IRC log for #sporewiki on 20161016

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00:34.23Wormy_HI
00:35.14Wormy_Hachimam:  I want more Bob the Builder memes
00:35.20Wormy_Hachiman
00:35.59Liquid_InkComing rright up
00:36.31Liquid_Inkhttps://scontent-syd1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14650228_1710285532625737_2109638760002673099_n.jpg?oh=e014f8c3b3e335884eb35f55fdc5f2a4&oe=58A65659'
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00:36.57Wormy_Aye, Hachi just posted that one
00:37.34Liquid_InkDamn
00:38.28TybusenAre we letting me_irl memes infect this channel too
00:40.13Liquid_Ink?
00:42.18Wormy_Close your eyes and listen at around 50 seconds https://youtu.be/NoIx99QxJ_o?t=48s
00:42.47Wormy_No, thats Bob the Builder
00:52.35Wormy_Well, looks like Hello Games abandoned its office http://www.gadgethelpline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hello-games-e1476444283565.png
00:53.41HachimanOuch
00:54.29TechnobliteratorSo, the company is finished?
00:54.35TechnobliteratorNot even going to support their game?
00:55.27TechnobliteratorPart of me feels bad, since they'll probably lose a lot of money, and I don't know if any of them will get another career in games development again
00:55.56Technobliterator"I worked on the biggest disappointment of 2016 that was delayed for years and still lacked dozens of features advertised" doesn't look great on your resume
00:57.35Wormy_There hasn't even been any bug fixing patches in nearly a month
00:58.46TechnobliteratorI saw that their twitter hasn't posted in months
00:59.22Wormy_There was a rumour they would be coming out with a huge patch this month to add content, but there's no sign of it
01:00.03TechnobliteratorI don't know how the devs didn't see it coming, honestly
01:00.31Wormy_I think what happened was that they had an incomplete game before release, possibly they pushed back the release date to cut out things people noticed were lacking since the trailers.
01:01.12Wormy_But the silence is no help if you want to keep a playerbase before releasing future content
01:03.22HachimanSean Murray lies / fucks up again
01:03.25HachimanNo big surprise
01:04.07Wormy_That being said, I'm not disappointed in my purchase, I bought the game knowing it'd be pretty shallow in content.  What I didn't anticipate was that they had overblown the ideas on their procedural universe.  I thought for example things like high gravity planets would have smaller lifeforms and so on, and that I'd see wildlife interact.  They described stuff like this, saying you could explore even without a hyperdrive and that
01:04.13Wormy_to their environment
01:05.15Wormy_I wish that exploring would be more a challenge, that it'd actually feel like you could interact with the environment and really feel it like a proper sandbox or sim game
01:05.34Wormy_Space Engineers achieves all this and yet it started out small
01:06.24Wormy_I like how in SE, you could build machines and vehicles but not all of them work and different planets have different gravity
01:06.33DrodoEmpireI think NMS is a good cautionary tale in regards to advertising >.<
01:07.15DrodoEmpireOther companies would be wise not to copy Hello Games' advertising doctrine- which is to say, they had none
01:07.15Wormy_But I can still find myself lost in the game for hours at a time
01:07.26Wormy_yeah
01:07.38DrodoEmpireThey didn't outright *lie*, but they were terribly confusing, disorganised, vague, even misleading
01:07.45DrodoEmpireAt first glance anyway
01:08.20DrodoEmpireThe only reason I know as much as I did/do is because I followed NMS news religiously, and picked up on every little tidbit that made things relatively consistent
01:08.22Wormy_I sometimes wonder if nobody had heard of No Man's Sky and it started at out as a small indie game, it might have grown in popularity to a particular kind of player.  It has had the misfortune of being hyped.
01:08.30DrodoEmpirePeople shouldn't have to do that
01:08.53DrodoEmpireYeah, and that overhyping lies directly in Hello Games' irresponsible advertising
01:09.09DrodoEmpireThey should've been realistic and curbed the hype, and been reasonable
01:09.55Wormy_Indeed.  I think if it had started out like KSP or SE, it'd have much more popular coverage and everyobody would be looking forward to future content, saying correctly how cool NMS's vision is and could be.
01:10.26DrodoEmpireYeah
01:11.26Wormy_I also followed religiously, and I anticipated before most from the trailers that NMS's content looked pretty shallow.
01:12.36Wormy_What saddens me is that its so shallow it fails to be even much of a sandbox for creativity or emergent gameplay.  That being said one person learned how to get into space with a jetpack
01:13.28Wormy_However, I've found it helps to play with a bit of imagination on my own part, that's wy I post mini stories with my Steam pictures
01:13.39HachimanIt's like the Spore of the 2010s
01:13.51HachimanExcept lots of people find Spore more entertaining and fulfilling now
01:13.58Wormy_This game flopped worse than Spore I think
01:14.04The_Randomnessyeah, much worse
01:14.33TybusenSpore has the advantage of being able to make cool shit using it
01:15.02Wormy_I think Spore achieved really well on the creative aspect, but the final finish was incomplete
01:15.21Wormy_it needed more depth and stage mixing
01:15.33The_RandomnessI agree
01:15.44The_RandomnessThe gameplay was shallow, but the creative aspect was strong
01:16.39Wormy_I have read from posts by ex-Maxis developers that there was a shift to developing the creative engine in Spore and focusing on that, than the simulation aspects
01:16.44TybusenI mean hell, we're a community dedicated to still making cool shit in Spore
01:16.56Wormy_And one of many
01:18.10TybusenGiven the choice of a good creative engine or a good simulation engine, the creative engine might have served Spore's longevity a little better than the simulation engine
01:18.32Wormy_I think that's quite right
01:19.08DrodoEmpireYeah
01:19.52DrodoEmpireHonestly I'd buy a Spore II-- I'd also be interested in seeing maybe a more realistic Spore II in its aesthetic and improved simulation stuff on top of the really solid creative stuff
01:20.22Wormy_And when it comes to creativity, Spore is pretty unmatched by most games and those that are are either online virtual worlds or true sandbox games, and some of them made by Maxis
01:20.38DrodoEmpireYeah
01:21.32Tek0516I'll back that sentiment. For any failings as a game it's great for its creators.
