May 04, 2008
daily UTC chat log for Anywherebb (Postline 6.1.30)

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19:21, Pjwaffle> how do you contact alex?
19:21, Megagun> http://0x44.com/postline/posts.php?t=3916
19:21, Pjwaffle> can you?
19:21, Pjwaffle> ok
19:22, Megagun> You could send him a PM, or use the 'tell us' link on the top of this page.
19:22, Megagun> (and tick off 'admins' and 'moderators' in the 'mail copies to' thing when using the tell us script).
19:22, Pjwaffle> ok
00:15, Tacogeddon has arrived, TREMBLE!
00:15, Raptorjedi laughs and kicks Taco in the shin
00:16, Tacogeddon> Go ahead, I have plenty more shins. :P
00:18, Zjc92> What are you, the boss from Resident Evil 4? :P
00:43, Raptorjedi> Genuine query, where do you get extra shins from?
00:44, Tacogeddon> Shins R' Us. :P
00:45, Raptorjedi> Curious response, where is that located?
00:46, Tacogeddon> Hopefully this Populate-A-Galaxy map will work a bit better: http://i31.tinypic.com/2d80y2c.jpg
00:46, Tacogeddon> You should have a look at Starbits, clever little program. :P
00:47, Tacogeddon> Also RJ, are you speaking like an Elcor? :P
00:47, Raptorjedi> Yes, yes I am :P
00:48, Raptorjedi> Wait wait
00:48, Raptorjedi> Stating the obvious, yes, yes I am human.
00:49, Tacogeddon> This one finds your manner of speech curious.
00:49, Raptorjedi> This one is spreading the word of the Enkindlers.
00:50, Raptorjedi> The Elcor and the Hanar are my two favorite races.
00:51, Raptorjedi> After the Krogan anyway
00:51, Tacogeddon> I like the Hanar, I felt they were the most unique.
00:52, Tacogeddon> It's always nice to see some non-humanoid species in sci-fi. :P
00:53, Raptorjedi> I wish there were more Quarians in the game. And what the hell do the Volus look like?! :P
00:54, Tacogeddon> Oh also, you should try the free TF2 weekend. :P
00:55, Raptorjedi> The what?
00:56, Tacogeddon> Team Fortress 2 on steam, free weekend. :V
00:56, Raptorjedi> Only on Steam?
00:56, Tacogeddon> Yeah.
00:57, Raptorjedi> Bah
00:57, Tacogeddon> Mostly so you can be yet another target for my baseball bat of fury!
00:57, Raptorjedi> I kinda wanted a game to use over Live, if only for two days.
00:58, Tacogeddon> I sort of imagine TF2 as being one of those games that I would suck at horribly with a controller. :P
00:58, Raptorjedi> It has also just come to my attention that there wasn't a single female Salarian in Mass Effect.
00:59, Tacogeddon> Yeah, they are kept on their homeworld, I think the females have a much lower birthrate in their species.
00:59, Raptorjedi> Well from what I read in the Codex, it's done by choice.
01:00, Raptorjedi> Only fertalized eggs become females, and I think some 90% of laid eggs are to be left unfertalized, producing males.
01:01, Raptorjedi> So it isn't a biological thing, there is a social reason for it.
01:01, Tacogeddon> On a random note, Warhammer 40k has a new ruelbook coming, damn getting used to new stuff. :V
01:01, Tacogeddon meant: rulebook
01:02, Raptorjedi> Slight annoyance, I don't like Warhammer, if only because there is no one to play with around here.
01:03, Tacogeddon> Well there is a nearby shop here, so there are always some Humies to krump. >:P
01:05, Raptorjedi> General statement, There is one here too. I would just do better to play against people I know.
01:06, Tacogeddon> I see what you mean, but there is a certain bit of fun to be had destroying yet another new player to go Space Marines!
01:07, Raptorjedi> Suggestion, I think everyone on the internet should talk like the Elcor. It would make things easier with knowing what peoples feelings are. Especially with sarcasm.
01:08, Tacogeddon> Since Elcor pheromones don't translate over the internet. :V
01:10, Raptorjedi> Frustration, I have a hard time telling when people are joking/being sarcastic without a :P or something attached.
01:10, Tacogeddon starts making an avian species for Populate-a-galaxy.
