Not a bar, but plays one on TV

10:30 AM

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica I don't recognize the one on the right, but based on the other three alone, this probably is your new nightmare

(Source: random Twitter in foreign language )

@Derpy Pinkie in the Rainbow Rock film you linked was actually not particularly nightmarish, amusingly.

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica .... you watched the movie?

I'll have to find other episodes then.

@Derpy oh I wasn't sure what you meant but now I see the one on the left next to pinkie is Mabel Pines XD

and despite not seeing the show I think that other one is Star?

Star , Mabel, Pinkie and some other

yeah no idea who she is

10:34 AM

just Star and Pinkie probably are enough to destroy the universe.

I would guess based off the pattern so far she is from some kind of show

apparently, from a game

@Derpy I was supposed not to?

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica nope, just ... not expected.

People usually never watch the pony stuff I link - at least in the other rooms.

@Derpy oh, that kinda breaks my expectation but fair enough

10:39 AM

@trogdor probably one of the many rhythm games turned into anime, like the far more well known School Live.

also explains why I have no idea who she is

I have no idea what School Live is either XD

@Derpy I'm not averse to the franchise, I just am not impressed enough to pursue its products on my own or binge-watch or the like. I think I mentioned that a friend/close acquaintance occasionally throws excerpts or single episodes at me.

but yeah the number of musical instruments would seem to indicate maybe it's a rythm game

though for all I know it's like, a band managment game

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simple search based on google translate of the Twitter post

oh ok so it's a whole like, franchise of things

10:46 AM

I've been contemplating this for a while: in a way, FiM seems to be a closest thing that we have to a mainstream xenofiction setting.

11:17 AM

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica the word "xeno".... sadly if you say xenofiction, I just think xenomorph.

and I'm not even an Alien fan. Not at all.

@Derpy Well, yes, was meant to mean alien, but not in that specific kind of alien. But rather fiction focusing on alien civilisations (without much, or any, involvement of humans) in more general.

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica Oh, I realize that, but the word is so unusual here that the few times I hear that, it is Alien

........

the portal..............

(I am incidentally a fan of Alien, but I don't like the naming convention because it uses a general word and applies it very very narrowly to denote a specific species of alien.)

@Derpy 616?

it is tied to the Achievements thing now?

so... I have to actually do the useless challenges too?

Oh yeah. But IME they were not hard to get, just a minor extra hurdle.

11:26 AM

oh, well, not quite there, just some more minor annoyance before getting REALLY annoyed at the clicking part.

@Derpy Get an autoclicker programme. Or configure your keyboard/mouse macro. Seriously. Avoid the annoyance.

11:43 AM

there is also an achievement "complete 48 challenges in total"

.... considering that challenge 9 has no end...

challenges 1-7 can be completed only 3 times...

it means challenge 8 has to be completed 27 times.

So far, I can't go past 26.

we will see.

12:21 PM

even better.....

> Reach e1e100 decrementy in Omega Challenge 1 of a Challenge 7+8 pair

challenge 7+8? With two factor shifts?

@Derpy I was surprised at first (not remembering what is achievable by this point), but it did seem to work out in reasonable time. Maybe a kilosecond, maybe ten, but definitely not an overnight.

12:36 PM

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica yeah... weird... seem more of a bug....

I was watching it going...

it jumped from e30 to e 98......

A lot of the progressions can be counterintuitive.

at this point I fear this one will be far more time wasting

> Reach ω^(ω^ω) in Challenge 3

This one too IIRC was done throughout the workshift in my case.

12:54 PM

mumble...

twitter.com/ItsKittyRosie/status/1317343581338697731

@trogdor time for a new awwwwwatar? :P

that is actually really good

1:06 PM

how dare you do this to me XD

@trogdor don't worry, give me about a month and poor vicky will switch from that spider too. :P

I don't really mind the spider that much :P

1:30 PM

Not for the main avatar*, no, but if I ever get to RP in some sort of FiM-or-FiM-related campaign (unlikely but who knows), I think I would go for some sort of corvid creature with a corresponding portrait (filling a supporting role, possibly reminiscent of Spike).

* == It took years before I fully embraced the spider assignment, reluctant to complicate people's ability to identify the user on sight after years of a stable previous avatar.

I just like to change mine XD

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kviiri

2:56 PM

I'm an otter

It was therefore a simple choice to pick the otter avatar

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9:38 PM

lol