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03:35.17DrodoEmpireBack, sorry
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03:55.05DrodoEmpire"Hey, still better than snorting crushed adderall off of a clown's boner, amirite?"
03:58.37The_Randomnesswat
03:59.38DrodoEmpireExactly
03:59.40DrodoEmpire<.<
04:00.08Tek0516DrodoEmpire: ...my only guess of context is Cards Against Humanity. XD
04:00.44DrodoEmpireNah, le reddit
04:00.48DrodoEmpireBut good guess
04:05.34DrodoEmpirehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzUiXPQW8AANbSt.jpg:large                                                                          no
04:06.29The_Randomnessthe all-in-one meme video
04:06.58DrodoEmpire^
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04:12.03HachimanAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
04:12.09The_Randomnessa
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04:49.31DrodoEmpireHi
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05:05.35The_Randomness6/10 shitpost
05:06.19DrodoEmpirec:
05:06.45DrodoEmpireAllright, I'ma see about posting some stuff to the UDB
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10:38.23dino82_hi!
10:38.27NeonPandahi
10:38.30dino82_Some new updates Liquid! Naice!
10:38.56Liquid_InkXD
10:40.27Liquid_InkHow's the Rambo Nation going these days
10:40.30Liquid_Ink*?
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11:00.20dino82_they are dong nice
11:00.27dino82_currently ina dispute with France
11:00.32Liquid_InkOh dear
11:00.36dino82_though not at war  or so.
11:00.39dino82_Hi Treebeard
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11:23.40dino82_hi
11:23.48dino82_@Liquid: How are the Liquian doing?
11:25.49Liquid_InkThe DSB isn't doing much right now. I'm focuses on writing up all the history for now.
11:35.36dino82_Naice, they are going their own way :D
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12:02.08GhelaeHello.
12:02.20dino82_hi
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12:25.17GhelaeHi
12:27.23TreebeardHello
12:37.03dino82_hi
12:37.44dino82_@ghel and Wormy: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:DutchFlagSpace.png
12:37.49dino82_dutch flag of the space dutch :D
12:38.10Liquid_InkCool
12:38.36GhelaeAre they part of another human nation or are they on their own somewhere?
12:47.48Wormy_dino82_ Looks brilliant
12:50.11Wormy_Right, I best me getting back to my final semester project
12:50.20Wormy_bbl everyone
12:50.20dino82_@ghel: On their own somewhere
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12:50.31dino82_thanks wormy :D
13:01.57MonetThinking about the power the Blood Dragons hold
13:02.32MonetI based them on the Praetorian GUard and partially the Jannissaries *but* both groups had a habit of holding some control over their charges.
13:04.03MonetThe Jannissaries became more powerful than governors and generals while the majority of Roman emperors who had a Praetorian Guard were killed by them.
13:06.49MonetOne loophole I guess is the ritual of the Prime Dragon - one captain of the guard performs a ritual to adopt the paragon as their battle partner.
13:07.46MonetShould the paragon die, said Dragon acts like they do when a battle-partner is killed.
13:27.48dino82_neat
13:56.50MonetAlthough maybe there were times the Dragons tried influencing the Emperor
13:57.19MonetThere's a lot of grey content in the Imperium's history.
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14:02.25Monethi
14:03.09XhoHi
14:09.29Monethi
14:09.33DrodoEmpireHey
14:09.42DrodoEmpireHm about the Blood Dragons
14:10.20DrodoEmpireI suppose there would indeed be times where the BD basically ran the Imperium
14:11.10DrodoEmpireThough given current circumstances I figure Uriel would've had them well under control, and so would Maxios
14:11.44MonetIndeed. In the modern day, the Blood Dragons are well-controlled.
14:13.35MonetUriel is not the posterboy for how every Ultanos acted.
14:14.48MonetThe 24 or so adult children of the aforementioned predecessor to Uriel XV who challenged Uriel XV to duels of honour out of disagreement with their mother's decision, for instance.
14:14.59Monet-aforementioned
14:15.25MonetWhich was to make him, not one of her own brood, the next paragon.
14:16.01DrodoEmpireAh
14:18.00MonetThen you also have the mad queen Onivara Khaxvis who out of paranoia ordered the entire Senate executed by the Draogns.
14:19.07DrodoEmpireo.O
14:22.56MonetOne of the Imperium's black marks of history
14:28.58MonetThere was a movement after the event to allow the BDs to question orders like this.
14:29.47MonetCould be considered either a reflection on a tragedy, or a way for the Dragons to gain more control?
14:35.00DrodoEmpirePerhaps a bit of both
14:36.41MonetIndeed
14:39.06MonetWho knows, under Khaxvis the Dragons could have had rather minimal influence
14:39.52MonetEarly scenes in the Third House War show that it is the Dragons who are keeping the last remnants of House Ultanos prisoner.
14:40.04MonetActing as their wardens
14:43.07MonetImagine the blackmail potential
14:45.32DrodoEmpire^
14:46.33MonetSo likely at this point in history the Dragons had been reduced to obediant servants.
