IRC log for #sporewiki on 20150520

00:01.21TechnobliteratorThe war droid
00:02.03Technobliteratorwtf does this game want me to do to beat it
00:02.42MonetOh yeah that thing's an ass
00:03.10MonetTrying to remember I think there might have been a console that can make it weaker.
00:03.28MonetNot certain though. If not, just toss grenades at it.
00:05.20TekHatesWikiaWormy_: 800+ comments so far and at best I've seen a single somewhat positive one
00:06.05Wormy_Goes to show Wikia's replies are false
00:07.35TekHatesWikiaUsers, Wiki admins, it's not like it's a small specific group. This is virtually everybody from most devices and screensizes
00:07.46Wormy_yep
00:08.14Wormy_Some replies are like "We are on it!"
00:11.26TechnobliteratorDon't hold your breath
00:11.43TechnobliteratorThey didn't listen when they introduced Oasis, I doubt they'll listen now
00:12.03TekHatesWikiaIt looks mostly decent on my secondary 1366x768 screen, but my laptop's 1920x1080 screen has way too much empty space
00:12.51Wormy_I've switched to monobook.  I think it echos my wiki philosophy anyway
00:12.55TekHatesWikiaOh god, and I just noticed the text
00:13.19TekHatesWikiaCongratulations wikia, I'm now headdesking
00:13.30Wormy_The one thing I did like was Wikia's highlighted code
00:13.36Aeohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Aeoneonatrix/Religion#Other_Religions New Section. Monet Hachiman TekHatesWikia thoughts?
00:16.04TekHatesWikiaThe Sporewiki UI could use some optimizations for monobook but it actually isn't too bad
00:16.48TekHatesWikiaO.o I switched to monobook and there was a notification about Darkspore being announced
00:17.36TekHatesWikiaAlso an article of the week and a post from 2010. XD
00:18.07Technobliteratoryep
00:18.15Technobliteratorabandoned skin is abandoner
00:18.22TechnobliteratorAbandoned*
00:18.50TekHatesWikiaMonobook also doesn't have links to things like recent pictures
00:19.30MonetAeo: "The Empire imposes no legal penalty for worship of non-cleanserist gods so long as they are not real and malicious entities"            Chrisitan - But...Jesus is real.
00:19.50Technobliteratoroh, now I have to kill some Sith Governor
00:20.06TekHatesWikiaYeah... that's a very flawed policy
00:20.07MonetYou "may" recognise him
00:20.26Technobliteratorhow do I fight this guy?
00:20.42MonetBastilla
00:21.28Technobliteratoryeah, I have her
00:21.59AeoMonet: Well, the Cleanser knows better than the Christian. The Cleanser also probably lets the Christian think that it's because Jesus is non-malicious that he lets it pass.
00:22.21TekHatesWikiaI'm not entirely sure I understand
00:22.26DrodoEmpire^
00:22.32DrodoEmpireWell...
00:23.08HachimanI am of the mindset that Jesus was a real individual
00:23.09MonetTekHatesWikia: Basically Cleanser, being the head of state and the one who passes the laws, is ultimate authority o nthe mater because he's a god.
00:23.13HachimanJust not a miracle-worker
00:23.26TekHatesWikiaHachiman: same.
00:23.34AeoGovernments do not wait for the universal agreement of their populace before they use a piece of demonstrably true information. Countries with 1 or more climate denialist citizens have passed laws to combat climate change.
00:24.00DrodoEmpireHachi: He was probably a real, historical, individual, yes. Miracles are a little nutty though
00:24.06TekHatesWikia^
00:24.24AeoI meant real in the sense of being a God. I agree that he existed.
00:25.00HachimanAeo: What about primitive cultures that support and value worship of physical individuals as "gods"?
00:25.50HachimanOh wait you just answered my question
00:25.56HachimanRedact that
00:26.18MonetI think the main reason this policy works in the Aeoneonatrix Empire is because parliament can simply ask Cleanser for verification.
00:27.04TekHatesWikiaSo doesn't this policy effectively only allow you to practice non-cleanserist religions if you're willing to admit it's false?
00:27.12AeoHachiman: Yeah, I should amend that. The point of the rule is the fact that, at least in my fiction, it's clear that worship makes an essence-being more powerful, so it is not permitted that one give power to a wicked immortal.
00:28.00MonetTekHatesWikia: Sounds like it.
00:28.31MonetOr you're only allowed to pracice a non-cleanserist religion that the government knows is false.
00:28.40AeoTekHatesWikia: I'll explain it this way. A problem that Christian missionaries face is that when they try to convert people from Eastern polytheistic religions, they end up adding Jesus to their pantheon and doing nothing else. I know a guy who has personally met Christian polytheists who worship their ancestral pagan gods as well as the Christian one.
00:28.48MonetI guess they could lie to the non-cleanserists
00:29.52MonetAeo: Further east, in China and Japan, I suppose missionaries have the issue that locals will adopt christian customs but also mix them with Buddhist, Shinto and Taoist customs.
00:30.09TekHatesWikiaIt's a bit of a catch-22 for non-cleanserists, either they must admit their god isn't real, or face penalties by their government
00:30.16HachimanThis is why Hachiman does not desire a cult; too much bother with the religious aspect of it all when he is not a religious person in the first place hur
00:30.38HachimanWell I mean he does effectively serve a higher power but he does not worship it
00:30.41Wormy_I learned that the reason many Germanic tribes adopted Christianity was they expected the Christian God would give them more power in battle, so still had pagan attitudes.
00:31.12DrodoEmpireWormy: Interesting
00:31.16AeoThey don't have to admit their god isn't real. They can believe in their god so long as they take the rite of dedication. If you believe in 20 gods, you don't have to say that they're not real to discover and worship a 21st.
00:32.11AeoThe Cleanser does not demand monolotry. In fact, he will command his followers to worship other Patrons when they need assistance to complete a difficult task.
00:32.40AeoAny Aeoneonatrix, including all of the named ones, will have worshiped all 9 current patrons.
00:32.59AeoThe Cleanser more than the others, but all 9 at some point in their lives.
00:33.00DrodoEmpireExcept the way I know of it is that the Aeos tend to rather forcefully convert peoples. :L I got the impression that syncretism. :p
00:33.03MonetKelsos - The Inquisition seriously needs to start sending operatives over there
00:33.12DrodoEmpire*syncretism wasn't at all common because of that
00:34.12AeoMonet: They are welcome. The inquisition would be a very welcome addition to I am Enligtenment. Two Empires run by gods, both of which brainwash their citizenry and one of which teleported from another galaxy.
00:34.16Wormy_Does the Cleanser think he is of divinity?
00:34.34HachimanFor Hachiman, the true power one should rely upon is that of the self hur
00:34.45MonetSarec - Aye
00:35.22AeoWormy_ What exactly do you mean? He considers himself a god. He'd admit that someone could define the word "god" in a way that doesn't include him, but thinks definitions that do are more useful.
00:35.26Wormy_And by that, of supernatural / supervenint power or moral right.
00:35.47AeoWell, he does have supernatural powers, and thinks he's in the moral right.
00:36.27Wormy_The thing is he lives in a reality with lots of such beings
00:36.45AeoDrodoEmpire: To the Aeoneonatrix, getting someone to take the rite is conversion. They care not for your other gods, which your children won't believe in anyway because they'll be more likely to believe the Cleanser that they're not real.
00:36.50Wormy_How does he see himself in relation to those?
00:37.04AeoThose are other gods.
00:37.35AeoHe is on the same level as them in terms of power, but he is the most morally pure of them all, with all others failing, some only slightly, some moreso, some being evil.
00:37.54DrodoEmpireHold up a sec
00:38.22DrodoEmpireHow exactly are you allowed to have a god character? :p I thought we were supposed to hold off on those from now on.
00:38.22Wormy_And would he accept that he may not be able to overwhelm the lot of them?
00:38.45Wormy_Because he also lives in a reality where other such beings have fell to mortals
00:38.58MonetDrodoEmpire: Cleanser's an ascended being
00:39.20HachimanI find it funny that Hachiman will have attained the status of a powerful Essential by the 2800s and one of the first things he is likely going to do once he finds that he now controls his own path is apply for academic education to get a degree or something
00:39.37AeoDrodo: He's nothing that Iovera isn't. The difference is that he uses a nomenclature in which he is a god, and Iovera is too.
00:39.45TekHatesWikiaDrodoEmpire: I think that rule refers more to reality-level gods rather than normal asended
00:40.42AeoTechnically, he is a 'Nar, but there are loads of those. Actually, I could see Aeoneonatrix worshiping Serec, or even Tyraz.
00:41.20HachimanI would hold off on using "Nar" to term Cleanser given he does not inhibit a lot of the traits typical of the Nars
00:42.03MonetHachiman: I thikn this was discussed before and in a way he is I think. But the Isio'Nar see him as bigheaded and the Mali'Nar see ihm as a noob
00:42.09AeoImpy and I have agreed that the League are.
00:42.30HachimanFair enough
00:44.07MonetNow I'm curious what these missing traits are
00:44.25HachimanA general understanding of neutrality and open-mindedness
00:46.02HachimanWhile the understanding of the self grants the individual their power much of the time, it is the understanding of the other that grants the individual the responsibility to wield their power properly and with consideration
00:46.06AeoThat's precisely the beef the League had. They split from the main Isio'Nar because they were too inactive and restrictive. They thought that they could do more good not bothering to conceal themselves.
00:46.50HachimanEffectively this cycles back into the "with great power" philosophy
00:47.36AeoJudge - Yep. In Isio'Land, with great power comes the great responsibility to sit on your ass and do nothing with it.
00:48.06MonetSarec - Because sometimes with great power comes great ego.
00:48.44Wormy_Emperor Wormulus - heh
00:49.04AeoJudge - 'Snot my fault I'm better than you.
00:49.23Wormy_I believe I haven't emphasised enough Wormulus is an ascended being
00:49.30MonetSarec - You just proved me right you know.
00:49.32HachimanWormulus is ascended?
00:50.28Wormy_Yes, he is powerful enough to have survived the purge in the March of the Apocalypse
00:50.38Wormy_He took full the brunt
00:50.38*** join/#sporewiki AdmiralPanda (7cba73a6@gateway/web/freenode/ip.124.186.115.166)
00:50.39HachimanHuh fair enough
00:50.43HachimanHai Panda
00:51.10Wormy_He is ascended with elemental energy though, rather than something too fancy
00:51.16TekHatesWikiaHello
00:51.20AdmiralPandawhat did I miss
00:51.24HachimanElemental energy is still potent and versatile
00:51.32AdmiralPandalol why do you hate wikia Tek?
00:51.32HachimanNot much really
00:51.43MonetAdmiralPanda: Look at the site
00:51.47AeoJudge - What point was that? That I think I'm better than you? I also think water is wet, punk.
00:51.57HachimanCheck out the new skin update and if you cannot see it, F5 it
00:52.26HachimanThey shifted the text to size 16 font and made the site narrower
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00:52.33MonetSarec - Resorting to name-callign already?
00:52.37MonetHello
00:52.40AdmiralPandalooks the same to me actually
00:52.43GD12Hello
00:52.52HachimanDesktop or laptop?
00:52.54Monethttp://spacer176.deviantart.com/art/Draconis-Rework-2015-534137343 also drew this.
00:53.06Wormy_There's a bloodline in the Wormulus ancestry where each leader lives longer and longer, with more and more power
00:53.06AdmiralPandalaptop currently, looked in both Safari and Chrome
00:53.12HachimanYeah try desktop
00:53.19Wormy_There is no reason it stops at Wormulus II
00:53.23HachimanMonet: wheres da peenis
00:53.38MonetDraconis - INSIDE!
00:53.51AeoHachiman: In my mouth... I wish.
00:54.01HachimanJokes aside that is a very nice render of the Draconis
00:54.17MonetAeo: Yeah you probably *don't* want a Draconis 'hemipene i nyour mouth.
00:54.33AeoWait, we were talking about a Draconis. Nevermind.
00:55.00Wormy_That might rupture your neck vertebrae
00:55.13MonetHachiman: that protrusion is the bionics idea I was talking about earler.
00:55.22Monetprotrusion behind his shoulder*
00:55.25GD12Monet : nice!
00:55.34AeoI only beej nice people.
00:55.38GD12whats the protrusion?
