mf0 logs -> 2012 -> Wed, 08 Aug 2012< mf0.20120807.log - mf0.20120809.log >
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< Mantisking>
Hello?
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<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Yo.
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<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Stuck... Trying to build something off of a small lego set.
01:12
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Kind of a personal challenge.
01:12
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/qq102/FerrelFerret/?action=view&current=Camer aZOOM-20120807190918614.jpg
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<+FerrelFerret_phone>
And... The app crashed. :/
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01:40
<@randolph>
Hey guys
01:40
<@randolph>
A friend of mine linked this... mind: blown: http://www.flickr.com/photos/retinence/7070205797/in/photostream
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02:55
< neoaez>
Something I've been working on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73344611@N06/7736956282/in/photostream
02:55
< neoaez>
Very much a WIP.
03:46
<@randolph>
oops
03:46
<@randolph>
You're right here
03:46
<@randolph>
What's the white box on top for?
03:47
< neoaez>
Heh.. That's the frame's head.
03:48
<@randolph>
What brick is it?
03:49
< neoaez>
Cheese wedge turned backwards. Like this the one on this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73344611@N06/7688224856/in/photostream/
03:49
<@randolph>
ahh, because it's head on, and the only white thing in a low-contrast piece, it looks like a UI element that's not of the same "reality" as the rest of the frame
03:50
<@randolph>
I suggest you rotate it very slightly to get some depth, and change the color, even if it's just to light gray
03:50
< neoaez>
Good point. I just took an LDR screen capture real quick and used it.
03:51
<@randolph>
It also doesn't hurt that the frame you made can work with or without a "head"
03:51
<@randolph>
It's a cool build, btw
03:51
< neoaez>
That's malcolm's ever popular landmate in action!
03:51
<@randolph>
Ah
03:52
< neoaez>
It's this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73344611@N06/7701631266/in/photostream/
03:52
<@randolph>
Reading comprehension ftl
03:53
< neoaez>
Haha.
03:53
< neoaez>
I got my start with MSE for 4e, too.
03:53
< neoaez>
I also did some Mouseguard cards that never saw the light of day.
03:54
< neoaez>
*with 4e.
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03:55
<@randolph>
What's Mouseguard?
03:56
< neoaez>
It is a RPG based on this comic: http://www.mouseguard.net/
03:57
< neoaez>
The RPG was written by Luke Crane. He created the Burning Wheel RPG.
03:59
< neoaez>
In fact, another RPG he did using a version of the Burning Wheel RPG called Burning Empires, has several traits in common with MFZ -- fiction-wise and rules-wise.
03:59
< neoaez>
Though BE is infinitely more complex.
04:00
< neoaez>
I should say "rules-concept-wise".
04:00
<@randolph>
Ah
04:06
< neoaez>
These were the aborted campaign rules from 2006. Never use them! But comment 3 is Luke saying "Wow you just recreated Burning Empires!".
04:06
< neoaez>
http://www.lumpley.com/comment.php?entry=265
04:15
< neoaez>
btw - I really enjoyed your "Exit Strategy" story. Do you write often?
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04:41
<@randolph>
Thanks :) And no, that's the first piece of non-D&D DMing fiction I've written since college
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07:56
<@Soren>
sigh at internets in Malaysia.
07:56
<@Soren>
For whoever is around - this set: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=nerd&itemID=31407255 is both available in bulk, somewhat cheaply, and contains... kind of a shitload of good parts.
07:57
<@randolph>
Hey Soren
07:57
<@Soren>
hey hey
07:57
<@randolph>
Ooh buzzsaws
07:57
<@Soren>
yeah
07:57
<@Soren>
all kinds of goodies.
07:58
<@Soren>
those wheel hubs, too.
07:59
<@randolph>
It's kind of unfortunate,but the only bits I'd want from there, while expensive (like droid torsos), I'd still get cheaper without the other stuff I have too many of
07:59
<@Soren>
super useful little knobbly part - thrusters, stupid-huge gun barrels. good waist, too.
07:59
<@Soren>
fair enough.
07:59
<@randolph>
Someone starting out could do worse than to grab 20 of those, though
07:59
<@randolph>
The kits I mean
07:59
<@Soren>
I was just looking and thought it really only had a couple things I can't find a use for.
08:00
<@Soren>
which as sets go, not a bad record.
08:00
<@randolph>
Yeah
08:00
<@randolph>
Your LEGO needs exceed mine quite a bit in volume and breadth, though :p
08:00
<@Soren>
maybe-sorta-kinda.
08:00
<@Soren>
that hull piece makes a good shield, too, BTW
08:01
<@randolph>
The inverted 4x4 slope?
