Thursday, April 21, 2011

Day 2 - Star Wars, Game of Thrones, God, and Diagrammed Musicians

Regarding the disastrous progress of our Star Wars RPG characters
Mr. Yellow
We think that if anyone’s clones do not attack their Jedi it would be yours Mr. Silver, since you trained them
10:10 AM Mr. Silver
That'd be nice, not getting blasted by my own squadron
10:13 AM Mr. Green
Yeah, was thinking you prolly have the best chance of not having your clones turn on you, since you actually trained yours
10:14 AM Mr. Silver
Good boys...all of 'em
10:14 AM Mr. Yellow
LOL
crack shots?
great pilots?
capable of killing their trainer?
10:15 AM Mr. Silver
If they aren't capable they'll catch hell from me
10:17 AM Mr. Yellow
Excellent!
So…got a bounty hunter alternate character worked out yet? LOL
10:19 AM Mr. Silver
heh
Well, it'd be nice if we put everything on practice mode all friendly-like, had a dogfight and they could tell Palpatine that they shot me down...but...
10:21 AM Mr. Yellow
If you were all on my ship without the clones, then we would have to basically try to evade them and hyperspace away
But I do not see all three of you just hanging out on my ship
10:22 AM Mr. Silver
Not without paying you rent, no
10:22 AM Mr. Yellow
lol
10:30 AM Mr. Yellow
Should be interesting and I may not even be close to any of you at the time. Just depends on how Mr. Gray wants to set it up.
You could all be split up in different directions and if you survive you contact me to help get you into hiding or something
Who knows?
10:48 AM Mr. Green
Yeah.  If I survive, and find out all the Jedi were ambushed. I would probably look for someplace out of Republic space to go and regroup
11:07 AM Mr. Silver
And your diplomat wants us to tell him where, just in case someone asks him where to find us to deliver a telegram, yes?
11:13 AM Mr. Yellow
LOL
11:16 AM Mr. Silver
"Yes Lord Vader?  Jelly-of-the-Month Club?  That's a nice gesture, sure I have an address for them.  Just a sec."
11:27 AM Mr. Yellow
I am sure Kai (our crime boss character) can find some places off the radar where you can keep a low profile
12:17 PM Mr. Silver
Jedi Master Jinto Rez...fastest pizza delivery driver in the quadrant
12:54 PM Mr. Yellow
LOL
"Let’s see I have a large with everything here for a (checks receipt)… Emperor Palpatine?   Oh merde!"


Game of Thrones
12:54 PM Mr. Yellow
Mr. Gray was correct; Game of Thrones is definitely good.
one character died already that i did not expect. I like that
12:58 PM Mr. Silver
Funny... The only other review I got on Game of Thrones was from a website where people take the book cover and summarize the contents by shopping in a new title. (http://betterbooktitles.com/)
Took me aback after all the glowing reviews...it was titled:
"Like Shakespeare but Without the Good Writing"
1:41 PM Mr. Yellow
I need to stop reading the plot of the novel online
I am going to ruin the show for myself LOL
2:17 PM Mr. Silver
Mrs. Silver is a spoiler goober
"I can't wait"
"Yes you can ... ... ... you already looked didn't you?"
"Wanna know what happens?"
"NO!"