00:56.21MonetGD12: Bionics that opens up and unfolds into a full-sized wing
00:56.29GD12Ooh
00:56.31AeoWormy_ Though I think you underestimate the enginuity of horny people. If a human and a Draconis wanted to, they'd find a way.
00:56.31GD12Nice
00:56.51HachimanA human should not penetrate a Draconis' cloaca
00:56.56HachimanThey piss and shit from there
00:57.18AdmiralPandathere are humans into anal, just saying
00:57.41Wormy_.Aeo:  Very carefully.
00:57.46TekHatesWikiaThis conversation took an odd turn.
00:58.28HachimanAye let us not have the IRC befall debauchery once again
00:58.36HachimanIt is only acceptable and funny when I do it
00:58.38AeoI actually had in mind something more along the lines of just licking it and not taking it inside your mouth, perhaps while stroking it or something.
00:58.47MonetActually I think I considered a hole below where the belly-button would be on a human that acted as the vagina.
00:58.52TekHatesWikia...
00:58.55HachimanI SAID
00:58.58MonetI'll stop now lol
00:59.10GD12y'all need jesus
00:59.19DrodoEmpire^
01:00.02Wormy_But not up your bum
01:00.15TekHatesWikiaI'm not sure what's worse, the discussion of interspecies alien intercourse, or the fact we've worked out the logistics of it already.
01:00.21DrodoEmpirehur
01:00.58HachimanThat actually reminds me, I wanted to bring up a subject not outright pertaining to interspecies alien intercourse but something affiliated and philosophical
01:01.31GD12so
01:01.39GD12the ethics of interspecies alien intercourse?
01:02.01GD12as in would there be honor killings if a human tried to fist a Draconis' cloaca
01:02.04HachimanWould the idea of romantic relationships between otherwise alien species be morally and ethically acceptable for higher tier societies and be comparable to inter-ethnic romance in our current age
01:02.29AdmiralPandaFor the Fordanta definately
01:02.55GD12Well one must take into consideration that love probably means different things and happens differently for all of the races in volved
01:03.02GD12*love/relationships
01:03.29GD12Furthermore, it might be possible that in a species' sexuality they may biologically not be able to form attraction to other species
01:03.48GD12e.g. Frogs never attempt to mate with sharks
01:03.51HachimanThat is true but for the most part a vast majority of the species depicted in the Fictionverse follow a universal spiritual and philosophical understanding of love or something close to it
01:04.00MonetDraconis male - None of you ladies smell right, sorry.
01:04.21GD12Working under that assumption possible
01:04.32GD12Though keep in mind that lots of people in the ficverse re more xenophobic than irl
01:04.39AeoI would say it's definitely acceptable to have sex with an alien, however that worked. Never. Underestimate. Horny. People.
01:04.48GD12Its probably viewed closer to interrace relationships in say Victorian england
01:04.50GD12than now
01:04.54AdmiralPandawe're not talking about sex, we're talking about relationships
01:05.07AeoWell, that's acceptable too.
01:05.38AeoOne thing to keep in mind is that asexual people who do not experience sexual attraction will still have sex because it makes their partner happy.
01:05.38GD12I think given that a lot societies in the Gig are more traditional and closed than cosmopolitan there are certainly more taboos on average
01:06.06DrodoEmpireDrodo, considering how close-knit their families are, may not be totally okay with interspecies relationships. :p What family is that alien from? What connections does that alien family have? Where is that alien's family? Does it understand the concept of family?
01:06.08AeoAnd I don't mean that in an apeasement way. If you love someone, you want them to be happy.
01:06.09DrodoEmpireDepends a lot though
01:06.45GD12It probably has much more to do with the culture the alien is raised in rather than its genetic makeup
01:06.49Wormy_The Civilisation has projects deeper than sexual intercourse, the melding of minds, experience and feeling
01:07.01AeoMonet: You can get those pheromones bottles, remember?
01:07.25DrodoEmpireSeeing as marriages are often a political action as well; Binding two houses together. It doesn't work out when one family is pretty loose or doesn't agree with the whole political marriage idea, or if the alien has no family to speak of.
01:07.33GD12Yeah I've heard of those pheremone bottles
01:07.46Monethehehehe
01:07.54GD12I think marriages are only politcal actions amongst the elite of society
01:08.03GD12I think its much more predicated on other things for most others
01:08.34AeoSo, if I wanted to, I could buy a bottle, spray it on myself, and have a very special hug of the sort I mentioned earlier... though if the pheramone was too strong, I would be date raping the Draconis in question.
01:08.38DrodoEmpireGD: This is Drodo we're talking about. No only do an aristocracy exist but families and clans in general are *extremely* tight-knit and important in Drodo politics
01:08.52DrodoEmpireAnd inter-clan politics, and whatnot
01:09.11MonetAeo: Might be more the other way around
01:09.30GD12rite i c, so everybody is in a clan?
01:09.38MonetBut again, not entirely talking about nintercourse
01:09.45MonetSo stop taking it to sex for now
01:09.50DrodoEmpireAlmost every Drodo had a family or is in a clan, yeah/
01:09.56DrodoEmpireThese families tend to be gigantic
01:10.08GD12Right so it makes sense that marriages would be political for essentially all of them
01:10.13DrodoEmpireAnd one of, if not *the*, primary influence on a Drodo
01:10.55Wormy_Goodbye.
01:11.07GD12bai
01:11.10AeoWell, in terms of romance, people are after personalities first and foremost, so any species that can exist in the same atmosphere and such can and will form romantic relationships. Gender is social, so romantic orientation will proceed according to how people think of their partners.
01:11.17AdmiralPandaFordanta don't do the whole marriage thing, in fact most of them don't really know their family with the exception of their bloodline just because it's not important to them
01:11.50GD12I think things like a Human - (not too posh) alien race relationship would be more workable than say something like a Human - (don't want to spoil my blood with inferior genes) alien relationship
01:12.15AeoWell yeah... obviously.
01:12.30GD12ON your romance comment, I think people are after general compatibility first
01:12.42MonetMaybe Drodo could take solace i nthat without science, there can be no pollution of bloodlines
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02:34.22AeoAeon - Why do you confine them to subcitizenship if not because you hate them?
02:34.27Charles_Murray(It would only work in conjunction with growing popular support inside the DI)
02:34.43DrodoEmpire_Drodo - You enslave and oppress people, and when you don't do that you kill and rape them all, and burn and pillage their cities.
02:34.45Charles_Murray(The idea would be to raise awareness about it by making a fuss)
02:34.56DrodoEmpire_Eh true
02:34.58MonetDraconis - Because we'l like to preserve their identities.
02:35.14DrodoEmpire_Drodo - If you wanted to do that you wouldn't invade at all
02:35.14AeoAeon - Why don't you give them full citizenship instead?
02:35.22DrodoEmpire_Drodo - And you certainly wouldn't disperse them
02:35.33MonetDraconis - Because then the identities they came in with might be lost.
02:35.50AeoAeon - ... Seriously?
02:36.04MonetDraconis - Hello!! Spires of gold and glass?
02:36.08AeoAeon - You think that enslaving them will make their culture... more likely to be preserved?
02:36.30MonetDraconis - Yes.
02:37.11MonetDraconis - We establish enclaves that serve as territory they can develop and profilerate in. SOme enclaves have become quite prosperous and beautiful with time and progress.
02:37.38AeoAeon - I am sorry, my friend. I misjudged you entirely. I thought you were a hateful, spite-filled pile of excrement who could do well with a big ole knife in your heart, but you are not like that at all.
02:37.56MonetDraconis - Are you going to call me worse?
02:38.03DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Hmm... Because this worked out well with native reservations, yes?
02:38.29DrodoEmpire_Drodo - But now with the added facet that they're forced to work
02:38.52MonetDraconis - No more forced by law than any full citizen.
02:39.05AeoAeon - In reality, you are simply the most brainless simpleton in the gigaquadrant. I'll let you decide if that's worse or not.
02:39.27MonetDraconis - A simple "yes" would have been more eloquent.
02:39.49AeoAeon - And yet lacking in necessary detail.
02:40.02MonetDraconis - And less offensive.
02:40.43Monet(the Aeon just broke a big rule that has rarely been broken in canon - Never call Draconis morons)
02:40.52DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Considering you're the same people who destroy entire cultures and peoples for looking at you the wrong way, and forcing the rest to work as slaves. You have little right to say what is and isn't offensive.
02:40.58Comrade_VinnyAlgolurn - I personally don't discriminate any alien species. As long as they have 2 hand for working ^^
02:41.14AeoAeon - I give as many shits about your feelings as there have been sla-- oopes, subcitizens in the entire 200,000 year history of the DI who have been freed.
02:41.37Knight_AlienEldarisian's: Why not kill the rest?
02:41.43MonetDraconis - That's a lot of shit to give.
02:41.49DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Ha ha! You're a moron! (There I did it! Bite me asshole! >:3)
02:42.05AeoAeon - Unless monet has retconned that, it's 0.
02:42.33Monet(it happens lol)
02:43.02Aeo(I was to understand only the Paragon could do it, not even the sub in question's owner.)
02:43.20Monet(probably more outdated info)
02:43.53MonetDraconis - And I thought I said that they're as pressured to work as any full citizen of the Imperium?
02:44.44AeoAeon - And that was a lie... or else another ret-con, as your writer has told me that you can beat them as long as it's for an actual offense and they aren't hospitalized.
02:45.33MonetDraconis - That would be classified as assault by Domestic Security so no I can't.
02:45.58AeoAeon - So... how do you arrange that they work?
02:46.26MonetDraconis - Contracts.
02:46.42AeoAeon - Which they sign consentually?
02:46.47MonetDraconis - Yes.
02:47.05DrodoEmpire_Drodo - So what's the point of having a sub-class, exactly?
02:47.09AeoAeon - Do they have to work for you as their owner?
02:47.12DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Seems totally unnecessary.
02:47.14MonetDraconis - That and there's always a group who dedicate themselves to their enclave's community.
02:47.52AeoAeon - So, basically, it's a group of employees with no power because they either work for you or starve.
02:48.20MonetDraconis - These groups form themselves.
02:48.23AdmiralPandaFordanta - Work or starve? That's basically how most societies function, to be honest.
02:48.53AeoAeon - *For you* being operative, mister Fordanta.
02:49.31MonetDraconis - As I said, the sub-citizen system is largely for the preservation of cultural identity in societies that .the Imperial Government declares war on.
02:49.50DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Yeah, right.
02:50.20MonetDraconis - And here I thought you were beginnign ot understand
02:50.21AeoAeon - Still not buying it. Why not just let them live with the same legal rights as you?
02:50.24DrodoEmpire_Drodo - And if I were to believe that, I suppose a Nigerian Prince also has a couple million ready to transfer to my bank account?
02:50.56AdmiralPandaFordanta - And that changes what exactly? Clearly their civilisation as a whole has failed, most likely due to improper conduct of their duties, and they should be grateful that the Imperium has even allowed them to continue to live let alone retain their culture.
02:51.25DrodoEmpire_Drodo - No, they didn't *fail*, they were attacked by an imperialist power.
02:51.36MonetDraconis - How is it only the Fordanta gets it?
02:51.59AeoAeon - I am going to rape your children. You should be thankful I don't murder them too.
02:52.05DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Because they seem to have a similar air of arrogance you do.
02:52.18DrodoEmpire_Drodo - Its nonsense not to give them equal rights. It totally arbitary not to.
02:52.34AeoAeon - And they're amoral genocidal maniacs... if I'm not mistaken.
02:52.44AdmiralPandaFordanta - In Fordan society the place of the individual is determined solely by their contribution to society.
02:53.01AeoAeon - Now, answer my fucking question. Why can't you let them live as your equals?
02:53.05MonetDraconis - The Imperial government makes it a point of honour that the only powers deserved of our guns are those who slight up.
02:53.08AdmiralPandaFordanta - And the reason we favour genocidal tactics is history has demonstrated that an enemy left alive is an enemy waiting to strike again.
02:53.17DrodoEmpire_Drodo - ...And all people should have an equal opportunity to prove themselves worthy to society. So why arbitrarily put some behind with legal restrictions?
02:53.34AeoAeon - Now, answer my fucking question. Why can't you let them live as your equals? I'm not going to say anything else until you do.
02:53.46DrodoEmpire_Anyway I need to do.
02:53.46MonetDraconis - GOod.
02:53.49DrodoEmpire_*go
02:54.01AeoAeon - Why can't you let them live as your equals?
