April 23, 2008
daily UTC chat log for Anywherebb (Postline 6.1.30)

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09:24, Cryoburner> The C.A.I.N.N doesn't work for me. Of those two choices, The Brey sounds better.
09:26, Cryoburner> I'm not sure if it's menacing though. How about The Menacers? That sounds super menacing.
10:12, Duskesko nods
13:49, Megagun> 05:04, Raptorjedi> Actually, it was a guy and his wifes corpse. He wanted to bury her, but the military said no. Her body could help save lives in the future if they studied it.
13:49, Megagun> Doesn't seem like a too hard choice to make..
15:23, Raptorjedi> Not to you maybe.
17:05, Hello! :) whispers: The not hard choice is killing the "many" lives. The even not harder choice is by making the guy miserable. The not hardest choice is shooting the guy and having them both studied. :P
01:28, Explorer> uh oh I think I spy some Mass Effect chat
01:29, Explorer> I just got a 360 last week, and that game has been eating my free time
01:34, Raptorjedi> Same, I got mine three or four days ago with Mass Effect
01:34, Raptorjedi> I've put in almost 40 hours since.
02:26, Chad> And you wonder why you don't have a girlfriend. :P
02:29, Raptorjedi> Maybe because I'm not out looking for one?
02:30, Raptorjedi> And the places that most people associate with going out and looking for women (bars and such) are mostly frequented by women I'm not interested in?
02:30, Explorer> Oh wow, 40. I only have around 20 in the last couple weeks :(
02:30, Explorer> Of course the whole grad school thing destroys my time
02:30, Raptorjedi> I've been spending time exploring planets.
02:31, Explorer> Exploring planets is really fun.
02:31, Raptorjedi> My favorite discovery is I found some wildlife on an unexplored world, it's an antelope looking thing with two arms.
02:31, Raptorjedi> When I get close, a talk option comes up, but nothing happens.
02:31, Explorer> XD
02:32, Explorer> I only wish the explorable zones were bigger
02:32, Chad> You need to find the language translator thingy. :P
02:32, Raptorjedi> So either I haven't found what's connected with them, or BioWare likes to tease me.
02:32, Cryoburner> Are there invisible walls?
02:32, Explorer> basically
02:32, Chad> Plus you can find women other then bars. Thats for desperate people.
02:32, Raptorjedi> Actually, no. I've not come across any. There is a red zone that you aren't supposed to go out of, but I haven't had anything bad happen from doing it.
02:33, Explorer> really?I assumed it would kill you
02:33, Raptorjedi> Of course, I haven't tried going too far out to see
02:33, Explorer> I haven't tried going out too far either
02:33, Raptorjedi> Yeah, I've driven out there without any problems.
02:33, Explorer> I imagine it's one of the 'soft' barriers like in Battlefield
02:34, Explorer> where if you go too far it just kills you or returns you to the explorable area
02:34, Raptorjedi> Yeah, either that or it just ends abruptly/has an invisible wall somewhere out there.
02:34, Explorer> yeah
02:34, Chad hopes another KOTOR comes out.
02:34, Cryoburner> Not like the ones in Oblivion, where you just bump into them and slide along the invisible forcefield. :P
02:35, Explorer> haha nope.
02:35, Explorer> I get a strong Star Control 2 vibe from Mass Effect,
02:36, Explorer> The diverse and sometime humorous aliens, the exploring of the universe, the 'precursor' race and its ruins...
02:36, Cryoburner whispers: I disabled the walls in my copy of oblivion, which is a lot more pleasant.
02:36, Raptorjedi> I'd have to say my biggest disappointment in Mass Effect so far is that there are interesting planets with awesome descriptions that you can't visit.
02:36, Explorer did too.
02:36, Cryoburner whispers: I have't played that in a while though.
02:36, Explorer> I know. That just kills me. Reading the descriptions is really really cool though.
02:37, Cryoburner> Maybe they'll add them in an expansion?
02:37, Raptorjedi> There's the gas giant with obvious structures below the clouds, too deep to really visit, and the other with moons carved into the shape of an unknown alien species
02:37, Raptorjedi> And that one planet with tombs along the equator.
02:39, Explorer> Yeah, maybe in one of the next games in the trilogy those will be plot areas or explorable
02:39, Raptorjedi> Though they actually followed those descriptions when designing the actual planets, rather than just saying it about them. I landed on a moon around a planet with a massive canyon carved into the side
02:39, Raptorjedi> And when you looked up into the sky, the planet took up most of your view, and the canyon was clearly visible.
02:40, Raptorjedi> So the whole sky was filled with this massive Mars like planet.
02:40, Explorer> neat
02:40, Explorer> I can't wait to open more systems
02:43, Raptorjedi> I wanna get the Bring Down the Sky DLC. I'm trying to convince my parents, but seeing as they have already bought me the Xbox, Mass Effect AND Dead Rising with their tax returns, I'm having a little trouble :P
02:43, Cryoburner> Heh... The downloadable episode "Bring Down the Sky" will be free for users of the PC version.
02:44, Explorer> I didn't even know it had DLC XD
02:44, Explorer> I'm not hooked into Live (yet)
02:45, Raptorjedi> I hooked up right away. I was a little annoyed when part of signing up consisted of using up my free month of Live Gold.
02:45, Raptorjedi> I wanted to save that for when I actually had a game I could play over Live.
02:45, Explorer> :(
02:46, Explorer> Which XBox did you get?