14:48.16MonetThere must have been something really significant that kept the Dragons from whistleblowing on an entire dynasty.
14:52.34MonetAs high and mighty as the Draconis are, they evolved as pack predators. As such, they are far from incorruptible.
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15:10.21Tek0516Hellp
15:10.24dino82_hi
15:10.25Tek0516*Hello
15:10.52Tek0516Though I guess Help is also accurate since my exams start today. :P
15:17.57Monethttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Draconid_Imperium/Blood_Dragons#History updated some history
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15:20.13MrrankingsHi
15:26.48dino82_hi
16:01.47dino82_So far: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands
16:01.52dino82_updates will become gradually over time
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16:07.50Monetdino82_: Slight typo when mentioning the Eighty Years War.
16:07.52dino82_oh?
16:07.58Monetyou missed out 'years'
16:08.28Monet"date back to the eighty war (1568–1648)"
16:08.41dino82_thanks
16:08.41dino82_fixed
16:08.56dino82_their cruiser is actually a building as well
16:09.02dino82_in the sporepedia
16:09.28DrodoEmpireOh, yeah
16:09.41DrodoEmpireThat new fiction looks awesome dino
16:22.05dino82_thanks drodo :D
16:22.10dino82_it is fun to work on a humanoid faction :D
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16:32.00dino82_hi
16:34.55Monethi
16:37.36TreebeardHello
16:45.43ImpyDroidHi
16:47.18ImpyDroidXho: Remember when you suggested that Spode might be an interpretation of the Xhodocto?
16:48.28XhoNot really no
16:49.11ImpyDroidI just thought of something
16:49.33ImpyDroidNobody really liked Radeons pre-War of Ages
16:50.11ImpyDroidAnd it would be likely that once the Church of Spode joined the war some would say "fuck it why do even fight for the people who hate us"
16:50.27ImpyDroidAnd defect to the Congregation
16:51.44XhoKrath - >only your hate can destroy us                                  lol quite the opposite
17:03.33OluapPlayerImp finish section pls
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17:39.43Tek0516Ugh. Why do I have to have exams on Sunday.
17:47.22MonetOkay now that is evil.
17:48.10MonetFor a Christian society why would you schedule an exam on the Sabbath?
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18:02.18Tek0516Monet: Gotta schedule exams for 28,000 people where there's only 3 exam timeslots each day I guess.
18:03.06Tek0516All exams are either 9am-12, 2pm-5, or 7pm-10.
18:04.49Tek0516Too bad wormy isn't here, today's my databases one. :P
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18:04.55Quark8Hello.
18:05.10Tek0516Hello
18:06.00Tek0516I think my summoning powers worked but were slightly off there. :P
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18:11.46ImperiosHi
18:11.53Monethi
18:12.06Charles_BotHey
18:12.52Tek0516Hello
18:13.13Quark8Hi.
18:18.51dino82_hi
18:24.27MonetDunno about middle class people but it's the middle of winter about now and my flatmates have set the central heating to be active between 7:00-830am and 9pm-10pm
18:24.34Monet#students
18:27.46ImperiosXho Monet: https://youtu.be/BgIwaJuoZ-k?t=315 How the new Disney cartoon's name was invented
18:27.50Imperiostitle even
18:30.17Monet"wana"?
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18:39.00dino82_whoops disconnecte :D
18:45.14Monetwelcome back
18:53.05ImperiosMonet: "Moana"
18:53.37MonetWas mostly curious on the pronounciation
18:55.38ImperiosRussian has a very weird vowel systen
18:55.51Imperios"Moana" is pronounced more like "Mah-AH-na"
18:56.47ImperiosWell it's not very weird or complex, basically every "o" that isn't stressed becomes an "a"
18:56.58ImperiosAnd every "e" that isn't stressed becomes an "i"
18:57.07ImperiosOrganism is pronounced like "arganizm"
18:58.34ImperiosGermany is "girmaniya", and Kore is "kareya" for example
18:59.23ImperiosXho Monet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhdmP97zGU
19:01.26MonetPersonally I thought that rhino-thing just wanted to smash Kowalksi into tiny pieces..
19:03.27ImperiosHe was doused with *pheromones* though
19:05.03MonetNewt had a smaller concentration and was performing a mating ritual.
19:07.16MonetIt seems a little odd that she would run after this other male based on smell alone after this male that first approached her had performed a ritual she liked.
19:10.37MonetSo she could have smelt the pheromones and gone "Oi, asshole, I've got a mate so piss off!"
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19:22.05HachimanHi
19:23.19Monethi
19:23.59OluapPlayerHi
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19:31.53Wormy_DrodoEmpire, Technobliterator, Monet, Xho, Hachiman, Imperios:  Best line about Nigel Farage ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWgXffXwJwc
19:32.12Wormy_https://youtu.be/LWgXffXwJwc?t=53s
19:32.15Wormy_^
19:33.27Technobliteratorhahahahaha
19:34.34ImperiosWormy_: Our media painted him as the mind behind the Brexit
19:35.05MonetThey're not too far off.