01:21.54TybusenIf Spore had a good simulation engine, it would have had the longevity of a good game
01:22.01DrodoEmpire^
01:22.05TybusenBut with its good creative engine, it has the longevity of a tool
01:22.06Wormy_This would be mmy version of Spore 2 http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/User:Wormulon/Stuff#Spore_2.2FFuture_expansions_.28and_possible_ways_to_cheat.29
01:22.23DrodoEmpire(basically I'd be really happy just to see an intermediate stage between tribal and civ)
01:22.30DrodoEmpire(which is the most glaring gap)
01:22.46DrodoEmpire(and the place with the most severe abstraction)
01:22.59TechnobliteratorI would like a Spore 2 to happen, but I'm not sure how much faith I have
01:23.25DrodoEmpireOh it'll never happen
01:23.31DrodoEmpireMake no mistake
01:23.34DrodoEmpireBut it'd be nice
01:23.52Tek0516Maxis is dead and EA is EA. But we can wish.
01:24.17DrodoEmpireThat being said, two years from now its announced I'll happily eat my words >.<
01:25.37Wormy_There was a proposed city stage mentioned during development, where you could build your culture and identity
01:26.09Wormy_might be hard to gamify though
01:27.04DrodoEmpireNonsense XD
01:27.11DrodoEmpireTons of games do that
01:27.37Wormy_Maybe, you play a lot more them Civ type games than I do
01:27.43Tek0516Building something with such scope was never easy. Each stage could realistically have been a full game in itself.
01:27.49DrodoEmpire^
01:28.09HachimanI mean
01:28.12HachimanLook at Stellaris
01:28.22DrodoEmpireOr EUIV
01:28.25DrodoEmpireOr CKII
01:28.25HachimanYeah
01:28.36DrodoEmpireOr HoI IV, or Civ <.<
01:28.53Wormy_Do you actually feel like you are creating a culture in those games or following some developer defined paths?
01:29.14DrodoEmpireHmm, I think a grand strategy based around moulding a cultural identity would be a very unique idea
01:29.24DrodoEmpireAs opposed to sheer domination
01:32.32Wormy_I'd like a game like SimEarth or SimLife to be made again, these games had nigh-endless outcomes and complexity even though they are old and now ugly.#
01:32.59Wormy_They're not even true games really
01:33.44Tek0516I'd had a virtual console version SimEarth on the Wii but it was complex and I was too young to understand it back them. XD
01:34.19Wormy_Used to play it when I was 7 :P
01:35.04Wormy_I got SimLife to work on my 2008 Windows Vista, but the game wouldn't save
01:36.24Wormy_Will Wright called them software toys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-game
01:36.42DrodoEmpireHuh
01:36.53DrodoEmpireI used to play AoEII and Starcraft when I was little
01:37.02DrodoEmpireThe Zerg always grossed me out <.<
01:39.01Tek0516https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimEarth_-_The_Living_Planet_1990 There's actually a working emulator of SimEarth in the Internet Archive. XD
01:39.27DrodoEmpireNice lol
01:41.46Wormy_THANK YOU
01:44.06Tek0516Wormy_: Same with SimLife too apparently
01:44.10Tek0516https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimLife_1992
01:44.20Wormy_brilliant
01:44.33Wormy_I wonder if SimSafari and SimIsland are also available
01:44.38Tek0516It appears to be stream only, but still
02:11.09Wormy_Will Wright's TED talk on Spore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NA-aKpgFk
02:13.03Tek0516I'll check that out later
02:36.35DrodoEmpiretest
02:38.04The_Randomnessboop
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04:28.27DrodoEmpireHi
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10:46.03GhelaeHello.
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10:50.24NeonPandahi all
10:50.56OluapPlayerHi
10:52.34GhelaeHello.
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11:01.12MonetHello
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11:13.26OluapPlayerHi
11:14.53ImperiosHi
11:14.56Imperioshttps://2ch.hk/po/src/18779483/14766152943420.jpg
11:15.47OluapPlayerI hit level 60 last night
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11:43.43MonetHi
11:43.50MonetOluap: Congratz
11:43.51ImperiosOluapPlayer: Congrats
11:43.55ImperiosTime to fly
11:44.08ImperiosUntil 85 that is, then you won't fly for a LOONG time again
11:44.22OluapPlayerI got a griffon but I can't fly yet
11:44.37OluapPlayerIn Azeroth at least. I went to Outland and I can apparently fly there
11:45.22ImperiosTrain the Flight Master's License
11:45.32OluapPlayerI don't have the gold for that
11:45.35ImperiosAh
11:46.21ImperiosDo you like Outland?
11:46.43OluapPlayerI didn't do anything there yet, I arrived then went to bed
11:47.17OluapPlayerI feel like I'm missing content by not doing instances
11:47.59ImperiosYou'd feel the same if you did them
11:48.19ImperiosUsually when you do instances, you have to skim through a lot of zones
11:48.25ImperiosWhhen questing
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13:03.35MonetDid I spend all this time with no history page for Minos'Drakon?
