(club) Beale: Well. (club) Beale: Time for bloody revolution, then? (club) Aikanaro: It's raining at the moment, though. (club) Beale: Hm. (club) Beale: And I haven't made my body armour yet. (club) Vogue: It's no use getting rained on during the first day of your bloody revolution. (club) Beale: It's not nearly so bloody if the rain is washing all the blood away. (club) Vogue: Exactly, you lose the effect. (club) Beale: "The streets will run red with blood!" "And water." "Yes, and water." "Mostly water, in fact." "Shut up." (club) Aikanaro: And tea. (club) Beale: What? Why would we be wasting good tea? (club) Aikanaro: We all have to make sacrifices in these difficult times. (club) Aikanaro: I shall drink only coffee and alcohol until the crisis passes. (club) Beale: I will only be drinking the rest of this bottle of mead next to me until the crisis of not having any more mead passes.
(One) Aikanaro wisps: Sometimes I think I'd like to make an adventure game using that Adventure Game Stuio thing. But it turns out that you need actual skills. (One) Keita wisps: I can only imagine the main boss in Aikanaro's adventure game. (One) Beale wisps: It would be a hobo you have to stab for a can of beans. (One) Keita wisps: And not even a full can. :(
(One) Ploosk wisps: Which was disappointing, because the entertainment in HaugMUD only really gets going when he starts to get into it (One) Ploosk wisps: Technically, his latest idea was already present (One) Ploosk wisps: It was (One) Ploosk wisps: Oh man (One) Ploosk wisps: It was 'a MUD which only exists in the player's imagination' (One) Siilaan wisps: Is it so terrible you can't even say i... (One) Siilaan wisps: Christ. (One) Ploosk wisps: There was going to be no rooms, no objects, no NPCs (One) Ploosk wisps: People would log on and imagine having fun (One) Ploosk wisps: he was going to advertise it on forums, in cafes, etc (One) Kirk wisps: That's brilliant. (One) Ploosk wisps: I was pretty excited at how hilarious that was going to be (One) Ploosk wisps: He also briefly flirted with the idea of 'Artists MUD' (One) Ploosk wisps: Where artists and critics would go to discuss art. Or something. (One) Beale wisps: A MUD that only exists in the imagination of Haug. (One) Beale wisps: Where you have to log into Haug's brain. (One) Beale wisps: Players can explore the twisted and ephemeral whims of Haug's psyche.
(ConlegiumSicariorum) Mumpfi wisps: and another lecture finished for the master of physical education... if i'm going on like this (and i doubt that) we might have the course up and running in 2 weeks again! (ConlegiumSicariorum) Turvity wisps: Will the course have a practical component? Calisthenics in the courtyard? A cross-city run in school uniform? (ConlegiumSicariorum) Mumpfi wisps: oh yes. (ConlegiumSicariorum) Beale wisps: I do recall there being some sort of assault and battery course. (ConlegiumSicariorum) Mumpfi wisps: but it's rather secret. ... or somesuch. (ConlegiumSicariorum) Turvity wisps: A salt goes in a cellar, not a battery. :( (ConlegiumSicariorum) Beale wisps: Sometimes salt goes in batteries. (ConlegiumSicariorum) Turvity wisps: Are you going to start talking about ionic salts and electrochemistry now? :( (ConlegiumSicariorum) Beale wisps: I could, but I suspect you already know more than I do on the subject.
(One) Beale wisps: What? We're not allowed to punch homeless people now? (One) Beale wisps: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD (One) Aikanaro wisps: It is polit- (One) Aikanaro wisps that he mutters.
(Debates) Tuan wisps: Quantum mechanics. How we will finally discover magic? (Debates) Beale wisps: You mean "sufficiently advanced technology"? (Debates) Tuan wisps that he looks forward to the possibility of tapping the spontaneous generation of zero point energy in the quantum field. (Debates) Aikanaro wisps: I want to be able to pull doves out of my sleeves and conjure the flags of all nations. (Debates) Aikanaro wisps: Until quantum mechanics can manage that I will have to stick with supping at the Devil's teat, though. (Debates) Aikanaro wisps: In exchange for hideous and unknowable powers. (Debates) Beale wisps: How can you use them effectively if you can't know what they are? :/ (Debates) Aikanaro wisps: No, no. I gave him hideous and unknowable powers in exchange for being allowed to sup at his teat. (Debates) Aikanaro wisps: I just like it.
(One) Beale wisps: Oh gods, my brain just threw up the worst idea ever. (One) Aikanaro wisps: Beale is your idea Dogtor Who: A time-travelling dog has adventures? (One) Beale wisps: You seem to be confusing worst with best, Aikanaro. (One) Aikanaro wisps: So I am. :(
(One) Seirou: It's just that if I go to the comics section of any store here, it's 20% manga, 10% horrible things about ponies for stunned 10-year old girls, 30% Donald Duck and its ilk, 30% proper european comics and the rest is superhero stuff... (One) Beale: So, 10% superhero stuff? (One) Grimrak: ooh, someone has a secondary maths education.
(One) Maelin wisps: Worst case is not the key, average case is the key. Dang you computer scientists don't know crap about probability :P (One) Pit wisps: Yes, but for the complexity of your algorithm, you must optimise the worst case complexity. (One) Aikanaro wisps: I have a funny story about probability, Maelin. (One) Maelin wisps: No, you must optimise the average case complexity :P (One) Aikanaro wisps: Imagine you have three boxes, two of which contain goats. (One) Pit wisps: And I'm a mathematician as well as a computer scientist, Maelin. :) (One) Maelin wisps: The average case complexity is the one you expect to get EVERY SINGLE TIME. (One) Aikanaro wisps: The third contains the abstract concept of love. (One) Beale wisps: As morphised as a third goat. (One) Jessie wisps: if you open the box, does it die? (One) Tony wisps: Only if you stab it (One) Aikanaro wisps: If you open the box the abstract concept of love will always be in one of the two boxes you didn't choose, Jessie. (One) Aikanaro wisps: And then you spend the rest of your life regretting your choice. :o( (One) Drakkos wisps that it :-(
(One) Presto wisps: WHY WON'T IT STOP SNOWING???!?!?!?! (One) Beale wisps: It will. (One) Rainstorm wisps: Because the world likes to make us suffer (One) Beale wisps: When you are all dead. (One) Beale wisps that he continues pumping in the snow. (One) Aikanaro wisps that he counters by making a gigantic snowman. (One) Beale wisps: Oh no! My only weakness! (One) Aikanaro wisps that he arms the snowman with nuclear weapons. (One) Beale wisps: Oh no! My only other weakness!