IRC log for #sporewiki on 20170304

00:02.27XhoNow someone needs to make a Prak Jaws in the Fantasyverse
00:04.02Xho>literally turns up in every story to kill everyone
00:04.11OluapPlayerhr
00:04.15OluapPlayerhur blah
00:04.50XhoI would have thrown the mouse at that point
00:04.59XhoSeemed like eternal torment
00:09.54OluapPlayerHe was playing rather badly, Prak wasn't even immune to executions
00:10.13OluapPlayerYou can stunlock uruks not immune to executions to death
00:10.53OluapPlayerAnyway dinner time
00:11.40OluapPlayernevermind not ready yet
00:11.43OluapPlayertime 4 starvation
00:13.27Xhodat emaciation tho
00:16.35OluapPlayerhttp://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/105105299714003606/74C26D8FFC92D7B3D43F7B51C11049EAF3C6542D/ I had this guy too, I liked him
00:18.00XhoSee the logic works in that game
00:19.46OluapPlayerI think he was a no-name uruk who got promoted after killing me
00:19.48OluapPlayerHence the name
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02:28.03Tek0516...
02:28.40DrodoEmpire<.<
02:56.38DrodoEmpireShadilay, my dudes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxal9VAFww
02:56.51DrodoEmpireREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
03:29.54Wormy_F4gg  gn
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10:59.16GhelaeHello.
11:18.30ImpyDroidLiquid_Ink: So apparently the February Revolution actually began on March 8th
11:18.32ImpyDroidI bet the feminists were behind this
11:18.57Liquid_Ink?
11:19.29Liquid_InkIsn't that because you were still using the Julian calendar?
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11:20.01ImpyDroid2Liquid_Ink: Yeah
11:20.23ImpyDroid2According to the old calendar it began in February, hence the name
11:20.29ImpyDroid2But it actually began in March
11:22.16ImpyDroid2But yes in a week or two we can celebrate the anniversary of the abdication of the Tsar
11:22.21ImpyDroid2DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR
11:23.30Liquid_InkDEATH TO IMPERIALISM
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13:24.02matlyhello Wormy_
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14:43.04XhoAAAAA
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14:45.08Wormy_hi
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15:41.31HachimanBonfuck
15:41.59MonetHallo
15:45.29Xhooui oui
15:52.53XhoHachiman Imperios OluapPlayer: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/1/15/Arcadians2017.png/revision/latest?cb=20170304155208 Made the Arcadians
15:53.10HachimanXho: Nice work on the Arcadians
15:53.15Xhodoi
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15:54.07Groxkiller98Heya.
15:54.25Groxkiller98What was that city they took off ISIS recently? >_>
15:54.54XhoMosul?
15:55.25HachimanPalmyra
15:55.32Groxkiller98Thanks.
15:57.52Groxkiller98Also, I'm making some new creatures.
15:58.01Groxkiller98For the tribe/civ/space stage.
15:58.21Groxkiller98Chookes is the first - It's even on the Sporepedia.
16:01.43Groxkiller98http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-501046175928 - Space Stage version.
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16:51.20Groxkiller98gtg
17:04.33ImperiosXho: They look alien
17:05.24Xhothats the joke
17:09.57HachimanCan I just say that I'm not entirely fond of how a certain set of comparatively young users isolate themselves in the Fantasyverse and use it and whatnot but don't conform to the rules or important lore that we set for the world
17:10.26HachimanLike, the Herjon City States having ownership of *muskets with bayonets* in an otherwise lower-end fantasy setting
17:10.50HachimanWell, I say lower-end as in the technological tier
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17:20.03Monet<PROTECTED>
17:21.27Monet"very pure steel"
17:21.45MonetI don't quite think that's how steel works.
17:22.32HachimanHe has an army page for the Herjon; "penal musketmen" or something along those lines are listed there
17:23.02HachimanWhy the FUCK would you give drafted convicts use over weapons as revolutionary and powerful as *muskets*
17:25.04HachimanIdeally, the most recently-developed gun that could be compared to a musket is an arquebus, which I imagine is the pinnacle of gun technology outside of the hand cannons that the Empire of Man produces
17:25.07MonetGive them crossbows perhaps
17:28.07Xhoordnung machine gun
17:28.12Xhokobold!dakka
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17:32.45Monethi
17:32.47TreebeardHello
17:32.53Tek0516Hello
17:45.04XhoHachiman: y'all need nalashtannylor 4 quik smiting
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18:21.19Wormy_Monet:  Fallout 4 gave me a rich feeling of melancholy last night.