02:47, Raptorjedi> Just the regular one.
02:48, Raptorjedi> The Elite looks nice, but was waaaaaaay more than I could convince my parents to spend. No matter how much stress watching my sisters kids causes me. :P
02:48, Explorer> heh. That's the one I got too
02:50, Explorer> I also got Condemned (the first one), Eternal Sonata, and Katamari
02:50, Explorer> And am looking forward to GTA IV
02:51, Raptorjedi> I am too. My dad is talking about buying it. He's probably more interested in it than I am :P
02:51, Cryoburner> Eternal Sonanta looks pretty.
02:51, Explorer> heh. It just looks amazing.
02:52, Explorer> Yes. Eternal Sonata has very nice art
02:52, Cryoburner> I'll probably wait until the PC GTA IV.
02:52, Explorer> And you play as the famous composer Chopin, which is hilarious and awesome
02:52, Explorer> of course the story is jump out of a window depressing
02:57, Cryoburner> Did you finish it?
02:57, Explorer> haha not yet. No idea if it gets happy
02:58, Explorer> The story starts at the end, and rewinds, and it looks like a pretty sad ending, too... but it may be a false ending.
02:59, Explorer> Although I know Chopin isn't going to make it. History spoiled that one for me XD
03:01, Cryoburner> Perhaps he'll remain in the dream world after dying.
03:04, Explorer> True, hopefully
03:10, Chad feels terrible... Meh...
03:11, Chad> Another Earthworm Jim game, sweet.
03:14, Raptorjedi> I know!
03:15, Chad> And cartoon... and movie... hope those don't suck.
03:19, Chad> Someone buy this for me: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300217494195
03:20, Chad> The World Ends With You looks fun, I'll have to get it.
03:44, Cryoburner> That is one huge laptop.
03:46, Cryoburner> 16 pounds... Not exactly an ultraportable. :P
03:47, Chad> Get a nice work out.
04:15, Chad> Watch out! Your Xbox might cause a house fire. :P
04:16, Raptorjedi> Yeah right.
04:17, Raptorjedi> It sounds to me like an isolated case.
04:17, Chad> Well it might if your stupid enough to keep it in a small enclosure without no air movement.
04:18, Chad> Plus that house looked like crap. Faulty wiring and retarded kids. :P
04:19, Raptorjedi> I keep it on a shelf next to my TV, it's open on all sides and it's also next to a window. I also unplug my power supply while sleeping or if I don't plan on using the Xbox again for a while when I'm done with it :P
04:19, Raptorjedi> Cutting off the power supply messes with the date on my Xbox, but that is fixed when I connect to Live :P
04:20, Chad> You'd think it would have a battery for that. Or something.
04:21, Raptorjedi> Yeah, I thought so too. L4 has had similar problems. Example: He started playing Mass Effect in 2008 and beat it in 2005 :P
04:22, Chad> Awesome. My PS3 has a battery I think, don't really pay much attention to it though.
15:52, Duskesko> Facebook just went 20x evil. It now has a built in chat at the bottom of the browser.
16:04, Zjc92 is offline. <_< >_>
16:33, Chad> All those Social Networks are evil.
16:34, Chad> Nice... A GTAIV torrent already.
16:48, Fth> I actually think I'll be getting that game. Looks fun
16:51, Stargazer> I'm waiting for the announcement of a PC port, myself. ^.^
16:57, Fth> My PC won't run it, I can see that already...
17:00, Stargazer whispers: neither will mine, unless I get a new one by that time.
17:11, Fth> About the only new thing my compy will be able to play is that Love game...
17:27, Fth> http://www.thetaxpayerschannel.org/graphics/creation/fonte23.mov
18:35, Link345> im ordering a new PC today
18:36, Link345> now I might actually be able to play gmod....
20:24, Chad> I wish I was rich... http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/9836/?cpg=71H
20:26, Megagun> heh, someone sent me that link a few hours ago, and I then mentioned it in IRC. :P
20:27, Raptorjedi> That's insane.
20:27, Raptorjedi would never buy that.
20:27, Chad> You know you want it. :P
20:29, Raptorjedi> If I could win one, yeah. But I wouldn't BUY one. :P
20:30, Chad> Of course...
20:30, Xenomorph> All I can say is... the rest of your system had better be worth upwards of £50,000 if you're going to buy one of those...
20:31, Raptorjedi> This feature here is nice "Key sets can be linked to an application, so whenever you open that app the appropriate keys come up" it's like those Zboards, only better.
20:31, Chad> I'd love it for photoshop. And of course games with craxy key commands.
20:34, Raptorjedi> If I won the lottery, I'd buy it, along with an epic computer system to go with it.
20:43, Raptorjedi watches Cloverfield
21:08, Chad> Man... I'm off today. For soem reason I thought it was Thursday...
21:44, Cryoburner> :P "...we figure you'll just expense the Optimus and tout it's "incredible increased efficiency when using PowerPoint hotkeys" in your expense report summary."
21:46, Cryoburner> Is it even that good of a keyboard? It doesn't even look as ergonomic as one you might find for $10.
21:51, Cryoburner waits for Logitech to come out with a $100 equivalent in a couple years.
21:55, Xenomorph> Watch there be an Apple iKey or something in a couple of years.
22:02, Cryoburner> It will feature a single touch panel, in place of all those keys. :P
22:03, Xenomorph> Indeed. Total reconfigurability. Why be tied down to aa particular key layout? :P