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00:03.05Wormy_I kind of like it, but then I remember it was used in the revolution war against us, and we lost
00:04.17Wormy_not that the colonies were nearly as productive as some of the others in terms of pricey goods
00:04.45dromImpyDroid: When you go too far into something no one dares to touch. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/213704629513355264/261619096326504448/Dick_Meme_Collage.png
00:06.00tcmhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/User:The_Collective_Mind/Motive added a "military" and "relations" tab, wondering if they need expanding
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02:49.55Tek0516Just saw Rogue One. :D
02:54.05DrodoAwayOh nice
03:07.01MonetWell just managed to flatten Sweden in ETW almost
03:07.14MonetThe Swedish king is currently hiding in Finland though.
03:09.14MonetAs of my latest save he's currently worried about the Russo-Polish-Prussian alliance I've built against him.
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10:12.57HachimanHello
10:14.26Liquid_InkHey
10:16.01ImpyDroidLiquid_Ink: https://2ch.hk/po/src/19955200/14824733731310.jpg Fucking Germans
10:18.47Liquid_InkIt's capitalism's fault, really
10:19.22Liquid_InkGermany wouldn't be like this if they didn't subscribe to an ideology of domination
10:19.37Liquid_InkA phrase which could easily apply to any other country
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11:10.59GhelaeHello.
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11:39.30Wormy_hi
11:41.56GhelaeHello.
12:18.56Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/BmYYJ
12:22.27Wormy_that's one way to do it http://imgur.com/gallery/tEVnm
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13:59.46Wormy_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txzOIGulUIQ
14:03.24Tek0516Hello
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14:26.47JepardiHi
15:16.39GhelaeWormy_: I've started the rewrite. http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/SporeWiki:Fiction_Universe/Locations/Omniverse I don't know if you want to keep any words like "manifoldverse" and "xenoverse".
15:18.03Wormy_We could keep the manifold, as I used that in the Legacy mythos
15:18.37Ghelae"Manifoldverse" could mean the multiverse of branes, while "Multiverse" refers only to the multiverse within a single brane.
15:19.02Wormy_Yeah, that makes sense
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15:20.40GhelaeHello.
15:20.57XhoAfternoon
15:22.45MonetAfternoon
15:22.51OluapPlayerHi
15:25.22HachimanAfternoon
15:27.33Wormy_Afternoon
15:28.11XhoHello.
15:28.14Xhoahah perfect pattern
15:28.42Wormy_oi oi
15:31.07GhelaeNow I need to walk the dogs, and when I get back I shall finish trying to make sense of Xho's cosmology of the Chaos planes so I can write something about them on the Omniverse page.
15:31.21Xhogud luk
15:33.08Wormy_they are beyond logic and reason
15:36.16Wormy_though plenty of modes of human thought like zen paradoxes and coincidentia oppositorum live beyond those domains
15:37.25Wormy_the aim of the game being to transcend [un-ask] the duality
15:44.40Wormy_So'd I'd approach them in a less...  Logical sense as the rest of the omniverse.  A challenge.
15:52.39MonetChallenge is good
15:53.36Wormy_I'd attempt turning it into a philosophical description, unasking the duality presented on the page by having a logical arrangement of rational and supernatural planes
15:54.28Wormy_Or the appearance of a duality present between both.
16:11.23GhelI've figured out some of it. But I've also decided the Essence page needs a table like on the Source page, so that will likely come first.
16:24.20Hachiman"Elephant Lets Out Absolutely Savage Fart On Mate's Head"
16:25.04OluapPlayeras opposed from a tame fart
16:26.33Hachimanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ilAoVaJFk The fucking sound of it
16:27.59OluapPlayerFucking mounted on top of her fucking head
16:28.19OluapPlayerHe's doing it out of revenge for getting pushed off the little dirt mound
16:28.55HachimanThe thought of elephants climbing dirt mounds is so weird to me
16:29.22HachimanI never took adult elephants for being playful creatures and I thought that they essentially crush whatever they step on near-completely
16:33.51Wormy_The dirt mound will simply compact.  And most animals play, even insects.  Its a way of learning.