18:22.14Wormy_I was sitting on my couch in the front room of the old house you start out the game in, the sky was a twilight grey/blue, it was raining, and I was listening to the classical radio when a pinano song came on.
18:23.12Wormy_Say what you will about Bethesda, games like Skyrim and Fallout have detailed and varied environmental aesthetics, that change with the weather, time and events
18:23.44Wormy_The rain was falling through the ceiling too
18:23.57OluapPlayerhttps://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cTjscL_WLeY/VywwKFsuwXI/AAAAAAAAAag/rgXXIWwkCUse6WpA0nwUFFVUTGAK7Zh7QCLcB/s1600/dinopithecus-size.jpg I just found out about this
18:24.00OluapPlayerGiant baboons
18:24.18MonetWormy_: Bethesda creates rough diamonds
18:24.36Wormy_I wouldn't want to face a living baboon up close, a giant baboon is even more scary
18:25.01OluapPlayerA man-sized baboon
18:25.07OluapPlayerThat thing could probably tear a man apart
18:25.27Wormy_That's thing's bigger than a man really
18:25.43OluapPlayerI nearly said "giant rainbow-coloured butt" but those are mandrills, not baboons
18:25.47OluapPlayeralmost confused my bananas there
18:26.05Xhogiant ass scary ass motherfucker
18:26.14MonetAfter actualyl visiting Novigrad in Witcher III I have mixed opinions.
18:26.29MonetI've seen peopel praise the living daylights over how massive and alive Novigrad is
18:26.43OluapPlayerWhy, you don't like it?
18:26.47OluapPlayerWitcher 3 looks fucking gorgeous
18:27.16OluapPlayerToussaint is probably the most beautiful place in a videogame I've ever seen
18:27.38MonetI love it! But I've seen people wishing Bethesda cities could be that big.
18:27.45Wormy_Monet:  I guess so from what other people comment, having not played F1 and F2 made by BIS, I haven't experienced what was missing
18:27.46XhoCaesar's fort is more beautifuk #avecaesar
18:27.53Xhobeautifuk
18:27.54OluapPlayerBethesda "cities" are just a dozen houses
18:27.55XhoThat's about right
18:28.33XhoThe amount of memory required to render actual cities and then the open world for Bethesda games would destroy them outright
18:28.43MonetExactly
18:29.14XhoJust how open is Witcher 3 exactly
18:29.23OluapPlayerVery, but not completely
18:29.27OluapPlayerSome areas are separate
18:29.32MonetMost citizens I saw in Novigrad had only one or two lines, a number of them with generic names like 'beggar'
18:29.40OluapPlayerBut Witcher 3's maps are HUGE
18:29.47OluapPlayerHuge and with things in them
18:29.52Xhole
18:29.53Xhol
18:30.22MonetWhat bethesda's cities lack in scale they make up for by making sure every person has a story.
18:30.32XhoAnd clipping trees
18:30.38OluapPlayerevery one of the 20 inhabitants of the capital
18:30.56XhoNever really struck me until now that the capital city in a Bethesda game is fucking tiny
18:30.59OluapPlayerMonet: Did you play Bright Lord in Shadow of Mordor?
18:31.10XhoThen again 99% of the time there are no inhabitants in the city because massacre and whatnot
18:31.12MonetOluapPLayer: I started it
18:31.30OluapPlayerI was playing until a while ago
18:31.35OluapPlayerThis is way harder than the main game
18:31.47XhoWhat about Dark Souls
18:31.52XhoI always had the idea that it was linear
18:32.07OluapPlayerDark Souls is nonlinear
18:32.07MonetExploring Novigrad I got an AC vibe where I was surrounded by people I'd probably forget five minutes later and existed only to fill out the scene.
18:32.12OluapPlayerDark Souls 1 at least
18:32.32XhoTempted to get Dark Souls but I don't know how much of a temper you need to play it
18:32.36OluapPlayerThe whole world is interconnected and there are no loading zones
18:32.52OluapPlayerDark Souls 2 and 3 are more linear in design, 3 especially
18:33.12MonetThe people wishing to have cities the scale of Novigrad with the intimacy of the inhabitants of Rivet City, that's a huge ask.