God is a know-it-all?
8:07 AM Mr. Brown
we missed you yesterday Mr. Silver
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
Oh yes?
8:08 AM Mr. Brown
we had big discussions but it was only two sided
so it was kinda boring
8:08 AM Mr. Silver
(considers most of his conversations have been 2-sided)
Shame.  Like what?
8:09 AM Mr. Brown
it was mainly religion again
but we were looking that the whole all-knowing aspect of God
8:09 AM Mr. Silver
ah
God's a know-it-all
8:10 AM Mr. Brown
i just found a tick crawling up my shirt
8:10 AM Mr. Silver
God knew that 1st
8:10 AM Mr. Brown
looked like a brown dog tick
before it was engorged
8:11 AM Mr. Silver
God could tell you.  Ask Him how many "hairs" are on it's carapace...go on...try Him.
But anyway
I'm more of the "God could look it up if it was necessary but it isn't" school 
8:13 AM Mr. Brown
yeah like He knows all the possibilities but still does not know what you are going to choose
cuz he chooses not to know
8:13 AM Mr. Silver
No
Like if He wanted to, He could sort out the possibilities, but there's no reason to
8:15 AM Mr. Brown
His way of letting us choose our own path but still trying to push us in the right direction when we need it ?
8:17 AM Mr. Blue
so God is lazy
8:19 AM Mr. Silver
heh
God would rather watch, I think
Much as you sit to watch a movie
God might sit to watch Mr. Brown, but there's no particular need to "look up" Mr. Brown's info on his divine Wiki
("6 Billion people and nothing on...sigh")
8:20 AM Mr. Blue
I wouldn't sit to watch a movie if i had the choice of just instantly downloading the entire thing
8:25 AM Mr. Silver
Well, the example requires that a movie is a movie.  You watch it or collect it and keep the copy
Which is a good way of describing what i mean.  God might have a copy of "Mr. Brown" on his rack but He doesn’t have to watch it unless he feels like it. 
8:28 AM Mr. Silver
Not a complete example, of course, because I don't see the universe and "God" actually working that way, but it expresses the idea
8:29 AM Mr. Blue
what if Mr. Brown's life is a big turd and he's miserable 99% of the time?
8:32 AM Mr. Blue
then it would be in God's best interest to sim it, rather than force someone to experience it
8:35 AM Mr. Silver
Would you go to a theater to have someone on the screen tell you what a movie was about? 
8:37 AM Mr. Silver
"You came to see Aliens!  Well, I've seen it, and I'm here to read you the script and tell you what it was like!  So sit back, enjoy your popcorn and we'll be done in a couple hours!"
8:38 AM Mr. Blue
well the alternative isn't someone telling you about it
or God
8:38 AM Mr. Silver
Right.  Stays on the shelf
8:38 AM Mr. Blue
it's God letting the movie play out in full or just DLing the entire thing into his consciousness, Matrix style.
8:38 AM Mr. Silver
He can watch when he wants
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
remember...it's an analogy, not a perfect description
8:39 AM Mr. Blue
it's like keanu reeves taking kung fu lessons for 25 years or just DLing it into his brain/body
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
Your arguments are leaving the analogy
in the analogy, God is just a guy with billions of years and billions of movies to watch
8:41 AM Mr. Silver
He must queue up the film and watch it if he wants to see it...no magic powers
8:41 AM Mr. Blue
so he's watching 6.5 billion movies simultaneously?
8:41 AM Mr. Silver
No
He's watching what He wants to at the time
8:42 AM Mr. Blue
so if he could, he'd know the results, but chooses to let them play out IRL instead
8:43 AM Mr. Silver
I'm countering Universal Pan-Temporal Omniscience with the idea that God would know the past, observe the present, have a pretty good idea of the future, and only focus on what was interesting at the moment.
8:44 AM Mr. Blue
even if it meant forcing billions to suffer.. is what I’m saying
I’m saying god is letting people suffer cuz he's too lazy to just sim the whole thing
8:44 AM Mr. Silver
It is a SIM
8:44 AM Mr. Blue
but people REALLY suffer
8:44 AM Mr. Silver
We've discussed that
8:45 AM Mr. Blue
if i cut your hand off it actually hurts you
8:45 AM Mr. Silver
Doesn't hurt my “player”
Might wreck his game though
8:48 AM Mr. Blue
i'm thinking that most lives past and present are pretty crappy. we might not see that. we live in a rich country at a stable time with lots of cushy technological advances... but most of the world lives in poverty/war/sickness/depression
8:47 AM Mr. Brown
there are a lot of times that something really bad is happening to somebody but they come out of it not hurt
how do you explain those ones
somebody was working that one
8:48 AM Mr. Blue
like what, Mr. Brown?
8:49 AM Mr. Brown
like you can have a building blow up around you and end up coming out with no problems
8:49 AM Mr. Blue
who did that happen to?
8:58 AM Mr. Silver
Saw a picture once from WWII.  Person in a bombed out building, still in bed.  Report said they slept through the whole collapse
9:00 AM Mr. Brown
so then you ask “is that just lucky?”
9:00 AM Mr. Blue
yes
what else would it be besides chance?
9:02 AM Mr. Silver
Cheating...
9:03 AM Mr. Blue
i mean, there's lots of cases of airplane crashes with only 1  survivor
is that god?
9:04 AM Mr. Brown
i would say yes
not done with the game yet for that person
9:05 AM Mr. Blue
it's just chance
usually the single survivors of plane crashes are crew or children
flight attendants not finished with the game?
9:08 AM Mr. Brown
to you their game might seem stupid
but that is just part of your game
lol
9:20 AM Mr. Blue
(Pasted tale of four survivors of a Japanese plane crash)
not god, chance
9:24 AM Mr. Silver
Well, not God, no.  Not as I see it
9:28 AM Mr. Silver
Though I come from a quirky POV.
Not sure how many other animists either of you know
9:12 AM Mr. Silver
Farewell to Shadowlands
9:34 AM Mr. Silver
"Farewell to Shadowlands" is chapter from CS Lewis's "The Last Battle"...a book to legitimately make me cry when I first read it as a kid and feel bad several times after.
Just after the final destruction and end of Narnia
9:50 AM Mr. Silver
Where Aslan explained why. after leaving Narnia, it looked like they were still in Narnia but a better version
9:53 AM Mr. Silver
It was because Narnia was merely a shadow of where they currently were...the world that had ended was not “real”.
10:15 AM Mr. Silver
But
Then He followed up by saying "This one isn't real either."
"Real one's over there...follow me."
10:20 AM Mr. Silver
The wink, of course, being that the book was just a shadow too
10:22 AM Mr. Blue
i see
10:32 AM Mr. Silver
While that notion didn't really contribute to my current universe a lot, it does mesh nicely




