IRC log for #sporewiki on 20160904

00:00.25Charles_MurrayAccording to the article, Bin Laden was actually there
00:00.37Charles_MurrayBut escaped into Pakistan
00:04.35Wormy_Hiding in caves, not super fortresses
00:04.47Charles_MurrayRight
00:04.57Charles_MurrayClaiming that there was a super fortress makes no sense
00:05.24Wormy_To be fair, information in war is never always clear at the time and mistakes abound
00:05.55Monet_2This was more like a snowball
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00:08.35HachimanHi again
00:08.38Monet_2We understood Al Qaeda were using caves in Tora Bora as bolt-holes and weapon stashes. Their presence and wild speculation on the threat of the organisation snowballed until what media tried selling that Bin Laden was running an evil Tracy Island
00:08.40Monet_2Hi
00:08.45HachimanALLAHU ACKBAR
00:09.32Charles_MurrayYeah, that seems likely. Or the Northern Alliance gave them that intel in order to convince them to intervene decisively
00:09.36Charles_MurrayAnd overwhelmingly
00:09.49Charles_Murraybecause getting America to give that level of support otherwise is pretty difficult
00:10.35Wormy_The media, but it appears in convinced people in the government and military as well, creating an exaggerated phantom enemy.  And that oversimplification creates mistakes in engaging with the real threat, and unfortunately negatively effected many people.
00:10.53HachimanMedia Gear Solid V: The Phantom Enemy
00:12.27Monet_2Yeah. By the time of the Iraq War, if not earlier or later, the picture painted was Bin Laden and his inner circle were genius supervillains.
00:13.30Monet_2The terrorist mastermind who threatened all of Western society as we know it.
00:15.24Wormy_Arguably it is quite a convenient myth for those pushing that agenda
00:15.45Monet_2I swear I remember suggestions in the early 2000s that Al Quaeda were so deeply networked in Europe and America they came off as some Bond-like shadow oganisation.
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00:17.29Wormy_I've read about people in the US (particularly from places like Afganistan), at the time getting wrongly accused of being in sleeper cells
00:18.40Monet_2Yeah doesn't seem too surprising that whatever myths were envisioned about the KGB were transplanted to Al Qaeda.
00:18.48Wormy_With evidence unfairly mountain against them, i.e. doodles on a piece of scrap paper having hidden meanings in the eyes of experts
00:18.52Wormy_*mounted
00:20.06NeonPanda"People are stupid, easy to scare animals, and they're even stupider when they're scared."
00:23.12Monet_2Mainstream media appeared obsessed with painting Bin Laden as anything but a normal, if well-connected man with a feeling of nothing left to lose.
00:23.50TechnobliteratorI remember when Bin Laden died
00:23.59Technobliteratorand the first thhing my friends did was post conspiracy theories about how he was still alive
00:24.04The_Randomness>_>
00:24.22Monet_2Technobliterator: Exactly
00:24.42Monet_2"how could such a dangerous and super-clever man die so easily?"
00:25.06The_Randomnesswith a bullet to the head
00:25.10TechnobliteratorBut like, why would Obama lie about that, guys
00:25.26TechnobliteratorIf it turns out to be a lie it backfires badly and he loses badly
00:27.01Monet_2Maybe it was like with the USSR - people were in such shock that he's finally dead they had a personal crisis of "what next"
00:27.08Monet_2The ISIL emerged.
00:27.36Monet_2For a few days we all probably thought the war on terror was over
00:27.45TechnobliteratorI can see why it was hard to believe
00:27.49TechnobliteratorIt was hard to believe it when Michael Jackson died as well
00:28.03TechnobliteratorNot that you didn't believe it happened
00:28.09Technobliteratorbut it just came out of nowhere
00:28.49HachimanI like how people make conspiracies about Osama still being alive due to not seeing him die yet when Saddam Hussein gets publicly executed they call barbarism
00:29.35TechnobliteratorDo people still believe he's alive?
00:29.55HachimanMost definitely
00:29.58Monet_2Some people still hope Elvis is still alive so maybe.
00:30.05Wormy_I wasn't expecting it, yet at the time I remember remarking how Micheal Jackson had advertised his last tour was called "This Is It"
00:30.33Wormy_Elvis would be pretty old by now
00:30.56HachimanPeople still think Tupac, Elvis, and MJ are still alive; there are even people who think that Hitler did not actually commit suicide and instead immigrated to Brazil
00:31.09Wormy_Or the Moon
00:31.20Monet_2Hachiman: I think you mean Argentina
00:31.29TechnobliteratorPeople watch Infowars
00:31.30Technobliteratorso
00:33.49Monet_2One of the dark things about having great volumes of information is that quite often, people gravitate towards the information that comforts them.
00:34.13Monet_2Not always the information that is true
00:34.15Wormy_To sum up my earlier rant;  I don't buy into conspiracies, but its not a tall order to believe myths are perpetuated by powerful figures, sometimes on purpose, and sometimes by their own beliefs that have affected government policy.
00:36.04Monet_2"God is dead, we have killed him, but something must occupy the void for the world to make sense"
00:36.27Wormy_Neoconservatism for example has its routes in Leo Strauss, who belioeved individualiosm was decaying American liberal values.  He believed that it would be okay to nudge people away from individualism using myths that would unite them, if it would save the kind of nation he believed was decaying
00:40.00Wormy_Hence, it might be useful for neoconservatives, and perhaps many other ideologies, to portray an black and white rationality of the world.
00:40.26Wormy_Which almost always fails because the world is complex and dynamic
00:40.36Monet_2Nothing unites a community more than a common enemy and a common virtue.
00:42.27Wormy_I had hoped that people were waking up to these myths, the first to die was the utopian dreams peddled for the 21st century, and then secondly fears peddled about terrorism
00:43.35Wormy_Actually, that people doubt the mainstream story told to them by media, even if for the wrong reasons (not bringing them any closer to the truth) might actually be a positive sign in this sense
00:44.55Wormy_However, it seems social media can be even more isolating and confusing, because people end up receiving their information from their ow echochambers, once again simplifying their views of the world
00:46.10Monet_2The dangerous thing is that by turning away from maintream media and developing an anti-establishment worldview, they risk becoming prey to anti-establishment sensationalism.
00:46.29Wormy_Even the whole idea that social media can spur revolutions towards democracy, also cut short.
00:46.40Wormy_yes
00:47.01dromWormy_: http://i.imgur.com/28Zfpp2.jpg
00:47.25Wormy_Perhaps one day people will be far more wary and critical of the information they receive from all sources
00:47.29dromWhich reminds me, I could brighten Xho's week with more pictures of fluffy animals.
00:47.52Wormy_Social media is still a recent phenomenon and society has a long time to adapt to it
00:48.16Monet_2It's become hip to cry "wake up sheeple" by spouting rhetoric that paints the establishment as an unashamed threat to life and liberty.
00:49.07Monet_2SO ironically these people exchange one shepherd for another.
00:49.37Wormy_drom: cute
00:54.01Wormy_Monet_2:  With this in mind its easy to reject NWO/illuminati conspiracies.  There may be groups like that that try to control the world.  But they can't, nobody can say they have control https://youtu.be/McRIVsEHXCo?t=3m4s
00:56.27Monet_2I had a guest lecturer who started his talk by saying "The truth is no one knows what they're doing"
00:58.16Monet_2It's easy to assume "oh the rich control everything they have all the money"
00:58.48Monet_2It's hard to rule the world when you are in contant competition with your peers.