01:11, Tacogeddon> You don't see many avian races in sci-fi. :P
01:11, Duskesko murders Raptorjedi.
01:11, Duskesko> Gosh, I hope you understood my intention without me stating it.
01:12, Raptorjedi> Surprised query, Human, why do you wish to murder me?
01:14, Duskesko> general annoyance from your general direction
01:14, Duskesko> hah, "HAND ME that autohack" ahah ahahah
01:15, Raptorjedi> Apathy, sorry that I annoy you. :P
01:15, Duskesko blows himself away.
01:16, Raptorjedi stops, though talking like an Elcor is fun.
01:24, Raptorjedi> And Taco, avian races are fairly common. Maybe you just don't know where to look :P
01:25, Tacogeddon> The only one I can immediatly think of is the Shashay from Star Wars. :P
01:26, Raptorjedi> Xindi-Avians from Star Trek, though those are extinct, there was an avian species in the Rama series.
01:28, Raptorjedi> The Turians are avian in nature, despite being humanoid in shape.
01:29, Tacogeddon> Star Wars has one sentient unicellular race I can't remember the name of...
01:32, Raptorjedi> The Ugor?
01:32, Tacogeddon> Yeah! That's it!
01:33, Raptorjedi> Wookipedia to the rescue :P
01:36, Tacogeddon> The Filar-Nitzan are also neat. :P
01:37, Raptorjedi> I think the Uplift novels have a few avian races as well.
01:38, Tacogeddon> Oh, and who could forget the Pkunk? :P
01:40, Raptorjedi> And the Yehat too, but it depends on how you define Avian. If you mean they have wings, then they fit (The Pkunk technically aren't birds either :P), but if you mean feathered, birdlike animals then they wouldn't be.
01:41, Tacogeddon> The Yehat seem similar to Pterosaurs.
01:42, Raptorjedi> Yeah, but the Pkunk are an offshoot of the Yehat. So unless they genetically engineered themselves they would be Pterosaurian as well.
01:45, Raptorjedi> http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Avian_and_airborne_sentient_specie s List of all flying species in Star Wars.
01:46, Tacogeddon ponders how multi-systems should be marked in Populate-A-Galaxy.
01:46, Raptorjedi> http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Besalisk Interesting, I thought they were reptiles, not avian.
01:46, Tacogeddon> The starfield generator already placed some stars in close proximity, so if you want a binary system, you could pick one that exists on the map.
01:51, Tacogeddon> I kind of like how the generator made some belts and other patterns. :P
02:05, Raptorjedi> Things like this Populate-A-Galaxy really bring out my creativity.
02:08, Tacogeddon> Same here, when Spore comes around, the creature editor will let me bring some of them to life, since I have zero drawing skill. :P
02:10, Tacogeddon> You did quite an extensive job with the Epheox back on Star Empires. :P
02:11, Raptorjedi> I know
02:12, Tacogeddon> Too bad about that game, I liked my Yurxum species.
02:13, Raptorjedi> I'm doing it again too with the race I'm thinking up now. Not as extensive, but I plan on doing a group of species living in that big cluster of stars on the left side of the map.
02:13, Raptorjedi> The one that looks a bit like a triangle shape.
02:14, Tacogeddon> Hmm, is it far from Odegimar?
02:16, Raptorjedi> Hold on :P
02:17, Tacogeddon> The lower left corner has quite a few belt constellations.
02:18, Raptorjedi> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v459/RaptorJedi/2d80y2c.jpg?t=1209867509 That group of stars there.
02:20, Tacogeddon> Ahh I see, I somewhat intended the light blue stars to be pulsars, but you can use them however you like. :P
02:20, Raptorjedi> Which ones are the light blue stars?
02:21, Tacogeddon> The ones that are X-shaped sparkles.
02:21, Raptorjedi> Oh, well there are only six of those in that cluster :P
02:22, Tacogeddon> Some of the red stars are very dim, they would make for an interesting system to use.
02:22, Raptorjedi> Most of them are white stars, are they just normal old stars?
02:23, Tacogeddon> White dwarfs I suppose.
02:23, Raptorjedi thinks you should create a legend of star types.
02:23, Tacogeddon> And for the sake of future threads: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a96/EvilDunsparce/gal34.jpg?t=1209867794 :V
02:24, Raptorjedi> So the map we are using is only a small part of the whole galaxy?
