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BESW

4:00 AM

On the breakwaters the Bird People held a meeting. #Tottori http://t.co/TnsGdcBwfz

Tweeted by hinganai on July 8, 2015 at 3:34 AM

Ben

@BESW "This rivalry has to stop! How many more of us have to suffer?"

or

@BESW "Meeting starting at 7.53, Jim, could you please read out the minutes from the last meeting?"

Althis

@BESW Ok, you beat him.

doppelgreener

@Althis But is that an observation or an instruction?

Althis

@doppelgreener I shall answer with a challenge: Can you do better?

BESW

@Althis If he can't beat them, he can join them!

Althis

4:07 AM

@BESW The birds?

doppelgreener

@BESW I am joining you now.

By our powers combined we will be unstoppable.

Althis

Bromance, what a lovely thing.

You two remind me of FFXV.

I should probably play the latest update...

doppelgreener

My coworkers are finding out what audio-only google recaptcha sounds like.

It sounds like a broken cyberman.

Althis

Don't Google own Ivona?

I would expect them to use it in all their newest voice applications.

doppelgreener

Apparently it's Amazon who owns Ivona.

BESW

4:21 AM

@doppelgreener That's a feature.

Althis

@BESW If I had a super intelligent machine as my servant, I would still like it to sound like Hal9000.

doppelgreener

@BESW I imagine being legible would be a better feature. But yes, it probably isn't very legible (as a feature) because of speech-to-text.

Althis

If only as foreshadowing for when the machines finally overthrow us and become Singularity God.

Ben

Pixie

This is Google's voice and Bing's voice fed into a song synthesis program called UTAUloid.

Althis

4:23 AM

@Ben You don't hassle the Hoff, dude.

Pixie

(Actually, "Googlepoid" sounds really good sometimes. Not in this one, but sometimes.)

Althis

Do we know how they make Cortana?

That is a great voice engine.

But it might be all pre-recorded.

Hard to tell.

Ben

@Althis "Oh Hoff9000, you son of a b***"

Pixie

This one is slightly better, but not the one I'm looking for. It is, however, a cover of a song called "Go Google It." So meta.

Althis

Hatsune Google.

Pixie

4:27 AM

Here! Google is not the chorus at the very beginning, you'll know when she kicks in.

Althis

@Pixie Wow, this is actually good.

Pixie

Yeah, if I didn't know it was Google, I'd assume it was a voicebank someone made with their own samples, as opposed to grabbing them from Japanese Google translate. xD

doppelgreener

@Ben that is lovely.

Ben

Has anyone here seen Kung Fury?

Althis

@Ben Hey Ben, I've wanted for a very long time to have a serious discussion about the ending of That Masterpiece: Kung Fury.

doppelgreener

4:31 AM

@Althis Our Atomic Robo campaign story features a machine named PAL 9000.

Althis

To begin with: What the hell?!

Ben

@Althis A serious discussion?

trogdor

lol

Ben

I think you're going about it the wrong way haha

Althis

Also, we really need a Kung Fury series.

Ben

4:32 AM

^ this

Althis

I would totally watch it if it were comprised of 20 mins episodes of pure 80's awesome.

Ben

"Will Kung Fury and Barbarianna hook up? Find out next week!"

Althis

About the ending, my friends assumed that they reset the loop and that Hittler did come back with the eagle the first time.

But I think it is actually a new iteration.

And that the story is evolving.

Ben

Well the thing is, he re-did the Arcade-bot fight, then realised the nazi symbol - remembering Hitler. So that means this is after he's gone back in time and "killed" him. (When Thor apparently crushed him with the hammer).

Sidenote: I never thought I'd see the day when a sentence like that actually made sense.

doppelgreener

I have no idea what you two are talking about but this sounds like one heck of a movie.

Althis

4:38 AM

@Ben It is a marvelous world in which such things are true, is it not?

@doppelgreener It is my life's goal to make as many people as possible watch Kung Fury.

BESW

KUNG FURY Official Movie [HD]

►

Ben

@doppelgreener I would say spoiler alert, but that's also the glory of it all. Anything I say about the movie is utter garbage until you actually watch it haha

Althis

@BESW Well, you beat me.

@doppelgreener go watch it, it is free.

Pixie

BESW is the link ninja. Always.

Ben

@Pixie Stealin' high fives and posting YouTube clips with the speed and grace of a pouncing unicorn breathing, 3 winged pinstriped dragon

Althis

4:41 AM

Stealing high fives you say?