02:54.33AdmiralPandaFordanta - As I was saying before the Aeon insulted our society, if their culture had earned the ire of the Draconis, it is entirely the fault of the culture that first they incurred the wrath of said people, and secondly that they failed to sustain themselves.
02:56.40AdmiralPandaFordanta - Perhaps I should remind those present that at one point the Fordanta and Draconis nearly came to blows, but through careful diplomacy and a measured approach, such war was avoided. The Draconis are not unreasonable, though like our own their enemies often are.
02:57.37MonetDraconis - Exactly. We can be reasonable, and the Imperium is of suc an extent that it can provide for itself, no need for war really but some aliens don't seem to get that.
02:57.45AeoAeon - The fact that you refuse to answer my question tells me that you are either afraid to admit the real reason or do not know of one. Now, I am going to go spend some time with the live-in servants I do not oppress. Good day sir.
02:57.53Aeo(brb dinner.)
02:58.03AdmiralPandaFordanta - As to why such individuals should be held at a lesser social state, it is simply because they ARE at a lesser social state. The Draconis have no obligation to uplift those who interfere with galactic conduct, and as I said they should be grateful that they have been given a stay of execution.
02:58.06MonetDraconis - Then there's the empires that hire pirates as proxy hoping to take the Imperium's wealth.
02:59.03MonetDraconis - The alien does not opperss except for anyone who lives in his empire and isn't "dedicated" to his god.
03:00.13AdmiralPandaFordanta - Effort dedicated to anything other than the betterment of the society is effort wasted.
03:00.49MonetDraconis - Betterment in their empire's case being their god's servants.
03:02.59MonetDraconis - The only jsutification the alien has given is there is no formal legislation expressley allowing or forbidding this kind of opperssion.
03:08.58AdmiralPandaFordanta - Which is no justification because as he stated, their biology makes upward mobility impossible- why legislate what cannot happen?
03:09.08AeoAeon - Come look at Podenka treatment. They are not oppressed.
03:10.26MonetDraconis - Being given fewer rights o nthe grounds of religious belief is oppression.
03:11.14AeoAeon - Podenka are not undedicated.
03:11.16AdmiralPandaFordanta - The humans define "oppression" as burdensome, cruel or unjust exercising of authority by one party on another. Preventing a creature's upward mobility due to religion or biology is certainly unjust.
03:11.38MonetDraconis - All Podenka? What about any Podenka who refuse?
03:12.54AeoAeon - Even though we rescued them from the Drakodominatus only a few decades ago, generations have passed. Their culture is as religious as ours.
03:13.37MonetDraconis - And I take it their religuous beliefs have become in-line with yours?
03:14.05MonetDraconis - I know that sort of thing doesn't happen without some manner of influence or encouragement.
03:14.58AeoAeon - It happens when you show a tribal society your spaceship and your talking god.
03:16.09MonetDraconis - And that is exactly why the IMperium prefer to leave tribal cultures be. Congratulations, for now you have no way of knowing how the Podenka would have developed had you not been so careless.
03:17.06AeoAeon - But where the undedicated are concerned, explain why a person of sound character such that they should be allowed to vote, lead, or accumulate wealth would refuse dedication despite living in the AE where it is ubiquitous. Also, I do know how. They would have been biodroned by the tyranny who was conquering them when we swooped in and saved them.
03:17.10MonetDraconis - You may justify your actions by rescuing the mfro mthe Drakodminatus but you could have simply let them be, perhaps protected them fro mafar.
03:18.07MonetDraconis - The Podenka no longer have a distinct identity.
03:18.16AeoAeon - Their planet was lost. Only the people were rescued.
03:18.39MonetDraconis - Settle them on another suitable world, the galaxy is a big place
03:19.16AeoAeon - Shouldn't they at least have a say as to where they want to be located?
03:20.32MonetDraconis - THey can have a choice, but what do tribals know of the interconenctivity of planets that permits a star system to be life-bearing.
03:22.23AeoAeon - I don't understand how your question is relevant. Also, please answer my question from a second ago.
03:22.45MonetDraconis - I just did.
03:22.51AeoAeon - Explain why a person of sound character such that they should be allowed to vote, lead, or accumulate wealth would refuse dedication despite living in the AE where it is ubiquitous.
03:23.04AeoAeon - That was the question I meant.
03:23.53AdmiralPandaFordanta - Their own personal beliefs.
03:24.14MonetDraconis - Perhaps it conflicts with their philosophies? We *are* talking about offering an individual's own eternal soul after all. Some might protest at such a bargain.
03:25.04MonetDraconis - Essentially your arguemnt boils down to "Why would a sound person reguse? Everyone else does it"
03:25.10Monetrefuse*
03:25.39AdmiralPandaFordanta - Fordanta who have attained citizenship in the Draconid Imperium does not bend his knee to Drakon (forgot how to spell it) simply because Draconis do, he remains a Fordanta in all things.
03:26.02Monet(you got it right)
03:26.43AeoAeon - What beliefs would a person who was sound hold mutually exclusive with selling your soul?
03:27.15MonetDraconis - Oh how naive you are of other cultures.
03:27.30AdmiralPandaFordanta - That is so piteously naive.
03:27.37MonetDraconis - If these undedicated are as free as you say, they can always emigrate.
03:27.37AdmiralPandaFordanta - Dammit ninja'd
03:27.54AeoAeon - You're right. They can.
03:28.06MonetDraconis - Or do you add soem kind of difficulty t oit?
03:28.54AdmiralPandaFordanta - I note in your own publicly available records that the undedicated face social difficulties due to having not undertaken the rite. How you claim moral ground against the Empire, which views its citizens purely based on their merit and contribution to society is beyond me.
03:29.33AdmiralPandaFordanta - Furthermore, your society denies these undedicated members a portion of their due rewards for their duty simply because they choose not to undergo the rite- under Fordan law this is unforgivable.
03:30.13AeoMonet: That is a very good point. I do not know how they handle such immigration. I suspect they'd put a high tax on inter-national flights for the undedicated. Like, unaffordably high, given the soul tax.
03:31.14AeoAeon - If they can afford to leave from a money standpoint, they can. Now, calling me naive does not actually answer my question as to what sound beliefs would prevent one from taking the rite.
03:32.32AdmiralPandaFordanta - The belief that the spark of life- the closest equivalent the Fordanta have to a soul- is an inherent belonging of the being and that only they may decide its course- selling it is akin to becoming worse than a slave to the Fordanta
03:33.18AdmiralPandaFordanta - And before you suggest that selling it might be an example of deciding its course, this is a crucial misunderstanding as to do so would allow another to force upon said spark their own will.
03:33.53AeoAeon - Dedication is not enslavement at all. Here's an article about that. http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:PGPS/Dedication_is_not_Enslavement
03:34.04AdmiralPandaFordanta - To the Fordanta it is.
03:34.09MonetDraconis - So what you suggest is that i nessence, the Aeoneonatrix are an entire empire of slaves to a nigh -mperceptable master kept who are all kept in a gilded cage.
03:34.32Monetthat is classified as an empire*
03:34.48AeoAeon - HA! Hey, Cleanser, this Draconis thinks you're nigh-imperceptable.
03:35.01AdmiralPandaFordanta - You have proven your own naivety, as you see only your own perspective- your lack of empathy to others is clear and evident by your own admission.
03:35.02AeoCleanser - Lol. I talk to this boy every day.
03:35.30MonetDraconis - Then why is this i the first time I have heard his voice despite living for 300 years?
03:36.11AeoAeon - I've had more conversations with him than with anyone. As for lacking empathy, I've never killed or enslaved anyone. As for that question, Draconis, because he had no reason to talk to you.
03:36.27AdmiralPandaOut of curiosity, is the Aeon's link to the Cleanser in any way associated with essence?
03:36.41AeoAP: Yes.
03:36.42MonetPresumably
03:36.56AeoPresumably any immortal could talk with any mortal like they do.
03:37.01AdmiralPandaftw*
03:37.04AdmiralPandaFordanta - Hey look, I can cut off your access to him just by walking up to you! Blanks few!
03:37.32AdmiralPandalittle more complicated than that but Fordanta, like other essence-blank races, can disrupt essence just by proximity :P
03:38.05AeoAeon - It's based on his powers, not mine, and good luck disrupting those even if you're giving him a hug.
03:38.46MonetDraconis - Your lack of lack empathy manifests in not understanding beyond your own cultural values, in this case, not realising that there are cultural values i nthe universe that see the selling of one's soul to anyone as abhorrent.
03:38.55Monetyour lack of empathy manifests*
03:39.54AeoAeon - Anyone who just randomly rejects that is not sound. It's the same type of person who would abolish organ donation upon death just because you can't say no, or let anti-vaccers leave their children vulnurable to dissease.
03:40.24AdmiralPandaFordanta - There is no random rejection here, only a measured and honest refusal of something that is abhorrent to their culture.
03:40.49AdmiralPandaFordanta - "Random" would be if I were to flip a fair coin, heads meaning I dedicate, tails meaning I don't.
03:40.50Aeo(Organ donation is compulsary in the AE. No matter how much you kick and scream, you can't not give them up when you die.)
03:41.19MonetDraconis - Not everyone wants to be gutted for their organs either.
03:41.31AeoAeon - I mean random less literally than that. I should have said arbitrarily.
03:41.46MonetDraconis - Besides, while practical, organ extraction is a primitive solution.
03:42.15AeoAeon - Because letting people die because they can't get transplants they mean is a much saner alternative to compulsory organ donation.
03:42.23AdmiralPandaFordanta - Arbitrary is defined as being chosen based on randomness or personal whim. Decisions based on cultural values are not arbitrary decisions.
03:42.26MonetDraconis - In the Imperium it is much mroe practical to assemble genetically-compatable organs using a 3D printer.
03:42.40AdmiralPandaFordanta - Organ donation is obsolete due to medical science.
03:43.08MonetDraconis - Less mess and much lower chance of rejection.
03:44.13AeoAeon - I was speaking of when I was younger and we didn't have that technology. I didn't make myself clear. My bad.
03:44.39MonetDraconis - In other words you were using an outdated example.
03:44.53AeoAeon - Let me rephrase my question. What sound cultural value would soul-selling contradict?
03:45.13MonetDraconis - The FOrdanta did answer that question
03:45.15AeoAeon - My vaccine example was modern.
03:45.17AdmiralPandaFordanta - That of the Fordanta.
03:45.31AdmiralPandaFordanta - The ideal that each person's essential spark is their own, and is not to be made subject to others.
03:45.54AeoAeon - That's not a *sound* value. It's arbitrary.
03:46.27AdmiralPandaFordanta - Arbitrary means random or based on personal whim. It is not arbitrary as it is a cultural value established over tens of thousands of years through cultural development.
03:46.28MonetDraconis - Arbitrary how? The soul is a manifestation of one's individuality ,spirit and drive.
03:46.57AdmiralPandaFordanta - To claim that our societal values are unsound or arbitrary is to say that your dedication is unsound and arbitrary
03:47.47MonetDraconis - And this is coming from a society that puts duty to the community above the self.
03:48.11AeoAeon - But you don't lose those things by selling it. It's just a symbol of those things. Also, that was an appeal to antiquity fallacy. That a cultural idea is old or developed organically does not make it non-arbitrary.
03:48.36AdmiralPandaFordanta - I have literally quoted the definition of arbitrary twice. You do not understand the meaning of the word you are using.
03:49.25MonetDraconis - And you contradicted yourself jsut then
03:49.42MonetDraconis - If a cultural idea is developed organically then no, it isn't arbitrary.
03:49.48AeoAeon - Arbitrary just means without important cause. There's no reason based in facts that you hold that value.
03:50.18MonetDraconis - I hope you are aware enough to knwo that you are insulting Fordan culture.
03:51.23AdmiralPandaFordanta - You hide behind your Cleanser, claiming validity through him. The Fordan concept of maintaining our essential spark originates with the first Blademaster, who proclaimed such upon the unification of the Empire.
03:52.03AeoAeon - I don't care if I'm insulting his culture. If something true is insulting to your culture, that's a problem with your culture. Also, the Cleanser is a god. Who the fuck is the first blademaster such that you must abide by him?
03:52.19AdmiralPandaoh boy did he just say who the fuck is the first blade master?