02:24, Tacogeddon> Yup!
02:25, Tacogeddon> Starbits made the galaxy as well, pretty handy.
02:25, Raptorjedi> Anyway, make a legend so we know what stars are what type.
02:25, Tacogeddon> TO THE PAINT MOBILE! :P
02:27, Raptorjedi> Beep! Beep!
02:36, Duskesko> Quack! Quack!
02:36, Cryoburner> Slosh! Slosh!
02:37, Chad> Hulu.com rocks.
02:37, Zjc92> WHOOP! WHOOP!
02:40, Cryoburner> Heh... http://www.hulu.com/watch/18928/late-night-with-conan-obrien-more-grand-th eft-auto-iv-5208
02:42, Tacogeddon> http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a96/EvilDunsparce/?action=view¤t=St archart.jpg How's this RJ? :P
02:43, Raptorjedi> Good
02:43, Tacogeddon goes to slap it onto the thread.
02:43, Raptorjedi> Though I've spotted some brown stars too :P
02:44, Duskesko> those are sharts
02:44, Tacogeddon> Really? They may just be dim Red stars, since I pre-made four star types to be generated. :P
02:49, Raptorjedi> The cluster I marked has one that looks brown.
02:49, Tacogeddon> The one I used in the legend is nearly brown.
02:54, Raptorjedi> There are a lot of white dwarves
02:55, Raptorjedi changes his cluster choice, so don't go making anything final.
02:56, Tacogeddon> If you look far above Odegimar, there is a yellow star right "on top" of a red giant, I think I'll use it for a binary system. :P
03:28, Chad> Fancy
03:38, Duskesko> shmancy
04:06, Tacogeddon> /has created a gelatinous species!
04:06, Tacogeddon forgot the me! :V
04:06, Chad> Yay for me!
04:09, Tacogeddon goes to update the map for his next species.
04:14, Chad> MUST GET! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVQ_BXZOHw
04:20, Chad> I need $3,000 now! :P
04:27, Zjc92> Wow. :O
04:27, Raptorjedi> Excitement, I need to get that.
04:28, Zjc92> I wonder if it ONLY supports iPod as a dock, or some other MP3 players.
04:29, Raptorjedi> I'm more interested in using it to play my Xbox 360 on.
04:29, Zjc92> Very true.
04:30, Zjc92 whispers: I almost forgot you had a 360, HOW FOOLISH OF ME. :P
04:30, Zjc92> CONSIDERING YOU SEEM PROUD OF IT. :P
04:30, Zjc92> Read: Near obsessed. :P
04:31, Raptorjedi> Well let's see. I have a next gen console, and Mass Effect. I very much love Mass Effect.
04:39, Chad> Doesn't seem Widescreen though....
04:42, Chad> And a lightsaber whould have been a better remote.
04:43, Zjc92> LIGHTSABER! Thank you! I was thinking what would make a better remote. :P
04:45, Chad> Cause the Falcon just doesn't match R2D2... A X-Wing would match better.
04:47, Chad saw Iron Man Friday night, really good. Go see it!
04:51, Zjc92> I thought the teaser trailer ruled.
05:58, Duskesko> You should watch movies instead of just enjoying trailers...
06:04, Zjc92> But they're just so damn AMUSING. :P
06:07, Duskesko> i like watching trailers over and over again
06:43, Duskesko> i hate going to a movie only to realize that the trailer was the good bits
06:48, Lightning4 ponders a race.
06:48, Tacogeddon> Ponder harder man! :P
06:49, Lightning4> Well, I'm thinking of a kinda empire-ish area. Not too big but at least 10-15 stars give or take
06:50, Tacogeddon> There's a neat cluster of yellow stars to the far right of the map.
06:52, Raptorjedi> Claimed that, sorry :P
06:52, Lightning4> The 'C'?
06:52, Lightning4> Because I was eyeing that.
06:52, Lightning4> Damn. :P
06:52, Tacogeddon> Well, there's sort of a belt of Red Giants above that.
06:53, Lightning4> I see a decent amount of yellow stars towards the bottom of the map. Kinda to the right-ish of center
06:53, Lightning4> I think I'll sketch a general territory claim for the map update when I post :P
06:54, Raptorjedi uploads his map
06:54, Tacogeddon> And a moment of silence for the <> :P
06:54, Raptorjedi> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v459/RaptorJedi/2d80y2c-1.jpg?t=12098840 72 Area that I've made my final choice on.
