01:13 <darsie> I made Ap and Pe equally high but 2 doesn't save it like that. It saves the previous state.

01:41 <Eddi|zuHause> sounds like a perfect game

02:37 <raptop> !mission

02:37 <LunchBot> You synchronize your liftoff countdown with the new year countdown. Your reputation underflows, and suddenly the really nice contracts are available again.

02:37 <raptop> technically a day late, but still decent

02:39 <XXCoder> nice lol

02:39 <XXCoder> new year, new rep lol

02:39 <XXCoder> ;mission

02:39 <LunchBot> You build a craft for the stated purpose of outrunning its own mass. You must now conclude your lay / by telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / that your central girders would not have given way / at least many sensible men do say / had they been supported on each side with trusses / at least many sensible men confesses. / For the stronger we our rockets do build / The less chance we have of being killed.

02:40 <XXCoder> conclusion is bit weird. maybe I broke universe

04:00 <Eddi|zuHause> XXCoder: make it more rigid!

04:00 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

04:00 <LunchBot> You use a soda machine to dissolve oxidizer in your fuel. Even your emergency slide rule becomes self-aware.

04:00 <Eddi|zuHause> soda machine causes skynet?

04:02 <XXCoder> apparently

04:02 <XXCoder> expecially since slide rule dont even have tech, there must have been weird sequence

16:06 <Althego> .outcome add Thousands of years later your name will be often mentioned together with Ea-nāṣir.

16:06 <LunchBot> Added outcome: Thousands of years later your name will be often mentioned together with Ea-nāṣir.

17:43 <Eddi|zuHause> in which context, though? the first and the last known complaint letter in written history? :p

17:44 <Althego> mentioned as a person doing a bad job

17:44 <Pinkbeast> Not sure what the last one will be

17:45 <Eddi|zuHause> yes, but surely there are more people in history that did a bad job. ea nasir is only notable for being the earliest known. it's not particularly bad or something

17:45 <Pinkbeast> "Dear people, where are you? I'm bored. Yours, the Grim Reaper"

17:45 <Eddi|zuHause> *anything - probably better word here

17:45 <Althego> maybe, but he was so bad his fame survived for thousands of years

17:46 <Althego> so i wanted to hint of such a failure that it will be known for thousands of years

17:46 <Eddi|zuHause> but it didn't. it was simply rediscovered several thousand years later...

17:47 <Eddi|zuHause> sorta like tut ench amun. he wasn't a particularly famous pharaoh. he became famous because his tomb went undiscovered for so long.

18:01 <sandbox> !mission

18:01 <LunchBot> You add a mission about yourself. This was just a simulation.

18:09 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

18:09 <LunchBot> You tire of rockets, and decide to launch craft into space with a giant gun. UmbralRaptor blinks imperiously.

22:10 <XXCoder> ;mission

22:10 <LunchBot> Bill begins a most heinous series of events, where the other orangesuits participate in a once-in-a-lifetime bout of sheer terror. Bill keeps fiddling, and the orangesuits begin to beg. Bill just won't stop curiously examining the object. If only Bill was not in a cramped command pod along with his crewmates... As Bill began opening the case labeled "LIVE BEES, DO NOT OPEN!" The middle falls up.

22:11 <XXCoder> middle of bees fell up eh

22:12 <XXCoder> ;mission add You decide to start forming space bee clonies for space honey.

22:12 <LunchBot> Added mission: You decide to start forming space bee clonies for space honey.

22:12 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission fixup s/stop curiously/stop, curiously/

22:12 <LunchBot> New text is: Bill begins a most heinous series of events, where the other orangesuits participate in a once-in-a-lifetime bout of sheer terror. Bill keeps fiddling, and the orangesuits begin to beg. Bill just won't stop, curiously examining the object. If only Bill was not in a cramped command pod along with his crewmates... As Bill began opening the case labeled "LIVE BEES, DO NOT OPEN!"