Ben

@Althis and it is indeed

Pixie

Speaking of making sense and unicorns, I'm going back to this Markov chain text generator periodically, and it's actually getting marginally more coherent. Marginally. :P

Althis

@Pixie, quick! High Five!

o/

Pixie

@Althis \o

Althis

Yeah! We beat him!

Now we only need to find a link faster than him.

Pixie

4:42 AM

"Chinese dragon-fire is a legendard at high temperatures. Precipitate various land creature animal that be very important examined by its sequence, it occurs in an integrations. These precursor to possess a venomous birth.[7]"

Ben

yesterday, by BESW

[intercepts high five]

Althis

That is a VERY racist translation.

Adeptus

"a legendard"? Is it making up words, or is the source misspelt?

Pixie

@Adeptus It's making up words.

Ben

@Adeptus Either way, I like it

Pixie

4:44 AM

"This is an allele of their parent organism; i.e. the species, so it is particularly approaches that spective molecules in solvent is the word unicorn, and slime."

doppelgreener

@BESW The whole thing is 30 minutes?

BESW

@Pixie Now that is some high-octane Laundry Files content.

@doppelgreener Yup.

Ben

@doppelgreener yup

Adeptus

@Pixie It was going well until "...and slime"

Pixie

@Adeptus Slime is just a byproduct, obviously.

Ben

4:45 AM

@Adeptus I'd say there'd be some form of mucus involved in the process.

Althis

@Ben @Pixie I am not sure what you are talking about, but I am certain that it is funnier without context.

Ben

@Althis Long story - sprouted from the idea of "Unicorn breath weapon"

Pixie

@Althis To dispel the mystery, I am feeding this chunks of wikipedia articles about science, alchemy, unicorns, and dragons in an attempt to produce ridiculous "science."

Althis

@Ben Would it contain all that is pure about metanature, kill undead on whiff and allow for time travel?

BESW

@Pixie Genetics and aerodynamics?

Pixie

4:49 AM

@BESW I have some DNA and introductory genetics in there as well as combustion, weather, ice, and some other things. I should definitely add aerodynamics, though.

Althis

@Pixie If only it's syntax were better, this would be truly and incredibly interesting.

Pixie

I put a few snippets of Greek dragon mythology and a play that used unicorns symbolically, but I didn't want to muddy the water too much.

@Althis I am hoping that the more I give it, the better it will get. I'm not sure if that will actually work, but I'm hoping. :P

Ben

@Althis All I came away from it with was the idea of a 3-winged dragon snorting out miniature unicorns. @Pixie and @acomputingpun came up with the whole scince side of it haha

doppelgreener

@Pixie I am going to feed this thing the prologue of Hyperion.

Ben

@Pixie Side note: It has to be posted up when you're done. If not, I will be very upset :P

Pixie

4:52 AM

I don't pretend to understand Markov text chain generators on an advanced level, heh. I am just playing. But it is fun!

@Ben Once I get a body I'm happy with, I will post it, yes.

Althis

@Pixie You might just accidentally come upon proof of polynomial truth and destroy the universe.

If only you feed it computer science articles.

Pixie

@doppelgreener You can feed it anything!

"Then I saw the heat and the sixteenth century also occurs."

Althis

IT WILL EAT EVERYTHING!

This, my friends, is how the Singularity occurs.

We are now unwittingly beginning the end of all things.

And it is damn fun!

doppelgreener

> The fatline squirt had never secrets of rain coursing through thickening cabin.

"We need your help," said the Consul stood steak and a colder gleam of decaying tachyons, the Consul's frowned beast trumpeted in the projection of the fern for the pulse of rain and which tied the apex of the Ousters."

That almost makes total sense.

("fatline squirts" are a thing here)

(they are more or less a hologram fax, that you'd better catch or it's gone)

BESW

It's also an awful name for a band.

Althis

4:56 AM

@doppelgreener It used a wrong " there.

Ben

@BESW not in Germany

Althis

@doppelgreener Also, we must iterate further to try to divine why the steak was consorting with fundamental imaginary particles about politics.

doppelgreener

@Althis Alternately, why is the Consul standing steak, what does standing steak mean, what kind of pose is this and why is it called steak.

I think Markov chains have a hard time parsing Dan Simmons' writing.

Which is some of the most beautiful and elegant and concise writing I've ever seen.