16:34.10OluapPlayerI've never heard of insects playing
16:34.46Wormy_There's a paper somewhere, where scientists think they observe bee larvae playing the waggle dance or something.
16:35.41Wormy_They might not be consciously choosing to play, but play probably emerged in evolution from such mimicked learning
16:42.10MonetIt sounds odd but it's possible
16:42.51Wormy_I don't think it was bees, but a wasp.  Wish I could find it now
16:43.11OluapPlayerIt was practicing its hatred for all living beings
16:44.35Wormy_supermarket recalls chocolate Santas after batteries found inside https://twitter.com/i/moments/812286918767611904
16:45.01OluapPlayershocking chocolate
16:49.13Tek0516http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chosen-ones
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16:55.59GhelXho: Is http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Rethex%27Kalik/Realm_of_Forget still canon? The Samut'angar page describes them as controlling an "icy domain within Inferno" instead.
16:58.25Wormy_Looks like an old version of Insomnia
16:58.54Wormy_Which Xho forgot to have deleted :doooooooooooooooooh:
16:59.12OluapPlayerRealm of Forget and Insomnia are separate locations
17:00.11Wormy_Insomnia describes the screenshot exactly
17:00.23GhelIt's definitely different to Insomnia (i.e. floating vegetated islands), although there are visual similarities.
17:00.38GhelI put those brackets after the wrong clause.
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17:16.22Wormy_Perhaps the universes should be described as stories?  The Multiverse can be thought of as a great jumble pile of events, those that have internal consistency appear like histories to their inhabitants.  Such lawful orders could fall under a metaphysical plane, that is Arx
17:17.23Wormy_and do similar things with other types of universes arranged by metaphysical planes
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17:19.40GhelI think it all works. It's not clear how the different planes are arranged - in some, like Insomnia and Tangent, it appears that you can see other realms in some form - but that's not much of a problem.
17:34.14GhelWormy_: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/SporeWiki:Fiction_Universe/Locations/Omniverse It's ended up being a lot shorter than I expected. Mainly because I removed the lists of inhabitants, travellers and locations. But there's still probably other things to add (or re-add).
17:47.20Wormy_It looks pretty good to me.  Describes the Omniverse and related planes that can be described spatially, omits the rest of Chaos like Equilibrium which are supposed to be beyond concept
17:58.25Wormy_Ghel:  Is the concept of a non-spacetime dimension a false assumption?  Are all mathematical spaces defined as dimensions with points specified by coordinates, where we cannot help but think of space (common-sense term).  I've come across other mathematical spaces, like momentum space, dynamical spaces with more than just positions and velocities, and can there be spaces (mathematical term) without positions?
17:58.52Wormy_or without spatial positions
17:59.31Wormy_some theories for example propose spacetime emerges out of something-else
18:00.34Wormy_how will we describe such a mathematical entity
18:00.37GhelI would say the definition of spacetime, as distinct from other spaces, is that it has the property of locality, i.e. states within it can interact with each other directly only when at the same point.
18:01.09GhelOther spaces may be equally "real", but don't match up with our ordinary idea of "space", hence we think of them as being abstract.
18:01.39GhelMomentum space is the same space as spacetime / position space, just looked at in a different way when locality isn't so important.
18:03.19Wormy_Hm, like the dualities explored in physics
18:03.35GhelSo a non-spacetime dimension is certainly a realistic concept. It's just not very applicable for describing locations.
18:04.22Ghelhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Essence#Celestial_and_Chaotic - here's that table I mentioned.
18:06.53GhelI might add in pictures to make it look bigger like the Source table.
18:09.33Wormy_Wikipedia tells me you can even have mathematical spaces that "admit no concept of dimension at all".  So yeah, one has to be careful with the semantics as both can be reasoned
18:09.42GhelChanged my mind on the images; that makes it too big.
18:11.31GhelIt wouldn't suprise me that you could have spaces without dimensions, although they'd be even less useful for describing the omniverse.
18:12.06GhelSpaces that aren't vector spaces, I assume.
