×Tahnan: So I says to him, "That was no lady, that was an aumtlich!"
Jatopian: there's an image
Jatopian: you're infatuated, and all you want to do is gaze into her eyes...
Jatopian: or maybe you're not infatuated, but who could tell?
Tahnan: You have to admit, she's stunning.

×calamarain: I'm experimenting with the Ballmer Peak and seeing whether it applies to DROD

×Jatopian: well... it won't work for the art I had planned, at any rate
Jatopian: apparently, there's no build marker for any kind of gate
Jatopian: (Jatopian said, taking comfort in rhyme)
calamarain: Your rhyming isn't second rate
calamarain: Are my responses starting to grate?
calamarain: Are they making you irate?
Jatopian: I must admit, they irritate
calamarain: Then ignore me now... I'm prepared to wait
calamarain: But my reasons I must state
calamarain: And on specious logic I can't skate.
Jatopian: your reasons, sir? come now, I await
calamarain: Can you handle them on your plate?
Jatopian: on thin rhymes and thinner ice you skate
calamarain: But do poems and ice equate?
Jatopian: by our standards, so I'd postulate

×Jatopian: [12:30]: I don't understand the appeal of Starbucks.
Jatopian: [12:30]: Must be a hipster thing.
Jatopian: [12:30]: Drinking crappy coffee "ironically".
Jatopian: [12:31]: While pretending to be a writer on your Mac.
Panther: [12:33]: I don't understand the froth and the caramel and the soy milk and the whatever else people dump into those concoctions that ultimately aren't coffee anymore.
Jatopian: [12:34]: I don't have a problem with it in principle, although at that point the coffee is just another ingredient.
Jatopian: [12:34]: I can't respect a crappy end product, though.
Pearls: [12:37]: I was cool before it was cool to be cool.
Jatopian: [12:45]: You should post that in the paradox thread, Pearls.
Jatopian: [12:45]: Unless you're too cool for this whole puzzle game forum nonsense.
Pearls: [12:51]: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening, busy going to a private concert of a band you probably haven't heard of.
Pearls: [12:51]: Gosh these jeans are tight.

×Pearls: [18:50]: <slyly takes Jatopian's wallet>
Pearls: [18:57]: <rifles through wallet>
Pearls: [18:57]: What the, JATOPIAN. How many of these do you need, man?
Pearls: [18:57]: I mean, have some restraint.
Pearls: [18:57]: This...this is just disgusting.
Pearls: [18:57]: Do you know where pennies have BEEN?
Pearls: [18:57]: Who even USES those anymore?

×Dischorran: [20:00]: OK, who broke the poll?
Panther: [20:02]: ?
Schik: [20:02]: what the
Tahnan: [20:03]: ?
Tahnan: [20:03]: whoa.
Jatopian: [20:04]: LOL
Jatopian: [20:04]: Schiiiik halp
Schik: [20:05]: The everything has been saved.
Pearls: [20:07]: He saved the everything!
Panther: [20:07]: Schik always saves the everything.
Tahnan: [20:08]: Schik! Aaa-aaah! Saver of the everything!

×Jatopian: [10:54]: *blinks in the morning light*
Pearls: [10:55]: It's ok child <extends hand> the weather is fine.
Pearls: [10:55]: You can come out.
Panther: [10:55]: Hi J. Be careful, the evil day star might burn you.
Jatopian: [10:56]: ok mister
Jatopian: [10:56]: hi miss panther
Panther: [10:56]: Hello, sir.
Jatopian: [10:56]: The evil day star does burn me if I spend too long in its domain.
Panther: [10:57]: Indeed it will.
Jatopian: [10:57]: When it was just a little yellow dwarf, its father said to it
Jatopian: [10:57]: "everything the light touches is yours to burn"
Jatopian: [10:58]: and thus began its reign of terror and skin cancer.

×Dischorran: Are you making an active effort to be a dick or is this just raw talent?

×Panther: [16:34]: You realize that you've now given me an idea to try if and when I ever have enough free time. Homemade shortbread, homemade *real* vanilla (best beans anywhere, no joke) "pudding", real whipped cream, strawberries (because I don't care for bananas).
Panther: [16:34]: Probably some marsala in that vanilla creme stuff. Because I like it....
Panther: [16:35]: I shall call it "not quite Jatopian's strawberry trifle".
Panther: [16:36]: Maybe topped with kiwi slices. Because kiwi goes nicely with strawberries.
Jatopian: [16:37]: I am honored. Also yes it does.

×Panther: [17:53]: It is Cat O-Face:
Panther: [17:54]: :O <- food goes here

×Dischorran: [21:07]: And can we please not have CaravelNet voice chat?
Dischorran: [21:07]: How's that - an easy feature request, for once.
Schik: [21:08]: gimme a sec to code that up, Dischorran.
Schik: [21:08]: Okay, done.
Dischorran: [21:10]: Awesome!

