 <Cepheid> Well that was easy.
23:06 <Cepheid> Hum, got my blood results back already.
23:06 <Cepheid> A1C is 7.5. It's gone down a few points.
23:12 <Cepheid> Rule #1 regarding Fatalis: Never stand in front of it.
23:12 <Cepheid> Ever.
23:14 * Schism hasn't another blood draw for two and a half weeks, because she needs to have an adjusted T/E level and an A1C both. "I just wonder if I'll need to fast."
23:15 <Cepheid> I had mine because I see a diabetic doctor in a week or two.
23:15 <Schism> Diabetic endocrinologist, yeah.
23:15 <Cepheid> Complete event quests... kill one bird wyvern. *Picks Paolumu Lullabies*
23:15 <Schism> And I was like, "Yeah, 3 weeks sounds like a good time frame for my hormones to see how things are progressing."
23:16 <Schism> I expect minor changes, which is good.
23:17 <Schism> (Imagine if I had to deal with 6mg estrogen every day and an associated amount of T-blockers, all of a sudden, while dealing with customers.)
23:17 <Schism> Cepheid: Do you hate Paulumu?
23:17 <Schism> Paolumu*
23:18 <Cepheid> Kinda busy!
23:25 <Cepheid> Guh.
23:25 <Cepheid> Danged thing hits like a truck.
23:26 <Cepheid> It's flail wildly and dash forward attack does enough damage to me with 1,200 defense to KO me.
23:26 <Cepheid> From full health.
23:26 <Cepheid> To answer your question, yes.
23:27 <Cepheid> That was not a bird wyvern. What.
23:28 <Cepheid> Ye know, I've made it as far as Alatreon and Fatalis, and indeed, killed one of the two.
23:29 <Cepheid> But based on commentary from other players, I'm not very good.
23:47 <Cepheid> Most of the commentary is in the form of people who use a DPS monitor.
23:47 <Cepheid> Basically, my DPS isn't very good.
23:57 * Dapper_Dappled sees mention of T-Blockers. Wishes he was brave enough to risk his job to get them.
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