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03:49:17 Egan: feesh get neatly sectioned
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04:32:39 Egan: have you played the xkcd game?
04:33:40 Egan: I got one which was just a blue dispenser right above where they go, so I just waited for it to complete itself and then submitted it
04:34:13 Egan: it's possible that one won't appear on the board, since there seems to be some kind of manual vetting for quality :p
04:39:04 syv: My contract is almost over in MegaMek
04:39:29 Devastator: this one has ALL FOUR COLOURS.
04:40:15 syv: I just wrote a 700 word fic about two girls talking about frogs, for Saki
04:40:40 Egan: I haven't seen it myself, but I've seen a submission where two colors come in the same hole and you have to sort them into different outputs
04:40:56 Egan: which is possible because different color balls have different properties
04:41:15 Egan: yellow are light and have air drag, green are heavy, red are bouncy
04:41:26 Egan: and blue behave averagely, I guess
04:51:47 syv: My first one is really challenging
04:52:00 syv: Two red spawns on right, one green spawn on upper left.
04:52:25 syv: Red receptors are on the left, and green receptor *right* below red spawns
04:52:36 Devastator: yeah, when it is in the larger machine you can often expect bad inputs.
04:58:22 Devastator: called it 'wintergreen'
04:59:06 syv: I can sort out red balls using fans
04:59:13 Devastator: red balls are also really bouncy.
04:59:19 Devastator: but I haven't had a good one based on that yet.
04:59:50 Egan: red balls being bouncy has screwed me over more times than it's been useful >.>
05:00:38 Egan: I get stuck on the idea of hurling them across the stage and then it becomes real hard to actually control where they go
05:00:45 Egan: pillows can help a little
05:01:28 Devastator: fans work pretty good for sorting.
05:07:19 syv: I named mine "syvarris red longjump"
05:07:58 syv: There's an "under construction" one to my right which... actually seems to be inputting red+yellow through a dispenser that was red-only
05:08:11 syv: And my machine isn't set to sort that
05:08:27 syv: So I'm outputting red+yellow through two red-only outputs mysekf...
05:10:02 syv: A lot of these are 100% made by Randall or his people to look cooler
05:10:41 Devastator: ..I suspect 'readers' are 'his people'
05:10:46 Devastator: This is the freaking xkcd fanbase.
05:11:27 syv: That's literally what I just dealt with
05:13:42 Egan: yeah, when it zooms out with yours placed in the machine, it's kinda lying
05:14:15 Egan: all the other machines which link up with yours are the same for anyone who looks, but your machine isn't up yet
05:14:37 Egan: it's *possible* that it's all faked and randall made all the submitted machines, but eh
05:14:46 Egan: I think he's want it to actually work
05:15:24 Egan: m getting fed yellows in my red input, from an *under construction* tile
05:18:09 Devastator: yeah, it doesn't always update what's there.
05:18:13 Devastator: it's fairly dynamic.
05:18:27 Devastator: and no way randall made all the machines.
05:18:33 Devastator: there are too many of them and some are too weird.
05:18:47 Devastator: also others are low quality high effort ones.
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05:34:16 Egan: mixed some chocolate milk earlier and left it in a pitcher in the kitchen
05:34:28 Egan: came back to two ants and a gnat drowning in it
05:34:46 Egan: when I fished them out the gnat wasn't moving but the ants were
05:35:22 Egan: does it make more sense to set them down and let them maybe clean themselves off and maybe find a way back home, or to kill them
05:42:09 Devastator: ants play teams. They can sort each other out.
05:43:48 Egan: ants eat my food, if it's not stored properly. And they do so more cleanly and efficiently than mold does
05:44:33 Egan: I used to hate them but the more I think about it the less it really feels like I should
05:46:20 Devastator: they're just here to work.
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05:57:11 Egan: to them, we're gods. and god SHOULD respect us
06:02:15 Devastator: they're insects. They already ahve gods.
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08:17:15 syv: I wish you could save these machines
08:17:51 syv: I made one that accelerates three sets of balls to jump across each others' paths, and is very tuned.
08:18:10 syv: It even deals with a lot of collisions, which are rare (and high energy) due to everything being accelerated.
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09:09:44 syv: I wanted to make a circular track that takes any input from any slot and routes it to the correct place, pushing all inputs through the same route.
09:10:03 syv: But more than half the time, if I try to move a prism, it crashes
09:10:10 syv: And I wanted to use prisms
10:27:10 syv: ...I think five of seven enemy tanks in that mission committed suicide.
10:27:21 syv: Princess is really not good at controlling tanks.
10:28:15 syv: Didn't take a single shot... though that's partially because the bot's mech tanked, and Lotus blew up all four enemy mechs, three of them with a single volley.
10:28:32 syv: Maybe refitting this fighter-bomber to have tons of lasers is a little OP
10:36:42 syv: Buy infantry unit, more expensive the better
10:37:01 syv: Sell infantry unit (IE just the gear, keeping the troops)
10:37:08 syv: It sells for more than the purchase price
10:37:28 syv: Baaah I've been doing this without even realizing it was MAKING money and not losing it
11:29:39 syv: Finally got another defeat. Zero casualties... because they sent me to fight in an F3 hurricane. I couldn't even deploy infantry, the only unit I had that wouldn't insta-die was my plane.
11:30:53 syv: Which, due to being piloted by a demigod, could still survive the wind better than mechs. A knocked-over mech was basically guaranteed dead, and while I had to roll to perform even basic manuevers, all it took was one pass to knock an enemy over.
11:31:30 syv: Got five before retreating, which was enough to get a "kill 50% of the enemies" goal, but lost the others.
11:32:05 syv: Not like a single plane would be able to occupy a city IN THE MIDDLE OF A HURRICANE
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22:43:45 Topic for #einsteinianroulette: MJ should read Extinction!
22:43:45 Topic set by syv [Thursday 29 June 2023, 06:20:36]
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