08:01
<@Soren>
yeah
08:01
<@Soren>
love those
08:01
<@randolph>
There's a bunch of pieces I can definitely use
08:02
<@randolph>
Oddly, I think I've only ever made shields that happen to be the mass sink for transformation bits :p
08:03
<@Soren>
yeah, that's totally fair.
08:03
<@randolph>
Well, not that I want it to be a trend
08:03
<@randolph>
I like a lot of the shield designs the community has come up with
08:03
<@randolph>
It just doesn't seem to be where my brainstorming goes
08:03
<@randolph>
I should try some
08:04
<@randolph>
Oh, so remember our convo way back about the VF-1's break action head transform? I think I've got something usable
08:04
<@Soren>
I've come up with a few i like, but more and more I find myself leaning away from using shields at all.
08:04
<@Soren>
ooh.
08:04
<@randolph>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wangtech/7730773008/in/photostream
08:05
<@randolph>
It's smooth and fun to actually perform
08:05
<@Soren>
fascinating.
08:05
<@Soren>
yeah, that totally works.
08:06
<@randolph>
And then I started studying the general silhouette, starting with a Super Deformed version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wangtech/7737170774/in/photostream/
08:06
<@Soren>
yeah, i was just looking at that guy.
08:06
<@Soren>
super cute.
08:06
<@randolph>
I don't know how far I'll get, but hey, progress
08:07
<@Soren>
I think it's probably doable but the level of bullshit may be prohibitive.
08:07
<@randolph>
heh
08:07
<@Soren>
on the other hand, you don't know yet, and so far you've made some really neat shit.
08:07
<@randolph>
hehe, thank you
08:10
<@Soren>
that guy's stumpy little arms crack me up.
08:10
<@Soren>
I KEEL YOU WITH THE SLAP FIGHTING
08:10
<@Soren>
*wap, wap*
08:11
<@randolph>
hee
08:12
<@randolph>
Oh hey, I should use the clipplate that's 90-degrees rotated from that one for the hands, otherwise he can't use most equipment
08:12
<@randolph>
I don't think I'm going to develop that tank transformer much until I get the correct liftarms for the legs, though
08:12
<@Soren>
fair enough.
08:13
<@Soren>
that might be just the spot for some funky Bionicle legs, too.
08:13
<@randolph>
Oh, man, I totally haven't even looked at any bionicle
08:13
<@Soren>
potentially.
08:13
<@Soren>
LET US GO FORTH
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<@randolph>
here goes hours of my life... click
08:13
<@randolph>
hey afny
08:14
<@Soren>
hey hey
08:14
< afny>
heyo
08:14
<@randolph>
mmm balljoints
08:14
<@randolph>
I could attach a tank tread assembly to one, and get some hipsplay
08:14
<@Soren>
yeah
08:15
<@randolph>
Bionicle stuff is so out there
08:15
<@randolph>
very organic, I like it
08:16
<@Soren>
yeah, I dislike that it's about two steps higher in detail than I usually want, but the good stuff is shockingly good.
08:16
<@randolph>
Ah, which makes it harder for general use?
08:16
<@randolph>
Did you see that crazy-detailed tiger?
08:16
<@Soren>
well, harder to integrate visually.
08:16
<@Soren>
yeah
08:17
<@Soren>
dude's really good.
08:17
<@randolph>
Definitely felt some awe.
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08:20
<@randolph>
hey ced
08:21
<@Soren>
just who I was hoping to see!
08:21
<@Soren>
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=2401&colorID=24 dare you find a use for this.
08:21
<@randolph>
That's easy. But we'd need to make a new 18+ subforum <_<
08:22
<@Soren>
well, yes.
08:22
<@Soren>
there's actually a matching, um, 'receptacle' for it already, so it's only a matter of time.
08:22
<@randolph>
That piece even comes with a double rack!
08:23
<@Soren>
Some of the technic part names are pure innuendo.
08:24
<@Ced23Ric>
Hello there!
08:25
<@Ced23Ric>
... Bwahaha.
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<@randolph>
Hey CJ
08:25
<@Ced23Ric>
That part is neat.
08:25
< CalaveraJoe>
Hola
08:25
<@randolph>
I visited Glendale Galleria PAB, not much there, so I crammed a bucket full of 1x2 tan
08:25
<@Ced23Ric>
Here's my boring proposition on that part, Soren.
08:25
<@Soren>
shoot
08:25
< CalaveraJoe>
Ooh. 1x2 brick or plate?
08:26
<@Ced23Ric>
Two of them, side by side, mounted at a 10° angle, facing upwards, ish. Back of a 'frame, ECM / Shield Generator - or Tesla Coils.
