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02:04:30 MidJag_: not bad, stressed, and it turns out my universities IT deparment is held toghter by shoe string and hope, but not bad all things considered
02:05:57 Devastator: all university IT departments are like that.
02:07:04 MidJag_: True, but good lord this one is bad. It turns out because I TA'd for a semester or two I had admin accsses to a notetaking system where I really should not have had admin accsses.
02:07:29 Devastator: I had an active account two years after I'd left.
02:56:05 Devastator: did something happen to the james webb?
02:57:20 MidJag_: I dunno. That thing is just cursed
03:00:10 MidJag_: Huh, appernelty it launches on halloween
03:02:26 MidJag_: Aww, apperernlty the EM drive doesn't actually work
03:02:37 MidJag_: not really suprised but aww.
03:03:44 ER: "They pumped 20 kilowatters into a bax under ambient conditions and it only twitched a *little*?"
03:13:12 Devastator: ended up with 76 shots of vodka, jaggers.
03:13:50 MidJag_: Nice, now that's enough for a party
03:14:05 Devastator: how many bottles is that?
03:14:29 Devastator: it looks like about 2.75 litres.
03:14:53 MidJag_: I mean it depends on how you pour the shot~
03:15:30 Devastator: yeah, I think you take pretty small sips in cata.
03:15:42 Devastator: I know bottles are 21 shots normall.
03:15:57 MidJag_: Yeah that sounds right.
03:15:59 Devastator: so about 3 2/3 bottles or so.
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03:28:21 Devastator: I CAN BRING MY FOLDABLE VEHICLE ONTO THE SUBWAY
03:34:21 Devastator: mmm, newspapers are amusing.
03:34:32 Devastator: "They are here, they are here, they are here, they are here, they are here..."
03:39:16 Devastator: how dangerous are albino penguins?
03:39:18 Devastator: I don't recognize them.
03:39:50 Devastator: not that bad, actually.
03:40:00 Devastator: slow, hit pretty hard, lots of HP.
03:48:03 Devastator: okay, driving like a couple km to a map marker labeled "Subway Station?"
03:48:11 Devastator: good thing I had the quad.
03:55:07 Devastator: looks like an all-underground science lab.
03:55:40 Devastator: just where I wanted to go to next, but I'd want to have all my stuff with me, so was going for an aboveground one. Not sure if I should keep going or go back to the plan.
03:55:43 Devastator: ..probably go back.
04:01:23 Devastator: oh my god, I'm wearing enough armour they can't hurt me.
04:03:18 Devastator: motherfucker, a high capacity heavy battery.
04:03:26 Devastator: that's what I need to run that autoclave.
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04:12:07 Devastator: ooh, 800 calcium carbide.
04:12:12 Devastator: there's all the acetylene I could want.
04:23:29 Devastator: come on, I want to be the first person to hit 88 miles an hour underground.
04:24:14 syv: They were *wolves* and *foxes* and *goblins* and *plants*
04:24:29 Devastator: hit 90 before the engine made a bad noise and took damage.
04:24:45 syv: I think you've probably not the first.
04:24:51 ER: there was too much UI and I didn't understand anything
04:25:09 syv: I definitely remember driving an APC through the bedrock.
04:25:46 syv: I've played WoW and Runescape, and the UI for both of those was pretty intuitive and workable.
04:25:58 syv: This was just an absolute mess. Waaaaaaay too much.
04:26:23 syv: Their character customization is quite impressive, though.
04:26:59 syv: Hard to not make the dude look like a Bishie, but there's so many options. I want to reopen it and fuck around. Make horrifying monstrosities, test the limits.
04:27:38 syv: The character customization is well worth the zero dollars I paid.
04:27:41 Devastator: What's a Kel-Tec PF9?
04:28:15 syv: Don't recall anything notable about it.
04:41:28 Devastator: ok, just left it then.
04:41:58 Devastator: mmm, though, that's rough. couldn't drive the vehicle all the way back, and hauling it all back upstairs took time, even with the 'haul junk' key.
04:42:28 Devastator: but I should have enough flasks for a chemistry set now.
04:43:06 MidJag_: I can't rember do all CADA charecters still curse with every other word?