19:35.17MonetHe has been at it for can't recall how long.
19:35.40Wormy_Impy:  In reality http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2412686/thumbs/o-NIGEL-FARAGE-570.jpg?15
19:37.05ImperiosWormy_: "[Saudi Arabia is the] country where women are not allowed to wear clothes that show their beauty. Presumably that's why Theresa May is allowed there"
19:37.06Imperiostopkek
19:37.52Wormy_Basically Boris called them out for causing proxy wars, but the government said "his views are not our own", so appeasement basically
19:38.54XhoHachiman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-eJsVehlPU
19:41.24Monet<PROTECTED>
19:45.56XhoMan I'm hungry
19:46.58ImperiosWormy_: "We condemn you. We will still sell you stuff tho ^_^"
19:48.19Wormy_Not sure if most of Theresa's cabinet does lol
19:49.47ImperiosWormy_: Actually wait, I wouldn't call Theresa May ugly
19:50.07ImperiosShe looks like a normal respectable middle-aged woman
19:50.28MonetShe's 60
19:50.28HachimanShe looks like a wet bag
19:51.18Wormy_lol
19:51.36ImperiosI think there is only one female politician in the whole world who is conventionally attractive hur
19:51.39ImperiosThe old Ukrainian PM
19:52.23ImperiosHachiman: http://i.obozrevatel.com/8/1564609/834170.jpg
19:52.35MonetMy local MP doesn't look too bad.
19:52.38HachimanExcuse me but
19:52.44HachimanNatalia Poklonskaya
19:53.36ImperiosWell yeah but she is a procurator; she is more of a jurist than a politician
19:53.45Wormy_this was Pie's best video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs&t=1s
19:54.03HachimanIsn't she a State Duma now?
19:54.13MonetWhy are we comparing politicians looks again when most of their job involves their intellect?
19:54.25ImperiosYeah but the State Duma is fucking useless
19:54.51Hachimanur fukn useless dunt insult muh waifu
19:55.01ImperiosEither way she's not in big politics
19:55.15ImperiosTimoshenko is a more powerful waifu
19:55.18ImperiosHead of government waifu
19:56.24MonetBut beauty is subjective.
19:58.44Hachimanhttps://media.giphy.com/media/3oriNOGIm0rB6hygIo/giphy.gif Fucking kek
19:59.17Wormy_was going so well
19:59.49Wormy_Who can relate? https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15380507_10154617876280115_4764951971227170270_n.jpg?oh=c63a6232c91f4cc8f0a27c22dc0f8bd4&oe=58B4A9AA
20:00.11HachimanProbably most men
20:01.42Wormy_<any men here> hur
20:02.25ImperiosWell I have moments when I want to dress up a bit
20:02.30ImperiosAnd get picky
20:02.35ImperiosBut most of the times, same here
20:03.14ImperiosMonet: Also, I just realised one thing about that Kylo Ren guy
20:03.17Wormy_I just hated getting dragged around charity shops or clothing shops when I was younger
20:03.34MonetImperios: What's that?
20:12.32Wormy_back to work bbl
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20:14.51Tek0516Fuck. There were like 10 questions on the topic I didn't even think was worth studying.
20:14.55CyrannianHai everyone
20:15.25Tek0516Hello Cyrannian
20:15.50Wormy_awaypretty much my day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKkLjJHwRec
20:15.53Tek0516(And in case you don't guess, I just finished my first exam)
20:16.12Wormy_away(ouch)
20:16.24Wormy_away(my exams mid Jan)
20:17.05Tek0516Wormy_away: Did they ever teach you about "normal forms" in your databases thing?
20:17.28Wormy_awayThey taught me about 'normalisation' and 'normalised forms'
20:18.04Wormy_awayI guess thats the same thing
20:18.49Wormy_awayTo be honest its the PHP that's making me tear my hair out, was not taught any PHP and then I'm expected to  build a huge project in it on my laest week
20:18.56Tek0516I don't even remember exactly what they are, just that they are these slightly different ways of graphing a database and they tested us on what number form was what.
20:19.35Wormy_awayIts about reducing redundancy, by splitting up tables to remove delete, insert and update anomalies
20:20.02Wormy_awayI get the gist but if you put some diagrams in front of me and asked what to do... I just haven't done enough revision
20:21.24Tek0516Nah, the normal forms I'm talking about don't even deal with code at all, just all the ways you can represent data I think, independent of any actual SQL rules and constraints.