13:03.45Monethistory section*
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14:04.15Wormy_hi
14:08.26Monethi
14:10.13Wormy_Thinking of creating a new Youtube channel
14:10.24Wormy_Stuck at thinking of a name
14:19.07MonetWhat's the channel's focus?
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14:20.57Wormy_My simulation and visualisation projects really
14:21.16Wormy_<PROTECTED>
14:21.51Wormy_I'm interested in Agent Based Modelling, which uses emergence.  How does "The Emergentist" sound?
14:27.26Wormy_<PROTECTED>
14:27.35Wormy_Trouble is I don't know what to call it
14:31.44Wormy_I suppose this Youtuber does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbTrPwQudo
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14:57.45HachimanHad to restart browser
15:00.07ImperiosHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/TbrkCXn.png
15:00.25ImperiosOluapPlayer: http://i.imgur.com/k04txRf.jpg
15:00.43Hachimanhur
15:00.44OluapPlayerwololo
15:17.52OluapPlayerImperios: Some Horde people must've come here because some quest giving NPCs died
15:18.04OluapPlayerThere's a growing pile of people waiting for them to respawn
15:18.07OluapPlayerMe included
15:19.38OluapPlayerNow it's back, that took a while
15:20.09ImperiosAre you in Outland?
15:20.13ImperiosYeah it's a pretty hostile place
15:20.24OluapPlayerYeah
15:20.52OluapPlayerThe quests are giving gold as reward now, gud
15:21.03OluapPlayerAlso is there any way for me to go to Kalimdor?
15:21.30Charles_BotShatt has a few portals for that
15:21.47Charles_BotThere's also a few boats from the Eastern Kingdoms
15:22.02MonetStormwind primarily
15:22.05OluapPlayerI went on a boat but it took me to Northrend
15:22.05Charles_BotOne in Menethil Harbor which goes to Southshore
15:23.13Charles_BotStorm wind also has a boat, it's the southernmost pier
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15:23.58OluapPlayerRight
15:24.00OluapPlayerHi dino]
15:25.40dino_hi :D!
15:25.43dino_Howz all doing@
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15:42.38OluapPlayerNow I saw a blood elf guy show up and kill a bunch of NPCs before dying himself
15:42.57OluapPlayerSounds like the type of guy who has a brooding backstory involving neglecting parents
15:46.04MonetLol
15:46.58dino_lol
15:47.04dino_playing Legion Oluap
15:47.05dino_?
15:47.28dino_are a lot of sporewikipeople playing Legion?
15:48.12DrodoEmpirehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu5nQoDWAAArM9A.jpg:large me irl
15:48.57HachimanDrodoEmpire: Actually, Scooby slows down so he won't leave Shaggy behind
15:50.46DrodoEmpireAw >:
15:50.54ImperiosOluapPlayer: Look at how the boats appear
15:51.02Imperiosboats look like ven
15:51.03Imperioseven
15:51.22ImperiosShips that go to Northrend look like icebreakers
15:57.27OluapPlayerdino_: Yeah I got Legion
15:58.00dino_@oluap: Neat! Far already? I play it as well, love this expansion better than warlords
15:58.03dino_though that was nice as well
15:59.09OluapPlayerI'm level 61
15:59.11OluapPlayerCurrently at Outland
16:00.09OluapPlayerImperios: I don't quite get the premise of BC. Like, why are we going to Outland exactly?
16:00.22ImperiosLegion + Illidari
16:00.38ImperiosRight before BC the portal reopened and the Legion used it to attack Azeroth
16:00.55ImperiosThen we kind of go there and estabilish ourselves
16:01.33OluapPlayerIs that the reason there's a base right outside the Dark Portal?
16:02.48ImperiosAye
16:03.23OluapPlayerI'd probably have made more sense if you played it when the expansion came out
16:04.25OluapPlayerIt'd*
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16:06.03Charles_MurrayImperios : So I came across this on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/heraldry/comments/57nj9w/city_state_of_halifaxia/
16:08.29ImperiosThat's me
16:08.49ImperiosI'm visiting r/heraldry
16:10.23Tek0516So is Charles_Murray it seems. :P
16:11.10Charles_MurrayYeah, I follow that subreddit ;)
16:11.16Charles_MurrayDrodoEmpire btw
16:12.01DrodoEmpireOh huh
16:12.41DrodoEmpire"What a mess." - savage
16:14.27ImperiosYeah I saw that
16:14.54dino_<PROTECTED>
16:15.15dino_yeah and some remained there afterthe initial invasion as well
16:15.35dino_I am currently in suramar, which is very nice as well, what class do you play ? I am a paladin
16:15.54OluapPlayerI'm warrior
16:16.59Imperiosdino_: What server are you on?
16:17.43ImperiosCharles_Murray: https://www.reddit.com/r/heraldry/comments/57s386/coat_of_arms_of_belarus_redesign/ Funny thing is, I was in the process of making a post for this subreddit when you pinged me
16:17.44dino_Frostmane,
16:17.55dino_you play as well? Perhaps we can add each other on battlenet!
16:18.09dino_@Oluap: Neat a warrior!
16:18.19ImperiosI do but on Argent Dawn and not atm
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16:18.21ImperiosUnfortunately
16:19.12dino_oh ok
16:24.06ImperiosSuramar is the shit
16:24.08ImperiosEspecially the city
16:25.35Tek0516I really should do work on some of my RP ideas. I just always get stuck when trying to write characters. >.<
16:30.24Tek0516Like for this one I have a couple sections of background, paragraph of infodump at the start of Chapter 1, and then I just get stuck. >.<
16:33.14dino_yeah I hope to get into the dungeons there soon!
