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Icelandic Waters #1: “YOLO!”
Icelandic Waters #2: “. . . and you're throwing away your one chance to live? That's not what ‘YOLO’ is supposed to mean….”
Icelandic Waters #1: “. . ?”
Icelandic Waters #1: “Hmmm . . . this is, more or less, what happened the last time I did funny business with black holes. Figures!”
Icelandic Water Dragon: *casually reading a news article about unusual spells in Dungeons and Dragons*
Icelandic Waters: “Y’know what would really take the stress out of making a D&D character sheet, what with writing a personality and backstory, tweaking their EVs, describing their appearance and making a balanced ability set? Pulling all that data - and I mean allllllll of it - from a system that has readily and extensively catalogued that data.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: “. . . I wasn’t planning on doing a D&D campaign anytime soon, but, sure, I’ll go along with that idea.“
() >> ES.connect(<7653666-272387>)
Connecting...
External data service <7653666-272387> connected.
() >> #ES.sessions.last!
(*) >> for (await {*.party}.filter {i in i.dex == 6}) {x in
FSB.push(x.fullSummary);
}
Awaiting response (.party)...
FSB hidden due to length. Open edit history to view.Icelandic Water Dragon: “Do you think it’s a good idea to be openly sharing those ID numbers?”
Icelandic Waters: “Ehh, it’s probably no different from codes on dollar bills. Besides, they match, meaning that they actually correspond to you.“
People are playing Silksong and flying around in giant Nokia phones, while I'm still waiting for No Man's Sky’s Voyagers patch to get released on the Switch…
Icelandic Waters #1: “It’s soooooo hot here. When you-know-what eventually happens, we need to move to somewhere more temperate. It’s clear that even Stantler stuff couldn’t save me in this weather. And to make matters worse, the rest of the house smells like hot, day-old cinnamon rolls.”
Icelandic Waters #2: “So, global warming started when we dug up potential energy in the form of oil and burned it into atmospheric heat, right? By my logic, we could revert the effects of global warming if we could put that heat somewhere else. If only there was a conveniently placed void of energy where we could dump all that waste heat . . . . . AHA!“
Icelandic Waters #3: “No, dumping the Earth’s oceans into the vacuum of space isn’t going to work.”
NO MAN’S SKY UPDATE: A new update and community expedition have been released, featuring a new class of fully bespoke starships that basically function as mini-freighter bases. In addition to being as modular as a freighter, you can pilot them like any other starship, step out of the cockpit and walk around the ship’s interior, carry other Travelers in multiplayer, use an onboard three-feed refiner, and even jump out from orbit - or into deep space.
How come the original Super Mario World on the SNES was rated T for all sorts of things that couldn't possibly fly in such a game, whereas the GBA remake was dialed down to a more acceptable (but still questionable) E10 rating? These must be the ratings from when they first released; surely these games would be E-rated today…
Icelandic Water Dragon: “Unsolicited fact: the Johtonian Sneasel is the only Pokémon not native to Hisui that can be legitimately caught as an alpha. This thing’s gotta be pretty valuable!”
Icelandic Waters #1: “And then Z-A is going to bring a whole new region’s worth of alphas into circulation, and this thing’s value is gonna tank. That sucks.”
Icelandic Waters #2: Speaking of which, how are alpha Pokémon spawns going to work in Z-A? With wild zones the size of your living room, static spawns couldn’t sustainably work, and the 0.2-2% random alpha chance is too little to work with.“
Icelandic Waters #3: “But didn’t we get static alphas confirmed? In the trailers, I remember seeing an alpha Houndoom surrounded by Houndour, similar to the static spawning conventions we saw in LA. That thing is gonna massacre an entire generation of Mabostiff . . . or, in this case, Furfrou.“
If you have any more technical difficulties, I suggest that you ask @PkmnQ to get the cat out of the fridge. They're known to do things to your computer…
My friend’s cat is… special. She’s not the brightest. However, she LOVES her human dad and will do ANYTHING to get his attention. And I mean: anything.