06:55, Lightning4> Thats massive! :P
06:55, Raptorjedi> There are also 13 races living in that area :P
06:55, Lightning4> My empre was going to be like 1/5th that size :P
06:56, Tacogeddon> So you want the whole area, and the individual stars all circled?
06:56, Raptorjedi> And all non-boxed stars are negotiable.
06:56, Lightning4> I'm curious, are the tiny little specks also chooseable stars?
06:57, Lightning4> There's tons of them
06:57, Tacogeddon> I was thinking of that.
06:57, Tacogeddon> I'm not sure. :P
06:57, Raptorjedi> I just outlined it to show the area that the races living there call The Gerian Cluster.
06:59, Raptorjedi> So everything in that outline is called that, but the actual owned systems are the boxed ones.
06:59, Tacogeddon> Neat pick on that double-yellow star there RJ. :P
07:00, Raptorjedi> Yeah, two races are going to live in that system, with two habitable planets orbiting them.
07:00, Raptorjedi> There is actually a double red giant chosen too
07:01, Tacogeddon> Yeah I see that, one is smaller...or maybe just dim.
07:04, Lightning4> Curious. Distance per pixel?
07:04, Tacogeddon> http://i27.tinypic.com/352rwd5.jpg This good? :P
07:05, Raptorjedi> Yeah
07:05, Tacogeddon> In the cluster, it looks like a white star was generated over a red star, looks odd.
07:08, Tacogeddon> I wonder if The Gerian Cluster is far enough from Gakis-Garkis and Odegimar for them not to know about the lifeforms there. :P
07:09, Raptorjedi shrugs
07:09, Raptorjedi> And I have an idea for that red star with the white dot you were talking about :P
07:11, Tacogeddon> It doesn't matter that a couple clusters are a tad large, remember, it's part of a larger galaxy. :P
07:11, Raptorjedi> We can always expand the local map :P
07:12, Tacogeddon> Umm, How about a name for the current cluster?
07:13, Raptorjedi> How about we leave that for now :P Have it be a thing on a species to species basis.
07:13, Raptorjedi> Each species is likely to call teh part of the galaxy they live in something different.
07:14, Zjc92> Holy shit RJ, got enough map space? :P
07:14, Tacogeddon> But remember Z! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a96/EvilDunsparce/gal34.jpg Heh. :P
07:14, Raptorjedi> Yes, yes I do. And I already explained why it's so big :P
07:14, Zjc92> xD
07:15, Raptorjedi> The outline just indicates the name of the whole area, the boxed stars are the only inhabited worlds.
07:15, Zjc92> I know, but still. :P
07:15, Raptorjedi> Plus, 13 different aliens live in that area. :P
07:17, Tacogeddon> Perhaps I could create a more tribal species near the Gerian cluster, and you could mix that into your species descriptions RJ. :P
07:17, Raptorjedi> Well the species in there haven't really explored outside of it.
07:18, Tacogeddon> I could put one of the pulsars in there to use.
07:18, Raptorjedi> The first species I started working on has only been travelling through space for the last 200 years or so.
07:20, Tacogeddon> It would neat to have a very exotic and bizarre species to be a xenobiology mystery to Gerian Cluster species. :P
07:20, Raptorjedi> Do whatever you want, I have no problem with someone else choosing to make something there :P
07:21, Tacogeddon> Yeah, and pulsar species are bound to be interesting. :P
07:24, Raptorjedi> Even if they've been done before... :P
07:25, Tacogeddon> Going for a semi-sentient species now though.
07:26, Lightning4> I think my empire will consist of... seven, maybe eight species.
07:42, Tacogeddon is making a plant spore species.
07:50, Hikayu> hello!
07:50, Hikayu> >_>
07:50, Hikayu> bye!
07:51, Raptorjedi> hi
07:55, Duskesko> damn he never stays long
08:01, Tacogeddon> Hmm, ok then, neat little species has been made. :P
08:02, Tacogeddon> I'm going to use the pulsar on the lower part of the Gerian Cluster, to the left corner.
