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to you

I wrote an executive summary of Colubrine Sector’s current thread, which I made in case I ever accidentally leak the contents of the thread & have to explain the thread in a hurry. In addition to that, I wrote a poem-ish writing that follows a unique, agenda-shaped format.

Today, I used Shazam on the same song TEN times, and got different results every time. Similar things happened with other songs.

My holiday vacation ended yesterday. In other news, here’s something that happened in Colubrine Sector during yesterday’s road trip:

: *Autoclave by The Mountain Goats* “This is what's currently playing. The name makes it sound like Colubrine Sector might like it.”

: “Hmmm . . . the lyrics do seem interesting.”

(silence)

: "In Which The Autoclave Stops Working."

: “. . . what?”

: “Huh? What does that mean?”

: “The mention of an autoclave reminded me of the thread that Landon really likes. I got the idea to use that as a chapter name.”

I think that something I made this morning created a new Colubrine Sector thread and damaged the prominence of my preferred thread. Oops.

However, do have some intended changes and expansions for Colubrine Sector coming up sometime. I have created four separate personifications to represent the four aspects involved in the process of daydreaming: inspiration, unconscious filtering, conscious filtering and creation. I have designed four characters to represent these aspects. I’ll get back when I decide whether or not to keep a typo that I made in one of the character’s name.

Shower thought: is getting data collectors off your tail as easy as asking them to erase your data under GDPR? I opened the Wikipedia article on GDPR, and here are some extra thoughts that came with it:

• One of the listed lawful purposes for processing personal data is “If the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data“. You probably didn’t consent to being tracked.

• “A data controller may not refuse service to users who decline consent to processing that is not strictly necessary in order to use the service.” What if I asked to get out of the service altogether?

• “A data controller must provide, upon request, an overview of the categories of data that are being processed as well as a copy of the actual data; furthermore, the data controller has to inform the data subject on details about the processing, such as the purposes of the processing, with whom the data is shared, and how it acquired the data.” The companies must have prepared arguments against GDPR if this is in here.

• “Article 21 of the GDPR allows an individual to object to processing personal information for marketing or non-service related purposes. This means the data controller must allow an individual the right to stop or prevent controller from processing their personal data.” Yes, this is what I was looking for!

Hypothetical rules for B4CB:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?abd9abdef17a198d8d1cae05db50569b.svg

• You start with one large central outpost with 1000 troops.

• Every turn, you select one outpost to build another outpost. The building outpost must have at least 10 troops in it, which will be transferred to the new outpost when it is built.

• You can choose to build a larger outpost with a bigger land claim. This will require 100 troops from the building outpost.

• Outposts can be built anywhere on a landmass that has another outpost on it, as long as the path to the new outpost does not pass through the territory of an enemy outpost. Outposts can also be built anywhere in the building outpost’s territory, even across water or in enemy territory.

• Alternatively, instead of building an outpost, you can attack an enemy outpost. The enemy outpost must be on the same continent as one of your outposts or be within the territory of one of your outposts. If you send more troops into battle than there are at the enemy outpost, the outpost is yours, all the enemy troops are killed and the troops you sent to battle the outpost stay at it.

• Troops can be transferred between outposts as a free action. Transferring follows the same range rules as outpost building and fighting. Troops must be transferred through one outpost at a time, but in any quantity.

• When a central outpost is destroyed, all of that player’s outposts are removed. Last player standing wins.

I came up with an idea for something science-fiction-y, but to put the science in it, I need the books written by Randall Munroe that I left on the other side of the state. ⧴(

I finished vectorizing the map. Here’s the finished product:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?21318fc75d86af0ad96579e391c90cca.svg

Given that I have the space to mention it, I was listening to the PinOut OST while making this. It’s a very nice electronic-synthwave discography that I would recommend listening to. https://douglasholmquist.bandcamp.com/album/pinout-original-soundtrack

While taking a look at b4us, I remembered this map that I made. Given all the tightly and loosely clustered islands, it could be turned into another b4country game. I’m going to expand the map and see what I get.

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?4313f3f46c2f32b2ae7dca4e3cd8b106.png

EDIT: My iPad (Air 2) is taking a long time to recover, so I’m going to convert the map to vector so I can keep developing it in case it doesn’t recharge.