08:26
<@randolph>
CJ: bricks, for terrain
08:27
<@Ced23Ric>
Alternatively, with the proper joints, for fully twist & turnable platforms. Say, a multi-warhead-launcher.
08:27
< CalaveraJoe>
randolph: Nice. How'd the quake feel up on the hill?
08:27
<@Ced23Ric>
Would make for a decent base for an Artillery 'frame.
08:27
<@randolph>
CJ: Quakey. It didn't stop for a good minute
08:27
<@randolph>
You guys okay?
08:28
< CalaveraJoe>
Yeah. Didn't feel nearly that long down here. I suspect we're on more rock. There was a little hiccup, then a wham, then a short shake
08:28
<@Soren>
They would make good recoil spades.
08:28
<@randolph>
Ah, yeah, that'd do it
08:28
< CalaveraJoe>
Thankfully, the baby was actually still working on falling asleep, otherwise I suspect the poor tot would have been started awake something rough
08:29
<@randolph>
Ours didn't stir
08:29
<@randolph>
Nice... uh... "gentle" rocking <_<
08:29
< CalaveraJoe>
That's the other possibility, though it was loud down here
08:29
<@randolph>
ooh
08:29
<@Ced23Ric>
Soren: Backmounted, so they can deploy, use the smallest joints, turn them into "teeth" that dig into the ground, like braces.
08:29
<@Ced23Ric>
But that'd require a massive gun.
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
And I have no idea why anyone would EVER want a gun so MASSIVE, it outdoes the 'frame.
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
Oh wait.
08:30
<@randolph>
<_<
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
I know why.
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
NGE. :D
08:30
<@Soren>
because they're you?
08:30
<@randolph>
Compensating for small attack dice
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
And that.
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
And because they are me.
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
I have to make a confession
08:30
< CalaveraJoe>
pop, and now I go
08:30
<@Ced23Ric>
The game we videotaped was the last I played.
08:30
< CalaveraJoe>
err oop, not pop
08:30
<@Soren>
I would be tempted to make some kind of fucked-up HtH chainsaw starfish.
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08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
And now 2 of my companies are in bits.
08:31
<@Soren>
excuse me, chainsaw dildo starfish.
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
And I cannot find the motivation to put them back together.
08:31
<@Soren>
oh dear.
08:31
<@randolph>
Like, guys out front of a peach plantation see a frame roll up, giant artillery cannon on its arm, and they're like "I bet he has a tiny d6"
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
Well, I know how.
08:31
<@Soren>
I guess I could beat you with the bat of shame.
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
And accomplish what?
08:31
< afny>
brutality.
08:31
<@Soren>
nothing besides massive hypocrisy.
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
There's 3 more companies ready to go.
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
Ah-HA!
08:31
<@Ced23Ric>
Heya Kev.
08:31
<@Soren>
I haven't unpacked the Lego i brought with me.
08:32
< afny>
o/
08:32
<@Ced23Ric>
Here's some news from over hurrr.
08:32
<@Soren>
so no bat of shame for me.
08:32
<@Ced23Ric>
In Russia, three punk girls are in court for verbally demanding the removal of Putin.
08:32
<@randolph>
Ooh
08:32
<@Ced23Ric>
Process due today, ish.
08:32
< afny>
are you talking about
08:32
< afny>
PUSSY RIOT
08:32
<@Ced23Ric>
AWW YEAH-
08:32
< afny>
yeah, I heard
08:32
< afny>
it's some bullshit
08:32
< afny>
Russia is pretty messed up right now
08:33
<@randolph>
yeah, there's no way we'd be Putin up with that here.
08:33
<@Ced23Ric>
And the Socialdemocrats have proposed a law to equalise same sex marriage under the German law.
08:33
<@Ced23Ric>
The motion was brought fourth by a baker's dozen of christian democrats.
08:34
<@Ced23Ric>
So, the conservative opposition asked for a law to make them equal, and the government formulated it, now it's gonna go through our Federal Council and Congegration.
08:34
<@Ced23Ric>
Also, I am in a new Ministry, for training and later vacation substition.
08:35
< afny>
that's some good politics
08:35
<@Ced23Ric>
Employment & Society, this time around.
08:35
<@Ced23Ric>
Which happens to be the former Propaganda Ministry of Mr. Joseph "Joker" Goebbels.
08:35
< afny>
what's vacation substitution
08:35
<@Soren>
yeah, I'm not hearing any evidence of howler monkeys - ah, there, howler monkey.
08:35
<@Ced23Ric>
They turned his office into a meeting room, though.