16:33.29dino_though the city is though s ometimes haha
16:45.58dino_test
16:56.34OluapPlayerWell I've used Group Finder
16:56.45OluapPlayerAs I expected no one said a single word through the whole instance
16:56.58MonetYeah
16:57.08MonetThat's how pretty-much all of them will go
16:57.33dino_oh ok
16:57.51OluapPlayerThat's kinda bad
16:57.57OluapPlayerStill I got a new weapon out of it
16:58.30OluapPlayerwhich checking again is actually inferior to what I already have
16:58.31MonetMost groups go in with the expectation you know what to do.
16:58.40OluapPlayerEh at least I can sell it for 5 gol
16:58.41OluapPlayerd
16:59.04OluapPlayerWell nothing wen wrong, in fact we stomped the whole place
16:59.16OluapPlayerIt just felt soulless
16:59.41dino_oh great! Gonna check thatout
17:00.51OluapPlayerIt was Blackrock Depths in case you're curious
17:02.21OluapPlayerI ought to find a guild that puts up with noobies who never instanced
17:02.30MonetYou might be able to sell it for more on the auction house
17:03.11Tek0516Navigating this building on weekends feels like navigating a dungeon. >.< Maze of rooms, many locked doors blocking my path, wandering around it trying to find my destination. :P
17:03.51dino_oh neat, hmm well I am part of a two man guild with a friend that when we have time
17:04.05dino_often I just join the group finder becaue I don't want to be forced to do raiding or so
17:04.10HachimanConsider yourself lucky that your sister filled your bedroom with loot Tek
17:04.21dino_I don't have much time to plan that during the weeks cause of work etc
17:04.26OluapPlayerIsn't the auction house mostly used by 110s
17:04.32OluapPlayerThey're not gonna need this
17:04.44dino_if you have a higher level you can sometime sdo a raid or dungeon and get easy acess to higher armor
17:04.45ImperiosThey may use it for disenchanting
17:04.48ImperiosActually wait
17:04.54dino_are you also at frostmane Oluap?
17:05.05OluapPlayerI'm at Quel'Thalas
17:05.05ImperiosMonet: Dungeon weapons are BoP, OP can't sell them
17:05.16Monetoh
17:05.19dino_anyway, my battle tag is dinoman82 as well, what a conincedence :D
17:05.27dino_ah ok
17:05.51OluapPlayerWhat's your number dino?
17:05.56dino_number?
17:06.06HachimanYeah, each battle tag has a numbe
17:06.07dino_#2156
17:06.08Hachimannumber
17:07.01OluapPlayerSent you a friend invite
17:07.24dino_Great! do you also play heroes of the storm once in while
17:07.24dino_?
17:07.40OluapPlayerNever played that
17:07.58dino_is fun as well
17:08.21dino_anyway, think I am gonna do some dungeon or do you need help?
17:08.38OluapPlayerI'm not dungeoning atm
17:08.45OluapPlayerGot some quests to do
17:09.55Hachimanmaek emryredin's paeg fag
17:10.47dino_ok good luck!
17:10.53dino_Gonna see if I can do one perhaps in suramar
17:28.55TechnobliteratorI like how last Borealis War was delayed by me being addicted to Dota
17:29.03Technobliteratorand this Borealis War may be delayed by Oluap being addicted to WoW
17:29.04Technobliterator:V
17:41.08OluapPlayerIt's delayed by you and Xho not getting the next section done
17:45.03TechnobliteratorTo be fair, I don't really know what I'm meant to do in the enxt section
17:45.09Technobliteratorfar as I can tell, it's just Xho's job
17:45.21HachimanImperios: So, I just realised that a skilled enough geomancer could probably manipulate the iron in an individual's blood
17:45.31HachimanAnd use it against them somehow
17:46.01ImperiosToph the Bloodbender
17:47.40HachimanI get reminded because in a manga I'm reading, there's a character with a special ability to turn the iron in a person's blood into things like razor blades
17:49.53OluapPlayerThat seems a bit extreme, we already have blood magic for manipulating blood
17:50.25HachimanIt's not actually manipulating blood
17:50.30HachimanAs in, the liquid substance
17:50.40HachimanIt's manipulating the actual iron in a person's blood
17:51.38OluapPlayerMy point stands
17:52.03HachimanIron isn't a bodily fluid
17:52.39MonetMost blood-iron is as a component in the protein haemoglobin.
17:55.07ImperiosMonet has a point here actually
17:55.16HachimanIf both geomancers and hydromancers can manipulate oil, I don't see why geomancers cannot have limited manipulation of the iron found in blood
17:55.31ImperiosThing is that iron is atomic rather than molecular
17:55.52ImperiosIn blood that is
17:56.01ImperiosBy that logic geomancers can also control corn
17:56.08HachimanHm true
17:57.30OluapPlayerThe whole idea sounds ridiculous to me
17:57.53HachimanHow so?
17:58.20OluapPlayerIt's just an overcomplicated way for earth mages to manipulate blood
17:58.41HachimanIt's not controlling blood - just a very specific component of blood
17:59.01MonetThis is sounding like technicalities.
17:59.21HachimanAnyway I thought it was an interesting idea although Imp and Monet's logic rings true
18:02.51MonetThis might be rare from me but this is going into modern chemistry.
18:03.16MonetAs I understand it, hydromancers and geomancers can manipulate oil because oil is a liquid of the earth.
18:04.51MonetBut if we use modern chemistry, crude oil, or most oils, lack the presence with water.