×skell: [14:33]: One of my English teachers had a surname "Sunday".
skell: [14:33]: Her husband worked in some kind of call-center
skell: [14:33]: He once picked up the phone and heard "Good morning John Saturday here" to which he replied "Ben Sunday, how can I help you?" The poor lad instantly disconnected
skell: [14:34]: After few tries yielding the same result he finally believed that the call-center guy indeed is named Sunday

×Pearls: [19:36]: SORRY
Panther: [19:37]: Sorry?
Schik: [19:37]: can't deny it, he's pretty sorry.
Panther: [19:37]: lol
Pearls: [19:38]: The sorriest.
Panther: [19:39]: That's ok. <3 anyway.
Pearls: [19:42]: TOO LATE ALL IS LOST.
Panther: [19:44]: <offers chocolate>
Pearls: [19:47]: This...this is an Easter Bunny.
Pearls: [19:47]: <insulted forever>
Panther: [19:48]: I don't have any Easter Bunnies. :/ Must have gotten reconstituted improperly. <checks transporter settings>
Panther: [19:50]: Nope, looks good over here. Sent you 70% w/caramel and sea salt. Dunno what happened.
Pearls: [19:51]: 70%?
Pearls: [19:51]: WHERE IS MY ILLEGALLY IMPORTED 98%?
Panther: [19:52]: Yes...not dark enough?
Panther: [19:52]: Oh....um....got held up in customs.
Pearls: [19:54]: I'm pretty sure it couldn't even collectively bond as chocolate at that percentage.
Pearls: [19:55]: Magic would have to be involved.
Jatopian: [19:56]: and magic doesn't taste good
Jatopian: [19:56]: that Lucky Charms mascot? he's a lying corporate shill
Pearls: [19:58]: No no, I've had Lucky Charms. IF magic doesn't taste good, he's not lying.
Panther: [20:00]: <wonders how we got from good dark chocolate to Lucky Charms>
Jatopian: [20:00]: Just because magic doesn't taste good doesn't mean that everything that doesn't taste good is magic.
Jatopian: [20:02]: Otherwise maybe some of those "nutritional supplements" my mother falls for might work.
Dischorran: [20:22]: 98% cocoa, 2% acrylic should hold together just fine.
Panther: [20:23]: Acrylic? ick
Panther: [20:24]: I mean...oh, yes, what a good idea, that sounds yummy.

×Jatopian: [20:16]: Pearls I think we may need you to do a letsplay of importing a demo into DROD
Jatopian: [20:16]: because these kids keep not getting it
Jatopian: [20:17]: aka a demo of how to import a demo. SO META
Pearls: [20:17]: I...uh...I can do that.
Schik: [20:18]: i can't figger out how to watch pearls demo of how to import a demo, halp!
Pearls: [20:18]: I'll make a video for that one, too.
Panther: [20:18]: And also, how to connect your game to CaravelNet. I just made an attempt to help, but I'm deathly afraid he's gonna include the trailing space and period at the end of his key and come back to me for more help. :/
Jatopian: [20:19]: Considering that even YouTube commenters can manage to watch a video on there, they probably won't like DROD much if they can't figure it out.
Jatopian: [20:19]: If they buy the game before realizing that they're smart as rocks, well, caveat emptor I guess.

×Dischorran: [20:25]: I didn't bother with ending texts on my entries. Figured the difficulty would make them superfluous.

×Jatopian: [14:17]: *is shot*
Pearls: [14:18]: OH NO JATOPIAN! He had...so many enemies, always trying to kill him at poetically opportune moments. <weeps softly>
Panther: [14:19]: DO NOT MAKE PEARLS CRY! >:(
Panther: [14:20]: Jatopian, get up this instant.
Jatopian: [14:20]: braaaaains
Panther: [14:22]: Better.

×skell: [01:57 PM]: Jatopian you require me to think
skell: [01:57 PM]: My right arm is pretty sore
skell: [01:57 PM]: more blimps will create
skell: [01:57 PM]: erm, blisters
skell: [01:57 PM]: though blimps are not very unlikely
skell: [01:58 PM]: I am tired
skell: [01:58 PM]: I slept <6 hours third time in a row
skell: [01:59 PM]: 8 hours of work
skell: [01:59 PM]: dinner in a mall and shop-walking
skell: [01:59 PM]: and then back home to help future-mother-in-law fiing a cupboard
skell: [01:59 PM]: DIYing it
Jatopian: [01:59 PM]: all I said was what's up D:
Jatopian: [02:00 PM]: poor skell
Jatopian: [02:00 PM]: why aren't you sleeping now?
skell: [02:00 PM]: Awful!
skell: [02:00 PM]: I just got back, I need my daily dose of my laptop's radiation
Jatopian: [02:00 PM]: i think you meant to say recreation
Jatopian: [02:00 PM]: :o
skell: [02:01 PM]: I wanted to fix a couple of bugs
skell: [02:02 PM]: but it's a bit too late
skell: [02:03 PM]: I relax by programming
Seth: [02:04 PM]: I relax by drawing
Seth: [02:04 PM]: So I'm drawing right now
Jatopian: [02:04 PM]: I program by relaxing
Seth: [02:04 PM]: Custom graphics for drod
Jatopian: [02:04 PM]: I put on some sunglasses and smooth jazz, and the code just flows from my hands to my computer without me even moving them.