00:58.58Wormy_yes, it seems to me that the core of all knowledge acquisition is trial and error experimentation and fallible conjecture.  As Karl Popper said, "Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
00:59.58Wormy_we're all using imperfect models of the world, whether they be scientific, economic or political
01:00.14Monet_2Ineed.
01:00.55Monet_2The simple explanation of "no one is in control" is completely counter to the perception of an organsied world.
01:03.30Wormy_Economists don't fully understand how to manage the economy, it was believed (and probably still is) that it can always self-sustain and equilibrium, especially using computers.  And that simplification might have lead to the financial crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
01:03.57Wormy_So when people try to pin all world control on them, its hopelessly false.
01:04.31Monet_2"let the market sort it out"
01:05.00Monet_2Another possibility is economists assume either someone else will see the problem and fix it, or they gather the capital to fix the issue themselves.
01:05.14TechnobliteratorI think that that mentality is exactly what led to the 2008 crash
01:05.44DrodoEmpireTechnobliterator: I think a *lot* of corruption and irresponsible banks went in to that >.<
01:05.54TechnobliteratorOf course
01:05.54DrodoEmpireLess that economists didn't see it coming
01:05.59TechnobliteratorBut deregulation didn't help
01:06.01DrodoEmpireI'm sure they did, they're smart people
01:06.24DrodoEmpireOh yeah letting the banks do dumb shit in the first place definitely was the problem
01:06.44Technobliteratorlike repealing Glass Steagall
01:06.48Monet_2Like go crazy with handing out loans?
01:06.51DrodoEmpireYeah
01:06.54DrodoEmpireTo Tech
01:16.31Monet_2goodnight
01:19.39DrodoEmpirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKX-k4qVJT0 best cheater na
01:20.12Wormy_There's a claim in this documentary by Curtis that leading up to the 2008 collapse, the stability (without inflation) of the economic boom was confirmation to many economists that their theory of the market managing itself was correct, when actually it was being managed by China's Politburo by buying government bonds while flooding in cheap goods at a low exchange rate, causing banks to lend too much money  https://vimeo.com/groups/
01:38.11Wormy_goodnight
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01:49.58Quark8Hello.
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02:19.57Quark8Hello.
02:20.02TybusenHello
03:48.04DrodoEmpireDoes anybody have any recent events happening in their fiction?
03:48.24DrodoEmpireI'm gonna get roooooooooooooooooooooooooight in to the newwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwws soon with the Klaxon <.<
04:05.17TybusenUnfortunately, besides the Marko Colonial War most of my fiction happenings right now are in the realm of history
04:05.49DrodoEmpireAhh, kk
04:06.31TybusenBusy with the First Bunsen War rewrite and filling out character bios
04:07.01Tybusenhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Mikos_Saladot Currently working on this guy who's essentially the Bunsen Grox Ataturk
04:08.45TybusenI'm trying to decide if it makes more sense from a political perspective to have him start his revolution when he's a high-ranked military officer or after he's retired from active military service
04:08.55DrodoEmpireAhh, so I see
04:10.18TybusenFrom a character perspective, he would have probably retired from the military before starting his movement since he didn't like some of the actions the Bunsen Grox Empire was taken militarily
04:10.46TybusenBut from a political perspective, it seems like he would have more resources at his disposal if he launched it while still a general in the army
04:12.01DrodoEmpireTrue
04:12.52DrodoEmpireThough he may have more influence with a full career behind him and (presumbably) a lot of respect
04:13.23TybusenTrue, though the war I would think he would have retired after ends roughly 50 years before the First Bunsen War
04:14.02DrodoEmpireAh
04:14.19TybusenThough, maybe he took up politics after retiring from the military so he could keep up a public profile and influence network
04:14.53DrodoEmpireCould be yeah
04:43.20NeonPandaalrighty, having interposed work on fiction with housework, giant enemy space crabs are now a coherent concept
04:43.45NeonPandafor those who don't know, making a couple of T4 fictions to throw at each other in a war because reasons, as that's the sort of thing that interests me
04:46.31DrodoEmpireHmm okay
04:49.17NeonPandaI can appreciate peoples' interest in diplomacy, and other peoples' interests in high-end theoretical sci-fi, I just prefer a good old fashioned scrap and that's what I like writing about, so that's what I'm gonna write about
04:52.28NeonPandaas far as space crabs go, biologically speaking they hail from a higher oxygen density and humidity planet, being about the size of a large bear
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04:54.58NeonPandathese organisms operating in association with a cephalopoid species that are more intelligent in the traditional sense (crabs are still sentient and pretty intelligent, just the cephalopoids are the brains of the operation)
05:00.04NeonPandathese two races developing somewhat in tandem, the industrialisation of their homeworld rapidly depleting its resources to the point of investing in space travel as a means of acquiring new resources, spaceborne invader society ensues
05:06.37NeonPandaas far as the stabby end goes, giant space crabs and I don't really need to say much more than that
05:08.38DrodoEmpireright, interesting
05:09.54NeonPandaI did also have the stray idea that in order to cope with alien environments, said crabs would probably have artificial lungs implanted into their bodies
05:16.47DrodoEmpireI see
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07:58.15TybusenDamn it, Pastie is down
08:02.49ImpyDroidHi
08:05.25TybusenHai
08:20.14TybusenImpyDroid: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Mikos_Saladot atagrox, grox greattest country
08:20.46TybusenNot finished yet but the summary is there which is enough for now
08:57.15ImpyDroidTybusen: It ain't easy being green
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09:02.16TybusenThe thing about Saladot is that he's the kind of guy who doesn't think anyone else can continue his vision of a "perfect" Bunsen Grox Republic
09:02.40TybusenSo he'll just stay in power until he shits the bed on something and someone finally manages to legitimately challenge him for the Chancellorship
09:02.45TybusenHai Xho
09:02.57Xhobok
09:03.14Tybusenhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Mikos_Saladot Started working on the page for this guy
09:05.06Xho>grox
09:05.07Xho>GROX
09:05.19Tybusenbut
09:05.21Tybusennice grox
09:05.34XhoGROX
09:05.50Tybusenxorg
09:06.06Liquid_Inkgorx
09:06.20XhoI would've thought he'd be older than 160 if he was born in 1278 SY
09:06.38Tybusen4 SY = 1 regular year
09:06.50Xhothis i was not aware of
09:06.53TybusenIn-universe date is roughly 1944 SY
09:06.54XhoThat explains it
09:07.21TybusenSo actually he's still a little older than 160 actually
09:07.49TybusenActually he's 666 SY old
09:07.56Xhoahah i beat the system
09:08.29Tybusenin soviet russia system beats you
09:09.29XhoIt actually did which was the bad thing
09:10.07Tybusenin soviet ottzello system ASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL
09:12.26TybusenI'm pretty sure that Saladot speaks almost exclusively in poetic phrases or quotable soundbites
09:12.44Xhocould be a xhodocto
09:12.46Xhowatch out
09:13.19Tybusen> 666 SY old
09:13.43Xhoc
09:13.52ImpyDroidTybusen: "I am Mikos Saladot, and I approve this message"
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09:15.16ImperiosTybusen: I actually wonder
09:15.49Tybusen"I am Mikos Saladot, and it's my conviction that the beliefs stated here resonate with my own and are worthy to be echoed in the halls of the Republic government"
09:15.49ImperiosJust how individual are Bunsen Grox?
