The Factory Floor - 2018-07-18

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3:37 AM

Hi, guys. Thanks for voting for me... I think...

Journeyman Geek

3:50 AM

\o/

(I missed this election :( )

2 hours later…

6:12 AM

@FoxElemental There will only be elections when the mod team feels they need additional people. And, like I said throughout the election, the majority of votes comes from people who are mainly on main. They see a high candidate score, high reputation and know that someone has answered/asked something interesting and will vote for them.

Or they might simply prefer what the other candidates wrote in the nomination phase/questionnaire. It's not like people have to state their reasoning when voting for someone, so there is no way to know why the votes are the way they are.

@MontyWild Good job on the election. Looking forward to see you in the mod team.

2 hours later…

8:09 AM

@Secespitus I voted for you too. Aside from that, I'm not sure that I did all that much beside nominating myself.

2 hours later…

Mithrandir24601

10:20 AM

@MontyWild I do believe commitherations are indeed in order

1 hour later…

Journeyman Geek

11:36 AM

@Secespitus I lost 2 elections before I won one. Your time will come ;)

11:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek Once I have the reputation maybe :D

Journeyman Geek

@Secespitus and the mod score ;)

My badge count is already close to max. If I had the rep I'd have 38/40

Journeyman Geek

ah

1 hour later…

1:05 PM

@MontyWild Congrats on winning!

1:21 PM

@James Self-zing too. Claiming my brain isn't big enough to share doesn't really imply great things for my mental capacity.

Journeyman Geek

Its not how big it is, its how you use it ;)

Oh yes, congrats to @L.Dutch and @Monty. I was simply surprised because I see Sece much more than Monty--now that I think about it, the name is familiar--and thought that since Sece guides a ton of new users, more of the newer users (with enough rep to vote) would have cast a vote in his favor. But everyone in the WB community is great, and you both had good questionaires, so I trust you'll make good mods.

Just

Don't expect to be as awesome as @James, Crusher of Dreams, Snorter of Beverages

(Psst: No one can be)

@FoxElemental Want to bet?

Hi, @L.Dutch. Congrats on being a mod!

thank you very much

I am also surprised by Secespitus not making through it

It was very close :)

Journeyman Geek

1:27 PM

@L.Dutch democracy is a harsh and fickle mistress.

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for what is worth, they had one of my votes

@L.Dutch Thanks and congrats on winning. Looking forward to you being in the mod team.

@Hosch250 Um . . . what would we bet?

Votes. Although, that might get us banned.

So then what else?

Ooh wait

Stars?

and

1:40 PM

Sure. Now, who decides who wins?

hold on

You give me this jacket and I'll give you some nice, spicy honey depending on who wins.

As to who wins? Well . . . .

@Secespitus! I call you to be a judge

As to whether, in this contest, James or Hosch is cooler/awesomer.

@James!

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@FoxElemental I don't want the Great Snorter to smite me ;)

You have been summoned to try to be more awesome than Hosch250

@Secespitus He won't, cause he'll obviously win

but if we want a more impartial judge . . .

@FoxElemental Huh?

I didn't say me. I meant the other mods.

@Andy I summon you as judge then, to say whether James or Hosch is more awesome

Oh, wait, what?

1:45 PM

You said the other mods couldn't be as awesome as James. I said they could.

Well then

@James all you have to do is mod more than Monty and Dutch (No pressure!) I bet good honey and golden stars on you (No pressure!) I'm sure you'll win; you're too awesome to lose (No pressure!) I mean, obviously in an awesomeness contest, you win, right? Right?

. . . Starting to regret my good honey on this wager . . . . (No pressure!)

LOL. No, I'm not as awesome as him. yet

Awesomeness is more than a chatroom presence. It is a way of life, which is expressed in many different things. This contest must test for awesomeness in many forms. The first challenge: Pie baking. You can submit your entries to my PO box.

2:10 PM

@Shalvenay Hola!

@FoxElemental You've been promoted from groveler to minion.

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@AndyD273 Mmm...pie.

2:32 PM

@FoxElemental That picture is so handy.

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or...harpoon-y, or something I guess.

2:48 PM

Congratulations to our new moderators!

I'm rather surprised Sece didn't make it, although he was certainly close.

3:23 PM

@Gryphon Everyone is :)

Yes, I suppose it is a surprise to us all.

Congratulations to the new moderators.

3:50 PM

Another crappy answer of mine de-crappified.

4:11 PM

@HDE226868 But the crap adds charm.

@James Then I was charmingly incorrect. :P

lol

Hello! haven't seen some of you in a while!

@FreezePhoenix Heya frozen fire bird.

How are you guys doing?

4:19 PM

Does a @FreezePhoenix emerge, reborn, from the snowdrift?

No, I emerge from my ashes, but I can make your ice cream rock-hard if you want.

I see... are the ashes at least cold?

Depends on how long since I burned up. I could stay dormant for years, and then reincarnate.

Hello @Gryphon!

Hi @Freeze

How are you doing?

elbows @AndyD273: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45713377#45713377

4:33 PM

@FreezePhoenix Ah. Pretty good. Too many projects at the moment.

@ShawnEthridge You ought to check out your main site before you visit chat: english.stackexchange.com/help

@FreezePhoenix Not too bad.

5:15 PM

@FreezePhoenix Why did I read that as reincarcerate initially?

@Hosch250 I... dunno.