×Dischorran: [17:28]: Have I complained recently about wanting to be able to control where scripted characters fall in the overall movement order?
Dischorran: [17:29]: Because that would *totally* rock and make DRODscript the most amazing thing ever.
Dischorran: [17:29]: Not sure why that comes to mind just now.
Jatopian: [17:30]: i think you complained of it a few days ago
Dischorran: [17:30]: In fact, I don't think a 4.1 patch would be too soon for it to appear.
Dischorran: [17:30]: Maybe even 4.0.3
Dischorran: [17:31]: Maybe DROD could come with a free (non-cartoon) pony too.
Jatopian: [17:34]: ah, you want a photographed pony?
Jatopian: [17:34]: maybe a gif?
Schik: [17:38]: Never look a gif pony in the mouth

×TFMurphy: [17:40]: So, yeah, taking feedback from the tarstuff slider and recent conversations on other elements over the last day or so, I think we've come up with the perfect new element.
Panther: [17:40]: <is scared>
TFMurphy: [17:40]: Spiderweb. Tarstuff variant that is invisible unless your 2 tiles away.
TFMurphy: [17:41]: s/your/you're
Schik: [17:41]: Hahahaha
Panther: [17:41]: eek <runs away>
TFMurphy: [17:42]: Cuts like tar, grows like gel from Webmothers. Spawns spiders as babies when cut or can't form stable web.
Dischorran: [17:42]: Hmm. Can you see the entire blob once you're close to it or just the part within two tiles?
gamer_extreme_101: [17:44]: Oh dear
gamer_extreme_101: [17:44]: I walked into this chat at a bad time

×Tahnan: [22:57]: what i like about drod is that it's turn-based, so one hand suffices when the other is seized and commandeered by the cat.

×skell: [11:39]: I don't like your idea. It's a good idea and it wasn't me who came up with it
skell: [11:39]: Therefore I don't like it.

×12th Archivist: [12:38]: ... the heck is my own video showing up in my recommend box?
Schik: [12:39]: well they're pretty sure you'll like it
12th Archivist: [12:57]: I loved it.

×Chaco: [13:47]: One of the neat things DROD has taught me
Chaco: [13:48]: is that you can break down a stone wall with your bare hands
Chaco: [13:48]: as long as you do it while crossing a room boundary

×Jatopian: [10:30]: it is well polished
Pearls: [10:39]: I mean it's no XOP Ultra
Jatopian: [10:39]: well duh
Jatopian: [10:39]: beethro isn't saving the everything!
Jatopian: [10:39]: and all he has is a stupid sword
Pearls: [10:39]: OR IS HE?
Pearls: [10:39]: I mean i'm just not certain at this point.
Pearls: [10:40]: "Simply requires a redefinition of everything."

×skell: [10:51]: Yo, 'sup you talking 'bout my game b'hind my back aye?
Pearls: [10:52]: Skell: The truth is, we hate it.
skell: [10:52]: Well I hate your face
skell: [10:52]: ...
Pearls: [10:52]:
skell: [10:52]: What am I doing? I am turning into Pearls!
Pearls: [10:55]: Your mom's turning into Pearls.
skell: [10:57]: Pearlfect
Jatopian: [11:00]: what he's trying to say is that your mother is a pearl
Pearls: [11:00]: Mother of pearl!

×Schik: [11:31]: I think I don't like the full updates because it forces me to use the beta board system and then I realize how awful that interface is.
skell: [11:32]: Time to make it awesome perhaps?
Schik: [11:33]: It could use a lot of polish
Schik: [11:33]: and maybe a little Polish
skell: [11:34]: You won't make me do anything about it
Schik: [11:34]: Hrm I think I'll delete those holds I just updated
gamer_extreme_101: [11:35]: Polish polish?
skell: [11:35]: Actually I have a lot of spare time which I want to spend helping you make this interface the coolest interface ever
skell: [11:35]: With lots of Flash controls and Flash animations and Flash effects and Flash bling
gamer_extreme_101: [11:37]: Oh dear
12th Archivist: [11:38]: Flashy bling?
skell: [11:38]: I am a flash programmer after all
Schik: [11:38]: can you just recode the entire forum in flash if I give you some API access to posts?
skell: [11:38]: Oh and don't worry, it will be ugly, I can't do graphics
skell: [11:38]: That would be fun
gamer_extreme_101: [11:38]: If you need ugly graphics, I can help with that
gamer_extreme_101: [11:39]: Ugh, Flash only forums
Schik: [11:39]: We can call it Bad Evil Forum
gamer_extreme_101: [11:39]: That sounds almost as bad as when the bar makes the forum Comic Sans
Schik: [11:40]: that's a fun one
gamer_extreme_101: [11:40]: I shudder at that one
skell: [11:40]: Schik wanted to extend the idea
gamer_extreme_101: [11:40]: Just like when my boss used to use Comic Sans when sending emails
skell: [11:40]: He wanted the Comic Sans to stay after refreshing
skell: [11:42]: Hm, I should make the FDROD change all its fonts to Comic Sans if it detects someone was tampering with the saved games