03:52.26MonetYes he did
03:52.27AdmiralPandaoh god if this wasn't a co-operative community XD
03:52.49AdmiralPandayou literally just said why the fuck does the person who set the foundation of Fordan society matter
03:52.49MonetDraconis - Okay now you definitely jsut insulted Fordan culture.
03:53.08AdmiralPandalike, literally everything it is to be Fordan today is based on this one guy, because he set the standard
03:53.11MonetDraconis - In fact...I congratulate you.
03:53.16AdmiralPandayou just fucked up so badly
03:53.21AeoYeah. I'd say the same thing if someone's only support fot an idea was "George Washington said it."
03:53.23AdmiralPandaI'm actually laughing out loud right now
03:53.39MonetDraconis - In one heartbeat you insulted every facet of the Fordan EMpire all in one go.
03:54.26AdmiralPandaseriously, the entire Fordan Empire is based around the principle that the individual must perfect himself such that he improves the Empire, that the Empire might improve future generations
03:54.40AdmiralPandainsulting the origin of that view… you basically just asked for war
03:54.51AeoAeon - That you irrationally trust this blademaster is just an example of why you shouldn't be allowed to decide whether or not to commit genocide.
03:55.13AeoI doubt the Fordan are so petty as to go to war over a flame war on some exonet chatroom.
03:56.02MonetDraconis - Had you asked "who the frak is Octavus Vospus" I might not have been as angry as the Fordanta is right now.
03:56.26MonetDraconis - ...you might want ot run, or teleport. O rpray.
03:56.40AeoAeon - Here's a new question for you. Please name a single large attrocity comittted by a dedicated person. Also, I have no idea who that is. Why would I know anything about your history?
03:56.46MonetDraconis - Prayer *might* be a good idea if it didn't involve you standing still.
03:57.38AdmiralPandaFordanta - We trust the honoured Blademaster's wisdom because it was with this ideal that he unified the Fordan race, and its tenet has held true ever since we first called ourselves For'Dan'Ta. Even as the Empire has adapted over thousands of years this one core belief has held true.
03:57.42AeoAeon - Lol why?
03:57.43AdmiralPanda(had a phonecall, late reply)
03:57.53AeoStrike
03:58.00AeoHe was responding to the Draconis
03:58.03Aeoto be clear.
03:58.30AdmiralPandaAeo: of course they wouldn't go to war over a flamewar, but if someone influential had said that they probably would.
03:58.36MonetDraconis - Because very few people survive a berserk Fordanta.
03:59.40AeoAeon - Moving as that story is, to just that to justify a belief is a genetic fallacy.
04:00.13MonetDraconis - Also would whoever agreed to completely assimilate the Podenka into your culture count as a large-scale atrocity?
04:00.26AdmiralPandaFordanta - Every time it is tested the belief proves its worth. If it were indeed a fallacy it would have failed by now.
04:00.46MonetDraconis - they DID condemn the Podenka into a smaller coppy of your own society.
04:00.58Monetinto developing into a*
04:01.59AdmiralPandaFordanta - I imagine such a destruction of society would indeed count as an atrocity. Hard to judge for us, given that such a thing rarely happens in the Empire.
04:02.05AeoAeon - No, because no one has offered by buy your sparks before this point. As for what the Draco just said, no, it would not count. All of those Podenka see eternal happiness when they die, and they spend their lives helping support the universe's greatest force for good.
04:02.53Monet*the Draconis grimaces in disgust and shock*
04:02.56AdmiralPandaFordanta - And yet you have annihilated their culture.
04:03.08AeoAeon - And by the way, they would have never become sapient, because they don't live long enough to become literate, meaning they could not have developed written language.
04:03.34MonetDraconis - That does nto matter.
04:03.39AdmiralPandaFordanta - Fordanta become literate at the age of two.
04:03.40AeoAeon - No we've not. They still celibrate their holidays and wear their fancy hats.
04:04.02AeoAeon - They don't live to be 1.
04:04.25AdmiralPandaMind linking the page to this race? Because that just seems silly
04:04.28AeoAeon - The world record is 288 days I think.
04:04.55AdmiralPandaa macro organism that doesn't even manage to reach 1 is a little hard to believe tbh
04:04.57Aeohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Aeoneonatrix#Member_Races
04:05.39AeoAeon - Wait, I was wrong. They now tend to live to be a little over a year old. They still don't reach two though.
04:05.42AdmiralPandaBy growth times alone it's a little tough, they must be really tiny
04:05.50MonetDraconis - There is a species of sapient gas giant beings living in the Imperium and another species of insectoid that before we discovered them only had rudimerntary writing skills and still had a sitinct culture ot call their own. The insectoids were even spacefaring when we met them.
04:06.13Monetdsitinct*
04:06.46MonetDraconis - Then again the insectoids are al ltelepathically linked and their queens live for centuries....
04:06.49AdmiralPandait's actually really hard to imagine a creature that can develop that quickly
04:07.02AdmiralPandaas in, one with the mental capacity to attain sapience
04:07.31AeoAP: Can't really refute that.
04:07.41MonetI tried suggesting they percieve tiem differently but Aeo said no.
04:08.05Monettime*
04:08.25AeoAeon - What do you mean it foes not matter if they are immeasurably better off because of what we did? If they have given up their culture through assimilation, it was their own choice. We did not force them to.
04:08.46AeoAeon - Tough again, they celibrate their holidays and wear their garb.
04:09.00MonetDraconis - And they accepted based on percieving you as gods.
04:09.31AdmiralPandalike the main reason Fordanta develop so quickly is they hatch physically fully developed, so theoretically they can start education at day 1 if necessary
04:10.04AeoAeon - Also, their short lifespans mean that their culture would change a lot in the amount of time that passed since we rescued them in any case. If anything, our long memories mean their current culture is more like that of their ancestors than their former ones. Also, no Podenka thinks we are gods.
04:10.33MonetDraconis - What about those you saved?
04:11.17AdmiralPandaFordanta - So you have stagnated their evolution and cultural development. Positive change is a good thing. Furthermore, I seem to recall a few minutes ago you pointed out that holding onto old values was not something to be proud of.
04:11.30AdmiralPandaFordanta - So either you are a hypocrite or, by your own definition, you have done them cultural harm.
04:11.55MonetDraconis - I do question why you could not have simply placed them on a new planet and watched over them fro morbit.
04:12.54AeoAeon - That was generations ago for them. We saved millions of them, so a few probably thought we were gods. In any case, it was their belief that we could increase their lifespan to be closer to ours, and the normal factors, like cleanserism being true, that got them to where they are.
04:13.25MonetDraconis - Instead you decide to take in a species whose worldview did not go beyond the planet they were on and decide to introduce them into your own homes.
04:13.42AeoAeon - Right, that's a good plan. "Hey, here's my spaceship. I'm just going to pick you up and plop you down on a new planet. There you are then. I'm leaving now." *No follow up contact.*
04:14.07MonetDraonis - Honestly I'd be surprised if I was told none of them had a heart attack over the culture shock.
04:14.45AeoAeon - Only some of them live as domestic servants. As for the heart attack, the ones who were going to have one of those got it when the tyranny landed.
04:14.48AdmiralPandaFordanta - Indeed it is a good plan, as it allows their culture to reassert itself, grow and develop, and the people gain their own cultural identity and spirit. You denied them this.
04:15.05MonetDraconis - That and your abstraction is, again, naive.
04:15.21AeoAeon - Their culture is growing and developing.
04:15.33MonetDraconis - Into becoming like yours.
04:15.53AeoAeon - That's their decision to make. If they want to act more like us, that's their right.
04:16.33Monet*the Draconis face-snouts*
04:17.40AdmiralPandaFordanta - And yet they are only given one choice. That is not choice at all, it is an illusion.
04:18.07AeoAeon - How so? They may choose to abide by their ancestral culture, their current culture, or our culture.
04:18.32AeoAeon - If we had not done what we did, they would have had only one of those options.
04:18.54AdmiralPandaFordanta - And you yourself just stated that you manage and permit their ancestral culture. Essentially, they live the way you decide they live, whether or not you use their culture as a template.
04:18.55MonetDraconis - So stagnancy, what is becoming your cutlure or your culture.
04:19.19AeoAeon - When did I say that?
04:19.36AdmiralPanda14:10] <Aeo> Aeon - Also, their short lifespans mean that their culture would change a lot in the amount of time that passed since we rescued them in any case. If anything, our long memories mean their current culture is more like that of their ancestors than their former ones. Also, no Podenka thinks we are gods.
04:19.48AdmiralPandaFordanta - Right about then. You prevented cultural change.
04:20.09AeoAeon - We do not manage it. We record it and accurately tell them about it.
04:20.10AdmiralPandaFordanta - By your own admission you prevented the natural evolution of their culture.
04:20.41MonetDraconis - When you said they could abide by the culture of their ancestors; which is a culture of the past, the current culture; a mix of the old and your culture, and your culture.
04:20.43AdmiralPandaFordanta - You stated that because of their short lifespans their culture would have changed, but thanks to your records it did not. You have influenced their culture.
04:21.23AeoAeon - We didn't prevent cultural change. We allowed their culture to change or not change based on what they chose. That is why their culture is now so similar to ours. It changed.
04:21.48MonetDraconis - Still say you should havep ut them on a new planet.
04:22.00AdmiralPandaFordanta - Again evidence of directing their culture along your own lines.
04:22.34AeoAeon - Please explain why a culture going away is bad. It's not like we did it by oppressing them. We let them live with us and they decided to live like we did. I freely admit we tried to encourage them to be more like us, but we didn't force them.
04:22.50MonetDraconis - It reduces diversity.
04:22.59AdmiralPandaFordanta - Because you lose the potential of what that culture might become. Diversity strengthens the whole.
04:23.04AeoAeon - And I mean more like us in terms of values and just values.
04:23.08MonetDraconis - Your entire empire is built on the illusion of choice.
04:23.35AdmiralPandaFordanta - The Empire is great because each of its members is different and unique; we foster that unique identity as it strives to the betterment of society, and through this we prosper.
04:23.47MonetDraconis - Except unlike the Imperium, you deny its an illusion.
04:24.03AeoAeon - No, diversity is error, at least in terms of objective facts like what is valuable. If two people have different sets of values, at least one of them is wrong. Are you seriously saying more wrong people is a good thing?
04:24.45MonetDraconis - You are actually advocating conformism?
04:25.01AeoAeon - What do you mean you foster? I thought influending is bad! FUCKING DELCATHIAN IMPERIALIST SCUM!!!!!!!!111!!!!one!!!!one!!!111!!!
04:25.02AdmiralPandaFordanta - Oh how wrong your statement is. Take, for example, diversity in combat: it is due to the integration of two separate tribes that we have two primary paths: that of the Knight and that of the Hunter- one specialised in close combat and one in ranged.
04:25.03MonetDraconis - You are actually advocating monoculture.
04:25.28AdmiralPandaFordanta - The synergy of the Knight and Hunter is greater than the Knight or Hunter alone. By this diversity do we prosper.
04:25.43AeoAeon - In terms of values, I am. Just like I advocate a monoscience.
04:26.04MonetDraconis - If the Imperium was like your empire, it probably would not have reemerged from obscurity.
04:26.26AeoAeon - If one culture says that family is intrinsically valuable, and the other says that it is only valuable because it tends to bring about emotional connections, at least one of them is wrong.
04:26.40AdmiralPandaFordanta - Take the diversity of architectural styles: by the integration of two styles we have our military construction philosophy of spacial optimisation, and we also have the civilian style of ergonomics and utility.
04:26.46AeoAeon - And family is just an examle. I could have used any value.
04:27.20MonetDraconis - I'd be keen to see a society that benefits from a mix of both views on family.
04:27.38AdmiralPandaFordanta - And here we see the truth of the Aeoneonatrix: you refuse to accept alternate views. Those two views can co-exist, the existence of one does not invalidate the other.
04:28.05AdmiralPandaFordanta - To give example, it can indeed be said that family has intrinsic value, and still be said that that value is emotional.
04:28.13AdmiralPandaFordanta - To give just one example of how those values can co-exist.
04:28.27MonetDraconis - I'd offer you a scholarship to the Alcanti Royal Academy but I fear your head may eplxode.
04:29.19AeoAeon - Fordanta: Questions of ideal architecture are best solved by a computer. Draconis: Those statements are mutually exclusive. Either it is a greater sin to kill a family member, all else being equal, than a stranger, or it is not. Those values cannot both be true, and we will always be best off with all of us rejecting the untrue one.
