8:02 AM Mr. Mauve
You ever look into that forum-based SIM RPG that I mentioned to you?
8:04 AM Mr. Silver
Never happened. Sent it home and it got lost in the pile
8:06 AM Mr. Mauve
Well... it's Simrtk.net
You can actually access and read up on it from here, if you are so inclined...
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
I'm familiar with the setting at least.
8:39 AM Mr. Mauve
Oh?
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Yes
8:42 AM Mr. Mauve
Trivia question: Who was the tactician known as the Sleeping Dragon?
8:42 AM Mr. Pink
Lei Bei?
8:42 AM Mr. Mauve
No
8:42 AM Mr. Pink
Lu Bu
8:42 AM Mr. Mauve
No
8:43 AM Mr. Pink
Zhange Lunge?
8:43 AM Mr. Mauve
Close, but no
8:50 AM Mr. Silver
Don't recall the exact name but it was the one that had Lung (sp?) in his name because it means "dragon"
9:11 AM Mr. Mauve
“Zhuge Liang” was the answer.
9:12 AM Mr. Silver
Liang...Lung...yeah
"Hon hon! Mais oui! 'ee is zee huge lee-ong!"
9:22 AM Mr. Mauve
My character name is Mǎ Zhào 馬垗...He commands much respect.
9:23 AM Mr. Silver
MST3K - "Hehe...they've all got funny Chinese names."
9:24 AM Mr. Mauve
"funny"?
9:25 AM Mr. Silver
They'd make fun of the names in the opening credits of the bad movies
9:26 AM Mr. Mauve
Oh, Mystery Science Theater... wasn't sure of the reference at first
Haven't watched that in ages
8:50 AM Mr. Silver
http://www.google.com/search?q=cardiff+kook&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=T7H&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=CBRJTo2SFYrDgQe1ztieBg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1070&bih=646
ran onto this this morning
The local surfers hate it
The results of the dislike should be apparent
9:37 AM Mr. Brown
Any cool topics? I cannot find anything to read about.
9:42 AM Mr. Silver
Pick a subject.
World's full of marvels
9:45 AM Mr. Brown
We could do stuff on space
9:46 AM Mr. Mauve
How about the prospect of a one world government?
...a single world government
9:48 AM Mr. Silver
Difficult prospect
9:48 AM Mr. Brown
So many points of view within one government
9:50 AM Mr. Silver
Too many language and cultural barriers
And resource disparity
9:51 AM Mr. Mauve
But we're humanity... we're capable of anything!!!
The disagreements and wars are the biggest barriers, I think
10:00 AM Mr. Silver
It would certainly have to be imposed on the world or propagate out through popularity.
"You're now a Grundoonian...don't risk arguing."
or
"Join the Grundoonians...you'd be an idiot not to."
10:01 AM Mr. Mauve
What about communal mind-melding neurological implants? That’s a good way to get us all on the same team.
10:03 AM Mr. Brown
Well that would also get anybody that is religious thinking whomever is making us get the implants is the antichrist
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
Actually, anything attempted would have it's detractors
10:12 AM Mr. Silver
One of my favorite bits from “Life of Brian”. "The People's Front of Judea" writing up their demands and John Cleese exclaiming loudly "What have the Romans ever done for us?!"
And they start listing stuff, get up to about a dozen things and have to admit they were all good.
"But apart from THAT? What have the Romans ever done for us?!"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSELOCMmw4A You're welcome – Mr. Silver)
10:15 AM Mr. Mauve
LOL, nice...
Yeah, religion is completely against a united human race...
In this life at least... and sorry if I’m not real keen on putting off goals to be achieved in the afterlife...
10:18 AM Mr. Mauve
I feel the prospect of a cognitive post-life existence is shaky at best...
10:19 AM Mr. Silver
Whereas I'm a reincarnationist and feel all of this isn't entirely real.
10:21 AM Mr. Mauve
K... then strangle yourself it's not real
10:21 AM Mr. Silver
I'd fail “the mission” if I strangled myself.
10:22 AM Mr. Mauve
But the mission isn't real... so why care?
10:22 AM Mr. Silver
The mission is real, the medium isn't. I'd have to do it again.
It's quitting/cheating.
I don't want a do-over.
10:22 AM Mr. Mauve
Uhh, so who's directing the exercise here, Mr. Silver?