×skell: [14:35]: "Force potion: Once drunk, player can ignore force arrows and orthosquares." hahaha
skell: [14:36]: I guess all it takes to ignore the force arrows is to gulp some ale
Fang: [14:36]: You don't care about arrows and orthosquares when you're drunk.
Fang: [14:36]: Unless a Stalwart drops by, then makes you follow the force arrows on the ground.
Fang: [14:36]: Got a couple friends in prison because of that.

×Chaco: [15:58]: The entire series is Halph's explanation of why he didn't bring his homework to school
Chaco: [15:59]: and why he was gone for five years

×Jatopian: [18:55]: Dead in here.
Dischorran: [19:00]: We're keeping them confined. If they get out, we risk the zombocalypse.

×12th Archivist: [08:00 PM]: Time to bring out the big guns.
Jatopian: [08:01 PM]: handheld aumtlich beam go
Chaco: [08:02 PM]: Jatopian, it was you who suggested cutting off an Aumtlich head and using it as a lantern, right?

×Jatopian: [15:24]: Charcoal
Jatopian: [15:24]: Chacoal
Jatopian: [15:24]: Chaco
Chaco: [15:24]: What about it?
Jatopian: [15:24]: Chacoa? Chacol?
Jatopian: [15:24]: hi
Jatopian: [15:24]: I'm just playing with your name
Chaco: [15:24]: Yes?
Chaco: [15:25]: truly you are at the jatop of your game today
Jatopian: [15:25]: well played.
Chaco: [15:26]: thank you, thank you very much

×NoahT: [13:52]: *Wonders when Mike will put up the contest poll.*
12th Archivist: [14:03]: Patience, Iago.
Dischorran: [14:34]: If I were Mike, I'd ask Schik to whip up an automated chat monitor for talk about the poll. Every time someone expresses impatience, the poll gets delayed by a couple hours.
Dischorran: [14:34]: ...and that's why I should never be put in charge of anything.
12th Archivist: [14:34]: Imagine if Disch was the king of the world.
Schik: [14:34]: ... and done.
12th Archivist: [14:35]: Would it be global anarchy? A utopia? Something else?
Dischorran: [14:38]: It would be a technological utopia.
Dischorran: [14:38]: ...for me. Maybe not so much for everyone else.
Dischorran: [14:39]: I would make spaceships out of the bodies of my vassals.
Pearls: [14:45]: A...a Vassal Vessel?

×Tahnan: [01:21]: "Your art is bad and you should feel bad. Don't quit your day job, which I assume is crying and filling diapers."

×Jeff_Ray...: [16:03]: I'm still struggling to find one last raft puzzle..
12th Archivist: [16:04]: >take raft puzzle out of coconut half and give to Jeff_Ray
Panther: [16:07]: You hand Jeff_Ray a double-armful of giant pentomino-shaped rafts. He staggers under their weight as he takes them.
Panther: [16:07]: >

×
(Updated 5/05/2020)
-Witherwood Castle
-Escort Mission
-Subterra Prime

×
Like Grains In An Hourglass (TSS) NEW!
Homeward Adventure (TSS)
Out the Deep End (GatEB)
Rough Adventure of Budkin (TCB)
The Test of Mind (RPG)
Mysteries of the Deep (TCB)
Smart Brain Sanctum (TCB)
Tardustrial Park (JtRH)
Jeffrey's Hold (JtRH)
An Event #1 (JtRH) (Warning: terrible)

×
Riddles Within the Below (TSS) Progress: Levels 1-17 finished!
Caravel Building RPG (RPG) Progress: Cancelled due to loss of data. RIP...
Jeff_Ray's Hold Yard (TCB) Progress: Frozen for now.
An Event #2 (TSS) (Not quite as terrible) Progress: All levels done, need to wait for feedback and record remaining voice lines.