08:36
<@Ced23Ric>
afny: Well, guy A goes on vacation, guy B substitutes for him.
08:36
< afny>
ah
08:36
<@Ced23Ric>
I wonder whether I should download 4 GB of data at work or not.
08:37
<@Ced23Ric>
Or whether I should throttle it, so it doesn't clog up the bandwith.
08:37
<@Ced23Ric>
Or just leave it be altogether.
08:39
<@Soren>
is it porn you could stand to explain to someone?
08:40
<@Ced23Ric>
It is the Firefall Beta Milestone patch-
08:40
<@Soren>
or is it porn you'd feel awkward talking about?
08:40
<@Ced23Ric>
I have to make a confession.
08:40
<@Ced23Ric>
My porn consumption is really, really low.
08:40
< afny>
left and right with the confessions today
08:40
<@Soren>
I don't think that's terribly unusual.
08:40
<@randolph>
Well, he's got a new gf
08:41
<@randolph>
So unless it's for homework, he shouldn't need much
08:41
< afny>
it's possible that it's completely due to my lack of stable relationships
08:42
< afny>
but I've never found relationship status and masturbation habits to be directly related
08:42
< afny>
or at least not in a subtractive way.
08:42
<@randolph>
I'm making shit up, I don't actually have any substantial data~
08:42
<@randolph>
Actually
08:42
<@randolph>
Shouldn't that sex research data be public?
08:43
<@randolph>
Kinnsey report, I want to say.
08:43
< afny>
well, those are from the 50s
08:43
<@randolph>
There was a more recent one
08:44
< afny>
I dunno
08:44
< afny>
I find most sex science is actually bad science
08:44
< afny>
but I guess I'd probably find the same thing in any other field if I cared to look
08:44
< afny>
the good stuff is rare when it comes to anything.
08:46
<@Ced23Ric>
<@randolph> Well, he's got a new gf --- HA.
08:46
<@Ced23Ric>
I wish.
08:46
<@randolph>
They're surveys. Yeah, you're gonna have bad submissions.
08:46
<@Ced23Ric>
She don't message me.
08:46
<@randolph>
Ooh.
08:47
<@Ced23Ric>
I guess she was either full of it or changed her mind.
08:47
<@randolph>
Give it time. It looked like you guys had a great time
08:47
<@Ced23Ric>
Meh.
08:47
< afny>
the problem is usually the way samples are SELECTED (in a biased manner) rather than the submissions themselves.
08:47
<@Ced23Ric>
Haven't heard from her since Sunday.
08:47
<@randolph>
If you *actually said* you were gonna marry her, that might take a little while to get over the shock
08:48
<@Ced23Ric>
... I showed her the order form HQ in a jokingly manner.
08:48
<@randolph>
afny: yeah, but that still leaves you with data, just qualified data
08:48
<@Ced23Ric>
And explained to her that I have to report her quote back, due to awesome.
08:48
< afny>
qualified with, "this data is useless", maybe.
08:50
<@randolph>
"This data applies to a population that correlates to high self-reporting"
08:50
<@randolph>
*highly to
08:50
<@randolph>
You sound so bitter and anti-scientific progress :p
08:50
<@randolph>
we're definitely making progress
08:50
< afny>
Oh, for sure
08:50
< afny>
what I'm saying, though
08:50
< afny>
is that lots of studies I read relating to human sexuality
08:51
< afny>
have biased ways of selecting samples
08:51
< afny>
to get the conclusions they want
08:51
< afny>
and in that way they invalidate the conclusions.
08:51
< afny>
again, it's not the samples themselves
08:51
< afny>
but how they are selected.
08:52
< afny>
my evidence is only anecdotal, but I think this happens a lot more with studies of human sexuality than, say
08:52
< afny>
...rocks
08:52
< afny>
...because people have a horse in the race
08:52
< afny>
and they don't, generally, when it comes to...rocks.
08:52
<@randolph>
In which case, the methodology would be apparent (as it was enough for you to discern) and it either gets the shit peer reviewed out of it, or it continues to languish
08:53
< afny>
see, THAT'S where my cynicism comes in
08:53
<@randolph>
And then occasionally stuff like that anesthesiologist in tokyo shows up~
08:53
< afny>
because in my experience that isn't the case
08:53
< afny>
when it comes to stuff about human sexuality, that is.
08:53
< afny>
Sure, when it's about anesthesiologists or arsenic being used in RNA or whatever
08:53
<@randolph>
Well... it *is* the case
08:53
< afny>
people are right there to peer review
08:53
< afny>
but no
08:53
< afny>
shitty studies about human sexuality get published
08:54
< afny>
opinionized
08:54
< afny>
and they become fact in the public mind
08:54
<@randolph>
How much of academia considers that field particularly rigorous...