20:22.55Wormy_awayI think its the same thing, because its about how your relations are arranged http://www.studytonight.com/dbms/database-normalization.php
20:23.18ImperiosHi Cyrannian
20:23.30Wormy_awayThere's 5 normal forms but 3 are usually used in the practical sense
20:23.36Tek0516<PROTECTED>
20:23.52Tek0516We had 10 questions on those
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20:24.11ImperiosCyrannian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhdmP97zGU
20:24.37Wormy_awayeek
20:24.55Wormy_awayYeah I seriously need to revise over Christmas
20:25.12Wormy_awayTrouble is, not had much chance.  Its all been weekly submission work
20:25.34Tek0516That's CS for you, all these forms and most of them don't work or are terrible programming practice. >.>
20:26.49Wormy_awayI'm finding the networks module easy enough to understand but has the most details I'll need to remember
20:27.03Wormy_awayI find databases pretty easy to understand but *really* hard to get right
20:27.12DrodoEmpireSo
20:27.38DrodoEmpireAm I the only one really freaked out by emergency broadcast signals? >.<
20:27.45Tek0516Now I have three days before my next exam at least, but then my 8 hour exam the day after
20:27.51Wormy_awayI find programming hard because my mind has trouble with coordinating processes (dyspraxic), so I find it hard step through the program.  Same reason I struggle with maths
20:27.52Tek0516DrodoEmpire: wait what?
20:27.57DrodoEmpireJust literally everything about them, down to the sound?
20:28.03DrodoEmpireNo no, as a hypothetical
20:28.09Tek0516Oh
20:28.11DrodoEmpireOttawa isn't getting nuked
20:28.16DrodoEmpireYet
20:28.22DrodoEmpireYou have fifteen minutes Tek
20:28.26Tek0516>.>
20:28.26DrodoEmpire(jk <.<)
20:29.01Wormy_awayI love emergency broadcast sounds, the end of the world would feel so cool
20:29.27DrodoEmpireNah, I get an immediate and intense sense of dread whenever they have a drill or test for them on television >.<
20:29.43DrodoEmpireI hear the beep and I'm just like "Yep, this is the end"
20:30.05DrodoEmpire"I'm eating radroach meat from now on"
20:31.03Tek0516I remember a weird thing over the summer or something where the TVs did a borderline emergency broadcast pop-up for an Amber Alert. O.o
20:31.03Wormy_awayI always browse the news with 30% anticipation of nuclear war, asteroid or UFO invasion
20:31.26DrodoEmpireolol
20:31.31Wormy_awayI don't think UK even has one
20:31.38DrodoEmpireTek: Really?
20:31.43Wormy_awayAt least, I've never been able to find a real one
20:31.52DrodoEmpireI recall there was a test here in NS in early summer
20:32.28DrodoEmpireA few years ago I was watching an American channel and a test of their EBS came on
20:32.35Tek0516As in sounds and messages in big red fonts and everything every time there was an update on the alert.
20:32.49DrodoEmpireOh wow
20:34.52Tek0516DrodoEmpire: According to a quick google search apparently it's mandated by the CRTC. O.o
20:35.00DrodoEmpireHuh
20:36.21Wormy_awayTek:  Do you have any experience with PHP?
20:37.00Tek0516Not really
20:39.01Wormy_awayI've been trying all day to use $_SESSIONs to send data between one webpage and another
20:39.41Wormy_awayManaged to crack it though when I realised I wasn't sending all the rows from my query, so only one was getting through and replacing all other rows
20:52.34HachimanXho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(occult_symbol)) Didn't know the Black Sun was actually a thing
21:07.08Wormy_awayI hear a load of students on another module got "rekt" for plagiarism
21:07.19Hachimanhur
21:07.22Wormy_awaytut tut at Masters level
21:07.28HachimanThat's good to hear
21:12.06Wormy_awayI have no sympathy
21:24.03HachimanDrodoEmpire: Oi you there?
21:24.16DrodoEmpireSure, yeah
21:24.25DrodoEmpireWhat's needed?
21:26.07HachimanHow are prison colonies supposed to work? As in, are they colonies ran and maintained by convicts + lawmen and enforcers with governing influence from the state the colony belongs to?
21:26.42DrodoEmpireI'm really not sure myself, but that's probably fairly accurate
21:27.02HachimanI'd have thought it be fairly dangerous for a colony to find much of its maintenance from convicts
21:27.05DrodoEmpireIts basically just a place to exile a load of people and maybe also make them productvie
21:27.08DrodoEmpire*productive
21:27.33NeonPandaMore or less, though the convicts didn't do any of the management, just the labour
21:27.37NeonPandaat least over here
21:28.04DrodoEmpireIt probably is, but I think a lot of penal colonies either got the convicts/colonists married early on so as to calm things down, and quickly made them into a minority of the popularion
21:28.08DrodoEmpire*population
21:28.28DrodoEmpireI really don't know though
21:30.21HachimanI was thinking of a horror-oriented fiction for the Fantasyverse earlier set within a dwarven penal settlement or fortress located in the isolated, northern wastelands of the world and I was wondering how something like that would work regarding hierarchy and internal politics
21:31.14NeonPandathing is, depending on the exact kind of convicts you're sending, the majority of them quickly figure out that A) bucking the system equals much higher chance of death, and B) they'd probably rather be there than in an actual jail
21:31.47NeonPandaso even though the colony is being run by essentially prison officials, the prisoners (at least after a short while) wouldn't exactly be aiming to cause too much trouble
21:33.08HachimanI mean, that's fair; if you've managed to get yourself exiled from the larger general population of civilisation though you've probably done something to make reputed as an undesirable to society
21:33.35Hachiman*make yourself
21:33.40NeonPandathat or your government likes throwing people in jail a little too much *nudge nudge*
21:33.49HachimanI did also just think of that
21:34.04DrodoEmpireActually no
21:34.10Hachiman>dwarf ends up in a penal settlement because he stole a loaf of bread
21:34.25OluapPlayerBit of an overreaction
21:34.27DrodoEmpireA lot of petty criminals were sent to penal colonies
21:34.48MonetIt was quite the common sentence in Victorian London.