18:16.26Wormy_Hachiman, Monet, Technobliterator:  Might watch this later http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c
18:19.34Monetalmost forgot about that
18:26.14HachimanAlso
18:26.30HachimanI often misread haemoglobin as haemogoblin
18:26.34HachimanBlood goblins
18:28.56Wormy_I like this concept
18:30.21Wormy_I remember in Discworld it was known that behind every natural phenomenon was a magical entity of some-kind.  One radical naturalist tried to prove otherwise by building a camera, but a goblin was revieled inside the apparatus
18:30.36Wormy_That's based on some old ideas from history
18:30.59Wormy_So it makes me think not just physics or chemistry, but what about biology?
18:32.12Wormy_Maybe the body could spontaneously form homunculi?
18:33.10DrodoEmpireHughMungusuli
18:33.11DrodoEmpire<.<
18:33.47Wormy_stahp meming everything
18:35.34MonetLol
18:36.11Wormy_brb
18:38.54Monethttps://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c0a4fc16c59c8b787da4c9d8bd5b0ec-c?convert_to_webp=true all I can think of is "that must have taken a lot of sound studio time"
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18:39.30Wormy_Fuck I heard the squeeky noise of a clown outside my house >_<
18:41.22Tek0516O.o
18:41.29Tek0516RIP Wormy_
18:41.57Wormy_Don't worry, locking myself in the panic room
18:43.10Wormy_Ready for the clownpocalypse http://www.pdpprojects.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bespoke-Safe-Room.jpg
18:43.57Wormy_http://www.miningafricaonline.co.za/Safe_Room1.JPG#
18:44.19Wormy_>mining Africa, hm
18:49.35ImperiosMonet: https://drawception.com/game/NRWzxCTrZF/donald-trunk/
18:50.24MonetHm?
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18:50.27Quark8Hello.
18:50.49DrodoEmpireHi
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18:57.41HachimanMan I'm glad I haven't seen that nigger faggot Xho on today
18:57.43HachimanOh hi Xho
18:57.56Xho0/10 not even correct ethnicity
19:00.03DrodoEmpireayy lmao
19:00.59XhoHave we lost Oluap to World of Warcraft
19:01.34HachimanYes
19:01.50XhoWell this is good
19:01.52XhoWe got fiction to do
19:02.11MonetIt hath claimed his soul
19:02.11HachimanIn fact
19:02.25HachimanHe said he's gonna give up on Sporewiki and move to the WoW wiki
19:02.44XhoHm
19:02.46XhoNow that I doubt
19:02.50HachimanAnd he's cancelling all fiction he's currently running so he can spend all of his time playing without anything on his conscience
19:03.47XhoI doubt he'd be that much of an asshole to do that
19:04.02MonetThis does sound quite rash.
19:04.53DrodoEmpireI think you're joking Hachi :o
19:04.57DrodoEmpireI hope so anywho
19:05.31XhoIt's a pretty poor joke
19:06.22ImperiosHe's joking
19:06.29ImperiosNobody browses WoWWiki
19:06.44ImperiosAnd I mean NOBODY
19:07.00XhoI did last week out of curiosity over the stuff he was watching
19:07.03XhoNo info whatsoever
19:07.20HachimanBy the way, I'm kidding; Oluap wouldn't do that
19:07.32DrodoEmpirephew <.<
19:07.33Xhosticks a hook up Hachiman's ass
19:07.37HachimanInstead, I'm actually cancelling all of my fiction to spend all my time on WoW
19:07.39Xhobad joke start sunday over again
19:07.43HachimanSee you on Argent Dawn fuckers
19:07.43DrodoEmpireey laymo
19:08.00XhoHm
19:08.08XhoI need to get fiction kicked up again tho
19:08.19XhoVoidwalker, Eschaton, Kicath stuff
19:08.20DrodoEmpiredo voidwalker
19:08.23DrodoEmpireDO IT
19:08.26Xho2much shit and my work life is a mess
19:08.30DrodoEmpire>:
19:08.33Hachimando eschaton
19:08.33ImperiosYeah do voidwalker conflict
19:08.38Hachimanvoidwalker a shit
19:08.41ImperiosVoidwalkers are in WoW
19:08.48Xhoechs externally
19:08.51HachimanAnd WoW took Oluap from us
19:08.55HachimanDo Eschaton hur
19:09.11ImperiosXho: https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/hearthstone.gamepedia.com/thumb/6/60/Voidwalker_(art).jpg/400px-Voidwalker_(art).jpg?version=ba4c919006c3f28556b7ddbefd5e7d6f
19:09.19ImperiosKek, WoW took me years ago
19:09.32ImperiosWhy do you think I wasn't participating in late War of Ages
19:09.49XhoMali'Nar suddenly starts to make more sense
19:10.59ImperiosMali'Nar are a bit Old God-y yes
19:11.09ImperiosActually
19:11.30ImperiosMali'Nar's appearance was inspired by voidwalkers and their powers by the Old Gods
19:11.41Xhoc
19:11.45ImperiosAnd in 2016, voidwalkers and Old Gods were estabilished to be related
19:11.50ImperiosBlizz stole my idea
19:13.02XhoImperios predicted the future
19:13.08XhoThis shit is what you get for being on SporeWiki
19:13.33HachimanMore like Metzen is predictable
19:13.39HachimanAnd when he's not predictable, he's retarded
19:13.51Xhowut dat
19:13.52HachimanWhich is how Warlords of Draenor came about
19:14.01HachimanMetzen is the writer for WoW's setting and story
19:14.06Xhoright
19:14.07MonetMetzen is Blizzard's creative chief.