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7:19 PM

I have proof (well, not really) that there is no time travel in the future.

Because they haven't popped back in yet.

Unless, for example, they found themselves buried under Mt Everest, or they popped up in the middle of a battle somewhere and had a shell land on them the same second and got blown to smithereens.

7:34 PM

You know, maybe the problem isn't the time travel, it's the space travel.

The earth is rotating fast, orbiting the sun really fast, traveling around the galactic core really really fast... So traveling even in instant into the past or future puts you really really far from earth.

@AndyD273 That's a solvable problem, I guess, since we know about it?

Is it? If you were to try to travel back to yesterday, and found yourself in the space between stars, how would you solve it?

I'd map everything.

So I'd know where the Earth was with regard to my current location :P

(Harder than it sounds, or easier?)

But either way, that effectively breaks going back in time either way.

7:50 PM

@Hosch250 Alternatively, maybe you can't go back farther than when the machine was built? Or you can't go earlier than a certain time?

@Gryphon Those would be interesting requirements.

@Hosch250 There's at least 1 time travel movie where you can't go farther than when the machine was built.

^ You beat me to it

Which one?

I believe there's one where you turn the machine on, wait, turn it off, and then get in when it's powering down to travel back to when it was powering up.

7:53 PM

Primer?

In other words, it's like a ball on a string? You throw it, and then pull it back?

@AndyD273 I think that was the name.

@AndyD273 Yeah, I haven't watched it, but I saw a description of the time travel. It seemed pretty cool.

In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.

Only reason I remember that one...

That is a great xkcd.

This one might be more accurate though...

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8:00 PM

@AndyD273 Once again, haven't seen the movie, don't know the plot. However, the time travel mechanic described seems pretty cool.

Wat are these loopythings

@FreezePhoenix The movie involves time travel, so people keep looping back. It's mainly a joke on how complex the movie is, with people traveling back multiple times. I haven't actually seen the movie, but apparently it's kind of excessively complex.

@Gryphon BTW, any plans on the Golden Sails?

@FreezePhoenix The first one is an XKCD about movie timelines, and the second one is the timeline for the movie Primer, which is a (apparently very confusing) time travel movie

@Hosch250 I still have a half-completed draft for the 4th part, but I haven't worked on it in months. I've sort of lost interest, and I'm not actually a very good writer. If people are interested, I may finish it up.

8:11 PM

I'm interested. It's a good story.

Stop having imposter syndrome.

It's my favorite so far.

Ok...

@Hosch250 What syndrome?

Impostor syndrome

Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments, and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud". Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and do not deserve all they have achieved. Individuals with impostorism attribute their success to luck, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be. While...

@Hosch250 Umm, OK. You're saying this because I claim to not be a good writer?

Yes.

8:16 PM

Then why do I like everybody else's writing more than mine?

Because you don't criticize other people's writing the way you do yours.

You let yourself relax and enjoy it.

Also, you spend too much time with your own writing.

Fair, I guess.

Well then, let me pull out that draft and wince my way through it. I'll see if I can get it publishable.

@Hosch have you written anything for the blog yet?

No, but I'm thinking about it.

I'm kind of working on the story-go-round ATM.

Fair. I was involved in that a little at the beginning, but I like being able to see where what I'm writing is heading.

I agree, but at the same time, it takes some of the load off me.

ATM, it's just me and Andy.

8:20 PM

Winces at the number of made-up words in draft

Note to self, remember this xkcd in the future:
https://xkcd.com/483/

@Gryphon Maybe you're the next lewis carrol

Won't know till you finish

I mean, who bothers to invent a world for "telescope". I'm going through and calling them all telescopes. Especially since my word was like eight syllables.

Also, you can change some of them of them to real words in post

If it's a telescope with a curved "body", can you call it a banana?

@Gryphon That's fair, though I hear everything is cooler if you put the word quantum in front of it. Quantum telescope. I rest my case.

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"It gathers quantum particles called photons and uses a series of mirrors and lenses to concentrate the quanta and let you see things that are farther away."

8:28 PM

@AndyD273 Yes, but it's fantasy, not sci-fi.

@Gryphon I think the fantasy equivalent of "quantum" is "dark"

Yes, but a "dark telescope" wouldn't be able to see anything.

Maybe a "mithril telescope?"

Or an adamantium one?

8:46 PM

@Gryphon A dark telescope would be able to see the dark forces of nature, and unlock the dark secrets of the cosmos

Also, no one wants to use a telescope during the day time... Dark is usually better.

@AndyD273 Still kinda useless if I want to see how many guys are coming after me.

@AndyD273 Ahh, we could see the universe's skeleton in the closet.

Skeletons are pretty good for fantasy...

9:20 PM

Why would someone use a sword as a bludgeon? Use a battleaxe, you idiot.

The right tool for the job, and all that...

@Hosch250 What if you don't have a battleaxe?

@Gryphon Then you don't bludgeon with your sword--you use it like a sword...

True

Also, would you mind proofreading this for me while I go edit all the other parts (because there are now going to be five parts).

> He immediately sent for Gasord, and the consulted for several hours.

@Hosch250 Thanks, corrected to "they."

10:22 PM

I should get back involved in the story.

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11:19 PM

I'm jetlagged again.

This time the other way round

Wat? @FoxElemental

11:36 PM

Travel

11:49 PM

Oh.

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