04:43:30 Devastator: I haven't talked to anyone.
04:46:02 Devastator: Also, I'm seeing absolutely no consensus in Extinction.
04:46:07 Devastator: oh, and did a happy update just now,
ER.
04:46:29 MidJag_: I dunno, I know several peolpe who can't get through a sentence without at least one fuck.
04:47:34 Devastator: I think I want to make some kind of bomb to help deal with these turrets.
04:47:53 Devastator: can drive right up to them, take a few bullets on the car armour, and just throw it out the door.
05:01:33 MidJag_: Hmm, if there is one thing I hate about reading scientific journals for classes its that you never know how long they're going to be from the page count alone.
05:02:30 MidJag_: Like it could be 26 pages long, and actually be 26 pages long, or it could be 10 pages of content and like 16 pages of citations.
05:04:54 syv: Immediately another fight, excellent/
05:06:55 Devastator: and it could have like big images?
05:16:05 MidJag_: Giant page spanning images, you never know.
06:18:09 MidJag_: He does a bit at the begining and at the end.
06:19:06 Devastator: haven't heard that name in a while.
06:19:46 MidJag_: It's pretty cool hearing GLADO's voice again.
06:20:33 Devastator: are they actually announcing half life 3?
06:20:35 ER: Used to know a family who were freinds with glados' VA, I believe?
06:20:55 MidJag_: I'm fairlly sure I'll be a doctor before Half life 3 is annonced
06:21:35 Devastator: well, it's pretty simple.
06:21:41 Devastator: if they make a great game, it'll sell like mad.
06:21:46 Devastator: if it's bad, it'll get scorched.
06:21:58 ER: I mean, didn't the end of HL:A pretty much confirm HL3?
06:22:25 Devastator: yeah, but 'it'll exist' isn't much of a confirmation.
06:22:54 MidJag_: I'm just imaging the hype around a good half life 3.
06:23:03 syv: A promise that often isn't kept.
06:23:51 Devastator: yup, been some bad hype title launches the last few years.
06:24:07 MidJag_: I'm still waiting for cyberpunk to turn into a good game.
06:24:23 MidJag_: With an impressive amount of time I'm sure it will.
06:24:34 Devastator: ..are you guys old enough to remember Half Life 1, anyway?
06:24:50 Devastator: well I was there when it was new.
06:24:53 ER: long after HL2 came out, but I did like it
06:24:57 MidJag_: Hell I only watched my twin play HL2.
06:25:28 Devastator: it was like super hype and sold like mad, got called revolutionary, all that. I liked it well enough, which was about as much as I did any shooter from the time period.
06:26:00 MidJag_: I'll get right on it. Gimme like 10 years.
06:26:03 Devastator: HL2 ended up being just as good and revolutionary, which kinda settled things.
06:26:31 Devastator: Each one was really about as well recieved as the other at the time they came out.
06:26:38 syv: Never played HL1. I've watched Freeman's Mind 1 all the way through, though?
06:26:55 MidJag_: I've watched two different play throughs of half life.
06:27:18 MidJag_: One from a really obscure youtuber and the other is freemans mind
06:27:19 Devastator: nah, it's basically 'excellent 90s shooter', but it doesn't stand up quite that well in 2020.
06:27:53 ER: so all that valve need to do is make a revolutionary FPS a third time
06:28:02 ER: can't see why they might be putting that off~
06:28:24 MidJag_: I mean while they're at it they need to UPDATE TF2 THOSE FUCKS.
06:29:27 MidJag_: ....you know what, I just realized I've never played Portal 1. I've played Portal 2, but never 1.
06:31:05 Devastator: oh my god, he did SiN in ross's game dungeon?
06:32:02 syv: I've played Portal 1 a few times.
06:32:22 ER: valve are far too busy making money from steam to do silly things like develop games
06:32:35 MidJag_: Huh, I just realized that since I got Portal 2 from my dad that means my dads played portal 2.
06:32:37 Devastator: it's basically Freeman's Mind Gordon Freeman does game reviews.
06:32:45 ER: except for artifact, which was apparently good despite being hated
06:32:46 MidJag_: For some reason that's really odd and I can't explain why.