18:33.30Xhodosh
18:33.51XhoFallout's cities make more sense since I can't imagine much of a populace anywhere
18:34.01OluapPlayerI don't see how beggars are any different than one NPC who follows the exact same routine every day just because they have a name
18:34.09OluapPlayerimo Witcher 3's cities feel much more natural
18:34.41MonetThe NPC wh ofollows
18:34.44MonetSorry
18:35.31XhoThe most natural city in a game? Sims #kek #goodjoke
18:35.56OluapPlayerWell, they're not bad at all
18:36.07OluapPlayerThey just cost one gorillion dollars with all expansions included
18:36.09MonetThe child in White Orchard does nothing it seems but sing "it's raining it's pouring, Emeris is snoring"
18:36.14XhoSims 4 doesn't have that openness that Sims 3 does
18:36.20XhoWhich perplexes me
18:36.30OluapPlayerea.jpg
18:37.00Xho" Returning NPC: Tragic Clown."
18:37.01XhoNO
18:37.11XhoTragic Clown is the Prak Jaws of the Sims
18:37.26MonetXho: Don't buy his picture then
18:37.36OluapPlayerhonk
18:37.38XhoFunny because he's dead in Sims 3
18:37.40XhoI think
18:37.53OluapPlayerdats                  tragic
18:37.59MonetI never liked that mime artist who visited parties.
18:38.03Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I_wWdposQc
18:38.08Xhole mime
18:38.15OluapPlayermerde
18:38.45XhoI miss Sims 1
18:38.45MonetI tell him to go away and he pulls out a llama hand puppet, covers his mouth and shouts with the llama "NOOOOOOHH"
18:38.58OluapPlayersul sul
18:39.26OluapPlayerI remember spending days playing Sims 1 Making Magic
18:39.35OluapPlayerand getting dragon pets would eventually set the house on fire
18:39.38Xhova va vo ba ba
18:39.50MonetAgnes Crumplebottom was funny.
18:40.06MonetAny couple she saw being romantic she'd hit them with her handbag.
18:40.20OluapPlayerThere was also the gnome who did gardening, but if you hired a professional gardener he'd get super pissed off and destroy all your plants
18:41.30OluapPlayerin case of attack by hag, hit the hag back twice harder
18:42.04Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QAUASRWBAo
18:42.39OluapPlayer>all those red bars
18:42.40OluapPlayeraaaaaaaa
18:43.55OluapPlayerdude's so ugly he can break monitors just by turning them on
18:44.48Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5jOrwqECQ LET'S JUST STAND THERE AND SCREAM
18:45.36OluapPlayerhere we see the wild sims doing the death dance as they make no effort to escape flames
18:46.01XhoThis game was scarily dark come to think of it
18:46.07XhoI mean the death screams from children
18:46.46OluapPlayerI didn't even know you could kill children
18:46.57Xhoyup
18:47.03XhoThis game was brutal
18:47.09OluapPlayerGenerally people only died in my games when I did the "remove the pool ladder" thing
18:47.13MonetIn 2 I once had one of my children go cloudwatching
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18:47.37OluapPlayerThen they got crushed by a satellite or meteor
18:47.39OluapPlayerI've had that happen
18:47.42OluapPlayerAnnoying as hell
18:47.44MonetHe died by a stray meteor on his first time cloudwatching.
18:48.17OluapPlayerLesson learned: stay in-doors on your computers or die via meteor strike
18:50.10Xhoyup
18:53.06OluapPlayerSpeaking of extinct animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon there's also this goofy looking geezer
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18:54.08DrodoEmpireHi everyone
18:54.35OluapPlayerHi
18:56.08XhoHi
18:56.09Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44xrCm_ieY
18:57.59Xhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkG-VzOAZH0 This is also pretty dark and funny
19:02.09Wormy_Oluap:  Dinocrocuta was a hyena-like carnivoran as big as a bear http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/images/species/d/dinocrocuta-size.jpg
19:02.34MonetScary teeth
19:03.19OluapPlayerfok
19:03.55OluapPlayerModern day hyenas are already nasty buggers, imagine one that big
19:20.17Wormy_It is known to have hunted tusked rhinoceros, where remains have bite marks of Dinocrocuta that healed, implying it survived
19:20.38Wormy_a hunt rather than being scavenged on
19:20.57Wormy_the bite marks were on the skull of the rhino, so it might have tried to crush it
19:28.12OluapPlayerBadass superhyena