18:13.33GhelThe Omniverse is described by metric spaces, which are a subset of normed spaces, in turn a subset of inner product spaces, and they're a type of vector space. So you can imagine there are a lot of types of mathematical structure that are called "spaces" but aren't space-like at all.
18:15.03GhelInner product and normed spaces should be the other way around there, for what little it matters.
18:15.15Wormy_I wonder if these non-spacetime dimensions are what Hans Moravec and Stephen Baxter were thinking with their orthogonal measures of complexity, by measuring say, frequency.
18:15.50GhelFrequency is to time what momentum is to position.
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18:16.06Luxoray
18:16.11GhelHello.
18:16.16LuxorAnyone else already watched Rogue One?
18:16.20Wormy_Not yet!
18:16.25LuxorWon't spoil then
18:17.14GhelThe simplest example of a non-spacetime dimension is the number line (and more generally, the complex plane etc.)
18:17.53Luxore^pi*i + 1 = 0
18:18.19LuxorI actually got that right.
18:18.26Wormy_I was thinking about that, we only imagine them as in space as it makes intuitive sense, but you can simply reason with them as numbers
18:18.27Ghel~give Luxor a pie
18:18.27infobotACTION gives Luxor a home-baked cherry pie with ice cream on the side
18:19.22LuxorCorrect me if I'm wrong, but afaik wormhole travel time can be distorted resulting in century-long voyage which was meant to take for example 2 minutes.
18:23.20GhelIf you mean a century passes inside while two minutes pass outside, I don't think so. If you mean wormholes might not be shortcuts but instead be, well, longcuts, that's right.
18:23.45LuxorI meant the 2nd one.
18:24.14LuxorAlright, so my plans for URN seem to be safe.
18:24.18Luxor...for now perhaps.
18:25.49Wormy_I guess too, the computable logical operations have a non-spacetime dimension or space:  AND, OR, NOT etc.  There are proven mathematical operations that could never be computed, according to David Deutsch, because of physical limits
18:27.18Wormy_maybe there's universes where AND, OR, NOT are uncomputable
18:28.13Wormy_Oh gosh and then there are operations involved with supernaturals.  I'm yet to find any proposed physical process using supernatural numbers
18:30.13Wormy_Ghel:  Maybe we should discuss the relation of space, spacetime and dimensions on the Omniverse page.  Then it would possible to include the mental and virtual planes
18:32.26Wormy_And if mental spaces have a particular location, it'd be possible for multiple beings to visit the same space (i.e. Kilnok and Master Kroc in Nether Plane)
18:33.26GhelSince it was the first of the pages to be rewritten, there is a description on what a space is on the Time page.
18:34.14GhelVirtual and mental spaces might require some other explanation, though.
18:34.35GhelThey can act like spacetime by having locality, but this isn't an intrinsic property of them.
18:35.12GhelAnd you can describe positions within them, but these have a relationship to the positions and interactions of particles in realspace.
18:36.06GhelSo you could describe them as emergent dimensions (distinct from the concept of spacetime being emergent), I guess.
18:36.59Wormy_What I mean is, you can abstract spaces that map the fitness landscape, and one can take that idea further and map the space of possible thoughts, or even possible selves.  And there's be positions based on how closely individual species, people, thoughts, map onto these spaces
18:38.28Wormy_I suppose by... likeness
18:40.30Wormy_Finding likeness might be like, measuring the regularities against random differences between two physical objects, whether they be butterflies or sentences, or minds
18:42.17GhelSure. You can come up with a space for anything.
18:42.21Wormy_(this argument is why I think a sufficiently detailed copy of you brought to the future will transfer your conscious sense of continuity)
18:43.12LuxorI don't want to interrupt, however recently I've been thinking about implementing satellite galaxies to the FU, as these are not really exploited in any way.
18:43.13Wormy_(it may not even need to be exact, since there's no reason to think we;re dealing with binary things)
18:44.31Wormy_I'm just trying to imagine these planes as being part of the same omniverse
18:45.22Wormy_Luxor:  There's a few major satellite galaxies
18:45.32GhelWe do have some satellite galaxies used, although mostly fictional artificial ones.