21:34.55NeonPandaOluapPlayer: I'm literally descended from someone who got sent to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread. I've seen the digitisation of the criminal record and everything.
21:35.05OluapPlayerMy point stands
21:35.25HachimanI mean, it is an overreaction on part of the government
21:35.28MonetVictorian cities had just a *bit* of a crime problem.
21:35.32DrodoEmpireEh, it was due to there being no space left in the UK
21:35.37DrodoEmpireSo they sent them elsewhere
21:35.58NeonPandabut yeah, basically that- there wasn't much space in the prisons left and they wanted to colonise Australia, so they sent a lot of the safer criminals there.
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21:37.01MonetThe other common sentence for a number of petty crimes (or was it mostly not so petty) was capital punishment
21:37.36HachimanWould they also send criminals who, say, have committed more heinous crimes such as murder or manslaughter and the like but retained skills that allowed them to continue being useful?
21:38.17NeonPandaHachiman: I can remember a couple of cases of higher criminals being sent over, don't have the exact information on hand of course
21:38.56NeonPandabut a lot of the prisoners sent over were criminals of desperation more than anything else, people whom the prospect of starting over in a new land was actually an enticing prospect
21:39.32NeonPandaso if you're aiming for a horror story angle, the horror's going to come from the people running the colony, rather than the circumstances of the colony itself
21:39.32HachimanReminds me of how homeless people tend to allow themselves to get convicted in order to gain free support in prison
21:39.39HachimanThat makes sense
21:39.51Wormy_awayThis is how we could send people to Mars
21:40.36NeonPandathere was that one person in NSW that had a tendency to put people in oubliettes on a whim
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21:40.52MonetWasn't crime pre 20th century seen primarily as the failing of the individual rather than the failing of society or the family?
21:40.55MonetHi
21:41.18NeonPandaMonet: more or less, especially during periods of religious prominance
21:41.51DrodoEmpireYeah the view on why people committed crime was incomplete, to say the least
21:42.00MonetI think Victorian England might count as one of those times.
21:42.13HachimanThat's rather curious
21:42.30DrodoEmpireBecause, yeah, individual agency *has* a lot to do with it but there's also a good degree of deterministic factors leading you to commit a crime
21:42.39DrodoEmpirei.e your general life circumstances
21:43.16ImperiosIsn't that where the term "kangoroo court" comes from?
21:44.52HachimanI'm imagining that since I made my dwarves rather clan-centric and much of their culture and society revolves around wealth, reputation, honour and social standing, history and heritage, etc., I'm imagining a number of exiles could be from backgrounds of higher political significance - either as a means to escape execution or be forgotten about by the convict's clan and their affiliates
21:45.12MonetLet's just say the approach and perceptions regarding crime and justice system took a more-or-less complete u-turn in the 20th century
21:46.29MonetDrodoEmpire: I recall in the 1700 and 1800s, there were attempts to classify "the criminal face"
21:46.58NeonPandaImperios: Kangaroo Court is literally just someone making a declaration, it's very much a colony thing rather than a british thing
21:47.31HachimanSay, a clan just quietly allows one of the more undesired members of their family to be sent packing to the wasteland penal colony rather than go through with an execution that would be witnessed by both the convict's clan and the clan of the person / people he wronged
21:48.33DrodoEmpireMonet: huh
21:49.26MonetScientists hypothesising that whether or not someone would become a criminal could be identified by their face.
21:49.56NeonPandaHachiman: in such circumstances such "convicts" would most likely be quite incentivised to basically pull an Australia and start over
21:50.35NeonPandalike they'd work with the colony to build their own life, which would eventually lead to significant enough cultural divergence that a split from the parent culture is inevitable
21:50.55XhoHachiman: yup
21:51.49ImperiosMonet: Physiognomy
21:57.44XhoHachiman: That being said the Black Sun for the Zhulultu is the Mesoamerican Black Sun
22:00.40XhoLiterally all of Wikipedia's In the News section is mass death
22:00.44Xhogood going december
22:01.20MonetThis is what All Hallows Eve was for.