19:14.18XhoWormy_: Went down to a craft ale bar in Southampton today, had some nice choices on
19:14.28MonetAll the storyline's Thrall masterbation is his doing.
19:15.06Hachiman*orc masturbation
19:16.06MonetHe has confessed the Horde is his favourite side.
19:16.18HachimanThey should hire more writers
19:16.19HachimanLike me
19:16.22HachimanOrcs fucking die
19:16.25HachimanAnd more elf wank
19:16.41HachimanNever enough night elves
19:16.50HachimanAnd fuck the Blood Elves who cares about them
19:17.22Monet"fuck the blood elves" Yeah they've...kind-of been insignificant for most of their existence.
19:18.53MonetAlso the Horde has lost like two warcheifs now.
19:19.47MonetVarian only died in Legion but his replacement was quite smooth.
19:22.14XhoHachiman: So my sister has a friend who is a friend of Misha Mansoor
19:22.15XhoI wtf'd
19:23.26ImperiosHachiman: Metzen is no more
19:23.30ImperiosMetzen left Blizzard
19:23.38ImperiosThe Orcocracy is over
19:23.43ImperiosOrcarchy
19:24.04XhoOrcorcorc
19:26.41HachimanXho: What the fuck
19:27.35Xhowtf indeed
19:28.35Tek0516Ugh. It's almost 20°C and the building has its heaters going at full power. >.<
19:29.19XhoThat being said I have a few friends who are mutual with famous musicians mainly because of their trade
19:29.29XhoEither they're musicians themselves or photographers
19:38.55Monethttp://www3.forbes.com/leadership/the-most-overrated-jobs-of-2016/9/ Oooh dat nasty
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19:39.17Xho$37000 won't get you shit either
19:39.19Xhowapotr
19:39.22CyrannianHai
19:39.48MonetXho: $37,000/year and the market is predicted to shrink by an 11th.
19:39.54Xhoouch
19:41.51MonetForbes also says authors have an annual median salary of $60,520 dollars but the general reaction to writers hearing "author" and "rich" in the same sentence tend to burst out in hysterical laughter.
19:42.05Wormy_Saying photographers are an overpayed job is a disgusting lie
19:42.18MonetWormy_: Overrated, not overpaid.
19:43.49XhoGood authors I guess
19:44.02Xho$60,520 here is just a little over workable
19:44.12XhoLiving wage here is like £48,000 or something
19:44.18Wormy_fair enough
19:44.41XhoMost Brits earn around £25,000
19:44.48XhoSo that's our employment system in a nutshell
19:44.57Wormy_Photography is very popular among students but very hard to get a descent job in
19:45.55Wormy_Then again those that do have successful businesses in say, wedding photography often over-price for what they are actually giving
19:46.15Xhodescent job
19:46.18XhoSounds about right
19:46.32MonetI think the "over-rated" idea (which might be clickbait) is these jobs tend ot be a lot less exciting than people think
19:47.42Wormy_You have to be comitted and constantly open to potential photographs as a photographer, a lot more than what many people are prepared for
19:48.09Wormy_cameras are expensive and often heavy to haul around all day, and there's always the new big camera
19:48.39MonetAccording to careercast.com, the role of a broadcaster is fairly high-stress
19:49.09Wormy_There's a lot of philosophy in good photographs as well
19:51.00dino_hi
19:51.08Wormy_Xho:  Sounds good, what beers did you have?
19:51.23Wormy_I went for a pub run friday night, a pub crawl but with running involved
19:51.30XhoI believe they were called Magic Pumpkin and Festbier
19:51.51Wormy_I'll have to look out for those
19:51.56dino_Holy moly, just did Court of Stars in Legion, crazy dungeon
19:51.59MonetFor a minute there I read that as Fassbender.
19:52.04Wormy_I guess you are getting into beer lately?
19:52.42Monetdino_: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0boZRQlU0tE/maxresdefault.jpg it looks very pretty
19:53.02Wormy_"it finishes similar to the way we finish summer: with just a hint of bitternes" https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/96/129357/
19:53.31dino_Yeah a stunning level with a nice story in it as well, though crazy difficult as well. Luckily done it, around 300 reputation before getting exalted with the dear Nightfallen!
19:53.37dino_but great dungeon
19:53.49dino_only need to do the Arcway and then the two raids, though not really a fan of raids.
19:54.03dino_way to much lag hahaha
19:54.03Wormy_brb
19:54.44XhoHachiman: See if I can be arsed enough to learn one of Meshuggah's new tracks
19:54.48XhoI'm thinking Clockworks
19:54.54HachimanFucking good luck
19:54.58dino_@Monet: My new heroine of WoW: http://wow.gamepedia.com/File:First_Arcanist_Thalyssra.jpg
19:55.11Hachimandino_ She looks hot
19:55.20MonetDem eyebrows.
19:55.28Xhok den
19:55.49dino_Yeah perhaps the Quadrants should get their own Nightborn as well haha
19:58.18MonetWell from a glance I get the impression the Nightborne are what the Night Elves would have become had they not stopped using arcane magic.
19:59.44dino_I think so as well, though I believe it was because they didn't see any sunlight and food nutritions as well
20:00.43MonetI was about to say.
20:01.08ImperiosThalyssra is <3
20:01.28MonetCity-states are frequently reliant on outside sources of food. Suramar would have starved long ago were it not for the Highborn there becoming night-well-energy-eaters.