18:46.07Wormy_The Quadrantia cluster, I believe is a cluster of small dwarf galaxies
18:46.12LuxorWell, I'm not sure about other galaxies, but Pinwheel galaxy (Cyrannus) has several satellite galaxies.
18:46.19GhelThe problem with real satellites - not a lethal problem, but something to take into account - is their lower metallicity, and hence lower proportions of rocky and life-bearing planets.
18:46.28GhelYes, Cyrannus has the Quadrants and Cyranai.
18:46.32Wormy_There's also the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
18:47.14Wormy_http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Large_Magellanic_Cloud#Characteristics
18:47.28GhelThe Girdo Galaxy was also an artificial Milky Way satellite, like the Quadrants for Cyrannus.
18:48.25GhelBut yes. Satellite galaxies aren't used very much, and this is justified, but they aren't something that needs to be avoided.
18:49.17LuxorI'm interested in expanding these because such one could become 'new' home for URN. There's little of space left in Cyrannus, so I thought such an action would remove many of the problems I've already faced and I'll proapbly face when expanding my fiction.
18:49.54LuxorStill waiting for response from Cyr though.
18:52.00Charles_Murraytest
18:54.29Ghel~give Charles_Murray a pie
18:54.29infobotACTION gives Charles_Murray a home-baked pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top
18:54.40Charles_Murray:D
18:55.50GhelLuxor: I did see your message on Cyr's wall. Looking at the map, I can see why you'd think there's little space left, but there's certainly more than a typical satellite galaxy would give you.
18:59.21LuxorBasing on my fiction, I want to expand the history in the following way: URN exiles arrive to the 'Fism minor', expand to 'Fism major', soon establishing bases in the main galaxy itself.
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19:10.02The_Randomnessok, clearly I need to fix some things
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19:35.03OluapPlayerDanzaDelMondo Monet: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/042/847/4d4.jpg remove chaos
19:35.45Monetheh
19:46.07OluapPlayerI've been wondering
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19:46.31OluapPlayerBirds and bats evolved wings out of their forelimbs
19:46.52OluapPlayerDid insect wings have this sort of origin?
19:46.56dino82_Hi
19:47.04OluapPlayer~destroy Cyrannian
19:47.05infobotno
19:47.06CyrannianHai
19:47.09Cyrannian~glomp
19:47.14Cyrannian~glomp OluapPlayer
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19:47.41MonetInteresting question but given insect wings tend to connect in the same area of the body as the legs, it's probably
19:47.49Monetprobable*
19:51.53OluapPlayerYou can see how wings are essentially handless arms when you take out the feathers/membranes/whatever
19:52.01OluapPlayerInsect wings don't look like their other limbs
19:53.47MonetThat could correlate with why insect wings are attached to the top, while mammal wings are attached to where the arm usually is.
19:58.10MonetBut that's the interesting thing about insects: They're simpler and their life cycles are much shorter, mutations come faster
19:58.48MonetTheir genetics are also possibly similar, I'm reading that several species of dragonfly for instance only have 11-15 chromosomal pairs
19:59.25MonetA fruit fly has only four.
19:59.27GhelIIRC insect wings come from modified gills. They certainly have a more gill-like structure than any trace of arthropod leg.
19:59.46OluapPlayerI got curious while reading about convergent evolution
20:00.35MonetWhen you look at wings, insect wings are very different compared to other animals
20:01.24OluapPlayerHyenas are genetically closer to felines but look and act more like canines
20:01.44MonetUsually one "bone" blood vessel that supports a membrane so thin you can see the rigid blood vessels.
20:08.33GhelWikipedia's summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_wing#Evolution tl;dr: we don't know and it's weird
20:08.47OluapPlayerI can agree with that
20:09.30GhelApparently insect wings do involve leg genes, but they seem to have been recruited for use in other structures to make wings, rather than wings being modified from legs.
20:10.37OluapPlayerI remember once seeing a picture of what humans would look like if they had evolved wings in the style of bats. it was ridiculous and slightly terrifying
20:10.48OluapPlayerAnd wouldn't work anyway since humans are too heavy to fly
20:12.11MonetLike how we'd all have massive pecs?