04:29.59MonetDraconis - I was right.
04:30.17MonetDraconis - My fears feel reinforced.
04:31.10AdmiralPandaFordanta - Honestly, I see why this society was considered so poorly in recent history. Fortunately I have another appointment to attend, and so I will be off. (In seriousness, I do have somewhere to be. Also, this conversation was painful, I'm surprised I didn't leave sooner)
04:31.22AdmiralPandaI sincerely hope that you yourself don't think the way the Aeoneonatrix do
04:31.41AeoAeon - People can dress, greet each other, and do loads of other things however they want, but if you culture's values conflict with THE REAL VALUES your culture is WRONG and the universe is better off without it. This does not justify your genocide in any real-world circumstance, but it does mean that it is better for it not to exist than to exist.
04:32.10Aeo(For the record, I do not.)
04:32.59Aeo(I don't personally care about preserving cultures, though, and I would prefer if everyone shared my values.)
04:33.51Aeo(That is to say I'm neutral to the prospect of a culture changing, forming, or yes, evaporating, according to what people want to do. If one is taken away through imperialism, that's not about what people want to do.)
04:34.46Aeo(All of the cultures that exist today will someday not exist anymore, and I'm not too bent out of shape about that... your silence makes me worried that I've angered you, Monet.)
04:36.14Monet(It's half five in the morning for me)
04:36.27AeoAh.
04:36.45AeoHush little dragon, don't say a word.
04:37.02AeoAeo's gonna buy you a big ole hoard.
04:37.19AeoAnd if that hoard refuses to shine.
04:37.28AeoAeo's gonna rip out its spine.
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06:19.11ImpyDroidHi
06:19.20ImpyDroidCharles_Murray: Are ya active?
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06:33.59ImpyDroidLiquid_Ink: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1069565 I want these demons
06:34.01Charles_MurrayImpyDroid: For a little bit longer, what can I do for you?
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11:36.04Knight_AlienHi
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12:01.33Wormy_hi
12:01.42MonetHi
12:02.32OluapWorkerhi
12:13.57MonetFun fact, trolls in Runescape are named after the first thing they eat.
12:14.16MonetGets funy and/or wierd when you see trolls with names like "My Arm" and "Dad"
12:20.35MonetI imagine there must also be trolls out there with names like "Rattle", "Birthday Cake", "Chicken" and "Tree"
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13:03.14Wormy_You've got to admit, this was pretty awesome http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32806985
13:03.36Wormy_They drilled through a vault and then absailed it
13:03.47Wormy_Like it was out of a movie
13:03.58Wormy_A terrible crime yes, but yeah
13:07.34MonetMy favourite part was hearing that they had brought packed lunches.
13:08.31Wormy_wow
13:13.09Monethttp://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2013/02/28/10-british-insults-americans-wont-understand/ I find it peculiar that "Muppet" was adopted more in Britain than the US where the Muppets came from.
13:17.31Wormy_I read chav slang is actually reaching the youth of the States now.
13:23.40Wormy_Its a car from Mr Men!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF7odK55gkI
13:27.13MonetKeep it up at the car would disintegrate lol
13:45.51Wormy_Next:  Triangle wheels
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13:51.41Wormy_hi
13:55.01dromHello
13:55.10dromMonet: have you tried playing GCIII?
13:55.28MonetYes
13:55.35MonetI was in the beta
13:56.19dromHm, is it the worth the pricey tag?
13:57.20MonetYes
14:00.08dromI've some difficulties to comprehend on why would large empires cause disapproval among its' citizens?
14:01.35MonetTHe larger an empire gets, the more distanced form thep ublic a central government becomes
14:02.07dromI see.
14:02.38dromSo the way to eliminate this is to divide the state in provinces and assign local lesser-power governments to every one of them.
14:03.55MonetCan't remember what GalCiv III dos but in II the problem could be solved by adopting more federated models of government
14:06.22MonetBut yes, when local councils get more power, local citizens feel happier because they get more of a voice in how their part of the country is run
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14:09.17MonetThe three largest nations on the planet - Russia, China and the U.S.A are more or less federated republics.
14:10.32AdmiralPandahi all
14:10.37MonetHi
14:11.02MonetThe US has states, Russia has federal subjects and China has provinces and autonomous regions.
14:12.13MonetI don't know about Russia but one thing that distinguishes Chinese autonomous regions and US states is the ability to legislate local laws that only affect their part of the ocuntry.
14:14.38MonetThe UK by contrast has its constituent countries, which do have their own laws but we treat them as semi-independant nations while counties are the bulk of the administrative makeup
14:15.12MonetAnd ocunty councils, unlike US states or chinese autonomous regions, have very little legislative power.
14:20.57dromThe feel when the OS takes up a large portition of your SDD http://i.imgur.com/kPYNqWv.png
14:27.55Comrade_VinnyMonet: I made it after all. :) http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/6/69/Batok_Saber.png/revision/latest?cb=20150519153552
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14:51.53dromWormy_: http://imgur.com/HU4MV.gif
14:54.28Wormy_I'm surprised Data doesn't smash through
14:56.09dromcyborg-proof
14:56.15dromahem
14:56.18dromandroid-proof
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15:00.29GhelaeHello.
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15:03.21GhelaeHello.
15:04.38CyrannianHai
15:06.26Comrade_VinnyHey Cyra!
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15:17.20OluapWorker~slam Cyrannian
15:17.20infobotACTION slams Cyrannian against a large cement Tux
15:18.16Cyrannian~stab OluapWorker
15:18.16infobotACTION runs at OluapWorker with an origami Swiss Army knife, and inflicts a nasty paper cut.
15:20.29Technobliteratorhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Planet:Mirck?rcid=702422 this infobox reminds me of the bad starter example
15:21.49Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Biggest_galaxy - Not as much as this one though
15:22.21Technobliteratorthat one is less funny
15:22.24Wormy_"This galaxy is made of ultraviolet radiation "
15:22.25Technobliteratorthe Mirck one
15:22.39TechnobliteratorLength of orbital rotation10 min?
15:22.47TechnobliteratorSectorHuh?
15:24.21Technobliteratorour policies and guidelines pages suck
15:24.22Technobliterator: |
15:24.38MonetI never got the difference between "length of year" and "length of orbital rotation"
15:32.28GhelaeMonet: Me neither, actually.
15:34.34MonetSo I assumed it meant "length of year in local days"
15:37.14MonetI suppose it could mean "circumfrence of the orbit" which is 2πxdistance from the sun, but the number is somewhat arbitrary really when measuring its position by the length of its year is more common.
15:38.28MonetTHat and when calculating escape orbit vectors a planet's position in its orbit is measured in degrees, not kilometres.
15:44.57GhelaeIt isn't clear why one should mean "length of year in local days" and the other "length of year in Earth days" (you could put them both in the same one if you wanted to, or people can just use a calculator if they're really interested), nor which one should have each of the two meanings.
15:45.53GhelaeCircumference of orbit is also a really unusual thing to have in an infobox; distance from its sun would seem more reasonable to me.
15:46.23GhelaeI'm thinking it might just be utterly redundant.
15:48.06GhelaeUnless "orbital rotation" is for moons orbiting planets, while "year" is for planets orbiting stars, but then we could just have some variable like "|type = moon" that changes the text.
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15:50.17HachimanHai
15:50.21MonetHi
15:50.33MonetGhelae: I like the sound of that variable
15:50.43GhelaeHello.
15:51.26OluapWorker~cuddle Hachiman
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15:51.33Hachiman<3
15:51.49GhelaeI assume the default would be to set "type" as "planet", or if the two options are planet and satellite it could be "|satellite = yes" with the default being "no".
15:51.49CyrannianHai
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16:35.35Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Maethoruin - new page, OluapWorker c dis
16:35.35OluapWorkersuks dik 10/10
16:35.36Hachimangib phaedra page pls
16:35.46OluapWorkergib khaepsha-ultan page pls
16:35.53Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Phaedric_Order - c dere
16:36.54Hachimandats not phaedra race page
16:37.13CyrannianOh right, that's a good idea actually
16:38.09OluapWorkerCyrannian: u done gud, I quoted
16:40.10Cyrannianmaethoruin is hurt by Meketanor's cruel words
16:40.49OluapWorkerMaethoruin - y u so rude            Meketanor - dunt take it personal i hate everyun equally
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16:47.20ImpyDroidHi
16:47.33GhelaeHello.
16:47.51AeoPhaedra is almost Fedora. Evilest thing in the universe.
16:47.52OluapWorkerimpu
16:48.38Technobliteratorhttp://www.eastarwars.com/
16:48.44Technobliterator(warning it does contain sound)
16:59.49Wormy_Who here knows about the brain eating amoeba?
17:00.28Wormy_I don't think I'll ever put my nose under freshwater again.
17:00.39AeoYes, I do.
17:00.41OluapWorkerNever heard of
17:00.44Wormy_Not that I have much
17:00.54GhelaeGets inside your nose. Gets hungry. Starts eating on your brain. Immune system goes into overdrive and ends up causing even more extreme brain damage.
17:01.04AeoI've never heard it called that though, and I thought it was only a danger in warm water.
17:01.14Wormy_Only three people have survived it I believe
17:01.37OluapWorkerI've heard of a parasite that infects your brain and makes you have suicidal tendencies
17:01.45OluapWorkerIt's mostly present in small animals though
17:01.48Wormy_Apparently its in 70% of American lakes, but it lives all over the world.
17:02.07Wormy_That's Toxoplasma gondi
17:02.45OluapWorkerToxoplasma gandhi
17:02.49OluapWorkerThe nuclear microbe
17:02.59Wormy_lol
17:04.07Wormy_In the papers here a university student almost went blind from a burrowing amoeba in her contact lens when tap water was splashed on her.
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17:04.51Wormy_I have been told that you can go blind within hours if you swim with contact lenses in
17:05.13Wormy_The microbes burrow downwarss damaging the cornea
17:07.14Wormy_Hm
17:07.56Wormy_Imagine that feel if you jumped into a lake, crawled out and saw a "brain eating amoeba" warning post
17:08.23Wormy_Still its so rare you wouldn't be likely to get infected luckily
17:08.23OluapWorkerDo Not Swim: Mindrape
17:08.28AeoIt infects 0 to 8 people a yar.
17:08.52GhelaeMeh. Imagine if you climbed out the lake and saw one float in your field of vision because it was inside your eye.
17:09.23Wormy_Imagine it laughing at you http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/699/overrides/brain-eating-amoeba-water-park_69932_600x450.jpg
17:10.34AeoWormy_ Never show me another image that horrifying.
17:10.45OluapWorker"HEE HEE HEE HEE"
17:11.29AeoWormy_ Go google image "bedbug under microscope" as penance.
17:12.09Wormy_Seen, its not as bad as a hookworm under microscope
17:12.28Wormy_http://www.cat-world.com.au/images/HookwormMouth.gif
17:12.50AeoJust for future reference, my psychological issues are such that I will now be hallucinating that thing for at least the next little bit, and periodically for the rest of my life, if it winds up in my reputar.
17:13.22AeoMy hallucinations are not vivid enough for me to think it's there, but still.
17:13.48AeoIt's fucking touching me.
17:13.56Hachimaninb4 triggered
17:14.04Wormy_Hm, I only hallucinate as I wake up or fall asleep, or in deep meditation
17:14.35Wormy_It *may* crop up but in my case more existential things appear like electronic sentience...
17:14.43AeoI hallucinate whenever I think about the things I hallucinate about, namely bugs.
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17:14.59AeoSo yes, I can be triggered.
17:15.23Wormy_I take it that you didn't look at the hookworm.  Best you not.
17:15.46AeoSeen it.
17:15.59AeoNot just now, but I've seen it before.
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17:16.23GhelaeHello.
17:16.28Xhoeeee
17:16.38OluapWorkerspu
17:16.57Wormy_Images that "trigger" me tend to be pictures of skin diseases, or burns
17:17.09Aeogives Xho a boquet of carrion flowers.
17:17.27Wormy_I had to delete this horrible compilation of STD's this nasty troll sent me on Maxis Wiki once.  It was awful
17:19.14Wormy_http://maxis.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Wormulon#Deletion
17:19.27Aeo#nope
17:19.44Wormy_If anyone is really curious I might undelete it and link.  But do so in a way I don't have to look again myself
17:20.14Wormy_that might not be possible actually
17:20.21Wormy_besat not
17:20.23Wormy_*best
17:20.53CyrannianWormy_: Technobliterator: Hachiman: Are you three available to do a short roleplay with Oluap and I now?
