Escape Pod. - 2013-04-11 (page 2 of 2)

OrigamiRobot

03:01

@Fluttershy You can sleep on my couch.

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot That is considerably less fun.

OrigamiRobot

My couch is comfy!

spugsley

@Fluttershy well, if you came here you'd sleep on the couch too

Fluttershy

@spugsley You should join our book club!

spugsley

ALSO. WHY DON'T YOU COME VISIT

FEichinger

03:02

@Fluttershy Than skydiving in a tornado? Probably.

spugsley

@Fluttershy what are you reading? and what is it? and when?

Fluttershy

@spugsley Last month we read Tigana, the month before that we read Lamb, this month we're reading Machine of Death, and next month we're reading Ready Player One.

spugsley

@Fluttershy those don't sound like books I'd be interested in. I'm pretty much strictly fantasy and horror

Fluttershy

@spugsley Also, I know this. This is expected. But I didn't expect it from @OrigamiRobot.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy Who else with you?

Fluttershy

03:03

@spugsley Tigana was fantasy.

spugsley

@Fluttershy yeah but Ready Player One isn't

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria It's myself, @FAE, and most of my guild.

@spugsley It's more SciFi/Fantasy.

spugsley

@StrixVaria YOU!

hi

StrixVaria

I didn't even realize I was in Escape Pod and not the Bridge.

Fluttershy

But yeah... We've talked about getting more members, but I'm not really sure what the exact status is at the moment. I might be speaking out of turn due to alcohol, but... <_<

StrixVaria

03:05

I stalled out in the middle of Neverwhere.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy It's scifi, yes. Relatively near future scifi

StrixVaria

When I realized the premise of the book I immediately hated it.

spugsley

@StrixVaria the Bridge isn't bad tonight if you wanna join us over there

StrixVaria

"What if all the names of landmarks in London were actually named after real things that were there?"

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy You can have the floor if you prefer?

Fluttershy

03:06

@StrixVaria =(

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy It's just a nice brisk and refreshing thunderstorm here in Memphis.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot I think he was hinting at....other....arrangements

LessPop_MoreFizz

Maybe it'll wash some of the green crud off of my car.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. I think you're gonna miss the bulk of it.

@spugsley You know me so well.

kalina

morning @LessPop_MoreFizz

did you make it to work on time in the end?

LessPop_MoreFizz

03:07

@kalina Indeed, and had one of my most productive days in weeks.

kalina

I am surprised

spugsley

@Fluttershy :p

OrigamiRobot

@spugsley I don't know where ponies sleep.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina You are not the only one.

@OrigamiRobot They generally prefer barns.

OrigamiRobot

I don't have a barn.

Fluttershy

03:07

@StrixVaria Also, to be fair, Neverwhere was hailed as a modern-day Alice in Wonderland story... So that would easily explain the similarities.

OrigamiRobot

I guess he could sleep on my porch.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy I can see that.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot Stables?

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot you do not want to know what I read that as

StrixVaria

Random-ass disconnected adventure isn't really for me, though.

spugsley

03:08

I'm sunburnt and tired

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Ponies sleep in beds. Clearly you need to watch more MLP:FiM.

3

@spugsley You saw "penis" didn't you?

2

StrixVaria

Maybe stuff will come together a bit if I keep reading.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy I prefer LP:MF iM.

Much better use of those six letters.

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz strangely enough, I still read that as MLP:FiM

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz LessPop:MoreFizz is Menstruating?

2

Doesn't sound like a show I'd watch.

StrixVaria

03:10

@Fluttershy Go home you're drunk.

kalina

@Fluttershy masturbating obviously

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy No. no no no no no no no no no no no ono no

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria This could be accurate.

If I'm gonna die to tornadoes, I wanna enjoy the time beforehand.

FEichinger

@Fluttershy Unspeakable wins.

StrixVaria

Oh you have tornadoes tonight?

spugsley

03:10

@Fluttershy I absolutely saw penis

8

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina This is more plausibly an accurate acronym, though not a tv show I am interested in broadcasting to the world.

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria There's a possibility. We're in a watch right now, and the weather has gotten pretty rough. But... We'll see.

StrixVaria

I would say something about "why do you live where there are tornadoes", but Hurricane Sandy, so I can't talk about that.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@LessPop_MoreFizz Let's Play: Motherfucking Instant Messaging?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy I had heard the Tornados were further to the south - Mississippii and AR mostly

@YiJiang'sEvilClone This is the best so far. Though it somehow leaves me out of it.

Fluttershy

03:12

@StrixVaria I can't afford to move away. =\ But yeah, I'm only about 3.5 hours away from where that F5 leveled that town a year or so ago.

kalina

why do you live in a country that gets tornados? the worst we get over here is rain

Fluttershy

@kalina This is partly why I enjoyed my time in Iraq.

kalina

granted, the best we get over here is rain as well

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy You live in tornado alley?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy I was in Birmingham for the big ones two years ago. :/

Fluttershy

03:12

Also, Washington. It pretty much never stormed in Washington.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz Birmingham doesn't get tornados!

ho ho

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Glad ya made it out okay!

LessPop_MoreFizz

Birmingham, Alabama

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kalina

Birmingham

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my birmingham is better, it doesn't require clarification

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy It was kind of surreal - I was watching the tornado rip towards downtown Birmingham from my hotels Balcony, which was in a suburb a few miles to the south.

Just watching the cloud move.