20:12.37OluapPlayerBat wings are essentially hands with giant membranes between each finger
20:12.43OluapPlayerImagine that but as a human hand
20:13.04OluapPlayerick
20:15.24MonetReally really long fingers
20:15.57OluapPlayerLong fingers are one easy way of achieving ew
20:16.07OluapPlayer|Especially if they're skinny bony fingers
20:16.52GhelLike aye-ayes?
20:16.59OluapPlayerYes
20:17.16OluapPlayerAye-ayes in general look like something that got road-killed but came back to life
20:17.47OluapPlayerHuge staring eyes, mangled fur and giant poking fingers
20:23.25OluapPlayerNow I found a species of bird which's born with claws on their wings, which eventually disappear as it reaches adulthood
20:23.38OluapPlayer>The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also known as the stinkbird
20:23.40OluapPlayer#rude
20:27.02MonetAre those claws used for breaking out of the eggshell, perchance?
20:27.36OluapPlayerIt uses them to climb on trees before it can fly
20:28.40MonetTHat works too
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20:33.42CyrannianOluapPlayer: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Munalur http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Arasah-Nui http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Alinor_Nanuq - c new guise
20:33.51OluapPlayernoh
20:33.58CyrannianC
20:37.32OluapPlayerI had seen Munalur earlier. Good job
20:37.55Cyranniandanke
20:38.45Tek0516http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Roreinian_Civil_War#The_Amazonas_Revolt New chapter
20:46.57dino82_Oh Amazona
20:48.26dino82_undercover agent in imperial navy: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/b/bc/ZahraRossImpLtCmdrLarge.png/revision/latest?cb=20161223202256
20:50.37CyrannianYey, nice work
20:56.34Wormy_Just got Kerbal Space Program
20:56.44Wormy_£10.19 on Steam sale
21:00.34ImperiosXho: https://68.media.tumblr.com/65dbe124c7637a0ddc24f376caa417af/tumblr_messaging_oilf3iq5Xt1s0el98_1280.jpg The Russian Tea Party
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21:09.11Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/CdJuD
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21:38.26Tek0516Wormy_: Wait, you never played KSP? :O
21:39.04Wormy_I've been waiting a long time for it to come down in the Steam sale, never quite satisfied although I have jovered over the button a few occasions
21:39.15Wormy_£10 I can't resist
21:39.26Wormy_*hovered
21:40.10Wormy_So I've kept nearly buying it
21:40.28Wormy_However, how much time I actually get to play these games now is another story
21:42.12DrodoEmpirehttps://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15590644_665243600316987_4202184131227495220_n.jpg?oh=51353a0d782555e1fff5122d15dc5e53&oe=58EC877D
22:04.37ImperiosMonet Xho OluapPlayer: http://orig05.deviantart.net/926c/f/2012/280/9/a/soviet_marine_by_thetass-d5h0zdm.jpg
22:05.32OluapPlayerin soviet russia, head is huge and body is not
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22:22.07XhoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
22:23.06XhoGhel: A few hours late but I've been rethinking the Realm of Forget
22:23.22XhoRight now I'm thinking it's the grey area between Inferno and Insomnia
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22:32.43dino82_bye bye
22:34.54XhoAlso the planes definition is a little off
22:35.05XhoErratsactum, Inferno and Shard are also planes of Chaos
22:35.22XhoAlthough if you mean it's essence specific
22:37.47XhoTechnically speaking the Godforms for Life and Death Energy are Krathazhrukhal and Angazhar respectively but I don't know how absolute the term is
22:38.16DrodoEmpireHm
22:38.44XhoIf you're talking about progenitors of the Essentials, then those two
22:39.31XhoKrath created the Vi'Navitum and Angazhar corrupted some/half of them into the Xi'Arazulha because he's a massive dick
22:43.11tcmhow many barrels should i put on this spaceship gun
22:43.35tcmmy head says 2 but my brain says 3 because you can never go wrong with more dakka
22:43.42tcmmy heart says 3
22:43.53DrodoEmpireWell...