17:21.06Wormy_I can't, sorry.
17:21.15Wormy_In fact I shouldn't even be chatting here
17:21.18OluapWorkerdon't make me rape u
17:21.35OluapWorkerDo you mind if we do it without you?
17:21.38Wormy_Soon I'll finish and be free for fiction
17:21.45Wormy_Yes
17:22.03OluapWorkerRight we won't do it then
17:22.09Wormy_Maybe I can add a subplot with my character later?
17:22.27OluapWorkerOh you mean you're okay with it
17:22.31Wormy_No I didn't mean it like that!
17:22.32CyrannianI think he means that we can go ahead and leave a space for him to add when he's free
17:22.36OluapWorkerdur
17:22.39OluapWorkerMy mistake
17:22.42Wormy_Yes, I'm okay with you go without me
17:22.49OluapWorkerRight then sorry for that
17:23.01Wormy_I'll be free by the end of the week
17:23.03OluapWorkerIn case you're curious this is that Brezank plot
17:23.11HachimanSure
17:24.34TechnobliteratorI am
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17:42.42JepardiHi
17:42.50GhelaeHello.
17:58.01OluapWorkerTechnobliterator: Add to the rp
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18:15.28Technobliteratoruh, did we finish the rp or did people just disconnect
18:15.30Technobliterator: |
18:16.49OluapWorkerThat shows how much attention you're paying
18:16.54OluapWorkerYes it's finished
18:18.09HachimanGod it's like you never participated in fiction before
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18:25.50DrodoEmpireHey everyone
18:25.55GhelaeHello.
18:30.09Wormy_awayI know there are many Firefox users here but I'm comparing pretty clean webpages and I prefer Chrome's display and definition.
18:30.15Wormy_away*here
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18:33.08HachimanSo I just watched some dumb American anti-war chick criticise soldiers and their non-combat uniforms, claiming that soldiers do it to impress people and boast that they have killed people
18:33.24HachimanAlongside the fact that the military is apparently full of murderous psychopaths
18:34.17OluapWorkerWhy would you do that
18:34.56AeoHachiman: Well, soldiers *are* for killing.
18:35.03Wormy_awayI'm no patriot of the military but I can just tell the flaws will be strong in that one (woman)
18:35.50Wormy_awaySome probably are a bit psychopathic though, it must take a certain mindset to take orders and kill people in foreign lands
18:36.13Wormy_awayOne I do not share.
18:38.37ImperiosHachiman: This reminded me of one story that happened to my family
18:38.40Wormy_awayEven though I'm a psychopathic/sadistic fiction writer with a hunger for power
18:39.50ImperiosDuring the Russian 90s the military was generally reviled as protectors of the old Soviet past
18:40.35ImperiosMy 60-something grandfather was actually attacked by crowds just because he was wearing his uniform (he was colonel of the Soviet Army)
18:41.00ImperiosHe was hurt severely
18:41.03CyrannianThe Irish Army is mainly used in UN peacekeeping, so it doesn't really have a big relevance to society at large. #neutrality
18:41.20ImperiosCyrannian: #wewillconqueryousoon
18:42.02XhoSLAVA PUTIN
18:42.27ImperiosIt was during Yeltsin's administration
18:42.43ImperiosMy grandfather died shortly afterwards
18:42.52XhoThat was a pretty rough time from what I recall
18:42.53CyrannianImperios: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/russian-aircraft-entered-irish-controlled-airspace-iaa-1.2110144 - up to shenanigans
18:43.25ImperiosCyrannian: They're just protecting Russian minorities in Ireland!
18:44.17OluapWorkerthey wanted to steal the pot o' gold
18:44.43ImperiosAlternatively, they are out to prove the superiority of vodka over whiskey
18:45.08Wormy_awayRussian planes will never catch up with rainbows, no matter how many nukes they have.
18:45.29CyrannianFear the wrath of our potato-shooting AA guns
18:45.51ImperiosWe have more potatoes
18:46.27Wormy_awayIreland could just spread the potato blight over as a bioweapon
18:46.39Wormy_awayAlright that was a terrible joke.
18:46.41ImperiosNOOOOOOOO
18:46.42ImperiosNOOOOOOOOO
18:46.45ImperiosNOT OUR POTATOES
18:47.33ImperiosBTW about the potato blight in Ireland, I still do not quite understand its origin
18:48.03ImperiosWas it a natural disaster, or was it actually helped by the British? I've heard both
18:48.27ImperiosOr is it just unclear like with the hunger in Ukraine
18:49.13Wormy_awayNatural I believe.
18:49.50Wormy_awayThough the social situation of the time wouldn't have helped and the British might be at fault for many things as a guess
18:49.51CyrannianThere are some who would call it a genocide, but that's not historically accurate. It's more accurate to say that it was a combination of the heavy reliance on the potato to poor communities in the West and the terrible infrastructure in those regions
18:50.09Imperios...so basically like the hunger in Ukraine
18:50.11AeoImperios: Are you talking about Stalin's famines? Those are not unclear...
18:50.59ImperiosAeo: It was caused by Stalin's rampant industrialisation, but there are arguments about whether Stalin actually wanted to kill Ukrainians or was it just a side effect
18:51.21AeoStalin either started or deliberately made worse countless famines... well, I'm sure someone has counted them. The point is he killed more people than hitler and was the worst person ever.
18:51.37ImperiosI believe it is the latter, because it was not only Ukraine that suffered from famines but also regions of Russia and north Kazakhstan (aka where my ancestors lived)
18:51.38AeoMaybe on Russia Today there is.
18:51.52ImperiosIt was definitely deliberate
18:51.58ImperiosBut there is the question of genocidal intent\
18:52.06AeoUm...
18:52.16AeoThose are the same thing.
18:52.19ImperiosLike for example with my people, Stalin definitely acted against us and wanted to squash us
18:52.22ImperiosUkrainians, not so sure
18:52.59ImperiosAeo: The question is "Stalin wanted to industrialise super-fast and did not care about the human cost so he killed lots of people" versus "Stalin hated Ukrainians and so let them starve"
18:53.03Wormy_awayDidn't Chairman Mao kill the most people under his regime?
18:53.19ImperiosAs much as I hate Stalin, I do not believe he had a personal agenda against Ukraine in particular, as Ukrainians often claim
18:53.42MonetIt sounds to me like poorly-planned industrialisation
18:53.52MonetWhich iirc was pretty rampant across the USSR
18:53.55AeoThat sounds kind of like when people claim that Hitler never intended any of the jews to die, he just took care of them poorly in their camps.
18:54.05ImperiosThere WERE ethnicities that Stalin deliberately squashed through internment and forced assimilation, like my own people, but the Ukrainians were not among them
18:54.16ImperiosAeo: With the Holocaust there was clear ethnocidal intent
18:54.26Imperiosthe camps were made specifically for the point of killing them
18:54.58AeoNazi Fuckwad - BUT SMOKESTACKS! WHERE IS THE OFFICIAL ORDER?
18:55.04ImperiosStalin achieved the same effect through gulags (though these did not depend on ethnicity) and deporation/internment
18:55.33ImperiosBut starvation was probably a side effect
18:56.46ImperiosThe question is not whether Stalin did or did not kill people, but whether or not he committed deliberate genocide of certain ethnicites, as Hitler did, the Ukrainians in particular (through starvation)
18:56.55ImperiosWhich I honestly doubt because otherwise I wouldn't have been alive
18:57.26ImperiosBecause my ancestors *were* targeted for ethnic purging
18:57.53HachimanI thought Russians and North Koreans were bros
18:57.56Wormy_awayI'm not sure if you can rate who is worse than who, or at least it is not the right criteria.  Even the British Empire had concentration camps and practised eugenics, which suggests a wider cultural evil..  A look at their philosophy and policies however might be a better point of determining wrongdoing.
18:57.57HachimanBecause of communism
18:58.32AeoHachiman: Not anymore. North Korea has no bro but china, and even they only get along so well.
18:58.46ImperiosHachiman: Koryo-saram were interned *before* WW2
18:58.47HachimanI was not referring to now
18:58.51HachimanOh right
18:59.07ImperiosThe logic was that, since Korea was back then a part of China, all Korean people were unreliable
18:59.09Imperios*Japan
18:59.15ImperiosBecause Japan was an Axis power
18:59.32Imperios...Yes I hope you do realise how insane was that
18:59.40Cyrannianhttp://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/065/469/north-korea-is-best-korea.jpg - This looks like a time for my favourite North Korea meme
18:59.41HachimanThat is pretty insane
19:00.07ImperiosThe actual reason I think was to provide a workforce for Kazakhstan and assimilate us
19:00.26ImperiosWe weren't the only ones who got deported to GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
19:00.36ImperiosGermans, Greeks, Crimean Tatars, etc etc
19:00.40ImperiosAll were left in Kazakhstan
19:00.54Hachimanhur
19:01.30Imperios...Then again now the richest person in Kazakhstan is called Vladimir Kim
19:02.33ImperiosWe have all the potassium
19:04.50ImperiosKazakhstan is actually kinda like the Russian version of Australia
19:05.09Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:New_Cyrandia_Wars/Year_Two/Brezank_Awakens#Chapter_Four:_The_Power_Reactors - Big update, with three teams tasked to bring down the reactors of the Corruptus world Brezank
19:05.33HachimanAlso I have decided for matters regarding canon that Zazane have existed within Andromeda as spacefaring societies for ages prior to the foundation of the Brood or even the Great Migration of the last Zazane from their home universe
19:06.09HachimanSimilar to how the Borealis and Ottzelloan Zazane existed prior to the Great Migration
19:06.21HachimanAlso yes check out Brezank fiction, it is top quality banter
19:06.38XhoSantorakh - cheeky nandos with the lads
19:07.11ImperiosOooh interesting
19:08.26HachimanAndromedan Zazane would have existed as multiple spacefaring societies until the Brood was founded and unified them
19:09.24HachimanIn truth there are a lot of Zazane factions that exist that do not claim membership within the Brood and even oppose them, such as remnant imperialists, Borealis Zazane criminal syndicates, and Andromedan Zazane warlords
19:10.10AeoHachiman: Would Cleanserist zazane be possible?
19:10.28AeoI mean in the future, moreso.
19:11.02HachimanProbably not
19:11.23HachimanUnless they were forcefully indoctrinated which is immensely difficult to do to Zazane
19:11.30AeoWhy not?
19:11.36XhoWell I've written lyrics for a song in the larval stage
19:11.40XhoIt's based on a dream I had last night
19:12.00HachimanXho: You think that is impressive, I prepared my own hot and spicy chicken dinner as a fetus
19:12.08Xhodayumn nigga
19:12.18MonetAeo: COuld relate to last night's conversation
19:12.19XhoBut damn my dream last night was strange
19:12.29AeoBTW Xho is there any way you could write an essay for the Pan-Gigaquadrantic Philosophical Society by a Dominion adacemic arguing for the destruction of the universe?
19:12.41XhoI doubt the Dominion would participate in that
19:12.52HachimanAeo: Zazane would most often want to serve themselves than serve something else unless they felt such deserved their service
19:13.01XhoI was promoting a miracle sun tan lotion at a hospital and then I got entangled in a plot to assassinate some important patient there
19:13.15XhoThe dream resulted in me belting it out of the hospital and on to a helicopter and escaping
19:13.20HachimanJesus
19:13.34XhoThe lyrics of the song are a little different though
19:13.50HachimanShould include absolute gutturals and a few growls
19:13.54CyrannianYou need to cut down on the drugs
19:13.54HachimanAnd tons of blast beats
19:14.01Xhohur
19:14.05Wormy_awayI love dreams like that, unfortunately mine rarely have consistent storylines
19:14.06XhoThis a prog metal band not a death metal band
19:14.13XhoMy dreams are oddly concisse
19:14.16Xhoconcise even
19:14.21Hachimandats not trve metal
19:14.22XhoI have recurring settings but different events
19:14.28Hachimannot cvlt enough
19:14.31AeoHachiman: Well, the Cleanser managed to convince the Aeoneonatrix that he diserved their service. Same with every rescued race.