09:15.59TybusenVery individual
09:16.15ImperiosLike, they do not have *anything* resembling a group mind or something like that
09:16.19TybusenThey make a big deal out of avoiding becoming too collectivist
09:16.21ImperiosNot even a very weak one
09:16.32TybusenTheir founders were exiles of the original Empire
09:17.16TybusenThey were sent to colonize Bunsen since old Bunsen was believed to be barren and incapable of supporting large-scale space civilization
09:18.01TybusenThey have no group mind because they were founded on the principle of rejecting it
09:20.30Imperiosright
09:21.43TybusenEarly Bunsen Grox - maaaaaaan i ain't a part of your system
09:37.40XhoWhich user was it that hated heavy music
09:37.50XhoLike he couldn't listen to anything heavier than Coldplay or something
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11:20.20MonetHi
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12:05.19MonetHello
12:05.48OluapPlayerhi
12:07.04Moneton and off atm, helping new students move into halls but it's not very busy right now
12:09.35MonetMost of them came yesterday
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12:17.26HachimanHi
12:17.38MonetHi
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13:11.53Wormy_we're doomed
13:12.19Wormy_God has abandoned us.
13:13.52Technobliteratorit's ok, there are still ops here
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13:38.03ImpyDroid2Xho: Was at a Nepalese festival today
13:38.12ImpyDroid2The Hindu lection was entertaining
13:38.38ImpyDroid2I like how the Indian way of dealing with holy men is throwing hot girls at them
13:40.40Wormy_Lol
13:49.56HachimanImpyDroid2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77yann_Rko Snorlax becomes an Aztec God of Fitness
13:51.31ImpyDroid2Hachiman: MY OILED STOMACH QUIVERS AT YOUR VOICE
13:51.43Hachimankek
13:52.10HachimanWhich reminds me, Alfabusa hasn't uploaded in a while
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13:56.01OluapPlayer_Fucking shit
13:56.15OluapPlayer_Alfabusa's videos take a long time to make. He said on his twitter yesterday that the next TTS video will be over 30 minutes long
13:57.37HachimanOh cool
13:58.01HachimanI can imagine they take a while to make
14:11.13XhoImpyDroid2: Might be related to brahmacharya
14:14.22XhoHm what to do
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14:15.00HachimanFantasyverse plantfolk
14:15.04N3therIsHerehi
14:15.32HachimanHello
14:16.43Xhomeow
14:18.11DrodoEmpiretest
14:19.17XhoWell I'm selling my 1080 and putting it towards my new desktop
14:19.36Xhobad idea trying to change that
14:24.09Monet2Should get a fair amount for it
14:25.38XhoHalf price probably since it's been opened and messed around with
14:26.12XhoI just need to figure out how to transfer data from my old HDD to the new one
14:29.57ImpyDroid2Hachiman: Now I want to make a race of sexy dryads
14:30.24HachimanGo ahead hur
14:30.46HachimanI did consider dryads for a while but I've no confidence in the Editor to make them look good anymore
14:33.44ImpyDroid2Xho: Also I like how unlike Christianity, where ascetism simply purifies your soul
14:33.56ImpyDroid2In Hinduism, ascetism gives you *POWERS*
14:34.22ImpyDroid2"I DID NOT FUCK GIRLS IN 30 YEARS, I AM A POWERFUL SADHI"
14:35.27ImpyDroid2saddhi
14:35.30ImpyDroid2saddhu
14:35.30HachimanPowers derived from virginity; sounds like Hachi's kind of superpower
14:35.41ImpyDroid2Je ne comprends pas hindi
14:36.06ImpyDroid2or l'hindi even
14:37.04ImpyDroid2Hachiman: Which is why Hindu gods apparently removed too powerful holy men by summoning seductresses to distract them
14:37.23HachimanThat's awesome hur
14:38.00XhoI just realised I lost my ZBrush license
14:38.05Xhois marginally angry
14:38.38HachimanIt ran out?
14:38.51XhoMy hard drive is botched
14:39.09XhoHopefully I can get to it and fix it
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14:54.28dino82_hi
14:54.31DrodoEmpireHi
14:56.30HachimanSo, I was watching Crash Course World History last night and went through a vid about the historical bias of Herodotus in regards to the Greeks and the antagonism of the Persian Empire
14:58.16HachimanKind of funny how we treat the Spartans as the protagonists of the Battle of Thermopylae and Athens as a place of peace, rational thought, and scholarly learning when slavery was one of the factors that drove their conflict against the Achaemenids, whose Zoroastrian faith prohibited slavery
14:58.43HachimanSlavery also being a major focus and foundation in Greek culture and society at the time
15:01.07DrodoEmpireYeah the Persians *really* weren't that bad
15:01.48XhoWell it's the west vs east trope
15:03.41XhoThe forefront of the occident at that time was Greece and anything further east of Greece was foreign and therefore a threat
15:03.47HachimanI've heard it said that if one was to be alive between 500 BC - 300 BC, the Achaemenid Empire was one of the best places to live if you were a commoner
15:04.59XhoThey were the most powerful Empire in the world up until a point I guess
15:05.35XhoThen it was the Macedonians
15:06.36HachimanDrodoEmpire: Didn't a lot of Western empires following the decline of the Achaemenids actually borrow and follow a lot of the systems that the Achaemenids used?
15:07.02HachimanI know that the Achaemenids had a lasting influence over the West
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15:07.06HachimanHi Imp
15:07.07DrodoEmpireThere was a lot of cultural exchange in general yes
15:07.14ImperiosHiya
15:07.15DrodoEmpireI'm no expert but I do know that
15:07.24HachimanWe were just discussing the Achaemenid Empire and Greek historical bias
15:07.31ImperiosExactly
15:07.34XhoThe Persians had notable control over northern Greece in a geographical sense
15:07.45ImperiosThe Greek view of Thermopylae is BLASPHEMY
15:07.48ImperiosIt is MADNESS
15:07.58Hachimandis is spurtur
15:08.26XhoI would have liked to see a war between 19th Dynasty Egypt and the Persians under Xerxes
15:08.31ImperiosBut yeah the Greeks were very biased against their enemies, which is why our view of Persia was skewed
15:08.39ImperiosBut I am also skewed towards Persians
15:08.47Imperios*is skewed
15:08.50Imperios*I am also biased
15:09.01ImperiosI am having one of these dyslexic phases again
15:09.56XhoWell, I'd go with the Persians under Xerxes actually
15:10.14XhoThe Egyptians weren't all that advanced really
15:10.35XhoMaybe for their time but not in 500 BC onwards
15:11.04Hachimanegyptians were noob-ians
15:11.58XhoKind of why they were conquered in 500 BC or thereabous
15:12.01Xhothereabouts
15:25.33ImperiosInterestingly enough, the Battle for Thermopylae was actually more or less even in terms of size
15:25.38ImperiosOf the opposing armies that is
15:26.00ImperiosThe only difference was that the two sides used different tactics, and the Persians had an advantage of having a regular army
15:26.08ImperiosWhereas Greeks were mostly militia
15:26.23ImperiosWith the exception of the Spartans, but even they were technically militia citizens
15:26.39ImperiosIt's just that Spartan citizenship was very elitist
15:26.56ImperiosTBH Sparta if you think about it was a pretty terrible place
15:27.37DrodoEmpireImperios: ...No, the Greeks were significantly outnumbered
15:27.50DrodoEmpireThe modern estimate for the Greek army size is ~20 000
15:28.05DrodoEmpireThe most conservative estimate for the Persian army size is 70 000
15:28.42DrodoEmpireYou weren't kidding when you said you had a Persian bias. :p
15:28.44ImperiosDrodoEmpire: That's still comparable, it wasn't actuially an overwhelming size advantage that the historians portrayed it as
15:28.56DrodoEmpireThat's not at all comparable
15:29.09DrodoEmpireThe Greeks were outnumbered three to one
15:29.09ImperiosAlrighty, my bad
15:29.16ImperiosAnyway
15:29.37DrodoEmpire*over three to one
15:30.07ImperiosSo you got to live in a state where most of the population were slaves and an artistocratic warrior caste commited regular ethnic purges and pogroms against the common people