06:33:08 Devastator: except it's like Freeman's taking it seriously and before the half-life experience.
06:33:14 Devastator: so it's even funnier.
06:36:50 Devastator: SiN is like the perfect game for the Freeman.
06:45:25 ER: ross himself is not in any way freemanescue,
dev
06:50:49 Devastator: no, but that review could work for it.
06:51:02 Devastator: of course he's not freeman.
06:51:36 syv: Yeah, you don't find free men in dungeons.
06:52:09 MidJag_: ....I just realized how stupid gordon freemans name is.
06:58:11 MidJag_: More just like really obvious? His last name is freeman and he like is supposed to be the guy who free's mankind.
06:58:42 Devastator: his name was Freeman in 1 too,
ER.
06:58:54 Devastator: mind you, that's just what you named FPS guys at that time.
06:58:55 syv: No,
ER is saying he doesn't free mankind in 1.
06:59:28 Devastator: I mean, yeah, that's what he does.
06:59:34 Devastator: they retconned it out in 2.
06:59:45 MidJag_: ....Actually your right
06:59:52 Devastator: what do you think the giant alien was about?
07:00:12 MidJag_: I rember this, yeah that alien baby thing was suppposed to be the alien leader.
07:01:07 Devastator: dude single-handedly stopped an alien invastion.
07:01:18 Devastator: then years later they decided to set the sequel on earth, so retcon time.
07:01:28 MidJag_: Heh, sounds like doom.
07:01:53 MidJag_: ....fuck, I just realized half life and doom have the exact same plot
07:01:59 Devastator: doom was aliens invade the moon, that invasion is stopped, and then doomguy finds out earth was invaded too.
07:02:02 Devastator: it's pretty common.
07:02:24 MidJag_: I'm like 95% sure it was mars
07:02:39 Devastator: Alien invasion is also the plot of Duke Nukem, fwiw.
07:03:22 MidJag_: I guess I'm not suprised by that. Since isn't Duke Nukem like a semi parody of shooters of the time?
07:05:23 Devastator: Doke Nukem was what shooters of the time were like.
07:05:48 MidJag_: It's weird how the new doom was going to end up like Duke nukem forever exept IIRC some weird shit happened and it didn't.
07:06:06 syv: Just because he kills the alien boss doesn't mean he's freeing mankind.
07:06:30 syv: Maybe the aliens just murder everyone and strip mine the planet.
07:06:43 ER: yeah, he pretty much does that to save the people who are just, like, around the faciliity
07:06:55 ER: from being killed in various ways
07:08:31 ER: but it's never really shown to be anything but a localized apocalypse in HL1
07:08:48 ER: nothing so grand as saving humanity
07:09:20 ER: just killing the nillianth to close the rift which is, like, causing a disaster around black mesa
07:09:57 syv: Ah yeah, and the military seems pretty organized and precise.
07:10:37 ER: they want to plant a nuke and get rid of it
07:10:41 syv: They're deploying a lot of soldiers, taking control over the place, setting up in general. Good stuff.
07:10:45 ER: which would ALSO solve the problem!
07:10:52 syv: What about that missile that gets launched?
07:11:04 ER: just in the process killing gordon, so he has to do it differently
07:11:35 ER: the rocket you launch was something the scientists needed to open the portal to xen you go through later, I think
07:12:51 Devastator: it doesn't have to be all of humanity.
07:13:00 Devastator: although it's still an alien invasion.
07:15:01 Devastator: ..yeah, SiN is still the best game to imagine FM Freeman playing, since he's basically an erudite man-child.
07:15:11 Devastator: well not exactly, he's some weird take on it.
07:15:59 MidJag_: Hmm, halflife portal crossover when~
07:17:48 Devastator: "OH MY GOD, I'M TWO DIMENSIONAL!"
07:18:32 MidJag_: I have say wheatly would be even more hilarious in FM
07:18:56 ER: there's an infestation of headcrabs in the tubes
07:19:27 ER: gordon accidentially falls down into apature, glados makes him do an extermination before he can leave
07:20:26 MidJag_: It would be kinda neat to see a portal refrence in half life though.