19:14.33ImperiosMy dreams usually involve twisted version of my real life and surroundings
19:14.35XhoAnd said events link from past dreams
19:14.48XhoCharacters in my dreams remember events from past dreams as well
19:14.51ImperiosCharles_Murray Monet Comrade_Bunny: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/f/f5/Toupe-lezard_%28clothing%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20150520191314 Take a look
19:15.11HachimanThe hell is that thing
19:15.13HachimanI like it hur
19:15.25Wormy_awayI've had re-occurring dreams.  Quite often I visit versions of my house or town, with extra rooms or fictional surroundings that feel strangely familiar.
19:15.43XhoThe song is more like breaking free from a routine by having an individual named as the 'intermediary' giving you a gun to shoot your way into a new life basically
19:15.49Aeo...Welcome, to Night Vale
19:16.19Wormy_awayHey! Another listener?
19:16.38AeoListening right now.'
19:16.45DrodoEmpireWormy: I oftentimes will dream an entire day. It feels... off, when in the dream but I don't question it when inside. Dunno.
19:16.53XhoI might do a song on my strange dream sequences
19:17.11DrodoEmpire(As in I will dream of my average day with surprising accuracy)
19:17.13Wormy_awayThat is nearly lucid by the sounds of it.
19:17.15HachimanZazane zealots in general probably do not happen aside from the Mali'nar-influenced Zazane if they are still canon
19:17.21AeoI'm currently catching up. I'm on entry 31, right before the one where Strexcorp will enter Night Vale for the first time.
19:17.26ImperiosHachiman: It's from a fic we and the 2013-era users are planning to do
19:17.38XhoI dunno where my dreams take place
19:17.44ImperiosIt'll be revolved around the ancient enemies of the Tertamian Alliance, the Metropoly
19:17.47XhoThey're mostly in cities similar to New York I guess
19:17.49HachimanAh sweet
19:17.54Wormy_awayI loved "The Woman from Italy" and the auctions episode.
19:18.01XhoThough there's no real familiarity to it
19:18.03HachimanThe Monopoly do sound intimidating
19:18.04DrodoEmpireNot really. Its basically just me going through the paces, I percieve things but I feel separate from them and my actions within the dream in a way
19:18.09MonetImperios: I'm really liking the armour on his back
19:18.24HachimanThe Monopoly plans to send the Tertamian Alliance to jail hur
19:18.34Wormy_awayDrodoEmpire:  Do you mean, almost prophesying real events?  Because I have felt that too.
19:18.35DrodoEmpireI can't control things very well. Though in bad dreams I tend to have a very good command of my movements
19:18.44ImperiosIt's Metropoly not Monopoly you
19:18.48HachimanOh
19:19.02HachimanStill nonetheless, a cool name
19:19.25HachimanAlso I still wanna work on those Mali'nar Zazane at some point, possibly for Golden Movement or post-GM fiction
19:19.27DrodoEmpireWell... Not predictions. I'm sure it sometimes happens but it feels as though a lot of details are sort-of "left out". Its bizarre.
19:19.38Imperioshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropole Based on this term
19:20.17Imperioshttp://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/d/d4/Melfoj.png/revision/latest?cb=20150519200712 And that's the actual Metropoly species
19:20.43HachimanBuff, muscular Tertamian men
19:21.09MonetAlien - I must break you.
19:21.12HachimanThe enemies of the Tertamian Alliance are Tertamian Custodes hur
19:22.36HachimanI am actually rather interested in how this fiction will go actually so let me know when updates for it come out
19:22.53ImperiosMelfoj - MY OILED SCALES QUIVER AT YOUR VOICE
19:23.00Xhoew
19:23.31ImperiosThe actual idea was actually to make them the "dwarves" to the Tertamians' "elves" but your interpretation works as well
19:23.37MonetHachiman: About the Mali'Zane, maybe they were a clan of these Andromedan Zazane who were manipulated and later corrupted by the Mali'Nar
19:25.39AeoImperios: Dat is a sexy alien.
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19:26.17Wormy_awayDrodo:  Fascinating
19:27.40HachimanMonet: Yeah that is what I was thinking
19:27.59ImpyDroidHachiman: Actually your comment about Custodes reminded me of one thing
19:28.31HachimanHm?
19:28.41ImpyDroidIn the original 2008 pre-SporeWiki concept of the Tertamians, their seat of power was called "Segmentum Fabulus"
19:28.46Hachimanolol
19:29.36HachimanAlso I will probably have to revise a proper name for the Mali'Zane/Kelipoth
19:30.03HachimanAlthough Kelipoth is still a nice name
19:33.58MonetI can imagine a Mali agent disguising themselves as a retainer or a substitute conscence for a prominent warlord.
19:34.29MonetThen eroding his/her mind with maddening whispers.
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19:38.41HachimanHai
19:38.51Monethello
19:39.08OluapPlayerBlargen
19:41.38HachimanImpyDroid: https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11262389_1001721403171250_1477255082592211900_n.png?oh=73629a461345dc8fd4922a918a0e0457&oe=55FE14DD
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19:45.07OluapPlayerClever
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19:54.43DrodoEmpireBack. >.<
19:58.41ImpyDroidPraise Matryoshka
20:03.56ImpyDroidGreat, I found a TV series about Catherine the Great
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20:07.50ImpyDroid(That's the slut from Civ 5 in case you don't know)
20:08.47Xhohur
20:09.18Xisuthroshur?
20:09.46Xhohur indeed
20:10.06MonetHello
20:10.10XisuthrosHello
20:10.30HachimanCatherine the Great was a slut?
20:10.58TechnobliteratorI hate that word
20:11.10ImpyDroidThat's a reference to Civ V, she is flirting with everyone in the gsme
20:11.14ImpyDroidIncluding other women
20:11.31ImpyDroidTechnobliterator: You prefer "slag?
20:11.52TechnobliteratorWell, in this context, not really : |
20:12.11ImpyDroidBut she had many lovers IRL as well
20:12.14TechnobliteratorI hate both words, they're just used to excuse misogyny
20:12.21ImpyDroidOkay
20:12.26ImpyDroidRite she had many lovers
20:12.44ImpyDroidHonestly that is expected of a person of her station
20:12.48XisuthrosI agree with Technobliterator but I don't think we should open this proverbial can of worms
20:14.20ImpyDroidIt is just that girls have a higher sluttiness standard than guys in most societies, ergo Catherine is a slut while, say, the Ottoman Sultans just had lots of wives
20:14.27HachimanSo you do not like words like slut, whore, sket, prostitute, wench, bitch, tramp, etc?
20:14.43ImpyDroidBlyad
20:14.52XhoDon't forget whore
20:14.56XhoOh wait you didn't
20:15.49HachimanSee because I do not like the word "misogynyst" and feel it gets thrown around far too liberally
20:16.16CyrannianThere is a double standard when it comes to sexuality, men are championed for sleeping around and women are shamed.
20:16.26Xisuthros^
20:16.47ImpyDroidMuhsojuny
20:17.17ImpyDroidI just realised why we made a series about Catherine now
20:17.19TechnobliteratorOur society isn;t nearly as misogynystic as most tumblr feminists will tell you, though
20:17.30XisuthrosAlso ^
20:17.35XhoBefore you say anything further
20:17.38Wormy_awayAye
20:17.38Xho>tumblr feminists
20:17.43XhoIt's a special kind of feminist
20:17.51TechnobliteratorMen are about 5 times more likely to suffer physical assault than women, for instance
20:17.58XisuthrosAye Wormy
20:18.01HachimanRight we are treading into SJW territory again
20:18.07HachimanLet us maneuver away from this with caution
20:18.14ImpyDroidLet us move back to Catherine
20:18.27TechnobliteratorAnd most people who campaign for "women's rights" are actually campaigning for "being spoilt brats who get whatever they want and hating men", which pisses me off too
20:18.46ImpyDroidIt makes a lot of sense for us to make a series about a ruler who
20:18.49XisuthrosYes, let's talk about history instead of trying to tread the thin line between MRA and SJW
20:19.11Hachiman"Yekaterina Alexeevna" > Catherine
20:19.13HachimanFucking how
20:19.20MonetKatarine
20:19.25Monetkatarina
20:19.31ImpyDroidYekaterina is a Russia form of Catherine
20:19.44Wormy_awayXisuthros:  Are you new here or someone who changed their nick?
20:19.47ImpyDroidAlexeevna is a patron mic and does not count
20:19.57ImpyDroid*patronymic
20:19.59Hachimanyee katerina
20:20.06Xhoyee
20:20.10ImpyDroidYee
20:20.28ImpyDroidThat's your average person's reaction to Catherine
20:20.31ImpyDroidAnyway
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20:20.58XisuthrosWormy_away: Yes and no. I made some less-than-good fiction on the site a few years ago under a different name, and I've decided to come back and try to create some non-shitty fiction.
20:21.09ImpyDroidConsider: Catherine onquered Crimea and what is now Donbass, battled Germans, started off liberal but later became more authoritarian, quelled a large rebellion, and LOVED to flaunt her sexuality
20:21.17Knight_AlienHi
20:21.18Wormy_awayRight okay, welcome back
20:21.28XisuthrosI used the name "Yarsofpupae", by the way.
20:21.36Wormy_awayAh
20:21.39ImpyDroidIt makes a lot of sense for us to make a series about her now hur
20:21.40Wormy_awayYes I remember
20:21.53HachimanCatherine sounds like my kind of leader hur
20:22.44ImpyDroidI was referring to the fact that she was basically proto-Putin
20:22.47MonetShe's a smi-modern Cleopatra.
20:22.53Monetsemi-modern*
20:23.09XisuthrosHonestly I'm surprised I'm remembered.
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20:23.50ImpyDroidPutin is nowhere near as sexually active but he made shirtless photos of himself
20:24.11HachimanWould be highly amusing if Putin was a descendant
20:24.41OluapPlayerFinal battle of Brezank Awakens currently being written
20:24.45HachimanOh sweet
20:24.59Wormy_awayWhat scares me is that I remember users who edited a "few years ago" like it was yesterday.
20:25.02ImpyDroidMy point was, the areas of Ukraine that we are interested in
20:25.09XisuthrosSorry, what prompted the discussion of Catherine hte Great?
20:25.09ImpyDroidThey were conquered by Catherine
20:25.13Xho~kick OluapPlayer
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20:25.19AeoXisuthros: Welcome to the site. I'm Aeo. I'm the token idealist on the site, and one of only three Americans.
20:25.23ImpyDroidI found a Russian series about her
20:25.24Xhoda hell did u come from
20:25.34OluapPlayerI've been here for an hour and half
20:25.39OluapPlayerActually no, just an hour
20:25.40ImpyDroidAeo: Which is why you shall be nuked with bear missiles soon
20:25.48XhoRight that would explain it
20:25.59XhoI only got back like ten minutes ago
20:26.17Xisuthros*the great
20:26.49AeoImpyDroid: No. While I do live in the word's only important country, I do not live in a particularly important part of it, as far as parts of it go, so the nuke would not be anywhere near me.
20:26.52HachimanBrezank Awakens -> Is being put back to sleep
20:27.20Wormy_awayI am beginning to expect Impy is one of the trolls who go about forums trolling for the government.
20:27.26Wormy_away*suspect
20:27.49OluapPlayershit plot amirite
20:28.16XhoKrath - ffs
20:29.27OluapPlayerI'll say though
20:29.36OluapPlayerThis plot won't end with a complete Corruptus defeat
20:29.47HachimanOh boy
20:29.55XhoKrath - not so ffs         could've been better but still
20:30.05HachimanHachi - gud cus i wus gettin bored wifout u guise        pls dunt hurt me
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20:30.22Wormy_awayAeo:  Since they are "bear" nukes, one might expect armies of bears dispersing over wider areas
20:30.35Wormy_awayhi
20:30.35GD12hi
20:30.38Xisuthroshi
20:30.46Hachimanhi
20:31.22AeoTrue. We do know that russians are not humans, but rather sapeint bears on unicycles. (That is not racist unless you think being a sapient bear on a unicycle makes you less of a person, in which case you are the real racist.)
20:31.57MonetNah
20:32.01MonetIt's nationalist
20:33.17AeoNo. There's nothing wrong with being a sapient bear, thus it is not any ist to call someone a sapient bear.
20:34.16XisuthrosIt's going to be hard when we encounter aliens and inevitably discriminate against them/are discriminated against by them, because "speciesist" is really awkward to both say and type
20:34.26Wormy_awayXisuthros:  This is what SporeWiki channel is like 24/7 lol
20:34.30MonetSpecist.