15:30.22DrodoEmpireYeah Sparta was awful
15:30.28ImperiosAll while being the poorest Greek city state
15:31.51ImperiosActually if you think about it - Sparta was a state that, although playing a significant role in Greek politics at the time, was dirt-poor, plagued by hatred, and had an extremely skewed distribution of wealth
15:32.01Imperios...Sparta was Ancient Russia
15:32.15DrodoEmpire(Modern estimates peak at 300k as well, which makes the Greeks outnumbered well over *ten* to one)
15:32.37HachimanAthenians weren't much better
15:33.09ImperiosAt the very least they did not commit purges against their population, and did not have *as* many slaves
15:33.09HachimanThey were supposed to be a democratic state by the time that Herodotus was forced to commit suicide and the slaughter of Melos
15:33.21DrodoEmpireAthenians were a bit better- at the very least, they were cultured and had a democracy (though, a democracy for the aristocracy)
15:33.24ImperiosAnd were not an ethnocracy
15:33.41DrodoEmpireDemocracy meant something quite different from it does now
15:33.51ImperiosDe jure democratic but de facto oligarchic
15:33.55ImperiosA bit like Ancient America
15:34.00ImperiosHistory repeats hur
15:34.21DrodoEmpireI hear Corinth was cool
15:34.28DrodoEmpireThey were a big trade city
15:35.47ImperiosHachiman DrodoEmpire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvtvjo3fPsQ Holy shit the comments
15:35.49ImperiosI fucking love them hur
15:38.22DrodoEmpire"t. alberto barbosa" ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao
15:38.56ImperiosI personally want Israel, an Islamic Persia and some Caucasian nation
15:39.00ImperiosLike Georgia or Armenia
15:39.19DrodoEmpireIsreal would be interesting
15:39.28DrodoEmpireI'd like to see something like Sumer or Akkad as we;;
15:39.30DrodoEmpire*well
15:39.45DrodoEmpireBronze age is underrated as a time period
15:39.51ImpyDroidI believe Sumer will be in Civ VI
15:39.56DrodoEmpireCool cool
15:40.18HachimanNeeds Gilgamesh as its ruler and Enkidu somewhere else
15:40.24ImpyDroidThey were mentioned in the leak
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15:40.31ImpyDroidThat so far was correct every time
15:41.08ImpyDroidhttp://well-of-souls.com/civ/images/civ6_portrait_bingo2.jpg There
15:42.11HachimanGilgamesh will be best because he's like an early historic Superman
15:42.23ImperiosAccording to this, we will have both Pericles, which would be Athens
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15:42.48Imperios*we will have two Greek leaders: Pericles, who stands for Athens
15:42.50ImperiosAnd...
15:42.55ImperiosGorgo, Queen of SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAA
15:43.00Hachimannoice
15:43.09Imperios*Insert anti-feminist complaint*
15:43.09HachimanGilgamesh is 1/3 human and 2/3 god so
15:43.29ImperiosThen again, if ANY ancient Greek state can have a female leader in Civ, that'd be Sparta
15:43.46ImperiosProbably one of the only good things about it - they were prettty good with women's rights
15:43.54Imperiosfooking feminists roight
15:44.00Hachiman>anti-feminist complaint      >about a city-state that allowed women's rights in an otherwise patriarchal society
15:44.10ImperiosExactly hur
15:44.17Xholeaders*
15:44.26XhoSparta always had two leaders
15:44.36Charles_MurrayAnyone know if they can reach Tybusen if he's not on IRC or Steam?
15:44.40ImperiosBut hey, people complained about the Scythian queen too
15:44.46ImperiosCharles_Murray: Skype
15:44.54Charles_MurrayDo you have him on Skype?
15:45.49Imperiosyep
15:46.09Charles_MurrayCould you poke him for me?
15:46.27ImperiosHe's away
15:46.36ImperiosHe's in California duh
15:48.21Charles_MurrayIt's 8:50 over there
15:49.18ImperiosI think he's sleeping ATM
15:49.29Charles_MurrayMakes sense. Thanks!
15:49.45Charles_MurrayCould you drop him a quick message saying I might want to do the Congress of Paris later today?
15:49.49XhoWould be nice to be asleep
15:50.04XhoGilgamesh hm
15:50.11HachimanImperios: Did Catherine the Great really die trying to fuck a horse?
15:50.26XhoThere's not any planet in wikiverse called Gilgamesh is there
15:50.31XhoCause I might use it for a name
15:50.39ImperiosNo, but her real death might be related to her... adventures
15:50.49ImperiosShe died on her toilet out of vaginal rupture I believe
15:50.54HachimanAs far as I know, there is no planet named Gilgamesh yet
15:50.54Xholovely
15:51.04HachimanAlso holy fuck
15:51.22XhoMight use it as a name for a Zhulultu world then
15:51.32HachimanWas Catherine the Great *that* promiscuous?
15:52.00ImperiosShe was a monarch hur
15:52.05ImperiosShe had the power, and power is sexy
15:52.40Monet2She built an empire with her tits.
15:52.49Charles_MurrayImperios
15:52.53Xhoall hail the royal tits
15:52.59Charles_MurrayWikipedia says she died of a stroke
15:53.08ImperiosMy mistake
15:53.14ImperiosBut yeah she died on her toilet anyway
15:53.34Charles_Murray^
15:54.13Monet2Embarrassing
15:54.18ImperiosThen again
15:54.39ImperiosHer toilet was actually fashioned from the Polish throne
15:54.52ImperiosThat she took when she conquered Poland
15:55.02Wormy_DrodoEmpire, Imperios:  Wasn't it a large Greek army headed by a smaller group of Spartans?
15:55.33HachimanIt was
15:55.38Monet2"I want to crap in the throne of Poland" - Catherine
15:55.51HachimanSeveral thousand militia and fighting slaves sent by other Greek city-states
15:56.03ImperiosSo at least she died on a throne, albeit not her throne
15:58.32Xhoshe did not shit gold i see
15:58.44Hachimanhur
15:59.37ImperiosShe shit shit into shit (a.k.a. Poland)
15:59.44Imperiosshat even
16:00.14Xhoshe shat shat into shat
16:01.01HachimanI have no arse and I must shitte
16:02.24Xhooh lord
16:03.44Monet2Well this took a crappy direction
16:04.19Xhodoi
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16:06.35Xhoups
16:07.08dino82_hi Oluap!
16:07.15Monet2Hi
16:07.16dino82_so the wikia is quite quiet haha :d
16:08.22OluapPlayerhi
16:10.28ImperiosXho Hachiman OluapPlayer: https://www.evernote.com/ So I found this website that might be a safer, more secure replacement for Titanpad
16:11.09Wormy_Eugh, I'm fed up of signing up for things
16:15.52Monet2Too many usernames and passwords to remember
16:16.44Monet2Too many instances of personal details that could be stolen by hackers
16:17.03Wormy_Too much spam in  the email inbox
16:17.15Wormy_Or alternatively Facebook intrusion
16:18.01Wormy_Its a horrible trend that I'm seeing getting worse and worse to the point where one has to sign in to read blogs or news
16:18.30Wormy_I remember once I could just download or use web tools without signing up first
16:19.38Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Planet:Incunabula Expanded on this a bit
16:21.34Charles_Murrayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiWroA7310E :(
16:22.04HachimanWhy sign up for anything ever
16:22.30ImperiosAlright-y
16:26.13Monet2Hachiman: services and notifications
16:26.16Charles_MurrayTrump in Fallout 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0i90-arfyE
16:26.41Monet2Next for instance emails you whenever they hold a sale
16:29.05Monet2Train tickets can be much cheaper when you book in advance
16:36.17XhoSomeone gimme a quote for these freaks http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/c/cf/Zamuyrnnui.png/revision/latest?cb=20160817193429
16:37.23OluapPlayer"[screams externally]" -anonymous alien
16:37.39Xhothat works
16:37.48OluapPlayerfug
16:39.06Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature:Zamuyrnnui blah
16:40.15Wormy_bbs
16:56.45HachimanCharles_Murray: Holy shit that ship drifting
16:57.13XhoHachiman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIIyFhnYJs4
16:57.32HachimanOh God
16:58.00Hachiman>log onto the UDB     >this is the latest audio message
16:58.17ImperiosXho: In Tuurosian mythologies, what would Santorakh represent outside of the obvious (madness, chaos, cheese)?
