00:44:17 syv: Nothing in particular currently.
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00:58:51 Devastator: I think it'll take me about an hour to set up my new computer. I'm afraid I'm down to only the one monitor, so I can't have them side-by-side.
00:59:00 Devastator: if you wanted to play something new, let me know and I'll get started on it.
00:59:08 Devastator: otherwise I think I'll do it tomorrow. I'm caught up on everything.
01:02:15 syv: I wasn't going to ask to play anything
01:02:31 syv: I think I may stare at some numbers and roll some dice
01:04:32 Devastator: I'll finish the setup tomorrow, log into my steam and other stuff, etc, to speed it up in the future. Maybe fix the broken Model M I have so I have two of them.
01:09:23 Devastator: oh god, this fanfic has an idea that's utterly hilarious.
01:09:58 Devastator: "Superpower: You can see things that are blindingly obvious, without worrying about social restrictions that would keep you from silent."
01:10:06 Devastator: keep you from blurting them out.
01:10:13 Devastator: Say hello to Captain Obvious.
01:21:33 syv: That sounds like it would be a political soapbox fic
01:26:30 Devastator: It's mostly 'I have a broken power that gives me opposite takes on the powers of other superheros.'
01:27:10 Devastator: in that case it's a flipside of 'I have a power that lets me cold-read anyone to an extreme degree, and encourages me to say things that'll piss them off'
01:27:29 Devastator: so instead it's 'I blurt out the obvious, in particular things that would make everyone around me crack up.'
01:28:39 Devastator: other introduced flipside powers: "I can summon puppies, one at a time, into my arms. They are very cute, cuddly, and huggable. They go away when I turn that power off."
01:29:02 Devastator: flipside of "I can make monster dogs"
01:35:22 Devastator: Although someone did that one too, but it's not that interesting.
01:35:28 Devastator: opposite personalities.
01:36:11 syv: Man, "I can summon puppies to hug" is actually so much better than most superhero powers
01:36:50 syv: I'd still take "shapeshifting" but that ranks pretty high up
01:37:58 Devastator: Yes. Others seen so far are "I can turn myself into a walking flashbang" and "I can break or sabotage any piece of technology."
01:38:14 Devastator: opposite of 'I can summon muffling darkness' and 'I'm an efficiency-based tinker.'
01:46:41 Egan: I think I'll lie down for a little bit and probably come back
01:48:34 syv: I hope you feel better after
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03:46:22 Topic set by syv [Thursday 29 June 2023, 06:20:36]
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05:40:32 Devastator: got some food together. Also had to pick up groceries.
05:40:40 Devastator: the roads are wretched today.
05:41:03 syv: What does that mean up there? Frozen?
05:41:07 Devastator: last couple days have been warm and melted just enough snow to clear the roads of salt and sand.
05:41:27 Devastator: then we had a long, 48 hour persistant fog that just a couple hours ago went below freezing.
05:42:01 Devastator: Not the worst I've ever seen, but I just spent about 500m slowing down from 60 mph.
05:42:31 Devastator: and, despite studded winters, looks like I can only handle about a 3% grade.
05:42:43 Devastator: very close to the worst I've seen.
05:44:26 Devastator: it's better than this.
05:44:39 Devastator: properly frozen is perfectly okay.
05:44:49 Devastator: it's the best situation for midwinter roads.
05:44:59 Devastator: but no, this isn't that, this is 'the entire roadway is black ice'
05:46:23 Devastator: The only worse situation I can remember is when we had the same thing, but with a full half-inch of perfectly smooth clear ice.
05:46:31 Devastator: it was literally ice rink conditions.
05:50:13 Devastator: I might mock places for failing to drive under the slightest of winter conditions, but if the conditions were like this, no, I would not be mocking.
05:52:59 Devastator: still, glad it's coming in mid december, or I'd be seeing ditches full up here too.
05:53:10 Devastator: not as bad as then, but there would be some.
05:53:19 Devastator: man, though, that clear ice day..
05:53:22 Devastator: that was an experience.
06:00:22 syv: That does sound impressively awful
06:00:45 syv: "really awful" here is just "flooded", which I suppose is technically the same thing but is much less bad.
06:00:46 Devastator: well, the clear ice was equal parts awful and 'wow'
06:00:59 Devastator: flooded is harder to get through than black ice!
06:01:47 syv: My road is still a relatively high part of the swamp, so I've never seen any segment deeper than maaaybe a foot at worst
06:02:30 Devastator: mmm, fair enough. A foot of water isn't that bad, I suppose.
06:02:37 Devastator: but enough water is more impassable than too much ice.
06:02:43 syv: Depends on the car but yeah
06:02:55 Devastator: 'depends on the car' matters for ice.
06:03:00 syv: And only fools live here without having *something* offroad
06:03:06 Devastator: although the big thing with ice, big heavy trucks don't do better than cars.
06:03:21 Devastator: People think so, but nope.
06:03:30 Devastator: they're both four-wheel brakes.
06:04:14 Devastator: sometimes yes, sometimes no.
06:05:05 Devastator: There are some advantages to four wheel drive and various forms of transfer cases, but not that much.
06:05:21 Devastator: and it's pitted against weight being a problem.
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