19:28.36Wormy_I used to have an obsession with extinct mammalian predators, particularly the mesyonchids and creodonts, which were unrelated to Carnivorans but had some convergent evolution, though they tended to be much bigger and more robust looking.  They lost competition with Carnivorans however because the latter were more efficiently designed, had bigger brains and the feliforms could grapple
19:30.04Wormy_*Mesonychia
19:33.00OluapPlayerThere's also the Entelodonts
19:33.08OluapPlayer>sometimes facetiously termed hell pigs or terminator pigs
19:33.10OluapPlayerdem names
19:34.00Wormy_<PROTECTED>
19:34.35OluapPlayerbig ass pupper
19:36.04OluapPlayerI was surprised when I found out dire wolves are an actual extinct species of wolf and not something Dungeons and Dragons came up with
19:36.56Wormy_I wonder if they could have become dogs
19:37.35Xhodirebork
19:37.41OluapPlayerGray wolves became dogs, not dire wolves
19:37.49Wormy_Just a note:  Sarkastodon to the right was bigger than a cave bear by some measures
19:37.55OluapPlayerThough from what I read, dire wolves weren't really special in appearance
19:38.26Wormy_And its panzying around Andrewsarchus in the hope it leaves a few remains
19:38.36Monet<PROTECTED>
19:38.59MonetServed a target some ill-prepared fugu,
19:39.35OluapPlayerWhenever cave bears are mentioned I'm lead to this pic https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Ursus_spelaeus_juvenile.jpg
19:39.47OluapPlayerThis skelly looks like he's about to break into a musical segment
19:40.38OluapPlayer>The average weight for males was 400 to 500 kilograms (880 to 1,100 lb), with an exceptional specimen weighing up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb),
19:40.39OluapPlayerbig teddies
19:41.23Wormy_Another thing of note is the Miacid the bottom right, at this point the ancestors of all Carnivorans and not much more than a ferret sized creature hiding among the roots while the big boys come out for dinner
19:43.29Wormy_On dire wolves, I meant if they could have become dogs, I know they weren't, but could they have gone down that path?
19:43.53Wormy_Or were they too mean
19:44.24OluapPlayerAh
19:44.52OluapPlayerI imagine the results wouldn't be too different to gray wolves-turned-dogs
19:45.10Wormy_Yeah
19:45.38OluapPlayerAlso I find bears impressive creatures
19:46.39Wormy_I'm sort of glad they don't roam the British countryside anymore, its nice to go for a picnic in the woods and not get eaten
19:47.17OluapPlayerBears existed in the UK?
19:47.37Wormy_Until the lower middle ages, yes
19:47.40XhoOr more importantly, your picnic
19:47.58OluapPlayerhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Baby_Pandas.JPG fluff
19:48.51OluapPlayerI don't think there were ever any species of bear south of the USA in America
19:48.54Wormy_Arctotherium Augustidens, Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear, Polar Bear, Kodiak Bear http://www.earthlymission.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/biggest-bears-polar-infographics_3.jpg
19:49.13OluapPlayerBears in the amazon forest sounds spooky
19:49.42OluapPlayerFuck imagine that biggest bear standing on its hind legs
19:50.24XhoYou'd call it sir that's for sure
19:50.37Wormy_Arctotherium actually roamed South America according to Wikipedia, and would have faced the giant sloth
19:50.50OluapPlayerGiant bear vs giant sloth
19:50.52OluapPlayercool vs awesome
19:51.05Wormy_Hm, there's an animated fight somewhere
19:51.05OluapPlayerAlso, on the subject of sir bear http://i.imgur.com/tAV3wHl.png
19:51.41XhoMhor - yup
19:52.20Wormy_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJ4dSPtfi0
19:54.06OluapPlayerSloth - i must break you
19:55.09OluapPlayerGood video that
19:55.18OluapPlayerI don't imagine a lot of things would mess with a ground sloth
19:56.12OluapPlayerhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Uakari_male.jpg oh god this looks so ugly
19:56.20OluapPlayerIt's like its whole head got stung by a bee
19:56.45OluapPlayerSore thumb, the monkey
19:59.04Wormy_the proboscis monkey is another weird looking one
20:01.31OluapPlayerProboscis monkey looks like a cartoon alien from the 60s
20:02.43Wormy_I bet if any escaped in the 60's people would report it as an alien
20:02.47Wormy_would have
20:03.22OluapPlayerThe big-noses from planet Proboscis
20:09.01DrodoEmpireHey Imperios ImpyDroid
20:09.06DrodoEmpireI got a quick question
20:09.37OluapPlayer>The monkey also goes by the Indonesian name monyet belanda ("Dutch monkey"), or even orang belanda ("Dutchman"), as Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses.