16:59.36HachimanSex
16:59.41XhoMore or less
16:59.42HachimanAnd creative freedom
16:59.50XhoTuuros!Slaanesh
16:59.55HachimanEssentially hur
17:00.56XhoSo if anyone had the madness to watch X Factor recently you probably saw two guys on there which were *ridiculously* camp
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17:01.15HachimanXho: Link/
17:01.15XhoBelieve it or not, Southampton residents
17:01.16Hachiman?
17:02.06XhoDon't think there's a link
17:02.14XhoBut trust me you'd know them if you saw them
17:03.09XhoSouthampton's good at this
17:03.45Monet2Can't be any more camp than UbiSoft's e3 opening display
17:03.48XhoTrust me
17:04.44Monet2so it's a hellhole that's camp and proud?
17:05.01Xhoeh kinda
17:09.24Xhohttps://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14233144_1289789434378264_2617513382579141533_n.jpg?oh=888140ffb062a1f9f3ffd5f7cf745dab&oe=587BF95A Santorakh as final boss of Tuuros
17:10.26Monet2Poke his butt
17:16.13Hachimanhttps://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/14202705_1006827859429402_5159027264471004990_n.jpg?oh=b4f7a4984a51163c9cb75fec4bf32073&oe=58526AF8
17:18.40XhoWhy you should never marry an Asgord
17:19.44Xhoneeds asgord genocide mark 2
17:21.11Monet2The Asgordening
17:25.19Monet2I now wonder. According to their page the Kraw used to treat those pig things of theirs as sacred, and none were allowed to be killed
17:25.58XhoKicath - kill them all
17:26.01Monet2I wonder if this was a jab at the sacred perception of cattle in India
17:26.34HachimanI don't think Irsk even knows about that
17:26.40HachimanIt's religion and he hates religion
17:27.16Monet2He hates religion but that doesn't mean he knows nothing about it
17:28.31Monet2the joke of Indians worshipping cows is fairly widespread in western media
17:28.33HachimanCome on, it's Irsk
17:29.56Xhom'lady
17:31.54Monet2The extent of his knowledge could be "Indians worship cows. Umm....why?"
17:32.43HachimanTrue
17:34.56Monet2Isn't cow's milk still drunk in India?
17:35.46OluapPlayerYou don't have to kill the cow to get milk
17:35.54OluapPlayerIn fact killing the cow negates you of the milk
17:36.22Monet2My point exactly
17:37.21Monet2treatment, if I remember. Manifests as giving them right of way, respecting them and not killing them for food
17:37.42Xhodafuq is goin on
17:38.15HachimanXho, you're part-IT operator, tell us more about the cow thing
17:38.36ImperiosXho Hachiman: https://derpicdn.net/img/2015/11/9/1019874/medium.gif You thought MLP can't be scary
17:38.37Xhoeh
17:38.57XhoI don't know much about the sanctity of cows
17:39.46HachimanImperios: Does that count as trypophobia or not
17:39.46XhoAlthough I believe eating/drinking things that come from milk is allowed
17:40.13OluapPlayerThey look like holes so yes it does
17:41.20XhoJust killing a cow and eating beef is not allowed
17:41.30Monet2Though goats are popular for meat and milk as they're lower maintenance
17:42.41XhoWell I guess Indians must use milk in their cuisine, I mean gulab jamuns are made with milk powder
17:43.07Hachimanooga joobas
17:44.01Monet2washing your mouth with Milk is useful for defusing spicy foods
17:44.08Monet2that or lager
17:44.23XhoWouldn't have thought lager was good
17:44.26XhoIt's mostly water
17:46.29Monet2Lager and chicken tikka Masala are a classic combination
17:46.49Xho>chicken tikka masala               >spicy               >Indian
17:46.54Xhoi'd ought to slap your shit
17:47.53Monet2I know it's not Indian
17:48.04Monet2it's fake Indian food
17:50.05Xhohttp://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/003/878/1237917779613a.jpg?1284764479 Exact face
17:50.38XhoAll things considered it doesn't taste bad
17:51.01XhoHottest thing I've ever had from an Indian is lamb madras
17:51.11XhoMy mouth was almost numb by the end of it
17:51.31HachimanWhat about vindaloo
17:51.38XhoNever had vindaloo surprisingly
17:52.16XhoConsidering my general condition atm I'm not a fan of spicy food
17:52.53Monet2Vindaloo varies from what I hear between "meh" and "oh lords above my face is melting!"
17:53.31Monet2All depends on how hot you want it
17:54.58Hachimanhttps://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14231137_644532202382681_5192022979781153769_o.jpg
17:55.03XhoThere's also tindaloo and phall
17:55.07XhoOften too hot for most
17:55.51XhoPhall is actually British which would explain why it's hot for the sake of being hot
17:59.44Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBrrZXjnho #humans
18:07.28Monet2Irskaad was unpredictable in what he did or didn't know.
18:08.18ImperiosMonet2: Fake as in?
18:08.37ImperiosAs in it was invented by European Brits, or by Indians, but for Brits specifically?