×Jatopian: [08:25]: Meanwhile in Pearland
Jatopian: [08:25]: "LOL WUT"
Pearls: [08:58]: wait, what just happened?
Pearls: [08:58]: Oh pear_land. Not Pearl_and
Pearls: [08:59]: <conceited>
Jatopian: [09:01]: you fell into my pearl trap
Jatopian: [09:01]: it was a clam
Jatopian: [09:01]: on a trap
Pearls: [09:02]: Well this is a terrible way to start my morning, then.
Jatopian: [09:05]: don't you like clams, Pea-- oh. oh right.
Schik: [09:05]: oh my
Lexxors: [09:08]: O-oh -my-.
Pearls: [09:10]: ...
Pearls: [09:10]: ...
Pearls: [09:10]: ...
Pearls: [09:11]: tripleelipses
Pearls: [09:11]: Besides, the oyster would be the more appropriate trap.
Jatopian: [09:12]: trillipses from trollopses
Lexxors: [09:12]: A trollop? I'm thinking more.. lovable scamp.
Jatopian: [09:12]: More like lovable scampi.
Lexxors: [09:12]: Delicious!
Pearls: [09:16]: I don't appreciate where this conversation has digressed to.
Lexxors: [09:17]: You just need to accept the fact that you're delicious.
Jatopian: [09:18]: Pearlicious
Elfstone: [09:29]: good afternoon to one and all :-)
larrymurk: [09:29]: elf
Jatopian: [09:29]: stone
larrymurk: [09:30]: do you like clams?
Elfstone: [09:30]: Laropian . . . ?
Elfstone: [09:30]: me - I've never eaten clams
larrymurk: [09:31]: me neither, look a bit slimy
Elfstone: [09:33]: not a great fan of shellfish,
Elfstone: [09:33]: other than lobster
larrymurk: [09:34]: shrimp is as far as i go
Jatopian: [09:34]: I don't understand the hatred of seafood
Jatopian: [09:34]: seafood is delicious
Jatopian: [09:35]: except for oysters
gamer_extreme_101: [09:35]: It is
Jatopian: [09:35]: ah, gamer
Jatopian: [09:35]: so good of you to join us
larrymurk: [09:35]: unless they have 'pearls'
Jatopian: [09:35]: someone needed to help me eat these clams that these Philistines spit upon
gamer_extreme_101: [09:35]: How's everyone on this fine Wednesday morning
Elfstone: [09:35]: and the great big brown crabs (we called them 'crubagan' in Gaelic)
gamer_extreme_101: [09:36]: Shrimp is fantastic
Jatopian: [09:36]: Gaelic reminds me of garlic which is delicious
Jatopian: [09:36]: I bet garlic is good on crabs
gamer_extreme_101: [09:36]: I could eat a bucketful of it and never be sick
Elfstone: [09:36]: they were very tasty cooked on the fire
gamer_extreme_101: [09:36]: Shrimp fried in garlic and a little bit of white wine
Elfstone: [09:37]: mmm - all sounds very good

×Maurog: [09:05]: Brainiac made 155 posts and deleted 152 of them
Maurog: [09:06]: I think this is all some sort of social experiment
Maurog: [09:06]: Or maybe a philosophical one
Maurog: [09:06]: Like, can we measure a man's greatness if all his works were destroyed
Pearls: [09:07]: I like where this conversation is going.
Maurog: [09:07]: My name is Brainimandias, king of kings. Look at my posts ye mighty and despair

×Jeff_Ray...: [12:01]: I'm trying my best to make rooms of satisfying quality, though.
Chaco: [12:01]: Well, good
Chaco: [12:02]: If you enjoy playing the rooms then there's a good chance the rest of us will too

×Panther[19:57]: <- is naturally a vampire
larrymurk[20:00]: you suck blood as well as playing drod -- yuck
Jatopian[20:00]: blood connoisseur
Panther[20:00]: Nah. Just in terms of nocturnalism tendencies. And aversion to direct sunlight.
Tahnan[20:00]: It's true. She goes by Panther to explain the fangs, but I definitely saw her feeding off Portlanders last week.
Panther[20:00]: I DID NOT
Tahnan[20:01]: Come now, you can't cloud my mind over the network the way you did in person.
Tahnan[20:02]: Plus, when I helped you finish that room on your laptop, I noticed you had no reflection.
Panther[20:02]: LOL
Tahnan[20:02]: Admit it or I'll accuse you of sparkling. ;-)
Panther[20:02]: <twinkles>
Panther[20:03]: (Ugh. Now see what you made me do??? Gah.)
Tahnan[20:03]: Wow is that unlikely. ;-)
Jatopian[20:06]: twinkle twinkle little cat
Jatopian[20:06]: how I wonder if you're bat

×Pearls[14:25]: Anyway, Elfstone, we voted that we need you to be the new voice of Beethro.
Elfstone[14:26]: me!!?? ROFL
Elfstone[14:26]: anyway I'm the Gossip
Elfstone[14:27]: or at least one of them
Pearls[14:28]: Now Elfstone, there's no reason to ridicule our decision.
Elfstone[14:28]: yes there is!
gamer_extreme_101[14:28]: Our?
gamer_extreme_101[14:28]: Don't be grouping me into this
Pearls[14:29]: You were the only one who voted no, with, I beleive the reason was "Elfstone is a woman."
Pearls[14:29]: I would appreciate it if you toned down your misogyny.