20:01.47ImperiosHachiman: BTW that's her flashback appearance, by the time of the game she looks like this
20:01.55ImperiosHachiman: https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/wow.gamepedia.com/0/09/Thalyssra.jpg?version=72fcd9d128188dcc452441a6acc6da5e
20:02.08HachimanAh
20:02.16HachimanWell, I'm not into anorexia, so
20:02.22dino_yeah her flashback looks great. She has rather humor as well, though who knows perhaps she gets back into sarumar to regain her former appearance
20:02.42dino_I think after the Arcway and the Court of Stars teh assault on Sarumar will start, who knows what will happen.
20:03.25ImperiosI heard she will fix herself then
20:03.26MonetArcwine sounds like ambrosia.
20:03.35ImperiosHachiman DrodoEmpire: https://i.redditmedia.com/WfXsA6A_2mse-m52avj5nICiD9S8q-TgOW6uvgw-1ZI.jpg?w=800&s=374df5343da427e852aac31e3d11d21d Flag of the Alt Right
20:04.02DrodoEmpirepraise kek
20:04.43MonetIt's somewhat disturbing how the only elves to not suffer some addiction to magical energy are the ones who swore off it long ago.
20:06.15dino_oh that would be nice
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20:06.39ImperiosWell even NEs feed on the magic of the World Tree
20:07.26Wormy_Ooh KSP is on a Steam sale, but I just paid a huge chunk of my Masters fees and want to feel stingey now
20:08.05DrodoEmpireAh
20:17.32MonetI suppose there's some logic behind addiction and dependance
20:17.49MonetIt was the energies of the well of eternity that transformed a clan of trolls into the first elves.
20:20.42XhoHachiman: Well at least Born in Dissonance is coming along
20:28.44dino_see ya guys, till next time!
20:35.31DrodoEmpiretest
20:37.25Tek0516DrodoEmpire: You were positive for extreme doses of hallucinogens. None of this is real.
20:38.01DrodoEmpire>:
20:39.25Tek0516Spore is the name of the drug, not a game. There is no wiki. I am just a manifestation of your hallicinating subconscious.
20:39.49DrodoEmpirestahp
20:40.56ImperiosMonet: BTW as for the troll-elf connection, I kind of like the revelation that Loa and Ancients are the same kind of beings
20:41.34ImperiosEssentially, the animal gods that night elf worship are just their loa
20:43.23MonetRight
20:43.46MonetVery interesting
20:48.50MonetYou're making me tempted to get Legion but it's still pricey fo me atm.
20:59.11Wormy_I love this jacket http://imgur.com/gallery/qeE3pwd
21:00.01Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/fXsNQ
21:07.17Tek0516Wormy_: well that second one is horrifying
21:08.52Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/g9FHt
21:09.06Tek0516...
21:09.53Wormy_I'm on that part of the internet now
21:49.49MonetHuh...So according to this Adam Curtis documentary, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series was inspired by a Russian/Soviet series of novels that criticised the acceptance of how Soviet leaders were saying one thing but reality was very different.
21:50.47XhoCHEEKI BREEKI
21:55.44HachimanI mean
21:55.52HachimanThat sounds a fair bit like S.T.A.L.K.E.R
21:56.51XhoCHEEKI BREEKI
21:57.54ImperiosMonet: Piknik na Obochine
21:58.13ImperiosIt was one of the themes but by far not the only one, and in actuality STALKER has very little to do with the novel itself
21:58.28MonetWell I said inspiration
21:58.39ImperiosThe novel you think about was more sci-fi than postapocalyptic
21:58.40Xhohttp://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/758/244/0fd.jpg
21:59.14ImperiosIt had aliens leaving mysterious artifacts to humans
21:59.20MonetWell afaik the world in the Stalker games is pretty normal outside the Chernobyl quarantine zone.
21:59.48ImperiosThe idea of the Zone's mysterious properties and artifacts is from the novel I believe
22:00.10MonetIts just the Zone that's a post-apocalyptic shithole I think.
22:00.33HachimanImagine a place like that on Koldenwelt
22:01.20HachimanI know that Wormy intended for the Magellanic clouds to be like that, where timespace fuckery and constant breaking of the known laws of physics happen
22:02.04XhoKinmo - ABSOLUTELY HARAM
22:02.17XhoMakes me wonder now what the phoenix word for forbidden is
22:02.54MonetA lot of science fiction is a critique on the present
22:03.07XhoAnd for post-apocalyptic shit hole well we have Abyssus
22:03.23XhoAlthough that's more like currently-apocalypticating shit hole
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22:03.46MonetSome go for "what we might be", others - more commonly - use the medium of writing to challenge events or opinions at the time they were written.
22:05.10ImperiosXho: More "weird" than "evil"
22:05.20Xhoah
22:05.23Xhook then no place
22:05.50XhoAs for Abyssus, post-Eschaton all of the evil influence is drowned out and life slowly starts returning to the region
22:05.58XhoNot before a cold as fuck winter though
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22:07.43Quark8Hello.
22:08.14Xhohi
22:08.38XhoFor the Abyssus winter the story will mostly be how the Adravaelic Empire splits into two main factions
22:09.14XhoHopefully calling the fiction 'Winter of Discontent' because Shakespear
22:09.15Xhoe
22:09.48Tek0516https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/MolKdwyX/20161016_180810.jpg
22:10.02MonetThe book Impy mentioned was inspired from the strange paradox going on in Russia at the time: Leaders were reporting a booming economy wher everyone was prospering while everyone who watched were starving and fighting for food.
22:10.04Tek0516Saw this a moment ago
22:11.07Imperioswell
22:11.10ImperiosNot FIGHTING for food
22:11.23ImperiosThere was just a pretty terrible deficit in almost all goods
22:11.43DrodoEmpireWaiting in long queues, yeah, but not shooting eachother over a loaf of bread >.<
22:11.47MonetFood on shelves was scarce.