18:09.09Monet2imperios: invented by Brits but passed off as Indian food
18:11.20ImperiosAh
18:11.31ImperiosI thought it was like with Russian Korean food
18:12.01ImperiosKimchi as eaten in Russia is not as spicy as actual authentic Korean kimchi
18:13.02HachimanI get reminded of how haggis isn't genuine Scottish food
18:14.58Monet2Tikka Masala is pub food, but it's technically a curry
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19:06.04Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Nijusi_Syndicate Started
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19:12.28HachimanPEPSIMAN
19:13.21Xhoack
19:13.27XhoRead the new GOLDCAW section
19:13.39Xhogroup's got elf problems
19:13.56HachimanNeeds an elf and safety check
19:14.11Xhofucking die 0/10
19:16.57XhoOluapPlayer: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Nijusi_Syndicate juicy crime place
19:17.25OluapPlayerdfgsdfg
19:27.14Xhono response so far this is going well
19:29.15OluapPlayerI can't say anything about it considering the page is unfinished
19:30.57XhoHachiman: Is it me or is Bleed's video a Franku video gone very wrong
19:31.06Hachimanhur
19:31.33HachimanAlso, so the Nijusi Syndicate is like Mafia + an actual large brand corporation
19:32.09XhoNijusi - thats the joke       or is it
19:35.45XhoThe Syndicate is basically a rework of that Antares Corporation idea I had
19:36.28HachimanOh nice
19:37.39XhoAlthough a little less sinister I guess
19:37.45XhoOr more sinister
19:37.51XhoI dunno let's see how it goes
19:41.45OluapPlayerAll things considered seems pretty damn sinister
19:42.09Xhoeverything is sinister
19:42.11Xhotis xho fic
19:44.16XhoHachiman: I've come to the conclusion that Behind the Sun is the best song on Koloss
20:02.47DrodoEmpireBack
20:02.53DrodoEmpireOr rather, have been back for a bit now
20:03.18DrodoEmpireDoes anybody have any new fiction events they'd like to share? Starting a new Klaxon article soon
20:03.31DrodoEmpireSo I'll need stuff to roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooight into the newwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwws with
20:03.32DrodoEmpire<.<
20:04.45HachimanXho: >not I Am Colossus
20:05.34OluapPlayerI'd rather not have my fiction slandered hur
20:06.05MonetCould be funny
20:06.53HachimanHonestly, the stuff that comes out of Borealis is so weird and bizarre it'd be hard to slander it
20:07.23TechnobliteratorDrodoEmpire, did you post the latest chapter :o
20:07.26MonetIt'd be easy to joke about though
20:10.16DrodoEmpireTech: Not quite yet, doing a few edits here and there
20:10.25DrodoEmpireJust stuff on my grammar
20:10.34Technobliteratorah
20:11.50OluapPlayerI would rather not be the short end of the joke
20:11.54XhoHachiman: second best song
20:12.37XhoDrodoEmpire: Did you do the Tuuros message
20:12.39XhoI think you did
20:12.56DrodoEmpireI did, though some stuff did arise since
20:13.06DrodoEmpireAllegations of illegal stuff going on notably
20:15.14Xhohttps://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14225471_1761649987416812_3300064842847036516_n.jpg?oh=7d41cc7cc42efaca4bae67b3590f085c&oe=5883447D Dating, Hachi edition
20:16.17XhoWell new desktop is on its way
20:16.37XhoShould come week after next
20:17.48Xhohttps://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/images/cs/obsidian750d/01_400.png One of these beasts
20:18.37DrodoEmpireOoh nice
20:21.15DrodoEmpirePosting it now Technobliterator
20:21.19Technobliterator\o/
20:21.21DrodoEmpireMaking final edits/proofreading
20:27.49DrodoEmpirehttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Hard_Contact#Chapter_Five - Another fairly-big chapter
20:34.57DrodoEmpireAlright
20:34.59DrodoEmpireCKII
20:35.01DrodoEmpireBig sale now
20:35.04DrodoEmpireWhat should I get
20:35.31XhoI thought you typed CYKA there fore a sec
20:35.41DrodoEmpireCharles_Bot Charles_Murray Tek0516
20:35.42DrodoEmpirehur
20:35.49DrodoEmpireThat's CS:GO <.<
20:35.53Charles_MurrayAll of it
20:36.10Tek0516I'm planning to grab the on sale DLCs for it.
20:36.24DrodoEmpireI'm not willing to spend 116$ >.<
20:36.30DrodoEmpireWhat're the essentials?
20:36.45Tek0516Uh... What do you have?
20:37.01DrodoEmpireCKII vanilla, Old Gods, and Rajas of India
20:37.42Tek0516I actually saw a decent outline on essential ones.
20:37.45HachimanCKII?
20:37.56Tek0516First of all, Legacy of Rome definitely.
20:38.05Tek0516That adds Retinues.
20:38.14DrodoEmpireCrusader Kings II
20:38.18HachimanAh
20:38.20DrodoEmpireAlright
20:39.33XhoHachiman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHBi4AkVzbA
20:39.44Charles_MurrayConclave is really good, fleshes out realm politics a lot more
20:39.49DrodoEmpireAhh, alright
20:39.59Charles_MurrayWay of Life absolutely
20:39.59XhoRemind me to send that to Oluap as well, he'd probably like that on the basis it's instrumental
20:40.02Charles_MurrayCharlemagne
20:40.18Charles_MurrayRuler designer
20:40.25Technobliteratorbleh
20:40.34TechnobliteratorI have failed to do the "fiction reading day" thing
20:40.45TechnobliteratorI need to set myself a reminder to actually do it
20:40.48DrodoEmpireD:<
20:41.25Xho0/10
20:41.25Tek0516DrodoEmpire: Any groups you want to play especially? Nomads, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Pagans?
20:41.39DrodoEmpireNot *really*
20:42.54Tek0516Because many DLCs are for specific religions or government types.
20:43.01DrodoEmpireYeah
20:43.31DrodoEmpireNah I think this is good right now
20:43.35Charles_MurrayCool
20:43.36DrodoEmpireI might look around a bit more
20:44.17Tek0516I'm buying the two remaining major DLC i don't have (excluding the new one)
20:45.21Tek0516DrodoEmpire: http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Downloadable_content#Expansions Quick outline of what adds what
20:45.32DrodoEmpireThanks
20:48.58XhoAccording to the WWF, the Panda is no longer deemed endangered
20:49.22Tek0516Really?
20:49.36TechnobliteratorThat is good news
20:49.54XhoWell they've upgraded their status to vulnerable but yeah they're no longer endangered
20:51.23HachimanNice
20:51.59DrodoEmpireMy history teacher would be *TRIGGERED* by this news <.<
20:52.25DrodoEmpire(He had an irrational hatred of the Panda, among other strange views)
20:52.43XhoHachiman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=119xf6xCu5I Holy shit what did I find
20:53.35HachimanI'll check that in a bit
21:00.51HachimanImperios: Sometimes when I open up Overwatch and the intro screen has Roadhog on it, I like to leave it on so I can hear the sounds of his fatty breathing in my ear while I eat
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21:20.27dromDrodoEmpire: Inbound he brings "why we need a third nuclear bombing of *Asia*" to the next lecture if he watches the wind of this news
21:20.53DrodoEmpirehur
21:21.22ImperiosDrodoEmpire: Was your English teacher that crazy leftie you told me abou?
21:21.37DrodoEmpireNah, history teacher was semi-crazy leftie
21:21.42DrodoEmpireI mean
21:21.43dromSo, my pacfist character in a RPG was given a pistol by someone she had become a good friend with.
21:22.07dromDrodoEmpire: Neo-commie ruski in disguise detected.
21:22.13DrodoEmpireHe was smart, clearly quite smart, and I liked his sense of humour and even the fact he was a *bit* of an asshole >.<
21:22.19DrodoEmpireBut yeah he had some strange political views
21:22.54DrodoEmpireI have him next year, anyhow
21:22.58DrodoEmpireSo there's that <.<
21:23.02dromHeh
21:23.14ImperiosWe have a crazy leftie psychology tutor
21:23.18ImperiosBut she's just senile
21:23.21DrodoEmpirehur
21:23.40DrodoEmpireIts funny because I have the history class with two of my friends who are *waaay* farther to the right than I am
21:23.41dromReminds me of how a bit uneducated I was about the two assaults linked to Julian Assange and talked with my mother-language teacher about it.
21:23.46DrodoEmpireLike real conservatives
21:23.54DrodoEmpireSo it'll be... Interesting to see that >.<
21:23.57ImperiosI presume her father was sent to Siberia during Stalin's rule and she never recovered
21:24.02dromShe snapped "no evidence is required, sexual assaults extremely serious"
21:24.23DrodoEmpireJesus...
21:24.28DrodoEmpireYeah that's obviously, well, wrong
21:24.33DrodoEmpireAnd a terrifying stance to take
21:24.38dromWell, sexual assaults are serious indeed. But seriously?
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21:24.58Quark8Hello Tybunsen.
21:25.01DrodoEmpireWhich is all the more reason to require real evidence
21:25.04Imperiosdrom: DU GAMLA, DU FRIA
21:25.19dromI was skeptic about the accusations on Julian Assange. I mean, do we got evidence?