×Panther[20:29]: SHHHHHHH
Jatopian[20:34]: be vewy vewy quiet
Jatopian[20:34]: I'm hunting #1s
Jatopian[20:35]: but if I make too much noise, the #1s will notice their natural predator, the mxvladi
Jatopian[20:35]: and they will run away
Panther[20:39]: heeheehee

×Seth[22:44]: Jatopain do you still have that bee rake?
Seth[22:44]: I need it
Seth[22:44]: for Someone...
Jatopian[22:49]: sorry I only have the dogs that shoot bees from their mouths and when they bark bees come out
Lexxors[22:49]: And the bees shoot tinier bees.
Seth[22:50]: Ah
Jatopian[22:50]: and the tiny bees shoot wasps
Lexxors[22:50]: And the wasps shoot dogs that shoot bees from their mouths when they bark.
Jatopian[22:50]: well let's not get silly about this

×Jatopian[01:27]: hello Dischorran
Dischorran[01:28]: 'ello.
Jatopian[01:28]: how are things?
Dischorran[01:28]: Things are.
Jatopian[01:30]: that was either very deep, or avoiding the question. oh well.
Dischorran[01:30]: Can't it be both?
Jatopian[01:32]: only if you wish to imply black things about most philosophers
Jatopian[01:32]: that is a can of worms
Jatopian[01:32]: they wriggle unpleasantly in their metaphorical slime
Dischorran[01:33]: Especially Nietzsche. That guy specialized in avoiding the question.
Jatopian[01:34]: when he talked about the overman, he was talking about the man who jumped over questions
Jatopian[01:35]: this is the kind of man we have for a leader
Jatopian[01:35]: \o/
Dischorran[01:36]: As opposed to Kant, who presumably knew what he was talking about, but wrote it so impenetrably that nobody else does.
Dischorran[01:36]: This is what one gets for procrastination.
Jatopian[01:41]: The way I understood it, Kant wanted everyone else to do his job for him.
Jatopian[01:41]: You see, the categorical imperative states that in doing anything, you should act as if you were establishing a precedent or rule that would be what anyone should do in that situation.
Jatopian[01:42]: The problem is that there are so many factors to consider that you basically have to sit down later and think about it at length to really consider all the ramifications. And it's too late at that point anyway.
Jatopian[01:42]: Kant didn't have to make a lot of snap judgments, I'm guessing.
Dischorran[01:44]: So many beautiful ideas fall apart when hit with reality. Tragic, really.

×Dischorran[00:29]: In Soviet Dugandy, hordes of goblins manage you!

×12th Archivist[00:36]: One does not simply smite into Mordor.
Pearls[01:20]: Not with that attitude.

×Pearls[08:34]: Gentlemen, Schik, Lexxors.
Jatopian[08:35]: Pearls, your thunder is apparently in jeopardy
Pearls[08:36]: WHAT?
Pearls[08:38]: Why didn't anyone tell me I had thunder?
Jeff_Ray...[08:41]: And it got on Jeopardy? Congrats Pearls!
Pearls[08:46]: Moving up.
Schik[08:47]: Thunder? I thought it was a car backfiring
Pearls[08:48]: Well, the rest of us aren't old enough to remember what that sounds like.