22:43.56DrodoEmpireWhat sort of gun is it?
22:44.18tcmbig ship-to-ship kind
22:44.30tcmnaval gun
22:44.44DrodoEmpireEhh, maybe three, especially if its on a turret or something
22:44.52DrodoEmpireDepends on the calibre, and what it fires though
22:45.04DrodoEmpireYou *can* go wrong with more dakka, after all
22:45.04DrodoEmpire:p
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22:45.47tcmi'll go with two, then
22:46.10Tek0516Sometimes one really big blast is better than several smaller ones. :P
22:46.19Tek0516Hey Charles
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22:59.39NeonPandahi all
22:59.53Liquid_InkHey
23:00.02GhelHello.
23:00.45GhelXho: Yeah; the whole godform thing isn't something where there's an obvious unique identification. Progenitor of the Essentials does make sense, but then so does the most powerful being of that Essence, and since they're not the same for Life and Death Energies I figured you might want to decide.
23:02.20XhoThe fact that Angazhar is the godform of three essences is probably a bit much but there's no other definition for Death and Demonic
23:02.29XhoAngazhar's responsible for both of those coming into being
23:03.02XhoAs for the Demonic Energy Essentials, I put Samut'angar
23:03.23GhelThe alternative for Death would have been Maktanshatin, but I wasn't sure about that. And I won't disagree with specifying the Samut'angar as the Demonic Essentials.
23:03.57XhoVi'Navitum and Xi'Arazulha are sort of outliers in terms of the internal Essential hierarchy
23:04.55XhoMaktanshatin and Vi'Naherza (or Dravasavarin if you want to get technical) are essentially the hierarchs of their kind
23:05.24GhelAs for the locating of the planes of Chaos, this was one thing I wasn't sure about. One the one hand, your description can sometimes seem to imply that a lot of them are in the same 3D space, i.e. Inferno is separated from the rest of Chaos by the Styx, and even now you say that Inferno and Insomnia have the Realm of Forget *between* them.
23:05.42XhoWelcome to Chaos, I'll be your guide
23:06.15XhoIn truth there's no telling what's what
23:06.17Wormy_Have a fun trip
23:06.22GhelFor the purposes of writing stuff up, I assumed that's just a nice way of visualising it for mortal minds.
23:07.01XhoThe best way to visualise is if all the planes are stacked on top of one another and the Realm of Forget is the area between the bottom of Insomnia and the ceiling of Inferno
23:07.15XhoAlthough the actual definition is probably nowhere near that
23:07.56XhoRealm of Forget could also be thought of as a smaller domain within Insomnia whilst Inferno is a smaller domain within Tangent
23:08.08XhoIt's all up to interpretation really
23:09.00XhoRealm of Forget could also be the region between a tear of Insomnia and Tangent where Inferno also falls into it
23:09.10XhoAnd all the realms could be separate
23:09.30XhoThe Xhodocto don't state what's what and their denizens aren't too sure either
23:09.43GhelSo it's deliberately ambiguous?
23:09.46XhoYes
23:09.56GhelOkay then.
23:10.11XhoI suppose the best way to describe it is that all of the Chaos Planes share one contiguous space
23:10.24XhoAlthough what order to determine which is which is impossible to agree upon
23:10.41XhoOr how large, dense or sparse this space is
23:11.42GhelThat would be like the Atlantica Realms, which are all described seperately but clearly spatially connected, e.g. the Paradise Realm is next to the Reflective Realm and both are above the Chaos Realm.
23:11.58XhoWell not that concrete
23:12.17GhelNo, not quite.