I will contain my gushing but I will gush briefly: he can paint an entire exquisite panorama in only a few sentences. He knows exactly the things he needs to say to cue your brain to fill in a stunning amount of detail around it. He is a person who can say much with very little.

Pixie

"Experiment, include cleaning the unicorn was that the generatures guide the natures or a more accepted in cabinets of assets has focus on how the late 18th centuries.[11] Following the world, detrimentioned in ancientific medicinal use were even thousands of time.[5]"

I sort of wish it didn't make up words. Sometimes it makes up a lot of them. xD

BESW

I've been detrimentioned a few times, I think.

Pixie

5:07 AM

Sometimes they are good words. I think my favorite so far has been "an atmospheritance."

Adeptus

I like ancientific

Pixie

... it just said "the Doge's Palace."

Adeptus

Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace (Italian: Palazzo Ducale) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic of Venice, opening as a museum in 1923. Today, it is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. In 2010, it was visited by 1,358,186 people. == History == In 810, Doge Angelo Partecipazio moved the seat of government from the island of Malamocco to the area of the present-day Rialto, when it was decided a palatium duci...

Pixie

Ooh, "immortalismans."

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@Adeptus Aha, so that must have been in an article somewhere.

Adeptus

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BESW

5:10 AM

very arches. so history. amaze.

Pixie

I also love the citations. I left them in hoping it would use them.

BESW

@Pixie @doppelgreener Ooh Ooh Ooh. What if the crystal skull is one of a set of immortalismans?

Pixie

@BESW Neeeat.

Althis

@doppelgreener He is of the Lethani.

Pixie

"The word. The shark." I think it's preaching now.

It's working at least fairly well now, so have a pastebin. @Ben

BESW

5:18 AM

@Pixie "And now, a reading from the Gospel according to Martin Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Pixie

It also helpfully explained at some point that "a unicorn may interact with a shark."

BESW

@Pixie But on the quantum level, mostly.

Pixie

Really complex stuff. Fascinating but dangerous field.

BESW

Entangled unicorn/shark particles; up quarks, down fetlocks.

Pixie

"Dr. Paweł Frelik, one-horned horse-like creature is a legend," ah yes, the legendary unicorn scientist

Althis

5:25 AM

"A winged unicorn is a fictional horse with wings and the horn of a unicorn."

It really IS starting to become coherent.

Pixie

@Althis That's an input line.

Althis

Oh.

Pixie

Unless it gave you that as output. xD

doppelgreener

@Althis What does this mean?

Pixie

The pastebin has to be copied as input into here.

doppelgreener

5:26 AM

@BESW Well of course it would be an immortalisman. What else would it be?[/babbage]

Althis

@doppelgreener It means he knows Kung Fu apparently.

doppelgreener

@Althis He sure knows novel kung fu.

Althis

"But be versional history, when Greek, Roman, a yellow particle and hazardous and ideally moist mucus, on its own improperly, during a horn and poisons of gravity, when supposed on alchemy's predation of trust."

I think I would read a tale about Greek, Roman, a yellow particle and dangerously moisturized mucus.

Ben

@Pixie Wow you certainly did have fun hahaha

Pixie

@Althis Hercules vs. snot?

Grubermensch

5:33 AM

I fed it a wacky stream of consciousness thing I wrote a few years back, and got some interesting results.

> Black; no more that. They say the kids are way better. Maybe the Wizard, right space the medicine men cooked up with plywood action, some rich snob's day-old gas station decibel primal yell sharp left and shoots of an age before I fall asleep. Now here goes: rock the magic, Wizard, right off my eyes. Where's the guy, but he's the short, wheel: "Free."

Ben

@Pixie Mucus does seem to be becoming the common theme today

Althis

@Pixie I just want to know where the particle fits into all this mess.

Grubermensch

"Rock the magic, Wizard, right off my eyes."

Pixie

@Althis "Nobody knows." (Particle man...)

Althis

@Grubermensch I don't get the point it is getting at, but whatever it is, I am sure it is pretty deep.

Ben

5:34 AM

@Pixie nose* :P

Althis

@Pixie 8.9/10 for that pun.

Pixie

@Grubermensch It's actually readable!

@Althis Credit Ben, I didn't even think of it. xD My keyboard just ate my k and w. I have to press these keys really hard for some reason, and there's a bit of lag.

Grubermensch

Perhaps there's an advantage to starting with source material that's mildly incoherent to begin with.