× Dischorran[09:42 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[09:42 PM]: OH GOD
Pearls[09:42 PM]: PLEASE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY BODY
Jeff_Ray...[09:43 PM]: It's a robber! Hide all the valuables!
Jeff_Ray...[09:43 PM]: I didn't say valuables.
Dischorran[09:43 PM]: Knock knock.
Schik[09:43 PM]: Who's there?
Dischorran[09:43 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[09:44 PM]: OH IT'S COMING FROM THE FLOORBOARDS
Pearls[09:44 PM]: GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT
Pearls[09:44 PM]: GET OUT GET
Dischorran[09:45 PM]: Knock knock.
Panther[09:48 PM]: <tap tap>
Dischorran[09:48 PM]: Knock knock.
Jeff_Ray...[09:49 PM]: Knock knock who?
Pearls[09:51 PM]: <sobs uncontrollably>
Panther[09:52 PM]: DON'T MAKE PURLZ CRY!
Panther[09:52 PM]: <frowny face>
Dischorran[09:53 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[09:58 PM]: THE BODY IS IN THE LAKE. WELL. MORE LIKE SIX LAKES BUT WHO'S COUNTING?
Panther[09:59 PM]: 1, 2, 3....
Dischorran[10:00 PM]: Knock knock.
Schik[10:00 PM]: Knock knock good?
Pearls[10:02 PM]: It was going to be a murder-suicide, but the murder kind of cheered me up, you know?
Pearls[10:02 PM]: IS THAT SO WRONG?
Dischorran[10:02 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[10:04 PM]: I just wanted him to love me. LOVE ME.
Jeff_Ray...[10:04 PM]: *opens the door* What is it Disc?
Dischorran[10:07 PM]: Knock knock.
Jeff_Ray...[10:08 PM]: *slams door on Disc* Darn kids.
Panther[10:08 PM]: How rude!
Panther[10:09 PM]: <opens door>
Jeff_Ray...[10:09 PM]: Whippersnappers saying knock knock all day long... Get off my lawn!
Panther[10:10 PM]: <dances barefoot in the grass in the moonlight>
Pearls[10:11 PM]: Oh hey guys, what's up? Oh this blood on my hands? Just cookin' dinner.
Dischorran[10:11 PM]: Knock knock.
Jeff_Ray...[10:12 PM]: Hey Pearls! I'm waiting on your next few videos
Pearls[10:13 PM]: THIS BLOOD IS THE FEAST UPON WHICH HIGH LORD CTHUN MUST DRINK.
Panther[10:13 PM]: *8* stones. There are *8* stones.
Pearls[10:13 PM]: I mean, even Elder Space Gods gotta eat, right?
Pearls[10:14 PM]: I see only sev- OH WHAT IS THIS?
Schik[10:14 PM]: There are 4 lights!
Dischorran[10:16 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[10:20 PM]: There is no spoon. ONLY ZUUL.
Panther[10:20 PM]: <lies down on the lawn and stares up at the stars>
Panther[10:20 PM]: ZUUUUUUUL
Tahnan[10:21 PM]: Do you people know how to reference anything from *this* millennium? :-P
Panther[10:21 PM]: NOPE
Pearls[10:22 PM]: Just After Sunset was published in 2008
Schik[10:23 PM]: Tahnan, you're a firework
Tahnan[10:23 PM]: Just after whatnow?
Dischorran[10:23 PM]: Knock knock.
Panther[10:23 PM]: Collection of Stephen King stories. Cthun and the 8 stones. "N".
Tahnan[10:24 PM]: "Stephen King stories from 2008" might still qualify as last millennium. :-P
Panther[10:25 PM]: <tries to make 2008 <= 2000 and fails>
Pearls[10:25 PM]: Log(year + 1000) would solve our problem
Pearls[10:26 PM]: er
Pearls[10:26 PM]: Log(year) + 1000
Pearls[10:27 PM]: More specifically,
Dischorran[10:28 PM]: Knock knock.
Tahnan[10:28 PM]: It's easier to ignore him, isn't it?
Panther[10:29 PM]: Dunno, made me laugh.
Pearls[10:31 PM]: Log(year, base 1.00380968571464) would provide a nice 2008 cutoff adjusting.
Tahnan[10:32 PM]: Freak.
Dischorran[10:38 PM]: Knock knock.
Pearls[10:45 PM]: The resonant frequency of Dischorran's knocking is BLOOD, BLOOD EVERYWHERE.
Dischorran[10:52 PM]: Philip Glass.
mako[10:56 PM]: I Cant Look At A1 Steaksauce Without thinking about DROD.
Tahnan[10:56 PM]: Congratulations, mako. You've managed to go to a new level of disturbing.
Pearls[10:58 PM]: I am out of my league.

×My holds: Beethro's Brain, Entropy, Further Up and Further In, Washed Ashore, Hinterlands, Hypercube, jfflpnk, Lavender Levels.
Collaborations: Way Forward, Advanced Concepts 2

×
Pearls[12:54 PM]: Yeah. Did you know Elfstone can fly? I didn't.
Pearls[12:55 PM]: Had to shoot her out of the sky with a tank.

×DROD Let's Play Youtube series? Shameless, indeed. What a punk!

Current Projects:

Aurora's Palace (complete)
Terrakept Resonant (complete)
Beethro's Brain (complete)
The City Beneath (completish)
Gigantic Jewel Lost (complete)
Magic Show (complete)
Cube of Memories (complete)
Castle Steele



Feel free to watch/insult/try to give advice to at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pearls13a (channel)

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pearls13a/videos?view=1 (playlists)