21:25.19TybusenHello
21:25.36DrodoEmpiredrom: If there isn't any, it probably didn't happen and you can't press charges
21:25.40DrodoEmpireJust like any other serious crime
21:26.19DrodoEmpireThe quickest way to discredit sexual assault as a charge to be taken seriously is to lower the burden of evidence needed
21:26.19Imperiosdrom: Explain her that presumption of innocence is a thing
21:26.23DrodoEmpire^
21:26.34DrodoEmpireWhen it so clearly *is* a heinous crime
21:26.42ImperiosThis reminds me
21:26.59ImperiosWe now have a politology course, and the lector is a Russian colonel
21:27.05dromImperios: Too late, it was one half a year ago, and I'm in a different school now.
21:27.11ImperiosOh
21:27.14ImperiosSo anyway
21:27.42dromWell still.
21:27.59dromShe is a very nice teacher, if not the social justince warrior sort.
21:28.01ImperiosWe have a lot of Chinese students from the Russian language course, so the moment he began talking, he took notice of them
21:28.21Imperios"I SEE THAT WE HAVE MANY VISITORS FROM PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. THIS IS... GOOD. RAISE YOUR HANDS."
21:28.28ImperiosSo the Chinese raised their hands naturally
21:28.36ImperiosHe counted them
21:28.41ImperiosThen he stared at me in the eyes
21:28.48Imperios"AND WHERE WOULD YOU BE FROM"
21:28.56drom"I'm 50% ruskie"
21:29.13DrodoEmpireThe way he chose his words with "good" is odd XD
21:29.20ImperiosI was like "I AM A PROUD CITIZEN OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, ROSSIYA SVYASCHENNAYA NASHA DERZHAVA"
21:29.31DrodoEmpire"THIS IS... SECURITY THREAT, SPIES SPIES"
21:29.32DrodoEmpire<.<
21:29.48ImperiosDrodoEmpire: And then he actually started lecturing
21:29.52DrodoEmpireAh
21:30.22Imperios"THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF THE UNITED STATES IS THAT THE UNITED STATES SEEK WORLD DOMINATION. WE ARE JUST PROTECTING OUR VITAL INTERESTS."
21:30.38Tybusenshit, he's on to us
21:30.52dromQuick
21:31.14XhoWell
21:31.22dromTybusen: Travel to Russia and take one of those courses to spy their progaganda making
21:32.11dromAnyway, I've meet two lecturers so far
21:32.22TybusenDon't think the US needs any help with propaganda making
21:32.34dromOne who has a big disbelief in the gymnasium education
21:32.43dromOur math lecturer to be exact
21:32.43TybusenThey've already fooled most of the population that they are actually represented by their politicians
21:33.03dromThe other who is shy and stutters between words
21:33.37dromOur programme instructor.
21:33.48dromThis is going go well.
21:34.35dromach... 11:30 PM
21:44.51ImpyDroidTybusen: https://youtu.be/hvtvjo3fPsQ Oh God the comments
21:45.16TybusenYep that's youtube comments alright
21:45.20ImpyDroidAlso
21:45.28Tybusencorporal, turn the key. time to end this
21:45.43ImpyDroidI like how the African leader gets a unique district that is an improved version of
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21:45.47ImpyDroidThe neighborhood
21:45.49ImpyDroidHi
21:46.00NeonPandahi
21:46.03ImpyDroidHi Panda
21:46.04TybusenHello
21:47.04Charles_MurrayC - http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Borealum_Crisis
21:47.27Charles_MurrayTybusen DrodoEmpire Monet Quark8 Tek0516
21:47.31TybusenJa
21:47.33TybusenI saw it
21:48.11Quark8Looks good.
21:48.47Charles_MurrayWhat do you guys think?
21:49.13ImpyDroidTODAY, THE ENEMY IS AT OUR DOOR
21:49.51Charles_Murray^
21:50.33ImpyDroidDo you even know what I am referencing hur
21:50.53NeonPandaHE IS ALREADY GLOATING
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21:51.17Quark8Hello OluapPlayer.
21:51.19Technobliteratordumbo
21:51.24OluapPlayerlosa
21:51.41ImpyDroidNeonPanda: Who?
21:51.43Technobliteratorc new Hard Contact chapter
21:52.03NeonPandaImpyDroid: I presumed you were quoting Thule so I kept going
21:52.38OluapPlayerDid
21:53.48ImpyDroidNeonPanda: Ah, no, this is *Borealum* so well
21:54.01NeonPandaah right
21:54.08NeonPandaI defaulted to Dark Crusade SM stronghold intro
21:55.54HachimanSTEEL REHN
21:55.57HachimanBOREALUM
21:56.10HachimanSPESS MEHREENS
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21:58.13Technobliteratorwhat did you think of it? :o
21:58.27OluapPlayerIt was good
21:58.31OluapPlayerNot much else to say
22:02.49MonetThere never is
22:03.40HachimanThat's a bit rude
22:05.20MonetSo is always asking for feedback but never giving anythIng serious
22:06.20TechnobliteratorUh
22:06.32TechnobliteratorI wasn't really asking for detailed feedback
22:06.59TechnobliteratorAnd it's not like I regularly do
22:07.36DrodoEmpireYeah I don't mind if Oluap doesn't have much to comment
22:07.46DrodoEmpireGlad you liked it Oluap
22:08.13Technobliterator"It was good" is enough for me, it shows that someone thought reading it was worth their time
22:08.49ImpyDroidYou could be me who never comments on things unless people force him too
22:09.11MonetMy personal standards differ.
22:09.12OluapPlayerI'm not even gonna comment on that
22:09.13TechnobliteratorBut then I can't tell whether you read things or not
22:09.14Technobliterator: |
22:09.23DrodoEmpiregive feedback or i'll kick you in the shin
22:09.24DrodoEmpire<.<
22:09.34ImpyDroidYes I once again egocentrically direct the discussion towards myself
22:09.35TechnobliteratorGive feedback or I'll kick you from the channel
22:09.36Technobliterator8D
22:09.37ImpyDroidMEMEMEMEMEME
22:09.39Charles_MurrayGive feedback or I will bomb
22:09.42DrodoEmpire^
22:09.45ImpyDroidSorry it is 1:30 here
22:09.46Technobliteratoror that
22:09.50Technobliteratornah, I'm kidding
22:09.51Technobliteratorit's cool
22:09.55ImpyDroidI can give feedback tomorrow tho
22:10.01TechnobliteratorSure
22:10.15DrodoEmpirewrests the banhammer from Tech's hands- "But I'm not so say something"
22:10.18DrodoEmpireD:<
22:10.18ImpyDroidOluapPlayer: Sorry if I offended you
22:10.36DrodoEmpireAnyway yeah that's cool
22:10.40OluapPlayerThat was not directed to you
22:11.41TechnobliteratorOnce I get the chance, I really should get back to Da Reckoning and finish it, but I'll probably just skip the Andromeda and Cyrannus fronts
22:11.54Technobliteratorotherwise it'll be next year and still not done
22:12.11MonetSo I don't find value in"it was good", I feel it's a cheap response
22:12.16DrodoEmpireStill trying to get my Reckoning section's shit together
22:12.21DrodoEmpire>.<
22:13.15ImpyDroidWe can RP tomorrow
22:13.28TechnobliteratorSure, but it's a lot to rp :|
22:13.38Technobliteratorthere are about 3 sections or so
22:13.41Tek0516Charles_Murray: Looks great. Diplo RPs can be interesting things. :P
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22:21.47TechnobliteratorThat should serve as a good reminder for myself
22:22.06DrodoEmpireyey
22:22.08TechnobliteratorPlease lemme know beforehand if you have any fictions you want me to put on display
22:22.28OluapPlayerGorf
22:22.36DrodoEmpireKanye West <.<
22:22.49TechnobliteratorKanye West is no longer canon :|
22:22.56TybusenKanye East
22:22.59DrodoEmpire^
22:23.03TechnobliteratorHe could be canonized
22:23.05Technobliteratorbut he shouldn't be
22:23.08DrodoEmpire^
22:23.37OluapPlayerKanye survive all the way to the 28th century through sheer arrogance
22:23.59MonetI think I might go
22:24.59Technobliterator<PROTECTED>
22:25.46DrodoEmpire^
22:26.17HachimanNorth East
22:26.23HachimanSorry, North West
22:27.30TybusenSouth West
22:27.47TybusenNow with 2 free checked baggage
22:28.47HachimanI thought you said fried chicken bags for a moment
22:29.32TybusenI mean
22:29.36TybusenI wouldn't complain if that were the case
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22:48.00Quark8Hello Wormy_.