08:26, Tacogeddon> http://i25.tinypic.com/rtn6g3.jpg Here we go. :P
08:31, Zjc92> Lookin' good. :D
08:31, Tacogeddon> Plant spore species and map update are go. :P
08:34, Zjc92> W007. :V
08:35, Zjc92> Hey, so if the stars are divided into three categories...
08:35, Zjc92> What's the red one? :P
08:35, Tacogeddon> Four categories. :P
08:35, Zjc92> OH...Red giant. :V
08:36, Zjc92> I thought that was the title of the legend, not the first category.
08:42, Zjc92> Wow, Twilight is coming along well.
08:51, Zjc92> "People aren’t always say who they are." LOLMYSPACE.
08:52, Zjc92> I THINK MYSPACE IS A PRETTY COOL GUY, EH ATTRACTS TEENS AND DOESN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING.
11:45, Megagun> Note to all the starmap guys: DO NOT USE JPG!
16:01, Raptorjedi> Note to Mega, stop bitching.
16:03, Xenomorph> File formats. Sheesh. Enough, already.
16:10, Tacogeddon> This one greets the Humans.
16:23, Cryoburner> Does that mean we can save them as raw files, and let you guess their dimensions?
16:25, Xenomorph> Nope, BMP. >:)
16:33, Cryoburner> "01:11, Tacogeddon> You don't see many avian races in sci-fi."
16:34, Cryoburner> Don't forget Falco too. He's some sort of bird-like thing.
16:38, Cryoburner> And how about Talkatoo Cockatoo? Does that count? :P *cringes*
16:45, Cryoburner> And there's always Psy-Crow. :)
16:48, Cryoburner> Oh! Oh! Chocobos!
16:50, Cryoburner> Chocobos all over the place!
17:51, Deanfrz> thats cuz they were supposed to go to sleep with the dinosaurs, but bird jesus rose from the dead and built an arc with two of everytype of bird.
18:14, Deanfrz> and you know how sci-fi hates religion
18:28, Tom> I just realized - L. Ron Hubbard. His "religion" loved sci-fi.
19:45, Deanfrz> Remember the Epsilon nutjobs from GTA SA? Same core belief: Youre getting lied to, my lies are better.
20:45, Magnulus> Let's also not forget Quark Nodgers!
20:46, Magnulus> In the avian alien camp, that is.
20:50, Buuks> Fot those who don't know a thing about Quark: http://anywherebb.com/postline/cd/jpgs/LZWeczNfeIt3yg6eGDh0t7RgfSghA8P3.jp g
20:50, Buuks whispers: And when will BS be finished. :P
21:07, Fth> Shhh, that's a touchy subject
21:20, Tacogeddon> Greetings creatures of minimal sentience!
21:21, Raptorjedi> Delighted, It is nice to see you, Human.
21:21, Tacogeddon> Hello to you as well Earth Clan. :P
21:23, Raptorjedi> This one wonders if you would like to hear about The Enkindlers.
21:24, Tacogeddon> Shut it squishy!
21:25, Raptorjedi> heh
21:27, Tacogeddon> Almost like alien Jehovah's Witnesses. :P
21:28, Raptorjedi> I dunno, I didn't find him annoying.
21:29, Raptorjedi> I thought he was polite, and I helped him with his problem.
21:29, Tacogeddon> At least he didn't give you a pamphlet. :P
21:34, Raptorjedi> Their religion seems to have some basis in truth. It's likely that the Protheans had some hand in their creation.
21:35, Tacogeddon> Or maybe they just uplifted them.
21:35, Raptorjedi> Which is the same as saying they had a hand in their creation :P
21:36, Tacogeddon> Well by creation, I thought of the species being made and not evolving. :P
21:37, Zjc92> ...I must be missing something. :P
21:38, Raptorjedi> You are Zjc92
21:39, Zjc92> WELL FINE I'LL JUST SHUT UP. :P
21:40, Tacogeddon ponders more species for the galaxy.
21:40, Raptorjedi> Or we could, whichever :P
21:45, Zjc92> RJ, have you submitted a single species yet? :P
21:45, Zjc92> To the populate-a-galaxy thread.
21:47, Raptorjedi> No, because I'm still working on them.
21:49, Zjc92> I'm afraid you'll take up whole pages of info on your species. :P
21:54, Raptorjedi> I probably will. :P