One evening, we’re hanging out, watching TV. Human Dad’s laptop is open, on the coffee table. The cat decides that this! THIS is her chance to get her dad’s attention! So she leaps on the keyboard to sit there and stare at him.
He’s not paying attention, so she moves a little to get into a more comfortable position, and I eventually notice her little kitty butt is actually doing something. Windows are opening on his screen.
I point out that his cat is trying to get his attention, and he immediately peels her off the keyboard. He glances at the screen to make sure she didn’t break anything, before asking her:
Friend: “Wait…did you just update my audio drivers?!”
Cat: “Meow?” *Starts purring.*
Me: “Maybe she’s NOT so stupid after all!”
Friend: “I think I’m going to keep my electronics away from her, just in case she decides to update other things…”
~ The Opposite Of A Cat-astrophic Failure from Not Always Right
added a sound card on the VM and it “works”:
yeah there’s no sound, the xbox recorder thing doesn’t record it for some reason
Icelandic Waters #1: “I think I struck me some more gold, Pa.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: “. . . First of all, why is the Coyland map a partial screenshot? I really wanted to see the part where a stream of molten lava casually gradient-merges with the river. Second, why are the screenshots so high-contrast? (I manually retouched them, but it isn't perfect…)”
Icelandic Waters #2: *sees Mega Pack on the map; frantically tries to make up some dumb joke about Mega Evolution*
Pariki: “‘Die-hard fans adored your hands; they loved your throat and quote-unquote, “you”.’ This is the perfect sentiment to describe what has befallen
<272387>,<837272467>, the<367378-774748>, and now<63276962>. From my perspective, the line is a sentiment that says ‘we don't value you for who you are; we value you for what you are’.”Icelandic Waters #3: “I wonder how move fixation is going to work in Legends Z-A. In Arceus, they increased the move’s power when used consecutively, at the cost of decreasing defense. What if Z-A gave fixated moves a decreased cooldown? That would be awesome. And don't get me started on how useful Quick Attack will become…”
Absol gave us a warning we couldn't ignore.
Icelandic Waters #1: “I fully expect the ol’ ‘Tubers to have an exhaustive analysis of all the fresh gameplay footage ready by the time I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe I'll suffer insomnia again and get to watch the videos as they release. It is a Friday, after all…”
Icelandic Waters #2: “August and September span the annoying, dull twilight zone between summer and winter that we call autumn. And in Florida, it isn't even cold. I could really benefit from moving to a temperate climate where I actually need a sleeping bag to stay warm. Or maybe I could just get a better bedding arrangement . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Waters #1: “I fully expect the ol’ ‘Tubers to have an exhaustive analysis of all the fresh gameplay footage ready by the time I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe I'll suffer insomnia again and get to watch the videos as they release. It is a Friday, after all…”
Icelandic Waters #2: “August and September span the annoying, dull twilight zone between summer and winter that we call autumn. And in Florida, it isn't even cold. I could really benefit from moving to a temperate climate where I actually need a sleeping bag to stay warm. Or maybe I could just get a better bedding arrangement . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: *suffering insomnia*
Icelandic Waters #1: “‘Which legendary Pokémon would serve well as a pirate?’ If you hear anyone try to crack this joke, beat it to the nearest trebuchet. You do not want to know the answer.”
Icelandic Waters #2: “I know that the thermal overload strategy is what I'm supposed to be doing, but . . . it's really uncomfortable. Maybe we should invest in a better bedding solution . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Waters #3: “You can't control chaos with chaos. . . . uhh, no follow-up statement. Just a random thought. The garden is the Serpent’s place, I think.”
Icelandic Waters #4: “I can still smell seasoned meat on my breath. We’ll get there eventually; mark my words. We won't know what hit us, but we'll be glad that it did.”