07:21:31 MidJag_: Also it is kinda weird how essentially valve essentially maanged to leverage making 3 really really good games into dominance in PC gaming distributuion
07:23:43 Devastator: they did that by winning the online distribution war.
07:23:49 Devastator: nothing to do with the games.
07:25:29 MidJag_: Also weird thing they actually mention Valve in that managment class I'm taking, I guess they have a flat managment system which is apperentlly intresting to managers.
07:40:50 Devastator: well, time to update extinction.
07:41:06 Devastator: The great thing about having two kids is that I can imagine the players arguing with each otehr.
07:41:17 Devastator: and it's just the kids actually doing that.
07:46:25 Devastator: oh my, the ending of that video..
07:57:44 Devastator: now are the kids going to get distracted crossing the rope bridge?
07:57:56 Devastator: bare success, so no.
08:08:29 Devastator: Last route choice before Tulia. Unless something weird happens.
08:37:24 Devastator: "Looks like we got another game that's trying to make me think I'm crazy. But the video doesn't lie, does it?"
08:52:28 syv: Oh yeah, did we get levels for the lizards?
08:52:47 Devastator: yeah, but it's just the HP/MP one
08:53:04 syv: Nothing fun for Trence at 11?
08:53:52 Devastator: levels don't get you that much.
08:53:56 Devastator: it's about skills and spells and what not.
08:55:02 Devastator: well, levels on 4 mean a bunch.
08:56:12 Devastator: yeah, you get stats.
08:56:37 Devastator: I think Trence is up for another defense point.
09:07:25 Devastator: yeah, sorry, leveling isn't the most awesome thing.
09:07:29 Devastator: didn't want it to get grindy.
09:07:47 Devastator: going places means more writing.
09:08:02 Devastator: and there's enough fights, really.
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09:35:17 Devastator: "Tulia--which I suspect will see us getting into combat before we can buy and sell stuff--"
09:35:22 Devastator: Oh, Tulia's going to be an experience.
09:37:19 Devastator: It even has a functioning government!
09:40:08 Devastator: given you enough spoilers.
09:40:23 Devastator: can talk about what would have happened if you'd gotten stuck in Nikonto instead of delaying act 2.
09:42:58 Devastator: well, they'd have put it under seige, and unlike Mosral, it isn't basically open.. it's defended.
09:43:50 Devastator: however, where Mosral would have been basically 10000 people absorbed in a city of a million, Nikonto is about a fifth the size, so that wouldn't have happened.
09:44:49 Devastator: they would have put it under seige and demanded Trence, and the city doesn't really have a governing nation, it does have a sort of pseudo government thingy between a bunch of people who basically pass the buck around.
09:46:27 Devastator: Sessha would basically appeal to them, and it wouldn't have been enough to get them to fight a war over it, they would have hemmed about it until Nikonto's top adventurer, a guy I called Melvin, would have fought a duel against who he thinks would be Arngrim for Trence.
09:46:43 Devastator: basically that guy would have stepped up while they were busy doing nothing.
09:46:56 Devastator: Anyway, when that's actually sorted out a few days later, Spar would have shown up by then.
09:47:16 Devastator: ..which would have told Sessha to get the three of you the hell out of there. Would have had a few options.
09:48:54 Devastator: Anyway, spar wins the dual, as a weapon of instant death is kinda broken for that scenario, you'd start running, and things owuld be pretty chaotic becuase there's a less-plotted plan and the army is clearly beyond Mackhal.
09:50:30 Devastator: I'd probably have one leg to meet up with Rashim, one leg to meet up with some allies of Sessha, and one leg to meet up with some wizard, but things would have been a bit flapping loose. Eventually you'd end up in Tulia, but there'd be a lot of ways it could go before then. Although if you're determined enough, it might have been possible to get to the eastern continent by passing north of...
09:50:32 Devastator: ...the island, ending up in a wholly different part of the world.
09:53:39 syv: "Why are we hunting for this kid on the other side of the WORLD?!"
09:55:59 Devastator: to be fair, they're from the middle.
09:56:02 Devastator: it's all the same distance.
10:06:03 Devastator: there's a few islands in the outer ocean. Some nobody has ever been to.
10:06:08 Devastator: There's robot antarctica.
10:11:25 syv: Yeah, what act are we in now?
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