20:09.39OluapPlayerrude
20:09.52DrodoEmpireayy lmao
20:09.58Wormy_lol
20:10.44DrodoEmpireImpyDroid2 even
20:11.28ImperiosDrodoEmpire: Hmm?
20:12.05DrodoEmpireYeah I was just wondering-- didn't South Arabian pagans, pre-Islam, depict their gods in really abstract, nonhuman forms?
20:12.31DrodoEmpireThought you might be able to confirm
20:16.03DrodoEmpireHmm, doing my own research and so far it doesn't seem so
20:16.08DrodoEmpireWhich is strange...
20:16.40DrodoEmpireOh wait
20:16.49Wormy_Well check these depictions of Angels in the Old Testament, which likely came from pagan and proto-Abrahamic imagery http://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/141265586290
20:16.59Wormy_*descend
20:16.59DrodoEmpireYeah it was the Nabataeans who represented their gods in the abstract it seems
20:17.12DrodoEmpireTheir head god was commonly represented as a cube, or cuboid shape
20:17.35Tek0516Holy fuck this building's fire alatm is deafening.
20:17.45DrodoEmpireUh oh
20:17.49DrodoEmpireWhat's wrong?
20:17.53DrodoEmpireWormy_: Thanks
20:18.02Tek0516It literally hurt to even get near the actual alarm in our apartment.
20:18.09DrodoEmpireJeezus...
20:19.12Wormy_I love this line, "There’s a good reason why angels’ standard greeting is ‘Do not be afraid’."
20:19.16DrodoEmpire^^^
20:19.38DrodoEmpireI ask mostly because I had a similar idea for the Drodo-- that some pantheons may also represent their gods in a really abstract or exotic way, so it'd help to have inspiration
20:20.08DrodoEmpireSome might even blur the lines between animism and polytheism, by saying, perhaps, that their god is, quite literally, -that- specific mountain
20:20.12DrodoEmpireFor example
20:20.43Tek0516It is also really fucking cold and I'm not even dressed. >.<
20:20.46Wormy_I recall watching a documentary, and early Jewish depicted God as a holy space, so they would sculpt a chamber and nothing-else
20:20.54DrodoEmpireHuh
20:20.58DrodoEmpireI wonder if some may add a religious significance to mathematics even
20:21.05Wormy_*about the early Jewish
20:22.43Wormy_There was a lot of religious thinking in early mathematics, I think zero or example was obscured because it seemed so artificial
20:23.03DrodoEmpireAhh, right
20:23.12DrodoEmpireYeah the Babylonians in particular were an odd example
20:23.42DrodoEmpireThey were deeply mathematical and analytical, and kept some of the best records of the ancient world-- but they were also amazingly superstitious
20:23.56OluapPlayerStarring Mount Doom as Satan
20:24.00DrodoEmpirehur
20:24.13DrodoEmpireYou perhaps wouldn't realise from how dry and accurate their records were, but they were
20:26.45Wormy_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion
20:27.15Wormy_I'm interested in melting pot of religions that was occuring around time of Christ
20:27.18DrodoEmpire^
20:27.26DrodoEmpireI love classical and ancient theology
20:27.32DrodoEmpireIts so different from today
20:27.39DrodoEmpireAnd its what I largely base Drodo theology off of
20:30.04Wormy_There was a lot of crossover between East and West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Asian_Buddhist_Monks.jpeg
20:30.53DrodoEmpire^
20:30.55Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Grace_of_Winter So I went and did something unusual for once
20:31.38DrodoEmpireOoh nice
20:31.42DrodoEmpireI really like the model
20:33.16DrodoEmpire...I really do need to write more on Drodo religion in general >.<
20:33.28DrodoEmpireIts pretty interesting for me, and I figure it'd be a thing that'd be unique
20:35.48OluapPlayerWell that's an unusual character
20:35.51DrodoEmpire^
20:36.06Xholong gallery of psychos                                              fairy
20:36.15XhoI had the idea for a while
20:36.44Wormy_I know you are revulsed by OA, but I find the space religions on it pretty cool.  Some refer to the ancient Near East syncretics cast in sci-fi form, like the escapist gnostics trying to escape the laws of physics, but essentially defeating the purpose because they can't escape rules of some kind or another
20:37.54DrodoEmpireHuh
20:38.12DrodoEmpireWell... Yeah, I'm no fan of OA but they got some cool ideas on there for sure
20:59.07Wormy_Drodo:  The intellectual / religious world of Alexandria https://youtu.be/9KT_y_kS_rM?t=1h26m31s