23:12.24XhoThere's no real telling whether these realms are finite or infinite, so there's no telling as to whether these realms can be next or above each other
23:12.29Wormy_I'm reminded of the days when we played Minecraft.  Lots of biomes, continents and islands that fell into each other, and user's borders multiply connected
23:12.46XhoInferno is described as being somewhat finite but as to what lies beyond it
23:13.25XhoYou also have the issue as to what Equilibrium is
23:14.06Wormy_Yeah, I wondered about that.  The description appears to indicate it is beyond description, so I assumed that's why Ghel didn't list it as part of the Omniverse
23:14.08XhoEquilibrium is described as both a Chaos Plane and a totally metaphysical absence of what Chaos and all the dissident expressions of order is
23:15.02XhoChaos is beyond maths and logic, Equilibrium is either beyond or underneath Chaos depending just exactly what it is
23:15.31Wormy_But it sounds to that that the Omniverse is a place where maths and logic do work
23:15.36GhelI haven't explicitly listed many of the planes on the Omniverse page. Although for Equilibrium, yes, if you're getting to the point where the very concept of space becomes non-useful then you probably shouldn't consider it part of the Omniverse.
23:15.38Wormy_*a place in Chaos
23:15.53GhelOr above it or below it somewhere slightly to the left or anything spatially comparable to it.
23:16.00XhoThat's a probable definition of it
23:16.51GhelAs for the other Chaos realms, they're still describable even if they're fairly strange.
23:17.01Wormy_But then, what about non-spacetime dimensions?  Chaos probably contains other mathematical non-spacetime dimesions as well
23:17.54XhoThat's kind of where the Chaos Planes fall into
23:18.14GhelChaos in the more general sense seems to be a broader concept than Chaos as in a space where these planes are located.
23:18.17XhoA part on the Chaos Planes page says that the Chaos Planes has its own set of spacetime dimensions that aren't really spacetime dimensions
23:18.37XhoChaos Energy*
23:19.05Wormy_We could make some relational diagrams
23:19.07XhoAs in, you're working in an exceptionally basic degree of the Xhodocto's own independents workings
23:19.47XhoBecause they're the Xhodocto there's a near enough 100% chance that there are realms well beyond what can be perceived
23:20.04XhoThe Xhodocto start working in frameworks where spacetime is childs play
23:20.48XhoEither that or the Chaos Planes that are known have so many layers that the bizarre nature that is described of them is layer 1
23:21.16XhoAlthough the natures of the realms can't be answered as such
23:21.19XhoOnly questioned
23:21.58XhoThe fact that the Chaos Planes have their own sets of rules and designs utterly independent of the 'omniverse' as we know it must mean there's mechanics
23:22.02XhoAnd those mechanics have mechanics
23:22.28XhoYou can see the rules but understanding those rules is an entirely different ballpark and that's where the Xhodocto's domain starts coming into play
23:23.00Wormy_I think its perfectly fine for unknowable, supernatural realms to operate with supernatural rules.  Otherwise you have the premise of a duality
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23:23.45XhoI could do a diagram of Chaos but I don't know how complex it would be
23:23.51XhoProbably not that complex
23:24.36XhoBut Ghel was right in saying that Chaos as a concept and Chaos as a hypothetical domain are two independent modes of thought
23:25.49XhoThe hypothetical domain is a lot easier to explain but even then it's causing different viewpoints from other users
23:25.52GhelSo it would be reasonable to talk about some "Chaos Realm" that is a part of the omniverse with some Xhodocto wierdness thrown in.
23:25.55Wormy_premise of a duality - the apparent contradiction of a possible worlds with rules and a possible world without rules - perhaps that second world does in fact have some unknowable rules
23:26.22XhoWormy_: That's the idea
23:26.41XhoAlthough the Xhodocto's framework goes a few steps behind the unknowable rules
23:27.11XhoThey would go into infinitely meticulous detail as to how these rules are made with equally infinite and meticulously unknowable sub-rules
23:27.21Wormy_So the Xhodocto are not "fuk u we'e impossible but don't care', they are 'fuk u we're impossible but we work within ways you can't understand'
23:27.34XhoKind of both
23:27.43XhoDepends on what Xhodocto you're talking it
23:27.44Xhoto
23:27.56XhoSantorakh is the former, Krath is the latter
23:27.59Wormy_Wel, we know they like being ambigious
23:28.18Wormy_That's one knowable rule about them
23:28.36XhoIndeed
23:28.40Wormy_I think I was trying to talk this earlier before Ghel went on his walk
23:28.46Wormy_*about this earlier
23:28.50XhoThe Xhodocto we perceive is the 'Layer 1' of themselves
23:29.14Wormy_I think I get the Xhodocto a bit more now (out-of-universe)
23:30.12XhoAnd that goes straight from normal lifeforms straight to the Ultraterrestrials and Essentials in-universe, as far as they can understand the Xhodocto are ambiguous and sometimes terrifying
23:30.19Wormy_Of course, whether those supernatural rules are really possible to understand, well you wouldn't know until you knew them!
