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12:37:30
Pincers
minty: Was thinking about buying tarots, but there are so many with varying prices, so I wanted to ask you since I assume you are more versed in the subject.
12:38:46
isoraqathedh
If mahjong sets are any indication, then the instructions are probably 324% useless.
12:39:23
isoraqathedh
(For some reason mahjong sets you can get online always come with an instruction booklet for a variant no one plays. Sometimes if you're special you get a variant no one has /ever/ played.)
12:40:08
isoraqathedh
And finally there are those that come with American rules, which are completely useless because you need a literal DLC to actually play American.
12:40:26
isoraqathedh
(Except instead of "download", it's "we'll send you the missing half of the rules by post after you pay us".)
12:40:28
minty
the demon tarot takes its art from the dictionnaire infernal written by collin de plancy
12:41:01
minty
it's interesting, and i've always gotten good results with it but that's not saying much since tarot cards are just a tool you interpret how you want ultimately
12:41:31
isoraqathedh
I know someone who wrote a guide about how she uses Tarot cards to do personal introspection (divination but without the mystical bits).
12:42:33
minty
yeah, that's all tarot is anyway. it's just digging at what YOU ultimately think the answer is since you interpret it your own way
12:42:52
Pincers
Could be fun. Since I'm stuck at home I might as well learn how to read cards for the family.
12:44:12
minty
the book of thoth and the thoth tarot are interesting as hell because crowley was DEEEEEEEP into reading all sorts of stuff. and reading the book of thoth you see why he added stuff and why he put what where on what cards
12:44:29
isoraqathedh
Actually, it's not a cover, it's a title page (I just learnt the difference between the two.)
12:54:36
shinmera
suntmc: I have tested with hexchat (that's what you were using yeah?) and my latest server patches should make it work again, but I haven't updated the live instance yet.
12:55:55
shinmera
suntmc: the IRC bridge should work for most things, but won't have stuff like edits, reactions, images, etc. No way to make that work through IRC, unfortunately.
12:57:35
minty
no problem i have like 5 tarot card decks and i've had over 10 in the past i'm a giant dork
13:23:20
minty
i haven't given up hope either. i got a new notebook that's not falling apart for the code book
13:24:50
minty
at this point i just think that grad school and work is a continuous cycle of saying "maybe things will let up next week" over and over again
13:28:26
isoraqathedh
herperty derp, that means I have to rsync or sshfs over a file before I can send it over.
14:19:01
shinmera
Also please use the discord channel. It's better when other people see activity in there. It'll remind them to test, too, and in general it's nice to see more people chatting.
14:24:54
gingerale
I know. It's one of those things in the large pile that I'm painfully aware of that I should be doing.
14:51:06
minty
oh wow... patients coughing up blood with tuberculosis could be caused by strong emotion/stress
14:51:22
minty
so, if one person in a sanatorium started coughing up blood it could trigger the others to do so
15:18:46
minty
AAAHAHAHAHAHA "The link between disease and drink was given compelling statistical support by the French doctor Jacques Bertillon, who demonstrated that tuberculosis was an occupational hazard of publicans and mailmen, who were both known to drink to 'saturation.'
15:24:18
isoraqathedh
I just got /two/ idiots running the "your Steam account was reported and will be suspended soon" scam.
15:34:36
minty
oh man... the 'white plague' of tuberculosis was interpreted literally... it is "a disease of the master race and not of the slave race - it is the bane of the master race of men, known by an active haematosis, by the brain receiving a larger quantity of aerated blood than it is entitled to"
15:44:08
isoraqathedh
I blatantly lied to one of them denying that account was mine, and then I told the other that I'm fresh out of gift cards and he should eat a cubic light year of ham before he comes back to me.
15:45:54
isoraqathedh
He told me to add some other scammer on Steam. I told him I accidentally took the superlogarithm of him instead, so he's now a number and I can't contact a number.
15:46:30
isoraqathedh
(I should probably play dumb and say that I don't know how to "add" humans together instead and throw a type error.)
16:41:44
isoraqathedh
Though to be fair an initial and one of the most used surnames in the world isn't very dox.
18:45:29
minty
in 1914 the National Tuberculosis Association produced a film, The Temple of Moloch, that explained tuberculosis
18:46:12
minty
"It did so in the form of an instructional melodrama recounting the misfortunes of a pottery worker and his family whose impoverished environment and failure to heed medical advice doomed them to become human sacrifice to the fearful god Moloch"
18:55:03
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4... Website (HTML), Title: You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? - YouTube
18:55:03
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4... Website (HTML), Title: You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? - YouTube
18:56:43
minty
fucking city carriers sometimes tell newer carriers to carry "wide mouth empty gatorade bottles"
18:57:02
minty
so it's not really a question of unions so much as a lording over the ability to use the goddamn bathroom situation
19:00:02
minty
i had to go carry mail in the city once and when i went to try and use the bathroom once and it was bullshit cuz they wouldn't let me. i had a postal badge on. "sorry, employees only"
20:09:08
gingerale
shinmera: I started looking into verlet integrated physics again. Hopefully figure out what was wrong. How did I draw basic shapes like circles and rectangles in Trial again?
20:12:09
gingerale
I just made the most basic little toy in C++/Qt to make sure I have the basic grasp. It works but it's just a box.
20:25:10
minty
the thing i used to use to download all my youtube sounds from doesn't allow mp3'ing of youtubes anymore
20:26:23
Colleen
gitea.tymoon.eu/shinmera/st... Website (HTML), Title: shinmera/stream: Stream files like emotes, clips, slides, etc. - stream - TyNET Gitea
20:26:24
Colleen
gitea.tymoon.eu/shinmera/st... Website (HTML), Title: shinmera/stream: Stream files like emotes, clips, slides, etc. - stream - TyNET Gitea
20:29:36
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVN... Website (HTML), Title: Glitches and Tricks in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - YouTube
20:29:36
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVN... Website (HTML), Title: Glitches and Tricks in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - YouTube
20:46:58
gingerale
Thinking about the physics stuff for Trial, the big problem I have always had before was that I tried to make too many things work from the start.
20:47:24
gingerale
I always tried to have collision detection and handling between entities from the first version.
20:51:24
shinmera
once you got that you can move on to intersection tests, and then to collision response.
21:04:35
shinmera
iirc nvidia's current implementation does rigids as well, but it's really strong for dynamics