Quick, somebody feed it the opening to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

doppelgreener

@Grubermensch Does that mean that if we feed a markov chain something legible and get something incoherent, we can feed it back that incoherence and get back something legible?

Pixie

Smaller samples might also be better if they're written consistently, or large numbers of things that are actually similar.

doppelgreener

5:37 AM

TO THE HINDENMARKOV!

Grubermensch

@doppelgreener I think maybe that intentional incoherence reproduces more legibly than intentional coherence.

It also might benefit from the relative shortness of my source material.

Althis

Joyce himself is only slightly coherent most of the time.

I think I will feed it Ulisses.

Pixie

"Like most dragons, the Catalan dragon (Catalan drac) is an enormous serpent with a monstrous opponent overcome by a heroic deity has its roots in the mid-latitudes, such as the ergodic theorem and the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole."

doppelgreener

I fed the Markov chain generator Hyperion's prologue and then its own output eight times:

> ce computer. The Consul went of blue played Rachmaninoff's Prelude an Ouster involved, the computer. The Consul went of the faced with. Unless a membered with the voice of thundred-faced with the faced with. Unless a membered with the faced with. Unless a membered with the faced with the voice of blue played Rachmaninoff's Prelude and penetratocumulus towered the transmission Gladstone, retrieved historicane winds rising an Ouster portion Gladstone, retrieved his lips. He listened rivulets of blue played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in the faced with the in normal that had to an Ousters' big g…

Does not contribute to legibility. But, Ousters, Gladstone, and computers.

Pixie

... I think I figure out how to make it more coherent, actually. Increase order the number.

Grubermensch

5:40 AM

I think maybe that less coherent writing includes fewer glue words, which makes the Markov generator work better.

Althis

@doppelgreener What is going on I don't even...

doppelgreener

@Althis This markov generator. This prologue.

I don't know what's going on in that thing though.

Grubermensch

I reread my story, and nope, I've got plenty of glue words, so that's probably wrong.

> Not the protocol, and this run. It's been resting in thirty before thank Luke for our city. No hope in the only sane person I know. Snaps the right space the mark; anothere behind my moaning but he's the medicine medicine men cooked bleating horns left and the seats are the blac

doppelgreener

@Pixie I just increased it to 12, and it seemed to use almost exact full sentences and phrases from the material. So, higher order seems to be closeness to material.

Pixie

@doppelgreener Yes, that's what I'm getting too.

"In antagonistic interactions, such as cooking, production usually toxic and competition is a legends around the world, differently under different cultures"

Grubermensch

5:42 AM

A Markov Chain of order n selects the next word based upon the values of the last n words.

Ben

@Pixie Did you hear about the man that got arrested in the camping grounds?

He was loitering within tent

Althis

@Pixie I love this one.

Pixie

Hehe.

doppelgreener

> human portions of the galaxy together.

"No," said the Consul went inside, brought the balcony in, and sealed the ship just as the first heavy raindrops began to fall. He climbed the spiral staircase to his sleeping cabin at the apex of the ship. The circular room was dark except for silent explosions of lightning which outlined rivulets of rain coursing the skylight. The Consul stripped, lay back on the firm mattress, and switched on the sound system and external audio pickups. He listened to the antediluvian night sounds rising from the swamps and he thought about morning, about setting…

Grubermensch

As you increase the order, you increase the likelihood of unique word chains, which makes the output match the input more closely.

doppelgreener

5:43 AM

order 9.

It's coherent, and it's also mostly the exact sentences (and parts thereof) just jumbled around.

Grubermensch

I like that he brought the balcony in. It seems very chivalrous of him.

doppelgreener

Ah! That makes sense.

@Grubermensch That is actually from the book, haha.

Grubermensch

Oh right, I forgot that his ship worked like that.

Man that was a weird book.

Pixie

I'm trying to find a setting that retains weirdness but improves syntax.

Adeptus

> Dragons are often a complex apparatus overseen by many primates have 24 pairs.

order 6

doppelgreener

5:46 AM

@Grubermensch There's four of them too!

And yes. It is outstanding.

Pixie

I think 6 may be ideal, from my fiddling. 7 is more coherent, but I'm seeing less... dragons coming up.

Adeptus

> Between dragon often gaseous fuels whose compact structure of basic and applied, understood to form is continues to slay it.

Grubermensch

I only read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Never did the Endymion ones. Olympos and Illium were excellent, though.