08:54
< afny>
because people have a hard time with that particular subject.
08:54
<@randolph>
wait...
08:54
<@randolph>
>_<
08:54
<@randolph>
This subject is just chock-full of innuendo
08:54
< afny>
uh
08:55
<@Soren>
The mind of a congenital punster, folks.
08:55
<@randolph>
I'm pretty sure I didn't get it from my parents
08:56
<@randolph>
Pathological, okay, I'll cop to that
08:56
<@Soren>
fair enough.
08:56
< afny>
Congenital doesn't imply hereditary
08:56
< afny>
it just means you were punning before you could walk
08:57
< afny>
but maybe you had some kind of horrible accident at age 12
08:57
<@randolph>
Hm, I thought the root was genetic
08:57
< afny>
and you pun to cope
08:57
< afny>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congenital
08:57
<@randolph>
Well, I was once bitten by a radioactive double-entendre
08:58
< afny>
was it hot?
08:58
<@randolph>
there was a burning sensation, yes
08:59
<@randolph>
huh, whaddaya know. root is genitus. I'd say I've been using it wrong this whole time, but I can't remember the last time I used it~
09:01
<@Soren>
neither can I, oddly enough.
09:01
<@Soren>
I was right without knowing!
09:01
< afny>
genitus is probably the root of genetic and genital, though
09:01
<@Soren>
it's like being wrong, but without the crushing sense of failure.
09:01
<@randolph>
heh
09:06
<@randolph>
I just replaced the flimsy ladder gate to the white-walled compound with a coherent energy barrier.
09:06
<@randolph>
Because having primary security measures that can be bypassed with a power outage is *awesome*
09:08
<@Ced23Ric>
Especially, if a cup of water at the wrong spot can screw it over.
09:08
<@Ced23Ric>
It's like nano-shift walls from Doom.
09:08
<@randolph>
That has totally not happened since at least Rev 14
09:08
<@randolph>
It's in the patch notes!
09:13 * Ced23Ric pulls up the patch notes.
09:13
<@Ced23Ric>
"Fixed an issue were a cup of water would shorten the entire system. Fix applied: Water Dispensers removed from lobby."
09:13
<@Ced23Ric>
Mhmm.
09:14
<@randolph>
It was a very budget-conscious solution.
09:14
<@randolph>
I promoted that guy.
09:15
<@Ced23Ric>
Wait, here ... revision 13 ...
09:15
<@Ced23Ric>
"Fixed an issue were a cup of water would shorten the entire system. Cups now given out based on security clearance. External cups forbidden under threat of lethal force."
09:15 * Ced23Ric stares blankly at randolph.
09:16
<@randolph>
That's what we in the industry call "graduated response."
09:16
<@Ced23Ric>
Oh there's a note to revision 13.1, too.
09:17 * randolph makes a note to require proof of purchase to view patch notes.
09:17
<@Ced23Ric>
"Recent events - the PR visit of Cups'R'Us representatives - have proven the fix to be unapplicable. Reverting to revision 12 until revision 14 is live."
09:18
<@randolph>
I think we're also working on dermal hydration patches, too.
09:19
<@Ced23Ric>
Sounds like a decent idea.
09:20
<@Ced23Ric>
Revision 6, Known Issues - "Coherent Energy Barrier still buggy. Operators are asked to inform people passing through about jolts due to humidity in the tropical lounge area. Barrier may or may not activate/deactivate as expected."
09:22
<@randolph>
Fatalities were *well* within R&D projections that revision.
09:23
<@Ced23Ric>
.... you couldn't have stayed in Beta a bit longer eh?
09:24
<@randolph>
Well, you know the saying: "There comes a time when you shoot the engineer and release the product."
09:28
<@Ced23Ric>
Typical saying.
09:28
<@randolph>
It just seemed expedient to test it *on* the engineers, you know?
09:28
<@randolph>
Motivate quality control.
09:29
<@randolph>
Also helps select for agile, resilient interns
09:29
<@Ced23Ric>
And keeps intern spots available all year round, too.
09:31
<@randolph>
In some departments, yeah. But oddly, competition for those departments seems to be somewhat inversely proportional
09:31
<@randolph>
I'll have someone look into it
09:31
<@randolph>
anyway, it's late, nn all
09:34
< afny>
oh wow
09:34
< afny>
I totally forgot about this PAB bucket
09:34
< afny>
I got back from NY and was so sick
09:34
< afny>
I just left it in my bag
09:34
< afny>
SO MANY BAR PLATES
09:39
<@Soren>
well yay
09:42
<@Soren>
OKay, so, apropos of my fondness for horrible humor...