22:02.15MonetNow it's parties, dressing up as Kylo Ren and Superman and going door-to-door for sweets.
22:03.11XhoDressing up as Kylo Ren isn't a bad idea sometimes
22:03.28MonetThat one true.
22:03.54XhoSuperman, well
22:03.57XhoSuperman anything is a bad idea
22:04.03MonetAlthough then again Ren's not as scary as his great uncle.
22:04.18Monetgranddad, whatever
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22:04.41MonetMore kids should be dressing up as Evil Superman.
22:04.46HachimanI suppose one thing that would inevitably happen in a penal settlement is if you're something like a paedophile or some other convict whose committed a significantly heinous crime, the rest of the workers and labourers aren't going to like you very much
22:04.58Wormy_Xho:  Still got time in 2016 yet
22:05.12XhoWormy_: thanks for reminding me  (god help us)
22:05.31Wormy_also there's a picture of a mass grave oin the featured article's list
22:05.46XhoI've got the article on mass graves open
22:05.48Xholike you do
22:06.11NeonPandaHachiman: if you're that kind of criminal you're probably just going to quietly have an accident somewhere and the warden probably won't bother looking for oyu
22:06.12NeonPandayou*
22:06.25MonetHachiman: From what I hear, a lot of prisons may have homicide offenders but *no one* likes the local kiddie-fiddler.
22:08.03HachimanAye
22:08.28HachimanSince it's a dwarven penal colony, I'm wondering if it'd be appropriate to include a tavern as part of the layout hur
22:08.34Wormy_Here I am eating an Easter Egg I forgot to open all year
22:08.35XhoNever been too sure on the reception of serial killers
22:08.37MonetI suppose the thing to remember is prisoners are still people. They may all be convicted and guilty but they often still have a moral compass.
22:08.40XhoCan't imagine it's good
22:08.54Wormy_Pretty good actually
22:09.44NeonPandaHachiman: it almost certainly would be, though depends on how long after the settlement date you're planning to have the fiction be set
22:10.12HachimanProbably ~150 years
22:10.15NeonPandabecause the main problem with maintaining a tavern is having alcohol to serve
22:10.48XhoWell Jeffrey Dahmer was killed in prison
22:10.55NeonPandain that case then yeah, and by that point in time the majority of the population would be children of convicts rather than convicts themselves (even taking into account the longer lifespan and generation period of dwarves)
22:11.27HachimanKeep in mind that these are dwarves, who are both long-lived and not as sexually proactive as humans
22:11.33MonetA fantasy settlement without a pub is like a home without a hearth.
22:11.53XhoSounds more like a ghetto than a penal colony or are they the same thing
22:12.03NeonPandaMonet: well, people tend to have different priorities when you're first setting up :P
22:12.12HachimanGhetto is definitely not a penal colony hur
22:12.44Xhohell i dunno
22:12.48Xhoconcentration camps or die
22:12.52Xhoor die in concentration camp
22:12.58Xhoarbeit macht frei motherfucker
22:13.07MonetIIRC my history the first usage of the word "ghetto" was a Jewish-heavy district of Venice.
22:13.17XhoA brief message from Nazi!Xho
22:13.53HachimanA ghetto is more like an unlawful settlement of non-convicted criminals and people living in poverty in the midst of society rather than a lawful institution in the middle of nowhere
22:14.04XhoSo Southampton then
22:14.05Xhoright
22:14.06NeonPandaAustralia at least wasn't really ghetto, things were actually pretty well put together for the most part
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22:40.09XhoPeople are still making Harambe jokes
22:40.14XhoHow has this lasted so long
22:41.53MonetSome memes never die.
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22:43.01HachimanDrodoEmpire NeonPanda: Another question I suppose would be how one could support a comparatively isolated colony set in a far-northern, arctic wasteland
22:43.17MonetFishing.
22:43.21HachimanHm
22:43.31NeonPandaSend over a lot of initial resources and hope there's enough native resources to support the colony, basically.
22:43.38DrodoEmpireYeah
22:43.45NeonPandaOr know in advance there's enough resources, that also works.
22:43.48DrodoEmpireFishing, and develop some sort of profitable industry for trade
22:43.50HachimanI know that I've mentioned before that dwarves can generally consume rocks but that's equivalent to eating raw rice
22:43.53DrodoEmpireLumber, etc.
22:43.53MonetHow they make beer hmm...Cave moss?
22:44.15DrodoEmpireAlso get a crop that'll grow there
22:44.56HachimanI know that in Dwarf Fortress, you can support a colony from harvesting mushrooms and whatnot that grow underground
22:44.57Monet"arctic wasteland" suggests trees are sparse.
22:45.04Xhoeating rocks
22:45.06Xhohow work
22:45.17OluapPlayerPlace rock in mouth -> chew -> swallow
22:45.20MonetYummy silicon dioxide.