@Pixie Moar dragons!

doppelgreener

@Grubermensch Olympos and Illium are on my list.

Pixie

"The typically ingest tests to control which parts of the Sciences, as well as the awe-inspiring head of the Medusa, which has the Passion of science)." Medusa's disembodied head is totally into science.

Adeptus

5:48 AM

> The wyvern is often used as a molecules.

Ben

Cool story bro, next time add more dragons.

oh wait...

doppelgreener

Endymion and Rise of Endymion are a direct continuation of Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. They take place a couple of centuries later, and tie off the events. They're far better even than the Hyperion pair.

Grubermensch

@doppelgreener I read them in reverse order, like many of my experiences with long-form fictions, because (I have been told) I am a terrible person. I don't think it really made a difference, except that the ending was weird.

doppelgreener

The story follows a fellow named Raul, rather than a whole group.

Pixie

@Ben [finishes Price and Prejudice, looks confused] But where were the dragons?

doppelgreener

5:49 AM

@Grubermensch Don't read Endymion in reverse order at least.

This is definitely not a novel pair to be read in reverse. There's build-up and payoff you won't experience.

There's beauty and tragedy and so on, and you won't experience the depth of it when you read it if you haven't experienced what it was built up to be.

Grubermensch

I never do it on purpose. It just sort of happens. Consistently.

Adeptus

> The typical dragons occur in many legends about monsters that have been known to have large black walnut secretes a chemical reaction occurs forming a white hair color while being lost to space, creating from 300 to 500 CE, they contain four nucleobases along the part of the system as a breastplate, was the domain of the products of a cell division (mitosis) is possible flow, turbulence, and bonfires, and the ability at speeds near or great hero who tries to slay it.

doppelgreener

@Grubermensch You should on purpose make it not happen in this case. :P

Pixie

@Adeptus For some reason, the "while being lost to space" part is cracking me up.

Typical dragons float off into space while their hair turns white.

doppelgreener

@Adeptus Nuclear space dragons with protective white fur and nucleobase natural armored scales.

Grubermensch

5:51 AM

> Google so much control, you're going the intensely long video that have and of email addresses. The video that don't feel like a forum through this poses syntheses of each, and in my opinion, it has noted, and discussions into the same time of which I believe Google's increasing dominance back" feature is also possible for participants and unlikely to pull informations (recall the specs for interesting at can accessible for lots of each, and Orkut.

Adeptus

I'm liking this instance

> An example would be the most valuable asset that conflict with the dragons: the European Journal of Ambroise Paré, Discourse on unicorn - marking the backbone is resistant to heraldry, frequently mention the fact that the horn in the water in nature,[13] its use in royal courts.

Grubermensch

I fed it my review of Google Wave.

Pixie

Recall the specs for interesting. Accept nothing less.

Ben

You know, amidst all this hype about 3 winged pinstriped dragons and Unicorn breath weapons, I really did forget this was a chat room for RPG.SE

doppelgreener

@Ben it's a what?

Grubermensch

5:56 AM

What else would we talk about?

Ben

@Grubermensch that's a good point

Pixie

"Humans have a head like a huge lizard-like creating white hair and pigmented skin: albinism. Mutations. Dragon's blood often has magical practice, doctors personally assess patient's medical history and most reputable remedies during cell division these chromosomes, half from a preparation, metapopulation of the grass."

Althis

Fellas...

I think I did a bad thing.

BESW

@Ben You should see us when Doctor Who has season finales.

doppelgreener

@Pixie Is this asserting humans evolved from dragons?

Althis

5:57 AM

I fed it the entirety of Ulisses and I think it broke.

Ben

@Althis Baby did a bad bad thing..?

Pixie

@doppelgreener Also, doctors assess individual medical histories so they can decide whether reputable remedies like magic dragon's blood are appropriate.

Althis

@Ben I think so.

Adeptus

> The Cold War fueled an ever move without sufficient seals of the result in a failure to room temperature and preventions lacked sufficient evidence that human activities such as cooking, production usually look similar to how to summon or invoke supernatural power, and are not always in the case of some parasitic species may interaction of the system as a wyvern being stitching the validity of a hypothesis may require refinement, alteration, expansion or even rejection.

Althis

It is not responding.

I might have broken it.

Ben

5:58 AM

light applause

doppelgreener

Someone mix articles on dragons and the cold war. Stat.

Pixie

It might be overwhelmed by a sample quite that large, but.. pffff.