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22:49.32Wormy_Played some Minecraft after at least two or three years.  Got straight back into like it was yesterday
22:50.28OluapPlayerblocky
22:50.34OluapPlayerActually Wormy_ I wanted to ask you something
22:50.48Wormy_Okay, what is it?
22:51.09OluapPlayerIs there any kind of shielding that could defend against an antimatter weapon?
22:51.40Wormy_Intense magnetic fields could trap antimatter particles
22:52.14Wormy_Negative energy shields could repel it; metric shields could stop it entirely
22:52.14OluapPlayerI see
22:53.26Wormy_However, the blast of an antimatter weapon will not be stopped by magnetic fields and a negative energy shield wouldn't be very useful
22:53.54OluapPlayerSo what would be best against say, an antimatter bomb? Metrid shields?
22:53.57OluapPlayerMetric*
22:54.33Wormy_Metric shields would
22:55.12HachimanAnd what is a metric shield/
22:55.57OluapPlayerYes that's a good question hur
22:56.13Wormy_I'm not sure how it works tbh, but it can block worldlines through a section of space
22:56.33Wormy_So outgoing radiation of a ship escapes the shield, ingoing radiation does not
22:57.19OluapPlayerThe scenario is an attack on a planetary base. I want the bomb to be brought inside rather than just being thrown from orbit
22:57.22OluapPlayercause that's too easy
22:59.11Wormy_I don't think any substance can survive ground zero of an antimatter explosion, even monopolium or neutron degenerate matter.  The gamma rays would turn any atomic structure or exotic atom into glasma
22:59.45Wormy_That being said, Ghelae created some impossible essence materials that might
23:00.27OluapPlayerSo I say the base is shielded by something (metric shields or better) which forces a ground team to bring the bomb inside so they can detonate it
23:02.22Wormy_Maybe they access it from hyperspace, I think that is the only way to get past the shield
23:03.46OluapPlayerI think that might a little too advanced for Borealis
23:05.05Wormy_Oh, maybe as an alternative to metric shields, they face a defense that can dump energy into hyperspace.
23:05.34OluapPlayerSo any attempt at attacking it from orbit would be thrown into hyperspace
23:05.50Wormy_Maybe it only functions on the outside of the base, ad a few low energy soldiers won't be detected by it
23:06.18OluapPlayerThat'd work perfectly actually
23:10.52Wormy_Hachiman:  So a second Tabby's-type star has been discovered, this time with dips of up to 65%
23:11.19HachimanNice
23:12.12Wormy_The discoverers suggested in their paper it might be the edge of a proto-planetary disc facing us, but its out there for others to poke holes in so we'll see
23:21.12Charles_MurrayWormy_ This happened http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Borealum_Crisis
23:21.47Wormy_checks it out
23:22.36Tek0516Mendel - Come at me bro. Wait... OH S-[contact lost]
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23:23.42Charles_Murray^
23:26.21DrodoEmpirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-242qaiWDk 80% of GMod servers
23:27.14OluapPlayer_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgW2z61_9k can't speak of Gmod multiplayer without this
23:28.17DrodoEmpireohgod lol
23:31.16Wormy_London bridge burned down again http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37271612
23:32.53Charles_MurrayWhat do you think Wormy_ ?
23:34.10Wormy_Looks like France is taking tough tactics on aggressive native powers
23:34.25Wormy_In their extragalactic territories
23:34.57Charles_MurrayAye
23:34.58OluapPlayer_explode france pls
23:35.21OluapPlayer_preferably with antimatter bombs before they learn of the hyperspace shield talk
23:35.34Charles_MurrayFrance - u explode
23:36.25TechnobliteratorHey guys! Tomorrow I will be (finally) finishing off Da Reckoning, even though the other fronts aren't quite done yet, I'll just leave them unfinished and they can be revisited if we ever feel like. In the meantime, at the end of Da Reckoning will be a "trial" section in which the Gigaquadrant decides the fate of the Loron. Can you people give me a statement from each of your factions as to what they would say durin
23:36.25Technobliteratorg the trial, and I will include it? :o
23:36.44Charles_MurrayOf course
23:36.48Wormy_Yes
23:37.13OluapPlayer_bwah
23:37.14TechnobliteratorSweet
23:38.06Wormy_And I think it's Alexandre who takes the strongest militant policies, with his rivals wanting to return to neutrality and domestic growth
23:40.25Wormy_I think the DCP's opinion is that the Loron get returned to the stone age and blockaded on their homeworld, if not total extinction they would settle on that.
23:40.56TechnobliteratorThat makes sense
23:41.01NeonPandahttps://youtu.be/UhduvvA_Xpo?t=4m19s Fordanta's response to basically everything
23:41.18Wormy_With exception of a few that have been helpful to the UNO
23:42.20Technobliteratorhahahaha
23:42.36DrodoEmpireTechnobliterator: Yeah sure
23:42.42DrodoEmpireSorry for the lateness >.<
23:42.51Technobliteratornp
23:43.26DrodoEmpireOh, what year does Da Reckoning end on?
23:43.34DrodoEmpireOr is it all confined to 2810?
23:45.12DrodoEmpireI ask as depending on the end date the Chalag may be able to weigh in
23:45.20TechnobliteratorI think it's all done in 2810
23:45.24DrodoEmpireAhh, alright
23:45.35DrodoEmpireChalag didn't exist then, so yeah >.<
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23:48.58Quark8Hello Liquid_Ink.
23:49.15Wormy_hi
23:49.36Liquid_InkHey
23:54.17Charles_MurrayWormy_ Wait no
23:54.21Charles_MurrayIt's the other way around?
23:54.50Charles_MurrayOr you mean his domestic political rivals?
23:54.55Wormy_Yes
23:55.22Charles_MurrayAlexandre's reflexes aren't exactly -militant-. Extroverted is probably the better term
23:55.50Charles_MurrayHe doesn't resort to force very easily, and when he does it's usually in a very controlled, very measured way
23:57.00Charles_MurrayHe's, at the core, an internationalist
23:57.29Charles_MurrayWhich in his mind means the creation and maintenance of international institutions and systems which can maintain peace and prosperity
23:58.10Charles_MurrayAnd France has taken on unique responsibilities in that regard, defending those institutions against those who would take advantage of them or overthrow them
23:58.13Charles_MurrayLike the Mendel Pact
23:58.34Charles_MurraySo that implies a certain level of power projection, military readiness, and willingness to use force to defend others
23:59.48Charles_MurrayHis rivals, on the other hand, tend to misunderstand his policies as militarist and building for himself a foreign empire held together by the sword, and they oppose that very strongly

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