20:59.38Wormy_a loooong list of cults, religions and mystery schools all co-existing
21:05.20DrodoEmpireOh cool
21:06.08Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Grace_of_Winter There we go
21:07.18DrodoEmpireI like it
21:07.27DrodoEmpireReally different from your other stuff, its cool
21:10.08Wormy_These seem suitably exotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnosophists
21:14.30DrodoEmpireHh
21:14.31DrodoEmpire*Huh
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21:19.56dromI came to here because I remembered some of you play WoW. So I came to ask about a realm I most likely stumble across any of you
21:24.07Wormy_I would play, but I think I would become addicted, so stay away from wow
21:24.16Wormy_*so I
21:47.06dromWormy_: Yeah, understandable
21:47.50Wormy_DrodoEmpire, ImpyDroid2 what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Sutras
21:48.04DrodoEmpire^
21:48.06DrodoEmpireYeah
21:48.17DrodoEmpireChinese Christianity was an interesting thing
22:03.48DrodoEmpirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUEFTj-tv3I Mat Zo is a very ok artist <.<
22:13.48ImpyDroid2Wormy_away: It makes sense for me
22:14.09ImpyDroid2DrodoEmpire: Sorry for not answering
22:14.36ImpyDroid2I am not sure about abstract depictions of gods being common among Arabs, Kaaba for example housed LOTS of idols before Mhbamm
22:14.40ImpyDroid2*Muhammad
22:14.53ImpyDroid2Prophet Mhbamm, peace be upon him
22:15.41ImpyDroid2And, logically if personifief depictions of gods were not already common in Arab paganism, there would be no reason to ban it
22:16.13ImpyDroid2Was that helpful?
22:16.37ImpyDroid2FFFFUUUUUU
22:18.15Wormy_awayI just find syncretism interesting.  I watching this series called Wild China, and there's a mountain in the Himalayas that is visited by a pilgrimage of 5 different religions.  Notably the Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists were trying to upstage each other with coloured material and singing, but all the people of religious faiths erected a tall pole with items and colours of their faith.  It was competitive but peaceful and communa
22:18.20ImpyDroid2Wormy_away: This text actually uses the same symbol as used for Buddha to refer to God, and translates the term "saint" as "arhat"
22:18.37ImpyDroid2Which I suppose makes sense
22:19.06Wormy_awayinteresting
22:19.20ImpyDroid2Korean Christians still refer to God as "Heaven" BTW
22:19.41Wormy_awayI see
22:19.44ImpyDroid2"Haneunim", or "His Majesty Heaven"
22:19.46dromMonet Wormy_away: http://i.imgur.com/pPNvf6a.jpg
22:20.14Wormy_awaypurrty fox
22:20.19ImpyDroid2There were actually lots of terms in Chinese for God because a personified monotheistic deity was a difficult concept to grasp for East Asian culture
22:20.38ImpyDroid2As far as I remember three terms have been prevalent in China
22:20.38Wormy_awayI bet
22:21.06ImpyDroid2"Tian", or Heaven, which is probably the closest you have to God in Chinese religion
22:21.23ImpyDroid2"Shangdi", which is the name of the supreme deity in ancient Chinese religion
22:21.45ImpyDroid2"Supreme Deity" or something
22:21.55dromhttp://i.imgur.com/ptZBwMo.gifv
22:22.01Wormy_awaya lot of Chinese gods are like wise old men, like the Jade Emperor
22:22.24ImpyDroid2Interestingly the "di" in "shangdi" is the same as in "huangdi", or "emperor"
22:24.15ImpyDroid2This was a deliberate decision by Qin Shi Huang AFAIK, to show that he was equal to the gods
22:24.41ImpyDroid2And apparently the last term used is "Tianzhu", or "Lord of Heaven"
22:26.11Wormy_awayI remember reading that Chinese Emperors were believed to own the entire world, and when foreign powers didn't appear to respect this, it was very strange for the Chinese people
22:26.50ImpyDroid2They considered every foreign ruler to be a tributary
22:27.00ImpyDroid2Or a barbarian who had to be made into one
22:31.22OluapPlayerThere we go, 100% completed Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor
22:31.24ImpyDroid2Hm, interesting that so many languages have different terminology for supreme deities and normal ones
22:31.26OluapPlayerNow I'm ready for the sequel
22:31.42ImpyDroid2One term for God, the other for gods
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