Fluttershy

03:14

@LessPop_MoreFizz That would be insane. I've seen some bad shit, but I couldn't imagine watching that. =\

kalina

Birmingham, UK would probably benefit from having a tornado rip through it

or a nuke

FEichinger

@kalina We have much better targets for that, though.

Unionhawk

@FEichinger We can direct tornadoes to targets now? Since when?

FEichinger

@Unionhawk No, but that would be awesome. So many places that deserve it.

In one way or the other ...

Unionhawk

@FEichinger Can we begin developing such technologies? Right now?

FEichinger

03:20

@Unionhawk The Chinese are working on something.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@FEichinger No we aren't. Hush, you

FEichinger

They're just waiting for someone to present a prototype so they can mass produce it.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hey, I'm pissing on every country today. :D

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Also, technically you guys do have and regularly use(d) weather-altering tech.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

True, but cloud seeding isn't really new or terribly dangerous

FEichinger

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's self-destructive, rather than being targetable, at least.

kalina

oh tvtropes why do I always end up reading you

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

03:30

@kalina The Bridge is currently on a food porn binge

You could read that instead

kalina

meh, I'm avoiding the bridge, it means when the trio play up I don't have to see it

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz if you could recommend one classic RPG that isn't Barkley, what would it be?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy Platform preference?

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz PC.

spugsley

@Fluttershy snip snap :o

LessPop_MoreFizz

03:36

@Fluttershy I'm assuming you've played Torment, so I'm going to reccomend Mask of the Betrayer.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz I actually haven't played Torment.

But I've heard nothing but good things about it.

@spugsley ?

spugsley

@Fluttershy lol our buddy is yelling at you so I'm being a poop by telling you 'snip snap'

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy Torment is also pretty amazing and very worth playing.

But I think mask is better.

So I'm still going to go with Mask.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Mask was a NWN expansion, right?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy NWN2

NWN2 was a decent but flawed game. The expansion hit it out of the park.

Fluttershy

03:38

So I'd need NWN2 to play it? Or does it come in a package deal.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy Comes as a package.

Fluttershy

Hm...

Hmhmhm...

LessPop_MoreFizz

NWN2 Complete is on GOG for like 20bucks.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Unemployed, so... yeah. I'm just planning how to spend when I get a job. >_>

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy It does go on sale from time to time. It was part of the stacking D&D sale over the weekend that just ended.

Fluttershy

03:41

I will keep an eye on it.

In other news, I'm honestly curious why Retro brought race into the discussion about food. o_O

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy I really don't know. Of all the stereotypes I've heard of, not wanting to pay for food isn't one of them

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy He was trying to make an 'asians are cheap' joke because that is a stereotype that some idiots think is funny.

@Fluttershy Alternately, since you are not looking to spend money, you should play VTM:B.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's what I was thinking. I was trying to get him to admit it though...

FEichinger

This frequency of mentioning barely-related obviously controversial stuff ...

Fluttershy

Is it inappropriate to flag something you find offensive after a particular amount of time has passed?

spugsley

03:48

@Fluttershy how long has passeD?

FEichinger

@Fluttershy Not really, but in retrospect it'll look like a kneejerk reaction to something that wasn't all that offensive.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy Don't bother

Unionhawk

@FEichinger I was about to punch something last night... And I'm not even a girl. (I think we all know the comment)

Fluttershy

@Unionhawk Likewise.

spugsley

@Unionhawk oh shit....I definitely missed that

what happened?

Fluttershy

03:49

@spugsley It was his stupid "I'm asian so I don't blahblahblah".

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Oh yes. That had me scratching my keyboard as well.

Fluttershy

@spugsley He asked @kalina something about being a "girl" gamer.

spugsley

@Fluttershy fucking balls, seriously?

Fluttershy

@spugsley Yup.

Also, if I suddenly stop talking, I apologize. Our power just flickered, so... yeah.

spugsley

if I had been there, his ass would be gone. Suddenly, @kalina's aversion seems much more well placed

@Fluttershy oh no :( stay safe

@YiJiang'sEvilClone are you getting uncomfortable with all his questions?

just curious

OrigamiRobot

03:51

@Unionhawk What words do I need to search for to find it?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

No, I'm fine

spugsley

ok, just checking

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Although they are a little silly

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot Retro's comment has been removed, as has that entire conversation

spugsley

:p

FEichinger

03:51

@OrigamiRobot It's partially deleted.

OrigamiRobot

Boo

I wanted to be all gossipy too.

Unionhawk

22 hours ago, by kalina

he said "girl" gamer, followed by guy gamer without quotations

22 hours ago, by kalina

it is my prerogative to set fire to him

spugsley

@Unionhawk I agree with this so much

so much fire

Fluttershy

So.........

spugsley

here's the earth

first flag of the night

couldn't do it

ugh

so

ughhhh

Fluttershy

04:00

<3

@spugsley Have you seen District 9?

spugsley

so offensive :/

@Fluttershy yes!

Fluttershy

@spugsley Did you like it?

spugsley

@Fluttershy it's been awhile since I've seen it, but I remember satisfaction

Fluttershy

►

LessPop_MoreFizz

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(No seriously, click that one it's pretty goddamned amazing, even if only tangentially related to the topic at hand.)

Fluttershy

04:04

@LessPop_MoreFizz I have it loading. I may be too drunk to appreciate it though...

spugsley

@Fluttershy I am interested in this

Fluttershy

@spugsley Yayy!

Alright, I'm heading to sleep. See you all tomorrow, hopefully!

spugsley

me too. Night night

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