09:42
<@Soren>
...has anyone tried getting past a guard dog by wrapping a grenade in bacon and yelling 'fetch!'?
09:43
<@Soren>
Because it's both horrible, and seems like it would work.
09:44
<@Soren>
"Remember, it doesn't have to be a big bang, so long as it goes off inside the dog."
09:48
< afny>
Getting dogs to swallow pills, even in food, is pretty hard
09:48
< afny>
what you really want to do is coat the grenade in peanut butter so they can't eat it all at once.
09:49
< afny>
This reminds me of that GitS episode where Batou can't bring himself to shoot robot dogs
09:51
<@Ced23Ric>
The dog would probably just remove the bacon.
09:51
<@Ced23Ric>
Also, good guard dogs don't give a flying fuck about bacon.
09:51
<@Ced23Ric>
Or about any food anyone except their masters give them.
09:51
< afny>
they couldn't remove the peanut butter
09:51
< afny>
that's what I'm saying
09:52
<@Ced23Ric>
They don't care about it.
09:52
<@Ced23Ric>
Good guard dogs only eat when told to.
09:52
<@Ced23Ric>
You can put a raw filet into a good guard dogs mouth, he won't eat it.
09:52
<@Ced23Ric>
Unless his master tells him to.
09:53
< afny>
In that GitS episode
09:53
<@Ced23Ric>
Which is also why at the end of a dog handlers career/life, his dogs are put down - for K9 units, that is.
09:53
<@Ced23Ric>
Because the dogs cannot be retrained.
09:53
< afny>
Batou hacks the dog's eyes so he appears as their master
09:54
< afny>
HEY CED
09:54
< afny>
DID YOU READ THAT ARTICLE
09:54
< afny>
http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/what-we-can-learn-from-the-re-i ssued-first-edition-advanced-dungeons-and-dr
09:57
<@Ced23Ric>
I don't follow PA at all.
09:57
< afny>
Its Ben Kuchera
09:58
< afny>
it's on PA but it's more or less a different site
09:58
< afny>
it's a good article
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10:19
< afny>
so
10:19
< afny>
I have this part
10:19
< afny>
and I can't figure out what the hell it is so I can buy more
10:19
< afny>
it's like...
10:19
< afny>
three studs long
10:19
< afny>
one brick tall
10:19
< afny>
it's a technic part
10:19
< afny>
it's got a technic bar hole on one side
10:20
< afny>
and on the alternate faces, a technic axle hole
10:20
< afny>
one hole on each end, and it's just sort of like a girder in betwen
10:20
< afny>
+e
10:20
< afny>
and on the axle hole end, there is a little molded detail like a circle with a beveled line
10:20
< afny>
I have them in old grey
10:22
< afny>
I'll take a picture of one in a bit
11:16
< afny>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyanosmoros/7738941290/in/photostream
11:16
< afny>
those pieces on the back
11:17
< afny>
are what I was talking about
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14:19
< huhwhozat>
Last night I spent about 2 hours working on frame designs in LDD while watching StarTrek TNG
14:20
< huhwhozat>
then, then I decie to go to bed
14:20
< huhwhozat>
which leads to me taking another hour to build a totally different frame out of tablescraps :D
14:21
< huhwhozat>
the upshot of it is that I have two frames I'm pretty happy with, the digital design beign one I finally feel comfortable building a company around!
14:26
< afny>
Sometimes I hate that
14:26
< afny>
it happened to me yesterday
14:26
< afny>
I got ready to go to bed
14:26
< afny>
but then I spent the next hour
14:26
< afny>
just building lego
14:26
< afny>
naked
14:26
< afny>
in my room
14:26
<@Ced23Ric>
Go on.
14:26
< afny>
before I eventually just set it down and went to sleep
14:26
<@Ced23Ric>
Share more to me.
14:26
< afny>
like, I get all ready for bed
14:26
<@Ced23Ric>
Yes.
14:26
<@Ced23Ric>
How did you do this?
14:26
< afny>
brush me teeth
14:27
< afny>
wash
14:27
< afny>
take off my clothes
14:27
< afny>
IN THAT ORDER
14:27
< afny>
(usually)
14:27
< afny>
and I was fucking exhausted
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
SO LOOK OUT!
14:27
< afny>
but then
14:27
< afny>
I just started building
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
Let's go back to te naked part.
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
You sleep in the nude, I presume.
14:27
< afny>
of course
14:27
< afny>
WHO DOESN'T.
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
Of course.
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
I DO.