22:12.44MonetImperios can you confirm the documentary mentions that the crux of the inspiration was despite the fact the leaders were lying, peope lwent with it.
22:13.12ImperiosThe shooting came AFTER the leaders left
22:13.23ImperiosI am not sure actually
22:13.35ImperiosLike I have never heard of that theme in the novel
22:13.40MonetThey were starving but there was no mass rioring/protest
22:14.26ImperiosBut the Strugatskies did some anti-government novels like Habitable Island so it's possible
22:15.03MonetNo calls for the ivory-tower elite leaders to get out of office and come to reality like what happens today
22:16.23ImperiosMore like retirement home elite leaders
22:17.04ImperiosHachiman: Actually wait, there's the Kalisearan-dominated part of the Outworld
22:17.17HachimanThat's Outworld
22:17.19HachimanNot Koldenwelt
22:17.25ImperiosWell yeah
22:17.59ImperiosBut the main theme I believe was the responsibility of power
22:19.30MonetI see
22:19.42Xho>ivory tower                      meshuggah vibes oncoming
22:19.45ImperiosAnd how the alien artifacts are meant to be handled
22:20.48MonetI recall being told that when Jean Beaudrillard, when he saw the Matrix, accused the Wachowskis of completely butchering his essay "Simulacra and simulation"
22:21.16ImperiosHuh, the nerve
22:21.26ImperiosTheir inspirations were Gnosticism and Plato's Cave
22:21.40Xho"back when I was your age the Wachowskis were brothers not sisters"
22:22.05MonetOh the Wachowskis did cite Simulation and Simulacra as one of their inspirations
22:22.37MonetThe desert of the real, and "what you know isn't real"
22:26.40MonetBut looking at their works, the Wachowskis' MO appears to be "take a load of inspirations, mash them up and make the metaphorical into the literal"
22:27.43MonetI recall reading this guy from Jupiter Ascending http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/jupiter-elephant.jpg was inspired by Ganesh.
22:28.59XhoThey went a bit loopy after they did the Matrix
22:29.16XhoThe first Matrix film is still one of the best films ever
22:29.24MonetYeah.
22:29.44MonetI suppose one could compare each of their works to a huge bowl of mixed nuts.
22:30.54MonetMany, many varied sources but no real organisation or coherence to them.
22:31.08ImperiosCloud Atlas was good
22:31.39ImperiosBut yeah Wachowskis are kind of pretentious
22:32.05XhoCloud Atlas was a Wachowskis film?
22:32.07XhoGeez
22:32.11XhoThey really are a mixed bag
22:32.20MonetThey are "LOOK, SYMBOLISM! MEANING" in human form
22:32.31ImperiosThey make really good action scenes and are impressive visualisers, but they apparently believe they are also great subtle storytellers
22:32.42ImperiosKind of like two transsexual Zack Snyders
22:33.00MonetLol
22:33.15MonetI like Christopher Nolan's films.
22:33.39XhoChristopher Nolan's one of the few who can do all of the elements well
22:35.30Hachiman>can do all of the elements well
22:35.31ImperiosI LOVE Zack, but goddamn he can't make good dialogue
22:35.39HachimanMaybe he should direct an Avatar film
22:36.02ImperiosHachiman: The first Avatar film you mean
22:36.03ImperiosAfter all
22:36.09ImperiosNobody has ever tried making an Avatar film
22:36.12ImperiosIT would be SO novel
22:38.18XhoAs if James Cameron can come up with a decent plot anyway
22:38.27XhoZack Snyder would utterly murder it
22:38.34ImperiosWe mean the cartoon one
22:38.37XhoOh
22:38.40ImperiosWHICH WAS NEVER PUT TO LIVE ACTION
22:38.42XhoOh god no don't do that either
22:38.44ImperiosNEVER
22:38.56MonetJames Cameron is a good technical director.
22:39.13XhoThe cartoon was perfect as it was
22:40.39ImperiosHachiman: This reminds me, I stumbled on a discussion about what kind of movie adaptation WH40k could have
22:40.44MonetJames Cameron can create a memorable visual experience. A memorable storytelling experience...not so much.
22:41.03ImperiosDitto with Snyder except his style is kind of more... dunno... artsy
22:41.17ImperiosHe works best with simple stories
22:41.18ImperiosLike 300
22:41.41XhoHe didn't even do that story right
22:41.53XhoDisregarding the fact that Herodotus overblown it himself
22:42.20ImperiosXho: It works if you keep in mind that it is a story told by a surviving veteran
22:42.29ImperiosAs it is portrayed in the movie itself
22:42.45ImperiosBasically an old man making shit up so kids would listen to him
22:42.53MonetMore accurately Snyder's 300 was based on a comic which was based on Herodetus retelling of the battle of Thermopalye.
22:43.14ImperiosI want a perspective flip of 300
22:43.18Imperios300 as seen by Persians
22:43.35ImperiosA noble progressive people faces an army of fucking crazy fascist slaves
22:43.35Xho"OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK"
22:43.37Imperiosslavers
22:47.52MonetHistory is written by the winners, except the one time the a piss-ant city state lost and wrote its defeat ot be fucking epic.
22:53.09MonetI agree seeing the battle of Thermopalye from the Persian perspective would be fresh.
22:53.57MonetConsidering there wasa British docu-drama in the 1970s that tried telling the story and went with the idea that Xerxes marched into Greece with dreams of conquest alongside hundreds of thousands of slave soldiers.
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