10:23 AM Mr. Silver
Our players
Your “gros bon ange”
(This was an incorrect answer, but I misread the question to ask 'Who controls each of us “down here” in this simulation/school/game?' Incidentally, my view of the nature of the universe developed out of purely mathematical questions and was pretty much fully developed long before I'd read anything about voodoo. However I discovered “gros bon ange” is such a great name and close match for an aspect I already believed in that I lifted it. No, I'm not talking about “The Matrix” either; it's silly. – Mr. Silver)
10:23 AM Mr. Brown
“Evil/good angels”
lol
10:23 AM Mr. Silver
Gros is "big"
Mal would be evil
10:24 AM Mr. Brown
“Jump! Wait don't jump! No jump I’ll catch you! Wait I wasn't ready! Oh crap, lost another one.”
10:24 AM Mr. Silver
?
10:25 AM Mr. Brown
That’s a good/evil angel
lol
10:32 AM Mr. Mauve
Do you think an extraterrestrial threat against humanity would help us work towards a united human defense?
10:34 AM Mr. Silver
Well...there's always the camp that says it's already in progress...so their answer would be no.
If we were vaguely comparable in tech to allow a proper resistance, I'd say yes.
If they were marginally more advanced, I’d say it'd make no difference anyway.
10:35 AM Mr. Brown
Well if everybody knew, everybody would probably come together to fight them.
If it meant we would all die if we did not fight
10:36 AM Mr. Brown
There is always a bad bunch somewhere.
10:38 AM Mr. Silver
Bunch of what?
10:38 AM Mr. Brown
Of people that will rather kill others to escape
So they would not be part of the combined effort
10:44 AM Mr. Mauve
Are you one of those people Mr. Brown?
10:45 AM Mr. Silver
(casts “Detect Alignment”)
10:46 AM Mr. Mauve
Good thinking Mr. Silver...
10:48 AM Mr. Brown
So I’m a cat ?
10:49 AM Mr. Silver
Where did that come from?
10:49 AM Mr. Mauve
I'm so confused by your logic Mr. Brown... or lack thereof
10:49 AM Mr. Brown
Oh! “casts”
I read that too fast
lol
10:50 AM Mr. Mauve
Dear God, Mr. Brown... if you're gonna fail, fail big
10:53 AM Mr. Silver
Strangling yourself would do
There's lots of time in eternity for your soul to get “Mr. Brown” right.
10:55 AM Mr. Brown
I always fail big if I’m going to
Might as well learn big in the process
11:20 AM Mr. Silver
(Post-session review) "Well, the 'Mr. Brown' scenario went roughly as expected. For the written part of the exam, I'd like at least 500 million words on the topic of "Failing Big", with examples from the exercise. You may use audio-visual-psionic clips from the driving portion, if desired, in your arguments."
The spell results are in, Mr. Brown...it says you are "Chaotic Goob"
It's not so bad, I probably am too
11:54 AM Mr. Pink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab_Man
12:00 PM Mr. Silver
What are Moab Man's secret powers?
12:26 PM Mr. Silver
"With my amazing powers, I'll render you unable to ever disprove Creationism or Intelligent Design!"
"Riiiight....Just take a carbon sample off of our 'hero' over there, please."
"BLAST!!! Get away from me with that baggie!"
12:27 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah. I like the whole 'looks like he was there, wait, we carbon dated him and he is not that old'.
12:29 PM Mr. Silver
Not even fossilized
12:57 PM Mr. Brown
http://imgur.com/gallery/TpZy0
Wow cool
12:59 PM Mr. Silver
Nicely done
1:19 PM Mr. Mauve
http://imgur.com/gallery/gx1mY
Genius...
Pure genius...
1:20 PM Mr. Brown
Oh yeah, I saw that earlier
Its awesome
Its the simple things
1:21 PM Mr. Silver
“Step 6 - Itch all F-ing afternoon.”
1:21 PM Mr. Mauve
I don't know. If you get the soap off, you're fine
1:22 PM Mr. Pink
Yeah, that thing is a little flawed, I think
1:22 PM Mr. Silver
I can't see any possibility of success. It's like the Penn & Teller "Lemon Cake" recipe and the “Glowing Mountain Dew”.
It's designed to get suckers to try it out.
1:22 PM Mr. Mauve
I will try it
I will
1:23 PM Mr. Silver
The cake, for instance, is set up so when you add enough vinegar and baking soda that the batter starts boiling over.
1:26 PM Mr. Mauve
Well, you're just stupid if you don't figure that out in advance...
What's the glowing Mountain Dew one?
1:27 PM Mr. Silver
Using a glow stick on camera to make it look like it's glowing (looks very good), but the “formula” given will actually make a geyser in a dark room.
1:30 PM Mr. Mauve
Glow stick reacts with pop that way?... seriously?... I kinda want to try it outside to see this.
1:42 PM Mr. Brown
I tried the Mentos and Coke thing before
But I used my mouth
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