23:31.07XhoI suppose another subject of discussion would be what exactly do the Ultraterrestrials and Essentials understand about the Xhodocto
23:31.30Wormy_I'd leave that question un-opened
23:32.11Wormy_If they *do* know more about them, it implies the Xhodocto are not really supernatural, of coursem they could still be on higher levels, but narratively speaking
23:32.34XhoGoing back to the infinite sets of unknown rules comes the thought that other entities exist on these domains as well
23:33.18XhoSo they'd be imperceptible and infinitely greater than an Ultraterrestrial and Essential but the Xhodocto are still the n+1 factor above them
23:33.28XhoBut that's debatable
23:33.42Wormy_I'd imagine the Unseen Entity in my Manifold mythos came from one of those alt-existences
23:35.00XhoBecause of the idea of these sets of rules each domain would contain a set of entities infinitely greater than the last but still infinitely as far from whatever domain the Xhodocto actually lie upon
23:36.29XhoAlthough it's unfathomable for something like the Vi'Navitum to understand
23:37.41XhoAs far as they know this particular frame of reality whether it's the most real or not is the greatest they can understand and thus the Xhodocto manifesting in this domain is the greatest they can perceive
23:37.47Wormy_There's no reason there's an ultimate infinity the Xhodocto inhabit though, there could be uncountably infinite ones beyond
23:37.56XhoExactly
23:38.17XhoThere's no single domain they can inhabit because there's always an uncountable infinity they're upon
23:39.17Wormy_I don't know whether you know about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
23:39.20XhoI do
23:39.32XhoI'm very slightly alluding to it
23:40.56Wormy_indeed
23:41.18XhoBut yeah to think of anything beyond Chaos in the hypothetical domain of Tangent, Arx, Insomnia and Equilibrium is folly
23:42.40XhoBecause you're jabbing at infinity, and then piling another hypothetical infinity on top of it ad infinitum where all these unthinkably convoluted mechanics of infinitely deviant expressions of existence count and that will cause a headache
23:42.53Wormy_well, as Karl Popper said, "Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
23:43.46Wormy_But it is positive in the respect that there is also no reason to suspect that there is an end to knowledge either
23:44.12GhelPerhaps you might want to say that Chaos Planes are the sole part of Chaos that has some comprehensibility to it.
23:44.20XhoGhel: That works
23:44.40XhoYou could go completely the other way and think of hypothetical existences with less axioms and laws as this one and think whether the Xhodocto exist on those levels but working in a retrograde step is harder
23:45.04XhoEspecially since we know some degree of this universe
23:46.14Wormy_Or, one could say that whether the Xhodocto are knowable could be left unanswered, there could always be more space to place their unknown mechanics
23:47.15Wormy_arguably, we know a lot more than just the physical universe, we know of other abstractions through the window of physical limits
23:47.38Wormy_like morality, aesthetics and mathematics
23:48.15Wormy_we know what aleph 0, 1 etc. are, although we'll never know all types of infinity
23:48.53Wormy_You can imagine impossible existences, are they possible worlds too?
23:49.26XhoWell currently we don't know
23:49.31XhoMight be
23:49.44Wormy_we can reject the premise of some of these questions
23:50.49Wormy_Maybe that's why we should be okay with describing the Xhodocto, but formulating an in-universe reason why they can't be understood, or maybe simply haven't been yet
23:52.14XhoWell my most basic reasoning for the inability to understand the Xhodocto is that they're more complicated than what can be understood
23:52.19XhoAs to what degree, well
23:54.50GhelI'm going to go now. Bye!
23:54.58Liquid_InkBye!

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