20:34.33GhelaeI was about to ask, if you have a problem with sapient bears, are you a racist or are you actually a speciesist?
20:34.51ImpyDroidWormy_away: I wish I got *paid* for shitposting
20:35.05GhelaePerhaps we'll use "racist" to refer to discrimination against groups of sapient beings in general, not just humans.
20:35.39AeoXisuthros: Not entirely true. Later at night, like, in around 6-7 hours, it will be completely silent, despire three or four people being on. They will be on the side, listed, but not conversing.
20:36.10GhelaeThis would inevitably lead to people being called racist for using the word "speciesist" to refer to discrimination against particular species, because they're implying said species is non-sapient.
20:36.14XisuthrosImpyDroid: If my experience on other sites similar to this is any indication, IRC chat's main function is to draw in the shitposts like a magnet so they don't end up anywhere else on the site
20:36.41Cyrannianbrb
20:37.10HachimanXisuthros: Pretty much that although the admins still make threads unfortunately
20:37.47Wormy_awayImpyDroid:  I can't fault that as a career choice.
20:38.32AeoXisuthros: Not entirely true here, really. It's more like we shitpost here because we need something to do here. Also, we use this place to coordinate the crossovers which make up the majority of the narrative fiction here.
20:39.05Wormy_awayIsn't shitposting fun?  That is what this discussion is missing :P
20:39.27Xisuthrosshitposts
20:39.53Wormy_awayBut in reality, what I really mean is, it can go from that to highly intellectual within seconds
20:39.59AeoXisuthros: But to peoperly introduce myself: I am Aeoneonatrix. http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Aeoneonatrix Here is the main thing I work on.
20:41.17XisuthrosI don't think you were on the site the first time I was here. Nice to meet you.
20:41.55Aeohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:PGPS And here is a thing i do that's not that that you can easily participate in. I am also the one here who knows about philosophy. And thank you. Nice to meet you too.
20:44.24Xisuthrosthe PGPS sounds interesting. I'm working on a creature that I'm trying to create a very alien culture and worldview for, so an essay submitted by one might be interesting to write.
20:45.48ImpyDroidHachiman OluapPlayer Xho: So apparently the national anthem of Catalonia (That's where Barcelona is) is called "The Reapers"
20:46.07HachimanSong about skeleton lords
20:46.28OluapPlayerassumin direkt controllll
20:46.39HachimanOh right those Reapers
20:47.12GhelaeXisuthros: Funnily enough, one of your old Yarsofpupae fictions came up in conversation on IRC recently (it might have been yesterday; I lose track of time here)... at least, I thought it was yours.
20:47.27XisuthrosGhelae: Wow, that's weird. What was the name?
20:47.48OluapPlayerDon't see how you got to skeletons from there
20:48.21GhelaeIt was because a user had mentioned the Surivorter Empire on one of their fiction pages, and thought it might be a problem. I looked at the page and the infobox has your name on it (but looking at the history just now it seems to have been made by a "Cyclopian").
20:48.23HachimanGrim Reaper
20:48.54GhelaeSo I just told them that what they wrote wasn't too much of a problem, but in the unlikely case that the user who created the page ever comes back and has a problem with it, then it would have to be changed.
20:49.18ImpyDroidHarbinger - I AM EL HARBINGER OF YOUR PERFECĆIO
20:49.35XisuthrosGhelae: Oh yeah, at some point I changed my name to Cyclopian as part of an aborted return to the wiki. It actually is mine, though I don't think I'm going to do anything with it
20:50.06GhelaeWould you like me to go through and delete any/all of your old pages?
20:50.11XisuthrosFun fact: Surivorter is just "Retrovirus" backwards. I wasn't very good at naming things.
20:50.43ImpyDroidNow ded
20:50.58XisuthrosGhelae: If you want to, I'm not going to use the really old stuff like the Ctron. Leave the main Surivorter page though, I put some effort into it.
20:51.03GhelaeI personally tend to use the "hit random keys on the keyboard and put vowels in until it sounds like a name" method myself. :P
20:52.12GhelaeI'll leave the choice to you.
20:52.46XisuthrosThough actually while I started out with the "naming things backwards" method, I later constructed a really rudimentary conlang out of the names that I used to name other things.
20:53.07GhelaeAlso, by the looks of things, Cyclopian was what you changed your username to. A lot of the earlier contributions are credited to Yarsofpupae.
20:54.13XisuthrosYEp
20:54.15Xisuthros*Yep
20:56.33GhelaeAlthough this page has been untouched for so long parts of it may not be canon any more, IIRC the "Kcaj Galaxy" section of http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:New_Grox_Wars/Phase_1 was also yours. I will remove that if you don't want that fiction any more.
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20:58.39AeoXisuthros: That's still quite clever by wikiverse standards. GD12's species is called the "Drakodominatus Tyranny."
20:59.07HachimanTo be fair
20:59.07XisuthrosOh yeah, get rid of anything mentioning the "Kcaj" galaxy. It's embarrasing, honestly.
20:59.15XisuthrosKill it with fire
20:59.19GhelaeI didn't think you'd want to keep it. :P
20:59.20HachimanThe DT were written to be exaggerated villains
20:59.43AeoI joked very early on that you can accurately guess the alignment of any race, organization or entity by its name.
21:01.03XisuthrosI'm going to put that to the test. My new species are called the "Shoalers" and they're governed by the "International Space Authority" and the "Extraterrestrial Rights and Obligations Commission". Guess their alignment.
21:01.53AeoI'm going to say evil because you're probably doing it on purpose to trick me. Any other day I'd say good.
21:02.29XisuthrosLawful good. Nice work
21:02.36Xisuthros(I wasn't trying to trick you)
21:03.06XisuthrosI tried to make the government names somewhat bureaucratic and "boring" sounding.
21:07.39AeoI see.
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21:14.46dromThe aggressive faction that rushes beam weaponry (it's seriously fucking OP in GalCivIII) and overkills everyone in the game, kills the game for me.
21:19.45dromI'll wait buying the game until an update/mod balancing the weaponry and defense has released.
21:21.25dromSo far I've learnt it, the only defense against a beam weapon is shields, which requires around two of them to counter a single beam weapon of same grade. More if it is a prototype part.
21:21.54TekDroidWhat game is this?
21:22.03dromGalactic Civilizations III
21:22.27TekDroidAh
21:22.40dromI've just recently pirated it, just to make sure if it is worth my money.
21:22.50Wormy_awaySo they are like Cravers?
21:23.39dromThey are much more aggressive and hostile to other races, I wonder how much it is comparable to that.
21:23.47MonetWell there's the Drengin
21:23.54MonetBut Drengin are more like the Klingons
21:24.27dromMonet: Fun fact, it was the Drengin
21:24.46dromPlayed on beginningers difficulty. Still overkill.
21:25.23dromI've also noticed that Kinetic weapons are completely useless due to their tiny damage output regardless technology grade.
21:25.35TekDroidhuh
21:26.47dromWhile Armor, a defensive part to counter kinetic weapons, is way powerful. But yet useless to be included on a ship due to the general flaw of kinetic weapons.
21:27.15dromWhat I'm trying to say, Armor is like the Beam's defense cousin.
21:28.38dromUgh, enough ranting
21:38.26Cyrannian|Awayhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:New_Cyrandia_Wars/Year_Two/Brezank_Awakens#Chapter_Five:_The_Core - The exciting ending, c dis
21:38.39OluapPlayerYush
21:38.41OluapPlayerCheck that
21:38.54OluapPlayerFeaturing all of the Phaedric Order battling together for the first time in a story
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21:39.55DrodoEmpireHey everyone
21:40.13Monet*ahem*
21:40.16MonetHello
21:40.34MonetOluapPlayer: *ahem. Points at Tytho*
21:41.15OluapPlayerYes, she's member of the Order, and she's included
21:42.55HachimanDamn, that was a pretty good conclusion
21:43.10HachimanThe battle against the Core was pretty epic
21:43.51MonetNo no it's fine. I just feel a little left out that's all.
21:44.14MonetBut it happens
21:45.27OluapPlayerIf you don't want us to mention her then I can remove it
21:46.51MonetNo keep her in. She's part of the order after all.
21:47.02OluapPlayerIf you say so
21:47.17OluapPlayerI should've asked first and I apologize for it
21:50.24Aeotest
21:51.57TekDroidfailure.
21:52.46Wormy_awayI love the Broken Lords theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHyw9agRCZQ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3Du6_34l8
21:54.30MonetOluapplayer: I know things haven't been perfect with us. And it's been a while since we did stuff so I'm getting over it.
21:55.56Wormy_awayAeo:  You might like this faction, they are living in a moral dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShlOWkvp1I
21:58.04OluapPlayerYes. We've not collaborated in ages
22:01.14MonetWell I had a thought, it's a rushed thought but maybe it'll help with alternatives.
22:02.35OluapPlayerOh?
22:09.56dromWormy_away Monet TekDroid Techno: Breakdown on Deus Ex: HR's graphical rendering. http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human-revolution-graphics-study/
22:11.40Wormy_awayAt a glance (I'm still rather busy) that looks like multi-pass rendering techniques
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22:12.24HachimanFuck
22:12.38Wormy_awaydrom:  Check dis https://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory
22:13.43Monetdrom: And a good PC can calibrate all that 60 times a second.
22:13.45Wormy_awayIts useful in game engines as it creates dynamic lighting scenarios
22:14.09MonetThat is impressive
22:14.37dromWhile I'm a software engineer. I never thought that a computer that can manage this many calls per second.
22:15.17Wormy_awayIn short:  Photorealistic rendering comforts the internal mental models we have of lighting, Physicall-based rendering is an attempt to simulate the actual physics of lighting
22:16.04Wormy_awayIt is amazing, yes
22:16.57Wormy_awayBut it also makes me scratch my head how the human brain can seemingly create effortless "renderings" of shapes, lighting, and motion
22:17.14MonetEasy
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22:17.27dromSeeing that a CLI application can do 500 random numbers and then put them all in a line per second.
22:17.32MonetEach neuron acts like a cluster of microprocessors
22:18.10Wormy_awayWell yes, it has amazing amount of processing power but doesn't need to whir, freeze or overheat
22:18.38Wormy_awayOf course the "renderings" must be mixture of analogy and memory too
22:18.45MonetOur brains are watercooled.
22:19.12MonetYeah, what you see in a game like Deus Ex is quite different to what Autodesk Maya does
22:24.25dromDon't forget our eyes aswell.
22:25.09dromThey are like GPUs..
22:26.01Wormy_awayWell, I'm referring more to those "conjoured images" you can create in a flash
22:26.25Wormy_awayBut I suppose the brain must make use of a fuckload of sensory data
22:26.45Wormy_awaymuch of it is cast away and dealt with subconsciously
22:28.10Wormy_awayThe scary thing is, some scientists think the neuronal activity is just the surface.  Its controversial but some postulate microtubles are where the true processing power is.
22:29.38Wormy_awayIts estimated that if its correct, there are 10^27 operations per second in the brain.
22:30.26Wormy_awayNeuronal activity would account for 10^14 in comparison.  Keep in mind these figures are from late 90's estimates
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22:35.34dromThis is impressive: http://i.imgur.com/UNvPoNC.webm
22:37.31dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/t76oAep.jpg
22:40.57dromOluapPlayer: http://i.imgur.com/RZZJ4tm.png
22:41.04dromTry to pronounce the name
22:41.36OluapPlayerhur
22:41.47Monetdrom: HOOOOOOOOOONNNNK
22:44.10MonetPLaying Diablo III I find the rather cliched language kinda funny
22:44.41Monet"Diablo tried to posess Leoric but he was too strong-willed. Weakened, was eventually driven mad by Diablo's evil"
22:44.54Monet(that's not the actual language but a paraphrase)
22:46.25dromtruck dragsters
22:46.33dromamercia and rossyia, y so crazy
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22:50.39dromThis for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvEz7Oi1TU
22:52.14dromNotice how the trucks get so much power, enough for one side to almost leave the ground
23:05.31drompickup dragster racing, then you've got the most redneck tradition ever
23:07.27dromIf semi-trucks ain't redneckish enough
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23:12.20The_Randomnessayy lmao
23:13.18Hachimanayy lmao
23:16.09Wormy_awayWhy do you come in laughing your arse off?  Put it away.
23:28.41The_Randomnessputs his arse back on
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23:48.29Quark8Hello.

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