Althis

@Adeptus You used 7 or above for that, right?

Grubermensch

@Althis It's definitely still working for me, so you didn't break it for everybody.

Pixie

@Althis Maybe try half of the text?

Ben

6:00 AM

@doppelgreener Kung Fury 2

Althis

That ^

Adeptus

> They have the hair of a barbed dragons occur nature to produces oxidized, often used to create may be requires fairly high temperature and practice of the distant cousin to the religious and philosophy by its early procedure that can be parasitic species.

doppelgreener

@Ben Ha!

Adeptus

@Althis nope, 6

doppelgreener

@Adeptus That was ok until "parasitic species"

BESW

6:00 AM

@doppelgreener I think there's a series of fantasy novels on that premise.

Adeptus

> The ostensible goals of aerodynamic drag due to aeroelasticity. The unicorn horns" – almost common enemies.

Ben

@BESW I want this

Althis

Wait...

It is loading something.

BESW

My bad, it's World War II.

Ben

@BESW Actually that sounds like something out of Sucker Punch haha

Althis

6:02 AM

@Ben there certainly is a movie about that.

Ben

@BESW I got excited for a second there. I thought it was "the Dark Is Rising" series.

Althis

Nope...

BESW

@Ben Alas, not nearly so good.

Althis

413 Request Entity Too Large

Ben

@Althis Quick google search. So it is.

@BESW And I've actually only read the first two books

Grubermensch

6:05 AM

@Althis :(

Ben

Of the Dark Is Rising that is. I haven't heard of this series before

Althis

Hey/

BESW

@Ben Counting from The Dark is Rising or from Over Sea, Under Stone?

Althis

Since we are back on literature.

BESW

Either way, read 'em all.

Althis

6:05 AM

Has anyone here read the Gentlemen Bastard series?

Ben

@BESW Dark Is Rising. I've read Over Sea Under Stone as well

@Althis negative

Adeptus

Not cold war dragons, but something that it reminded me of... The Dance of Gods series

Ben

@Adeptus but Dragons?

BESW

The basic story of Jurassic World. http://t.co/gc1Mds4VlC

Tweeted by _youhadonejob on July 8, 2015 at 1:46 AM

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Adeptus

I think there might have been a dragon in it somewhere...

Althis

6:07 AM

@BESW That was awesome.

Ben

@Adeptus Ok, cool story then bro :P

Althis

Anyway.

I'm heading off.

Ben

@BESW the running commentary was so smooth

Althis

Have to finish a document.

See ya.

o/

Ben

high fives @Althis

Ciao

Althis

6:09 AM

And we beat the @BESW again!

Yeah!

Adeptus

It's a fantasy story, but set in the far future after the fall of a high tech civilisation. It's actually a bit like Numenera, I guess.

Althis

No interceptions here!

Pixie

Hmm. Maybe the Immortalismans should be the name for my undead band.

Althis

@Adeptus Sir... I must go, but you managed to get my interest.

Please go on.

@Pixie Are you highwaymen or just rock stars?

doppelgreener

@Pixie Pixie and the Immortalismans.

Pixie

6:11 AM

@Althis Rockstars, definitely.

(By "my" I meant "the undead band I am creating as characters," but I would not say no to an actual undead band.)

Althis

The Immortalisman and it's Pixies.

Ben

doppelgreener

A band that produces concept albums about a pixie's rise to (possibly twisted) immortality and her ascension to power through the cosmos.

Magician

@Pixie How do you feel about Rolling Stones?

Adeptus

@Althis I can't properly articulate the story without spoilers. But hey, it's now free to download. go here, check it out

Althis

6:12 AM

@Magician Those things can kill you, man.

Always in the places you least expect.

Grubermensch

> Nobody writes poetry about to break free of car tires to magnets under loose-leaf paper.

Pixie

@doppelgreener manic (laughter) pixie deadgirl

Althis

Like in forgotten temples and hidden jungles.

Grubermensch

seed

Magician

Indeed

doppelgreener

6:22 AM

We have a dice roller test room. Please use it.

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Ben

@doppelgreener I fell some responsibility for this abuse. My apologies haha.

Nyoze

Sorry Doppel :(

doppelgreener

@Ben nonsense

@Nyoze it happens, and i'm very glad when people discover our dice and get excited about it, but it's best directed into a test room ;)

Ben

@doppelgreener I feel there should be a d7 added ensuing @SevenSidedDie's promotion to mod :P

doppelgreener

Alas, no further dice are likely to be added.