22:17 <Eddi|zuHause> thinking the "..." should also be a ","

22:17 <Eddi|zuHause> not sure if it's serving any dramatic purpose

22:58 <FLHerne> what the heck is that mission

23:00 <FLHerne> I think the ellipsis is for drama... a comma wouldn't be correct anyway; it would have to be a full stop

23:01 <FLHerne> "stop curiously" made more sense than your fix, too

23:02 <Eddi|zuHause> why?

23:02 <Eddi|zuHause> maybe my brain is too wired to german grammar

23:02 <Eddi|zuHause> but that's the position where it would make most sense to me

23:03 <FLHerne> in the original, Bob won't stop (curiously examining) the object)

23:03 <FLHerne> in your version he won't stop [implicit verb]

23:03 <FLHerne> and is curiously examining the object

23:03 <Eddi|zuHause> "Bill keeps fiddling" "Bill won't stop"

23:04 <FLHerne> just won't stop what?

23:04 <Eddi|zuHause> "curiously examining the object" being some further explanation what he's doing

23:04 <FLHerne> fiddling is a verb so it completes the sentence fragment

23:05 <Eddi|zuHause> stop is a verb in that case

23:05 <FLHerne> true I suppose

23:06 <FLHerne> but you have to stop verbing

23:06 <FLHerne> unless it's implicit in the context, which it can be here but reads a bit weirdly

23:06 <FLHerne> in the original he stops curiously examining the object

23:07 <FLHerne> *doesn't stop

23:07 <Eddi|zuHause> what else would "stop" be?

23:07 <FLHerne> in yours he just won't stop [fiddling?], while curiously examining the object

23:08 <FLHerne> the added comma separates the verb from its former object, is possibly what I'm trying to say

23:08 <FLHerne> so it gets an implicit object from the preceding context

23:08 <Eddi|zuHause> like i said, maybe my brain is wired too "german"

23:09 <FLHerne> You can tell I studied electronics and not languages :p

23:09 <FLHerne> it's the usual frustrating case where I know how my own language works but have very little formal understanding of why it does

23:09 <Eddi|zuHause> the german sentence (as i would understand it) would be "Bill hört nicht auf, das Objekt zu untersuchen"

23:10 <Eddi|zuHause> but grammatical concepts, while similar, don't necessarily map 1-to-1

23:10 <Eddi|zuHause> for example, german doesn't have a progressive form (examin-ing)

23:11 <Eddi|zuHause> so if you translate this back, it would be "Bill doesn't stop to examine the object"

23:12 <Eddi|zuHause> (which starts adding some ambiguity)

23:13 <FLHerne> I think your commas work differently :D

23:13 <Eddi|zuHause> definitely

23:15 <Eddi|zuHause> "Bill doesn't stop. [Bill is continuning to] examine the object."

23:16 <Eddi|zuHause> if the "curiously" wasn't there, i could live without the comma

23:17 <Eddi|zuHause> but this way, it's less ambiguous whether the "curiously" applies to "stop" or "examine" [which both could be verbs]

23:18 <FLHerne> In English you can add adverbs with no effect on the surrounding grammar; the only limit is the sentence becoming unreadable

23:18 <FLHerne> hm

23:19 <FLHerne> I can see why you could see an ambiguity, but I don't see an ambiguity :p

23:26 <Eddi|zuHause> anyway, the other sentence, "If <conditional>, as bill opens ..." sounds more sane to my grammattical brain

23:27 <Eddi|zuHause> the ... splitting off the outcome also makes more sense with the bot

23:28 <Eddi|zuHause> "if <conditional>" doesn't make a complete sentence. neither does "as <whatever>"

23:30 <Eddi|zuHause> "if <conditional>, <something>" "as/while <whatever>, <something>"

23:38 <FLHerne> I think the "As Bill ..." is supposed to run straight into the outcome, although the bot doesn't know that to get the grammar right

23:38 <FLHerne> the tense doesn't match most outcomes though

23:39 <FLHerne> I suspect this is a quote from something but I don't know what

23:39 <FLHerne> it seems too disturbing for someone to simply choose to write here :p

23:47 <Eddi|zuHause> that's why the "..." would fit best after the "as bill"