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
And then.
14:27
<@Ced23Ric>
Yu built some Lego.
14:28
<@Ced23Ric>
Still naked.
14:28
< afny>
not like, purposefully
14:28
< afny>
just tablescraps
14:28
<@Ced23Ric>
Aimlessly?
14:28
< afny>
yeah
14:28
<@Ced23Ric>
Any results?
14:28
< afny>
I posted it
14:28
< afny>
but usually, no
14:28
<@Ced23Ric>
Sad.
14:28
< afny>
mostly when this happens I wake up the next day and see whatever monstrosity I built
14:28
< afny>
and just squint at it
14:30
< afny>
anyway huhwhozat
14:30
< afny>
any pics?
14:32
< huhwhozat>
I've had to borrow a cam, so I won't have pics of the scrapper. I'll put up some screencaps and an LDD file sometime after lunch, when I get a number of variations ironed out
14:33
< huhwhozat>
and what kind of wierdo sleeps in the buff? :P
14:34
< afny>
it feels so nice
14:34
< afny>
if you live anywhere with humidity it also lets you stay sane
14:55
< huhwhozat>
is the 'rocket roach' the scrap to which you were referring? I really like that guy
14:56
< afny>
nah, I was mostly clothed when I built that
14:56
< huhwhozat>
haha
14:57
< afny>
the thing I did last night was just the sniper and pack for the hop devil
14:57
< huhwhozat>
cool
14:57
< huhwhozat>
I don't really get what the pack is supposed to BE, but I like the look of it :D
14:57
< huhwhozat>
I just commented on the roach in your photostream, btw. I want to know how that torso goes together
14:57
< afny>
in game I'd dice the big ventral protrusions as a green
14:58
< afny>
otherwise I don't know what things are, ever
14:58
< afny>
but that frame would be 4 d6 rA, 1b, 1g,
14:58
< afny>
2w
14:58
< afny>
um
14:59
< afny>
the roach has a really weird torso
14:59
< afny>
it's a tan droid body
14:59
< afny>
and like
14:59
< afny>
there's a plate clip that connects to the top of the droid body
14:59
< afny>
that allows the groin to attach'
15:00
< afny>
the backpack is just attached to a build off of that clip plate
15:00
< afny>
I think it's a headlight with another clip plate on it
15:00
< afny>
and then the head is just
15:00
< afny>
a minifig revolver
15:00
< afny>
shoved in the droid torso hole
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15:00
< afny>
and the ski/headlights are attached via the droid torso shoulder pegs
15:00
< afny>
on clip plates
15:01
< afny>
the only thing you can't see in the photo is the way the clip plate/groin attachs I guess
15:01
< afny>
also, what do you mean by back flap?
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15:12
< huhwhozat>
I meant the backpack - which you explained. It looks like just a flap sticking straight out in the shots you posted.
15:13
< huhwhozat>
great explanation, actually; I'll bet I could build one now! (which I probably will :D)
15:23
< afny>
oh, do you mean the orange things?
15:23
< afny>
they aren't part of the backpack, which is a brown barplate and some other stuff
15:23
< afny>
they're hinges that attach to the skis
15:23
< afny>
those old three-prong pressure hinge plates
15:26
< huhwhozat>
ahhh
15:26
< huhwhozat>
those come in orange!?
15:26
< afny>
dunno, but theyr'e black
15:26
< afny>
they're
15:26
< afny>
just have an orange tile on top
15:27
< huhwhozat>
ah right
15:27
< huhwhozat>
hee, I wasn't looking at the image just then. Pretty obvious that's a tile :P
15:27
< huhwhozat>
(when I actually look)
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16:15
< DeathZero>
mornin folks
16:28
< afny>
o/
16:28
< afny>
morning
16:30
< huhwhozat>
ohaiyo gozaimasu
16:46
< DeathZero>
whats been up
16:48
< afny>
we were discussing sleeping naked
16:48
< afny>
care to weigh in?
16:49
< DeathZero>
O_o
16:50
< DeathZero>
Only if I fall asleep that way after some action.
16:56
< afny>
booo
16:56
< afny>
you're MISSIN OUT
16:57
< afny>
surprisingly the few times I've slept with clothes on in recent memory was after sex
16:58
< afny>
it really doesn't make a lot of sense.
16:59
< afny>
I guess it was because I was OFFERED pants
16:59
< afny>
It's like, I wouldn't choose to eat a fried bug
16:59
< afny>
but if someone offers it to me
16:59
< afny>
I'm not going to say no.
16:59
< afny>
that'd be offensive.