22:45.20Hachimankek
22:45.30Xhowell done nutritional expert 10/10 write a book pls
22:45.53DrodoEmpireWell, fishing and stuff like that can support a smallish colony
22:46.00MonetI know there's a few species of moss that survive by growing roots in rock crevices but that's moss.
22:46.23DrodoEmpireThough a big drive historically for colonisation was cheap land to farm, which was attractive to dispossessed farmers and the urban poor
22:46.49DrodoEmpireSo yeah, as population grows you'd need to begin agriculture, or subjugate a native group who can do that for you
22:47.24OluapPlayerKyrsacov grow mushrooms, no reason these dwarves can't do it too
22:47.46DrodoEmpireYes, but I figure there's a limit to how many people mushrooms can practically feed
22:47.52NeonPandamushrooms are the poor man's meat after all
22:48.03Hachimanpoor man      not poor dwarf
22:48.04DrodoEmpireThere're only so many damp places in the world
22:48.32DrodoEmpireCould be a good supplementary crop at the very least though
22:49.09HachimanI know I've mentioned before that I usually skim over aspects such as harvest and agriculture and whatnot, although since this is a smaller-scale kind of deal I figure I'd lend it significance
22:49.33DrodoEmpireAh
22:49.34MonetSome dwarves could try hunting larger fish.
22:49.48MonetOr sea mammals if there are any.
22:50.18HachimanFishing and hunting, fungus harvesting, not sure what kind of crop would grow in the far north
22:50.27MonetNice, fat, blubbery arctic sea creatures. Which also gives the dwarves a very healthy supply of oil.
22:50.30DrodoEmpireWell...
22:50.34DrodoEmpireHow far north are we talking?
22:50.38DrodoEmpireLike scandinavia?
22:50.39NeonPandagot called away, I was about to say you can literally grow mushrooms in a box of manure so it's not exactly hard
22:50.47DrodoEmpireEh fair enough
22:51.14HachimanPolar Lands, which I'd say is probably comparable to Greenland
22:51.19DrodoEmpireRight
22:51.29NeonPandaas for staple crops you're essentially looking at tubers off the top of my head
22:51.36OluapPlayerYou shouldn't limit yourself to real world things
22:51.44OluapPlayerDF has mushrooms as large as trees
22:51.52DrodoEmpireHe... Isn't
22:52.01DrodoEmpireHachi just wants to make it somewhat believable
22:52.02HachimanOf course but it's still important to settle on what to envision geographically
22:52.27DrodoEmpireBeing very fantastical is fine, but there's other ways to do things
22:52.49MonetOne fantastical route is sea creatures even bigger than normal.
22:53.25NeonPandaif you're talking wet frozen tubers are basically your go to, if you're talking dry frozen you're kinda SOL
22:53.33MonetCome to think of it, oil from animal fat might be a worthwhile export.
22:53.59HachimanBasic setting I have in mind is a penal colony / fortress established for the purposes containing criminals and, as with any dwarven settlement, mining the local mountainous region
22:54.23DrodoEmpireRight'
22:54.29NeonPandaI'm now basically just imagining dwarves surviving off potatoes, butter and beer
22:54.41HachimanSo, Irish folk
22:55.00NeonPandabecause minus the third element in that, as long as you have access to clean water you only need the first two to provide all your nutritional requirements
22:55.33Wormy_pretty much most folk before 1900s
22:55.45HachimanI mean, the horror aspect is probably going to encompass the more fantastical side of the story because it's, well, horror-oriented
22:56.47MonetOne thing you could read into is it is quite common IIRC for arctic expeditions to bring out the jerk in everyone.
22:56.50NeonPandaso yeah if you want to go the easy route, say they grow some kind of tuber and tend a herd of wooly herd animals to provide their food; fried potatoes and beer for the workers, meat and potato stew for the administrators
22:57.15HachimanImports from civilisation, such as food and whatnot, probably also come with each shipment of workers / prisoners
22:57.22MonetYou're cold, you're tired, your body clock is fucked by the *really* long days and nights. Not good for one's psyche
22:57.44HachimanAnd in return, rich and valuable ore and stuff is exported back to civilisation
22:58.20NeonPandaHachiman: keep in mind such exchanges would be infrequent in the extreme, like probably twice annually at most depending on the distance
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22:58.27HachimanYeah makes sense
22:58.29HachimanHi
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22:58.33NeonPandahi random
22:58.38The_RandomnessHello
22:59.14The_RandomnessI'm slowly digging through the pile of homework that I have for this week
22:59.40NeonPandahit lvl 52 DRK, once I'm done watching youtube videos for a bit I'ma do the next class quest
22:59.49HachimanI mean the dwarven civ that the settlement would belong to is also located in the north
22:59.51The_Randomnessnice
23:00.10HachimanSo maybe not much more than twice annually - maybe once a season barring winter
23:00.22NeonPandaas a long time DM it hurts me that I didn't see the plot twist coming, but I love it all the same
23:01.01The_Randomnessplot twist from the msq or something else?