<< NEURAL_FRONTEND.EVALUATE : "convert this list into a JSON file, with
values 'name', 'code' and 'origin' for each list item", <JSON>, NOTES/
LABORIOUS_WRITINGS/COLUBRINE_REGISTRY

Running neural model . . .
Finished generating. (14s) Logged as evaluation #73.

<< NEURAL_FRONTEND.EVALUATIONS[73].FOR{X.CODE}
-=-=-=-
[
  "BW-262", "K-624", "BW-442", "G-469", "B-469", "O-469", "LA-932",
  "DA-433", "DA-464", "DA-766", "DA-462", "B-227", "W-227", "B-772",
  "P-569", "F-249", "G-777", "F-466", "P-633", "P-572", "Y-572",
  "R-572", "LA-572", "F-572", "K-572", "MA-572", "R-372", "F-226",
  "O-872", "F-268", "K-297", "K-372", "K-347", "BW-238", "W-883",
  "P-629", "O-696", "O-649", "B-739", "G-739", "O-739", "C-739"
  "B-739", "K-337", "F-283"
]

While taking my bath, I got the terrible idea to write a list of every dragon-like creature that has passed through or been created in my brain. The registry adds up to 45 entries - and those are just the ones I can remember without straining my brain to fish up faint and distant memories.

I decided to try writing in first person, and I ended up with a writing named The Pleasure of Winter Warmth. It is much shorter than my other writings, but only because it’s missing the frequent line breaks that my third person writings have. It focuses on the main character’s emotional attachment to sunlight, before deviating from the main concept in an acceptable manner. It adds up to 732 words and 12 paragraphs.

I found a remnant of an ARG. No part of me can resist decoding some Morse Code. Since I’m feeling bored, here’s something that you can try to decode:

'v9=xwyG3a_82)|84>'94ahF*(yD6$qD2)"Dxvy`5rq_2v&84bq9*a&8*)yG5(d<xv`=xv+=+(IKxw}Gxv#94>DFxt<8*auFxv9=*)x8*ah`3?#D+)}Kxw}G5(d<4JqA3:q_2v&8*(=J{rq:5)"8$$q<3ac?5rq>+('DxvIA2a&85v9=6$5J+$q_2v'J+$c8$$q;*(c8+>'=3rq_2v&83('_*(H8*>'F+(u_2rqE6$q>+('_{rq:5)"82)"82?'K5rq<3a'K3:5_xv+=+(H84>'93rc8$$qC3>hbxw#@*)"83)<84a'F4a&83a*84a`=3vH82)|82(d_*(}_{rq:5)"82)"8+vh=4ac?5rq>+('DxvIA2a&82)"82)|Fr8Ay5r5Kxwu`2('_{:q&3ag84)'A+)"F

And here’s a hint on how to decode it:

Guerer ner gjb ynlref gb guvf rapelcgvba fpurzr. Gur svefg ynlre vf Onfr64. Gur frpbaq ynlre vf n fyvtugyl zber irefngvyr (47) inevnag bs gur fpurzr hfrq gb rapbqr guvf uvag. Vs lbh qrpbqr vg cebcreyl, lbh'yy trg gur bcravat cnentencu bs bar bs zl fubegre jevgvatf.

I finished the writing that I mentioned earlier. It deviated from the form that I originally intended, but it kept most of the main story elements. It adds up to 1,611 words, 9,189 characters, 45 paragraphs and 5 pages.

Yesterday, I came up with an idea for a writing, but I’m starting to have second thoughts about it. The writing idea is a sort of first-hand perspective on what it feels like to be a fly on the wall while other people are arguing.

(COLUBRINE_GENERATOR) << .ACTIVESESSION.END
Generation session 30.7.26.12.23 ended.

After taking a nap and running Colubrine Sector for about an hour, I feel like the thread that it’s creating content for is starting to run dry. The possible causes that I can think of include that I’m running out of content to fuel it, I’m not using my imagination effectively enough, unwanted concepts from past threads are getting in the way, or I’m failing to use imagination-fueling resources that I have on hand.

I did manage to score a smaller victory, though, by sorting out a small issue with the thread that had been bugging me since day one.