17:00
< afny>
wow, and thinking about it
17:00
< afny>
...I've been offered pajama pants more times in my life by other people
17:00
< afny>
than I assume the normal person has
17:00
< afny>
and not even in a sexual context
17:00
< afny>
what the hell, life.
17:00
< afny>
stop giving me other people's pajams.
17:00
< afny>
+a
17:05
< DeathZero>
lol.
17:05
< DeathZero>
It's not like I'm alone in falling asleep naked after sex, she does too.
17:07
< afny>
would she freak out if you just started to sleep naked
17:07
< afny>
is that the kind of thing you have to start doing early in a relationship or else it's weird?
17:08
< DeathZero>
I think it'd suprise her at first but I'm sure she'd get used to it if I did.
17:10
< DeathZero>
There'd definitely be some confusion the first time I climb in bed naked and don't try to get some.
17:11
< afny>
pavlovian logic says you'd get some anyway
17:12
< afny>
if you're both conditioned to engage in sexytimes when naked in bed
17:12
< afny>
it'll probably end up that way
17:12
< afny>
the downside to sleeping naked all the time is you lose that response
17:12
< afny>
but the upsides are NUMEROUS.
17:20
< DeathZero>
lol.
17:29
< huhwhozat>
hmm, my counter argument is that pyjamas are SO COMFY!
17:30
< huhwhozat>
at least mine are :D
17:30
< afny>
I ask you simply
17:30
< afny>
why have comfy pajamas
17:30
< afny>
when you can have comfy sheets?
17:31
< huhwhozat>
because comfy sheets are much more expensive :D
17:31
< afny>
that's like
17:31
< afny>
the ONE acceptable answer.
17:31
< huhwhozat>
and comfy pyjamas can be worn around the house, while comfy sheets cannot, at least without difficulty
17:32
< afny>
that's why you get a robe
17:32
< huhwhozat>
but yes, if you happen to have comfy sheets, by all means!
17:32
< afny>
I don't, actually
17:32
< afny>
I have cheap sheets
17:32
< afny>
but even so
17:32
< afny>
EVEN SO
17:32
< huhwhozat>
haha
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17:33
< huhwhozat>
honestly speaking, I don't have a problem with sleeping naked, I'm just playing devil's advocate
17:35
< afny>
I make a lot of compromises to achieve it
17:35
< afny>
for instance, I don't have comfy sheets OR a robe
17:35
< afny>
I put my goddamn jeans back on if I need to walk around and there are people about
17:35
< afny>
...I think I'm going to buy a robe.
17:40
< Malcolm>
...and this is not the conversation I was expecting
17:41
< afny>
nothing is sacred.
17:42
< Malcolm>
Apparently not
17:42
< Malcolm>
I would post pictures of my hilariously useless Gunbuddy variants, but I have inexplicably lost the memory card for my camera
17:42
< Malcolm>
They look really junkyard-esque
17:43
< afny>
I like that aesthetic a lot of the time
17:43
< afny>
they seem like they'd fit it well
17:43
< afny>
like a junkyard scopedog
17:43
< Malcolm>
These really do look like they have been put together by three blokes in a shed
17:43
< afny>
I look forward to seeing them
17:43
< afny>
also, you should check your lego piles
17:43
< afny>
I lost my SD card and found it there :P
17:44
< Malcolm>
But the commander has a proper, straight up Gunbuddy, because she paid for everything and dammit, they get the best stuff
17:44
< Malcolm>
Well, hopefully I find the card before the demos I'm meant to be doing on Saturday
17:45
< Malcolm>
Although, it's all a bit last minute, so they might not take place
17:45
< afny>
Hope you can make it happen
17:45
< afny>
(and take pics)
17:46
< Malcolm>
Well, here's hoping
17:52
< Malcolm>
If I can find the card, I'll grab a few photos of the Gunbastard and stick them in the relevant thread
17:59
< huhwhozat>
nice, Malcolm! I'd like to see 'em too!
17:59
< huhwhozat>
after what I put together last night, I'm thinking of building a free colonies scrap company
18:03
< Malcolm>
That kind of aesthetic can be really pleasing. Stuff like Junk Tank Rock or Maschinenkrieger are interesting sources for that kind of look.
18:04
< Malcolm>
Althoguh I wouldn't appropriate the political symbolism of Maschinenkrieger
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18:51
< huhwhozat>
here's a frame I mocked up last night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83036748@N03/7741167008/in/photostream
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< DeathZero>
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< addking>
afternoon
21:44
< huhwhozat>
greetigns
21:45
< afny>
o/
22:02
< huhwhozat>
time to head home!
22:02 * huhwhozat out!
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<@randolph>
Hey guys
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