23:01.08NeonPandaDRK quests
23:01.11The_Randomnessah
23:01.19The_RandomnessI won't ask then, don't want to spoil those for myself
23:01.30NeonPandawas gud, was v gud
23:01.55NeonPandaremind me to find some way to combine dark knight with dragons next time I'm playing a more traditional D&D game
23:02.07NeonPandaor at least one where a dragon emphasis makes a bit more sense
23:02.18MonetBatman Punches a Dragon.
23:02.46NeonPandaI meant as a character you butt
23:03.03MonetI know a guy who claimed to have punched a dragon to death in Skyrim.
23:03.18MonetBare-fisted I think
23:04.11NeonPandaI could see it be done, khajiit with the right build and gear enhancements
23:04.27NeonPandafurther reason to despise Skyrim (keep in mind, love the game as a whole, hate what it did to dragons)
23:04.27HachimanPunchcat
23:04.49MonetI can't remember the specifics as it was a few years ago and he regretted not recording it
23:05.54NeonPandato be fair you can achieve pretty ridiculous unarmed damage as a khajiit with the right setup
23:06.30MonetHe might have been a Nord
23:07.43MonetWhatever he played, knowing him, would need a massive (but not wizard-style massive) beard.
23:15.40Monet"This one would ever so enjoy destroying your scaly face!"
23:16.06MonetWait is it Khajit or Argonians that refer to themselves as "this one"?
23:16.39HachimanI believe that's Khajit
23:16.47The_Randomnessyeah, that's Khajiit
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23:27.18MonetRandom thought I'm starting to wonder about the practicality of super-soldiers
23:27.57HachimanDepends what you're using those supersoldiers for and how they've been enhanced from ordinary people
23:29.48HachimanIf you are using supersoldiers as shock units or to fill a particular niche military role with which you do not need to produce many of them, I cannot see much of a problem
23:32.33MonetAnd for broader uses?
23:33.10MonetOr perhaps the full hof cybernetic-genetic-psychotherapy enhancement
23:33.12HachimanWell, making them able to be multipurpose and adaptable to a large number of roles is also beneficial
23:37.36MonetThere might still be the integration factor
23:38.12HachimanIntegration factor?
23:39.30MonetWell all these super-soldiers have enhancements likely beyond what most civilians can get but they're told military life is all they can have with them.
23:40.52HachimanHm
23:41.40HachimanWell, there's nothing saying you cannot eventually replace their enhancements with civilian-friendly gear or augmentations if you took integration as a factor upon producing them
23:41.59MonetAnd if the enhancements are genetic?
23:43.09MonetI agree a civilian-friendly bionic arm could easily be provided (made out of ceramics or plastic rather than military-grade carbon nanotube for example)
23:43.21HachimanIf you have the technology to modify genes, you can possibly 'reverse' or change the enhancements you installed
23:43.46HachimanGranted, probably far too expensive to be viable or practical
23:47.46MonetIt might be that generally, converting a super-soldier to acclimatise to civilian life will require a lot of procedures
23:48.05MonetReplacing their augmentations, gene therapy, possibly organ transplants.
23:48.19HachimanAye, plus a fair bit of recovery and care time afterwards
23:48.51MonetConsiderably expensive.
23:49.07DrodoEmpireConsidering how hard it often is for soldiers to reintegrate into civilian life anyways, yeah this seems like hell for everybody involved
23:49.33HachimanSuppose this would be why you would take this into account *before* you start producing genetically-enhanced supersoldiers
23:49.38DrodoEmpire^
23:49.44HachimanCybernetically-enhanced, however, would probably fare ebtter
23:49.46Hachimanbetter*
23:50.01DrodoEmpireNot that countries have often considered veterans' aid very much in the past :p
23:50.13HachimanYeah which is rather ech
23:50.16MonetAny psychottherapy however might be nigh-on impossible to do.
23:50.34DrodoEmpireGranted, if they don't *now* it actually poses an existential threat, so maybe that would be incentive enough
23:51.47MonetIt takes many sessions for therapists to break down seep-set psychological traits that emerge normally.
23:51.53Monetdeep*
23:53.33MonetConcernedly, some patients just flat-out don't recover. Granted it's hard to know if current methods are the best, or the most inefficient way of repairing someone's psyche.
23:54.04HachimanTo be fair, that is not entirely the fault of the state
23:54.46DrodoEmpireWell no
23:55.06HachimanNot everyone can be psychologically repaired with the same universal techniques - some methods for a select number of people, while not for others
23:55.29DrodoEmpireI mean its a mix of the training and whatever horrors you go through on the field that mindfucks you, which is why its so complicated to help these people
23:56.47DrodoEmpireAnd because its so complicated to help these people, its more than just throwing money at the problem
23:57.13DrodoEmpireAnd its sorta the state's job to throw money at problems :p
23:57.53MonetHachiman: Exactly.
23:58.45MonetOne of the most understated things about psychotherapy is each patient has their own responses and reactions.

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