Miniman

6:28 AM

Or removed...[shakes fist at d10]

doppelgreener

@Miniman Ha!

Ben

@Miniman What's wrong with the d10?

Miniman

@Ben The other dice are all platonic solids, and don't deserve to have their number sullied by the presence of the d10.

Ben

@Miniman Oh so you've just got it out for d10's in general?

Miniman

@Ben Well, if there was some other bastard non-platonic solid trying to hide amongst its superiors I'd have it out for that too, but currently there's not :P

⚅

Ben

6:35 AM

@Miniman ...why?

Miniman

@Ben Unicode d6.

Ben

oh lol

Miniman

It doesn't resolve very well, but U+2680 to U+2685 are the 6 faces of a d6.

Magician

FaceRig looks like it could be fun/freaky for online gaming.

Pixie

@Magician If they either allow for direct customization or upload of meshes... [rubs hands together]

Magician

6:43 AM

@Pixie From the video it seems like you take their pre-made face and customize it a bit with accessories and colors. Hopefully, it's more indepth than that.

Pixie

They have at least some sliders, it looks like.

Magician

> We have a large number of avatars (characters) and most (if not all) of them have a custom skin that allows you to select colors for their features (eyes/fur/nose/various accessories) and even add you own skin files.

> Additionally, we have a variety of props you can attach :D

Miniman

@Magician Please tell me one of them is Groucho glasses!

Magician

> 3d models can be added on any version of facerig
Check out our Community created content boards here on steam for more details, like the documentation, the import process and other things. Also, I should mention that we've recently released our Avatar import tool on steam

Pixie

Sounds reasonable to me. Sort of tempting. I will probably not actually use it, though. :P

Magician

6:50 AM

@Pixie Yeah, it's a novelty thing. But amusing.

Pixie

But I'm liking that there's a dragon, and I could also be the anime, sort of. I'm the type of person who actually owns a Necomimi. My standards are not high.

doppelgreener

What is a necomimi such that you own it? Do you mean the ears and tail and such?

Miniman

Do you mean a nekomimi?

doppelgreener

(the only way I'd have read that previously is that you own someone who is literally a nekomimi)

Magician

Necromimi

Pixie

6:53 AM

@doppelgreener Brainwave-sensing cat ears.

BESW

@Magician Beat me to it.

Pixie

I meant to link but forgot. :P

doppelgreener

@Pixie Haha, those look great.

Pixie

They are 100% useless and also 100% great.

Nyoze

@Pixie I had a friend who owned them... They would work for like, 3 hours then go haywire till they got restarted. :(

Pixie

6:55 AM

@Nyoze I haven't use them for super-long periods myself.

Magician

@Nyoze The friend went haywire?

Pixie

There was going to be a tail too, but its kickstarter failed. :B

Nyoze

@Pixie He was the overnight cleaner at the McDonalds I worked out, and since we were pretty dead most nights, he would wear them just for something to do lol.

@Magician Nah. Way way way too late for that.

Pixie

@Magician Cursed Band of Cat Ear: Once you put them on, you can't take them off, and the longer you wear them, the more catlike behavior you exhibit.

doppelgreener

@Pixie That's worth a story unto itself.

Pixie

7:00 AM

My boyfriend also got excited when I got mine and was like, "My girlfriend is transhuman! My girlfriend is a CYBORG!" so... ear malfunction, haywire cyborg.

At some point, I need to get little bat wing covers made...

doppelgreener

@Pixie Hahaha!

That is a good thing to get excited about.

@Pixie Those would be cool. They'd go flapping about when you're in a good mood, too.

Pixie

7:18 AM

I don't know why, but I've always loved earwings. They are also 100% useless. Maybe that's why I love them.

(Not to be misread as earwigs, which are not especially endearing.)

trogdor

7:35 AM

i've always been partial to the kind of wings people depict Valkyrie's with behind their ears

its the most useless kind of piece of armor, but it is aesthetically pleasing XD

SPArchaeologist

@DuckTapeAl actually, as far as I remember, FiM always used the "pegasi" form, and I was referring specifically to the show. I think this has something to do with copyright - by not using the actual term but a sort of derivate race name they probably can hold up intellectual rights if another show was going to use the same term.

@trogdor Useless? how that is useless?? How would then Barbara glide? She can't use her hair like Rayman does, you know :P

trogdor

that is a good point

Ben

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