10:42 AM Mr. Brown
nice customer name
Yasuhiko Yamada
10:42 AM Mr. Blue
must be German




10:59 AM Mr. Blue
this lady puts her nephew on the phone because he's "good with computers", but he's also functionally illiterate
11:05 AM Mr. Silver
Good with a mouse and pictures
11:07 AM Mr. Blue
literally a buffoon
pronounced "CE" and "USB" phonetically
"chi" and "ussb"
11:08 AM Mr. Brown
lol
ass
lol
keep giving him different ones that actually spell something
lol
i wonder how he will pronounce CPU
chpoo
spoo
11:10 AM Mr. Blue
heheh




Evolution Explained

11:27 AM Mr. Brown
so God said this is boring. Get rid of these dinosaurs. Ahh! Let's add this -- more fun.
11:27 AM Mr. Silver
It was a long time ago...all kids like dinosaurs.
200 million years ago His Parents started hassling Him. 
"Son...when You were an infant, You were all about the germs...what kid isn't loaded with germs?  Then You'd play with bugs and worms and got fascinated with fish...Mom and I understood.  Then You started collecting frogs and amphibians...normal kid stuff...”
Then dinosaurs...We were OK with that...”
But really...150 million years?  Aren't You a little old for that?"
You need a proper pet or something...what about birds?...or some mammals?  Something to take care of and teach You responsibilities."
"But I don't WANNA throw 'em out Dad!"
"Wellllll...keep a couple...jungles, swamps...but most of them go, Son. Your Mom and I have decided it's time."
(God throws tantrum, kicked asteroid hits Earth by mistake)  "No!"
11:38 AM Mr. Silver
And then He moved onto action figures eventually
11:38 AM Mr. Brown
lol
"It's not a doll its an action figure"






Diagrams of Musicians

11:43 AM Mr. Blue
empirical data suggests the accuracy of Thin Lizzy's contention that the boys are indeed back in town.
11:46 AM Mr. Silver
Indeed
However they also contend that when they are cool, they are also red hot.
11:49 AM Mr. Brown
to be cold yet hot.  awesome. 
they are sooooo hot they are cool
11:49 AM Mr. Blue
that'd make a funny Venn Diagram
11:50 AM Mr. Silver
heh
Boys that are back.”  “Boys that are cool.”  meeting at “Boys that are red hot”
11:51 AM Mr. Blue
label the middle as "Thin Lizzy"

11:54 AM Mr. Silver
Diagram of The Thin Lizzy Paradox”
12:02 PM Mr. Blue
or how about a Steve Miller flow chart?
fly like an eagle ----> let your spirit carry you
12:06 PM Mr. Silver
-->till you are free
= Solution
2:39 PM Mr. Blue
How about a bar graph labeled "The Stakes" and "Ted Nugent" both being of equal proportion?
oh man that's gold
2:49 PM Mr. Brown
do you really think Ted never did drugs?
2:49 PM Mr. Blue
who said that
2:49 PM Mr. Brown
Ted
lol
Just like Gene from Kiss
They both say there drug of choice was WOMEN.
2:52 PM Mr. Silver
They took a lot of women...
2:53 PM Mr. Brown
White Buffalo
If Ted saw a real white buffalo he would shoot it skin it and eat it and make seat covers for his jeep
2:56 PM Mr. Blue
that's libelous, sir
2:57 PM Mr. Brown
Unless he stays true to the Native American style of things he does
he may see it as The Great Spirit and let it go
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
The Pretty Good Spirit never gets any notice


2:22 PM Mr. Blue
Q: What night is alright for fighting?  A) Saturday B) Saturday C) Saturday D) Saturday
2:38 PM Mr. Brown
Elton John's night
2:38 PM Mr. Blue
what kinda 'fighting' is Elton John getting involved in anyway?
2:38 PM Mr. Brown
the kind that involves his wardrobe makers
2:39 PM Mr. Blue
hehehe
2:45 PM Mr. Silver
never did listen to the lyrics on that song...perhaps he IS yelling at wardrobe about the number of rhinestones on his shoes...dunno



12:59 PM Mr. Blue
1:04 PM Mr. Blue
this story is straight up awesome
1:25 PM Mr. Silver
The Japanese like it


1:38 PM Mr. Blue
1:35 PM "Anonymous, Jim  There is warm food available in the break room"
i sure hope it's borscht!
1:40 PM Mr. Silver
Oooo....haven't had borscht in ages
"Warm jello...warm icecream...warm orange juice..."
1:41 PM Mr. Blue
"Grilled dilly bars"

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