×navithmastero[15:33]: I'm back!
navithmastero[15:58]: But, again I must go.
Schik[15:59]: hi and bye!
navithmastero[16:03]: I'm going on a date...
Jatopian[16:04]: good luck
navithmastero[16:05]: With Pearls.
Jatopian[16:06]: if you make him cry, there will be consequences
Jatopian[16:06]: >:|
navithmastero[16:06]: I already have once today.
navithmastero[16:07]: Oh god.
Pearls[16:08]: This isn't going well.
navithmastero[16:08]: He's arrived...
navithmastero[16:10]: I think he's doing a lets play.
navithmastero[16:10]: It's lucky he hasn't noticed me... Or has he?
Jatopian[16:12]: is this a date or a home invasion?
navithmastero[16:12]: His brow is furrowed, how tough is that room.
navithmastero[16:14]: ? I walk over to the table. A giant cockroach crawls down his... Wait whats that noise in the bedroom?
navithmastero[16:15]: Is it Schik?
navithmastero[16:16]: Oh god, its lucky the door is closed, Pearls glances up at me and...
navithmastero[16:18]: He says 'This has been your host Pearls, and this has been the third level all over again.' he puts a hand on my muscular shoulder...
navithmastero[16:19]: Glances down as I backswipe the cockroach with my Really Big Sword and...
navithmastero[16:20]: I ask j
navithmastero[16:22]: He asks what I would like to eat. In all honesty, I am too nervous to be hungry and...
navithmastero[16:23]: I shrug. He says 'Alright, let's eat Canada.' I give him an inquisitive look and he produces a...
navithmastero[16:24]: Red jelly, cut in the shape of a mapel leaf.
navithmastero[16:26]: In stead of cutting it in half, he gets a blender, tips the jelly into it, and starts obliterating it...
navithmastero[16:27]: I give a small smile, and he returns it, a mad glee in his dark eyes.
navithmastero[16:29]: I
navithmastero[16:31]: he then produces a large map from the drawer underneath his work surface, he opens it out...
navithmastero[16:32]: Shows me the irregular shape of Canada, and burns it. He procedes to...
navithmastero[16:37]: Stop the blender, tip the contents out, by which time I have sat down at the table and prepared for the worse...
navithmastero[16:39]: But to my surprise, he justs hands me a small piece of jelly and tips the rest onto the floor, and the ashes on top.
navithmastero[16:40]: And starts rolling around in the mush like a pig!
navithmastero[16:51]: He then brushes off the excess bits, picks himself up and asks,'what movie do you wanna see?' and i answer,'Whatever you want.'
navithmastero[16:51]: THE END
navithmastero[16:52]: That was the most fun I've had for a while. But, I do have to go now.

×12th Archivist[14:19]: Hello, Schik. Would you like to made crude jokes about my mother?
navithmastero[14:19]: Hey, I thought archivists were vat born!
12th Archivist[14:21]: Vats are not random genetic and chemical machines. My creation utilized a overseer, as all vats do.
12th Archivist[14:22]: I believe my overseer was indeed female, so Schik can have a field day if he wants.
navithmastero[14:23]: ...Okay, but you are floored, being an archivist, you should have *impecable* language skill, I think it should be "an overseer".
navithmastero[14:23]:
navithmastero[14:23]: Schik?
12th Archivist[14:25]: I am a little busy at the moment. I try to be a beacon of knowledge and intellect in these trying times of darkness, but I cannot always hold the torch.
12th Archivist[14:25]: I apologize if my failures have made any of you uncomfortable. The Rooted Empire will go on, of course.
navithmastero[14:26]: Yes, inevitably, it will.
Jatopian[14:34]: i think the next caravel game after drod should be a turn-based strategy game about the empire's founding and expansion
navithmastero[14:34]: Sounds interesting, but how would the turn-based-ness work?
navithmastero[14:35]: Unless there has always been some annoying delver hampering the Empire's works.
Jatopian[14:36]: turn-based as in Civilization style gameplay.
navithmastero[14:37]: Ahh, that does sound very interesting.
Jatopian[14:38]: it could actually be a two-stage game
Jatopian[14:39]: half the civilizations you can play are underground ones, half are surface
Jatopian[14:39]: two-stage is the wrong word here actually
navithmastero[14:40]: So you have say, the politics of Dugan coming to power in one game, and then the engineering of the vat born in another?
Jatopian[14:41]: but a defining moment in most game sessions would be when you discover the ability to live underground or the existence of the surface, depending
Jatopian[14:41]: the exception would be the empire, which would have the advantage of starting with knowledge of both, but the disadvantage of requiring heavy investment in science and tech
Jatopian[14:42]: that's a little smaller in scope than I was thinking
Jatopian[14:42]: there are a lot of possibilities with that scale of campaign, but it would be more suited to a role-playing system run by actual players, a la D&D or GURPS
Jatopian[14:43]: in fact it's probably doable under one of such systems already.
navithmastero[14:43]: If this was done, it would be *amazing*.
Jatopian[14:44]: if it was done right, anyway
navithmastero[14:44]: Yeah

×Dischorran[17:36]: Back in college, I wasn't allowed to join in on the princess parties because they said Leia wasn't a Disney princess. Well, now the joke's on them!

×NoahT[04:34 PM]: I know that Jerusalem's streets are full of cats.
Maurog[04:34 PM]: oh yes
Maurog[04:35 PM]: so many cats
NoahT[04:35 PM]: As my parents found out.
Schik[04:35 PM]: So is my house

×
Holds:
Nanfro Budkin's First Dungeon,
The Puzzle Catacombs
Graphical Mods:
Power Station (AE)

×Schik[06:26 PM]: I believe that most people are wrong about most things

×
Holds:
Ouroboros
Chronometry Confusion
Deadly Square of Death
For the Sake of Succulent Burgers
Collection
Officially Corrupt

Let's Plays:

Journey to Rooted Hold
DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale (Second Half)
...She'll Carry a Really Big Sword